24–28 Aug 2020
US/Pacific timezone

Towards Learning From Linux Kernel Configurations' Failures with Clang

27 Aug 2020, 10:00
15m
Microconference1/Virtual-Room (LPC Virtual)

Microconference1/Virtual-Room

LPC Virtual

150
LLVM MC LLVM MC

Speaker

Prof. Mathieu Acher (University of Rennes 1)

Description

The Linux kernel offers more than ten thousands configuration options that can be combined to build an almost infinite number of kernel variants. Developers and contributors spend significant effort and computational resources to continuously track and hopefully fix configurations that lead to build failures. In this talk, we report on our endeavor to develop an infrastructure, called TuxML, able to build any kernel configuration and learn what could explain or even prevent configurations' failures. We will present some insights over 300K+ configurations coming from different releases/versions of the kernel. Our results show that TuxML can accurately cluster failures, automatically trace the responsible configuration options, and learn by itself to avoid unnecessary and costly builds.
In the last part of the talk, we will discuss the applicability of TuxML as well as the open challenges when building in the large kernel configurations with Clang. We believe there is potential to better understand problematic cases (through clustering and statistitcal learning) and such insights can drive the improvement of Clang-based building of Linux.

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Primary author

Prof. Mathieu Acher (University of Rennes 1)

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