This is the top-level README.md of the NVM Library. For more information, see http://pmem.io.
Please see the file LICENSE for information on how this library is licensed.
This tree contains a collection of libraries for using Non-Volatile Memory (NVM). There are currently eight libraries:
- libpmem -- basic pmem operations like flushing
- libpmemblk, libpmemlog, libpmemobj -- pmem transactions
- libvmem, libvmmalloc -- volatile use of pmem
- libpmempool -- persistent memory pool management
- librpmem -- remote access to persistent memory (EXPERIMENTAL)
and one command-line utility:
- pmempool -- standalone tool for off-line pool management
These libraries and utilities are described in more detail on the pmem web site. There you'll find man pages, examples, and tutorials.
Currently, these libraries only work on 64-bit Linux and Windows (*).
(*) NOTE: Porting NVML to Windows is still in progress.
The source tree contains MS Visual Studio solution and project files, allowing to compile libpmem, libpmemlog, libpmemblk, libpmemobj, libpmempool and libvmem libraries for Windows, with all the corresponding unit tests and selected examples. The pmempool utility and NVML benchmarks are also ported. Current progress of this work is tracked on NVML for Windows Trello Board. See also description of the first [NVML for Windows Technical Preview release] (https://github.com/pmem/nvml/releases/1.2+wtp1) for the list of known issues and limitations in the current version of Windows support in NVML.
If you want to install these libraries to try them out of your system, you can either install pre-built packages, which we build for every stable release, or clone the tree and build it yourself.
Builds are tagged something like 0.2+b1, which means
Build 1 on top of version 0.2 and 0.2-rc3, which means
Release Candidate 3 for version 0.2. Stable releases
are the simpler major.minor tags like 0.2. To find
pre-build packages, check the Downloads associated with
the stable releases on the
github release page.
The source tree is organized as follows:
- doc -- man pages describing each library contained here
- src -- the source for the libraries
- src/include -- public header files for all the libraries
- src/benchmarks -- benchmarks used by development team
- src/examples -- brief example programs using these libraries
- src/test -- unit tests used by development team
- src/tools -- various tools developed for NVML
- src/windows -- Windows-specific source and header files
- utils -- utilities used during build & test
- CONTRIBUTING.md -- instructions for people wishing to contribute
- CODING_STYLE.md -- coding standard and conventions for NVML
To build this library on Linux, you may need to install the following required packages on the build system:
- autoconf
- pkg-config
On Windows, to build NVML and run the tests you need:
- MS Visual Studio 2015
- Windows SDK 10.0.14393 (or later)
- perl (i.e. ActivePerl)
Some tests and example applications require additional packages, but they do not interrupt building if they are missing. An appropriate message is displayed instead. For details please read the DEPENDENCIES section in appropriate README file.
See the before_install: rules in the .travis.yml file at the top level of the repository to get an idea what packages were required to build on the Travis-CI systems. Currently our Travis systems are running Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 23 so there may be some differences between what is specified in travis.yml and what is needed for your OS distribution and version.
To build the latest development version, just clone this tree and build the master branch:
$ git clone https://github.com/pmem/nvml
$ cd nvml
Once the build system is setup, the NVM Library is built using this command at the top level:
$ make
If you want to compile, and hopefully run the builtin tests, with a different
compiler, you have to provide the CC and CXX variables. For example:
$ make CC=clang CXX=clang++
These variables are independent and setting CC=clang does not set CXX=clang++.
Once the make completes (*), all the libraries are built and the examples
under src/examples are built as well. You can play with the library
within the build tree, or install it locally on your machine. Installing
the library is more convenient since it installs man pages and libraries
in the standard system locations:
(as root...)
# make install
To install this library into other locations, you can use the prefix variable, e.g.:
$ make install prefix=/usr/local
This will install files to /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include /usr/local/share/man.
To prepare this library for packaging, you can use the DESTDIR variable, e.g.:
$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp
This will install files to /tmp/usr/lib, /tmp/usr/include /tmp/usr/share/man.
The man pages (groff files) are generated as part of the install rule. To
generate the documentation separately, run:
$ make doc
DEPENDENCIES: pandoc
To install a complete copy of the source tree to $(DESTDIR)/nvml:
$ make source DESTDIR=some_path
To build rpm packages on rpm-based distributions:
$ make rpm
If you want to build packages without running tests, run:
$ make BUILD_PACKAGE_CHECK=n rpm
DEPENDENCIES: rpmbuild
To build dpkg packages on Debian-based distributions:
$ make dpkg
If you want to build packages without running tests, run:
$ make BUILD_PACKAGE_CHECK=n dpkg
DEPENDENCIES: devscripts
(*) By default all code is built with -Werror flag which fails the whole build when compiler emits any warning. It's very useful during development, but can be annoying in deployment. If you want to disable -Werror, you can use EXTRA_CFLAGS variable:
$ make EXTRA_CFLAGS="-Wno-error"
or
$ make EXTRA_CFLAGS="-Wno-error=$(type-of-warning)"
Before running the tests, you may need to prepare a test configuration file (src/test/testconfig.sh). Please see the available configuration settings in the example file (src/test/testconfig.sh.example).
To build and run the unit tests:
$ make check
To run a specific subset of tests, run for example:
$ make check TEST_TYPE=short TEST_BUILD=debug TEST_FS=pmem
To modify the timeout which is available for check type tests, run:
$ make check TEST_TIME=1m
This will set the timeout to 1 minute.
Please refer to the src/test/README for more details on how to run different types of tests.
To compile this library with enabled support for the PM-aware version of Valgrind, supply the compiler with the USE_VG_PMEMCHECK flag, for example:
$ make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DUSE_VG_PMEMCHECK
For Valgrind memcheck support, supply USE_VG_MEMCHECK flag. USE_VALGRIND flag enables both.
To test the libraries with AddressSanitizer and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, run:
$ make EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address,undefined" EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-fsanitize=address,undefined" clobber all test check
If you wish to run C++ standard library containers tests, you need to set the path to your custom versions of either gcc or libc++. For gcc run:
$ make USE_CUSTOM_GCC=1 GCC_INCDIR=/path/to/includes GCC_LIBDIR=/path/to/lib check
If you want to use a custom version of libc++ run:
$ make USE_LLVM_LIBCPP=1 LIBCPP_INCDIR=/path/to/includes/ LIBCPP_LIBDIR=/path/to/lib check
Please remember to set the appropriate versions of CC/CXX when using custom versions of the library.
Clone the NVML tree and open the solution:
> git clone https://github.com/pmem/nvml
> cd nvml/src
> devenv NVML.sln
Select the desired configuration (Debug or Release) and build the solution (i.e. by pressing Ctrl-Shift-B).
Before running the tests, you may need to prepare a test configuration file (src/test/testconfig.ps1). Please see the available configuration settings in the example file (src/test/testconfig.ps1.example).
To run the unit tests, open the PowerShell console and type:
> cd nvml/src/test
> RUNTESTS.ps1
To run a specific subset of tests, run for example:
> RUNTESTS.ps1 -b debug -t short
To run just one test, run for example:
> RUNTESTS.ps1 -b debug -i pmem_is_pmem
To modify the timeout, run:
> RUNTESTS.ps1 -o 3m
This will set the timeout to 3 minutes.
To display all the possible options, run:
> RUNTESTS.ps1 -h
Please refer to the src/test/README for more details on how to run different types of tests.
Some components in the source tree are treated as experimental. By default those components are built but not installed (and thus not included in packages).
If you want to build/install experimental packages run:
$ make EXPERIMENTAL=y [install,rpm,dpkg]
NOTE: The libfabric package required to build the librpmem and rpmemd is not yet available on stable Debian-based distributions. This makes it impossible to create Debian packages.
If you want to build Debian packages of librpmem and rpmemd run:
$ make EXPERIMENTAL=y RPMEM_DPKG=y dpkg
For more information on this library, contact Krzysztof Czurylo (krzysztof.czurylo@intel.com), Andy Rudoff (andy.rudoff@intel.com), or post to our Google group.