Change logs for stress-ng source package in Sid

  • stress-ng (0.19.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Yong-Xuan Wang]
      * stress-gpu: remove sigalrm handler
      * stress-af-alg: prevent unsafe longjmp
      * stress-sysinval: prevent unsafe longjmp
      * stress-memrate: prevent unsafe longjmp
    
      [Jesse Huang]
      * core-config-check: Fix segfault cause by uninitialized namelist
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: Fix spelling mistake "occuring" -> "occurring"
      * stress-filerace: Fix spelling mistake "attemp" -> "attempt"
      * stress-brk: move brk stats to shared page, reset brk on out of memory
      * stress-brk: make brk reset work correctly for --brk-bytes option
      * stress-sigbus: make unaligned pointers volatile to force stores
      * stress-sigbus: disabled x86 misaligned SIGBUS feature
      * stress-sigbus: jump out of loop on timeout, check info for null ptr
      * stress-fd-race: remove network class, it's not correct
      * stress-sigbus: avoid infinite longjmp spin loops
      * stress-sigbus: ensure AC bit in EFLAGS is cleared in all signal
        handlers
      * stress-lockbus: disable pcc builds, currently it breaks the compiler
      * README.me: remove old stale tarball info
      * core-log: add the logging prefix to the logging aborting stress
        process
      * stress-schedmix: fix build issue when HAVE_PSELECT is not defined
      * stress-resched: fix build when HAVE_SETPRIORITY is not defined
      * stress-poll: add HAVE_PSELECT check
      * stress-nice: fix build issues on RISC-V debian sid
      * core-cpu-cache: remove const on ptr_end
      * stress-fpunch: clean up variable name shadowing on variable ret
      * stress-lockbus: clean up variable name shadowing on variable rc
      * stress-filerace: clean up name shadowing warnings on fd, i and uid
      * core-sync: move stress_sync_state_load from stress-ng.h to core-sync.h
      * core-sync: move stress_sync_start_cont_list from stress-ng.c to
        core-sync.c
      * stress-*: move include of core-sync.h into stress-ng.h
      * stress-cachehammer: add extra checking for failed temp dir creat
        failures
      * stress-ng.h: make stress_continue() a macro
      * stress-ng: re-work stress_continue() to just check bogo-ops
      * core-vmstat: remove include of stress-ng.h
      * core-try-open: remove include of core-attribute.h
      * core-*.h: remove include of core-attribute.h
      * core-config-check: make warning more obvious
      * stress-ng: use stress_strsignal helper rather than strsignal
      * core-perf.h: remove include of stress-ng.h
      * stress-ng.h: rename bogo_ops to bogo_max_ops since it's a max
        threshold
      * stress-ng.h: remove -O3 from bogo counter helpers
      * stress-ng.h: put bogo op-related info into bogo struct
      * stress-vma: replace g_stress_continue_flag with helper func
      * stress-easy-opcode: replace g_stress_continue_flag with helper func
      * README.md: add another research paper link
      * Makefile: enable tree vectorize and tree-slp-vectorize and relax
        cmpxchg loops
      * Add new --buildinfo option to show build time information
      * Manual: describe the duplication of stdout in the --log-file option
      * stress-ng: ensure no child processes are forked on --dry-run
      * stress-filerace: only close fd if fd has been opened
      * core-sync: move process synchronization helpers from stress-ng.c to
        core_sync.c
      * stress-dirmany: maximize dirmany_bytes to 1TB if variable is wide
        enough
      * stress-dfp: remove undefs that came from fp stressor
      * stress-rdrand: add power11 check
      * stress-rdrand: fix ppc random issue, generate 64 bit value
      * stress-lockbus: SIGILL on s390 should disable misaligned locks
      * Makefile: add extra flags for static builds
      * core-attribute: add gcc version check for nonstring attribute
      * core-target-clones: add arch=diamondrapids
      * core-builtin.h: add support gcc-15 buitin_stdc_rotate* functions
      * core-*, stress-*: use nonstring attribute for char arrays
      * Makefile.config: add built time check for nonstring attribute
      * stress-filerace: remove O_EXCL to avoid exclusive opening
      * stress-filerace: add ftruncate on recently opened file
      * stress-filerace: enable POSIX_FALLOCATE, add open/fallocate/close
      * stress-filerace: hammer temp directory dirent reading (linux only)
      * stress-filerace: add more focused file hammering
      * stress-filerace: select function either randomly or sequentially
      * stress-fractal: use faster atomic inc on larger row counter
      * stress-filerace: move stress_filerace_read_random_uint32 into only
        caller
      * stress-filerace: more voidifications for DragonFlyBSD clean builds
      * stress-filerace: voidify fd and filename in stress_filerace_faccessat
      * stress-filerace: add some macro checks before using statx and
        name_to_handle_at
      * Manual: remove discards metrics from iostat description
      * core-vmstat: remove iostat discards metrics, they are not portable or
        used much
      * Revert "stress-fractal: move row lock from global struct to stressor
        shared page"
      * stress-nop: add x86 floating point fnop instruction
      * stress-filerace: increase size of locked regions, add more concurrency
      * stress-filerace: exercise lockf test
      * stress-filerace: increase number of random operations per file
      * stress-lockbus: remove #ifdefs around label done
      * stress-*: set dirent name lists pointers to NULL
      * stress-sigbus: generate SIGBUS on x86 with misaligned memory access
      * README.md: add Jesse Huang to contributor list
      * stress-lockbus: add SIGILL detection, skip with no resources warning
      * stress-filerace: add sendfile to the mix
      * stress-filerace: add readlinkat, use dir_fd variable for *at() file
        calls
      * stress-filerace: exercise name_to_handle_at on fd and filename
      * stress-filerace: add access and faccessat system calls
      * stress-fractal: move row lock from global struct to stressor shared
        page
      * stress-fractal: manually unroll julia set for vectorization
      * stress-fractal: manually unroll mandlebrot for vectorization
      * stress-fractal: remove unrolling, minor optimization fixes
      * stress-acl: delete acls using acl_delete_def_file
      * stress-filerace: add acl exercising
      * stress-fcntl: fix spelling mistake "ftuncate" -> "ftruncate"
      * stress-fcntl: fix missing EDEADLK
      * stress-filerace: ensure tmp is initialized with a sane value
      * stress-filerace: declare open read and open write flags
      * stress-filerace: rename times to tv, truncate secs
      * stress-filerace: exercise fcntl file r/w hinting
      * stress-filerace: exercise utimes() on fd
      * stress-filerace: exercise path and fd based statx calls
      * core-shim: update shim_statx_t to keep in sync with the kernel
      * stres-filerace: add mmap'd file write + msync
      * stress-filerace: add small random sleeps during file locks
      * stress-stream: remove __linux__ checks for cache size info
      * stress-sigfd: remove glibc version constraint
      * stress-filerace: add chdir and fchdir calls
      * stress-filerace: add more locking exercising
      * stress-filerace: add file unlocking to locked files
      * stress-revio: add a readahead option to revio-opts
      * stress-iomix: add a readahead iomix method
      * kernel-coverage: only set iosched if it's available
      * stress-filerace: try to drop uncached read only data from buffer cache
      * stress-filerace: only use SIGIO handler if SIGIO is available
      * stress-ng: fix pr_dbg fix format specifier
      * stress-filerace: create/append 64 files in a back, fix open flags
      * stress-lockmix: fix locking, should be locking with F_OFD_SETLK
      * stress-lockofd: fix locking, should be locking with F_OFD_SETLK
      * stress-filerace: add ofd read/write file locking
      * stress-filerace: add lockf locking on portions of a file
      * stress-filerace: add fcntl F_SETLEASE read/write locking
      * stress-filerace: reduce number of files to 64 to increase race
        potential
      * stress-filerace: add mkdir/rmdir and link system calls
      * stress-filerace: add bulk open/close of file
      * stress-filerace: perform 4 or 512 byte read/writes
      * stress-filerace: add file help information
      * stress-filerace: add more file based syscalls based on filename
      * stress-filerace: rename stress_filerace_posix_fallocate
      * stress-filerace: add build-time check for readahead and use it
      * stress-filerace: add posix_fallocate and posix_fadvise
      * stress-filerace: add a new file race stressor
      * stress-lockmix: remove debug message
      * core-*, stress-*: ensure all messages don't start with capital letter
      * core-*, stress-*: replace "failed: ..." with "failed, ..."
      * core-*, stress-*: use pid_t for waitpid() returns and add PID for
        errors
      * core-out-of-memory: add PID and check for OOM'd process in klog
      * stress-fpunch: don't shared fd on child processes when using lseek
      * stress-fpunch: fix offset in error message
      * stress-tmpfs: fix lseek error returns check
      * stress-metamix: fix lseek error returns check
      * stress-file-ioctl: fix lseek error returns check
      * stress-fpunch: fix lseek error returns check
      * stress-fanotify: add 4 more report types
      * stress-prctl: add support for prctl commands 71 to 77
      * README.md: add another kernel bug report link
      * core-ignite-cpu: set per cpu power/pm_qos_resume_latency_us to 1 us
      * stress-easy-copy: fix asm, should be __asm__ __volatile__
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 1 May 2025 08:29:56 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.18.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Dmitry Antipov]
      * stress-link/memfd/mmaphuge/mmaptorture: fix global buffer overflow
    
      [Dmitry Grand]
      * fix error: assignment to ‘void (* const*)(stress_fma_t *)’
    
      [Nicolas Bouton]
      * stress-prefetch: add aarch64 load prefetch instructions (prfm)
    
      [Sergey Fedorov]
      * Enable PPC32 builds, use PPC32 opcodes
    
      [Zong Li]
      * core-asm-ret: add lpad instruction in return code on RISC-V
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * debian/control: update standards version to 4.7.2
      * stress-easycopy: ensure direction flag is cleared
      * core-asm-ret: add PPC64 big endian and PPC little and big endian
        support
      * stress-flushcache: call dcbst_page for PPC and PPC64
      * stress-*: improve checking for ppc and ppc64
      * README.md: update contributor list
      * stress-nop: make policy non-clobberable for ppc32 gcc 4.9.2 builds
      * stress-cyclic: make policy non-clobberable for ppc32 gcc 4.9.2 builds
      * README.md: add another research paper link
      * stress-hyperbolic: long double trig should be at least as accurate
        as double
      * stress-trig: long double trig should be at least as accurate as
        double
      * stress-opcode: Fix incorrect opcode mmap size, 2 pages short
      * stress-lockbus: add timer to break out stuck split locks on ppc64
      * stress-regex: Fix digits regex name, should be digits and not alphas
      * stress-physmmap: Fix spelling mistake "mappping" -> "mapping"
      * core-shim: fix spelling mistake "obsolute" -> "obsolete"
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: page align two more offsets
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: msync memfd mapping using the correct size
      * stress-malloc: only declare tmp_align for aligned allocations
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: page align offsets
      * stress-opcode: fix void * pointer arithmetic, use uint8_t *
      * stress-easy-opcode: fix void * pointer arithmetic, use uint8_t *
      * stress-misaligned: perform __uint128_t access using uint64_t pointers
      * stress-open: always unlink file on O_TRUNC open
      * stress-stream: add hex string compare of checksums
      * stress-stream: fix checksum string termination, should be using
        index j
      * Manual: Fix spelling mistake "execises" -> "exercises"
      * stress-physmmap: add upper region size bounds check
      * stress-easy-opcode: ensure enough end spaces is available for
        return ops(s)
      * core-arch.h: move endian macros to core-arch.h
      * stress-easy-opcode: fix ppc64 build, replace . with ,
      * stress-opcode: clean up object code size handling
      * stress-easy-opcode: add a simple easy opcode stressor
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: make TLB shootdowns more aggressive, add
        metrics
      * core-cpu-cache: only use clflushopt if it is supported by the
        processor
      * stress-cpu: disable FP denormalization to improve performance
      * core-cpu: add helpers to disable/enable fp denormalization
      * kernel-coverage: add --physmmap-read test
      * stress-physmmap: use VERIFY_NONE since there are no verifications
      * core-cpu-cache: fix build issue, use renamed variable
      * stress-physmmap: add --physmmap-read option to force read data in
        every page
      * stress-misaligned: use atomic_fetch_add if 2,4,8 byte variants
        unavailable
      * core-cpu-cache: use uint8_t for pointers to avoid void * pointer
        arithmetic
      * stress-cache: prefetch data closer to the CPU
      * stress-physmmap: attempt to mmap entire region in one mmap
      * stress-physmmap: make mappable_pages a register size_t
      * stress-physmmap: report if no pages were mappable
      * stress-physmmap: add physical memory mapping (/dev/mem) stressor
      * README.md: Add Nicolas Bouton to contributors list
      * Makefile: add sanitization build flags
      * README.md: Add Zong Li to contributors list
      * Remove stress-mpfr.
      * core-parse-opts: rename scales to type of scaling
      * stress-uprobe: cast size_t to ssize_t for sane type comparison
      * stress-uprobe: prevent buffer overflows when parsing data
      * stress-race-sched: fix off-by-one comparison on method_all_index
      * stress-malloc: ensured aligned_alloc is a multiple of alignment
      * README.md: Add Dmitry Antipov and Dmitry Grand to contributors list
      * README.md add another research citation
      * README.md: add some more kernel bug references
      * stress-shellsort: use mmap data, collapse pages to try to sort on
        hugepage mapped data
      * stress-insertionsort: use mmap data, collapse pages to try to sort
        on hugepage mapped data
      * stress-heapsort: used mmap data, collapse pages to try to sort on
        hugepage mapped data
      * stress-bubblesort: used mmap data, collapse pages to try to sort on
        hugepage mapped data
      * stress-bitononicsort: fix mmap'd anon mapped name
      * stress-bitonicsort: used mmap data, collapse pages to try to sort on
        hugepage mapped data
      * stress-qsort: collapse pages to try to sort on hugepage mapped data
      * stress-mergesort: collapse pages to try to sort on hugepage mapped
        data
      * stress-workload: force no hugepages on mapping for more PTEs
      * stress-numa: force no hugepages on mapping for more PTEs
      * stress-memthrash: force no hugepages on mapping for more PTEs
      * core-madvise: add stress_madvise_nohugepage, clean up madvise helpers
      * core-madvise: move stress_madvise_collapse from core-helper to
        core-madvise
      * stress-vm: add collapse to vm-madvise options for MADV_COLLAPSE
      * stress-matrix-3d: improve performance by using MADV_COLLAPSE
      * stress-matrix: improve performance by using MADV_COLLAPSE
      * stress-memrate: improve performance by using MADV_COLLAPSE
      * core-heler: add stress_madvise_collapse to collapse pages to
        hugepages
      * README.md: update number of stressors and stressor types
      * stress-umask: add umask system call exercising stressor
      * stress-mmaptorture: add MADV_RANDOM on zero sized allocation
      * README.md: add a couple more research paper links
      * core-shim: add build-time check for close_range, use it in core-shim
      * stress-prefetch: perform uint64_t pointer addition correctly
      * core-helper: check for pipe on stdin and sort out tty width
        accordingly
      * README.md: add another research paper link
      * matrix-methods.job: remove hot from hot-cpu
      * core-cpu-cache: add #elif for cacheflush, helps static analyzer
      * stress-bigheap: use bit-wise & for logical anding
      * stress-numa: use bit-wise & for logical anding
      * stress-zombie: voidify return from shim_usleep()
      * stress-zlib: maximize/minimize --zlib-level, --zlib-mem-level
      * stress-yield: maximize/minimize --yield-procs
      * stress-swap: enable --swap-self on --aggressive
      * stress-stack: enable --stack-{fill|mlock|pageout|swap} on
        --aggressive
      * stress-sock: maximize/minimize --sock-msgs
      * stress-shm-sysv: enable --shm-sysv-mlock on --aggressive
      * stress-shm: enable --shm-mlock on --aggressive
      * Manual: fix missing sysv shared memory heading
      * stress-sem: enable --sem-shared on --aggressive
      * stress-resources: enable --resources-mlock on --aggressive
      * stress-remap: minimize --remap-pages
      * stress-readahead: limit --readahead-bytes maximized setting to MAX_32
      * stress-randlist: maximize/minimize --randlist-items, --randlist-size
      * stress-ramfs: fix minimize option, bump max ramfs size to 2GB
      * stress-ramfs: make --ramfs-fill fill pages with random data
      * stress-ng: check for stressors that should be ignore
      * stress-ramfs: maximize/minimize --ramfs-size
      * stress-pty: maximize/minimize --pty-max
      * stress-pseek: maximize/minimize --pseek-io-size
      * stress-pseek: enable --pseek-rand on --aggressive
      * stress-poll: maximize/minimize --poll-fds
      * stress-pipeherd: enable --pipeherd-yield on --aggressive
      * stress-pipe: maximize/minimize --pipe-data-size, --pipe-size
      * Manual: fix indentation on --pci-ops-rate option
      * stress-pagemove: enable --pagemove-mlock and --pagemove-numa on
        --aggressive
      * stress-open: minimize --open-max
      * stress-numa: enable numa-shuffle-addr and numa-shuffle-node on
        --aggressive
      * stress-numa: maximize/minimize --numa-bytes
      * Manual: fix missing netlink task title
      * stress-nanosleep: maximize/minimize --nanosleep-threads
      * stress-msg: maximize/minimize --msg-bytes
      * stress-mpfr: maximize/minimize --mpfr-precision
      * stress-monte-carlo: maximize/minimize --monte-carlo-samples
      * stress-mmaptorture: maximize/minimize --mmaptorture-bytes,
        --mmaptorture-msync
      * stress-mmaphuge: maximize/minimize --mmaphuge-mmaps
      * stress-mmapfork: maximize --mmapfork-bytes
      * stress-mlockmany: maximize/minimize --mlockmany-procs
      * Manual: fix missing title for mmapmany stressor
      * stress-malloc: maximize/minimize --malloc-pthreads
      * stress-jpeg: maximize/minimize --jpeg-height, --jpeg-width,
        --jpeg-quality
      * stress-ipsec-mb: maximize/minimize --ipsec-mb-jobs
      * stress-io-uring: maximize/minimize --io-uring-entries
      * Manual: remove idle-page help
      * stress-icmp-flood: maximize/minimize --icmp-flood-max-size
      * stress-fractal: maximize/minimize --fractal-iterations,
        --fractal-sizex, --fractal-sizey
      * stress-fpunch: maximize/minimize --fpunch-bytes
      * stress-forkheavy: maximize/minimize --forkheavy-allocs,
        --forkheavy-procs
      * stress-flipflop: maximize/minimize --flipflop-bits
      * stress-fifo: maximize/minimize --fifo-data-size
      * stress-fd-fork: maximize/minimize --fd-fork-fds
      * stress-far-branch: maximize/minimize --far-branch-pages
      * stress-factor: maximize/minimize --factor-digits
      * stress-exec: maximize/minimize --exec-max
      * stress-ng: fix help, iostate -> iostat
      * stress-epoll: maximize/minimize --epoll-sockets
      * stress-dirmany: maximize/minimize --dirmany-bytes
      * stress-dir: maximize/minimize --dir-dirs
      * stress-dccp: maximize/minimize dccp-msgs
      * stress-chdir: maximize/minimize chdir-dirs
      * stress-bigheap: maximize/minimize bigheap-bytes
      * stress-malloc: flush pages when using --aggressive
      * core-resources: ensure all mapped pages are touched
      * stress-bigheap: use memory clearing calloc when using --aggressive
      * stress-vm: flush pages when using --aggressive
      * stress-vm-addr: flush pages when using --aggressive
      * stress-vma: flush pages when using --aggressive
      * stress-stack: flush touched stack pages when using --aggressive
      * stress-stack: make --stack-fill option fill stack with random data
      * stress-workload: use stress_cpu_data_cache_flush to flush data
      * stress-tlb-shoodown: use stress_cpu_data_cache_flush to flush data
      * stress-sysbadaddr: use stress_cpu_data_cache_flush to flush page
      * stress-sigsegv: use stress_cpu_data_cache_flush to flush data
      * stress-mcontend: use stress_cpu_data_cache_flush to flush cache line
      * stress-prefetch: use stress_cpu_data_cache_flush for cache flushing
      * core-cpu-cache: increment addr by cache line size
      * core-cpu-cache: add more optimized data cache flush helper
      * stress-pageswap: madvise populate read when using --aggressive option
      * stress-munmap: for pages to page out with --aggressive option
      * stress-madvise: force more swapouts/swapins with --aggressive options
      * core-out-of-memory: Fix off-by-one array overflow error
      * stess-bigheap: increase reallocs and memory checks with --aggressive
      * stress-affinity: add more sched_setaffinity call with --aggressive
        option
      * stress-access: add more access calls with --aggressive option enabled
      * stress-lockbus: add 1 byte and 2 byte misaligned 32 bit lock bus
        operations
      * stress-ng: enable specifying number of instances as % of cpus
      * core-*, stress-*: rename num_instances to instances
      * core-vmstat: add vmstat memory scaling option --vmstat-units U
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:49:32 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.18.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * core-helper: add check for Cygwin
      * stress-zombie: repeat zombie state checks for more robust checking
      * stress-af-alg: ignore errno = 0 send* failures
      * stress-mcontend: ensure mcontend_numa is defaulted to false
      * stress-pci: make t_delta non-clobberable
      * stress-mmaptorture: cat mmap returns to uint8_t *
      * stress-zombie: add sched_yield before zombie Z state check
      * stress-mmaptorture: voidify function argument mmaptorture_msync
      * stress-vm: add HAVE_LINUX_MEMPOLICY_H check when using numa.mask
      * stress-tun: perform addition before casting to uint8_t
      * core-thrash: make begin/end unsigned to match %x sscanf format
        specifier
      * stress-munmap: make major and minor unsigned ints to match scanf %x
        specifiers
      * core-numa: avoid pointer arithmetic on potentially NULL buffer
      * core-numa: don't dereference numa_mask before it's null checked
      * core-parse-opts: ensure format specifier and type match
      * stress-mmaptorture: only declare variable mypid when required
      * stress-zlib: call deflateEnd on error return path
      * stress-tsearch: avoid division by zero
      * stress-access: fix array termination comparison
      * workload: avoid division by zero when sum is 0.0
      * stress-vm: free context.numa_mask on error return path
      * stress-mmaptorture: voidify return from stress_get_setting
      * stress-intmath: load init values for fast ints from a fast int array
      * test-intmath: add a --intmath-fast option to exercise int_fast*_t types
      * README.md: add a couple more references to papers
      * core-memrate: add --memrate-method to specify read/write method
      * stress-memrate: allow zero values of memrate-rd-mbs and memrate-wr-mbs
      * stress-sysbadaddr: use shim_madvise for madvise calls
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: use shim_madvise for madvise calls
      * stress-pagemove: fix mprotect calls
      * core-shim: add shim macros for madvise advice
      * stress-mmaptorture: #ifdef around madvise, fix QNX build
      * kernel-coverage: add html to text conversion
      * kernel-coverage: add --branch-coverage coverage option
      * stress-*: handle ENOSUP errors on timer_create more graciously
      * stress-mmaptorture: populate mapping file and read mapping
      * stress-mmaptorture: rename temp strings name to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-ng.h: use 64 bit LFS
      * stress-mmaptorture: don't map more than mmaptoture-bytes
      * stress-mmaptorture: add some more torture metrics
      * stress-mmaptorture: use shm_open and shm_unlink for anon mappings
      * stress-close, stress-shm: check for SHM_OPEN and SHM_UNLINK
      * test: add shm-open and shm-unlink build time config checks
      * stress-mmaptorture: retry if mmap's fail rather than continuing
      * stress-mmaphuge: fix inverted MAP_FAILED check on madvise calls
      * stress-mmaptorture: add mlockall/munlockall in child process
      * stress-mmaptorture: bump MMAP_SIZE_MAP from 4 to 512 pages
      * stress-mmaptorture: remove debug
      * stress-mmaptorture: name each mmap'd page to create more VMAs
      * stress-mmaptorture: where possible, set vma name
      * core-helper: fix typo in comment: hash -> has
      * Manual: add mseal notes in mmaptruncate description
      * stress-mmaptorture: mseal a page in child process, fix munmap address
      * test: add check for setproctitle_init
      * test/test-setproctitle: remove check for setproctitle_init on BSD
        systems
      * stress-mmaptorture: increase size default to 256MB, add random
        ftruncate
      * kernel-coverage: add mmaptorture options
      * stress-mmaptorture: add --mmaptorture-msync option to change % rate
        of msyncs
      * stress-mmaptorture: add mmap stats and metrics
      * stress-mmaptorture: mmap onto an existing virt address with
        MAP_NOREPLACE
      * stress-mmaptorture: add MAP_FIXED re-map on just unmapped page
      * stress-mmaptorture: make variables nonclobberable due to longjmp
      * Dockerfile: make static stress-ng image, disable GPU stressor
      * github workflows: enable more arches now we have a Debian build
      * stress-mmaptorture: madvise don't need before unmapping pages in child
      * stress-mmaptorture: make pid noclobberable
      * github workflows: remove printenv
      * stress-mmaptorture: randomly fork child to dup and remove mappings
      * stress-mmaptorture: add random swap outs on pages
      * github workflows: enable more arches now we have a Debian build
      * Dockerfile: build images on Debian
      * Makefile: enable verbose build for github docker builds
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found with stress-ng
      * stress-mmaptorture: cater for systems that don't support msync
      * Revert "stress-hdd: make stress_hdd_opts_t field advise build dependant
      * stress-mmaptorture: cater for systems without MAP_NONBLOCK
      * stress-sockpair: unconstify fds arg, gcc 4.8.2 complains about this
      * stress-mmaptorture: reduce scope on newptr
      * stress-mmaptorture: move #endif
      * stress-mmaptorture: move } outside #ifdef block
      * stress-madvise: fix build issues with HAVE_MADVISE undefined
      * stress-mmaptorture: add --mmaptorture-bytes option
      * stress-mmaptorture: add remap_file_pages call where available
      * stress-mmaptorture: rework msync helper, msync pages randomly
      * core-out-of-memory: start timeout from first waitpid exit
      * stress-mmaptorture: add stressor that tortures mmap'd memory
      * Makefile: add some Intel icx compiler optimization flags
      * stress-pidfd: exercise PIDFD_SELF_THREAD and PIDFD_SELF_THREAD* fds
      * README.md: remove ] in link
      * README.md: add kernel issue and recent paper on stress-ng
      * core-config-check: check /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost is set
        to 1
      * core-ignite-cpu: enable cpu boost
      * stress-ng.h: silence PCC build warnings on __cold__ not being supported
      * core-*, stress-*: add LIKELY/UNLIKELY hints for stress_continue_flag
      * core-*, stress-*: make various pointers and variables const
      * stress-shm: remove empty line
      * core-helper: add stress_random_small_sleep for small pthread startup
        delays
      * stress-vma: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-tee: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-prime: simplify mapping of prime methods
      * stress-mincore: initialize pointers with NULL instead of zero
      * stress-ipsec-mb: move ipsec_stats_t where it is required
      * stress-cache: add missing checks for HAVE_SCHED_SETAFFINITY
      * stress-hdd: make stress_hdd_opts_t field advise build dependant
      * stress-goto: simplify the goto direction mechanism
      * stress-funcret: compare data in struct rather than whole struct
      * stress-filename: simplify mapping of filename opts in method
      * stress-fd-race: remove redundant pointer fds
      * stress-fd-race: reduce scope of variables j and tmp, make them
        registers too
      * stress-exec: fix index -> method mapping on methods
      * stress-copy-file: cast -1 to shim_off64_t to be pedantic
      * core-shim: fix incorrect signed type for shim_off64_t
      * stress-bitops: reduce scope of buf
      * stress-bad-ioctl: remove need ioctl_cmd_method field, use index instead
      * core-thermal-zone: reduce scope of pointer name
      * core-affinity: constify pointers d and tmpptr, reduce scope of tmpptr
      * core-ignite-cpu: reduce scope of variable retry
      * core-perf: rename pointer l to label to make it more readable
      * README.md: add another research paper link
      * core-affinity: add checks for HAVE_SCHED_SETAFFINITY
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sat, 1 Mar 2025 17:46:17 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.18.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Christian Franke]
      * stress-acl: reduce ACL testcases on Cygwin
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * stress-mlockmany: make mlockmany mlocks less OOMy
      * stress-sigill: also handle SIGBUS signals
      * stress-bitops: fix assignment of is_pwr2
      * core-out-of-memory: core-*: replace %jd with PRIdMAX
      * core-*: add some LIKELY/UNLIKELY branch hints
      * stress-*: add some LIKELY/UNLIKELY branch hints
      * Manual: Fix typo "mmaphuge-numa" -> "mmanmany-numa"
      * stress-intmath: clean up if/else statement
      * stress-sigill: add extra illegal opcode for arm v6
      * stress-cachehammer: cast return from mmap to uint8_t *
      * core-cpuidle: make cpuidle_path a little larger
      * stress-fsize: fix 32 bit file size limits, force truncate each time
      * stress-mmahuge: rename ctxt to context
      * stress-mmaphuge: ensure ctxt.fd is also initialized
      * stress-mmaphuge: ensure ctxt.numa_mask is initialized
      * stress-readahead: replace %jx with PRIxMAX
      * core-thrash: replace %jx sscanf with 32/64 bit portable version
      * core-thrash: read some memory related /sysfs files for Linux
      * stress-madvise: exercise MADV_GUARD_* flags
      * stress-sigsegv: exercise MADV_GUARD_INSTALL protected pages
      * kernel-coverage.sh: ignore genhtml inconsistent errors
      * stress-*: ensure numa mask frees are performed correctly
      * stress-cpu-sched: only call stress_numa_mask_alloc if alloc succeeded
      * stress-cachehammer: only call stress_numa_mask_alloc if alloc
        succeeded
      * core-numa: ignore null numa_mask and buffer ptr in
        stress_numa_randomize_pages
      * core-*: stress-*: replace %jd, %ju, %jx with PRIdMAX, PRIuMAX, PRIxMAX
      * stress-cacheline: disable unrolling in stress_cacheline_rdfwd64 for
        clang
      * core-*, stress-*: Fix typos in comments
      * kernel-coverage: add more stressor numa options for more coverage
      * stress-vm-addr: add --vm-addr-numa option
      * stress-pagemove: add --pagemove-numa option
      * core-numa: should be mbinding to prev_ptr rather than ptr
      * stress-llc-affinity: replace spaces with tab
      * core-numa: optimize mbind calls to handle multiple runs of same node
      * stress-mremap: add --mremap-numa option
      * stress-*: Fix typo "randonly" -> "randomly"
      * stress-mmapmany: add --mmapmany-numa option
      * Manual: fix --ioport-opts description, it's missing some text
      * stress-mmapfixed: correct cut-n-paste spelling mistakes
      * stress-mmaphuge: add --mmaphuge-numa option
      * stress-mmapfiles: move numa_nodes alloc and free to main body
      * stress-memfd: add in missing free of numa_nodes
      * stress-mcontend: free numa_mask once it is no longer used
      * stress-lockbus: free numa_mask once it is no longer used
      * stress-llc-affinity: add in missing free of numa_nodes
      * stress-mmapfixed: add --mmapfixed-numa option
      * kernel-coverage: add stressor numa options for more coverage
      * stress-mmapfiles: add --memfiles-numa option
      * stress-memfd: add --memfd-numa option
      * core-numa: make buffer a void * pointer
      * stress-mcontend: add --mcontend-numa option
      * stress-cachehammer: exercise various cache options with memory access too
      * stress-llc-affinity: add --llc-affinity-numa option
      * stress-cachehammer: add more comments, add more code for ppc64 testing
      * stress-cachehammer: add prefetch read and add some missing memory
        barriers
      * stress-cachehammer: add some UNLIKELY branch hints
      * stress-cachehammer: add write + flush cache methods
      * stress-cachehammer: free page after use, cleans up resource leak
      * stress-cachehammer: remove incorrect short optarg option in help
      * stress-cachehammer: fix short help name of stressor
      * stress-cachehammer: cycle addr2 around the buffer
      * stress-cachehammer: exercise two addresses per hammer operation
      * stress-madvise: add zero size null address madvise call
      * stress-cachehammer: use register func pointer hammer for hammer
        function calls
      * stress-af-alg-defconfigs: remove pkcs1pad variants
      * stress-cachehammer: fix leak of file descriptor fd
      * stress-af-alg: handle all bind failures the same way
      * stress-cachehammer: add shared file mmap'd page cache hammering
      * stress-cache: report signal name and number when catching rogue
        signals
      * stress-x86cpuid: update with new CPU ids from wikipedia
      * README.md: Add another kernel issue found with stress-ng
      * stress-af-alg: add missing af-alg names and types to failure messages
      * stress-cpu: rename macro and variables to not contain leading _
      * stress-cachehammer: ensure loops is at least 1 for 1 iteration
      * Manual: fix --mmap-bytes description
      * README.md add another link to a paper that references stress-ng
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 2 Feb 2025 16:55:52 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.18.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * test/test-dup3: fix build issue, replace : with ;
      * Add missing power11 built in check
      * test/test-attr-packed: fix shortint -> short int type
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Mon, 6 Jan 2025 10:30:43 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.18.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Dominik Steinberger]
      * Fix return type of numa core dummy functions
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: workaround warning by defining TW
      * Manual: Fix incorrect .TE macro, use .TP instead
      * Manual: fix spelling mistake "continous" -> "continuous"
      * stress-regex: fix spelling mistake "expresssion" -> "expression"
      * stress-fma: just offset array to get add/sub flavours of fma funcs
      * stress-veccmp: add compiler version checks for older compilers
      * core-helper: re-order signals
      * stress-signest: add in missing signals SIGCONT, SIGTSTP and SIGUNUSED
      * core-helper: add WSL file system magic to file magic ids
      * stress-acl: inform number of ACLs tested vs number of valid ACLs
      * stress-cachehammer: make local_buffer and local_page non-clobberable
      * Update copyright year
      * kernel-coverage: add a handful of missing options for more coverage
      * stress-mmap: make help and mmap-numa messages easier to comprehend
      * stress-vm : add --vm-numa option to bind pages to randomly selected
        NUMA nodes
      * stress-mmap: add --mmap-numa option to bind pages to randomly
        selected NUMA nodes
      * stress-bitops: add two more bitop methods, power of 2 check and zero
        byte check
      * Manual: add line space before tables
      * stress-lsm: use uint8_t * pointer math
      * test/test-mq-posix.c: include <fcntl.h>
      * core-*, stress-*: cast char to unsigned char for ctype.h functions
      * stress-ptr-chase: remove extraneous tab
      * README.md: add another research paper link
      * core-numa: fix for builds with partial NUMA support
      * stress-cachehammer: remove unused variable masked_flags
      * stress-regex: make function stress_regex_rate static
      * stress-regex: disable lazy numbers, some regcomps fail on this */
      * stress-cachehammer: make variable ret non-clobberable
      * stress-regex: add some simple regex compilation error checking
      * stress-regex: add some more regex patterns and strings to match
      * stress-regex: remove html tag regex and reduce devious regexes
      * stress-cachehammer: randomize local cache mappings across NUMA nodes
      * stress-cachehammer: add 1 page shared page and 64 byte read/write
        hammering
      * stress-cachehammer: dup cache ops for ppc
      * stress-lockbus: rename HAVE_MISALIGNED_LOCKBUS to HAVE_NUMA_LOCKBUS
      * stress-regex: fix missing , after literal string
      * stress-regex: add a POSIX regular expressions stressor
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * stress-cachehammer: fix RISC-V built, fix missing {
      * stress-cachehammer: add ppc64 specifif cache operations
      * stress-ng: ensure stress_pid_t reaped flag is initialized on fork
      * stress-mutex: add tab to align fields
      * core-*, stress-*: replace memcmp to shim_memcmp
      * core-*, stress-*: replace memcpy to shim_memcpy
      * core-*, stress-*: replace memset to shim_memset
      * stress-mutex: re-order mutex checks on success/failures
      * stress-gendent: simplify j wrap to zero logic
      * stress-lockbus: make numa_mask nonclobberable and fix free
      * stress-lsm: add parentheses around expression
      * stress-prio-inv: remove early return statement
      * stress-cachehammer: add new stressor to exercise prefetch/flush
        cache ops
      * stress-aio: cache align info struct for minor performance improvement
      * stress-aiol: report async I/O event rate as an extra metric
      * stress-aiol: move random aiol allocations and ctx_id into a struct
      * core-ignite-cpu: make freq_delta and limit number of retries
      * stress-aiol: inline shim wrappers for io_* system calls
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: add space in while(..)
      * stress-access: add space in while(..)
      * stress-nop: add LIKELY hints on while loops
      * stress-ng: re-work aggressive pid waiting to use stress_wait_pid
      * stress-ng: also check for ECHILD on waitpid failure
      * stress-nop: fix 14 and 15 byte no-ops for x86
      * core-opts.h: sort short options
      * Manual: add missing -M short option for --metrics
      * stress-ng: make -w a short option for --with
      * stress-ng: add -K to option parsing
      * stress-ng: make -K short hand for --klog-check
      * stress-bitops: fix short help, remove -c option
      * stress-mcontent: enforce read/write order
      * stress-memthrash: add loop unrolling to stress_memthrash_memset64
      * stress-memrate: remove init arg from macros
      * stress-cache: only add prefetchw to help if it exists
      * stress-cache: add write prefetchw option
      * Manual: fix missing - on memhotplug-mmap option
      * stress-bad-ioct: allow one to run as root and write ioctls using
        PROT_NONE pages
      * Manual: update lockbus description for NUMA page randomization
      * stress-lockbus: split buffer across NUMA pages
      * stress-misaligned: use stress_numa_randomize_pages
      * core-numa: add stress_numa_randomize_pages to randomize pages
      * core-helper: keep file system magic in sync with linux
      * stress-vm-addr: unroll loops, minor performance improvement
      * stress-sigtrap: make t, duration static, aligned variable raised
      * stress-sigill: remove a few empty lines
      * stress-shm-sysv: unroll loops to improve throughput
      * stress-shm: add UNLIKELY hint on loop break
      * stress-set: reduce frequency of calls to stress_get_unused_uid
      * stress-rotate: unroll loop 8 times, improves performance
      * stress-dekker, stress-peterson: use memory barrier for ARM
      * stress-prio-inv: when fifo/rr fails, retry with SCHED_OTHER policy
      * core-mwc.h: fix missing #else .. #endif for mwc*modn decls
      * stress-sigurg: ignore SIGPIPE failures
      * stress-pseek: optimize bad data checking loop
      * stress-poll: add LIKELY hint to check on max_fds as it's very likely
      * stress-poll: add --poll-random-us option to specify ppoll/pselect
        timeout
      * stress-mutex: rename mutex_exercise to stress_mutex_exercise
      * stress-mtx: improve performance if unlikely metrics_count reset
      * stress-msyncmany: add UNLIKELY to if statement that almost never try
      * stress-workload: add vecfp double precision vector math workload
      * stress-mmapfixed: use 64 bit vec array to improve non-zero check
        speed
      * stress-mmap: use mwc*modn instead of using %, fix 64 bit version
      * stress-memfd: remove more of the NT store function selection
      * stress-memfd: remove NT stores, they weren't beneficial
      * stress-malloc: correct bogo-ops accounting and fix up man page
      * stress-ng: use pointer info to avoid multiple triple derefs
      * stress-jpeg: replace modulo with compare and set
      * stress-hash: don't allocate fixed sized hash bucket and buffer on
        heap
      * stress-fma: align double/float arrays, improve performance on SNB
      * core-mwc: inline modulo mwc functions with
        HAVE_FAST_MODULO_REDUCTION support
      * core-time: add unlikely hints on if statements that are not likely
        to be true
      * stress-aiol: improve fill and check buffer helpers
      * core-lock: add LIKELY/UNLIKELY hints on various if statements
      * stress-acl: use acl_cmp() where available, fallback to naive
        version if not
      * stress-af-alg: don't fail with EINVAL on bind calls
      * stress-af-alg: check for zero crypto items before allocate and sort
      * stress-far-branch: map pages in as shared and not private
      * core-*: Remove NONNULL attribute macro
      * core-mwc: improve modulo mwc variants using modulo reduction trick
      * core-rapl: remove NONNULL attributes
      * stress-vecmath: fix checksum checking for 128 unsigned int bit vector
      * stress-veccmp: add a vector comparison op stressor
      * stress-memthrash: use non-temporal load/stores in spinread/write
        loops
      * stress-fma: alternatively perform subtraction in fma ops
      * stress-memthrash: add randomized mbind move to the mbind mix
      * stress-numa: use MPOL_MF_MOVE in mbind call
      * stress-misaligned: use MPOL_MF_MOVE in mbind call
      * stress-misaligned: randomized misaligned buffer across NUMA nodes
      * core-numa: add new stress_numa_mask_t type for NUMA mask handling
      * stress-unlink: ensure all fds[] are initialized before main loop
      * stress-sctp: pass int64_t types for SCTP_MAXSEG and SCTP_MAX_BURST
        sock opts
      * core-klog: replace \0xa escape string with space
      * stress-*: Fix typos: stess* -> stress*
      * stress-ng: continue loops if run should be ignored
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Fri, 3 Jan 2025 11:29:12 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.18.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Eder Zulian]
      * Manual: stress-prio-inv default scheduling policy is fifo
      * core-affinity: rename str to arg to avoid name shadowing on token
        string str
    
      [Ivan Shapovalov]
      * Makefile: expand `$(*FLAGS)` and `$(MACHINE)` non-recursively
    
      [Julee]
      * stress-gpu: fix the gpu-upload option is not effective
    
      [Po-Hsu Lin]
      * Makefile: fix machine detection for Ubuntu Bionic s390x VM
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-file-ioctl: replace long int with long for ioctl macros
      * Makefile.machine: remove need for which command
      * README.md: add another research paper reference
      * core-affinity: add die, core, cluster parsing options for affinity
        lists
      * core-helper: refactor, add helper function to check for zero'd buffer
      * stress-flipflop: use PRIu64 format specifiers for uint64_t values
      * stress-vma: don't use void * pointer arithmetic
      * stress-flipflop: add sanity check to avoid static analysis warnings
      * core-shim: fix order of int declaration for vlen in
        shim_process_madvise
      * core-affinity: swap args in calloc call
      * stress-softlock: re-work drop_niceness to cater for POSIX conformant
        nice() returns
      * stress-opcode: add missing const cast
      * stress-flipflop: constify casts in stress_flipflop_uint64_cmp
      * core-affinity: make stress_package_set static
      * core-*, stress-*: replace local static nowt pointer with global g_nowt
      * core-affinity: fix off-by 1 when printing max packages available
      * core-affinity: parse package list, e.g 0-3,7-11
      * core-affinity: parse affinity list, allow packageN to be specified
      * core-affinity: parse affinity list with mix of ranges and odd,even,
        random,all
      * Makefile.config: add built time check for cpu_set_t
      * core-setting: add missing \n in string type output
      * stress-flip-flop: add new single cacheline coherency scalability
        stressor
      * stress-l1cache: unroll loops to improve throughput
      * stress-*: handle nice returns in a portable way
      * README.md: add another paper citation
      * core-shim: add new Linux 6.13 xattrat system calls
      * stress-shm-sysv: requires sys/ipc.h and sys_shm.h so check for these
      * stress-llc-affinity: add cache line flushing option
        --llc-affinity-clflush
      * stress-gpu: rename option OPT_gpu_uploads to OPT_gpu_uploads (2)
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * stress-gpu: rename option OPT_gpu_uploads to OPT_gpu_uploads
      * stress-ng: use generalized signal handler setup
      * kernel-coverage: add --keep-going to workaround gcov errors
      * stress-vma: fix stress_mmapaddr_get_addr to return validated
        non-mapped addresses
      * stress-vma: retry address randomization if address is in text or heap
        sections
      * stress-vma: add missing comments
      * stress-vma: try access test on all pages of mmap
      * stress-vma: ensure test alloc is the correct number of pages in size
      * stress-vma: fix incorrect func name in comment block
      * core-perf: add some more perf events based on recent kernels
      * Revert "stress-pthread: disable pthread_sigqueue call for CYGWIN"
      * README.md: add another Cygwin fix to an issue found with stress-ng
      * stress-workload: add a few more permutations of fma computation
      * README.md: update bug report, replace link with git commit SHA link
      * core-nt-store: improve double nt stores on x86
      * stress-opcode: x86: generate random length of opcode prefix ops
      * stress-rawdev: use %jd format specifiers for intmax_t
      * Makefile: use a smaller set of -W settings for PEDANTIC icc builds
      * core-klog: add another const in err_exceptions[]
      * core-helper: add some missing comment blocks
      * core-shim: remove comment about use of pragma
      * core-shim: remove extraneous ( in comment
      * core-shim: use arch specific cacheflush system calls
      * core-rapl: only emit "perhaps run as root" messgage if not running as
        root
      * README.md: Update contributors list
      * stress-cacheline: unroll loops, improve performance by 33%
      * stress-bitonic: unroll test and verify loops for improved speed
      * stress-bubblesort: unroll loops to improve performance
      * core-*, stress-*: replace short with short int, long with long int
      * stress-ng: add --taskset-random option to randomize stressor CPU
        affinity
      * core-job: rename stress_chop to stress_str_chop
      * stress-vm: fix early termination of prime-incdec stressor
      * README.md: add reiserfs bug report
      * Manual: fix spelling mistake "optiob" -> "option"
      * stress-prefetch: use K instead of KB for cache size
      * stress-vma: use read rather than write on 8 bit pointer
      * core-helper: add backtrace dumping, call when SIGABRT occurs
      * core-affinity: --taskset: add "all" and "random" keywords
      * stress-l1cache: fix reverse method, fix incorrect setting of data loop
      * stress-brk: ensure the failure sbrk errno is being checked
      * core-target-clones: add more power9,10,11 target clone build time
        constraints
      * core-shim: limit _FORTIFY_SOURCE to 2 for ALT linux gcc for ppoll
        workaround
      * core-shim: use shim'd types for shim_poll args
      * core-shim: add shim to ppoll() and workaround fortification issues
      * README.md: add another kernel commit to the 2024 kernel bug list
      * stress-fp-error: remove duplicated sqrt
      * core-*, stress-*: fflush opened writable files
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 1 Dec 2024 11:21:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.18.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Daniel Hodges]
      * core-sched: Add support for sched_ext scheduling policies
    
      [Jimmy Ho]
      * fix stress-prio-inv bug
    
      [Lukas Durfina]
      * stress-vm: Check correct define for 128 bit nt stores
    
      [Matteo Italia]
      * stress-bitops: add macro to handle undefined return for the ctz(0)
        case as well
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-usersyscall: move ret_libc to start of if block
      * stress-atomic: remove STRESS_ATOMIC_64BIT
      * stress-workload: add checks for HAVE_LIB_RT and HAVE_MQ_POSIX
      * stress-dfp: fix missing 64 and 128 bit _Decimal initializations
      * stress-sigill: fix MIPS build failure, remove extraneous )
      * kernel-coverage: reduce swap for more vm pressure
      * stress-mutex: remove n_cpus debug message
      * core-helper: fix Cygwin build issue, git_t -> gid_t
      * kernel-coverage: add --icmp-flood -1 --icmp-flood-max-size
      * kernel-coverage: add --spinmem -1 --spinmem-affinity test
      * kernel-coverage: remove vfork-vm option, it does not exist
      * core-affinity: fix build failure and warning with previous commit
      * core-affinity: disable affinity change debug, it can spam the output
      * stress-sigill: add loong64 and mips illegal instructions
      * core-affinity: voidify unused arg use_affinity
      * stress-cpu-sched: move n_cpus and cpus
      * stress-ng: allow one to specify odd or even CPUs with --taskset option
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: use --taskset cpu mask
      * stress-cache: fix more resource leak on array cpus
      * stress-cache: handle sched_getcpu failure with error message and fix
        resource leak on cpus
      * stress-spinmem: fix resource leak on array cpus
      * stress-llc-affinity: fix resource leak on cpus array
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add build time check for init_mb_mgr_avx
      * test/test-libipsec-mb.h: include header
      * stress-race-sched: use --taskset cpu mask to select cpus for
        cpu-affinity setting
      * stress-mutex: use --taskset cpu mask for --mutex-affinity option
      * stress-mcontend: use --taskset cpu mask to select cpus for
        cpu-affinity setting
      * stress-llc-affinity: use --taskset cpu mask to select cpus for
        cpu-affinity setting
      * stress-cpu-sched:  use --taskset cpu mask to select cpus for
        cpu-affinity setting
      * stress-cacheline: use --taskset cpu mask to select cpus for
        cpu-affinity setting
      * stress-cache: use --taskset cpu mask to select cpus for cpu-affinity
        setting
      * core-affinity: use correct number of cpus to scan cpuset
      * stress-spinmem: use --taskset cpu mask for --spinmem-affinity option
      * core-affinity: add helpers to get/free array of usable cpus
      * stress-spinmem: add --spinmem-affinity option to move processes
        around CPUs
      * stress-atomic: disable 128 bit atomics for now
      * stress-fcntl: add a few more NetBSD specific fcntl commands
      * stress-fcntl: fix incorrect #endif placement
      * stress-fcntl: add some FreeBSD + Darwin fcntl commands
      * kernel-coverage: add ext2 and ext3 into the fs stress mix
      * README.md: update nodes for Android NDK builds
      * core-pthread: include <pthread.h> if it exists
      * stress-workload: include <time.h> to fix Android build issues
      * core-helper, stress-workload: include <time.h> to fix Android build
        issues
      * stress-crypt: ensure orig_setting is eos terminated, only copy what
        is required
      * README.md: add note on LTO performance improvements
      * README.md: document various build options
      * stress-ptr-cached: add metric on duration per pointer chase operation
      * stress-zlib: add anonymous mapped name for zlib data checksums
      * stress-zero: add anonymous mapped name for read/write buffers
      * stress-workload: add anonymous mapped name for generic data buffer
      * stress-vma: add anonymous mapped name for vma metrics
      * stress-vm: add anonymous mapped name for bit error counter page
      * stress-vm-addr: add anonymous mapped name for bit error counter page
      * stress-unshare: add anonymous mapped name for unshare metrics
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: add anonymous mapped name for tlb-shootdown
        buffer
      * stress-sysinval: add anonymous mapped name for various page mappings
      * stress-sysfs: add anonymous mapped name for shared pthread context
        data
      * stress-swap: add anonymous mapped name for mmap'd swap page
      * stress-sparsematrix: add anonymous mapped name for mmap'd sparse data
      * stress-sem: add anonymous mapped name for globally shared semaphore
      * stress-seal: add anonymous mapped name for write buffer
      * stress-schedmix: add anonymous mapped name for shared semaphore
        mappings
      * stress-rmap: add anonymous mapped name for page padding mappings
      * stress-ptr-chase: add anonymous mapped name for pointer nodes and
        pointers
      * stress-pseek: add anonymous mapped name for pseek process state and
        I/O buffers
      * stress-plugin: add anonymous mapped name for signal counter data
      * stress-pkey: add anonymous mapped name for pkey pages
      * stress-pipe: add anonymous mapped name for read/write buffers
      * stress-peterson: add anonymous mapped name shared lock structure
      * stress-msync: add anonymous mapped name for I/O read buffer
      * stress-mmapfiles: add anonymous mapped name for shared mmap'd file
        information
      * stress-mmap: add anonymous mapped name for page pointers and page
        index
      * stress-mlockmany: add anonymous mapped name for mlocked pages
      * stress-misaligned: add anonymous mapped name shared page for
        misaligned transactions
      * stress-min-nanosleep: add anonymous mapped name for nanosleep delay
        tracking
      * stress-mergesort:  add anonymous mapped name for sorting data buffer
      * stress-memthrash: add anonymous mapped name for memory thrashing
        buffer
      * stress-memcpy: add anonymous mapped name for memcpy buffer
      * stress-matrix: add anonymous mapped name for matrices a,b and r
      * stress-matrix-3d: add anonymous mapped name for matrices a,b and r
      * stress-malloc: add anonymous mapped name for malloc tracking
        information
      * stress-madvise: add anonymous mapped name for single page mapping
      * stress-lsm: add anonymous mapped name for lsm data buffer
      * stress-jpg: add anonymous mapped name for rgb data and row pointers
      * stress-icache: add anonymous mapped name for object code
      * stress-far-branch: add anonymous mapped name for each page mapped
        for functions
      * stress-dfp: fix anonymous mapped page name, fp -> dfp
      * stress-dev: add anonymous mapped name for device state information
      * stress-cyclic: add anonymous mapped name for latencies
      * stress-cpu-sched: add anonymous mapped name for node masks
      * stress-context: add anonymous mapped name for context data
      * stress-atomic: add anonymous mapped name for atomic-info data
      * stress-ptr-chase: compare total with integer rather than float value
      * stress-monte-carlo: ensure results array is correctly initialized
      * stress-icache: catch and debug state if SIGSEGVs occur
      * core-helper: improve debug dump of SIG* issues
      * core-asm-x86.h: add cpuid implementation for 32 bit -fPIC builds on
        older toolchains
      * stress-atomic: add support for 128 bit atomics on 64 bit systems
      * stress-ng.h: minor clean ups, no code change
      * stress-ng: replace struct stressor_info with stressor_info_t
      * stress-has: replace struct stress_hash_method_info with typedef
        stress_hash_method_info_t
      * stress-list: replace struct list_entry with typedef list_entry_t
      * core-out-of-memory: implement stress_set_oom_adjustment for FreeBSD
      * core-out-of-memory: inline helper function stress_args_name
      * core-helper: implement stress_parent_died_alarm for FreeBSD
      * core-helper: use getdtablesize for max fd if it is available
      * core-helper, stress-*: add stress_zero_metrics helper to zero metrics
      * stress-cpu-sched: rename pid to child_pid to avoid name shadowing
      * core-*, stress-*: cast return from calloc to appropriate type
      * core-*, stress-*: cast return from malloc to appropriate type
      * core-target-clones.h: add power11 to target clones
      * stress-syscall: fix kfreebsd Debian build, include <time.h>
      * stress-syscall: fall back to gettimeofday if clock_gettime is
        unavailable
      * stress-*: cast munmap 1st arg and mmap return to appropriate types
      * stress-cpu-sched: add helper function to setup HR timer
      * stress-intmath: fix cut-n-paste errro in type, should __int128_t
        instead of __int64_t
      * stress-cpu-sched: add doing nothing asm for empty err exit path
      * stress-cpu-sched: remove check on HAVE_SCHED_GETATTR for prio
        variables
      * stress-cpu-sched: make declaration of cpus not dependent on
        HAVE_SET_MEMPOLICY
      * stress-cpu-sched: only use SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK if it is defined
      * core-target-clones.h: add Lunarlake target clones
      * stress-cpu-sched: add SCHED_RR, SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_DEADLINE
        schedulers
      * stress-hyperbolic: add hyperbolic cosh, sinh and tanh function
        stressor
      * stress-inotify: clean up some comments
      * stress-intmath: add support for 128 bit integers
      * stress-workload: default --workload-threads to 2 instead of zero
      * stress-fanotify: remove from scheduler clas
      * stress-inotify: remove from scheduler class
      * stress-inotify: fix spelling mistake "timed" -> "timed out"
      * Manual: add SCHED_EXT to supported scheduling policies
      * README.md: add another kernel bug reference
      * core-sched: move SCHED_EXT #define to core-sched.h
      * README.md: Update contributors list
      * stress-ptr-chase: add new pointer chasing cache/pointer stressor
      * README.md: Update contributors list
      * stress-schedpolicy: log the name of the mismatched scheduler type
      * stress-bitops: make bitposition a int8_t type since all values
        are < 256
      * Revert "kernel-coverage: remove swap on loop-back filesystems"
      * stress-binderfs: perform binderfs on temp path subdirectory
      * kernel-coverage: remove swap on loop-back filesystems
      * stress-apparmor: use stress_mwc32modn() for size modulo'd random
        values
      * stress-x86cpuid: add some more x86 CPUID leaf checks
      * stress-prio-inv: Fix incorrect check for PTHREAD_PRIO_{INHERIT | NONE
        | PROTECT}
      * stress-dfp: fix copyright year
      * stress-dfp: add _Decimal32/64/128 floating point add/mul/div stressors
      * kernel-coverage: cater for minix 1 to minux 3 fs types
      * stress-cpu-sched: replace block/unblock functions with
        stress_cpu_sched_hrtimer_sigprocmask
      * stress-cpu-sched: add fork retries for other forks
      * stress-cpu-sched: add fork retries
      * README.md: add a Cygwin bug link
      * stress-cpu-sched: periodically fetch process run time stats
      * stress-cpu-sched: periodically read load average
      * stress-cpu-sched: fix missing "
      * stress-cpu-sched: exercise some linux sched specific proc files
      * stress-*: use stress_system_discard for discarded reads
      * stress-cpu-sched: periodically try to read
        /sys/kernel/debug/sched/debug
      * core-helper: add file read/discard helpers to read all data from a
        file
      * stress-cpu-sched: twiddle cpu slack on each timer reset
      * core-cpu: add virtual machine cpu ids
      * core-cpu: Add some more Hypervisor ID string in EBX,ECX,EDX strings
      * stress-cpu-sched: add some random SIGSTOP/SIGCONT on child processes
      * stress-set: cater for setrlimit returning -EINVAL on sigrlimit
      * stress-cpu-sched: replace clone with fork and ensure all child
        processes die
      * stress-cpu-sched: add RT hrtimer to change cpu and scheduler
      * stress-cpu-sched: add more mechanisms to select next cpu to use
      * stress-cpu-sched: exec stress-ng from a fork'd child for more stress
      * stress-exec: use capability check shim to check for root privilege
      * stress-cpu-sched: add randomization to SIGSTOP/SIGCONT on children
      * README.md: add another kernel fix link
      * README.md: replace tab with 4 spaces in build example guide
      * stress-sysbadaddr: move signal handlers earlier in child processes
      * Makefile.machine: check if objdump exists rather than readelf
      * stress-ng: add/remove some new lines
      * stress-ng: restructure loop stress_exclude_unsupported
      * stress-ng: remove extraneous ( )
      * stress-ng: remove some empty lines
      * stress-ng.h: remove #include <sys/param.h> from header
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <sys/param.h> to stress-env.c
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <time.h> to sources that just require it
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <sys/resource.h> to core-shim.h
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <dirent.h> to core-shim.h
      * stress-ng: mungify stressor names at startup time
      * stress-ng: remove space after \n in error messages
      * core-shared-heap: rename stress_shared_heap_deinit to
        stress_shared_heap_free
      * Manual: use an escaped ? (e.g. \?) in class option example
      * stress-prio-inv: make priority inheritance error a warning
      * core-*: stress-*: voidify returns from various sleep function calls
      * core-shim: explicitly specify int for params in shim_getcpu()
      * stress-*: voidify return from shim_nanosleep_uint64()
      * stress-cpu-sched: add some more sched_yield calls
      * core-*, stress-*: voidify returns from shim_sched_yield()
      * stress-cpu-sched: add a yield after each bogo-loop round
      * stress-cpu-sched: periodically move stressor instance to different CPU
      * stress-cpu-sched: periodically allow child to change it's CPU
      * stress-cpu-sched: add SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK flag to sched_setscheduler
        policy
      * README.md: Add some Cygwin bug report/fix URLS
      * Manual: updated notes about systems that provide sched_setaffinity
      * stress-cpu-sched: fix a couple of pedantic build warnings
      * stress-cpu-sched: add some function block comments
      * stress-cpu-sched: update short help info
      * core-cpu-sched: attempt to do autogroup adjustments for nice on Linux
      * stress-cpu-sched: add nice calls to clone'd process
      * stress-cpu-sched: add periodic clone process scheduler exercising
      * stress-core-sched: exercise set_mempolicy for more work
      * stress-cpu-sched: add some per child process time wasting mechanisms
      * stress-cpu-sched: add different ordering to pids
      * stress-cpu-sched: add random setpriority setting on child process
      * stress-cpu-sched: yet another scheduler stressor
      * core-thrash: read memory related proc files on Linux
      * core-lock: increase number of concurrent locks to 2 * STRESS_PROCS_MAX
      * Add new --stressor-time option to debug log the start/finish times
        of stressors
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:50:48 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.18.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Denis Ovsienko]
      * README.md: Update Haiku particulars.
      * stress-fcntl: fix multiple workers on Haiku
      * stress-touch: Fix file name handling in stress_touch_dir_clean().
      * Exempt Haiku from scheduling tests.
    
      [Lukas Durfina]
      * stress-vm: use correct method names for error messages
      * stress-fp: support bf16
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * README.md: add another kernel bug report
      * stress-tree: only pack tree struct for 64 bit x86-64
      * stress-iomix: don't report an error in EINTR on lseek
      * stress-file-ioctl: only report there are no ioctls tested on instance 0
      * stress-ng.h: define NAME_MAX for systems that don't define this
      * stress-pseek: only define stress_peekio_pthread if using pthreads
      * README.md: add another kernel bug reference
      * stress-bad-ioctl: fix lock segfault on removal
      * stress-cpu: add comment about pcc warning in union exerciser
      * core-*: add gcc function attribute returns_nonnull for extra sanity
        checking
      * stress-vecfp: minor space adjustments in array declaration
      * stress-jpeg: break some long lines
      * Manual: add notes about support for stress-ng
      * README.md: add some more kernel bugs and performance improvement links
      * README.md: Add another research paper link
      * stress-fd-race: add even/odd fd stride close to random closing
      * kernel-coverage: fix btrfs option -csum, should be --csum
      * stress-close: clean up some block comments
      * Manual: Fix typo "spinemm" ->" "spinmem"
      * Manual: minor change, "note - " to "note: "
      * README.md: Update number of stressors, 350+
      * stress-dev: rename stat bufs to avoid name shadowing
      * core-*: add gcc function attribute nonnull for extra sanity checking
      * README.md: Add Lukas Durfina to contributor list
      * stress-sighup: add send/recv handshake over pipe and sync on child death
      * stress-sighup: add missing bogo-op counter
      * stress-pseek: cast offsets to intmax_t to print with %j format specifier
      * stress-icmp-flood: voidify return from stress_get_setting
      * stress-sighup: add SIGHUP stressor
      * stress-sigtrap: Fix short help, it has the wrong description
      * stress-sigabrt: Fix short help, it has the wrong description
      * stress-sigabrt: fix typo, SIGABORT -> SIGABRT
      * core-asm-riscv.h: fix typo in comment
      * stress-icmp-flood: add new --icmp-flood-max-size option
      * stress-schedmix: remove trailing whitespaces
      * stress-schedmix: add some randomness to deadline times
      * stress-schedmix: add select and pselect timed delays to sched mix
      * Makefile.machine: replace objdump with readelf to detect machine type
      * Makefile: add $(PRE_V) before eigen if statement
      * stress-jpeg: replace division with recipriocal multiply in plasma
      * stress-icmp-flood: don't keep on setting packet up on each loop
      * kernel-coverage: add /usr/sbin to $PATH
      * stress-fp: fix incorrect placement of #if defined for ibm128 division
      * stress-fp: add IBM powerpc ibm128 floating point add/mul/div operations
      * stress-far-branch: add --far-branch-flush option to try to flush
        instruction cache
      * README.md: update number of stressors, 350 are now available
      * core-helper: add root like detection for Cygwin
      * stress-dev: exercise more sound control ioctls
      * core-config-check: enable oom-avoid for containerized environment
      * stress-daemon: rename err exit labels for improved readability
      * core-klog: log audit kernel log messages
      * stress-dev: use strscpy for safe copying of strings
      * stress-pseek: pwrite/pread concurrent seek position stressor
      * Manual: fix --hdd rd-seq option description
      * Manual: fix --hdd rd-rnd option description
      * stress-hdd: ensure hdd_bytes_max is set to the max number of bytes
        written
      * kernel-coverage: add --change-cpu per stressor and use --ksm for vm
        stressor case
      * stress-iomix: exercise cachestat(2) with invalid flags and invalid fd
      * stress-cgroup: add more cgroup controls to read/write
      * stress-dev: exercise ioctl command TIOCCONS
      * stress-dev: add /dev/sg* devices to be exercised by stress_dev_scsi_blk
      * stress-dev: fix DM_LIST_VERSIONS ioctl and add some invalid ioctl calls
      * stress-dev: fix dm ioctl stressor, use /dev/mapper/control
      * stress-ng: remove check to stress_cwd_readwriteable
      * core-config-check: add hint to use --oom-avoid on low memory systems
      * Makefile: add source dependencies for stress-eigen-ops.o
      * kernel-coverage: add more per file system mount options for increased
        kernel coverage
      * stress-dev: exercise /sys/dev/* files on Linux systems
      * core-helper: add naive Haiku libc information detection
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * stress-binderfs: exercise binderfs dev entry removal
      * stress-mergesort: remove ALWAYS_INLINE from a comment
      * stress-sigq: exercise invalid rt_sigqueueinfo call
      * stress-xattr: exercise xattr on TMPFILE
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: break func args into multiple lines
      * stress-timerfd: minor alignment of data in source
      * stress-sparsematrix: minor optimization hints
      * stress-sock: make stress_send_error a PURE function
      * stress-full: only declare and use variable w for linux builds
      * README.md: Add LP#2080853 bug to known bugs found by stress-ng
      * stress-full: enable of Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD
      * stress-full: report errno for seek failures
      * stress-af-alg: fix two heap memory leaks
      * stress-af-alg: fix inverted assocdata allocation failure check
      * Makefile: add rebuild dependency on Makefile.machine
      * Makelfile.machine: remove tabbed empty line
      * core-sort: add copy/swap helper functions for specific and generic sizes
      * stress-fcntl: exercise Linux 6.12 F_CREATED_QUERY fcntl command
      * stress-acl: stress_acl_cmp: constify acl1 and acl2 arguments
      * core-helper: stress_get_libc_version: make educated guess that
        musl-libc is being used
      * stress-file-ioctl: voidify function arg fd if it's not used
      * core-helper: stress_get_fs_info: voidify filename if it's not used
      * Makefile: make musl-gcc detection more robust
      * README.md: Add another research paper link
      * Makefile: only define _FORTIFY_SOURCE if it's not defined
      * stress-numa: fix typo in comment
      * kernel-coverage: add --interrupts option to each test run
      * kernel-coverage: add --acl-rand option to acl stressor
      * kernel-coverage: add --mmap-slow-munmap to mmap stressor
      * kernel-coverage: add --memfd-zap-pte option to memfd stressor
      * kernel-coverage: add --get-slow-sync get stressor option
      * kernel-coverage: add --swap-self swap option
      * kernel-coverage: add --sockfd -1 --sockfd-reuse test case
      * kernel-coverage: add --yield -1 --yield-sched scheduler tests
      * kernel-coverage: add --c-state to cpu stress test case
      * kernel-coverage: add --cpu -1 --raplstat 1 --rapl test case
      * kernel-coverage: add --sem-shared option for sem stressor
      * kernel-coverage: add --sem-sysv-setall sem-sysv test case
      * stress-af-alg: put fixed sized buffers on the stack rather than heap
      * core-helper: make blocks the correct unsigned type
      * stress-file-ioctl: add some per-file system specific ioctls
      * kernel-coverage: add -v verbose option when running stressors
      * kernel-coverage: run procfs stressors for longer
      * stress-poll: exercise invalid fd being passed into poll()
      * stress-sem-sysv: add option --sem-sysv-setall
      * stress-dev: exercise linux /dev/bsd/* scsi block devices
      * core-setting: print bool type values as true or false
      * core-setting: remove need for dup'ing name string
      * stress-dev: replace __u32 with uint32_t to fix musl libc builds
      * core-*: print per-stressor settings when -v is enabled
      * stress-dev: check for autofs #defines for stress_dev_autofs_linux
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 2 Oct 2024 08:57:35 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.18.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makfile: add Makefile.machine to make dist rule
      * stress-dev: clean up build warning on non-x86 builds
      * stress-numa: rename ptr with str to fix name shadowing warning
      * stress-vm: remove debugging setting if in statement
      * Makefile.machine: add check for existence of readelf
      * core-ftrace: remove PURE attribute on void return functions
      * stress-*: fix vm memory % size parameter handling
      * stress-vm: provide more information when mmap fails
      * stress-numa: make all of buf map to the current numa node
      * stress-numa: parse /proc/self/numa_maps to see if buf is on the
        expected node
      * core-shim: remove a space
      * core-*: add PURE attribute to pure functions
      * core-killpid: constify variable saved_errno
      * core-cpu: re-order CPUID strings, add some missing examples
      * stress-umount: remove extraneous empty line
      * stress-udp: add missing empty line
      * stress-tmpfs: make variable i const
      * stress-sparsematrix: move pointer next to inner scope
      * stress-sockpair: convert nested if statement into switch statement
      * stress-sigurg: inline helper function stress_send_error
      * stress-sigsegv: remove empty line
      * stress-sigrt: remove empty line
      * stress-set: put rlimit resource ids into a const rlimit_resources array
      * stress-session: make function argument err const
      * stress-rotate: make variables lo and hi const
      * stress-rmap: clean up switch statement, make i a register
      * stress-resched: make variables percent and scale const
      * stress-pci: reduce scope of pointer next
      * stress-opcode: make variable tmp const
      * stress-nice: make variable which const
      * stress-mutex: make variable max const
      * stress-mmap: make variable offset const
      * stress-mlock: make variable mlocked const
      * stress-*: add power10 builtin check support
      * stress-mknod: constify variable j
      * stress-memcpy: use the o1 and o2 variants in the "all" method
      * stress-membarrier: remove empty line
      * stress-led: reduce scope of pointer 'next'
      * stress-klog: make buflen const
      * stress-insertionsort: constify variable tmp
      * stress-hdd: constify variable v
      * stress-hash: explicitly use float values in chi computation
      * stress-dev: add naive simple /dev/autofs exerciser
      * stress-chattr: add mmap'd page modification to file, add metrics
      * stress-dev: exercise /dev/cpu/0/msr ioctl reading of TSC
      * stress-dev: add /dev/cpu/0/cpuid device stressor
      * core-*: don't include <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux targets
      * stress-cpu: constify some variables and add register to some variables
      * stress-clock: constify variable clkid
      * stress-chattr: constify variable bitmask
      * stress-cgroup: constify variable offset
      * stress-cacheline: constify variable 'now'
      * stress-mlockmany: remove stray const in start of source
      * stress-bitops: constify some variables
      * stress-apparmor: constify variables, fix p wrap overflow using the
        ternary operator
      * Manual: add in recursive hints to CPU stressor manual
      * Makefile: improve machine detection and disable -fmodulo-sched for
        S390x builds
      * stress-*: constify stressor_info_t structs
      * stress-aiol: constify offset
      * stress-af-alg: remove JMP debug message
      * stress-acl: constify variables, clean up some code alignment
      * stress-*: voidify returns from sig*() calls
      * stress-sem: add --sem-shared option to share 1 semaphore with all sem
        instances
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Fri, 6 Sep 2024 22:37:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.18.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Aboorva Devarajan]
      * core-target-clone: fix power9 target build issue
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-ng: add vector class to --class option
      * stress-dekker: fix failures for out-of-order processors
      * stress-ng: fix -x option for options with - in the name
      * stress-syscall: rename sigset to sigmask to avoid gcc-4.4 variable
        shadowing warning
      * stress-syscall: rename clock to clock_id to avoid gcc-4.4 variable
        shadowing warning
      * stress-shm-sysv: rename syscall to syscall_name to avoid gcc-4.4
        variable shadowing warning
      * stress-jpeg: rename func param time to whence to clean up gcc-4.4
        name shadowing warning
      * stress-fd-race: rename dirfd to dir_fd to avoid gcc-4.4 variable
        shadowing warning
      * stress-enosys: rename func param random to do_random to avoid name
        shadowing gcc 4.4 warning
      * core-shim: rename dirfd to dir_fd to avoid gcc-4.4 variable shadowing
        warning
      * README.md: move kernel issue to correct place in README file
      * README.md: add another kernel issue to bug list for 2024
      * stress-module: only increment bogo counter on successful module load
      * stress-module: check for .ko module name ending
      * stress-module: update module search failure message for compressed kos
      * stress-module: ignore compressed .xz modules
      * stress-module: try several test modules rather than just test_module
      * core-shim: return ret instread of errno in shim_posix_fallocate
      * stress-zlib: reduce checksum to 32 bits for faster compute
      * core-shim: remove unused variable ret
      * core-shim: make shim_posix_fallocate return error code on failure
      * core-shim: check ret rather than errno on posix_fallocate failure
      * core-shim: cater for EOPNOTSUPP in posix_fallocate failure
      * stress-lsm: move ctx and ctx_end to inner loop scope
      * stress-sigurg: clear bogo-op counter flag if child is killed during
        bogo inc
      * README.md: Add another research paper link
      * Manual: fix spelling mistake "subraction" -> "subtraction"
      * test/test-libgbm.c: replace whitespace with tabs
      * stress-dirdeep: remove debug printf statement
      * stress-personality: check for no personalities using supported
        callback
      * stress-efivar: remove need for packed attribute
      * stress-get: exercise getlogin at end of stressor loop
      * stress-uprobe: report why uprobe cannot be run with static builds
      * stress-get: remove redundant #ifdef
      * stress-bind-mount: check for multiple stat failures on bind mounted
        directory
      * stress-efivar: fix access checks and check on attribute
      * stress-efivar: specify efi var fields in terms of uint8_t types
      * README.md: add another kernel bug found with stress-ng
      * stress-inotify: remove const from helper void arg
      * core-cpuidle: ensure there is plenty of space for filename snprintf
        formatting
      * core-shim: only call stime for glibc < 2.31
      * stress-lsearch: clean up some more pointer constification warnings
      * stress-lsearch: clean up some constification warnings
      * stress-fibsearch: remove re-declaration of pointer ptr
      * stress-bsearch: clean up some constification warnings
      * stress-binderfs: stress_binderfs_supported: return -1 for non-linux
        builds
      * stress-zlib: correct comment for function stress_rand_data_inc16
      * stress-mergesort: minor optimization re-ordering tweaks
      * stress-heapsort: use copy and swap helper for different data sizes
      * stress-sigq: add sigq to IPC class of stressors
      * stress-*: add ipc (inter process communication) class
      * stress-misaligned: use CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID for timer
      * core-time: stress_duration_to_str: add flag report_secs to always
        report secs
      * stess-cgroup: add mount EBUSY retry. Also add mount/umount retry debug
      * core-config-check: fix memory load on string lowstr
      * stress-lockmix: add a mixed file locking stressor
      * core-config-check: warn if the run environment is not suitable for
        stress-ng
      * Manual: Fix grammar on --log-lockless description
      * *.c: remove trailing tabs and white space from ends of lines
      * stress-lsearch: use simpler check to speed up comparisons
      * stress-fibsearch: make array indexes ssize_t for potential -ve ranges
      * stress-bsearch: rename bsearch-ternary to ternary in method option
      * stress-bsearch: add a 3-way ternary search method
      * stress-lsearch: add a key sentinel search method
      * Makefile: add fibsearch (Fibonacci search) stessor
      * stress-hash, stress-tree: add stressors to search class
      * stress-bubblesort: rename bubblesort method to bubblesort-fast
      * stress-sort*: add sort class
      * stress-bubblesort: add bubblesort stressor
      * core-cpuidle: name busy state C0 for x86 and BUSY for other arches
      * README.md: add C-state residency example
      * stress-vm: stress_vm_mod: replace while loop with two if statements
      * core-cpuidle: add C-state measurements with --c-state option
      * kernel-coverage: add umount sanity check on umount failures
      * stress-*: add integer and fp classes
      * stress-vec*: remove CLASS_CPU_CACHE flag
      * stress-fd-race: add helper to close fds in different orders
      * stress-close: exercise flag field with close_range call
      * stress-inotify: remove empty line
      * stress-oom-pipe: fix valid fd check before closing the fd
      * stress-tee: ensure fd is closed on error exit path
      * stress-poll: use correct array index variable for closing fds
      * stress-link: exercise pathconf on oldpath instead of testpath
      * stress-session: close pipe fds on error exit path
      * stress-shm: close pipe fds on error exit path
      * stress-vm-segv: close pipe fds on error exit paths
      * stress-key: replace vararg system call with 5 arg system call
      * stress-fd-race: fix error return paths not cleaning up allocated
        resources
      * stress-close: clean up some file descriptor handling
      * stress-tee: fix error handling closes on pipe file descriptors
      * stress-x86syscall: initialize time1, time2 to zero
      * stress-workload: add check for non-null threads array
      * stress-sysbadaddr: close pipe fds if pipe succeeds
      * stress-inotify: avoid double close on fd
      * stress-syscall: fix fd leaks on pipes on tee syscall stress case
      * stress-daemon: clean up file descriptor closing on error return paths
      * core-helper: fix pipe file descriptor leak on error path
      * core-asm-ret: constify stress_ret_opcode
      * Makefile: add -fivopts -fmodulo-sched optimization options
      * core-target-clones: add power10 cpu support
      * Makefile: remove incorrect scan-build basename check
      * stress-vma: fix void * pointer arithmetic warning on data + offset
      * stress-*: exercise pathconf options on various files
      * stress-get: exercise getlogin since this is a syscall on *BSD systems
      * core-lock: use a single mapped page for all shared locks
      * core-lock: put lock functions into per lock type struct
      * README.md: add another reference link
      * stress-waitcpu: only use umwait for x86-64 and LP64 (non-x32 builds)
      * core-helper: rename stress_x86_smi_readmsr64 to stress_x86_readmsr64
      * core-lock: provide created locks a name to track locks
      * core-lock: add lock type into VMA anon name
      * stress-numa: mmap all allocations and name the anon VMAs
      * stress-numa: add simple page data checking
      * stress-ng: remove "signal" from signal termination message
      * stress-opcode: set child signal handlers before stress_shared_readonly
      * stress-*: add some more pointer constifications
      * stress-swap: produce more meaningful swap out metrics
      * stress-misaligned: replace "got stuck" with "not fully tested"
      * stress-resources: add stress_resources_access to access various
        resources
      * stress-utime: exercise a wide range of huge times with utime
      * Manual: add missing --ipsec-mb-feature option noaesni
      * stress-cyclic: reduce spamming of the same error message with many
        instances
      * stress-binderfs: check in init stage if binderfs mounts are supported
      * stress-intmath: fix incorrect class flags, should be CLASS_CPU |
        CLASS_COMPUTE
      * stress-ng: make g_opt_pause unsigned int and add pause time in
        progress time
      * core-log: increase per line log buffer to 8K
      * stress-ng: add pause option to add pauses between each stressor
        invocation
      * stress-ng: show settings even if no stressors are run
      * core-rapl: align stats with the tz stats
      * stress-intmath: add signed integer math + - * % operations
      * stress-waitcpu: replace ;; with ;
      * stress-prefetch: replace ;; with ;
      * stress-chattr: replace ;; with ;
      * core-vmstat: replace ;; with ;
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 1 Sep 2024 10:08:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.18.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Chunyu Hu]
      * stress-hrtimers: follow sched setting
    
      [Myd Xia]
      * stress-ng: add qnx support
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * README.md: remove extraneous spaces in examples
      * README.md: Add RAPL power example
      * README.md: add a I/O permuted stressor example
      * stress-swap: clean up error messages when using stress_get_fs_type
      * core-helper: add ZFS magic
      * Add ELISA presentation "Improved system stressing with stress-ng"
      * Manual: fix spelling mistake "desciptors" -> "descriptors"
      * stress-physpage: fix zero fd check on close
      * stress-chattr: initialize IOC_GETFLAGS arg before calling ioctl
      * stress-sigurg: only use O_ASYNC if it is defined
      * stress-pty: include sys/ioctl.h, cleans up cygwin build warning
      * stress-sockfd: move rc and nbytes declaration into a code block
      * stress-sockfd: add #ifdef around FIONREAD ioctl
      * stress-physpage: use stress_mmap_populate for MAP_POPULATE mmaps
      * stress-zero: cast ptr to clean up mmap warnings
      * stress-sysfs: cast ptr to clean up mmap warnings
      * stress-procfs: cast ptr to clean up mmap warnings
      * stress-physpage: cast ptr to clean up mmap warnings
      * stress-munmap: cast mmap return to munmap_context_t * to clean up
        pedantic warning
      * stress-efivar: cast efi_var to void * for mmap and munmap
      * stress-fork: cast unmap_start to void * for munmap calls
      * stress-dev-shm: cast addr for mmap, mummap and msync calls
      * core-cpuidle: clean up pedantic warning with gcc 10.3.0
      * core-sched: remove unused function stress_set_deadline_sched
      * Manual: add missing deadline cyclic-policy option, rename ff to fifo
      * stress-cyclic: clear up pedantic warnings when no cyclic methods are
        available
      * stress-cyclic: clear up pedantic warnings when no scheduling policies
        are available
      * stress-logmath: fix build issue on Nixos, need lvalue
      * stress-expmath: fix build issue on Nixos, need lvalue
      * stress-sigurg: ignore return from F_SETFD fcntl call
      * stress-gpu: trim newline off infoLog messages
      * stress-open: report number of fds to be used after they have been
        adjusted
      * stress-open: shrink number of fds if allocation is too large
      * stress-oom-pipe: shrink number of fds if allocation is too large
      * stress-sockfd: limit to 1024 * 1024 file descriptors
      * stress-fd-race: limit to 1024 * 1024 file descriptors
      * stress-userfaultfd: add missing HAVE_POLL_H and HAVE_POLL checks
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add missing HAVE_POLL for bad_poll function
      * stress-sigurg: remove redundant variable msgs
      * stress-fd-race: remove unused variable writes
      * stress-mq: only declare fds if poll() is available
      * Makefile: disable smi stressor for regression tests
      * stress-signest: add missing SIGURG signal
      * stress-shm: retry shm mmap without MAP_ANONYMOUS if EINVAL is returned
      * stress-fractal: cast info.data to void * for munmap call
      * stress-ng: cast mmap return to stress_pid_t *
      * stress-fd-race: move stress_fd_race_context_t declaration
      * stress-fd-race: add build time check for pthread barrier support
      * stress-bad-alt-stack: use zero_stack instead of bad_stack
      * stress-ng: use localtime for completion times
      * stress-ng: report permuted stressors and show progress
      * stress-sigurg: add a SIGURG out-of-band socket signal stressor
      * stress-sigpipe: initialize data before loop
      * stress-sigpipe: remove need for a parent/child mechanism
      * stress-sigill: add a SIGILL illegal instruction signal stressor
      * stress-sigvtalrm: fix help information
      * stress-*: add CLASS_SIGNAL class flags to stressors that generate
        signal loads
      * stress-sigvtalrm: use user time as run time count check not wallclock
        time
      * stress-sigvtalrm: sanity check signal count after 1 second of run time
      * stress-sigvtalrm: add SIGVTALRM signal stressor
      * stress-*: add built time check for poll() system call
      * stress-fd-race: randomize syscalls on fd's
      * README.md: add another link to a research paper
      * stress-ng: sanity check if excluded stressor name is valid
      * README.md: update number of stressors
      * stress-fd-race: add ignore list of files not to exercise
      * core-numa: ensure pointer str is initialized to NULL
      * stress-fd-race: add a new stressor to race file descriptor access and
        closing
      * core-lock: use #if/#elif rather than many #if/#endif sequences
      * core-ftrace: make char * pointer num const
      * stress-h*: add syncwait proc state for --sync-start state waits
      * stress-*: add syncwait proc state for --sync-start state waits
      * core-ignite-cpu: remove unused field cur_freq from struct
        stress_cpu_setting_t
      * core-cpu-cache: rename index to idx to avoid name shadowing on index()
      * core-affinity: only set cpu affinity if CPU affinity bits are set
      * core-time: stress_duration_to_str: emit 0 secs if no time has been
        formatted
      * stress-brk: add sanity check for sbrk always returning out of memory
      * stress-spinmem: add CLASS_CPU_CACHE to class flags
      * stress-ramfs: abort early on mount/umount EPERM errors
      * stress-ramfs: cater for EPERM on containerized umount failure
      * stress-io-uring: cater for EPERM on containerized io-uring setup
        permission denied
      * README.md: make packages list more compact
      * stress-umount: cater for EPERM on containerized mount failure
      * stress-reboot: cater for EPERM on containerized reboot call failure
      * stress-ramfs: cater for EPERM on containerized mount failure
      * stress-netlink-proc: fix skipped rc code, it should be EXIT_NO_RESOURCE
      * stress-numa: skip stressor on EPERM on get_mempolicy
      * stress-netlink-proc: skip stressor on EPERM on bind (containerized)
      * stress-key: skip stressor on EPERM on add_key in container
      * stress-fp-error: relax fp pedantic error checking for musl-gcc builds
      * core-helper: fix macro typo HAVE_COMPILER_MUSC -> HAVE_COMPILER_MUSL
      * stress-binderfs: cater for EPERM on containerized mount failure
      * stress-cgroup: cater for EPERM on containerized mount failure
      * core-thrmal-zone: constify dirent pointer entry
      * core-thrash: constify dirent pointer d
      * core-mounts: constify pointer mnt
      * core-resources: stress_resources_free: constify args parameter
      * core-rapl: constify pointer entry
      * core-numa: constify pointer str
      * core-process: constify pointer ptr
      * core-module: constify pointer l
      * core-cpu-cache: only define type stress_generic_map_t for Linux builds
      * core-cpuidle: constify pointers cpu_d and cpuidle_d
      * stress-rdrand: fix build issues where HAVE_SEED_CAPABILITY is not
        defined
      * core-parse-opts: add stress_get_{int|uint} prototypes
      * stress-sigabrt: remove volatile from struct pointer sigabrt_info
      * README.md: Add Linux Foundation 2024 ELISA presentation link
      * core-madvise: use unsigned int for major and minor
      * core-perf: add maple_tree/ma_op event
      * stress-bind-mount: skip stressor we don't have access
      * stress-waitcpu: Fix umwait0 and umwait1
      * stress-*: name mmap'd regions to help debugging
      * core-helper: add libc version to yaml output
      * stress-ng: remove trailing tab
      * core-lock: name anonymous mappings
      * stress-ng: name anonymous mappings
      * core-*: name anonymous mappings
      * stress-vma: use stress_set_vma_anon_name to set anon vma name
      * stress-vma: add more prctl macro build time checks
      * Manual: update vma stressor description, 32 pages now being exercised
      * stress-vma: name anonymous pages with prctl
      * stress-vma: move stress_vma_continue_flag to enable mapped regions
      * stress-ng: remove empty lines, reformat a comment block
      * stress-ng: inline helper function stress_get_num_stressors
      * stress-ng: inline helper function stress_append_stressor
      * stress-ng: munge stessor names using stress_readable_name helper
      * stress-ng stress_run_sequential: remove continue if statement
      * stress-jpeg: remove debug
      * stress-jpeg: fix overflow with brown noise generator
      * stress-ng: stress_exclude_unsupported: add check for null
        stressor->info
      * stress-spinmem: new spin write/read parent/child stressor
      * stress-ng: add stress_readable_name to munge stressor names into a
        readable form
      * stress-ng: remove stressor id, it's now deprecated
      * stress-ng: stress_exclude_unsupported: match stressors by address and
        not id
      * stress-ng: rework if (ss->ignore.run) comparisons
      * stress-ng: remove stressor_find_by_name
      * stress-ng: remove need to call stressor_find_by_id to find stressor
      * stress-netlink-task: add static analysis sanity check on nlmsgbuf_len
      * stress-opcode: check for small text lens before proceeding
      * stress-signess: use STRESS_BIT_ULL for bitmask setting (part 2)
      * bash-completion: refresh with new stressor options
      * stress-chroot: add missing ( ) around && errno expressions
      * stress-ng: fix SIGTERM on parent causing child to return bogus
        EXIT_SIGNALED
      * stress-sock: set starting port to 2000
      * stress-*: use globally defined MIN_PORT, MAX_PORT and cater for port
        wrap-around
      * core*: stress-*: Fix various spelling mistakes and typos
      * stress-usersyscall: Fix spelling mistake "syscallls" -> "syscalls"
      * stress-chroot: allow EINVAL and ENAMETOOLONG for Haiku chroot syscall
      * stress-madvise: add missing help in opts for unsupported builds
      * stress-cache: make cache_flags non-clobberable over vfork
      * stress-vm: only define stress_vm_flags when required
      * stress-lease: use opts instead of opt_set_funcs
      * stress-vecfp: use .opts instead of .opt_set_funcs
      * stress-plugin: fix plugin-so option for unimplemented stressor build
        case
      * stress-besselmath: update to ops for unsupported build paths
      * Manual: fix example code in plugin documentation
      * core-thrash: process fdmem seeking in off_t space
      * stress-dirmany: check for unlikely very small filenames
      * core-helper: stress_exec_text_addr: cater for text end is less or
        equal the text start
      * stress-netlink-task: avoid underflow on nlmsgbuf_len
      * stress-prio-inv: compute non-negative nice_div
      * core-helper: check for failed sysconf when calculating memory size
      * core-shim: ensure underflow never occurs on emulated fallocate writes
      * core-parse-opts, stress-*: use stress_unimplemented_method for
        unimplemented methods
      * core-parse-opts: remove debug and cater for zero method options
      * stress-signest: use STRESS_BIT_ULL for bitmask setting
      * core-parse-opts: remove stress_check_power_of_2
      * core-*, stress-*: use new table-driven option parsing
      * README.md: update static build notes for Android
      * README.md: update contributor list
      * stress-mmap: add MAP_DROPPABLE (Linux 6.11+)
      * Makefile.config: add LDFLAGS workaround for older versions of make
      * test-lib*: reference the contents of the function arrays
      * stress-unlink: no need for mode flags when opening existing file
      * stress-bitops: clz(0) -> 32 and not 0, fix this
      * stress-bitops: add macro to handle undefined return for the clz(0) case
      * stress-bitops: use stashed checksum to ensure all computations are
        performed
      * stress-signest: remove unused function stress_signest_find
      * stress-bitops: fix build error with clang-19
      * stress-bitops: handle zero cases for ctz and clz, add 0x for PRIx
        formats
      * README.md: add another kernel bug reference
      * core-shim: fully define shim'd statx struct
      * Manual: Add Bit Twiddling Hacks and Hacker's Delight references
      * stress-bitops: Add new bitops stressor --bitops
      * core-vmstat: only report raplstat if delay > 0
      * README.md: add another kernel bug found with stress-ng
      * stress-cgroup: remove tabs at end of lines
      * stress-signest: exercise RT signals if they are available
      * core-helper: stress_get_signal_name(): add RT signal names
      * core-time: fix time reporting where duration > 60 seconds and
        duration % 60 == 0
      * core-rapl: ignore short time measurement or zero power measurements
      * stress-ng: add --rapl and --raplstat RAPL power measurements
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:47:37 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.18.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Daniel Andriesse]
      * stress-vecwide: fix verify option by setting results vector res
    
      [Po-Hsu Lin]
      * stress-cache: check RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZICBOZ support for
        stress_cache_bzero
    
      [Sergey Matyukevich]
      * mmapfork: add --mmapfork-bytes option to specify mmap size
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * 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
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 3 Jul 2024 18:33:42 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.18.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Fabrice Fontaine]
      * core-sched.c: fix uclibc-ng build
      * stress-sock.c: fix build without SO_ZEROCOPY
    
      [Hsieh-Tseng Shen]
      * stress-cache: add stress_cache_bzero() to support cache-based bzero
      * core-asm-riscv.h: support riscv zicboz ext cbo.zero instruction
    
      [John Kacur]
      * stress-ng: stress-stream: Fix use of uninitialized variable
    
      [Po-Hsu Lin]
      * core-ops: fix --logmath-ops option
      * core-ops: fix --binderfs-ops option
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * 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
      * README.md: add two more research papers that reference stress-ng
      * 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
      * README.md: add another research paper citation
      * 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
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found by stress-ng
      * 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 <stdarg.h> 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 used
      * stress-sigsegv: handle SIGBUS code with correct BUS_OBJERR
      * stress-fp-error: relax fp error checks on soft-float builds
      * README.md: add another citiation
      * 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 <sys/ioctl.h>
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <sys/times.h> into sources that require it
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <stdarg.h> into sources that require it
      * stress-ng.h: remove #include <sys/file.h>, it was commented out
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <sys/file.h> into sources that require it
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <sys/ioctl.h> into sources that require it
      * core-shim: add __NR_fallocate check for fallocate syscall
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <ctype.h> into sources that require it
      * README.md: add two more kernel improvement references
      * stress-ng: make stress_exclude_unimplemented static
      * stress-ng.h: remove commented out math.h include
      * stress-ng.h: move <math.h> 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
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 6 Jun 2024 09:15:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.17.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ruihongw]
      * fix spelling of lsm_list_modules in Makefile.config
    
      [Yiwei Lin]
      * Fix unterminated cpu-stress if non 0% or 100% load
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-epoll: fix missing space after comma in error messages
      * README.md: add another bug found by stress-ng
      * 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
      * Manual: remove duplicated comma
      * 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
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * 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
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 2 May 2024 08:30:57 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.17.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Stian Onarheim]
      * core-stressors.h: Sort the stressor list
    
      [Amit Singh Tomar]
      * stress-vm: fix the stress_vm_check argument name
    
      [Erik Stahlman]
      * Remove write potentially outside of buffer
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * 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 <sys/mkdev.h> 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
      * README.md: update contributor list
      * 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
      * README.md: update number of tests
      * 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
      * README.md: add a couple more paper references
      * stress_vm_walking_flush_data: fix buffer overflow on last 7 bytes
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * stress-logmath: add logarithmic maths function exercising
      * README.md: Add another publication link
      * 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
      * README.md: add missing newline
      * README.md: add some more upstream linux git commit references
      * 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
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 4 Apr 2024 22:33:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.17.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Hsieh-Tseng Shen]
      * Manual: fix a few typos
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * 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
      * stress-bitonicsort: Add another sorting stressor
      * stress-cpu-online: run a child process that tries to pin itself to
        offlined CPU
      * core-resouces: open another fd, based on the stdout of parent pid
      * stress-memfd: don't populate memfd mapped pages
      * stress-memfd: exercise each flag per iteration
      * stress-memfd: change memfd_fds to a int32_t
      * stress-memfd: create some filenames just one
      * stress-memfd: use close_range on fds, fall back to loop'd fd close
      * stress-enosys: add 24, 40, 48, 56 bit syscalls
      * stress-malloc: add some SEGV action information
      * stress-fd-fork: add --fd-fork-file option to specify file to dup
      * stress-fd-fork: add metrics on time to open all fds and open 10000
        files per loop
      * stress-fd-fork: add --fd-fork-fds option to specify number of files
        to open
      * Manual: add note about fd-fork bogo-op rate dropping over time
      * Manual: recommend using the maxtrix-3d stressor for cache misses
      * stress-ng: avoid potential division by zero by total_run
      * stress-fd-fork: add a file descriptor copying via fork stressor
      * Manual: Fix typo "maybe" -> "may be"
      * stress-crypt: add --crypt-method to allow encryption method to be
        selected
      * Manual: update crypt stressor with list of all crypt methods used
      * stress-memfd: fix #endif, removed the wrong one
      * stress-memfd: remove debug #ifdef's
      * stress-memfd: make random madvise calls an optional opt-in with
        --memfd-madvise
      * stress-memfd: add in opt-in zap pte test option --memfd-zap-pte
      * stress-memfd: include <linux/memfd.h> for MEMFD huge page flags
      * TODO: add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE
      * stress-ng: add estimated completion time for --progress option
      * stress-ng: add a --progress option to show --sequential run progress
      * stress-fork: disable --fork-unmap if --fork-vm is also enabled
      * stress-fork: remove stress_set_proc_state so libbsd can be removed
      * stress-fork: don't remove readable pages that may be used in dlsym
        searches
      * stress-syscall: only define SHADOW_STACK_SET_TOKEN if it's not defined
      * stress-fork: add --fork-unmap option to force unmapping of shared libs
      * Makefile.config: specify library link ordering
      * stress-clone: force lazy bind libc functions to be bound before clone
        is run
      * stress-stream: fix collapse stream-madvise option to use MADV_COLLAPSE
      * stress-fpunch: add --fpunch-bytes option to specify fpunch file size
      * stress-fork: force lazy bind libc functions to be bound before child
        is run
      * stress-fork: do immediate _exit() call for short lived processes
      * stress-fork: make help clearer on process creation naming
      * core-thrash: no need to snprintf a fixed path name, clean up code
      * stress-fork: align info array to cacheline
      * stress-skiplist: add bounds check on ln2n
      * Manual: fix misalignment of --misaligned-ops option
      * stress-cache: zero buffer before benchmarking read/write rates
      * stress-cache: correctly report the cache flags being used
      * stress-vforkmany: add --vforkmany-bytes option to specify mmap size
      * core-mincore: add missing --page-in OPT_FLAGS_MMAP_MINCORE check
      * stress-vforkmany: use waste_size instead of WASTE_SIZE for mmap'd
        waste region
      * stress-numa: add support for MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE
      * core-helper: use program_invocation_name to get program name
      * stress-monte-carloc: add arc4 cryptographically-secure pseudorandom
        generator
      * stress-numa: add NUMA hit/miss metrics
      * stress-context: make context regions smaller, move stack to new
        mmap'd area
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 5 Mar 2024 16:43:38 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.17.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Nikolas Kyx]
      * stress-syscall: fix cmp_test_duration() return value
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add core-asm-loong64.h to HEADERS
      * stress-atomic: make atomic region 64 bytes wide, step through it
      * Manual: update caveat concerning bogo-op rates
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-unshare: silently ignore EACCES returns
      * core-pragma: drop packed gcc version to 9.4
      * Manual: fix a couple of typos
      * stress-prio-inv: fix typo "cheduling" -> "scheduling"
      * core-helper: fix some spelling mistakes
      * stress-landlock: ensure all set bits work in mask and zero
        ruleset_attr before use
      * stress-sysfs: ignore SIGKILL as bad signal
      * stress-numa: fix one more %zu format specifier
      * stress-numa: use %zu format specifier for size_t
      * stress-monte-carlo: don't use getrandom for Solaris, it's very slow
      * core-vmstat: only account for CP_SPIN on OpenBSD if it exists
      * stress-stack: make rc no-clobberable, cleans up gcc 4.9.2 warning on
        kfreebsd
      * core-shim: disabled process_mrelease for SPARC
      * stress-monte-carlog: only define stress_mc_no_seed if it is required
      * core-perf: make filemap page cache description match existing style
      * stress-numa: report per instance mapping size to 1 decimal place
      * stress-numa: add --numa-bytes option to specify total memory size
      * kernel-coverage: add numa addr and node shuffling options
      * stress-numa: add --numa-shuffle-addr and --numa-shuffle-node
      * stress-numa: ensure pages get re-assigned to different nodes
      * stress-tree: disable warnings on misaligned pointer access
      * stress-numa: use stress_mmap_set_light to touch pages
      * core-pragma: add checks for gcc 10
      * core-pragma: add missing \
      * stress-monte-carlo: use generic supported and no_seed functions
      * stress-dev: add include ifdefs around stress_dev_ptp_linux
      * stress-dev: add macro VOID_ARGS to voidify common function args
      * stress-dev: remove UNEXPECTED checks, add more linux guarding
      * stress-dev: add some kvm ioctls
      * stress-dev: exercise UI_GET_VERSION ioctl on /dev/uinput
      * stress-dev: add RNDGETPOOL ioctl on /dev/random
      * stress-dev: exercise /dev/input/event*
      * stress-dev: add RTC RTC_IRQP_READ32 ioctl
      * stress-dev: add linux /dev/rtc ioctls, delay on -EBUSY
      * stress-mmap: add missing MMAP_SYNC flag
      * stress-ng.h: disable _FORTIFY_SOURCE when using PCC
      * stress-ng.h: disable _FORTIFY_SOURCE when using TCC
      * core-mmap: remove unused variable val
      * stress-sigsegv: make pointers uint8_t * to clean up void * pointer
        addition warnings
      * Makefile: don't enable -fipa for icc
      * stress-tree: allow tree node packed structures where packed is
        allowed on x86
      * core-pragma: add -Waddress-of-packed-member to WARN_OFF macro
      * core-attribute.h: add PACKED macro for attribute packed
      * stress-tree: move u into it's own typedef and make tree node 8 byte
        aligned
      * stress-tree: avl: remove redundant assignments to taller
      * stress-tree: avl: add pointer r as a short cut for (*root)
      * stress-tress: avl: make variable taller a register
      * stress-tree: avl: remove sub_taller variable
      * stress-tree: avl: replace (*root) with node on new node
      * stress-tree: don't pass taller flag in avl_insert
      * Add build-time test for packed attribute
      * README.md: add DEBUG=1 make build instructions
      * stress-monte-carlo: add some more complex integrals to compute
      * stress-monte-carlo: fix ppc64 darn and add missing rand support check
      * stress-rseq: add check for __builtin_thread_pointer()
      * stress-monte-carlo: add Monte Carlo computation of pi and e
      * stress-rseq: remove debug '| 1' for sys/rseq.h include
      * stress-rseq: remove trailing white space
      * stress-rseq: remove invalid rseq test cases
      * stress-rseq: remove rate debug
      * stress-rseq: move critical section count into a stressor metric
      * stress-rseq: rework to work with rseq in glibc
      * stress-sigsegv: fix exact fault address check
      * stress-x86syscall: add geteuid, getgid and getuid
      * README.md: add another citation link
      * stress-prio-inv: remove undef of PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST
      * stress-prio-inv: remove prio default case from switch
      * stress-prio-inv: add build time check for pthread_mutexattr_setrobust
      * stress-prio-inv: add build-time checks for various SCHED_* support
      * stress-prio-inv: update reason why stressor is not implemented
      * stress-prio-inv: move pthread_mutex_t dependant types
      * Add shim for dirent d_type
      * stress-landlock: shift left with correct sized integer
      * Makefile.config: cater for empty $LIB_BSD string
      * stress-time-warp: add a time/clock time warp checking stressor
      * stress-prio-inv: match order of STRESS_PRIO_INV_POLICY_* with
        stress_prio_inv_policies
      * stress-mmap: add --mmap-stressful
      * stress-prio-inv: add --prio-inv-policy to select scheduler policy
      * stress-prio-inv: use FIFO sched by default
      * README.md: add Nikolas Kyx to contributors list
      * Add new prio-inv (priority inversion) stressor
      * stress-mmap: add --mmap-slow-munmap option
      * core-perf: add some more trace events
      * stress-landlock: only exercise flags that are usable
      * core-shim: replace strlcpy with safer strscpy
      * stress-landlock: add more landlock access flags, add check for
        usability
      * core-mwc: optimize and generalize mwc*modn() functions, remove pwr2
        helpers
      * stress-mmap: use non-mod random mwc functions for faster index
        generation
      * stress-mmap: add new option --mmap-write-check for opt-in write +
        checks
      * stress-factor: up the maximum digit size to 100000000 digits
      * stress-mmap: add --mmap2 option in short help
      * kernel-coverage: add new mmap options to mmap stress cases
      * stress-mmap: add opt-in randomized madvise on pages
      * core-mmap: touch + check just start of each page rather than filling
        them
      * debian/control: add libgmp-dev for factor stressor
      * README.md: update number of stressors (320+) and add loong64 arch
      * stress-mmap: touching pages should be using sz and not
        context->mmap_bytes
      * stress-mmap: add --mmap-mergeable option
      * stress-factor: clean up indentation
      * stress-mmap: reduce affect of mumap on stressor
      * stress-factor: add factorization stressor using libgmp
      * core-mmap: replace add/sub with xor
      * core-mmap: remove need for shift and compare, replace with add/sub
      * Manual: add "next generation" reference in title to explain why it
        is called stress-ng
      * core-mmap: replace compare + check for each value with 32 sum + check
      * Manual: add missing System V semaphore stressor title
      * stress-mmapfiles: ensure fd is closed on loop break paths
      * stress-mmapfiles: add ENOMEM check to bail out early
      * Manual: add notes to --mmapfiles stressor
      * stress-mmapfiles: add missing , between literal strings
      * stress-mmapfiles: remove ANONYMOUS mapping flag and use fd in mmap
      * stress-mmapfile: add file based memory mapping stressor
      * stress-cpu-online: move stressor back onto newly online'd cpu
      * stress-affinity: let main stress process reap all children
      * core-vmstat: Add OpenBSD implementation of stress_get_cpu_ghz
      * core-vmstat: add vmstat support for OpenBSD
      * stress-crypt: fix FreeBSD build issues
      * README.md: add note about snaps of stress-ng
      * core-shim: add missing shim block comments
      * Makefile: add support for Link Time Optimization
      * stress-ng: keep track of metrics overflow, report so.
      * stress-af-alg: add metrics for each af-alg crypto type
      * README.md: add another link to a kernel issue found by using stress-ng
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add Linux 6.8 lsm system calls
      * stress-waitcpu: add support for loong64 by using dbar instruction
      * stress-workload: RISC-V: use stress_asm_riscv_pause instead of a fence
      * stress-waitcpu: use RISC-V pause instruction for small delays
      * stress-waitcpu: only sanity check non-rates on non virt x86 systems
      * stress-eigen-ops.cpp: remove commented out debug code
      * stress-priv-instr: add loong64 privileged instructions
      * stress-pipe: add debug to log default pipe read/write sizes
      * core-*.h: add ALWAYS_INLINE annotation for small inline helpers
      * stress-regs: add loong64 implementation
      * core-asm-loong64.h: Add support for cpucfg instruction
      * stress-acl: terminate do-while stressor loop on acl error exit
      * kernel-coverage: exercise all ioschedulers on filesystems
      * stress-tsc: add rdtime.d instruction auto-built detection
      * stress-workload: add Loong64 support for dbar instruction
      * Manual: Add Loong64 implementation details for tsc stressor
      * stress-tsc: add Loong64 tsc reading support
      * core-asm-arch: initial support of Loong64 arch
      * Makefile: swap order of -U and -D FORTIFY_SOURCE
      * Makefile: ensure cc_supports_flag is defined outside the PEDANTIC
        flag settings
      * stress-io-uring: add optimizations - late sqe memset and optimize
        out zero stores
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 1 Feb 2024 15:02:47 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.17.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Munehisa Kamata]
      * README.md: fix a typo in the contributor name
      * stress-acl: Fix stress_acl_info definition
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version, change code name
      * README.md: add Cygwin to supported systems
      * 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
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * stress-syscall: add the --syscall-top N option to report top N fastest
        syscalls
      * Manual: fix typo "fasted" -> "fastest"
      * stress-radixsort: reduce memory bandwidth by making length 2 bytes
      * stress-radixsort: clean up casting in IDX and IDX_T macros
      * stress-radixsort: remove signed conversions in radix_strlen
      * stress-radixsort: offset digit counter by 1
      * stress-radixsort: optimize radixsort
      * stress-radixsort: add nonlibc implementation of radixsort
      * stress-heapsort: add new --heapsort-method option to help
      * stress-mergesort: add new --mergesort-method option to help
      * stress-mergesort: add some more memory copying optimizations
      * stress-mergesort: optimize for 4 byte data
      * stress-mergesort: remove base_ptr, replace with base
      * stress-mergesort: optimize copying of lhs and rhs to base
      * stress-mergesort: add missing base_ptr increment
      * stress-mergesort: optimize lhs and rhs copying
      * stress-mergesort: add nonlibc implementation of mergesort
      * stress-heapsort: optimize copy and swap for common size cases
      * stress-heapsort: add nonlibc implementation of heapsort
      * Makefile: add cc_supports_flag to simplify CFLAGS checking
      * Makefile: add gcc optimization flag -fipa-pta
      * stress-sysfs: exercise test resume command for /sys/power/disk
      * stress-pty: exercise cfgetispeed and cfgetospeed on leader and follower
      * stress-vecshuf: report shuffle rates as Harmonic Mean
      * stress-sysinval: add map_shadow_stack system call
      * stress-syscall: add map_shadow_stack call
      * core-*: add more comments
      * core-helper: assign val2 to avoid any static analysis warnings
      * stress-acl: add randomized acl attribute order shuffling with --acl-rand
      * Makefile.config: Fix incorrect addition of -DSTRFUNC to LDFLAGS
      * stress-ng: initialize values to 0.0 rather -1.0
      * stress-acl: exercise all ACL types, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS and ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT
      * core-shim: shim_kill: don't allow SIGKILL on pid -1
      * stress-ng: don't kill entire group or pid 1 (init)
      * stress-acl: uppercase ACL in help text
      * stress-acl: add ACL set vs get verification
      * stress_acl: rename acl functions, prefix with stress_
      * stress-acl: exercise acl_get_file and add metrics for this
      * kernel-coverage: enable acl for reiserfs
      * README.md: add another link to a research paper
      * stress-open: add open using all the possible file modes
      * stress-acl: compute and cache all valid ACLs to improve performance
      * stress-vma: voidify returns using VOID_RET macro
      * Update documentation and debian/control for libacl dev libs
      * stress-acl: exercise POSIX ACLs using libacl
      * README.md: add another link to a research paper
      * stress-inotify: exercise ioctl command INOTIFY_IOC_SETNEXTWD
      * stress-sock: retry send on ENOBUFS
      * stress-sock: fix zerocopy - enable it via setsockopt and use flag
        appropriately
      * core-asm-x86.h: remove duplicated cpuid legacy implementation
      * kernel-coverage: add extra bcachefs format options for more test
        coverage
      * core-helper: stress_get_null: cast zero to uintptr_t before void * cast
      * stress-sem-sysv: reduce the rate at which proc info is being read
      * stress-vecwide: don't use target clones for gcc 9.4.0
      * core-asm-x86.h: remove STRESS_ARCH_X86_32 variant of rdtsc
      * stress-vma: fix non-termination of vma pthreads and child processes
      * kernel-coverage: reduce tmp file system image size to 4000MB for bfs
      * stress-raw[pkg|udp]: only include linux/udp.h if netinet/udp.h does not
        exist
      * core-helper: add null function to obfuscate (void *)0 values
      * stress-workload: include sched.h required for
        aarch64-linux-android33-clang
      * stress-rawudp: fix type comparison warning, cast to in_addr_t
      * Fix missing headers and rindex/index for clang android static builds
      * stress-malloc: only declare trim_counter when it's required
      * Fix open calls that have extraneous mode flags on non-create opens
      * kernel-coverage: add collapse --stream-madvise option
      * stress-stream: add collapse --stream-madvise option
      * kernel-coverage: add in some extra stressing options
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Fri, 5 Jan 2024 09:12:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.17.03-2) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * stress-vma: fix non-termination of vma pthreads and child processes
        - upstream fix for https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/issues/343
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:06:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.17.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: remove -g from CFLAGS
      * stress-sock: fix memory real on mmap_buffer
      * stress-malloc: replace pre-inc with post-inc on trim_counter
      * stress-tsc: only define stress_tsc_check when required
      * manual: update release date
      * stress-opcode: allow exit system call
      * stress-sysbadaddr: don't unmap shared memory, just make it read-only
      * stress-enosys: don't unmap shared memory, just make it read-only
      * stress-opcode: don't unmap shared memory, just make it read-only
      * stress-sysinval: don't unmap shared memory, just make it read-only
      * stress-tsc: clean up warnings with systems that do not support lfence
      * stress-sysonval: add in missing old/deprecated and new system calls
      * stress-enosys: add in missing __NR_* syscalls
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found by stress-ng
      * stress-malloc: mmap addr array and prefetch values
      * stress-malloc: only trim memory when new option --malloc-trim is used
      * stress-tsc: add the --tsc-rdtscp option
      * Add build-time check for rdtsc instruction
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sat, 9 Dec 2023 23:57:32 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.17.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Sascha Hauer]
      * stress-physpage: explicitly use 64bit type for physical addresses
      * stress-ng.h: define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS before including features.h
    
      [Rulin Huang]
      * Reduce the file operations if the unused pid can be found within
        several tries
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * stress-bigheap: ensure value in *uintptr is initialized
      * stress-workload: clean up some clang-scan-build warnings
      * stress-workload: remove redundant assignments to variable t
      * stress-workload: remove redundant initialization of t_begin
      * stress-sigpipe: add wrapper to pipe_child to clear up tcc warning
      * stress-reboot: add wrapper to reboot_clone_func to clear up tcc
        warning
      * stress-vma: remove volatile cast, it is unnecessary
      * stress-lsearch: add casts to const char * to avoid void * arithmetic
      * stress-bsearch: cast base to const char * to avoid void * arithmetic
      * core-time: return -1 if time not available via
        stress_time_now_timespec
      * stress-msync: make pointer buf unclobberable
      * stress-msg: remove another invalid msgrcv calls that work for
        OpenBSD systems
      * stress-msg: remove invalid msgrcv calls that work for *BSD systems
      * core-shim: Fix non-PURE shim_enosys function
      * core-resources: include core-pthread.h for pthread types
      * stress-get: don't call gettimeofday with NULL values
      * core-shim/stress-get: use gettimeofday() for non-linux shim_time calls
      * core-shim: fix typo: tlock -> tloc
      * core-shim/stress-get: use time() for non-linux shim_time calls
      * stress-get: fix error messages, replace gettimeval with gettimeofday
      * stress-get: only exercise time(NULL) on Linux
      * core-helper: move ret inside #ifdef block
      * README.md: Update contributor list
      * stress-*: clean up a handful of spelling mistakes
      * stress-stream: unmap in correct idx order
      * README.md: add another link to a research paper
      * stress-prctl: munmap page_anon on error return path
      * stress-seal: unmap buf on error return paths
      * stress-cyclic: unmap latencies mappings on error return
      * stress-zero: unmap read/write buffers on error return paths
      * stress-stream: simplify error unmapping return paths
      * stress-rawdev: fix memory leak on mmap'd buffer on error return path
      * stress-fail: use fail error exit path for non-implemented /dev/full
      * stress-sockmany: fix memory leak on signal handler error return path
      * stress-signest: fix memory leak on signal handler error return path
      * stress-sock: fix memory leak on fork failure error return path
      * stress-sigpipe: fix memory leak on signal handler error return path
      * stress-stackmmap: make stack_sig non-clobberable
      * stress-sigbus: make ptr non-clobberable
      * core-helper: add stress_mmap_populate to mmap with MAP_POPULATE
      * stress-qsort: add missing tab
      * stress-bseach: add -O3 for nonlibc bsearch function
      * stress-waitcpu: add some more nops
      * stress-vm: remove volaile where it's not required, add memory barrier
      * stress-vm: speed up prime-gray-0 and prime-gray-1 by reducing total
        memory read/writes
      * stress-vm: speed up prime-0 and prime-1 by reducing total memory
        read/writes
      * stress-vma: provide different handlers for SIGBUS and SIGSEGV
      * stress-vma: optimize matrics, add cacheline pad and remove volatile
      * stress-vdso: add dummy function call to emulate minimal vdso function
      * stress-udp: don't memset the send buffer on each send
      * stress-trig: replace iterations with macro STRESS_TRIG_LOOPS
      * stress-trig: unroll loops, speed up by ~4.2%
      * stress-memthrash: only report lack of NUMA support with instance 0
      * stress-schedmix: reduce compute overhead on prime number CPU load
      * stress-stack: unroll loop in stress_stack_alloc
      * stress-sockpair: optimize buffer setting and checking
      * stress-sockdiag: move bogo-op count to outside parser loop
      * stress-skiplist: use 8 bits for skip_list_random_level generation
      * stress-skiplist: optimize ln2 operation using clzl
      * stress-sigxfs: optimize counter increment, remove branch
      * stress-sigxfsz: don't make async_sigs volatile
      * core-helper: only declare array buf when it is required
      * core-helper: voidify function argument dumpable
      * core-helper: only declare array buf when it is required
      * core-shim: move include <sys/uio.h> to core-shim.h
      * stress-gpu: move declarations for gpu_freq_sum and gpu_freq_count
      * core-numa: add stress_numa_nodes helper for non-linux builds
      * stress-stream: don't print numa nodes related info for non-linux
        systems
      * core-shim: add missing include of sys/uio.h required for struct iovec
      * stress-mmapfixed: fix array overflow, iterate over only the array
        elements
      * stress-gpu: ensure usec computations are using uint64_t type
      * stress-hsearch: voidify return from stress_get_setting
      * core-helper: use STRESS_MAXIMUM on maximum pid
      * stress-vma: add in extra protection flags and mmap flags for more
        stress
      * stress-vma: add PROT_NONE back
      * stress-vma: ensure page is always mappable
      * stress-ng: move ci counter struct into args and args into stat struct
      * stress-signal: don't use volatile for in-signal handler counter
        increment
      * stress-ring-pipe: replace % operator with compare and set
      * stress-resched: remove need to check for non-mapped yields array
      * README.md: add more research paper links
      * stress-remap: unroll a handful of loops
      * stress-regs: reference registers rather than v variable
      * stress-readahead: unroll some loops
      * stress-randlist: add prefetch to next pointer in list scanning
      * core-mwc: use clz for shift maximization for 8 and 16 bit mwci
        functions
      * core-sort: optimize of powers of 2 size for
        stress_sort_data_int32_shuffle
      * stress-gpu: only report GPU frequency if > 0.0 MHz
      * core-time: optimize get_time_now()
      * stress-procfs: use MAP_POPULATE on mmap to reduce read-fault hit
      * stress-procfs: perform less timeout checks on 1 byte reads and
        optimize timeout paths
      * stress-poll: switch order of read return checks
      * stress-opcode: inline and unroll loop in stress_opcode_random
      * stress-null: scale down mmaps to 1 once every 500 iterations
      * stress-nice: add ( ) to clarify precedence
      * stress-syncload: add yield delay for ppc
      * core-builtin.h: Add llabs builtin shim wrapper
      * core-ops: add in missing OPT_hsearch_method
      * stress-nanosleep: ensure no overflow occurs on 32 bit systems
      * stress-hsearch: add hsearch method for libc and non-libc versions
      * stress-mmaphuge: simplyfy the set and check memory exercising
      * stress-mmapfixed: make vec array uint32 to speed up mincore checking
      * stress-mmapfixed: move memset in stress_mmapfixed_is_mapped_slow
      * core-helper: add missing space between ) and {
      * core-helper: stress_process_dumpable: use stress_system_write
        to write data
      * core-helper: stress_get_memlimits: use stress_system_read to read data
      * stress-lsearch: use lfind_nonlibc in lsearch_nonlibc
      * stress-lsearch: add lsearch method for libc and non-libc versions
      * stress-bsearch: add --bsearch-method short help
      * stress-lockofd: remove yield point, it's not helping that much
      * stress-lockf: remove yield point, it's not helping that much
      * stress-locka: remove yield point, it's not helping that much
      * Makefile.config: echo the number of configurations in config.h
      * stress-jpeg: compute gradient image using float instead of double
      * stress-io-uring: add UNLIKELY hint on error return check
      * stress-iomix: stress-_iomix_rd_wr_mmap: just read 1 byte from page
      * core-mwc: move stress_rndstr from core-helper to core-mwc
      * stress-icache: add missing space before + operator
      * stress-hdd: optimize hdd_fill_buf
      * core-mwc: move stress_rndbuf from core-helper to core-mwc
      * stress-gpu: add GPU frequency metrics based on 10 samples per second
      * stress-ng: emit plural of instance if instances > 1
      * core-config-check: replace "will" with "may"
      * stress-getrandom: reduce overhead of gettimeofday calls
      * stress-full: fix and optimize stress_data_is_not_zero
      * core-mwc: optimize modulo mwc32 and mwc64 functions
      * stress-fifo: add poll replacement to select, disable it for now
      * stress-far-branch: inline the branch shuffling, reduce iterations
        from 5 to 1
      * stress-epoll: don't fill send buffer on each send
      * core-time: make function stress_timeval_to_double PURE
      * core-helper: add PURE annotation to two more helper functions
      * core-helper: optimize stress_rndstr
      * stress-clock: move memsets outside of loops for minor performance
        improvement
      * stress-bsearch: allocate bsearch array using mmap
      * stress-ng: fix short help for change-cpu, fix missing -
      * stress-bsearch: add bsearch method for libc and non-libc versions
      * stress-qsort: add in missing qsort-method short help
      * stress-ng: don't timeout until all stressors are spawned
      * core-helper: fix low memory swap check
      * stress-sigxfsz: remove unused include files
      * stress-sigxcpu: Add new SIGXCPU stressor
      * stress-sig*: add new class "signal", add signal stressors to this
        class
      * stress-cpu-online: write the string length rather than buffer size
      * core-helper: make inline helper function stress_chr_munge PURE
      * stress-pthread: constify variable trun
      * stress-pthread: use same racy pid for tgid rather than fetching one
        3 times
      * README.md: Update contributors name list
      * stress-sigxfsz: Add new SIGXFSZ stressor
      * README.md: add some more kernel issues found with stress-ng
      * core-cpuidle: report C states with commas between each state
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add missing #include <termios.h>
      * Add in some missing <sched.h> includes
      * fix up build errors from unchecked in changes
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <sched.h> to sources that require it
      * stress-af-alg: add in missing #include <sys/socket.h>
      * README.md: add another citation link
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <pthread.h> to core-pthread.h
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <termios.h> to sources that require it
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <pwd.h> to sources that require it
      * stress-ng.h: remove #include <getopt.h>
      * stress-ng.h: move #include <sys/socket.h> to sources that require it
      * core-helper: move MEM_CACHE_SIZE from stress-ng.h to core-helper.c
      * stress-stream: decouple the default guess cache size from
        MEM_CACHE_SIZE
      * core-attribute: add extra checks for attribute noinline
      * core-attribute: add extra checks for attribute always_inline
      * core-attribute: add extra checks for attribute weak
      * core-attribute: add extra checks for attribute noreturn
      * core-attribute: add extra checks for attribute warn_unused_result
      * core-attribute: add extra build checks for hot attribute
      * core-attribute: add PURE macro for gcc pure attribute
      * stress-crypt: use the correct size to strlcpy to
      * stress-cpu-online: report the sysfs file when writes fail
      * core-helper: take into consideration NUMA nodes for full cache size
      * stress-msync: mark fd as NOCLOBBER, clean up gcc 13.2.1 warning
      * Makefile: remove gcc optimization flags
      * Makefile: fix gcc detection for extra gcc optimization flags
      * stress-memthrash: add a buffer 8 bit reverse method
      * stress-malloc: use valloc in non-thread scenarios
      * stress-malloc: add valloc (or valloc emulation) for more calls to
        exercise
      * stress-hsearch: add -O3 optimization
      * stress-hsearch: move repeated verify flag check to a const bool
      * stress-fma: improve fma buffer copying
      * core-sort: minor re-ordering of load/stores and compute for minor
        speed improvement
      * core-sort: minor optimization in stress_sort_data_int32_init
      * stress-zlib: improve rarely0 and rarely1 performance
      * stress-ng: clean up some more whitespace / tab issues
      * stress-ng: replace spaces with tab
      * stress-zlib: implement rdrand filler for non-x86 systems
      * stress-zlib: improve performance of rdrand filling of buffer
      * stress-tree: remove the UNLIKELY hint in avl_find
      * stress-tree: remove the UNLIKELY hint in binary_find
      * stress-tree: remove TARGET_CLONES from binary tree find/insert
      * stress-stream: add TARGET_CLONES for index0 level streaming
      * core-nt-store.h: use a union cast for stress_nt_store_double store
      * stress-prefetch: clean up some source white space/tabs
      * stress-io-uring: tweak number of io-uring entries depending on CPU
        count
      * stress-io-uring: add --io-uring-entries N option to specify ring size
      * Revert "stress-context: avoid using alternative stacks in a
        swapcontext"
      * stress-fork: replace slow mwc8 with fair round-robin switch
        selection index
      * stress-hash: don't call expensive mwc reseed for non-verify mode
      * stress-branch: load next goto address in previous loop
      * stress-branch: re-order branching code to compute idx before jmp
      * test/test-crypt-r: check for support of GNU libcrypt data fields
      * stress-ng: Fix stupid extraneous {
      * Makefile.config: remove some trailing spaces
      * stress-*: improve rate metrics by using harmonic mean
      * kernel-coverage: remove scheduler names
      * stress-cpu: replace 64 bit mwc and 7 shifts with 2 x 32 bit mwc and
        6 shifts
      * stress-crypt: remove redundant prefix initialization
      * stress-crypt: remove a few more args from stress_crypt_id call
      * stress-crypt: optimize crypt_r usage with less memory buffer copying
      * stress-memfd: store and read data in cacheline strides
      * kernel-coverage: add bcachefs
      * stress-metamix: remove empty line
      * stress-metamix: handle EINTR for fdatasync and fsync
      * stress-iomix: break out of stressor loops on EINTR for read or writes
      * core-helper: add bcachefs magic
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 7 Dec 2023 11:24:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.17.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Andrey Gelman]
      * stress-led: use shim_strlcpy instead of strlcpy
    
      [Max Kellermann]
      * stress-splice: remove "Exercise 1 byte splice, zero flags" call
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * debian/control: move homepage URL
      * README.md: add a few more links to research papers
      * Manual: update date with release
      * stress-vnni: remove extraneous word just in some messages
      * core-config-check: only report non-tty attached message when not
        using a tty
      * core-cpuidle: remove redundant initialization of cc
      * stress-sigsegv: only reference expected_addr if SA_SIGINFO is defined
      * core-helper: rename si_code to sig_code to fix macro clash with Minix
      * stress-trig: cater for 16, 12 and other sized long doubles
      * stress-utime: cast integer constants to time_t for time_t struct
        values
      * stress-schedmix: fix build warning for SCHED_OTHER case
      * stress-schedmix: only declare case_sched_other when required
      * stress-trig: voidify return from call to stress_get_setting
      * stress-uprobe: check for concurrent access to
        /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe
      * stress-schedpolicy: only declare case_sched_other when is required
      * stress-sigsegv: add PROT_NONE read to force SIGSEGV
      * core-shim: just call stat libc funcs for stat/lstat/fstat
      * stress-trig: lower precision if long double is same size as double
      * stress-msg: pass down error from receiver to parent
      * stress-cpu: advise not to use --cpu-method all when specifying
        --cpu-load
      * stress-ng: remove need to include core-put.h
      * core-madvise: add mergeable madvise helper, use it on some mmap calls
      * stress-trig: drop precision for float trig functions, add NULL on
        opt_set_funcs
      * stress-trig: Add TARGET_CLONES to use optimial float instructions
      * stress-trig: add a new trigonometric function stressor
      * stress-workload: remove NOINLINE to fix clang builds
      * stress-workload: make buffer uint8_t * rather than void *
      * stress-workload: constify pointers w1 and w2 in stress_workload_cmp
      * stress-copy-file: make stress_copy_file_seek64 an inlined static
        helper
      * core-config-check: include core_config_check.h to check
        stress_config_check prototype
      * stress-ng: remove CASE_FALLTHROUGH macro
      * stress-ng: exit with EXIT_FAILURE if locks fail to create
      * stress-ng: exit with EXIT_FAILURE if shared heap cannot be allocated
      * core-helper: add missing check for HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H when using prctl
      * core-helper: add extra macro check for HAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H when using
        utsname
      * stress-sctp: add extra macro checks for SCTP_SS_* macros
      * stress-remap: voidify unused function parameter remap_mlock
      * stress-switch: add extra check for HAVE_KEY_T
      * stress-sem-sysv: add extra check for HAVE_KEY_T
      * stress-syscall: need to check for HAVE_REMOVEXATTR for
        syscall_xattr_name
      * stress-syscall: need to check for HAVE_GETXATTR for syscall_xattr_name
      * stress-wcs: add some extra macro sanity checking for wcs* functions
      * core-ftrace: add extra macro check for RB tree functionality
      * stress-sparsematrix: add extra macro checks for tree types
      * core-ftrace: check if HAVE_BSD_SYS_TREE_H is defined for trees
      * stress-ng.h: clean up some spacing in macros
      * stress-context: only report context address mapping for instance 0
      * stress-context: avoid using alternative stacks in a swapcontext
      * stress-ng: add aligned padding for counter metrics, rename it to pad
      * core-log: move ABORT_FAILURES from stress-ng.h to core-log
      * core-try-open: move STRESS_TRY_* macros to core-try-open.h
      * stress-dup: move STRESS_FD_MAX from stress-ng.h to stress-dup
      * stress-ng: move a few more macros from stress-ng.h to stress-ng.c
      * stress-mknod: move DEFAULT_DIRS macro to stress-mknod
      * stress-ng: move macros from stress-ng.h to stress-ng.c
      * stress-link: move DEFAULT_LINKS macro to stress-link
      * stress-access: remove trailing tab
      * stress-context: add SIGSEGV debug handling
      * core-helper: only dump object code for SIGILL
      * core-helper: add sigsegv handler and more debug to handlers
      * stress-mpfr: clean up indentation
      * stress-workload: add fused-multiply-add workload method
      * stress-workload: add --workload method option to specify work
        exercising method
      * stress-workload: add pause/yield workload
      * stress-syncload: use arm asm built-in for yield
      * syscalls.txt: update Copyright dates
      * stress-udp: use SO_REUSEADDR before bind
      * README.md: add another kernel bug found by using stress-ng
      * stress-file-ioctl: remove size check on FIOQSIZE
      * core-shim: fix missing ; on stat calls
      * core-shim: add shim wrapper for stat
      * core-shim: add shim wrapper for lstat
      * stress-iomix: use shim_copy_filerange and 64 bit offsets
      * stress-fpunch: cast offset to intmax_t to match print format specifier
      * core-shim: shim_copy_file_range: use shim_off64_t instead of
        shim_loff_t
      * core-helper: make buffer tmp larger to avoid gcc-12.2.0 m68k warning
      * core-shim: add shim wrapper for fstat
      * stress-open: try O_TMPFILE on temp_dir first, then fall back to /tmp
      * stress-workload: scale workload by number of threads
      * stress-workload: use correct delay time between next work item for
        threaded workloads
      * stress-workload: add an evenly spaced scheduling distribution option
      * stress-workload: add in missing workload duration for poisson dist
      * core-helper: provide warning when using the 0 reset timer-slack
        setting
      * stress-workload: provide --timer-slack advice when quanta is low
      * stress-workload: add a poisson process method of scheduled time
        generation
      * stress-*: add support for more floating point types
      * Makefile.config: use actual _Decimal* type names
      * stress-*: use _Float128 or __float128 depending on what is available
      * stress-*: replace HAVE_FLOAT128 with HAVE__float128
      * stress-*: replace HAVE_FLOAT80 with HAVE__float80
      * stress-*: replace HAVE_FLOAT64 with HAVE_Float64
      * stress-*: replace HAVE_FLOAT32 with HAVE_Float32
      * stress-*: replace HAVE_FLOAT16 with HAVE_fp16
      * stress-*: replace HAVE_FLOAT_DECIMAL* with HAVE_Decimal*
      * stress-workload: set workload_threads to zero if mq or pthreads not
        available
      * stress-workload: compare failed wq with cast value of -1
      * stress-workload: add --workload-threads option to use threads
      * stress-workload: remove CLASS_INTERRUPT from class
      * stress-link: minor speedup for mass file unlinking for minix 3 fs
      * stress-workload: fix scheduler build issues for non-linux builds
      * stress-vma: use shim_mincore instead of mincore
      * stress-workload: add memory flush/read work item
      * stress-workload: fix missing break in switch
      * stress-workload: add yield instead of very small sleeps
      * stress-workload: add a getpid() workload
      * stress-vma: fix missing proc-maps metrics
      * kernel-coverage: add workload sched workers
      * stress-workload: add --workload-sched option
      * stress-workload: add more randomly selected workloads
      * stress-workload: print histograph in debug verbose mode only
      * stress-workload: add a new scheduling workload stressor
      * stress-access: remove trailing space
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * stress-shm-sysv: add more information on shmat failure
      * README.md: add two more research citations
      * kerne-coverage: mount hfs, hfsplus with -o rw, increase loopback to
        4GB
      * stress-swap: handle ENOSPC more gracefully as a skipped stressor
      * stress-access: don't report chmod errors for some filesystems
      * stress-led: add LED /sysfs exercising stressor (Linux)
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * core-killpid: make killable timeout 10 minutes instead of 3
      * core-helper: add musl gcc detection
      * Add HOT OPTIMIZE3 attributes to random data filling helper funcs
      * core-mwc: replace just OPTIMIZE3 with HOT OPTIMIZE3 on highly used
        mwc funcs
      * test/test-libxxhash.c: include string.h and make buffer static
      * Manual: update vma manual description to reflect recent vma changes
      * stress-vma: reduce number of concurrent vma processes per instances
        to 2
      * stress-vma: fix 32/64 bit address generation
      * README.md: add two more research paper citations
      * core-*, stress-*: Add musl-gcc detection and HAVE_COMPILER_MUSL
      * stress-vma: add reading /proc/self/maps
      * stress-mva: add mprotect and msync
      * stress-vma: add mincore calls on pages
      * stress-procfs: use pthread_cancel to cancel pthreads before join
      * core-config-check: fix inverted tty message
      * stress-cgroup: fix duplicated open flags, use S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP
      * core-config-check: check for powersave cpu governor
      * core-shim: remove debug stress_process_info call
      * stress-open: report filesystem type on O_DIRECT open/create issue
      * stress-dev: use stress_kill_and_wait instead of kill and wait combo
      * core-shim: shim_wait: bail out after 3 minutes of waiting
      * core-helper: add stress_process_info to dump process state
      * core-*, stress-*: use %jd and (intmax_t) cast for all pid_t formatting
      * core-*/stress-*: rename pid to PID across system
      * core-killpid: give up killing PID and debug report this after 3
        minutes
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add --mmaphuge-file option to text mix
      * stress-mmaphuge: add --mmaphuge-file option to attempt to mmap onto
        a 16GB file
      * core-config-check: add system configuration sanity checks
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add /usr/sbin to path for gcov tools
      * stress-sysfs: terminate child process and pthreads using helper
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 9 Nov 2023 17:32:18 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.17.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version to 0.17.00
      * core-out-of-memory: treat zero timeout as ignore timeout check
      * stress-nanosleep: voidify function parameter ctxt
      * stress-nanosleep: fix build issue on Oracle Linux 6.1
      * README.md: add another research paper citation
      * test/test-swap.c: make array swapfile const
      * test/test-sendmmsg: fix incorrect indexes in msg_iov2
      * test/test-recvmmsg: fix incorrect indexes in msg_iov2
      * test/test-lseek: reduce scope of variables offset and ret
      * test/test-libkmod: constify pointer mod
      * test/test-inotify: constify pointer
      * README.md: update number of stressors
      * stress-af-alg: treat EINTR as non-fatal in error reporting
      * stress-vma: add madvise() calls to pages for extra contention
      * README.md: Add another presentation link
      * sreess-io-uring: remove verbose debug
      * stress-ng: remove redundant assignment to variable handler_set
      * stress-vma: remove redundant call to getpid
      * stress-metamix: remove unused calls to stress_exit_status
      * stress-cgroup: voidify return from fstat
      * stress-softlockup: cast mmap return to uint8_t * to clear up build
        warning
      * core-helper: fix uninitialized totalswap and freeswap for BSD
        stress_get_meminfo
      * stress-cgroup: exercise a child process in cgroup
      * stress-cgroup: exercise seek+read on cgroup files for more exercising
      * stress-landlock: silently ignore ENOSYS when EINVAL is intended
      * stress-cgroup: improve linux only build checks
      * stress-cgroup: minimal linux cgroup v2 stressor
      * stress-landlock: remove debug return 0 in landlock supported check
      * stress-io-uring: silently ignore EINVAL for unimplemented ops
      * core-shim: fix FTBFS, missing ; on membarrier call
      * README.md: Add citation link to another academic paper
      * stress-vma: cast mmap'd void pointer to stress_vma_metrics_t *
      * stress-nanosleep: re-order #defines and typedef for non-pthread builds
      * stress-dir: cast isdigit arg to int to clear up minix build warning
      * core-cpuidle: only define stress_cpuidle_cstate_add_unique for linux
        builds
      * stress-vma: use MAP_GROWSDOWN only if it is defined
      * stress-utime: only exercise VFAT utime bounds for 64 bit systems
      * core-pragma.h: remove -Wstringop-overflow for older toolchains
      * core-pragma: use -Wstringop-overflow on toolchains that support it
      * stress-vma: fix build issues with systems without MLOCK_ONFAULT
      * stress-softlockup: add rep sto on 1MB buffer for x86
      * stress-landlock: traverse file system adding as many files as possible
      * stress-landlock: fix non-working flags, re-work stressor
      * stress-vma: Add a new virtual memory address stressor
      * presentations: Add kernel recipes 2023 presentation
      * stress-dev: remove shadowed pointer dev
      * core-cpuidle: remove unused variable max_cpus
      * core-shim: add waitpid build check and use waitpid if it is defined
      * core-shim: use membarrier if it is defined
      * stress-dev: exercise /dev/cdc-wdm*
      * README.md: add another performance issue found with stress-ng
      * stress-swap: add filesystem type when swapon fails
      * kernel-coverage: fix typo in ionice loop
      * kernel-coverage: add swap on file systems for more exercising
      * stress-getrandom: add invalid GRND_INSECURE | GRND_RANDOM |
        GRND_NONBLOCK flags
      * stress-dev: add Linux /dev/vmci version ioctls
      * stress-dev: exercise /dev/radio with v4l ioctls
      * stress-dev: add /dev/lirc ioctl get commands
      * stress-sysfs: add finer grained locking, add sysfs exercise metrics
      * stress-utime: exercise some more times outside specific ranges
      * stress-fallocate: use O_SYNC'd fallocate every 16 bogo-loops
      * core-shim: handle posix_fallocate error returns correctly
      * stress-open: exercise two different invalid futimesat times
      * stress-shm: exercise a range of fallocate modes on shm
      * stress-sleep: add C state residency sleep durations to exercise deep
        C state sleeps
      * stress-nanosleep: add --nanosleep-method to specify different
        nanosleep methods
      * stress-nanosleep: also use C state residency durations for nanosleeps
      * core-cpuidle: allocate cpu C states and residency info in linked list
      * stress-dir: use stat or fstat depending if open fails or not
      * stress-dev: randomize the order of devices
      * stress-apparmor: remove unused commented out variable counter_lock
      * stress-dir: add file open/close on concurrent directory accesses
      * stress-dev: exercise /dev/dm with queued IO under RCU protection
      * stress-dir: reduce scope of variable d and make it const
      * core-helper: reduce scope of variable duration, make t const
      * core-log: clean up redundant variable initialization and
        constifications
      * core-clocksource: add check to see if HPET clocksource is being used
      * stress-dir: exercise readdir and rewinddir after populating a directory
      * stress-metamix: make verification optional with --verify option
      * stress-metamix: allow small 512 byte sizes, and mmap + check pages
      * stress-*: remove SIGTERM kills before SIGKILL kills
      * stress-*: use stress_kill_pid_wait() for kill/wait combos
      * core-*: use stress_kill_pid_wait() for kill/wait combos
      * stress-*: use stress_kill_pid() for kill SIGKILLs
      * core-log: only sync writes to log file and not stderr, stdout
      * core-log: don't write to logfile if it is not opened
      * core-*: fix syscall typo process_release -> process_mrelease
      * core-out-of-memory: include core-killpid.h
      * core: use stress_kill_pid for SIGKILLs
      * core-killpid: use process memory relasing if signal is SIGKILL
      * core-helper: remove some empty lines
      * core-helper: join broken literal strings
      * stress-vecmath: fix call to stress_catch_sigill
      * stress-ng: remove some empty lines
      * core-helper: add SIGILL handler for code that uses target clones
      * stress-metamix: add a new stressor that exercises a mix of file
        metadata operations
      * stress-epoll: silently ignore -ve parameter passed to epoll_wait
      * README.md: Add citation link to FIRESTARTER 2
      * stress-ng: move child stressor invoking code into stress_run_child
      * stress-ng: use stressor array size as limit for stressor loops
      * core-log: fix ptr and size changes per write
      * core-log: add pr_log_write_buf_fd helper for writes of buffer to a fd
      * core-log: change semantics of pr_lock/unlock
      * Manual: add more explanation why --log-lockess is useful
      * core-helper: Add 1 ms yielding in logging and fork child startup
      * README.md: add three more research paper links
      * README.md: add four more research paper links
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 8 Sep 2023 20:30:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.16.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Anisse Astier]
      * stress-vnni: verify if selected method supports intrinsic in intrisinc
        mode
    
      [Erwan Velu]
      * Manual: Indent stressors to ease man page reading
    
      [John Kacur]
      * stress-ng: Fix text of license in stress-sleep.c
    
      [Hsieh-Tseng Shen]
      * stress-pty: don't treat EINTR as failure when tcdrain is interrupted
    
      [matoro]
      * core-asm-generic: reintroduce HAVE_ASM_NOP check
    
      [ Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add missing core-time.h from headers
      * Makefile: remove snap from make dist rule
      * stress-touch: fix missing help args for --touch-method and --touch-opts
      * stress-ng: fix missing arg for --timer-slack help
      * stress-stream: fix --stream-index help, missing arg
      * stress-ring-pipe: fix help, missing args for --ring-pipe-num and
        --ring-pipe-size
      * stress-mremap: fix type in mremap-mlock help
      * stress-module: use settings names and variable names that match
        boolean args
      * core-opts: module-no-modver and module-no-vermag are argless, fix these
      * stress-ng: fix --max-fd help, needs arg N
      * stress-dirmany: fix --dirmany-bytes option in help
      * stress-cache: fix help for cacheline writeback should be --cache-clwb
      * stress-affinity: add missing numeric arg in --affinity-sleep option
        help
      * stress-llc-affinity: Fix spelling mistake "memiry" -> "memory"
      * Makefile: restore verify-test-all to 5 secs per stressor
      * stress-misaligned: double the timeout time for very heavily loaded
        systems
      * stress-cpu-online: fix nixos build error, missing semicolon
      * stress-kvm: skip stressor if /dev/kvm is already in use
      * Makefile: ignore warning return values in regression tests
      * stress-syscall: Add BSD rfork() system call
      * README.md: add another kernel reference
      * stress-mlock: only show munlock metrics if they are available
      * core-opts: fix disabled --perf option
      * Add map_shadow_stack to TODO list
      * stress-enosys: add map_shadow_stack
      * stress-dev: only use stress_dev_hid_linux if HAVE_LINUX_HIDRAW_H is
        defined
      * stress-ng.h: define _RENTRANT for __sun__ builds for threading
      * test/test-builtin-bitreverse: don't use random() to remove OpenBSD
        warnings
      * tests: don't use random() to remove OpenBSD warnings
      * core-cpu-cache: cast uint32 values to uint64_t before multiply
      * stress-sigbus: unconstify ptr8, clean up pedantic warnings:
      * core-helper: stress_write_buffer: use void * for ptr rather than char *
      * core-setting: fix  const warning with pedantic builds
      * core-sort: fix const warning with pedantic builds
      * stress-icache: make function stress_icache_func static
      * stress-zero.c: only declare mmap_counter and mmap_index for linux
        builds
      * stress-softlockup: reduce scope of variables t and d
      * stress-icache: reduce scope of variable val
      * stress-fma: fix return type of stress_fma_rnd_float to float
      * core-builtin: ensure shim_sqrtl returns long double
      * stress-bad-ioctl: constify pointers
      * stress-bad-ioctl: reduce scope of variables type, nr and ret
      * stress-aiol: cast result of multiply to same type as offset
      * core-cpu-cache: make cache_size match the same type as
        cpu->caches[i].size
      * stress-af-alg: constify pointer ptr
      * core-shim: shim_posix_fallocate: reduce scope of variable ret
      * core-numa: stress_parse_node: constify pointer str
      * core-affinity: stress_parse_cpu: constify pointer str
      * core-setting: remove unused field uintptr_t from struct
      * core-interrupts: change scope of pointer ptr
      * stress-watchdog: re-work code to remove need for watchdog_close label
      * Makefile: force vnni to be built with at least -O2
      * stress-vnni: move scope of variable to inside loop
      * stress-far-branch: clean false positive gcc warning by initializing ptr
      * stress-bad-altstack: make variable rnd non-clobberable
      * Add --interrupts option to enable interrupt accounting
      * core-interrupts: parse /proc/interrupts once for all types
      * README.md: add another paper citation
      * README.md: add two more kernel issues found with stress-ng
      * stress-enosys: add fchmodat2
      * stress-syscall: add fchmodat2
      * test-chmod: add fchmodat2 Linux 6.6 call and shim, add fchmodat shim
      * core-opts.h: move PR_OPT option macros to core-opts.h
      * core-opts: move gnu long options into core-opts.c
      * stress-prctl: add build check for new prctl macros
      * stress-prctl: exercise PR_RISCV_V_{GET|SET}_CONTROL
      * stress-prctl: add PR_GET_AUXV
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found using stress-ng
      * stess-schedmix: reduce scope of variable policy and remove
        initialisation
      * test/test-vfork.c: replace exit with _exit
      * stress-jpeg: stress_rgb_compress_to_jpeg: ensure duration is
        initialized to zero
      * stress-dev: add lseek + read on /dev/nvram, voidify some args to
        /dev/hid
      * stress-dev: exercise linux /dev/hid ioctls
      * stress-dev: exercise linux /dev/acpi_thermal_rel ioctls
      * stress-ng.h: rename PR_* macros to OPT_FLAGS_PR_*
      * core-thermal-zone.h: move perf related structs and defines to
        core-thermal-zone.h
      * core-perf.h: move perf related structs and defines to core-perf.h
      * stress-ng.h: remove unused typedef stress_func_t
      * README.md: add Anisse Astier to contributors list
      * Manual: rename AF_ALG stressor title
      * stress-netdev: exercise invalid lengths in ifr_ifindex and ifc_len
      * core-helper.h: move stress_align_stack into core-helper.h
      * core-time: move function prototypes to core-time.h
      * move stress_pagein_self definition to core-thrash.h
      * core-helper.h: move stress_warn_once from stress-ng.h to core-helper.h
      * stress-ng.h: remove unused legacy function declarations
      * core-helper: move stress_sigchld_set_handler from stress-ng.c to
        core-helper.c
      * include core-killpid.h for stress_killpid definition
      * stress-ng.h: remove stress_killpid, it is in core-kill.h
      * stress-ng.h: remove stress_clean_dir
      * core-helper: move stress_clean_dir and helpers to core-helper.c
      * core-helper: rename pr_* helper functions to stress_*
      * Makefile: add core-shim.h to headers
      * core-helper: move function prototypes and macros to core-helper.h
      * core-shim: move function prototypes and typedefs to core-shim.h
      * Remove snapcraft yaml file
      * core-helper: provide non BSD no-op variants of getsysctl functions
      * stress-sock: enable --sock-msgs option, set default from 1 to 1000
        messages
      * stress-sock: remove need to assign recvfunc pointer for every send
      * Manual: clarify support for --vmstat option
      * Manual: add --metrics RSS description
      * stress-dccp: add --dccp-msgs option, set default from 16 to 10000
        messages
      * README.md: add some more citiations
      * Manual: minor stressor description tweaks
      * Manual: minor corrections
      * Manual: re-adjust first option after each stressor heading using .TQ
      * stress-ng: make --metrics brief dump just bogo-ops metrics, more
        metrics with --metrics option
      * stress-null: add --null-write for write only null benchmarking
      * core-shared-heap: move function prototypes to core-shared-heap.h
      * core-processes: move function prototypes to core-processes.h
      * core-sched: remove unused function stress_set_deadline_sched
      * core-sched: move function prototypes to core-sched.h
      * Makefile: add missing core-limit.h
      * stress-ng.h: replace lock declarations with include of core-lock.h
      * core-mwc: move function prototypes to core-mwc.h
      * core-log: move function prototypes to core-log.h
      * core-setting: move function prototypes to core-setting.h
      * core-*: add missing extern and missing inclusion of header in core*c
      * Add core-attribute.h and core-parse-opts.h
      * core-out-of-memory: move function prototypes to core-out-of-memory.h
      * core-lock: move function prototypes to core-lock.h
      * core-limit: move function prototypes to core-limit.h
      * core-job: move function prototypes to core-job.h
      * core-vmstat: move function prototypes to core-vmstat.h
      * core-try-open: move function prototypes to core-try-open.h
      * core-numa: move function prototypes to core-numa.h
      * core-mounts: move function prototypes to core-mounts.h
      * Makefile: add two missing header files
      * core-mmap: move function prototypes to core-mmap.h
      * core-mlock: move function prototypes to core-mlock.h
      * core-mincore: move function prototypes to core-mincore.h
      * core-madvise: move function prototypes to core-madvise.h
      * core-klog: move function prototypes to core-klog.h
      * core-killpid: move function prototypes to core-killpid.h
      * core-io-priority: move function prototypes to core-io-priority.h
      * core-interrupts: move function prototypes to core-interrupts.h
      * core-ignite-cpu: move function prototypes to core-ignite-cpu.h
      * core-cpuidle: move stress_log_cpuidle_info to core-cpuidle.h
      * core-affinity: move function prototypes to core-affinity.h
      * stress-ng: stress_class_info_t: constify class
      * stress-ng: stress_verifiable_mode: constify mode arg
      * stress-ng: move stress_kill_stressors to remove need for forward
        declaration
      * stress-ng: rename some variables, add some inlining
      * stress-ng: rename classes to stress_classes
      * stress-ng.h: minor clean-ups
      * stress-ng.h: move some compiler specific #define's
      * core-opts: move long option enum into core-opts.h
      * stress-ng: fix spelling mistake in --oom-avoid message
      * README.md: update list of contributors
      * Manual: minor indention fixup for some hdd stressor options
      * stress-ng.h: use STATX definitions for SHIM'd macros if they exist
      * stress-ng.h: some minor #define and comment clean-ups
      * stress-ng.h: remove old legacy HDD flags and fix starting bit for
        OPT_FLAGS_METRICS
      * stress-ng.h: annotate the bit flags for the option flags
      * stress-ng.h: remove g_caught_signal - it is no longer used
      * stress-ng.h: remove g_opt_parallel from header, it's only used in
        stress-ng.c
      * stress-ng.h: remove g_opt_sequential from header, it's only used in
        stress-ng.c
      * stress-sem-sysv: skip stressor if semaphore can't be initialized early
      * stress-zero: rate reduce the amount of mmap's in stressor loop
      * stress-zero: add --zero-read option just to benchmark /dev/zero reads
      * stress-dir: add directory renaming while exercising readdir
      * stress-vecshuf: implement shuffle if __builtin_shuffle does not exist
      * README.md: add two more research paper citations
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 5 Sep 2023 08:51:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.16.04-2) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Fix ia64 build failure when using nop opcode
        patch 0001-core-asm-generic-reintroduce-HAVE_ASM_NOP-check.patch
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:30:37 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.16.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-asm-ret: move STRESS_ARCH_{LE|BE} macros from stress-far-branch
        to core-asm-ret
      * core-asm-ret: convert _ in name to -
      * stress-icache: fix missing assignment to ret
      * core-cpu-cache: #ifdef out more functions not required for non-linux
        builds
      * core-cpu-cache: #ifdef out functions not required for non-linux builds
      * core-cpu-cache: stress_cpu_cache_get_index: voidify args for
        non-linux build
      * core-cpu-cache: stress_cpu_cache_get_index: return 0 for non-linux
        systems
      * core-asm-ret: Add asm return function and re-use it in 3 stressors
      * stress-icache: don't exercise i-cache if not page aligned
      * stress-flushcache: don't exercise i-cache if not page aligned
      * stress-lockbus: add more compiler support checks
      * stress-icache: remove gcc constraint, there are no compiler
        constraints now
      * stress-flushcache: enable for more compilers (clang, icx, icc)
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:10:14 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.16.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ mingkwind ]
      * stress-cache: fix the help of the --cache-size option
      * stress-cache: Add --cache-size option, set cache-size = N, and ignore
        --cache-level option
    
      [ Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add core-asm-generic.h to HEADERS
      * Makefile: fix make dist rule to not include generated source
      * README.md: order kernel improvements in year order
      * README.md: fix URL to a citation
      * README.md: order the citations in published year order
      * Manual: update date
      * core-target-clones/stress-vnni: fix icx compiler target build issues
      * stress-ng: stress_run_permute: remove unused variable n
      * core-bitops.h: don't use __builtin_popcountll for PCC, it breaks
      * stress-dev: fix name shadowing on variable i, rename to j
      * test/test-__restrict: make arg src const
      * stress-vnni: make pointer c32 register const
      * stress-vdso: func_find: constify arg name
      * stress-switch: stress_switch_rate: constify arg method
      * stress-prefetch: stress_prefetch_data_set: constify pointer
        l3_data_end
      * stress-memhotplug: stress_memhotplug_removable: constify arg name
      * stress-pipe: reduce scope of pointer buf32
      * stress-mmapfork: notrunc_strlcat constify arg src
      * stress-ng: stress_get_class_id: constify arg str
      * stress-ng: stress_exclude_unsupported: remove redundant ss
        initialization
      * core-cpuidle: remove redundant max_states > 0 check
      * stress-ng: don't wait for stressors that have been ignored
      * stress-ng: fix --perm bogo-op stats
      * core-helper: <sys/swap.h> on 64 bit Solaris throws and error, so
        disable it
      * stress-sigbus: handle SIGSEGV as some *BSD systems generate these too
      * stress-sigbus: check for a range of allower si_codes for SIGBUS
      * stress-sigbus: check for BUS_ADRERR in si_code instead of SEG_ADRERR
      * test: test/mm-*: return data from vector to avoid optimizing out
        intrinsic calls
      * test: test/mm-*: add randomize vector setting to avoid optimizing out
        intrinsic calls
      * stress-mlock: ensure mappings_len is at least a page_size
      * core-helper: log the compiler information even if uname is not
        available
      * stress-ng: voidify function argument ticks_per_sec if it is not used
      * stress-ng: change test results ordering: skipped, passed, failed
      * stress-vnni: simplify check for stress_avx512_vnni_capable
      * core-cpu-cache: declare sysfs strings only for Linux
      * stress-sigbus: fix a comment
      * stress-pipe: define PIPE_BUF if it is not defined
      * README.md: add one more kernel issue found with stress-ng
      * stress-sigbus: remove shadow'd variable ret
      * stress-schedmix: check for MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL before using it
      * README.md: move some more bugs into the correct year
      * README.md: break bug reports into years found
      * core-cpu-cache: fix incorrect close for stress_cpu_cache_get_sh4
      * README.md: add another citation
      * Makefile: use gcc -fsplit-loops optimization
      * stress-ng.h: shared_heap_t: fix spelling mistake slap -> slab
      * core-setting: move stress_setting_t from stress-ng.h to core-setting.c
      * Add --config option to dump out configuration #define's
      * core-target-clones: reformat target clones macro
      * stress-ng.h: put ignore flags into their own struct
      * core-vmstat: fix thermalstat headings, thermalzone headers were not
        being printed
      * Manual: update date
      * Manual: move and update the --with option to also refer to the
        --permute option
      * core-out-of-memory: don't report EACCES issues on oom adjustments
      * stress-ng: disallow --random with --sequential, --all or --permute
      * stress-ng: add --permute N option, run permutations of stressors
      * stress-vnni: fixup for big endian checksums
      * stress-ng: add new --with option to specify stressors to run with
        --seq or --all options
      * core-target-clones.h: Add graniterapids
      * stress-vnni: minor optimization on exercise loop and checksum
      * stress-vnni: don't call non-intrinsic methods if vnni_intrisic is set
      * stress-vnni: add --vnni-intrinsic option to exercise just intrinsic
        code
      * Add vnni (vector neural network instructions) stressor
      * stress-syncload: add some sqrt computations for more load variants
      * stress-waitcpu: constify function pointers in stress_waitcpu_method_t
      * stress-vecwide: constify vecwide_func and byte_size in
        stress_vecwide_funcs_t
      * stress-vecshuf: constify vecshuf_func and elements in
        stress_vecshuf_funcs_t
      * stress-vecfp: constify vecfp_func and elements in stress_vecfp_funcs_t
      * stress-vdso: constify function pointer in stress_wrap_func_t
      * stress-syscall: constify fields in syscall_method_t and syscall_t
      * stress-switch: constify function pointer in stress_switch_method_t
      * stress-rotate: constify function pointer in stress_rotate_funcs_t
      * stress-nop: constify func pointer in stress_nop_instr_t
      * stress-memthrash: constify function pointer in
        stress_memthrash_method_info_t
      * stress-memrate: constify function pointers in stress_memrate_info_t
      * stress-ipsec-mb: constify fields in stress_ipsec_features_t
      * stress-getrandom: constify flag in getrandom_flags_t
      * stress-fpunch: constify fields in stress_fallocate_modes_t
      * stress-chattr: constify fields in struct stress_chattr_flag_t
      * stress-cache: constify mask_flag_info and field flag
      * stress-atomic: make fields in atomic_func_info_t const
      * core-interrupts: constify fields in stress_interrupt_info_t
      * stress-zlib: constify morse data struct fields
      * core-perf: enable more perf events
      * README.md: add another citation
      * core-shim: typedef shim_rusage_who_t rather than using #define
      * core-cpu-cache: replace #define'd literal string with const char
        arrays
      * stress-ng: typedef shim_ino64_t instead of using a #define
      * stress-ng.h: replace #define's with typedefs for some shim'd types
      * stress-ng.h: add parentheses around shift in STRESS_BIT_U* macros
      * stress-af-alg-defconfigs: add more af-alg configurations based on
        6.5-rc4
      * core-perf: add some more perf metrics
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found with stress-ng
      * stress-swap: handle EPERM when we have permission
      * stress-swap: move stress_swapoff to core-helper, force swapoff when
        cleaning files at end
      * stress-swap: force remove any pre-existing swap files
      * stress_exclude_unsupported: skip over ignored stressors
      * stress-swap: add oomable wrapper to catch OOM'd stressor
      * stress-ng.h: remove space after __attribute__
      * stress-ng.h: remove unused macro ALIGN_CACHELINE
      * core-helper: rename stress_proc_self_exe to stress_get_proc_self_exe
      * core-helper: rename stress_proc_self_exe_path to
        stress_get_proc_self_exe_path
      * core-helper: rename stress_fs_type to stress_get_fs_type
      * core-helper: rename stress_min_pthread_stack_size to
        stress_get_min_pthread_stack_size
      * core-helper: rename stress_min_sig_stack_size to
        stress_get_min_sig_stack_size
      * core-helper: rename stress_sig_stack_size to stress_get_sig_stack_size
      * core-helper: rename stress_min_aux_sig_stack_size to
        stress_get_min_aux_sig_stack_size
      * core-helper: rename stress_hostname_length to
        stress_get_hostname_length
      * core-helper: rename stress_text_addr to stress_get_exec_text_addr
      * core-helper: constify stress_handle_stop_stressing signum parameter
      * core-helper: stress_rndbuf: constify size parameter
      * core-helper: rename stress_signal_name to stress_get_signal_name
      * stress-ng.h: add more comments
      * stress-ng.h: re-organize misc shared data fields,
        remove warn_once_flags
      * stress-ng.h: move checksum specific data into checksum struct
      * stress-ng.h: move instance counts to instance_count struct
      * stress-ng.h: remove af_alg_hash_skip and af_alg_cipher_skip from
        shared data
      * stress-ng.h: move pr_ logging fields to struct pr
      * stress-ng.h: move mem_cache stressor fields to struct mem_cache
      * stress-ng.h: move cacheline stressor fields to struct cacheline
      * stress-ng: add spaces between comma separated sizes and times in
        example
      * stress-schedmix: only declare attr for deadline supported systems
      * stress-schedmix: move declaration of schedmix_sem
      * stress-*: add build check for struct ifreq
      * stress-sock: only exercise SIOCGIFADDR ioctl if it is defined
      * stress-schedmix: only declare buf array for linux builds
      * stress-ng: stop SIGALRM once tests are complete
      * stress-sparsematrix: constify pointer table
      * stress-opcode: fix cppcheck false positive check on small
        STRESS_OPCODE_SIZE values
      * core-cpu-cache: fix file descriptor leak on calloc error exit path
      * core-cpu-cache: use %zu for size_t sscanf format specifier
      * Makefile: ensure CONFIG_LDFLAGS += with no trailing spaces are
        filtered out
      * stress-pipe: voidify fd param in pipe_get_size for OS X builds
      * stress-mlock: voidify oom_avoid param for OS X builds
      * core-shim: add emulation for posix_fallocation if it is not available
      * core-bitops.h: Fix build issue with stress_bitreverse32
      * kernel-coverage: fix typo in do_stress calls
      * core-vmstat: add stats showing number of stressors that received
        SIGALRM
      * kernel-coverage: add periodic status information on direct stress-ng
        invocations
      * kernel-coverage: add more options for more coverage
      * Makefile.config: ensure CONFIGS directory exists before touching
      * Makefile: pass CXX flags to Makefile.config on config rule
      * Makefiles: add override prefix to all CFLAGS and LDFLAGS settings
      * README.md: update build notes
      * Makefile: add cleanobj and cleanconfig rules
      * stress-hdd: fix verification on partially completed writing due to
        ENOSPC
      * stress-sigbus: only report no space error when not EINTR failure
      * stress-fault: handle EINTR interruption from a fallocate
      * stress-cpu-online: report the cpu number in message
      * core-cpuidle: only report cpu idle states if any are found
      * core-cpuidle: ensure singular and plural of CPU and state are correct
      * core-cpuidle.c: add debug showing CPU idle states
      * stress-pipe: fix incorrect position of space in --pipe-vmsplice help
      * stress-dev: use VOID_RET to voidify returns from ioctl calls
      * stress-dev: add FDWERRORGET ioctl
      * stress-pipe: add --pipe-vmsplice option to use vmsplice on pipe data
      * stress-ng: minor opt arg code clean-up
      * Add flag options to settings so they can be shown with --settings
        option
      * README.md: add two more citations
      * stress-schemix: only create semaphore if shared memory allocated
        correctly
      * stress-sendfile: fix fd leak on error exit path
      * stress-sigbus: add a new SIGBUS exercising stressor
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: exercise
        /sys/kernel/debug/x86/tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling
      * stress-ng: Add --settings option to show all the stored option
        settings
      * core-helper: define PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE if it not already defined
      * stress-ng: cancel periodic alarm in child on stressor completion
        earlier
      * core-cpu-cache: add /proc/cpuinfo parsing for SH4
      * core-bitops.h: move stress_nextpwr2 from stress-cpu to core-bitops.h
      * core-bitops.h: move stress_parity32 from stress-cpu to core-bitops.h
      * core-bitops.h: move stress_popcount32 from stress-cpu to core-bitops.h
      * core-bitops.h: move stress_bitreverse32 from stress-cpu to
        core-bitops.h
      * stress-schedmix: give each child a random nice value
      * stress-schedmix: add blocking on a semaphore
      * stress-mlockmany: break large mlock/munlocks into smaller chunks
      * core-shim: add a shim wrapper for posix_fallocate for expedited
        allocations
      * stress-dir: indicate dir stressor is cleaning up as early as possible
      * stress-unlink: indicate unlink is cleaning up as early as possible
      * stress-schedmix: get rusage and times stats for more load
      * core-helper: add more timeout checking in stress_redo_fork
      * core-out-of-memory: add timeout checks on re-fork and stressor
        re-invocation phases
      * core-helper: constify args for stress_read_buffer and
        stress_write_buffer
      * core-helper: replace stress_get_cc_version with stress_get_compiler
      * core-helper: rename stress_uint64_zero to stress_get_uint64_zero
      * core-bitops.h: move stress_swap32 from core-helper.c to core-bitops.h
      * core-helper: fix function name in comment block
      * core-helper: rename stress_tty_width to stress_get_tty_width
      * stress-sparsematrix: fix typo in help information, judt -> judy
      * stress-ng: make help options column 2 chars wider
      * core-asm-generic: rename shim_mb to stress_asm_mb, move to
        core-asm-generic
      * core-asm-generic: header for generic inline assembler
      * stress-ng: replace io with iomix as an example stressor
      * core-helper: add toolchain information to -v output
      * core-helper: add some more file system magic numbers
      * core-helper: remove duplicated MINIX2_SUPER_MAGIC
      * stress-schedmix: add --schedmix-procs option to specify number of
        child processes
      * stress-schedmix: add more scheduling exercising
      * stress-schedmix: add itimer for more scheduling wake-ups
      * stress-schedmix: correct copyright
      * stress-sock: remove unnecessary cast to double and comparisons
      * stress-schedmix: add mixed scheduling load stressor
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add some more stressor options
      * kernel-coverage: disable SMI from all stressors
      * stress-misaligned: check if timeout occurred before next iteration of
        stressor loop
      * stress-sock: declare count only if SIOCOUTQ is defined
      * Makefile.config: improve compiler checks to help cross-compilation
      * stress-set: exercise settimeofday with bogus tz
      * stress-sock: exercise SIOCGIFADDR for more kernel coverage
      * stress-mlock: ensure flag bit on address is masked off
      * stress-mlock: get bits from random uint8_t rather than uint32_t
      * stress-io-uring: fix build issues on systems without {GET|SET}XATTR
        ops
      * stress-sock: exercise ioctl SIOCATMARK for more kernel test coverage
      * stress-sock: add SIOCINQ/OUTQ metrics
      * stress-sock: fix UNIX socket by using sock_protocol 0, exercise
        SIOCUNIXFILE
      * Manual: remove unix from --udp-domain
      * stress-*: use args->time_end for the time to end
      * stress-misaligned: check for timeout before iterating again after a
        siglongjmp
      * stress-ng: add end time to per-stressor args
      * core-*: rename system_{read|write} to stress_system_{read|write}
      * stress-msg: exercise IPC_NOWAIT flag for more kernel coverage
      * stress-cpu-online: remove --cpu-online-all from global flags
      * stress-cpu-online: add new --cpu-online-affinity option
      * stress-dev: exercise CDROMSTART and CDROMSTOP ioctls
      * stress-io-uring: exericse IORING_OP_SETXATTR and IORING_OP_GETXATTR
      * stress-msg: periodically exercise IPC_NOWAIT
      * core-out-of-memory: relax a bit before retrying a fork
      * stress-mlock: relay a little on failed mappings table allocation
      * stress-dev: exercise /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/* on linux
      * stress-dev: set option for cdrom ioctl CDROM_SET_OPTIONS
      * stress-dev: set q.cdsc_format for CDROMSUBCHNL
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:13:53 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.16.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version again
      * stress-cyclic: Fix segv caused by uninitialized variable cyclic_method
      * README.md: add repology information
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:44:47 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.16.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Pino Toscano ]
      * debian/control: Update/improve the build dependencies (Closes: #1040582)
        - enable libkeyutils-dev also on ia64, as it is available there as well
        - enable libjudy-dev, libxxhash-dev, and libglvnd-dev on all the
          architectures, as they are not specific to a certain OS
        - switch the build dependencies that exist only on Linux from
          "!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64" to "linux-any":
          libkeyutils-dev, libapparmor-dev, apparmor, libaio-dev, libcap-dev,
          libsctp-dev, libatomic1, libkmod-dev, libgbm-dev
    
      [ Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-shm-sysv: abort early if we run out of shm resources
      * stress-hash: fix index overrun during initialization
      * stress-hash: fix index overrun in stress_hash_all
      * stress-nop: add NOCLOBBER to pointer instr, clear Solaris gcc 4.8.2
        warning
      * stress-ng: fix sigprocmask, signals that need to be blocked are set,
        not zero'd
      * stress-bad-ioctl: replace next label with continue statement
      * core-setting: remove TYPE_ID_UINTPTR_T type
      * stress-zlib: replace null check in methods array with length check
      * stress-vm: replace null check in methods array with length check
      * stress-vm-addr: replace null check in methods array with length check
      * stress-switch: replace null check in methods array with length check
      * stress-sparsematrix: replace null check in methods array with length
        check
      * stress-opcode: replace null check in methods array with array length
        check
      * stress-misaligned: replace null check in methods array with length
        check
      * stress-cyclic: pass address of pointer rather than method address
      * stress-memcpy: replace null check in methods array with length check
      * stress-hash: replace null check in methods array with length check
      * stress-exec: replace null check in methods array with length check
      * stress-cyclic: replace null check in cyclic_methods with length check
      * stress-cpu: replace null check in cpu_methods with length check
      * Manual: fix typo in --cpu-offline-all option
      * Manual: some minor grammar changes
      * stress-ng: add --status N option to report stressor runs status every
        N seconds
      * stress-malloc: remove need for some global variables, clean up code
      * stress-schedpolicy: add --schedpolicy-rand option to select policy
        randomly
      * stress-bad-ioctl: fix fd leak
      * stress-chroot: add two standard methods of breaking out of a chroot
        as tests
      * stress-bad-ioctl: add --bad-ioctl-method to select how ioctl commands
        are changed
      * stress-stream: ensure number of elements is a multiple of unroll size
      * stress-ng: make child termination SIGALRM messages debug only
      * stress-ng: speed up child termination by blocking signals and skip
        excessive free'ing
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:24:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.16.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version to 0.16.00
      * core-helper: double size of temporary string buffer tmp
      * stress-ipsec-mb: use reverse compat macros for versions 0.55.00
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add reverse compat macros for version 0.52.0 or
        earlier
      * Manual: fix eigen table
      * stress-mlock: clean up pedantic warning on uninitialized pointer
        mappings
      * stress-cache: clean up longjmp clobber warnings on openhipster 202104
      * stress-mmap: check for NetBSD EPERM errors on page protection checks
      * stress-far-branch: disabled for NetBSD
      * stress-iomix: shrink file size if we hit EFBIG or ENOSPC
      * stress-copyfile: handle ENOSYS by skipping stressor
      * stress-misaligned: handle timeout by jmping back and restarting
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add more mlock options
      * README.md: fix ClearLinux libattr bundle name
      * stress-pagemove: add new --pagemove-mlock option
      * stress-memfd: add new --mefd-mlock option
      * stress-malloc: add new --malloc-mlock option
      * stress-llc-affinity: add new --llc-affinity-mlock option
      * kernel-coverage: add some more stressor options for more coverage
      * stress-physpage: voidify physpage_mtrr when not used
      * stress-bad-altstack: return EXIT_FAILURE insted of
        _exit(EXIT_FAILURE)
      * core-parse-opts: return 0 on err, clean up pedantic tcc warnings
      * stress-ng.h: undef _FORTIFY_SOURCE for TCC builds
      * core-killpid: break out of infinite loop and return via return path
      * stress-af-alg: add hmac(md5) to defconfigs
      * core-helper: add detection for Darwin libc
      * core-vmstat: clean up pedantic warning on const name array on OS X
      * stress-madvise: voidify hwpoison
      * stress-x86syscall: rename variables to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-open: remove shadowing variable ret
      * Manual: re-order options into alphabetical order, fix some hyphens
      * Manual: remove expand from tables now that x is being used
      * Manual: put code examples in courier font
      * Manual: use lx expand description in tables
      * Manual: add notes about the legacy io stressor
      * README.md: add another citation
      * Manual: remove x86 specific notes for icache stressor
      * stress-mmapaddr: remove trailing space
      * Manual: rephrase mlock options
      * stress-vm-addr: add new --vm-addr-mlock option
      * stress-waitcpu: only perform nop rate comparisons of x86
      * stress-stream: add new --stream-mlock option
      * stress-shm-sysv: add new --shm-sysv-mlock option
      * stress-shm: add new --shm-mlock option
      * stress-remap: add new --remap-mlock option
      * stress-resources: add new --resources-mlock option
      * stress-mmapmany: add new --mmapmany-mlock option
      * stress-mmaphuge: add new --mmaphuge-mlock option
      * stress-mmapfixed: add new --mmapfixed-mlock option
      * stress-mmapaddr: add new --mmapaddr-mlock option
      * stress-mmap: add new --mmap-mlock option
      * stress-l1cache: add new --l1cache-mlock option
      * stress-forkheavy: add new --forkheavy-mlock option
      * stress-bigheap: add new --bigheap-mlock option
      * stress-switch: report pipe read/write failures as debug message only
      * core-out-of-memory: change stress_set_adjustment to pass args
        instead of args->name
      * core-helper: add stress_munmap_retry_enomem to retry munmaps on
        ENOMEM errors
      * stress-open: unlink correctly path'd temp file
      * stress-sparsematrix: initialize some pointers to clean up cppcheck
        errors
      * stress-atomic: set check2 to non-check1 value to ensure value gets
        overwritten
      * core-perf: remove redundant null check on sp
      * core-helper: cast to uintmax_t for %ju format specifier
      * README.md: add two more citation links
      * stress-fp: check for upper bounds of method index
      * stress-ng: fix potential null deref in stress_get_nth_stressor
      * stress-utime: force fsync in #ifdef block
      * stress-pipe: add missing const from pointer buf32
      * stress-misaligned: fix unassigned timer.it_value field
      * stress-exec: add missing space in void * cast
      * core-vmstat: don't check for __APPLE__ if __FreeBSD__ is defined
      * core-helper: only declare tmp where it is required
      * stress-ng.h: remove unused shim_builtin_memmove macro
      * stress-open: use temporary directory for open+create files
      * stress-numa: exercise new linux system call set_mempolicy_home_node
      * stress-iomix: exercise new Linux cachestat system call
      * stress-aiol: ensure all fields in bad_ioc are zero
      * core-helper: fix SHIM_EXT2_IOC_SETFLAGS, pass &flags and not flags
      * core-killpid: set wstatus to zero
      * stress-vecfp: add some alignment hints
      * stress-shellsort: add some optimization hints
      * stress-steam: add more restrict and const pointer annotations
      * stress-physpage: only enable mtrr settings with the new
        --physpage-mtrr option
      * stress-get: remove duplicated getcontext call
      * Manual: correct the clock duration section
      * stress-pipe: default the pipe read/write size to 4096
      * stress-pipe: use verify/non-verify variants of read and write helpers
      * core-*: send SIGALRM to child process if stress-ng parent dies
      * core-*: check for ss->ignore and skip if set
      * core-*, stress-*: rename bogo-op related functions and variables
      * core-cache: remove unavailable cache options from cache flags mask
      * stress-far-branch: fix typo in .opt_set_funcs
      * core-helper: report cache sizes when -v is enabled
      * core-cpu-cache: rename stress_cpu_cache_get_level_size cache size
        argument
      * core-helper: add stress_unset_chattr_flags to unset chattr flags
      * stress-apparmor: break from loop on fatal policy load
      * stress-alarm: disable SIGUSR1 during counter increment
      * stress-ng: account for stressors that had untrustworthy metrics
      * README.md: add a kernel regression found with stress-ng
      * stress-ng: account for stressors that are skipped before they are run
      * stress-*: remove trailing space at end of lines
      * stress-*: add SIGCHLD handling to inform parent child has terminated
      * stress-remap: use correct integer range checking function
      * stress-remap: add --remap-pages option to specify number of pages to remap
      * Manual: fix --regs-ops option, missing -ops
      * stress-mlock: set error return on mlock failure from child
      * stress-udp-flood: add sendto rate metrics and failure check
        verification
      * stress-udp-flood: replace main for loop with do-while
      * stress-watchdog: add verification of watchdog ioctl return values
      * stress-madvise: voidify return from stress_get_setting
      * stress-mlock: allocate appropriately sized mappings table
      * core-*, stress-*: replace errno = %d with errno=%d
      * stress-mlock: prefix errno value with errno=
      * stress-madvise: only enabled hardware page poisoning with
        --madvise-hwpoison
      * core-cpu: add more CPUID processor manufacturer ID strings
      * stress-brk: add --brk-bytes option to specify maximum brk size
      * stress-bigheap: add --bigheap-bytes option to specify maximum heap
        size
      * core-try-open: use increasing backoff delay and add keep_stressing
        check
      * core-shim: add kill wrapper shim_kill
      * core-vmstat: allow --vmstat, --thermalstat and --iostat use s,m,h
        time suffixes
      * stress-close: remove scheduler class flag, it's the wrong
        classification
      * stress-fanotify: replace fanotify stats with generic metrics
      * stress-af-alg: don't fail on ETIMEDOUT bind exit
      * core-klog: log hung task information
      * core-klog: raise priority of klog process, throttle process dumping
        rate
      * core-vmstat: increase running and block process count fields to 3
        chars
      * core-processes: use variable j for iterating, not i, fixes clobbering
      * stress-icache: add more comment notes on how to check for icache
        misses
      * syscalls.txt: update for riscv specific system calls
      * stress-syscall: exercise new syscall riscv_flush_icache
      * stress-sysinval: exercise new syscall riscv_hwprobe
      * stress-syscall: exercise new syscall riscv_hwprobe
      * stress-nop: add comment about random being the last nop stressor
      * core-klog: fix order of kernel cmdline strings
      * core-resources: try memfd_create with MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL
      * core-interrupts: use int64_t for delta of interrupts
      * stress-far-branch: limit shift to avoid address request overflow
      * stress-vm-addr: remove redundant assignment of buf to NULL
      * stress-far-branch: voidify return from stress_get_setting
      * stress-softlockup: add more randomness is busy loop delay
      * stress-softlock: add busy loop to eat CPU for 1/100th second
      * stress-cyclic: remove use of softlockup_count
      * stress-softlock: spawn N children for N CPUs per stressor
      * stress-efivar: enable verification of EFI variable reading
      * stress-priv-instruction: add trapping count verification
      * stress-dynlib: add dlsym lookup time metrics
      * stress-x86syscall: add verification of getpid, time and
        gettimeofday syscalls
      * stress-lockbus: move metrics variables above x86 #ifdef
      * stress-forkheavy: ensure waitpid is waiting on a valid child pid
      * stress-lockbus: add bus lock duration metrics
      * stress-fpunch: replace %lu with PRIu64 format specifier
      * stress-far-branch: add --far-branch-pages option
      * core-affinity: allow affinity ranges of N-N to be interpreted as N
      * stress-af-alg: don't support tk transformations
      * stress-pipeherd: add verification check value in data
      * stress-x86syscall: exercise gitpid 0 arg syscall (stressor)
      * stress-x86syscall: exercise gitpid 0 arg systcall
      * stress-x86syscall: use size of array as for loop counter max
      * stress-fpunch: enable zero hole punch verification on --verify
      * core-klog: dump out processes on hard lockups
      * stress-udp: pass child error return status back to stressor main if
        failed
      * stress-udp: silently ignore EPERM sendto failures
      * core-interrupts: add FORMAT type hint
      * stress-func*c: use soft decimal float for s390x
      * core-helper: add extra paranoid checking for sysconf
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Fri, 7 Jul 2023 09:43:57 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.15.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-shim: add shim_raise helper to workaround SH4 raise
      * stress-funccall: disable Decimal and complex floats for SH4
      * stress-ipsec-mb: use the newer API, 0.53 has been deprecated
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:12:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.15.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Eder Zulian ]
      * Manual: fix typo: non-interritable -> uninterruptible
    
      [ Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-funcret: disable Decimal float for s390x
      * stress-funccall: disable Decimal float for s390x
      * README.md: update contributor list
      * stress-sctp: use pidptr to clean up gcc 5.5.0 type punning warnings
      * stress-jpeg: only define stress_jpeg_checksum_data if
        HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM is defined
      * stress-jpeg: voidify unused variable verify for non-verification
        #ifdef paths
      * stress-funcret: variable old_b needs tainting to keep old compilers
        happy
      * stress-sigsuspend: cast pid_t to intmax_t for portable width printing
        of pid_t
      * stress-sigchld: don't check for si_code on OpenBSD
      * stress-sigrt: cast pointer from mmap to (stress_metrics_t *)
      * stress-udp: add in a back-off delay on ENOBUFS
      * stress-udp: handle ENOBUFS on recvfrom
      * stress-udp: use pidptr to clean up gcc 5.5.0 type punning warnings
      * stress-bigheap: rename si_code to sigcode to avoid macro name clash
        in minix
      * stress-bigheap: remove SA_SIGINFO #ifdef, fixed minix build failure
      * core-interrupts: cast char to int for clean minix build
      * stress-fstat: compare stat buf fields with known original
      * core-asm-x86.h: fix cpuid for 32 bit x86
      * core-affinity: fix stress_change_cpu helper for non-linux systems
      * stress-stream: reduce the checksum floating point precision
      * core-interrupts: assert that number of interrupts does not exceed max
      * core-interrupts: only enable check on some specific x86 interrupts
      * core-helper: check for failed sysconf stack size calls
      * stress-misaligned: add timer to check for locked-up instructions
      * stress-mlock: don't make mlocked pages check a failure, just a debug
        message
      * stress-sleep: discount severe clock warping
      * stress-mq: add detection of system wide lack of file descriptors
      * stress-inotify: increase back-off time, keep retrying
      * stress-timer: cancel timer before deleting it
      * stress-funccall: ignore comparing some Decimal and Float types
      * stress-binderfs: bump timeout to 15 seconds
      * stress-fsize: remove failure from unexpected size issue
      * stress-hrtimers: skip stressor if low on resources on timer_create
        call
      * stress-mq: don't treat timeouts as hard failures
      * stress-dnotify: ignore stray SIGIOs
      * stress-eigen: add transpose and addition matrix operations
      * stress-dnotify: set F_NOTIFY flags to zero before closing
      * stress-waitcpu: add more slow
      * stress-x86cpuid: add verification on cpuid return register values
      * stress-ng: swap order of pid and started/exited messages
      * stress-wait: remove extraneous wait: prefix in messages
      * stress-kcmp: ensure EXIT_FAILURE is reported back to stress-ng
      * stress-kcmp: fix missing : on pr_fail message
      * stress-kmp: check bad file descriptors and silently ignore EBADF
      * stress-ng: reformat process exiting message, replace "process" with
        stressor name
      * core-resources: make tmp files smaller
      * TODO: remove --ksm option from TODO list
      * stress-urandom: make failed mmaping on urandom fd
      * stress-sparsematrix: use private mmapping rather than shared
      * stress-sigsegv: make shared mmapping private
      * stress-randlist: use private mmapping
      * stress-prefetch: use private mmapping rather than shared
      * stress-full: mmaps on /dev/full will fail, don't use MAP_ANONYMOUS
      * stress-dev-shm: mapping should not be anonymous, it's bound to fd
      * stress-dev-shm: make mapping anonymous private for better ksm
        performance
      * stress-ng: re-order --times option
      * stress-ng: update short help with missing general options
      * stress-ng: enable --ksm kernel samepage merging option
      * TODO: add ksm PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE
      * TODO: add two more items to be implemented
      * syscalls: add riscv_hwprobe - TODO
      * stress-pthread: voidify snprintf return
      * core-ftrace: voidify snprintf return
      * stress-mmapmany: read /proc/self/smaps and /proc/self/maps
      * stress-hdd: use RWF_HIPRI when using O_DIRECT on pwritev2 writes
      * core-*/stress-*: fix a wide range of typos and spelling mistakes
      * stress-aiol: use O3 for data filling and checking
      * voidify returns from strlcpy and strlcat
      * stress-*sort: correct the message why the stressor is not implemented
      * stress-waitcpu: add a little slop in nop and wait cpu opcodes rate
        comparisons
      * stress-brk: reset index i on re-start on low memory, fixes random
        check failures
      * stress-stream: compare doubles using fabs and a small delta
      * stress-stream: make helper function stress_stream_checksum_data static
      * stress-stream: constify cast to clear up icc warning
      * stress-memrate: register and ALIGNED do not mix well with icc, remove
        ALIGNED hint
      * stress-rmap: use PRIxPTR format specifier for uintptr_t type
      * core-mmap: make page_end const
      * stress-funccal: usr helper macros to compare more esoteric float types
      * stress-vecfp: compare float and double with some slack
      * stress-udp: constify cast of data to pid_t *
      * stress-funccall: add helper macros to compare integer, float and
        complex types
      * stress-daemon: clear up name shadowing on variable rc
      * stress-prctl: verify that illegal prctl calls are handled correctly.
      * stress-sctp/udp: refactor: move 32 char string into core-helper
      * stress-sock: report number of messages send per second as extra
        metrics
      * stress-sctp: return EXIT_NO_RESOURCE on protocol not found
      * stress-timer: add timer_settime verification
      * stress-prefetch: add prefetch vs non-prefetch rate verification
      * stress-dnotify: dnotify_access_file: ensure file is removed
      * README.md: add another kernel bug found with stress-ng
      * stress-dnotify: remove error handling debug file size, return to 0
      * stress-dnotify: check for ENOSPC, return errors down the call chain
      * core-helper: turn #if/#endif chain into #if/#elif/#endif
      * stress-vm-rw: make pointer end const
      * stress-dev-shm: make pointer end const
      * stress-dentry: reduce scope of rret
      * stress-dccp: make pointer addr_un const
      * stress-af-alg: make function parameter info const
      * core-vmstat: make pointer cpu_ticks const
      * stress-daemon: check for setsid failure, report and write status back
        to parent
      * core-helper: make pointer ptr32end const, declare buffer buf only
        where required
      * core-mmap: make pointers end and page_end const
      * stress-ng.h: make pointer ci const
      * test-libbsd.c: constify pointers
      * test-builtin-memcmp: remove redundant pointer ptr
      * stress-zlib: make pointer zlib_checksum_in const
      * stress-waitcpu: reduce scope of array msg
      * stress-vm-rw: make pointer end const, make pointers registers
      * stress-vm-addr: make ptr_end const, make pointers registers
      * stress-userfaultfd: constify pointer end, zero stack
      * stress-udp: constify pointer addr_un
      * stress-sysfs: constify pointer d
      * stress-syscall: constify pointer ss
      * stress-stream: constify pointer arguments in checksum function
      * stress-stackmmap: rename status to check_status
      * stress-stack: make pointer start_ptr const
      * stress-sockfd: make pointer addr_un const
      * stress-sock: make pointer addr_un const
      * stress-shm-sysv: make pointer end const
      * stress-shm: make pointer end const
      * stress-scpt: make pointer addr_un const
      * stress-rmap: make pointer end const
      * stress-rawpkt: make pointer eth const
      * stress-procfs: make pointers ctxt and d const
      * stress-memrate: make pointer write_end const
      * stress-netlink-task: make pointer id_ptr const
      * stress-pagemove: make pointer p const
      * stress-ng: constify a couple of pointers
      * stress-ng: move scope of count to one level lower
      * stress-mprotect: move array str to lower scope
      * stress-madvise: constify pointer ptr
      * stress-memrate: constify some pointers
      * stress-memthrash: make pointers fwd, rev registers
      * stress-l1cache: constify pointer cache_end
      * stress-ipsec-mb: constify read-only pointer end
      * stress-jpeg: minor optimization for stress_jpeg_checksum_data
      * stress-iomix: constify read only pointer buffer
      * stress-getdent: constify pointer d
      * stress-funccall: reduce scope of array msg
      * stress-funcret: reduce scope of array msg
      * stress-fp: fix incorrect index on assignment, should be [1] and
        not [0]
      * stress-chattr: ensure 1ULL is being shifted for 64 bit shifts
      * stress-ioport: add verification of invalid ioperm parameters
      * stress-ioport: note the usage of iopl
      * Remove end of line spaces and tabs
      * stress-rawdev: add verify checking
      * stress-rawdev: fix skip message, replace flood with rawdev
      * stress-bad-altstack: move child to helper, retry faulting, add
        verification
      * stress-timerfd: various checks are performed, so enable verify
      * stress-fma: add fused multiply and add syncload, repeat other
        loads x 4
      * stress-mutex: pr_info should be pr_inf
      * stress-mutex: don't report pthread creation issues as a fail
      * stress-timer: make ENOMEM or EAGAIN on timer_again a resource
        skipping return
      * core-out-of-memory: don't remove temp files if retry on oomable death
      * stress-chattr: restore original chattr flags one by one
      * stress-chattr: only verify settings when 1 instance is running
      * stress-chattr: disable check for the moment
      * stress-sockdiag: this already checks for failures, so enable
        verification flag
      * stress-ng: add --change-cpu option for force child processes onto
        another CPU
      * core-helper: add libc version
      * stress-iomix: don't throw a write failure on ENOSPC
      * core-helper: report blocks available
      * core-helper: print the realpath of the temporary path
      * stress-brk: print address of shrink page error
      * stress-sctp: protocol not implemented should return EXIT_NO_RESOURCE
      * stress-ng: "no resource(s)" should be "no resources"
      * stress-sockfd: move sleep to after reporting error to avoid
        clobbering errno
      * core-vmstat: keep header and data togther using log locking
      * stress-chattr: add verification and improve error messages
      * stress-far-branch: add random located verification check function
      * stress-inode-flags: using a 0 flag will reset all flag bits to zero
      * stress-revio: add missing --revio-bytes in short help
      * core-helper: enable stress_get_cpu for all arches
      * stress-exec: silently ignore intentional EINVAL exec failures
      * stress-exec: only check WEXITSTATUS if WIFEXITED is true
      * stress-atomic: sanity check atomic ops on non-shared item work
        correctly
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: optimize mem writes and reads, periodically
        change cpu affinity
      * stress-session: add failure verification, return EXIT_FAILURE on
        failures
      * stress-session: fix typo in comment
      * stress-sleep: add underrun sanity check verification
      * stress-sleep: remove multiple counters, used shared counter with lock
      * stress-sigsuspend: add sigsuspend failure verification check
      * stress-rmap: add page data verification, store + check data per child
      * stress-smi: verify that regs are restored on SMI return
      * stress-fstat: re-work thread data to allow error return verification
      * stress-sigio: add verification on reads
      * stress-sigtrap: set metrics to index 0
      * stress-sigrt: add verification and metrics
      * stress-race-sched: add system call return verification checks
      * stress-sigtrap: add verification of trap handler and measure trap
        handling rate
      * stress-eigen: set verify to always, sanity checking is always
        performed
      * stress-stackmmap: add stack data sanity verification on last 256 calls
      * stress-eigen: enable for all arches
      * stress-sigq: fix missing . in verify field
      * stress-cache: don't enable SIGBUS handling for x86
      * stress-mlock: move helper function stress_mlock_pages
      * README: update build dependiency notes
      * stress-eigen: add Eigen 2d matrix stress cases
      * stress-physpage: voidify unused paramater success
      * stress-mlock: remove redundant return statement
      * stress-waitcpu: rename variable j to l to avoid shadowing
      * stress-mmapfixed: remove re-declaration of pointer buf64
      * core-log: remove unused helper function pr_spin_lock
      * Makefile.config: Add compiler check and HAVE_COMPILER_* macros
      * stress-matrix-3d: minor comment fixes
      * stress-matrix: minor comment fixes
      * core-klog: ignore "hrtimer: interrupt took" messages
      * Manual: add note that the default timeout is 24 hours
      * stress-mlock: add mlock growth verification for linux
      * stress-signal: use pr_fail for failures, add verification
      * stress-waitcpu: add verification that nop wait is shortest delay
      * stress-resched: check if set policy is the current policy
      * stress-sigq: fix missing . before struct field name
      * stress-siqq: add verification of si_value.sival_int value
      * stress-sigpipe: add verification of SIGPIPE signals
      * stress-rawudp: add simple data verification check
      * stress-far-branch: remove opcode from message, it is redundant
      * stress-dev-shm: remove debug message of line and return value
      * core-klog: ignore kmod concurrent module probes in klog checking
      * stress-*: ensure verify flags are set in the unimplemented variants
      * stress-mprotect: return failures back to to caller
      * stress-ng.h: core-killpid api changes
      * core-killpid: return EXIT_FAILURE if waited-for processes fail
      * stress-mmaphuge: add memory contents verification check
      * stress-vforkmany: add verificatin of vfork starting and invocation
        metrics
      * core-helper: make passing NULL stack disable alternative stack
      * stress-funccall: abort early once a failure is detected
      * stress-funcret: enable 'all' method by default. Add metrics and
        verification
      * stress-funccall: return EXIT_FAILURE if success is false
      * stress-funccall: enable 'all' method by default. Add metrics
      * stress-funccall: enable verification
      * stress-udp: add low resource check and throttle check
      * stress-steam: unroll loops for more throughput
      * stress-stream: re-phrase metrics description
      * stress-stream: enable verification with --verify option
      * core-nt-store.h: fix double precision nt store
      * core-asm-x86.h: add sfence x86 helper
      * stress-clone: add sanity check to see if clone processes started OK
      * stress-apparmor: move verifiable flag to correct struct
      * stress-apparmor: add lock protected concurrent failure counter
      * stress-ng: treat SIGABRT as a critical failure
      * stress-ng: add exit status of stressor at termination to debug message
      * core-klog: ignore callbacks suppressed kernel log messages
      * core-klog: count number of klog messages and report these at end
      * stress-pkey: move from CPU to OS class
      * Makefile: always undefine _FORTIFY_SOURCE before defining it
      * stress-vm-splice: remove whitespace in tab'd column
      * stress-vm-splice: add 64 bit check pattern to verify vm-splice data
      * stress-sctp: use pid as data check in sctp data for run time
        verification
      * stress-nice: add verification of nice(1) changing priority
      * core-out-of-memory: clean temp directory and files on a OOM
      * core-klog: add two more kernel messages to silently ignore
      * stress-physpage: flag mtrr failure as a EXIT_FAILURE and enable verify
      * core-shim: use libc nice as a final resort for shim_nice
      * stress-deamon: add verify always option since the stressor checks if
        fork fails
      * stress-daemon: add --daemon-wait wait option
      * stress-dirmany: verify if files are created with stat
      * stress-dirmany: add verification count of files created
      * stress-dirmany: add create/removal file rates
      * stress-bigheap: use larger check values, use uintptr rather
        than uint8_t
      * stress-bigheap: use malloc for new allocations rather than realloc
      * stress-verify: close fd on error exit path, clean fd leak
      * stress-bigheap: add SEGV debugging feature
      * stress-udp: use pid as data check in udp packet for run time
        verification
      * stress-signest: add signal handling rate metrics and check for
        failures
      * stress-peterson: add yield in busy loop for RISC-V
      * stress-mpfr: minor corrections, add a yield point per method
      * stress-mpfr: exercise the GNU multi-precision floating point
        reliable library
      * stress-fp: enable optional verification option
      * stress-dev-shm: add memory contents verification
      * stress-binderfs: add missing .verify setting
      * stress-chroot: move .verify tag to appropriate struct
      * stress-rawsock: add hash check to raw data for test verification
      * stress-madvise: make setjmp failure a no resource failure
      * stress-verify: add verify mode failure returns
      * stress-misaliged: remove trailing tabs
      * stress-misaligned: add verification of data written
      * stress-rdrand: add more verification
      * stress-stack: enable verification by sanity checking last 128 stack
        frames
      * stress-prefetch: enable --verify option, make data random too
      * stress-rotate: enable --verify option
      * stress-goto: add branch hit verification
      * stress-sigchld: verify SIGCHLD siginfo si_code values
      * stress-fsize: enable verification
      * core-interrupts: ensure default start and stop counters are set at
        start
      * stress-close: remove an empty line
      * stress-flock: enable verification for exclusive file lock
      * stress-close: add close failure verification
      * stress-branch: add branch hit verification
      * stress-ng: make --verifiable option print out stressors without
        verify modes
      * stress-vecshuf: move .verify tag to appropriate struct
      * stress-vecfp: enable --verify option
      * stress-stack: add backwards traversal down stack frames to keep
        pages busy
      * stress-stack: remove accidentally added sleep call
      * stress-randlist: enable --verify mode
      * stress-io-uring: add OOMable child wrapper incase memory runs low
      * stress-nanosleep: add underrun verification check
      * stress-nanosleep: add check for clock_gettime failures
      * stress-munmap: use mincore to verify that a page has been unmapped
      * stress-mmap-fixed: add verification to see if remap'd page contains
        expected data
      * stress-jpeg: enable --verify on jpeg generated data
      * stress-dirmany: fix missing ) on help information
      * stress-dirmany: fix typo in help for --dirmany-filesize option
      * stress-denty: enable --verify data checks in dentry files
      * stress-brk: add verification of brk pages on shrink
      * stress-vecmath: move verify flag into implemented struct
      * stress-vecwide: enable verify, compare computations between two rounds
      * core-interrupts: add x86 IO-APIC miscount interrupt
      * core-interrupts: add check for ARM Err interrupt
      * stress-vecmath: add per stress loop checksum checking
      * core-interrupts: add SMI count check for x86
      * core-helper: move smi reading function from stress-smi to core-helper
      * stress-fma: enable verify, compare computations between two rounds
      * stress-matrix-3d: unroll more loops for improved optimization
      * stress-matrix: unroll more loops for improved optimization
      * stress-matrix-3d: rename stressor name to match stressor source
      * stress-matrix-3d: add verification
      * core-builtin: add builtin shim for memcmp to use __builtin_memcmp
      * stress-matrix: add verification
      * core-interrupts: measure and report critical interrupts
      * core-perf: check for null stats when using random selection of
        stressors
      * core-klog: ignore loop capacity changed messages
      * core-perf: add extra pointer checks earlier in results dumping loop
      * stress-zlib: optimize ascii digits generator
      * core-klog: ignore x86 split log warnings
      * core-log: add helpers to reduce the number of getpid calls
      * stress-sysinval: use use shim_rorXXn builtin wrapper for rotate right
      * stress-zlib: use shim_ror32n builtin wrapper for 32 bit rotate right
      * core-sort: inline sort comparison functions + optimized bsearch to O3
      * README.md: add another citation
      * core-cpu-cache.h: define HAVE_SHIM_MFENCE for risc-v case
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:49:19 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.15.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Fernand Sieber]
      * stress-cpu: Deduce waiting time in active cycle from idle time
    
      [Hui Wang]
      * snapcraft: remove a duplicated dependent package
    
      [Thinh Tran]
      * rawsock: locked up when parent sends SIGKILL to child
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * README.md: update contributors list
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-ng.h: rework OPTIMIZE_FAST_MATH to workaround cpp issue with pcc
      * stress-iomix: use pid_t type for pid array
      * core-killpid: use intmax_t to print format pid_t
      * Makefile: don't enable gcc flag -ftree-loop-vectorize for Solaris
      * core-helper: voidify stress_proc_self_exe_path for __sun__ builds
      * stress-ng: don't flag SIGALRM terminations of stressors as a failure
      * stress-sleep: cancel alarms on tidy up to avoid alarm cascade in
        pthreads
      * stress-fallocate: remove messy signal handler
      * core-klog: only declare stress_klog_kernel_cmdline for linux builds
      * stress-ng: add optional repeated SIGKILL force option to
        stress_kill_stressors
      * stress-fallocate: remove short file life hint
      * stress-fork: make 50% of forked children do immediate exit
      * core-lock: constify function argument lock
      * stress-tree: constify pointer node
      * stress-sleep: add missing __PCC__ ifdef constraint check
      * stress-rtc: move variables to local scopes
      * stress-module: improve module loading error message
      * stress-io-uring: constify various function arguments
      * stress-ipsec-mb: constify function argument job
      * stress-ipsec-mb: constify function argument p_mgr
      * stress-flock: move variable ret into local scope
      * stress-dnotify: reformat description declaration
      * core-vmstat: constify function argument tz_info
      * stress-crypt: constify function argument salt
      * stress-cache: constify function argument mem_cache
      * stress-aiol: constify function argument buffer
      * stress-affinity: constify info function argument
      * stress-sparsematrix: initialize x_node, y_node to clean up cppcheck
        warnings
      * stress-list: zero head to clean up pedantic static analysis warning
      * stress-wcs: set info name to the stressor name
      * stress-wcs: add index bounds check, keeps static analyzers happy
      * stress-cyclic: fix off-by-one comparison for cyclic_policy
      * stress-af-alg: add in some missing configs from 6.3 kernel
      * README.md: add another citation
      * stress-pthread: fix big endian tid addr for 32 bit systems
       (Closes #1036356)
      * stress-vecfp: replace debug metrics with standard metrics data,
        bump metrics to 40
      * stress-vm-segv: use pipe for a synchronization mechanism
      * core-klog: remove extraneous tab
      * Add --stderr option, default output now to stdout
      * README.md: add another kernel bug found with stress-ng
      * stress-sock: handle corner-case where n is zero
      * core-klog: dump kernel cmdline just once
      * stress-ng: handle SIGALRM in stressor and parent more intelligently
      * core-builtin: use builtin versions of memset, memcpy and memmove
      * stress-dev: disable warning for -Wgnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end
      * stress-getdent: remove % operator with compare and subtract
      * core-killpid: add helper stress_kill_and_wait_many to kill many pids
      * core-thrash: constify pointer state
      * stress-wcs: constify static array letters
      * stress-vecwide: constify pointer vec_args
      * stress-udp: constify static array patterns
      * stress-rawpkt: constify pointer idx
      * stress-pthread: move new_head to local scope, replace memcpy with
        assignment
      * stress-prefetch: constify addr pointer argument
      * stress-prctl: move temp variables to lower scopes
      * stress-opcode: constify function parameters page_size and op
      * stress-mmapfork: constify function pointer ptr
      * stress-madvise: initialization poison_count
      * stress-list: constify pointer entries_end
      * stress-inode-flags: constify pointer to data
      * stress-ng.h: ensure unsigned 1 is being left shifted to avoid signed
        warnings
      * stress-af-alg: avoid adding potential NULL ptr to length of buffer
      * stress-chdir: move paths, fds and mkdir_ok arrays into one array
      * stress-affinity: force random cpu choice to never be same as previous
      * stress-af-alg: add in some missing configs
      * stress-io-uring: clean up 32 bit build warnings on addr to user_data
        casts
      * core-killpid: add sanity checks to pid being killed
      * core-killpid: add signal number to stress_kill_and_wait
      * stress-dccp: move kill out of server to parent patj
      * stress-*: use stress_kill_and_wait for kill and wait
      * core: add stress_kill_and_wait helper to kill and wait for children
      * stress-resched: ensure pids are initialized to -1
      * core-helper: stress_proc_self_exe_path: voidify unused args
      * stress-ng: remove empty line
      * stress-sctp: remove trailing space at end of line
      * Makefile: add gcc optimization flag -ftree-loop-vectorize
      * stress-{memthrash|zlib}: use memzero for zero data generation
      * Add build time check for __builtin_memset
      * stress-zlib: emit DEF/INF debug only for instance 0
      * stress-atomic: workaround gcc 11 atomic nand builtin issues
      * stress-exec: add FreeBSD rfork and get executable name using sysctl
      * stress-signest: add signal ignoring and don't jmp on invalid jmpbuf
      * stress-af-alg: silently handle EOPNOTSUPP recv errors
      * README.md: add two more research paper citations
      * README.md: add link to another kernel improvement that used stress-ng
      * stress-af-alg: use recv on socket rather than read
      * stress-vecshuf: make function pointer const
      * stress-vecfp.c: make function pointer const
      * stress-sparsematrix: move get/put stats into metrics output
      * stress-xattr: handle fall-out when file system fills up
      * README.md: add another kernel bug found with stress-ng
      * stress-xattr: keep track of xsetattr calls that succeeded using a bitmap
      * core-helper: remove need for static buffer in stress_proc_self_exe_path
      * stress-dnotify: double timeout, ignore notifies that timeout
      * stress-io-uring: remove redundant check of a non-null pointer
      * core-helper: rework underscore mungification helper
      * stress-cacheline: use global shared index to fix cache index issue
      * stress-urandom: fix corruption of neighbouring mmap'd page
      * stress-inotify: make inotify_init failure message into just a warning
      * stress-unshare: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-softlockup: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-rawdev: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-open: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-inode-flags: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-fcntl: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-chmod: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-chattr: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-chroot: replace %= with compare and reset
      * stress-io-uring: set the setup to just enough reqs
      * stress-io-uring: fix completion error checks for cancellation
      * stress-io-uring: cancel if HAVE_IORING_OP_ASYNC_CANCEL is defined
      * stress-io-uring: silently ignore cancel errors
      * stress-io-uring: add async cancellation
      * stress-io-uring: increase ring size, force complete on ring submit EBUSY
      * core-out-of-memory: report why oom_score_adj can't be set
      * Add forced_killed_counter to indicate a child has been killed forcefully
      * stress-io-uring: perform completion at the end of a round of submits
      * stress-rotate: remove this from the cpu cache class
      * stress-vm: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-vecfp: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-tsearch: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-sysinval: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-sysfs: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-sync-file: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-socklockup: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-skiplist: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-sigsegv: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-shellsort: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-session: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-sem-sysv: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-seek: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-sctp: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-rlimit: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-rawdev: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-procfs: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-peterson: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-mremap: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-malloc: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-lsearch: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-inotify: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-hsearch: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-hdd: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-hash: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-futex: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-fstat: re-order operands of && for minor optimization
      * stress-fp: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-exec: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-dnotify: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-dev: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-cyclic: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-bad-ioctl: add conditional parentheses
      * stress-af-alg: add conditional parentheses, re-order && operators
      * core-resources: ensure resources are marked as free as soon as possible
      * stress-io-uring: throttle calls to stress_read_fdinfo
      * stress-io-uring: keep a cached copy of fileno(stdin)
      * stress-io-uring: defer unlinking file to end
      * stress-io-uring: fix statx command, don't use path, use fd to path
      * stress-sockmany: use 64 char ascii string as base for memset data,
        remove expensive % operator
      * stress-sockabuse: use 64 char ascii string as base for memset data,
        remove expensive % operator
      * stress-sock: use 64 char ascii string as base for memset data, remove
        expensive % operator
      * stress-epoll: replace % operators with compare + reset and memset
        data from stress_ascii64
      * stress-reboot: replace expensive % operation with compare and reset
      * stress-dccp: use 64 char ascii string as base for memset data, remove
        expensive % operator
      * core-helper: add stress_ascii64[] for 64 bytes of ASCII data
      * core-vmstat: replace % operator with compare and reset
      * stress-pthread: use 64 bit tid_addr to fix stack clobbering on 32
        bit platforms
      * stress-fma: add fused-multiple-add stressor
      * stress-cpu-online: classify some write failures as non-fatal
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found with stress-ng
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 21 May 2023 15:27:37 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.15.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Shoily Rahman]
      * stress-rawpkt: use of rx ring to the rawpkt module
    
      [Luis Chamberlain]
      * stress-module: stress finit_module() and delete_module()
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-memthrash: check for negative return from
        stress_numa_count_mem_nodes
      * stress-memthrash: add some numa sanity checking
      * stress-rawpkt: voidify blocknr if it is not being used
      * stress-memthrash: reduce copy128 hunks by half, use correct end offset
      * stress-memthrash: fix copy128 end offset
      * Makefile: shorten run time of verify-test-all rule, remove kernel
        log check
      * core-klog: exit klog child process rather than return
      * stress-timerfd: relax error message on timerfd creation w/o priv
      * stress-timerfd: add missing space in failure message
      * core-processes: don't use getpwuid for static builds
      * stress-zero: remove alignment from register pointer, icc does not
        support this idiom
      * stress-full: remove alignment from register pointer, icc does not
        support this idiom
      * core-helper: use char * pointers to avoid auto increment on void * ptr
      * stress-rawpkt: add built time check for struct tpacket_req3
      * core-shared-heap: use shim_strlcpy as some systems don't have strlcpy
      * core-shared-heap: use strlcpy rather than strcpy as it is safer
      * stress-zlib: cast mmap'd memory to stress_zlib_shared_checksums_t *
      * stress-module: only declare helper functions if they are required
      * stress-module: voidify unused function args
      * stress-msync: fix missing pointer constifications
      * stress-ng.h: re-work unconstify macro
      * core-resources: cast 0 for pthread to pthread_t
      * stress-memcpy: replace references to b with str2/str3
      * stress-tmpfs: don't assume page size is 4K, fixes PPC64 failure
      * stress-pthread: check for head being null
      * stress-malloc: avoid calloc allocatiob being less than a uintptr_t
      * stress-malloc: avoid zero sized callocs when performing len / n
        where len < n
      * core-helper: reduce scope of variable prev_flag
      * test/test-finit-module: ensure test is compilable
      * stress-wcs: reduce scope of variable t
      * stress-vdso: remove redudant shadowed declaration of pointer vdso_sym
      * stress-set: make bad_groups const
      * stress-sem-sysv: only declare variable nsems when required
      * stress-rawpkt: declare lable close_fd only when required
      * stress-seek: reduce scope of variable t
      * stress-sctp: make char array patterns const
      * stress-qsort: add ( ) to remove cppcheck precedence style warning
      * stress-malloc: remove shadow'd variable declaration ret
      * stress-mmap: rename shadow'd variable index with flag_perms_index,
        remove % operator
      * stress-ipsec-mb: only declare sz where it is required
      * stress-l1cache: fix incorrect cache size calculation
      * stress-revio: replace expensive % with compare and reset
      * stress-hdd: replace expensive % with compare and reset
      * stress-clone: replace expensive % with compare and reset
      * stress-affinity: check args counter as well as keep_stressing_affinity
      * stress-module: reduce scope of variable p and make it const
      * stress-module: use sscanf with specified size limit
      * stress-tmpfs: round file size to nearest 4K to avoid residual data
        in page
      * stress-sigfpe: declare variable verify only when required
      * core-resource: remove debug
      * stress-tmp: remove short life hint on tmpfs files to restore default
        data longevity state
      * stress-sem-sysv: use different key from core-resources sem keys
      * stress-resources: use the number of resources allocated to free
      * stress-switch: voidify semctl return
      * stress-bind-mount: make clone failure with EPERM a resource exit
        return
      * stress-sem-sysv: terminate children with SIGALRM and not SIGKILL
      * core-shared-heap: print shared heap stats if STRESS_SHARED_HEAP_DEBUG
        is defined
      * stress-lockbus: replace asm volatile with __asm__ __volatile__
      * core-asm-x86.h: replace asm volatile with __asm__ __volatile__
      * stress-itimer: add missing itimer-freq help information
      * stress-memcpy: exercise copying on smaller chunks to allow larger
        CPU scaling
      * core-log: ensure log file data is flushed hard
      * stress-ng: munge stressor name to replace _ with -
      * stress-rawpkg: memset tp to clear up static analysis warnings and
        #ifdef PACKET_RX_RING
      * stress-rawpkt: fix leak of file descriptor on error exit paths
      * stress-ng: provide passed/failed/skipped summary at end of run
      * stress-watchdog: remove incorrect CLASS_VM classification
      * Makefile: add verify-test-all make rule for test verification
      * stress-prctl: add missing ; for PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE prctl
      * Revert "core-mwc.c: enable 64 bit multiply mwc, it is faster on 64
        bit systems"
      * stress-wcs: replace '_' with '~' in string patterns
      * stress-numa: minor optimizations
      * core-mmap: clean up build warnings for HAVE_ASM_X86_REP_STOSQ path
      * stress-bigheap: add const bools for global mask'd options
      * core-mwc.c: enable 64 bit multiply mwc, it is faster on 64 bit systems
      * core-mwc: group mcw data together, also add 64 bit multiply version
        (not enabled)
      * README.md: add Shoily Rahman to contributors list
      * Manual: add rawpkt-txring option to manual
      * stress-rawpkt: ensure int type is saved as rawpkt-rxring
      * stress-poll: fix missing free of rnd_fds_index array
      * stress-zero: perform metrics less frequently
      * stress-x86syscall: use filtered array of funcs to improve call rate
      * stress-wcs: optimize random string filling, perform metrics less
        frequently
      * stress-vm-splice: add branch hints, add alignment, perform metrics
        less frequently
      * stress-vm-rw: add O3 optimizations on parent and child
      * stress-vm-rw: add branch hints, add alignment on used data structs
      * stress-vdso: remove inc_counter from vdso loop, removes counter
        overhead
      * stress-utime: add branch hints and measure metrics less frequently
      * stress-usersyscall: add branch hints and O3 optimization level
      * stress-udp-flood: add some branch hints
      * stress-udp: optimize send/recv, remove need for % operator
      * stress-tree: add two minor branch hints
      * stress-touch: rename main touch loop function
      * stress-timerfd: add some branch hints
      * stress-timer: add branch hints, some alignments and O3
      * stress-tee: add branch hints and measure metrics less frequently
      * stress-sysinfo: add some branch hinting
      * stress-switch: use mmap'd page aligned pipe buffers, align sysv
        messages
      * stress-splice: reduce frequency of metrics measurement, add branch
        hints, align buffers
      * stress-sparsematrix: explicitly inline value_map
      * stress-sockpair: optimize using branch hints and some data alignments
      * stress-sockmany: add some branch hints
      * stress-sockfd: optimize using branch hints and some data alignments
      * stress-sockdiag: optimize using branch hints and some data alignments
      * stress-skiplist: use -O3 and add branch hints
      * stress-sigrt: optimization on memsets and add branch hints
      * stress-sigpending: add branch hints, align data structures
      * stress-signest: add some branch hint optimizations
      * stress-signal: minor optimizations
      * stress-sigio: use mmap'd read/write buffers, add branch hints
      * stress-sigfpe: minor optimizations, biggest win is removing % operator
      * stress-sigfd: add branch hints, some alignments and reduce memcpy
        overhead
      * stress-shm: minor optimization tweaks, very small gains
      * stress-sendfile: reduce metrics measurements frequency
      * stress-sem-sysv: add alignment and branch hint optimizations
      * stress-seek: reduce frequency of metrics measurement, add branch
        hints, align buffers
      * some minor optimizations to increase seek throughput
      * stress-seal: add some branch hints
      * stress-sctp: minor branch hint optimizations and remove expensive %
        operators
      * stress-schedpolicy: minor branch optimization hints
      * stress-malloc: add SIGSEGV handler in child
      * stress-ring-pipe: add some minor branch hint optimizations
      * stress-revio: add branch hints
      * stress-remap: optimize random shuffle and add branch hits, align
        array order
      * stress-readahead: optimize offset generation
      * stress-rawudp: add branch hint and O3 optimization
      * stress-rawsock: add branch hint and O3 optimization
      * stress-rawpkt: add branch hint and O3 optimization
      * stress-sem: add some more branch hinting
      * stress-ng: fix spelling mistake "geometic" -> "geometric"
      * stress-pagemove: move stress_pagemove_remap_fail to inside #ifdef hunk
      * stress-pty: add some optimization hints
      * stress-ptrace: add some optimization hints
      * stress-pthread: minor optimization hints
      * stress-poll: make buffer a uint16_t, halves payload, increases poll
        calls
      * stress-poll: pre-shuffle/randomize poll fds, remove random overhead
        per write
      * stress-pipeherd: add branch hints
      * stress-ping-sock: minor branch and port wrap optimizations
      * stress-personality: align an array, add branch hints
      * stress-pagemove: only measure mremap calls every 1000 calls, add
        branch hints
      * stress-mmap: page align various arrays, use more shuffling on index
      * stress-zlib: remove blocking complexity by putting checksum in shared
        memory
      * stress-msg: move #endif to correct position with respect to code block
      * core-shim: move module shim wrappers to below shim_enosys declaration
      * stress-null: gather metrics every 100 null reads
      * stress-netlink-task: minor optimization tweaks
      * stress-nanosleep: use mwc32 and mask for power of two random values
      * stress-inode-flags: voidify return from inc_counter_lock
      * core-mwc: check if max is zero before attempting zero division
      * stress-mutex: only measure mutex calls every 1000 calls, add branch
        hints
      * stress-msync: optimize page checking, check in 64 bit chunks
      * stress-mremap: only measure remap calls every 500 calls
      * stress-mq: minor optimization on mwc mod operation and switch ordering
      * stress-mmapfixed: minor optimizations to
        stress_mmapfixed_is_mapped_slow
      * stress-mlock: measure mlock/mlock2 duration every 1000 calls
      * stress-mincore: add some branch hinting
      * stress-memfd: use 64 bit nt stores where possible
      * stress-membarrier: reduce number of time calls, increases membarrier
        rate
      * stress-zlib: add more yield points to detect SIGALRM timeouts
      * core-processes: add stress_dump_processes to dump stress-ng process
        state
      * stress-madvise: use stress_mwc64modn_maybe_pwr2 for size modulo
      * core-mwc: add modulo mwc functions for max where max is probably a
        power of 2
      * stress-longjmp: sample metrics time less frequently
      * stress-list: pass end of entries rather than number of entries
      * stress-kcmp: minor optimizations, reduced main loop by 0.5%
        according to perf
      * stress-judy: minor optimizations, very slim improvement
      * stress-inode-flags: add locked bogo-ops increment
      * stress-hdd: optimize data buffer setting
      * stress-fpunch: mmap buffers, alignment makes copying a little faster
      * stress-full: make buffer mmap'd, add zero check optimizations
      * stress-mmap: move stress_mmap_set_vma_name to core-helper, rename to
        stress_set_vma_anon_name
      * stress-zero: optimize stress_is_not_zero
      * core-thrash: add kmemleak scans
      * stress-*: use stress_file_rw_hint_short on temporary test files
      * core-helper: add stress_file_rw_hint_short file hint
      * stress-memfd: exercise memfd flags MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC
      * stress-prctl: fix missing }
      * core-helper: add kernel samepage merging helper, use it when forking
        hard
      * stress-prctl: add new PR_* prctl options
      * snapcraft: remove UNEXPECTED setting
      * snapcraft: make libipsec-mb-dev depend on amd64 arch
      * snapcraft: move to snap22, add missing libs and -lrt flag
      * core-mmap: add prefetch in check loop
      * stress-mcontend: add more stress for x86 with lfence after reads
      * README.md: Add Luis Chamberlain to contributors list
      * stress-module: rename options, add '-' following the no part
      * core-shim: remove need for errno.h include, add definitions for
        module handling
      * stress-module: only fclose fp if file is opened
      * stress-module: remove module-sharedfd, clean up fd opening
      * stress-module: changes to conform to stress-ng coding style
      * stress-module: clean up gcc-10.2.1 build issues
      * core-mmap: fill memory with random 64 bit value
      * core-mmap: optimize, use 64 bit load/stores, add x86 rep sto for
        stores
      * stress-sockpair: try to avoid OOMing when using --oom-avoid option
      * stress-msg: split send/recv code into functions, improve optimizations
      * stress-sem: more even use of sem_wait, sem_trywait, sem_timedwait
        and add metrics
      * stress-sem: add branch hints and O3 optimization
      * stress-sock: optimizations, move to -O3 on client/server + branch
        hints
      * stress-pipe: terminate run when read from pipe is zero bytes
      * README.md: Add another citation
      * core-helper: don't report failure on prctl PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS with
        errno EINVAL
      * stress-pipe: add handler to stop stressor on SIGPIPE
      * stress-switch: add handler to stop stressor on SIGPIPE
      * stress-af-alg: remove check for HAVE_LIB_IPSEC_MB
      * stress-eventfd: add branch hints
      * core-help: minor branch hints on system_read and system_write
      * stress-epoll: add branch hints
      * stress-dup: add branch hints, minor optimization on info struct layout
      * stress-copy-file: minor optimization repeated verify flag check
      * stress-context: optimize: remove padding, optimize bogo-checks
      * stress-close: add branch hints, add one more open type, replace %
        with &
      * stress-pipe: use EPIPE for stressor termination, remove need for
        pipe stop token
      * stress-pipe: verify just first 32 bits in buffer, add in more
        optimizations
      * core-helper: fix stress_rndbuf to fill entire buff
      * stress-switch: use register for active fd, saves a load each loop
      * stress-ng.h: add likely hints to keep_stressing()
      * stress-switch: add branch hints
      * stress-ng: move counter and flag into structure close to each other
      * stress-ng.h: align counter to cache boundary
      * stress-exec: remove logging the status on failed exec
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:52:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.15.06-2) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Fix random buffer filling issue
        - 0001-core-helper-fix-stress_rndbuf-to-fill-entire-buff.patch
      * Re-enable af-alg stressor if ipsec-mb is not available
        - 0002-stress-af-alg-remove-check-for-HAVE_LIB_IPSEC_MB.patch
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:43:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.15.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * README.md: add another citation
      * Manual: update date
      * debian/testing/fast-test-all: remove --klog-check
      * stress-ng: fix truncated pr_inf call
      * stress-ng: add --oom-avoid-bytes option for the free memory avoid
        allocation threshold
      * stress-cache: remove % operator, using compare and re-assign to zero
      * stess-msg: add --msg-bytes option to specify size of message being
        sent/recv'd
      * stress-msg: voidify return of msgctl
      * stress-*, test-*: remove trailing spaces at end of lines
      * stress-shm-sysv: define SHM_HUGE_* macros if required, drop IPC_PRIVATE
        error check
      * stress-shm-sysv: add SHM_HUGE_2MB flag when using SHM_HUGETLB
      * stess-shm-sysv: plumb in --sym-sysv-bytes option to correct ID
      * stress-shm-sysv: replace IPC_RMID with IPC_PRIVATE in error message
      * stress-shm-sysv: add missing space in error message
      * stress-cyclic: report the number of samples required for the test run
      * stress-memrate: make vector types based on uint32_t, add prefetch 128
      * stress-memrate: make prefetch offset 2K
      * stress-memrate: remove inner loops for non-memory rate timed functions
      * stress-memrate: remove keep_stressing check, use siglongjmp in alarm
        handler
      * stress-memrate: add in further loop optimizations
      * stress-vm: explicitly add modulo inline helper function
      * core-helper: add stress_get_prime64 to get prime above a given value
      * core-helper: rename stress_get_prime64 to stress_get_next_prime64
      * stress-memrate: fix --memrate-wr-mbs/rd-mbs, use best fit size, add
        memset writes too
      * stress-vm: skip stressor when out of resources, return EXIT_NO_RESOURCES
      * stress-vm: fix prime index accumulation overflow and speed up modulo
      * stress-vm: compute a new prime that is larger than sz rather than use
        PRIME_64
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:47:17 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.15.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Erik Stahlman]
      * Populate jmp_env before it could be used
    
      [Julien Olivain]
      * Makefile: introduce PRESERVE_CFLAGS build flag
      * stress-regs: fix build on riscv32
      * stress-mmap: fix build with HAVE_SYSCALL or __NR_mmap2 is undefined
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: simplify the contributors text and put a link to the README.md
        file
      * README.md: add contributors
      * README.md: update notes about icc, icx and musl-gcc
      * stress-ng.h: disable fast math for icc, it's not supported yet
      * core-pragma: generalize unroll n to unroll for Intel icc compiler
      * Manual: add bold notes about using bogo-ops as a benchmarking metric
      * stress-pthread: call sys_set_robust_list using copy of head on
        the stack
      * stress-pthread: disable set_robust_list calls
      * stress-mremap: pass an illegal remapping address rather than null
      * core-pragma: bump clang version for STRESS_PRAGMA_WARN_CPP_OFF
      * core-pragma: define STRESS_PRAGMA_WARN_CPP_OFF for different compiler
       versions
      * stress-qsort: cast return of mmap to same type as data
      * stress-ng: only define OPTIMIZE_FAST_MAST with fast math attribute
        for gcc 10+
      * stress-brk: voidify two more args to clean up OS X build warning
      * stress-brk: clean up OS X build warning
      * stress-lockbus: enable for tested targets
      * stress-lockbus: enable riscv
      * stress-lock: try alternative __atomic_fetch_add if add_fetch is not
        available
      * stress-cpu: collatz: force compiler to generate collatz computation
      * stress-cpu: explog: add randomness, stash intermediates to force exp
        and log calls
      * stress-cpu: add some randomness to force code generation of
        computation
      * Makefile: fix typo, remove i after parisc
      * stress-tee: use correct format specifiers for size_t values
      * stress-chown: fix incorrect goto before zero ret check
      * Avoid division by zero
      * stress-cache: fix incorrect variable being passed to cache helper
        functions
      * stress-zero: exercise a couple of ioctls
      * stress-full: exercise a couple of ioctls
      * stress-shellsort: remove 8 bit sort, replace it with 32 bit mangling
      * stress-mergesort: remove 64 bit sort, replace it with 32 bit mangling
      * stress-heapsort: remove 8 bit sort, replace it with 32 bit mangling
      * core-sort: move stress_sort_data_int32_mangle from stress-qsort to
        core-sort
      * stress-rtc: add const to * ptr
      * stress-rmap: add yield check, helps BSD systems when touching many
        pages
      * stress-evivar: use a lookup table for names to ignore
      * stress-l1cache: add a l1cache method to select forward, random or
        reverse cache exercising
      * stress-wcs: remove redundant forward declaration of wcs
      * stress-str: remove redundant forward declaration of metrics
      * stress-x86cpuid: reduce scope of variables eax, ebx, ecx and edx
      * test/test-timerfd-create: remove unused variable fd
      * stress-vm-rw: memset stack to zero to silence pedantic static
        analyzers
      * stress-vdso: reduce scope of variable str
      * stress-ng: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-shm-sysv: rename sz to shmmax and add it to error message
      * stress-sigio: reduce scope of buffer
      * stress-rawdev: reduce scope of rate, constify rate and duration
      * stress-prctl: change scope of declaration of ret
      * stress-prctl: voidify ret
      * stress-mutex: only declare cpus if (HAVE_PTHREAD_SETAFFINITY_NP is
        defined
      * stress-ipsec-mb: move declaration of ptr into context that uses it
      * stress-cyclic: rename noclobber rc to ncrc
      * core-vmstat: move variables into more local context
      * stress-quota: memset dqinfo to zero to keep static analyzers happy
      * stress-open: fix open_flag_perm #if defs and mkdir missing mode
      * stress-prctl: move } to correct side of #endif
      * stress-list: add more struct list_entry * casts
      * stress-list: cast CIRCLEQ_FIRST return to struct list_entry *
      * stress-io-uring: fix incorrect declaration of statxbuf, make it static
      * core-resources: move } to correct location after #endifs
      * core-vmstat: zero vm_stat to keep static analyzers happy
      * stress-zlib: optimize double precision data generation
      * Add support for optimization attribute fast-math, use in cpu stressors
      * stress-tree: unroll loops for improved speed
      * stress-shm-sysv: get max shm size from /proc/sys
      * stress-quota: memset structs before quota calls
      * stress-cyclic: add bounds check for DEADLINE scheduler failure
      * stress-syscall: fix build issues with set_mempolicy
      * stress-syscall: fix typo on check for __NR_get_mempolicy
      * stress-open: fix missing (
      * stress-msg: rename n to msgsz to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-mmaphugepage: reduce scope of variable flags
      * stress-madvice: reduce scope of a couple of variables
      * core-helper: memset vm_stat and use correct sscanf format for size_t
      * stress-enosys: make number unsigned and shift by 1U
      * stress-bind-mount: reduce scope of variable pid
      * stress-bind-mount: remove duplicated S_IRUSR in mkdir
      * core-shim: put return -1 in correct place for RISC-V shim_cacheflush
      * stress-msg: skip stressor on ENOSPC or ENOSYS
      * stress-wcs: ensure metrics are scaled by the number of calls mad
      * stress-str: ensure metrics are scaled by the number of calls made
      * stress-zero: fix build error on declaration of i for non-Linux builds
      * stress-yield: fix typo in args for FreeBSD build
      * stress-exec: fix build failure when clone/vfork/posix_spawn not
        available
      * stress-brk: cast nt load argument to uint32_t *
      * stress-wcs: add metrics for wide string functions
      * stress-str: fix array overflow, re-order code too.
      * stress-str: remove NULL entries from methods
      * stress-access: make pointer "metrics" static
      * stress-str: add metrics to string functions
      * stress-rtc: check for EINTR from ioctl calls
      * stress-fanotify: skip stressors when low on resources (fds or memory)
      * stress-quota: improve quota error handling
      * stress-sctp: fix typo in error message
      * stress-brk: add some minor optimizations
      * stress-brk: force read to "touch" a page, add helper to do this
      * stress-msg: add extra error handling
      * stress-tee: add more sanity checking in read/write/tee system calls
      * stress-gpu: run stressor inside OOM catcher, add jump to abort on
        SIGALRM
      * stress-alarm: use SIGUSR1 to signal termination of child rather than
        SIGKILL
      * stress-resched: send ALRM rather than KILL signal to child renicer
        process
      * stress-futex: send ALRM rather than KILL signal to waiter process
      * stress-sctp: report connect retry failure with correct errno
      * stress-exec: handle more error returns from execve calls
      * stress-x86syscall: report all metrics via the metrics interface
      * stress-yield: add metrics for the duration of each sched_yield call
      * stress-zombie: report number of zombies created as a metric
      * stress-userfaultfd: add early check to see if userfaultfd() is
        supported
      * stress-yield: make yielder count a debug message
      * stress-pipeherd: remove context switch info as it is in metrics
      * stress-gpu: add pre-run check to see if GPU device is accessible
      * stress-dirmany: move directory create/destroy times to metrics
      * stress-ng: metrics: base metrics on number gathered not number
        instances
      * stress-pthread: report number of pthreads created as % of expected
        total
      * stress-plugin: add plugin-so check before invoking stressors
      * stress-shm-sysv: handle ENOSPC, ENOMEM and EEXIST as non-fatal issues
      * stress-mq: report ENOSPC on a mq_open as out of resources and skip
        stressor
      * stress-vdso: report all metrics via the metrics interface
      * stress-switch: report switch rate using metrics interface
      * stress-revio: move extents metrics to metrics information
      * stress-gpu: prefix errno number with errno= for clarification
      * stress-chown: don't prematurely finish stressors on ENOENT or ENOTDIR
      * stress-chmod: remove CHECK macro now that is no longer used
      * stress-chmod: don't prematurely finish stressors on ENOENT or ENOTDIR
      * stess-flushcache: add oomable wrapper to restart if OOM'd
      * stress-gpu: set MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DISABLE to true to avoid warnings
      * stress-fpunch: move extent count to metrics information
      * stress-epoll: #ifdef out epoll retry count and timeout exit
      * stress-epoll: clean up error message, remove ;
      * stress-rawsock: add OOM retries to child processes, back off on
        ENOBUFS (LP: #1968361)
      * stress-x86cpuid: move STRESS_ARCH_X86 ifdef check
      * core-shim: add RISC-V implementation of cache flushing
      * stress-dup: use stress_close_fds to close file descriptors
      * stress-rlimit: use stress_close_fds to close file descriptors
      * stress-memfd: use stress_close_fds to close file descriptors
      * stress-io: use stress_close_fds to close file descriptors
      * core-helper: add stress_close_fds to close a range of file descriptors
      * core-log: add pr_metrics to log and tag metrics only data
      * stress-jpeg: don't free row_pointer, it is now mmap'd
      * core-perf: add more perf metrics
      * Manual: fix wrrd128nt alignment in --vm-method
      * core-sort: rename forward compares, add fwd into name, default to
        the original cmp method
      * core-hash: add more loop unrolling
      * core-sort: tweak comparison functions for less overhead on branching
      * core-sort: unroll shuffle loop
      * core-mmap: unroll inner loops for more throughput
      * core-hash: unroll mulxror and xorror hashes
      * core-perf: add in more comparisons of misses vs hits
      * stress-zlib: fix grammar in a comment
      * stress-rawpkt: cache align buffer and struct for minor speed up
      * stress-judy: minor if path hinting and optimization
      * stress-context: make context cache aligned, allocate it using mmap
        for page alignment
      * stress-swap: allocate 1 page using mmap instead of calloc
      * stress-zero: increase number of reads for more stable read rate
        metrics
      * stress-qsort: tweak sorting thresholds for some minor improvements
        in speed
      * stress-qsort: further optimization tweaks
      * stress-qsort: add optimizations for verification helper functions
      * stress-qsort: factor out forward/reverse verification helper functions
      * stress-jpeg: optimize performance, mmap row_pointer at start,
        unroll the loop
      * stress-qsort: voidify return from stress_get_setting
      * stress-ng.h: remove reduntant return from add_counter_lock
      * stress-copy-file: remove commented out junk fsync code
      * stress-qsort: add an alternative qsort implementation
      * stress-hrtimers: fix incorrect id being passed to timer_getoverrun
      * stress-hrtimers: optimize signal handler, use overruns to drive freq
      * stress-qsort: remove extraneous huge mmap flag macros
      * stress-qsort: use mmap'd memory for sorting rather than heap
      * stress-*: replace UNROLL macro with pragma versions
      * stress-madvise: remove two blank lines
      * core-helper: add missing newline
      * stress-cpu: add one more loop unroll
      * stress-matrix: unroll some loops
      * stress-x86cpuid: add some loop unrolling
      * stress-cpu: add some loop unrolling for some performance improvements
      * core-pragma: add loop unrolling pragma macros
      * stress-x86cpuid: use cpuid values from a table, add randomized
        selection
      * stress-opcode: use stress_reverse64 from core-bitops.h
      * core-cache: rename to core-cpu-cache as this is cpu specific caching
      * core-cache: rename all functions and types to start with
        stress_cpu_cache_*
      * stress-memrate: determine best power of two size from 1MB .. 1K for
        loops
      * stress-memrate: add --memrate-flush and fix memrate read/write rates
        for < 1MB sizes
      * stress-memrate: fix sub 1MB read/write rates
      * stress-memrate: allow memrate-byte sizes of L1, L2, L3 or LLC
      * stress-cache: remove variable j to clean up variable shadowing
      * stress-fiemap: add yields to help rt prempt kernels for smoother runs
      * stress-cache: add more cache metrics, scale bogo-ops to read/writes
        per 1K
      * stress-ng: make EXIT_NO_RESOURCES a skipped warning message and not
        a hard error
      * stress-chown: don't make file opening timeouts a fatal error
      * Manual: fix vm stressor method name, should be wrrd128
      * stress-tsc: voidify return from call to stress_get_setting
      * debian/control: update standards version to 4.6.2
      * Makefile: add CFLAGS to apparmor-data and core-personality compilation
      * stress-memrate: don't use rep stos* for x32 builds
      * stress-memthrash: don't use rep stosd for x32 builds
      * Makefile: add ia64 to architectures that don't support the
        -fstack-protector compiler option
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 9 Mar 2023 15:46:53 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.15.04-2) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Fix ia64 and x32 build failures
      * Add hardening flags for a couple of source files
      - fixes from upstream patches:
        0001-Makefile-add-ia64-to-architectures-that-don-t-suppor.patch
        0002-stress-memthrash-don-t-use-rep-stosd-for-x32-builds.patch
        0003-stress-memrate-don-t-use-rep-stos-for-x32-builds.patch
        0004-Makefile-add-CFLAGS-to-apparmor-data-and-core-person.patch
      * Update standards version to 4.6.2
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:25:57 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.15.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Khem Raj]
      * Include sys/timex.h for clock_adjtime
      * test-float: Make variables global
    
      [Nick Hanley]
      * Makefile.config: fix mktemp file leak
      * Makefile.config: style: consistently omit parens around call arguments
      * Makefile.config: style: replace trailing tabs with spaces
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-waitcpu: reduce scope for variables t and j
      * stress-ng: reduce scope of variables inverse_n and f
      * stress-lsearch: reduce the scope of variable t
      * stress-cpu-online: reduce the scope of variable t
      * stress-cpu: add missing line
      * stress-bsearch: reduce scope of variable t
      * stress-misaligned: disable misaligned atomic ops on PPC64 with older gcc
      * stress-epoll: return client error return back to parent
      * stress-waitcpu: add check for PAUSE instruction
      * stress-vecwide: disable stress_vint8w16_t as this causes build failures
      * stress-memrate: only define stos helpers if STOS instructions are
        available
      * stress-syncload: fix #ifdef's around stress_syncload_rdrand
      * stress-wait: unconstify status to clear warning on OS X builds
      * Makefile: disable -fstack-protector-strong for hppa too
      * stress-sysinfo: don't fail on gvfs ENOTCONN errors
      * Makefile: disable -fstack-protector-strong for alpha
      * stress-tsc: add --tsc-lfence option to force tsc read serialization
      * Manual: update copyright year and date
      * stress-goto: add optimization tweak for icx compiler
      * core-helper: add Intel icx compiler version detection
      * stress-zlib: allow rdrand for 32 and 64 bit x86
      * stress-waitcpu: disable umwait for x86-32
      * stress-syncload: allow 32 bit x86 as well as 64 bit
      * stress-opcode: mark ops_ptr as NOCLOBBERable to clear up longjmp warning
      * Makefile: check and use hardening flags where available
      * stress-prefetch: move prefetch and increment to increase throughput
      * stress-prefetch: add check to see if prefetch* on x86 is available
      * README.md: add another citation of an academic paper
      * stress-prefetch: move read rates to metrics output
      * stress-prefetch: add locality hinted prefetch, move read loop into a
        macro
      * stress-prefetch: add ppc64 prefetch methods
      * stress-prefetch: add prefetch-method option to specify prefetch
        instructions
      * README.md: add some more citiations
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found with stress-ng
      * core-klog: add proc title status
      * core-ignite-cpu: add proc title status
      * core-vmstat: set proc title to indicate periodic stats process
      * stress-fault: add more signal failure information
      * stress-mremap: fix mremap with MAP_FIXED and no target address to use
        NULL
      * stress-waitcpu: annotate the address umonitor is waiting on
      * stress-vecwide: add 16 bit vector, add metrics, report stats in bit
        width
      * core-asm-arm.h: helper include file for ARM assembler helpers
      * stress-*: use generic stress_metrics_t type for per-stressor metrics
      * stess-ng.h: rename stress_metrics_t to stress_metrics_data_t
      * stress-waitcpu: add in ppc64 yieldy instructions
      * stress-waitcpu: use yield instruction for ARM
      * stress-waitcpu: use processor specific wait/pause instructions
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found with stress-ng
      * core-cache: allow x86 cache size checking for non-Linux/Apple systems
      * core-cache: attempt to find cache size using x86 CPUID info
      * stress-x86cpuid: add missing running and deinit proc state
      * stress-umount: set child process in running state
      * stress-rmap: set child process in running state
      * stress-pthread: remove pthread instance id from proc cmdline
      * stress-lease: set child process in running state
      * stress-kill: set child process in running state
      * stress-forkheavy: set child process in running state
      * stress-fifo: set child process in running state
      * stress-dir-deep: set run state earlier
      * stress-context: set run state earlier
      * stress-affinity: set child process in running state
      * stress-vdso: set run state earlier
      * stress-sigio: set child process in running state
      * stress-idle-page: fix swapped args in error message
      * stress-landlock: fix missing space between call & is in message
      * stress-dentry: remove "removing .. dentries" message
      * stress-chdir: inform user of delay in removing directories after 0.5
        seconds
      * core-mwc: fix comment of stress_mwc64modn
      * stress-hdd: add read/write metrics
      * stress-opcode: use non-volatile pointer state for mmap/mprotect/munmap
        calls
      * core-cache, core-asm-x86: modify volatile pointer casting
      * stress-ipsec-mb: use shim_strlcat for a safer strcat
      * stress-umount: stressor to exercise racy umount calls
      * core-asm-x86.h: rework tpause to use rdtsc inlined code and return
        carry flag
      * core-cache.h: remove redundant #if 1 .. #endif
      * stress-opcode: print estimate of total run time when using -v mode
      * core-asm-ppc64.h: Enable msync instruction
      * core-helper: disable __stack_chk_fail for clang - it breaks clang-16
      * stress-flushcache: use more asm inline helpers
      * stress-lock{a|f|ofd}: terminate contention process with SIGALRM
      * core-asm-sparc.h, stress-tsc: check for HAVE_ASM_SPARC_TICK when using
        tick opcode
      * core-cache: use stress_asm_sparc_membar from core-asm-sparc.h
      * core-cache: use stress_asm_riscv_fence from core-asm-riscv.h
      * core-cache: use stress_asm_x86_clflush from core-asm-x86.h
      * core-cache: use stress_asm_x86_clflush from core-asm-x86.h
      * core-asm-x86.h: move x86 cache ops to core-asm-x86.h
      * Makefile: add code fortify flags
      * core-asm-x86: add checks for rdrand and rdseek opcodes being supported
      * core-asm-sparc: remove extraneous tab
      * stress-tree: add some minor optimization tweaks
      * stress-tree: ensure all data is unique to avoid dups
      * stress-tsc: add tick instruction for SPARC implementation of clock
        tick read
      * core-asm-s390.h: header for inlined s390 assembler
      * core-asm-riscv.h: header for inlined RISC-V assembler
      * stress-af-alg: check if HAVE_LIB_IPSEC_MB is defined
      * stress-ipsec-mb: fix build failure for systems without ipsec-mb library
      * stress-zlib: add inc16 zlib data filling method
      * stress_atomic_lock_acquire: provide 5 seconds grace before bailing on Xi
        EAGAIN
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add ipsec-method option to select crypto/integrity
        to use
      * stress-ipsec-mb: re-work feature flag mechanism, add ipsec functions
        in an array
      * README.md: Add some more references and citations
      * stress-memthrash: add memsetstosd memory zero method
      * stress-sleep: reduce default threads per instance to 256, add more
        yield checks
      * stress-sleep: use x86 tpause where available
      * stress-opcode: map/unmap opcodes in parent, fclose stdio descriptors
      * stress-opcode: add siglongjmp handler for some signals, add metrics
      * stress-opcode: cater for different arch opcode sizes
      * stress-opcode: format opcode number as 8 hex digit wide string
      * stress-opcode: implement inc opcode method more efficiently
      * README.md: Add another bug found by stress-ng
      * Add core-asm-ppc64.h for ppc64 asm helper code
      * stress-zlib: remove unused function rand64
      * core-asm-x86.h: add check for x86 arch
      * test/test-asm-x86-mov-dr0.c: replace asm volatile with __asm__
        __volatile__
      * Add stress_asm_x86_lock_add to core-asm-x86.h for memthrash MEM_LOCK
        macro
      * rename stress_x86_cpuid to stress_asm_x86_cpuid and move it to
        core-asm-x86.h
      * stress-zombie: remove empty line
      * core-asm-x86.h: add rdrand and rdseed x86 asm helpers
      * core-asm-x86.h: add rdtsc x86 asm helper
      * Move common x86 assembler into core-asm-x86.h
      * stress-atomic: fix non-indexing of atomic lock space
      * stress-memrate: use registers for rep stos, reduces stack loads
      * stress-memrate: inline and add OPTIMIZE3 rep sto* code
      * Manual: add rep sto x86 writes to the memrate stressor
      * stress-memrate: don't print out metrics to log, use --metrics instead
      * stress-memrate: use fast string write rep stos* instructions
      * stress-atomic: exercise atomic locks on different offsets
      * Makefile.config: don't build with libatomic for musl-gcc
      * stress-list: fix build issue with musl-gcc
      * stress-list: uncomment out HAVE_SYS_QUEUE_CIRCLEQ
      * stress-nop: add serialize opcode for x86 and opcode support for x86
      * stress-nop: reduce tpause from 5000 to 100 for more responsive handling
      * Makefile: fix some missing config dependencies, remove gold ld
      * Makefile: replace include with some eval magic
      * Makefile: use -O2 as default only if -O option not defined in CFLAGS
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:50:31 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.15.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Anton Eliasson]
      * stress-cpu: Add verification to rand48
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update contributors names
      * stress-cpu: only verify rand48 for Linux glibc
      * stress-pci: disable reading of ROMs
      * core-ignite-cpu: randomly flip between cpu governors
      * Manual: update nop stressor INSTR to note nop15 is the largest nop
        for x86
      * stress-version.h: rename to core-version.h
      * stress-list: add per list method metrics
      * core-helper: minor code reformatting for alphabet string
      * core-helper: add compiler information to yaml file
      * Add number of instances used in geometric mean metrics
      * stress-fp: add alarm check flag in main stress fp loop, remove debug
      * stress-fp: fix metrics, should be adding stats for all instances
      * Add --sn (scientific notation) for metrics
      * core-helper: add more gcc and icc version information
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:50:01 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.15.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Florian Weimer]
      * test/test-float.c: Avoid tickling an implicit int error
      * test-aligned-alloc: Define _GNU_SOURCE for the aligned_alloc prototype
      * test-fchmodat: Include <sys/stat.h> for the fchmodat prototype
      * test-pidfd-getfd: Include <syspidfd.h> if available for pidfd_getfd
    
      [Guilherme Janczak]
      * rework stress_strnrnd()
    
      [Yong-Xuan Wang]
      * stress-signest: disable alternative stack before unmap
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * 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
      * stress-jpeg: add compression ratio metrics
      * stress-getdent: add duration metrics for getdent call
      * stress-dev-shm: use more efficient method to touch pages with data
      * stress-dirdeep: remove empty line
      * stress-icache: fix spelling mistake in comment
      * stress-flock: add lock/unlock flock metrics
      * stress-zlib: use the generic metrics API to report metrics
      * stress-unshare: add unshare() duration metrics
      * stress-touch: remove empty line
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: remove empty line
      * stress-mremap: add metrics
      * stress-mlock: remove extraneous tab
      * stress-mlock: add mlock/munlock metrics
      * stress-*: replace hard coded time constants with #defined constants
      * Add x86intrin.h implementations for rotate left/right
      * stress-*: use shim_rol/shim_ror builtins
      * stress-rotate: add builtin support for clang rotateleft/rotateright
      * stress-rotate: add a 8/16/32/64/128 bit rotate left/right stressor
      * Update copyright to 2023
      * stress-matrix: rename matrix_3d_yx to matrix_3d_zyx
      * stress-matrix: add per method metrics
      * stress-matrix-3d: add per method metrics and bump metrics to 16 items
      * stress-memfd: add memfd_create metrics
      * Revert "core-helper: use 8K stack check if PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is less
        than 8K"
      * stress-memfd: use uint64_t ptr offset helper, re-order code
      * stress-memfd: add a zap pte linux stress test cast
      * stress-tty: exercise ldisc settings on stressor instance 0's ptys
      * stress-sparsematrix: force remove the unused splay function warnings
      * core-pragma.h: define STRESS_PRAGMA_WARN_CPP_OFF for clang
      * stress-resources: break from loop rather than use a leaky exit return
      * stress-forkheavy: free resources to clean up memory leak
      * core-helper: use 8K stack check if PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is less than 8K
      * core-*: silence sys/sysctl.h deprecated warning
      * stress-forkheavy: Add --forkheavy-allocs and --forkheavy-procs options
      * stress-shm-sysv: remove debug of memory sizes
      * stress-lockbus: only report splitlocks enabled on stressor instance 0
      * stress-enosys: index into hash table using unsigned long
      * stress-cacheline: only print out the method being used on instance 0
      * stress-atomic: move metric measurments closer to lock instructions
      * stress-atomic: make atomic ops operate on union'd data for more
        contention
      * Add new forkheavy stressor
      * stress-link: add EINTR check for Serenity OS
      * stress-syscall: add build time detection for select
      * stress-efivar: add support for reading vars from the sysfs file
        /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
      * core-out-of-memory: add wait/exit/run states
      * core-helper: add STRESS_STATE_ZOMBIE state
      * stress-mcontend: set process state to run for all threads
      * stress-*: print method being used only by first stressor instance
      * core-sort: fix missing int type for j
      * stress sort/search: add data helpers, add metrics
      * stress-priv-instr: add SPARC draina and halt instructions
      * stress-hash: add new xorror64 hash, a fast string hash
      * core-cache: add M68K cache sizes
      * Add build time check for SPARC membar instruction
      * stress-ng: fix space identation with tab
      * stress-ng: rename stress_misc_stats_t to stress_metrics and clean up
        code
      * stress-*: Add helper function stress_metrics_set to set metrics
      * stress-shm-sysv: add shm* syscall metrics
      * Add x86 mfence instruction auto build detection
      * stress-syscall: rename struct with stress_ prefix to avoid name clashes
      * core-vmstat: add OS X vmstat runnable/blocked process count
      * stress-mmap: make variable mask non-clobberable
      * stress-fault: make variables duration and count non-clobberable
      * core-cpu: rework cpuid macros to build on gcc 4.8 with and without -fPIC
      * core-nt-store: only use HAVE_XMMINTRIN_H with SSE supported by toolchain
      * README.md: add the Ubuntu stress-ng ppa
      * core-vmstat: Add OS X cpu system/user/idle stats in vmstat output
      * stress-brk: disable page touching for OS X
      * Revert "stress-brk: unmapping pages in brk will cause OS X segfaults,
        disable it"
      * Add more system statistics for OS X
      * core-vmstat: add OS X support for CPU frequency stats
      * core-vmstat: fix stress_get_cpu_ghz for non-FreeBSD and non-Linux builds
      * Add min, max CPU frequencies to --thermalstat stats
      * core-cache: move two more functions and rename cpusort to cpu_sort
      * core-cache: re-order functions and #ifdef for Linux, OS X, etc
      * core-cache: add OS X cache size support
      * stress-brk: unmapping pages in brk will cause OS X segfaults, disable it
      * core-thermal-zone: order thermal zone entries by type
      * README.md: add another citation "The TSN Building Blocks in Linux"
      * stress-branch: don't use -O3 on branch stessor for SH4
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:27:22 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.15.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Davidson Francis]
      * core-thermal-zone: fix the average temperature calculation
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * debian/control: update standards version to 4.6.1
      * 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
        segments error)
      * 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
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:26:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.15.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Meysam Azad]
      * add relevant docs to readme
      * remove playground stuff
      * update deprecated action
      * add workflow dependency
      * remove platform and add trivy image scan
      * take it for a test run
      * tag the image manually
      * feat(ci): build docker image for DockerHub
    
      [Kenny Gong]
      * correct macro name to avoid build fail on riscv
    
      [Thinh Tran]
      * core-log: fix pr_spin_lock() spin forever when timeout expired
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * stress-vm-addr: add a yield point in address loop
      * stress-far-branch: voidify base and offset
      * stress-crypt: add Solaris ENOENT return check
      * stress-crypt: fix crypt call for systems without crypt_r
      * stress-chroot: cast mmap return to same type as metrics pointer
      * stress-atomic: cast mmap return to same type as metrics pointer
      * stress-access: cast mmap to same type as metrics pointer
      * stress-mmap: only declare pointer buf64 when it is required
      * stress-mmap: add build check for mprotect use in Step #10
      * stress-mmap: add build check for mprotect use in Step #9
      * stress-race-sched: add built time check for sched_setaffinity
      * stress-flushcache: remove voidification of non-existant args
      * stress-sigsegv: rework rdtsc assembler to clear up tcc compiler warning
      * core-mwc: remove target clones as clang does not support multiversioned clones
      * stress-sigsegv: correct the cache flushing, should be on the ptr address
      * stress-memthrash: remove pointer constifications
      * stress-link: fix missing ; after voidification of do_link
      * stress-fsize: use correct hex format specifiers and fix error message
      * stress-fsize: don't fail on fsize overflow checks, report these just once
      * stress-vm-addr: iterate over wider address range, remove ALIGN_VM macro
      * stress-cacheline: replace assignment with load and store assignments
      * stress-rawsock: add built time detection for just struct iphdr
      * stress-sparsematrix: fix some casting that fails on s390x
      * stress-tsc: fix build error on 32 bit x86
      * stress-tsc: add verification that TSC is monotonically increasing
      * core-job: remove redundant assignment to ptr
      * core-job: check buf instead of ptr, cleans up cppcheck false positive
      * stress-ng.h: don't forward declare stressor_info_t as it is a C11 feature
      * stress-syscall: only declare clocks[] where needed
      * core-net: voidify unused args for non-net builds
      * stress-*: rename stress_not_implemented to stress_unimplemented
      * stress-*: add more explanation about stressors being unimplemented
      * stress-syscall: terminate sigsuspend syscall child processes
      * stress-list: fix help information
      * stress-tree: add metrics
      * stress-tree: add more fine-grained checks for RB and SPLAY trees
      * stress-l1cache: remove { } around 1 item statement
      * stress-hash: add two more hash functions
      * stress-syscall: disable mknodat on OS X
      * stress-fcntl: disabled F_GETLEASE on OS X, it fails
      * stress-race-sched: fix build issues with systems without scheduling
      * stress-stream: unroll index 0 level stream operations
      * core-perf: add missing tab before comment
      * core-job: remove empty line
      * core-mwc: use TARGET_CLONES in stress_mwc32
      * Manual: update stream stressor with some additional notes
      * stress-stream: add read and write rates, correct fp op rate
      * Add gcc unroll optimization detection and use it in a few niche places
      * stress-madvise: add NOCLOBBER annotation on bool file_mapped
      * stress-memthrash: add explanation to the store after a prefetch
      * stress-goto: remove label direction for non-random gotos on each bogo loop
      * stress-branch: minor re-ordering of seed + label, speed up by ~11%
      * stress-dev-shm: add OOMable child wrapper to catch OOMing (LP: #1961076)
      * core-perf: add some more kernel related events
      * stress-sigsegv: fix incorrect sizeof on cacheflush call
      * stress-race-sched: force mix of scheduling activity based on random value
      * stress-sigsegv: ensure expected_addr is flushed back before sigsegv
      * workflows: turn uppercase chars in repo to lowercase
      * stress-numa: use %zu for size_t in pr_* statements
      * stress-memthrash: remove debug message on mbind returns
      * stress-memthrash: add numa mbind'ing of pages
      * stress-numa: size numa bitmask based on max number of numa nodes
      * Manual: remove some tabs and white spaces
      * stress-utime: remove tab
      * stress-race-sched: add yield before exiting child
      * stress-race-sched: also try to change scheduler for each process
      * stress-race-sched: add synchronized prev/forward methods
      * stress-race-sched: add option --race-sched-method for CPU selection
      * core-log: remove extraneous getpid call
      * stress-tsc: riscv: fix error message, should be rdtime and not rdcycle
      * stress-ng: add --log-lockless option to disable log message locking
      * core-log: add global shared memory check before dereferencing it
      * stress-efivar: disable for ALPHA
      * stress-shellsort: rename OPT_shellsort_integers to OPT_shellsort_size
      * stress-race-sched: add some renicing for child process
      * stress-sparsematrix: remove unused variable j
      * stress-race-sched: add stressor to exercise races on cpu affinity
      * stress-loadavg.c: force 64 bit multiply to avoid overflow on 32 bit multiply
      * stress-procfs: avoid misaligned pci reads on sh4, it causes SIGBUS
      * stress-vdso: return -1 for bad time() return rather than cast to int
      * stress-syscall: return -1 for bad time() return rather than cast to int
      * stress-sysbadaddr: return -1 for bad time() return rather than cast to int
      * stress-fsize: add in fallocate offsets to help debugging on failures
      * stress-clock/syscall: Forgot to check-in struct shim_timex changes
      * clean up build issues on OS/X
      * stress-sparsematrix: only declare hash judy struct if judy is supported
      * stress-vecwide: add stressor name and a key to debug performance data
      * stress-plugin: only report plugging loading failures on instance 0
      * stress-ng: ensure geometric mean of misc stats uses non-zero valid data
      * stress-hrtimes: make failed interrupt sleep warning a debug message
      * Revert "stress-readahead: move modulo max size out of loop"
      * test/test-builtin-nontemporal-load: voidify returns
      * stress-tsc: reduce scope of variables duration and count
      * stress-tee: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-llc-affinity: make pointer buf_end const
      * stress-full: remove duplicated shadowed variable offset
      * stress-fault: move average_duration to deeper scope
      * stress-cache: move struct mask to deeper scope
      * core-net: reduce scope of variable j
      * core-shim: add shim'd clock_adjtime, add build time checks for struct timex
      * stress-syscall: fix missing ), after syscall_clock_adjtime
      * stress-rtc: make select timout smaller, adds more stress, less delays
      * stress-sparsematrix: fix mmap memory calculations on 32 bit systems
      * stress-*: report times in secs,nanosecs and clean up metric rates
      * stress-stack: add { } around if block
      * stress-sparsematrix: add mmap size limit
      * stress-sparsematrix: make data items 32 bit, double default items to store
      * stress-sparsematrix: disable hashjudy for 32 bit systems
      * stress-sparsematrix: replace Gets/Puts with gets/puts
      * stress-*: report times in secs,nanosecs and clean up metric rates
      * stress-syscall: report % of syscalls exercised
      * stress-prefect: replace GB/s with GB per sec
      * stress-l1cache: report cache line size in bytes
      * stress-dirmany: rephrase directory create/remove time
      * stress-*: replace seconds with secs, / with per
      * core-thrash: use stress_set_proc_state_str to set proc name
      * stress-gpu: format GPU source, add open failure errno
      * stress-utime: add utime call rate metrics
      * stress-usersyscall: add user system call metrics
      * stress-userfaultfd: add per pagefault metrics
      * stress-uprobe: add trace read rate metrics
      * stress-tee: add tee copy rate metrics
      * stress-stack: add --stack-pageout option
      * stress-sparsematrix: remove max, it was introduced during a debug
      * stress-sparsematrix: add a hybrid hash judy implementation
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found by stress-ng
      * stress-softmath: remove this partially implemented stressor
      * core-thrash: print thrashing state
      * stress-ng: remove "stress-ng" from stressor name messages
      * stress-gpu: add stressor name in pr_inf messages
      * stress-ng: calculate metrics using geometric mean rather than average
      * stress-sigabrt: add sigabrt signal handler latency metrics
      * stress-ramfs: add --ramfs-fill option to enable ramfs filling
      * strress-munmap: add page size munmap call duration metrics
      * Manual: remove the parameter from eventfd-nonblock option
      * stress-loadavg: add a --loadavg-max option to specify upper load average
      * stress-ioport: add metrics and write same value to port
      * stress-full: exercise random offset pread and fstat on /dev/full
      * stress-fp-error: remove empty lines
      * stress-*: sort and clean-up help options help
      * stress-sock: rename socket_* to sock_* to match stressor name
      * stress-sockmany: add --sockmany-port option to specify port to use
      * stress-sockabuse: add --sockabuse-port option to specify port to use
      * stress-rawsock: add --rawsock-port option to specify port to use
      * core-net: add helpers to reserve and release ports
      * stress-alarm: remove 3 from comment
      * core-cache: return zero for llc cache size for non-linux builds
      * icache: add missing #endif and fix another long section name
      * icache: make section names smaller and fix build issue for MACH OS X builds
      * stress-seek: use inc label only when FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is defined
      * stress-chroot: voidify metrics arg for non-Linux builds
      * stress-bind-mount: move mkdir on path to stressor rather than child
      * stress-ng: fix incorrect premature run time duration information
      * stress-binderfs: add more clarity to skip test messages
      * stress-procfs: check if no proc entries exist after pruning
      * core-out-of-memory: fix array out-of-bounds read on index loop
      * stress-link: add { } around block.
      * stress-link: close temp_dir_fd if it is open, fixes fd leak (#2)
      * stress-exit-group: move pthread_count into locked context
      * stress-crypt: use safer strlcpy for string copying
      * stress-link: close temp_dir_fd if it is open, fixes fd leak
      * stress-link: compare temp_dir_fd with >= 0 rather than > 0
      * stress-syscall: add clock_gettime error return check
      * stress-*: use VOID_RET to replace ret = func(); (void)ret;
      * stress-fsize: Add new file size stressor to exercise file limits
      * README.md: Add another academic paper citation
      * stress-vm-splice: remove tab
      * stress-mmap: add simple read-write protection checks on a page
      * stress-readahead: move modulo max size out of loop
      * stress-quota: remove commented out unused macros
      * stress-membarrier: add membarrier call rate metrics
      * stress-context: add swapcontext rate metrics
      * stress-access: put misc stats into slot 0 and not slot 1
      * stress-access: add metrics for access call rate
      * README.md: add more stressor information and more OS tests
      * stress-vm-splice: add vm-splice metrics
      * core-vmstat: constify variable name
      * core-try-open: constify sleep_ns
      * core-time: constify variable now
      * core-smart: add constification to array
      * core-shim: add some constifications
      * core-perf: add more constifications
      * core-log: add constification
      * core-ignite-cpu: add constifications
      * core-helper: add some constifications
      * core-cache: minor code cleanup
      * stress-ng: revert killing all stressors on SIGALRM, it breaks --seq option
      * stress-ng: enable SIGALRM on parent to enforce all child terminations
      * stress-flushcache: add ppc dcbst and icbi flush instructions
      * core-icache: factor out icache return funcs into core-icache
      * stress-flushcache: cater for different cache sizes for icache
      * stress-flushcache: remove clear cache call on D$
      * stress-flushcache: add yield points for slower platforms
      * stress-lockbus: only declare lockbus_nosplit for x86
      * stress-ng: move fanotify info to correct place
      * Add new flushcache stressor to hammer icache and dcache flushes
      * stress-lockbus: add --lockbus-nosplit to disable split locks
      * Manual: minor text change for TLB
      * core-thermal-zone.h: rename 2nd arg in stress_tz_dump()
      * stress-ng.h: shim_nanosleep_uint64 arg should be named nsec
      * core-perf: use && instead of & in expression
      * stress-clone: add time warping check for -ve durations
      * stress-tsc: add average TSC read duration metrics
      * stress-splice: add metrics of splice data transfer rate
      * stress-sendfile: add metrics of sendfile data transfer rate to /dev/null
      * stress-seek: fix bogo-op increment and add avergae seek duration metrics
      * stress-rawudp: add recv data rate metrics
      * stress-rawsock: add recfrom data rate metrics
      * syscalls: update syscall implementation details
      * core-time: try to get time in nanosecond resolution, fallback to millionths if fails
      * stress-nanosleep: add average sleep overrun metrics
      * stress-fault: add page fault duration metrics
      * stress-copy-file: add copy file rate copying rate
      * stress-close: add close call rate metrics
      * stress-bigheap: add reallocs per second metrics
      * stress-fiemap: report that the the ioctl was not supported
      * stress-hdd: add this to the filesystem class of stressors
      * core-helper: add a few more file system magics
      * stess-fanotify: ensure filename2 is unlinked
      * core-helper: add ubifs magic to file system table
      * stress-sync-file: don't treat EINTR on fallocate as a failure
      * README.md: add another academic paper citation
      * stress-vecfp: add negation as vector math operation
      * stress-ring-pipe: improve resource free'ing on err exit paths
      * stress-*: print skipped info messages using pr_inf_skip
      * stress-ng: Add OPT_FLAGS_TZ_INFO to indicate we need thermal zone data
      * core-helper: use builtin bswap32 to swap uint32 bytes
      * stress-ring-pipe: add stressor to copy data around a ring of pipes
      * stress-open: pass pid to test functions rather than call getpid()
      * stress-pthread: add pthread create -> exec time metric
      * stress-kill: add kill() call rate metrics
      * stress-chroot: add chroot call rate metrics
      * stress-chdir: add chdir rate metrics
      * Makefile.config: fix typo on __ppc_get_timebase, was missing 'e' at end
      * stress-open: add a few more open test helpers
      * core-sort: undef macros once usedin core-sort.h, include header in core-sort.c
      * stress-rawpkt: add raw recv data rate in MB metrics
      * stress-rawdev: add pread rate metrics for all methods
      * stress-randlist: use single bit for randlist allocator type flag
      * stress-jpeg: add megapixel compression rate metrics
      * stress-icmp-flood: add packet and data rate metrics
      * stress-clone: add clone time duration metrics
      * stress-ng: sort options
      * stress-wcstr: rename to stress-wcs to match stress name
      * stress-remap-file-pages: rename to stress-remap to match stress name
      * stress-iosync: rename to stress-io to match stress name
      * stress-aio-linux: rename to stress-aiol to match stress name
      * core-try-open: add more comments
      * core-perf: add more comments
      * core-net: update function comments
      * core-ignite-cpu.c: add missing comments
      * core-helper: add missing function comments
      * kernel-coverage: fix mkfs.ntfs sector size -s option
      * stress-pagemove: add page remap rate metrics
      * stress-goto: add millions of gotos per second metrics
      * stress-crypt: add SHA-1 and SunMD5 crypt to stressor
      * stress-crypt: add per-crypt metrics
      * stress-ng: add more digits to misc metrics values
      * stress-mmap: report mmap2 not being used just by instance 0
      * stress-atomic: add uint8..uint64 atomic op rate metrics
      * stress-pipe: rename variable bytes to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-zero: add /dev/zero read rate metrics
      * stress-udp-flood: add sendto metrics
      * stress-pipe: add write rate metrics and set minimum pipe write to 4K
      * stress-ping-sock: add ping sendto rate metrics
      * stress-dev: remove debug LOCK message
      * stress-null: add /dev/null write rate metrics
      * stress-getrandom: print out getrandom() bit rate
      * stress-bigheap: fix short help, should mention realloc and not calloc
      * core-helper: remove duplicated assignment of fs_type
      * kernel-coverage: add forceful killing of stressors and umount
      * stress-syscall: fix array overrun on --syscall-methods
      * core-helper: print temporary file path and file system type in pr_runinfo
      * stress-dir: start concurrent dir stressor later and check for open failure
      * Manual: remove note about not supporting GPU tests, since it now does
      * kernel-coverage: remove ftrace from main I/O tests as it slows throughput
      * stress-copy-file: add more yield points
      * stress-link: add --link-sync and --symlink-sync options
      * stress-fiemap: use O_SYNC where possible, else fall back to fdatasync
      * Add FUNDING yaml file
      * stress-far-branch: add sparc support
      * stress-far-branch: add signal handlers for SIGILL, SIGBUS, SIGSEGV
      * stress-far-branch: remove duplicated little endian macro
      * stress-far-branch: new stressor to exercise far function calls
      * core-sort: add in missing pointer constifications
      * stress-llc-affinity: Add a Lower level cache CPU/affinity stressor
      * stress_*search: Use core sorting comparison functions
      * Factor out sorting comparison functions, add new core-sort helpers
      * stress-lsearch: use #define'd shift for size
      * stress-tsearch: Fix duplicated random values causing search failures
      * stress-syscall: fix incorrect sort comparison
      * test-icc-mm_stream_si128: clean up clang warning
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Fri, 19 Nov 2022 08:31:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.14.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-sigsegv: only used expected_addr if SA_SIGINFO is defined
      * stress-*: rename CACHE_LINE* macros to STRESS_CACHE_LINE*
      * README.md: update number of stressors and arches supported
      * stress-vm-addr: remove redundant initialization of pointer buf
      * stress-pagemove: remove redundant assignment to variable page_num
      * stress-sync-file: remove redundant redeclaration of offset
      * stress-sigsegv: remove redundant (void *) cast
      * stress-sigfpe: force division by zero for x86, disable alarm for m68K
      * stress-ng: remove duplicated application name in error message
      * stress-sigsegv: compare sigsegv address with expected address
      * stress-fp-error: fix missing continuation
      * stress-fp-error: disable stressor for arc64
      * stress-sigfpe: disable this stressor for arc64 as feraiseexcept is
        not implemented
      * core-arch: add ARC64 arch support macro STRESS_ARCH_ARC64
      * stress-regs: fix compilation error with gcc-8 on armel and ppc
      * Makefile.config: sort libraries
      * Add libmd dependency for static builds
      * stress-plug: disable for static builds as it requires dlopen
      * stress-vm-addr: remove align attribute from register pointers
      * stress-pagemove: add a stressor to exercise page moving using remap
        fixed move ops
      * stress-memthrash: add a new swapfwdrev 64 bit mempory swapping method
      * stress-vm-addr: add address bit flip vm-addr method
      * stress-vm-addr: add a bitposn bit flipping powers of 2 address space
        striding method
      * stress-sigsegv: perform illegal vdso calls that can cause SEGVs
      * stress-sigsegv: generate SIGSEGV on illegal port read access
      * stress-sigsegv: generate SIGSEGV via TSC when TSC access is disabled
      * stress-vm: remove tabs in empty line
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: optimize for higher TLB read/write misses
      * stress-memthrash: add a translation lookaside buffer thrashing method
      * stress-vm: determine cache line size from cache info or default to 64
        bytes
      * stress-vm-addr: add a bunch of optimizations to improve throughput
      * stress-zlib: minor register optimizations
      * stress-x86syscall: add register hint to loop counters
      * stress-wcstr: constify wide string function pointers
      * stress-wait: add missing line
      * stress-vm-segv: add missing space before {
      * stress-vm: add some constifications and add some parentheses
      * stress-verity: factor out variable rnd
      * stress-vecmath: add missing empty line
      * stress-vecfp: clean up some line white spacing
      * stress-vdso: make pointer sym const, add extra parenthesis on time
        expression
      * stress-tsearch: make pointers const
      * stress-tree: make variable median const
      * stress-timerfd: make variable r const
      * stress-itimer: make variables r and ret const
      * stress-sysfs: constify some variables
      * stress-sync-file: make variable offset const
      * stress-stream: constify some variables
      * stress-str: constify function pointers
      * stress-splice: Make variabls pipe_size and n const
      * stress-sparsematrix: constify some misc. variables
      * stress-skiplist: make variable v const
      * stress-shellsort: make variable temp const
      * stress-secretmem: make variable offset const
      * stress-rmap: make variable offset const
      * stress-rawdev: make variable offset const
      * stress-randlist: fix comment the describes the stressor
      * stress-procfs: make variable sz const
      * stress-pipeherd: make variable dt const
      * stress-personality: make variable p const
      * stress-opcode: constify a couple of variables
      * stress-msyncmany: make variable pattern const
      * stress-mlock: constify variable rnd
      * stress-loadavg: make variable t_end const
      * stress-ipsec-mb: constify some variables and minor code cleanup
      * stress-inotify: add parentheses to clarify logic
      * stress-hrtimes: make ns_adjust const
      * stress-file-ioctl: constify variables rnd and offset
      * stress-epoll: constify variable port
      * stress-enosys: reduce scope of pointer h
      * stress-dir: constify gray_code variable
      * stress-dentry: constify some variables
      * stress-cyclic: make some variables const
      * stress-cpu-online: make cpu const
      * stress-chroot: make dev static
      * stress-chdir: add some constifications
      * stress-cpu: constify some constant values
      * core-helper: implement stress_fs_type for OpenBSD
      * core-helper: implement stress_fs_type for FreeBSD
      * core-helper: fix cut-n-paste error in comment
      * core-helper: implement stress_get_meminfo for NetBSD
      * core-helper: remove debug info
      * core-helper: partially implement stress_get_meminfo for FreeBSD
      * core-smart: remove unnecessary empty smart helper functions for
        non-SMART builds
      * core-helper: move netbsd/freebsd sysctl helpers from core-vmstat.c
      * stress-bad-altstack: for munmap symbol to be fixed up before it is
        required
      * core-helper: add static helper stress_get_meminfo to get memory info
      * core-helper: extend stress_get_memlimits to return totalswap
        information
      * README.md: add another citation
      * Makefile: add -fma and -qoverride-limits icc optimization flags
      * Makefile: icc: enable various cpu specific optimizations
      * core-nt-store: restore HAVE_NT_STORE_DOUBLE
      * core-nt-store: add ICC compiler support for non-temporal stores
      * stress-hash: fix comment, add missing "
      * stress-sock: only close sfd if it was open
      * stress-sock: remove debug, checked in the wrong version with debug
      * stress-sock: simplify the ctrls fetching and free'ing
      * stress-bad-altstack: ensure ret is initialized
      * stress-chdir: clean up pedantic static analysis warning on chdir of
        null string
      * Manual. Update --pathological option documentation, add stressor
        names
      * stress-wcstr: voidify len2 and strdstlen unused function arguments
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:22:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.14.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Debian/control: remove gold linker from build depends (Closes: #1019727)
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:59:59 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.14.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Alexandru Ardelean]
      * stress-sysinval: fix fstat/fstat64 compat check
    
      [Bryan W. Lewis]
      * stress-ng.h: harmonize header definition of stress_misc_stats_set
    
      [Camille Constans]
      * Fix buffer overflow if tty return width is zero
    
      [Fabrice Fontaine]
      * Makefile: fix build with kernel < 5.6
    
      [Francis Laniel]
      * stress-regs: ppc64le: Fix compilation error for REGS_CHECK macro.
    
      [John Kacur]
      * stress-ng: stress-mmapmany: Remove deadcode
      * stress-ng: stress-dev: Fix test of open
      * stress-ng: stress-dev: Remove useless call to stress_dev_infos_opened
      * stress-ng: sparsematrix: Fix null check
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version and code name
      * fast-test-all: add --vmstat 1 to show activity
      * Manual: update contributors
      * stress-procfs: workaround SIGSEGV/SIGBUS SH4 issues on 5.x
      * stress-sctp: remove unused variable msgs
      * stress-syscall: clean up a few more cppcheck style warnings
      * stress-syscall: fix always -ve return, return ret instead
      * stress-vecshuf: remove two redundant shuffles
      * stress-syscall: reduce scope of some variables
      * stress-sparematrix: compare i before using it as an index into array
      * stress-set: remove redundant assignments to variable ret
      * stress-atomic: voidify tmp to clean up cppcheck style warning
      * core-log: remove redundant continue statement at end of loop
      * core-helper: fix potential array overflow
      * stress-syscall: optimize shell sort comparison helper function
      * stress-syscall: re-order linux includes
      * stress-syscall: fix prctl calls for PR_GET_THP_DISABLE and
        PR_GET_TIMERSLACK
      * stress-syscall: check for KEYCTL_INVALIDATE being defined
      * stress-msync: fix data mapping, should be anonymous and not mapped
        to file
      * core-klog: scan for exceptions on the buffer buf, not on msg string
      * core-klog: disable code for non-linux builds
      * core-klog: add exceptions to ingore specific error messages
      * core-cache.h: disable ppc64 msync assembler
      * core-target-clones: Disable vector avx optimizations on older
        versions of gcc
      * stress-ng.h: check for failed lock acquire in inc_counter_lock
      * stress-yield: ensure residual is a signed integer for yielder
        computation
      * stress-syscall: add timeout check because alarm timer may be clobbered
      * stress-syscall: add yield points in wait spin loops
      * stress-aio-linux: remove fill of unused bufptr
      * core-log: remove inner scoped duplicated variable orig
      * stress-copy-file: handle cases where copy_file_range returns short
        copy lengths
      * stress-shm-sysv: don't exercise unaligned shmat with SHM_RND on
        FreeBSD
      * stress-syscall: fix accept4 HAVE_SYSCALL_ACCESS4 macro guard
      * stress-access: make stress_access_reap pid parameter a pid_t type
      * core-vmstat: FreeBSD should be reading vm.vmtotal and not vm.vmmeter
      * core-vmstat: remove NetBSD build for stress_get_cpu_ghz_average
      * core-vmstat: add NetBSD vmstat implementation
      * core-vmstat: add cpu user/sys/idle stats for FreeBSD
      * core-shim: use syscall for arch_prctl in preference to libc variant
      * stress-ng.h: add void in pr_lock_init prototype
      * stress-shm-sysv: move exercise_shmat to end of each test round
      * stress-syscall: fix pid == 0 child return from clone3
      * stress-syscall: add clone3, rename sys_clone3 to shim_clone3
      * stress-syscall: add rseq system call
      * stress-syscall: add execve system call and silence stdout/stderr
      * stress-syscall: add execve system call
      * stress-iosync: add missing : in pr_fail message
      * core-log: use pid as lock value, allows checking if spinlock owner
        is dead
      * stress-syscall: fix resource leaks
      * stress-mincore: don't exercise with huge range
      * Add lock_acquire failure checks in case of lockups
      * core-lock: add abort path on spinlock acquire
      * stress-syscall: add a few more system calls
      * stress-mincore: make vec a static to avoid any stack clobbering
      * stress-sigq: improve the keep stressing checks for better yielding
      * core-log: bail out if it takes more than 2 seconds to acquire spinlock
      * stress-sem-sysv: use unsigned int cast for semop size for DragonFlyBSD
      * stress-cyclic: add --cyclic-samples option to specify number of
        measurements to make
      * stress-kcmp: move declaration of mypid to clean up musl-gcc build
        warning
      * core-numa: add check for HAVE_LINUX_MEMPOLICY_H
      * stress-*: cast int32_t to uint64_t to match type of stress_check_range
      * stress-*: cast uint32_t to uint64_t to match type of
        stress_check_range
      * core-log: remove deprecated functions, make pr_lock_acquire static
      * stress-mincore: make function stress_mincore_expect static
      * stress-syscall: fix build failure on OpenWRT, rename stress_pidfd_open
      * README.md: move citation to correct place
      * stress-dentry: use shim_unlink rather than unlink
      * stress-syscall: clean up pcc warning about shadowed variable ret
      * stress-syscall: allocate linux dirents on heap rather than use stack
      * stress-syscall: use shim_rlimit_resource_t for rlimit id rather than
        int
      * stress-cpu: update normalized bogo-ops stats for callfunc
      * stress-cpu: force callfunc stressor method to perform deep nested
        calls on modified args
      * stress-dir: add some concurrent directory reading
      * stress-dentry: unlink non-existant files for more dentry look
        up failures
      * stress-access: add two concurrent file chmod+access child processes
      * stress-iosync: inform users that iomix is a better stressor for I/O
        testing
      * stress-ng: Fix bogo ops/sec (usr+sys time) stats when using getrusage
      * stress-syscall: make quotactl a Linux only system call test
      * stress-syscall: Fix OS X build failure, define xattr and lattr names
        correctly
      * Manual: Fix typo in syscall geomean2 entry
      * stress-syscall: remove symlinkat autodetection FIXME comment
      * Makefile.config: Add symlinkat build time detection
      * stress-syscall: remove FIX me comment on fstatat
      * stress-syscall: add lock/unlock around top 10 output
      * stress-numa: use %lu format specifier for unsigned long
      * stress-syscall: fix typo in fd name, fix build error
      * Makefile.config: Add build time check for fstatat
      * Makefile.config: Add test for sched_setaffinity, deprecate AFFINITY
        check
      * stress-exec: cast return from mmap to stress_pid_hash_t *
      * stress-malloc: disable aligned_malloc for OpenBSD
      * README: fix missing space
      * stress-enosys: remove SYS_sched_rr_stress_get_interval
      * core-log: add missing pr_lock_exited for non-locking variants
      * core-pragma: GCC pragmas for pop/push were added in 4.6.0, fix
        version
      * stress-syscall: Add new stressor to hammer a range of system calls
      * stress-mincore: add more mincore error checking
      * stress-io-uring: chek returned err rather than errno
      * stress-ng: only fetch backoff and ionice settings once
      * stress-ng: break stressor waiting code into smaller functions
      * stress-*: don't call pr_* with mutexes locked
      * core-log: improve locked logging primitives
      * stress-vecshuf: make stress_vecshuf_check_data static
      * core-helper: ensure hostname is free'd
      * stress-shm-sysv: free buffer on error return path
      * stress-zlib: cast DATA_SIZE to int to match assigned variable
      * stress-hash: use calloc for zero'd memory allocations
      * stress-hash: pre-allocate hash buffer, don't use stack based variable
        length array
      * stress-zlib: clean up some implict type casting issues
      * stress-cpu: add missing build time detection for complex sin/cos
      * stress-rawpkt: align buffer to 32 bit boundary for more efficiency
      * stress-opcode: using uint32_t type for opcode data
      * stress-sync-file: clean up implicit cast warnings on shim_off64_t
        and uint64_t
      * stress-readahead: add some explicit type casting for off_t, ssize_t
        type conversions
      * stress-mmapmany: make mappings a uint64_t pointer to avoid uint8_t
        to uint64_t conversions
      * stress-stack: make data a uint32 array to avoid type casting warnings
      * stress-sockdiag: families can be uint8_t instead of int, cleans up
        implicit cast warning
      * stress-sctp: cast sctp_sched to uint32_t
      * stress-lockbus: clean up overly pedandtic clang type cast warnings
      * stress-netlink-task: fix nlmsg_pid and nla_len types
      * stress-netlink-task: cmd should be uint8_t and not uint16_t
      * stress-af-alf: cast CMSG_DATA to uintptr_t to clean up pedantic
        warnings
      * stress-skiplist: use DEFAULT_SKIPLIST_SIZE for default skiplist size
      * stress-sem-op: cast -1 to size_t
      * stress-badaltstack: replace variable length array with fixed length
        array
      * stress-skiplist: replace variable length array on stack with heap
        allocated array
      * stress-ng/core-helper: add munging _ - strcmp, simplify stressor name
        finding
      * stress-ng: replace variable length array arglen with heap allocated
        array
      * stress-stack: replace variable length array with fixed length array
      * stress-shm-sysv: replace variable length array on stack with heap
        allocated array
      * stress-schedpolicy: replace variable length array on stack with heap
        allocated array
      * stress-numa: replace variable length array on stack with heap
        allocated array
      * stress-cyclic: replace variable length array on stack with heap
        allocated array
      * core-vmstat: replace variable length array on stack with heap
        allocated array
      * core-helper: replace variable length array on stack will heap
        allocated array
      * stress-sysfs: cast args->instance + 1 to uint64_t before
        multiplication
      * stress-udp: fix fd leak if stress_set_sockaddr_if fails
      * stress-sysfs: clean up static analysis overflow warning, make 50 a 50U
      * stress-dev: unlock spinlock on parport if ioctl fails
      * stress-copy-file: fix bytes_in/bytes_out check for preads
      * stress-futex: fix check for error or ENOSYS on futex_waitv
      * stress-sigfd: use correct size on mask
      * stress-sparsematrix: fix false positive warning on sparsematrix
        method overrun
      * stress-io-uring: fix incorrect index variable used in setting
        supported[]
      * core-perf: no need to report error return on failed locks, it's
        always -EINVAL
      * stress-sparsematrics: fix potential overflow on multiplication of
        sparsematrix_size
      * stress-procfs: set pollfd for ppoll call
      * stress-*: voidify ignored return from stress_get_setting call
      * stress-chmod: free mode_perms on error return path
      * stress-dccp: fix fd leak if stress_set_sockaddr_if fails
      * stress-udp: fix fd leak if stress_set_sockaddr_if fails
      * stress-exec: close fd if write fails, fixed fd leak
      * stress-fallocate: free mode_perms on error return paths
      * stress-sctp: fix fd leak if stress_set_sockaddr_if fails
      * stress-chattr: free flag_perms if mkdir fails
      * stress-sock: fix fd leak if stress_set_sockaddr_if fails
      * stress-swap: add check for mincore failure
      * stress-mcontend: fix double close on fd
      * stress-chmod: add zero check on mode_count to avoid % by zero warning
      * stress-bad-ioctl: fix calloc allocation failure, add a null check
      * stress-gpu: check for calloc failure on configs
      * stress-msync: use page_size for data size rather than sizeof(data)
      * stress-resources: remove tab in empty line
      * stress-mmapfork: voidify return from mmap, ignore it
      * Manual: clean up zlib options, add table formatting
      * stress-ng: disble warnings for vfork references
      * stress-exec: add vfork build time check, make stressor generic
      * stress-exec: add HAVE_CLONE checks to ensure clone is available
      * core-helper: deconstify getexecname pointer with strlcpy
      * core-helper: add stress_proc_self_exe to get path of executable
      * stress-getrandom: exerise libc getentropy() for more exercising
      * stress-mmapfixed: remove shim_msync ENOMEM check
      * stress-bad-altstack: add SIGILL handling and add #if defined checks
      * stress-ng: ensure checksum padding is zero and run_ok is set
      * stress-set: use shim_getdomainname
      * core-shim: add shim for setgroups to workaround size_t/int size arg
      * stress-ng.h: ensure futexes are aligned to 4 byte alignment
      * stress-str: voidify unused args for strcpy and strcat tests
      * stress-set: use INT_MIN for -ve setgroups size for EINVAL test
      * core-shim: fix 2nd arg to get/setdomainname enosys calls
      * stress-madvise: write out page sized data per write not pointer sized
        writes
      * stress-vecshuf: add missing __int128_t type check
      * stress-mmap: remove #if defined checks from retry label
      * stress-file-ioctl: move #endif to correct place
      * stress-exec: move linux #ifdef'd #endif to fix non-Linux build issues
      * core-helper: voidify unused paramater on stress_low_memory
      * stress-vecshuf: vector shuffling and permute stressor
      * Manual: add missing --oom-avoid option
      * stress-rdrand: scale rdrand rates to millions from billions
      * core-vmstat: fix swap and cache stats, now matches vmstat output
      * Add --oom-avoid option to try and avoid low-memory OOM killing
      * README.md: Add another resarch paper link
      * stress-madvise: Add MADV_COLLAPSE introduced in Linux 6.0
      * README.md: Add another white paper URL
      * stress-sigrt: allocate pids array on heap rather than use stack
      * stress-sysinval: use macro for array size of stress_syscall_args
      * stress-switch: allocate pipe read/write buffer on heap
      * stress-fds: allocate file descriptors on heap before forking child
      * stress-sigpipe: replace variable length array with mmap'd memory
      * stress-seal: replace variable length array with mmap'd memory
      * stress-ping-sock: make ping packet sized a fixed size
      * stress-madvise: replace variable length arrays with allocated
        heap/mmap'd memory
      * stress-tmpfs: replace two variable length arrays with heap
        allocated struct
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add --ipsec-mb-jobs option, default to 256
      * stress-ipsec-mb: attempt to use various aligned memory allocators
      * stress-ipsec-mb: replace viarable length arrays with heap allocated
        arrays
      * stress-sigsuspend: remove unused macro CACHE_STRIDE_SHIFT
      * stress-signest: cast size to intptr_t to clean up clang warning
      * stress-plugin: clean up some clang pedantic implicit type cast
        warnings
      * stress-cacheline: clean up some implicit casting warnings
      * stress-close: close a newly dup'd fd of stdout
      * stress-open: use dup to open a new file descriptor
      * stress-vecfp: initialize and store results using same type as vectors
      * stress-usersyscall: cast syscall return to long
      * stress-misaligned: make uint8_t * buffer ptr a uintptr_t to relax
        pedantic -Wcast-align warnings
      * stress-memthrash: put thread information in a heap allocated struct
        array
      * stress-memthrash: perform pointer arithmetic on uintptr_t value
      * stress-malloc: use size_t for malloc size and use MAX_MALLOC_BYTES
        macro
      * stress-apparmor: make array pids a fixed sized array
      * stress-vm-splice: mmap data array rather than use variable length
        array on stack
      * stress-enosys: allow int $80 to be called on clang builds
      * stress-dirmany: cast ptr diff to size_t to clear up pedantic clang
        warning
      * stress-dev: mmap buffer rather than using variable length page sized
        buffer on stack
      * stress-idct: make idct arrays fixed size of 8 x 8
      * stress-inode-flags: use correct size_t for variable inode_flag_count
      * stress-icmp-flood: make array pkt a fixed sized
      * stress-dynlib: replace variable length array with fixed size
      * stress-set: don't use variable length arrays on the stack for
        hostname and longname
      * stress-set: cast size argument to size_t for setgroups call
      * stress-revio: remove unused macro REVIO_OPT_O_MASK
      * stress-resourced: don't mix declarations and code
      * stress-open: make open_count a size_t to clean up type conversion
        warning
      * stress-matrix: use DEFAULT_MATRIX_SIZE as the default matrix size
      * stress-matrix-3d: use DEFAULT_MATRIX3D_SIZE as default matrix size
      * stress-clock: make timer_fail and timer_id fixed sized arrays
      * core-arch: introduce STRESS_ARCH_X86_64 and STRESS_ARCH_X86_32 macros
      * stress-reboot: add NORETURN annotation and cast reboot params to int
      * stress-nop: add NORETURN annotation on stress_sigill_nop_handler
      * stress-vm: use stress-mwc32() for 32 bit random values, not the 64
        bit version
      * stress-personality: replace variable length array with heap allocated
        memory
      * stress-msyncmany: mappings should be a uint64_t double ptr type
      * stress-randlist: remove unused macro
      * stress-quota: remove unused macros DO_*
      * stress-memrate: remove cast of variable i, not required
      * stress-pci: make variable length array a constant size of 4K
      * stress-mcontend: remove redundant array buffer
      * stress-str: replace variable sized arrays with pre-allocated buffer.
        Clean up type casting on funcs
      * stress-wcstr: replace variable sized arrays with pre-allocated buffer.
        Clean up type casting on funcs
      * stress-copy-file: add data filling and reduce copy-file chunks to
        128 KB
      * stress-copy-file: replace seek/read with pread where possible
      * Makefile.config: add pread and pwrite build-time detection
      * stress-copy-file: replace variable length arrays with fixed sized
        buffers
      * stress-msync: replace a variable length array with mmap'd 1 page buffer
      * stress-mmap: cast return from syscall to uintptr_t before void * cast
      * stress-getdent: use getdent types for ptr and buf, fix inverted .
        filename check
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: use mmap'd buffer instead of variable length
        array
      * stress-get: use correct voidification type for syscall
      * stress-funccall: use inlined helpers for complex types, remove type
        conversion on put
      * stress-file-ioctl: make dedup buffer a fixed size
      * stress-file-ioctl: add explicit cast to struct field assignments
      * stress-sigio: declare variables first before executable statements
      * stress-af-alg: use size_t for sizes as these are used in array
        indexing and allocations
      * core-job: remove use of variable length array
      * stress-udp-flood: make udp buffer fixed size to remove need for
        variable length array
      * stress-userfaultfd: use MAX_USERFAULT_BYTES as the maximum limit for
        the size
      * core-shim: use #defined buffer size rather than const int
      * stress-ng: fix rusage and CPU consumed metrics
      * stress-ng: use double precision for u_time and s_time stats
      * stress-matrix-3d: move voidification after variable declarations
      * stress-memthrash: move voidifications after variable declarations
      * stress-mmapmany: declare max so not to assign max before other
        declarations
      * stress-prctl: declare page_anon before calling stress_set_proc_state
      * stress-resources: put sem code in local block
      * stress-sigpipe: assign s_args after buf is declared
      * stress-switch: declare prio before calling inc_counter
      * stress-udp: move ret declaration before statements
      * stress-urandom: assign ret after all the variables are declared
      * stress-loadavg: assign buf after all variables are declared
      * stress-inotify: move voidification to avoid mixing declaration
        and code
      * stress-file-ioctl: move declarations to avoid mixing declarations
        and code
      * stress-dnotify: move voidification after declarations
      * stress-crypt: move statement salt[1] = id to after delcarations
      * stress-close: move statement fd = -1 to after delcarations
      * stress-bad-altstack: move statement after delcarations
      * stress-mcontend: move statement after delcarations
      * stress-matrix-3d: move voidifications after declarations for strict
        C99 compliance
      * stress-matrix: move voidifications after declarations for strict C99
        compliance
      * stress-cacheline: remove extraneous ;
      * stress-ng.c: Clean up some type casting and remove some extraneous ;
      * core-helper: move SUID_DUMP_* macros to where they are required
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add more exec stressor options
      * stress-exec: update --exec-max documentation
      * stress-sock: Fix memory leak on ctrls
      * stress-icache: need to keep PROT_EXEC when modifying the page
      * stress-vecfp: align vectors to 2048 byte boundary
      * stress-exec: add spawn fork method to use posix_spawn
      * stress-zlib: remove redundant final shift of v, it is not used
      * core-numa: Free nodemask, fix memory leak
      * core-cache: add shim_mfence implementations for ppc64 and sparc
      * README.md: add make clean to musl-gcc make example
      * core-shim: handle syscall to nice failing and retry with libc nice
      * core-klog: voidify return from snprintf
      * core-helper: constify stress_size_info_t fields
      * core-cache: use coding style for if/else code blocks
      * Makefile: should be removing core-perf-event.h not perf-event.h
      * debian/tests: add --metrics to fast-test-all
      * Makefile.config: fix typo: atomic_sto -> atomic_store_double
      * Makefile.config: fix typo: atomic_loa -> atomic_load_double
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * Manual: remove trailing whitespace
      * stress-exec: add parenthesis around expression to keep to stress-ng
        coding style
      * Manual: minor re-ordering of exec options, remove duplicated
        exec-method option
      * stress-exec: add an option to not call pthread
      * stress-vecfp: add vector floating point stressor --vecfp
      * stress-memthrash: remove HOT annotation from functions with
        TARGET_CLONES
      * Makefile: use ld-gold if it is available
      * stress-ng.h: Add parenthesis around constants
      * core-helper: move PAGE_4K* macros to core-helper.c
      * core-helper: move exit_status to core-helper, rename to
        stress_exit_status
      * stress-ng.h: remove stress_pstressor_info_t typedef
      * stress-ng.h: remove __sun__ externs, use shim wrappers for
        {get|set}domainname
      * stress-ng: replace switch statement with mapping table on exit
        status lookup
      * stress-ng: constify the pointer description
      * stress-cacheline: move val8 to inner loop scope
      * stress-cache: move variable declaration to inner scope
      * stress-ng: don't emit metrics on tests that don't have any
      * stress-ng.c: Add maximum RSS stats to --metrics output
      * stress-cpu: fix spelling mistake "const" -> "constant"
      * core-stressors.h: move STRESSOR macro and stressor names into
        core-stressors.h
      * stress-exec: re-work per-process context and stack allocation, add vfork
      * stress-exec: add fork method option to select the fork call to use
      * stress-vm: crank up optimization on read64 and write64 methods
      * stress-memthrash: rename swap32 to swap64 as it's swapping 64 byte hunks
      * stress-memthrash: add 128 byte chunk copying using 128 bit read/writes
      * stress-memthrash: add memory chunk swapping swap32 method
      * stress-ng.c: move stress_class_info_t from stress-ng.h
      * core-syslog.h: move syslog shims to new header, remove from stress-ng.h
      * core-cache.h: move cache specific structs and helper definitions to
        core-cache.h
      * core-pthread.h: move stress_pthread_args_t from stress-ng.h to
        core-pthread.h
      * core-pthread.h: move pthread shims from stress-ng.h to core-pthread.h
      * stress-bad-ioctl: use abstracted stress-ng locking
      * core-hash.h: move hash typedefs from stress-ng.h to core-hash.h
      * core-vmstat: move vmstat and iostat structs from stress-ng.h to
        core-vmstat.c
      * stress-ng.h: correct verification flag meaning in comment
      * stress-dev: move shim'd termios struct from stress-ng.h to stress-dev.c
      * stress-vm: move PRIME_64 from stress-ng.h to stress-vm
      * stress-ng.h: remove ppid field from per-stressor args struct
      * core-setting: add stress_set_setting_true helper to set bool settings
        to true
      * stress-malloc: add --malloc-zerofree option to zero memory before
        free'ing
      * stress-regs: bump gcc version to 8.0, on 7.5.x it runs out of spill
        space
      * stress-regs: bump gcc version to 6.0, on 5.x it runs out of spill
        space
      * stress-regs: only declare stash vars for required builds
      * stress-regs: rename cpu_regs to x86_cpu_regs and declare it only when
        required
      * stress-zombie: cater for systems that don't have getpgid
      * stress-regs: i386: don't check on v << 1, check ecx on v instead
      * stress-regs: add xmm8..xmm15 for SSE enabled CPUs
      * stress-regs: move mmx register code into helper function
      * stress-regs: add x86 mmx register exercising
      * stress-regs: Don't clobber frame pointer on ARM32
      * stress-epoll: make minimum events zero rather than -ve
      * core-helper: remove include of sys/mount.h
      * core-shim: remove include of sys/mount.h
      * core-shim: add include of sys/pidfd.h if it exists
      * stress-reg: add yield point to bail out early of register checks fail
      * stress-regs: add register value sanity checks
      * stress-regs: add i386 verification, move stash to stash32 and stash64
      * stress-regs: add verification, x86-64 and generic cases
      * stress-regs: fix stressor help information, was cut-n-pasted
      * stress-regs: cast v to 32 bit value before use for MIPS324R2
      * stress-regs: add ARM (32 bit) implementation
      * stress-regs: add ARM64 (aarch64) implementation
      * stress-regs: add MIPS32R2 implementation
      * stress-udp: fix build failure when UDP_GRO is not defined
      * stress-regs: sh4: include all the registers for final sum
      * stress-regs: add 32 bit register sh4 implementation
      * stress-regs: ensure i386 is using 32 bit registers
      * stress-regs: ensure m68000 is using 32 bit registers
      * stress-regs: add hppa PA RISC implementation
      * stress-regs: add MIPS64R2 implementation
      * stress-regs: add sparc implementation
      * stress-regs: add ppc64 implementation
      * stress-regs: add alpha implementation
      * stress-regs: add RISC-V implementation
      * stress-regs: add m68000 implementation
      * stress-regs: add i386 implementation of regs shuffling
      * stress-regs: remove trailing \ in macro to fix build error
      * stress-regs: add register exercising stressor (gcc only)
      * stress-exec: force large environment E2BIG exercising
      * stress-*: Enable target clones for clang-14
      * stress-vm: fix ptr128 increment error, should stide by +4 rather
        than +1
      * stress-vm: make wrrd64 into a 128 bit variant, rename method
      * stress-exec: add execve method option to select the execve call to use
      * stress-icache: break out common code into helper functions
      * stress-vm: rename nt-write to wrrd64nt and try to use non-temporal
        reads
      * core-nt-load: load arg should be addr, fix it.
      * stress-malloc: declare variable n at the correct place
      * Add clang non-temporal load shims
      * stress-vm: add non-temporal memory hammering method nt-write
      * stress-vm: add in a missing mb between writes
      * stress-malloc: add posix_memalign, aligned_alloc, memalign allocators
      * stress-userfaultfd: check if posix_memalign is available
      * stress-ng: remove g_pgrp, replace with main_pid
      * stress-*, core-*: remove use of setpgid, it doesn't do anything useful
      * stress-udp-flood: add error checking on stress_set_sockaddr_if call
      * stress-udp: break client/server code into helper functions
      * core-net: update stress_set_sockaddr_if to return error and use
        stressor pid
      * stress-vm: remove unused variables
      * stress-hdd: fix missing baddata check to see if data is correct
      * stress-ng: remove unused variable cpu
      * core-smart: remove unused variable n
      * stress-ng: move pid field into stats struct, removes need for pids
        array
      * stress-udp: use unique port for each instance
      * stress-sctp: use unique port for each instance
      * stress-rawpkt: use unique port for each instance
      * stress-dccp: use unique port for each instance
      * stress-sock: use unique port for each instance
      * stress-sock: ignore ECONNRESET as reportable failure on sends
      * stress-sock: add SO_RESERVE_MEM socket option
      * stress-fanotify: Add Linux 5.18 FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID flag
      * stress-prctl: exercise PR_SET_VMA
      * stress-fanotify: add Linux 5.17 FAN_RENAME flag
      * stress-close: handle failed close_range correctly, add open on fd 0
      * stress-open: open /proc/self/fd/0 on linux systems
      * stress-open: optimize open flags and fix close_range close error check
      * Avoid redefining _FORTIFY_SOURCE
      * stress-plugin: remove DONE debug message
      * stress-plugin: add --plugin stressor to allow user code stressing via
        shared libs
      * stress-open: add a --open-max N maximum limit of open files
      * stress-quota: Fix wrong arguments order in shim_quotactl_fd()
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:22:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.14.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version and update code name
      * stress-sctp: voidify sctp_sched param for systems that don't use it
      * stress-rtc: declare timeout if select is supported
      * stress-rtc: declare rfds if select is supported
      * core-shim: handle punch hole fallocate ops on unsupported systems as
        a no-op
      * stress-cacheline: only declare affinity changing helper if affinity
        is available
      * stress-pipeherd: add O_DIRECT build time detection
      * Fix build failure on systems w/o O_DIRECT defined
      * stress-zlib: disable TARGET CLONES for bcd, it segfaults gcc 8.3.0
        x86-64
      * stress-smi: enable SMI register clobbering for x86-64 only
      * stress-tun: cast to correct type on bind call
      * README.md: Add another citation
      * stress-ng: remove extraneous fflush call
      * stress-dev: initialize try_failed to clear up stupid cppcheck warning
      * stress-close: only declare fd_rnd if is is required
      * core-helper: move scope of variable i to inner scope
      * stress-vm: alias array of uint64_t vars with vector, clean up cppcheck
        warning
      * core-numa: sscanf for unsigned int, use correct type for val
      * stress-pipeherd: enable packet mode on pipe for more context switching
      * kernel-coverage: add a few more mount options for more kernel test
        coverage
      * README.md: rename libgcrypt11-dev to libgcrypt-dev
      * stress-io-uring: report ENOMEM failure on io-uring setup
      * stress-cache: clear up cppcheck style warning
      * kernel-coverage.sh: Fix truncated xfs invocation
      * stress-apparmor: remove unused variable ret
      * stress-*: introduce inc_counter_locked; locked counter read and
        optional increment
      * stress-ng.h: Add missing space in VOID_RET macro
      * stress-epoll: ignore SIGPIPE signals
      * stress-epoll: remove get/set counter calls
      * stress-epoll: add child alarm handler to exit child immediately
      * stress-epoll: send SIGALRM to inform processes to terminate
      * stress-epoll: add --epoll-sockets N option to set maximum number of
        open sockets
      * stress-epoll: limit number of open socket fds to 4096
      * stress-oom-pipe: allocate page sized buffers with mmap and fds with
        calloc
      * stress-oom-pipe: fix out of bounds access on buffer on write
      * Manual: use x symbol rather than x for multiply, fix typos
      * Manual: use up-arrow symbol instead of ^
      * stress-ng.h: Add stress_set_mbind prototype
      * Add NUMA --mbind option
      * stress-memcpy: declare builtin wrappers if builtin functions are
        available
      * stress-gpu: add --gpu-devnode DEVNAME option to specify device node
      * README.md: clarify stress-ng name, add sh4 and Serenity OS to notes
      * stress-rmap: remove shared counters, optimize memory filling
      * stress-sigsuspend: use lock protected counter rather than per-child
        counters
      * stress-iomix: use lock protected counter rather than per-child
        counters
      * stress-memcpy: add methods naive_o1, naive_o2 for -O1, -O2
        optimization levels
      * stress-apparmor: return EXIT_SUCCESS on successful completion
      * stress-dirdeep: handle cases where number of free inodes is reported
        as zero
      * stress-apparmor: keep retrying with corrupted apparmor data
      * stress-apparmor: removed shared memory for counters, use lock
        protected counter
      * kernel-coverage: add overlayfs
      * kernel-coverage: add exfat
      * kernel-coverage: add cacheline + affinity changing
      * stress-cacheline: add cacheline-affinity option
      * stress-mcontend: cache align buffer for minor performance improvement
      * stress-zero: exercise FIONBIO on /dev/zero
      * stress-dirmany: autoexpand filename to maximum allowed length
      * stress-handle: break allocatiom/open assign and check into multiple
        statements
      * stress-zlib: make some vars registers and clean up some white spaces
      * kernel-coverage: fix typo with stream index option, should be 3 and
        not 3A
      * stress-io-uring: fix build failures
      * stress-io-uring: add an xattr opcode for more test coverage
      * stress-kvm: handle EINTR more gracefully on ioctl calls
      * TODO: remove cacheline todo item
      * stress-io-uring: fix stressor: make ring 256 elements, memset output
        and using O_DSYNC
      * stress-chattr: sync chattr metadata to disk
      * stress-cacheline: clean up some cppcheck style warnings
      * stress-inode-flags: add fsync on file to force inode metadata updates
      * stress-open: add periodic syncs to force metadata to disk
      * stress-dirmany: force sync of metadata to disk for more I/O activity
      * stress-chmod: add sync call to ensure meta data is flushed to disk
      * stress-link: force sync to ensure metadat is written
      * stress-dirdeep: add sync to force metadata writes
      * stress-dentry: add sync call to ensure meta data is flushed to disk
      * kernel-coverage: add sync'ing on utime stressor
      * stress-chown: sync fd metadata to force more inode updates
      * stress-resched: clean up warnings for systems that don't support
        sched_setsceduler
      * Add build time detection for the syscall interface
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add itimer itimerval built time detection
      * stress-fanotify: add select build time detection
      * stress-resched: add detection of sched_setscheduler
      * Add select build time detection
      * test/test-pselect: disable pselect false positive for Serenity OS
      * stress-cpu/zlib: add drand, lrand and srand build time checks
      * stress-cacheline: set default cacheline size correctly
      * stress-*search: add build time check for searching functions
      * Add build-time check for key_t type for system V semaphores
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add get/setitimer build timer detection
      * stress-itimer: add get/setitimer build time detection
      * stress-dev: define O_DELAY as 0 if it is not defined
      * stress-iomix: cater for systems that don't support O_SYNC open flags
      * stress-sigsegv: don't check SEGV_ACCERR if it is not defined
      * stress-ng.h: undef ALWAYS_INLINE before redefining it
      * core-sched: stress-schedpolicy: add Serenity OS workarounds
      * kernel-coverage: taskset to CPU 0, run many instances on it
      * kernel-coverage: add iostat to get I/O stats during test run
      * stress-epoll: silently ignore EINVAL for sh4
      * stress-fork: ensure vfork exits immediately and deprecate --vfork-vm
        option
      * stress-cacheline: add adjacent byte read exercising and byte copying
        methods
      * stress-cacheline: l1_cacheline_size is now size_t, so use %zd format
        specifier
      * stress-cacheline: add an atomic increment method
      * stress-cacheline: break cacheline exercising code into methods
      * core-vmstat: add missing colon after name of stat info name
      * stress-*: add missing colon after stressor name for "using stressor"
        method info
      * stress-cacheline: share cache data among all stressors
      * stress-cacheline: add a mix of different read/write patterns
      * stress-cacheline: add more store/read contention across cache line
      * stress-open: fix spelling in a comment, the the -> the
      * Manual: replace "the the" with "the"
      * stress-cacheline: add verify always tag since this does verifcation by
        default
      * stress-dirdeep: Fix incorrect indexing into directory array
      * stress-cacheline: change class to cache class since it exercises cache
      * stress-ng: rename duration to run_duration to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-cacheline: exercise a cacheline between processes
      * core-vmstat: resolve block stats device for /dev/xxNNN by removing
        N digits
      * stress-syncload: truncate sleeps to microsecond accuracy
      * stress-syncload: remove jitter and use one sleep for delay
      * docs: Fix a few typos
      * stress-cpu: add deinit settings in return paths of stressor
      * Manual: use multiply sign instread of x for multiply
      * stress-peterson: remove empty line
      * core-vmstat: remove debug.
      * core-vmstat: add auto sleep adjustment to ensure we don't skew sleeps
      * core-log: always report warnings, and warn if test succeeded but
        terminated early
      * debian/tests/fast-test-all: add klog checking
      * stress-sigfpe: define and check STRESS_CHECK_SIGINFO for SA_SIGINFO test
      * stress-sigfpe: silently ignore invalid error codes for HPPA
      * stress-zlib: rename xsum -> checksum
      * stress-copy-file: remove debug
      * stress-copy-file: handle EOF reads correctly
      * stress-ng: make start time for duration measurement start at fork time
      * stress-ng: make premature time slop a bit longer
      * stress-ng: add zero bogo-ops sanity checks for runs > 30 seconds
      * core-log: add warn message type PR_WARN
      * stress-ng: add some slop to duration of run
      * stress-ng: add a warning if a stressor finishes prematurely
      * core-target-clones.h: add Intel cooperlake target clones directive
      * stress-zlib: fix brown noise unrolled loop
      * stress-fork: add more madvise random options for --fork-vm option
      * TODO: add caching item to todo list
      * stress-ng: metrics: split out misc. metrics from bogo/ops metrics
      * stress-zlib: pass buffer as uint64_t start/end pointers, add some
        optimizations
      * stress-swap: initialize swap_info.last_page more efficiently
      * stress-mq: fix counter initialization, should be outside of loop
      * stress-vm-segv: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-sysfs: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-stackmmap: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-shm: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-shm-sysv: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-ramfs: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-filename: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-enosys: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-efivar: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-bad-altstack: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * core-out-of-memory: remove redundant check if pid == 0
      * stress-open: initialize open flags with open default flag values
      * TODO: remove inode consumer, this is performed in dir* stressors
      * Makefile.config: clean up SYSV config annotations
      * stress-dccp: add protocol not supported socket error check on server
      * stress-dccp: add protocol not supported socket error
      * stress-set: move pid to local scope
      * stress-aio-linux: ensure iov is nullified on allocation failure
      * stress-fault: remove redundant assignment to fd
      * core-helper: voidify filename in stress_fs_type
      * stress-sctp: clean up some warnings on OS X
      * README.md: add another kernel issue found by stress-ng
      * core-helper: fix build failure
      * stress-file-ioctl: exercise FICLONERANGE with invalid parameters
      * stress-file-ioctl: exercise FICLONERANGE with random offset and sizes
      * stress-sock: move ALIGN64 hint to correct place in declaration
      * stress-memcpy: use wrapper on builtins to avoid passing them as a
        function ptr
      * stress-*: report file system type in file based failure messages
      * core-helper: add functions to determine underlying file system type
        name
      * stress-futex: silently ignore EINTR on a wait
      * stress-zlib: cache align buffers
      * stress-vecwide: cache align vector variables
      * stress-tee: align data buffers to cache boundary
      * stress-sockmany: make data cache aligned
      * stress-sock: cache align recv/send structures
      * stress-sctp: make data cache aligned
      * stress-rawsock: make raw packet cache aligned
      * stress-pipe: allocate pipe buffer with mmap, keep it page aligned
      * stress-ping-sock: align data to cache boundary
      * stress-null: align data to cache boundary
      * stress-mutex: align futex to cache boundary
      * stress-key: align data to cache boundary
      * stress-icmp-flood: align packet to cache boundary
      * stress-full: align data buffer to cache boundary
      * stress-udp-flood: align data buffer to cache boundary
      * Manual: use lB2 format specifier rather than lBw(8n)
      * stress-memcpy: workaround gcc 8.3.0 segfault on memmove
      * stress-ng: ensure all stressors get SIGALRM on terminate signals
      * stress-memcpy: enable verification on each memcpy/memmove operation
      * stress-get: move pid_t variable pid to more local context, clean up
        icc warning
      * stress-smi: add register clobber checks for SMI calls
      * core-ignite-cpu: keep minimum freq same as max freq, crank to C0 via
        /dev/cpu_dma_latency
      * stress-fcntl: define F_GETOWNER_UIDS for linux if not defined
      * stress-pty: fix HAVE_TCGETATTR check, remove extraneous D
      * stress-pty: add some mission ptr ioctls for more kernel coverage
      * stress-rtc: toggle on/off RTC_AIE_*, RTC_PIE_*, RTC_UIE* ioctls
      * stress-dev: add block ioctl BLKGETDISKSEQ
      * stress-rawpkt: exercise setsockopt options for more kernel coverage
      * stress-rawpacket: issue invalid sockopt option for more kernel test
        coverage
      * stress-rawpkt: cater for different TPACKET hdr versions
      * kernel-coverage: use udp lite for ipv4 and ipv6
      * stress-dirmany: print "0 bytes" rather than "0.0 bytes" for file size
      * kernel-coverage: add sctp scheduler options for more test coverage
      * stress-sctp: add sctp-sched option to specify SCTP scheduler
      * stress-sctp: add more socket options, add build time checks for sctp
        types
      * stress-procfs: add ppoll for more kernel testing
      * stress-aio-linux: add async preadv and pwritev commands
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:13:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.14.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Aleksandar N. Kostadinov]
      * README.md: alpine and container instructions
      * build container image
    
      [Dorinda Bassey]
      * stress-gpu: Add GPU stressor
    
      [Iyán Méndez Veiga]
      * Enable getrandom test on FreeBSD
    
      [Mayuresh Chitale]
      * stress-malloc: Fix for issue #201
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version and drop O3 to O2
      * README.md: Add another paper citation
      * core-log: use VOID_RET on fwrite returns to clean up warning on
        Oracle Linux
      * stress-splice: voidify unused arg fd
      * stress-mlock: handle EPERM failure on Solaris
      * stress-get: voidify pid to clear up Nixos build warning
      * stress-memfd: cater for EINVAL on some BSD flavours
      * stress-sem-sysv: remove size_t cast on semop arg -1
      * stress-fork: don't touch VM in vfork mode
      * stress-schedpolicy: undo voidify on schedpolicy call
      * test/test-builtin-bitreverse: access variables to clean up cppcheck
        warning
      * stress-swap: move variable ret to a deeper scope
      * stress-shm-sysv: move variable ret to a deeper scope
      * stress-dentry: move variable ret to deeper scope
      * stress-copyfile: move variables n, bytes_in, bytes_out to deeper scope
      * stress-binderfs: move ret to deeper scope
      * core-helper: add little endian check and 32 bit endian swapping
      * stress-rdrand: fix missing __ before volatile
      * Makefile.config: add extra check for compilation and linking
      * snapcraft: add in more dependencies
      * Makefile: define header variables for required dependencies
      * stress-fiemap: declare counter_lock only when it is required
      * stress-affinity: declare counter_lock only when it is required
      * stress-set: setgroups size arg maybe int or size_t, use int as type
      * core-*: use VOID_RET for return voidifications
      * stress-*: use VOID_RET for return voidifications
      * debian/control: add gpu stressor debian library dependencies
      * core-shim: constify stime prototype argument
      * stress-ng.h: move VOID_RET from stress-sockabuse to main header
      * Makefile: redirect apparmor parser output to /dev/null
      * stress-sigpipe: remove return from no-return function
      * core-out-of-memory: clean up name shadowing warning on variable ret
      * Clean up some more tcc warnings, minor changes
      * core-io-priority: return int from stress_get_opt_ionice_class on
        exit()
      * stress-ng: disable fortified source #define for tcc
      * stress-quota: minor type conversion clean ups
      * stress-splice: make flags unsigned int, clean up type warnings
      * stress-zlib: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-zlib: annotate non-return function with NORETURN
      * stress-tree: fix for-loop initializer for i, replace ; with ,
      * stress-timerfd: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-tee: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-syncload: clean up some implicit type cast warnings, make a
        bool static
      * stress-sockdiag: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-set: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-sem-sysv: clean up some implicit cast warnings
      * stress-seccomp: clean up implicit cast warnings, remove unused macro
      * stress-resources: cast size to off_t, add some struct padding
      * stress-fanotify: add Linux 5.19 FAN_MARK_EVICTABLE
      * core-out-of-memory: pass the error status back to parent
      * stress-switch: ensure sem_id is initialized to -1
      * stress-swap: use uint32_t for swap size as this is the max limit
      * stress-rtc: clean up implicit type cast warning
      * stress-sparsematrix: clean up implicit type casts, optimize struct
        packing
      * stress-softlockup: add parentheses to mark code as explicitly dead
      * stress-sock: cast -1 to socklen_t in setsockopt call
      * stress-sigsegv: use uintptr_t cast for pointer math
      * stress-secretmem: make offset variable sz an off_t
      * stress-resched: clean up type cast warnings
      * stress-randlist: clean up casting issues, use mwc random numbers
      * stress-prefetch: clean up implicit cast warnings
      * stress-opcode: clean up unused macro warnings
      * stress-wait: rename _ prefixed function, prefix it with syscall
      * stress-vm-rw: use macro MAX_VM_RW_BYTES, cast pointers to void *
      * stress-vforkmany: remove redundant goto after exit call
      * stress-vecwide: clean up implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-usersyscall: clean up implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-unshare: fix type of clone_flag_count, it should be size_t
      * stress-zlib: use __asm__ __volatile__ instead of asm volatile
      * stress-smi: clean up implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-clone: remove macro CLONE_STACK_SIZE and break statement
      * stress-ptrace: clean up implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-prctl: fix implicit type conversion warnings
      * stress-physpage: clean up implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-pageswap: clean up pedantic build warnings
      * stress-null: cast uint32_t from random value to int
      * stress-mutex: make mutex variable static
      * stress-msyncmany: clean up some implicit type casts
      * stress-exec: don't use execve for absolute path without full path
        prefix
      * stress-ng: make --exec-exit exit with success
      * Makefile: don't limit inlining max sizes for ICC toolchain
      * stress-open: remove inline from two helper functions
      * stress-aio: remove inline from aio_fill_buffer
      * stress-bad-altstack: remove inline from
        stress_bad_altstack_force_fault
      * stress-numa: remove inline from single use helper function
      * stress-open: remove duplicated declaration of variable i, cleans
        up name shadowing
      * stress-touch: rename array touch_method to touch_methods
      * stress-x86syscall: clean up implicit cast warnings
      * stress-x86syscall: rename ___ prefixed array
      * stress-x86syscall: rename variables to remove _ prefix
      * stress-vm: use MAX_VM_BYTES for maximum VM limit size
      * stress-verity: remove __ prefix off reserved
      * stress-usersyscall: user __asm__ __volatile__ instead of asm volatile
      * stress-tsc: use __asm__ __volatile__ instead of asm volatile
      * stress-syncload: use __asm__ __volatile__ instead of asm volatile
      * stress-sigtrap: use __asm__ __volatile__ instead of asm
      * stress-reboot: exercise SHIM_LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_SW_SUSPEND with
        incorrect magic
      * stress-rdrand: clean up some implicit cast warnings
      * stress-rdrand: use __asm__ __volatile__ instead of asm volatile
      * stress-peterson: make peterson object static, move bools in struct
        to remove struct hole
      * stress-pci: add NORETURN attribute to handler that does not return
      * stress-nop: make some objects static, remove extraneous ; after macro
      * stress-msync: use MAX_MSYNC_BYTES for the maximum limit
      * stress-msg: cast size -1 to size_t
      * stress-mremap: use MAX_MREMAP_BYTES for limit, remove duplicated
        DEFAULT_MREMAP_BYTES
      * stress-mq: add explicit type cast for max_prio
      * stress-mprotect: clean up some integer type warnings on implicit casts
      * stress-mmapmany: cast ptr to void * for printing address
      * stress-mmaphuge: make size size_t to match mmap size argument
      * stress-mmapfixed: cast len to ssize_t to clean up implicit cast
        warning
      * stress-mmap: cast size parameter to off_t, clean up implicit cast
      * stress-mmap: use MAX_MMAP_BYTES for the maximum mapping size
      * stress-mmap: clean up shadowing of variable rnd
      * stress-mmap: clean up variable shadowing of variable ret
      * stress-mincore: remove redundant macro VEC_MAX_SIZE
      * README.md: Add another kernel optimization reference
      * Makefle: disable pedantic build warning
      * stress-memrate: cast i to int to clean up implicit cast warning
      * stress-memfd: clean up implicit cast on size and remove unused macro
        MAX_MEMFD_BYTES
      * stress-mcontend: use __asm__ __volatile__ for asm volatile
      * stress-memcontend: use shim_mb inline function for memory barrier
      * stress-malloc: cast addr to void * for printf %p format
      * stress-madvise: clean up some implicit cast warnings
      * stress-loop: rename __reserved to reserved to remove __ prefix
      * stress-lockofd: remove redundant macro LOCK_SIZE
      * stress-locka: remove redundant macro LOCK_SIZE
      * stress-loadavg: make instances same type as args->instances
      * stress-link: clean up implicit cast warnings
      * stress-itimer: clean up implicit cast warning
      * stress-iomix: clean up a handful of implicit cast warnings
      * stress-hrtimes: clean up some implicit cast warnings
      * stress-hdd: use uint64_t for offset rather than size_t
      * stress-hash: make hash_stats static, clear up implicit cast warning
      * stress-gpu: clean up some implicit casting warnings
      * stress-get: cast pid to id_t for getpriority call
      * stress-futex: use long type for nanoseconds to match timespec struct
      * stress-fstat: ensure unsigned flag parameter is correct type
      * stress-fpunch: clear up implicit cast warnings
      * stress-fpunch: add NORETURN annotation to handler that calls _exit
      * stress-fcntl: use size_t type for setfl_flag_count
      * stress-fanotify: use correct type for flags
      * stress-fallocate: use correct type for i and remove shadowed variable
      * stress-enosys: clean up syscall arg types and use __asm__
        __volatile__
      * stress-dirmany: remove unused macro DEFAULT_DIRMANY_BYTES
      * stress-dirmany: fix type of i_start parameter, should be uint64_t
      * stress-dirdeep: remove unused macro and cast int to a char
      * stress-dev: cast -1 to unsigned int
      * stress-dev: fix BLKROSET ioctl, missing fd and pass by ref
      * stress-cpu: clean up some implicit type casting warnings with
        explicit casting
      * core-builtin: case complex arg in shim'd csin/ccos to double
      * stress-cpu: rename _ prefixed macro with STRESS_ prefix
      * stress-copy-file: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-clone: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-chmod: make mode_count and mode_perms non-static
      * stress-chattr: clean up some type casting warnings
      * stress-cache: clean up some implicit type casts
      * stress-bad-ioctl: cast int to uint16_t to clean up implicit casting
      * stress-alarm: add explicit type casts to avoid any type conversion
        warnings
      * stress-aio-linux: add explicit type casts to avoid any type
        conversion warnings
      * stress-ng: include core-put.h for global put storage
      * stress-ng: use size_t for string pointer length
      * stress-ng: explicitly cast pid_t to pid arg in kill call
      * stress-ng.h: forgot to check in changes in statx and pkey_alloc shims
      * stress-affinity: move bools in struct for better packing
      * core-thrash: clean up some type warning issues
      * core-smart: add explicit type casts to avoid any type conversion
        warnings
      * core-shim/stress-pkey: add explicit type casts to avoid any type
        conversion warnings
      * stress-ng.h: make stats a flexible array rather than a zero length
        array
      * core-module: use correct type for flags parameter
      * core-locks: add ( ) around 0 to silence clang pedantic warning
      * core-helper: add explicit type casts to avoid any type conversion
        warnings
      * core-hash: add explicit type casts to avoid any type conversion
        warnings
      * stress-ng: use __asm__ __volatile__ instead of asm volatile
      * stress-ng.h: add some more struct padding
      * stress-landlock: add in some missing type casts
      * core-perf: replace _SNG_ macro prefix with STRESS_
      * core-cache: remove need for variable sized arrays on stack
      * Makefile.config: add memory barrier asm build time support check
      * stress-ng.h: add struct padding to keep alignments naturally aligned
      * stress-ng: move two bools together to pack stress_stats_t more
        efficiently
      * stress-jpeg: tidy up some type conversion casting
      * stress-ng.h: add all args to deprecated function prototypes
      * stress-futex: zero futex with memset rather than set all fields
      * stress-ng.h: rename __ prefixed variables as these are reserved
        prefix chars
      * Manual: remove racy counter notes now that these are fixed
      * stress-malloc: clean up racy comment
      * stress-fiemap: replace racy counters with fast locking counters
      * stress-affinity: replace racy counters with fast locking counters
      * stress-malloc: replace racy counters with fast locking counters
      * stress-zlib: add a ror32 random data generator
      * core-helper: use register vars in stress_flag_permutation
      * core-helper: use builtin sqrt shim for prime computation
      * core-helper: optimize stress_uint8rnd4 a little more
      * stress-oom-pipe: fill pages so kernel page compaction works harder
      * stress-memfd: fill pages so kernel page compaction works harder
      * stress-dev: voidify function args for non-x86 builds
      * core-thrash: make fpmap non-clobberable by longjmp
      * stress-mprotect: cast ptr to void * to clean up OpenHipster warnings
      * stress-mmap: cast mmap return to uint8_t * to clean up OpenHipster
        warnings
      * stress-touch: remove the need for pthreads
      * stress-touch: use generic stress-ng locks rather than spinlock
      * core-lock: add more pthread mutex build time checks
      * stress-rawsock: remove PTHREAD dependency, move rawsock_lock
      * stress-mprotect: handle SIGBUS for OS X
      * core-thrash: implement no-op stress_pagein_self for non-Linux systems
      * stress-touch: use shim version of unlink
      * stress-open: use shim version of unlink and rmdir
      * stress-open: use open_arg2/3 helpers, remove debug
      * stress-ng: only destroy perf.lock if perf stats are enabled
      * README.md: Add NUMA performance regression link
      * core-helper: replace whitespaces with tabs
      * stress-memfd: allocate file space with fallocate
      * stress-resources: allocate memory using fallocate on memory fd
      * core-lock: add generic locking API
      * stress-inode-flags: clear all inode flags to enable tmp file deletion
      * stress-timerfd: add linux check to ioctl #define, use uint64_t as type
      * stress-dentry: remove empty line
      * stress-clock: move random seed setting to match stress-ng coding style
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * stress-zlib: add 5 bit GCR encoded random data method
      * stress-gpu: remove empty line
      * stress-gpu: use stress-ng variable declaration style
      * stress-gpu: minor formatting tweaks to match stress-ng coding style
      * stress-gpu: update copyright text
      * stress-gpu: some more failure checking clean-ups
      * stress-gpu: make egl_config_attribs static const
      * stress-gpu: re-work error handling messages to keep with stress-ng
        style
      * stress-gpu: constify some function args and make functions and
        objects static
      * stress-gpu: remove trailing space
      * stress-gpu: remove break in while loop for successful GPU bogo ops
      * stress-mmap: disable mmap random flags using mask
      * stress-sem-sysv: fix spelling mistake in comment
      * stress-xattr: exercise empty xattr value
      * stress-open: fix __NR_futimes syscall type, exercise more illegal
        tv values
      * stress-timerfd: exercise TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS ioctl
      * stress-dev: perform write of zero to page zero on /dev/mem
      * stress-splice: set randomly pipe sizes where possible
      * stress-splice: add random flag SPLICE_F_MORE, SPLICE_F_MOVE
      * stress-efivar: constify function arguments
      * stress-dev: constify function argument
      * stress-quota: constify function arguments
      * stress-pidfd: constify function arguments
      * stress-open: constify arguments
      * stress-netlink-proc: constify arguments
      * stress-l1cache: constify arguments
      * stress-touch: correct the copyright information
      * stress-ng: constify argument instance
      * stress-smi: Fix spelling mistake "MSI" -> "MSR"
      * stress-fallocator: remove debug printf
      * stress-nanosleep: clean up missing tab in table formatting
      * stress-icmp-flood: minor buffer + offset changes with const pointers
      * README.md: Add URL to Linux Foundation presentation
      * stress-touch: use shared memory for spinlock, fix locking issue;
        add all opts
      * stress-touch: handle EINTR on waitpid gracefully
      * stress-touch: remove empty line
      * stress-touch: add concurrency to exercise parallel touching in
        directory
      * Add touch stressor that open/create/closes/unlinks files rapidly
      * stress-mmap: handle SIGBUS for hugepage mappings
      * Add Linux Foundation Webinar slide deck (PDF)
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: add page writes to increase DTLB write misses
      * stress-zombie: move pid scope, re-use pid rather than head dereference
      * stress-zombie: use pid to check for process
      * core-thrash: add helper to pagein pages in a process, use this in
        fork stressor
      * stress-physpage: write to mmap'ing of the physical page if possible
      * README.md: use --stdout instead of stderr redirection
      * stress-chattr: exercise chattr flag permutations for more coverage
      * stress-sysinval: add more flag bits to flag arguments
      * stress-fcntl: exercise all SETFL flag permutations for more coverage
      * stress-unshare: remove tabs from empty line
      * stress-unshare: exercise all permutations of unshare clone flags
      * stress-shm-sysv: add some more shm mode flags
      * stress-fallocate: exercise all the permutations of fallocate
        mode flags
      * stress-clone: add check for zero clone permutations
      * stress-clone: exercise permutations of clone flags
      * core-helper: use unsigned int for flag shifting to avoid sign bit
        propagation
      * README.md: Add another issue found with stress-ng
      * stress-mmap: exercise all permutations of mmap flags for more coverage
      * stress-chmod: exercise all mode permutations for more coverage
      * stress-open: add *BSD and Solaris open flags for wider testing
      * stress-inode-flags: work through all permutations of inode flags
      * stress-open: exercise every open flag permutation
      * stress-mmap: ensure context.mmap_prot_perms is free'd if used
      * stress-mmap: exercise random protection flags
      * Usage rusage stats if they are available rather than times
      * stress-cpu: Fix comment, remove non-ASCII character
      * stress-cpu: normalized method cpu bogo ops for more consistent metrics
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * README.md: add libseccomp-dev for Alpine Linux
      * stress-schedpolicy: check for ENOSYS when setting policy
      * stress-sysfs: forceful kill using SIGKILL and not SIGHUP
      * core-shim: handle non punch fallocate workarounds
      * Add helper to generate bit flag permutations, use it in mprotect
      * README.md: update number of stressors
      * stress-mprotect: add mprotect stressor
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:09:02 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.14.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Alexander Kanavin]
      * Makefile: quote CC
    
      [Thinh Tran]
      * stress-rawsock: close recv socket once sender is closed
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-jpeg: don't allocate row_pointer array on stack, use heap
        instead
      * stress-msyncmany: sanity check for null ptr
      * stress-sctp: remove shadowed variable ret
      * stress-zlib: fall back to stress_mwc64 if rdrand is not supported
      * stress-msync: cast address to void * to clean up build warning on
        OpenHipster
      * Add check for pthread_np.h as required for DragonFlyBSD
      * test-setmntent: clean up cppcheck style warning
      * test/test-endmntent: remove unused variable mount
      * stress-utime: use correct defines to check for verify
      * stress-utime: only declare variable verify when it is required
      * README.md: update Linux distro flavours
      * stress-mmapfixed: clean up build warning on unused variable page_mask
      * stress-madavise: voidify addr and size args
      * Makefile: add in Makefile.comfig build dependency
      * Makefile.config: disable FAST_MATH as this causes fp-error to regress
      * README.md: Add some more references to papers that use stress-ng
      * README.md: reference another academic paper
      * README.md: reference https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3519601
      * README.md: remove extranous ]
      * README.md: add another kernel bug found with stress-ng
      * stress-sockmany: fix double "" build failure
      * stress-sockmany: add in missing --sockmany-if short help
      * stress-udp-flood: add in missing --udp-flood-if help
      * stress-rawudp: add --rawudp-if interface option to specify desired
        network interface
      * stress-udp-flood: add --udp-flood-if interface option to specify
        desired network interface
      * stress-udp: fix missing interface on socket setup
      * stress-sockmany: add --sockmany-if interface option to specify
        desired network interface
      * stress-sockabuse: fix help information, replace cut-n-paste help
      * stress-sctp: add --sctp-if interface option to specify desired
        network interface
      * stress-sock: return setting error status for --sock-if
      * stress-udp: return setting error status for --udp-if
      * stress-dccp: add --dccp-if interface option to specify desired
        network interface
      * core-net: remove deprecated helper stress_set_sockif
      * stress-sock: add --sock-if interface option to specify desired
        network interface
      * stress-udp: add --udp-if interface option to specify desired network
        interface
      * stress-rawsock: start recv only once all senders are up and running
      * stress-vm: add forward and reverse memory exercising, fwdrev method
      * stress-resources: add mutex create/destroy resource usage
      * stress-ng.h, stress-version.h: Add ICC support for alignment hinting
      * stress-jpeg: fix bitwise & on bits of RGB brown noise
      * Add clang builtin bit reversal build time checks
      * core-bitops.h: Add reverse64/32/16/8 integer reversal functions
      * Manual: update mmapfixed manual to reflect the new range mremappings
      * stress-mmapfixed: walk through a large address range based on random
        start
      * Makefile: remove trailing space
      * stress-jpeg: add brown noise source image type
      * stress-utime: add check for struct utimbuf and utime()
      * Add build-time checks for endmntent and setmntent
      * Makefile.config: re-format dependencies
      * stress-jpeg: use builtin shim wrappers for math functions
      * stress-cpu: use builtin roundl where possible
      * stress-cpu: use shim_exp and shim_log in stress_cpu_explog()
      * stress-cpu: use builtin cexp if it exists
      * Add FAST_MATH check for -ffast-math compiler option
      * stress-jpeg: clean up some spacing/table formatting
      * stress-zero: remove some empty lines
      * core-vmstat: run vmstats with real time deadline scheduling where
        possible
      * stress-rawsock: check keep stressing state before each send/recv
      * stress-rawsock: stagger start time of instances to reduce lockup
        races
      * stress-rawsock: make client wait for server to start
      * Makefile: rename verbose V and quiet Q prefix variables to PRE_V
        and PRE_Q
      * Update copyright on various source files
      * stress-zlib: add fast Lehmer random number generator
      * stress-mutex: swap order of options help around
      * stress-mutex: add --mutex-affinity option to enable random CPU
        affinity setting
      * stress-cpu: add div8 and div128 division cpu stressor methods
      * stress-signest: only dump out signal stats on instance 0
      * stress-zlib: remove duplicated table of random data generators
      * stress-zlib: add a rdrand random data generator method
      * stress-madvise: don't poison zero pages that are in-core
      * stress-ng: log how stress-ng was invoked with -v verbose mode
      * stress-loop: constify loop_attr
      * stress-jpeg: make quality parameter const
      * stress-jpeg: make constants double, make row_stride const
      * stress-jpeg: rename 2 * pi as tau, use M_PI for pi constant
      * stress-usersyscall: make libc_path larger to avoid potiential
        overflows
      * stress-pthread: use && instead of & bit-wise operator
      * stress-klog: use || instead of bitwise operator
      * stress-loadavg: use && instead of bitwise & operator
      * core-thrash: make prot array larger to avoid sscanf overflow
      * stress-af-alg: ignore deprecated skciper ecb(arc4)
      * Add the msyncmany stressor
      * stress-cache: add --cache-clwb (cache line writeback) option
      * core-vmstat: call _exit() on vmstat termination
      * stress-mutex: add priority inheritence on mutex
      * Add a pthread mutex stressor --mutex, --mutex-ops and --mutex-procs
        options
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Thu, 5 May 2022 23:45:24 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.14.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Mike Koreneff]
      * fix ipsec avx feature selection
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version and update codename
      * stress-jpeg: add build time detection for open_memstream()
      * test/test-libjpeg: remove variable row_stride
      * stress-jpeg: reduce scope of variables t1 and t2
      * stress-funcret: add a helper function to set variable data
      * stress-vm: clean up some static analysis pedantic warnings
      * stress-sockfd: clean up pedantic cppcheck warning
      * stress-jpeg: add --jpeg-image option to select source image type
      * README.md: Update library dependencies, add libjpeg
      * stress-jpeg: clean up some whitespace/tab indentations
      * Add more compiler version detection smarts.
      * stress-jpeg: make jpeg stats debug only
      * Makefile.config: fix typos in function names
      * stress-jpeg: Add jpeg compression stressor
      * stress-cpu: Replace another unicode char in comment with -
      * Add two more CPU loading mechanisms
      * stress-open: ensure openat/openat2 open file in the temp path
      * stress-inode-flags: remove empty line
      * stress-env: remove blank line
      * stress-dnotify: add in empty line
      * stress-tsearch: clean up conditional formatting
      * stress-chroot: clean up formatting of test_chroot_test_funcs
      * stress-apparmor: remove some blank lines
      * REAME.md: add another kernel fix to issues found by stress-ng
      * stress-cpu: add some branch optimization hints with LIKELY()
      * stress-dekker: add LIKELY hints
      * stress-cache: add LIKELY annotation on loop bounds check
      * stress-cache: add --cache-enable-all to enable all cache exercising
        options
      * stress-cpu: Replace unicode char in comment with -
      * stress-physpage: make functions static
      * stress-peterson: make functions static
      * stress-dekker: make functions static
      * stress-urandom: exercise off-page reads of /dev/random
      * stress-netlink-task: cast pointer to char * for pointer arithmetic
        warning fix
      * stress-landlock: cast argument to enum landlock_rule_type
      * Add build time check and a shim for enum __rusage_who_t
      * Add build time check and a shim for enum __ptrace_request
      * Add build time check and a shim for enum __pid_type
      * Add build time check and a shim for __itimer_which_t
      * Add build time check and a shim for __priority_which_t
      * Add build time check and a shim for __rlimit_resource_t
      * stress-sparsematrix: workaround clang warnings on JLFA macro
      * stress-peterson: cast return from mmap to clean up Solaris build
        warning
      * stress-dekker: cast return from mmap to clean up Solaris build warning
      * stress-ng: add workaround for setdomainname on Solaris
      * stress-ng: add workaround for getdomainname on Solaris
      * stress-madvise: cast buf to void * to clear up solaris build warnings
      * core-klog: fix build warning on unused variable for non-Linux builds
      * Makefile.config: check for sys/capability.h with test-cap test
      * stress-madvise: only print raced frees if MADV_FREE is defined
      * Makefile.config: fix tpause and pause instruction checks
      * Makefile.config: use makefile targets for each config check, speeds
        up config checking
      * stress-dev: avoid tty ioctls on /dev/ndctl devices
      * stress-utime: fix build failure; missing ;
      * stress-dev: avoid tty ioctls on /dev/nmem devices
      * stress-dev: pass size by reference for BLKBSZSET ioctl
      * stress-dev: fix misuse of TCOOFF, TCOON, TCOIOFF, TCION args
      * Makefile.config: add more CPU specific information for specific target
        clones
      * stress-utime: use system call for utime in preference to libc call
      * stress-quota: skip stressor if no quota enabled filesystems are found
      * stress-peterson: don't inc counter in p0
      * stress-dekker: don't inc counter in p0
      * stress-dekker: fix grammer in the short help information
      * Add the Peterson Algorithm stressor, --peterson, --peterson-ops
      * Add Dekker Algorithm stressor, --dekker, --dekker-ops
      * stress-lockf: remove some empty lines
      * stress-ng: add YAML open/close helper functions
      * kernel-coverage: add --klog check to sanity check for kernel splats
      * Makefile: add --klog-check to make slow-test-all rule
      * stress-ng: rename stress_get_pagesize to stress_get_page_size
      * stress-ng: call stress_get_pagesize just once
      * stress-ng: break overly long message into a few lines
      * stress-ng: move successful run message to later in termination phase
      * core-klog: use global shared flag so child can indicate error to main
        parent
      * core-klog: flag an error for stress-ng exit() when klog errors are
        detected
      * core-klog: prefix messages with klog-check: so they can be easily found
      * core-klog: make Out of memory message a warning
      * stress-madvise: move goto label to start of a statment
      * core-klog: use continues instead of gotos
      * Add --klog-check, a simple kernel log error checker
      * stress-madvise: add racy madvise/read checks
      * core-helper: bump minimum stack size for signal handlers to 64K
      * Manual: remove extraneous word, no major change
      * stress-tmp: exercise minimal xattr set/remove on tmp file system
      * stress-ng: silently ignore SIGALRM terminations in debug
      * README.md: Add ClearLinux library dependencies
      * Remove mtrr from TODO now that this is covered
      * stress-physpage: Add mtrr add/del on physical page for x86
      * stress-dirdeep: don't print 2^64-1 inodes when we don't know how many
        are available
      * TODO: Remove floppy disk ioctls
      * stress-dev: reorder device entry checking, keep cdroms together
      * test/test-libxxhash: return hash value, clean up clang scan warning
      * stress-dirdeep: remove duplicated shadow'd declaration of variable ret
      * stress-pipe: fix name shadowing on variable pid
      * stress-dirdeep: add --dirdeep-files and --dirdeep-bytes options
      * stress-dirmany: add a file size option --dirmany-bytes
      * stress-dev: add in block device BLKBSZSET ioctl
      * stress-dev: add block ioctls BLKRASET, BLKFRAGET, BLKFRASET, BLKROSET
      * README.md: update commit sha for minix file system bug report
      * core-ignite-cpu: try to maximize intel-pstate cpu freqs
      * core-ignite-cpu: add energy_perf_bias setting
      * stress-longjmp: remove { } brackets
      * stress-ng: Fix SIGINT sending alarm signal to all stressors
      * stress-rawpkt: zero sadr to ensure struct is completely initialized
      * stress-rawpkt: add recv size sanity check before processing pkt data
      * stress-dev: remove duplicate floppy ioctls, add a couple more floppy
        ioctls
      * stress-prefetch: remove blank line
      * stress-dev: remove debug message
      * stress-dev: add first cut of simple floppy IOCTLS
      * core-target-clones: Add tigerlake, sapphirerapids and rocketlake
        target clones
      * Manual: update copyright for Colin Ian King
      * Manual: clean up grammar for the sparse matrix options
      * Manual: spell naive with nroff formatted double dotted i.
      * core-helper: add stress_get_open_count to find number of open files
      * Manual: fix missing comma between contributor names
      * Fix typo: smarg -> smart
      * Makefile: add uninstall make rule
      * stress-bind-mount: don't call _exit on SIGALRM
      * stress-resources: add yield point on dcache open resource for-loop
      * stress-pci: add more yield points for systems with many PCI devices
      * stress-fanotify: add out of file descriptor and out of memory failures
      * stress-bind-mount: add tmp directory removal
      * Update TODO list, add floppy disk ioctls to items to do
      * stress-dev: add two more CDROM ioctls
      * kernel-coverage: update copyright
      * stress-rtc: exercise illegal RTC ioctl
      * Manual: update contributors
      * kernel-coverage: increase sysfs coverage to 10 minutes
      * stress-sysfs: increase rate of sysfs files being exercised
      * stress-*: ensure boolean is assigned a boolean value
      * stress-pipe: exercise child's fd info for the opened pipe
      * stress-dev: exercise child's fd info for the opened device file
      * stress-efivar: exercise child's fd info for the opened file
      * stress-filename: exercise child's fd info for the opened file
      * stress-rtc: exercise RTC_PARAM_GET and RTC_PARAM_SET
      * kernel-coverage: enable memory thrasher for vm and brk stressors
      * stress-pci: remove white space and empty line
      * stress-file-ioctl: add FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR/FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctls
      * stress-procfs: exercise invalid /proc/pci ioctl
      * stress-pci: attempt to read pci ROM via mmap
      * kernel-coveage: exercise UDP-GRO
      * stress-upd: add --upd-gro to enable Generic Receive Offload if
        supported
      * stress-shm-sysv: mlock/munlock 1st page of each mapping for more shm
        work
      * stress-shm: mlock/munlock 1st page of each mapping for more shm work
      * stress-kvm: add some more instructions into vm code
      * Makefile.config: remove debug make rules
      * stress-skiplist: add a level check to avoid static analysis false
        warning
      * core-ftrace: free object if RB_INSERT finds an existing matching node
      * stress-sparsematrix: free a new node if RB_INSERT finds existing value
      * stress-sparsematrix: reference object size by the actual type
      * stress-quota: replace memset with explicit setting of name and valid
      * stress-usersyscall: voidify return from syscall
      * stress-bind-mount: use shim wrapper for rmdir
      * Makefile: pass CC down to Makefile.config to allow clang scan build to
        work
      * stress-tree: replace spaces with tab in indentation
      * stress-dev: add some more CD-ROM ioctls for more coverage
      * stress-tree: add some more optimizations, ~8-15% faster btree
      * stress-tree: make btree functions static, manually inline node
        allocation
      * stress-tree: add a 31 node btree to the tree mix
      * stress-hsearch: add DragonFlyBSD notes on hdestroy semantics
      * README.md: move bug report to correct place in README
      * README.md: Add a Minix kernel bug found by stress-ng
      * README.md: Add a few more kernel fixes to bugs found by stress-ng
      * README.md: replace bug report URL with kernel commit SHA link
      * stress-madvise: add MADV_POPULATE_READ MADV_POPULATE_WRITE
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:41:14 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.12-2) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Fix SIGINT sending alarm signal to all stressors (LP: #1966657)
        - should be sending signal to the process group and not a specific pid
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:02:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Maya Rashish]
      * stress-sysinval: correct typo timerfd_settime
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: add in core-vecmath.h to make dist rule
      * Manual: update date
      * Makefile: update version
      * Makefile: update code name to "refulgent coruscating seadragon"
      * core-shim: use system call for getcpu for S390x
      * stress-cpu: disable decimal math on s390x to avoid SIGILL
      * stress-usersyscall: check if user syscall mechanism is implemented
      * stress-sysbadaddr: include ptrace header
      * stress-sigsegv: only declare has_sse2 when it is required
      * stress-sysinval: cast return from mmap to clean up OpenHipster
        warning
      * stress-mmapmany: cast return from mmap to uint64_t * to clean up
        OpenHipster warning
      * core-vmstat: fix build warning in stress_find_mount_dev
      * core-vmstat: check for makedev/major macro include file
      * stress-dirdeep: check for null scanlist items
      * stress-dirdeep: don't exercise more inodes than those available
      * stress-zombie: voidify pid argument for non-linux builds
      * stress-sysinval: remove closed comment */ for getdtablesize
      * stress-radixsort: add in missing const in strcmp casts
      * stress-env: rename variable sz to env_sz to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-timer: remove blank line
      * stress-zombie: add zombie state check when --verify is enabled
      * stress-vm-segv: add simple test validation check
      * stress-usersyscall: add verify always flag since the inteface is
        being checked
      * stress-tee: add counter check to verify data is sane over pipes
      * stress-swap: add simple page check value to ensure swap works
      * stress-swap: add swap retries and measure swapped pages
      * stress-sparsematrix: add verify always flag
      * stress-sockpair: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sockmany: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sockfd: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sock: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sendfile: add verify flag, don't report system errors as
        failures
      * stress-sigsuspend: report system errors with pr_err rather than
        pr_fail
      * stress-sigrt: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sigq: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sigpipe: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sigio: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sigfpe: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sigfd: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sigchld: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-shellsort: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-sendfile: add verify flag, don't report system errors as
        failures
      * stress-rmap: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-rlimit: remove a blank line
      * stress-radixsort: add optional sort order verification
      * stress-qsort: replace fail message on calloc failure with error
        message
      * stress-pidfd: add verify flag and replace a fail with an error
        message
      * stress-nanosleep: report error as an error not as a test failure
      * stress-mmapmany: add memory contents verification
      * stress-mmapaddr: indicate that verification is always on
      * stress-longjump: add a simple longjmp failure detection for
        verification
      * stress-lockofd: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-lockf: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-locka: report system errors with pr_err rather than pr_fail
      * stress-list: add verify flag since the lists are being santity
        checked
      * stress-lease: add one verification point on lease UNLOCK
      * stress-itimer: add verification of itimer signal handling
      * stress-iosync: add more verification checks on sync'ing calls
      * stress-hrtimers: add hrtimer interrupt detection for verification
      * stress-goto: fix cut-n-paste error in --goto-direction error message
      * stress-filename: add verify VERIFY_ALWAYS since stressor does
        validation
      * stress-exit-group: add simple check to see if exit_group exits
      * stress-env: make verify optional based on --verify setting
      * stress-env: add low memory checking and env var value checking
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add in missing core-cpu.h include
      * TOOD: add a couple more ideas of stress cases that could be added
      * test-v2di: reference variable __v2di to clean up cppcheck style
        warning
      * test-timerfd-settime: remove unused variable timerid
      * test-timerfd-gettime: remove unused variable timerid
      * test-sendfile.c: use variable count
      * stress-ng.h: move core-cpu prototypes into core-cpu.h
      * stress-vm: clean up pedantic volatile discard warning on prefetch
      * stress-sysinval: no need to make stress_syscall_exercised volatile
      * stress-pthread: rename pthreads to pthread_info
      * stress-memrate: clean up pedantic volatile discard warning on
        prefetch
      * stress-vm: replace aliased pointer with direct cast
      * stress-bind-mount: use umount2 to umount, check for files in bind
        mount
      * stress-cpu: add logistical map chaotic data computation method logmap
      * Manual: update bug filing URL
      * stress-alarm: move #defines to start of code
      * stress-aio: constify pattern argument
      * stress-aio: align macro constants
      * stress-aio-linux: constify some more function arguments
      * stress-aio-linux: align #define constants
      * stress-af-alg: add extra ( ) around comparison expressions
      * stress-access: use stress_check_capability to check if root
      * core-helper: inline helper function stress_check_root
      * stress-vm-rw: fix cut-n-paste error on PROCESS_VM_WRITEV check
      * stress-usersyscall: constify syscall argument
      * stress-uprobe: constify a flags function argument
      * stress-dirdeep: allow 36 directories per level
      * stress-dirdeep: enable inode estimation
      * stress-rseq: fix error message, fix spelling mistake
      * stress-*: use pr_fail to log stressor failure errors
      * stress-fifo: use pr_fail for stressor test failure cases
      * stress-memrate: include 64 bit prefetched read streaming
      * stress-vm: add 1K prefetch on read64 to get some more read performance
      * README.md: add another citation
      * Change verify boolean to a type, differentiate between optional and
        always verification
      * stress-utime: enable --verify time checking for one of the utime
        settings
      * stress-tree: add support for --verify option
      * stress-pageswap: add verification that checks start address contains
        stashed data
      * stress-ng: add help info for --verifiable option
      * stress-malloc: add verification that start address contains stashed
        data
      * stress-l1cache: add comments, remove trailing tabs
      * stress-l1cache: enable simple checking with --verify option
      * stress-copy-file: enable --verify check
      * Add sendfile system call autobuild detection
      * stress-iomix: add sendfile I/O file data copying mechanism
      * stress-iomix: add copy_file_range I/O copies for systems that
        support this
      * bash-completion: update copyright
      * Add the --verifiable option
      * README.md: add another kernel bug citation
      * stress-sysinval: use locking around multiple debug messages
      * stress-sysinval: use pre-allocated pool for hash items
      * stress-sysinval: use uint64_t for counters
      * stress-sysinval: fix typo in system call io_pgetevents*
      * stress-sysinval: disable stack clobbering check for child process
      * stress-einval: fix incorrect crash and timeout tracking
      * stress-enosys: add in more missing system calls
      * stress-sysinval: add more missing system calls
      * stress-clone: re-order CLONE_* flags in line with the linux header
      * stress-enosys: add in missing prlimit
      * stress-sysinval: Add in some missing system calls
      * stress-stream: only declare has_sse2 when HAVE_NT_STORE_DOUBLE is
        defined
      * stress-enosys: add a few missing system calls
      * Fix various spelling mistakes
      * stress-dentry: remove linux check around stress_dentry_state call
      * stress-dentry: fix incorrect position if #endif
      * Add xxhash library to build notes for Debian/Fedora/SUSE
      * stress-hash: add xxhash support
      * stress-revio: add more yield point checking
      * Manual: add in new vm stressor method --cache-lines
      * stress-dentry: log the number of new dentries created in cache
      * stress-seek: add lseek64 call if it is available
      * stress-memrate: fix memrate rate speed
      * Add vm stressor method --cache-lines to walk through memory in cache
        line steps
      * stress-vm: add cache block forward/reverse memory writes
      * stress-vm: fix typo in comment, remove extraneous word at
      * stress-physpage: add notes about why /dev/mem -EPERM errors
      * stress-vm: add 32 x 64 non-temporal write method
      * stress-vm: add 1028 bit vector write
      * stress-stream: cater for non-sse2 x86 cpus
      * stress-pthread: set process name to include thread instance number
      * stress-oom-pipe: bail out early on pipe creation when we hit an error
      * core-log: move #endif to re-enable locking
      * core-out-of-memory.c: fix oom adjustment for older kernel OOM
        interface
      * stress-stream: only use non-temporal stores for index0 writes
      * core-nt-store: fix up gcc macro check for double nt stores
      * stress-stream: use non-temporal stores to optimize streaming writes
      * stress-memrate: add 1024 bit read/write, use vectors for 128 bits if
        supported
      * stress-madvise: add more MADV_ options supported by other kernels
      * stress-mmap: add MAP_LOW32 Solaris mmap option
      * stress-mmapfork: rename macros, add MMAPFORK prefix
      * stress-dev: exercise various open options on device
      * stress-dev: cleanup UNEXPECTED macro indentation
      * stress-udp: remove some extraneous lines
      * stress-loadavg: add timeout poll for extra yielding detection
      * core-vmstat: implement non-linux method for stress_find_mount_dev
      * stress-usersyscall: move help, fixes build on non-Linux systems
      * stress-ng.h: forgot to add the stress_find_mount_dev prototype
        to stress-ng.h
      * stress-rawdev: determine underlying device using stress_find_mount_dev
      * stress-mmapfork: add #if defined checks for specific MADV flags
      * stress-pageswap: exercise page mapping, swap out, swap in and
        unmapping
      * Use intmax_t type and PRIdMAX to print format pid_t pids
      * stress-madvise: exercise /proc/$PID/smaps file
      * stress-daemon: make backoff a macro value
      * stress-sparsematrix: move blank line, it is in the wrong place
      * stress-memrate: use two variants of each reader/writer and unroll
        loops more
      * stress-vecwide: use core-vecmath.h to check for vector capability
      * stress-usesyscall: exercise non-libc bounded calls
      * stress-ng: make g_unsupported a local variable
      * stress-schedpolicy: run just stressor as DEADLINE
      * stress-sigsegv: generate SIGSEGV on x86 using msr read and
        misaligned reads
      * stress-fifo: Fix spelling mistake "stessors" -> "stressors"
      * stress-sysbadaddr: Fix spelling mistake "excute" -> "execute"
      * stress-chroot: fix spelling mistake in chroot help "chhroot" -> "chroot"
      * stress-ng: fix typo: untrustyworthy -> untrustworthy
      * stress-usersyscall: add user space system call stressing
      * stress-enosys: simplify expression
      * stress-dentry: move rdfds fd_set to code block
      * stress-dentry: move timeout to specific code block
      * stress-affinity: constify a pointer argument
      * README.md: Add another citation
      * stress-loop: add sync to avoid loop_set_block_size warning messages
      * stress-swap: disable CoW for swap, madvise pages to be swapped out
      * Move _ARCH_ macros into core-arch.h
      * stress-ng.h: remove EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE macro checks/defines
      * stress-malloc: add heap trimming with malloc_trim
      * core-log: add ( ) to clarify operator precedence
      * cleanup: voidify some function returns
      * stress-misaligned: add 32 and 64 bit non-temporal writes
      * stress-misaligned: remove keep stressing check in results
      * stress-memthrash: use core-nt-temporal.h helper functions
      * core-nt-store.h: put non-temporal store helpers into header file
      * stress-enosys: remove REDO debug
      * stress-enosys: limit hash'd calls to less than 65536
      * stress-enosys: hash on unsigned syscall number
      * stress-ng: clear /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once where possible
      * stress-nop: add tpause wait
      * core-cpu: add in more x86 feature flag bits
      * stress-enosys: add more linux system calls
      * Manual: remove extraneous word "good"
      * stress-syncload: remove #if 0 debug
      * stress-syncload: add yield point in busy loop
      * Add core-vecmath for vector math op checking, add vector ops to
        syncload
      * stress-sparsematrix: zero pvalue only when pvalue is non-null
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 6 Mar 2022 22:01:02 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Aboorva Devarajan]
      * stress-sem: fix macro definition
    
      [Jules Maselbas]
      * stress-rseq: inline the nop instruction and add Kalray VLIW nop
      * stress-nop: Fix nop asm instruction for KVX
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Debian: update changelog
      * debian: update copyright year
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add two missing header files from make dist rule
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * core-log: forgot to check-in the --stdout changes
      * Add --stdout option to send run time messages to --stdout
      * stress-kvm: only allow on x86-64 for now.
      * stress-hash: set correct big endian checksum for mulxror64
      * core-shim: fix build error on Minix, replace __NR_unlinkat with 0
      * core-shim: fully implement shim_unlinkat
      * stress-clock: don't build shim_clock_adjtime if it is not required
      * stress-clock: fix build issue on BSD for shim_clock_adjtime
      * stress-dev: only define stress_dev_tty if TCGETS is available
      * stress-dir: include libgen.h for basename definition
      * stress-dev: include libgen.h for basename definition
      * core-shim: include core-pragma.h to fix OS X build failure
      * Manual: update contributors and date
      * Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <email address hidden>
      * core-*, stress-*: update copyright
      * stress-ng.h: Disable fortified build for PCC
      * stress-clock: move shim_clock_adjtime to stress-clock
      * core-*: add UNEXPECTED #ifdef checking
      * stress-*: add UNEXPECTED #ifdef checking
      * stress-dev: add unexpected build failure #else path detection
      * core-shim: move include linux/futex.h to core
      * stress-sysfs: move include linux/fs.h to stressor
      * core-helper: move include linux/fs.h to core
      * stress-udp: move include linux/udp.h to stressor
      * core-helper: move HAVE_PRCTL_TIMER_SLACK to core
      * stress-prctl: move include sys/capability.h to stressor
      * stress-sockmany: move include netinet/tcp.h to stressor
      * stress-sock: netinet/in.h and arpa/inet.h to stressor
      * stress-*: move include netinet/in.h and arpa/inet.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include net/if.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include netinet/ip.h to stressors
      * stress-dev: move include sound/asound.h to stressors
      * stress-dev, stress-pty: move include termio.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include poll.h to stressors
      * core-log, stress-ng: move include syslog.h to core
      * core-perf: move include local.h to core
      * stress-fp-error, stress-sigfpe: move include float.h to stressor
      * stress-set: move include grp.h to stressor
      * core-mounts, core-vmstat: move include mntent.h to core
      * stress-resources, stress-sem: move include semaphore.h to stressors
      * stress-vdso: move include link.h to stressor
      * stress-*: move include utime.h to stressors
      * stress-mq, stress-resources, stress-switch: move include mqueue.h
        to stressors
      * stress-malloc: move include malloc.h to stressor
      * core-*, stress-*: move xattr includes to core and stressors
      * stress-sock: move include netinet/tcp.h to stressor
      * stress-icmp-flood, stress-ping-sock: move include netinet/ip_icmp.h
        to stressors
      * core-*, stress-*: move include sys/capability.h to core and
        stressors
      * stress-*: move include sys/select.h to stressors
      * stress-msg, stress-resource, stress-shmsysv: move include
        sys/ipc.h to core and stressors
      * core-*, stress-*: move include sys/sysmacros.h to core and stressors
      * core-*, stress-*: move include sys/statfs.h to core and stressors
      * core-*, stress-*: move include sys/swap.h to core and stressors
      * stress-swap: move include sys/swap.h to stressor
      * core-*, stress-*: include sys/un.h to core and stressors
      * core-shim: move include sys/random.h to core
      * stress-msg, stress-resources: move include sys/msg.h to stressor
      * stress-resources, stress-sem-sysv, stress-switch: move include
        sys/sem.h to stressor
      * stress-shm-sysv: move include sys/shm.h to stressor
      * core-*, stress-*: move include sys/mount.h to core and stressors
      * stress-*: move include sys/utsname.h to stressors
      * stress-get: move include sys/vfs.h to stressor
      * stress-ptrace, stress-vm-segv: move include sys/ptrace.h to
        stressors
      * stress-*: move include sys/statvfs.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include sys/prctl.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include sys/inotify.h to stressors
      * stress-ioport, stress-smi: move include sys/io.h to stressors
      * stress-fp-error, stress-sigfpe: move include fenv.h to stressors
      * stress-close, stress-fanotify: move include sys/fanotify.h
        to stressors
      * stress-*: move include sys/eventfd.h to stressors
      * stress-prctl: move include asm/prctl.h to stressor
      * stress-*: move include libgen.h to stressors
      * stress-sctp: move include netinet/sctp.h to stressor
      * core-shim: move HAVE_PKEY_GET/HAVE_PKEY_SET to core
      * stress-*: move HAVE_USERFAULTFD to stressors
      * stress-netlink-proc: move include linux/version.h to stressor
      * stress-key: move include keyutils.h to stressor
      * stress-dev, stress-getrandom, stress-urandom: move include
        linux/random.h to stressors
      * stress-af-alg: move include linux/socket.h to stressor
      * stress-*: move include linux/netlink.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include linux/sockios.h to stressors
      * stress-get: move include linux/sysctl.h to stressor
      * stress-numa, stress-shm-sysv: move include linux/mempolicy.h
        to stressor
      * stress-opcode, stress-seccomp: move include linux/filter.h
        to stressor
      * stress-sockdiag: move include linux/rtnetlink.h to stressor
      * stress-rawpkt, stress-udp: move include linux/udp.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include linux/ppdev.h to stressor
      * stress-rawpkt: move include linux/if_packet.h to stressor
      * core-perf: move include linux/perf_event.h to corew
      * stress-membarrier: move include linux/membarrier.h to stressor
      * stress-*: move include linux/secccomp.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include sys/epoll.h to stressors
      * stress-*: move include ucontext.h to stressors
      * core-*, stress-*: move include sys/auxv.h to core and stressors
      * stress-memrate, stress-memthrash: move include xmmintrin.h
        to stressors
      * core-helper: move include sys/mount.h to core
      * core-shim: move include sys/ustat.h to core
      * stress-fiemap: forgot to add in linux/fs.h
      * core-mounts: move include sys/ucred.h to core
      * stress-wcstr: move include bsd/wchar.h to stressort
      * stress-dynlib: move dynlib includes to stressor
      * stress-*: move include linux/fs.h to stressor
      * core-vmstat: move include sys/sysctl.h to stressor
      * core-vmstat: move include sys/vmmeter.h to stressor
      * stress-sockdiag: move include linux/sock_diag.h to stressor
      * stress-sockdiag: move include linux/unix_diag.h to stressor
      * stress-netlink-{proc|task}: move include linux/connector.h
        to stressor
      * stress-netlink-{proc|task}: move include linux/cn_proc.h
        to stressor
      * stress-dev: add in some missing scsi includes
      * stress-dev: move include scsi/scsi.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include linux/media.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include linux/hdreg.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include linux/ptp_clock.h to stressor
      * stress-procfs: move include linux/pci.h to stressor
      * stress-futex, stress-pthread: move include linux/futex.h to
        stressors
      * stress-dev: move include linux/hpet.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include linux/cdrom.h to stressor
      * stress-sockpair: call sockpair stressor from OOMable restart
        handler
      * stress-sockpair: try to make parent more OOM friendly
      * stress-sockpair: add EPIPE checking and EPIPE signal handler
      * stress-alarm: use the no-op signal handler
      * stress-loop: move include linux/loop.h to stressor
      * stress-opcode, stress-seccomp: move include linux/audit.h to
        stressors
      * stress-dev: move include linux/dm-ioctl.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include linux/kd.h to stressor
      * stress-landlock: move include linux/landlock.h to stressor
      * stress-kvm: move include linux/kvm.h to stressor
      * stress-open: move include linux/openat2.h to stressor
      * coreftrace, stress-*, move tree includes into core and stressors
      * stress-resources, stress-timerfd: move include sys/timerfd.h
        to stressors
      * stress-procfs: move include asm/mtrr.h to stressor
      * stress-*, core-shim: move include asm/ldt.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include linux/usbdevice_fs.h to stressor
      * Revert "stress-ng.h: remove usbdevice_fs.h"
      * core-smart: move include scsi/scsi_sg.h to core
      * stress-rtc: move include linux/rtc.h to stressor
      * core-shim: move include scsi/scsi_ioctl.h to core
      * stress-list: move include sys/queue.h to stressor
      * core-shim: move include asm/cachectl.h to core
      * stress-set: move include sys/fsuid.h to stressor
      * stress-tsc: move include sys/platform/ppc.h to stressor
      * stress-*.c: move include sys/uio.h to some stressors
      * stress-ng.h: remove usbdevice_fs.h
      * stress-dev: move include videodev2.h to stressor
      * stress-dev: move include vt.h to stressor
      * stress-rawpkt, stress-tun: move include if_tun.h to stressors
      * stress-af-alg: move include if_alg.h to stressor
      * stress-netlink-task: move include genetlink.h to stressor
      * stress-fiemap, core-helper: move include fiemap.h to stressor
        and core
      * stress-netlink-task: move include taskstats.h to stressor
      * stress-io-uring: move include io-uring.h to stressor
      * stress-binderfs: move include binderfs headers to stressor
      * stress-personality: move include personality.h to stressor
      * stress-rseq: move include rseq.h to stressor
      * stress-sigfd, stress-close: move include wchar.h to stressors
      * stress-wcstr: move include wchar.h to stressor
      * stress-sendfile: move include sendfile.h to stressor
      * stress-verity: move include fsverity.h to stressor
      * stress-userfaultfd: move include userfaultfd.h to stressor
      * stress-quota: move include quota.h to stressor
      * stress-watchog: move include watchdog.h to stressor
      * stress-spawn.c: move include spawn.h to stressor
      * core-module: move include libkmod.h into core-module
      * stress-apparmor: move include sys/apparmor.h to stressor
      * stress-aio-linux: move libaio.h include to the stressor
      * stress-ipsec-mb: update copyright
      * stress-ipsec-mb: move intel-ipsec-mb.h into the stressor
      * stress-judy, stress-sparsematrix: move Judy.h into stressors
      * stress-cpu, stress-funccall: move complex.h into stressors
      * stress-crypt: move crypt.h include into stress-crypt.h
      * stress-aio: move aio.h include into stress-aio.h
      * stress-ng.h: remove ioprio macros
      * core-io-priority.h: add include file with io priority macros
      * core-sched.c: move sched related macros to core-sched.c
      * stress-getdent.c: move getdent system call macros to
        stress-getdent.c
      * core-cache.h: move two more cache macros to core-cache.h
      * stress-ioprio: move ioprio related syscall macros to stress-ioprio
      * stress-mmap: move mmap2 related syscall macro to stress-mmmap
      * stress-schedpolicy: move sched attr related syscall macros to
        stress-schedpolicy
      * stress-ng.h: remove HAVE_SET_THREAD_AREA, it is not used
      * stress-membarrier: move syslog related syscall macro to
        stress-membarrier
      * stress-klog: move syslog related syscall macro to stress-klog
      * stress-pthread: move thread area related syscall macro to
        stress-pthread
      * stress-pthread: move robust list related syscall macros to
        stress-pthread
      * stress-kcmp: move kcmp related syscall macro to stress-kcmp
      * stress-key: move key related syscall macros to stress-key
      * core-perf: include core-perf.h
      * stress-fp-error: relax checks for icc compiler
      * core-ftrace: include core-ftrace.h
      * core-thrash: include core-thrash.h
      * core-thermal-zone: include core-thermal-zone.h
      * core-smart: include core-smart.h
      * core-hash: include core-hash.h
      * stress-misaligned: include core-target-clones.h
      * core-helper: fix stress_get_prime64, value should be different
        on each call
      * README.md: Add another kernel improvement where stress-ng was used
      * stress-ng.h: remove debug macro pr_dbg_v
      * core-cache.h: move shim_mfence to core-cache.h from stress-ng.h
      * core-cache.h: move shim_builtin_prefetch to core-cache.h from
        stress-ng.h
      * core-cache.h: move cache helper functions/macros to core-cache.h
        from stress-ng.h
      * stress-ng.h: remove macro STRESS_PAGE_IN, it it no longer used
      * core-net.h: move some network macros from stress-ng.h
        to core-net.h
      * stress-rawudp: add in missing core-net.h include
      * core-ftrace.h: move ftrace helper definitions to core-ftrace.h
        from stress-ng.h
      * core-net.h: move net helper definitions to core-net.h from
        stress-ng.h
      * core-thrash.h: move thrash helper definitions to core-trash.h
        from stress-ng.h
      * core-smart.h: more SMART helper definitions to core-smart.h
        from stress-ng.h
      * core-thermal-zone.h: more helper definitions to
        core-thermal-zone.h from stress-ng.h
      * core-perf.h: more perf helper definitions to core-perf.h from
        stress-ng.h
      * core-helper: add a no-operation signal handler
        stress_sighandler_nop
      * core-hash: fix verify checksum for hash mulxror64
      * stress-apparmor: update copyright boilerplate message
      * stress-apparmor: include core-capabilities.h
      * core-mwc: move STRESS_MWC* macros to stress-mwc.c
      * stress-cpu.h: move FORCE_DO_NOTHING macro to stress-cpu.c
      * core-pragma: move pragma related macros to new header
      * Makefile: Add core*h as part of obj build dependencies
      * Makefile: add new core-*h files to make dist rule
      * core-capabilities: move *CAP* capability macros to new header
      * core-target-clones: move TARGET_CLONES macros to new header
      * core-put: fix copyright
      * core-put: move put helpers to core-put.h
      * stress-cache: make helper asm functions inline
      * core-mwc: move mwc struct typedef to core-mwc.c
      * stress-affinity: constify a couple of variables
      * stress-ng.h: Add in some spaces between #includes
      * stress-atomic: update copyright
      * stress-af-alg: constify some string pointers
      * stress-atomic: clean up macros
      * stress-switch: use the set_default callback to set the default
        method
      * stress-ng.h: cleanup, re-ordering, comment updates
      * core-perf: add NMI perf metric
      * stress-ng.h: move per-stressor macros to stressors
      * stress-fault: move initialization of i, update copyright
      * stress-fanotify: comment struct fields, update copyright
      * core-cpu: update copyright year
      * core-cache: add TiB and clear up some minor space formatting
      * stress-vecwide: limit to 2K wide
      * stress-switch: update copyright
      * stress-switch: add mq and sem-sysv methods
      * stress-null: exercise more with fcntl and ioctl
      * stress-null: add lseeks to /dev/null for more kernel exercising
      * stress-memthrash: add check for SSE2 for non-temporal writes
      * stress-memthrash: update copyright
      * stress-memthrash: add a 8 x 64 bit memset using non-temporal
        stores if possible
      * stress-memrate: only use non-temporal stores for SSE2 enabled CPUs
      * core-cpu: add sse and sse2 CPUID checks for x86
      * stress-hash: add mulxror64 hash
      * Manual: move kvm options to correct place in manual
      * stress-hash: add 3 more hash functions to the mix
      * stress-str: remove assignment after typedef
      * README.md: Add Intel icc compiler notes
      * README.md: Add alpha to architectures validated with stress-ng
      * stress-str: fix index() test, remove code that got incorrectly
        merged in
      * stress-sparsematrix: deprecate judy arrays for 32 bit systems
      * stress-str,wcstr: deconsitify void * func pointer
      * README.md: add another linux commit that used stress-ng to
        improve performance
      * Various changes to make stress-ng build with the Intel
        compiler icc
      * core-cache: use correct type for value
      * Fix pcc and tcc build issues, add pcc + tcc version information
      * stress-ng.h: don't used deprecated attribute for non-gcc/clang
        toolchains
      * stress-enosys: disable x86 syscall exercising for tcc builds
      * stress-hash: make functions static
      * Disable deprecated warnings for pedantic builds
      * core-hash: Add in missing const to pointers
      * stress-hash: add 32 bit fetch optimized coffin hash
      * core-hash: add HOT attribute to hash functions
      * stress-hash: remove md5crc32c, it is way too slow
      * stress-hash: remove debug
      * stress-hash: check for error return string marker in md5 crypt
        result
      * stress-hash: don't exercise md5 if it fails
      * core-hash: add more hash methods
      * core-hash: Move adler, muladd32 and mullad64 from stress-hash
        to core-hash
      * stress-mwc: rename stress_mwc_seed and add stress_mwc_get_seed
      * stress-hash: add OPTIMIZE3 -O3 hint on adler hash function
      * stress-cache: constify bucket parameter
      * stress-hash: fix --verfiy checksum values
      * stress-hash: align buffer to 64 byte boundary
      * stress-hash: add the adler32 hash
      * stress-hash: add 3 more simple hash methods and a goodness score
      * Add --keep-files option
      * core-helper: unlink should be rmdir for failed stress_temp_dir_mk
      * stress-hash: remove empty line
      * stress-hash: use variable rate for hashing rate calculation
      * stress-hash: correct the big endian murmur3_32 hash checksum
      * stress-prctl: use linux uapi defined names for prctl
      * stress-sigsegv: add int instruction to trigger SIGSEGV on x86
      * stress-sparsematrix: clean up variable name shadowing
      * stress-hash: constify a parameter
      * Move cpu hash stressors into a new hash test stressor
      * stress-chattr: add more yield points during chattr exercising
      * stress-fpunch: update copyright
      * stress-aio: update copyright
      * stress-aio: don't warn if cancelled is OK or EINTR
      * stress-fpunch: make children more yielding
      * stress-ng: ensure checksum region is large enough
      * stress-sparsematrix: use shim'd strlcpy to fix build issues (#170)
      * stress-cpu: fix crc32c checksum verification check
      * stress-sparsematrix: clean up some tab/whitespaces
      * stress-sparsematrix: add non-sparse mmap and sparse qhash methods
      * stress-cpu: add CRC32C to hash random strings
      * stress-sparsematrix: remove SIGALRM handling, replace with yield
        points
      * stress-sparsematrix: bail out early if put fails
      * stress-sparsematrix: make sparse destroy a void return func
      * stress-sparsematrix: add error checking in put failures
      * stress-sparsematrix: make del() void since the error return is
        ignored
      * stress-sparsematrix: optimize get(), return value rather than by
        pointer arg
      * stress-sparsematrix: add implementation using judy arrays
      * stress-sparsematrix: Add a sparse matrix memory/cache stressor
      * stress-crypt: add yield point per crypto iteration
      * stress-dev: add yield point while scanning for available devs
      * stress-misaligned: add yield point when scanning through list
        of functions
      * stress-misaligned: add more yield points for slower emulated
        systems
      * stress-pipeherd: add yield check on startup
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:24:25 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump date and update copyright year
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-kvm: rename regs to kregs to avoid name shadowing
      * core-shim: typedef statx buf to simplify different statx sizes
      * stress-set: only #define some macros if they are not already defined
      * stress-get: only #define some macros if they are not already defined
      * stress-memfd: only use MAP_POPULATE if it is defined
      * core-shim: make shim_cacheflush use builtin gcc variant where
        applicable
      * stress-ng.h: Add MIPS arch macro
      * stress-cache: disable cache flags one by one if SIGILL occurs
      * stress-cache: add cldemote instruction runtime and build time checks
      * core-shim: fix typo in cacheflush wrapper on bytes/nbytes arg
      * core-shim: use shim statx struct for __NR_statx call
      * stress-ng.h: don't define HAVE_GETCPU and HAVE_GETTID
      * stress-ng: voidify return from write
      * stress-syncload: remove need for atomic reads of start time
      * stress-syncload: remove stress_syncload_settime
      * core-shim: fix statx shim for non-Linux systems
      * stress-shm: zero msg struct to clean up valgrind warning
      * stress-schedpolicy: zero structs on get calls to silence valgrind
        warnings
      * stress-numa: memset nodemask to keep valgrind happy
      * stress-tmpfs: only define TMPFS_MAGIC if it is not already defined
      * stress-inode-flags: flags argument should be long int rather than int
      * stress-syncload: fix atomic load arg order reversal
      * stress-context: zero all context bytes to keep valgrind happy
      * stress-dev: add usb core device ioctl exerciser
      * stress-ng: improve error clean-up paths in main
      * stress-mcontent: update copyright year
      * stress-mcontend: add check for pause instruction
      * stress-cache: update copyright year
      * stress-ng.c: use static buffer to format message, write to stderr
      * stress-cache: remove space between arguments in function call
      * stress-dev: use invalid keycode to stop ESC being remapped
      * stress-sleep: update copyright
      * stress-sleep: add nanosecond sleep delays using pselect
      * stress-dev: remove debug continue statement
      * stress-dev: add yield point check while traversing devices
      * stress-fiemap: remove blank line
      * stress-dev: remove hashing, replace with device list and device state
      * stress-kill: kill unused pid for -ESRCH error
      * stress-fallocate: remove empty line
      * stress-eventfd: remove empty line
      * stress-procfs: rework procfs reverse read to force misaligned reads
      * Forgot to commit changes to stress-ng.h
      * core-shim: add missing comment blocks
      * core-shim: add statx system call autobuild detection
      * core-shim: Add mlock2 system call autobuild detection
      * core-shim: Add unshare system call autobuild detection
      * core-shim: Add memfd_create system call autobuild detection
      * core-shim: Add getrandom system call autobuild detection
      * core-shim: Add getcpu system call autobuild detection
      * core-shim: Add gettid system call autobuild detection
      * core-shim: Add cacheflush system call autobuild detection
      * stress-nop: add a random nop option
      * stress-nop: add S390 nopr nop variant
      * stress-nop: add mdoio, mdoom and yield nops for PPC64
      * stress-kvm: re-word kvm help text, remove CLASS_MEMORY flag
      * stress-kvm: Fix GPL comment boilerplate
      * stress-kvm: don't treat EINTR on KVM_RUN as an error
      * Add Linux kvm stressor, initially just supporting x86
      * stress-memfd: remove some blank lines
      * stress-memfd: clean up some minor white space issues
      * core-hash: remove UNLIKELY macro, it confusing cppcheck
      * core-cpu: update copyright and add more comment blocks
      * stress-softlockup: update copyright
      * stress-softlockup: remove redundant unset global timeout check
      * stress-softlockup: print some messages only from 1st instance
      * stress-procfs: fix pr_* messages, use correct stressor name and
        path name
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 4 Jan 2022 22:20:02 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * stress-syncload: add build time check that atomic ops on doubles
        is supported
      * stress-ng.h: Make start_time naturally aligned for improved
        atomic performance
      * stress-syncload: Remove sched yield
      * stress-ng.h: no need for start_time to be volatile
      * stress-syncload: use atomic load/store in preference to spinlock
      * stress-synload: add yield points for OS X builds
      * stress-x86syscall: reduce the scope of variable str
      * stress-x86syscall: reduce the scope of variable str
      * stress-randlist: reduce the scope of variable i
      * stress-aio: reduce the scope of variable ret
      * stress-cache: ensure variable cpu is not clobbered
      * stress-syncload: only declare ret if it is required
      * core-vmstat: only build stress_find_mount_dev for linux
      * core-vmstat: make stress_find_mount_dev static
      * stress-vforkmany, fork: use indirect vfork call
      * stress-nop: inline each nop instruction and add Kalray VLIW nop
      * stress-cache: ensure variable masked_flags is not clobbered
      * stress-bad-altstack: use valid smallest alternative stack
      * stress-skiplist: zero allocated list items and free list on
        alloc failure
      * stress-*fork: use vfork shim wrapper macro to use syscall or vfork
      * stress-memthrash: define stress_memthrash_flush only for x86
      * stress-pthread: use calloc'd stack in preference to mmap'd one
      * Add hppa architecture and disable sigaltstack
      * stress-cache: move on to next round if SIGSEGV occurs w/o timeout
      * stress-cache: add more SIGSEGV detection and fix ret return
      * test-fanonify: remove include of stress-ng.h
      * core-cache: only perform sparc cache checks for sparc builds
      * stress-fp-error: workaround 1 / PI inexact fp error issue
      * core-cache: add Linux arch Alpha cache size detection
      * stress-ng.h: ensure ARCH specific #defines are defined to a value
      * Rename ARM asm macros and tests with ARM in name, part #1, ARM
      * Rename ppc64 asm macros and tests with ppc64 in name, part #1, ppc64
      * Rename x86 asm macros and tests with x86 in name, part #1, x86
      * Add autocheck of clflush x86 instruction and check if it is
        available at run time
      * Rename STRESS_ARCH_RISC_V to STRESS_ARCH_RISCV
      * Add RISC-V memory fence shim helper
      * core-vmstat: update copyright
      * stress-readahead: Update copyright
      * stress-iomix: update copyright
      * stress-iomix: try to drop cached data after sync'd to file
      * stress-iomix: add in missing comment
      * stress-iomix: add madvise calls to make reads more effort
      * stress-readahead: add fadvise call to try and drop cached data
      * core-vmstat: remove some trailing white spaces
      * core-vmstat: improve device name lookup for iostat
      * stress-ng: Fix --temp-path directory checking (#163)
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Sun, 19 Dec 2021 20:42:44 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Alexander Kanavin]
      * Do not preserve ownership when installing example jobs
    
      [John Kacur]
      * stress-ng: Fix potential overrun in msgsnd
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date and update contributors
      * stress-misaligned: disable atomic ops for SH4
      * stress-randlist: ensure memory pointed to by ptrs is free'd
      * debian/control: update standards version to 4.6.0
      * stress-randlist: clear up gcc warning on openhipster
      * stress-cache: make loop variable j a register volatile
      * stress-sigfpe: add work around for M68K linux devices
      * stress-sigfpe: annotate expected use of specific fpe flags
      * stress-sigfpe: Add comment regarding floating point division by zero
      * Add syncload synchronized bursty load stressor
      * stress-ng: reformat long_options, align 2nd value
      * stress-randlist: fix the class type
      * stress-stackmmap: stash non-stack address to clean up scan-build warning
      * test/test-pthread-attr-setstack.c: remove redundant assignment to ret
      * stress-secretmem: fix memory leak on object mappings
      * test/test-getmntent: exercise mount struct
      * test/test-libkmod: voidify variable module_name
      * test/test-timer-create: remove redundant variable t
      * stress-dev: remove redundant assignment to variable claimed
      * stress-prctl: voidify return from prctl calls
      * stress-x86syscall: fix --x86syscall-func segfault
      * test/test-__restrict: use src dst names for ptr2, ptr1 and fix eos check
      * stress-mincore: unmap before closing fd, fixes a hidden file issue on fuse
      * stress-mcontend: unmap before closing fd, fixes a hidden file issue on fuse
      * stress-rmap: unmap before closing fd, fixes a hidden file issue on fuse
      * stress-ng: make pr_inf stat error message a verbose debug error message
      * stress-mincore: close fd before removing directory
      * stress-mcontend: close file early, ensure directory is deleted on error
      * stress-verity: add ENOSYS error return check for non-implemented verity functionality
      * stress-timer: set timer on each timer duration update
      * README.md: Add one more project citation
      * stress-goto: add a new stressor to exercise heavy goto branching
      * core-cpu: annotate cpuid registers that need to be set and values returned
      * stress-hrtimers: update copyright
      * stress-hrtimers: add --hrtimers-adjust for automatic rate adjustment
      * Rename stress_check_value to stress_check_max_stressors
      * stress-smi: use no-op command instant of 1 to trigger SMI
      * stress-cache: fix build issue
      * stress-cache: remove some white spaces
      * stress-cache: add --cldemote option
      * stress-cache: use random cache flags if none are provided
      * core-cpu: remove unnecessary inner #ifdef'd code
      * stress-cache: add --clflushopt option
      * Replace char *str = "text" with char str[] = "text"
      * core-cpu: declare stress_cpu_x86_extended_features only for x86 arches
      * stress-rdrand: only allow --rdrand-seed if rdseed instruction is available
      * Remove need for HAVE_CPUID_H and HAVE_CPUID checks
      * Remove __get_cpuid usage and build checking
      * stress-smi: use stress_cpu_x86_has_msr helper
      * stress-x86syscall: use stress_cpu_x86_has_syscall helper
      * stress-tsc: use stress_cpu_x86_has_tsc helper
      * stress-rdrand: use stress_cpu_x86_has_rdrand helper
      * stress-enosys: don't use __cpuid and check for SIGILL on syscalls
      * stress-cpu: use stress-ng cpuid rather than gcc __cpuid
      * core-cpu: add stress-ng x86 cpuid implementation
      * stress-lockbus: add sync_bool_compare_and_swap
      * stress-ng: make a couple of the inline helpers always inline
      * Fix some spelling mistakes in comments
      * core-perf: Add Cgroup Switches and add missing tab in CPU Migrations
      * stress-ng.h: implement shim_clflush as a cacheflush call
      * stress-memrate: use clang __builtin_nontemporal_store
      * stress-numa: exercise invalid MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL mbind options
      * stress-memrate: add non-temporal (cacheless) writes for x86
      * stress-fanotify: add FAN_FS_ERROR flag
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Tue, 7 Dec 2021 13:19:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: update copyright
      * manual: update date, author email and copyright
      * debian/copyright: update copyright
      * debian/control: update email address
      * stress-resched: move declaration of j, clean up build warning
      * stress-resched: fix build error on systems without sched_setscheduler
      * stress-sigq: exercise invalid signal on rt_sigqueueinfo call
      * core-log: don't open/close stdout, use fileno on stdout instead
      * stress-ng: remove commented out stress_set_proc_name call
      * stress-vecwide: add a wide vector math stressor
      * Makefile.config: add alderlake optimization target clones
      * stress-filename: stat file before creation, during and after unlink
      * stress-prctl: exercise Linux 5.15 ARCH_GET_XCOMP_ arch_prctl calls
      * stress-vm: add grayflip method.
      * debian/control: update standards version
      * stress-hdd: ensure offset is aligned to 512 byte boundary
      * Refine target-clones attribute to determine attributes at build time
      * stress-prctl: fix typo in comment: fine -> find
      * stress-futex: add Linux 5.16 futex_waitv call
      * Make one thousanth, one millionth and one billionth constants
      * core-vmstat: remove tabs and spaces
      * stress-atomic: add more contention by running 4 processes per stressor
      * stress-atomic: use lower optimization level on sh gcc
      * core-time: scale by multiplying by one millions
      * Add --resched rescheduling stressor
    
     -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden>  Mon, 16 Nov 2021 00:01:02 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.13.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Alexander Kanavin]
      * Makefile: do not write the timestamp into compressed manpage.
    
      [John Kacur]
      * stress-ng: Conscientious Language effort
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Debian: update control - use ubuntu email
      * Add autobuild detection of sys/loadavg.h
      * stress-rdrand: add missing 2x32 read variant of rdseed
      * stress-dev: optimization: cache all dev entries in a hash table
      * debian/watch: update to use github tarball name mangling
      * debian/copyright: Fix URLs to project and email contact
      * Rename HAVE_STRLCPY and HAVE_STRLCAT to fix Nixos libbsd macro clash
      * stress-bad-ioctl: optimization: cache a copy of all dev names
      * voidify returns from fflush and fprintf calls
      * stress-mmap: exercise OpenBSD mquery system call on mapped pages
      * stress-madvise: add OS X MADV_ZERO_WIRED_PAGES madvise advise
      * stress-madvise: Add OpenBSD MADV_SPACEAVAIL madvise option
      * stress-mmap: Add some missing NetBSD and OpenBSD mmap flag types
      * Add stress_killpid helper to kill and fast reap memory
      * stress-bad-altstack: make stack write-only to cause double trap
      * stress-prefetch: stash pre_ptr to force compiler to use it in
        the benchmark loop
      * stress-kill: fix incorrect voidification of return value from kill
      * stress-vm-splice: break open statement into two statements
      * stress-branch: update copyright
      * stress-branch: remove empty line
      * stress-branch: shrink branch code, increase branches from 256 to 1024
      * README.md Add another link to a performance regression found by
        stress-ng
      * stress-rdrand: add option to exercise rdseed x86 instruction
      * core-thermal-zone: replace non-alpha/digits in type name with _
      * core-vmstat: disable iostat for non-linux systems
      * stress-atomic: don't perform atomic 64 bit ops on 32 bit platforms
      * core-vmstat: ensure all fields in vmstat_current are zero'd
      * stress-ng.h: Don't include sys/sysctl.h in Linux, it has been
        deprecated
      * Makefile.config: Fix sys/vmmeter.h autodetection
      * stress-atomic: Add finder build time detection of atomic intrinsics
      * core-vmstat: Add FreeBSD implimentation to system statistics
      * core-helper.c: fix typo, GETLOADAVG should be HAVE_GETLOADAVG
      * core-vmstat: fix buffer overrun on therms
      * Add build time detection for getloadavg
      * Debian control: update homepage URL
      * README.md: Add tarball version information
      * Add build time pragma support detection
      * stress-bad-altstack: move pragmas to be around the function
        stress_bad_altstack_force_fault
      * stress-smi: make not being able to load a module non-fatal
      * core-vmstat: don't build in iostat metrics if major/minor macros
        aren't available
      * REAME.md: Fix typo, 650 -> 260
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:36:17 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: rename README to README.md in the make dist rule
      * Manual: update date
      * README.md: Add note to run make clean after git fetch
      * README.md: add some examples
      * README.md: Clean up white spaces in markup
      * README.md: add citations
      * README: Rename to README.me and add github style markdown
      * Revert "stress-aio-linux: clean up valgrind uninitialized memory
        warnings"
      * stress-dev: only define PPGETTIME{32|64} if PP_IOCT is defined
      * stress-ng.h: Fix missing \ in STRESS_PRAGMA_WARN_OFF macro
      * Revert "stress-cache: add clobbering warning pragma workaround"
      * stress-cache: add clobbering warning pragma workaround
      * stress-dev: don't declare stress_dev_scsi_generic_linux for
        non-linux targets
      * stress-dev: remove EMU debug message
      * stress-aio: clean async io cancel, check status with aio_error
      * stress-vm: clear up volatile discards warning with pedantic build
      * stress-kill: send signals to a child process to add more stress
      * stress-branch: double number of branch points, makes prediction
        harder for CPU
      * stress-vm: add mscan vm memory exercising method
      * stress-malloc: add yield point in stress_malloc_page_touch
      * stress-link: make reandom number index size_t
      * stress-get: initialize some objects to keep valgrind happy
      * stress-dirdeep: fix cleanup of dirent objects
      * stress-aio: add polled wait for completion
      * stress-aio-linux: clean up valgrind uninitialized memory warnings
      * stress-context: memset context requires and more sigaltstack
      * stress-hsearch: free hash items
      * core-smart: re-write begin/end checks
      * stress-thermal-zone: don't pass a null type to stress_tz_type_instance
      * Manual: clarify the semantics of the --timeout, -t option
      * stress-uprobe: ensure libc.so is also matched as a valid libc so name
      * Manual: remove GNU tbl extensions for table widths
      * stress-dev: exercise Linux scsi generic ioctls
      * stress-io-uring: keep track of unsupported opcodes
      * stress-fpunch: add yield check while populating test file
      * stress-io-uring: print opcode name to help decode opcode to human
        readable text
      * stress-dev: add parallel port ioctl device exercising
      * stress-io-uring: add statx and sync_file_range io-uring ops
      * stress-crypt: add some more crypto methods to exercise
      * stress-cpu-online: just limit to maximum of 65536 cpus
      * stress-context: rename __ prefix with suitable name
      * stress-context: remove empty line
      * core-thrash: add more slab work by attempting to shrink slabs
      * stress-dev: add hwrng exercising for linux
      * stress-dev: shuffle dev names rather than mixup sort
      * stress-dev: add Linux floppy disk ioctls to dev stressor
      * stress-iomix: add sync'ing on written data at most every second
      * Add new --no-oom-adjust option to disable all oom adjustments
      * core-out-of-memory: fix inverted check on oomable process
      * stress-ng: add missing ftrace and oomable options from --help output
      * snapcraft: change project repo URL
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:18:18 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-fallocate: Fix ENOENT failure messages
      * stress-sock: remove redundant variable msg_len
      * stress-dccp: remove redundant variable msg_len
      * stress-prefetch: add missing volatile in pointer cast
      * core-vmstat: optimization: remove check for non-null
      * core-vmstat: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-mergesort: don't jmp out of mergesort on NetBSD
      * stress-vm-segv: Fix weird hangs on DragonFlyBSD
      * stress-chmod: add EPERM check to systems that also support EFTYPE
      * stress-rmap: fix rmap bogo-ops threshold
      * Fix typo: HAVE_LOFF_T -> HAVE_OFF_T
      * Add off_t type detection and use it if loff_t is not defined
      * stress-prefetch: prefix macros with STRESS_ to avoid FreeBSD
        macro conflict
      * stress-prefetch: fix mmap/munmap type warnings on OpenHipster
      * stress-prefetch: use correct format specifier for size_t variable
        l3_data_mmap_size
      * stress-prefetch: add stress_void_ptr_put and use it to stash pointers
      * stress-prefetch: Add a L3 prefetch read benchmarking stressor
      * stress-fifo: exercise invalid mmap on fifo fd
      * stress-fifo: periodically exercise FIONREAD on read end of pipe
      * stress-fifo: periodically perform invalid lseek on pipe fd
      * stress-pthread: use phread_mutexattr calls to use priority
        inheritence
      * stress-misaligned: perform misaligned read/writes on page and cache
        boundaries
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:02:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-remap: Fix build failure on systems without MAP_POPULATE
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:33:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Fabien Malfoy]
      * core-helper: Quote the system-info.version value in YAML metrics
      [Danilo Krummrich]
      * core-vmstat: fix trim of devnames for nvme devices
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update update contributors list and date
      * Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <email address hidden>
      * core-vmstat: make helper function static and constify arg
      * stress-opcode: clean up clang-11 pedantic build warning
      * stress-aio: perform retry if EBUSY occurs
      * stress-vm: constify end pointers
      * stress-stream: constify pointers idx1, idx2, idx3
      * stress-opcode: make pointer ops_end const
      * stress-msync: make pointer buf const
      * stress-mcontend: constify pointer vdata
      * stress-malloc: move scope of ptr and end, constify end
      * stress-malloc: make parameters counters const
      * Treewide: fix spelling mistakes and typos
      * stress-cpu: use the __builtin_parity function if it is available
      * core-vmstat: fix assignment that should be a comparison
      * stress-io-uring: silently ignore ENOSPC failures
      * stress-io-uring: fix typo in comment
      * stress-prctl: move } around #endif
      * stress-procfs: add reverse seek/reads on non fifo procfs entries
      * stress-swap: periodically create invalid swap header
      * stress-loop: exercise invalid ioctl on loop control device
      * stress-loop: exercise invalid block sizes
      * stress-loop: perform invalid removal of device -1
      * core-vmstat: use '\0' end of string rather than 0
      * snapcraft: move to core20 and add some extra build dependencies in
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * stress-fanotify: add Linux 5.15 FAN_REPORT_PIDFD option
      * stress-ng: --thrash: drop caches at random periodical intervals
      * stress-prctl: remove tabs
      * core-vmstat: use shim_strlcpy instead of strcpy
      * stress-prctl: add Linux 5.15 PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH operation
      * core-vmstat: trim from dev name not the stat file
      * core-vmstat: handle devices such as /dev/sda1 -> /dev/sda
      * core-helper: handle SIGSTKSZ being potentially a sysconf call
      * Add --iostat option to periodically dump out I/O stats
      * stress-ng: fix dynlib-ops command, typo in dynlib
      * stress-loadavg: Fix spelling mistake "averge" -> "average"
      * stress-vm-rw: remove extraneous space in error message
      * stress-numa: add new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY option
      * kerne-coverage: add more file system options and stressor test scenarios
      * Manual: fix context switch --switch-freq option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:14:14 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Maxime Chevallier]
      * stress-ng: Fix random stressor assignment
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-kcmp: move close to avoid fd1 leak on exit
      * stress-set: no need to initialize fsgid, remove assignment
      * stress-hdd: fill write/read buffer with random data
      * stress-set: initialize uid/gid variables
      * Add yielding check and success exit if we timeout
      * stress-fork: don't use getpgid if it is not available
      * stress-dir: only use mkdirat if it is available.
      * stress-hdd: voidify fd to clean up Minix build warnings
      * stress-wait: fix build warning on Minix
      * stress-pkey: add pkey_set build time detection
      * stress-pkey: add pkey_get build time detection
      * test: use pkey_mprotect call rather than system call
      * test: use pkey_alloc call rather than system call
      * stress-pkey: use pkey call if it is available
      * stress-xattr: fix build error when XATTR_SIZE_MAX is not defined
      * stress-sockpair: fix name shadowing of variable ret
      * stress-seccomp: unconstify seccomp_actions, clean up build warning
      * stress-malloc: rename malloc_touch to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-exit-group: remove duplicated declaration of ret
      * stress-set: exercise getresgid with valid and invalid arguments
      * stress-sem: exercise semop and semtimedop with invalid arguments
      * stress-sem-sysv: exercise semget with some invalid arguments
      * stress-sem-sysv: exercise semctl with invalid cmd paramater
      * stress-mq: cast UINT_MAX to long to clean up pedantic build warning
      * stress-seccomp: add more seccomp operation tests
      * core-try-open: voidify return from alarm, we are ignoring it
      * stress-madvise: only used MADV_* flags if they are defined (part 2)
      * stress-madvise: only used MADV_* flags if they are defined
      * stress-ramfd: exercise umount2 with and without illegal flags
      * Add build time check for umount2 system call
      * stress-userfaultfd: exercise userfaultfd with invalid flags
      * stress-swap: exercise invalid swapon flags
      * stress-swap: exercise invalid swapoff filename
      * stress-sock: exercise setsockopt invalid arguments
      * stress-set: exercise setresuid more thoroughly
      * stress-set: exercise setresgid more thoroughly
      * stress-fork: exercise invalid setpgid calls before child dies
      * stress-set: add missing voidified ret
      * stress-numa: exercise set_mempolicy with incompatible mode flags
      * stress-sigpending: exercise sigprocmask with some more options
      * stress-rseq: add a couple more invalid rseq calls
      * stress-key: exercise request_key with invalid arguments
      * stress-remap-file-pages: exercise with illegal prot flags
      * stress-quota: exercise quotactl Q_SYNC flush all NULL device name
      * stress-ptrace: exercise invalid ptrace calls
      * Makefile: force V to be undefined to avoid make V=1 build failures
      * stress-msg: remove empty line
      * stress-fstat: exercise statx with invalid arguments
      * stress-madvise: exercise process_madvise with invalid arguments
      * stress-hdd: add invalid read/write family calls
      * stress-sockpair: exercise invalid socketpair calls
      * stress-sock: exercise invalid sock calls
      * stress-numa: exercise move_pages with NULL nodes argument
      * stress-msg: exercise msgrcv with invalid arguments
      * stress-mq: exercise msgctl IPC_SET for more kernel coverage
      * stress-mq: exercise invalid mq_timedreceive and mq_receive calls
      * stress-mq: exercise invalid mq_unlink calls
      * stress-mq: exercise mq_close with invalid mq descriptor
      * stress-mq: exercise invalid mq_send* calls
      * stress-mq: exercise mq_open with various invalid arguments
      * stress-mq: exercise invalid mq descriptor on mq_notify
      * stress-mq: exercise invalid mq descriptor on mq_getattr/mq_setattr
      * stress-mremap: workaround pedantic static analysis warnings
      * stress-mremap: exercise invalid flags and new size
      * stress-mmap: call wth invalid offset
      * stress-open: exercise openat2 with invalid usize argument
      * stress-handle: exercise open_by_handle_at with another bad fd
      * stress-pkey: exercise pkey_free with invalid pkey id
      * stress-pkey: exercise pkey_alloc with invalid access_rights
      * stress-aio-linux: exercise invalid io_submit calls
      * stress-aio-linux: exercise invalid io_setup calls
      * stress-aio-linux:  exercise invalid io_getevents calls
      * stress-aio-linux: exercise invalid io_destroy calls
      * stress-aio-linux: exercise invalid io_cancel calls
      * stress-sigio: add yield checking while consuming data from SIGIO event
      * stress-sigio: don't report EINTR as errors on selects
      * stress-xattr: fix incorrect voidification of variable
      * stress-xattr: exercise invalid filename on listxattr calls
      * stress-xattr: remove overly long attribute to force ERANGE
      * Add stress_redo_fork helper to check errno and keep stressing flag
      * stress-bad-altstack: add altstack usage inside signal handler
      * stress-clone: exercise invalid modify_ldt arguments
      * stress-mknod: exercise invalid fd in mknodat call
      * stress-dir: exercise invalid fd on mkdirat call
      * stress-copy-file: exercise copy_file_range with invalid fds and flags
      * stress-membarrier: add build time check for MEMBARRIER_CMD_FLAG_CPU
      * stress-loadavg: voidify function return values
      * stress-fallocate: Add one more invalid mode combo
      * stress-dirdeep: exercise linkat with invalid flags
      * stress-readahead: exercise invalid offset and lengths for
        posix_fadvise
      * stress-close: exercise invalid flags in fchownat call
      * stress-sock: use invalid flags for accept4 call
      * stress-readahead: replace whitespace with tabs.
      * stress-sigio: drain as much as possible in SIGIO handler
      * stress-readahead: exercise illegal readahead on write-only file
      * stress-handle: exercise EOVERFLOW on small buffer
      * stress-msync: exercise invalid flags field in msync
      * stress-memfd: add some more invalid memfd pathnames
      * stress-kcmp: exercise kcmp with invalid PIDs
      * stress-membarrier: add missing cpu_id arg to membarrier call
      * stress-fpunch: add more yield points
      * stress-cap: exercise capset with invalid version and PID
      * stress-cap: exercise capget with invalid version and PID
      * stress-utime: exercise utimensat with illegal flags
      * stress-wait: exercise wait4 with various alternative options
      * stress-klog: exercise some invalid syslog read operations
      * stress-dev: avoid any actions on owner's tty
      * stress-cache: Add NOCLOBBER hints to pinned clean up build warnings
      * stress-alarm: Add alarm(2) and sleep(3) stressor
      * stress-kill: exercise illegal signal numbers and PID
      * stress-exit-group: fix mutex cleanup on exit
      * stress-cache: add NOCLOBBER hints to total and r to clean up build
       warnings
      * stress-key: only use KEYCTL_INVALIDATE if it is defined
      * Add new exit_group stress test.
      * stress-pidfd: use the new process_mrelease call on pre-waited
        process pidfd
      * core-shim: add wrapper to process_release
      * stress-cache: remove shim_clflush on bad_addr, breaks OS X
      * stress-malloc: move initialization of malloc_threshold to #ifdef block
      * stress-cache: remove __builtin___clear_cache call on
        bad_addr (LP: #1940593)
      * stress-get: exercise invalid rusage who fields
      * stress-key: exercise add_key with a range in invalid arguments
      * stress-sigfd: exercise signalfd4 with invalid mask pointer size
      * stress-sigq: add invalid SI_TKILL rt_sigqueueinfo call
      * stress-remap-file-pages: disable for SPARC
      * stress-ng.h: Add STRESS_ARCH_SPARC sparc arch macro
      * stress-cache: add in periodic invalid cache flush operations
      * stress-ng: disable SIGLARM alarm once child stressor has returned
      * stress-get: add a couple more test cases for ugetrlimit
      * stress-chroot: fix use-after-free error when free'ing path
      * stress-timer: add commented out invalid timer_delete call
      * stress-brk: add mergable page hint with madvise
      * core-shim: use brk system call in preference to libc wrapper
      * stress-chroot: add two more corner test cases, add more comments
      * stress-cpu: add 16 bit division method div16
      * stress-hdd: remove tab on empty line
      * stress-fpunch: fix typo in comment
      * stress-malloc: add --malloc-touch option to aggressively force pages
        into memory
      * stress-zlib: add some missing constifications
      * stress-vdso: make static array wrap_funcs const
      * stress-tun: make string buffer static const
      * stress-sysfs: make static string signum_path const
      * core-sched: constify static array sched_types
      * stress-nop: Fix opt_set_funcs undeclared
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * Manual: minor corrections in the cpu methods documentation
      * stress-l1cache: add a missing newline in the source
      * stress-fpunch: create temp file with holes and multiple extents
      * stress-affinity: add --affinity-sleep nanosleep delay option
      * stress-affinity: whitespace and comment clean-up
      * stress-revio: use stress_get_extents helper
      * Add file hole punching (and filling) stressor, --fpunch
      * stress-wait: constify pid_arg arguement
      * stress-cpu: make variable solutions const, add some line spacing
      * stress-cpu: move queens_solutions into function
      * stress-cpu: make array factorials const
      * core-helper: remove some blank lines and add a missing comment block
      * stress-pidfd: fix comment, add missing "don't"
      * voidify return from various sleep calls
      * Clean up kill calls, voidify returns and remove unwanted debug kill
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 1 Sep 2021 17:57:59 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.13.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-userfaultfd: constify a couple of function arguments
      * stress-timerfd: move label to inside if #ifdef
      * stress-pci: reduce the scope of pci_path
      * stress-pci: use unsigned int for %x sscanf format specifier
      * Manual: update date
      * core-helper: declare extern __stack_chk_fail
      * stress-loadavg: Fix build warning on unused pthread flags
      * stress-loadavg: fix build error on systems without pthreads
      * stress-mmaphuge: fix info name, copy-n-paste error
      * stress-mmaphuge: define HUGE macros only if MAP_HUGE_SHIFT is
        defined
      * stress-ng.h: remove toolchain check for NOCLOBBER macro
      * Add asm("") and builtin_expect() built time checks
      * stress-funccall: only define complex types if complex is supported
      * stress-ng.h: use HAVE_BUILTIN_MEMMOVE for __builtin_memmove usage
      * stress-io-uring: rename variable iov_len to iov_length to fix pcc
        failure
      * stress-funccall: only define complex types if complex is supported
      * Add __restrict keyword build time check
      * stress-shm-sysv: remove some commented out debug cruft
      * stress-shm-sysv: fix random key generation
      * stress-shm: fix comment, it is a POSIX shm stessor not SYS V
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmat with RND option a little more
      * stress-hdd: ensure read is sync'd to the same random offsets as
        write
      * stress-hdd: fix --verify option
      * stress-opcode: allow child to die badly silently
      * Add new line between declaration and first executable statement
      * Add a huge page memory mapping stressor --mmaphuge
      * stress-mlockmany: add --mlockmany-procs option
      * help: wrap overly wide help text to tty width
      * core-helper: add stress_tty_width to get column width of terminal
      * stress-rawdev: fix typo in help
      * stress-list: add spaced between list options in help
      * stress-nop: add missing INSTR arg to nop-instr help
      * stress-rdrand: add rdrand instruction asm check
      * Break wide macro line into multi-line #define
      * Add stress-ng specific stack smashing error message
      * stress-nop: fix typo in --nop-instr help
      * Rename macro HAVE_DARN to HAVE_ASM_DARN
      * stress-nop: add --nop-instr option to specify nop instruction
      * stress-timerfd: add --timerfd-fds option to specify max fds to use
      * stress-bad-altstack: disable warnings on known illegal null ptr
        dereference
      * stress-dirmany: Add a stressor to rapidly create/remove empty files
      * Skip error messages on no resource skip stressor terminations
      * Add load average stressor, try to create insane load averages
      * stress-pthread: report strerror of correct error return value
      * stress-resources: Add timerfd_create/close
      * stress-timerfd: Add build time checks for timerfd_* calls
      * stress-resources: exercise pidfd_open, waste more fds
      * stress-open: use O_NDELAY open flag
      * stress-resources: reap pthread only if it was started
      * Add build time checks for complex creal and cimag libm functions
      * stress-funccall: re-organize to reduce #ifdef checking
      * stress-funccall: add some more types to pass
      * stress-physpage: exercise /dev/mem mmap'ing
      * stress-pci: update some comments, fix date
      * Add new PCI sysfs stressor to read/mmap PCI config and resources
      * Remove trailing tabs from various sources
      * stress-prtcl: use shim'd enum for PIDTYPE values
      * Detemine minimal stack size via sysconf, then PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
        then guess
      * stress-memcpy: add naive_o0 and naive_o3 options
      * stress-af-alg: no need to report zero unused algorithmns
      * core-madvise: Add MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE flags
      * stress-madvise: add MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE flags
      * core-mincore: use MADV_POPULATE_READ to fault pages in
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * stress-io-uring: fix typo in comment
      * stress-affinity: add new --affinity-pin and --affinity-delay options
      * core-helper: don't emit not implemented messages with --skip-silent
      * Manual: minor cleanups
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 2 Aug 2021 18:58:47 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-smi: move "us" time closer to the time
      * stress-sock: Add return at end of stressor, cleans up cppcheck warning
      * core-setting: remove commented out line
      * stress-sockabuse: Add return at end of stressor, cleans up cppcheck
        warning
      * tests: add missing return at end of main
      * Add build time check for __get_cpuid()
      * stress-smi: remove tsc helper function, it is not required
      * stress-madvise: add NOCLOBBER annotation on ret
      * stress-mmapfixed: move unmap label inside #ifdef block
      * core-madvise: voidify function args for systems that don't support
        madvise
      * Add new munmap stressor, exercises munmap and fault handling
      * core-out-of-memory: rename signal to signal_idx to avoid name
        shadowing
      * core-helper: rename dirname to directoryname to avoid name shadowing
      * core-cache: rename index to idx to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-syscall: rename syscall to syscall_num avoid name shadowing
      * stress-rawudp: rename sin to s_in avoid name shadowing
      * stress-open: rename times to tv avoid name shadowing
      * stress-link: rename tmpfile to tmpfilename avoid name shadowing
      * stress-judy: rename index to idx to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-*: rename dirfd to dir_fd to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-branch: rename index to idx to avoid name shadowing
      * kernel-coverage: add vm option variations of fork, vfork and
        vforkmany
      * stress-fork: add --fork-vm and --vfork-vm options to exercise VM more
      * core-smart: ensure devs pointer is null
      * stress-vforkmany: add --vforkmany-vm to exercise VM more
      * stress-mmapfixes: use STRESS_OOMABLE_QUIET to silence faults
      * stress-mmapfixed: only perform fixed mapping on unmapped pages
      * core-helper: make static char array b36 const
      * core-hash: make primes array const
      * core-cache: format struct initialization in the coding style
      * Manual: update date and fix smi formatting
      * stress-smi: add smi extry in manual, make bogo-ops more frequent
      * stress-smi: use SHIM_CAP_SYS_RAWIO instead on CAP_SYS_RAWIO
      * test/test-libkmod: clean up test code
      * core-smart: only define helpers for stress_smart_read_devs if
        HAVE_SMART is defined
      * core-shim: fix shim_modify_ldt no system call build issue
      * README: Add kmod library package info
      * core-smart: only define stress_smart_read_devs if HAVE_SMART is
        defined
      * core-module: return -1 for no-op module unload helper
      * Add SMI stressor, trigger SMM calls and benchmark SMI duration
      * stress-ng: remove space at end of the line
      * Depluralize the options error warning
      * Add Unicode minus check on invalid options
      * core-cache: clean up parsing of cache size
      * core-smart: use scandir to read devices and sort the devices too
      * Add --smart option to dump S.M.A.R.T. device statistics changes
      * stress-af-alg: expand crypto failure message
      * Fix duration output missing when sequential mode
      * stress-ng: fix typo "filed" -> "file"
      * Move OPT_skip_silent to the non-arg lookup table
      * arg parsing: print out unrecognized options
      * Add bit shift helpers and use them for stress-ng mask flags
      * stress-prctl: re-order PR_* macro check by #define value
      * stress-prctl: add Linux 5.14 PR_SCHED_CORE prctl
      * Add --skip-silent option to silent skip stress tests that can't
        be invoked
      * stress-clone: move shim wrapper of modify_ldt to core-shim
      * stress-xattr: fix compare/assignment typo
      * stress-maxtrix: ensure matrix_method_name is initialized to NULL
      * stress-io-uring: perform 64 bit multiply to avoid 32 bit overflow
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 9 Jul 2021 09:32:15 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [John Kacur]
      * stress-ng: Add tags to the makefile
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: remove git-commit-id.h from dist rule
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-af-alg: make stress_af_alg_cmp_crypto static
      * stress-af-alg: clean up pedantic clang-12 build warning
      * stress-sock: voidify unused arg opt for stress_set_socket_zerocopy
      * stress-sock: clean up warnings when MSG_ZEROCOPY is not defined
      * stress-af-alg: set rc to EXIT_SUCCESS for ignore algos
      * stress-af-alg: don't re-try to use algos that are marked as internal
      * stress-af-alg: fix typo in skcipher
      * kernel-coverage: add --sock-zerocopy option to sock stressor
      * stress-sock: add a --sock-zerocopy option to use MSG_ZEROCOPY
      * stress-sock: fix recvmmsg infinite loop
      * kernel-coverage: add sock mptcp protocol to coverage testing
      * stress-sock: add --sock-protocol option (tcp or mptcp allowed)
      * stress-af-alg: sort af-alg algos based on type then name
      * stress-af-alg-defconfigs.h: update crypto defconfigs table
      * stress-mmap: add more invalid mmap and munmap calls
      * stress-mmap: add some invalid mmappings to exercise kernel more
      * stress-mincore: add file backed mmap'd page to mincore upon
      * Remove trailing space and tabs from end of lines
      * stress-enosys: change quotactl_path syscall to quotactl_fd
      * stress-inval: change quotactl_path syscall to quotactl_fd
      * Add git-commit-id.h to .gitignore
      * Add stress-ng version and git id to debug info
      * stress-netdev: turn stress_netdev_check into a macro, fix some ioctls
      * stress-sysfs: make killed child an error condition
      * stress-sysfs: catch killing signals when exercising sysfs
      * core-out-of-memory: fix typo in comment
      * stress-netdev: fix build time check for SIOCGIFADDR
      * stress-quota: change quotactl_path syscall to quotactl_fd
      * stress-fanotify: remove unnecessary : from message
      * stress-fanotify: clean up error messages
      * stress-ramfs: remove ramfs duplicated name in stressor message
      * stress-fanotify: add stressor name to information logged message
      * Add --seed N option to set the initial random number generate seed
      * snapcraft: add architectures remote build info
      * stress-ng: move --times check into stress_times_dump
      * core-ftrace: add missing void on stress_ftace_stop helper
      * core-ftrace: replace int return with void for stop/free functions
      * stress-signest: uncomment signals that got disabled during debugging
      * stress-signest: cater for systems that don't have alternative signal
        stacks
      * stress-signest: add stressor name to info on unique signals handled
      * stress-signest: add run time check
      * stress-signest: don't use SIGINT, it's meant for halting stress-ng
      * stress-signest: add more yielding termination
      * stress-signest: cast mmap return to uint8_t to clean up warning on
        gcc 6.5.0
      * stress-mlock: voidify args to avoid warnings
      * Add new nested signal handling stressor, sigtest
      * stress-mlock: periodically perform misc invalid or unusual mlock
        calls
      * stress-mlock: remove CAP_IPC_LOCK check, this is not needed since
        Linux 2.6.9
      * Add build time check for munlockall
      * core-helper: cater for ARM64 SVE stack sizes
      * stress-userfaultfd: only report insufficient privilege warning on
        instance 0
      * Makefile: remove -g
      * stress-cpu: use more builtin math functions
      * core-helper: don't print not implemented message multiple times,
        clean up msg
      * stress-vforkfmany: silence warnings concerning vfork being deprecated
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:11:03 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Rosen Penev]
      * stress-fp-error: add pre-compiler checks for all floating-point
        exceptions
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-schedpolicy: use new_policy rather than policy
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-zlib: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-tree: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-sockmany: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-sockfd: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-seccomp: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-rmap: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-open: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-mmapmany: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-memthrash: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-memrate: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-malloc: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-lockbus: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-list: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-hrtimers: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-handle: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-fiemap: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-epoll: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-efivar: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-dev-shm: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-cyclic: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-clone: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-apparmor: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-affinity: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * core-thermal-zone: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * core-mounts: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * core-helper: use correct sizeof for ram_f, ram_s
      * core-hash: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * core-cache: use sizeof the object rather than the type
      * stress-xattr: fix memory leak of large_tmp on error return path
      * stress-fanotify: only declare and use fan_fd2 if required
      * stress-dup: voidify return from waitpid
      * stress-xattr: allocate large_tmp on the heap rather than the stack
      * stress-ng: use shim wrapped strlcpy
      * stress-usefaultfd: fix missing \n at end of pr_inf message
      * stress-sigabort: move scope of variable ret to deeper scope
      * stress-ng: move scope of variable total
      * stress-io-uring: return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED when io-uring is not
        implemented
      * stress-io-uring: check for ENOSYS on io-uring setup
      * stress-mq: move scope of variable ret
      * stress-fp-error: clean up build warning on d1, d2 when FE_INEXACT
        is not available
      * stress-fault: don't use t1, t2, dt if getrusage is not supported
      * stress-dev: fix memcpy/memset thinko
      * stress-ng.h: remove HOT annotation from keep stressing helpers
      * stress-stream: ensure initialized values are in range 0..0.99999
      * stress-io-uring: constify stress_io_uring_setups array
      * stress-io-uring: don't abort early on close op setup on failed dup
      * stress-ng: fix memory leak, call stress_temp_path_free before
        stressor exits
      * stress-ng: fix memory leak, call stress_temp_path_free in usage
      * syscalls: add io_pgetevents to exercised syscalls
      * stress-aio-linux: exercise io_pgetevents if it is available
      * stress-aio-linux: attempt to call async fsync, don't redo if it fails
      * stress-io-uring: add madvise io-uring op
      * stress-io-uring: add close op, and zero fields on other ops
      * stress-aio: add aio_fsync call for more kernel coverage
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add reiserfs to the mix
      * kernel-coverage: disable core dump handlers such as apport
      * stress-io-uring: add READ and WRITE opcodes
      * stress-io-uring: add random block sized seek position for
        READV/WRITEV ops
      * stress-io-uring: drive opcode calls by a lookup table, add
        fallocate + fadvise ops
      * stress-io-uring: move completion handling to submit call
      * stress-io-uring: bump bogo-op counter for each successful completion
      * stress-io-uring: refactor op-code handling, add helper callbacks
      * stress-fcntl: exercise some invalid fcntl operations for more coverage
      * stress-vforkmany: fix handling on OS X where vfork() fails
      * stress-vforkmany: add another yield point after touching pages
      * stress-bad-altstack: force child death on recursive signals
      * stress-bad-altstack: Fix hang on OS X
      * stress-ng.h: disable MLOCKED macro on OS X as it clashes with NORETURN
      * stress-xattr: pass oversized xattr using a larger buffer
      * stress-urandom: pass entropy count in variable rather than by value
      * stress-urandom: initialize val to clean up valgrind warning
      * stress-sockabuse: call futimens with valid time
      * stress-sock: zero ifc to avoid valgrind warning
      * stress-shm: memset msg to zero, cleans up valgrind warning
      * stress-set: ensure array groups is zero'd, clean up valgrind warning
      * stress-sem-sysv: make the array more than large enough
      * stress-schedpolicy: memset attr to zero to clean up warnings
        from valgrind
      * stress-schedpolicy: memset large_attr to zero to clean up
        valgrind warning
      * stress-prctl: set arg2 in PR_GET_KEEPCAPS to zero
      * stress-prctl: set arg2 in PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER zero
      * stress-eventfd: ensure buffer is zero'd before writing it
      * stress-dev: zero filename array, cleans up valgrind warnings
      * stress-clock: ensure initialized t1 is used to set the time
      * stress-procfs: remove debug printf
      * stress-procfs: ensure entire buffer is zero'd before scanning it
      * stress-procfs: fix negative index into dlist[] array
      * stress-fork: fix fork not being called
      * stress-fanotify: exercise fanotify FAN_CLASS_NOTIF |
        FAN_REPORT_DFID_NAME
      * Add per-stressor metrics to metrics output
      * kernel-coverage: add sysinfo for mounted fs coverage
      * kernel-coverage: use -1 to specify number of CPUS online
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 2 Jun 2021 13:12:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-iomix: cast full expression to off_t instead of 64 bit mwc value
      * stress-misaligned: only use target clones attribute if compiler
        supports it
      * stress-misaligned: fix build error on Hiaku-r1beta8 gcc 7.3.0
      * stress-ng.h: enable attribute features for versions of clang
      * stress-ng.h: remove unused PACKED macro
      * core-ftrace: add ; after RB_* macros
      * test/test-mq-sysv.c: memset msg to clean up cppcheck warning
      * stress-misaligned: only use atomics if HAVE_ATOMIC is defined
      * stress-sigfpe: remove SA_SIGINFO check on err_code
      * stress-set: don't cast setgroups size to size_t for DragonFlyBSD
      * stress-sigpipe: declare function pipe_child if clone is available
      * stress-tree: fix build on DragonFlyBSD 6.0
      * stress-null: only declare variable off on linux builds
      * stress-pthread: only declare lret if is required
      * stress-memthrash: fix SEGV due to incorrect offset based on uintptr_r
        cast
      * stress-sync-file: fix -ve offset on random sync file location
      * stress-ng: clean up implicit type warnings from pedantic clang build
      * stress-zlib: fix incorrect buffer size on compression
      * stress-zlib: fix --zlib-method option
      * stress-zero: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-yield: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-xattr: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-wait: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-vm-rw: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-udp: cast non-int instance to int for int math
      * stress-tmpfs: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-timerfd: remove an extra ; and clean up some type casting
      * stress-timer: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-tee: clean up 2 minor casts for function call arguments
      * stress-sysfs: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-bad-addr: cast procs to rlim_t on rlim_cur/max assignments
      * stress-sync-file: fix casting and sync loop
      * stress-switch: stress-schedpolicy: clean up implicit cast warnings
        with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-sockpair: cast val++ arg to uint8_t to match type
      * stress-schedpolicy: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-swap: cast lseek offset to off_t type
      * stress-stream: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-stack: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-splice: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-sockmany: cast non-int instance to int for int math
      * stress-sockfd: add NORETURN hint to child func, clean up type cast
        warnings
      * stress-sockabuse: clean up pedantic clang warnings
      * stress-shellsort: assign data the correctly typed values
      * stress-scpt: cast non-int instance to int for int math
      * stress-sock: cast non-int instance to int for int math
      * stress-shm-sysv: clean up various pedantic clang warnings
      * stress-shm: clean up a few off_t fallocate/ftruncate arg warnings
      * stress-set: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-sendfile: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-seccomp: add NORETURN to exiting signal handler
      * stress-seal: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-rmap: add NORETURN hint, clean up implicit cast warnings
      * stress-resources: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-rename: explicitly cast flags arg to renameat2 to unsigned int
      * stress-remap-file-pages: cast i to the same data type of data[]
      * stress-reboot: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-rawudp: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-sysinval: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-tsearch: assign data the correctly typed values
      * stress-tun: cast port to same type as addr.sin_port
      * stress-unshare: remove ; from macro UNSHARE definition
      * stress-rawsock: use correct ssize_t return variable for sendto
      * stress-rawpkt: add NORETURN hint on child, clean up implicit
        cast warning
      * stress-rawdev: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-radixsort: reduce n from size_t to n
      * stress-pthread: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-procfs: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-prtctl: cast args->page_size to intptr_t to match mask type
      * stress-poll: forgot to add int cast to buf comparison on sanity check
      * stress-poll: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-pkey: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang builds
      * stress-pipeherd: fix implicit type cast warnings, make float math
        double
      * stress-pipeherd: fix type of counter, it should be uint64_t
      * stress-netdev: fix type of n, it should be int, cast divisor instead
      * stress-pipe: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-pidfd: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-physpage: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-opcode: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-null: clean up implicit clang type warnings on mmapo
        offset arg
      * stress-nice: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-netlink-task: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-netlink-proc: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-opcode: add NORETURN on signal handler
      * stress-numa: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-netdev: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-mq: stress-msync: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-msync: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-msg: fix too long a constant or operand, clean up misc warnings
      * stress-mmapaddr: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-mmap: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-mknod: use mode_t for mknod mode type in stress_do_mknod
      * stress-misaligned: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-idle-page: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-misaligned: add NORETURN on signal handler
      * stress-mincore: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-mergesort: cast return from stress_mwc32 to int32_t
      * stress-memthrash: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-memrate: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-memfd: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-membarrier: ensure the cmd type to membarrier call is int
      * stress-matrix-3d: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-matrix: clean up some implicit type casting warnings
      * stress-malloc: fix never reached memory reaping and clean up warnings
      * stress-lsearch: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-loop: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-longjmp: cast uint64_t to double to avoid precision loss
      * stress-lockofd: cast return from stress_mwc64 to off_t
      * stress-locka: cast return from stress_mwc64 to off_t
      * stress-link: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-l1cache: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-klog: cast uint32_t math to int to clean up implicit
        cast warning
      * stress-itimer: cast itimer_freq to double to clean up implicit
        cast warning
      * stress-ipsec-mb: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-io-uring: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-ioprio: cast ioprio_get who arg to int
      * stress-ioport: cast ioport from arg to unsigned long
      * stress-iomix: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-inotify: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-aio-linux: assign invalid value to offset and nbytes in a
        portable way
      * stress-misaligned: fix i386 built error for 128 bit integers
      * stress-icmp-flood: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-bad-altstack: remove void * cast of signal handler function
      * stress-hdd: cast ret to size_t to clear up build warning
      * stress-cpu-online: clean up build warnings
      * stress-af-alg: cast j to ssize_t to compare with send() return
      * stress-hdd: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-getdent: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-fanotify: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-fallocate: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-epoll: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-fp-error: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-filename: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-fiemap: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-file-ioctl: cast ~0 to uint16_t
      * stress-eventfd: clean up implicit cast warning with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-efivar: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-bad-altstack: add NORETURN on stress_signal_handler
      * stress-dup: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-dnotify: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-dev-shm: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic
        clang builds
      * stress-dev: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-dccp: clean up implicit cast warning with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-ioctl: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-aio: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-af-alg: clean up implicit cast warnings with pedantic clang
        builds
      * stress-verity: clean up pedantic build warnings
      * stress-utime: clean up pedantic clang warning
      * stress-cyclic: clean up some implicit type warnings
      * stress-cpu: clean up some implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-cpu: clean up type warnings
      * stress-sysbadaddr: clean up implicit type warnings, remove
        stress_badhandler
      * core-shim: fix get_mempolicy shim, 4th arg should be void *
      * stress-rtc: clean up int and ssize_t type conversions
      * stress-cache: add some minor int type cast conversion
      * core-perf: explicitly cast return from tolower to char
      * stress-softlockup: add NORETURN to signal handler, silence
        SIZEOF_ARRAY warning
      * stress-qsort: cast return from stress_mwc32() to match assigned type
      * stress-ping-sock: cast return from getpid() to match type of echo.id
      * stress-mmapfixed: use the stress_sig_handler_exit helper
      * stress-key: make variable len ssize_t to match return from system_read
      * stress-heapsort: cast return from stress_mwc32() to match assigned
        type
      * stress-getrandom: ensure flag is unsigned int to match getrandom
        flag arg
      * stress-full: make ptr a uint8_t to remove need for casting on put call
      * stress-flock: use ssize_t var for system_read return
      * stress-exec: clang in pedantic mode suggests pthread_dummy is zero'd
      * stress-bad-altstack: remove NORETURN
      * stress-apparmor: size arg of read should be size_t, cast it so
      * stress-bad-altstack: clean up pedantic clang build warnings.
      * Add autobuild detection of __attribute__((fallthrough))
      * Use the stress_sig_handler_exit helper
      * core-helper: add stress_sig_handler_exit to exit on a signal
      * stress-bind-mount: add NORETURN MLOCKED_TEXT annotations to signal
        handler
      * stress-aio-linux: clean up gcc build warning
      * stress-apparmor: clean up gcc build warning
      * stress-get: add missing cast to clean up gcc build warning
      * stress-get: fix various pedantic clang build warnings
      * stress-crypt: remove _XOPEN_SOURCE define
      * stress-apparmor: clean up pedantic build warnings
      * stress-aio-linux: clean up multiple implicit type conversions
      * core-ignite-cpu: pass cpu as a int32_t argument
      * stress-fcntl: fix hint assignment, use UL not ULL
      * stress-mmapmany: fix format specifier for max
      * stress-madvise: make ~0ULL portable to 32 bit arches
      * stress-io-uring: mmap buffers with MAP_POPULATE
      * stress-io-uring: add more yield points in main loop
      * core-io-uring: include config.h
      * core-personality.c: include config.h
      * core-perf-event: include config.h
      * core-ignite-cpu: fix build warning, make cpu an int32_t
      * stress-sigpipe: use ssize_t for read return assignments, clean up
        child call
      * stress-sigio: use ssize_t for read return assignments
      * stress-sigfpe: add NORETURN to signal handler and clean up type
        warnings
      * stress-sigfd: use ssize_t for read return assignments
      * stress-sigsegv: add NORETURN to handler, fix cast on %p
      * stress-tree: remove extraneous ; after RB_* and SPLAY_* macros
      * stress-vdso: clean up some pedantic implicit type warnings
      * stress-userfaultfd: clean up pedantic warnings, add NORETURN to
        handler, fix cast
      * stress-ng: clean up some pedantic clang warnings
      * stress-ng: add OPT_undefined for undefined non-option
      * core-cache: clean up implicit type conversion warnings
      * core-vmstat: add appropriate type casts to clean up pedantic
        clang warnings
      * core-parse-opts: cast int values to double for mixed type
        math * operation
      * core-thrash: clean up type warnings
      * core-ignite-cpu: clean up type conversion warnings
      * core-perf: clean up various type conversion warnings
      * core-try-open: ensure status is zero, cleans up pedantic clang
        warning
      * stress-ng.h: make thermal zone type_instance a uint32_t
      * core-sched: clean up implicit type conversions
      * core-out-of-memory: initialize save_errno to zero, clean up
        clang warning
      * core-net: clean up type warnings and add wrap around check on
        port overflow
      * stress-skiplist: use unsigned long as value to save/fetch
      * stress-seek: clean up off_t implicit type conversion warnings
      * stress-lockbus: add NORETURN hint on stress_sigbus_handler
      * stress-lockbus: wrap macros with while .. do (0) wrapper
      * stress-enosys: add NORETURN hint on stress_badhandler
      * stress-enosys: clean up implicit type conversion changes
      * stress-bsearch: fix type warnings with a couple of changes
      * stress-mmapmany: clean up warnings, make max a long
      * stress-open: clean up missing int casts on fd comparison
      * core-helper: clean up various implicit type warnings
      * stress-open: clean up various implicit type conversions warning
      * stress-oom-pipe: use size_t for max pipe fd array size
      * stress-mmapmany: use size_t for max mappings rather then ssize_t
      * stress-mmapfork: clean pedantic %p warning
      * stress-mmapfork: add NORETURN hint on stress_segvhandler
      * stress-chmod: fix incorrect type in 3rd arg in do_fchmod
      * stress-cap: make constant unsigned
      * stress-fcntl: clean up implicit type casts
      * stress-fault: remove stray redundant ;
      * stress-env: fix implicit type conversion warning
      * stress-dirdeep: add explicit cast to char on int expression
      * stress-dir: add check for mode_t, use it or int
      * stress-ng: make g_unsupported static
      * stress-funccall: clean up implicit type cast warnings
      * stress-copy-file: clean up some implicit cast warnings
      * stress-clone: clean up some implicit type warnings
      * core-shim: fix extraneous ) build failure
      * stress-mcontend: clean up implicit type conversion warnings
      * stress-kcmp: cast to types of fields of kcmp_epoll_slot
      * stress-kcmp: clean up implicit type conversion warnings on kcmp call
      * stress-kcmp: wrap macros with while .. do (0) wrapper
      * stress-vecmath: fix int/uint type casting pedantic clang warnings
      * stress-vecmath: wrap macro OPS with while .. do (0) wrapper
      * stress-dev: move CDROMVOLCTRL check to around the IOCTL_TIMEOUT macro
      * stress-dev: wrap IOCTL_TIMEOUT with while .. do (0) wrapper
      * stress-chown: cast uid_t and gid_t parameters
      * stress-branch: simplify LIKELY macro expression to clean up warning
      * stress-atomic: add explicit type cast to atomic arguments
      * core-shim: clean up implicit cast of tv_nsec result
      * core-shim: cast syscall and shim_enosys returns to relevant return type
      * stress-sysinfo: replace macro with macro text
      * stress-madvise: ensure ~0 is a ULL type
      * stress-madvise: check return type for writes need to be ssize_t
      * stress-madvise: only define NUM_SOFT_OFFLINE_MAX if MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
        is required
      * stress-madvise: add NORETURN hint on stress_sigbus_handler
      * stress-bad-ioctl: add NORETURN hint on stress_segv_handler
      * core-ftrace: count should be int64_t
      * core-ftrace: remove redundant ; after RB_* macros
      * stress-dynlib: add NORETURN hint on stress_segvhandler
      * stress-dnotify: remove unused macro DIR_FLAGS
      * stress-dentry: check return type for reads need to be ssize_t
      * stress-daemon: make buf uint8_t to clean up signedness warning on 0xff
      * stress-close: fix type conversion warning on float multiplication
      * stress-close: ensure final arg of close_range is unsigned int
      * stress-urandom: make ret argument in check_eperm call ssize_t
      * stress-urandom: make the buffer a uint8_t instead of char
      * stress-vforkmany: explicitly cast sleep time
      * stress-vforkmany: remove unused macro STACK_SIZE
      * stress-vm-splice: use correct types for splice return and iov.iov_len
      * stress-watchdog: add NORETURN hint for stress_watchdog_handler
      * stress-watchdog: ret should be ssize_t on write() return
      * stress-vm: pass buffer end to stress methods and use void *buf pointers
      * stress-vm: cast %p args to volatile void *
      * stress-vm: fix cast of sleep argument
      * stress-vm: remove ROR64 macro, it is no longer used
      * stress-vm: clean up some int to uint8_t implicit casts
      * stress-vm: explicitly cast int expression to uint8_t in ROR macro
      * stress-vm: fix rotate right on 8 bit values
      * stress-vm: use uint32_t for mwc seed values
      * stress-vm: wrap { } macros with do while (0) to avoid ; warnings
      * Move STRESSOR_DECL to stress-ng.h
      * core-thrash: warning clean-ups
      * core-time: explicitly cast ret to size_t
      * core-mounts: cast max to size_t to avoid memset implicit cast
      * core-mwc: clean up some implicit casting warnings
      * core-log: use size_t for data write lengths
      * core-hash: clean up implicit conversions with signedness changes
      * core-cache: remove redundant return 0
      * core-mlock: use uintptr_t casts with unsigned long
      * core-vmstat: make vmstat_delay and thermalstat_delay static
      * stress-ng.h: Rename __STRESS_NG_H__ to STRESS_NG_H
      * stress-version.h: Rename _VER_ to STRESS_VERSION_NUMBER
      * stress-ng.h: Fix incorrect type in stress_long_double_put
      * core-cache: use sscanf to parse a uint64_t rather than atoi
      * core-cache: replace use of %ms with %c to get size
      * stress-dup: unlink info->fifoname before removing the directory
      * treewide: add ( ) around expressions in keeping with stress-ng
        coding style
      * stress-misaligned: user 2/4/8 byte variants of __atomic_fetch_add
      * stress-misaligned: allow 128 atomic increments on x86
      * stress-misaligned: remove incorrect info increment
      * stress-misaligned: add increment and atomic increment methods
      * Manual: update --bad-altstack testing description
      * stress-bad-altstack: exercise BUS error on stacks
      * stress-vforkmany: fix times() info due to SIGKILLing children
      * stress-revio: unlink file as soon as possible
      * stress-dev: fix incorrect close, it should be removed
      * core-helper: add aborting: prefix to error message
      * stress-xattr: fix = typo, should be == for a comparison
      * stress-link: fix = typo, should be == for a comparison
      * stress-dev: report the name of the device that failed on a stat failure
      * stress-link: skip stressor on EPERM link errors
      * stress-chmod: silently ignore EPERM errors on chmod
      * stress-chattr: treat EINVAL on EXT2 ioctls as permissible
      * stress-verity: treat EINVAL on FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY as verity not
        supported
      * stress-copy-file: rename ret to copy_ret to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-fiemap: don't remove tmp dir if it's not been created
      * stress-copy-file: handle initial mkdir failure correctly
      * stress-copy-file: check for EINVAL on copy_file_range
      * stress-hdd: add workaround to O_DIRECT open failure cleanup
      * stress-aio-linux: disable O_DIRECT for filesystems that do not
        support it
      * stress-chdir: move yield point detection to start of loop
      * stress-dentry: add yield point detection before starting iteration
      * stress-mknod: add yield point detection before starting iteration
      * stress-filename: add probing of maximum filename lenth
      * stress-hdd: cater for read failure on vfat on ENOSPC
      * stress-xattr: silently ignore E2BIG error on *setxattr calls
      * stress-dup: fix tidy clean up paths for tmp path and mmap'd memory
      * stress-copy-file: don't rmdir the test directory if it was not created
      * stress-sync-file: treat EINTR as a SIGALRM/SIGINT termination w/o
        error
      * stress-splice: initialize buffer before writing it down the pipe
      * stress-quota: add quotactl_path support introduced in Linux 5.13
      * stress-enosys: add quotactl_path system call
      * stress-sysinval: fix number of args to quotactl system call
      * stress-sysinval: add quotactl_path system call
      * Add missing whitespaces in expressions
      * stress-splice: add a looped pipe splice to the mix
      * stress-landlock: exercise illegal landlock_add_rule arguments
      * stress-ng: fix Liunx typo
      * stress-dirdeep: add sanity checks for scandir failures
      * core-helper: encode hashed filenames into base36 14 char string
      * stress-dev: remove debug message on device being processed
      * stress-landlock: replace security=landlock to lsm=landlock
      * stress-misaligned: work around misaligned segv on 128 bit reads
      * Add stress_sighandler_default to restore handler to SIG_DFL
      * stress-misaligned: report the misaligned stress methods used
      * stress-misaligned: add uint8_t * cast to clean up gcc 6.5.0 build
        warning
      * stress-fallocate: re-order variable declarations, cleans up clobber
        warning
      * stress-misaligned: add a new misaligned memory read/write stressor
      * stress-list: replace entry with entries
      * stress-dev: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl
      * stress-dev: add TIOCSSERIAL ioctl
      * stess-splice: add workaround to failed splice from /dev/zero to pipe
      * stress-landlock: remove empty line
      * kernel-coverage: add more f2fs mkfs options to exercise the fs more
      * stress-landlock: fix ENOSYS error return on unimplemented syscalls
      * stress-landlock: exercise illegal landlock API arguments
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 22 May 2021 19:54:16 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-landlock: give hint that landlock LSM may need to be enabled
      * stress-landlock: voidify unused args in system call wrappers
      * stress-sigio: disable SIGIOs and close pipe end as soon as possible
      * stress-zlib: clean up clobber warnings
      * stress-ng: make us_total a temp variable in local scope
      * README: add in architectures and update stats
      * stress-iomix: add POSIX_FADV_* advice defined checks
      * stress-malloc: clean up void* -> void *
      * kernel-coverage: add more file systems and mount options
      * stress-sigio: fix segfault (LP: #1918095)
      * stress-xattr: add yield points in xattr loops
      * stress-inotify: break out of write loop on ENOSPC, update yielding
      * stress-dnotify: break out of write loop on ENOSPC, update yielding
      * stress-msg: replace tmp return variable rc with ret
      * stress-landlock: add Linux 5.13 landlock system call stressor
      * kernel-coverage: add more file systems into the coverage tests
      * stress-sysinval: add in landlock_add_rule and landlock_restrict_self
      * stress-enosys: add in landlock_add_rule and landlock_restrict_self
      * stress-sysinval: add landlock_create_ruleset to inval system call table
      * stress-enosys: add new Linux 5.13 landlock_create_ruleset syscall
      * stress-fallocate: replace space indentation with tab
      * stress-fallocate: handle SIGALRM and SIGINT more responsively
      * stress-fallocate: add more yield points
      * stress-link: add yield point check on each iteration
      * stress-membarrier: keep membarrier cmd flags in sync with kernel
      * stress-open: add an illegal all-bits set resolve flags setting
      * stress-open: work through the openat2 resolve flags for more coverage
      * stress-ng: add username if it is fetchable to syslog info
      * stress-ng: fix argument dumping from argv[] to syslog
      * core-setting: ensure string setting types are free'd
      * stress-stackmmap: Fix stack_sig mapping, add missing anonymous flag
      * stress-ipsec-mb: ensure all the timing data is set to 0.0
      * stress-personality: just make zero sized array a 1 element sized array
      * stress-aio-linux: fix the allocation size of cbs
      * core-vmstat: ensure tz_info_list is initialized for non
        thermalstat_delay cases
      * stress-l1cache: add another L1 cache set size sanity check
      * stress-personality: make failed array 1 element when n == 0
      * stress-sysinval: remove redundant re-assignment of syscalls_exercised
      * stress-af-alg: ensure info.name and info.type are free'd on failed add
      * stress-affinity: ensure pids array is zero'd before us
      * stress-vm: remove incorrect re-setting of counter c in 2nd loop
      * stress-vdso: remove redundant assignment to str
      * stress-userfaultfd: break assignment and check into two statements
      * stress-verity: check ioctl FS_IOC_GETFLAGS flags only if ioctl is OK
      * stress-udp: add missing voidifications on ignored return from setsockopt
      * stress-run: add missing voidifications on ignored return from ioctl
      * stress-sysinfo: don't stat on a null mnts[i]
      * stress-sysfs: voidify return from ppoll call
      * stress-procfs: only check statbuf.st_mode if fstat returned 0
      * stress-fcntl: voidify returns of fcntl calls
      * stress-cap: voidify returns of capget calls
      * stress-cpu: add div32 cpu stressor method, remove k from div64
      * stress-tsc: use clock time rdtime rather than cycles for RISC-V
      * stress-msg: cleanup resources on a fork failure
      * stress-msg: allocate msgq_ids on the heap, don't use the stack
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 6 May 2021 18:44:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-helper: uncapitalize SWAP -> swap
      * stress-l1cache: only compute cache size if it is not provided
      * stress-l1cache: skip stressor if cache size is abnormal
      * stress-l1cache: check for correct ways and line_size
      * stress-fork: silence warnings concerning vfork being deprecated
      * stress-cpu: fix double arg cpow and pow macros
      * Fix typo in builtin rint config checking
      * Rename test-builtin-cpu-is.c to test/test-builtin-cpu-is-power9.c
      * stress-cpu: parameterise workaround math macros
      * Add build detection and use builtins for fabs, fabsl, rint, rintl,
        sqrt and sqrtl
      * stress-sigabrt: fix build warning when built with gcc-11 PEDANTIC
      * Use a void * pointer for the mapping to avoid munmap warning
      * stress-wcstr: don't exercise wcscmp on M68K
      * stress-shm-sysv: don't declare get_bad_shmid for M68K
      * stress-shm-sysv: don't declare bad_shmid for M68K
      * stress-shm-sysv: don't pass NULL args to shmctl on M68K
      * stress-fp-error: disabled full fp error checkking on M68K
      * Add M68K (Motorola 68000) family #define
      * stress-ng: rename variable exit_status to wexit_status
      * Add cppcheck-suppress annotations to silence cppcheck on known
        false positives
      * stress-sigfpe: don't declare err_code when SA_SIGINFO is not defined
      * stress-dev: clean up some cppcheck warnings
      * stress-bad-altstack: don't use null vdso address
      * stress-cpu: increase number of iterations for omega stressor
      * stress-dev: disable play/pause ioctl on CD-ROMs
      * core-cache: remove redundant null check on cpu_path
      * core-cache: remove some redundant code
      * core-cache: rework to make cache detection more robust
      * core-cache: cater for offline CPUs
      * core-cache: don't use auxvals if non of the AT_* cache defines exist
      * stress-prctl: exercise PR_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH system call
      * emulation
      * core-helper: print cache level being used in more informative way
      * stress_cache_alloc: use mmap'd shared memory rather than calloc'd
        memory
      * core-cache: determine cache size via getauxval
      * core-cache: add support for linux SPARC 64 cache information
      * stress-sigabrt: use handler and non-handler modes of SIGABRT
      * Check for both __riscv__ and __riscv macros
      * stress-userfaultfd: skip test if EPERM is returned
      * stress-ng: translate stressor EXIT_FAILURE to EXIT_NOT_SUCCESS
      * stress-rdrand: add some simple 64 bit random data sanity checks
      * stress-list: add stress_list_slistt to all methods
      * stress-list: check for defined sys/queue.h macros before using them
      * stress-list: fix typo, should build if HAVE_SYS_QUEUE_H defined
      * stress-list: had hand-crafted slistt method
      * Add list stressor to exercise insertion/find/removal of various
        list types
      * stress-mknod: silently ignore EINVAL on mknod failures
      * stress-signal: fall back to libc signal() if syscall returns ENOSYS
      * core-helper: Add stress_get_stack_top to determine stack stop
      * Makefile: pass LDFLAGS to function test builds, echo configs on
        VERBOSE=1
      * travis: update with more recent build disto and add more libraries
      * stress-chdir: ensure statbuf is initialized
      * Revert "stress-chdir: fchmod on recently fetched statbuf st_mode"
      * stress-pthread: make pthread stack shared and ensure it's resident
      * core-helper: Fix -k option, don't change the process name
      * stress-pthead: unmap stack after pthread has joined
      * stress-signal: dont call signal syscall directly
      * stress-memthrash: fix off-by-one array overflow on swap method
      * stress-memthrash: don't perform misaligned read/writes
      * stress-memthrash: calculate number of threads based on online CPU
        count
      * stress-fork: remove residual fork call
      * Makefile: Add MAN_COMPRESS to control stress-ng.1 compression on
        install rule
      * stress-fork: remove syscall(__NR_fork)
      * stress-fork: set pid and errno on an unknown fork case
      * stress-fork: done use fork shim helper, move code into core stressor
        loop
      * Add system information in -v debug output
      * core-perf: clean up false positive static analysis warning
      * test/test-mq-posix: memset msg to clean up static analysis warning
      * stress-chdir: fchmod on recently fetched statbuf st_mode
      * stress-matrix-3d: ensure maxtrix_3d_method_name is null
      * stress-aio-linux: ensure fds is set to null on error
      * stress-sysinval: remove extraneous ) in alloc_hugepages syscall info
      * stress-sysinval: re-work resource cleanup on error
      * stress-sysinval: add system call utilization stats
      * stress-ng: prefix functions with stress_
      * stress-ng: rename stressors_{init|deinit} to
        stress_stressors_{init|deinit}
      * Rename stress_{map|unmap}_shared to stress_shared_{map|unmap}
      * Rename stress_free_stressors to stress_stressors_free
      * Rename stress_free_settings to stress_settings_free
      * Rename stress_free_temp_path to stress_temp_path_free
      * Break && macro checks into multi-lines to match stress-ng code style
      * stress-cpu: add float64 64 bit floating point cpu stress method
      * stress-cpu: add a lfsr32 cpu method
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:40:15 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Helmut Grohne]
      * Add VERBOSE build options (Closes: #971719)
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: update code name
      * Manual: update date
      * Makefile.config: move the HAVE_VLA_ARG
      * stress-zlib: add missing , between string literals
      * stress-cpu: don't run checksums on zero sized buffers
      * Makefile.config: re-order build time checks for pretty output
      * Makefile.config: remove extraneous .h from userfaultfd.h text
      * Makefile.config: remove leading space before swapcontext text
      * Makefile.config: fix missing "struct" test from message
      * Makefile.config: emit yes/no answer to config checks
      * Manual: clarify the 0 or less than zero number of instances
      * Makefile: generate config.h file from Makefile.config
      * Replace #if MACRO with #if defined(MACRO)
      * stress-sysbadaddr: don't use read/write if readv/writev are not
        available
      * stress-hdd: fall back to read/write if readv/writev are not
        available
      * stress-cyclic: rework when to define stress_cyclic_stats
      * stress-cyclic: build in stress_cyclic_stats only if it is required
      * stress-set: clear up static analysis warning
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 24 Mar 2021 13:14:15 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.12.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Witold Baryluk]
      * stress-cpu.c update proc state to RUN before the main loop
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-l1cache: add pointer casting for mmap/munmap for openhipster
      * stress-af-alg-defconfigs.h: minor sort re-ordering
      * stress-af-alg: make --af-alg-dump option dump the stringified type
      * stress-ioport: fix typo in comment
      * stress-l1cache: remove a line
      * stress-l1cache: skip stressor if l1cache info is zero
      * core-helper: rename __stress_get_stack_direction
      * stress-mmapfork: rename __strlcat to notrunc_strlcat
      * fast-test-all: omit l1cache as this requires cache info that may
        not be available
      * stress-l1cache: fix non-Linux build failure
      * stress-timer: periodically exercise /proc/self/timers
      * stress-cpu: add exim's nhash for one more hashing cpu exercising
        method
      * stress-ng: report skipped messages only on the first instance
      * stress-verity: add FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA ioctl
      * stress-pthread: report the maximum number of concurrent pthreads
      * stress-cpu: update short help information
      * stress-ng: add CPU % used per processor metrics
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * core-cache: assume CPU is online if online information not available
      * stress-io-uring: remove debug message
      * stress-l1cache: handle non-power of 2 alignments
      * stress-l1cache: remove unused variable ret
      * stress-l1cache: add new level 1 cache stressor
      * core-cache: fix fetching of cache ways information
      * stress-cyclic: add build time check for clock_gettime in
        stress_cyclic_usleep
      * stress-dentry: fix build warning of utime when utime is not declared
      * stress-rawsock: add build time check for HAVE_ICMPHDR
      * stress-dentry: add build time check for struct utimbuf
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:44:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.12.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-ng: remove duplicate shadowing statbuf declaration
      * core-helper: remove const from stack argument
      * stress-vforkmany: cast mmap return to uint8_t *
      * stress-sock: voidify unused argument rt
      * stress-rlimit: cast mmap return to uint8_t *
      * stress-context: cast mmap return to uint8_t *
      * core-helper: cast mmap return to uint8_t
      * stress-malloc: don't declare keep_thread_running_flag for
        non-pthread builds
      * stress-ng: use stat method of inode file mode checking
      * stack handling: use _SC_SIGSTKSZ and _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ
      * stress-sock: avoid some socket ioctls on RT kernels
      * core-helper: clean up stress_{read|write}_buffer code style
      * core-helper: replace void * pointer math with char *
      * stress-fiemap: use light weight racy counting for bogo-ops
      * stress-fiemap: add some extra fsync flushes for I/O blocking
      * stress-x86syscall: add build time checks for __NR* macros
      * stress-utime: fix build failure when O_PATH is not supported
      * stress-exec: don't perform exec_garbage if O_PATH is not supported
      * stress-exec: add build time check for O_PATH
      * stress-cyclic: add hint of how to fix -EBUSY warning
      * core-sched: make runtime 90% of deadline
      * stress-procfs: add RISC-V /proc/bus/pci/ PCIIOC_CONTROLLER ioctl test
      * stress-vm: add mfence to rowhammer method
      * core-vmstat: ensure *stat stats have headings dumped out every 25
        iterations
      * stress-rename: explicitly zero strings, don't unlink if empty
      * stress-cache: remove stress_power_of_two
      * stress-mlock: rename max to lockmax to avoid name shadowing
      * core-helper: initialize info struct
      * core-ftrace: initialize statfs buf to zero
      * stress-tmpfs: initialize statfs buf to zero
      * stress-ng: initialize pointer names to NULL
      * stress-mmapfork: initialize info struct
      * stress-switch: initialize pipefds to clean up warnings
      * stress-dirdeep: initialize pointer namelist to NULL
      * stress-bad-altstack: remove redundant continue
      * stress-mmapaddr: remove redundant continue statement
      * stress-ng: fix incorrect memset size
      * core-cache: initialize another namelist to clean up warnings
      * core-helper: initialize loadavg array with zeros
      * core-cache: initialize namelist to clean up warnings
      * stress-wait: initialize siginfo_t info struct to zero
      * stress-ipsec-mb: initialize key array to zero
      * stress-dirdeep: initialize pointer namelist to NULL
      * core-helper: initialize statvfs buf to zero
      * stress-pipe: initialize pipefds array to zero
      * stress-sigq: initialize siginfo_t info struct to zero
      * core-vmstat: initialized cpu_list to clean up warnings
      * core-helper: initialize statvfs buf to zero
      * stress-ng: initialize sysinfo info to zero
      * core-helper: initialize statvfs buf to zero
      * stress-filename: initialize statvfs buf to zero
      * core-helper: initialize sysinfo struct to zero
      * stress-mremap: remove redundant continue
      * stress-hrtimers: remove continue statement
      * stress-sysfs: remove redundant continue statement
      * stress-readahead: remove redundant continue statement
      * stress-sigabort: remove redundant continue statement
      * stress-mmapaddr: remove redundant continue statement
      * stress-io-uring: set submit fields to unused once resources are
        released
      * stress-memhotplug: remove | operator, assignment will suffice
      * stress-sock: clean up indentation
      * stress-rawpkt: clean up indentation
      * stress-io-ring: fix up io uring buffer cleanups
      * stress-mknod: fix array read overflow on array modes[]
      * stress-verity: ensure fd is closed on error exit path
      * stress-poll: close poll_fds on error return path
      * core-mounts: memzero mnts array to be totally safe
      * stress-urandom: close fd_rnd_blk if it was open
      * core-setting: free setting->name if setting->u.str is null
      * stress-timerfd: close file_fd on error exit return
      * stress-bad-ioctl: ensure fd is closed on when breaking from loop
      * stress-utime: close dir_fd if it is open
      * stress-open: check for fd >= 0 and not just > 0
      * stress-poll: free pipe_fds on error return, fix memory leak
      * stress-timerfd: close file_fd on error return path
      * stress-io-uring: don't unmap submit->cq_mmap if it is the same as
        sq_map
      * stress-zombie: declare head before shim_waitpid call
      * stress-ioport: don't seek on -ve offset
      * stress-urandom: don't select on fd_rnd_blk if it could not be opened
      * stress-stream: avoid a zero 64 bit division (redo)
      * stress-sockfd: add missing termination goto on sockopt failure
      * stress-mlock: check for -ve sysconf error return
      * stress-mremap: don't mlock a null *buf
      * Revert "stress-seek: fix potential -ve offset seek"
      * stress-close: don't close a -ve file_fd
      * core-helper: check sysconf for failure
      * stress-mremap: only unmap *buf if it is not null
      * stress-seek: fix potential -ve offset seek
      * stress-lease: fix double close on fd
      * stress-efivar: use len rather than n for mapping size calls
      * test/test-inotify: check return from inotify_add_watch
      * core-helper: limit stress_get_max_file_limit to SIZE_MAX
      * stress-efivar: fix potential -ve mmap size
      * stress-rename: only close tmp_fd if it has been opened correctly
      * stress-seek: fix potential -ve offset seek
      * stress-msg: memset buf to zero to silence static analyzer warning
      * stress-verity: ensure fd is close on error exit
      * stress-malloc: free addr on error exit return
      * stress-malloc: free addr on error exit return
      * stress-msg: memset buf to zero to silence static analyzer warning
      * stress-schedpolicy: voidify return from sched_getattr call
      * test/test-inotify: voidify return from inotify_add_watch
      * core-vmstat: check the keep stressing flag for termination
      * stress-mq: voidify return from munmap()
      * stress-timer: ensure all fields to sev are initialized
      * stress-cyclic: ensure all fields to sev are initialized
      * core-helper: ensure max_sysconf is assigned just once
      * stress-pthread: voidify unused value
      * stress-pipe: fix incorrect write size
      * stress-dev: voidify return from wait, we can ignore a failure
      * stress-timerfd: don't bump count or max_timerfd if create failed
      * stress-timerfd: remove redundant initialization of file_fd
      * stress-epoll: ensure all fields to sev are initialized
      * stress-hrtimes: ensure all fields to sev are initialized
      * stress-prctl: add missing voidifications from return from prctl
      * stress-loop: voidify return from fsync
      * stress-rename: remove stray break that was added during debugging
      * stress-utime: don't pass NULL filename, some kernels can't handle this
      * stress-io-uring: remove redundant initialization of rc
      * core-ftrace: set time_us to zero if sscanf fails
      * stress-epoll: indicate that n is to be ignored
      * stress-io-uring: check if calloc failed
      * stress-resource: don't close a fd if the open failed
      * stress-stream: avoid a zero 64 bit division
      * stress-ioport: add in missing re-seek before write
      * voidify some ignored returns from stress_get_setting calls
      * stress-handle: ensure mount_fd is closed on a realloc failure
      * stress-pipeherd: avoid division by zero
      * stress-verity: ensure fd is close on error exit
      * stress-zlib: initialize all fields to stream_inf, stream_def and xsum
      * stress-schedpolicy: ensure param is initialized for invalid policy
        call
      * core-try-open: ensure all fields to sev struct are initialized
      * stress-udp: set slen of getsocketopt arg for UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV
      * core-thermal-zone: handle null tz_info->type when calling
        stress_tz_type_instance
      * stress-ng: remove temporary files if stressors are killed prematurely
      * stress-msg: check for msgrcv errors that can occur during termination
      * stress-cpu: join two lines, no functional change
      * stress-cpu: fix nsqrt method that was actually doing not much
      * Add --malloc-pthreads N option to run allocations in N pthreads
      * stress-cache: optimize out switch statement and % operators
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:08:51 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.12.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Adrian Ratiu]
      * stress-ng.h: fix build-breaking HAVE_USTAT typo
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-vmstat: Add delay time in seconds to vmstat and thermalstat
      * stress-cache: use % operator on indexes into cache
      * core-try-open: Make pid_t print and scanning more portable
      * stress-ng.h: don't include <ustat.h> on OpenIndiana
      * core-helper: clean up build warning on unused parameter name
      * core-helper: add build time guards for setproctitle
      * Manual: update names of contributors
      * stress-dccp: add SIOCOUTQ ioctl, added in Linux 5.9
      * stress-fanotify: exercise fanotify_init flags using a table
      * stress-chmod: make index i a size_t rather than an int
      * stress-cache: fix up missing tab in macro
      * stress-bad-ioctl: remove extraneous tab in struct definition
      * stress-af-alg: make size argument a size_t rather than an int
      * stress-zlib: make size argument a size_t rather than an int
      * stress-epoll: fix epoll_pwait2 call, add missing sigset size
      * stress-rawdev: don't allocate buffers on stack, use mmap
      * Add stressor process state information in argv[0]
      * README: add static build instructions for RHEL
      * stress-wcstr: don't use libbsd wcsl* when building static images
      * Disable mlocked regions to avoid linking issues on RHEL static
        builds
      * stress-str: don't use libbsd strl* when building static images
      * core-shim: don't use libbsd strl* when building static images
      * stress-dup: force unlink fifo file on cleanup
      * core-vmstat: cater for deltas that are negative
      * core-shim: fix build warning if sbrk is not defined
      * core-vmstat: use shim wrapper of strlcpy to avoid compat linking
        issues
      * core-shim: fix missing who argument to rusage shim system call
      * core-net: fix build warning on ppid on systems that don't use it
      * core-vmstat: show n/a for CPU speeds that are zero or less
      * core-vmstat: ensure string therms is zero
      * stress-pipeherd: move memset of rusage to fix build error on Haiku
      * Add buildtime check for rusage.ru_nvcsw field
      * Add buildtime check for rusage.ru_minflt field
      * core-try-open: fix build error on GNU/HURD
      * test/test-sem-sysv.c: touch all fields in arg to silence cppcheck
      * stress-utime: add fsync after each utimensat
      * stress-sock: break long #if define checks with newline
      * stress-sock: clean up cppcheck style warning
      * stress-rawdev: no need to declare typedefs for no-op build case
      * stress-pthread: clean up cppcheck warning and use coding style for
        multiple #defines
      * stress-pipeherd: improve guarding and usage of getrusage variables
      * stress-poll: enable HAVE_PSELECT code path
      * stress-memhotplug: no need to declare typedefs for non-linux cases
      * stress-kcmp: need to declare typedefs for specific build case
      * stress-fault: remove OS specific guarding to check for getrusage
      * stress-exec: no need to declare typedefs for non-linux cases
      * stress-clone: no need to declare typedefs if clone is not supported
      * core-vmstat: clean up initialization of pointer ptr
      * core-vmstat: no need to check for null if we are checking for ' ' too
      * core-vmstat: ensure fclose occurs on non-null opend fp
      * stress-pipe: fix memory leak of buffer on error return path
      * core-vmstat: fix fd leak on cpu scaling frequency
      * tests: clean up some pedantic Coverity static analysis warnings
      * Add --thermalstat option to dump out CPU and thermal information
      * stress-dev: avoid ttyS* lockups on low latency kernels
      * stress-dev: avoid blocking lockups on ttys
      * Add a STRESS_TRY_AGAIN don't give up flag and simplify try-open
      * stress-dev: set argv[0] at more appropriate name change points
      * stress-dev: set /proc/$pid/cmdline to contain name of device being
        exercised
      * stress-dev: handle lockups on ttyS* blocking opens
      * Add a new --vmstat option to show info like vmstat(8)
      * stress-full: add mmap operations to /dev/full
      * Add shim wrapper for the getrusage system call and build time
        detection
      * stress-poll: add --poll-fds N option to exercise more file descriptors
      * stress-nice: add braces around comment and statement
      * Replace keep_stressing macro with inlined function, add args param
      * stress-longjmp: remove JMP_BUF_MAGIC0, it was never completed
      * stress-zero: allocate buffers using mmap rather than on stack
      * stress-memrate: add 128 bit read/write option
      * stress-af-alg-defconfigs.h: update crypto defconfigs table
      * stress-memcpy: use "all" method by default, gets more testing spread
      * stress-cache: remove modulo operators, speed up code
      * stress-cache: ignore sfence if not available, add missing help
        and optimize
      * Force keep_stressing_flag to always be inlined
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:23:24 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.12.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Adriand Martin]
      * Solved minor issue in README.Android Fixed minor issue related to
        CC variable when cross compiling
    
      [Jianshen Liu]
      * Fix read of TYPE_ID_STR value from jobfile
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * simplify allocation and null check to help cppcheck
      * Manual: update date
      * Fix a couple of spelling mistakes
      * README: update stress test count
      * stress-cpu: add the Fletcher16 checksum as a new cpu stress method
      * stress-vm-rw: uncomment goto failure exit
      * stress-vm-rw: write/read in 1G chunks
      * Manual: pluralize the word stat.
      * Manual: update contributors information
      * stress-schedpolicy: fix build warning when building with musl C
        library
      * stress-cpu: fix const warning from clang pedantic build
      * test-stime: pass address of time_t object to stime
      * Remove empty source
      * Add missing copyright dates and attribution
      * Add helper functions to get and free the temporary file path
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add f2fs bfs btrfs tmpfs and ramfs
      * core-cache: remove some debug messages, they add noise
      * stress-sigsegv: force SEGV with illegal long instruction
        (x86 only)
      * stress-pipe: allocate pipe buffer from heap and not stack
      * Manual: update stress-cpu ackermann description
      * stress-cpu: reduce ackermann m term to reduce influence on
        all cpu methods
      * Remove #define for __NR_memfd_secret
      * stress-resources: fix mq files not being reaped
      * stress-cpu: add ipv4checksum method
      * core-helper: rename stress_ip_checksum to stress_ipv4_checksum
      * stress-dev: only perform open tries if never opened before
      * core-try-open: make helper function static
      * Use the new try stress_try_open error returns to ensure open
        fails are skipped
      * core-try-open: resolve some stress-dev blocking issues, add
        richer error return
      * core-try-open: quick stat check before expensive slow open
      * Fix spelling mistakes found using codespell
      * stress-vecmath: avoid overflow sign extension errors
      * stress-secretmem: fix void cast on mappings
      * stress-secretmem: free mappings on early error return
      * stress-resources: ensure early break from loop gets cleaned up
      * stress-cpu: add Murmur3_32 hash to cpu stressor
      * core-thermal-zone: add some more comments
      * Manual: add a --cpu-load example to one of the --cpu stressor
        examples
      * stress-ng: forgot to include type_instance field change in
        previous commit
      * core-thermal-zone: sort thermal zone types on type name and type
        name instance
      * stress-rseq: remove volatile from rseq structs
      * stress-rseq: rename signature to valid_signature to avoid name
        shadowing
      * core-helper: make dirname smaller, reduce stack size
      * Add new secretmem stress test
      * kernel-coverage: exercise ext4, xfs, jfs, minix and vfat
      * stress-dev: add SCSI_IOCTL_GET_PCI ioctl
      * stress-rename: replace AT_FDCWD with directory fd
      * stress-link: put end of string marker on buf and not newpath
      * stress-link: handle EMLINK failures on linking
      * stress-filename: add filename length limit when probing filename
      * stress-dir: handle EMLINK failures on mkdir
      * stress-chdir: handle EMLINK failures on mkdir
      * stress-aio-linux: unlink file if open failed
      * core-helper: add a helper to truncate long filenames
      * stress-chattr: handle ENOTTY errors when ioctls are not supported
      * Add build-time check for struct sockaddr_un
      * stress-ping-sock: also add EACCES socket failure check
      * Add a new ping-sock stressor to exercise "ping" sockets
      * Manual: clarify the number of stressors for sequential option too
      * Manual: clarify the number of stressors:
      * stress-ng: update copyright to 2021
      * stress-dev: add RNDADDENTROPY and RNDRESEEDCRNG ioctls
      * stress-loop: break overly wide line
      * stress-loop: mmap in loop dev and touch + flush pages
      * stress-resources: allocate a page with memfd
      * stress-resources: allocate fd and page using memfd_secret()
      * Add shim for new Linux system call memfd_secret()
      * stress-rseq: exercise invalid rseq calls
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:46:16 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.12.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [David Turner]
      * stress-hdd: strengthen verification with --verify --hdd N
    
      [Dominik B Czarnota]
      * Fix off-by-ones strncmp in stress-dev.c
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update contributors section and date
      * stress-rseq: fix ptr cast to uint64_t warnings on 32 bit arm
      * stress-rseq: only build with gcc
      * stress-epoll: fix incorrect call to epoll_pwait when pwait2 version
        does not exist
      * stress-hdd: minor optimization, move hdd_flags & HDD_OPT_WR_SEQ
        check outside of loop
      * Update syscalls and TODO now that rseq has finally been implemented
      * stress-rseq: add a restartable sequence rseq(2) system call stressor
      * stress-aio-linux: ensure checking is really correct
      * stress-open: limit maximum number of open file descriptors on 32 bit
        systems
      * stress-cpu: fix --cpu-load timer issues
      * stress-longjmp: fix typo in macro
      * Define constants for {nano|micro|milli}seconds and use these
      * stress-cpu: add -ve delay sanity check to handle clock warping
      * stress-readahead: replace white space with tabs
      * stress-sysinfo: don't make EPERM errors a hard failure
      * Make pid_t print and scanning more portable
      * stress-aio-linux: fix error handling and submit waits, add sanity
        data checks
      * stress-epoll: remove white spaces
      * stress-epoll: use epoll_pwait2 if it is available.
      * stress-clone: remove noisy clone information
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 26 Dec 2020 16:35:22 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.12.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-epoll: fix sanity check for an unexpected epoll_ctl success
      * stress-funccall: disable ALWAYS_INLINE for PCC
      * stress-inotify: add void argument, fixes pcc build warning
      * stress-epoll: fix pcc build warning
      * stress-close: add invalid flags call to close_range
      * core-shim: add flags field to close_range shim to match 5.10
        system call
      * stress-utime: voidify return using assignment and voidification
      * stress-stack: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-sock: clean up some cppcheck warnings
      * stress-mlock: put HAVE_MLOCKALL into a statement block
      * stress-affinity: add in missing voidification of ret
      * stress-brk: remove redundant return 0 statement
      * stress-pkey: limit pkey system call warning to just instance 0
      * core-helper: don't use getpwent for static stress-ng builds:
      * stress-stack: rename sz to mlock_sz to avoid variable shadowing
      * stress-pthread: remove duplicate declaration of ret to clean up
        build warning
      * stress-msg: rename variable i to j to avoid name shadowing warning
      * stress-prctl: remove redundant declaration of environ
      * stress-msg: clean up variable shadowing
      * stress-yield: workaround FreeBSD usleep bug
      * stress-timer: workaround duplicated timer_delete segfault in FreeBSD
      * stress-ng.h: make shim_unconstify_ptr a static inline helper
      * stress-link: cast getpid() return to int for %d format specifier
      * stress-open: only declare obsolete_futimesat when it is required
      * stress-mmap: voidify page_size if HAVE_MPROTECT is not defined
      * stress-access: declare variable j only if HAVE_FACCESSAT is defined
      * stress-sem-sysv: silently ignore failures on semctl commands
      * stress-sem-sysv: ensure 4th arg of semctl is zero when not used
      * stress-sem-sysv: fix zero semaphores case in GETALL semctl
      * stress-brk: don't exercise mlockall with MCL_FUTURE if it is not
        defined
      * Fix clobbering of errno by error message logging before reading errno
      * stress-sem-sysv: move scope of array sems
      * stress-poll: make tv_nsec out of range value a 32 bit value
      * stress-mmap: only use PROT_GROWSUP and PROT_GROWSDOWN if supported
      * Fix ~0ULL cast to void * build warnings on 32 bit builds
      * kernel-coverage: add --pathological for sysinval stress
      * syscalls: update work to do and recent changes
      * stress-vm-splice: add pipe to memory vmsplicing
      * stress-utime: exercise utime family of calls with invalid filenames
      * stress-sysinfo: fix build issues introduced by previous commit
      * stress-sysinfo: exercise ustat with invalid major/minor
      * stress-userfaultfd: exercise UFFDIO_WAKE
      * stress-ramfs: exercise umount with some invalid pathnames
      * stress-binderfs: exercise invalid umount calls
      * stress-hdd: exercise invalid ftruncate/truncate fd/filename
      * stress-hdd: exercise invalid ftruncate/truncate size
      * stress-timer: exercise duplicated timer_delete
      * stress-pthread: add tkill to shim and exercise it
      * stress-pthread: add tgkill to shim and exercise it
      * stress-sync-file: exercise 0 nbytes sync, it has special semantics
      * stress-swap: exercise swapon with invalid path
      * stress-sysinfo: exercise invalid statfs path
      * stress-fstat: exercise stat, lstat on invalid path
      * stress-splice: exercise splice with some more invalid or untested
        arguments
      * stress-bad-altstack: exercise sigaltstack with various stack settings
      * core-helper: fix comment, min stack size can be MINSIGSTKSZ
      * stress-sysinval: only allow with --pathological option (LP: #1906447)
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise duplicated shmdt on unmapped addresses
      * stress-shm-sysv: define MPOL_* only if required, add one more
        shmctl call
      * stress-xattr: exercise invalid setxattr arguments
      * stress-set: add timezone argument to get more kernel coverage
      * stress-nice: fix priority ranges, use correct offset in priority
      * stress-set: exercise invalid pid and pgid in setpgid call
      * stress-clone: exercise setns with invalid nstype and fd
      * stress-set: exercise sethostname with illegal length host
      * stress-set: exercise a range of setgroups calls
      * stress-set: exercise setdomainname with invalid name length
      * stress-pthread: exercise set_tid_address with NULL address
      * stress-pthread: exercise set_robust_list with invalid length
      * stress-numa: add in a mix of various set_mempolicy calls
      * stress-sendfile: add more kernel coverage tests
      * stress-sendfile: periodically exercise sendfile with invalid arguments
      * core-helper: find bad_fd in reverse fd order if RLIMIT not supported
      * stress-sem-sysv: disable SETALL and exercise long run of semops
      * stress-sem-sysv: exercise semctl with various invalid arguments
      * stress-sem-sysv: add SIGCHLD handler to ensure pause() gets
        interrupted
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise sched_setscheduler with invalid arguments
      * stress-affinity: exercise sched_{get|set}affinity with invalid
        arguments
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise sched_getscheduler with bad pid
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise sched_{get|set}param with invalid
        arguments
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise sched_getattr with invalid arguments
      * kernel-coverage: exercise sysinval for longer
      * stress-dir: exercise various invalid pathnames for rmdir and add
        comments
      * stress-xattr: exercise ENOENT error on removexattr calls
      * stress-remap-file-pages: exercised locked mremap and invalid mremap
        arguments
      * kernel-coverage: remove trailing whitespace
      * Revert "stress-file-ioctl: enable FIFREEZE and FITHAW file ioctls"
      * kernel-coverage: add mremap --mremap-mlock option to add to coverage
        testing
      * stress-sock: exercise various invalid recv, recv, recvmmsg calls
      * stress-reboot: update magic values, add two clearly invalid cmds too
      * stress-link: exercise invalid readlinkat calls
      * stress-link: exercise invalid readlink calls, remove redundant
        cleanup
      * stress-readahead: exercise invalid fd and range of readahead sizes
      * stress-readahead: improve I/O speed and reduce setup time
      * stress-vm-rw: exercise process_vm_{read|write}v with invalid arguments
      * stress-prctl: exercise prctl PR_SET_MM_AUXV and PR_GET_TIMERSLACK more
      * stress-poll: add some invalid arg tests for ppoll
      * stress-cpu: correct the Ackermann count now we are doing calls
      * stress-cpu: modify number of iterations to improve cpu instruction mix
      * stress-pkey: exercise pkey system calls a little harder
      * stress-pipe: add FIONREAD ioctl build time detection
      * stress-pipe: exercise the FIONREAD ioctl on pipe read end
      * stress-pidfd: exercise pidfd_open with invalid pid
      * stress-handle: exercise name_to_handle_at and open_by_handle_at
        further
      * stress-mmap: exercise munmap with two invalid unmap calls
      * stress-msync: exercise some invalid msync calls
      * stress-msg: add some unusual msgsnd arguments to exercise kernel
      * stress-msg: exercise msgget a little more, create many message queues
      * stress-msg: exercise msgctl with invalid msqid and commands
      * stress-mremap: add --mremap-mlock option to mlock pages into memory
      * stress-mmap: remove some empty lines
      * stress-clone: remove whitespace
      * stress-mremap: exercise MREMAP_DONTUNMAP on a remap
      * stress-mq: exercise fstat and mmap on mq descriptor
      * stress-mq: exercise mq_close and mq_unlink with invalid arguments
      * stress-mq: exercise mq_notify with SIGEV_NONE and invalid notify
        notifications
      * stress-mq: exercise mq_getattr with invalid mq and exercise mq_setattr
      * stress-mmap: add some extra illegal mprotect calls
      * stress-numa: exercise move_pages with various valid and invalid
        arguments
      * stress-clone: exercise modify_ldt with extra command types
      * stress-get: disable gettimeofday with NULL args (LP: #1905205)
      * kernel-coverage: add two stack stressor options
      * stress-stack: add --stack-mlock option to lock stack pages into memory
      * stress-mlock: exercise mlock/munlock with invalid or unusual arguments
      * stress-mknod: exercise mknod S_IFDIR
      * stress-dir: exercise illegal length directory name
      * stress-numa: exercise migrate_pages with invalid arguments
      * stress-memfd: exercise memfd_create with illegal arguments and more
        flags
      * stress-membarrer: exercise illegal command and flags
      * stress-numa: exercise mbind with various illegal arguments
      * stress-madvise: exercise invalid madvise arguments
      * stress-seek: add SEEK_HOLE/DATA walkthrough
      * stress-link: exercise illegal cross-device hard links
      * stress-keyctl: exercise more keyctl commands
      * stress-file-ioctl: remove whitespace
      * stress-ioprio: exercise IOPRIO_WHO_{PGRP|USER} for invalid set/get
      * stress-ioprio: exercise some invalid set/get arguments
      * stress-ioport: add iopl test and exercise io calls with invalid args
      * stress-klog: add .supported check before running
      * stress-klog: inform use when klog can't be accessed because of
        permission reasons
      * stress-file-ioctl: exercise SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END on FS_IOC_UNRESVSP*
        ioctls
      * stress-file-ioctl: exercise invalid block range for FIBMAP ioctl
      * stress-file-ioctl: force ENOMEM with invalid dest_count with
        FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl
      * stress-aio-linux: fix errno checking and exercise aio POLLing
      * stress-aio-linux: make FSYNC/FDSYNC commands occur more frequently
      * stress-aio-linux: use direct system calls and just cancel one async op
      * stress-get: use NULL args for gettimeofday, update comments
      * stress-getrandom: exercise GRND_NONBLOCK | GRND_INSECURE and illegal
        flags
      * stress-open: voidify unused arguments to obsolete function helpers
      * stress-sock: exercise illegal getsockname calls
      * stress-open: exercise obsolete futimes and futimesat calls
      * stress-access: fix AT_EMPTY_PATH check
      * stress-itimer: exercise getitimer on all the itimers
      * stress-get: exercise getgroups with zero and invalid gid size argument
      * stress-getdent: exercise getdents with illegal zero size
      * stress-pthread: exercise get_robust_list with invalid PID
      * stress-numa: exercise get_mempolicy with invalid maxnodes argument
      * stress-hdd: exercise futimes with invalid times
      * kernel-coverage: exercise noatime and syncfs hdd options
      * stress-flock: add periodic /proc/locks exercising
      * stress-flock: exercise illegal lock command combination
      * stress-flock: exercise LOCK_MAND with LOCK_READ, LOCK_WRITE
      * stress-access: avoid name shadowing by renaming array flags
      * TODO: add xattr todo item
      * stress-xattr: add more invalid attribute strings and sizes
      * stress-sync-file: exercise sync_file_range with more illegal arguments
      * stress-iomix: add illegal fdatasync call for more kernel exercising
      * stress-fcntl: reset default signal using F_SETSIG with 0 arg
      * stress-epoll: exercise epoll_ctl_add with an illegal fd, clean up
        some errors
      * stress-chroot: voidify unused args parameter in non-linux builds
      * stress-chroot: don't exercise EFAULT check on non-linux systems
      * stress-chmod: exercise illegal filenames
      * stress-chdir: exercise some invalid chdir and fchdir calls
      * stress-cap: add macro define checks to ensure code is always buildable
      * stress-cap: exercise capget with different capability versions and
        invalid pid
      * stress-brk: add --brk-mlock option to mlock future brk pages into
        memory
      * stress-open: exercise new openat2 system call
      * stress-access: try to use faccessat2 for faccessat
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 3 Dec 2020 11:07:41 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.11.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-sysfs: make variables i and n plain signed ints.
      * stress-procfs: make variables i and n plain signed ints.
      * stress-physpage: reduce the scope of variable 'data'
      * stress-open: reduce the scope of variable 'dir'
      * core-helper: stress_get_file_limit: bail out after 250 closed fds
      * stress-vm: remove leading whitespace from short help info
      * core-helper: clean up variable shadowing warning
      * stress-mlock: clean up build warnings on use of mmap and munmap on
        openhipster
      * stress-clone: fix build issue with NetBSD and clone
      * stress-clone: fix build issue with kFreeBSD and clone
      * stress-procfs: exercise PCI PCIIOC_CONTROLLER procfs ioctl
      * stress-procfs: clean up warning when stress_proc_info has zero
        elements
      * stress-procfs: add ability to exercise specific procfs files in
        novel ways
      * stress-bad-altstack: add /dev/zero mapped stack
      * kernel-coverage: increase sysfs and procfs coverage durations
      * stress-procfs: remove empty lines
      * stress-procfs: improve procfs coverage by improving striding method
      * stress-sysfs: remove printf debug
      * stress-sysfs: add more methodical way of stepping through sysfs files
      * core-helper: add stress_dirent_list_prune to remove . and .. from
        scandir list
      * stress-tsc: add s390x support for time clock reading
      * stress-sockdiag: force more diag messages by running through all bit
        flags
      * Add build time check for __atomic_add_fetch
      * stress-lease: break up multiple defined() macro checks
      * stress-inotify: clean up comments to function args
      * stress-get: exercise various system calls with defunct/invalid PID
      * core-helper: add a racy "find a potiential free pid" helper
      * stress-icmp-flood: constify pointers
      * stress-session: remove shadowed declaration of variable ret
      * stress-clone: use NULL for stack on clone3
      * stress-session: silently ignore ECHILD or EINTR waitpid errors
      * stress-efivar: add comment to lseek helper function
      * stress-session: improve error handling from child process
      * stress-mlock: mmap mappings array as it can be huge
      * stress-shm-sysv: fix errno reporting in error messages
      * stress-shm-sysv: fix spelling mistakes in error messages
      * stress-shm-sysv: fix error message and false positive failure
      * stress-fstat: break up multiple defined() macro checks
      * stress-fcntl: break up multiple defined() macro checks
      * stress-efivar: exercise efivar file with lseek/read, mmap and ioctls
      * stress-efivar: fix typo in comment
      * stress-dup: add dup2 race stressing for Linux
      * stress-handle: remove the "ended" debug message
      * TODO: add watch_queue to TODO list
      * stress-getrandom: silently ignore EINVAL errors
      * stress-dentry: exercise dir file descriptor more
      * stress-chattr: exercise with random flags and perform get/unset of
        original flag
      * TODO: remove uprobes, this has now been implemented
      * stress-apparmor: reduce error reporting on ENOENT errors
      * stress-clone: fix clone issues found on ARM64
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:51:27 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.11.23-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Helmut Grohne ]
      * Makefile: remove touch of stress-ng for stress-vecmath object
        rule (Closes: #973389)
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update contributors and update date
      * stress-uprobe: use tracing pipe and ensure this works on older kernels
      * stress-ng.h: workaround ALIGNED macro warnings on PCC
      * stress-uprobe: use correct printf format specifier for a uint32_t
      * stress-sockdiag: break out for loop rather than return
      * stress-tmpfs: remove shadowed offset declaration
      * stress-splice: add one more pipe to exercise pipe to pipe splicing
      * stress-splice: exercise some invalid splice calls
      * stress-procfs: add single char procfs reads and fix --procfs-ops
        termination
      * stress-uprobe: fix int to ptr cast warning on 32 bit systems
      * stress-tmpfs: fix incorrect lseek failure check
      * stress-mlock: fix build check for MCL_ONFAULT and MCL_FUTURE
      * stress-procfs: remove duplicated /proc/self
      * stress-dnotify: use DN_MULTISHOT where possible
      * stress-open: exercise fdinfo for open'd file descriptors
      * stress-file-ioctl: exercise FS_IOC_GETVERSION ioctl
      * stress-ptr: exercise linux fdinfo for pty file descriptors
      * stress-getrandom: add GRND_INSECURE flag
      * stress-verity: add ENOSPC check
      * syscalls.txt: add arch_prctl to the system call list
      * stress-prctl: add arch_prctl to the prctl stressor
      * stress-rtc: add in a few more RTC ioctls
      * stress-file-ioctl: enable FIFREEZE and FITHAW file ioctls
      * stress-file-ioctl: correctly implement FS_IOC_ falloc ioctls
      * stress-dir: exercise invalid truncates on directory fd and path
      * stress-uprobe: skip stressor if non-linux
      * test/test-executable-start: ensure symbol is available
      * stress-open: fix some one more warning GCC 6.5.0 / OpenIndiana
      * core-mlock: use shim version of mlock
      * stress-open: fix some build warnings GCC 6.5.0 / OpenIndiana
      * core-helper: fix build issue on OS X get_etext extern name
      * core-helper: fix start of text segment address
      * stress-sock: rename pointer bug to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-uprobe: add a uprobe tracing stressor
      * stress-get: add statfs, fstatfs and statvfs calls
      * stress-udp: exercise some setsockopt/getsockopt options
      * stress-sock: exercise setsockopt options
      * kernel-coverage: exercise open with the open-fd option
      * stress-open: add --open-fd option to exercise opening /proc/$PID/fd/*
        files
      * stress-open: try to open as many files as possible
      * stress-sock: make loop index size_t
      * stress-sock: exercise a range of getsockopt INET4 and INET6 options
      * stress-sock: add TCP congestion control setting and getting
      * stress-vdso: fix symbol lookup on clang built kernels
      * core-shim: fix build issue, rename __process_madvise to
        __NR_process_madvise
      * Fix a few spelling mistakes
      * Manual: fix a handful of spelling mistakes
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:17:24 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.11.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date and update contributors kudos
      * stress-dev: make function static, cleans up gcc-10 pedantic builds
      * stress-sockdiag: drop const, cleans up pedantic clang-10 warning
      * stress-dev: exercise sound control device ioctls
      * stress-sockdiag: exercise a wider range of protocol families
      * stress-verity: exercise FS_VERITY_HASH_ALG_SHA256 and
        FS_VERITY_HASH_ALG_SHA512
      * stress-fork: avoid potential variable clobbering by vfork
      * TODO: add uprobes as a todo item
      * stress-verity: read data back and check block contents
      * stress-quota: exercise Q_GETNEXTQUOTA and some invalid quota arguments
      * stress-efivar: re-work comment to something more sensible
      * stress-physpage: add attempt to seek and read on /dev/mem
      * stress-msync: skip sanity check on FreeBSD, this currently always fails
      * stress-madvise: fix incorrect placement of #endif
      * stress-sock: exercise socket fdinfo
      * core-helper: remove debug in stress_read_fdinfo
      * core: add stress_read_fdinfo to read linux fdinfo data
      * core-out-of-memory: remove extraneous tab
      * stress-pidfd: exercise PIDFD_NONBLOCK
      * core-out-of-memory: add a couple more yield points
      * stress-sock: exercise SIOCUNIXFILE on AF_UNIX socket domains
      * stress-sock: add FIOSETOWN, SIOCSPGRP, SIOCGSTAMP_NEW and SIOCGSKNS
        ioctls
      * stress-pthread: exercise pthread_sigqueue
      * stress-cyclic: on EBUSY report a recommendation to run with less
        instance
      * stress-cyclic: report instance that fails with errors such as EBUSY
      * stress-sigfd: add build time detection of the signalfd system call
      * Use intptr_t instead of ptrdiff_t for ptr to int casting
      * stress-vdso: fix typo, remove extraneous i in message
      * stress-io-uring: fix another cast warning on 32 bit arm systems
      * stress-io-uring: fix cast warning on 32 bit arm systems
      * stress-verity: fix cast warning on 32 bit arm systems
      * stress-hdd: fix fcntl F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT incorrect argument
      * Manual: replace "the the" with "the" in comment
      * stress-icache: replace "the the" with "the" in comment
      * kernel-coverage: re-work to get good overall coverage in a few hour
        run
      * stress-mlock: add more yield points
      * stress-wait: ignore issues with a zero si_signo (part 2)
      * stress-wait: ignore issues with a zero si_signo
      * core-helper: only declare rlim if it is required
      * test: test-cdrom_tochdr: memset header to clean up cppcheck style
        warning
      * stress-xattr: voidify an unused return value in ret
      * stress-timer: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-procfs: remove redundant eos check on *pptr
      * stress-madvise: move int ret to a code block
      * stress-madvise: move pointer unmapped to a code block
      * stress-dir: no need to close dirfd if it has not been opened
      * stress-dir: add flock build time checks for systems that do not
        support it
      * stress-schedpolicy: only exercise NULL params on Linux
      * stress-fork: fix return type of local_shim_fork, should return pid_t
      * core-shim: fix minix build warning - declare stime() the minix way
      * stress-rename: simplify renameat/renameat2 detection
      * stress-sockpair: add more intelligence to socketpair failure returns
      * stress-verity: handle ENOTTY on FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY failure
      * stress-sockpair: close fds and bail out correctly on termination
      * stress-wait: fix missing break on if statement
      * tests/test-stime: fix static analysis warning
      * stress-shm-sysv: make get_bad_shmid static
      * stress-context: fix pedantic build warning on shadowed variable name
      * stress-shm-sysv: fix build warning on unused parameter cap_ipc_lock
      * stress-xattr: line break some overly wide lines
      * stress-xattr: add build time check for XATTR_SIZE_MAX
      * Makefile: use $(GREP) for grep
      * stress-sysfs: add ppoll on sysfs fd
      * stress-sysfs: increase timeout to 1 millisecond
      * stress-get: don't report failure on EPERM failures
      * syscalls: update vhangup entry
      * stress-session: exercise vhangup for more kernel coverage
      * stress-session: check session id failure return with (pid_t)-1
      * stress-fork: exercise vhangup to get more kernel coverage
      * Add auto build detection of vhangup system call
      * stress-fork: put pid and errno info into a struct
      * syscalls: update process_madvise information
      * stress-set: exercise stime() if it is available
      * stress-fork: remove trailing white space
      * core-shim: remove debug foo message
      * stress-madvise: remove new line
      * stress-tee: re-enable invalid tee flags check with kernel release check
      * core-helper: add helper functions to help with kernel release values
      * stress-tee: relax invalid flags test for the moment
      * stress-madvise: exercise process_madvise()
      * core-shim: update with correct process_madvise API
      * stress-fork: try to exercise native fork system call
      * stress-wait: try to use syscalls in preference to libc wrapped
        wait* calls
      * stress-brk: detect if sbrk is implemented and improve shim wrapper
      * stress-context: add pre/post context region canary checks
      * stress-chattr: prefix defines with SHIM_ to avoid name clashing
      * stress-sem-sysv: voidify return from memset
      * stress-access: declare bad_fd if HAVE_FACCESSAT is defined
      * stress-lease: don't report a failure on termination on interrupted wait
      * stress-dir: remove tab, make line an empty new line
      * stress-ng.h: clean up some white spaces/intentations
      * stress-dir: exercise flocks on a dirfd
      * stress-dir: stat directory entries
      * stress-dir: add dir mmap and improve yielding and directory cleanup
      * stress-dentry: split multiple defined() checks over lines
      * stress-rename: return error state from exercise_renameat2
      * stress-rename: return error state from exercise_renameat
      * stress-rename: break defined() checks over multiple lines
      * stress-rename: some minor reformatting changes and code cleanup
      * stress-rawdev: don't use static buffer in stress_rawdev_path, add
        comments
      * stress-oom-pipe: exercise invalid pipe size setting, add more yield
        points
      * stress-longjmp: add canary memory clobbering checks and longjmp timings
      * stress-lockf: add occasional F_TEST lockf command
      * stress-lease: terminate child if lease file open fails more than 3 times
      * stress-lease: exercise F_GETLEASE to get the lease type
      * stress-lease: add lease read locking
      * stress-key: replace sys_ prefix on syscall wrappers with shim_
      * stress-kcmp: prefix kcmp_epoll_slot with shim to avoid kcmp name clashes
      * stress-judy: update stressor comment
      * stress-icache: clean up incorrect tab spacing on a continuation marker
      * core-out-of-memory: do zero re-wait on failed first wait
      * stress-handle: use the oomable child helper
      * stress-handle: clean up code, add upper bounds on mount info being read
      * syscalls: update readlinkat entry
      * stress-link: exercise readlinkat and add build detection
      * Add a signal() exercsing stressor
      * stress-get: remove void argument in sgetmask call
      * stress-set/get: exercise obsolete system calls sgetmask/ssetmask
      * stress-set: exercise setfsuid() and add in build-time detection
      * stress-set: exercise setfsgid() and add in build-time detection
      * syscalls: update note for settimeofday
      * syscalls: add note for nfsservctl
      * stress-shm-sysv: fix failed open check on map_files open
      * stress-sockabuse: voidify returns of several system calls
      * stress-shm-sysv: voidify returns of several system calls
      * stress-pthread: voidify args with empty stress_pthread_tid_address
      * stress-verity: add a file system verity stressor
      * stress-file-ioctl: fix errno handling and remove temp directory
      * stress-shm-sysv: minor cleanups, make buffer smaller
      * stress-af-alg: check for ELIBBAD on bind
      * stress-dev: add termios2 ioctls
      * Add readlink shim to avoid calling readlinkat to get more kernel coverage
      * kernel-coverage: remove zombie max stressor, it's OOMing too much
      * syscalls.txt: update entry for lookup_dcookie
      * stress-get: perform lookup_dcookie calls on random cookies
      * stress-pthread: exercise set_tid_address if it is available
      * stress-get: add obsolete ugetrlimit call
      * stress-dir/mknod: use shim_strlcpy instead of strlcpy (LP: #1896010)
      * stress-mknod: add mknodat system call if it is available
      * syscalls: update entry for unlinkat
      * stress-dirdeep: add unlinkat call and autodetect syscall at build time
      * stress-dir: use mkdirat if it is available to create directories
    
      [Khalid Elmously]
      * stress-wait: add missing semi-colon
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * stress-tee: exercise tee syscall with 0 len
      * stress-tee: add check on tee for same pipes
      * stress-tee: exercise tee with invalid flags
      * stress-rename: correct a typo in a comment
      * stress-rename: exercise renameat2 on file fd
      * stress-rename: exercise renameat on bad fd
      * stress-rename: exercise valid renameat2 on RENAME_EXCHANGE flag
      * stress-rename: exercise renameat2 on file fd
      * stress-rename: exercise renameat2 on bad fd
      * stress-rename: add check for renameat2 EEXIST error
      * stress-rename: add check for renameat2 on ENOENT error
      * stress-rename: exercise renameat2 with invalid combination of flags
      * stress-rename: exercise renameat2 with invalid flags
      * stress-shm-sysv: add check for shmctl EIDRM error
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmctl on invalid shmid
      * stress-shm-sys: exercise invalid commands in shmctl syscall
      * stress-shm-sysv: add check for shmget ENOENT error
      * stress-shm-sysv: increase kernel coverage for shmget syscall
      * stress-shm-sys: add check shmget EPERM error
      * stress-shm-sysv: add check for shmget syscall EINVAL error
      * stress-shm-sysv: add check for shmget syscall EINVAL error
      * stress-shm-sys: exercise shmget on invalid sizes argument
      * stress-shm-sys: exercise shmget on invalid flags
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmat on unaligned address and SHM_RND
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmdt on unaligned page address
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmat on unaligned page address
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmat with SHM_REMAP flag on NULL address
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmat with all possible values of flags
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmdt on invalid flag
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmat on invalid fd
      * stress-xattr: add check on setxattr syscall XATTR_CREATE flag
      * stress-xattr: exercise invalid size argument setxattr syscall
      * stress-xattr: add check on setxattr syscall XATTR_REPLACE flag
      * stress-xattr: exercise invalid setxattr syscall
      * stress-aio-linux: exercise invalid io_setup syscall
      * stress-xattr: add check on lsetxattr syscall XATTR_CREATE flag
      * stress-xattr: exercise invalid size argument lsetxattr syscall
      * stress-xattr: add check on lsetxattr syscall XATTR_REPLACE flag
      * stress-xattr: exercise invalid lsetxattr syscall
      * stress-xattr: exercise invalid size argument fsetxattr syscall
      * stress-xattr: add check on fsetxattr syscall XATTR_CREATE flag
      * stress-xattr: add check on fsetxattr syscall XATTR_REPLACE flag
      * stress-xattr: exercise fsetxattr with invalid flags
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise invalid sched_setparam syscalls
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise invalid sched_getparam syscalls
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise invalid sched_setattr syscalls
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:51:52 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-unshare: don't report ENOSPC as a failure in the unshare
      * Makefile: remove personality info, it is distracting
      * stress-clock: fix build warnings BSD systems
      * Makefile: remove -DHAVE_LINUX_IO_URING_H, it was included for testing
      * stress-dev: fix build warnings on non-Linux platforms
      * stress-dev: fix build error on non-linux systems with Xen guest
        checking
      * README: update number of stress tests
      * stress-dirdeep: add post recursion yield point check
      * stress-io-uring: add built-time checking for io-uring opcode enums
      * Makefile: provide personality build information
      * Makefile: make core first to keep order alphabetic
      * stress-io-uring: exercise NOP and FSYNC IO opcodes
      * stress-sysfs: skip over gcov sysfs debug files
      * stress-dirdeep: declare dirfd when HAVE_LINKAT is also defined
      * stress-dirdeep: exercise linkat in a few different ways
      * stress-clock: add build time check for TIMER_ABSTIME
      * core-helper: use shim strl* functions
      * stress-eventfd: remove { } for one line block statement
      * stress-eventfd: perform illegal writes periodically
      * stress-unshare: add in missing empty line
      * stress-io-uring: reap resources at end of test, exercise fdinfo
      * stress-io-uring: remove CLASS_INTERRUPT from stressor classes
      * Add stress_mk_filename to make a filename from full path and name
      * stress-inotify: fix build warning
      * io-uring: fix help, it was cut-n-pasted from io async stressor
      * Add io-uring stressor to exercise io-uring system calls
      * stress-inotify: some minor code style changes, no functional changes
      * stress-inotify: optimization: get bad fd just once
      * stress-inotify: fix build failures on systems without IN_MASK_CREATE
        and IN_MASK_ADD
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise SYSV namespace objects
      * stress-sem-sysv: remove busy loop, replace it with pause
      * stress-sem: remove busy loop, replace it with pause
      * stress-fanotify: fix build warning on declaration of bad_fd
      * stress-fanotify: fix build failure with systems where FAN_MARK_INODE
        is not defined
      * stress-fanotify: fix name shadowing on function parameter mnts
      * stress-timerfd: fix shadowing of variable ret
      * stress-close: fix variable shadowing of ret
      * stress-dev: add some device timeouts on slow optical devices
      * stress-fallocate: remove some whitespaces/lines
      * stress-fallocate: exercise illegal offset and lengths
      * stress-fallocate: exercise illegal fallocate on a pipe
      * stress-fallocate: add a blank line
      * stress-fallocate: exercise some illegal modes
      * stress-dev: allow hpet checking if not a Xen guest
      * stress-timerfd: fix check of CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise invalid sched_getattr syscalls
      * stress-timer:exercise nanosleep on invalid timespec
      * stress-clock: exercise clock_nanosleep on invalid timespec
      * stress-clock: Exercise clock_nanosleep on invalid clock id
      * stress-clock: exercise clock_adjtime on invalid clock id
      * stress-eventfd: exercise illegal writes on event fd
      * stress-eventfd: initialise the value written in event fd
      * stress-eventfd: read from event fd on a small buffer
      * stress-eventfd: exercise eventfd with invalid flags
      * Makefile.config: add build time check for epoll_create
      * stress-inotify: exercise inotify_rm_watch on non-inotify fd
      * stress-inotify: exercise inotify_rm_watch on invalid wd
      * stress-inotify: exercise inotify_rm_watch on bad fd
      * stress-inotify: Exercise inotify_add_watch on bad_fd
      * stress-inotify: exercise inotify_add_watch on already existing fd
      * stress-inotify: exercise inotify_add_watch with two operations
      * stress-inotify: exercise inotify_add_watch with bad mask
      * stress-inotify: exercise invalid inotify_init1
      * syscalls.txt: add inotify_init syscall
      * stress-inotify: add syscall inotify1 and exercise it
      * stress-fanotify: exercise invalid combination of flags
      * stress-fanotify: add build time check for FAN_MARK_MOUNT
      * stress-fanotify: Add fanotify syscalls
      * stress-fanotify: Add test for fanotify_mark syscall
      * stress-fanotify: Exercise fanotify_mark on bad fd
      * stress-fanotify: Exercise fanotify_mark with invalid flag
      * stress-fanotify: add test_fanotify_mark
      * stress-fanotify: Exercise fanotify_init syscalls with different flags
      * stress-fanotify: Add fanotify_init syscalls
      * stress-timerfd: Exercise timerfd_settime with invalid flags
      * stress-timerfd: Exercise non valid timerfd file descriptor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:58:21 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [André Wild]
      * Fix error if only HAVE_TERMIOS is not set
      * stress-zlib: Fixes race conditions during deflate/inflate
      * stress-ipsec-mb: Fixes out of bounds access of unterminated funcs
        array
      * stress-zlib: new zlib stressor options
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-zlib: cast pid_t to int for %d format specifier
      * stress-timerfd: only define cap_wake_alarm when it is required
      * stress-open: cast pid_t to int for %d format specifier
      * stress-timerfd: add build checks for CLOCK_REALTIME_* timers
      * stress-memthrash: fix premature termination by OOM handler
      * stress-memthrash: fix typo in comment "Wait" -> "Wake"
      * stress-zlib: use %zd for ssize_t, fixes build warning on GNU/HURD
      * stress-vforkmany: improve waiting by terminating child
      * stress-open: fix build failures on systems that don't support O_PATH
      * stress-close: add directory clean up at end
      * stress-affinity: use 16 processes to hammer affinity changes per
        stressor
      * stress-af-alg: break some overly long lines
      * stress-af-alg: add string overflow sanity check
      * stress-access: break wide defined() checks to 2 lines
      * stress-madvise: make signal message text plural on > 1 SIGBUS signals
      * stress-zlib: move declaration of reval, voidify return from waitpid
      * stress-close: remove duplicated bad_fd declaration
      * stress-zlib: print args.stream_bytes as unsigned long long
      * stress-ng.h: build in target clone types if gcc supports the feature
      * stress-enosys: re-write int $80 x86-64 syscall
      * stress-dev: clean up intentation
      * syscalls.txt: add openat2 notes
      * Makefile.config: add config test for struct open_how
      * stress-open: call open() directly if possible
      * stress-open: add openat system call check and exercise it
      * stress-close: exercise new close_range system call
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * stress-timerfd: Exercise non valid timerfd file descriptor
      * stress-timerfd: Add invalid timerfd_gettime syscalls on bad fd
      * stress-numa: Add check mbind cannot succeed without capability
      * stress-pidfd: Exercise invalid pidfd_getfd syscall
      * stress-numa: Add MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED flag get_mempolicy syscalls
      * stress-close: Exercise faccessat syscall on file fd
      * stress-xattr: Reorganise and exercise invalid fgetxattr syscall
      * stress-xattr: Exercise getxattr with small value buffer
      * stress-timerfd: Exercise invalid timerfd_create syscall
      * stress-timerfd: Add check timerfd_create cannot succeed without
        capability
      * stress-xattr: Exercise invalid lgetxattr syscall
      * stress-pidfd: Exercise pidfd_getfd syscall with bad_fd
      * stress-numa: Exercise invalid mbind syscall
      * stress-numa: Add invalid get_mempolicy syscalls
      * stress-numa: Exercise invalid get_mempolicy syscall
      * stress-xattr: Exercise invalid fgetxattr syscall
      * stress-close: Exercise faccessat syscall with invalid flags
      * stress-close: Exercise faccessat syscall on bad dirfd
      * stress-dev: Exercise VT_RESIZE and VT_RESIZEX ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGKBDIACR ioctl syscall
      * Makefile.config: Define Macros HAVE_UNIMAPDESC
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGKBSENT and KDSKBSENT ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise GIO_UNISCRNMAP and PIO_UNISCRNMAP ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise GIO_SCRNMAP and PIO_SCRNMAP ioctl syscalls
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon,  7 Sep 2020 17:41:24 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-cpu: add workaround for unnamed bit-fields
      * stress-dev: move opt_set_funcs and stress_set_dev_file to fix build issue
      * stress-stackmmap: cast stack to void * to avoid build warnings
      * stress-epoll: only declare epoll_ctl_mode if EPOLLEXCLUSIVE is defined
      * stress-epoll: fix broken epoll controls, add helpers
      * stress-vecmath: re-work vectorization of setup values
      * stress-procfs: rename ptr to pptr (path ptr) to avoid variable shadowing
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct winsize
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct termios
      * stress-dev: remove trailing whitespace
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct kbentry
      * Makefile.config: re-order dm_ioctl check
      * Makefile.config: re-order vt_stat check
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct vt_mode
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct unimapdesc
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct kbkeycode
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct consolefontdesc
      * stress-dev: add ioctl header checks for console and vt ioctls
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct v4l2_dv_timings
      * stress-dev: remove incorrect v4l2 ioctl test that's using wrong struct type
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct v4l2_enc_idx
      * stress-dev: add check for v4l2_std_id
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct v4l2_jpegcompression
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct v4l2_audioout
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct v4l2_audio
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for type v4l2_std_id
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct v4l2_framebuffer
      * stress-dev: add build autodetection for struct v4l2_capability
      * stress-dev: Add a new --dev-file option to specify the device to exercise
      * stress-procfs: force ENOENT on invalid procfs path traversal
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for struct media_device_info
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_blk
      * stress-bad-ioctl: ensure we have a bad page without a following mapped page
      * Add PCC compiler build notes to README file
      * Add support to build with the pcc compiler
      * stress-dev: replace (void)ioctl with ret = ioctl()
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGKBENT and KDSKBENT ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise VT_GETMODE and VT_SETMODE ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise GIO_UNIMAP and PIO_UNIMAP ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGKBMETA and KDSKBMETA ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGKBMODE and KDSKBMODE ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise GIO_FONT and PIO_FONT ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGETKEYCODE and KDSETKEYCODE ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise GIO_FONTX and PIO_FONTX ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMPLAYBLK ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMSETSPINDOWN ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROM_SELECT_SPEED ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROM_DEBUG ioctl call
      * stress-dev: Exercise GIO_CMAP and PIO_CMAP ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Reorder the KDGKBTYPE ioctl call
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:13:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-stackmmap: cast mmap return to uint8_t to clean up build warning
      * stress-set: declare bad_uid and cap-setuid only for HAVE_SETREUID case
      * stress-dev: break multi #if defined checks across multiple lines (2)
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for struct dm_ioctl
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for struct vt_stat
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for struct vt_mode
      * stress-dev: break multi #if defined checks across multiple lines
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for dvd_authinfo
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for dvd_struct
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_read_audio
      * Makefile.config: re-order cdrom checks into correct alphabetical order
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_subchnl
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_volctrl
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_mcn
      * Makefile.config: move cdrom struct checks to struct checking part of
        autodection
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_ti
      * stress-dev: add one more HAVE_CDROM_MSF check and break up #if defined
        checks
      * stress-dev: fix musl gcc build warning
      * stress-dev: use uint8_t and uint32_t instead of __u8 and __u32 types
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_msf
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_tocentry
      * stress-dev: add auto build config check for cdrom_tochdr
      * stress-stackmmap: don't use void * pointer arithmetic
      * stress-remap-file-pages: don't use void * pointer arithmetic
      * stress-aio-linux: use correct format specifier for size_t
      * stress-dev: fix matching #endif and } causing build warnings
      * stress-utime: add O_PATH fd test case for utimensat
      * stress-ng.h: add -Wnonnull to disabled warnings
      * stress-ng: Add SIGTTOU, SIGTTIN and SIGWINCH to the signal ignore array
      * stress-dev: voidify fd in cdrom stressor to avoid build warnings
      * core-helper: fix build warnings, add in missing const
      * stress-bad-ioctl: rename rc to ssjret to avoid name shadowing
      * Add auto build detection of linux/cdrom.h and define HAVE_LINUX_CDROM_H
      * test/test-aio-{read|write}: memset structs to avoid static analysis
        warnings
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add log file to capture test times
      * kernel-coverage.sh: make oom-pipe oomable
      * stress-dup: add more yield points
      * stress-numa: silently ignore migrate pages failures
      * stress-bad-ioctl: add random page data to the mix
      * Add a --bad-ioctl stressor that performs _IOR ioctl read commands
      * core-helper: make uid gap at least 250 to reduce race window
      * Add helper stress_get_unused_uid to find an unused uid
      * stress-nice: fix build issue when HAVE_SETPRIORITY is not defined
      * stress-aio: add autoconfig checks for aio-{cancel|read|write}
      * Makefile.config: ensure libatomic is linked in correctly
      * stress-sigtrap: move case statement to fix fallthrough build warning
      * core-out-of-memory: only fall back to old oom interface if new one
        does not exist
      * core-helper: remove stress_sigalrm_block()
      * core-log: remove pr_msg_fail()
      * stress-ng: remove dead code
      * stress-sigtrap: fix build error when SIGTRAP is not defined
      * fix a lot of spelling mistakes and typos
      * example-jobs: fix a couple more spelling mistakes
      * example-jobs: fix some spelling mistakes
      * stress-epoll: check for failure against the intended errno
      * stress-pty: rename struct fields to use follower/leader instead
      * kernel-coverage.sh: remove debug if/endif
      * kernel-coverage.sh: ensure log does not overflow and make script less
        OOM-able
      * core-mlock: ensure mlock address arg is const
      * stress-set: remove shadowed declaration of variable ret
      * stress-epoll: only build EPOLLEXCLUSIVE if it is defined
      * stress-get: rename array rlim to rlims to avoid name shadowing
      * stress-epoll: fix pedantic build mode failure
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGKBTYPE ioctl call
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGETMODE and KDSETMODE ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise KDGKBLED and KDSKBLED ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise valid and invalid KDSETLED ioctl calls
      * stress-dev: Add Stressor for Console Driver
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMREADMODE1 and CDROMREADMODE2 ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMREADRAW ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMPLAYMSF ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMPLAYTRKIND ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMMULTISESSION ioctl sycall for CDROM driver
      * stress-dev: Add ioctl calls for CDROM driver
      * stress-dev: Exercise all possible DVD_READ_STRUCT ioctl syscalls
      * stress-dev: Add in the /dev/sr0 to the dev_funcs array
      * stress-dev: Exercise ioctl syscall for CDROM driver
      * stress-dev: Exercise CDROMVOLCTRL ioctl syscall
      * stress-dev: Add ioctl syscalls for cdrom driver
      * stress-dev: Add more readable ioctl calls for CDROM driver
      * stress-dev: Add readable ioctl calls for CDROM driver
      * stress-dev: Add ioctl calls for CDROM driver
      * stress-dev: Add stressor for CDROM driver
      * stress-dev: Add v4l ioctl tests
      * stress-dev: Add test for ioctl command VIDIOC_G_STD
      * stress-dev: Add test for ioctl command VIDIOC_G_AUDIO
      * stress-dev: Add test for ioctl command VIDIOC_G_INPUT
      * stress-dev: Add test for ioctl command VIDIOC_G_OUTPUT
      * stress-dev: Add memset for structure v4l2_capability
      * stress-dev: Add test for ioctl command VIDIOC_G_FBUF
      * stress-set: Test setreuid cannot succeed without capability
      * stress-getrandom: Exercise invalid getrandom syscall
      * stress-eloop: Pass efd2 as argument to test_eloop()
      * stress-nice: Test nice cannot increase priority with capability
      * stress-epoll: Test epoll instance cannot be added with EPOLLEXCLUSIVE
        flag
      * stress-nice: Exercise invalid nice syscall with invalid inc argument
      * stress-flock: Exercise invalid flock syscall
      * stress-epoll: Test EPOLL_CTL_MOD cannot be applied to EPOLLEXCLUSIVE
      * stress-epoll: Test for modification of EPOLL_EXCLUSIVE in epoll_ctl
      * stress-eloop: Add test for ELOOP error
      * stress-set: Add comment for setrlimit syscall
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:41:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Close build issue (fixed on previous upload) (Closes: #964638)
      * handle EFAULT for kernels that generate SIGSEGV
      * stress-get: handle EFAULT for kernels that generate SIGSEGV
      * stress-epoll: flag an error on bad events buffer if it returns more
        than 0 events
      * stress-open: add invalid O_TMPDIR and O_CREATE tests
      * stress-open: use stress_get_max_file_limit to get max file limit
      * core-helper: add stress_get_max_file_limit to return max file open
        limit
      * stress-open: retry opening on a failed open
      * stress-open: keep opening until the maximum open file limit is hit
      * stress-numa: fix indentation issue with comment
      * stress-get: move invalid getrlimit test to ouside of the loop
      * stress-mincore: exercise mincore with MAP_NONE vec argument
      * Add some pages that can be used for invalid argument system call tests
      * stress-mincore: exercise some invalid and unexpected mincore arguments
      * stress-mlock: clean up some indentations
      * stress-mlock: improve the method of finding maximum mlockable size
      * stress-mlock: fix max limit on mlocked region size
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * stress-epoll: Exercise illegal epoll_pwait syscall with bad address
      * stress-epoll: Exercise illegal epoll_wait syscall with bad address
      * stress-get: Exercise illegal uname call with bad address
      * stress-set: Verify hard limit cannot be increased without capability
      * stress-set: Add condition to test rlim_curr > 1
      * stress-set: Exercise invalid setrlimit syscall with invalid rlim
        argument
      * stress-get: Exercise invalid prlimit syscall with invalid resource
        argument
      * stress-set: Exercise invalid setrlimit syscall with invalid resource
        argument
      * stress-get: Exercise invalid getrlimit syscall with invalid resource
        argument
      * stress-mlock: Test mlock syscall cannot proceed without permission
      * stress-mlock: Exercise invalid mlockall syscall with invalid flag
      * stress-mlock: Exercise invalid mlockall syscall with only MCL_ONFAULT
        flag
      * stress-mlock: Exercise invalid mlock2 syscall with invalid flags
      * stress-epoll: Exercised Invalid epoll_wait syscall with invalid
        maxevents argument
      * stress-epoll: Exercised Invalid epoll_pwait syscall with invalid
        maxevents argument
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:32:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * stress-epoll: Exercise epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_MOD on fd
        not registered
      * stress-epoll: Exercise invalid epoll_ctl_add by adding already
        registered fd
      * stress-epoll: Reorder invalid epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL
        operation
      * stress-epoll: Exercise epoll_ctl syscall with EPOLL_CTL_DEL on fd not
        registered
      * stress-epoll: Exercise epoll_ctl syscall with Invalid Operation
      * stress-epoll: Exercise epoll_create1 syscall with valid non-zero
        flags argument
      * stress-epoll: Exercise invalid epoll_ctl syscall with same fd and epfd
      * stress-epoll: Exercise epoll_create1 syscall with invalid flags
        argument
      * stress-epoll: Exercise epoll_create syscall with invalid size argument
      * stress-clock: Ensure clock_settime cannot proceed without privilege
      * stress-set: Added test checking settimeofday syscall cannot proceed
        without privileges
      * stress-numa: Exercise getcpu syscall with a non-null pointer to tcache
        argument
      * stress-dup: Exercise dup3 syscall with same oldfd and newfd
      * stress-dup: Added test exercising invalid dup3 syscall with closed fd
      * stress-dup: Added test exercising invalid dup3 syscall with invalid
        flag
      * stress-clock: Added test exercising clock_settime syscall with negative
        time
      * stress-clock: Added test exercising clock_settime syscall having an
        illegal clockid
      * stress-clock: Added test exercising clock_gettime syscall having an
        illegal clockid
      * stress-clock: Added test exercising clock_getres syscall having an
        illegal clockid
      * stress-pidfd: exercise pidfd_send_signal syscall by passing a pointer
        to info argument
      * stress-pidfd: Added tests exercising pidfd_open syscall with negative
        pid argument
      * stress-pidfd: Added tests exercising pidfd_send_signal syscall with
        illegal flags argument
      * stress-pidfd: Added tests exercising pidfd_open syscall with illegal
        flags argument
      * syscalls.txt: Removing the extra occurrence of getcwd
      * stress-get: Added Tests exercising getpriority calls having non-zero
        who argument
    
      [Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-bad-altstack: add check for getauxval
      * stress-sigchld: only set SA_SIGINFO if it is available
      * stress-xattr: terminate with EXIT_NO_RESOURCE if system call not
        supported
      * stress-xattr: skip test if ENOSYS is detected
      * stress-mknod: remove debug message
      * stress-epoll: clean up some indentation
      * stress-sigfd: exercise with an invalid non-signal fd file descriptor
      * stress-sigfd: exercise signalfd with invalid fd and flags
      * stress-loop: add LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl
      * stress-bsearch: add in missing empty line between declaration and
        statement
      * core-time: add ( ) to keep to the informal stress-ng coding style
      * core-thermal-zone: uncapitalize error message
      * core-shim: add comments for enosys wrapper
      * core-perf: constify some read-only structure fields
      * core-mlock: constify m_addr_start as it never changes
      * core-mincore: make uintptr const as it never changes
      * core-limit: remove blank line
      * core-job: make stress_chop an inlined helper function
      * stress-dccp: constify opt field in stress_dccp_opts_t
      * stress-dev: remove duplicated comment
      * stress-klog: use SHIM_* for CAP_SYS settings
      * stress-numa: add some ( ) according to the informal coding style
      * stress-klog: exercise more klogctl commands to improve kernel coverage
      * stress-mknod: exercise char and block device mknod calls
      * stress-epoll: remove extraneous space before a comment
      * stress-loop: exercise loop /sys/devices/virtual/block/loopX/loop/*
        attributes
      * stress-loop: exercise LOOP_CHANGE_FD with invalid fd
      * stress-loop: exercise LOOP_CTL_ADD
      * stress-loop: try to associate loop with a file backing with invalid fd
      * stress-loop: fsync on loop backed device
      * stress-loop: unlink backing file as soon as possible
      * stress-sysinfo: only define bad_fd when it is required
      * stress-nanosleep: remove unused opt_set_funcs
      * stress-dup: don't make do_dup3 conditional on HAVE_DUP3
      * stress-sigchld: add new stressor that exercises SIGCHLD handling
      * stress-chattr: handle EOPNOTSUPP failures
      * stress-clock: cache the capability setting and move test
      * stress-set: rework error message to provide some extra info
      * stress-set: move tv to local scope to fix any build warnings
      * stress-ng.h: redefine SHIM_CAP_IS_ROOT to -1
      * use SHIM_CAP_IS_ROOT instead of 0 for root capability checks
      * stress-ng.h: Add a SHIM_CAP_IS_ROOT shim capability
      * stress-ng.h: Update to the current full list of capabilities
      * stress-skiplist: remove debug helper function
      * core-shim: perform syscall if libc does not provide call but __NR_* is
        available
      * stress-dup: remove need for HAVE_DUP3 since this is handled in shim
      * core-shim: add syscall to dup3 if HAVE_DUP3 is not available
      * core-log: fix corrupted log when using --log-file and --log-brief
        options
      * stress-mmapaddr: exercise MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag
      * stress-poll: else if statement braces
      * stress-pipeherd: fix typo on child pid comparison
      * rename stress_proc_stats_t to stress_stats
      * stress-ng: rename proc to stressor
      * rename num_procs to num_instances
      * stress-ng: rework the stressor startup loops
      * stress-nanosleep: drop number of pthreads to 8
      * stress-bad-altstack: add VDSO as a target for the stack, add comments
        too
      * stress-pipeherd: fix where empty line is located
      * syscalls.txt: update nanosleep syscall
      * stress-nanosleep: add new nanosleep stressor
      * stress-sysinfo: exercise system calls with invalid path and fd
      * exercise kernel a little more to improve kernel coverage
      * stress-nice: ensure setpriority is called only if we have this system
        call
      * stress-kcmp: exercise some invalid kcmp calls
      * stress-dev: refactorization: use stress_hash_pjw
      * stress-personality: exercise invalid personalities
      * snap: remove deprecated version-script from snapcraft
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:32:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [bybug]
      * stress-sysinval: fix build failure for getresuid32
    
      [Christopher Brown]
      * README: Fix some requirement names for RHEL/Centos/Fedora
    
      [Piyush Goyal]
      * syscalls.txt: Corrected typo in the name of getcwd syscall
      * stress-get: Added check for equality of return value and pointer
        passed in getcwd syscall
      * stress-get: Added tests exercising getpriority calls using illegal
        arguments
      * stress-get: Added tests exercising gettimeofday system calls using
        syscall()
      * stress-get: exercise gettimeofday syscall by passing a pointer to
        timezone
      * stress-get: handle ENOSYS from shim wrappers as no fatal, remove verify
        check
      * stress-get: Added tests exercising time system calls using syscall()
      * stress-get: exercise time syscall by passing a pointer to time_t
      * stress-nice: exercise illegal maximum priority to get more kernel
        test coverage (1)
      * stress-nice: exercise illegal maximum priority to get more kernel
        test coverage (2)
    
      [Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: only build Makefile.config with one thread
      * Makefile.config: remove duplicate Android binder checks
      * stress-zero: remove duplicated assignment to ptr64
      * stress-rlimit: rename array stack to avoid shadowing
      * stress-ioport: clean up shadowing of variable ret
      * stress-getrandom: reduce scope of variable ret
      * core-shim: voidify inc argument to shim_nice
      * core-shim: handle nice not being available
      * core-limit: ensire max_fd is initialized
      * stress-sockfd: silently ignore ETOOMANYREFS failures
      * stress-vm-addr: make helper function reverse64 inlined
      * stress-vforkmany: fix typo in comment, add notes about dirty hack
      * stress-memthrash: add memmove option to copy data
      * stress-seek: exercise invalid lseek system calls
      * stress-rlimit: fix segv caused by passing a NULL context and exercise all
        rlimit resource ids
      * test/test-timer-create: memset sev to set all fields to zero
      * Makefile.config: remove need for HAVE_NOT, and add MAKE_OPTS
      * Manual: update names of contributors
      * stress-fstat/manual: replace inaccurate language
      * stress-fcntl: exercise fcntl with some invalid arguments
      * stress-timerfd: don't set timers or exercise timers with an invalid fd
      * stress-timerfd: fix typo in timerfd error message and also print bad fd
      * README: add libatomic1 requirement
      * Add requirement for libatomic1 for atomic builds
      * Makefile: drop duplicated lib variables, they are picked up in
        Makefile.config
      * Makefile*: use -pthread instead of -lpthread
      * stress-enosys: ignore sigsuspend, it will stop the child
      * stress-enosys: set itimer before every type of system call
      * stress-enosys: cater for 32 bit compat sigsuspend syscall
      * stress-enosys: exit after a system call if process has forked
      * stress-fnctl: fix broken build, I pushed the wrong development change
      * stress-fanotify: remove trailing tab
      * stress-fanotify: exercise fanotify_init with invalid flags
      * stress-oom-pipe: optimize buffer writes, set buffer up once
      * stress-netlink-proc: remove empty line
      * stress-mq: remove some more white spaces and empty lines
      * stress-mq: remove blank line
      * stress-mlock: fix typo in comment "bogos" -> "bogus"
      * stress-mincore: munmap mapped page on ENOSYS error from mincore
      * stress-memfd: fix typo "uffer" -> "buffer"
      * stress-mcontend: unmap data[0] if data[1] fails to allocate
      * stress-mcontend: fix data[0] mmap failure
      * stress-kill: kill pid with signal -1 to force -EINVAL error
      * stress-ng: remove line feed before )
      * stress-zlib: add a lfsr32 zlib option to generate 2^32-1 unique values
      * stress-zero: make buffer 64 bit aligned and optimize zero check
      * stress-zombie: remove zombie child overheads to increase zombie loading
      * core-shim: add shim to nice() system call
      * stress-tsc: remove x86 only notes to tsc option
      * stress-tsc: add rdcycle support for RISC-V
      * stress-enosys: bump compiler version requirement
      * stress-enosys: add legacy int 0x80 method of calling system calls
      * stress-urandom: exercise an invalid ioctl to get more kernel coverage
      * stress-getrandom: move bogo-op counter to inner loop
      * stress-getrandom: exercise GRND_RANDOM and GRND_NONBLOCK
      * stress-zero: include a range of /dev/zero mmap'ing flags to exercise
      * stress-ioport: exercise /dev/port if it can be opened
      * stress-sysinval: add mmap_pgoff system call
      * stress-memcpy: remove __ prefix, rename with test_ instead
      * stress-wcstr: remove __ prefix, rename with test_ instead
      * stress-str: remove __ prefix, rename with test_ instead
      * core-mwc: rename __mwc to mwc, there is no need for __ prefix
      * stress-clock: 'randomize' delays to mix in more unpredictability
      * stress-madvise: constify variable sz
      * Makefile: clean up POSIX suffix rule warning
      * README: fix typo
      * stress-ng: add --max-fd soft limit on file descriptors
      * Add note about libattr.
      * stress-ng.h: define _LINUX_SYSINFO_H only when using gcc with non-glibc
        libc (such as musl)
      * stress-ng.h: suppress kernel sysinfo.h
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:53:34 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Rob Colclaser III]
      * stress-membarrier: return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED ifi
       MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is not set
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-ng: add translation of 2 missing exit types to string
      * stress-ng: prefix local functions with stress_ to avoid name
        clashing
      * stress-bigheap: add in missing new line between declaration
        and statement
      * stress-*, core-*: remove some extraneous spaces
      * tests/test-user-desc: memset u_info object to clear up cppcheck
        warning
      * tests/test-serial-struct: memset serial object to clear up
        cppcheck warning
      * stress-sockabuse: remove duplicated EPIPE error check
      * stress-pthread: voidify return in ret, clean up a cppcheck style
        warning
      * stress-hdd: clean up another cppcheck style warning:
      * stress-hdd: clean up cppcheck style warning
      * stress-fcntl: fix incorrect location of braces { } in #if defs
      * README: add notes on how to build with musl C library
      * stress-rawsock: ensure addr argument to recvfrom is struct
        sockaddr *
      * stress-ng: fix shim_loff_t type, it should be long
      * core-shim: use futex call if FUTEX_WAIT is defined
      * stress-ramfs: exercise new mount system calls if specific #defines
        are defined
      * stress-iomix: voidify fd to fix build warnings if it is not used
      * stress-efivar: only exercise FS_IOC_*FLAGS if they are defined
      * stress-sockpair: improve preemption points
      * stress-sockpair: ignore ENOTCONN error on shutdown
      * stress-access: voidify bad_fd to workaround build warning on Minix
      * stress-xattr: exercise fxattr* with bad fd
      * stress-sync-file: exercise sync_file_range with bad fd
      * stress-sockfd: exercise sockfd with bad fd
      * stress-seek: exercise lseek with bad fd
      * stress-lockf: remove empty line
      * stress-lockf: exercise lockf with bad fd
      * stress-klog: remove whitespace
      * stress-iosync: exercise fsyncfs with bad fd
      * stress-getdent: exercise getdent* with bad fd
      * stress-fstat: exercise fstat with bad fd
      * stress-file-flock: exercise flock with bad fd
      * stress-file-ioctl: exercise ioctl with bad fd
      * stress-fcntl: exercise fcntl with bad fd
      * stress-copy-file: remove extraneous space
      * stress-close: exercise close with bad fd
      * stress-chown: exercise fchown with bad fd
      * stress-fallocate: remove whitespace
      * stress-chmod: exercise fchmod* with bad fd
      * stress-fallocate: exercise fallocate with bad fd
      * stress-access: exercise faccessat* with an invalid dir fd
      * stress-epoll: exercise epoll_ctl and epoll_wait with bad fd
      * core-helper: use the stress_get_bad_fd helper
      * core-helper: add stress_get_bad_fd helper (part 2)
      * core-helper: add stress_get_bad_fd helper
      * stress-close: remove white space pollution
      * stress-ng: propagate EXIT_METRICS_UNTRUSTWORTHY to exit status
      * stress-sysinfo: get a file system label if FS_IOC_GETFSLABEL
        ioctl is available
      * stress-close: close random unopened fd to exercise EBADF
      * fast-test-all: make it really test *all* stressors
      * Add a light weight ADT regression test
      * stress-sock: fix build failure on some 32 bit arches
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:18:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [Arjan van de Ven]
      * Use "arch=skylake-avx512" instead of "avx512f" in the TARGET_CLONES list
    
      [Chunyu Hu]
      * core-sched: init shim_sched_attr with zero
    
      [Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]
      * stress-sysinval: fix build failure on 32-bit systems
      * stress-sysbadaddr: fix build when HAVE_GETHOSTNAME is not defined
      * stress-enosys: add some missing syscalls
      * stress-enosys: negate errno
      * stress-enosys: prevent segfault when doing syscall_find
      * stress-rawudp: fix bind sockaddr
    
      [Colin Ian King]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add code of conduct text file to make dist rule
      * stress-sysinval: disable for GNU/HURD
      * tests/control: disable tests as these are causing testing issues,
        a better test mechanism is required (Closes: #962620)
      * stress-dup: force invalid dups by using large fd
      * stress-sysinval: fix a cut-n-paste error with delete_module
      * fast-test-all: add checks for all the missing exit status values
      * Add a new exit status EXIT_METRICS_UNTRUSTWORTHY
      * stress-ng: fix typo "read" -> "ready"
      * stress-chdir: exercise chdir to a directory that does not allow
        access
      * stress-sysinval: add MISC args allowing finer system call argument
        passing
      * stress-prctl: exercise prctl interface with some invalid arguments
      * stress-sysinval: double check run time timeout
      * stress-ng: rename "metrics check" to "metrics-check"
      * stress-*: make child processes call sched_settings_apply
      * core-sched: add new sched settings helper sched_settings_apply
      * stress-ng: check and set sched DEADLINE settings if SCHED_DEADLINE
        is defined
      * stress-sysinval: disable OS X builds as syscall() has been deprecated
      * stress-sysinval: prefix syscall_arg* with stress_ to avoid OS X name
        clashing
      * core-out-of-memory: use waitpid rather than the shim delay'd wait
        wrapper
      * stress-sysinval: remove linux only check; it builds now on all
        supported platforms
      * stress-sysinval: cast pointers to void * for madvise call
      * stress-sysinval: remove the xattr checks, they are not required
      * stress-sysinval: only build tests syscall.h syscall() is available
      * stress-vm-rw: fix up unexpected read size error message
      * stress-mq: don't report EINTR errors as fatal issues
      * stress-aio: silently ignore ENOSPC write failures
      * stress-enosys: force child to be killed and reap
      * stress-{iomix,fiemap}: fix copying of args struct
      * Add a code of conduct document
      * stress-stream: make short duration message clearer
      * kernel-coverage: run sysinval stressor for 3 minutes on all cpus
      * stress-sysinval: improve syscall timeout metrics
      * stress-sysinval: add run-time sanity check for zero system calls
        being detected
      * stress-sysinval: shuffle system call order 50% of the time
      * stress-sysinval: add illegal access mode flags
      * stress-netlink-task: clean up build warning on 32 builds with
        gcc 4.6.3
      * stress-nelink-proc: clean up build warning on 32 builds with
        gcc 4.6.3
      * stress-netlink-proc: remove space between macro and open parenthesis
      * stress-urandom: fix some grammar mistakes in comments
      * stress-sysinval: remove incorrect comment about size of structure
      * Manual: add Thadeu to the list of contributors
      * stress-access: add Linux 5.8 faccessat2 system call
      * stress-sysinval: make the syscall stats more descriptive
      * stress-sysinval: allo some read/stat actions on filenames
      * stress-sysinval: add ARG_PTR_WR - writeable destination arguments
      * stress-inval: use a valid file descriptor for ARG_FD
      * stress-sockpair: remove double oom detection, we're using the
        oomable API already
      * stress-sysinval: don't call sigreturn, this spams the kernel log
      * stress-sysinval: force child to be killed and reap
      * stress-sysinval: make syscall stats debug level
      * stress-sysinval: add some more missing system calls
      * stress-sock: save and report the correct errno status
      * stress-sock*: handle EPIPE gracefully
      * kernel-coverage: add swap to fast seq tests
      * Make sysinval stressor Linux only for now
      * stress-sysinval: use alternative system call naming
      * stress-sysinval: don't modulo by zero if reorder size is 0
      * stress-sysinval: unmap page if mprotect PROT_NONE  is not available
      * stress-stackmmap: only mprotect stack ends if mprotect is available
      * stress-sysinval: clean up some 32 bit build warnings
      * Add sysinval invalid system call stress test
      * Add autoconfig detection and workaround for daddr_t
      * syscalls: add process_madvise to syscalls
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:55:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump minor version
      * Setup the checksum before forking off child stressor (LP: #1880840)
        - fixes null checksum if child is killed before the stressor
          function gets invoked.
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 27 May 2020 09:53:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: remove config from make dist rule
      * stress-stackmmap: make ends of stack inaccessible to stop clobbering
        non-stack regions
      * stress-dev: disable TIOCGETD for the moment as it causes some hang
        issues
      * stress-context: always swap context back to main microthread on
        termination
      * stress-sock: voidify fd arg to clean up build warning on Solaris
      * Add run-time autoconfig check for struct ifconf
      * stress-sem-sysv: test illegal semtimedop only if it is exists
      * stress-sem-sysv: workaround kfreebsd8 EINVAL on semtimedop
      * stress-sem-sysv: don't use semtimedop if it returns -ENOSYS
      * stress-sem-sysv: only exercise SEM_STAT on linux
      * stress-ng: fetch yaml filename before running stress tests
      * Makefile: rm -f the makefile on clean
      * stress-ng: Don't track config or show in diff
      * Makefile: remove the need for an empty config file
      * stress-ng: fix long form if -x option, use "exclude" instead of "list"
      * stress-ng: README: update libsctp name for RHEL, fedora, related
        distros
      * stress-memthrash: silently ignore ESRCH pthread_join failures
      * stress-madvise: voidify pthread_join return, we don't care about it
      * stress-inode-flags: voidify pthread_join return, we don't care
        about it
      * stress-dev: voidify pthread_join return, we don't care about it
      * shim_waitpid: allow a few retries before throttling retry
      * kernel-coverage.sh: move the quick spin through stressors to the end
        of the test
      * Fix --seq mode checksum with multiple stressors and sanity checking
      * stress-vm: fix bit error checking when bogo-ops limits reached
      * core-ftrace: fix removed filename setting statement
      * core-ftrace: remove setting of set_event_pid and refactor code
      * core-out-of-memory: return EXIT_SUCCESS on --oomable
        option (LP: #1879782)
      * stress-get: fix #ifdef check on getpagesize
      * core-out-of-memory: return EXIT_NO_RESOUCE on --oomable
        option (LP: #1879696)
      * core-shim: add delay before re-waiting
      * stress-dev: add block device lseeks and force return to be stashed
      * Add memory barriers an ready flag to check if counter is in a sane
        state
      * core-shim: rework waitpid again, terminate child on EINTR (LP: #1879447)
      * stress-dev: remove sleep and return EXIT_SUCCESS on child exit
      * stress-ng: add checksum sanity check on bogo ops stats and run flag
      * stress-mq: add SIGEV_SIGNAL events to exercise kernel
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise shmctl and shmdt race on child exit
      * stress-shm-sysv: exercise NUMA mempolicy on shm
      * stress-sem-sysv: exercise some invalid options to get more kernel
        coverage
      * stress-sock: add a few more ioctls to exercise
      * syscalls: update preadv/preadv2 and pwritev entries
      * stress-hdd: use preadv, preadv2, pwritev, pwritev2
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 26 May 2020 15:46:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump minor version
      * Debian: remove compat, use debhelper-compat in Build-Depends
      * core-ftrace + manual: update caveat about ftrace stats
      * stress-pty: fix incorrect placing of #endif's
      * core-ftrace: warn when --ftrace is used on systems that don't
        support it
      * core-ftrace: voidify unused argument in stress_ftrace_add_pid
      * kernel-coverage: add ftrace and class exercising
      * core-ftrace: move OPT_FLAGS_FTRACE check to core-ftrace
      * core-ftrace: try to filter by parent and child process IDs
      * core-ftrace: add caveat about tracing stats captured
      * core-ftrace: fix some resource free'ing issues
      * stress-efi-var: optimize check for . files
      * stress-efivar: remove free of efi_dentries
      * stress-chdir: ensure all fd's and filenames are invalid before
        testing
      * Add --ftrace option to get some kernel function tracing metrics
      * stress-pty: exercise tcdrain, tcflush, tcflow and tcgetattr
      * stress-vm: use mwc64() for random numbers rather than random()
      * stresss-vdso: add missing line
      * stress-pipe: fix build failure on non-Linux platforms on pr_fail
      * Replace pr_fail_err with pr_fail to allow more flexible error
        messages
      * Remove pr_fail_dbg and replace with pr_fail
      * Remove pr_fail_args_errno and pr_fail_errno
      * core-helper: remove directory if an error occurs on mkdir
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 15 May 2020 14:10:41 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-mmap: use a mmap_func_t prototype to simplify function pointers
      * stress-pidfd: reduce scope of buffer
      * stress-mmap: cast return from syscall to void *
      * stress-mmap: fix typo on off_t type name
      * syscalls.txt: update information on reboot system call
      * stress-xattr: add lremovexattr for more kernel coverage
      * stress-set: exercise setdomainname
      * syscalls: update mmap2 usage
      * stress-mmap: add --mmap-mmap2 to try to use mmap2 if it is available
      * syscalls: update riscv_flush_icache status
      * core-shim: remove flags, this was in an older API and I forgot to
        remove it
      * stress-pthread: add call to set_thread_area for x86 only
      * stress-pthread: add call to get_thread_area for x86 only
      * stress-icache: add RISC-V to the allowed arches that can run this
        stressor
      * core-shim: use system call to __NR_riscv_flush_icache
      * core-shim: add missing ; on risc-v flush
      * Rename shim_clear_cache to shim_flush_icache, add RISC-V support
      * stress-daemon: add shim wrapper for exit_group and call it on child
        exit
      * stress-pidfd: try to exercise pidfd_getfd if it exists
      * stress-pidfd: add pidfd_open shim and exercise it on opening pid fds
      * syscalls: add missing syscalls to syscalls list
      * stress-clock: exercise clock_adjtime by adjusting clock by zero
        seconds
      * syscalls: update io_cancel
      * stress-aio-linux: add aio_cancel and ignore failures
      * stress-zlib: optimize BCD conversion and extend range of source random
        value
      * stress-zlib: wrap some overly long function declarations
      * stress-rawpkt: use strlcpy instead of strcpy
      * stress-procfs: use strlcpy instead of strcpy
      * stress-access: fchmod should be S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR and not 0666
      * stress-dev: add HPET_IRQFREQ ioctl
      * core-thrash: remove ptrace as this can cause lockups
      * stress-hdd: add medium write lifetime hint if it is available
      * stress-rawpkt: perform SIOCINQ every 256 packets and clean up code
      * stress-rawpkt: ensure mac address is being used for mac src and dst
        addresses
      * stress-rawpkg: exercise SIOCOUTQ and SIOCINQ ioctls
      * stress-physpage: report incorrect read sizes correctly
      * Revert "Add STRESS_RISC_V arch macro and don't yield on this arch"
      * Revert "core-shim: disable native nanosleep for risc-v"
      * stress-rawpkt: move stress-rawpkt_getsockopts to correct #ifdef section
      * stress-rawpkt: remove include <linux/if_packet.h>
      * stress-rawsock: occasionally exercise SIOCINQ and SIOCOUTQ ioctls
      * Manual: remove trailing space
      * core-ignite-cpu: remove an empty line
      * core: constify some variables
      * stress-ng: constify some variables
      * core-perf: disable TLB perf metric
      * core-shim: simplify the waitpid logic
      * core-shim: break out of shim_wait on non EINTR error
      * stress-sock: remove empty line
      * stress-rawpkt: remove some white spaces
      * stress-rawpkt: add getsockopt relevant settings fetches
      * stress-rawudp: remove debug raw messages received counter
      * stress-rawudp: fix clang-10 pedantic warning on const addr
      * Add rawpkt stressor to exercise raw packet tx and rx over loopback
        device
      * stress-rawudp: close socket on error return
      * core-helper: add some optimization hints to stress_ip_checksum
      * stress-rawudp: re-organize code to remove repeated data structure
        setting
      * stress-rawudp: fix option help info, fix spelling mistake
      * stress-ng: set the stressor name as early as possible
      * Add rawudp stressor to exercise raw UDP packet tx and rx
      * core-cache: clean up gcc-10 -fanalyzer warning
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 7 May 2020 12:33:53 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-sysbaddaddr: reduce scope of variable ret
      * core-sched: print uint64_t using PRIu64 format specifiers
      * stress-sysbadaddr: don't abort if write/exec mappings can't be made
      * stress-sysbaddaddr: use shim'd memfd_create
      * stress-pkey: only use PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE if it is defined
      * stress-filename: add more yield point checks to abort faster
      * core-shim: don't retry EINTR on termination flag (LP:# 1874367)
      * core-shim: expand comments on the posix clock comments
      * core-sched: move declaration of prefix to avoid build warnings
      * stress-fanotify: reorder FAN masks to alphabetical order
      * core-shim: wrap the posix clock calls to use system call
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add memfd_create system call
      * stress-pkey: exercise an invalid pkey_free call
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add some more mapped page protection variations
      * stress-remap-file-pages: exercise invalid remappings
      * stress-mlock: use MCL_ONFAULT option correctly
      * stress-mincore: exercise pages that are known to be mapped and
        unmapped
      * helper: make stress_warn_once simpler to use and remove flags
      * stress-sockabuse: remove tabs from empty line
      * stress-sync-file: remove shadowed variable ret
      * stress-wait: skip over sanity check of returned zero pid
      * Fix more supported helpers that are missing new name parameter
      * stress-apparmor: supported helper that s missing new name parameter
      * stress-sockfd: make bind failure on EADDRINUSE a resource issue
      * stress-sockfd: use SO_REUSEADDR to avoid bind failures
      * Handle ENOSPC mkdir failures as a resource allocation termination
      * stress-ioprio: don't terminate if we run out of resources
      * stress-chdir: use mkdir_ok array to track mkdir paths that are OK
      * stress-mq: ignore timeouts on timed message sends
      * stress-sockabuse: don't make connect failures terminal
      * stress-chdir: don't abort all the temporary directories can't be
        setup
      * stress-link: silently ignore out of resource limit failures
      * stress-key: skip over some expected non-fatal errors that should
        not abort the stressor
      * stress-chdir: make ENOSPC on setup a resource failure termination
      * stress-key: silently ignore ENOKEY
      * stress-key: skip over some expected non-fatal errors that should
        not abort the stressor
      * core-shim: re-try on EINTR a little more if they keep on occurring
      * stress-sockfd: use incrementing ports per stressor
      * stress-sockabuse: ensure correct errno value is reported on a
        connect failure
      * stress-sync-file: don't fail on ENOSPC, instead retry
      * stress-seal: don't fail on EBUSY on a F_SEAL_WRITE add fcntl
      * stress-lease: don't fail on EAGAIN error from fcntl
      * stress-ioprio: don't terminate if we run out of resources
      * stress-dnotify: don't terminate if we run out of resources
      * stress-inotify: also ignore test file write failures on ENOSPC
      * stress-inotify: don't terminate if we run out of resources
      * stress-seek: handle ENOSPC errors on write
      * stress-fiemap: make ENOSPC on writes non-fatal
      * Add SIGABRT stressor. Exercise SIGABRT sending via raise() and
        abort()
      * stress-zero: fully check if data from /dev/zero is zero
      * stress-epoll: retry on low resources causing system call failures
      * Fix one more arch specific supported helpers that is missing the
        new name parameter
      * Fix some arch specific supported helpers that are missing new name
        parameter
      * Pass the name of the stressor into the supported() handler
      * core-sched: prefix all messages with "sched: " rather than nothing
        or __func__ names
      * core-sched: remove some capitalization
      * core-sched: add spacing in messages, make the dbg only
      * stress-close: don't assume max_delay_us is non-zero
      * xattr: add removexattr system call
      * stress-session: randomly select the wait call if wait4 is available
      * stress-ng: remove unused sched_deadline_init
      * syscalls: add wait3 and wait4
      * stress-wait: use wait3 if it is available
      * Add wait3 system call detection and shim wrapper
      * Add P_PIDFD #define for older linux/wait.h that don't yet define it
      * core-shim: add new process_madvise() shim
      * stress-chmod: use strlcpy instead of strcpy as it's safer
      * stress-session: cast pid to int to print it portably
      * stress-chmod: make dfd open optional if O_DIRECTORY is not supported
      * stress-wait: add wait4 call if it is available
      * stress-session: use wait4 if it is available
      * stress-chmod: fix BSD EFTYPE error failure
      * stress-session: add stressor to set and get session ids
      * core-sched: fix build errors with missing stress_set_deadline_sched
        on GNU/HURD
      * core-sched: fix unused parameter and unused variable warnings
      * manual: update contributors information
      * manual: fix some missing .TP commands and minor spelling clean up
      * stress-ng: add sched-reclaim option for deadline scheduler
      * stress-ng: support sched deadline
      * core-shim: disable native nanosleep for risc-v
      * Add STRESS_RISC_V arch macro and don't yield on this arch
      * Makefile: ensure spaces are removed before perf macros
      * stress-urandom: add select and read on blockable opened /dev/random
      * Replace white space with tabs before statements
      * Rename helpers, remove __ suffix and prefixes
      * stress-procfs: clean up name shadowing by renaming ptr to bptr
      * Use stress_dirent_list_free to free dirent lists
      * core-helper: add stress_dirent_list_free helper
      * stress-sysfs: process non-directory files before handling directories
      * stress-procfs: process non-directory files before handling directories
      * stress-procfs: only format path when required
      * syscalls.txt: update recvmmsg to note it is being exercised by sock
        stressor
      * stress-fanotify: remove some white spaces and empty lines
      * stress-resources: open non-existent files to expand dcache false
        hits
      * syscalls.txt: Update, add faccessat, fchmodat and fchownat
      * stress-chmod: Add fchmodat check and add it to chmod testing
      * stress-clock: add CLOCK_TAI
      * stress-clone: add CLONE_NEWTIME
      * stress-procfs: exercise known buggy seek and read issues
      * stress-procfs: add process /proc exercising
      * stress-numa: cater for systems where numa system calls are not
        provided
      * stress-netlink-proc: cater for connection refused on writev
      * stress-fanotify: add more fanotify support sanity checks
      * stress-kcmp: treat ENOSYS as a non-fatal error return from kcmp
      * stress-reboot: remove some blank lines
      * test/test-pthread-attr-setstack.c: make stack static
      * stress-fanotify: add FAN_DIR_MODIFY
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:44:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Address multiple issues found with pedantic static analysis (LP: #1870193)
        - enabled higher static analysis settings and found and fixed
          a lot of bugs..
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: fix lintian warning on undefined macro
      * stress-zlib: fix clang warning of array subscripted by char
      * core-helper: make end-of-string assignment easier to comprehend
      * stress-reboot: use heap for clone stack, cleans up static analysis warning
      * core-cache: clean up pedantic warnings from static analysis
      * stress-af-alg: fix several memory leaks
      * stress-tun: fix close issues on sfd
      * stress-xattr: be overly pedantic and memset array tmp
      * stress-urandom: fix fd leak on fd_rnd_wr
      * stress-sysbadaddr: fix incorrect 2nd parameter to utimes call
      * stress-sockmany: fix fd leak, close file descriptor on error
      * stress-sockabuse: ensure addrlen is set to the length of addr
      * stress-sockabuse: close fd even when it is zero
      * stress-sockabuse: avoid closing unopened fd on error
      * stress-sock: ensure socklen setting is set before calling getsockopt
      * stress-sigfd: voidify return of read, we don't care if it fails
      * stress-sigfd: fix open error check
      * stress-shm: use shim helper and ignore error return
      * stress-ramfs: fix close of a -ve file descriptor
      * stress-pipeherd: remove redundant variable n
      * stress-mq: don't check values[prio] if prio is out of range
      * stress-memhotplug: fix leak of opendir descriptor
      * stress-judy: check allocated pvalue is not-null
      * stress-eventfd: fix incorrect open failure check
      * stress-cpu: gcd: fix potential multiply overflow
      * stress-cpu: ensure i64 is stashed in stress_cpu_intconversion
      * stress-clock: be extra pedantic and set and check timer_id values
      * stress-chattr: handle open failure correctly
      * stress-binderfs: fix failure error return path
      * stress-af-alg: fix incorrect size of buffer to randomize
      * core-helper: don't call ttyname a second time, use name instead
      * core-helper: ensure data is null terminated
      * core-cache: nullify a free'd cpus pointer before returning
      * stress-cpu: add missing Apéry constant cpu method
      * stress-zlib: add missing morse code generated text
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 1 Apr 2020 18:23:41 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dev: remove TIOCGETC and TIOCSETC ioctl to fix FTBFS on alpha
        - this is the 2nd attempt to fix this issue, this time I'm removing
          the use these specific ioctl commands.
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:46:35 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dev: define a shim for struct tchar, fixes a FTBFS
        on arch alpha
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:34:14 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.11.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-sockabuse: reduce scope of variable sfd
      * stress-reboot: reduce scope of another ret variable
      * stress-reboot: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-skiplist: make function skip_list_free static
      * stress-madvise: relax constness of buf pointer
      * stress-reboot: don't pass args to clone, it is not required
      * stress-reboot: remove shadowed variable ret
      * stress-sysbaddr: add guard on bad_getdomainname and comment
        out bad_acct
      * stress-sysbadaddr: disable acct for the moment.
      * stress-sysbadaddr: limit clone to just linux for the moment
      * stress-sysbadaddr: pass incremented addresses to avoid restrict
        warnings
      * stress-sysinfo: cast void * to the appropriate arg types on system
        calls
      * stress-reboot: add and use SHIM_CAP_SYS_BOOT
      * stress-reboot: move help so it's always built in
      * Add a reboot stressor.  This does not actually reboot a system.
      * stress-sigfd: exercise the fd info of the signalfd
      * stress-fcntl: pass uids array to fcntl for F_GETOWNER_UIDS cmd
      * stress-sysbadaddr: remove create, it can leave broken files in
        directory
      * stress-sysbadaddr: add in more system calls
      * stress-procfs: remove ARM64 workaround as this is now fixed
      * README: update stressor stats
      * stress-xattr: don't fail to build if HAVE_LGETXATTR is not defined
      * stress-xattr: don't fail to build if HAVE_LSETXATTR is not defined
      * stress-xattr: don't fail to build if HAVE_LLISTXATTR is not defined
      * core-shim: fix typo on LLISTXATTR detection
      * Add shims to xattr system calls
      * stress-pipeherd: fix typo in switch rate info
      * stress-sockabuse: remove xattr from OS X builds
      * stress-dev: add TCOOFF, TCOON, TCIOFF, TCION ioctls
      * stress-dev: add TIOCGETC and TIOCSETC ioctls
      * stress-rtc: exercise RTC_SET_TIME, RTC_IRQP_SET and RTC_VL_READ
        ioctls
      * stress-ustat: silently ignore bad ustat buf
      * stress-sockabuse: don't memset timespec if we don't have
        HAVE_FUTIMENS
      * stress-sockabuse: silently ignore EADDRINUSE error when binding
      * stress-sockabuse: use different port for each instance
      * stress-sockabuse: use DEFAULT_SOCKABUSE_PORT as the default post
      * stress-ng.h: update a couple of socket port definitions
      * core-shim: cast shim'd ustat arg to void *
      * stress-sockabuse: localize variable n to FIONREAD ioctl code block
      * core-shim: fix missing ; on shim_enosys call
      * Add a skiplist stressor
      * Add socket file descriptor abusing stressor
      * stress-madvise: exercise madvise on mappings in threads where
        possible
      * stress-cpu: remove tab
      * syscalls.txt: remove stray ' char
      * Add a shim for deprecated system call ustat
      * stress-eventfd: exercise /proc/self/fdinfo on the eventfd
        descriptors
      * stress-chattr: fix build failure for non-Linux platforms
      * Add chattr file attribute stressor
      * stress-dentry: pressurize the dentry cache with negative dentries
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:36:12 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.11.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-try-open: break up assignment and check into two statements
      * stress-softlockup: reduce scope of old_nice_val
      * stress-softlockup: remove redundant assignment to old_nice_val
      * stress-cpu: workaround a cppcheck warning
      * stress-cpu: replace pointer casting with union type
      * stress-cpu: exercise struct element u32
      * stress-cpu: fix incorrect assignment
      * stress-cpu: fix type on assignment of i64
      * stress-cpu: reduce scope of some integer variables in a for-loop
      * stress-cpu: reduce scope of variables in a for-loop
      * stress-binderfs: move declaration of variable i into #if block
      * stress-binderfs: move label close_control to clear up warning
      * stress-binderfs: reduce scope of ret and t2 variables
      * stress-netlink-task.c: ensure pointer is const
      * stress-pthread: add build time check for pthread_attr_setstack
      * stress-pthread: define PTHREAD_STACK_MIN if it is not defined
      * stress-mmapfork: make stress_memory_is_not_zero a conditional build
      * snapcraft: add base info and remove need for libxattr1
      * Debian: control: remove need for libxattr1 (Closes: #953905)
      * stress-ng.h: add more comments
      * stress-mmapfork: add madvise MADV_WIPEONFORK sanity check
      * stress-dentry: exercise with utime setting
      * Add intconversion cpu stressor method
      * Fix _ARCH macros not being used because of bad rename
      * Add a floatconversion cpu stressor method
      * stress-cpu: add long double sqrt to the sqrt stress method
      * Remove trailing tabs, minor tidy up
      * Remove trailing spaces, minor tidy up
      * core-parse-opts: fix a cppcheck warning, cast values to long and
        use %ld
      * stress-enosys: add x86 syscall calls
      * stress-ng.h: clean up some overly long function prototypes
      * Rename all get_{int|uint}* helpers to stress_{int|uint}*
      * core-parse-opts: add stress_ prefix to ensure helper functions
      * core-affinity: add stress_ prefix to helper functions
      * core-parse-opts: add stress_ prefix before check_* helper functions
      * Rename set_max_limits to stress_set_max_limits
      * Rename log_system_mem_info to stress_log_system_mem_info
      * stress-sleep: remove alternative stack
      * stress-procfs: remove alternative stack
      * stress-memthrash: remove unused label 'die'
      * stress-sysfs: remove alternative stack
      * stress-memthrash: remove alternative stack
      * stress-membarrier: remove alternative stack
      * stress-mcontend: remove alternative stack
      * stress-inode-flags: remove alternative stack
      * stress-fstat: remove alternative stack
      * stress-pthread: mmap each pthread's stack and improve failure checking
      * stress-dev: remove alternative stack
      * stress-pthread: remove alternative stack
      * core-parse-opts: cast *ptr to int to avoid clang 3.4 warning
      * stress-madvise: add FreeBSD madvise options
      * stress-mmap: add some FreeBSD mmap options
      * core-shim: fix braino on pointer declaration
      * core-shim: add unconstify helper for mlock on older sun systems
      * Fix PRAGMA_* macros that are missing STRESS_ prefix
      * Macros: put all values in ( )
      * Add STRESS_ to PRAGMA macros
      * Rename warn_once to stress_warn_once
      * Rename align_stack to stress_align_stack
      * stress-cpu: remove tabs to keep continutation markers aligned
      * Rename MWC_ macros to STRESS_MWC_
      * Rename arch macros, add _ARCH to signify they are architecture specific
        settings
      * Add SHIM_ prefix to ICACHE and DCACHE macros
      * core-time: rename timeval_to_double to stress_timeval_to_double and
        un-inline it
      * core-setting: stress_ prefix before settings helper functions
      * put*: add stress_ prefix before put* helper functions
      * mwc: add stress_ prefix before mwc random number helper functions
      * jobs: add stress_ prefix before job helper functions
      * cache: add stress_ prefix before cache helper functions
      * Rename args_t to stress_args_t
      * Rename opt_set_func_t to stress_opt_set_func_t
      * Rename help_t to stress_help_t
      * Rename pthread_args_t to stress_pthread_args_t
      * Rename cpus_t to stress_cpus_t
      * Rename cpu_t to stress_cpu_t
      * Rename cpu_cache_t to stress_cpu_cache_t
      * Rename cache_t to stress_cache_t
      * Rename scale_t to stress_scale_t
      * Rename shared_t to stress_shared_t
      * Rename proc_stats_t to stress_proc_stats_t
      * Fix typedef / struct type warning on proc_info
      * Rename tz_stat_t to stress_tz_stat_t
      * Rename tz_info_t to stress_tz_info_t
      * Rename proc_info_t to stress_proc_info_t
      * Rename mwc_t to stress_mwc_t
      * Rename put_val_t to stress_put_val_t
      * Rename setting_t to stress_setting_t
      * Rename perf_stat_t to stress_perf_stat_t
      * Rename class_info_t and class_t
      * Rename type_id_t to stress_type_id_t to avoid future name clashes
      * stress-mmap: add two OpenBSD mmap options
      * voidify return from munmap()
      * Rename helper mfence to shim_mfence
      * Rename helper shim cflush to shim_cflush
      * stress-binderfs: fix typo in non-linux build
      * stress-binderfs: add binder file system stressor
      * stress-vecmath: use macros to simplify vector initialization
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:40:22 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.11.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-parse-opts: cater for -ve values
      * core-parse-opts: check for non-numeric in numeric args (Closes: #940515)
      * Manual: update contributors names
      * Fix --random mode
      * Allow negative --random for selecting number of online CPUs
      * stress-prctl: add PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER PR_GET_IO_FLUSHER prctl commands
      * stress-mmapfork: check if parent is OOM'd and force exit on early abort
      * stress-mmapfork: force reap on interrupt waiting for pid
      * stress-mmapfork: ensure we kill and reap child processes
      * stress-mmapfork: reap when no more process slots are free
      * stress-mmap: add in more yield points
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 3 Mar 2020 14:50:44 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.11.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Ensure --aggressive mode terminates early (LP: #1858858)
      * stress-ptrace: also check for EACESS errors
      * stress-ptrace: add one more EPERM check
      * stress-ptrace: make EPERM non-fatal error, modify pr_info messages
      * snapcraft: add system-trace, hardware-random-observe interfaces
      * stress-ptrace: terminate in with failure if child cannot be ptraced
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:48:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.11.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version and change codename
      * stress-pipeherd: make sure child terminates with _exit()
      * kernel-coverage: add timer-slack timer setting
      * Fix --timer-slack correctly, fetch argument and set it
      * core-parse-opts: sanity check uint32 and int32 min/max values
      * Add environment stressor
      * Make several const objects static
      * stress-pidfd: voidify return from pause system call
      * stress-get: add missing check_do_run exit points after new get*
        system calls
      * stress-get: exercise a few more get* system calls
      * stress-pipeherd: add context switch stats
      * Add pipeherd stressor: a stress to simulate a thundering herd of
        pipe wakeups
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:19:41 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-mmapaddr: make stress_mmapaddr_child static
      * stress-wait: remove duplicated pr_fail message and cast pid_t to
        long int
      * stress-memrate: rename NANOSEC to STRESS_NANOSEC to avoid clashing
      * stress-cyclic: avoid NANOSEC* name classhes, rename to STRESS_NANOSEC
      * Fix the MAX_FILE_LIMIT shift, use 1ULL instead of 1UL
      * stress-sockfd: attempt to read from the fd passed over the socket
      * stress-fork: fix time_now calls to stress_time_now
      * stress-clone: move a #if defined that got moved to the wrong place
      * set maximum file size based on off_t size
      * set maximum memory limit to MAX_48 and maximized limits to MAX_32
      * core-sched: prefix typedefs with stress_
      * core-perf: prefix typedefs with stress_
      * core-net: prefix typedefs with stress_
      * core-ignite-cpu: prefix typedefs with stress_
      * core-cache: prefix typedefs with stress_
      * core-cache: prefix typedefs with stress_
      * stress-*: prefix typedefs with stress_
      * stress-pty: allocate the pty structure on the heap, don't use the
        stack
      * stress-stackmmap: ensure random data is pushed onto the stack
      * stress-stack: fill pages with non-zero content to avoid same-page
        merges
      * stress-spawn: fix up a comment
      * stress-wait: add waitid siginfo sanity checks
      * stress-wait: fix WIFCONTINUED check because of a typo in the check
      * core-helper: map signal number to signal name
      * core-shim: fix renaming of time_now to stress_time_now
      * core-helper: voidify arg fd in stress_is_dev_tty
      * stress-x86syscall: move scope of variable j
      * stress-vdso: measure test overhead to compute more accurate results
      * stress-x86syscall: measure test overhead to compute more accurate
        results
      * core-time: prefix helper functions with stress_
      * core-thrash: prefix helper functions with stress_
      * core-thermal-zone: prefix helper functions with stress_
      * core-perf: prefix perf helper functions with stress_
      * core-mount: add stress_ to mount helper functions
      * Add stress_ to mmap_set and mmap_check helper functions
      * Prefix mincore helper functions with stress_
      * Rename madvise_random to stress_madvise_random
      * stress-zlib: scale the logmap value to produce harder to compress
        data
      * stress-zlib: add chaotic number generator using a logmap method
      * replace g_keep_stressing_flag with two helper functions
      * stress-memthrash: add byte swapping memory stepping thrasher
      * stress-sysfs: add bad sysfs files to hash table
      * Makefile: remove need to define __FreeBSD_Kernel__
      * Add more stress_ prefixes to various core functions
      * core-ignite-cpu: prefix ignite_* functions with stress_
      * core-cpu: rename cpu_is_x86 to stress_cpu_is_x86
      * core-hash: remove need for str pointer
      * core-hash: optimize hash adding, reduce need for strdup and a free
      * stress-zombie: make max zombies a 32 bit
      * stress-clone: make max clones a 32 bit
      * stress-chdir: cleanup the chdir(cwd) loop
      * stress-memrate: clean up continuation lines
      * Rename set_oom_adjustment -> stress_set_oom_adjustment
      * Add stress_oomable_child helper to catch and restart OOM'd child
        processes
      * stress-chdir: use flags rather than #ifdef around the open call
      * core-hash: move various string hashing functions to core-hash
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 7 Feb 2020 14:37:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-urandom: handle ENOTTY errors on ioctl() on older kernels
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:09:22 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-clock: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-shm: free addrs and shm_names on error
      * stress-shm: only use SA_NOCLDWAIT if it is available
      * stress-exec: clean up warning on gcc 4.8.5
      * stress-exec: define err label only if required
      * Add core-try-open helper to check if a file can be opened without
        blocking
      * stress-exec: remove shadowed variables ret and rc
      * Add string hash helper to core, use this for device and scsi hashing
      * stress-dev: move handler to fix build warning
      * stress-dev: fix equality checks and incorrect stress_dev_tty_open
        call
      * stress-dev: add blocked device open sanity check
      * stress-cpu: add lowest common multiple sanity check on gcd
        computation
      * stress-clock: exercise clock_getres on a /dev/ptp0 clockid
      * stress-clock: exercise /dev/ptp0 on linux
      * kernel-coverage.sh: allow perf to run when non-root
      * stress-tmpfs: add MAP_HUGETLB mmap option and reduce sleep time
      * stress-mmap: remove duplicated no_mem_retries increment
      * stress-membarrier: exercise more membarrier commands
      * stress-fcntl: exercise F_SETOWN, F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX more
      * stress-exec: create and try to execute a garbage executable
      * stress-stream: fix failure message logging
      * stress-shm: add some more shm exercising on shm fd
      * stress-ramfs: rename mount point directory to mnt
      * stress-af-alg: add helpers to lookup hash types by name or type
      * stress-af-alg: remove ptr + 2 occurrences
      * stress-msg: exercise MSG_COPY if it is available
      * stress-aio-linux: ignore EINVAL on io submits for fdsync or fsync
        commands
      * stress-brk: silently ignore brk on a specific address failures
      * stress-sysfs: disable ROM test as this is causing some issues
      * stress-mq: use 0..127 priority levels chosen at random
      * stress-quota: add CAP_SYS_ADMIN prechecks before running the stressor
      * stress-sysfs: skip over /sysfs kernel debug interfaces
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:00:02 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Update copyright year to 2020
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-bad-altstack: clean up clang pedantic build warning on
        variable shadowing
      * stress-aio-linux: use %zu for size_t instead of %zd
      * stress-mq: simplify file open and null check for static analysis tools
      * stress-aio-linux: use correct %zd print format specifier for size_t
      * stress-bad-altstack: move SIGSEGV handler to child
      * stress-bad-altstack: ensure we set the mmap'd alternative stack
      * stress-bad-altstack: aggressively re-try when we can't segfault the
        handler
      * stress-aio-linux: perform periodic async fdsync and fsync and use lots
        of open files
      * stress-aio-linux: add async reads and allocate buffers
      * stress-dev: Add TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC ioctls
      * stress-dev: add TIOCNXCL and TIOCEXCL ioctls
      * stress-dev: add a couple more tty specific ioctls
      * stress-aio: fix sleepy wait to make it interruptible
      * Manual: move the --set and --set-ops to the correct place
      * stress-sysfs: remove commented out debug
      * stress-sysfs: improve timeout on slow sysfs entries, get more coverage
      * stress-ramfs: create/lstat/remove symlink file on ramfs filesystem
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:15:13 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-cyclic: only declare label redo_policy for SCHED_DEADLINE
      * stress-cyclic: don't perform E2BIG error check if SCHED_DEADLINE is
        not available
      * stress-cyclic: print out cyclic policy name using correct index
      * stress-cyclic: remove space before == operator
      * stress-cyclic: update to new policy if E2BIG occurs
      * stress-cyclic: handle differences in sched_attr sizes
      * stress-sock: ensure pointer recvfunc is ininitialized
      * stress-vm-segv: avoid void * pointer arithmetic, it is not portable
      * stress-sysbadaddr: avoid void * pointer arithmetic, it is not
        portable
      * stress-memthrash: fix up another void * math portability issue
      * stress-memthrash: avoid void * pointer arithmetic, it is not
        portable
      * stress-madvise: avoid void * pointer arithmetic, it is not portable
      * stress-clone: make rnd a uint32_t so 31 bit left shift is portable
      * stress-rds: remove prototype stressor
      * stress-ramfs: remove unnecessary initialisation of pid
      * stress-exec: move variable ret into section that requires it
      * stress-urandom: ignore -EINVAL errors on non-existant ioctls
      * stress-ramfs: ensure path does not overflow in snprintf
      * stress-urandom: fix build warning on non-Linux platforms
      * stress-urandom: only write to /dev/urandom on Linux
      * stress-mmap: fix missing stressor name in pr_inf messages
      * stress-mmap: clean up build warning on systems that won't retry
      * stress-eventfd: fix build issue with systems that don't support
        eventfd
      * stress-mmap: add MAP_{EXECUTABLE|UNINITIALIZED|DENYWRITE} flags
      * stress-mmap: use MAP_NORESERVE as we have a SIGSEGV handler
      * stress-dev: add some pre-checks before assuming dev is a tty
      * stress-mmap: add MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag
      * stress-dev: add more tty ioctls
      * stress-tun: add TUNGETDEVNETNS ioctl
      * stress-tun: add various tun related *SET* ioctls
      * stress-tun: add TUNGETVNET* ioctls
      * stress-tun: add TUNGETSNDBUF ioctl
      * stress-tun: add TUNGETVNETHDRSZ ioctl
      * stress-tun: add SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl
      * stress-tun: add TUNSETNOCSUM ioctl
      * stress-xattr: add llistxattr system call
      * stress-procfs: add fstat operation on proc file and exercise namespace
        files
      * stress-procfs: handle DT_LNK symlinks like regular files
      * stress-fcntl: F_SETLKW at SEEK_END and SEEK_CUR file positions
      * kernel-coverage: add a couple more coverage options
      * stress-exec: add random 1 in 4 chance exec'ing from inside a pthread
      * stress-eventfd: add non-blocking option --eventfd-nonblock
      * stress-tun: disable tun/tap device info
      * stress-tun: add tap support with --tun-tap option
      * stress-ramfs: add some file/directory activity on ramfs
      * stress-iomix: silently ignore -EPERM write failures
      * stress-ramfs: alternate between ramfs and tmpfs memory based
        filesystems
      * kernel-coverage: add mmap odirect and osync options
      * stress-mmap: add --mmap-odirect and --map-osync file options
      * stress-swap: add random use of SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD if available
      * kernel-coverage: Add more options to get more kernel coverage
      * Manual: remove trailing space
      * stress-run: make bind EADDRINUSE not fatal
      * stress-tun: Add network tunnelling stressor using the TUN/TAP
        interface
      * stress-urandom: use SHIM_CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of CAP_SYS_ADMIN
      * kernel-coverage: add --all option
      * stress-prctl: add 4 more prctl commands to exercise
      * stress-sem-sysv: add SETALL semctl
      * stress-fanotify: add more fanotify events, remove exec stats
      * stress-urandom: move next label to avoid skipping some more stress
        points
      * stress-urandom: exercise lseek and write on /dev/random
      * stress-urandom: add more ioctl calls to exercise kernel coverage
      * stress-loop: add xor and none crypto on loopback
      * stress-loop: exercise the LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE ioctl
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:37:31 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-chdir: fix opening of paths[i]
      * stress-vecmath: don't use TARGET_CLONES on ppc64, it breaks some
        older compilers
      * stress-hrtimes: handle fork resource failures more gracefully.
      * stress-chdir: mix random value and grey code of nth file
      * stress-chdir: make paths more random and chdir to / for more stress
      * stress-wait: clean up a comment
      * stress-sem: add sem_getvalue call to increase coverage
      * stress-sem: add sem_timedwait to increase test coverage
      * sigprocmask: fix missing sigprogmask and add sigtimedwait
      * core-cache: remove / from cache path
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:22:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dev: add TIOCMGET, TIOCGICOUNT and TIOCGSERIAL ioctls
      * stress-close: add more open types, don't chown files if root,
        remove AF_APPLETALK
      * stress-close: enable some more socket domains
      * test: add test-setproctitle.c, forgot to add this earlier
      * Where possible set the process title (argv[0])
      * Change cache size information from info to debug level output
      * stress-ng: add missing space between switch statement and (
      * Add SIGILL to signals that need to be handled, it was missing
      * stress-rdrand: fix typo in \n at end of info message
      * stress-sock: fix build issues on systems without HAVE_RECVMMSG
      * stress-sock: get the incoming CPU of the socket
      * stress-sock: get MTU size and set TOS to IPTOS_THROUGHPUT
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add random sock-opts flag
      * stress-sock: also exercice recvmmsg and recvmsg
      * stress-sock: remove debug
      * stress-sock: add a random send option for --sock-opt
      * core-mwc: fix mwc8() being reset when using mwc1()
      * stress-schedpolicy: silently ignore EBUSY returns (LP: #1853944)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:37:21 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-sem-sysv: fix GETALL arg, it should not be pass by reference
      * stress-clock: fix segfault when timer_create fails
      * kernel-coverage.sh: add more hdd specific advice hints
      * stress-revio: fix fadv-seq option, it is currently disabled
      * stress-hdd: fix fadv-seq option, it is currently disabled
      * stress-sem-sysv: remove trailing whitespace
      * stress-udp: exercise SIOCOUTQ and SIOCINQ ioctls
      * stress-sock: exercise SIOCOUTQ and SIOCINQ ioctls
      * stress-udp-flood: add SIOCOUTQ ioctl
      * Include linux/sockios.h include if is available
      * stress-shm: add lseek to exercise shm
      * stress-sem-sysv: exercise GETALL semctl command
      * stress-sem-sysv: fix typo GEZCNT -> GETZCNT
      * stress-sysfs: add poll to sysfs exercising
      * stress-sysfs: add some more file specific operations on /sysfs
        files
      * stress-clock: don't wait for timer completions, makes test more
        aggressive
      * stress-madvise: add MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT advice flags
      * stress-msg: add random MSG_STAT_ANY msgctl call
      * stress-msg: check struct msginfo is available with HAVE_MSGINFO
      * kernel-coverage.sh: remove unix socket domain from udp stressor
      * stress-rdrand: increase rdrand read rate by adding inner loop
      * Manual: add clone3() to --clone description
      * core-shim: remove debug
      * stress-clone: convert NULL to a uint64_t for tls clone argument
      * stress-clone: exercise clone3() if it is available
      * stress-clone: add linux 5.5 CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND flag
      * stress-rdrand: remove rdrand32
      * stress-rdrand: add support for Power9 darn instruction
      * stress-tsc: add time stamp counter support for ppc64
      * stress-sockmany: clean up build warnings on openindiana
      * stress-stack: make altstack a void pointer, cleans up build warning
      * Fix --timer-slack from consuming the following arg (LP: #1853832)
      * stress-ng: add ppc64el target clones for power9 and generic
      * stress-fp-error: clean up error warning on non-standard fegetround
        prototypes
      * stress-memthrash: constify size arguments
      * stress-ipsec-mb: remove debug disabling of the stressor for x86
      * stress-ipsec-mb: Add --ipsec-mb-feature option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:38:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: update version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-dev: remove NetBSD mixup_sort variant, NetBSD 8.0 is now
        compliant
      * stress-schedpolicy: fix build warnings on BSD systems
      * Rename stress-socketmany to stress-sockmany to match the stressor
        name
      * Rename stress-socketpair to stress-sockpair to match the stressor
        name
      * Rename stress-socket-diag to stress-sockdiag to match the stressor
        name
      * Rename stress-socket-fd to stress-sockfd to match the stressor name
      * stress-sock: rename functions with sctp in name to sock
      * Rename sock stressor stress-socket.c to stress-sock.c
      * Add sockmany stressor to exercise many open socket connections
      * stress-dev: add initial /dev/ptp device exercising code
      * stress-schedpolicy: add SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling
      * stress-softlockup: force lowest niceness to be less nice
      * stress-softlockup: clean up a comment
      * kernel-coverage.sh: Add some more corner case stressors
      * stress-shm-sysv: silently ignore EINVAL when deleting shared memory
      * manual: add default number of system V shared memory segments
      * README: update number of stressors
      * stress-zero: add lseeks as these are allowed on /dev/zero
      * stress-zombie: don't give up when we hit out of memory
      * stress-schedpolicy: exercise sched_util_max if it is useable
      * stress-cache: add --cpu-sfence sfence instruction support (x86 only)
      * stress-af-alg: fix typo: rd -> rc
      * stress-af-alf: fix stack clobbering issue on arm64/armhf
      * stress-af-alg: report send/sendmsg EINVAL errors as debug, ignore
        for next time
      * stress-af-alg: add a preemption point on each crypto iteration
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:24:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-ipsec-mb: rename IPSEC to IPSec
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add helper function to get and memset the next job
      * stress-ipsec-mb: increment jobs count in stress_job_check_status
      * stress-ipsec-mb: check that jobs are complete as soon as possible
      * stress-funcret: rename counter ii to i
      * README: Fix typo in requests
      * README: Add contributing information
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:44:15 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add stress-af-alg-defconfigs.h to the dist rule
      * stress-af-alg: make buffers static, reduces stack overhead
      * stress-af-alg: add opt_set_funcs helper for non-linux builds
      * Manual: update contributors and date
      * stress-af-alg: some minor code cleanups, no functional change
      * stress-af-alg: handle bind() ETIMEDOUT failures
      * stress-af-alg: add default configs to complement /proc/crypto list
      * stress-af-alg: add defconfigs with --af-alg-dump
      * stress-af-alg: introduce the --af-alg-dump option
      * stress-af-alg: skip 'internal' crypto algorithms
      * stress-af-alg: fix close(fd) to avoid bind() EBUSY
      * stress-af-alg: use 'aead' salg_type for CRYPTO_AEAD on bind()
      * stress-af-alg: fix sockaddr algorithm type on bind()
      * stress-stack: setup alternative stack in child only (LP: #1851316)
      * stress-stack: check for ENOMEM fork failure and retry
      * stress-stack: don't throw a fatal error when sigaltstack fails
      * stress-stack: return error code in child using _exit() and not
        return
      * core-madvise: Add 5.4 MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT hints
      * stress-prctl: add PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL exerciser
      * Manual: update af-alg description
      * Make a couple of const strings static
      * stress-af-alg: fix build errors on undefined macros
      * stress-af-alg: add aead support
      * stress-af-alg: remove some debugging messages
      * stress-af-alg: remove old unused crypto structures
      * stress-af-alg: only add crypto algorithms that are supported by the
        stressor
      * stress-af-alg: use crypto algorithm data from /proc/crypto
      * stress-clone: Add CLONE_NEWCGROUP
      * stress-daemon: add expanding backoff timeout
      * stress-daemon: keep retrying fork if we don't have enough resources
      * stress-daemon: add minor backoff before fork retry (LP: #1849595)
      * stress-vm: print stressor name using args->name rather than literal
        string
      * stress-readahead: print stressor name in failure message
      * stress-matrix-3d: use pr_fail for short error failure messages
      * stress-matrix-3d: use pr_fail_err for short error failure messages
      * stress-iomix: fix one more pr_fail message
      * stress-iomix: use pr_fail_err for short error failure messages
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 6 Nov 2019 01:03:05 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.10.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * README: Add SuSE package information
      * stress-x86syscall: use cpuid if it is available
      * README: Add Judy development library packages
      * Remove redundant stress-ng snapcraft makefile
      * stress-judy: Add Judy array stressor
      * Add memory hotplug stressor
      * stress-sendfile: add missing line after variable declaration
      * stress-dev: add some more linux keyboard ioctls to exercise
      * stress-tree: fix error messages when nodes are not found
      * stress-swap: detect for EINVAL errors on swapon
      * stress-filename: don't use chars in filename that throw EILSEQ
        errors
      * stress-fiemap: detect if file system can support FIEMAP ioctls
      * stress-zlib: make some char * pointers non-clobberable by longjmp
      * stress-urandom: add mmap'ing to /dev/urandom for more exercising
      * stress-zlib: use text_start and text_end based on stress-zlib
        object code
      * Add x86syscall vsyscall stressor
      * stress-tsc: fix info message when tsc is not supported
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:47:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Remove smatchify script, we now use other tools to static
        analyse stress-ng
      * core-helper: add sanity check if ttyname returns NULL to avoid
        null pointer dereferencing
      * stress-fp-error: fix checks for NaN and Inf (LP: #1846216)
      * Don't show utf8 chars on dump consoles (LP: #1846196)
      * stress-clone: make child process larger to make it more
        OOM-able (LP: #1845948)
      * core-out-of-memory: open and close proc interface after each write
      * Add autobuild detection of getsid() for better portability
      * stress-ng.h: only use x86 target clones for x86 arches
      * stress-rdrand: unroll loop x 4 more times for more throughput
      * inline the __keep_stressing function, reduce call overhead
        for more throughput
      * stress-stack: make alternative signal stack privately
        mapped (LP: #1845464)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:39:52 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-mcontend: ensure mmap'd file is sync'd with zero
        data (LP: #1845011)
      * stress-rmap: don't make fallocate failures a rmap test
        failure (LP: #1845005)
      * stress-shm: fork and exit a child to exercise shm dup and
        removal
      * stress-ng: fix jobfile with classes (LP: #1706970)
      * stress-procfs: don't randomly read pci proc info on ARM64
      * stress-procfs: remove bad buffer test, it's not portable
      * stress-sysfs: rename MAX_READ_THREADS to MAX_SYSFS_THREADS
      * stress-sysfs: remove bad address reads, these fault on ARM64
      * stress-procfs: rename MAX_READ_THREADS to MAX_PROCFS_THREADS
      * stress-inode-flags: move open/close to controlling process
      * stress-sig: fix spelling mistake "siqqueue" -> "sigqueue"
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:40:21 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-shim: fix typo in shim_move_mount
      * core-shim: use shim_enosys for more ENOSYS returns
      * Clean up shims for syslog(2) and syslog(3)
      * stress-ramfs: remove it from the filesystem test
      * stress-dirdeep: make inodes info into a debug message
      * Remove trailing tab from ends of lines
      * Remove trailing white space after statements
      * stress-vm: fix verification failure with gray code method
      * stress-socket: make EPIPE a non-fatal error condition
      * stress-udp: use correct default UDP port 7000
      * stress-ng: rescan the exclusion list for --class stressors
      * core-shim: reset errno before each waitpid call
      * stress-socket: handle SIGPIPE as non-fatal
      * stress-physpage: don't abort on zero address physpage
      * Use HTTPS URL for kernel.ubuntu.com
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:26:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Remove execute bit on bash completion script
      * debian: rules: workaround dwz failures on arm64
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 2 Sep 2019 18:43:41 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * core-cache: add checks for null strings
      * stress-cpu: fix build time checks for __cpuid()
      * Debian: update compat to level 12
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-cpu: add a collatz sequence stressor
      * stress-dev: temporarily disable hpet test
      * stress-stack: use memory backed mmap'd alternative stack
      * stress-inode-flags: detect failures in pthread and propagate
        these back to parent (LP: #1841900)
      * Add a pthread return pointer to pthread args
      * stress-numa: move assignment to *node_ptr
      * core-helper: voidify return of fprintf
      * core-cache: voidify return of snprintf
      * stress-ramfs: voidify return of snprintf
      * stress-ng: voidify return of fprintf and fflush
      * core-job: voidify return of fprintf
      * core-sched: voidify return of fprintf
      * stress-get: voidify memset return
      * stress-seccomp: vodify memset return
      * stress-bind-mount: remove ` char in comment
      * stress-apparmor: remove redundant sizeof char
      * Add new 5.3 sched_attr fields, fixes EFBIG on sched_{get|set}attr
      * core-helper: don't call sched_getcpu on s390x
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 2 Sep 2019 14:23:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-pthread: protect counter with spinlock not mutex lock
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-pthread: don't block forever on pthread_cond_wait() (LP: #1840867)
      * stress-pty: remove some white spaces in source
      * core-cache: ensure read buffer has trailing '\0'
      * core-cache: update comments
      * core-cache: use a fixed size buffer for reading in /sys info
      * stress-cpu: remove a debugging message
      * stress-pty: don't report a failure on EINTR (LP: #1840512)
      * stress-cpu: add an x86 cpuid instruction exerciser
      * stress-cpu: add a 64 bit division stressor
      * snapcraft: add automatic versioning
      * snapcraft: bump version
      * stress-pthread: don't tkill pthreads, can lead to futex blocking
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:00:01 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Upload as source package (Closes: #934007)
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-cache: replace globbing with scandir, clean up pathnames
      * stress-sysfs: remove filename, it is now redundant
      * stress-sctp: voidify unused return
      * stress-mcontend: break multistatment lines
      * stress-sysfs: copy to sysfs_path rather than using sysfs_path as a pointer
      * stress-procfs: disable read to read-only buffer
      * stress-procs: fix incorrect strlcpy size
      * stress-procfs: don't use large filenames on small pthread stacks
      * stress-sysfs: remove redundant readlink
      * core-shim: voidify unused args in new mount shim helpers
      * bash-completion: remove the shebang at the start
      * stress-ramfs: fix umounting races
      * Move the "random" option in correct alphabetical order
      * Move new mount system call shims to core-shim.c
      * stress-ramfs: remove pathological setting
      * stress-ramfs: add capability check before running
      * Add ramfs stressor, this also exercises the new mount system calls
      * Add brk emulation for systems that don't support brk()
      * stress-clone: add CLONE_PIDFD (new with Linux 5.2)
      * stress-cpu: remove blank lines
      * stress-cpu: warn if CPU affinity may have been set
      * stress-vforkmany: fix build error
      * stress-vforkmany: wrap vfork syscall and put pragmas around it
      * stress-fork: move pragmas to outside the stress_vfork function
      * stress-opcode: fix missing space and remove redundant parentheses
      * stress-memrate: handle memory sizes < 1MB
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 10 Aug 2019 19:48:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.10.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version, change code name
      * stress-fault: remove redundant variable offset
      * stress-netlink-task: remove redundant initialization of id
      * stress-pthread: abort if mutex lock is unlockable
      * stress-cpu: use CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID to measure CPU consumed
      * stress-cpu: clean up cpu load variables
      * stress-cpu: fix CPU loading calculation
      * stress-dev: move ret and buffer to lower scope
      * core_shim: Remove caddr casts for __sun__
      * stress-mergesort: workaround heap corruption on OpenBSD with
        setjmp/longjmp
      * core-helper: keeping on ringing SIGALRM until stressors get the
        message
      * stress-memthrash: make stressors more yielding
      * Enable FORMAT macro (__attribute__ format) for clang
      * Add Tiny C compiler notes in README
      * stress-fork: add vfork timeout for OS X to workaround SIGARLM
        issues
      * stress-fork: do explicit keep_stressing() call rather than
        simple flag check
      * stress-pthread: use stress_sigalrm_pending helper and make set
        non-static
      * stress-fork: block SIGALRM and check for pending SIGALRMs
      * Add stress_sigalrm_pending and stress_sigalrm_block helpers
      * stress-fork: make fork_max a uint32_t and optimize wait and
        error check loops
      * Only use openlog/closelog if we have HAVE_SYSLOG_H defined
      * core-sched: fix build error on some BSD systems
      * stress-brk: exercise zero expansion of brk
      * stress-efivar: exercise efi variable interfaces a little more
      * core-out-of-memory: refactor code, add a set adjustment helper
      * core-sched: put sched types into a lookup table
      * stress-socket: remove debug
      * stress-dev: exercise /dev/nvram
      * stress-dev: try lseek and read on /dev/mem on x86
      * stress-socket: exercise IP_MTU if it is available
      * stress-sctp: use setsockopt for more socket option exercising
      * stress-sctp: remove some debugging info
      * stress-sctp: add some sctp related getsockopt calls
      * stress-fcntl: don't make EPERM a fatal test failure
      * stress-chroot: don't make EPERM a fatal test failure
      * stress-fault: fix warnings on open indiania with gcc-8
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 8 Jul 2019 20:14:21 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.50-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-fanotify: don't declare ret if it is not used
      * stress-ipsec-mb: make pr_inf message a debug pr_dbg message
      * stress-zlib: remove xsum value debug verify information
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add more explanation to why the stressor may be
        skipped
      * stress-ipsec-mb: check for IMB_* macros
      * stress-ipsec-mb: fix typo "avx" -> "avx2"
      * stress-ipsec-mb: Add SHA encryption
      * stress-ipsec-mb: fix hmac md5 error messages
      * stress-ipsec-mb: Add HMAC MD5
      * stress-ipsec-mb: add CTR encoding
      * stress-ipsec-mb: don't enable for static builds
      * Update copyright year
      * debian/control: add ipsec library dependency
      * stress-quota: use linux quotactl API for linux only systems
      * stress-opcode: voidify name argument
      * stress-opcode: define stress_set_opcode_method for unimplemented
        build case
      * Forgot to add test/test-libipsec-mb.c
      * Add initial cut of ipsec-mb stressor for SHA, DES and CMAC
      * stress-af-alg: prefix macro constants with SNG to avoid clashes
      * stress-rdrand: remove assembler cpuid check
      * stress-fanotify: improve FAN mode checks for v4.20
      * stress-resources: fork a child off on each resource eating child
      * Add --opcode-method [ random | inc | mixed ] option
      * shim: remove duplicated code for __APPLE__ case
      * stress-opcode: iterate 1024 times in each child
      * stress-stackmmap: fix leak of open file descriptor on ENXIO error
      * stress-opcode: comment why mwc32() is being called before forking
      * stress-opcode: remove unnecessary { } block scope
      * stress-opcode: use mwc8() instead of mwc32() when setting opcodes
      * snapcraft: make stress-ng binary static and add various plugs
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 2 Jan 2019 16:58:52 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.49-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-udp-flood: remove check for struct iphdr and icmphdr
      * stress-icmp-flood: add check for struct iphdr and icmphdr
      * Add checks for struct iphdr and icmphdr
      * helper: remove libgen.h - it is not needed
      * Add check for fenv.h
      * Add check for float.h
      * stress-icmp-flood: fix typo in macro name check
      * Add checks for netinet/ip.h and netinet/ip_icmp.h
      * Move getopt.h to stress-ng.h
      * Add check for netinet/sctp.h
      * Add check for locale.h
      * stress-epoll: remove need for netdb.h, clean up define checks
      * Add checkfor libgen.h
      * stress-spawn: only test on linux
      * Add detection for posix_spawn
      * stress-socket: add check for SOL_TCP for BSD systems
      * Add check for net/if.h
      * Add check for netinet/tcp.h and clean up stress-socket a little
      * Move include of arpa/inet.h to stress-ng.h
      * Move include netinet/in.h to stress-ng.h
      * stress-dirdeep: remove include of dirent.h, it is already included
        in stress-ng.h
      * Add check for cpuid.h
      * Move include of keyutils.h to stress-ng.h
      * Move include of crypt.h to stress-ng.h
      * Add check for strings.h
      * Fix check on sys/msg.h, use correct macro for check
      * Use check for mqueue.h
      * Move pwd.h to stress-ng.h
      * Add check for mqueue.h
      * Move ucontext.h and search.h to stress-ng.h
      * Add check for semaphore.h
      * Add checks for aio.h and spawn.h
      * Move math,h and complex.h to stress-ng.h
      * Disable swap for SunOs/Solaris as the interface is different to Linux
      * stress-chown: don't count retries for NetBSD sched_yield retries
      * stress-raw-dev: replace __linux__ check with some more specific checks
      * test/test-sysinfo.c: force failure for sunos, this clashes with a
        different sysinfo
      * stress-ng.c: Add check for sysinfo system call
      * Add check for sysinfo system call
      * Add check for syslog.h
      * Add check for sys/epoll.h
      * Add check for poll.h
      * helper: remove include of sys/statvfs.h as it is include from
        stress-ng.h
      * Add check for sys/shm.h
      * Add check for sys/msg.h
      * Add check for sys/ipc.h
      * helper: use HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H check for statvfs calls
      * stress-filename.c: use statvfs check
      * Add check for sys/statvfs.h
      * Add check for sys/statfs.h
      * Use check for sys/fanotify.h
      * Add check for sys/sysmacros.h
      * stress-rawdev: remove include of dirent.h, it is in stress-ng.h
      * Add check for sys/io.h
      * Add check for sys/inotify.h and various inotify types
      * Add check for termio.h and termios.h
      * Add check for sys/quota.h
      * Add check for deprecated include ustat.h
      * Add check for utime.h
      * Add check for sys/sysinfo.h
      * Move include of sys/timex.h from stress-get.c to stress-ng.h
      * Add check for sys/ucred.h
      * Add check for sys/mount.h
      * Add check for sys/param.h
      * Move include of mntent.h to stress-ng.h
      * Add check for sys/personality.h
      * perf-event: no need to check for __linux__, remove check
      * Add better checking for HAVE_LINUX_PERF_EVENT_H
      * stress-nop: undefined NOP macros to avoid name space clash
      * Move libaio.h from stress-aio-linux.c to stress-ng.h
      * Move several includes from stress-dev.c to stress-ng.h
      * Add check for linux/cn_proc.h
      * Add check for linux/unix_diag.h
      * Add check for linux/sock_diag.h
      * Add check for linux/rtnetlink.h
      * Add check for linux/netlink.h
      * Add check for linux/connector.h
      * stress-sock-diag: remove includes that are in stress-ng.h
      * stress-ng.h: remove check for HAVE_SWAP to include swap.h
      * Add check for linux/posix_types.h
      * stress-ng.h: more clean ups
      * stress-ng.h: more include cleanups
      * alphabetically re-order sys/includes
      * Move include of linux/if_alg.h to stress-ng.h
      * Move include of linux/socket.h to stress-ng.h
      * stress-dev: remove need for linux/random.h, it's included in
        stress-ng.h
      * stress-timerfd: clean up build warning on pid_t on sunos
      * Only include sys/swap.h if swapon/swapoff exist
      * stress-sendfile: return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED if sendfile returns ENOSYS
      * Add check for statfs system call
      * Add swapon/swapoff system call autodetection
      * stress-swap: don't use SWAP_FLAG_PREFER if it's not defined
      * stress-sysbadaddr.c: remove include of sys/vfs.h
      * Add build config check for sys/uio.h
      * Add build config check for sys/vfs.h
      * Add build config check for sys/swap.h
      * Add build config check for sys/timerfd.h
      * Move include of sys/apparmor.h to stress-ng.h
      * Add build config check for sys/sendfile.h
      * Add build config check for sys/signalfd.h
      * stress-netdev.c: remove include of sys/ioctl.h, it is included in
        stress-ng.h
      * Move include of sys/auxv.h to stress-ng.h
      * stress-socket-diag: remove include for sys/socket.h, it is include
        in stress-ng.h
      * Add build config check for netinet/in.h
      * Add build config check for sys/un.h
      * Add in version info computer unicode character
      * Add unicode 32 symbol for fire in the version info
      * Re-order pthread and libc library linker order (LP: #1807176)
      * Move <sys/utsname.h> include to stress-ng.h
      * stress-rawdev: remove sys/types.h as it is included in stress-ng.h
      * Rename HAVE_SYS_CAP_H to HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H, move include to
        stress-ng.h
      * stress-urandom: move the include of linux/random.h to stress-ng.h
      * stress-loop: move the include of linux/loop.h to stress-ng.h
      * stress-futex: remove include/futex.h
      * shim: remove linux/futex.h include
      * Move the include of linux/rtc.h to stress-ng.h
      * Move the include of linux/watchdog.h to stress-ng.h
      * Move the include of linux/userfaultfd.h to stress-ng.h
      * Move the include of linux/futex.h to stress-ng.h
      * stress-seccomp: no need for __linux__ check, remove it
      * stress-opcode: fix build issue because if #if/#endif mismatch
      * Move linux/seccomp.h include to stress-ng.h
      * Add build config check for linux/filter.h
      * Add build config check for linux/audit.h
      * stress-seccomp: improve EACCES failure skip message information
      * Add build config check for sys/prctl.h
      * stress-udp-flood: check for EPROTONOSUPPORT socket failures
      * stress-stackmmap: handle ENXIO mmap failures on minix
      * stress-loop: remove redundant check for __linux__ being defined
      * Add build config check for linux/rtc.h
      * Add build config check for linux/version.h
      * stress-urandom: use HAVE_LINUX_URANDOM_H check
      * Add build config check for linux/watchdog.h, re-order some checks too
      * Add build config check for sys/timex.h
      * Add build config check for sys/utsname.h
      * stress-get: fix typo in comment
      * Use check for HAVE_LINUX_FUTEX_H for linux/futex.h
      * Move sys/select.h include into stress-ng.h
      * Add build config check for linux/fs.h
      * Add build config check for sys/fanotify.h
      * Add build config check for mntent.h
      * Add build config check for crypt.h
      * Add build config check for ucontext.h
      * Add build config check for sys/apparmor.h
      * Add build config check for sys/select.h
      * Add build config check for libaio.h
      * Add build config check for aio.h
      * Rename HAVE_SOCK_DIAG_H to HAVE_LINUX_SOCK_DIAG_H
      * stress-af-alg: add checks for <linux/if_alg.h> and <linux/socket.h>
      * stress-stackmmap: needs swapcontext
      * stress-ng: minor reordering of includes, minor changes
      * Remove include of semaphore.h as this is already included in
        stress-ng.h
      * stress-ng.h: fix include on semaphore.h
      * stress-resources: use posix semaphores if HAVE_SEM_POSIX is defined
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:08:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.48-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dev: pass correct struct to SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN
        ioctl (LP: #1806024)
      * Remove full stop from some messages, like other messages
      * stress-spawn: fix skipping message, use stressor test name
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 30 Nov 2018 12:07:13 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.47-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * Add in missing option --vdso-func to specific the vDSO function to
        call
      * stress-mcontend: check data[1] rather than data[0] for failed mmap
      * stress-dev: remove redundant null assignment to dev_scsi_new
      * log: use strncpy instead of less safe strcpy
      * README: add WSL as a supported platform
      * stress-itimer: skip stressor if itimer cannot be set
      * stress-schedpolicy: skip sched_setparam on EPERM errors
      * stress-key: skip stressor if add_key is not implemented
      * stress-netdev: ignore errors of EINVAL on ioctls
      * stress-ioprio: skip over failures that return -EINVAL
      * stress-file-ioctl: skip flag checking if ioctl fails
      * helper: forgot to use %s when printing cache pr_inf message
      * stress-file-ioctl: silently ignore ENOTTY ioctl failures
      * stress-file-ioctl: add in errno info on failure
      * helper: shrink cache defaults message, make it less verbose
      * stress-fcntl: cater for kernels that don't support some fcntl commands
      * stress-sigio: cater for kernels that don't support F_SETOWN
      * stress-udp: cater for kernels that don't support SO_REUSEADDR
      * cache: remove some empty lines, minor code cleanup
      * stress-tee: terminate with EXIT_NO_RESOURCE on ENOMEM on tee
      * stress-sctp: skip stressor if protocol is not supported (part 2)
      * Make cache size warnings less verbose
      * Add getauxval autoconfig detection
      * stress-vdso: only build test if AT_SYSINFO_EHDR is defined
      * README: add in more operating systems that the tool can build on
      * stress-sync-file: skip stressor if sync_file_range is not implemented
      * stress-switch: fall back to pipe() if pipe2() fails to work
      * stress-socket-diag: skip stressor if protocol is not supported
      * stress-sctp: skip stressor if protocol is not supported
      * stress-pipe: fall back to pipe() if pipe2() fails to work
      * exit_status: make ENOSYS return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
      * stress-mq: skip stressor if POSIX message queues are not implemented
      * stress-mincore: skip stressor of mincore not implemented
      * stress-full: check if /dev/full exists, return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
        if not available
      * stress-filename: cater for WSL on Windows 10 ENOENT errors
      * stress-filename: make probing more robust
      * stress-clock: handle kernels that return -EINVAL for timer_create
      * stress-vdso: make function vdso_sym_list_check_vdso_func static
      * stress-vdso: fix realloc null return check, don't check str
      * stress-vdso: ensure hash is initialized to NULL
      * stress-zlib: add gray code generator
      * stress-zlib: add brown noise and fix missing funcs from
        rand_data_funcs
      * stress-wait: voidify kill return
      * stress-vm: minor optimization, don't keep on recomputing max_ops arg
      * stress-vm: handle counter increments via helper functions
      * stress-bindmount: use get_counter instead of referencing counter
      * Add add_counter helper to add a value to the bogo op counter
      * Add a set_counter helper to set the bogo counter
      * Use get_counter rather than directly referencing *args->counter
      * mwc: use getauxval(AT_RANDOM) as a base seed if it is available
      * stress-switch: add more context switch info
      * stress-ng.h: add get_counter helper to get counter from args
      * stress-vdso: add arm64 vDSO symbol names
      * stress-vdso: scan all symbols and remove duplicates
      * Add vDSO stress test.
      * use a test program to conditionally set TARGET_CLONES (LP: #1800826)
      * Detect and use <features.h> if it is available.
      * Fix build with uClibc-ng (LP: #1800829)
      * stress-ng.h: conditionally define _{LARGEFILE,LARGEFILE64}_SOURCE
        to fix build warning (LP: #1800828)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:03:43 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.46-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version, remove -g and -pipe flags
      * Makefile: remove -pipe and -g CFLAGS
      * stress-ng: only defined TARGET_CLONES optimizations for x86-64
      * stress-affinity: fix set affinity setting across all
        stressors (LP: #1803322)
      * stress-fault: add mmap failed resource checking, treat as non-fatal
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: retry for ENFILE errors on mmap
      * stress-udp: handle ENETUNREACH silently
      * stress-vecmath: work around gcc breakage on ppc64el
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:01:57 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.45-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Use alternative mmap strategy on last shared page if mprotect is
        not available
      * stress-dev: constify a char * function parameter, fixes warning
      * stress-dev: fix warnings on non-Linux systems
      * stress-dev: add 4.20 BLKGETZONESZ and BLKGETNRZONES ioctls
      * stress-tsc: add supported handler for non-x86
      * stress-rdrand: add supported handler for non-x86
      * stress-ng: add extra non-accessible page at end of shared region
      * thrash: assign return to variable and voidif
      * stress-getrandom: check if system call is available before testing
      * stress-cpu-online: ignore -EOPNOTSUPP failure, just keep on
        exercising the sys interfaces
      * stress-cpu-online: check if we can access sysfs file for updating
      * stress-cpu-online: add root check before running the stress test
      * stress-seccomp: add sanity check to see if SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER
        works (LP: #1801856)
      * stress-dev: cache the scsi device names to reduce lookup overhead
      * stress-dev: remove debug cruft
        cache: turn macro MK_PATH to an inline'd static helper function
      * stress-dev: add SCSI device checking
      * stress-af-alg: handle ENOMEM failures on sendmsg (LP: #1801865)
      * stress-pty: handle EIO failures on opening /dev/ptmx
      * stress-loop: fix EBUSY error detection (LP: #1797544)
      * cache: optimize MK_PATH macro, remove double strlen call
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:43:35 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.44-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dev: add HDIO_* ioctls
      * stress-file-ioctl: add FIBMAP ioctl to file
      * stress-dev: remove FIBMAP ioctl on device (LP: #1800609)
      * log: use snprintf instead of sprintf, it is safer
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:45:01 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.43-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-loop: check for specific loop ioctl commands
      * mounts: cater for minix requiring statbufs for mount information
      * stress-revio: ensure fiemap extent struct is zero'd (LP: #1798566)
      * Add autodetection of linux/futex.h
      * shim: revert back to checking if syscall is defined if calling via
        syscall()
      * test-pkey: also check if syscall is available
      * Add checks for linux/membarrier.h and membarrier system call
      * shim.c: update for KCMP and SYSLOG
      * Add HAVE_GETCPU getcpu system call check
      * test/test-fallocate: remove whitespace
      * Add HAVE_FALLOCATE fallocate system call check
      * Add HAVE_COPY_FILE_RANGE copy_file_range system call check
      * Add HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE to Makefile.config
      * Add HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE sync_file_range system call check
      * stress-apparmor: make another aa_kernel_interface_replace_policy
        failure an info message
      * Add autobuild detection for pkey family of system calls
      * stress-resources: use HAVE_USEFAULTFD check
      * Use HAVE_LINUX_USERFAULTFD_H and HAVE_USERFAULTFD checks
      * stress-apparmor: make aa_kernel_interface_replace_policy failure an
        info message
      * Use HAVE_SYS_EVENTFD_H and HAVE_EVENTFD checks
      * Add sys/eventfd header detection
      * Add HAVE_IOPRIO_{GET|SET}ATTR ioprio_{get|set}attr system call check
      * Add HAVE_KEYCTL keyctl system call check
      * Add HAVE_ADD_KEY add_key system call check
      * Add HAVE_REQUEST_KEY request_key system call check
      * stress-ng.h: re-order syscall checks alphabetically
      * Add HAVE_SCHED_{GET|SET}ATTR sched_{get|set}attr system call check
      * Add autobuild check and exercising of getdtablesize()
      * test/test-mremap: voidify newbuf to avoid cppcheck warning
      * test/test-ioport: return ret, fixes warning
      * stress-loop: clean up cppcheck warning on clr_loop not being used:
      * stress-kcmp: move slot to local scope
      * ignite-cpu: reduce scope of buffer and cpu
      * Add HAVE_KCMP kcmp system call check
      * Add HAVE_REMAP_FILE_PAGES check in Makefile.config
      * Add HAVE_SYSLOG syslog system call check
      * Add autobuild detection of remap_file_pages
      * Add HAVE_TGKILL tgkill system call check
      * Add HAVE_{SET|GET}_ROBUST_LIST {set|get}_robust_list system call
        check
      * Add HAVE_GETTID gettid system call check
      * Add HAVE_GETDENTS* check
      * Add autobuild detection of unshare
      * Add autobuild check for MLOCK2
      * stress-revio: use shim_fdatasync
      * Abstract fdatasync with a shim
      * stress-getrandom: allow __APPLE__ as it provides getentropy
      * Add autobuild detection of sys/memfd.h
      * Add autobuild detection of memfd_create
      * stress-get: use HAVE_LOOKUP_DCOOKIE check
      * Add autobuild check for lookup_dcookie system call
      * Use the autobuild config HAVE_SENDMMSG check
      * Add autobuild detection of sendmmsg
      * Makefile.config: minor cleanups
      * Makefile.config: use more generic rules for checking
      * Makefile.config: use generic have_test_prog rule for asm nop test
      * Makefile.config: use generic have_test_prog rule for aligment build
        checks
      * Makefile.config: add and use generic have_test_prog rule
      * stress-ng.h: re-order shim_ function declarations
      * Add autoconfig check for execveat
      * Move shim_execveat to main shim source
      * README: Add Dilos to notes
      * Makefile: use standard grep for dilos
      * stress-sysbadaddr: make ro_page and rw_page void * rather than uint8_t
      * stress-sigsegv: clean up warnings on older gcc on solaris
      * stress-rmap: clean up warnings on older gcc on solaris
      * stress-mmapaddr: clean up warnings on older gcc on solaris
      * stress-vforkmany: cleans up warnings on older gcc on solaris
      * stress-memthrash: make mem void * rather than uint8_t
      * stress-madvise: make buf void * rather than uint8_t
      * stress-bad-altstack: make stack pointer void * rather than uint8_t *
      * stress-loop: add stress_loop_supported for non-linux platforms
      * cache: minor change to comment block
      * stress-loop: use HAVE_LINUX_LOOP_H build detection
      * Makefile.config: check for linux/loop.h
      * stress-loop: check for ioctl commands before using them
      * Add loopback stressor
      * stress-sysfs: work around race on TPM driver for Linux
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:09:17 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.42-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-quota: abort early if we get EPERM errors (LP: #1796248)
      * stress-get: fix check for HAVE_ADJTIMEX or HAVE_ADJTIME
      * stress-pthread: work around broken pthread join that returns
        ESRCH (LP: #1796249)
      * stress-chroot: check for EINVAL for Haiku
      * stress-link: disable link stressor for Haiku
      * stress-get: disable a couple of rlimit types for Haiku
      * stress-cpu: define expl as exp for Haiku as it's not yet defined
      * Update README, add Haiku notes
      * Makefile: add -lc for non-Haiku, and -lnetfork for Haiku
      * helper: fix warnings on systems where strsignal returns const char *
      * Add autodetection of nice
      * Add autodetection of setpriority, fall back to using nice if we
        don't have it
      * stress-get: only declare is_root when required for adjtime* functions
      * Add autodetection of adjtime
      * stress-get: don't declare array priorities if getpriority does not
        exist
      * Add automatic detection of getpriority
      * stress-fault: don't declare usage for Haiku
      * stress-fault: don't print ruseage stats for Haiku
      * stress-dev: disable for Haiku
      * Add more info to README file
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 5 Oct 2018 10:29:34 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.41-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dirdeep: clean up warning if O_DIRECTORY is not defined
      * stress-dir: clean up warning if O_DIRECTORY is not defined
      * stress-sysbadaddr: move ustat include to fix kfreeBSD build warnings
      * Manual: update date
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * Fixed thermal zone use after free bug in multi-process test.
      * thermal-zone: don't accumulate insane temperatures
      * stress-*: make sure structs are packed more efficiently
      * stress-dynlib: don't use if building a static image
      * stress-quota: keep if/else codestyle consistent
      * stress-sctp: break up declaration + assignment
      * stress-resources: add pkey alloc/free resource consumer
      * stress-numa: add in extra brackets to match coding style
      * stress-matrix: fix comment, not cpu stressor but matrix stressor
      * stress-kcmp: prefix kcmp consts with SHIM_ to avoid name clashes
      * syscalls.txt: add pkey_* and renameat* syscalls
      * stress-rename: use renameat2 system call if available
      * stress-rename: use renameat system call if available
      * Add autoconfig detection of renameat system call
      * Add autoconfig detection of renameat2 system call
      * Move pkey shims to shim.c
      * stress-pkey: add pkey memory protection thrash stress test
      * stress-enosys: add pket_get and pkey_set
      * stress-enosys: Add io_pgetevents
      * stress-enosys: add rseq system call
      * stress-dirdeep: add directory data sync'ing for more stress
      * stress-dir: add directory data sync'ing for more stress
      * stress-*: replace fsync with shim_fsync
      * Add shim helper for fsync, helps with no-op OS X fsync
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:00:01 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.40-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * log: cast fractions of seconds to long
      * stress-get: move timex declarations to HAVE_ADJTIMEX block statement
      * Use HAVE_MREMAP check for mremap system call
      * Add autobuild test for mremap system call
      * stress-malloc: use HAVE_MALLOPT check for threshold variable
      * stress-malloc: use HAVE_MALLOPT check for mallopt glibc function
      * Add mallopt glibc function autodetection
      * stress-ioport: fix check on HAVE_IOPORT and not IOPORT
      * stress-ioport: use HAVE_IOPORT check for ioport system call
      * Add autobuild test for ioport system call
      * stress-inode-flags: build valid stressor if specific ioctl flags are
        defined
      * stress-get:  use HAVE_PRLIMIT check for prlimit system call
      * Add autobuild test for prlimit system call
      * stress-get: use HAVE_ADJTIMEX check for adjtimex system call
      * Add autobuild test for adjtimex system call
      * stress-get: move locals to block statements
      * stress-sysbadaddr: use autodetection config for getresgid and
        getresuid calls
      * stress-get: use autodetection config for getresgid and getresuid
        calls
      * Add autobuild checks for getresgid and getresuid
      * README: update dependencies information
      * stress-sysfs: exercise each sysfs for a specific time or number of
        iterations
      * Add shim_usleep_interruptible, an interruptible usleep
      * stess-sysfs: exercise each sysfs file for a 1/25 of a second
      * stress-sysfs: improve draining control in threads
      * Add .gitignore
      * stress-sysfs: back off pthreads when kernel log spamming is detected
      * manual: fix typo: multiple -> multiply
      * stress-sysfs: close file if we have messages that needed draining
      * Add bad alternative stack stressor
      * stress-procfs: free directory entries, fixes memory leak
      * stress-dirdeep: free directory entries, fixes memory leak
      * stress-dev: free directory entries, fixes memory leak
      * stress-sysfs: free directory entries, fixes memory leak
      * stress-sysfs: skip over sysfs files that produce a lot of kernel
        spamming
      * Add more info in the README file
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:11:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.39-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-hdd: add yield points
      * stress-dev-shm: add an extra yield point
      * stress-bigheap: add an extra yield point
      * stress-af-alg: add more yield points
      * tests: fast-test-all: add timestamp to log output
      * stress-fiemap: wrap overly wide #if defined checks
      * stress-enosys: add address passing args
      * Replace loop variable i with j
      * Fix typo in comment 9 -> 0
      * stress-zlib: add comment, remove two white spaces
      * stress-zlib: add zlib-level compression level and zlib rate stats
      * Add timestamp to log with --timestamp option
      * Add -pipe to CFLAGS, speeds up build by a few seconds
      * Makefile: remove -Wabi on pedantic builds
      * Replace int type with int32_t on loop counters
      * Rename macro argument lower_name to name
      * Manual: add Khem Raj to contributors name list
      * TODO: Add restartable sequencues
      * stress-chown: be less fussy about -EPERM failures
      * stress-get: ignore EINVAL on getgroups failures
      * stress-get: ignore EINVAL on getpriority failures
      * stress-af-alg: check for EBUSY bind failures
      * stress-stackmmap: simplify SEGV handling using a child process
      * stress-mmapfixed: don't be so verbose about SIGSEGVs on fixed mmaps
      * stress-sysfs: add check for some broken sysfs files
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 4 Sep 2018 11:36:21 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.38-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: ensure fast-test-all and slow-test-all build with config
      * stress-fork: print correct fork/vfork name on an error
      * stress-fork: don't throw error on EAGAIN or ENOMEM (LP: #1788385)
      * stress-sysfs: add SEGV detection and abort
      * stress-funccall: make deep calls perform more stack work
      * stress-fiemap: remove blank line
      * stress-dir: rename d_reclen to d_namlen for DragonFly BSD
      * stress-dev: clean up overly wide function prototypes
      * stress-dccp: make loop iterator size_t
      * stress-mmap: move } outside #if #endif, fix *BSD build error
      * stress-chdir: remove blank line
      * stress-access: remove empty line
      * stress-ng: don't enable TARGET_CLONES for musl
      * stress-ng: don't exit a failure if no stressors are run when some
        are not supported
      * stress-dnotify: check if dnotify is supported by linux kernel
      * stress-access: make bool is_root const
      * stress-access: make struct fields const
      * stress-mmap: add hole punching to mmap'd file
      * ignite-cpu: remove extraneous debug
      * Manual: add note about using --timer-slack 0 for high freq timers
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:54:53 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.37-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * snapcraft: add stage packages and build with hardening settings
      * stress-chown: cater for OpenBSD chown returning 0 and errno being set
      * stress-zlib: don't report write failure if errno == 0
      * stress-fp-error: relax checking for pre glib 4.8
      * Add voidifications on ignored function returns
      * ignite-cpu: set freq governor and restore settings at end
      * ignite-cpu: try and set max cpu frequency scaling setting
      * cache: add G size specifier
      * Makefile: check for GNU/kFreeBSD and set __FreeBSD_Kernel__
      * stress-sysbadaddr: only use ustat if HAVE_USTAT is defined
      * stress-ng.h: rename statx_timestamp to shim_statx_timestamp
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:58:57 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.36-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-schedpolicy: ignore EINVAL on non-POSIX policies
      * mungify _ to - on stressor name before calling the stressor
      * stress-seek: disabled SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for OS X
      * stress-fp-error: relax checking on non-Linux systems
      * stress-schedpolicy: skip FIFO if sched_get_priority_min/max return -1
      * stress-mknod: fix cut-n-paste error on struct stress_info_t
      * stress-fp-error: be less pedantic with errno checks on non-Linux systems
      * stress-mknod: disable this for non-Linux systems
      * stress-affinity: check that process can set CPU affinity
      * stress-access: remove AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, it is not needed
      * stress-vm-segv: remove some old commented out debug text
      * stress-vm-segv: retry on ENOMEM on fork
      * stress-vm-segv: make child process non-dumpable
      * test/test_modify_ldt: fail for no-x86 architectures
      * stress-cpu: compute geometric mean by split mantissa and exponent method
      * stress-fork: turn warnings off around vfork and not fork
      * stress-dentry: fall back to using fcntl if flock is not available
      * Turn off warnings around vfork calls
      * Makefile: "SunOS" should be SunOS and not quoted in if statement
      * Makefile: check for SunOS to use non-default grep for -e capability
      * stress-dentry: don't flock the entry if we don't have flock flags
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 2 Aug 2018 14:39:41 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.35-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-file-ioctl: check size against stat buf size
      * stress-file-ioctl: remove redundant buffer
      * stress-file-ioctl: print differences in sizes on error of
        FIOQSIZE ioctl
      * stress-sysfs: use shim_ spinlock type rather than direct structure
      * perf: use shim_ spinlock rather than direct call
      * stress-procfs: use shim_ spinlock rather than direct call
      * stress-procfs: use shim_ spinlock rather than native call
      * stress-dev: use shim spinlock rather than native call
      * stress-dccp: skip stressor if DCCP protocol not supported
      * stress-af-alg: return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED if protocol is not
        supported
      * rename set_cpu_affinity to stress_set_cpu_affinity
      * Update comment relating to stressor names
      * Make stressor command options match 1-to-1 with info and function
        names
      * Re-work STRESSOR macro so that we don't need upper case name anymore
      * Make stressor names with OPT_ options match
      * Make stressor names with stressor #defines match
      * Add more comments and make index i a size_t
      * Add helper to mlock stress-ng into memory
      * stress-procfs: use copy of proc_path and set to empty string rather
        than NULL
      * stress-dev: use copy of dev_path and set to empty string rather
        than NULL
      * stress-sysfs: copy sysfs_path while locked into path
      * stress-sysfs: don't nullify sysfs_path, set it to empty string and
        lock it
      * stress-personality: don't verify personality setting, it does not work
      * stress-sysfd: temporarily disable read access fstat error
      * rename snapcraft directory to snap
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:19:44 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.34-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Ensure all fail log messages set the error to EXIT_FAILURE
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * stress-opcode: make child process non-dumpable
      * Add bcd and utf8 zlib data methods to manual
      * stress-zlib: add 8 bit UTF-8 data stream
      * stress-zlib: put BCD data as bytes not 32 bit words
      * stress-zlib: add bcd data mode
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:50:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.33-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-pty: make open failure on ENOMEM non-fatal
      * stress-sockpair: handle EPERM error on read gracefully
      * stress-quota: don't count a pass as a failure
      * stress-quota: add some ESRCH failure debug info
      * stress-quota: don't fail if file system does not enable quota
      * stress-socket: don't make ECONNRESET on recv fatal
      * stress-spawn: skip if run as root
      * stress-spawn: fix comment
      * stress-vm: only declare stress_set_vm_flags if it is required
      * cache: remove unused function get_cache_name
      * stress-iomix: only declare stress_iomix_inode_ioctl when it is
        required
      * stress-sleep: remove sleep-max-adjustment handler
      * stress-pthread: remove pthread-max-adjustment handler
      * stress-unshare: only declare check_unshare when it is really
        required
      * stress-file-ioctl: only declare check_flag when it is really
        required
      * stress-dev: declare ret only for when it is used
      * stress-chroot: sanity check for ENOENT as a false positive
      * Add a slow-test-all make rule to perform more exhaustive testing
      * stress-dentry: remove redundant args argument
      * Add ptrace build autodetection
      * Update copyright year to 2018 in some odd files
      * Remove trailing space and tabs from end of lines
      * ignite-cpu: set process name to stress-ng-ignite
      * thrash: use the pagein method of forcing pages back into memory
      * thrash: add ksm memory merging (Linux only)
      * thrash: add kernel memory compaction (Linux only)
      * stress-dentry: add some misc operations on a directory fd
      * stress-dentry: add lookup failures to exercise directory searching
      * Add a watchdog stressor
      * stress-kill: add some early delay to give parent time to spawn
        stressors
      * stress-rtc: add select on RTC device
      * stress-netlink-proc: fix build with kernel v3.9
      * stress-context: rename uc_link to uctx_link
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:46:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.32-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add .travis.yml to make dist rule
      * stress-dev-shm: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-fstat: add yield point to get lower-latency in stopping
      * stress-dev-shm: handle interrupted wait to fix utime accounting
      * stress-dev-shm: use shim_fallocate for older kernels that don't
        support it
      * stress-pthread: don't block threads from SIGALRM for DragonFly BSD
      * stress-pthread: don't block threads from SIGALRM for OS X
      * stress-fstat: don't block threads from SIGALRM for OS X
      * stress-dev: skip devices that are not standard chr or blk devices
      * Check for chr or blk device using S_ISCHR/S_ISBLK
      * Fall back to mutexes instead of spinlocks for OpenBSD
      * stress-iomix: make kill and wait into two phases
      * stress-msg: add extra yield points for prompt death of children
      * stress-msg: add yielding to boost performance and help NetBSD
      * shim: make FreeBSD use the emulated fallocate for the moment
      * stress-zlib: constify data, cleans up clobbering warning
      * stress-dev-shm: close fd on exit
      * stress-sigpipe: move declaration of sigpipe_count
      * Add /dev/shm memory stressor
      * stress-dev: remove duplicated BLKSSZGET ioctl
      * stress-cyclic: reformat table contents
      * stress-clock: add 4.17 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE clock
      * stress-mmapfixed: add new 4.17 MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag
      * stress-matrix: only print matrix method on first stressor instance
      * stress-matrix: add more yield points for snappier exits
      * stress-socket-fd: remove debug message
      * stress-socket-fd: add more yield points on fd recv and closing
      * stress-sctp: handle failures more gracefully, retry rather than
        abort
      * stress-cpu: Add LIKELY hint on callfunc stressor, speeds up
        by ~0.8%
      * stress-cpu: optimize primes a little further
      * Add UNLIKEY hint on sqrt stressor, speeds up by ~3%
      * stress-cpu: add UNLIKELY hint on hanoi zero depth
      * stress-ng: call free_settings to fix memory leak on process exits
      * cache: fix removed assignment to cpu count and make buffer larger
      * cache: use sizeof types to fix segfault
      * helper: put PRAGMAs around function rather inside function
      * Use trusty dist in travis
      * Force disabling of warnings on older versions of gcc
      * Add travis build yaml
      * stress-ng: rename abort to do_abort to avoid shadowing of global
        function abort
      * stress-zlib: rename rand to rnd to avoid shadowing with global
        function rand
      * stress-zlib: rename index to idx to avoid shadowing with global
        function index
      * stress-utime: rename times to timevals to avoid shadowing with
        global function times
      * stress-sigpending: rename sigset to _sigset to avoid shadowing of
        global sigset
      * stress-rtc: rename alarm to wake_alarm to avoid shadowing with
        function alarm
      * stress-rawdev: rename function shift to shift_ul
      * stress-link: remove need for symlink argument
      * rename acct to account to avoid shadowing with function acct
      * stress-fanotify: rename mount to mnt to avoid shadowing with
        function mount
      * rename times to timespec to avoid shadowing with global function
        times
      * stress-dev: rename stat to vt_stat to avoid shadowing with
        function stat
      * stress-cpu: rename gamma to _gamma to fix shadowing with
        function gamma
      * stress-context: rename link to uc_link to avoid shadowing with
        function link
      * stress-branch: rename index to _index inside macro to avoid
        global shadowing
      * Rename mount to mnt to ensure we don't shadow global function
        mount
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 27 jun 2018 19:12:17 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.31-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * cache: fix out of bounds access and potential null pointer
        dereferences
      * cache: fix various warnings when building with gcc-8.1.1
      * stress-memfd: fix build warning on whence not being used
      * Makefile.config: add detection for APPARMOR_PARSER failures
      * perf: Add some more SW perf events
      * Makefile: fix perf HW events, need to pick up $(CFLAGS)
      * stress-matrix: add a square product matrix method
      * Ensure apparmor binary data is removed
      * Add extra sanity checking for apparmor builds
      * stress-mmapaddr: use correct signal handler
      * Re-order message queue stressor, it's not in the correct place
      * stress-timerfd: reduce scope of buffer
      * stress-efivar: reduce scope of varname and guid_str
      * stress-chdir: remove hard coded chdir_dirs setting
      * stress-rmap: child should _exit rather than return on error
      * stress-zlib: add a zero block data method
      * stress-sigfpe: just clear siginfo.si_code field
      * stress-sigfpe: use assignment rather than memset to zero siginfo
      * stress-timerfd: remove shadowed declaration of ret
      * stress-sigfpe: remove shadowed declaration of ret
      * Don't exit child sub-processes with exit() (LP: #1777564)
      * stress-inotify: fix various gcc-8 warnings
      * stress-sysbadaddr: pass non-aliased addresses to system calls
      * stress-filename: clean up gcc 8.1 warning
      * stress-fanotify: clean up gcc warning
      * Clean up gcc-8 warning by making filename 5 chars smaller
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 21 jun 2018 14:38:18 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.30-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-socket: fix build warning if FIONREAD is not defined
      * Add sanity check that child stressor processes are not calling exit()
      * stress-sigio: don't exit in sighandler; return back normally
      * stress-utime: fix failing utimes and futimens calls
      * stress-memcpy: fix clobbering of stats data when copying b_str
      * stress-shm: perform extra file operations on shm file descriptor
      * Add new real time signal stressor, sigrt
      * stress-sigsegv: add some verification checking
      * stress-access: voidify return from umask
      * stress-splice: remove variable bytes, replace with ret
      * stress-apparmor: add a few more yield points
      * stress-fifo: retry on select timeout rather than terminate
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 15 jun 2018 16:52:25 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.29-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: fix spelling mistakes and update date
      * stress-sigfpe: remove need for fp_zero
      * stress-sigfpe: cater for systems without SA_SIGINFO
      * stress-socket: fix warning on unused variable ret
      * stress-sigfpe: remove feenableexcept, it is extraneous
      * stress-sigfpe: fix verify mode, match exception with error code
      * stress-sigfpe: zero siginfo struct
      * stress-apparmor: kill child processes aggressively
      * stress-sigfpe: reset fp exception states to fix math issues
      * stress-apparmor: add more yield point checking
      * Makefile.config: move pthread library to end to fix static linking
        issues
      * Fix typo in manual, --mmapfixedA-ops -> --mmapfixed-ops
      * stress-sigfpe: force more fpe exceptions, exercise handler more
      * stress-socket: use TCP_QUICKACK if available
      * stress-socket: add FIONREAD size peeking
      * stress-userfaultfd: exercise /proc/$pid/fdinfo/$timerfd proc file
      * stress-timerfd: exercise /proc/$pid/fdinfo/$timerfd proc file
      * Rename g_terminate_signum to terminate_signum and make it static
      * Renaming symbols to indicate they are used in process termination
      * Remove some unused old struct typedefs
      * Make some functions static
      * Deconstify some const pointers (ughh)
      * Add deconstifier helper.
      * remove redundant and shadowing variable ret
      * stress-dccp: add missing ,
      * Move the class info into the stressor_info_t for each stressor
      * Rename class_t to class_info_t
      * stress-cpu: fix bitops checksum
      * stress-access: fix build warning on Solaris with %o on mode_t
      * stress-memthrash: restore accidentally removed function
        stress_set_memthrash_method
      * stress-mergesort: fix missing {
      * affinity: fix prototype of set_cpu_affinity
      * stress-cyclic: fix build warning on non-linux systems
      * Point to stress_not_implemented rather than wrapping each time
      * Add stressor_info_t for stress specific info
      * Clean up optarg handling, make it more table driven
      * Revert Add pr_* logging sleepy locks (LP: #1774571)
      * Add pr_* logging sleepy locks
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 8 jun 2018 11:30:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.28-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-zlib: rename variable i to j to fix variable shadowing
        warning
      * stress-prctl: make function stress_prctl_child static
      * stress-fanotify: remove shadow'd declaration of ret
      * stress-access: remove redundant declaration of ret
      * stress-sysbaddaddr: fix indenting
      * stress-flock: fix indenting
      * stress-enosys: fix indenting
      * test/test-modify-ldt: return ret to stop clang warning
      * test/test-pselect: make rfds, wfds static, stop clang warnings
      * stress-clone: put statements of if block in { }
      * stress-shm-sysv: voidify return from shmctl call
      * stress-prctl: voidify return from prctl system call
      * stress-clone: voidify return from modify_ldt system call
      * stress-iomix: fix early termination due to incorrect bogo ops
        comparison
      * Manual: update thread information for memthrash stressor
      * stress-memthrash: add warning and hint about sub-optimal stressor
        choice
      * stress-af-alg: fix errno = ENOENT assignment, should be == comparison
      * stress-set: add autodetect for setregid, setresgid, setresuid,
        setreuid
      * stress-af-alg: skip over ciphers that may not exist
      * stress-af-alg: make ENOKEY a non-critical failure
      * stress-af-alg: forgot to add in \n
      * stress-af-alg: expand error message to capture more information
      * stress-shm-sysv: add exercising for SHM_SET for linux only
      * stress-shm-sysv: add SHM_LOCK/SHM_UNLOCK commands
      * stress-mq: POSIX mq on linux allows one to read MQ status, add this
      * stress-af-alg: add crc32c
      * syscalls.txt: update swapon/swapoff info
      * stress-hsearch: fix spelling mistake in comment
      * syscalls: update statx and umount system calls
      * stress-chown: add lchown system call
      * stress-xattr: exercise the filename based xattr system calls
      * stress-pthread: use tgkill and gettid system calls
      * syscalls: mark tkill as obsolete
      * syscalls: ignore ugetrlimit
      * stress-hdd: use truncate as well as the ftruncate
      * syscalls: add update to setsid
      * stress-set: add setsid call
      * stress-efivar: fix error return in efi_get_variable
      * split mlocked region into mlocked text segment and mlocked data segment
      * stress-ng.h: add empty macro definitions for ALIGNED and SECTION
      * stress-efivar: add ioctl and fstat exercising on efivar fd's
      * test/test-setpgid: don't pass -ve args
      * stress-set: voidify returns to discard warnings
      * Add set stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 25 May 2018 16:18:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.27-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Remove empty end lines from debian/control, debian/changelog
      * stress-filename: set rc to EXIT_SUCCESS if we get a timeout on again
        loop
      * stress-chdir: only use O_DIRECTORY if it is supported
      * stress-xattr: remove need to #include <xattr/xattr.h>
      * stress-utime: only declare ts when required
      * stress-utime: don't use UTIME_NOW or UTIME_OMIT if they are not
        defined
      * stress-pthread: exercise set_robust_list linux system call
      * stress-zlib: fix parity data generator
      * Add build-time check for faccessat
      * Add new access/faccessat stressor
      * stress-zlib: reorder rand_data_funcs and add in missing funcs
      * stress-zlib: Add sweep sin wave double prevision data
      * Add parity bit data zlib method
      * stress-cpu: fix parity sum check
      * syscalls.txt: fix up utimensat
      * stress-utime: add utimensat system call
      * Add build check for utimensat
      * stress-efivar: keep track of bad efivars and don't re-read them
      * stress-ng.h: forgot to include <asm/ldt.h> when HAVE_MODIFY_LDT is
        defined
      * Update  modify_ldt syscall
      * stress-clone: add modify_ldt call
      * Add build time check for modify_ldt
      * Update syscall.txt with latest syscall additions
      * stress-pthread: exercise setns()
      * stress-clone: exercise setns()
      * Add build time check for setns
      * syscalls.c: add fchdir
      * stress-chdir: add fchdir syscall
      * stress-zlib: add pink noise data generation method
      * stress-bind-mount: don't clone signal handlers in clone child
      * stress-bind-bound: respawn process to handle limit on bind mounts
      * Add a EFI variable reading stressor
      * Add prctl stressor
      * stress-ng.h: don't allow both HAVE_SYS_XATTR_H and HAVE_ATTR_XATTR_H
      * Forgot to commit changes to Makefile.config
      * xattr: autodetect for different xattr paths attr/xattr.h and
        sys/xattr.h
      * stress-dev: add BLKSECTGET ioctl
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 14 May 2018 14:31:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.26-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Remove TARGET_CLONES on some functions that break on gcc 7.2 on
        kFreeBSD
      * Use nanosleep where possible for usleep, add nanosleep check
      * stress-dev: move wfds to select local scope to fix NetBSD warning
      * stress-dev: NetBSD hangs on select on some devices, so disable this
      * stress-dev: pass child failure status to parent
      * stress-dev: fix warning on char being passed to isdigit on NetBSD
      * stress-dev: NetBSD uses different sorting prototype
      * stress-sigio: don't do fcntl F_SETOWN for minix, it always fails
      * stress-sigio: fix hang in *BSD systems when we SIGALRM not handled
      * stress-sigio: exit in sighandler to force earlier termination
      * stress-sigio: add yield points to break out of heavy looping
      * shim: cater for systems that don't have mlock
      * stress-utime: check HAVE_FUTIMENS for declaration of ts
      * test/test-mq-posix: mq_* is defined but not implemented on kfreeBSD
      * test/test-syncfs: syncfs is defined but not implemented on kfreeBSD
      * stress-dirdeep: use HAVE_FUTIMENS
      * Makefile.comfig: fix typo in funtimens
      * test/test-futimens: check also for UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT
      * Add build time check for futimens
      * test/test-dup3: trigger failure with FreeBSD kernel
      * stress-zlib: fix longjmp clobber warnings on data
      * stress-revio: make alloc_buf void * to avoid type punning warnings
        on gcc 3.4.3
      * stress-hdd: make alloc_buf void * to avoid type punning warnings on
        gcc 3.4.3
      * Add shim wrapper for mlock for Solaris compat reasons
      * stress-fanotify: peek into number of bytes to be read with FIONREAD
      * stress-crypt: include <crypt.h> if on Solaris
      * stress-enosys: avoid warning on unused procs on Solaris
      * stress-sysbadaddr.c: avoid warning on unused procs on Solaris
      * stress-sysbadaddr.c: include termios.h for TCGETS
      * stress-vm-segv: remove debug, it is spamming the output
      * stress-sysbadaddr: don't use ustat if it is not defined
      * stress-sysbadaddr: ensure we have PTRACE_GETREGS defined
      * Workaround failing pthread spinlock on DragonFly BSD
      * stress-dev: add /dev/null nop to have at least one item in table
      * stress-wait: use HAVE_WAITID to check for waitid() call
      * stress-sysbadaddr + Makefile.config: Add HAVE_WAITID check
      * stress-sysbadaddr: fix conditional build on bad_clock_gettime
      * stress-sysbadaddr: use mincore shim to fix build on GNU/Hurd
      * stress-sysbadaddr: ensure TCGETS is defined
      * stress-file-ioctl: fix a file handle leak
      * Add sysbadaddr stressor to exercise system call bad address handling
      * stress-mmap: use new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag introduced in 4.17
      * stress-clock: add CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE that was added to Linux 4.17
      * stress-oom-pipe: Explicitly drop capabilities to make root spawned
        processes more OOMable
      * Explicitly drop capabilities to make root spawned processes more
        OOMable
      * helper: remove some blank lines
      * stress-dev: add linux stress for /dev/{mem|kmem|port|kmsg}
      * stress-vm-segv: don't assume max size of size_t
      * stress-vm-segv: ensure we force SEGVs by invalidating I$ cache
      * Add --vm-segv option to force SEGVs on unmapping
      * stress-fork: make it more OOMable
      * stress-clone: make clone'd procs OOMable
      * make main process less likely to be OOM-able
      * snapcraft: add libsctp-dev
      * stress-tree: rename BSD trees to fix build error on OpenBSD 6.3
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:59:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.25-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-ng: don't enable TARGET_CLONES for kFreeBSD (LP: #1765050)
      * stress-enosys: avoid calling vhangup with upper bits set (LP: #1757967)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:25:51 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Misc small fixes detected by static analysis (LP: #1762848)
      * stress-fcntl: use | rather than |= to get new_flags
      * stress-tmpfs: clear mnts and check if mnts[i] is null
      * stress-sync-file: fix incorrect placement of break statement
      * stress-af-alkg: check for more NULL cmsg pointers
      * stress-pipe: ensure no uninitialized data is written to pipe
      * stress-fcntl: use | rather than |= to get new_flags
      * test/test-posix-memalign.c: free allocated buffer
      * test/test-fanotify.c: free buffer
      * stress-mmapfailed: check for null return from mremap
      * stress-af-alkg: check for NULL cmsg
      * stress-resources: don't open on a null slavename
      * stress-sysinfo: ensure mnts array is zero'd
      * stress-cpu: make loop index in jenkin func size_t to fix overflow
      * stress-vm: don't loop forever in child sleep loop
      * ignite-cpu: don't wait for parent to kill loop, add timeout
        check too
      * Double number of stressor processes up to 8192
      * Add stream-index indexing option
      * Make some settings global to fix args confustion
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:58:44 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.23-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * cache: revert using shim_str* funcs (LP: #1759515)
        Using the shim_* str functions breaks the cache globbing paths,
        so for now, revert these.
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:40:10 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.09.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-mmap: add extra checking on fd, don't do I/O on -ve fd
      * out-of-memory: ensure buffer is null-terminated
      * out-of-memory: move non-linux variant of process_oomed
      * out-of-memory: detect if a stressor was killed by the OOM killer and
        don't mark it as a strict stressor failure (LP: #1755245)
      * stress-mmap: add missing I/O to/from mmap'd buffer on mmap'd address
      * stress-ng.h: fix missing perf option (LP: #1758383)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:44:47 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dir: clean up warning on args on DragonFly build
      * stress-dir: skip the sanitycheck on DragonFly BSD
      * stress-rawdev: reduce the scope of 'ret'
      * stress-mmapaddr: reduce the scope of 'ret'
      * stress-mcontend: reduce the scope of variable 'cpu'
      * stress-matrix: remove redundant initialization of a to NULL
      * stress-filename: reduce scope of variable d
      * stress-enosys: declare variable lim when only required
      * stress-dev: make 'ret' local to ioctl test block scope
      * Makefile.config: fix epoll_create build checking
      * stress-ioprio: check for systems that don't support pwritev
      * shim: overlooked another fallocate glibc call to fixup
      * shim: use syscall to call fallocate, older glibc may not support it
      * perf: cater for systems that don't support linux/perf_event.h
      * stress-urandom: workaround __u32 definitions in pre-2.6.29 kernels
      * stress-epoll: detect if epoll_create1 exists
      * stress-netlink-proc: don't use PROC_EVENT_SID in kernels earlier
        than 2.6.31
      * Add detection for linux/fiemap.h
      * test/test-librt.c: reorder functions in alphabetical order
      * stress-dirdeep: use shim_strlcat instead of strlcat
      * Replace strncat with safer strlcat
      * Add shim version of strlcat
      * Replace strncpy with safer strlcpy
      * Add shim and implementation of shim_strlcpy()
      * stress-dev: ensure we don't have a non-null terminated filename
      * stress-dev: don't sync on fd when open failed
      * stress-ng.h: check for spin lock failure
      * stress-dev: add #ifdef around stress_dev_tty
      * stress-dev: add #ifdef around struct termios tios declaration
      * stress-dev: remove gettid, only used during debug on linux
      * stress-dev: remove debug
      * stress-dev: randomly mix up device path scanning, limit to max 3 of
        same device
      * stress-dev: add missing /dev/random ioctl handling
      * stress-dev: add some Linux SCSI ioctls for block devices
      * stress-file-ioctl: fix missing #if / #endif around shim_fallocate
      * stress-procfs: mix up path name order to get a better spread
      * stress-sysfs: mix up path name order to get a better spread
      * stress-xattr: add missing setxattr and lsetxattr system calls
      * stress-utime: add NULL utimes time and non-nul utime parameters
      * stress-dir: add missing readdir() exercising
      * stress-file-ioctl: add missing FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl
      * stress-file-ioctl: exercise FS_IOC_RESVSP64
      * stress-fcntl: ensure F_OWNER_GID is being exercised
      * stress-get: add Linux lookup_dcookie call
      * stress-dev: exercise tty ioctls on devices
      * stress-file-ioctl: disable FIFREEZE/FITHAW filesystem ioctls
      * test/test-ustat.c: ustat will fail on __arch64__, so don't enable it
      * stress-enosys: add extra paranoid check on reboot syscall check
      * stress-enosys: ensure all known syscalls are added to hash
        table (LP: #1755358)
      * Makefile.config: add -Wextra build check on ustat
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:59:58 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-procfs: remove debug (LP: #1755552)
      * stress-madvise: fix build issue for HPPA (LP: #1755551)
      * stress-dev: add missing FIBMAP to block dev stressor
      * Fix missing stressors in mini-help and re-order some
      * Remove duplicated "futex" stressor from stressor table
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:58:49 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-cyclic: fix typo in time measurement, us should be ns
      * stress-enosys: add checks on RLIMIT_* macros
      * bump target_clones attribute to gcc 5.5
      * stress-mcontend: don't msync if it is not available
      * Disable target_clones attribute on GNU_HURD
      * stress-procfs: make stressor more stressful, less thread spawning
      * stress-enosys: wider sanity checks for fork/vfork/cloning (LP:#1753705)
      * Forgot to add test/test-personality.c
      * stress-enosys: try to limit fork run-away (LP:#1753705)
      * Add personality autoconfiguration detection
      * stress-mcontend: fix non-Linux build
      * stress-cpu: fix clang build error
      * Add new mcontend memory contention stressor
      * stress-af-algo: add a couple more crypto module tests
      * Add GCC-5 target_clones attribute
      * stressors: use the new cpu_is_x86 helper
      * Add cpu.c and cpu_is_x86 cpu detection helper
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:30:58 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-sysfs: sysfs_path does not need to be marked as volatile
      * stress-flock: make function stress_flock_child static
      * stress-dev: pass thread data using pthread_args_t context
      * stress-dev: rename ret to wret to fix variable shadowing
      * stress-seal: don't redefine MFD_ALLOW_SEALING
      * test/test-ustat: fail for GNU/HURD, it is not implemented
      * helper: use sz only in scope that requires it
      * stress-fcntl: fix build error in do_fcntl
      * Pass SHIM_PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED rather than 0 as flags arg
        to shim spin lock init
      * stress-dev: Fix compat shim build warnings on OS X
      * stress-dev: use abstracted pthread spinlock for portability sake
      * syscalls.txt: add getpagesize
      * stress-get: use getpagesize if it is available
      * helper: use getpagesize() for legacy systems without sysconf
      * Add automatic build getpagesize detection
      * stress-exec: where possible, use execveat() as well as execve()
      * syscalls.txt: add epoll_create and epoll_pwait to syscall table
      * stress-epoll: use epoll_create and epoll_pwait to get more coverage
      * stress-sock: use accept4 to add more system call coverage
      * stress-dev: add some block specific ioctls
      * stress-dev: add more seeking and shared memory mapping
      * syscalls: add ustat
      * stress-sysinfo: add legacy ustat() system call
      * Update syscalls log
      * stress-poll: add ppoll and pselect calls to add more stress coverage
      * stress-dev: make stressor more stressful, less thread spawning
      * stress-sysfs: only stress sysfs if spinlock succeeded and bump counter
      * stress-sysfs: remove redundant null check on path
      * stress-sys: make stressor more stressful, less thread spawning
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:26:38 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-rawdev: make some functions static
      * stress-funcall: fix -Wmissing-declarations warning message
      * stress-file-ioctl: remove extraneous shadowed variable 'ret'
      * stress-madvise: make ret non-clobberable for gcc 4.2.1
      * Add minimum GCC version for Pragma push/pop
      * shim: older gcc required pragmas outside of functions
      * stress-enosys: older gcc required pragmas outside of functions
      * Check for clang version when using pragmas
      * stress-file-ioctl: remove debug printf
      * Add new file-ioctl stressor
      * shim: disable warnings for brk and sbrk for OS X
      * Swap ordering on compiler detection on pragmas
      * stress-enosys: turn off warning on syscall, cleans up OS X warning
      * Add no warning pragma macros
      * Makefile: force sync after build in case reboot loses executable
      * stress-enosys: add syscall7 shim
      * stress-dirdeep: only print info message on instance #0
      * stress-enosys: wrap with OOM catcher (LP: #1750787)
      * stress-dev: add bug reference to hpet failure
      * stress-enosys: exercise more arguments in syscall
      * Manual: udp-lite should be for ipv6 as well as ipv4
      * Manual: update arch specific limitations on lockbus and memthrash
        stressors
      * Return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED when system call returns ENOSYS
      * stress-userfaultfd: don't fail with an error if ENOSYS is returned
      * stress-membarrier: don't fail with an error if ENOSYS is returned
      * stress-getrandom: don't fail with an error if ENOSYS is returned
      * helper: make zero more obscure so that optimizer won't optimize
        zero out
      * stress-filename: remove shadowed redundant variable ret
      * Makefile: build perf-event with $(CC) rather gcc
      * stress-wcstr: fix warning on systems without wcs functions
      * job: make fp non-clobberable, cleans up build warning on gcc 4.8.4
      * stress-softlock: clean up clobbering warning on gcc 4.9.2
      * mwc: add more information into the reseed mix
      * stress-filename: don't closedir on a NULL dir pointer
      * Move LIB_DL headers to stress-ng.h
      * stress-dynlib: try to read the function memory to force page fault
      * Manual: fix enosys-ops entry, missing e from enosys-ops
      * Add new dynlib shared library dynamic loading stressor
      * stress-tree: make nodes align naturally with padding
      * stress-tree: move data to start of struct, ensures natural alignment
      * stress-tree: clean splay nodes at removal time
      * stress-tree: ensure splay tree data is cleared
      * stress-exec: drop all capabilities before exec'ing
      * stack-mmap: add MAP_STACK flag
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:04:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Silence a build warning on %d for g_pgrp, cast to int
      * Use the new is_dot_filename() helper
      * Add is_dot_filename helper function to check for "." or ".." filenames
      * stress-filename: clean up temporary files on forced termination
      * stress-handle: catch any SIGKILL signals and report back
      * stress-filename: catch any SIGKILL signals and report back
      * Print process ID in [ ] braces
      * Add debug to inform us when stress-ng kills process group with SIGKILL
      * Makefile: make build output less noisy and cluttered
      * helper: add in compiler major minor info
      * stress-vecmath: don't built with clang less than version 5.0
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:41:32 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * debian/copyright: fix insecure debian copyright URL
      * debian/compat: update to 11
      * debian/control: update debhelper to >= 11
      * stress-bind-mount: ensure we have clone support with HAVE_CLONE
        check, fixes another FTBFS in ia64
      * stress-wait: remove empty line
      * Rename array and type unsupported to supported
      * stress-flock: Add more flock lock types, add more stressing children
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 3 Feb 2018 15:02:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-sigpipe: reduce scope of int ret
      * stress-wcsstr: sanity check to see if there are any wcs* functions
      * Add full wide char function autodetection
      * stress-chown: workaround a NetBSD hang on usleep
      * stress-chmod: workaround a NetBSD hang on usleep
      * stress-cpu: add __fp16 float16 support (ARM)
      * test/test-float: ensure test code is not overly optimized out
      * test/test-float.c: ensure build options are same as stress-cpu.c
      * Generalize float type config tests
      * stress-cpu: Add float32, float80 and float128 support
      * stress-ng: add some alignment tweaks to naturally align fields
      * Add a new vm-addr virtual memory address stressor
      * README: update number of stressors
      * stress-funccall: make functions non-static, force less optimization
      * stress-vm: add UNLIKELY annotations to improve performance
      * stress-procfs: don't write using a NULL badbuf
      * Add sigpipe stressor
      * Add bad write buffer to procfs write
      * stress-procfs: do proc writes only if proc_write is true
      * stress-vm-rw: fix build failure on ia64 with missing HAVE_CLONE
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:17:21 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * Makefile.config: reorder detection, no major change
      * stress-userfault: add missing check for HAVE_CLONE, should fix
        FTBFS for ia64 arch
      * Rename stress_hdd_opts to stress_set_hdd_opts
      * Rename stress_filename_opts to stress_set_filename_opts
      * stress-matrix: make a couple of functions static
      * stress-enosys: fix variable shadowing warning
      * Add HAVE_SYSCALL_H detection and try to get more syscall coverage
      * stress-enosys: add an a complete set of known syscalls to skip
      * stress-enosys: make index ssize_t, fixes GNU/HURD build warning
      * Ensure skip syscall array is at least 1 element
      * Add a new enosys system call stressor
      * test/test-notify: add sanity check on message length
      * stress-cyclic: cast longs to int64_t before multiply to fix overflow
      * stress-funccall: add arg swapped recursion to calls
      * stress-funccall: add large data structure passing
      * stress-vecmath: vectorize constants, make them const too
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:45:43 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-clone: fix build issue on systems without the clone system call
      * test/test-getmntent: remove unused variable 'n'
      * stress-revio: fix build warning on OS X builds
      * stress-swap: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-shm: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-shm-sysv: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-schedpolicy: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-key: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-iomix: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-dup: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-aio: use mwc1() for single bit random value
      * stress-madvise: add in new MADV options (Linux + BSD)
      * stress-membarrier: add in new membarrier commands to enum
      * Add fixed mmaping stressor, mmap-fixed
      * stress-fcntl: add F_GET_RW_HINT/F_SET_RW_HINT fcntl controls
      * stress-branch: optimization, remove a ! operator and align jmp table
      * stress-dev: add some extra per-device ioctl exercising
      * Makefile.config: generalize header detection
      * stress-madvise: perform random file or anonymous mapping for MADV_FREE
      * Add 1 bit mwc function
      * stress-madvise: add MADV_KEEPONFORK advise flag
      * Add reverse I/O stressor: revio
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:33:39 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-sigio: don't build if missing various core functionality
      * stress-sigio: remove sigprocmask, this is not used now
      * Makefile: forgot to add the new stress-sigio stressor
      * Add new sigio asynchronous I/O SIGIO stressor
      * Add clone glibc wrapper autodetection, fixes ia64 builds
      * Manual: remove excessive misplaced escape chars
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:01:02 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: ensure proc_mask is zero'd before use
      * Makefile.config: make fdatasync test fail if prototype is different
      * stress-rawdev: fix warning on non-linux builds
      * Manual: add another contributor to the manual
      * stress-unshare: throttle back when resources are getting low
      * stress-rawdev: make min/max block size #define values
      * stress-rawdev: ensure blksize cannot be less than 512 bytes
      * stress-rawdev: don't allow insanely sized block sizes
      * stress-rawdev: add a keep stressing check inside wiggle 2nd loop
      * stress-rawdev: ensure shifted values are never zero
      * stress-rawdev: use correct type for reading block size
      * stress-resources: ensure we don't have too many resource forks
      * stress-resources: try hard not to get too many OOMs
      * stress-dev: disable /dev/hpet testing when running as root
      * debian/control: skip requirement of libkeyutils-dev for ia64
      * stress-matrix: fix broken xy vs yx matrix method selection
      * stress-vm: remove a duplicated check addr == ptr
      * stress-filename: compare to zero rather than <= 0
      * stress-fcntl.c: fix syntax errors
      * Update copyright year
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:47:57 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: only kill legitimate pids
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: make child processes more OOM-able
      * stress-rawdev: replace some spaces with tab for indentation
      * stress-ng.1: fix table for rawdev-method option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 4 Jan 2018 01:37:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile.config: remove need for LIBBSD for wchar.h path detection
      * stress-rawdev: fix linking failure on non linux systems
      * Add wchar.h and bsd/wchar.h path detection, makes stress-ng.h cleaner
      * Add rawdev raw device read stressor
      * stress-vecmath: use uint128_put for 128 bit integer
      * Move ALIGNED and SECTION macros to stress-ng.h
      * Add OPTIMIZE0 level zero optimization hint macro
      * stress-socket-diag: remove some consts, cleans up clang warnings
      * Use the FORMAT macro for some printf style functions
      * stress-vm: fix warning when building with PEDANTIC=1
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: fix unterminated comment
      * stress-timer: fix warning when building with PEDANTIC=1
      * stress-itimer: fix warning when building with PEDANTIC=1
      * stress-funccall: clean up warnings when building with PEDANTIC=1
      * stress-physpage: only close an opened fd_pc file descriptor
      * stress-tlb: fix incorrect affinity on cores
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:18:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add stress-version.h to make dist rules
      * test: clean up errors in config tests found by static analysis
      * Add lockf autoconfigure detection
      * stress-io: use HAVE_SYNCFS to detect syncfs availability
      * stress-dirdeep: use HAVE_SYNCFS to detect syncfs availability
      * Add syncfs autoconfigure detection
      * Add fdatasync autoconfigure detection
      * Add fsync autoconfigure detection
      * stress-flock: remove __sun__ restriction
      * Add posix_memalign autoconfigure detection
      * Add futimes autoconfigure detection
      * stress-zlib: remove restriction on __sun__
      * stress-wait: only disable for broken GNU/Hurd
      * Makefile.config: add -Werror to fix build warnings on Minix
      * Add mount autoconfigure detection for BSD and Linux
      * stress-rmap: remove build restrictions on non-linux systems
      * stress-ng: ensure utsname.h is included for non-linux builds
      * stress-get: ensure utsname.h is included for non-linux builds
      * stress-get: fix build error on non-linux platform
      * Add x86 cpuid autoconfigure detection
      * Add strlcpy strlcat string func autoconfigure detection
      * helper: clean up utsname includes
      * Add uname autoconfiguration detection
      * stress-msync: replace __minix__ with HAVE_MSYNC
      * stress-mincore: use the HAVE_MINCORE macro rather than __gnu_hurd__
      * Add sigwaitinfo and sigqueue autoconfig detection
      * stress-hdd: replace __gnu_hurd__ with more generic posix fadvise check
      * stress-wait: add notes on why this is disabled on GNU/Hurd
      * helper: use HAVE_SIGALTSTACK instead of minix and GNU/Hurd checks
      * stress-msync: enable build for GNU/Hurd
      * Add posix_openpt autoconfig detection
      * stress-mincore: remove extraneous space at end of error message
      * test/test-posix-fadvise: force failures GNU/Hurd
      * Add posix_fadvise autoconfig detection
      * test: force failures for mincore and msync for GNU/Hurd
      * stress-fcntl: fix incorrect usage of F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC flag
      * stress-get: remove __minix__ #define check
      * Add mincore autoconfig detection
      * Add msync autoconfigure detection
      * stress-mmap: call shim_msync rather than msync
      * Add mprotect autoconfigure detection
      * Add autoconfigure detection of sigaltstack
      * Add autodetection of mlockall and munlockall
      * Add mlock autodetection
      * Add getpgid autoconfigure detection
      * Add getpgrp autoconfigure detection
      * split out version macros into stress-version.h
      * Add dup3 autoconfigure detection
      * stress-trees: voidify return of get_setting for tree-method option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:12:01 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add more smarts in autodetecting wcs* functions
      * stress-tree fixes that got discovered after the 0.09.05 release:
        - stress-tree: minor changes to splay and rb tree setup and insertion
        - stress-tree: fix up tree method calling and add AVL tree
      * stress-tree: add binary tree
      * stress-tree: use faster method to populate data
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 8 Dec 2017 16:24:56 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: remove .xz tarball instead of .gz on make clean rule
      * debian/control: update Standards-Version to 4.1.2
      * Debian: watch: change watch URL to use .xz rather than .gz
      * Makefile: use xz compression on tarball make dist rule
      * Manual: Add more information in the tree description
      * stress-wcstr: fix build issues for GNU/kFreeBSD builds
      * Don't include bsd/wchar.h for GNU/kFreeBSD
      * libbsd test: Add *BSD support
      * stress-treee: don't build for __APPLE__
      * Add DragonFly BSD to BSD support for libbsd
      * stress-tree: fix build for systems without libbsd
      * stress-ng: add funccall mini help options.
      * Add libbsd tree stressor
      * test/test-libpthread: remove POSIX semaphore checks
      * stress-ng.h: fix indentation
      * Move put values into global union, saves > 40K on x86
      * Add the funccall function call stressor
      * Makefile: move fanotify stressor to correct alphabetical order place
      * stress-dev: perform open with O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY for ioctl opens
      * stress-clone: catch OOM'ing clone stressors and re-spawn them
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:20:46 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-sigsegv:  catch SIGBUS for systems such as __APPLE__
      * stress-fault: catch SIGBUS for systems such as __APPLE__
      * stress-mmapaddr: cast uint64_t value to intptr_t
      * stress-mmapaddr: set addr correctly, fixes null ptr issue
      * stress-mmapaddr: add mremapping if supported
      * stress-mmapaddr: add MAP_LOCKED random flag setting
      * stress-mmapaddr: 2nd mmap should check remap addr, and add MAP_32BIT
      * stress-mmapaddr: add random MAP_FIXED flag
      * Add stress-mmapaddr random address mmap stressor
      * stress-icache: remove constification of page_addr
      * stress-hrtimes: make a couple functions static
      * stress-vm-rw: constify pointer ctxt
      * stress-vm: add a couple of constifications in macros
      * stress-userfaultfd: constify a couple of function args
      * stress-tmpfs: constify rnd
      * stress-stream: constify advice in struct stream_madvise_info_t
      * stress-socket: constify type in struct socket_type_t
      * stress-pty: fix typo in comment
      * stress-mmapfork: constify ln
      * stress-mknode: constify greycode
      * stress-mincore: remove some empty lines
      * stress-mergesort: reorder statements and int declaration
      * stress-malloc: add some constifications
      * stress-ioport: constify flag
      * stress-icache: constify page_addr
      * stress-hdd: add some more constifications
      * stress-full: constify fields of a struct
      * stress-flock: constify ppid
      * stress-filename: add various variable constifications
      * stress-fiemap: add various variable constifications
      * stress-dirdeep: constify inodes_avail
      * stress-dentry: add a constification to a data structure
      * stress-clock: add a few more constifications
      * stress-branch: make array labels const
      * affinity: constify max_cpus
      * Add more comments to stress-ng.h
      * stress-vforkmany: call vfork syscall directly when possible
      * stress-open: only close fd's that have been opened
      * stress-cpu-online: only allow all CPUs to be offlined with 1 instance
      * stress-cpu-online: by default, don't offline/online CPU 0
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:46:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-physpage: move unsupported function
      * Add new physpage stressor
      * Manual: add more notes on the OOM behaviour of the stack stressor
      * Add in stressor name or core context as prefix in pr_dbg messages
      * stress-fanotify: write "test" rather than "foo"
      * stress-exec: don't allow this to run as root, skip rather than fail
      * stress-ng: remove semaphore.h, it is in stress-ng.h already
      * stress-hrtimers: don't kill pid 0
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:01:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update contributors names and date
      * README: update, add OS X instructions and add clean rule
      * shim: cast to int for brk for __APPLE__
      * stress-ng.h: fix missing _ off __APPLE_ macro name
      * Use shim_sbrk and shim_brk wrappers
      * Add shim for brk and sbrk
      * stress-pthread: use shim_sched_yield instead if pthread_yield
      * stress-ng.h: use shim spinlock in warn_once inline helper
      * pthreads: shim spinlocks so we can use mutex if not available
      * Makefile.config: add missing (
      * Make BSD library more flexible, especially with __APPLE__ arch
      * stress-inode-flags: reset flags to zero at end of loop (LP: #1730297)
      * stress-inode-flags: move counter to bump once per loop iteration
      * stress-random: enable random stressor for __APPLE__ arch
      * stress-filename: default to POSIX filename chars for __APPLE__
      * stress-filename: OS X can't have ':' in filenames
      * stress-fcntl: fix up incorrect name of failed system call
      * stress-fcntl: remove need for 2nd fd in F_DUPFD
      * stress-mmap: add MAC OS X mmap flags
      * stress-schedpolicy: disable this for __APPLE__ arch
      * sched: detect __APPLE__ and don't used sched funcs for this arch
      * stress-zlib: correct text start/end for all OS choices
      * test/test-libpthread: ensure we check all pthread functionality
      * Update README.Android notes
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 7 Nov 2017 14:54:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-fcntl: fix build issue when F_OWNER_PGRP is not
        defined (LP: #1709905)
      * Makefile: remove special rule for wcstr
      * stress-rmap: fix bogo-ops max checks
      * stress-memthrash: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-iomix: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-sleep: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-socket-diag: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-socketpair: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-stack: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-dirdeep: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-sigsuspend: catch SIGUSR1 to avoid children getting killed
      * stress-nice: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-aio: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-shm-sysv: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-shm: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-sem-sysv: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-sem: make bogo-ops checking more granular
      * stress-resources: make bogo-ops check more granular
      * stress-open: make bogo-ops check more granular
      * stress-key: increment counter on tidy phase
      * stress-inode-flags: don't over-run bogo-ops count
      * stress-dup: check for bogo-ops more accurately
      * stress-dev: make bogo-ops count on per directory
      * stress-sysfs: make bogo-ops count on per directory
      * stress-timerfd: fix bogo-ops, counter was not being incremented
      * stress-vm: fix bogo_ops threshold checks
      * stress-yield: fix bogo-ops timeout and accounting
      * stress-iomix: improve counter checking to make termination more
        responsive
      * stress-itimer: ensure we stop timers when timer handler is saturated
      * stress-hrtimers: ensure we stop timers when timer handler is saturated
      * stress-timer: ensure we stop timers when timer handler is saturated
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:06:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.09.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump major version
      * Makefile Add perf-event.c and usr.bin.pulseaudio.eg to dist rule
      * test/test-mathfunc.c: ensure link fails if function is not available
      * Add exporting of MATHFUNC for BSD builds
      * stress-ng: fix typo in comment
      * shim: remove leading tab on empty line
      * Add hrtimers stressor
      * sched: use pr_* logging and quiet flags rather than fprintf
      * Add CFLAGS and add -I to path so that stress-ng.h can be included
      * Add ioport (port 0x80) stressor
      * stress-resources: don't abort early on cleanup, fixes msg leaking
      * stress-cpu: use L suffix for all long double constants
      * stress-bigheap: cast uint8_t ptr to void * for %p format
      * stress-af-alg: remove unused macro SEMI_BLOCK_SIZE
      * stress-affinity: cast return type from stress_get_processors_configured
      * Remove ; at end of macro STRESS
      * Makefile: remove the rm of test-decimal.c, it is now redundant
      * Makefile: remove cpu decimal float test, it is in the Makefile.config
      * Move test config sources to test directory
      * stress-dev: catch SIGKILL et al on device access breakage
      * debian/control: change Priority to optional
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:56:32 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * debian/control: update Standards-Version to 4.1.1
      * stress-hsearch: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-vm: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-ng: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-radixsort: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-shm: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-zlib: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-udp: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-mlock: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-sigsuspend: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-tsearch: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-stream: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-yield: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * test-libbsd: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-scpt: remove extraneous space
      * stress-qsort: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-opcode: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-mergesort: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-lsearch: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-heapsort: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stess-fiemap: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-cpu: fix setting of data values for stats data
      * stress-cpu: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-cpu-online: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-bsearch: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-apparmor: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-aio: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * perf: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * cache: use sizeof on size of object and not the type
      * stress-cpu: add statistics computations (stats cpu method)
      * Add eventfd autodetection
      * Add chroot autodetection
      * stress-cap: remove __linux__ check
      * stress-netdev: make errno EADDRNOTAVAIL non-fatal
      * Makefile: re-organize, put config probing into Makefile.config
      * Add swapcontext autoconfig detection
      * stress-zlib: add handler to catch code text read faults
      * stress-cyclic: print 64 bit signed 0 value dist stats correctly
        on 32 bit arch
      * stress-cyclic: fix up bucket info
      * stress-cyclic: dump more buckets and don't show lots of trailing
        zeros
      * stress-fiemap: add more yield points for snappier termination
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:27:43 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * debian/control: update Standards-Version to 4.1.0
      * perf: rename perf_info argument to pi to avoid shadowing warning
      * README: update number of stressors
      * stress-procfs: add some seeks to further exercise procfs
      * test-mathfunc: ensure we link in the math func
      * Fix test-mathfunc checks - fails on BSD.
      * Makefile: add test-mathfunc.c and add it to dist rule
      * Makefile + stress-cpu: add autodetection of missing math functions
      * perf: inline perf_type_tracepoint_resolve_config
      * perf: remove need for prefix of PERF_COUNT_ on perf counter names
      * perf: remove need for the HW_CACHE wrapper macro
      * perf: move PERF_INFO_TP macro
      * perf: increase width of label by 1 char
      * perf: rename STRESS_GOT to STRESS_PERF_DEFINED
      * Remove perf_get_counter_by_index, simplify code
      * Move perf_scale_t and perf_scale, make array const too
      * perf: remove helper function perf_get_label_by_index
      * perf: simplyify event handling, remove need for ids
      * stress-ng.h: remove redundant minix #if def
      * perf: remove some white spaces before tabs. bad formatting
      * perf: add some more perf hardware events
      * perf: add more trace point events
      * perf: fix spelling mistake in comment
      * perf: Add more units scaling, for when processors run really fast
      * Manual: update contributors
      * stress-key: bump timeout to 7200 seconds from 1 second
      * stress-opcode: fix build warning when SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER is
        not defined
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 9 OCt 2017 10:15:36 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-aio-linux: automatically scale requests (LP: #1711675)
      * stress-socket-diag: sockdiag_send zero return should be checked
      * stress-socket-diag: sockdiag_send should return 0 on stress test end
      * stress-socket-diag: ensure name is sockdiag and not sock-diag
      * Add swapon/off stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:17:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * Abstract a shim for off64_t
      * shim: fix typo, error should be errno
      * stress-opcode: don't use seccomp if SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER is not defined
      * stress-memrate: add volatile in void cast to fix buildw arning
      * stress-socket-diag: constify attr and cast
      * shim: move iopriority shims from io-priority.c to shim.c
      * stress-pthread: fix typo mutx -> mutex
      * Add cpu-online and oom-pipe stressors to the pathological class
      * shim: move shim_sync_file_range from stress-sync-file to shim
      * shim: use __NR_futex instead of SYS_futex in syscall
      * stress-dup: use dup3 shim
      * shim: add shim to dup3
      * stress-mincore: reset random address if it matches previous address
      * syscalls.txt: update
      * stress-clock: add half-baked attempt to set timer
      * helper: remove extraneous and incorrect < 0 after prctl call
      * fix -x exclude option
      * stress-ng: make index size_t type
      * stress-opcode: add seccomp filtering to limit syscalls
      * helper: stress_drop_capabilities: don't allow new privileges
      * Enable SCHED_DEADLINE and rework some abstraction interfaces
      * timers: cast to type of tv fields rather than long long int
      * stress-madvise: add MADV_WIPEONFORK
      * stress-vforkmany: cleanup build warnings on munmap on openindiana
      * stress-memrate: cleanup build warnings on munmap on openindiana
      * stress-matrix: cleanup build warnings on munmap on openindiana
      * temporarily disable SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:35:59 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Update TODO list
      * Add a latin (Lorem Ipsum) random text mode to zlib method
      * test-mq-posix: force failure for GNU/HURD
      * test-mq-posix: fix build failure because of missing <signal.h>
      * stress-resources: clean up warning when POSIX MQs are not available
      * include <sys/uio.h> in stress-ng.h
      * stress-mq: make build depend on HAVE_MQ_POSIX being defined
      * Add branch stressor that exercises process branch prediction
      * stress-memrate: perform oom adjustment in child earlier than allocation
      * test-sock-diag: voidify array unix_diag to work around clang warning
      * stress-kcmp: fix kcmp shim and fully implement KCMP_EPOLL_TFD stressor
      * stress-semaphore: make POSIX semaphores depend on HAVE_SEM_POSIX
      * stress-resources: waste POSIX message queues
      * stress-resources: waste SYSV message queues
      * stress-resources: waste SYSV semaphores
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:59:01 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * stress-rdrand: use 32 bit rdrand for i386
      * stress_drop_capabilities: voidify name to avoid warning
      * Enable 64 bit large file system support by default
      * debian/rules: Add hardening=+all
      * manual: fix several spelling mistakes
      * stress-cpu: fix spelling mistake "assigment" -> "assignment"
      * stress-ng: fix spelling mistake "afer" -> "after"
      * stress-opcode: drop all capabilties so we can't do much
        damage (LP: #1714044)
      * helper: add stress_drop_capabilities to drop all capabilities
      * stress-socket-diag: use new HAVE_SOCK_DIAG_H build time check flag
      * Add sock_diag.h auto configure build time checking
      * Add sockdiag stressor
      * stress-fcntl: fix build failure on SLES11 SP4 (LP: #1709905)
      * stress-cyclic: fix build warning on systems w/o atomic ops
      * stress-softlockup: fix build warning on systems w/o atomic ops
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:06:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * helper: add more debug to filenames to help debugging
      * stress-inode-flags: fix incorrect path being used on
        directory (LP: #1712857)
      
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:59:33 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-zlib: use _start for OpenBSD builds
      * stress-zlib: don't build objcode stress method for sun targets
      * Manual: update date
      * Add objcode zlib stressor method to compress object code data
      * stress-zlib: sort zlib methods by name
      * exit immediately on end of --stressors option
      * stress-inode-flags: remove temp file and directory
      * Fix comment in helper
      * stress-radixsort: fix warning on calloc sizeof
      * Add new inode-flags stressor
      * stress-dev: correct a comment
      * stress-dev: add select and F_GETSIG fcntl calls
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:11:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dirdeep: fix warning on unused variable ret on BSD systems
      * Update manual description for the --all option
      * job: allow classes to be run as jobs (LP: #1706970)
      * stress-dirdeep: don't remove directories in main exercise function
      * return EXIT_SUCCESS for class cpu? class command
      * stress-dirdeep: exercise files rather than create/delete
      * manual: fix wording in memthrash table
      * stress-dirdeep: Fix inode accounting, add more -v information feedback
      * Add --dirdeep-inodes option to limit of inodes being consumed:
      * parse-opts: don't allow negative percentages
      * Add stress_get_filesystem_available_inodes to get inode number
      * Add generialized percentage opt parser get_uint64_percent
      * helper: remove debug message from stress_get_filesystem_size
      * stress-ng: ensure --version option terminates immediately
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 7 Aug 2017 21:31:32 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-memrate: don't fail so badly when we can't allocate memory
      * stress-ng: fix segfault on --memcpy, requires 1 arg and not zero
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-cpu: Minix also does not have lgammal so work around this
      * stress-dirdeep: fix clang + Minix build warning, cast char to int
      * stress-memrate: add OOM check detection
      * stress-cpu: NetBSD does not have lgammal so work around this
      * stress-radixsort: fix build issues on systems w/o libbsd
      * Add new memrate stressor
      * shim: trivial fix to comment typo
      * stress-cpu: optimize factorial calculation
      * job: avoid memory overflow on strncpy on txt
      * Add --matrix-yx option
      * iterate over size of classes and remove need for terminator
      * stress-radixsort: remove casting, clean up build warning with PEDANTIC=1
      * README: Add notes on PEDANTIC builds
      * No need to extern define opterr, it is already defined in getopt.h
      * Fix static build issues with the use of getpwuid
      * Add longjmp handling to unwind parsing errors
      * Improve job error handling
      * Add a LIKELY annotation to the 75% likely path on mwc8()
      * Add a radixsort CPU/memory/cache stressor
      * stress-rmap: force faster termination and cleanups
      * stress-ng.h: forgot to commit matrix size increase to 8192
      * stress-matrix: scale up default float values by 65535
      * stress-matrix: don't allocate matrices on the stack, mmap them instead
      * stress-icache: call shim_cacheflush to flush ICACHE
      * Add --vm-madvise option
      * stress-ng: forgot to add in stream-madvise option in help
      * stress-resources: make memory mappings private and exercise random madvise
      * stress-vm: make mappings private, helps with hugepage madvise
      * stress-shm: make mappings private, helps with hugepage madvise
      * stress-memthrash: make mappings private, helps with hugepage madvise
      * stress-stream: add --stream-madvise option
      * manual: fix typo, --no-advise should be --no-madvise
      * stress-fcntl: add 4.13 hints F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:34:47 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * manual: update date
      * stress-filename: sanity checks on sz_max file size
      * stress-cyclic: fix build warning on non-linux platforms
      * stress-open: ignore open_pt if building on GNU/HURD
      * make str const char *, fixup some PEDANTIC=1 build warnings
      * setting: fix const warnings with PEDANTIC=1
      * stress-ng: make get_nth_proc a static function
      * job: rename argc to new_argc to fix shadowing parameter argc
      * stress-vforkmany: fix PEDANTIC=1 build warning on munmap
      * stress-softlockup: remove duplicate ret
      * Rename tmp vars so we don't shadow pid
      * stress-memthrash: fix build warnings with PEDANTIC=1
      * stress-fstat: remove extraneous cast to void *
      * stress-dev: don't make path const
      * Rename array dccp_opts dccp_options to avoid name clashes
      * stress-static: make a few local functions static
      * exit_status: make it a WARN_UNUSED function
      * stress-iomix: add FS_IOC_GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS inode operations
      * stress-open: use posix_openpt and O_NOCTTY flag
      * stress-zombie: zombie-max should not be a byte size value
      * stress-vm: vm-hang option should be a time based option
      * stress-tsearch: tsearch-size should not be a byte size value
      * stress-sleep: sleep-max should not be a byte size value
      * stress-sem: sem-procs should not be a byte size value
      * stress-sem-sysv: sem-sysv-procs should not be a byte size value
      * stress-qsort: qsort-size should not be a byte size value
      * stress-pty: pty-max should not be a byte size value
      * stress-pthread: pthread-max should not be a byte size value
      * stress-mq: mq-size should not be a byte size value
      * stress-mergesort: mergesort-size should not be a byte size value
      * stress-memfd: memfd-fds option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-matrix: matrix-size option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-lsearch: lsearch-size option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-hsearch: hsearch-size option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-heapsort: heapsort-size option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-fork: fork-max and vfork-max options should not be a byte size value
      * stress-exec: exec-max option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-bsearch: bsearch-size option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-clone: the clone-max option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-dir: chdir-dirs option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-dirdeep: add a --dirdeep-dir option to make more dirs per level
      * stress-dir: dir-dirs option should not be a byte size value
      * stress-socket-fd: remove process name change on client and server
      * stress-memthrash: make child processes OOM-able
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:40:50 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * test-inotify: initialize variable i to zero
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-cyclic: add pselect sleep method
      * stress-rmap: fix comment, remove 'of'
      * stress-netlink-proc: add more PROC event types
      * Add inotify build time detection
      * stress-get: re-format macro, no functional change
      * stress-dup: use fcntl(2) F_DUPFD to perform a dup
      * stress-dnotify: check if F_NOTIFY is available
      * test-fanotify: clean up some static analysis warnings
      * Ensure plural of cpus online and configured is correct
      * Add fanotify build time detection
      * stress-softlockup: fix builds where RLIMIT_RTTIME is not defined
      * stress-fanotify: only build if FAN flags are defined
      * stress-cyclic: fix build where RLIMIT_RTTIME is undefined (LP: #1700484)
      * test-sem-posix: voidify returns
      * test-mq_sysv: voidify ret rather than msg
      * stress-socket-fd: don't force overcommit on fd allocations (LP: #1692668)
      * stress-cyclic: use check_range instead of check_range_bytes for
        scalar values
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:09:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Debian/control: update standards version to 4.0.0
      * Make test-sem-sysv.c fail for GNU/HURD
      * Make test-mq-sysv.c fail for GNU/HURD
      * Make test-affinity fail for GNU/HURD
      * stress-cyclic: fix build issues on non-Linux platforms
      * Clean up some warnings found on test config code
      * Add --cyclic-method to cyclic measurements stressor
      * Add build-time checks for SYSV shared memory APIs
      * stress-sigsegv: add NOCLOBBER hint to fix warning with gcc 5.4.1
      * test-sem-posix: include time.h to build on BSD
      * stress-sem-sysv: make semtimedop a linux only feature
      * Add build-time checks for SYSV message queues
      * Forgot to add in new test-mq-posix.c test source
      * Add build-time checks for POSIX message queues
      * Add in cyclic help options
      * stress-vforkmany: add self adjusting waste memory allocation
      * stress-vforkmany: make child processes larger to be more OOM'able
      * stress-socket-fd: Add checks for sendmsg failures
      * stress-socket-fd: send SIGALRM rathe rather than SIGKILL to child
      * Add new --cyclic-dist distribution option
      * stress-vforkmany: allow children to be OOM'd (LP: #1698747)
      * sem-sysv: add linux checks for linux only semctl commands
      * Add SYSV semaphore autodetection at build time
      * job: voidify some function returns and constify len
      * stress-cyclic: fix tab/spacing indentation
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:33:49 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * test-sem-posix: don't build for FreeBSD kernels
      * stress-cyclic: only produce stats for first instance 
      * stress-sem: hust build on systems that provide POSIX semaphores
      * stress-madvise: fix build warning with clobbered sz with gcc 3.4.3
      * stress-vm: fix build warning on munmap
      * stress-fcntl: fix build issue on kFreeBSD
      * stress-softlockup: fix build error on GNU/HURD
      * stress-madvise: fix another BSD build warning
      * stress-madvise: fix build warnings on BSD
      * stress-cyclic: fix build issues on non-Linux systems
      * Add build time checks for POSIX semaphores
      * stress-cyclic: add NOCLOBBER hints to avoid gcc 4.9.2 longjmp warnings
      * fix bogo ops setting, this was broken in the set/get settings changes
      * stress-cyclic: avoid division by zero error
      * Add new real time cyclic stressor
      * Propagate stressor killed status back up to parent
      * Make --class cpu? exit 0 rather than 1
      * stress-fcntl: only build in fd_get when it is required
      * stress-fcntl: only build in check_return if required
      * test-affinity: voidify unused rc return
      * stress-sigsegv: remove redundant null assignment to ptr
      * stress-rlimit: reduce scope of fds, ptr and oldbrk
      * stress-softlockup: constify fields in data structure
      * stress-seccomp: check for specific macros after including the headers
      * Add --abort option to force all stressor to abort if a stressor fails
      * stress-softlockup: try to synchronize start of all children
      * stress-futex: use shim'd futex calls
      * Add abstraction shims to futex operations
      * madvise: fix build failure because of incorrect build config check
      * Add new softlockup stressor, use with caution
      * Forgot to add test-affinity.
      * Add madvise build time checks
      * Add test-affinity to dist rule
      * stress-clock: don't do zero nanosecond sleeps
      * Add automatic affinity checking at build time
      * stress-sigsegv: produce fault using write to read-only page
      * stress-vforkmany: remove as many calls as possible
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:42:56 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * debian/control: use libgcrypt20-dev (Closes: #864137)
      * stress-kcmp: add new KCMP_EPOLL_TFD to enums
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:12:14 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-pthread: don't use pthread_yield for NetBSD and Solaris
      * stress-wait: fix waitpid, make sure it's waiting with correct flags
      * stress-wait: fix WCONINUED typo and add better waitpid error detection
      * stress-nice: where possible force a sched yield
      * stress-memcpy: force calls to memcpy and memmove
      * stress-longjmp: remove extraneous tab
      * stress-matrix: Add a few more simple matrix method
      * stress-longjmp: make it a little more stressy
      * Add OPTIMIZE1 -O1 optimization hint
      * Add NOINLINE macro for forcing no-inlining of small functions
      * stress-exec: Make exec fail detection more intelligent
      * Add comment hinting to fallthrough macro to help static analyzers
      * stress-epoll: fix comment about delay time
      * stress-cpu: make macro args distinguishable from function names
      * stress-cpu: correct a comment function name
      * stress-pthread: add pthread_yield() call for more scheduler stress
      * cache: add in missing const to argument
      * cache: minor code clean ups
      * constify set/get setting function args
      * stress-aio-linux: use DIRECT_IO and aligned buffers
      * Remove the main_opt_t and set/get these using the set/get settings
      * perf: constify n in perf_yaml_label
      * stress-cpu: add factorial computation and approximations method
      * manual: update contributors list, add Abdul Haleem
      * stress-ng: help: fix typo and replace method m with method M
      * stress-cpu-online: EBUSY shouldn't be a fatal error
      * Fix: Macro defination for SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER
      * stress-socket-fd: fix fork failures correctly, make child oomable
      * stress-memthrash: try harder to get mmap'd memory
      * Update documentation and help for timeout, specify times in T
      * stress-ng: remove white space in some -ops help information
      * move help_t to main stress-ng.c as it's just local to that source
      * move ionice help to the generic options
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 1 Jun 2017 17:32:58 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-dev: don't build for __sun__, it does not have DT_* macros
      * example-jobs/device.job: Add dev stressor
      * Move the --dev stressor to the CLASS_DEV class
      * example-jobs/memory.job: add memthrash example
      * Expand the default run time text into human time units for large times
      * stress-dev: remove linux only build constraint
      * stress-dev: use pthread_args_t rather than a special context struct
      * Makefile: update perf rule to match output of other CC rules
      * stress-dev: ensure we check for all watchdog names
      * Make zero timeouts run forever.
      * Add dev stressor to exercise /dev entries
      * stress-sockpair: make parent less oomable than the child
      * stress-memthrash: optimization tweaks, makes it run a bit hotter
      * stress-memthrash: add OOM detection handling
      * stress-memthrash: Add MAP_POPULATE to mmap'd region
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 May 2017 13:26:50 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-memthrash: implement stress_set_memthrash_method for
        non-pthread builds
      * stress-memthrash: provide some feedback about the method being used
      * typedef a pproc_info_t ptr to proc_info_t type, we can use this on g99
      * Revert "Use g11 as we are using C11 forward typedef declarations"
      * Use g11 as we are using C11 forward typedef declarations
      * stress-zlib: no need to initialize info
      * stress-str: no need to initialize info
      * stress-matrix: no need to initialize info
      * stress-cpu: no need to initialize info
      * stress-wcs: replace static option with set/get option settings
      * stress-wcs: rename stress_wcs_stressor_info_t to
        stress_wcs_method_info_t
      * stress-vm: rename stress_vm_stressor_info_t to stress_vm_method_info_t
      * stress-str: rename stress_str_stressor_info_t and use set/get method
      * stress-matrix: rename stress_matrix_stressor_info_t to
        stress_matrix_method_info_t
      * stress-cpu: rename stress_cpu_stressor_info_t to
        stress_cpu_method_info_t
      * Add --memthrash-method methods
      * stress-cpu: move HOT OPTIMIZE3 to correct function
      * thermal-zone: fix tab indentation
      * Add memthrash memory thrashing stressor
      * TODO: remove acl from list, it is covered by stress-xattr.c
      * stress-netdev: remove unused macro MAX_INTERFACES
      * Add new netdev (network device) stressor
      * stress-fork: remove unused static option variables
      * Add #! handling in jobs, allow one to run stress-ng from a job script
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 May 2017 17:03:49 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.08.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version to 0.08.00
      * Makefile: add test-aligned-128.c to dist rule
      * stress-vm: voidify return from get_setting call
      * Add an example job that exercises all the matrix methods
      * Quote the name of the stressor method to make it clearer
      * Allow multiple instances of the same stressor to be run
      * stress-vm: use new set/get_setting on vm-method option
      * stress-matrix: use new set/get_setting on matrix-method option
      * stress-cpu: add debug info on the cpu method being used
      * stress-ng: clean up some of the overly wide lines
      * Use struct field tags to specify field settings for new args_t
      * Comment new settings types
      * job: fix old gcc warnings, cast char to int before passing to isblank()
      * remove stressor_id_find(), it is no longer used
      * stress-iomix: voidify iomix_bytes for non-linux builds
      * stress-hdd: ensure flags are zero
      * Add check for no stress workers being run
      * Be tidy and free up stashed settings
      * stress-cpu: use set/get_settings on cpu-method option
      * stress-shm: allocate addr and shm_names on heap rather than stack
      * Ensure that when rounding to nearest page we don't round to zero
      * Add new set/get_settings() mechanism to stash settings
      * stress-vm-splice: ensure minimial mmap size is at least a page size
      * Use the correct number of procs for sequential running
      * Rework the proc info setup, clean up and refactor chunks of code
      * Pass a list of proc_info_t's to stress_run, remove not_runnable flag
      * Replace procs[] array with a doubly-linked list of proc_info_t
      * Track per stressor stats with a pointer to the shared stats data
      * stress-sync-file: clean up warning on signed integer comparison
      * More minor job fixups
      * scheduler.job: fix incorrect name of job
      * Add a hot-cpu example job
      * remove debug from --ignite-cpu option
      * Add scheduler class example job
      * manual: move mq options to correct location in man page
      * Add filesystem class example job
      * stress-hdd: ensure we do not divide by zero
      * test-libbsd: voidify returns from test calls
      * TODO: update things to do
      * Move number of instances into args struct, remove stressor_instances()
      * Add net class example job
      * Re-order the class names into alphabetical order
      * Add vm class example job
      * manual: add missing full stop in userfaultfd section
      * Add security class example job
      * Makefile: update dist and install rules to incorporate example jobs
      * Add pipe class example job
      * Add interrupt class example job
      * Add io class example job
      * Add device class example job
      * Add cpu-cache class example job
      * Add cpu class example job
      * Ensure stressor names are mungified from _ to - in class option
      * memory.job: make default run time 60 seconds per stressor
      * stress-mergesort: replace uint8_t sort with random mixer sort
      * stress-stream: remove args-> prefix from instance message
      * Add example memory job
      * man page: fix the resources option with line wrapping
      * man page: fix typo on sigpending-ops
      * Add new --job option allowing one to script stressors
      * split out arg parsing into a helper function, put opt data in a struct
      * snapcraft: remove icon and update snapcraft yaml
      * Add 128 byte cacheline alignment
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 6 May 2017 13:27:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.07.30-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-fstat: fix build warning on struct shim_statx bufx on BSD*
      * stress-fstat: don't use statx if AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW or
          AT_EMPTY_PATH are not defined
      * stress-rlimit: restore brk point without using
          sbrk(-MAX_RLIMIT_DATA)
      * stress-rlimit: fill in empty {} fields
      * Add statx system call to shim and fstat stressor
      * stress-ptrace: formally voidify return from various system calls
      * stress-lsearch: formally voidify return from lsearch() call
      * stress-cpu: ensure variable b and b_flt are not re-assigned
      * stress-*timer: explicitly use float rather than integer constant
      * STRESS_*BIT macros: cast 1 to desired type before shifting
      * stress-rlimit: formally voidify return from sbrk() call
      * stress-get: formally voidify returns from get*() calls
      * stress-chroot: fix missing else in fork return state checks
      * stress-cpu: use helper to write data to sysfs
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:06:02 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.07.29-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * mwc: flush cached 8 and 16 bit values on reseeds (LP: #1681503)
      * voidify returns from various function calls
      * out-of-memory: #define constants and use these
      * Use the stress_handle_stop_stressing for child case
      * extern stress_handle_stop_stressing as it is a useful generic handler
      * Use new stress_sig_stop_stressing helper
      * Add stress_sig_stop_stressing helper to flag up end of stressing
      * stress-cpu-online: minor formatting clean-up of source
      * oomable option does not have any args, fix that
      * Add new --oomable option to stop OOM'd stressors from being restarted
      * stress-rlimit: add more rlimit limits, fix CPU limits
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:54:26 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.07.28-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * shim: voidify flags argument to shim_mlockall
      * stress-mlock: forgot to use shim_mlockall rather than mlockall
      * stress-mlock: use munlockall/mlockall shims, rename mlock_shim to do_mlock
      * shim: add shims for mlockall and munlock all
      * mwc: optimize 8 and 16 bit mwc functions (LP: #1677645)
      * stress-ng.h: remove unused macro STRESS_IONICE
      * Clean up some formatting of macros and long lines
      * rename type stress_op to stress_op_t
      * rename type stress_id  to stress_id_t
      * stress-ng.h: rename type stress_func to stress_func_t
      * stress-cpu: verify idct method more efficiently
      * Add autoconfig test for 64 byte alignment too
      * Fix test for 64K alignment (instead of 64 byte)
      * Makefile: add missing .PHONY and correct spelling of .PHONEY
      * Add autodetection for 64 byte alignment of functions (LP: #1676834)
      * stress-rmap: use shim fallocated rather than posix_fallocate
      * Makefile: no need to make configuration when making pdf
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 30 Mar 2017 17:26:17 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.07.27-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: Add TODO list to make dist rule
      * manual: update date
      * stress-pty: don't conditionally build out stress_set_pty_max
      * Update TODO list
      * stress-memfd: use correct printf format specifier for uint64_t type
      * stress-chdir, stress-dir: remove unused static flags
      * stress-socket-fd: remove unused macro MAX_FDS
      * stress-memfd: fix comment
      * stress-chdir: correct the chdir-dirs option name
      * stress-chdir: set default to correct DEFAULT_CHDIR_DIRS
      * Add missing control for 4 stressors: (LP: #1676419)
      * - Add --pty-max option to specify max number of ptys to try to open
      * - Add --memfd-fds option to specify the number of memory file descriptors
      * - Add --dir-dirs option to specify number of directories to stress on
      * - Add --chdir-dirs option to specify number of directories
      * log: add some more comments
      * ignite-cpu: add some more minor comments
      * helper: add some more comments
      * stress-ng: add some more comments
      * stress-ng: remove some blank lines
      * mlock: remove const from m_addr_start to fix clang warning
      * stress-fanotify: remove const from metadata declaration
      * stress-cpu: remove unnecessary packed attribute on a union
      * rename optarg args to opt as these shadow the global oparg variable
      * fix up incorrect args to various stressors
      * net: make stress_set_sockaddr_port net_addr const
      * Minor layout re-formatting of long_options table
      * stress-ng: Set per stressor default settings using stressor_set_defaults
      * Manual: update copyright year
      * Add TODO list
      * stress-chroot: fix typo, ENODIR -> ENOTDIR
      * stress-vecmath: remove -O3 optimisation as this breaks gcc on ppc64el
      * Remove PEDANTIC=1 from makefile
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:49:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.26-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * fast-test-all: revert back to maximum of 4 stressors
      * stress-zero: disable write to /dev/zero for minix
      * shim: fix build error and warnings on Minix builds
      * stress-fstat: allow threadless builds for systems without pthreads
      * stress-ng: fix cppcheck style warnings: reduce scope of variables i and j
      * stress-fstat: reduce scope of variable fd
      * stress-zlib: clean up cppcheck style warnings
      * stress-stackmmap: clean up cppcheck style warning
      * stress-bind-mount: use args_t wrapper for clone to fix warning
      * Wrap const *args_t to pass non const void * arg to pthread_create
      * stress-tmpfs: constify array mmap_flags[]
      * stress-shm-sysv: constify array shm_flags[]
      * stress-opcode: constify static array sigs[]
      * stress-mmap: constify mmap_flags
      * stress-af-alg: constify static data structures
      * test-asm-nop: add copyright boiler plate message
      * Make default cache size information debug only
      * thrash: add some function comments
      * shim: add more comments
      * Use the mincore shim to hide BSD/linux 3rd argument differences
      * Add shim for mincore(2)
      * shim: madvise: map madvise advice to posix_madvise advice
      * stressors: use shim_madvise rather than madvise
      * Add shim for madvise(2)
      * stress-fp-error: check for EDOM, ERANGE (LP: #1674000)
      * Make FORCE_DO_NOTHING build in a nop before other ways of doing nothing
      * stress-matrix: align matrices to 64 bytes to reduce cache stalls
      * stress-matrix: use restrict on arrays for more compute
      * stress-icache: add missing support for PPC64
      * Add ppc64 arch to defined STRESS arch types
      * stress-icache: add missing support for IBM s390
      * Add s390 arch to defined STRESS arch types
      * stress-icache: don't build in 64K page support for ARMEL
      * Makefile: replace 'got' with 'using' in autoconfiguration text
      * stress-getrandom: check for EINTR failures (from SIGALRM)
      * Makefile: generate apparmor raw binary data silently
      * Explicitly call pr_closelog() and flush pending output (Closes: #857942)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:32:35 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.25-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * helper: avoid calling sched_cpu on ppc64le
      * Makefile: remove NOTPARALLEL, it's not helpful
      * fast-test-all: remove xattr as it can break some file systems
      * Makefile: don't autoconfig if we are making dist clean or install
      * stress-mlock: add in const to void when calling mlock
      * stress-icache: unconstify page_addr to clean up build warnings
      * stress-vm: rename ret to waitret to fix variable shadowing
      * stress-chroot: rename ret to waitret to fix variable shadowing
      * stress-chroot: rename static path to temppath
      * Makefile: display config steps and don't break if config is not available
      * Add NOPARALLEL to config rules
      * Makefile: Add .PHONY to rules
      * manual: forgot to add the manual from the zlib changes
      * stress-madvise: avoid overuse of MADV_HWPOISON (LP: #1672387)
      * vecmath: use gcc __int128_t types if they are available
      * Makefile: remove -g flag from default build
      * README: update number of stressors and examples on how to build
      * manual: update contributors list
      * manual: fix escape around - for a stress-ng iomix example
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:57:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-fstat: remove siglongjmp, bad idea in threads
      * stress-fstat: forgot to sigfillset on set
      * helper: use correct format specifier to print size_t variable
      * syscalls: add statx entry to table
      * stress-fstat: run multiple threads on fstat for more stress
      * stress-wait: fix spelling mistake in comment
      * stress-socketpair: remove empty line
      * stress-null: add mmap'ing and msync writes to /dev/null
      * stress-memcpy: add in structure copying
      * stress-flock: remove empty line
      * stress-zero: privately mmap to /dev/zero rather than shared map
      * stress-zero: add write to /dev/zero as this is also allowed
      * stress-zlib: remove redundant assignment to ret
      * stress-zlib: use PRIu64 format specifiers for uint64_t types
      * stress-fcntl: fix build warning on minix
      * helper: sigaltstack is available for GNU/HURD
      * helper: fix random segfaults because of setting stack start incorrectly
      * stress-zlib: clean up some tabbing/whitespace alignments in table
      * stress-ng: don't use stress_set_zlib_method if zlib is not available
      * helper: set sa_flags to SA_ONSTACK to fix stackmmap segfault
      * stress-stackmmap: ensure signal handler stack is not on the stack
      * stress-stackmmap: fix random segfaulting
      * stress-atomic: fix build of this stressor
      * Add a stress_sigaltstack alt stack helper and use helper
      * Revert "helper: ensure ss_flags are set to SA_ONSTACK"
      * helper: ensure ss_flags are set to SA_ONSTACK
      * helper: GNU/HURD and Minix don't support sigaltstack, so ignore this
      * stress_sighandler: ensure signal handlers use alternative signal stack
      * stress-stackmmap: jump back to main loop via swapcontext
      * Forgot to check in modifications to stress-ng.[ch] for the zlib changes
      * stress-zlib: add check sum sanity checking and --zlib-method
      * affinity: voidify returns from printf family of calls
      * voidify returns from fflush
      * voidify returns from printf family of calls
      * voidify return from kill()
      * voidify return from close, fclose and closedir
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:42:12 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.23-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-fcntl: minix does not require fd_get
      * helper: use STRESS_SC_PAGES as defined in previous commit
      * helper: try to use avg available phys pages and then total phys pages
      * stress-ng.h: Re-organise ordering and formatting of macros
      * Clean up the GCC attribute macros
      * Add ALWAYS_INLINE gcc macro, force inlining of some critical functions
      * Add a NORETURN gcc attribute macro and flag waste_resources accordingly
      * stress-vm: initialize bit_error_count as MAP_FAILED
      * stress-vm: check for bit errors and report them rather than ignoring them
      * stress-bigheap: ensure heap growth size is rounded to pagesize
      * Add new helper to check sizes in bytes and print in human readable format
      * Allow memory stressors to run with ridiculously large allocations
      * Allow one to specify sizes of files or memory in % of total available.
      * Manual: clarify --cpu-load and --cpu-slice options
      * Print out stressors in a class when using --class <name>?
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:02:01 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: update version
      * stress-vforkmany: move counter increment to pre-vfork stage
      * stress-vforkmany: don't call setpgid in a vfork child
      * stress-socket: unlink AF_UNIX path only if addr is not NULL
      * stress-dccp: unlink AF_UNIX path only if addr is not NULL
      * stress-iomix: remove redundant increments of posn
      * stress-iomix: ENOSPC on fallocate is a EXIT_NO_RESOURCE error
      * Update conversion tables, bytes and times
      * Emit metrics even when counter is zero if test has been successfully run
      * stress-futex: fix a broken comment
      * stress-ng: fix rounding error in bogo ops-calculation
      * stress-iomix: force page to be read even on high optimization levels
      * stress-iomix: fix mmap flags, should be PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE
      * stress-fcntl: reduce scope on variable fd
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:59:58 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add test-asm-nop.c to dist rule
      * Makefile: add config to dist rule
      * stress-fault: fix build on BSD, missing g_ prefix on keep_stressing_flag
      * Makefile: save and re-load configuration
      * stress-apparmor: prefix global data with g_
      * mwc: make __mwc static, it's not referred to globally nowadays
      * Prefix all globals with g_ to indicate they are in global scope
      * stress-chroot: make functions static
      * stress-iomix: fix build warnings with gcc 3.4.3
      * stress-ng.h: include strings.h for sun builds for rindex
      * shim: fix build warning on FreeBSD
      * stress-icache: forgot to add addr voidification
      * shim: handle ENOSYS on posix_fallocate by using emulated fallocate
      * stress-icache: fix warning when madvise does is not being used
      * Add no-op nop cycle waster stressor
      * stress-icache: cater for 4K, 16K and 64K page sizes and alignments
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:58:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * fast-test-all: print system information
      * stress-key: handle ENOSYS on KEYCTL_SET_TIMEOUT and bail out early
      * stress-iomix: remove redundant directory removal on fallocate failure
      * shim: add emulation for failed fallocate(2)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:08:01 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-iomix: don't use fdatasync on non-linux systems
      * stress-chroot: make this unsupported for non-Linux systems
      * stress-iomix: use shim_msync instread of msync for portability reasons
      * stress-iomix: only use fadvise on linux
      * stress-iomix: only use MAP_POPULATE on systems that provide this flag
      * stress-iomix: only use FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE on systems where it is available
      * Correctly default iomix size to 1GB
      * Move page_size to args struct, remove need for stress_get_pagesize calls
      * Add a new iomix mixed I/O stressor
      * stress-chroot: EINTR should not flag up as an error
      * Add a chroot stressor
      * Makefile: add pdf manual making rule
      * stress-socketpair: abort on read failure
      * stress-yield: remove args-> from instacne message text
      * stress-msync: add another missing \n
      * stress-sync-file: abort early on sync failures
      * stress-msync: add missing \n on error message
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 8 Feb 2017 13:47:31 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-resources: don't build in timer data if SIGUNUSED is not defined
      * mwc: move inlined functions back into mwc.c
      * stress-resources: don't build timer code of SIGUNUSED is not defined,
        fixes builds on mips, mips64el, alpha, sparc64
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:03:54 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * fast-test-all: add more feedback on failed or skipped tests at
        end of test
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: ensure we have a sensible number of child
        processes
      * stress-fcntl: disabled F_DUPFD_* stressors for minix
      * stress-fcntl: ensure we are not dup'ing onto an already open fd
      * stress-fcntl: only use flock64 for linux
      * stress-fcntl: fix F_OFD_GETLK error message
      * stress-fcntl: use flock64 for locking fcntl calls
      * stress-get: treat EOVERFLOW on prlimit as not a fatal error
      * mincore: fix incorrect inverted logic to test for minix
      * fix build warning with missing const on BSD builds
      * fix build warnings with missing const on GNU/HURD builds
      * Make opt_all and wait_flag static, they do not need to be global
      * Fix up some spelling mistakes
      * ignite-cpu: make settings static
      * rename opt_do_wait to wait_flag as a more appropriate name
      * rename opt_sigint to caught_sigint
      * Replace opt_do_run with keep_stressing_flag
      * mincore: ensure we touch pages even when calloc or mincore fail
      * stress-ng: func_supported should be a void arg
      * stress-resouces: add calloc resource suckage
      * stress-resources: add posix semaphore resource suckage
      * stress-resources: add timer resource suckage
      * stress-resources: add socketpair to resource suckage
      * Optimize mwc64/32/16/8 functions
      * stress-noop: add loop and inc to show minimal stressor example
      * Optimize __keep_running helper
      * Add LIKELY/UNLIKELY macros
      * time.c: add another constification
      * helper, stress-ng.h: add a couple more constifications
      * cache: more constifications, remove comment from #endif
      * perf: use scientific notation to define double constants
      * stress-sleep: constify cast
      * constify args_t *args parameters
      * cache.c, stress-ng.h: move generic_map to cache.c, make it a typedef
      * stress-ng.h: add some more comments to various fields
      * stress-fifo: fix wrap around detection
      * stress-get: need to assign ret before checking it
      * stress-fcntl: remove "name: " prefix in error message
      * stress-icache: add missing ; to fix *BSD build
      * stress-tmpfs: use args->pid instead of getpid on pid
      * stress-hdd: fix build issue on GNU/HURD
      * stress-atomic: fix missing ;
      * use a new helper keep_stressing() to check if we should keep on running
      * Fix up pr_msg va_args, requires a shim
      * log: make args const
      * make pr_* macros into shim functions, shrinks the build size
      * pr_fail always writes to stderr, so remove the need to specify the
        stream
      * pr_err always writes to stderr, so remove the need to specify the
        stream
      * pr_tidy always writes to stderr, so remove the need to specify the
        stream
      * pr_dbg always writes to stderr, so remove the need to specify the
        stream
      * pr_inf always writes to stdout, so remove the need to specify the
        stream
      * Remove need to pass name in pr_fail_err, pr_fail_errno, pr_fail_dbg
      * Add stress_temp_filename_args helper
      * Add stress_temp_dir_args helper
      * Add stress_temp_dir_rm_args helper to rmdir given stressor args
      * Add stress_temp_dir_mk_args helper to mkdir given stressor args
      * Use arg->pid and arg->ppid rather than getpid() and getppid
      * stress-tsc: fix missing typo
      * Add pid, ppid and re-order args to pack more efficiently in args_t
      * Pass args to stressors via a args_t struct
      * Use the new mmap_check/set helper funcs
      * Add mmap set/check helpers
      * thrash: perform some sanity checks on mmap ranges
      * stress-tmpfs: remove unnecessary mypid variable
      * Add a tmpfs file/mmap stressor
      * stress-af-alg: fix fd leak, add close on error exit path
      * stress-af-alg: check for null ptr on cmsg to keep clang scan happy
      * stress-resources: reduce scopeof slavename, make it const char *
      * stress-netlink-proc: reduce scope of newname
      * stress-vm-rw: return EXIT_NO_RESOURCE on resource failure
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:57:12 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * fast-test-all: remove vforkmany, this can be aborted by the OS
      * stress-numa: abort when no NUMA nodes found with EXIT_NO_RESOURCE
      * stress-numa: make determining number of nodes non-fatal
      * stress-numa: correctly deduce number of available NUMA memory
        nodes (LP: #1656419)
      * stress-*: make all pr_inf info messages write to stdout and not stderr
      * stress-numa: add some info about number of NUMA nodes found
      * stress-numa: add in better error failure abort and error return
      * stress-numa: probe for maximum number of NUMA nodes
      * stress-wcstr: fix build error for stress_wcscpy
      * stress-wcs: fix wcslcpy and wcslcat test cases
      * stress-wcs: improve failure detection, bail out early if tests fail
      * stress-str: fix strlcpy and strlcat test cases
      * stress-str: improve failure detection, bail out early if tests fail
      * stress-seccomp: add openat to system calls to fix failure on aarch64
      * stress-seccomp: use pr_fail for seccomp errors
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:44:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * fast-test-all: use --stressors to get the list of stressors
      * stress-ng: fix typo in tlb-shootdown-ops option
      * stress-ng: correct the alphabetical order of stressor names
      * fast-test-all: sync before running next test
      * mounts: cater for *BSD mount info fetching
      * stress-netlink-proc.c: fix build issue on non-Linux systems
      * Fix build issue introduced in commit 39025068b1fe1c2a72220
      * stress-ng.h: remove double line spacing, add some comments
      * Manual: update contributors list
      * stress-rename: fix incorrect end of test logic
      * stress-ng: minor cleanup of spacing, some inlining and comments
      * Remove white space and replace ^ . with \t
      * Forgot to add in stress-netlink-proc.c
      * Add netlink-proc stressor
      * stress-rlimit: force checking of run time in case we miss SIGALRM
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:43:22 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-socketpair: make stress_sockpair_oomable static
      * stress-socketpair: detect an oom-killed stressor
      * helper: don't use prctl PR_SET_DUMPABLE, it disables oom adjustment
        and hence we can easily overcommit when running as root (LP: #1654971)
      * out-of-memory: use /proc/self/... rather than /proc/$mypid/...
      * helper: use /proc/self/... rather than /proc/$mypid/...
      * stress-hsearch: don't free keys, some don't free them in hdelete
      * stress-vforkmany: use sighandler alternative stack
      * stress-context: make stack_sig static
      * Makefile: remove -g flag
      * stress-itimer: initialise start time
      * Add new --vforkmany stressor
      * stress-fanotify: ensure stress_fanotify_supported is built
      * Add fanotify stressor
      * Expand --get option in manual
      * stress-get: don't verify on adjtimex if not root, add sysfs calls
      * Add sysfs(2) shim wrapper
      * stress-membarrier: also exercise CMD QUERY
      * stress-dccp: report correct errno from connect failure
      * Makefile: update copyright year
      * update copyright year
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:32:10 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: rename check rule to fast-check-all
      * manual: update date
      * stress-udp: fix build warning on minix
      * stress-mmap: fix build issue with ms_flags on GNU/HURD and minix
      * add a make check rule to run debian/tests/fast-test-all
      * stress-pthread: add error checking on cond, mutex and spinlock init
      * add shim abstraction to msync, use this on various stressors
      * stress-pthread: check for init failures and use a spinlock on counter
      * add new dirdeep max depth directory stressor
      * README: Update info on libraries required for a full build
      * stress-cpu: fix missing bogo ops counter increment
      * enforce 64 byte alignment to buffer
      * stress-futex: fix typo in comment
      * ensure stacks are aligned to 64 byte boundaries
      * stress-hdd: use new align_address helper
      * helper: add align_address helper to align a address to power of 2 boundary
      * stress-sysinfo: only dump out info on number of mount points on instance 0
      * trivial typo in man page
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 27 Dec 2016 19:40:19 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-udp: minix fails on setsockopt SO_REUSEADDR, so ignore it
      * stress-get: don't use NULL delta, just pass a zero delta timeval struct
      * stress-fifo: catch EINTR as non-fatal error on open
      * stress-resources: fix warning message on unused parameter 'pipe_size'
      * debian/tests: remove dccp from fast-test-all
      * helper: fix build issues on non-linux targets
      * update date in the manual
      * stress-resources: add pty resource suckage
      * stress-resources: add inotify resource suckage
      * stress-resources: try to expande pipe to maximum allowed size
      * stress-oom-pipe: use stress_probe_max_pipe_size helper
      * helper: add stress_probe_max_pipe_size to fine max pipe size
      * Add Datagram Congestion Control Protocol dccp stressor
      * stress-resources: add single pthread as another resource hogger
      * ensure -v output is no wider than 80 chars to avoid line wrap on std tty
      * stress-schedpolicy: set policy with param, remove unused new_param
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:33:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * thrash: bump the priority to 10
      * thrash: use RR scheduler if possible on linux
      * stress-sctp: don't unlink on an address that is NULL
      * stress-schedpolicy: the set/get param was a bit unsound, fix it
      * stress-fault: silence a clang warning
      * stress-membarrier: pass thread arg as a ctxt_t * type
      * helper: make __stress_get_stack_direction static
      * stress-fstat: rename jump buffer to jmpbuf to avoid name shadowing
      * mlock: fix warning with older pre gcc 4.4 on solaris
      * helper: fix some more print pid_t warnings
      * fix warnings on printing pid_t type
      * stress-cpu: only use gcc optimise attribute on gcc 4.4 or higher
      * small cleanups to stress-ng.h
      * stress-personality: return EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED if no personalities exist
      * replace #ifdef with #if defined() as the default idiom
      * makefile: use grep -e instead of grep -f
      * add support macro for gcc-7 switch statement case fallthrough
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:15:14 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * add copyright boiler plate on fast-test-all
      * stress-personality: move memset to avoid  memset 0 sized array
      * forgot to add shim_getlogin to stress-ng.h
      * shim: add more secure version of getlogin
      * stress-mmapfork: fix typo on buffer sizeof
      * stress-link: ensure buffer returned from readlink is terminated with zero
      * shim_usleep: use nanosleep if it is available, fallback to older usleep
      * stressors: use shim_usleep instead of deprecated usleep
      * shim: abort early from shim_usleep if opt_do_run is false
      * add usleep shim
      * stress-opcode: rename signal handler dummy arg to signum
      * stress-membarrier: memset pthread_ret with correct size
      * stress-shm: use shim_fallocate rather than posix_fallocate
      * stress-hdd: workaround lack of posix_memalign on sun
      * stress-rmap: sun builds may not have posix_fallocate, so don't build it
      * stress-wait: work around long int pid_t warnings on Sun systems
      * stress-wcstr: sun wide char support has some wcs funcs missing
      * stress-flock: disable this stressor for sun machines
      * makefile: use -f instead of -e for Solaris versions of test
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:43:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * helper: fix cppcheck warning by initialising val1
      * stress-fstat: don't open /dev files to stat them when running as root
      * stress-fstat: don't bump counter if fstat fails
      * stress-fstat: perform end of test check earlier than later
      * stress-sync_file: use sync_file_range2() where required
      * allow for static building, using STATIC=1 make
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:41:22 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * add NOCLOBBER macro and make some variables noclobberable
      * stress-aio-linux: clean up clang warnings
      * remove need to pass an argument to stress_get_stack_direction
      * add smatchify script to make dist rule
      * add smatchify static analysis script
      * stress-userfaultfd: remove unnecessary exit_status call
      * stress-socket: fix inconsistent indenting
      * fast-test-all: remove tailing tabs
      * snapcraft Makefile: remove trailing whitespace
      * stress-daemon: clean up fd closing and add SIGALRM handler
      * make daemon stressor a little more responsive to SIGALRMs
      * make snapcraft confinement strict
      * getrandom: add support for systems that support getentropy(2)
      * shim: add comment about shim functions
      * helper: remove caches = NULL for non-linux systems to fix build error
      * shim: fall back to allocation via writes on fallocate
      * stress-yield: remove need to use alloca, use calloc instead
      * manual: add Luis to contributors list and sort names alphabetically
      * shim: fix userfaultfd failures due to a typo
      * increase STRESS_PROCS_MAX to 4096 for higher load on large iron
      * stress-userfaultfd: work around static analysis false positive on fd
      * stress-stream: avoid re-assignment of cpu_caches on linux case
      * trash: remove traced, it is serving no purpose
      * helper: don't re-assign cpu_caches on __linux__ build
      * net: iterate to the size of domains rather than using sentinel
      * affinity: remove #includes as these are included in stress-ng.h
      * stress-oom: add in missing space between ooms and =
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:45:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * fast-test-all: don't run spawn test for testing
      * fast-test-all: remove check for existence of stress-ng
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:55:33 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * update build rules for Solaris
      * add MINIX notes to README
      * shim: add check for posix_fallocate (fixes minix build error)
      * abstract loff_t as it is not available on *BSD systems
      * fix *BSD systems that don't support ino64_t and off64_t types
      * stress-fallocate: use shim_fallocate wrapper
      * shim: fix non-Linux build failure on shim_mlock2
      * stress-fallocate: remove __linux__ only constraints on modes
      * cache: make DCACHE and ICACHE #defines kernel gemeric
      * remove white space and tabs at end of lines
      * shim: add mlock2 system call to shim
      * shim: add sched_getattr and sched_setattr shims
      * shim: prefix linux_dirent* structs with shim_
      * stress-seal: use shim for memfd_create
      * stress-ng: minor re-ordering of structs and shim functions
      * shim: rename sys_ioprio_* to shim_ioprio_*
      * shim: add unshare system call to shim
      * shim: add seccomp system call to shim
      * shim: add userfaultfd system call to shim
      * shim: add some more __linux__ checks
      * stress-opcode: use shim_clear_cache
      * shim: add NUMA specific system calls to shim
      * shim: add memfd_create system call to shim
      * shim: add membarrier system call to shim
      * shim: add syslog system call to shim
      * shim: add kcmp system call to shim
      * shim: add __clear_cache GNUC cache clearing helper to shim
      * shim: add getramdom system call to shim
      * shim: add getdents and getdents64 system calls to shim
      * shim: add getcpu system call to shim
      * stress-get: use shim_gettid
      * shim: add gettid system call to shim
      * shim: add fallocate system call to shim
      * shim: add copy_file_range system call to shim
      * shim: add cacheflush system call to shim
      * add shim abstraction layer for sched_yield()
      * fast-test-all: add some feedback on when a test is being run
      * use pr_fail_err on some more error messages
      * fast-test-all: allow for STRESS_NG to specify stress-ng
      * stress-epoll: fix build for GNU/HURD
      * move all common #includes into stress-ng.h
      * stress-ng.h: Add alloc.h include for sun arch
      * stress-ng.h: include some more common headers and define _GNU_SOURCE
      * stress-schedpolicy: fix broken counter, it was never being incremented
      * stress-resources: fix broken counter, it was never being incremented
      * stress-personality: fix broken counter, it was never being incremented
      * stress-fp-error: fix broken counter, it was never being incremented
      * fix broken counter, it was never being incremented
      * stress-bind-mount: fix broken counter, it was never being incremented
      * stress-handle: fix memory leak on line and also bump counter
      * stress-apparmor: free apparmor_path to fix minor memory leak
      * ensure cache region is free before termination
      * stress-fstat: use sigsetjmp instead of sigjmp
      * wrap some overly wide lines
      * use pr_fail_err() instead of pr_fail where appropriate
      * reduce scope of iterator variable i
      * remove alloca in stressor_name_find
      * remove space prefixed on klog-ops option
      * mincore: touch pages even when mincore fails
      * update syscalls.txt
      * stress-schedpolicy: add sched_setattr/sched_getattr calls for Linux
      * stress-schedpolicy: add more sched syscalls, clean up code
      * add schedpolicy stressor
      * stress-ng.h: change macro param name in STRESS macro
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:43:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version and update codename
      * stress-fstat: fix resource leak on dp on error exit path
      * stress-fstat: forcibly abort any system call on SIGALRM
      * stress-aio-linux: use return as errno rather than errno
      * stress-aio-linux: use return as errno rather than errno
      * Need to #include <sched.h> when using clone(2)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:55:21 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add SIGUSR2 load average and memory stats information
      * Makefile: don't remove apparmor-data.o
      * Rename stress_sethandler to stress_set_handler
      * Manual: add notes on how to properly terminate stress-ng
      * Add SIGHUP to comment about terminating stress-ng
      * Makefile: clean up objects and apparmor-data.o
      * affinity: add some comments to functions
      * stress-cpu: add some optimisation hints
      * stress-cpu: add some more precision to constants
      * stress-fallocate: verify file size if posix_fallocate succeeded
      * stress-aio-linux: check for io_setup resource failures (LP: #1640547)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:42:12 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-ioprio: use current pgrp and not global pgrp (LP: #1640631)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:01 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: Add exit status 4 EXIT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED to documentation
      * Treewide: remove messy #if defined() build checks
      * Allocate io_reqs on heap rather than alloca
      * Makefile: re-format PEDANTIC CFLAGS
      * stress-fiemap: fix up --fiemap-bytes option
      * stress-sock-fd: add --sockfd-port option
      * Add PEDANTIC build flags for extra checking
      * stress-icache: fix volatile cast warning
      * stress-vm: fix volatile cast warning
      * stress-socket: fix shadowing on addr
      * stress-mincore: addr does not need to be volatile
      * stress-ng, thermal_zone, remove shared param, it is global
      * parse-opts: fix char * cast warnings
      * perf: remove (char *) cast
      * helper: fix warnings
      * use gnu printf style attributes to pr_yaml
      * helper: cast pointer to const to fix warning
      * stress-poll: fix shadowing on ret, rename one to rc
      * Fix various bad castings for munge_underscore
      * stress-oom-pipe: fix shadowing on fd, rename to pfd to avoid confusion
      * stress-mq: remove shadowing variable attr
      * stress-hdd: remove duplicate declarations of ret; make it a ssize_t
      * stress-ng: make helper functions static
      * thrash: rename pid to thrash_pid
      * stress-zombie: make helper functions static
      * stress-zlib: make helper functions static
      * stress-xattr: remove redundant shadowing variable ret
      * stress-mremap: fix shadowing on rc, remove rc
      * stress-link: fix shadowing on ret
      * stress-rw-vm: fix shadowing of ret
      * stress-vm-rw: make helper functions static
      * stress-unshare: make helper function static
      * stress-tsearch: constify pointers
      * stress-socket-fd: make helper function static
      * stress-seek: fix shadowing on ret
      * stress-readahead: make helper function static, fix shadowing on ret
      * stress-qsort: constify pointers
      * stress-mlock: constify addr pointer cast
      * stress-mergesort: constify pointers
      * stress-memfd: fix shadowing of variable name
      * stress-fork: make helper function static
      * stress-lsearch: constify pointer casts
      * stress-itimer: make helper function static
      * stress-iopri: remove local pgrp that shadows global
      * stress-inotify: make helper func static, fix some const casts
      * stress-heapsort: fix constify warnings
      * stress-handle: make helper functions static
      * stress-fp-error: fix float comparison
      * stress-fifo: make helper function static, fix ret shadowing
      * stress-filename: make helper functions static
      * stress-fiemap: make helper functions static
      * stress-dnotify: make dnotify_attrib_file static, fix newpath const
      * stress-dentry: fix shadowing of variable j
      * stress-bsearch: correctly constify casts on i1, i2
      * stress-bind-mount: make stress_bind_mount_child static
      * stress-cpu-online: make stress_cpu_online_set static
      * stress-clone: make stress_clone* helper functions static
      * stress-bsearch: constify i1 and i2
      * stress-aio-linux: remove duplicate and shadowing variable ret
      * stress-af-alg: make helper functions static
      * Remove redundant re-declaration of mwc_seed
      * stress-cap: sscanf on pid_t should be %d
      * Make munge_underscore arg const char *
      * Mungify _ to - in stressor names in --stressors option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 8 Nov 2016 15:58:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.07.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * manual: update date
      * stress-ng: fix build issues for Solaris
      * stress-rmap: fix warnings with gcc 3.4.3
      * stress-rmap: Don't build for OpenBSD, it does not support posix_fallocate
      * stress-rmap: don't build for Minix
      * stress-rmap: rename macro CHILD_MAX to RMAP_CHILD_MAX
      * Add dnotify stressor
      * stress-*: voidify calls to setpgid
      * thrash: remove ptrace waits, not really required
      * thrash: use more standand %jx to scan in memory sizes
      * thrash: remove debug messages
      * manual: fix missing escape on - in --metrics-brief
      * Add --stressors option to show available stressors
      * cache: ensure path is set correctly for CPUs > 0
      * cache: fix FIXMEs on determining the CPU number a process is running on
      * Add stress_get_cpu() helper to fetch CPU number process is running on
      * manual: fix typo --stack-full should be --stack-fill
      * stress-rmap: remove redundant NO_MEM_RETRIES_MAX
      * stress-apparmor: another fix to signal handler comment
      * stress-rmap: uncomment setpgid call
      * stress-rmap: replace white spaces with tab
      * Add rmap stressor
      * stress-apparmor: fix comment
      * stress-icmp-flood: just count number of sendto failures
      * Add --thrash option.  Don't use it unless you are crazy.
      * debian tests: expand the SKIPPED notes on the test script
      * debian test: use STRESS_NG var for stress-ng
      * debian test: Use sh and make use POSIX string compare
      * Add proc helper to help with init/destroy stressor helpers
      * call stress_unmap_shared if share cache region allocation fails
      * Add stress_map_shared helper to mmap stress-ng shared region
      * generalise max proc limiting
      * Factor out random stressor setting into helper function
      * Factor out pathological stressor disabling into helper function
      * stress-resources: declare pid if O_TMPFILE is also defined
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:49:41 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.07.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Make ICMP flood stressor conditional build on OS basis
      * debian/rules: add hardening flags
      * helper: fix white space indentation (spaces replaced by tab)
      * stress-ng: bracket pid number on abort early message
      * stress-userfaultfd: catch OOMs and report these as no resource issues
      * stress-timer: make stress_timer_set static
      * stress-sysfs: add zero byte writes to sysfs files
      * stress-procfs: add zero byte writes to procfs files
      * stress-icache: ensure we mprotect on page aligned boundary
      * stress-opcode: unmap the shared region so we don't clobber it
      * stress-ng: generalise the run-time unsupported stressor checks
      * Add ICMP flood stressor
      * stress-shm*: minor change to comment
      * stress-rtc: fix ioctl() issues, use rtc_wkalrm for wake alarm ioctls
      * stress-rtc: add padding around rtc_tm to workaround an ioctl bug
      * stress-oom-pipe: fix pipe fd offset bug, causing writes to fd 0 on ppc64el
      * stress-ng: fix spelling of resrouces -> resources
      * stress-rtc: handle return code correctly and -EINTR aborts
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:44:02 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-resources: include alloca.h for __sun__ arch
      * stress-ng: add missing break from switch on OPT_NO_RAND_SEED case
      * stress-procfs/sysfs: abort rather than re-doing reads on read errors
      * Add --no-rand-seed option to force reproduceable test start conditions
      * stress-wcstr: use safe strlcat and strlcpy BSD* systems
      * stress-str: use safe strlcat and strlcpy on *BSD systems
      * stress-str: use safe strlcat and strlcpy if we have BSD string library
      * Makefile: explicitly add -lc flags, stops a warning on FreeBSD builds
      * stress-resources: pid variable declared only on specific builds
      * stress-resources: don't build in syscall shims if we don't use them
      * stress-mmapfork: set max strncat size appropriately
      * Remove old deprecated --vm-stride from man page
      * stress-resources: chew up less memory
      * Remove resources stressor from fast test all
      * stress-resources: add setpgid call
      * stress-resources: try harder to terminate on SIGALRM
      * Add resource stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 3 Oct 2016 13:29:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Update manual to explain the caveats with --perf
      * perf: detect when perf counters can't be used (LP: #1626009)
        - add better explanation on how to enable --perf as
          an unprivileged user
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:25:17 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add test-libsctp.c to make dist rule
      * test-libcrypt: fix cppcheck warning
      * Debian/control: add libgcrypt11-dev
      * stress-procfs: clear stack before use
      * manual: update date
      * stress-sysfs: only report an info message on instance 0
      * test-libsctp: add some checks for required macros
      * sched: fix build warning when building with clang on minix
      * sched: fix build warning when building with clang on minix
      * stress-stack: fix build warning when building with clang on minix
      * stress-mmap: fix build warning when building with clang on minix
      * stress-get: fix build warning with clang on minix
      * stress-sctp: add in missing --sctp-domain option, update manual
      * Update net helper to add addresses, add new SCTP stressor
      * Some minor cleanups to main stress-ng header, nothing major
      * rename get_unsigned_long to get_uint32
      * Some more 80 column source line width fixes
      * stress-sysfs: use fstat rather than access on path
      * stress-procfs: forgot to re-open closed file
      * stress-procfs: add some illegal read calls to try to break procfs
      * stress-sysfs: add some illegal read calls to try to break sysfs
      * Make snapcraft confinement devmode
      * Minor formatting changes to ensure 80 column wide source
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: fix indentation
      * stress-context: don't build with sigaltstack if minix or hurd
      * stress-context: add use of sigaltstack and SS_AUTODISARM
      * helper: fix indentation
      * stress-opcode: fix indentation
      * stress-ioprio: remove duplicate and badly indented umask() call
      * stress-epoll: fix indentation on if statement
      * helper: set core size to zero if possible with setrlimit
      * helper: force number of cpus to be 1 if sysconf not available
      * net: declare missing in6addr_any for minix
      * stress-mmap: make mprotect a no-op for minix
      * stress-mmap: don't use msync for minix
      * stress-shm-sysv: don't use msync for minix
      * stress-stack: don't use sigaltstack for minix
      * sched: make this a no-op for minix
      * mlock: make this a no-op for minix
      * don't enable STRESS_MSYNC for minix
      * don't enable STRESS_YIELD for minix
      * stress-flock: don't yield if minix
      * mincore: make this a no-op for minix
      * madvise: this is a no-op for minix
      * stress-mlock: don't build for minix
      * stress-cpu: minix does not support cabsl, use cabs instead
      * stress-hdd: don't do madvise for minix
      * stress-get: minix does not have getpgrp()
      * stress-ng.h: don't build in mlock stressor if minix
      * forgot to guard MLOCK stressor with STRESS_MLOCK check
      * stress-get: minix does not have getpgid()
      * mounts: fix build issues for minix
      * mincore: fix build warning on minix
      * stress-ng.h: only include <pthread.h> if it is available
      * stress-wait: cater for systems that lack WCONTINUED
      * stress-sigsuspend: remove <pthread.h> header inclusion, not required
      * stress-quota: make err local to each code block
      * stress-quota: remove redundant err assignment
      * stress-quota: rename local errno so we don't alias global errno
      * stress-quota: fix cppcheck style warning
      * stress-madvise: fix cppcheck style warning
      * stress-clock: fix cppcheck style warning
      * stress-sysfs: fix cppcheck style warning, initialize stack
      * stress-ng: clarify precedence of & and ?, fixes cppcheck style warnings
      * stress-handle: ensure scanf %s field is limited to avoid overruns
      * Fix SunOS builds, add socket and nsl library link flags
      * Use mfence instead of __sync_synchronize for gcc pre 4.2 on x86
      * Makefile: explicitly specify C standard using --std=gnu99
      * stress-vm: don't use binary constants, gcc may not support these
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:15:48 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-af-alg: account for number of ENOENT crypto bind failures
      * stress-af-alg: don't report bind on ENOENT as a failure (LP: #1617788)
        - retry is performed, failures are accounted for in debug verbose -v mode
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:02:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-mmapfork: add more feedback on segv faults (LP: #1614099)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:28:18 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add snapcraft into make dist
      * ignite-cpu: ensure buffer is null terminated before calling strlen
      * stress-affinity: only check CPU move if sched_getaffinity succeeds
      * Add snapcraft packaging
      * stress-seccomp: inject some random BPF op codes
      * force indirect libc calls to enforce calls to libc wide str functions
      * stress-str: fix incorrect order on args in call to stress funcs
      * stress-str: force indirect libc calls to enforce calls to libc str functions
      * ensure cache info is only printed once
      * Manual: fix typo: build -> built
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:38:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version once more
      * Update manual page date since we've touched the manual
      * stress-seal: don't abort fatally if memfd_create is not available.
      * fast-test-all: cater for non-fatal test exit status
      * Add oom-pipe to fast-test-all exclusion list
      * Manual: clarify that return code 3 could refer to missing system call
      * stress-fcntl: handle EAGAIN lock requests more robustly
      * stress-fcntl: don't check initial GETLK status
      * stress-icache: don't fail if advice fails on EINVAL
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:24:56 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile; bump version
      * fast-test-all: don't run seccomp, it may not pass on some kernels
      * stress-fault: handle segfaults that occur on some BSD kernels
      * stress-icache: only madvice if MADV_NOHUGEPAGE is defined
      * stress-icache: don't assume that read/write/exec protection is allowed
      * Update cache-mfence helper. It supports ARM now.
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:11:12 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version again
      * stress-atomic + build: the autodetect smarts did not work, fix them
        - need to check that the linker also provides all the atomic built-ins
          too.
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:29:46 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-atomic: don't make tmp volatile, fixes clang warnings
      * Add smarts to Makefile to detect if atomic GCC functions are supported
        - fixes FTBFS issues on mips, mipsel, powerpc, m68k, powerpcspe, sh4
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:52:18 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Manual: update date
      * stress-ptrace: EINTR is not a failure on waitpid
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: remove case where < 2 CPUs abort the test
      * Add GCC atomic ops stressor
      * stress-copy-file-range: handle ENOSPC as non-fatal
      * stress-icache: call __clear_cache() between code modifications.
      * Enable icache stressor for arm
      * Add renameat2 to syscalls
      * Add preadv2/prwritev2 to syscalls
      * stress-lockbus: use GCC builtin __atomic_add_fetch to test lock bus
      * stress-epoll: void return on timer_settime
      * Manual: update contributors, add Zhiyi Sun
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:26:59 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-msg: add in IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT msgctl calls
      * stress-vecmath: add more ops to make vecmath more demanding
      * stress-sync-file: sync on mode rather than on the sync_modes index
      * stress-opcode: use __builtin___clear_cache to avoid clang warning
      * stress-get: fix typo on syscall name
      * replace mfence with __sync_synchronize builtin
      * stress-bigheap: remove redundant call to stress_get_pagesize
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:56:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-shm-sysv: don't msync on GNU HURD, it is not implemented
      * stress-shm: don't msync on GNU HURD, it is not implemented
      * stress-ng: build in OPT_MEMFD_BYTES case if STRESS_MEMFD defined
      * manual: fcntl: add in missing locking commands
      * stress-socket: add --sock-type socket type option
      * Add Linux open file description locks stressor
      * Add POSIX advisory locking stressor
      * stress-fcntl: add more locking fcntl commands
      * man page: add --taskset example
      * stress-memfd: add better termination exit points, don't fail on EXNIO
      * stress-memfd: add a --memfd-bytes size specifier option
      * perf + Makefile: Add some smarts to detect available perf enums
      * stress-shm: msync the shm region
      * stress-shm-sysv: msync the shm region
      * stress-memfd: add hole punching to memory
      * stress-mremap: add MAP_FIXED remappings
      * stress-memfd: add random madvise to add some more page stress
      * stress-memfd: add seeks to memfd stressor
      * stress-xattr: rename name to attrname to stop shadowing on name
      * Update README stress test count
      * Add in missing seccomp from the --help info
      * Add a fcntl SEAL command stressor
      * README: update number of tests
      * time_now: return -1.0 for failed time fetch
      * stress-get: add getcpu system call
      * stress-dup: only close fd's that are open
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:36:33 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-mmap: ensure we don't leak fd, cleanup on exit
      * fast-test-all: don't run exec test
      * stress-mremap: catch SEGV and OOM restarts
      * stress-mmap: catch SEGV and OOM restarts
      * fast-test-all: exclude pty
      * Revert "stress-mremap: add random MAP_FIXED option to mremap"
      * stress-zero: #if def around ptr declarion for non-Linux systems
      * stress-zero: only perform /dev/zero mmapping on Linux
      * stress-cacheflush: remove sys_cacheflush for non linux systems
      * stress-shm-sysv: SHM_INFO and IPC_INFO are linux only
      * stress-cache: only call cacheflush on Linux systems
      * stress-filename: filename option should be from the .opt field
      * stress-rtc: fix some overly pedantic warnings from cppcheck
      * stress-shm: sync, expand and shrink shm region, extra stress
      * stress-open: use different forms of open flag combinations
      * stress-zero: mmap /dev/zero and check if the contents is zero
      * stress-pipe: sanity check pipe size setting
      * stress-dup: add dup2 on same fd exerciser
      * stress-fcntl: add some more fcntl commands
      * stress-seek: add SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END seek options
      * stress-utime: exercise UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT settings
      * stress-userfaultfd: add poll to add some more kernel coverage
      * Add stress_set_nonblock to set fd to non-blocking I/O
      * stress-userfaultfd: add in zeropage handling
      * stress-mremap: add random MAP_FIXED option to mremap
      * stress-readahead: remove redundant if defined() checks on fadvise
      * Add SIGHUP trapping and send SIGALRM to all processes on death
      * stress-personality: only print number of personalities in instance 0
      * syscalls: update pause information
      * stress-cache: use cacheflush() on systems that provide this syscall
      * syscalls: update ioctl entry
      * perf: add "per" / marking for per second
      * Add pty stressor
      * Add semtimedop to syscalls, it is present in stress-sem-sysv.c
      * stress-cap: add capset call for current stressor process
      * stress-shm-sysv: add some additional exercising of shmctl commands
      * stress-sem-sysv: exercise more of the semctl commands
      * Add trivial chown stressor
      * stress-dup: use dup3() on linux if it is available
      * Makefile: vecmath: make the file touch silent
      * stress-key: add request_key system call
      * syscalls: update pipe2 entry, this is now being exercised by stress-pipe
      * stress-mq: memset sigev to zero
      * stress-madvise: only build in if STRESS_MADVISE defined
      * Add madvise stressor
      * syscalls: add mq_timedsend to mq
      * stress-mq: use timed and non-timed versions of send/receive
      * stress-mq: add mq_notify calls every 1024 iterations
      * stress-link: lstat the link
      * Widen metrics dump stressor name field to 13 chars
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 27 May 2016 11:37:09 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: remove gcc coverage build flags
        - these were accidentally added in the previous release and not
          removed
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 May 2016 19:16:45 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-cap: cap data needs _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3 elements in size
      * stress-nice: add some randomness to the delay to unsync nicenesses
      * stress-opcode: remove white spaces
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 May 2016 15:06:34 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile + stress-vecmath: add more smarts to detect gcc build failures
      * stress-af-alg: don't fatally fail on bind on AF_ALG
      * stress-af-alg: fix up error messages
      * Add stackmmap stressor
      * stress-stack: ensure signal handling stack is aligned
      * stress-context: ensure stack is aligned to 64 byte boundaries
      * stress-opcode: disable signal count tracking
      * stress-opcode: clean up code a little
      * Add opcode stressor
      * update syscalls.txt
      * stress-ioprio: perform some io writes to exercise i/o priorities
      * Add ioprio stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 15 May 2016 17:36:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-af-alg: avoid any unterminated strings (unlikely)
      * debian/control: add libcap-dev to Build-Depends
      * stress-hdd: should use SIZEOF_ARRAY instead of sizeof
      * stress-full: don't close fd before trying a read
      * stress-af-alg: ensure the rng read size is correct
      * stress-af-alg: fix more -ve fd closes
      * stress-af-alg: don't close fd that is -ve
      * stress-tlb-shootdown: fix incorrect comparison on ENOMEM
      * stress-af-alg: check for errors on setsockopt
      * stress-full: try read test rather than skip if write fails
      * stress-full: clear buffer before we write
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 6 May 2016 22:58:01 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.06.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: new major version and codename
      * stress-msync: cast off_t to intmax_t to print with %jd format specifier
      * debian/control: update Standards Version to 3.9.8
      * manual: update date
      * stress-msync: add in conditional STRESS_MSYNC build check
      * stress-af-alg: add simple rng to the mix
      * stress-af-alg: remove redundant type field info
      * manual: rephrase the --seq description
      * manual: clean up the SEE ALSO section
      * Add TLB shootdown stressor
      * stress-af-alg: remove (void)name
      * Add /dev/full stressor
      * stress-urandom: where possible also read data from /dev/random
      * Manual: update af-alg skciper section.
      * stress-hdd: work through all the --hdd-opts if --maximize is enabled
      * stress-xattr: fix error messages, they were reporting wrong syscall
      * stress-af-alg: use array size so we don't need NULL sentinels
      * stress-af-alg: Add skcipher stessing
      * stress-procfs: add /proc/tty, /proc/self, /proc/thread_self
      * stress-key: Add some more keyctl calls
      * Rename stressor names to match their command line name
      * Add msync stressor
      * Fix non-Linux build for set_cpu_affinity
      * stress-rtc: also read /proc/driver/rtc
      * Add RTC stressor
      * stress-get: use prlimit only with glibc >= 2.13.0
      * stress-procfs: add more /proc directory traversal
      * stress-inotify: add ioctl FIONREAD to peek at available data on fd
      * Add the CPU affinity option '--taskset'
      * stress-cache: make pinned a linux only variable
      * stress-cache: fix pinned message, swap cpu and instance around
      * stress-cache: fix failure to build on GNU/HURD
      * Update contributions authors in manual
      * Ensure processes are kept to the CPU affinity set
      * taskset -c 4-7 stress-ng --cache 4 --stream 4 --yield 4
      * Update README with other OS build notes
      * stress-spawn: make this a Linux only test
      * Disable MLOCKED sections for now on SunOS, we get linker issues
      * stress-ng: correct casts of void *
      * stress-ng: include alloca.h for SunOS
      * stress-ng: cater for systems that don't support RLIMIT_NPROC
      * mincore: cater for SunOS mincore API difference
      * stress-yield: correct casts of void *
      * stress-yield: include alloca.h for SunOS
      * stress-vm: correct casts of void *
      * stress-stream: correct casts of void *
      * stress-str: include strings.h for SunOS builds for index() prototype
      * stress-stack: include alloca.h for SunOS
      * stress-sigsuspend: correct casts of void * and uint64_t *
      * stress-mmapmany: correct casts of void * and uint8_t *
      * stress-mmap: correct casts of void * and uint8_t *
      * Fix alignment mask to ensure stacks are 16 byte aligned (LP: #1573117)
      * stress-mlock: correct casts of void * and uint8_t *
      * stress-icache: cast addr to (void *) in mprotect calls
      * mounts: SunOS requires *BSD style build arrangements
      * stress-hdd: cast data to (void *) to silence warning
      * stress-hdd: don't use futimes for Solaris UNIX
      * Add logging to syslog of free memory info post-OOM
      * Add system and memory syslog logging
      * stress-brk: catch EAGAIN errors on sbrk/brk
      * Remove debug log test message
      * stress-socket-fd: only build stressor if STRESS_SOCK_FD defined
      * Add logging of who and how stress-ng was invoked to syslog
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 4 May 2016 09:57:59 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.05.25-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * debian/control: update standards version to 3.9.7
      * Ensure all clone() calls are 16 byte aligned for aarch64 (LP: #1573117)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:50:44 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.05.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-mmap: handle SIGBUS signals (LP: #1569468)
      * stress-mmapmany: sanity check sysconf return
      * stress-mmapmany: detect SEGV deaths
      * stress-mlock: detect SEGV deaths
      * stress-brk: detect SEGV deaths
      * stress-bigheap: detect SEGV deaths
      * stress-memfd: detect SEGV deaths
      * stress-mmapmany: allocate mappings on heap rather than stack
      * stress-mlock: allocate mappings on heap rather than stack
      * stress-cpu: move sieve buffer to static to reduce stack size
      * stress-sem*: differentiate between which semaphore init that failed
      * stress-remap-file-pages: abort if remap fails
      * stress-fiemap: remove \n from pr_fail_err messages
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:00:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.05.23-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-aio: fix segfault on --maximumize option (LP: #1568335)
      * stress-chmod: just instance 0 should create the file (LP: #1568333)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 9 Apr 2016 17:48:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.05.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-af-alg: retry open if we get EAFNOSUPPORT (LP: #1564786)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:40:56 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.05.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add test-cap.c to Makefile dist rule
      * debian: tests: don't run remap stressor
      * stress-ng: add klog (syslog) stressor
      * syscalls: add remap_file_pages
      * Add page remapping stressor
      * stress-pthread: Add get_robust_list call
      * stress-sysinfo: exercise fstatfs()
      * Move wcs options to correct postion in manual
      * Add the sync-file stressor
      * Add fp-error stressor
      * syscalls.txt: update some missing syscalls and some re-ordering
      * Add sys/capability.h and capget build time checks
      * stress-get: add prlimit
      * Update syscalls.txt with capget stressor
      * Add capabilities stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:39:31 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-getdent: fix build warnings on systems with no getdents syscalls
      * Manual: update date
      * Debian/changelog: fix spelling mistake
      * stress-udp: fix two warnings on uninitialised addr
      * stress-socket-fd: fix two scan-build warnings
      * stress-getdent: init ret to -ENOSYS, fix scan-build warning
      * Use the generic signal handler helpers
      * helper: add generic signal handling/restoring helper functions
      * stress-oom-pipe: use stress_get_file_limit
      * stress-open: use stress_get_file_limit
      * stress-dup: use stress_get_file_limit
      * stress-socket-fd: use stress_get_file_limit
      * helper: add stress_get_file_limit to get max open files allowed
      * Add sockfd stressor
      * Add getdent stressor
      * stress-filename: use strncpy rather than strcpy
      * stress-qsort: use calloc
      * stress-cpu: zeta method should be counting in integers
      * stress-mergesort: use calloc
      * stress-heapsort: use calloc
      * stress-bsearch: use calloc
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:58:42 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-switch: don't initialize buf_size twice
      * stress-ng: don't stress-sleep options unless STRESS_SLEEP defined
      * stress-shm-sysv: comparing j < i - 1 is incorrect when i = 0
      * stress-shm-sysv: parent should close read end of pipe
      * stress-context: make stacks larger, avoid segfault on kFreeBSD
      * stress-oom-pipe: handle condition where pipe size can't be set
      * stress-pipe: use O_DIRECT when possible
      * stress-switch: use O_DIRECT with 1 byte buffer is possible
      * stress-oom-pipe: ensure sz is set before we check it against prev_sz
      * Add stress-oom-pipe pipe buffer stressor
      * helper: fix comment on system_read()
      * stress-fallocate: add in default mode 0
      * stress-iosync: fix build warning when using old glibc:
      * stress-fstat: add blacklist of paths not to open/fstat/close
      * correctly spell stress_adjust_pthread_max
      * stress-str: make some statics into static const
      * stress-socket: make socket_opts static const
      * stress-maxtrix: make some statics static const
      * stress-vm: make some statics static const
      * stress-wcstr: make variables static const
      * stress-get: make priorities static const
      * stress-filename: make filename_opts static const
      * stress-dentry: make dentry_removals static const
      * stress-cpu: make some variables static const
      * stress-clone: make flags and unshare flags static const
      * stress-chmod: make modes static const
      * perf: make perf_tp_info static const
      * cache: make struct generic_map const
      * helper: make stress_temp_path static const
      * stress-udp-flood: make data static const
      * stress-spawn: make exec strings static
      * Only define OPT_PTHREAD* macros if STRESS_PHREAD is defined
      * Minor #define changes, no functional change
      * stress-cpu: remove redundant initialisation of last_e
      * stress-cpu: don't build _Decimal stressors with clang
      * stress-shm-sysv: set entire shm_ids array to -1
      * stress-fork: make child exit immediately and stash pid only in parent
      * stress-xattr: free buffer on error exit path
      * stress-timerfd: fix timer thresholding check
      * Add sleep stressor
      * stress-clock: add some comments and make source 80 column friendly
      * bigheap: reorder some variables on the stack for better packing
      * Add whitespace in return statement
      * thermal-zone: minor clean up
      * net: make loop iterator size_t
      * cache: minor code tweaks, no functional changes
      * cache: rework get_contents error return paths
      * cache: reformat function declarations to match the stress-ng code style
      * clean up and rename macro mk_path to MK_PATH
      * Ensure we do not under run string buffer
      * Add apparmor_parser excutable check
      * time: make source 80 column friendly
      * thermal-zone: make source 80 column friendly
      * sched: make source 80 column friendly
      * perf: make source 80 column friendly
      * mlock: make source 80 column friendly
      * limit.c: remove redundant #includes
      * io-priority: make source 80 column friendly
      * ignite-cpu: make source 80 column friendly
      * Include stress-ng.h first for __kernel_long_t and __kernel_ulong_t
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 3 Mar 2016 17:20:01 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-eventfd: fix incorrect return check on eventfd (LP: #1547450)
      * stress-mknod: fix == comparison on errno (LP: #1547446)
      * stress-tee: catch EINTR in splice() calls (LP: #1547434)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:40:24 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-aio: don't cancel the signal handler before exiting (LP: #1547108)
      * stress-lockf: don't return failure if we get a timeout (LP: #154107)
      * stress-aio: don't return failure if we get a timeout (LP: #1547090)
      * Check for ENOMEM ENOSPC errors during init (LP: #1547062)
      * make stress_temp_dir_mk and stress_temp_dir_rm return -errno on failure
      * stress-dentry: fix file striding on clean-up (LP: #1547004)
      * Add stress_get_prime64 to stress-ng header
      * Add stress_get_prime64 to find a prime for filename striding
      * typedef possibly missing __kernel_long_t and __kernel_ulong_t
      * Add <linux/posix_types.h> for linux builds
      * stress-aio-linux: fix clang scan-build warning
      * Makefile: only do build time config detection when building target
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:52:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add test-libaio.c to dist rule
      * stress-seccomp: EINTR on waitpid is not a failure, so ignore it
      * stress-numa: aborted test should not be a failure, nothing got tested
      * stress-quota: check for EPERM, abort if we don't have permission
      * stress-kcmp: check for EPERM, abort if we don't have permission
      * debian/control: add libaio-dev dependency
      * stress-aio: use aiolib instead of direct system calls
      * Catch faults in child stressor and flag them as a fatal failure
      * stress-socket: only build in sendmmsg test for glibc 2.14 or higher
      * stress-iosync: build in syncfs call for glibc 2.14 or higher
      * Add detection for <linux/seccomp.h>
      * stress-handle: only build in if we have glibc 2.14 or higher
      * ignite-cpu: don't print failure message as inf, make it dbg
      * stress-malloc: calloc'd size is too big, fix the size (LP: #1544575)
      * mincore: page align address of buffer before passing it to mincore
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:02:59 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * fast-test-all: add pass/fail summary at end
      * fast-test-all: fix typo, socket-pair should be sockpair
      * stress-handle: specify width of integer in sscanf
      * Manual: expand the error exit code notes
      * stress-qsort: cast data to (uint8_t *) to stop static analysis warnings
      * stress-hdd: close file on a fstat failure
      * stress-futex: add backoff delay if futex is too much in contention
      * stress-sendfile: ignore EINTR on sendfile calls
      * stress-readahead: handle -ENOSPC as a non-failure condition
      * stress-vm-rw: re-organise the code into parent/child helpers
      * stress-userfaultfd: set stack size to be STACK_SIZE
      * stress-hdd: handle -ENOSPC as a non-failure condition
      * adt: remove socket-pair from tests
      * cache helper: output cache allocation size
      * stress-cpu-online: only report root requirement on instance 0
      * stress-cpu-online: Don't report a failure if not run as root
      * Add L before cache level to make the debug less abstract
      * stress-denty: ENOSPC should not be a fatal error that stops the test
      * Fix -x option, compare munged strings to treat '_' like '-'
      * Ensure pathological class is disabled if we don't enable --pathological
      * stress-zlib: fix comparison which should not be an assignment
      * helper: fix double free on error exit
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:35:16 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix make dist - typo in test-libpthread.c
      * stress-fiemap: initialise counter at start of loop
      * stress-fiemap: ensure counter is being updated
      * adt: exclude bind mount from list of stressors
      * Don't emit warning on --pathological if number of stressors is zero
      * ignite-cpu: add null entry at end of list, don't scan by array size
      * Only include <sys/mount.h> for linux for the bind mount stressor
      * stress-bind-mount: build stressor if STRESS_BIND_MOUNT defined
      * stress-bind-mount: stop cppcheck whining about uninitialised pid
      * stress-numa: don't fatally fail on -EIO with MPOL_MF_STRICT (LP: #1542741)
      * Enabled IGNITE_CPU with the --aggressive option
      * Add bind-mount stressor (LP: #1542010)
      * Add --ignite-cpu option to maximize CPU frequency
      * Make float decimal auto detect set -DHAVE_FLOAT_DECIMAL
      * Minor re-org of Makefile, and add more files to dist rule
      * Update README - increase number of stressors
      * adt tests: remove membarrier, it fails on older kernels in Debian
      * Add some more comments
      * stress-affinity: handle EINVAL when CPU(s) are offline
      * Set number of instances to on-line CPUs if N is -ve (LP: #1513546)
      * Remove opt_long, replace with get_int32 or get_uint64
      * Add libpthread build time checks
      * Add librt build time checks
      * Remove commented out old link line
      * Add libcrypt check
      * Makefile: remove test-libz correctly
      * stress-cpu: make source 80 column friendly
      * Add FORCE_DO_NOTHING macro do force compiler to stop opimizing out loops
      * Add zlib stressor
      * stress-stream: cater for systems without L3 cache
      * stress-stream: only emit cache size info on instance 0
      * Add libbsd-dev to README
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:29:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile bump version
      * Makefile: add test-libbsd.c to dist rule
      * adt: Bar a few more tests that can be problematic on different arches
      * stress-fifo: don't return and error status if we have to abort early
      * Exclude tests that may fail because system calls not fully implemented
      * Build stress-mergesort if STRESS_MERGESORT is defined
      * Built stress-heapsort if STRESS_HEAPSORT is defined
      * Make *put globals volatile to force gcc to compute values
      * Add BSD mergesort stressor
      * Add BSD heapsort stressor
      * madvise: add MADV_FREE
      * stress-vm-rw: don't close already closed pipe ends
      * stress-vm: just one top level iteration in rowhammer method
      * Use MAP_SHARED where appropriate
      * stress-qsort: fix typo in comment SIGARLM -> SIGALRM
      * Makefile: call make using $(MAKE)
      * stress-apparmor: reduce scope of ret
      * stress-shm: reduce the scope of variable n
      * stress-shm-sysc: reduce scope of variable n
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:02:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * cache: memset globbuf, work around clang warnings
      * stress-cpu-online: free cpu_online on error return
      * fast-test-all: use the -v verbose flag
      * fast-test-all: Don't yet test copy-file
      * stress-copy-file: only build if syscall is supported
      * Change type of error messages in cache helper
      * cache: use %zd format specifier for size_t
      * cache: make source 80 column friendly
      * fast-test-all: return with error exit status
      * Tweak man page exit status table
      * Exit with status 2 if a stressor failured
      * Change mini help text to make it consistent
      * Add cpu-online to mini help
      * stress-cache: cater for non-powers of 2 cache size
      * Remove hard #undef __linux__ used during debugging
      * Re-work shared cache buffer allocation
      * stress-memcpy: fix segfault due to changes in allocation of cache buffer
      * Add kcmp to exclude list on adt test
      * Add cpu-online to exclude list on adt test
      * Make some helpers return int32_t rather than long
      * Add WARN_UNUSED macro and use it against functions that need return checks
      * Add CPU online stressor
      * Fix indentation issue after --hdd
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:30:47 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-stream: make L3 a uint64_t
      * stress-clock: fix build warning on non-Linux systems
      * stress-stream: fix FTBFS on non-Linux systems
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:50:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-stream: use new cache probing api
      * Add James Hunt to contributors in man page
      * cache: constify a few args and (void) fclose returns
      * Makefile: re-order cache.c in source list
      * stress-cache: make source 80 col friendly, use name instead of __func__
      * Removed bogus check.
      * Reduce cache level to maximum available if specified too high.
      * New function to check max cache level. Also, reduced variable scope.
      * Merge branch 'master' into cache-handling
      * Rather than failing, display a message and fall back to defaults.
      * Reduce variable scope and remove redundant assignment.
      * stress-copy-file: off_t should be loff_t
      * Remove debug forced enabled of stress-file-copy
      * Merge branch 'master' into cache-handling
      * Add --cache-level=, --cache-ways=, and --cache-no-affinity to man page.
      * Add linux guard for cpu cache function prototypes.
      * Handle systems not providing cache details via sysfs
      * Dispense with cache.h.
      * get_contents(): Fixed resource leak.
      * Add --copy-file copy_file_range() stress test
      * Fix spelling mistake of "bandwidth"
      * Fix spelling mistake of "weird" in comment
      * man page: Fix formatting on vm stressor method table
      * Fixes for building on non-Linux platforms.
      * Add Linux support to specify cache type and size.
      * Fix column width of vm-method options
      * Fix column width of stream option description
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:44:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix incorrect position of \ in man page
      * stress-udp: fix UDP-Lite enable options
      * stress-af-alg: don't build for non-Linux systems
      * stress-udp: add error checking to setsockopt calls
      * Add auto detection of xattr.h to avoid build failures
      * Add auto detection of keyutils.h to avoid build failures
      * stress-numa: prefix abort message with stressor name
      * stress-udp: in UDP-Lite mode, limit checksum to 8 byte UDP header
      * Fix formatting of --hdd-opts in man page
      * Add --seek-punch option to punch holes in seek file
      * Add UDP-Lite option --udp-lite
      * Align bitfields in flags
      * stress-socketpair: handle ENFILE errors more gracefully
      * stress-filename: only emit filename information on instance 0
      * Add fiemap stressor
      * stress-stream: kludge around a false positive from static analysis
      * Add --stream-l3-size option to specify stream L3 CPU cache size
      * stress-unshare: don't complain on -EINVAL
      * stress-stream: remove extraneous space between cache size and K
      * Use RESTRICT macro as an alias for __restict
      * Add stream memory bandwidth and computation stressor
      * Add 8 more bits to OPT_FLAGS
      * stress-aio: remove unused typedef
      * refactor random string filling using stress_strnrnd()
      * Add AF_ALG socket domain (hash) tester
      * Add more tracing perf events to --perf output
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:07:02 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Remove stress-leak.c, it was accidentally added
      * Update man page date
      * Debian control: Use dh_apparmor
      * Fix incorrectly placed #endif around TSEARCH
      * stress-iosync: (void)name if not building for Linux
      * stress-mlock: remove debug message
      * Add in options to *search stressors in mini built-in help
      * Add TSC read stressor
      * Remove some redundant (void)var statements
      * stress-get: rename gettid to sys_gettid to avoid name clash
      * Move uint64_put and double_put from helper.c to stress-ng.h
      * Rename macros STRESS_{MIN|MAX} -> STRESS_{MINIMUM|MAXIMUM}
      * Update debian copyright to 2016
      * Update copyright year to 2016
      * stress-iosync: don't close -ve fd
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 6 Jan 2016 15:22:12 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-yield: include signal.h to build on FreeBSD
      * Exclude stressors that cannot be run
      * stress-matrix: add copy and mean methods
      * stress-yield: ensure at least 2 child processes per CPU
      * Update syscalls.txt with syncfs
      * stress-key: remove if def'd debug code
      * stress-iosync: add syncfs() for Linux only
      * Add --sock-nodelay option to disable the Nagle algorithm
      * stress-socket: split out client/server code into separate functions
      * stress-exec: remove (void)name;
      * stress-dentry: add 'random' ordering option
      * stress-affinity: set initial cpu to instance number
      * stress-clock: output name of clock timer id on error
      * Add --temp-path option
      * Debian/control: change priority because of apparmor dependency
      * Add apparmor to excluded adt tests
      * Add sendmsg and sendmmsg to syscalls.txt
      * Add --sock-opts option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:34:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile + stress-apparmor: generate binary data using od and sed
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:10:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: --no-print-directory is required when make calls itself
      * Add apparmor as a build dependency
      * Makefile: Add test-apparmor.c usr.bin.pulseaudio.eg to make dist dist
      * stress-seccomp: stop build warnings on systems without seccomp
      * Ensure test-appormor build test covers the aa API
      * Remove mwc_seed from mwc.c
      * Add load average stats to --times option
      * inline mwc_seed, faster and shrinks text size a bit
      * stress-apparmor: perform some more devious corruption actions
      * Debian: control: dependency should be libapparmor-dev
      * stress-spawn: move spawn_calls to correct accounting stats
      * Add a posix-spawn stressor
      * Add unshare stressor
      * stress-shm-sysv: ensure all shm_ids are initialised to -1
      * Update Makefile to autogenerate AppArmor binary blob
      * stress-apparmor: add some random bit corruption
      * stress-apparmor: add profile add/replace/remove stressing
      * Debian: control: add libapparmor1 dependency
      * stress-apparmor: #if def global vars
      * README: Add note about requiring GNU make
      * Add initial simple AppArmor test, more features later
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:58:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-userfaultfd: fix 32 bit build warning
      * stress-shm: replace strides of 4096 with page size
      * stress-shm-sysv: replace strides of 4096 with page size
      * stress-mremap: replace strides of 4096 with page size
      * stress-mmap: replace strides of 4096 with page size
      * stress-bigheap: make stride the page size
      * parse-opts: ensure_positive: don't reassign ptr twice
      * stress-daemon: close dup'd fds on exit
      * Add daemon stressor
      * Move set_proc_name into helper, remove proc-name.c
      * helper: make timer slack also depend on __linux__
      * stress_mlock_region: constify args
      * stress_get_stack_direction: constify arg
      * Remove coredump, merge functionality into helper
      * Update README
      * syscalls: add mlock2
      * stress-mlock: add support for mlock2
      * stress-aio: clear io_reqs before use and disable handler later
      * stress-rename: rename between directories
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:10:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-seccomp: avoid build failures on arm64 targets
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 5 Dec 2015 10:04:23 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-get: define _DEFAULT_SOURCE to stop gcc 5.2.1 warnings
      * Add new seccomp stressor
      * stress-mmap: fix thinko, init no_mem_retires in correct place
      * stress-shm-sysv: add more allocation smarts
      * stress-shm-sysv: add mmap failure abort and OOM counting
      * stress-shm: add mmap failure abort and OOM counting
      * stress-seek: set a useable upper seek limit for 32 bit arches
      * stress-mmap: add mmap retry mechanism if we can't mmap memory
      * stress-memfd: trap SIGBUS as well as SIGKILL for OOM catching
      * stress-vm: add spacing on OOM restarts message
      * stress-malloc: add spacing on OOM restarts message
      * stress-memfd: add spacing on OOM restarts message
      * stress-vm: add mmap retry mechanism if we can't mmap memory
      * refactor stack direction checking function
      * stress-personality: fix warning on %lu being used on a size_t
      * stress-ptrace: re-enable this stressor and fix up pr_failed_* macro
      * Enable personality stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:49:02 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-shm: break out of loops when ok is false
      * stress-fcntl: make F_SETOWN and F_GETOWN linux only for now
      * helper: fix warning on FreeBSD, unused args caused warnings
      * stress-switch: force more context switches
      * stress-pipe: add pipe-data-size and pipe-size options
      * stress-seek: only report error if SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE supported
      * stress-seek: add SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE seeks
      * syscalls.txt: add new userfaultfd syscall
      * Manual: note that userfaultfd is only for Linux
      * Add new userfaultfd stressor
      * stress-membarrier: rename pr_failed_err -> pr_fail_err
      * stress-cpu: force more jmps in cpu-jmp method
      * stress-brk: add occasional brk shrink to add a bit more variety
      * stress-shm-sysv: use some more random shm flags
      * stress-mmap: use some more random mmap flags
      * stress-fallocate: add some more fallocate modes
      * Rename pr_failed_* macros to pr_fail
      * log: rename logging functions
      * log: don't be silent when we have failure messages
      * stress-filename: Add more error handling feedback
      * Update debian/rules: enable debian build flags
      * Fix buffer not null terminated error with strncpy
      * Add filename stressor
      * Add --timer-slack option to adjust timer slackness
      * disable core dump via prctl() to avoid massive core files
      * Signal to child processes if parent has died.
      * log: make variables static
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:55:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.05.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version to 0.05.00, update codename
      * man page: fix wrapped line so 'lsearch' is not seen as a macro
      * shm stressors: make final write failures a debug message
      * shm stressors: exit child stressor if pipe write fails
      * Add POSIX shared memory stressor
      * stress-qsort: fix resource leak on error return path
      * man page: make it 80 column tty friendly
      * stress-qsort: bail out when SIGALRM triggers
      * stress-rlimit: disable handlers once we finish to avoid setjmp looping
      * log: remove debug cruft
      * Add --log-file logging option
      * stress-sem*: remove ; after while loop
      * stress-icache: force cache clear using __clear_cache
      * Make source more 80 column friendly
      * manual: clarify number of cpus
      * madvise: fix typo
      * stress-shm-sysv: make shm cleanup robust
      * stress-ng: remove setpgrp() calls
      * stress-sem-sysv: handle signal during setup phase correctly
      * stress-sem: handle signal during setup phase correctly
      * fix -k option: it does not require a parameter
      * stress-procfs: use non-blocking open
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Nov 2015 23:05:00 +0600
  • stress-ng (0.04.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix man page --handle options, errors found by lintian
      * Makefile: add personality.c to dist rule
      * Add dep8 tests
      * Add membarrier to syscalls.txt
      * Fix spelling mistake in membarrier error message
      * Add membarrier stressor
      * stress-sysfs: make sysfs reader more stressful
      * stress-procfs: make proc fs reader more stressful
      * Makefile: remove -g option
      * Add new lockbus cache line stressor
      * stress-get: add adjtime() call
      * Add utimes(2) call to stress-utime
      * stress-mq: also exercise mq_timedreceive
      * stress-key: don't abort on EDQUOT for a KEYCTL_UPDATE
      * Update syscalls.txt
      * Manual: update contributor list
      * stress-cpu: check complex supported by C lib (LP: #1500349)
      * Add handle stressor
      * stress-socket: add nagle disable build option
      * Move ionice options in manual to general settings section
      * Move --syslog option in manual to general settings section
      * Add stress-personality personality() stressor
      * Add mknod stressor
      * Add stress-exec execve stressor
      * stress-sysfs: add access() check on file
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:03:00 +0600
  • stress-ng (0.04.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * cater for system V and BSD variants of setpgrp
      * stress-fifo: avoid blocking on reader to avoid deadlock (LP: #1497268)
      * stress-readahead: give feedback on premature exit
      * stress-aio: no need to free io_reqs, its now on the stack
      * Put all child processes under the parents process group ID (LP: #1497236)
      * Remove SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 trapping, we don't need to trap these
      * stress-fifo: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-eventfd: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-epoll: check for run flag on recv loop
      * stress-mq: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-msg: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-pipe: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-sigfd: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-socket: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-switch: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-tee: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-vm-rw: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-sigq: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-kcmp: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress_sigsuspend: check for run flag in child loop
      * stress-socket-pair: check for run flag rather in child loop
      * stress-pipe: bail out on zero byte pipe reads (LP: #1496966)
      * stress-futex: bail out after 0.5 seconds of failed waits (LP: #1496963)
      * stress-clone: remove CLONE_VM unsharing (LP: #1496957)
      * stress-sigsuspend: remove spinlock to remove contention (LP: #1496439)
      * Put stack in per clone struct, reduce stack size
      * stress-aio: cancel signal handler at end of test (LP: #1496340)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:38:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-cpu: data and idct should be floats for idct (LP: #1495882)
      * stress-cpu: use hex initialisers for G constants instead of binary
      * stress-numa: fix out of bounds memory read on ARM64 (LP: #1495761)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:43:11 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix singular/plural of "stressors spawned" message (LP: #1494797)
      * stress-ureadahead: provide feed back when timout occurs (LP: #1494784)
      * stress-timer, itimer: fix termination hangs (LP: #1494751)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:24:42 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-fstat: open devices with O_NONBLOCK (LP: #1493717)
      * stress-epoll: ensure addr is initialised to NULL
      * stress-vm: Add sanity check for rowhammer sizes
      * stress-timer: fix incorrect setting of timer
      * stress-itimer: fix incorrect setting of timer
      * stress-shm-sysv: remove dead initialisation of sz
      * stress-hsearch: remove dead initialisation of max
      * thermal-zone: remove dead initialisation
      * stress-epoll: remove redundant retries assignment
      * stress-socket: remove redundant retries assignment
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 9 Sep 2015 09:08:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Don't build in stress-clone features if clone() not available
      * stress-clone: add unshare call
      * stress-get: add timex info get
      * Update syscalls.txt with clone
      * Add clone stressor
      * Add the 8-queens solver to the CPU stressor
      * stress-key: add build checks on KEYCTL_* features
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 7 Sep 2015 10:03:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix --vm-keep, it should be setting opt_flags
      * Update man page contributions
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:41:00 -0700
  • stress-ng (0.04.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Debian: control: don't depend on libkeyutils-dev for some arches
      * Don't parse NULL exclude list
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:48:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version, change code name
      * Move exclude parsing after we have parsed all the stressor options
      * stress-ng: fix unitialised n, found by clang
      * stress-key: handle clean up when we bail out early
      * stress-stack should not be part of the CPU stress class
      * Add the -x, --exclude test exclusion option
      * Add libkeyutils-dev to debian control
      * Update syscalls list
      * Add key stressor (keyctl, add_key)
      * stress-kcmp: bail out early after 5 kcmp test failures per instance
      * Remove some trailing white spaces from lines
      * stress-vm: replace logic with simplified version
      * stress-vm: parenthesis around macro definition
      * stress-rdrand: add more useful debug stats
      * Add instruction cache stressor
      * helper: fix spelling mistake
      * Manual: fix a few spelling mistakes
      * stress-str: make index a register size_t type
      * stress-wdstr: make index a register size_t type
      * stress-wait: tidy up formatting of function args
      * stress-mmapmany: use STRESS_MAX macro
      * stress-mmapfork: minor variable cleanup
      * stress-inotify: make mk_filename static
      * stress-matrix: replace #defined MATRIX_TYPE with typedef
      * coredump: make string static
      * mounts: make mount_add static, clean up code a bit
      * Put MIN/MAX macros into stress-ng.h
      * Small amount of white space empty line clean up
      * Unify SET/GET/CLR macros
      * stress-futex: move futex info into futex struct
      * stress-sem-sysv: move sem sysv info into sem_sysv struct
      * stress-sem-posix: move sem and init into sem_posix struct
      * stress-xattr: add flistxattr calls
      * Minor change to error message
      * Fix typo in man page, exerised -> exercised
      * stress-mq: use correct stressor name in dbg messages
      * stress-mq: add occasional use of mq_getattr()
      * Only call perf_* if --perf is actually being used
      * yaml: times and system-info are not arrays, but lists
      * Add perf tracepoint events
      * coredump: pid_t should be %u rather than %d, pids are not -ve
      * stress-mlock: avoid using void * ptr arithmetic
      * helper: fix signum comparisons, use && instead of ||
      * stress-cache: don't keep fetching number of cpus available
      * stress-affinity: don't keep fetching number of cpus available
      * Make u_time, s_time, t_time, u_pc, s_pc, t_pc doubles
      * thermal-zone: cast to double rather than float
      * stress-cpu: ensure we don't get double promotion issues
      * minor adjustment to whitespace/tab indentation
      * perf: fix spelling mistake: Aligment -> Alignment
      * stress-cpu: add C union bit field stressor
      * Really ensure we don't report perf counters if they are not available
      * stress-sigfd.c: Fix compile warning
      * stress-sigfd: user SIGRTMIN instead of SIGUSR1
      * coredump: remove redundant code
      * stress-mlock: clarify cast to void, ensure we are not doing void * math
      * stress-socketpair: reduce the scope of variable ret
      * stress-rlimit: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-fcntl: put each fcntl cmd into its own block
      * stress-brk: reduce scope of ptr
      * stress-cpu: reduce scope of loop variable
      * Add more system info to yaml output to help with test result gathering
      * stress-getrandom: cater for builds without the syscall defined
      * stress-aio-linux: clean up syscalls
      * Clean up memfd syscall wrapper
      * perf: call perf_event_open via a wrapper rather than direct syscall
      * stress-getrandom: rename __getrandom to sys_getrandom
      * stress-kcmp: break out early if we get multiple ENOSYS errors
      * Fix spelling mistake 1Mhz -> 1 MHz
      * README: fix spelling mistake
      * stress-kill: fix typo in comment
      * Remove 64 byte alignment on shared region, it does not save much
      * Tidy main vars up, add more comments, make ticks_per_sec int32_t
      * Add STRESS_ASSERT macro to catch incorrect stressor array size
      * Make quota block devices message a little clearer and fix typo
      * Use %s instead of %d in stress-malloc signum printing
      * Forgot to include signal.h in helper to get NSIG define
      * Print signal death number as human readable string
      * Warn user if cwd is not read-writeable
      * Show process name when a stressor process exits with an error
      * Fix typo "quotctl" -> "quotactl" in man page
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:10:10 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix segfault in metrics because MMAPFORK macro not defined correctly
      * Add --cpu-load-slice option for CPU stressor time slice tweaks
      * Minor re-organising of main globals and make ints into int32_t
      * stress-ng.h: extern some misc funcs
      * stress-pthread: make stress_pthread_func static
      * stress-lockf: make lock helpers static
      * stress-epoll: mlock handle_socket_sigalarm
      * stress-context: make stress_context_init static
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:44:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add README and README.Android to make dist rule
      * Add README
      * Add Android porting notes, thanks to M.Srikanth Kumar.
      * For now, enable ptrace stressor for just linux
      * Remove unwanted sys/regs include from ptrace stressor
      * Make mmapfork help and options build on STRESS_MMAPFORK
      * Don't build ptrace stressor for GNU/HURD
      * Fix stress-mmapfork builds on non-Linux systems
      * Add ptrace stressor
      * Use -pthread rather that -lpthread to allow for static builds
      * stress-aio: cast to (long) for aio_buf for 32/64 bit portability
      * Update syscalls.txt with sigsuspend
      * Add sigsuspend stressor
      * Update syscalls.txt w.r.t obsolete wait3, wait4 calls
      * Add sigpending stressor
      * stress-symlink: add readlink to symlink stressor
      * Add getpeername call to sock stressor
      * stress-quota: ensure we closedir on dir on error exit path
      * stress-socket: initialise len to be sizeof(addr)
      * stress-socket: fix fd resource leak
      * Add mmapmany fork + mmap VM stressor
      * Re-order MEMFD in header
      * Add --yaml option to output data to a structured YAML file
      * socketpair: handle shutdown when we've maxed out socket fds
      * stress-sysinfo: Move ret so checks work on non-Linux systems
      * stress-sysinfo: fix build for non-Linux systems
      * Re-enable xattr tests
      * Update syscalls.txt, add getcpu
      * stress-numa: clean up code, add getcpu call
      * Update syscalls.txt with getsock* calls
      * stress-socket: correct dbg error text
      * stress-socket: call getsockopt() for more stress overhead
      * stress-socket: call getsockname() for more stress overhead
      * stress-quota: improve error handling reporting
      * stress-quota: minor resource leak and stat checks
      * Update syscalls.txt with quotactl
      * Add stress-quota quotactl stressor
      * Make SIEVE macro not size dependent
      * stress-aio-linux: change finish label, fixes close of fd -1
      * Update syscalls.txt
      * Add a fcntl stressor
      * Re-order HDD and HSEARCH in stress-ng.h
      * Correct man page concerning the 0 stressor option
      * Use _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF stressors when zero stressors selected
      * Update syscalls with NUMA test update
      * Add some NUMA clarifications in the manual
      * Add NUMA stressor
      * stress-lockf: re-align a comment
      * stress-kill: improve comment on kill on -1 pid
      * syscalls - rename aioabi to aiol
      * Add fstatvfs to sysinfo test
      * Add Linux asynchronous I/O io_* system call stressors
      * Add shutdown to syscalls
      * stress-socket: add socket shutdown
      * stress-socketpair: close with shutdown, don't use magic string
      * Update syscalls.txt
      * Make socket pair even more stressy
      * Close pipe, and don't report error on EPIPE as that is expected
      * Add socketpair stressor
      * Try to mlock all sig handlers and critical code into memory
      * If a fork fails, set pid num to zero to avoid killing pid -1
      * Make log type name fields the same width
      * Change "stressors started" to "stressors spawned"
      * Emit perf not enabled message just once.
      * stress-brk: remove incorrect free on ptr
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:20:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix typo in macro, STRESS_UPD_FLOOD -> STRESS_UDP_FLOOD
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:40:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Make stress-udp-flood build dependent on AF_PACKET being defined
      * stress-udp-flood: close fd, fixes resource leak
      * Add UDP flood stressor
      * Stress up to number of cpus configured not number that are online
      * Avoid crazy temperatures in thermal zones
      * Move syslog help to correct section
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:45:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Only call tz_free() if STRESS_THERMAL_ZONES defined
      * Rename dump_* to *_dump
      * perf: re-organise, move dump into perf.c, more #if checks
      * Add --tz thermal zone option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:12:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Make stress-sem conditional on STRESS_SEMAPHORE_POSIX
      * Make semaphore stressors linux only because of timeout
      * stress-sem: remove verbose timeout info, it can spam the output
      * stress-sem-sysv: Add timeout to semaphore wait
      * stress-sem: Add timeout to semaphore wait
      * stress-sem-sysv: ensure parent is waiting and not thrashing
      * stress-sem: ensure parent is waiting and not thrashing
      * stress-sem: remove verbose timeout info, it can spam the output
      * stress-sem-sysv: Add timeout to semaphore wait
      * stress-sem: Add timeout to semaphore wait
      * stress-sem-sysv: ensure parent is waiting and not thrashing
      * stress-sem: ensure parent is waiting and not thrashing
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:34:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * stess-sysfs: Do not read sysfs files when running as root (LP: #1464073)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:44:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      [ Colin Ian King ]
      * Makefile: bump version
      * mincore: fix build for GNU/HURD; make it a no-op
      * stress-mlock: don't build in munlockall for GNU/HURD
      * stress-mlock: don't build in mlockall, munlockall for GNU/HURD
      * Fix MINCORE dependency for GNU/HURD
      * Ensure maximum sizes don't exceed 4GB-1 for 32 bit systems
      * stress-crypt: only use re-entrant crypt_r on Linux for now
      * Make madvise build on non-GNU/HURD systems
      * Add perf reference in manual, update date
      * stress-vm-rw: zero msg_wr just to be totally safe
      * stress-crypt: use reentrant crypt_r to avoid any memory leaks
      * stress-zombie: free items on list head on exit
      * stress-lockf: free items on list head on exit
      * stress-wcstr: fix incorrect wide string size
      * Add int8, int16, int32 and int64 versions of mwc*()
      * Move results emitting code into dump_* functions
      * Increase various stressors upper memory limits
      * Make --aggressive force more CPU migrations and context switches
      * Fix comment for stress_get_ticks_per_second
      * perf: enable inherit flag to trace children
      * Update syscalls.txt with perf and getrandom
      * Add the new --getrandom stressor
      * Fix sigq options, missing because not using STRESS_SIGQUEUE
      * Add Christian Ehrhardt to the contributors list on man page
      * Fix help -h option, was --h, should be -h
    
      [ Christian Ehrhardt ]
      * stress-ng: avoid builtins when libs shall be tested
      * stress-ng: add stressor for wide character sting operations
      * stress-ng: fix string names
      * stress-ng: avoid compiler error in stress-vector
      * stress-ng: fix EPOLL build
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 2 Jun 2015 20:35:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-hdd: make buffer in read/write helpers uint8_t *
      * log: Reduce the scope of n, clean up cppcheck style warning
      * perf: cater for zero time_running case, avoid division by zero
      * Add --log-brief option to make output less verbose
      * print perf counters as , separated decimals
      * perf: scale using lookup table, add in quintillions
      * perf: Add back PERF_FORMAT_GROUP, we get wrong stats otherwise
      * perf: re-work to allow for more HW perf counters
      * Don't build in stress-context for OpenBSD
      * perf: fix build errors on GNU/HURD
      * Add --perf option
      * Fix STRESS_VECTOR, use the NEED_GNUC macro
      * Add context stressor to stress context switch save/restores
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 31 May 2015 13:33:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Forgot to include new OPT_FLAG #defines
      * Allow --class option to specify a list of classes
      * Allow --seq and --all modes to have --class option 
      * Make break stress help into generic and per stress test sections
      * stress-epoll: fix spelling mistake in comment "incomming"
      * Manual: break options into stress-ng specific options and stressors
      * Make sysfs conditionally compile on STRESS_SYSFS 
      * Add sysfs stressor
      * Fix oom error message with corrupt name because name is not yet set
      * stress-cpu: dither: correct min x boundary check, off by 1
      * Change scope of variables in stress_cpu_parity
      * stress-cpu: stash d and l to overcome over optimization
      * Call "stressors" workers
      * Manual, call stressors and processes "workers" 
      * Sync up syscalls.txt with latest changes to stressors
      * Add chdir stressor
      * Add syncfs otion to hdd stressor
      * stress-mlock: add mlockall/munlockall stressing too
      * Add fsync, fdatasync hdd stressor options
      * stress-cpu: add rand48 random number generator family cpu method
      * Add human readable time duration to results output
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 21 May 2015 16:24:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-cpu: Add dithering stress cpu method
      * stress-cpu: re-order cpu methods
      * stress-cpu: Add parity computation method
      * Fix in-built help in a few places
      * Fix typo in manual, crc -> crc16
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 11 May 2015 10:52:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-rlimit: for now, make this Linux only
      * stress-rlimit: add loop limit checking
      * stress-mlock: report mlock failure with pr_failed_err()
      * stress-itimer: remove the build dep on STRESS_TIMER
      * stress-ng: Fix --seq mode
      * Add resource limit stressor, stress-rlimit
      * stress-chmod: use creat instead of open
      * Makefile: sort order of sources, stress-yield, stress-xattr
      * Add itimer stressor
      * Fix typo: mimcore -> mincore
      * Add mlock stressor
      * stress-stack: Don't need alloc.h included, it comes in stdlib.h
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 4 May 2015 21:08:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.04.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * Makefile: bump to version 4.0, update codename
      * Update syscalls.txt with more annotations
      * stress-hdd: forgot to include sys/uio.h
      * mincore: cater for BSD mincore API difference
      * Move do_wait inside #if/#endif to avoid warning on BSD systems
      * Manual: sort --hdd-opts options
      * stress-hdd: add utimes metadata update --hdd-opts option
      * stress-xattr: also use fgetxattr
      * stress-dup: add dup2 call on same fd
      * stress-verify: refactor verify checking, small optimisation
      * stress-timer: add timer overrun accounting
      * stress-chmod: fix retries abort check
      * Re-order stack-fill option in table
      * Manual: fix spelling mistake, maxiumum -> maximum
      * stress-memfd: initialize fd and maps for correctly cleanup handling
      * Update syscalls.txt (added timerfd, minor other tweaks)
      * Add timerfd stressor
      * stress-timer: Fix random timers to adjust correctly by randomized rate
      * stress-memfd: make bogo ops match iterations rather than per memfd-create
      * Add stress-memfd stressor and fix mincore/pagein builds
      * Update syscalls.txt with a fuller set of syscalls
      * stress-get: add calls to time() and utime()
      * Add aggressive mode CPU affinity changing
      * stress-affinity: add a yield to push IPIs up
      * Make inotify test depend on glibc 2.9 or higher
      * Make aio test depend on glibc 2.1 or higher
      * Make affinity test depend on glibc 2.3.0 or above
      * Update syscall.txt with readv/writev
      * Add iovec readv/writev mode to --hdd-opts
      * stress-sem: don't report EINTR as an error on sem_wait
      * stress-chmod: give up of we took too many tries to create file
      * stress-epoll: add more delay on re-try connect failures
      * stress-epoll: use a saved errno to report error
      * Handle fork() EAGAIN correctly by re-trying
      * stress-lease: correct and improve failure error messages
      * stress-wait: increase wait timeout to 8 seconds
      * stress-inotify: break out of init loop if end of tests, increase retries
      * stress-sysinfo: make EACCES non-fatal error on stat
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:24:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.03.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-eventfd: check if termination flag set
      * stress-tee: handle EINTR in tee()
      * Make timeval_to_double an inlined func
      * stress-sigfd: return rather than _exit() on error
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:04:00 +0500
  • stress-ng (0.03.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-crypt: fix build on FreeBSD
      * stress-mmapmany: include signal.h to stop build warnings
      * Make features.h dependent on GLIBC
      * Make help info less than 80 chars wide
      * stress-lockf: explicitly ignore return from waitpid and kill
      * Add device, filesystem and pipe classes, re-classify some tests
      * stress-pthread: fix comment
      * Only allow futex test if system call is defined
      * Check if rdrand is supported if sequential mode selected
      * Make stress-lockf more aggressive with more concurrent locking
      * Rename NEED_GLIB to NEED_GLIBC and use on newer system calls
      * Add tee stressor
      * Fix wait spawn to return pid_t rather than int
      * Fix sem spawn to return pid_t rather than int
      * Fix sem-sysv spawn to return pid_t rather than int
      * Fix lease spawn to return pid_t rather than int
      * Fix fifo spawn to return pid_t rather than int
      * Fix epoll spawn to return pid_t rather than int
      * Fix typo: _GNUC__ -> __GNUC__
      * Add crypt stressor
      * Add --timer-rand option for more of a mix in timer scheduling
      * Fix uninitialised timer frequency in stress-timer
      * Fix typo in manual
      * Check for fork EAGAIN failure, polled retry
      * Add mmanmany stressor
      * The current VFORK build check fails, just make it build w/o checks for now
      * Add zombie stressor - fill up process table with children wait to be reaped
      * stress-null: fix comment
      * Don't define HOT and OPTIMIZE3 for older versions of GNUC
      * Add glibc and gcc version macros, use them for rdrand and vm-rw stressors
      * Add depends on libattr1-dev
      * Option --readahead-bytes should only built in if readahead supported
      * stress-cpu: Use more optimal gray to integer conversion
      * stress-cpu: minor tweaks to ensure optimizer does not over optimize
      * Add and use OPTIMIZE3 -O3 macro
      * Forgot to add the --str-method to the help
      * Add the str string stressor
      * stress-xattr: fix incorrect clean up path on error
      * Add HOT macro, add it to cpu intensive busy loops
      * stress-readahead: build only if readahead allowed on system
      * Add xattr stressor
      * stress-kill: Add some more kill variations
      * Update syscalls table
      * stress-mmap: unmap buf, fixes resouce leak
      * Add readahead I/O stressor
      * Add deep function call cpu stressor method
      * stress-vm: add rowhammer memory stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:15:00 +0500
  • stress-ng (0.03.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * sched: Fix build warning on get_sched_name on GNU HURD
      * stress-hdd: Fix incorrect format specifier %zu for a uint64_t
      * stress-fallocate: Fix off_t printf warnings on 32 bit GNU HURD
      * Fix resource leak (file descriptor) on error exit of stress-hdd
      * Fix Manual, clarify the action of hdd stressor
      * stress-aio: reduce scope of ret
      * Fix missing stressor name in pr_err() messages
      * Fix missing stressor name in pr_inf() and pr_dbg() messages
      * Fix missing stressor name in pr_fail() messages
      * stress-hdd: fix verify mode for hdd stressor
      * stress-hdd: fix missing read if no read preference specified
      * sched: fix default priority levels and lack of class name in messages
      * stress-hdd: fix read of end of file when generated with random writes
      * Fix extraneous leading space after the "hogs:" message
      * stress-hdd: fix false error reports on short reads
      * stress-hdd: fix noisy "incomplete reads" debug message
      * stress-fallocate: fix incorrect errors reported on fallocate sizes
      * stress-fallocate: fix error messages, they are rather meaningless
      * stress-aio: report correct errno on async error
      * stress-aio: handle EAGAIN and EINTR correctly
      * stress-hdd: POSIX_FADV_RND should be POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:17:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-sem: fix spelling mistake in comment: destory -> destroy
      * Manual: fix spelling mistake: successfull -> sucessful
      * Manual: fix typo: summaries -> summarise
      * Manual: vecmath: Replace x with \(mu multiply sign for correct formatting
      * Manual: Fix udp port description, add the default base port being used.
      * Manual: remove deprecated --hdd-sync option
      * Manual: fix typo: mremmap -> remap
      * Manual: Replace x with \(mu multiply sign
      * Manual: Fix typo: randonly -> randomly
      * Manual: Fix spelling mistake: hightest -> highest
      * Manual: Correct description for --fifo option
      * Manual: Fix spelling mistake and epoll_wait section
      * Rename id to s_id to stop variable shadowing
      * Move scope of j, removes shadowing of j too.
      * stress-aio: clean up clang warnings on integer conversions
      * Re-format and slightly re-word debian control description text
      * Remove trailing white spaces from lines and empty lines
      * Remove duplicated changelog entries
      * Fix macro expansion overflows on 32 bit architectures
      * stress-matrix: clean up some more cppcheck style warnings
      * stress-longjmp: move counter c, cleans up cppcheck style warning
      * stress-inotify: fix buffer bounds checking on inotify input
      * stress-ng: remove some debug that never got printed
      * stress-pipe: ret should be ssize_t
      * stress-hdd: ret should be ssize_t
      * stress-mmap: better error handling on write
      * out-of-memory: add better write error checking
      * stress-null: better error handling on write
      * stress-lockf: better error handling on write
      * stress-fault: better error handling on write
      * stress-vm-rw: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-sigfd: better error handling on read
      * stress-seek: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-procfs: better error handling on read
      * stress-poll: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-pipe: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-inotify: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-hdd: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-switch: cater for zero write w/o error
      * stress-fifo: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-pipe: better error handling on read/write
      * stress-urandom: better error handling on read
      * stress-zero: better error handling on read
      * stress-eventfd: better read/write handling
      * print correct number of hogs when --class is used
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:58:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Move order of hadamard matrix method, now in alphabetical order
      * Fix macro typos - STESS -> STRESS (LP: #1423241)
      * Add in matrix info into help
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:08:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix name clash on union on *BSD systems
      * Explicitly ignore return from wait*() calls by (void) cast
      * Add minimize/maximize to matrix size
      * Add --cache-prefetch option
      * Make opt_sequential int32 and print out hogs if --seq is being used
      * Handle builds for system calls that don't exist
      * stress-vm-rw: include missing header
      * Ignore args in kcmp for systems that don't support this call
      * Forgot ULL after fibonacci uint64_t assignment, warning on 32 bit mips
      * Add longjmp stressor
      * Constify a few more function args
      * Add in some shifts to vecmath
      * Constify a few more func args
      * Make cache no-ops into do {} while (0) statement
      * Move PR_* bit flags to bottom nybble, makes stress-ng smaller
      * Fix spelling mistake in manual: subtrace -> subtract
      * Forgot to capitalise the matrix product methods
      * Add two more matrix product methods
      * man page: long double floats -> floats for matrix
      * Add matrix stressor with a bunch of stressor methods
      * stress-shm-sysv: initialise shm_ids as -1 to indicate not set
      * Use semun union when passing values to semctl, fixes powerpc segfault
      * stress-rdrand: move #includes to fix build warning on ARM
      * Make mallopt code depend on GNUC and linux
      * Reduce MAX stress-fallocate allocation size for 32 bit systems
      * Move #includes in io-priority to stop build warnings
      * Add --malloc-thresh tuneable option
      * Used #if defined(...) consistently.
      * Munge stressor names when showing hoggers
      * Remove repeated #if defined() checks, simplify them into stress-ng.h
      * Add another example to the manual
      * Increase maximum lease breakers
      * stress-lease: max sure the pid array is large enough
      * Add --aggressive option
      * Don't print null string of no hogs listed when dispatching hogd
      * Add --minimize and --maximize options
      * Add --stack-fill option
      * Update syscalls.txt with recently added syscalls
      * stress-fallocate: only use fallocate if FALLOC_FL_* defined
      * stress-fallocate: employ linux fallocate on linux builds
      * Add --fallocate-bytes option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:28:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version again
      * Fix missing .TP in man page
      * Re-work the "dispatching hogs" message to log atomically
      * Add --syslog option to log non-debug messages to syslog
      * stress-hdd: don't use strtok_r, we're not threaded
      * Just define KCMP_* ourselves, broken distros don't have linux/kcmp.h
      * stress-kcmp: close fd1, fix resource leak
      * Add kcmp stressor
      * Remove unnecessary { }
      * Remove redundant assignment of first enum to zero
      * Make --random 0 select the number of on-line CPUs
      * Forgot to make RDRAND check arch specific
      * Add check to see if rdrand is supported and skip stressor if not
      * stress-pthread: increase to 1024 pthreads per stressor
      * stress-pthread: handle error correctly; as from the return from pthread*
      * Make pr_failed more generic and make a new pr_failed_errno macro
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:40:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Don't make sieve static, it wastes space in the executable
      * Keep make quiet on builds that don't support _Decimal types
      * Makefile: more smarts to conditionally build stress-cpu
      * remove STRESS_FLOAT_DECIMAL
      * Try to build with _Decimal* floats, if fail, build without
      * Check for __int128 and _Decimal support
      * Don't complain about IPC_RMID failure if it's already been reaped
      * Don't report sem-op errors on EINTR
      * Only report OOM restarts and nomems if they actually occurred
      * stress-chmod: remove some unnecessary debug info
      * stress-socket: don't emit errno if EINTR
      * stress-udp: don't emit errno if EINTR
      * stress-chmod: only report number of retries if a retry occurred
      * stress-stack: handle OOM killer with monitoring parent
      * Add set_max_limits() to push user limits to maximum allowed
      * stress-cpu: re-work math stressors with macros
      * Add decimal{32|64|128} math ops in cpu stressor
      * Re-work floating point and complex floating point stressors
      * Re-work int stressors to use generic macro, and add int128 test
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 9 Feb 2015 23:28:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix build warning for systems w/o _SC_PAGESIZE
      * Make semaphore creation non-fatal
      * Fix a few warnings on gcc 4.5.3 (NetBSD)
      * Make STRESS_SIGFD linux only
      * Re-order sendfile #define
      * Re-order hdd and hsearch #defines
      * Forgot to make futex linux only
      * Typo: replace __linux with __linux__
      * Use pow since powl has less precision than advertised warning on FreeBSD
      * Forgot to remove mremap from help if non-Linux
      * Update manual, stress-mremap is linux only
      * Make mremap test linux only
      * stress-mremap: move to using page size helper
      * Add helper to get cpu clock ticks
      * Add number of processors online helper.
      * Add page size helper, we don't need to repeat the sysconf calls
      * Add malloc stressor
      * Add some more comments
      * Clean up BSD workarounds
      * stress-brk: wrap an overly long line
      * Add memory remapping stressor
      * Turn off madvise DONTNEED as it can cause us checking errors
      * Add another NetBSD long double workaround
      * stress-hdd - don't allow fadvise on GNU HURD
      * Add vmsplice stressor
      * Correct error message on pipe failure
      * Fix up latest stressors, re-order options and add vm-rw-* help
      * Add splice stressor
      * Add vm-rw stressor
      * Add read64 and write64 vm memory stress methods.
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:22:10 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Cater for non-existent long double math functions in NetBSD
      * mounts: forgot to handle NetBSD in mount detection
      * Make mounts build for NetBSD too
      * Disabled stress-wait for NetBSD - can't see how to do CONT sig wait
      * Cater for systems that do not have MAP_ANONYMOUS
      * Add NetBSD support to stress-stack
      * Make vector gcc'isms compile in for modern versions of gcc only
      * stress-hdd: void unused params
      * Also catch SIGILL for FreeBSD
      * Remove trapping of SIGILL
      * stress-qsort: fix cmp3 byte-wise re-ordering
      * include signal.h in stress-pthread to fix FreeBSD build
      * Minor source reformatting on stress-ng.c
      * Reduce the precision and number of iterations for nsqrt
      * stress-shm-sysv: also shrink and re-try if ENOMEM occurs
      * Add some feedback of shm-sysv had to shrink shared memory size
      * Cater for EINVAL on shmget if size is too large.
      * Mungify stressor names when invoking the stressor
      * Drop default System V shared memory size to 8MB for *BSD kernels
      * Add check for BSD invalid chmod mode bits error
      * Fix printing of stressor names, some names too long and _ -> - conversion
      * stress-cache: put { } braces around cflush and mfence
      * stress-mq: intialise mq to -1 to avoid gcc warning (false positive)
      * Add full read checks in stress-hdd read stressor loops
      * stress-hdd: remove debug cruft
      * Forgot to escape some - hyphens in manual
      * Stress-hdd: remove ad-hoc open flags, replace with --hdd-opts option
      * Manual: fix spelling, destory -> destroy
      * Add vector maths stressor
      * Man page: naive -> naïve
      * Manual, lease-breakers: for --> to
      * Don't handle SIGSEGV and SIGBUS
      * Don't build sem-sysv for GNU HURD
      * Add sections of man pages for sys calls and libc functions
      * Add System V shared memory stress test
      * Fix error path on SYSV sem creation - need to reap semaphore
      * Re-work POSIX sem test to be aligned with SYSV sem test
      * Remove POSIX semaphore header, not required
      * Add System V semaphore stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 1 Feb 2015 15:22:10 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add udp to --help output
      * remove need to setup unix pathname in stress-socket
      * stress-epoll: use net helper funcs
      * stress-mq: memset msg to zero to stop valgrind complaining
      * Clear epoll_event struct; warning from valgrind
      * Add net helper functions, refactor udp and socket stressors
      * Add udp stressor
      * Reduce the minimum timer frequency to 1Hz
      * Remove duplicate error message in rdrand stressor
      * Correct error messages, removed "failed" and trailing "\n"
      * Clear alternative signal stack, stops cppcheck warning
      * Limit sscanf field to avoid overflows
      * Remove memory locking, it wasn't such a good idea after all
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:49:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add --hdd-sync, --hdd-dsync, --hdd-direct, --hdd-noatime options
      * Add sigfd stressor
      * Move mount handling helper functions to mounts.c
      * Add --brk-notouch option
      * Account of out of memory nomems in stress-brk
      * Explicitly ignore *close*() failures with (void) cast
      * Update copyright at end of manual
      * Update syscalls.txt with brk/sbrk calls
      * Add a brk stress tester and --brk, --brk-ops options
      * Fix incorrect comment on bigheap stressor function
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 25 Jan 2015 14:23:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Make mask ptrdiff_t and cast to allow clean 32 bit build
      * Use ptrdiff_t for addr math
      * Remove need for ms_flags if building for GNU HURD
      * Cater for GNU HURD not supporting mincore()
      * Cater for msync not functioning for GNU HURD
      * Add --mincore-random option
      * Update syscalls.txt with mincore test
      * Remove the page reading from mincore
      * Add mincore stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:43:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add bounds checking on data from /proc
      * Make stress-mq a no-op for non-Linux
      * Update syscalls table
      * Make mq a linux only stressor
      * Add mq stressor for POSIX message queues
      * Add --mmap-protect page protection settings option
      * Add the chmod stressor
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:54:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Update copyright year to sources
      * Add epoll stressor
      * stress-vm: reduce scope of addr
      * stress-mmap: clarify calculation precedence of & in ternary expr
      * stress-memory: reduce scope of addr
      * Fix --sequential mode, correctly set up number of procs and pid list
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 2 Jan 2015 09:57:11 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix pluarity of --lease man page description
      * Fix int64 float descriptions in man page
      * Make lease help info appear only if it is supported
      * Make assumption about nice limits if getrlimit fails
      * Close and abort rather than close and break
      * Fix incorrect closing on in stress-lease
      * Clear buffer in lockf
      * Check return of unlocking fcntl call in stress-lease
      * Forgot to add stress-lease.c to Makefile
      * Add lease stressor and --lease, --lease-ops, --lease-breakers
      * Don't print full help on failed getopt '?' returns
      * Add dup stressor and --dup, --dup-ops options
      * Update syscalls table
      * Minor lockf corrections in manual
      * Add POSIX lockf file locking stressor
      * Fix int64_{float|double|longdouble} verifies
      * Add mixed integer and floating point cpu stressors
      * Manual: don't -> do not
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:13:13 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: add mascot svg to dist
      * Make getpid pid const
      * Don't use 0600 flags, use constants instead
      * Add --mmap-file and --mmap-async file based mmap options
      * Make stress-mmap helper functions static
      * Update manual for the new unix --sock-domain option
      * Add unix --sock-domain option
      * Add cache fencing and cache flushing to cache stressor
      * Add mascot svg
      * Fix comment in modulo-x comment, 20th -> 23rd
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:57:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix stress-poll random slow hangs running on --poll-ops N
      * Find index into stressors via id
      * stress-fifo: cater for zero reads on closed fifo
      * Tidy up stress-ng.h, re-ordering and adding more comments
      * Re-organise per stressor process info into procs
      * Remove hdd related global vars, add stress_set_hdd* helpers
      * Remove global socket_port, use helper stress_set_socket_port instead
      * Remove unused opt_vm_stride
      * Remove global mmap_bytes, use helper stress_set_mmap_bytes instead
      * Remove vm related global flags, add stress_set_vm_* helpers
      * Remove global cpu_load, use helper stress_set_cpu_load instead
      * Remove global sem_procs, use helper stress_set_sem_procs instead
      * Make opt_sequential static
      * Remove global fifo_readers, use helper stress_set_fifo_readers instead
      * Remove global pthread_max, use helper stress_set_pthread_max instead
      * Remove global seek_size, use helper stress_set_seek_size instead
      * Remove global qsort_size, use helper stress_set_qsort_size instead
      * Remove global sendfile_size, use helper stress_set_sendfile_size instead
      * Remove global hsearch_size, use helper stress_set_hsearch_size instead
      * Remove global lsearch_size, use helper stress_set_lsearch_size instead
      * Make opt_tsearch_size static
      * Remove global tsearch_size, use helper stress_set_tsearch_size instead
      * Replace opt_fstat_dir with stress_set_fstat_dir()
      * Replace sem_ok bool with OPT_FLAGS_SEM_INIT opt_flag bit
      * Remove opt_timer_freq, replace with stress_set_option_freq()
      * Make opt_class static
      * Make array opt_ops static
      * Make opt_backoff static
      * Make opt_sched and opt_sched_priority static
      * Make started_procs array static
      * Make procs, opt_ionice_class, opt_ionice_level static
      * No need to extern procs array
      * No need to extern opt_ionice_class, opt_ionice_level
      * Remove globals for fork/vfork opts, use stress_set_{fork,vfork}_max
      * Remove global opt_denties, use helper stress_set_dentries instead
      * Remove global bsearch_size, use helper stress_set_bsearch_size instead
      * Remove global bigheap_growth, use helper stress_set_bigheap_growth instead
      * Remove global aio requests, use helper stress_set_aio_requests instead
      * Remove tailing . on man page title
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:37:41 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix verify checks in int{64,32,16,8} cpu stressors
      * lock-mem: only use mlockall if _POSIX_MEMLOCK is defined
      * stress-vm: add finer grained bogo ops
      * Set MIN_OPS to be 1, 100 is quite large for slow vm tests
      * stress-vm: use PRIME_64
      * stress-denty: use PRIME_64
      * Define PRIME_64 to be large 64 bit prime value
      * Fix thinko in prime striding of memory
      * Add --denty-order option to try and mix up dentry unlinking order
      * Remove the reference to /tmp being used as sendfile data
      * Add pthread stressor
      * Re-work seek offset, the module fails on some arm 32 builds
      * stress-fifo: fix error message
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:23:12 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Update date in man page
      * IONICE_* opts are linux only
      * Remove unwanted column headings
      * Stress semaphore harder by multiple children
      * Update syscalls, add send recv
      * Add some more comments to stress-ng.h
      * Move some #defines around
      * stress-fork: use renamed constants
      * Add in more #define'd min/max/default constants
      * Re-order OPT_ case statement into alphabetical order
      * Hide vm stressor option inside stress-vm
      * Hide cpu stressor option inside stress-cpu
      * stress-fifo: close fifo on exit
      * stress-socket: add --sock-domain option
      * stress-socket: use send/recv instead of write/read
      * Use ssize_t for n to get write size
      * Add named fifo stressor
      * Break casting of uintptr_t into stages because GCC 4.9.2 complains
      * stress-vm: no need to check sz if it is a 32 bit integer
      * Force gcc not to optimise out the alloca
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 5 Dec 2014 23:19:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * free procs array in child stressor, stops valgrind complaining
      * stress-vm: don't use abs, use UNSIGNED_ABS instead
      * Ensure mwc internal state is intialised.
      * stress-memcpy: copy back buffer to share memory region
      * stress-affinity: add --affinity-rand option
      * man page: fix - hypenations
      * stress-vm: remove debug on vm stressor names, too noisy
      * mwc: move mwc constants into a struct and inline mwc
      * Deprecate --noclean option
      * Deprecate --vm-stride
      * man page: Fix spelling mistakes and re-phrase some text for clarity
      * stress-vm: use correct name when checking prime-gray-* results
      * Add --stress-vm documentation in man page
      * stress-vm: Add different vm stressors and --vm-method option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:13:15 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version, update codename
      * More --metrics explanation, expand other mior options as well
      * Use %zu print format specifier for size_t variable
      * Fix builds for OpenBSD too
      * Makefile: minor tweaks to build rules
      * stress-cpu: remove cpow and csinl csinl for FreeBSD builds
      * stress-cpu: build without warnings with clang
      * madvise: fix build issues on FreeBSD
      * stress-sysinfo: build for FreeBSD
      * Fix build issues on FreeBSD
      * stress-cpu: zeta precision should be using cabsl
      * Use double complex for fft
      * stress-nice: include signal.h
      * stress-tsearch: use & rather than &&
      * stress-lsearch: use & rather than &&
      * opt_flags && OPT_FLAGS_VERIFY should be using & rather than &&
      * Remove duplicate const
      * Remove duplicate func declaration, rename other to stress_func
      * Fix division by zero on r_total, emit zero if num procs is zero
      * Fix spelling mistake "performance" in man page
      * Fix float man page entry
      * Fix clongdouble man page entry
      * Add hsearch and class options to --help
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:28:05 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.03.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump to version 0.03.00
      * Clarify cpu stressors and tidy up the table formatting
      * Reduce number of loops for int, float and complex by factor of 10
      * Add cpu complex stressors to man page
      * Add complex math stressors, make float macro use appropriate trig funcs
      * stress-aio: Fix spelling mistake "Succeeded" in comment
      * stress-cpu: fix spelling mistake "version" in comment
      * Add one more stress-ng example to man page
      * stress-sysinfo: make ret linux only
      * stress-sysinfo: make clk not linux only
      * Remove linux only restriction for --times option
      * sysinfo: check for times() returning -1
      * Check for time() error correctly
      * Make stress-aio linux only
      * Output metrics in terms of time in wall clock and user+sys times
      * stress-socket: terminate child properly to fix process accounting
      * Make metrics based on child usr and sys ticks rather than wall clock times
      * Force gcc from over-optmising loop cpu stressor accumulates
      * Fix flock stress on open failure because of race on same file
      * Update syscalls text file
      * Add stack overflow stressor
      * Fix flock - ensure it locks on one file between all workers
      * Add hsearch stressor
      * Add async I/O aio stressor
      * Add --class option
      * stress-cpu: Move math constants and suffix them with L
      * Add Euler–Mascheroni (gamma) calculation in cpu-stress
      * Fix another spelling mistake in man page
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:31:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.29-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix spelling mistake in man page
      * Add seek stressor and --seek, --seek-ops, --seek-size options
      * Add memcpy memory copying stressor
      * Makefile: remove gcov options that got accidentally added
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:19:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.28-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-cpu: force matrixprod to actually save the results
      * Use temp dir helpers to run stressors in temp directory
      * Add temporary dir helpers
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:40:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.27-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * stress-utime: use also utime and make futimes linux only
      * stress-fault: use posix_fallocate instead of fallocate
      * stress-fault: clarify negation on boolean expression
      * stress-hdd: close file on error exit path
      * Use PATH_MAX for filename sizes
      * stress-hdd: use temp filename helper
      * stress-fallocate: use temp filename helper
      * stress-inotify: use temp filename helper
      * stress-flock: open using S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR
      * stress-fault: open using S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR
      * stress-denty: open using S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR
      * stress-dir: use temp filename helper
      * stress-link: use temp filename helper
      * stress-rename: use temp filename helper
      * stress-utime: use temp filename helper
      * stress-sendfile: use temp filename helper
      * stress-flock: use temp filename helper
      * stress-fault: use temp filename helper
      * stress-dentry: use temp filename helper
      * Add stress_temp_filename for standard temp filename building
      * stress-dentry: include instance number in filename
      * Catch a range of signals and handle termination better
      * Re-work process wait by re-writing this with a helper
      * Fix build issues on Arch
      * Man page: tweak width for cpu methods to work on wide ttys
      * Only print out page fault stats to debug
      * Correctly wait for all running processes to terminate
      * Remove redundant exit check
      * Add page fault stressor
      * Remove -g flag from Makefile
      * Add lsearch stressor
      * Add tsearch stressor
      * Ensure we allocate in multiples of 8 elements
      * Add bsearch stressor
      * stress-poll: set data in correct place, fixes verify failures
      * Make hyperbolic cpu test more demanding
      * Make trig cpu test more demanding
      * Add 3 more hash cpu stressors
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:49:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.26-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Makefile: include syscalls.txt in dist
      * Fix cut-n-paste error on waitpid for socket_server
      * Ignore args in no-op mincore build case
      * Make mincore a no-op for GNU HURD
      * Don't allow wait stressor if building for GNU HURD
      * Forgot to make times option Linux only too
      * Make --times option Linux only
      * Only print the names of stressors if they are going to run
      * Ensure we have read all the inotify events
      * Add the new --times option to show system and user times
      * stress-msg: wait for child to exit
      * stress-inotify: ignore EINTR on select as an error
      * stress-eventfd: wait for child to die
      * stress-vm: wait for child to die
      * stress-switch: wait for child to die
      * stress-socket: wait for children to die
      * stress-sigq: wait for child to die
      * stress-poll: wait for child to die
      * stress-pipe: wait for child to die
      * stress-bigheap: wait on child after killing it
      * Add vfork to syscalls.txt
      * Add --vfork, --vfork-ops, --vfork-max options
      * stress-bigheap: don't treat EINTR on waitpid as an error
      * Add mincore to syscalls.txt
      * Add the --page-in option to page in out-of-core pages
      * stress-cpu: run all cpu methods rather than sqrt() by default
      * stress-vm: treat EINTR on waitpid as a not a reportable error
      * stress-eventfd: treat read/write EINTR as not a reportable error
      * stress-msg: treat EINTR as not a reportable error
      * Make poll and select act on multiple pipe fds
      * Add madvise to syscalls.txt
      * Enable random madvise() advice for mmaps, add --no-madvise option
      * Fix spelling mistake in coredump.c
      * Add table of syscalls/libc vs test coverage
      * stress-fstat: add more stat* calls, don't spin if no valid files
      * Modify started on text to be more like original stress tool
      * Add wait stressor and --wait --wait-pid options
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 8 Nov 2014 14:24:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.25-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Write file entry removal info to stderr rather than stdout
      * Enable urandom for GNU HURD
      * stress-fnotify: handle fnotify running out of resource
      * Use timer_create for linux only
      * stress-eventfd: make it build only for linux systems
      * Forgot to add stress-eventfd.c
      * stress-inotify.c: reduce scope of dirent
      * stress-futex.c: reduce scope of variable ret
      * stress-cpu.c: reduce scope of variable fn
      * Replace stress fields with STRESSOR macro
      * Check for timeout as an error and sanity check inotify buffer size
      * Add stress-inotify and --inotify --inotify-ops options
      * man page: fix spelling mistake
      * parse-opts.c: fix spelling mistake
      * Makefile: fix spelling mistake
      * Fix more spelling mistakes in changelog
      * Fix spelling mistake in changelog
      * stress-clock: fully clear sevp
      * Re-order long_options to make it easier to find options
      * stress-sysinfo: move i to reduce scope
      * Fix type on null ptr check on mnt
      * Add sysinfo stressor and --sysinfo --sysinfo-ops options
      * Make STRESS_PROCS linux only in stress-ng.h
      * Add procfs stressor and --procfs --procfs-ops options
      * Update manual date
      * Add note about matrix produce CPU stressor
      * Fix rdrand unrolled comment
      * Re-order stress_op enum
      * Re-order stress_id enum
      * Remove redundant extra loop in stress_pipe
      * Add linux eventfd stressor
      * Add stress-clock, re-order man page and help info
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 3 Nov 2014 19:16:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Free procs on calloc failure
      * stress-open: determine max number of fds allowed to open
      * stress-vm: Handle WIFSIGNALED if waitpid succeeded
      * Handle WIFSIGNALED if waitpid succeeded
      * stress sock should be called sock and not socket in the metrics info
      * Make futex waker verify less pendantic
      * fix getpriorities returning < 0 for valid priority values
      * Fix order of null stressor
      * Add get stressor and --get, --get-ops options
      * Add sendfile stressor and --sendfile, --sendfile-ops, --sendfile-size
      * Re-order options man page
      * Sort options in mini help
      * Add null stress test and --null, --null-ops options
      * Add zero stressor and --zero, --zero-ops options
      * Add kill stressor and --kill, --kill-ops options
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:14:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.23-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Initialise finish time in case it is never run (LP: #1387104)
      * Add futex stressor (LP: #1386831)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:32:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Re-order some of the help options
      * Fix --random option to create semaphore if semaphore is chosen by random
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:54:00 +0000
  • stress-ng (0.02.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Bump version again
      * Mixed up shared memory regions, fix these as --cache breaks
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:13:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.02.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version again
      * Remove shm_* and replace with mmap'd shared memory (fix GNU hurd issues)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:40:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.02.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Don't enable stress-msg for GNU HURD
      * Make lock_mem_current a no-op for GNU HURD
      * Don't enable stress-sigq for GNU HURD
      * Need <sys/time.h> in stress-ng.h
      * Cater for systems where sem_init is not supported
      * shm_open on /tmp path (for kFreeBSD)
      * Fix non-linux build - don't build in options that are not available
      * sched.c: make this build on non-linux systems
      * io-proirity: make this more generic rather than linux specific
      * stress-nice: work around systems that lack RLIMIT_NICE
      * stress-mmap: fix kFreeBSD build failures, no MAP_POPULATE
      * kFreeBSD has no MAP_POPULATE
      * Update to latest policy standards
      * debian/control: update to keep in sync with new features
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:46:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.02.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version, add copyright, change codename, fix make dist
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:24:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.32-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Handle forced abort and tidy up when errors occur during start up
      * Add more termination checks to try to abort faster
      * Fix --sched option that had missing .TP
      * Remove duplicate const
      * Neaten up the see also list
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:21:01 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.31-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Minor fix-ups in man page
      * Re-order globals, saves 8 bytes
      * Make mwc uint64_t
      * Add some more comments
      * Remove DIV_OPS_BY_PROCS macro
      * Fix --keep-name help info (order and missing ')
      * Fix --sched man page option
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:47:28 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.30-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Fix up a few resource leaks
      * Add format length specifier to scanf on integers
      * Minor var cleanup from cppcheck
      * Re-work help info
      * Remove common functionality, make code smaller
      * Free procs more rigorously.
      * Clear sigqueue union, keeps valgrind happy
      * Free procs info at exit
      * Add more information in man page
      * Re-use stressor names in checks
      * Cast max_ops to (void) to avoid unused var warnings
      * Add --vm-locked option and force cpu affinity changes on cache stress
      * Fix spelling mistake in man page
      * Remove some extraneous white spaces
      * Remove commas from nunbers in help
      * Align help info
      * Remove redundant code that got accidently left in
      * Simplify hogs message
      * Keep track of per stress test ops count in opt_ops array
      * Add -P, --poll, --poll-ops zero timeout polling stress test
      * Add -k, --keep-name option to not change name of stress processes
      * Add -r, --random option to create N random stress processes
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:25:01 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.29-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Use si_value.sival_int instead of info.si_int (Closes: #756787)
      * Fix incorrect nesting of OPT_SIGQUEUE*
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 1 Aug 2014 23:25:23 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.28-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version, change codename
      * Add sigqueue and sigwaitinfo stress, new --sigq, --siqq-ops options
      * Make mwc inline
      * Make opt_do_run volatile
      * Make -O2 default
      * Remove numerous printfs in help info
      * Remove lots of duplicate stress test names from code
      * Fixup print % qualifier
      * Clean all objects on make clean
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:25:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.27-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add more info to man page
      * Add open stress test
      * Fix bug in semaphore range checking
      * Fix dbg message for stress_int
      * Add some more comments
      * Add more information in man page
      * Increase the -l option accuracy by biasing by the select() overhead time
      * Add missing comma to output
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:33:31 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.26-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add semaphore stress, --sem and --sem-ops options
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:24:22 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.25-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * More aggresive process termination to kill any lingering processes
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:05:01 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.23-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add snappier process termination
      * Add -h option
      * Add more debug on exit paths
      * Add more checking on sigaction
      * Minor code tidy up
      * Move time_now()
      * Use timeval helper in time_now()
      * Fix build error on GNU HURD
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:49:41 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.22-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add directory entry thrashing
      * Track ftruncate errors
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:19:05 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Remove need for rand, it makes Coverity Scan complain
      * Check for freq divide by zero
      * Add in __linux__ build dependency on timers
      * Add timer stress test --timer, --timer-ops and --timer-freq options
      * Note that affinity options linux only in man page
      * opt_affinity_ops is linux only
      * Fix man page -F option
      * Add CPU affinity stress processes, add --affinity and --affinity-ops options
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:50:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Ignore return from ftruncate, we don't care
      * Fix spelling mistakes
      * Standardise error messages
      * Remove extraneous pid at end of pr_* messages
      * Add more information when error occurs
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:00:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Add yield stress test and -y, --yield, --yield-ops options
      * Add ionice-class and ionice-level options (Linux only)
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:14:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Makefile: update version
      * Add build hardening
      * Add scheduler options to man page
      * Allow --sched which to show available schedulers
      * Add --sched and --sched-prio options
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Fri, 4 Jul 2014 16:38:00 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Don't include prctl.h unless compiled for a linux target
      * Reduce scope of j loop index
      * Reduce scope of ret
      * Clarify bitwise operation
      * Remove duplicate consts
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:24:15 +0100
  • stress-ng (0.01.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
    
    
      * Initial Debian upload (Closes: #735674)
      * Makefile: bump version
      * Minor tidy-ups
      * Minor changes to man page
    
     -- Colin King <email address hidden>  Mon, 26 May 2014 10:39:00 +0200