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In the macOS and Windows ASan jobs, the medium self-test (-s m) took about half of each job, because both built NOSIMD. This makes the Windows ASan job build the runner's native SIMD mode, as #263 did for the Linux ASan job, and keeps -s m there. It drops -s m from the macOS ASan job, as was already done for the TSan jobs.

The cost before

From main's CI run 39128000058, and #263's run 39170826100:

ASan job build -s m whole job
macOS NOSIMD 44 min 96 min
Windows NOSIMD 71 min 153 min
Linux x86, gcc / clang (#263) AVX-512 / AVX2 4 / 9 min 14 / 35 min
Linux ARM, gcc / clang (#263) ASIMD 9 / 8 min 49 / 56 min

The change

  • ASan Windows: builds makemake.sh use_hwloc, the runner's native AVX2 or AVX-512 mode, instead of NOSIMD, and runs the self-tests, config-fermat.sh and the full tt t s m ladder from it, as the Linux x86 ASan job does. Mfactor still runs from the NOSIMD builds. The regular Windows clang job already builds the SIMD modes, so the asm assembles with this toolchain; this PR's CI run is the first time it runs under the sanitizers at -Og.
  • ASan macOS: stays NOSIMD, because the SIMD asm doesn't assemble under -Og there ("invalid CFI advance_loc expression", see Fix 'asm operand has impossible constraints' in hand-tuned asm on ancient compilers (part of #60) #71). Its ladder stops at -s s, as in the TSan jobs. The -prp tiers, config-fermat.sh and the Mfactor runs are unchanged.
  • The ASan Linux job's comment no longer says it is the only job that builds the SIMD asm under a sanitizer.

What changes in coverage

Pull requests no longer get ASan/UBSan checking at the medium FFT lengths on macOS. Those lengths are still covered under the sanitizers on Linux and Windows on every pull request, now in the SIMD builds, and without sanitizers on every pull request in the regular macOS jobs. Windows gains ASan/UBSan coverage of the hand-tuned SIMD asm, which it didn't have before.

An earlier version of this PR moved -s m for these two jobs to a monthly workflow instead. That is gone, and selftest-large.yml is untouched.

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These touch the same ASan jobs, and whichever lands second will be rebased:

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    • Sanitizer testing now includes Windows builds with native SIMD enabled and runs Mlucas self-tests from those builds.
    • Windows Mfactor sanitizer builds and tests continue to use NOSIMD.
    • macOS sanitizer testing now runs Mlucas self-test tiers tt, t, and s; tier m is no longer included.
    • Windows Mlucas tests continue through tiers tt, t, s, and m, while PRP tests run tiers tt, t, and s.

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The ASan workflow removes tier m from the macOS Mlucas self-tests. On Windows, it builds Mlucas with native SIMD and runs tests from obj; Mfactor builds remain NOSIMD.

Changes: ASan CI job updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Adjust ASan job builds and test tiers
.github/workflows/ci.yml
The macOS Mlucas test loop retains tiers tt, t, and s. The Windows job builds native SIMD Mlucas and runs its tests from obj; Mfactor builds remain NOSIMD. The Linux comment now notes that Windows also builds hand-tuned SIMD assembly under sanitizers.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/ci.yml: The ASan-macOS self-test loop drops tier m, retaining tt, t, and s; its comments state that m runs monthly in selftest-large.yml.
  • observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/ci.yml: The ASan-Windows self-test loop drops tier m, retaining tt, t, and s; its comments state that m runs monthly in selftest-large.yml.
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  • observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/selftest-large.yml: Comments now describe the medium (m) self-tests run under ASan and UBSan on macOS and Windows, and state that the Linux ASan job in ci.yml keeps -s m.
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Now with #263 running the ASan jobs with SIMD builds, which should significantly decrease their runtime, is this change still needed?

If so, I would probably prefer to just drop the medium self-test from the ASan jobs, as we did for the TSan jobs, as otherwise it likely does not provide much value by itself.

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Good question. I measured it, and you're right for Linux. With #263, the Linux ASan job's -s m takes 4-9 minutes (AVX-512, AVX2 and ASIMD runners), down from 66-75 minutes in the NOSIMD build, so there's no longer a reason to move it. I've dropped the Linux part of this PR: the Linux ASan job keeps -s m on every run, and the monthly Linux ASan job is gone.

macOS and Windows are different, because their ASan jobs still build NOSIMD (on macOS the SIMD asm doesn't assemble under -Og). There -s m is still about half of each job: 44 of 96 minutes on macOS and 71 of 153 on Windows, in main's run 39128000058. So for those two I've kept the move to the monthly workflow rather than dropping it outright. ASan at the medium lengths is what caught #12, and running it monthly keeps that coverage on macOS and Windows for about two runner-hours a month. If you'd still rather drop it there entirely, as with TSan, that's an easy change: just delete the two monthly jobs.

I've updated the description with the timings.

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🔵 Trivial · Qualify the ci.yml ladder statement. · selftest-large.yml:1

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Qualify the ci.yml ladder statement.

The header still states that ci.yml ladders stop at m, although the macOS and Windows ASan ladders stop at s.

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-# ci.yml's ladders stop at 'm', so these are the only runs of the largest FFT lengths; 'h' had never
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On the outside-diff comment about the header: fixed in f8f6802. It now says the macOS and Windows ASan ladders stop at 's'.

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macOS and Windows are different, because their ASan jobs still build NOSIMD (on macOS the SIMD asm doesn't assemble under -Og).

For Windows, maybe switch back to a SIMD build, as we did for Linux in #263. For macOS, it would probably be better to just drop the medium self-test (at least until they fix that assembler bug), as we already did for TSan jobs, as the Linux and Windows ASan jobs should then provide sufficient coverage.

…m the macOS ASan job

In the NOSIMD builds the medium self-test took about half of each job: 70 of 150 minutes on
Windows and 45 of 95 on macOS. Windows now builds the runner's SIMD mode under the sanitizers,
as the Linux ASan job does since primesearch#263, and keeps -s m. On macOS the SIMD asm does not assemble
under -Og, so that job stays NOSIMD and its ladder stops at 's', as in the TSan jobs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@MarkRose MarkRose changed the title CI: run the ASan medium self-test monthly instead of on every run CI: Windows ASan in native SIMD mode, and no -s m in the macOS ASan job Oct 23, 2026
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Done, in c3e787d, which replaces the earlier commits.

  • Windows: the ASan job now builds the runner's native SIMD mode (AVX2 or AVX-512), as the Linux job does since CI: run the ASan Linux job on ARM too, instrumenting the ASIMD build #263, and keeps -s m. The regular Windows clang job already builds the SIMD modes, so the asm assembles there; this run will be the first time under ASan at -Og, and I'll check its timing and results.
  • macOS: the ASan job stays NOSIMD and its ladder stops at -s s, as in the TSan jobs.
  • Monthly jobs: removed, and selftest-large.yml is untouched now.

I've updated the title and description to match.

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Thanks, this looks good to me. Just one minor change is needed for consistency.

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…an jobs

The Linux x86 and Windows ASan jobs now build Mlucas in the runner's native
SIMD mode, but still built every Mfactor word width NOSIMD. Build those in the
native mode too. On ARM the Linux ASan job keeps Mfactor on NOSIMD, as the main
Linux job does, because the ASIMD build's trial-factoring routines are stubs.
The macOS ASan job is unchanged: its runner is ARM, so NOSIMD is still the
only build whose Mfactor self-tests anything.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mfactor's AVX-512 build allocates psmall for the vectorised bit-clearing
and never frees it, so LeakSanitizer fails every word width with a 400000-byte
leak from factor.c:1534 (NUM_SIEVING_PRIME x 4 bytes per thread). The ASan jobs
only ever ran NOSIMD Mfactor builds, where psmall doesn't exist, so it went
unseen; now that the Linux ASan job builds Mfactor in the runner's native mode,
it would fail on every AVX-512 runner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Thanks, this looks good to me.

@tdulcet tdulcet added enhancement New feature or request github_actions Pull requests that update GitHub Actions code labels Oct 29, 2026
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#367 moved the Linux ASan job's Mfactor and the whole Windows ASan job from
NOSIMD to the runner's native SIMD build, and dropped -s m from the macOS
ASan job. Here the builds run on a different runner from the tests, so as
for Mlucas in the Linux ASan job, the build jobs make both AVX2 and AVX-512
(NOSIMD Mfactor on ARM, as before) and each test runner runs the builds its
CPU supports. The macOS ASan tests lose their selftest-m part.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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