* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel
@ 2017-10-05 16:14 Damian Tometzki
2017-10-06 14:19 ` Damian Tometzki
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-05 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hello all,
i'am intrested in helping and Bug Fixing in the mm area of the linux
kernel.?
For driver development is it clear check in the staging area the
TODO's.?
And what is the process for other areas of the kernel for example mm
(Memory management X86) ??
In advance many thanks
Damian
?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-05 16:14 help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-06 14:19 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 14:31 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 16:34 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu 2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-06 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Any suggestions on this topic ? Am Donnerstag, den 05.10.2017, 18:14 +0200 schrieb Damian Tometzki: > Hello all, > > i'am intrested in helping and Bug Fixing in the mm area of the linux > kernel.? > > For driver development is it clear check in the staging area the > TODO's.? > > And what is the process for other areas of the kernel for example mm > (Memory management X86) ?? > > In advance many thanks > Damian > > ? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-05 16:14 help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 14:19 ` Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-06 14:31 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 16:34 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu 2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-06 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Any suggestions on this topic ? BR Damian Am Donnerstag, den 05.10.2017, 18:14 +0200 schrieb Damian Tometzki: > Hello all, > > i'am intrested in helping and Bug Fixing in the mm area of the linux > kernel.? > > For driver development is it clear check in the staging area the > TODO's.? > > And what is the process for other areas of the kernel for example mm > (Memory management X86) ?? > > In advance many thanks > Damian > > ? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-05 16:14 help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 14:19 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 14:31 ` Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-06 16:34 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu 2017-10-06 18:29 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-10 1:50 ` Yubin Ruan 2 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu @ 2017-10-06 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:14:08 +0200, Damian Tometzki said: > i'am intrested in helping and Bug Fixing in the mm area of the linux > kernel.? > > For driver development is it clear check in the staging area the > TODO's.? > > And what is the process for other areas of the kernel for example mm > (Memory management X86) ?? Rule 1 of kernel hacking: Not every mechanic gets to work on Formula 1 engines. For mm, you'll probably need to show some expertise in other kernel areas, *plus* have a deep understanding of memory management theory. That code has already been worked over by multiple professionals, which means pretty much all the easy stuff has already been done. Oh, and you're probably going to also need knowledge of the kernel instrumentation - perf, tracepoints, and friends. If you manage to find an actual bug in that code, it is most likely going to be some weird corner case, and *much* MM clue will be required to fix it without breaking some *other* more common corner case. Remember that the same code has to Do The Right Thing on everything from an embedded system with 32M of RAM and only one major process running, to large mainframe class boxes with a terabyte of RAM, a large Oracle instance, and several hundred Apache / Tomcat / etc processes flickering in and out of existence, to multi-terabyte systems running HPC (where the use of RDMA over Infiniband by things like MPI creates challenges due to a *lot* of locked pages...) Your best bet? Find a replicable corner case (this may require access to a variety of systems), create a test-case that can cause the corner case on demand. Figure out what the mm code is doing, and how it could do it better. Write a patch, test, and then double-check on other systems that you didn't cause a regression. Submit the patch. Good luck. :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 486 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20171006/0ce54c2d/attachment.bin ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-06 16:34 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu @ 2017-10-06 18:29 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-09 6:48 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado 2017-10-10 1:50 ` Yubin Ruan 1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-06 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Hello Valdis, thank you you for you reply. I'work for a big company as SAP partner and i responsible for SAP HANA and the infrastucture.? My personal intrest is the memory managment. My impression was the same as you answerded.? As you said i will try to figure out what the mm code is doing and try to find out what can we do better.? Damian Am Freitag, den 06.10.2017, 12:34 -0400 schrieb valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:14:08 +0200, Damian Tometzki said: > > > > > i'am intrested in helping and Bug Fixing in the mm area of the > > linux > > kernel.? > > > > For driver development is it clear check in the staging area the > > TODO's.? > > > > And what is the process for other areas of the kernel for example > > mm > > (Memory management X86) ?? > Rule 1 of kernel hacking:??Not every mechanic gets to work on Formula > 1 > engines. > > For mm, you'll probably need to show some expertise in other kernel > areas, > *plus* have a deep understanding of memory management theory. That > code has > already been worked over by multiple professionals, which means > pretty much all > the easy stuff has already been done. > > Oh, and you're probably going to also need knowledge of the kernel > instrumentation - perf, tracepoints, and friends. > > If you manage to find an actual bug in that code, it is most likely > going to be > some weird corner case, and *much* MM clue will be required to fix it > without > breaking some *other* more common corner case.??Remember that the > same code has > to Do The Right Thing on everything from an embedded system with 32M > of RAM and > only one major process running, to large mainframe class boxes with a > terabyte > of RAM, a large Oracle instance, and several hundred Apache / Tomcat > / etc > processes flickering in and out of existence, to multi-terabyte > systems running > HPC (where the use of RDMA over Infiniband by things like MPI creates > challenges due to a *lot* of locked pages...) > > Your best bet???Find a replicable corner case (this may require > access to a > variety of systems), create a test-case that can cause the corner > case on > demand.??Figure out what the mm code is doing, and how it could do it > better. > Write a patch, test, and then double-check on other systems that you > didn't > cause a regression.??Submit the patch. > > Good luck. :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-06 18:29 ` Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-09 6:48 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado @ 2017-10-09 6:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Take a look to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S9DDTFyjrY I attended a presentation with the same name in the last Kernel Recipes and was very clarifying. Cheers! On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Damian Tometzki <damian.tometzki@icloud.com> wrote: > Hello Valdis, > > thank you you for you reply. I'work for a big company as SAP partner > and i responsible for SAP HANA and the infrastucture. > > My personal intrest is the memory managment. My impression was the same > as you answerded. > > As you said i will try to figure out what the mm code is doing and try > to find out what can we do better. > > > Damian > > > > Am Freitag, den 06.10.2017, 12:34 -0400 schrieb > valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu: >> On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:14:08 +0200, Damian Tometzki said: >> >> > >> > i'am intrested in helping and Bug Fixing in the mm area of the >> > linux >> > kernel. >> > >> > For driver development is it clear check in the staging area the >> > TODO's. >> > >> > And what is the process for other areas of the kernel for example >> > mm >> > (Memory management X86) ? >> Rule 1 of kernel hacking: Not every mechanic gets to work on Formula >> 1 >> engines. >> >> For mm, you'll probably need to show some expertise in other kernel >> areas, >> *plus* have a deep understanding of memory management theory. That >> code has >> already been worked over by multiple professionals, which means >> pretty much all >> the easy stuff has already been done. >> >> Oh, and you're probably going to also need knowledge of the kernel >> instrumentation - perf, tracepoints, and friends. >> >> If you manage to find an actual bug in that code, it is most likely >> going to be >> some weird corner case, and *much* MM clue will be required to fix it >> without >> breaking some *other* more common corner case. Remember that the >> same code has >> to Do The Right Thing on everything from an embedded system with 32M >> of RAM and >> only one major process running, to large mainframe class boxes with a >> terabyte >> of RAM, a large Oracle instance, and several hundred Apache / Tomcat >> / etc >> processes flickering in and out of existence, to multi-terabyte >> systems running >> HPC (where the use of RDMA over Infiniband by things like MPI creates >> challenges due to a *lot* of locked pages...) >> >> Your best bet? Find a replicable corner case (this may require >> access to a >> variety of systems), create a test-case that can cause the corner >> case on >> demand. Figure out what the mm code is doing, and how it could do it >> better. >> Write a patch, test, and then double-check on other systems that you >> didn't >> cause a regression. Submit the patch. >> >> Good luck. :) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org >> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- Ricardo Ribalda ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-06 16:34 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu 2017-10-06 18:29 ` Damian Tometzki @ 2017-10-10 1:50 ` Yubin Ruan 2017-10-10 1:58 ` Jeffrey Walton 1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Yubin Ruan @ 2017-10-10 1:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies 2017-10-07 0:34 GMT+08:00 <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:14:08 +0200, Damian Tometzki said: > >> i'am intrested in helping and Bug Fixing in the mm area of the linux >> kernel. >> >> For driver development is it clear check in the staging area the >> TODO's. >> >> And what is the process for other areas of the kernel for example mm >> (Memory management X86) ? > > Rule 1 of kernel hacking: Not every mechanic gets to work on Formula 1 > engines. > > For mm, you'll probably need to show some expertise in other kernel areas, > *plus* have a deep understanding of memory management theory. That code has > already been worked over by multiple professionals, which means pretty much all > the easy stuff has already been done. > > Oh, and you're probably going to also need knowledge of the kernel > instrumentation - perf, tracepoints, and friends. > > If you manage to find an actual bug in that code, it is most likely going to be > some weird corner case, and *much* MM clue will be required to fix it without > breaking some *other* more common corner case. Remember that the same code has > to Do The Right Thing on everything from an embedded system with 32M of RAM and > only one major process running, to large mainframe class boxes with a terabyte > of RAM, a large Oracle instance, and several hundred Apache / Tomcat / etc um...terabyte of RAM? Can you name one of those machine with so much RAM? Yubin ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-10 1:50 ` Yubin Ruan @ 2017-10-10 1:58 ` Jeffrey Walton 2017-10-10 2:56 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Jeffrey Walton @ 2017-10-10 1:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com> wrote: > ... >> to Do The Right Thing on everything from an embedded system with 32M of RAM and >> only one major process running, to large mainframe class boxes with a terabyte >> of RAM, a large Oracle instance, and several hundred Apache / Tomcat / etc > > um...terabyte of RAM? Can you name one of those machine with so much RAM? 4 TB: http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1855272 64 TB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7302770 690 TB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(supercomputer) ... Jeff ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel 2017-10-10 1:58 ` Jeffrey Walton @ 2017-10-10 2:56 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu @ 2017-10-10 2:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:58:27 -0400, Jeffrey Walton said: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:50:21 +0800, Yubin Ruan said: > > um...terabyte of RAM? Can you name one of those machine with so much RAM? > > 4 TB: http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1855272 > 64 TB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7302770 > 690 TB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(supercomputer) Heck, Dell will sell you a 4U rack-mount with 3T in it. Got probably a half-dozen of them across the hall from my office for the HPC people. And we probably got a hundred or so nodes with 512G of RAM across the various clusters. And IBM will sell you a System/Z Z14 with 32T of memory, and crazy amounts of I/O capability (Imagine the equivalent of 320 PCI slots....) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/17/ibm_latest_mainframe_z14/ https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=ZSD03046USEN& And yes, it will run Linux, it's a s390 architecture box. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 486 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20171009/34f8095c/attachment-0001.bin ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2017-10-10 2:56 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 9+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2017-10-05 16:14 help in the MM Area of the Linux Kernel Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 14:19 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 14:31 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-06 16:34 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu 2017-10-06 18:29 ` Damian Tometzki 2017-10-09 6:48 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado 2017-10-10 1:50 ` Yubin Ruan 2017-10-10 1:58 ` Jeffrey Walton 2017-10-10 2:56 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox; as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).