Linux Kernel Daily: Weekly Recap - Stabilization Across Scheduling, Virtualization, and Drivers
Zero pull request items and 30 additional commits landed September 21-28, 2026. The week centered on release-stage stabilization with scheduler and perf correctness, cross-architecture KVM hardening, and graphics, PCI, and storage reliability fixes.
Duration: PT5S
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- Show: Linux Kernel Daily
- Published: 2026-09-28T09:27:18Z
- Audio duration: PT5S
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Welcome to Linux Kernel Daily for the week of September twenty-first through September twenty-eighth.
This week we tracked zero pull request activity items, 30 additional commits this week.
The pattern this week is stabilization. Almost all activity is targeted fixes for scheduling, virtualization, and device drivers, aimed at correctness, memory safety, and release readiness.
Our first theme is core scheduling, profiling, and tracing reliability.
Merge commit six-seven-three-d-a-b-seven pulls scheduler fixes for last-level cache scheduling. It corrects misplacement of tasks across cache domains, fixes use-after-free in cache grouping statistics, skips kernel threads for cache-aware decisions, refreshes cache capacity across C-P-U hotplug, and moves…
That pairs with merge commit five-c-c-d-a-one-eight for performance events. It fixes guest precise-event sampling virtualization, corrects Intel data-source classification for loads and stores, tightens event constraints for Panther Cove and newer server parts, renames two confusing off-core attributes, and fixes a…
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