Changelog for stress-ng-0.18.01-benchmark.252.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Fri Oct 04 2024 Fredrik Lönnegren - update to 0.18.01:
* stress-vecwide: fix verify option by setting results vector res
* stress-cache: check RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZICBOZ support for stress_cache_bzero
* mmapfork: add --mmapfork-bytes option to specify mmap size
* stress-ng: cast s_pids to void
* in munmap to clear up OpenHipster build warning
* stress-fsize: reduce scope of variable offset
* stress-pci: reduce scope of i and n_devs
* stress-landlock: reduce scope of ruleset_fd
* stress-cgroup: reduce scope of array values and make it static const
* stress-cache: reduce scope of some variables
* stress-munmap: add sscanf string size limit to avoid potential buffer overflows
* core-thermal-zone: use PRIu32 format specifier for uint32_t type
* core-madvise: add sscanf string size limit to avoid potential buffer overflows
* stress-chroot: just report chroot escapes with instance 0
* stress-ng: make stress_pid_t state flag 8 bits
* stress-kvm: add early /dev/kvm open permission checking
* stress-fractal: report co-ordinates as (xmin, ymin) .. (xmax, ymax)
* stress-ng: comment the stress_pid_t helper functions
* stress-ng: add atomic load/store helpers for stress_pid_t state
* core-shared-heap: increase initial size of shared heap
* stress-ng: always send a SIGCONT to a waiting process
* stress-prio-inv: indicate a force killed bogo op-counter state when child exits
* stress-ng: remove stress_sync_start_cont, and remove debug
* stress-open: don\'t populate mmap\'d fd array, it may not be all used
* stress-ng: stress_sync_start_cont_list: check against number of pids in list
* stress-ng: stress_sync_start_cont_list: take into account finished stressors
* stress-timerfd: configure timer after sync start has completed
* stress-ng: remove unused variable waiting
* stress-ng: add delay while waiting for stressors to start in loop
* stress-timer: configure timer after sync start has completed
* stress-itimer: configure timer after sync start has completed
* stress-munmap: fix incorrect clz where size_t is not long long
* stress-min-nanosleep: fix incorrect clz where size_t is not long long
* core-thermal-zone: clean up formatting of multiply tz names
* stress-goto: reduce optimization level for clang
* stress-yield: fix build for various non-linux systems
* stress-pci: move stress_set_pci_dev to support all arches
* stress-min-nanosleep: provide unknown sched name
* stress-min-nanosleep: fix build for various non-linux systems
* core-ops: forgot to commit the io-uring-rand option
* io-uring: add --io-uring-rand option for randomized io-uring ops
* stress-io-uring: reduce memory impact for smaller memory systems
* stress-
*: remove trailing whitespaces
* Add --sync-start option
* README.md: add 4 more kernel issues found with stress-ng
* stress-min-nanosleep: report scheduler name
* stress-cpu: minor code clean-ups
* README.md: update contributors name list
* stress-cpu: matrixprod: align matrices
* stress-cpu: idct: re-factor, move some calculations out of loop
* stress-cpu: fft: align data and pass as restrict pointers
* stress-min-nanosleep: use the more optimal log2 function
* stress-sleep: fix expected C state delay, fix typo for selects message
* stress-min-nanosleep: report shorted nanosleep measurement
* stress-min-nanosleep: add check for short nanosleeps
* README.md: add Sergey Matyukevich to contributors list
* Manual: add missing --mmapfork-bytes manual option
* stress-min-nanosleep: add stressor that measures minimum nanosleep delay times
* stress-
*: pass the number of stressor instances into the stressor init callback
* core-time: check for CLOCK_REALTIME when using it
* stress-sleep: use monotonic clock and stress_time_now() clocks for time measurement
* stress-sleep: fix typo \"to\" -> \"took\"
* stress-yield: add --yield-sched scheduler options
* stress-
*: use core-sched.h to define HAVE_SCHED_{GET|SET}_ATTR macros
* core-sched: define HAVE_SCHED_GETATTR and HAVE_SCHED_SETATTR
* README.md: add one more research paper that references stress-ng
* stress-workload: use stress_sched_types for scheduler type information
* stress-schedpolicy: use stress_sched_types for scheduler type information
* stress-schedmix: use stress_sched_types for scheduler type information
* core-sched: allow stress_sched_types to be in global scope
* stress-monte-carlo: print monte-carlo computations as debug
* stress-ping-sock: add pre-run check and explain why it may fail with EPERM
* stress-ng: report stressor name in munged format, replace _ with -
* lib: remove build dependency on libgcrypt20
* stress-workload: make c static since it\'s used in pthread contexts
* stress-pci: Add a new --pci-dev option to specify the pci device
* stress-shellsort: remove empty line
* stress-pci: use strcmp on dentry name for sort ordering
* stress-io-uring: use O_DIRECT when it is available on files
* Mon Sep 09 2024 Fredrik Lönnegren - update to 0.18.0:
* core-sched.c: fix uclibc-ng build
* stress-sock.c: fix build without SO_ZEROCOPY
* stress-cache: add stress_cache_bzero() to support cache-based bzero
* core-asm-riscv.h: support riscv zicboz ext cbo.zero instruction
* stress-ng: stress-stream: Fix use of uninitialized variable
* core-ops: fix --logmath-ops option
* core-ops: fix --binderfs-ops option
* stress-mincore: cater for mincore on NULL returning ENOMEM on kfreebsd systems
* stress-vm-segv: only use mprotect if system call is supported
* stress-mseal: only use madvise if system call is supported
* stress-cache: add STRESS_ARCH_RISCV check and voidify func args for non-RISC-V
* stress-flock: voidify i for non-linux builds
* stress-af-alg: add more verification when using --verify
* Manual: add a couple more stress-ng examples
* stress-vm-segv: don\'t unmap self for OS X
* core-lock: use stress_asm_loong64_dbar for loong64 relax spin lock delay
* stress-urandom: ignore ENOSYS system call returns
* stress-sigsegv: allow BUS_ADRERR for bus error codes
* stress-fcntl: add Linux 6.10 fcntl command F_DUPFD_QUERY, improve checking
* stress-cache: remove extraneous {
* stress-cache: remove unused cache flags more succinctly
* core-lock: disable atomic spin locks for ARM
* stress-af-alg: replace spaces with tab in indentation
* core-resources: allocate mutexes for each resource array loop
* core-resources: use ISO C mtx mutex resources
* stress-af-alg: add forced abort after 5 seconds of alarms
* stress-af-alg: add checks for EINTR on recv/send calls
* core-mincore: add MADV_POPULATE_WRITE to madvise flags
* core-vecmath: add check for 32 bit PPC to work around build issue
* core-lock: only perform backoff for fast CPU relax pauses
* stress-efivar: ensure stress_efi_var_t is aligned to clean up build warning
* core-lock: remove ARM yield, fallback to shim_sched_yield
* core-cpu-cache: fix bitmask of cache coherency line size
* core-lock: fix missing spinlock destroy when removing a spinlock
* Makefile: allow COVERITY=1 to disable macros that confuse cov builds
* stress-mseal: cast pointer to uint8_t
* to clean up void
* pointer addition warnings
* stress-vm-segv: make addr a uint8_t
* pointer to simplify pointer addition
* stress-
*: rename variable index to avoid name shadowing with lib function index
* stress-sysbadaddr: reduce scope of variable newargv
* stress-sleep: ensure residency_ns is computed using unsigned long multiplication
* stress-nanosleep: reduce scope of variable i
* stress-mmaphuge: reduce scope of array filename
* stress-mmapfiles: reduce scope of variable delta
* stress-iomix: reduce scope of variable ret
* stress-fork: reduce scope of variable pid
* stress-dirname: rename dirname to dirpath to avoid name shadowing dirname function
* stress-dirdeep: constify char
* pointer name
* stress-crypt: reduce scope of string str
* stress-cgroup: reduce scope of some variables
* core-config-check: constify static char array path[]
* stress_rndstr: remove decrement of len in stress_rndstr, make len const
* core-ftrace: constify a few char
* pointers
* stress-sysbadaddr: add mseal()
* stress-sysinval: add mseal
* stress-enosys: add mseal system call
* stress-vm-segv: force stack segv by mprotecting pages to PROT_READ
* stress-vm-segv: force zero optimization to ensure stackvar is on stack
* stress-vm-segv: ensure stackvar is written to and read from
* stress-bad-altstack: fix OpenBSD, add MAP_STACK and don\'t throw errors
* stress-vm-segv: unmap stack to force SIGSEGVs in child
* core-cpu-cache.h: include for shim_builtin_prefetch()
* stress-timerfd: open file_fd before all timer fds are opened
* stress-mmap: make rc non-clobberable due to longjmp
* core-shim: force emulation if posix_fallocate returns EINVAL
* stress-mseal: replace variable fail with boolean keep_running
* Makefile.config: remove some debug echos
* stress-mseal: add Linux 6.10 mseal system call exercising stressor
* Makefile.config: add libgmp when checking libmpfr
* stress-mutex: remove OpenBSD sleep
* core-mwc: re-work mwc
*modn() using bit masking and removing modulo operation
* stress-vm-segv: remove clflush for OpenBSD as this causes issue
* stress-mlock: ensure max is not larger than the max number of mappings
* stress-mutex: fix some potential race issues
* stress-mutex: NetBSD requires the yield and sleep
* stress-mutex: use zero usleep instead of yield for NetBSD
* core-shim: emulate posix_fallocate for FreeBSD
* stress-sigsegv: remove OpenBSD check now that BUS_OBJERR is use
*
* stress-sigsegv: handle SIGBUS code with correct BUS_OBJERR
* stress-fp-error: relax fp error checks on soft-float builds
* stress-schedmix: remove trailing space at end of a line
* core-mwc: remove tab in empty line
* core-mwc: use stress_get_machine_id to add extra data to seed
* core-helper: add stress_get_machine_id to get a 64 bit machine id
* stress-dup: only use O_CLOEXEC if it is defined for dup3 calls
* stress-tun: cast int value to uint8_t type for PRIu8 format
* stress-schedmix: ensure all pids in pids array are initialized to -1
* stress-dev-shm: use correct format strings for unsigned type
* core-parse-opts: use correct format strings for unsigned types
* core-ignite-cpu.c: use correct format strings for int types
* stress-vnni: force -O2 at -Os/-Oz as well
* core-helper: fix spelling mistake in comment
* stress-ng.h: increase per-stressor metrics STRESS_MISC_METRICS_MAX to 96 for af-alg
* stress-loadavg: remove system limit of pthreads when reducing loadavg-max
* core-ftrace: show failed open filename in error message
* stress-besselmath: use double precision for check sum on float bessel functions
* stress-netlink-task: break out of loop on EINTR or EAGAIN sendto errors
* stress-vm: remove redundant assignments to pointer ptr
* stress-prime: remove redundant assignment to variable rate
* stress-munmap: fix file descriptor resource leak on error return path
* stress-af-alg: add some sanity checks on digest and info args
* stress-fault: ensure buffer is zero\'d
* core-job: zero string txt, keep cppcheck happy clear up pedantic cppcheck warning
* core-builtin.h: remove long cast workaround macros for Bessel shim wrappers
* core-buildin: fix j
*l macros
* core-lock: uncomment #undefs used for debugging new locks
* stress-dev: include missing
* stress-ng.h: move #include into sources that require it
* stress-ng.h: move #include into sources that require it
* stress-ng.h: remove #include , it was commented out
* stress-ng.h: move #include into sources that require it
* stress-ng.h: move #include into sources that require it
* core-shim: add __NR_fallocate check for fallocate syscall
* stress-ng.h: move #include into sources that require it
* stress-ng: make stress_exclude_unimplemented static
* stress-ng.h: remove commented out math.h include
* stress-ng.h: move into sources that require it
* stress-
*: add ( ) around expressions
* core-
*: add ( ) around expression
* core-cpu-cache: fix misplaced )
* core-parse-opts: use standard seconds in a year and not equinoctial seconds
* core-lock, stress-mtx: add build time checks for mtx_destroy, mtx_init
* stress-mtx: add mtx_t check and remove need for stack size attr
* core-lock: add OSI C mtx mutex option for locking
* stress-mtx: remove includes that are not required
* core-lock: lock name for sysv semaphore
* stress-mutex: fix --mutex-procs option
* stress-mtx: Add new ISO C mtx (mutex) stressor
* stress-besselmath: add a new Bessel function stressor
* stress-sockfd: voidify return from stress_socket_fd_send
* stress-insertionsort: add new insertion sort stressor
* core-ops: fix --powmath-ops option
* Manual: update list of classes for the --class option
* stress-ng: annotate stress_sigalrm_info_t fields and make sigalrm_info static
* stress-ng: add global lock create/destroy helpers
* stress-ng: fix incorrect name of function in comment
* stress-sockfd: add new --sockfd-reuse option to re-use file descriptor
* Manual: add size of the matrix-3d stressor matrix to the documentation
* Manual: add size of the matrix stressor matrix to the documentation
* core-ops: fix --expmath-ops option
* stress-zlib: add metric for the amount of input data that has been compressed
* stress-sigchld: replace debug SIGCHLD stats with metrics
* stress-seek: add total number of seeks metric
* stress-rawpkt: move debug packet stats to metrics
* stress-link: add link create/remove rate metrics
* stress-key: add successful key add/operation/remove rate as metric
* stress-icmp-flood: replace sendto % success debug with metrics
* Makefile: remove empty lines
* stress-dup: add number of dup calls as a metric
* stress-aiol: add total number of successful async I/O events metric
* stress-factor: report maximum factor digit size as a metric
* stress-aio: report total number of async I/O signals using metrics
* stress-
*: rename GEOMETRIC_MEAN and HARMONIC_MEAN metric macros
* stress-prime: add metrics for total primes found and maximum digits found
* stress-ng: add metrics for total and maximum values
* stress-
*: Remove HOT attribute
* stress-cpu: add more information on ackermann failure message
* stress-fractal: use stress_lock_acquire_relax() to reduce atomic lock contention
* core-lock: add stress_lock_acquire_relax()
* stress-lsm: use ~0 for invalid ctx addr, re-work error messages
* stress-nanosleep: remove \"just\" from C states message
* stress-ipsec-mb: remove \"none detected\" if no features are found
* stress-ng: no need to check metrics if no stressors actually ran
* stress-ng: report unimplemented stressors early and don\'t execute them
* stress-rawdev: remove duplicated rawdev name in skipped message
* stress-lsm: remove whitespace in tabs
* stress-lsm: fix missing shim_lsm_set_self_attr helper
* core-lock: include asm headers for arch specific pause/yield ops
* stress-rtc: ignore ioctl EINVAL errors if the ioctl is not implemented
* stress-rtc: ignore RTC_ALRM_READ EINVAL errors if the ioctl is not implemented
* stress-crypt: fix performance issues with crypt_r data
* core-shim: add mseal shim wrapper
* stress-lsm: exercise lsm set with invalid ctx_len
* core-lock: always inline helper function stress_lock_valid()
* core-lock: add pause/yield in spinlock for architectures other than x86
* core-asm-arm.h: declare stress_asm_arm_yield when HAVE_ASM_ARM_YIELD is defined- update to 0.17.8:
* Fix spelling of lsm_list_modules in Makefile.config
* Fix unterminated cpu-stress if non 0% or 100% load
* stress-epoll: fix missing space after comma in error messages
* stress-sigfpe: report SIGILL trap information when --verify is used
* stress-sigfpe: handle unexpected SIGILL signals
* stress-rtc: silently ignore RTC sys read EINVAL errors
* stress-rtc: don\'t fail on ENOENT errors
* stress-tsearch: remove double comma
* stress-rtc: fix error handling, don\'t fail on EINTR or EPERM
* stress-mergesort: remove MAP_32BIT
* stress-mergesort: fix out of bounds copy
* stress-unlink: use shim\'d versions of fsync and fdatasync
* stress-swap: ensure opt_set_funcs and stress_set_swap_self are declared for all builds
* stress-io: fix build issues when HAVE_SYNCFS is not defined
* core-out-of-memory: move #define of WAIT_TIMEOUT to fix non-linux builds
* stress-judy: clean up variable shadowing warning
* stress
*: Add compute to the --class option for high compute stressors
* stress-prime: fix spelling mistakes in comments
* stress-factal: fix spelling mistake of Mandelbrot
* stress-ng: fix --permute with checksum verification enabled
* stress-fractal: minor tweaks to reduce front end delays and improve core utilization
* stress
*: Add search to the --class option for searching stressors
* stress-fault: fix fd leak on error path
* stress-fractal: add Mandelbrot and Julia set fractal stressor.
* stress-
*: clean up errno handling
* core-ftrace: remove redundant initialization of pointer num
* core-klog: remove redundant initialization of pointer msg
* stress-yield: constify variable residual
* Manual: waitcpu: add more per-processor notes for waiting instructions
* stress-yield: add --yield-procs option, specify child processes per stressor
* stress-forkheavy: fix typo in comments forke -> fork
* Makefile: improve toolchain detection, fixes scan-build builds
* stress-pidfd: ensure return code in rc is returned to parent
* stress-mq: ensure child rc status is returned to parent
* stress-judy: re-work rc status so the default is EXIT_FAILURE
* stress-hsearch: ensure rc is set to EXIT_SUCCESS for success path
* stress-file-ioctl: assign rc to EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED and not ret
* stress-close: remove redundant assignments to rc
* core-mwc: remove unused 32 bit mwc implementation
* Makefile.config: fix float checks, need LIB_MATH not LIB_M
* stress-prime: add --prime-start N option to specify starting point of search
* stress-fork: add #ifdef check around MADV_PAGEOUT
* stress-swap: add --swap-self option to force self process pages out
* stress-fork: make --fork-pageout more aggressive, do all maps
* stress-prime: remove empty line
* stress-fork: add --fork-pageout option to force pages to be paged out
* stress-prime: add hourly prime rate in --prime-progress output
* stress-prime: move variables and a function to clean up build warning
* stress-enosys: fix typo: SYS_lsm_modules -> SYS_lsm_list_modules
* Manual: clarify the time between each prime progress update
* core-builtin: fix macros and shims
* Manual: add new --primes-progress option, fix prime-ops name
* core-log: don\'t report timestamp if localtime_r does not exist
* stress-prime: add --prime-progress option to periodically show prime finding progress
* stress-prime: add long integer prime computations stressor
* stress-factor: fix short description of stressor
* stress-unlink: add end of test check in link phase, add missing deinit state
* stress-unlink: make file syncs less frequent
* core-config-check: minor re-phrasing of scaling governors note
* stress-unlink: remove some whitespaces
* stress-unlink: use random open flags
* stress-unlink: add occasional fd sync\'ing and data syncing
* Manual: correct the --vm-bytes description.
* stress-unlink: add new stressor to exercise concurrent racing unlink calls
* stress-dev: add a few more HID specific ioctls
* stress-dev: add linux frame buffer /dev/fb
* ioctl exercising
* core-version.h: wrap macro parameters with ( )
* core-io-priority: wrap macro parameters with ( )
* core-builtin: wrap macro parameters with ( ), align macros
* Manual: replace \',\' with \'|\' in the --prio-inv-policy option
* Manual: replace \',\' with \'|\' in --fd-fork-file option
* core-builtin: fix brackets on shim\'d helpers shim_ccosl and shim_csinl
* stress-get: add --get-slow-sync option to force get system calls to be in sync
* stress-zlib: use shim wrapped sin function
* stress-remap: remove empty line
* stress-monte-carlo: use shim\'d math functions
* core-builtin: add hyperbolic sin, cos float and double shim wrappers
* stress-
*: constify variables
* core-helper: remove duplicated null check on gpu_freq
* stress-
*: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is returned on failures
* stress-sockdiag: rename rc to ret and ret to rc
* stress-cacheline: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is returned on data corruption
* stress-bsearch: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is returned on data mismatches
* stress-ng: set success flag to false on EXIT_SIGNALED exits
* stress-bitonicsort: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is returned on data mismatches
* stress-bigheap: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is returned on memory failures
* stress-affinity: remove space
* stress-matrix-3d: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is returned on data mismatch
* stress-matrix: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is returned on data mismatch
* stress-ng: fix missing FAILED flag increment for EXIT_SIGNALED state
* stress-fma: increment b in add231 to force use of fma instruction
* stress-filename: make static array posix_allowed const
* stress-acl: make static array stress_acl_tags const
* stress-workload: add some constifications and UNLIKELY on an if
* stress-io-uring: improve termination by enabling various flags
* core-out-of-memory: give at least 2 minutes before giving up waiting for OOMable child processes
* stress-ng: bail out with EXIT_NO_RESOURCE on sched_settings_apply call
* stress-inotify: replace __s32 with int32_t- update to 0.17.7:
* Manual: fix table T{ T} around --eigen-method add-double
* core-shared-heap: double size of shared heap allocation slab
* core-helper: move gpu_freq null check to start of function
* stress_get_gpu_freq_mhz
* stress-zlib: negative read size check
* core-helper: move null ptr checks earlier in stress_get_meminfo
* core-helper: add #else path in stress_get_load_avg
* stress-fma: voidify return from stress_get_setting call
* core-helper: add endianness information
* stress-pty: break out of loop if EINTR occurs on pty open
* stress-access: set errno to 0 before access calls
* stress-filename: ignore ENOTSUP failures
* stress-msyncmany: break out of test loop if failed more than 5 times
* stress-filename: add ENOSUP error check for Solaris
* stress-clock: ignore EINTR for clock_nanosleep for Solaris
* stress-clock: ignore EINTR for clock_gettime for Solaris
* Add build check and use for makedev() macro
* Makefile: enable compile/link garbage collection when GARBAGE_COLLECT is set to 1
* stress-powmath: increase precision for float tests sum and result to double
* stress-logmath: increase precision for float tests sum and result to double
* stress-expmath: increase precision for float tests sum and result to double
* stress-fma: munmap pfma and not fma
* stress-x86syscall: make function wrap_dummy static
* core-helper: make function stress_fs_magic_to_name static
* stress-powmath: compare floating point values using difference and precision
* stress-logmath: compare floating point values using difference and precision
* stress-expmath: compare floating point values using difference and precision
* stress-enosys: fix system call name __NR_lsm_list_modules
* Makefile.config: break functions into 1 line entries and sort them
* Makefile.config: break types into 1 line entries and sort them
* Makefile.config: break cpufeatures into 1 line entries and sort them
* Makefile.config: rename
*_WCHAR to
*_WCHAR_H to match header naming
* Makefile.config: break headers into 1 line entries and sort them
* core-helper: fix error return code, should be EINVAL
* stress-powmath: remove redundant cast on sum addition
* stress-expmath: remove redundant cast on sum addition
* stress-logmath: remove redundant cast on sum addition
* stress-cgroup: add missing wait for each fork\'d child
* core-helper: make stress_fs_magic_to_name static
* core-time: manually inline stress_timespec_to_double into code
* core-perf: make stress_perf_stat_succeeded static
* stress-x86syscall: remove dummy_x86syscalls
* Makefile: add linker garbage collection to remove unreferenced sections
* core-helper: add some argument sanity checking
* stress-syscall: add maximum system call time in nanoseconds
* stress-syscall: add lsm_list_modules and lsm_get_self_attr system calls
* stress-enosys: add lsm_list_modules and lsm_get_self_attr system calls
* stress-powmath: add hypotenuse functions
* stress-fma: disable FP_FAST_FMA, FP_FAST_FMAF for now
* stress-mathlog: add logb, logbf and logbl exponent get libc functions
* stress-fma: add the --fma-libc option to use libc fma functions
* stress-powmath: add power maths function exercising
* stress-vecshuf: for x86, reduce optimization levels to avoid STLF
* stress-vnni: add build time check for target clone avxvnni
* stress-memhotplug: make variable max non-clobberable by longjmp
* core-target-clones: remove need for gcc version check
* stress-vecshuf: remove OPTIMIZE3 setting
* stress-expmath: add exponential maths function exercising
* stress_vm_walking_flush_data: fix buffer overflow on last 7 bytes
* stress-logmath: add logarithmic maths function exercising
* memhotplug: add --memhotplug-mmap option
* stress-prio-inv: ensure parent has higher priority than children
* stress-prio-inv: break kill and wait into separate phases
* stress-acl: fix typo in unimplemented_reason string
* stress-lsm: exercise new LSM system calls lsm_list_modules and lsm_get_self_attr
* core-cpu: remove trainling white space
* stress-statmount: Add new stressor to exercise statmount and listmount system calls
* stress-file-ioct: exercise FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH
* stress-file-ioctl: add FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH ioctl
* stress-vm: add walking memory flush stress method
* core-cpu: add a couple more obscure CPU id strings
* stress-monte-carlo: add area of a unit squircle
* kernel-coverage: add --mmap-stressful option
* stress-malloc: add malloc_usable_size allocation size verification
* Makefile.config: filter out -Werror from CFLAGS
* core-perf: remove duplicated \"Cgroup Switches\" event
* Sat Mar 16 2024 Dirk Müller - update to 0.17.6:
* stress-fd-fork: fix comment for STRESS_FD_DEFAULT
* stress-fd-fork: fix spelling mistake \"discriptors\" -> \"descriptors\"
* test/test-utime: zero buf
* test/test/test-pthread-setaffinity-np: zero cpuset
* stress-fork: voidify pid
* Makefile.config: ensure all CONFIG_LDFLAGS are passed through LIB_ORDER filter
* stress-sigsegv: ignore SEGV_ACCERR error check on OpenBSD
* stress-hsearch: typedef ACTION if we don\'t have native hsearch support
* Makefile.config: workaround a make issue on Nixos, add empty echo in loop
* stress-aiol: fix interrupted or end of stressing aiol waits with -1 return
* stress-peterson: add mfence to fix failures on out-of-order ARM cpus
* stress-pci: report untested PCI rates as \"unknown\" rather than 0.00
* stress-ng.h: only define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS if it is not defined
* stress-signest: add some more signals, sort them in name order
* Makefile: add --cache-enable-all for slow-test-all and verify-test-all
* stress-chroot: fix placement of colon in chroot escape message
* stress-ng: add a few more percent wiggle room on end of run estimate
* stress-stream: improve memrate message
* stress-mq: add note to increase /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/queues_max for linux
* stress-kvm: report KVM kernel API as a debug message
* stress-dev: add notes about running as root to exercise more devices
* Makefile: add --progress and remove --verbose from verify- test-all and slow-test-all
* stress-mlock: remove extranous space in debug message
* stress-fd-fork: report approx number of fds
* stress-fd-fork: report how many fds were closed
* core-shim: add warning disabling pragma on extern stime declaration
* stress-fork: handle 32/64 bit address for 32 bit systems
* stress-enosys: don\'t exercise > 32 bits for 32 bit systems
* stress-exec: only use MAP_STACK if it is defined
* stress-memfd: remove duplicated declaration of fd
* stress-cpu-online: remove duplicated declaration of variable cpu
* stress-monte-carlo: declare stress_mc_supported for HAVE_ARC4RANDOM
* stress-fork: voidify unused arg fork_unmap for non-linux builds
* stress-cache: voidify cache related flags and mask
* stress-dev: swap calloc arguments to the correct way around
* core-target-clones: add Arrowlake and Pantherlake CPU support
* Dockerfile: remove kmod and xxhash
* Dockerfile: add mpfr and judy from community repos
* stress-sigsegv: methodically exercise reads from all VM address range
* core-perf: add swiotlb perf event and bump event count up as we are running low
* core-perf: add IRQ tasklet entry/exit metrics
* core-perf: add IPI Raise event
* stress-resources: only declare ppid if HAVE_PIDFD_OPEN is defined
* stress-cpu-online: ensure cpu is initialized
* core-klog: ignore cpu affinity warnings, these are benign
* stress-cpu-online: round-robin CPUs for instances 1 and 2
* stress-cpu-online: always try a different cpu and don\'t try an already offlined cpu
* stress-ng: Fix net_port_map lock failure
* stress-cpu: don\'t check for onlining failure for more than 1 instance
* stress-bitonic: rename bionicsort_count to bitonic_count
* stress-shellsort: remove redundant 8 bit sort
* Thu Feb 22 2024 Thorsten Kukuk - Allow to disable apparmor support (ALP supports only SELinux)
* Sat Jan 27 2024 Dirk Müller - update to 0.17.4:
* kernel-coverage: add longer duration sysbadaddr test
* stress-pthread: disable pthread_sigqueue call for CYGWIN
* stress-tree: disable RB trees for CYGWIN
* stress-sparsematrix: disable RB trees for CYGWIN
* core-helper: add _start workaround for CYGWIN
* core-shim: fix setdomainname check on HAVE_SETDOMAINNAME
* stress-dir: don\'t reference non-POSIX d_reclen for CYGWIN
* stress-mmapfork: use stress_mmap_populate for MAP_POPULATE
* stress-xattr: workaround ENODATA not being defined for NetBSD
* stress-metamix: voidify parameter temp_dir if O_DIRECTORY is not defined
* core-time: voidify parameter dnow, cleans up Dilos build warning
* stress-sysbadaddr: fix another valid fd check, should be >= 0
* stress-sysbadaddr: fix valid fd check, should be >= 0
* stress-sysbadaddr: close fdin rather than fdout on fdout open failure
* stress-sysfs: use SCNu16 formate specifier for sscanf uint16_t
* stress-sock: remove shadowed declaration of variable i
* stress-vdso: add clock_getres
* stress-sysinval: set dirfd mode, gid and uid back to original setting
* stress-sigxfsz: retry setrlimit with smaller size if limit is too large
* stress-copy-file: replace sizeof(char) with 8
* stress-copy-file: fix the max off_t, it\'s signed to cater for this
* stress-sysbadaddr: use shim_cacheflush instead of direct system call
* stress-sysbadaddr: pass different addresses to ppoll
* stress-af-alg-defconfigs: re-order and remove blank lines
* stress-mmap: add mprotect EACCESS error check for NetBSD
* stress-metamix: add EBADF on fdatasync on read-only fd
* stress-metamix: fix incorrect EBADF check
* stress-metamix: ignore EBADF on fdatasync on read-only file
* stress-ng: don\'t call mprotect if it does not exist
* stress-syscall: add comment explaining why shell sort is used instead of qsort
* stress-sysbadaddr: use VOID_RET for typed voidification of system call returns
* Update copyright year to 2024
* Manual: remove . in Eigen description
* stress-sock: exercise SO_SOCKET SO_
* opts that return int type values
* stress-sysbadaddr: only increment counter if a syscall is to be made
* stress-sysbadaddr: avoid exercising system calls that will not fail
* stress-sysbadaddr: add some more xattr system calls
* stress-sysbadaddr: bad_fstat: exercise fstat on temp dir
* stress-sysbadaddr: add copy_file_range
* stress-sysbadaddr: add missing MIPS cacheflush system call
* stress-syscall: add missing MIPS cacheflush system call
* stress-sysbadaddr: exercise shim\'d and non-shim\'d syscalls
* stress-sysbadaddr: exericse system call parameters with range of parameters
* stress-sysbadaddr: only respawn child when bad addr breaks system call
* core-version: define EQUAL_GNUC for all compiler times
* stress-radixsort: remove array size specifiers to fix tcc build failures
* core-builtin: add shim wrapper for __builtin_assume_aligned()
* core-cache: add missing tab to clean up \\ alignments
* stress-vecshuf: remove redundant variables total_ops and total_bytes
* stress-numa: Fix spelling mistake in comment
* stress-memthrash: remove trailing space at end of line
* Thu Dec 14 2023 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.17.3 Changes since 0.16.4
* https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/compare/V0.16.04...V0.17.03
* Wed Aug 30 2023 Andrea Manzini - Update to version 0.16.4
* see https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.16.04/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Sat Mar 18 2023 Martin Hauke - Udpate to version 0.15.6
* see https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.15.06/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Fri Jan 13 2023 Dirk Müller - update to 0.15.2:
* test/test-float.c: Avoid tickling an implicit int error
* test-aligned-alloc: Define _GNU_SOURCE for the aligned_alloc prototype
* test-fchmodat: Include for the fchmodat prototype
* test-pidfd-getfd: Include if available for pidfd_getfd
* rework stress_strnrnd()
* stress-signest: disable alternative stack before unmap
* Makefile: bump verison, update to new code name
* stress-forkheavy: cast mmap return to same type as pointer metrics
* stress-fp: disable float128 for OpenBSD
* stress-fp: disable float80 due to unresolved division by zero SIGFPEs
* core-shared-heap: cast void
* ptt to uintptr_t to clean up icc build warning
* stress-matrix-3d: remove redundant redeclaration of variable j
* stress-matrix: remove redundant redeclaration of variable j
* stress-efivar: rename varname to get_varname to avoid name shadowing
* stress-fp: add fp rates into metrics output, increase metrics to 24 slots
* stress-fp: only count bogo-ops for float, double, long double
* core-helper: silence a spurious gcc warning
* stress-str: replace search for _ with +
* README.md: update number of stressors
* stress-fp: exercise various floating point values with +,
*, / operations
* stress-branch: add yield call for SH4 to allow it to be interrupted
* stress-pci: add locking around PCI memory rate stats
* stress-ipsec-mb: add locking around statistics being dumped in debug
* core-shared-heap: ensure offset is always aligned to natural pointer alignment
* stress-fault: restore signal handlers at end of stressor loop
* stress-bad-altstack: replace STRESS_MINSIGSTKSZ with static size_t stress_minsigstksz
* core-shared-heap: only report shared heap usage if it has been used
* core-mwc: add stress_mwc
*modn() functions for modulo\'d range
* core-builtin.h: convert macros into inline functions
* stress-
*: voidify return from snprintf
* stress-str: fix prototype for test_strcpy_t
* stress-list: evaluate entry->value ^ rnd before passing it into a macro
* stress-wcs: add missing strdsc for stress_wcscpy testcase
* core-shared-heap: add strdup for shared description metrics string
* stress-ng: replace size of on index element j with 0
* stress-ng.h: divide by size of make allocator bitmap elements instead of 8
* stress-cpu: use a clang builtin for reversing bits
* core-hash: replace hash_rol_uint32 with shim_rol32n
* stress-wcs: remove variable failed, use info.failed instead
* stress-str: bundle wcs function args into a struct, improves run time
* stress-wcs: bundle wcs function args into a struct, improves run time
* core-hash: use builtin rotate macros for rotating values
* core-builtin: re-work rotate helpers, add generalised rotate left/right macros
* stress-list: use builtin shim_ror64
* stress-resources: free resources before child exit
* core-helper: fix stack size for non-first calls (incorrect cached value)
* stress-pci: print PCI config and resource space read rates
* core-helper: fix typo on STRESS_MAXIMUM macro
* core-cache: Add 32 bit variants of 64 bit hashes
* core-hash: add more comments to explain the nuances of memcpy
* core-hash: xorror64: cast len to uint64_t before flipping bits
* core-helper: simplify stack size calculations using STRESS_MAXIMUM macro
* core-helper: limit iterations on stress_get_prime64
* stress-priv-instr: remove extraneous ) for SPARC (again)
* stress-priv-instr: remove extraneous ) for SPARC
* stress-mlock: fix typo on time function
* stress-judy: move judy_ops array to function scope
* core-resources: clean up code, voidify, constify, misc cleanups
* stress-dirdeep: only report directories being deleted if it is taking a while to complete
* stress-dirdeep: remove commented out cruft.
* stress-evivar: ignore ioctl FS_IOC_SETFLAGS error return
* stress-sigio: use metrics interface to report SIGIOs per sec
* stress-malloc: add missing tab
* stress-judy: add judy insert/find/delete rate metrics
* Tue Dec 13 2022 Dirk Müller - update to 0.15.01:
* stress-tlb-shootdown: fix missing temporary directory removal
* stress-priv-instr: handle SIGBUS as SIGILL for FreeBSD
* stress-procfs: rename shadowed variable offset to mem_offset
* stress-brk: cast uint8_t ptr to void
* for munmap
* stress-syscall: remove redundant initialization of variable max
* kernel-coverage: add two more stack stressor options
* stress-stack: add a new --stack-unmap option to unmap pages in stack
* stress-brk: regularly unmap pages in heap to create many heap mappings
* stress-pagemove: fix modulo of negative issue causing page check failure
* stress-procfs: clean up off_t and ptr cast warnings
* stress-priv-instr: add support for aarch64
* stress-far-branch: set base to 0, remove mask
* stress-priv-instr: fix swapped size and fd args to mmap
* stress-priv-instruct: fix typo: HAVE_ASM_S390_PTLV -> HAVE_ASM_S390_PTLB
* stress-priv-instr: onlt log unhandled instructions info if any ops are not trapped
* stress-priv-instr: add privileged instruction stressor
* stress-x86cpuid: fix short help message
* stress-
*, core-
*: Fix uname success check for Solaris/OpenHipster
* stress-x86cpuid: stressor does not verify, so set VERIFY_NONE
* stress-rdrand: reduce number of loops to avoid timeout overrun
* stress-x86cpuid: remove trailing spaces after comments
* stress-ng: free names[i] at first opportunity
* stress-syscall: clean up some valgrind uninitialized memory warnings
* stress-syscall: set threshold based on total available syscall tests
* stress-syscall: add restart_syscall system call
* stress-x86cpuid: add some more CPUID leaf types
* stress-nop: add some more x86 long nops, add metrics
* core-thermal-zone: move scope of total and count, add division by zero check
* stress-
*: add missing space between + operator
* Manual: update contributors
* stress-x86cpuid: replace ns with nanosecs in metrics
* stress-fault: double major faults using madvise PAGE_OUT where possible
* stress-fault: triple minor page faults using MADV_DONTNEED where available
* stress-tlb-shootdown: double TLB read/writes and misses
* stress-x86cpuid: more cpuid method for cpu stressor and make new stressor
* stress-touch: add spacing between list of touch opts
* stress-softlockup: remove redundant fflush call
* stress-open: add open duration metrics
* stress-
*: use pr_inf_skip for skipped stressor messages
* stress-nanosleep: add option --nanosleep-threads
* core-hash: align primes lookup table, slight improvement
* README.md: add another research paper citation
* stress-peterson: add note describing cache alignment optimization
* stress-dekker: add note describing cache alignment optimization
* stress-
*: replace various empty signal handlers with stress_sighandler_nop
* stress-page-swap: only define stress_pageswap_count_paged_out when required
* stress-far-branch: move #endif to end of correct function
* stress-far-branch: only define stress_far_mmap_try32 if required
* stress-sysfs: add sys_skip_paths array for paths to skip reading
* stress-rdrand: remove metrics from debug, they are in the metrics output
* stress-urandom: add random read rate metrics
* stress-remap: add remap page metrics
* stress-pageswap: add duration per page swapout metrics
* stress-mutex: add mutex locking rate metrics
* stress-mergesort: style: replace ptr+1 with ptr + 1
* stress-memhotplug: add metrics reporting for successful offline/online operations
* stress-dekker: add cache friendly padding in mutex and counters
* stress-peterson: add cache friendly padding in mutex and counters
* stress-peterson: add mutex duration metrics
* stress-dekker: add mutex duration metrics
* stress-cpu-online: add offline/online duration metrics
* stress-munmap: use __builtin_clzl for faster log2(n) calculation
* stress-idle-page: fix comment description of stressor
* stress-far-branch: report that architecture may not be supported
* stress-far-branch: trim stride to minimum size, add ppc6le implementation
* stress-dentry: remove empty tabbed line
* stress-fifo: add --fifo-data-size option to specify the data read/write size
* stress-dup: add dup call duration metrics
* stress-dentry: add some dentry create/access/unlink metrics
* stress-brk: add sbrk page expand/shrink metrics
* stress-binderfs: add mount/umount duration metrics
* stress-bind-mount: add mount/umount duration metrics
* stress-sockpair: add metrics for socketpair call rate and write rates
* stress-sockpair: add potential sockpair sk leak test
* stress-vm: add a checkboard method
* stress-procfs: make helper function stress_proc_scandir static
* stress-stream: remove redundant casts
* stress-ng: move declaration of pointer munged
* stress_vm: replace stress_vm_popcount with stress_vm_count_bits8
* stress-cpu/vm: use builtin popcount where available
* stress-ng.h: make ALIGNED macro a no-op for Minix (wrong number of
* stress-vm: fill memory from a 32 bit Galois linear feedback shift register
* Manual: fix spelling mistake \"iterively\" -> \"iteratively\"
* stress-far-branch: re-work mmap handling for 32 bit and improved random mmaps
* stress-sparsematrix: add a splay tree implementation to the mix
* stress-procfs: sanity check /proc/self/mem
* stress-mmap: attempt to name VMA using prctl
* workflows: unset env for Trivy upload
* workflows: set env for Trivy
* workflows: set correct name for env
* workflows: append env setting into $GITHUB_ENV
* workflows: add missing ) at end of expression
* workflows: fix IMAGE_REPOSITORY env setting
* stress-shm: move /dev/shm check to earlier in the setup phase
* stress-shm: skip stressor if /dev/shm is not mounted with tmpfs on linux
* stress-sysfs: check for zero sysfs entries after pruning the directory
* Fri Nov 18 2022 Martin Hauke - update to version 0.15.0
* see https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.15.00/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Mon Oct 10 2022 Dirk Müller - update to version 0.14.6
* see https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.14.06/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Sun Sep 18 2022 Martin Hauke - update to version 0.14.5
* see https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.14.05/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Fri Jul 22 2022 Dirk Müller - update to version 0.14.3
* see https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.14.03/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Wed Apr 13 2022 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.14.00 See https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.14.00/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Sun Mar 27 2022 Dirk Müller - update to 0.13.12: See https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/blob/V0.13.12/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Wed Oct 13 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.13.05 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Tue Sep 28 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.13.04 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Fri Sep 17 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.13.02 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Thu Sep 02 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.13.01 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog- Reenable parallel build
* Fri Aug 20 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.13.00 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Mon Jun 28 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.12.11 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Tue Jun 08 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.12.10 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Sat May 08 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.12.08 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Fri Apr 23 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.12.06 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog
* Sun Feb 28 2021 Martin Hauke - Update to version 0.12.04 See http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/cking/stress-ng.git/plain/debian/changelog for the full changelog