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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Feb 15 2016 - 11:42:14 EST


On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 05:35:51PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > root@ivb-ep:~/gopath/src/github.com/google/syzkaller# bin/syz-manager -config perf.cfg -v 1 -debug
> > 2016/02/15 17:12:50 bad config syzkaller param: can't find bin/syz-execprog
> >
> > And its right, no such thing as bin/syz-execprog
>
>
> Please also do:
>
> $ make execprog
>
> And replace:
>
> "nocover": true,
> "nodropprivs": true,
>
> in config file with:
>
> "cover": false,
> "dropprivs": false,
>
> (that's changed since I wrote the instructions).

OK, now I have syz-fuzzer at ~950% CPU time and a gazillion syz-executor
tasks running.

No splats yet, I'll leave it running for a while.


In order to get coverage support, I have to apply that one patch to my
local kernel, right?