• [$] Extending run-time verification for the kernel

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Wed Jul 30 16:45:08 2025
    [$] Extending run-time verification for the kernel

    Date:
    Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:39:46 +0000

    Description:
    There are a lot of things people expect the Linux kernel to do correctly. Some of these are checked by testing or static analysis; a few are ensured by run-time verification: checking a live property of a running Linux system. For example, the scheduler has a handful of different correctness properties that can be
    checked in this way.
    Nam Cao posted a patch series that aims to extend the kinds of properties
    that the kernel's run-time
    verification system can check, by adding support for linear temporal logic (LTL). The patch set has seen eleven revisions since the first version in March2025, and recently made it into the linux-next
    tree, from where it seems likely to reach the mainline kernel soon.

    ======================================================================
    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1030685/


    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: tqwNet UK HUB @ hub.uk.erb.pw (1337:1/100)