Linux Plumbers Conference Courses

Debugging RISC-V Kernel Crashes - KDUMP, vmcore, and Crash Utility Enhancements

Master RISC-V kernel crash debugging through KDUMP setup, vmcore extraction on real hardware like VisionFive2, and crash utility analysis with practical patches and demos.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SYZOS - Practical KVM Fuzzing

Discover SYZOS, a novel framework for effective KVM fuzzing that overcomes traditional challenges by fuzzing high-level guest operations instead of raw instructions.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

External Locking for Internally Synchronized Data Structures

Explore advanced Rust kernel programming techniques for managing external locks with internally synchronized data structures like XArray, addressing memory allocation challenges.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Exploring Possibilities for Integrating StrictDoc with ELISA's Requirements Template Approach for the Linux Kernel

Explore integrating StrictDoc with ELISA's requirements template approach to bring Linux kernel closer to safety compliance through enhanced documentation and traceability.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Thermal Framework Issues and Limitations

Examines limitations in Linux’s thermal framework and proposes improvements for governor behavior, suspend-time mitigation, and fine-grained temperature telemetry.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Evolving genpd's sync_state() Support

Examines how Linux generic power domains use sync_state() and how fw_devlink dependency tracking can resolve related driver-probing issues.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Linux Bus for SVSM Services - Build New, Reuse VIRTIO, or Both?

Explore architectural choices for implementing a Linux bus to manage SVSM services in Confidential VMs, comparing new vs VIRTIO-based approaches.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Fragmentation to Integration - Enhancing sched_ext BPF Scheduler Interoperability with Linux

Explore sched_ext BPF scheduler integration challenges with Linux kernel components, covering kfuncs and practical examples for enhanced interoperability.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Improving page_owner for Profiling and Monitoring Memory Usage per Allocation Stack Trace

Discover how to enhance page_owner for better memory profiling and monitoring through stack trace analysis, covering swap space support and overhead reduction techniques.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hibernation Testing Challenges and Optimization Opportunities

Explore hibernation testing bottlenecks and optimization strategies for Linux systems, focusing on CPU management efficiency and enhanced fault tolerance mechanisms.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Secure Interrupt Delivery - Lessons Learned from Alternate Injection Enablement

Explore SEV-SNP Alternate Injection security mechanisms, SVSM APIC emulation, KVM bypass techniques, and VMPL switches for protecting guests from malicious interrupt attacks.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Distributed ThinLTO Build Support in Kbuild

Discover how Google implemented distributed ThinLTO builds for the Linux kernel, covering implementation details, performance comparisons, and livepatch integration changes.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

scx_chaos - Pushing the sched_ext API to Schedule Badly

Explore scx_chaos, a chaotic scheduler built on sched_ext that intentionally introduces delays, frequency changes, and mutex inversions to hunt down race conditions and test kernel resilience.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

PCSC - Caching PCI Config Space Accesses for Faster Live Updates

Discover how PCI Configuration Space Cache (PCSC) accelerates virtualization by caching static config reads, reducing VM boot times and bus contention in SR-IOV deployments.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

PCI Power Control Framework Issues and Solutions

Explore PCI power control framework limitations on non-ACPI systems and discover proposed solutions for managing endpoint power supplies beyond simple use cases.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk