[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] kernel testing

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Mon Jul 22 21:48:05 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:41:50PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> 
> > > During the past year I've been working on the 0day kernel testing
> > > framework, which provides instant test service for 300+ kernel git
> > > trees. The system currently runs
> > > 
> > > - build tests covering 200+ configs from 30 archs
> > > - static checkers: sparse, smatch, coccinelle, checkpatch.pl
> > > - randconfig boot tests in KVM
> > > - trinity, cpu hotplug, xfstests etc. runtime tests
> > > 
> > > The system features auto bisecting and reporting. The high confident
> > > error/warnings are directly reported to the author/committer/mailing
> > > list, CC kbuild-all at 01.org for achieve purpose. The low confident ones
> > > are sent to  kbuild at 01.org for manual checks.
> > > 
> > > https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild
> > > https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all
> > > 
> > > 0day performance testing is coming soon. Hopefully you'll see more and
> > > more performance reports in the coming months before kernel summit. :)
> > > Basically we'll be monitoring performance changes in the 300+ public
> > > developer/maintainer/upstream git trees and report any changed vmstat,
> > > iostat, nfsstat, lock_stat, perf etc. numbers in a variety of test
> > > cases, configurations and hardware.
> > > 
> > > I'm interested in any topic on kernel testing.
> > 
> > I second this. I think that it would be great to have a discussion on
> > performance testing, and specifically on what maintainers can do to help
> > Fengguang in this effort. Should we be supplying tests, performance
> > measurement tools, other? If so, what would be the preferred approach to
> > get these included in Fengguang's setup.
> 
> Fully agreed.
> 
> Plus give Fenggunag a *big* thank you. His testing machinery prevented me 
> from doing quite a few buggy merges.
> 
Same here.

Guenter


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