From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86D2C43381 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B191720857 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726936AbfCTGON (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:14:13 -0400 Received: from edison.jonmasters.org ([173.255.233.168]:59748 "EHLO edison.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726152AbfCTGOM (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:14:12 -0400 Received: from [74.203.127.5] (helo=tonnant.bos.jonmasters.org) by edison.jonmasters.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6UUM-0001Kh-Bd; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:14:10 +0000 To: Greg KH Cc: Sasha Levin , Amir Goldstein , Steve French , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , LKML , "Luis R. Rodriguez" References: <20190212170012.GF69686@sasha-vm> <20190213073707.GA2875@kroah.com> <20190213091803.GA2308@kroah.com> <20190213192512.GH69686@sasha-vm> <20190213195232.GA10047@kroah.com> <79d10599-70d2-7d06-1cee-6e52d36233bf@jonmasters.org> <20190320050659.GA16580@kroah.com> From: Jon Masters Message-ID: <134e0fe1-e468-5243-90b5-ccb81d63e9a1@jonmasters.org> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:14:09 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190320050659.GA16580@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 74.203.127.5 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jcm@jonmasters.org Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] FS, MM, and stable trees X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:31:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on edison.jonmasters.org) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On 3/20/19 1:06 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:46:09PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: >> On 2/13/19 2:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:25:12PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: >> >>>> So really, it sounds like a low hanging fruit: we don't really need to >>>> write much more testing code code nor do we have to refactor existing >>>> test suites. We just need to make sure the right tests are running on >>>> stable kernels. I really want to clarify what each subsystem sees as >>>> "sufficient" (and have that documented somewhere). >>> >>> kernel.ci and 0-day and Linaro are starting to add the fs and mm tests >>> to their test suites to address these issues (I think 0-day already has >>> many of them). So this is happening, but not quite obvious. I know I >>> keep asking Linaro about this :( >> >> We're working on investments for LDCG[0] in 2019 that include kernel CI >> changes for server use cases. Please keep us informed of what you folks >> ultimately want to see, and I'll pass on to the steering committee too. >> >> Ultimately I've been pushing for a kernel 0-day project for Arm. That's >> probably going to require a lot of duplicated effort since the original >> 0-day project isn't open, but creating an open one could help everyone. > > Why are you trying to duplicate it on your own? That's what kernel.ci > should be doing, please join in and invest in that instead. It's an > open source project with its own governance and needs sponsors, why > waste time and money doing it all on your own? To clarify, I'm pushing for investment in kernel.ci to achieve that goal that it could provide the same 0-day capability for Arm and others. It'll ultimately result in duplicated effort vs if 0-day were open. Jon.