Hello everyone, I'm Eisha Chen-yen-su, a CS student at Paris 6 University (aka UPMC). I'm on my first year of Master's degree, specialized in distributed applications and systems.
I would like to apply to the project "Analysis and fixing of race condition warnings in the Linux kernel". I'm proficient in C. The last semester, I've got a course about operating system kernels in which I've studied general principles of process management and scheduling, virtual memory and file systems. I've also studied some portions of the source code of the UNIXv7's kernel during this course. This semester, I'm fallowing a course about programming in the Linux kernel and until now I've already studied how to compile the kernel, and run it within a VM (using qemu and KVM), as well as debugging techniques with KGDB over a serial line. I've also learnt about manipulating and writing kernel modules. I have a good knowledge of concurrent programming: synchronization primitives, being aware of data races and deadlocks and the like. I've also been practicing it with the POSIX threads API in C, in Rust (a language which I use a lot) and lately I've been learning implementation of distributed algorithms with MPI. I also had a class about concurrent programming during the last semester. Also, I've completed GSoC 2018 by contributing to Fractal (you can find what was achieved here https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2018/projects/4724779168825344/). I'm interested by this project mainly because I think it would be very helpful to improve my skills for debugging as I know that debugging a kernel as well as tracking concurrent bugs can be very tricky, so it will be useful for me later as I'm very keen on parallel, concurrent and distributed computing. This project would also be a way for me to start contributing to the Linux kernel. I would like to know if there are particular resources that I should start reading for making my proposal? Any contributions to make? And maybe have more indications about how to setup and use tools from LDV, please. I've already found this document (http://linuxtesting.org/downloads/20140425-Dagstuhl-LDV.pdf), I wonder whether it is relevant for this project. Regard, Eisha Chen-yen-su _______________________________________________ lsb-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss
