Tag: Linux 5.14
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Linux 5.14 will support the creation of secret memory areas
Following Linux 5.13, Linux 5.14 will also support the creation of secret memory areas. This function is implemented by memfd_secret(). memfd_secret() is a specialized system call, not an extension of memfd_create(), its purpose is to allow users to create a more secure memory map, rather than simply allowing file-based memory access. According to the description,…
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Linux 5.14 will support fast XMM hypercall of Hyper-V on KVM
According to the submission of KVM, Linux 5.14 will support a fast XMM hypercall of Hyper-V on KVM. The hypercall interface of Microsoft Hyper-V is a mechanism for calling guests and supports the concept of fast XMM hypercall. Each hypercall defines a set of input or output parameters. These parameters are specified according to the…
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Linux 5.14 will support Hyper-V DRM display driver
According to the mailing list, a new Hyper-V DRM display driver has been included in this week’s drm-misc-next PR and will be merged into the Linux 5.14 mainline. The Hyper-V DRM display driver was originally released by a Microsoft engineer last summer. At that time, the driver was only a port of the Hyper-V Linux…
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Linux 5.14 will completely remove the RAW driver
The RAW driver (RAW_DRIVER) on the Linux system is mainly used to provide direct I/O access to block devices. As early as the mid-2000s, the RAW driver was obsolete, and for a long time, no one would recommend it. The RAW driver will be removed with the launch of the Linux 5.14 kernel this summer.…