* Mon Dec 16 2019 Michal Biesek <michal.biesek@intel.com> v1.10.0

- Provided another way to use Persistent Memory in memkind (MEMKIND_DAX_KMEM_* kinds)

- Added C++ allocator for static kinds (including MEMKIND_DAX_KMEM_* kinds)

- Provided an interface to get memkind allocation statistics

- Provided a method to reduce fragmentation - memkind_defrag_reallocate()

- Added support for background thread

- Updated internally used jemalloc to upstream version 5.2.1

- Extended hbw interface with hbw_malloc_usable_size()

- Simplified building process

* Wed Apr 3 2019 Michal Biesek <michal.biesek@intel.com> v1.9.0

- Provided a second function to create PMEM kind memkind_create_pmem_with_config()

- Provided the memkind_detect_kind() function to recognize a kind from memory allocation

- Provided memkind_config_set_memory_usage_policy() function

  that modifies the default memory usage policy behavior

- Provided the ability to pass a NULL kind to memkind_malloc_usable_size() and memkind_realloc()

- Unified the memkind_realloc() behavior for all kinds

- Added the support for the pool_msize() function to TBB

- Extended build arch to ppc64, ppc64le, s390x

- Removed disable-stats from used jemalloc

- Fixed compilation under the Clang and rpm build configuration

- Provided the support for Dockerfile

* Mon Dec 10 2018 Michal Biesek <michal.biesek@intel.com> v1.8.0

- Fixed error with realloc/free method with passing thread-specific cache flag

- Fixed error with memkind_create_pmem(), if other PMEM kind was destroyed before

- Fixed error with zeroing large allocations in PMEM kind

- Added support to create kind without maximum size limit of PMEM kind (max_size=0)

- Extended memkind API with memkind_malloc_usable_size()

- Removed EXPERIMENTAL from most methods in memkind API

- Added MEMKIND_ERROR_ARENAS_CREATE code

- Added C++ allocator for PMEM kind

- Extended PMEM examples

- Fixed integration with Travis CI

- Extended Travis CI configuration with Astyle and Coverage

- Added PMEM kind tests

* Wed Jan 24 2018 Pawel Kochanek <pawel.b.kochanek@intel.com> v1.7.0

- Updated internally used jemalloc to upstream version 5.0.

- Fixed error that has been occurring while memkind was dynamically loaded.

- Fixed MEMKIND_HBW_NODES behavior for single NUMA node system.

- Removed licenses other than BSD 3-clause from COPYING.

- Changed build instructions.

- Added configurable jemalloc prefix in build scripts.

- Upgraded gtest to version 1.8.0.

- Added memory footprint tests.

- Added locality test for MEMKIND_PREFERRED.

- Applied test parametrization in BATests.

- Fixed problems with pytest testing in Travis.

- Added huge page configuration in several tests.

- Removed several symbols that are no longer exposed in public API from man pages.

- Fixed HBW_POLICY_BIND_ALL documentation.

* Tue Jun 13 2017 Artur Koziej <artur.koziej@intel.com> v1.6.0

- Introduced new policy HBW_POLICY_BIND_ALL.

- Introduced MEMKIND_HBW_ALL, MEMKIND_HBW_ALL_HUGETLB and MEMKIND_REGULAR kinds.

- Fixed hbw_posix_memalign_psize() return value in case of unsupported policy and

  page size combination.

- Documented supported policy and page size combination for

  hbw_posix_memalign_psize().

- Merged libmemkind.a and libjemalloc_pic.a into a single static library.

- Fixed OOM during tcache acquisition.

- Tuned huge pages configuration in memkind tests.

- Added stress tests for allocations with large random sizes.

- Added stress tests for allocations with random kinds.

- Extended policy and NUMA node binding tests.

- Fixed several Travis build problems.

- Removed gb_page_tests_preferred_policy tests.

* Tue Feb 21 2017 Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com> v1.5.0

- Intel(R) TBB scalable_allocator can be used as heap management alternative

  to jemalloc (requires installed Intel (R) TBB package and environment variable

  MEMKIND_HEAP_MANAGER=TBB)

- Updated internally used jemalloc to upstream version 4.3.1 (previously modified 3.5.1)

- Introduced new environment option MEMKIND_HOG_MEMORY. Setting it to "1" will prevent

  memkind from releasing memory to OS.

- Introduced support for KNM processor from Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) family

- General cleanup of build scripts (e.g. fixed issues found on Ubuntu,

  introduced simple build.sh script)

- Deprecated support for gigabyte-pages

- Removed number of previously deprecated symbols

* Thu Nov 17 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com> v1.4.0

- Introduced hbw_verify_memory_region() for verifying if provided memory

  region fully falls into high-bandwidth memory (for details please take a look

  at man/hbwmalloc.3).

- New API for creating kinds using set of predefined attributes:

  memkind_create_kind(), memkind_destroy_kind() (for details please take a look

  at man/memkind.3).

- Fixed issue in autohbw where it was reporting limit error regardless of

  value provided.

- Added logging on error paths.

- Test base fixes and improvements.

* Tue Sep 27 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com> v1.3.0

- Introduced logging mechanism (for details please take a look at

  man/memkind.3).

- Deprecated symbols: memkind_finalize(), memkind_get_num_kind(),

  memkind_get_kind_by_partition(), memkind_get_kind_by_name(),

  memkind_partition_mmap(), memkind_get_size(), MEMKIND_ERROR_MEMALIGN,

  MEMKIND_ERROR_MALLCTL,  MEMKIND_ERROR_GETCPU, MEMKIND_ERROR_PMTT,

  MEMKIND_ERROR_TIEDISTANCE, MEMKIND_ERROR_ALIGNMENT, MEMKIND_ERROR_MALLOCX,

  MEMKIND_ERROR_REPNAME, MEMKIND_ERROR_PTHREAD, MEMKIND_ERROR_BADPOLICY,

  MEMKIND_ERROR_REPPOLICY.

- Added integration with hwloc (turned on with --with-hwloc).

- Cleanup of symbols exposed by libmemkind.so (e.g. no longer exposing libnuma

  and jemalloc symbols).

- AutoHBW files have been moved to "memkind/autohbw" directory, code has

  been refactored and tests have been added to appropriate scenarios.

- Library is now built with flags improving security (can be turned off

  with --disable-secure configure time option).

- Changed configuration of jemalloc to turn off unused features.

* Thu Aug 18 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com> v1.2.0

- memkind_create() and memkind_ops have been deprecated (moved to

  memkind_deprecated.h).

- Deprecated the headers from memkind/internal and added compile-time

  warnings to them (plan is to remove those from rpm packages).

- autohbw files have been moved to memkind/autohbw directory.

- API decorators (memkind_malloc_pre, memkind_malloc_post etc.) now

  need to be enabled with configure-time option --enable-decorators.

- Allocation time optimizations with up to 20% improvement.

* Wed Jul 13 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com> v1.1.1

- Performance improvement for memkind_free() in scenario where NULL

  was passed as kind (reduced by 60%).

- Introduced integration with Travis CI.

- Fixed issue where memory returned from calloc was not filled with zeroes

  when using memkind_pmem kinds.

- Fixed issue where interleave kinds was failing on systems without

  Transparent Huge Pages module configured.

- Resolved several issues that was causing compilation errors on some systems.

- test/test.sh is now able to detect system configuration, and run only those

  tests which requirements are meet.

- Added gtest to repo to avoid downloading it during build proecess.

* Mon May 23 2016 Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com> v1.1.0

- Implemented algorithm for detecting high-bandwidth memory on Intel Xeon Phi X200

  without parsing PMTT.

- PMTT-parsing service has been removed.

- memkind struct definition from memkind.h has been replaced by forward

  declaration. Definition has been moved to /internal/memkind_private.h and

  shouldn't be considered as part of library interface anymore.

- Performance improvement for hugetlb kinds (check_available() is no longer

  parsing sysfs every time).

- Performance fix by removing --enable-safe from jemmaloc build flags.

- New tests for validating high-bandwidth memory detection has been added.

- AFTS has been split into two groups: memkind-afts.ts and memkind-afts-ext.ts,

  based on amount of required memory (for details view test/README).

* Thu Mar 03 2016 Artur Koziej <artur.koziej@intel.com> v1.0.0

- hbwmalloc.h released as stable API.

- Introduce API standards: STANDARD API, NON-STANDARD API, EXPERIMENTAL API.

- Introduce memkind versioning API.

- Fix type names in hbwmalloc API.

- Change error codes to POSIX standard ones in hbwmalloc API.

- Move API headers to include directory.

- Move NON-STANDARD API, or EXPERIMENTAL API to include/memkind/internal directory.

- New man page (memkind_interleave.3) describing interleave kind.

- Significant documentation improvement.

- Performance fix for jemalloc - significantly decrease of library initialization time.

- Enforce 2MB alignment in jemalloc due to the Linux kernel bug (munmap() fails for

  huge pages, when the size is not aligned).

- Move to systemd defined service (memkind.service), drop init.d script.

- New rpm layout (memkind and memkind-devel).

- Remove false dependency on OpenMP.

- Extend test base for stress, longevity and initialization performance tests.

- Fix memory leak in ctl_growk().

- Rename namespace: hbwmalloc -> hbw.

- Rename class: hbwmalloc_allocator -> allocator.

* Thu Oct 15 2015 Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com> v0.3.0

- Added two new kinds: MEMKIND_INTERLEAVE and MEMKIND_HBW_INTERLEAVE

  (for details please take a look at man/memkind.3)

- Added support for file-backed memory heaps

  (for details please take a look at man/memkind_pmem.3)

- Added autohbw library, that intercepts the standard heap allocations,

  which let use high-bandwidth memory without modifying existing codebase

  (for details please take a look at examples/autohbw_README)

- jemalloc is now, statically linked, internal component of memkind RPM

  instead of rpm dependency.

- Added memkind_allocated example which demonstrates usage of memkind

  with alignas() alignment specifier introduced in C++11

  (for details please take a look at examples/README)

- Added support for using thread local storage to improve performance in

  multithreaded applications (enabled by configure time option: --enable-tls)

- Added possibility to set number of jemalloc arenas per kind by

  configure time parameter or environmental variable

  (for details please take a look at MEMKIND_ARENA_NUM_PER_KIND section

  of man/memkind.3).

- Added decorators to the memkind allocation APIs.

  These are weak symbols (pre and post for each API) which can modify

  the input and output of each of the calls.

- Significantly extended test base (new groups of tests: performance,

  multithreaded, PMTT, nagtive, stress).

* Fri Jan 9 2015 Christopher Cantalupo <christopher.m.cantalupo@intel.com> v0.2.0

- Bumped memkind ABI version to 0:1:0.

- Removed memkind_get_kind_for_free() from externally facing API's.  Instead if

  memkind_free() is called with zero passed for the kind then

  memkind_get_kind_for_free() is called internally.

- Moved to single callback memkind_partition_mmap() to simplify

  jemalloc modifications.

- Added hooks for setting file descriptor and offset for mmap enabling

  file-backed memory kinds.

- Added a void pointer called "priv" to memkind structure for storing data for

  user-defined kinds.

- Removed call to sched_getcpu(), now thread id is hashed to determine the arena

  index.

- Added weak symbol hooks for decorating the heap management functions.

- Fixed several issues with init.d/memkind script and spec file scriptlets that

  are exposed by SLES-12.

- Introduced an example library called numakind.

  The numakind library will allocate from the closest NUMA node to a thread as

  measured when that thread makes its first allocation call.

- Fixed error handling in memkind_gbtlb_mmap() that could cause a segfault when

  gigabyte pages are not available.

- Added tests for PMTT parser.

- Removed binary mock PMTT table from source code, replaced it with a hexdump.

- Fixed a number of issues in test scripts which were suppressing errors.

- Removed unnecessary includes from header files.

- Better error checking in example code.

- Documentation update and clean up.

* Thu Nov 13 2014 Christopher Cantalupo <christopher.m.cantalupo@intel.com> v0.1.0

- Increased test code coverage significantly.

- Fixed bug in memkind_error_message() for MEMKIND_ERROR_TOOMANY.

- Removed memkind_arena_free() API since it was redundant with memkind_default_free().

- Static memkind structs are now declared as extern in the headers and defined in the

  source files files rather than being statically defined in the headers.

* Thu Oct 30 2014 Christopher Cantalupo <christopher.m.cantalupo@intel.com> v0.0.9

- Now building with autotools.

- Updated documentation.

- Fixed typo in copyright.

- Fixed test scripts to properly handle return code of each test.

- Added C++03 standard allocator that uses hbw_malloc and hbw_free.

* Tue Sep 30 2014 Christopher Cantalupo <christopher.m.cantalupo@intel.com> v0.0.8

- Added GBTLB functionality, code clean up, documentation updates,

  examples directory.  Examples includes stream modified to use

  memkind interface.  Code coverage still lacking, and documentation

  incomplete.