#RCU

Weekly briefing · Oct 19–26, 2026

Linux mainline: week of Oct 19

A weekly briefing built from 9 published daily update(s).

Bug fixesHardware supportPerformanceSecurity and hardening

#ACPI#confidential-computing#execve#ksmbd#KVM#RCU#sched_ext#vfs

Daily update · Oct 21, 2026

Linux 7.4 merge window: RCU, timers, ACPI, and legacy uaccess removal

Mainline pulls in removal of __get_user()/__put_user(), RCU callback expansion, PCI/MSI error-recovery handling, and ACPI enumeration changes.

#ACPI#Kbuild#PCI#RCU#Rust#timers

Daily update · Oct 16–17, 2026

Linux mainline update: memory-safety fixes, GPU/DRM improvements, audio and PCI NVMe readiness

Today's batch closes several use-after-free races, stabilizes Intel Xe and AMD audio, and adds PCI quirks for Samsung NVMe drives.

#audio#gpu#pci#qualcomm#rcu#use-after-free

Daily update · Aug 24, 2026

Linux 7.3 merge window: new SoC support, RCU and slab updates

Today's pull requests bring new hardware enablement across pin control, mailbox, PHY, and DMA engine subsystems, plus core memory-management and DMA improvements.

Hardware support

#dmaengine#mailbox#PHY#pinctrl#RCU#slab