[tdulcet]

• Updated the CI workflow
  • Changed to fail on UBSan errors (idea came from CI: run the ASan Linux job on ARM too, instrumenting the ASIMD build #263)
  • Fixed breakage to GCC Analyzer from upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04
    • (We still need to fix all of the GCC Analyzer warnings as part of Fix GCC Analyzer warnings #392)
  • Updated new KNL job to run more Mlucas and Mfactor tests, and upload the logs (follow up from KNL build mode: produce a binary that runs on a Xeon Phi, or refuse to build; test it under SDE in CI #239)
  • Updated TSan jobs to run Mfactor (this for example would have caught factor.c: make the Mfactor worker mutexes static (they currently serialise nothing) #192)
  • Updated Linux TSan job to use SIMD builds for consistency with the ASan job
  • Updated more jobs to save their self-test output
  • Updated makemake.sh script to add the -k/--keep-going option to Make, so that it would show all -Werror errors (follow up from Fix the remaining strict-aliasing sites, and fail the gcc Linux CI builds on any new one #316)
• Minor cleanups and consistency improvements to the workflow files

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Summary

• Tests
  • Expanded automated tests across platform, sanitizer, and build configurations, with improved test-log capture and clearer sanitizer error details.
  • Updated large macOS self-test runs and added runs when the workflow changes.
• Chores
  • Updated build settings and compiler checks, including KNL support, and enabled builds to continue after individual errors.

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The changes update build configuration and CI workflows. They expand KNL and TSan self-tests, adjust self-test logging and artifacts, add sanitizer and static-analysis options, and revise the large self-test workflow’s trigger and macOS test-size selection.

Changes: CI and Build Validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build configuration makemake.sh	Make now defaults to keep-going. KNL compiler flags and checks are updated, with related warning handling and comments.
Standard CI self-test adjustments .github/workflows/ci.yml	Linux and FreeBSD self-tests append output to logs. Linux and macOS single-thread steps enable pipefail, and Fermat tests select the build directory based on platform mode. Some artifact paths are removed.
KNL build and self-tests .github/workflows/ci.yml	The KNL job verifies the SDE archive, builds Mlucas and all Mfactor word variants, runs the expanded self-tests, and uploads artifacts.
Sanitizer and TSan checks .github/workflows/ci.yml	Sanitizer jobs set UBSan options. Linux and macOS TSan jobs test Mfactor word variants.
Static-analysis checks .github/workflows/ci.yml	Static-analysis commands add -D_GNU_SOURCE, and Clang-Tidy adds a check.
Large self-test workflow .github/workflows/selftest-large.yml	The workflow adds a push trigger for main. macOS always runs the l test and runs h on Intel runners.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~22 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• primesearch/Mlucas#216: Changes exit-status handling in the same self-test workflow steps.
• primesearch/Mlucas#239: Changes KNL compiler-flag logic and the Linux-KNL CI path.
• primesearch/Mlucas#365: Changes self-test steps and artifact lists in the Linux and macOS CI jobs.

Suggested labels: enhancement

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to cede6

The new threaded Mfactor TSan runs can fail CI intermittently until the known race (#394) is fixed. The KNL job also uploads no Mfactor test logs. Resolve or explicitly accept both before merging.

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- Line 521: Update the KNL Mfactor invocation in the Mfactor loop to append each
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[MarkRose]

Thanks for this. I went through all three files and tried the parts I could try locally. One thing to change, and a few things to watch when CI finishes.

One change: the new TSan Mfactor step does not exercise more than one thread

Both TSan jobs now run Mfactor -m 521 -bmax 20, and the description says this would have caught #192. As written it would not: Mfactor defaults to one thread (NTHREADS = 1 in factor.c), and #192 is two worker threads each holding their own private mutex, so with one worker there is nothing for TSan to see. I checked this by building Mfactor (nosimd, clang, -fsanitize=thread, the same flags as the job) from current main with the #192 fix reverted (removed static from mutex_mi64/mutex_updatecount) and running it:

invocation	result with #192 reintroduced	result on unmodified main
-m 521 -bmax 20 (what the PR runs)	exit 0, no TSan report, 3 of 3 runs	exit 0
-m 521 -bmax 20 -nthread 4	exit 66, "data race ... write M0 / previous write M1" in PerPass_tfSieve, 3 of 3 runs	exit 0, 3 of 3 runs

So adding -nthread 4 makes the step catch it, and the step stays green on main. Suggested change for both TSan jobs (one extra run of the default build after the word-size loop):

        (cd ../obj_mfac_nosimd && time ./Mfactor -m 521 -bmax 20 -nthread 4)

I would not put -nthread 4 on the whole word-size loop, for two reasons I hit when I tried it: Mfactor_nword asserts ("Arbitrary-precision build currently only supports single-threaded runs"), and Mfactor_3word reported TSan data races in twopmodq192_q4 in 1 of 3 runs at four threads on main (the function caches its setup in function-level static variables that every thread writes). 1word, 2word and 4word were clean in the one run I did of each. The 3word race is an existing bug unrelated to this PR, so I'd rather not turn the job red with it; it needs its own fix.

The rest

• UBSan: UBSAN_OPTIONS=print_stacktrace=1:halt_on_error=1 is what makes the runtime stop at the first report with both compilers, and I checked that main's last completed run (32a35cc) has no runtime error: lines in any of the eight ASan/TSan job logs, so it should not turn main red.
• makemake.sh -k: MAKE_ARGS is only used in the one make call, and -k still returns a failing status, so the build step still fails; it just reports every -Werror error instead of the first. Fine.
• The KNL reorder in makemake.sh only moves where -march=knl and -Wno-knl-knm-isa-support-removed land in the flag list; try_flag and knl_emits_vl do not look at the accumulated flags, so the probes are unchanged.
• The Mfactor KNL loop is fine (cd is relative to the previous directory, which is the sibling in every iteration).
• The Linux 32-bit (ubuntu-latest) failure on this head is "Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'" inside the container at apt-get update, nothing to do with the diff; it needs a re-run.
• CodeRabbit's note about teeing the Mfactor KNL runs into test.log is fine either way; none of the other Mfactor loops in the workflow do that, so I'd leave it for consistency.
• Worth watching when it finishes: the KNL jobs now run -s s under SDE on top of tt and t (the comment says t alone takes 351 s on four cores), plus all six Mfactor word sizes, so check the run time stays well under the six-hour limit.

I've put the suggested line as an inline comment on each of the two TSan jobs.

[tdulcet]

So adding -nthread 4 makes the step catch it, and the step stays green on main.

Thanks for catching that. I opted to add the -nthread option to all of the Mfactor runs except Mfactor_nword. The races should be fixed by #394.

Worth watching when it finishes: the KNL jobs now run -s s under SDE on top of tt and t (the comment says t alone takes 351 s on four cores)

For some reason the GCC KNL job took only 4 minutes, but Clang took over 4 hours. Maybe it depends on if the runner happens to support AVX512. I dropped the proposed small Mlucas self-test.

The Linux 32-bit (ubuntu-latest) failure on this head is "Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'" inside the container at apt-get update, nothing to do with the diff; it needs a re-run.

I re-ran it, but it is still failing. It looks like it is also failing on main, but for some reason it is only the x86 job, as the ARM job that also uses Debian 13 was successful. Edit: I found the bug: actions/runner-images#14790

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[MarkRose]

Thanks for the update. The -nthread change is what I was after, and I checked both TSan failures on this head. They are both real bugs on main that the new settings expose, and both already have fixes waiting, so this is good to go once those are in.

ThreadSanitizer macOS fails on Mfactor_3word -nthread 3 with the twopmodq192_q4 races. That is #394, as you said. I reran the same kind of build locally under TSan with 4 threads: main reports the race in 2 of 5 runs, and #394 in 0 of 13.

ThreadSanitizer Linux fails earlier, before it reaches Mfactor. Moving it from nosimd to the native build (AVX-512 on that runner) makes Mlucas -s tt report 6 races in cy36_process_chunk, cy44_process_chunk and cy52_process_chunk. Those are not ordinary races. They come from an out-of-bounds write, which #321 fixes. Under AVX-512 these drivers copy the carries back 8 at a time (for(l = 0; l < RADIX; l += 8)), but RADIX is 4 mod 8, and cy starts up to 6 elements into cy_dat[RADIX+8] to get 64-byte alignment. So the last pass writes past the end of cy_dat into the next thread's struct. TSan's report has exactly that shape: thread T13's write at radix36_ditN_cy_dif1.c:2179 lands on the field thread T15 reads as thread_arg->ndivr at line 1937, inside the tdat block. The only other error in that log is the "nonzero exit carry in radix16_ditN_cy_dif1" at 8K, which is the usual AVX-512 small-FFT rejection that -s tt prints on these runners. The step failed only because of the TSan warnings (exit 66). I can't run TSan on AVX-512 locally, so I haven't confirmed that the job is green with #321 in, but the reported addresses are the overrun #321 removes. So that's a good catch from switching the job off nosimd.

Once the Linux job gets past Mlucas, it runs the SIMD Mfactor builds with -nthread 4. I ran the default, 1word, 2word, 3word and 4word builds locally (AVX2, clang, -fsanitize=thread, -m 521 -bmax 20 -nthread 4) on top of #394. All were clean, 3 of 3 runs each, plus 10 more for 3word.

So the merge order is #321 and #394 first, then this. Merged before them, both TSan jobs go red on main.

Two small things, neither blocking:

• The macOS ASan job now uses MAX=27 in config-fermat.sh (was 28), which drops F28 from that run. I assume that's for run time, but the commit message doesn't say, so a comment next to the sed would help.
• The Linux 32-bit failure is the runner-images bug you found (actions/runner-images#14790), not the diff.

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• The macOS ASan job now uses MAX=27 in config-fermat.sh (was 28), which drops F28 from that run. I assume that's for run time

Yes, the macOS ASan job was the only remaining job with a runtime of over an hour. You already dropped the medium self-test for this reason in #367. It looks like dropping F28 saved an additional 12 minutes.