[ANNOUNCE] rt-tests-1.9

[John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>]

Hello rt-folks! We're pleased to announce a new release of rt-tests - v1.9

- There is a new test called oslat from Peter Xu
- Daniel Wagner started to move some shared functionality into common 
headers
- Clark Williams provided a fix to pi_stress, to put a limit on the number 
of inversion groups.
- And there are various micellaneous fixes from Yunfeng Ye, and from 
myself too.

To download rt-tests:
using git, clone one of the following
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/rt-tests/rt-tests.git
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/rt-tests/rt-tests.git
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/utils/rt-tests/rt-tests.git

The latest tag is v1.9

Tarballs are also available here:
https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests

Older version tarballs are available here:
https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/rt-tests/older

Your fixes, development or just bug reports are always welcome!

Enjoy!

John Kacur

Clark Williams (1):
  pi_stress: limit the number of inversion groups to the number of
    online cores

Daniel Wagner (4):
  rt-utils: Move timestamp calc helper to common header
  rt-utils: Move time defininitions to common header
  rt-utils: Move ARRAY_SIZE to common header
  signaltest: Only print from the first thread stats when quiet

John Kacur (11):
  cyclictest: Fix setaffinity error on large NUMA machines
  rt-tests: queuelat: Fix storing unsigned long long in int
  rt-tests: improvements to the python style in get_cyclictest_snapshot
  rt-tests: pi_stress.8: Remove unused -t n from the manpage
  rt-tests: ptsematest.8: Update the ptsematest man page
  rt-tests: Add a man page for get_cyclictest_snapshot
  rt-tests: Tweak the cyclictest man page
  rt-tests: Add some files like get_cyclictest_snapshot to .gitignore
  rt-tests: get_cyclictest_snapshot: Warn if no cyclictest instance
    found
  rt-tests: Install new man page get_cyclictest_snapshot.8
  rt-tests: Makefile - update version to v1.9

Peter Xu (3):
  rt-tests: cyclictest: Move ftrace helpers into rt-utils.[ch]
  rt-tests: oslat: Init commit
  rt-tests: oslat: Proper reformat of code

Yunfeng Ye (3):
  rt-tests: cyclictest: Fix -a option fail when max_cpus is more
  rt-tests: hachbench: Update the usage and man page for -F|--fifo
    option
  rt-tests: cyclictest: remove the debug log "pid = xxx" in
    rstat_shm_open()

 .gitignore                                |   7 +
 Makefile                                  |  13 +-
 src/backfire/sendme.c                     |   3 -
 src/cyclictest/cyclictest.8               |   2 +-
 src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c               | 159 +---
 src/cyclictest/get_cyclictest_snapshot.8  |  44 ++
 src/cyclictest/get_cyclictest_snapshot.py |  59 +-
 src/hackbench/hackbench.8                 |   6 +-
 src/hackbench/hackbench.c                 |   2 +-
 src/include/rt-utils.h                    |  51 ++
 src/lib/rt-utils.c                        |  82 ++
 src/oslat/oslat.8                         |  66 ++
 src/oslat/oslat.c                         | 871 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/pi_tests/pi_stress.8                  |   6 -
 src/pi_tests/pi_stress.c                  |  23 +-
 src/pmqtest/pmqtest.c                     |   4 -
 src/ptsematest/ptsematest.8               |   6 +-
 src/ptsematest/ptsematest.c               |   2 -
 src/queuelat/queuelat.c                   |  13 +-
 src/signaltest/signaltest.c               |  22 +-
 src/sigwaittest/sigwaittest.c             |   2 -
 src/svsematest/svsematest.c               |   2 -
 22 files changed, 1216 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/cyclictest/get_cyclictest_snapshot.8
 create mode 100644 src/oslat/oslat.8
 create mode 100644 src/oslat/oslat.c