crosvm/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Intro

This article goes into detail about multiple areas of interest to contributors, which includes reviewers, developers, and integrators who each share an interest in guiding crosvm's direction.

Contributor License Agreement

Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution; this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the project. Head over to https://cla.developers.google.com/ to see your current agreements on file or to sign a new one.

You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one (even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it again.

Bug Reports

We use the Chromium issue tracker. Please use OS>Systems>Containers component.

Philosophy

The following is high level guidance for producing contributions to crosvm.

• Prefer mechanism to policy.
• Use existing protocols when they are adequate, such as virtio.
• Prefer security over code re-use and speed of development.
• Only the version of Rust in use by the Chrome OS toolchain is supported. This is ordinarily the stable version of Rust, but can be behind a version for a few weeks.
• Avoid distribution specific code.

Code Health

Scripts

In the bin/ directory of the crosvm repository, there is the clippy script which lints the Rust code and the fmt script which will format the crosvm Rust code inplace.

Running tests

The ./test_all script will use docker containers to run all tests for crosvm.

For more details on using the docker containers for running tests locally, including faster, iterative test runs, see ci/README.md.

Style guidelines

To format all code, crosvm defers to rustfmt. In addition, the code adheres to the following rules:

The use statements for each module should be grouped in this order

1. std
2. third-party crates
3. chrome os crates
4. crosvm crates
5. crate

crosvm uses the remain crate to keep error enums sorted, along with the #[sorted] attribute to keep their corresponding match statements in the same order.

Submitting Code

Since crosvm is one of Chromium OS projects, please read through Chrome OS Contributing Guide first. This section describes the crosvm-specific workflow.

Creating a CL

We use Chromium Gerrit for code reviewing. All crosvm CLs are listed at the crosvm component.

Note: We don't accept any pull requests on the GitHub mirror.

For Chromium OS Developers

If you have already set up the chromiumos repository and the repo command, you can simply create and upload your CL in the same way as other Chromium OS projects.

For non-Chromium OS Developers

If you are not interested in other Chromium OS components, you can simply clone and contribute crosvm only. Before you make a commit locally, please set up Gerrit's Change-Id hook on your system.

$ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm
# Modify code and make a git commit with a commit message following this rule:
# https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/contributing.md#Commit-messages
$ git commit
# Push your commit to Chromium Gerrit (https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/).
$ git push origin HEAD:refs/for/main

Code review

Your change must be reviewed and approved by one of crosvm owners.

Presubmit checking

Once your change is reviewed, it will need to go through two layers of presubmit checks.

The review will trigger Kokoro to run crosvm specific tests. If you want to check kokoro results before a review, you can set 'Commit Queue +1' in gerrit to trigger a dry-run.

If you upload further changes after the you were given 'Code Review +2', Kokoro will automatically trigger another test run. But you can also always comment 'kokoro rerun' to manually trigger another build if needed.

When Kokoro passes, it will set Verified +1 and the change is ready to be sent to the ChromeOS commit queue by setting CQ+2.

Note: This is different from other ChromeOS repositories, where Verified +1 bit is set by the developers to indicate that they successfully tested a change. The Verified bit can only be set by Kokoro in the crosvm repository.

The commit queue will test your change on ChromeOS hardware, including high level end-to-end tests. Only if all of those pass, will the change be submitted.

Failures here will cause the commit queue to reject the change until it is re-added (CQ+2). Unfortunately, it is extremely common for false negatives to cause a change to get rejected, so be ready to re-apply the CQ+2 label if you're the owner of a ready to submit change.

Contributing to the documentation

The book of crosvm is build with mdBook. Each markdown files must follow Google Markdown style guide.

To render the book locally, you need to install mdbook and mdbook-mermaid, which should be installed when you run ./tools/install-depsscript.

cd crosvm/docs/book/
mdbook build

Note: If you make a certain size of changes, it's recommended to reinstall mdbook manually with cargo install mdbook, as ./tools/install-deps only installs a binary with some convenient features disabled. For example, the full version of mdbook allows you to edit files while checking rendered results.