Developers working on the kernel now should probably be familiar with control gr

oups,
contemporary debugging tools (kmemleak, lockdep, the fault injection framework,
...),
debugfs, ftrace, git, high-resolution timers, huge pages, linux-next, multiple s
lab allocators,
namespaces, perf, power management and quality of service, read-copy-update, rea
dahead,
reverse mapping in the VM subsystem, scheduler domains, splice(), TASK_KILLABLE,
threaded interrupt handlers, virtualization, and so on.