Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] & [TECH TOPIC] Improve regression tracking

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On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 15:33:41 +0100
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 04:06:07PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> > I don't mean to poo-poo the idea, but please realize that around 75% of
>> > the kernel is hardware/arch support, so that means that 75% of the
>> > changes/fixes deal with hardware things (yes, change is in direct
>> > correlation to size of the codebase in the tree, strange but true).
>>
>> Then add in all the fixes for concurrency/locking issues and so on
>> that're hard to reliably reproduce as well...
>
> All tests should be run with lockdep enabled ;-)  Which a surprising
> few developers appear to do :-p

We're slowly working towards running the i915 testsuite with kasan
enabled as the next level of evil. It's ... interesting, to say the
least.
-Daniel
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