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<h1>Submitting Patches</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="#guidelines">Basic guidelines</a>
<li><a href="#formatting">Patch formatting</a>
<li><a href="#testing">Testing Patches</a>
<li><a href="#submit">Submitting Patches</a>
<li><a href="#reviewing">Reviewing Patches</a>
<li><a href="#nominations">Nominating a commit for a stable branch</a>
<li><a href="#criteria">Criteria for accepting patches to the stable branch</a>
<li><a href="#backports">Sending backports for the stable branch</a>
<li><a href="#gittips">Git tips</a>
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<h2 id="guidelines">Basic guidelines</h2>
<ul>
<li>Patches should not mix code changes with code formatting changes (except,
perhaps, in very trivial cases.)
<li>Code patches should follow Mesa
<a href="codingstyle.html" target="_parent">coding conventions</a>.
<li>Whenever possible, patches should only affect individual Mesa/Gallium
components.
<li>Patches should never introduce build breaks and should be bisectable (see
<code>git bisect</code>.)
<li>Patches should be properly <a href="#formatting">formatted</a>.
<li>Patches should be sufficiently <a href="#testing">tested</a> before submitting.
<li>Patches should be <a href="#submit">submitted</a>
to <a href="#mailing">mesa-dev</a> or with
a <a href="#merge-request">merge request</a>
for <a href="#reviewing">review</a>.
</ul>
<h2 id="formatting">Patch formatting</h2>
<ul>
<li>Lines should be limited to 75 characters or less so that git logs
displayed in 80-column terminals avoid line wrapping. Note that git
log uses 4 spaces of indentation (4 + 75 < 80).
<li>The first line should be a short, concise summary of the change prefixed
with a module name. Examples:
<pre>
mesa: Add support for querying GL_VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY_LONG
gallium: add PIPE_CAP_DEVICE_RESET_STATUS_QUERY
i965: Fix missing type in local variable declaration.
</pre>
<li>Subsequent patch comments should describe the change in more detail,
if needed. For example:
<pre>
i965: Remove end-of-thread SEND alignment code.
This was present in Eric's initial implementation of the compaction code
for Sandybridge (commit 077d01b6). There is no documentation saying this
is necessary, and removing it causes no regressions in piglit on any
platform.
</pre>
<li>A "Signed-off-by:" line is not required, but not discouraged either.
<li>If a patch addresses an issue in gitlab, use the Closes: tag
For example:
<pre>
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/issues/1
</pre>
<p>Prefer the full url to just <pre>Closes: #1</pre>, since the url makes it
easier to get to the bug page from <pre>git log</pre></p>
<b>Do not use the Fixes: tag for this!</b> Mesa already uses Fixes for something else.
<li>If a patch addresses a issue introduced with earlier commit, that should be
noted in the patch comment. For example:
<pre>
Fixes: d7b3707c612 "util/disk_cache: use stat() to check if entry is a directory"
</pre>
<li>You can produce those fixes lines by running
<pre>git config --global alias.fixes "show -s --pretty='format:Fixes: %h (\"%s\")'"</pre>
once and then using <pre>git fixes <sha1></pre>
<li>If there have been several revisions to a patch during the review
process, they should be noted such as in this example:
<pre>
st/mesa: add ARB_texture_stencil8 support (v4)
if we support stencil texturing, enable texture_stencil8
there is no requirement to support native S8 for this,
the texture can be converted to x24s8 fine.
v2: fold fixes from Marek in:
a) put S8 last in the list
b) fix renderable to always test for d/s renderable
fixup the texture case to use a stencil only format
for picking the format for the texture view.
v3: hit fallback for getteximage
v4: put s8 back in front, it shouldn't get picked now (Ilia)
</pre>
<li>If someone tested your patch, document it with a line like this:
<pre>
Tested-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
</pre>
<li>If the patch was reviewed (usually the case) or acked by someone,
that should be documented with:
<pre>
Reviewed-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
Acked-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
</pre>
<li>If sending later revision of a patch, add all the tags - ack, r-b,
Cc: mesa-stable and/or other. This provides reviewers with quick feedback if the
patch has already been reviewed.
</ul>
<h2 id="testing">Testing Patches</h2>
<p>
It should go without saying that patches must be tested. In general,
do whatever testing is prudent.
</p>
<p>
You should always run the Mesa test suite before submitting patches.
The test suite can be run using the 'meson test' command. All tests
must pass before patches will be accepted, this may mean you have
to update the tests themselves.
</p>
<p>
Whenever possible and applicable, test the patch with
<a href="https://piglit.freedesktop.org">Piglit</a> and/or
<a href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/deqp/">dEQP</a>
to check for regressions.
</p>
<p>
As mentioned at the begining, patches should be bisectable.
A good way to test this is to make use of the `git rebase` command,
to run your tests on each commit. Assuming your branch is based off
<code>origin/master</code>, you can run:
</p>
<pre>
$ git rebase --interactive --exec "meson test -C build/" origin/master
</pre>
<p>
replacing <code>"meson test"</code> with whatever other test you want to
run.
</p>
<h2 id="submit">Submitting Patches</h2>
<p>
Patches may be submitted to the Mesa project by
<a href="#mailing">email</a> or with a
GitLab <a href="#merge-request">merge request</a>. To prevent
duplicate code review, only use one method to submit your changes.
</p>
<h3 id="mailing">Mailing Patches</h3>
<p>
Patches may be sent to the mesa-dev mailing list for review:
<a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev">
mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a>.
When submitting a patch make sure to use
<a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email">git send-email</a>
rather than attaching patches to emails. Sending patches as
attachments prevents people from being able to provide in-line review
comments.
</p>
<p>
When submitting follow-up patches you can use --in-reply-to to make v2, v3,
etc patches show up as replies to the originals. This usually works well
when you're sending out updates to individual patches (as opposed to
re-sending the whole series). Using --in-reply-to makes
it harder for reviewers to accidentally review old patches.
</p>
<p>
When submitting follow-up patches you should also login to
<a href="https://patchwork.freedesktop.org">patchwork</a> and change the
state of your old patches to Superseded.
</p>
<p>
Some companies' mail server automatically append a legal disclaimer,
usually containing something along the lines of "The information in this
email is confidential" and "distribution is strictly prohibited".
</p>
<p>
These legal notices prevent us from being able to accept your patch,
rendering the whole process pointless. Please make sure these are
disabled before sending your patches. (Note that you may need to contact
your email administrator for this.)
</p>
<h3 id="merge-request">GitLab Merge Requests</h3>
<p>
<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa">GitLab</a> Merge
Requests (MR) can also be used to submit patches for Mesa.
</p>
<p>
If the MR may have interest for most of the Mesa community, you can
send an email to the mesa-dev email list including a link to the MR.
Don't send the patch to mesa-dev, just the MR link.
</p>
<p>
Add labels to your MR to help reviewers find it. For example:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Mesa changes affecting all drivers: mesa
<li>Hardware vendor specific code: amd, intel, nvidia, ...
<li>Driver specific code: anvil, freedreno, i965, iris, radeonsi,
radv, vc4, ...
<li>Other tag examples: gallium, util
</ul>
<p>
Tick the following when creating the MR. It allows developers to
rebase your work on top of master.
</p>
<pre>Allow commits from members who can merge to the target branch</pre>
<p>
If you revise your patches based on code review and push an update
to your branch, you should maintain a <strong>clean</strong> history
in your patches. There should not be "fixup" patches in the history.
The series should be buildable and functional after every commit
whenever you push the branch.
</p>
<p>
It is your responsibility to keep the MR alive and making progress,
as there are no guarantees that a Mesa dev will independently take
interest in it.
</p>
<p>
Some other notes:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Make changes and update your branch based on feedback
<li>After an update, for the feedback you handled, close the
feedback discussion with the "Resolve Discussion" button. This way
the reviewers know which feedback got handled and which didn't.
<li>Old, stale MR may be closed, but you can reopen it if you
still want to pursue the changes
<li>You should periodically check to see if your MR needs to be
rebased
<li>Make sure your MR is closed if your patches get pushed outside
of GitLab
<li>Please send MRs from a personal fork rather than from the main
Mesa repository, as it clutters it unnecessarily.
</ul>
<h2 id="reviewing">Reviewing Patches</h2>
<p>
To participate in code review, you should monitor the
<a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev">
mesa-dev</a> email list and the GitLab
Mesa <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests">Merge
Requests</a> page.
</p>
<p>
When you've reviewed a patch on the mailing list, please be unambiguous
about your review. That is, state either
</p>
<pre>
Reviewed-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
</pre>
or
<pre>
Acked-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
</pre>
<p>
Rather than saying just "LGTM" or "Seems OK".
</p>
<p>
If small changes are suggested, it's OK to say something like:
</p>
<pre>
With the above fixes, Reviewed-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
</pre>
<p>
which tells the patch author that the patch can be committed, as long
as the issues are resolved first.
</p>
<p>
These Reviewed-by, Acked-by, and Tested-by tags should also be amended
into commits in a MR before it is merged.
</p>
<p>
When providing a Reviewed-by, Acked-by, or Tested-by tag in a gitlab MR,
enclose the tag in backticks:
</p>
<pre>
`Reviewed-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@example.com>`</pre>
<p>
This is the markdown format for literal, and will prevent gitlab from hiding
the < and > symbols.
</p>
<p>
Review by non-experts is encouraged. Understanding how someone else
goes about solving a problem is a great way to learn your way around
the project. The submitter is expected to evaluate whether they have
an appropriate amount of review feedback from people who also
understand the code before merging their patches.
</p>
<h2 id="nominations">Nominating a commit for a stable branch</h2>
<p>
There are three ways to nominate a patch for inclusion in the stable branch and
release.
</p>
<ul>
<li> By adding the Cc: mesa-stable@ tag as described below.
<li> Sending the commit ID (as seen in master branch) to the mesa-stable@ mailing list.
<li> Forwarding the patch from the mesa-dev@ mailing list.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Note: resending patch identical to one on mesa-dev@ or one that differs only
by the extra mesa-stable@ tag is <strong>not</strong> recommended.
</p>
<p>
If you are not the author of the original patch, please Cc: them in your
nomination request.
</p>
<p>
The current patch status can be observed in the <a href="releasing.html#stagingbranch">staging branch</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="thetag">The stable tag</h3>
<p>
If you want a commit to be applied to a stable branch,
you should add an appropriate note to the commit message.
</p>
<p>
Here are some examples of such a note:
</p>
<pre>
CC: <mesa-stable@lists.freedesktop.org>
</pre>
Simply adding the CC to the mesa-stable list address is adequate to nominate
the commit for all the active stable branches. If the commit is not applicable
for said branch the stable-release manager will reply stating so.
This "CC" syntax for patch nomination will cause patches to automatically be
copied to the mesa-stable@ mailing list when you use "git send-email" to send
patches to the mesa-dev@ mailing list. If you prefer using --suppress-cc that
won't have any negative effect on the patch nomination.
<p>
Note: by removing the tag [as the commit is pushed] the patch is
<strong>explicitly</strong> rejected from inclusion in the stable branch(es).
Thus, drop the line <strong>only</strong> if you want to cancel the nomination.
</p>
Alternatively, if one uses the "Fixes" tag as described in the "Patch formatting"
section, it nominates a commit for all active stable branches that include the
commit that is referred to.
<h2 id="criteria">Criteria for accepting patches to the stable branch</h2>
Mesa has a designated release manager for each stable branch, and the release
manager is the only developer that should be pushing changes to these branches.
Everyone else should nominate patches using the mechanism described above.
The following rules define which patches are accepted and which are not. The
stable-release manager is also given broad discretion in rejecting patches
that have been nominated.
<ul>
<li>Patch must conform with the <a href="#guidelines">Basic guidelines</a></li>
<li>Patch must have landed in master first. In case where the original
patch is too large and/or otherwise contradicts with the rules set within, a
backport is appropriate.</li>
<li>It must not introduce a regression - be that build or runtime wise.
Note: If the regression is due to faulty piglit/dEQP/CTS/other test the
latter must be fixed first. A reference to the offending test(s) and
respective fix(es) should be provided in the nominated patch.</li>
<li>Patch cannot be larger than 100 lines.</li>
<li>Patches that move code around with no functional change should be
rejected.</li>
<li>Patch must be a bug fix and not a new feature.
Note: An exception to this rule, are hardware-enabling "features". For
example, <a href="#backports">backports</a> of new code to support a
newly-developed hardware product can be accepted if they can be reasonably
determined not to have effects on other hardware.</li>
<li>Patch must be reviewed, For example, the commit message has Reviewed-by,
Signed-off-by, or Tested-by tags from someone but the author.</li>
<li>Performance patches are considered only if they provide information
about the hardware, program in question and observed improvement. Use numbers
to represent your measurements.</li>
</ul>
If the patch complies with the rules it will be
<a href="releasing.html#pickntest">cherry-picked</a>. Alternatively the release
manager will reply to the patch in question stating why the patch has been
rejected or would request a backport.
A summary of all the picked/rejected patches will be presented in the
<a href="releasing.html#prerelease">pre-release</a> announcement.
The stable-release manager may at times need to force-push changes to the
stable branches, for example, to drop a previously-picked patch that was later
identified as causing a regression). These force-pushes may cause changes to
be lost from the stable branch if developers push things directly. Consider
yourself warned.
<h2 id="backports">Sending backports for the stable branch</h2>
<p>
By default merge conflicts are resolved by the stable-release manager. In which
case he/she should provide a comment about the changes required, alongside the
<code>Conflicts</code> section. Summary of which will be provided in the
<a href="releasing.html#prerelease">pre-release</a> announcement.
</p>
<p>
Developers are interested in sending backports are recommended to use either a
<code>[BACKPORT #branch]</code> subject prefix or provides similar information
within the commit summary.
</p>
<h2 id="gittips">Git tips</h2>
<ul>
<li><code>git rebase -i ...</code> is your friend. Don't be afraid to use it.
<li>Apply a fixup to commit FOO.
<pre>
git add ...
git commit --fixup=FOO
git rebase -i --autosquash ...
</pre>
<li>Test for build breakage between patches e.g last 8 commits.
<pre>
git rebase -i --exec="ninja -C build/" HEAD~8
</pre>
<li>Sets the default mailing address for your repo.
<pre>
git config --local sendemail.to mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
</pre>
<li> Add version to subject line of patch series in this case for the last 8
commits before sending.
<pre>
git send-email --subject-prefix="PATCH v4" HEAD~8
git send-email -v4 @~8 # shorter version, inherited from git format-patch
</pre>
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