Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] various perf fixes

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Mon Feb 15 2016 - 10:48:13 EST


On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 04:04:36PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> Peter, I want to check status of these perf crashes. I see that you
>> landed a bunch of patches. But I still see perf-related crashes while
>> running syzkaller.
>
> Bugger :-)
>
>> Are there any existing bugs left that you know
>> about?
>
> I might have one report, but I've been ill the past two weeks, so I'm
> not too sure on that.
>
>> Or should I report new crashes?
>
> Please.
>
>> Did you have any luck setting up syzkaller locally? That could
>> significantly reduce turnaround time.
>
> Not yet :/ I managed to reproduce a lot of fail with Vince's perf-fuzzer
> and some stress test scripts Ingo had.
>
> I suppose I'll have to go look at making this happen; right bugger for
> requiring a weird language though :/

It should not be _too_ hard :)
Feel free to contact me or syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you have any
issues with setup.