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The 6.11 kernel has been released

[Posted September 15, 2024 by corbet]

Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. "`I'm once again on the road and
not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna,
and 6.11 is out.'" Significant changes in this release include new
io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half
locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files,
support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write
operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator,
the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more. See the LWN
merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information.
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atomic writes

Posted Sep 15, 2024 19:06 UTC (Sun) by alkbyby (subscriber, #61687) [
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Hi all. So atomic writes stuff is potentially big deal. The "atomic
write ops" link refers to some "device-specific atomic write
boundary", but doesn't refer to how do I obtain those limits in
practice. Anyone able to shine some light on this? I inspected nvme
id-ctrl output without any obvious results.
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atomic writes

Posted Sep 15, 2024 19:10 UTC (Sun) by alkbyby (subscriber, #61687) [
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Ah, false alarm. Comments on the article actually mention it. It is
awupf field.

I was kinda curious if common widespread drives support this nice
stuff, but mine Samsung PM981 seemingly doesn't. (Which is fair game
of course)
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