And because of that sequestration, user-mode software has very limited visibility into what’s happening in the kernel. It’s not surprising, then, that some people have reservations.

“With this latest release of OpenVZ software, we’ve made a number of improvements to benefit our users in the open source community.” The OpenVZ software for Linux kernel 2.6.20 includes ...

Facebook software engineer Alexei Starovoitov is credited with creating Extended BPF, which is now used in Android for collecting statistics from the kernel, monitoring, or debugging.

COMP_SCI 446: Kernel and Other Low-level Software Development VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites ( (CS 213 or CE 205) and (CS 343 or CE 361 or CE 366 or CE 466)) or CS PhDs or CE PhDs or ...