Vignettes of a Linux Kernel Mentee
About 5 months ago, over a dinner of oven-baked chicken thighs with rice, I stumbled upon a tweet by Greg Kroah-Hartman about Linux Kernel mentorships.… Read More »Vignettes of a Linux Kernel Mentee
Building the Linux kernel with CONFIG_KASAN
We briefly discussed the Kernel Address Sanitizer (KASAN) in a previous blog post, so today we’ll be diving into the guts of how it can… Read More »Building the Linux kernel with CONFIG_KASAN
Decoding stack traces in the Linux kernel
When a bug occurs, one of the first things we look at is the stack trace because the function calls leading up to the error… Read More »Decoding stack traces in the Linux kernel
Bug hunting in the Linux kernel
Continuing on from our last post on dynamic program analysis, today our focus is on what to do after we’ve discovered a bug. This post… Read More »Bug hunting in the Linux kernel
A novelist’s lament on the loss of Japanese aesthetics: a review of In Praise of Shadows
Western paper turns away the light, while our paper seems to take it in, to envelop it gently, like the soft surface of a first… Read More »A novelist’s lament on the loss of Japanese aesthetics: a review of In Praise of Shadows
Dynamic program analysis in the Linux kernel
Dynamic Program Analysis for Fun and Profit with Dmitry Vyukov. Part of the LF Live: Mentorship Series. Recently, I was accepted into the Linux Kernel… Read More »Dynamic program analysis in the Linux kernel
Writing a simple REPL in Go
In this post I wanted to share a simple read-eval-print-loop (REPL) that I wrote as part of following cstacks’ clone of sqlite. I’d done this… Read More »Writing a simple REPL in Go
Diving into CPython: what’s in an import (bytecode and C source code)
Afterword (To avoid burying the lede, I’ve shifted my reflections to the very top of this post). The exercise that follows in this post is… Read More »Diving into CPython: what’s in an import (bytecode and C source code)
A goal to dive into CPython
Some time towards the end of the semester, I made it my goal to work my way up to contributing regularly and meaningfully to CPython.… Read More »A goal to dive into CPython
A nostalgic cry for a country that could have been: a review of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
A thoroughly convincing storytelling feat. I was unable to see through Sonny Liew’s trick from the very start of the book to the very end.… Read More »A nostalgic cry for a country that could have been: a review of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye