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offlinemark
Personal blog · offlinemark.com · on HN as offlinemarksystemsprogramming
offlinemark is a personal blog at offlinemark.com about systems and programming. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
I'm Mark. This is my blog where I share thoughts on life, art, and computers.
Most-linked posts?
- Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-20
- What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Also, apparently ARM64 did drop the conditional instructions (somehow I missed the memo): https://offlinemark.com/2023/07/29/til-arm64-doesnt-include-...
Comment linking /2023/07/29/til-arm64-doesnt-include-conditional-instructions/
on “Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction”Submitted What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Double fetches, scheduling algorithms, and onion rings as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Double fetches, scheduling algorithms, and onion rings as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the hardware/software interface works (Linux Kernel) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What they don't tell you about demand paging in school as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted x86 kernel development lab notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from taking a gap year (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Licensing for Supervillains as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Task Queues, Redis, Python, Celery, RQ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted To Cage a Dragon: An obscure quirk of /proc as a story · 1 points
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