Kernel Recipes 2018 - Coccinelle: 10 Years of Automated Evolution in the Linux Kernel - Julia Lawall

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J. Lawall
The Coccinelle C-program matching and transformation tool was first released in 2008 to facilitate specification and automation in the evolution of Linux kernel code. The novel contribution of Coccinelle is to allow software developers to write code manipulation rules in terms of the code structure itself, via a generalization of the patch syntax. Over the years, Coccinelle has been extensively used in Linux kernel development, resulting in over 6000 commits to the Linux kernel, and has found its place as part of the Linux kernel development process. This talk will review the history of Coccinelle and its impact on the Linux kernel. It will also briefly present two newer tools, prequel and spinfer, that have built on the Coccinelle infrastructure.