Linux Plumbers Conf 2011

The kernel often has to cope with misconfiguration and bugs in BIOS and ACPI, working around them when possible and reporting them otherwise. These bugs rarely managed to get fixed upstream, and nothing prevents them from recurring on new systems with new BIOSes. We'd like to change that.

The session will detail a design and progress towards getting a unified way to manage common features like snapshots, growth, shrinking for file systems and files.

lightning fast booting on x86 / x64 platforms

Discussion on how to automatically diagnose firmware issue that can affect Linux. (slides)

A proposal for an EFI like boot mechanism with a dracut initramfs and the linux kernel using kexec to boot other linux kernels.

Container enter functionality

Linux FedFS implementation needs help defining its user interfaces

Finding and burying Configuration Defects in Linux with the undertaker (slides)

An introduction to the Smatch static checker and a look at the future. (slides)

Discussion of Linux idle power management vs other OSes (slides)

Linker, compiler, runtime linker and the kernel can be improved to start applications significantly faster

An in-container view of /proc fs

You already use version control for your software, but what about your build dependencies and your system infrastructures? Come hear about Apters, our solution for reproducible builds and infrastructures. (slides)

Presentation of the Userspace RCU library features. (slides)

An overview of what is involved in making video calls and the issues typically encountered on mobile platforms. (slides)

The kernel often has to cope with misconfiguration and bugs in BIOS and ACPI, working around them when possible and reporting them otherwise. These bugs rarely managed to get fixed upstream, and nothing prevents them from recurring on new systems with new BIOSes. Help us change that, and hear about BITS, our system for testing BIOS using Python and ACPICA embedded in GRUB. (slides)

This talk summarizes where T10 DIF support sits today in Linux, and moves on to exposing the integrity API to userspace and how we might accomplish this through the filesystems. (slides)

There are fundamental differences between runtime PM and system suspend such that system sleep cannot be regarded as "deep idle". (slides)

Some challenges for the plumbing community (slides)

Describing the new Linux Near Field Communication architecture, from kernel to userspace. (slides)

This presentation will cover the technical details of the Thunderbolt technology as well as the Open Source implications and SW items that will need to be addressed to support the new technology. (slides)