Faults in Linux 2.6 - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue ACM Transactions on Computer Systems Année : 2014

Faults in Linux 2.6

Résumé

In August 2011, Linux entered its third decade. Ten years before, Chou et al. published a study of faults found by applying a static analyzer to Linux versions 1.0 through 2.4.1. A major result of their work was that the drivers directory contained up to 7 times more of certain kinds of faults than other directories. This result inspired numerous efforts on improving the reliability of driver code. Today, Linux is used in a wider range of environments, provides a wider range of services, and has adopted a new development and release model. What has been the impact of these changes on code quality? To answer this question, we have transported Chou et al.'s experiments to all versions of Linux 2.6; released between 2003 and 2011. We find that Linux has more than doubled in size during this period, but the number of faults per line of code has been decreasing. Moreover, the fault rate of drivers is now below that of other directories, such as arch. These results can guide further development and research efforts for the decade to come. To allow updating these results as Linux evolves, we define our experimental protocol and make our checkers available.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
faults-in-linux-2.6-tocs.pdf (886.11 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
dump.sql.xz (76.79 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
faults-in-Linux-2.6-experiments.txz (24.35 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Format : Autre
Format : Autre
Loading...

Dates et versions

hal-01022704 , version 1 (16-07-2014)

Identifiants

Citer

Nicolas Palix, Gaël Thomas, Suman Saha, Christophe Calvès, Gilles Muller, et al.. Faults in Linux 2.6. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 2014, 32 (2), pp.1--40. ⟨10.1145/2619090⟩. ⟨hal-01022704⟩
538 Consultations
1208 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More