AST10x0 Stress Tests

Stress tests run forever and only exit on TEST_RESULT:FAIL. They are excluded from CI and must be run manually using one of the configs below.

Tests

Target	What it stresses
stress/mutex/kernel:mutex_stress_test	Mutex contention across three kernel threads
stress/ipc/user:ipc_stress_test	IPC channel between initiator and handler processes
stress/process_termination/user:process_termination_stress_test	Repeated process termination and restart

Running on QEMU

# Open-ended soak — runs until Ctrl-C or FAIL, no timeout.
# Target the system_image directly, not the _stress_test rule.
bazel run --config=stress_virt_ast10x0 //target/ast10x0/tests/stress/mutex/kernel:mutex

# Timed run — Bazel kills after 3600s if no FAIL detected.
bazel test --config=stress_virt_ast10x0 //target/ast10x0/tests/stress/<test>:*_stress_test

Use bazel run on the system_image target (:mutex, :ipc, :process_termination) for open-ended soak testing — this runs QEMU directly with no wrappers. bazel test targets the _stress_test rule and is bounded by Bazel's 3600s ceiling.

Running on hardware (EVB via Pi fixture)

AST1060_EVB_PI_HOST=<pi-hostname> bazel test --config=stress_k_ast1060_evb //target/ast10x0/tests/stress/<test>

bazel run is not supported for EVB — the Pi fixture is only wired into bazel test. Tests run one at a time (--local_test_jobs=1 is inherited from k_ast1060_evb) and have no runner timeout.