Public bug reported:

Running the certification memory test using stress-ng on an ARM64 system
with 64GB roughly of RAM (MAAS shows 63GB).

The test runs several stress-ng memory related tests.  It appears that
the system locks up when the bigheap test runs, every time so far (two
of two runs have failed).

I'm doing a third now to confirm that bigheap is where the lockup
occurs.

I've also run this exact same test on similar and smaller memory amounts
on s390x and amd64 without problem.

This is also being done to provide data for a similar bug discovered on
Power (ppc64le).

To test this on an arm64 system:

Install Xenial
$ add-apt-repository ppa:hardware-certification/public
$ apt update
$ apt install canonical-certification-server
$ /usr/lib/plainbox-provider-checkbox/bin/memory_stress_ng

the memory_stress_ng script is a wrapper for stress_ng that only calls
certain memory tests.  See script for an idea of how it's executing the
tests.

This could be the same issue that we're seeing on power, or it could be
a different issue for ARM that looks similar.  Here's the original Power
bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1573062

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-image-4.4.0-31-generic 4.4.0-31.50
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic aarch64
AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 Aug  5 09:27 seq
 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Aug  5 09:27 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay'
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: arm64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord'
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', 
'/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: N/A
Date: Fri Aug  5 16:15:51 2016
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
PciMultimedia:
 
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:
 
ProcKernelCmdLine: console=ttyS0,9600n8r ro
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-31-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-31-generic  N/A
 linux-firmware                            1.157.2
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: apport-bug arm64 blocks-hwcert-server uec-images xenial

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