PMDK Version 1.6.1

This release fixes possible pool corruptions on Windows (see #3728 for details), improves compatibility with newer Linux kernels with respect to Device DAX detection, fixes pmemobj space management for large pools, improves compatibility with newer toolchains, incorporates build fixes for FreeBSD and fixes a number of smaller bugs.

Detailed list of bug fixes:

• common: (win) fix possible pool file corruption (pmem/issues#972, pmem/issues#715, pmem/issues#603)
• common: implement correct / robust device_dax_alignment (pmem/issues#1071)
• obj: fix recycler not locating unused chunks
• doc: update pmemobj_tx_lock documentation wrt behavior on fail
• common: fix persistent domain detection (pmem/issues#1093)
• common: vecq: fix a pointer-to-struct aliasing violation (crash on arm64)
• common: fix minor issues related to ndctl linking
• obj: drop recursion from pmemobj_next
• common: fix bug in badblock file error handling
• obj: fix handling of malloc failures
• common: fix handling of malloc failures (ctl)
• jemalloc: fix build with gcc 9
• obj: don't overwrite errno when palloc_heap_check_remote fails
• doc: fix pmreorder emit log macro
• rpmem: change order of rpmem init (pmem/issues#1043)
• common: Fix build failure due to unused macro PAGE_SIZE
• common: support older versions of pkg-config
• tools: link with release variant of pmemcommon
• common: add PMDK prefix to local copy of queue.h (pmem/issues#990)
• rpmem: switch to using an open coded basename (FreeBSD)
• common: posix_fallocate: guard against integer underflow in check (FreeBSD)
• test: support Valgrind 3.15
• test: skip if fi_info is missing
• test: (win) fix sparsefile error handling
• test: fix libpmempool_feature tests that match logs
• test: remove vmem_delete test (pmem/issues#1074)
• test: adjust matchfiles in vmem_valgrind_region test (pmem/issues#1087)
• test: remove old log files for windows (pmem/issues#1013)
• test: remove invalid expect_normal_exit (pmem/issues#1092)
• test: suppress ld leak (pmem/issues#1098)
• test: Expose necessary symbols in libvmmalloc_dummy_funcs (FreeBSD)
• test: fix tests failing because tput fails (FreeBSD)
• test: avoid obj_critnib_mt taking very long on many-core machines
• test: deal with libndctl's path without build system
• test: overwrite old log in pmempool_create/TEST14.PS1
• test: fix match files in tests which use dax devices
• test: fix match file in rpmem_addr_ext test
• test: fix pmempool_check test