[Ksummit-discuss] Nominating Fengguang Wu - 0-day

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:41:14PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 09:01:25PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >
>> >It surprises Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu at intel.com> hasn't been nominated yet,
>> >so I'd like to nominate him. The mechanical process should probably include in
>> >the future a scrape for top Reported-by contributors.
>>
>> Thanks for your appreciations, Luis!
>>
>> >Fengguang's 0-day infrastructure is invaluable to day to day kernel
>> >development, having him present would be great for any questions that may come
>> >up.
>>
>> I'd be glad to answer questions and more importantly, collect
>> feedbacks on where and how to improve the 0-day infrastructure.
>>
>> There are 2 major parts in 0-day: build tests and runtime tests.
>> While build tests will be continuously improved, there may be a lot
>> more to be desired for runtime tests, which should be my main focus
>> in the coming year.
>>
> For runtime test improvements: We should discuss if and how to integrate
> kasan/syzkaller testing, and/or if it would make sense to set up a separate
> test bed for that purpose (to avoid overloading 0day).


I am all for it.
We are attending plumbers, so we will be able to discuss this in person.


>> >Getting a statistical overview / update of impact / any major architectural
>> >changes of the 0-day infrastructure would also be very useful.
>>
>> Sure if there are interests.
>>
>> >If maintainers
>> >are not yet using 0-day it would be great to hear why. If your contributors are
>> >not using 0-day (I know some of you exist) I'd like to know why you don't use it,
>> >I often run into issues on linux-next which at times I have to fix, if 0-day
>> >would have been used a folowup fix would not have been needed.
>>
>> 0-day tries to monitor as many git trees as possible, so that fresh
>> code can be tested before they land maintainer trees and linux-next.
>> To achieve better early code coverage, we periodically check if there
>> are new git trees showing up in git.kernel.org, in mainline git log
>> or mentioned in LKML emails. And add the newly discovered ones
>> unsolicited. :)
>>
>> That said, it's still possible errors hit linux-next. Sometimes it may
>> be due to bug in 0-day or temporarily out of service. The solution
>> would be to improve 0-day system's stability and add more self-tests
>> to the system. Quick feedbacks about build/boot errors missed by 0-day
>> would also be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fengguang
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