[ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi,

We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's Guide" v0.3-rc1.

This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is divided into six chapters:

1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
  1.1 The kernel
  1.2 Patches
  1.3 Ketchup
  1.4 Trees
  1.5 The -mm tree
  1.6 Compilation and installation
    1.6.1 Kernel compilation
    1.6.2 Useful make options
    1.6.3 Kernel modules
    1.6.4 Kernel hacking options
    1.6.5 Magic SysRq
    1.6.6 Installation
    1.6.7 Automated configuration and installation
2 Testing
  2.1 Phase One
  2.2 Phase Two (AutoTest)
  2.3 Phase Three
  2.4 Measuring performance
  2.5 Hello world! or What exactly are we looking for?
  2.6 Binary drivers and distribution kernels
3 Collecting kernel messages
  3.1 Syslog, console and dmesg
  3.2 Serial console
  3.3 Network console
4 Git, quilt and binary searching
  4.1  Git
  4.2  Quilt
  4.3  General idea of binary searching
  4.4  Binary searching with the help of quilt
  4.5  Binary searching with the help of git-bisect
  4.6  Caveats
5 Reporting bugs
6 Testing of hardware
A Related topics
  A.1 Test system
  A.2 KLive
  A.3 Sending patches
  A.4 How to become the kernel developer?
B License

PDF version
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf

LaTeX source
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-current.tar.bz2

Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.

Huge thanks goes to Rafael J. Wysocki who translated the entire guide into English.
This is one of those rare cases when translation is better than original version :).

Regards,
Michal

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Clemens Koller]

Hello, Michal, Rafael!

Good work!
Some (minor) comments below.

Michal Piotrowski schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's 
> Guide" v0.3-rc1.
> 
> This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is 
> divided into six chapters:
> 
> 1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
>  1.1 The kernel

I would prefer to use a -rc in the examples and not one of the
stable 2.6.x.y kernels.

>  1.2 Patches
>  1.3 Ketchup

I would prefer using git in the examples.
There is no such thing as "apt-get" in generic linux.

> Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.

There is just too less time to test the kernel much in
detail. It would be fine to have the whole book as
./test-my-system-now-but-dont-ask-me.sh ;-)

Good luck,
-- 
Clemens Koller
__________________________________
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi Clemens,

On 19/06/07, Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de> wrote:
> Hello, Michal, Rafael!
>
> Good work!

Thanks :)

> Some (minor) comments below.
>
> Michal Piotrowski schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's
> > Guide" v0.3-rc1.
> >
> > This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is
> > divided into six chapters:
> >
> > 1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
> >  1.1 The kernel
>
> I would prefer to use a -rc in the examples and not one of the
> stable 2.6.x.y kernels.
>
> >  1.2 Patches
> >  1.3 Ketchup
>
> I would prefer using git in the examples.
> There is no such thing as "apt-get" in generic linux.
>
> > Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
>
> There is just too less time to test the kernel much in
> detail. It would be fine to have the whole book as
> ./test-my-system-now-but-dont-ask-me.sh ;-)

How about "bin/autotest samples/all_tests"?

Regards,
Michal

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Clemens Koller]

Hello, Michal!

Michal Piotrowski schrieb:
>> There is just too less time to test the kernel much in
>> detail. It would be fine to have the whole book as
>> ./test-my-system-now-but-dont-ask-me.sh ;-)
> 
> How about "bin/autotest samples/all_tests"?

Ah, I really should read all of it:
There is "Chapter 2.2 Phase Two (AutoTest)".

I will give it a try...

Thanks,
-- 
Clemens Koller
__________________________________
R&D Imaging Devices
Anagramm GmbH
Rupert-Mayer-Straße 45/1
Linhof Werksgelände
D-81379 München
Tel.089-741518-50
Fax 089-741518-19
http://www.anagramm-technology.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Jan Engelhardt]

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<On Jun 18 2007 22:11, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>
> 1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
> 1.1 The kernel

Please do not advocate old-style tar option syntax.

> 1.2 Patches
> 1.3 Ketchup
> 1.4 Trees
> 1.5 The -mm tree
> 1.6 Compilation and installation
>   1.6.1 Kernel compilation
>   1.6.2 Useful make options

make O=/katalog  seems out of place.

>   1.6.3 Kernel modules
>   1.6.4 Kernel hacking options
>   1.6.5 Magic SysRq
>   1.6.6 Installation
>   1.6.7 Automated configuration and installation
> 2 Testing
> 2.1 Phase One
> 2.2 Phase Two (AutoTest)
> 2.3 Phase Three
> 2.4 Measuring performance
> 2.5 Hello world! or What exactly are we looking for?
> 2.6 Binary drivers and distribution kernels
> 3 Collecting kernel messages
> 3.1 Syslog, console and dmesg
> 3.2 Serial console

Or set up minicom first... minicom -s ttyS0 (and then go to Serial port setup)

> PDF version
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf

No HTML version?

>
> LaTeX source
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-current.tar.bz2
>
> Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
>
> Huge thanks goes to Rafael J. Wysocki who translated the entire guide into
> English.
> This is one of those rare cases when translation is better than original
> version :).
>

	Jan
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester???s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Jarek Poplawski]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:50:54AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> <On Jun 18 2007 22:11, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
...
> > PDF version
> > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf
> 
> No HTML version?

I see I'm not the last of a kind... Or? So:
No txt version?

> > Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
> >
> > Huge thanks goes to Rafael J. Wysocki who translated the entire guide into
> > English.

I join you in this thanking! (Sorry for delay.)

> > This is one of those rare cases when translation is better than original
> > version :).

It's probably mainly because my contribution (i.e. some comas)
is untranslatable!

Cheers,
Jarek P.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester???s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Jarek Poplawski]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:30:04AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> It's probably mainly because my contribution (i.e. some comas)
> is untranslatable!

After full awakening I've recalled there were a few very nice commas
as well!

Jarek P.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi Balbir,

On 21/06/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Wonderful! Are there any plans to start using the fault injection framework
> to catch more defects?

There are plans for the second part called "debugging techniques", but
I really don't know when I'll start writing this.

In fact I don't even know if it will be useful for testers. IMHO it is
for developers not for testers.

Regards,
Michal

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Balbir Singh]

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Balbir,
> 
> On 21/06/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Wonderful! Are there any plans to start using the fault injection
>> framework
>> to catch more defects?
> 
> There are plans for the second part called "debugging techniques", but
> I really don't know when I'll start writing this.
> 
> In fact I don't even know if it will be useful for testers. IMHO it is
> for developers not for testers.
> 
> Regards,
> Michal
> 

I thought so too, but being able to randomly fail allocations on a system
might expose the system error handling and recovery capabilities.

It'll also be interesting to see if testing is catching bugs, that tools
(such as sparse) could have caught.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0.3-rc1

[Rolf Eike Beer]

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Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's
> Guide" v0.3-rc1.

It would be cool if we can get a clickable table of contents. Normally it's 
enough to include \usepackage{hyperref} before running pdflatex.

Eike

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