kernelci.org update - 2020-07-29 #minutes

kernelci.org update - 2020-07-29 #minutes

[Guillaume Tucker]

Technical Steering Committee minutes - 2020-07-21
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* now moved from buildroot to debian (initramfs + pivot_root)

* kselftest:
  * use debian nfsroot, Linaro test-definitions
  * Draft PR: https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core/pull/445

* RISCV: debian (sid): rootfs ready
  https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core/pull/414

* Uploaded “kernelci” package to PyPI
  https://pypi.org/project/kernelci/

* KCIDB
  * Sent an outline of KCIDB support to Dmitry Vyukov of syzbot/syzkaller.
  * Support for “issues” and “incidents”, and suppressing identical reports
  * Writing the same for Philip Li of 0-day.
  * Support for source code and build “linting”
  * Tailored reports
  * Writing an introduction to KCIDB schema and submission next.
  * Thinking of releasing and deploying KCIDB v6 with v3 I/O schema
  * Bringing revision correlation
  * Handling duplicate objects
  * Submission reliability/feedback
  * Topic for discussion: aggregating results
  * BQ public data sets: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/

* Kubernetes
  * Had a couple of issues with ansible and k8s
    https://github.com/kernelci/builder-config2/pull/24
    https://github.com/kernelci/builder-config2/issues/25

* New guest: Aditya
  * Discussion with Kevin regarding the logging part and wait.py
  * Discussion with Guillaume regarding k8s/job-build.jinja2 file


Technical Steering Committee minutes - 2020-07-28
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* kci_data: how to submit test results without LAVA callback
  * will start submitting raw/incomplete data to staging /test API
  * can be used as beta test /test API backend updates
  * ToDo: first step is to review and clean-up the fields being accepted and
    required
  * Next step is to drop the requirement for a kernel build to submit test
    results (revision/branch/tree should be enough)

* Documentation: “How to add new rootfs testsuite and how to add LAVA tests”
  https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core/pull/444
  -> Path of least resistance for adding rootfs images, i.e. nfsroot with
     full-featured Buster base image and test definitions that can install
     extra test dependencies

* Kubernetes in  production
  * new Jenkins nodes in USA and Europe, issue with 90+ build-k8s containers
    getting started on node running the trigger jobs
  * hitting some bottleneck issues


Advisory Board minutes - 2020-07-22
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* 2020-Q3 plan update: OK except KUnit work hasn't resumed yet
* Discussing how to provide separate instances of KernelCI for members
* Also mentioned, xfstests is a good test plan but with stability issues


Summary of changes going into production
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* Fix LKFT job submissions
* Improve error handling and help messages in kci_* CLI tools
* Replace the --token CLI arguments with --db-token and --lab-token
* New riscv64 rootfs based on debian/sid, not used for tests yet
* New production Jenkins instance using kernelci-jenkins with docker-compose
* Kernel builds now running in Kubernetes clusters rather than Jenkins builders


Best wishes,
Guillaume