Re: [PATCH 0/5] crash: provide a crash watchdog

[Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>]

On 4/20/25 1:48 AM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> One of the biggest pains we've suffered with CIs has been
> crashes, filesystem corruptions. Although we have a feature
> which is *supposed* to do that, its obviosly not working.
> Fix this by adding support for this stuff, and leveraging for
> our CIs. We will start with our fstests CIs and can scale this
> out to the other ones easily now.

Hi Luis -

I haven't looked at the crash detection/reporting logic before.

Where can I find documentation for developers who want to add this
support to their workflows, or for test engineers who want to enable it?

Once I'm a little more educated, my review perspective will be thinking
about how this works for cloud kdevops.


> Luis Chamberlain (5):
>   systemd-remote: use ip address for systemd-remote journal
>   crash: add kernel crash watchdog library
>   fstests_watchdog.py: use the new crash watchdog library
>   crash_watchdog.py: add generic crash watchdog
>   crash_report.py: add a crash report
> 
>  scripts/workflows/fstests/fstests_watchdog.py |  89 ++-
>  scripts/workflows/generic/crash_report.py     | 109 +++
>  scripts/workflows/generic/crash_watchdog.py   | 186 +++++
>  scripts/workflows/generic/get_console.py      |   1 +
>  scripts/workflows/generic/lib                 |   1 +
>  scripts/workflows/lib/crash.py                | 724 ++++++++++++++++++
>  scripts/workflows/lib/systemd_remote.py       |  19 +-
>  7 files changed, 1081 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/workflows/generic/crash_report.py
>  create mode 100755 scripts/workflows/generic/crash_watchdog.py
>  create mode 120000 scripts/workflows/generic/get_console.py
>  create mode 120000 scripts/workflows/generic/lib
>  create mode 100755 scripts/workflows/lib/crash.py
> 


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Chuck Lever