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Google Summer of Code 2013 project was completed

"Generation of Environment Model for Verification of Multi-module Device Drivers" project developed during Google Summer of Code 2013 in favor of The Linux Foundation was completed.
Added by Evgeny Novikov over 10 years ago

Master's student Ilja Zakharov under Vadim Mutilin supervision successfully finished Google Summer of Code 2013 project Generation of Environment Model for Verification of Multi-module Device Drivers for The Linux Foundation.

Ilja worked in the following directions:
  1. Experiments with extraction of interconnected Linux kernel modules.
  2. New implementation for a Linux-related stack of components of the LDV Tools.

Ilja developed a new approach for extracting a graph of all interconnected Linux kernel modules and a new method for a graph clusterization specific for verification purposes. Obtained groups of modules rarely exceed 5 modules in size. Further research for generating environment model and study of corner cases lie ahead.

Kernel Manager, Build Command Extractor and Command Stream Divider components of the LDV Tools were completely redesigned. The most notable features that they support now include an adjustment on the basis of an extendable common configuration, a results caching, various strategies of module extraction and an extracting of the Linux kernel modules for the ARM architecture. Also a new architecture of these components allow to avoid all old bugs like this. Integration of the components with LDV Tools is ongoing.


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