Re: [MAINTAINERS / KERNEL SUMMIT] AI patch review tools

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 09:43:48PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On 10/8/25 2:33 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 01:04:54PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:

[ . . . ]

> >> There's definitely overlap between the bugs I'm finding and the bugs Dan
> >> Carpenter finds, so I'm hoping he and I can team up as well.
> >>
> >> In terms of actual review details, the reviews have two parts:
> >>
> >> 1) The review prompts.  These are stand alone and can just work on any
> >> kernel tree.  This is what BPF CI is currently using:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts/ 
> > 
> > I think I'll borrow some of these :)
> > 
> > It was interesting to read through some of the prompts and see where you
> > had
> > good and bad experience with the AI ("You're not smart enough to understand
> > smp_mb()" :D )
> 
> If I'm being honest, I'm probably not smart enough to teach AI about
> smp_mb(), but that's a different problem.

Ask the AI to read tools/memory-model and Documentation/memory-barriers.txt?

More seriously, yes, the AI might need considerable background information
to make sense of the .bell and .cat files.

						Thanx, Paul