stress-ng V0.18.05 "manic machine masher"
New Stressors
- --sighup, SIGHUP stressor
- --pseek, pwrite/pread concurrent seek position stressor
New Options
- --icmp-flood-max-size to specify max random icmp flood packet size
- --far-branch-flush to force instruction cache flushing
- --sem-sysv-setall for SYS-V semctl SETALL command
- --sem-shared for shared semaphore across sem stressors
Detailed Changelog
[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