A Smackerel of Opinion

Notes and jottings from an ex-Ubuntu Kernel Team Engineer

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

What's new in stress-ng 0.06.07?

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Since my last blog post about stress-ng , I've pushed out several more small releases that incorporate new features and (as ever) a bunc...
Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Some extra features landing in stress-ng 0.06.00

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Recently I've been adding a few more features into stress-ng to get improve kernel code coverage.   I'm currently using a kernel bui...
Thursday, 21 April 2016

Ensure your stack is aligned correctly on aarch64 clone()

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I got bitten this week with the clone() system call returning -EINVAL on aarch64 on code that worked fine on x86.  After re-reading the manu...
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Friday, 11 March 2016

A frequently used incorrect realloc() idiom

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While running static analysis on a lot of C source code, I keep on finding a common incorrect programming idiom used with realloc() allocati...
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