Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

Paul E. McKenney
2024-10-30T17:32:57Z

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 01:15:39PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:08:57AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 06:46:19PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 11:48:34PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 09:54:53PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > > For example, for a given PR, the bot can report:
> > > > >
> > > > > - Were the patches CCed to a mailing list?
> > > > > - A histogram of how long the patches were in next (to show bake times)
> > > > > - Are any patches associated with test failures? (0day and many other
> > > > > CIs are already running tests against -next; parse those reports)
> > > > >
> > > > > We could have a real pre-submit checker! :)
> > > >
> > > > That would be very useful. Items 1 and 2 should be trivial, 3 would
> > > > require a bit of work but would still be very useful.
> > >
> > > If you've been following so far, there is a bot that is capable of doing
> > > most of the above
> > > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/next-analysis.git/).
> >
> > Nice!!!
> >
> > What does this make of these commits of mine?
> >
> > 744e87210b1ae rcu: Finer-grained grace-period-end checks in rcu_dump_cpu_stacks()
> > cbe644aa6fe17 rcu: Stop stall warning from dumping stacks if grace period ends
> > 26ff1fb02991e rcu: Delete unused rcu_gp_might_be_stalled() function
>
> Days in linux-next:
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> 4 |
> 5 |
> 6 | +++ (3)

Very good!

Any indications of errors for any of them?

Thanx, Paul