- It heavily refactors the code: uses better names for things, splits up
complex functions that behaved very differently depending on how they were
called, removes some redundancies, and generally makes it much simpler and
easier to follow.
- It adds lots of comments, both inline, and also a big explanatory one at
the top which makes it clear exactly how the leak checker works and also
exactly what is meant by definite, possible, and indirect leaks. It also
has some ideas for future improvements.
- All tabs have been converted to spaces.
It also improves the functionality:
- Previously if you did --leak-check=summary, indirect and suppressed
blocks were counted as definite leaks. Now they are done properly, and so
the summary results from --leak-check=summary match those from
--leak-check=yes.
- Previously, some possibly reachable blocks were miscategorised as
definitely reachable, because only the pointer to the block itself was
considered, not any preceding pointers in the chain. This is now fixed.
- Added memcheck/tests/leak-cases, which fully tests all the possible
combinations of directly/indirectly reachable and possibly/definitely
reachable.
And it improves the manual quite a bit, and the FAQ a little bit.
This doesn't fix the leak checker to handle MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK works that have
been taken from within malloc'd blocks, but I think I know how to do it and
hope to do so in a subsequent commit.
It also changes all instances of "<constant>memcheck</constant>" in the
Memcheck manual to "Memcheck", for consistency and because "Memcheck" is
easier to write. There's one similar case for DRD but I didn't change that.
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$INSTALL/<platform>/<filename>, they go to $INSTALL/<filename>-<platform>.
These filenames match those built in the build tree, and so simplifies the
build system signficantly and avoids the horrible sed renamings that were
previously required. This will also help greatly with the treatment of
.dSYM debug directories in the DARWIN branch.
Files affected include:
- preload libraries such as vgpreload_core-<platform>.so and
libmpiwrap-<platform>.so
- libraries such as libcoregrind_<platform>.a
- executables such as memcheck-<platform>
I updated the manual and added a note to the NEWS file about the change,
because it will affect a small number of users.
I did my best to update the AIX launcher/initimg correctly, but it hasn't
been tested.
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any wierdness on very large machines in the future. Also, double the
default size from 5MB to 10MB, on the basis that programs are now on
average twice as lardy as they were when it was set to 5MB, whenever
that was.
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somewhat to move less relevant material out of the way to some extent.
The main changes are:
* Update date and version info
* Mention other tools in the quick-start guide
* Document --child-silent-after-fork
* Rearrange order of sections in the Valgrind Core chapter, to move
advanced stuff (client requests) to the end, and compact stuff
relevant to the majority of users towards the front
* Move MPI debugging stuff from the Core manual (a nonsensical place
for it) to the Memcheck chapter
* Update the manual's introductory chapter a bit
* Connect up new tech docs summary page, and disconnect old and
very out of date valgrind/memcheck tech docs
* Add section tags to the Cachegrind manual, to stop xsltproc
complaining about their absence
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different error kinds were reusing the same struct for storing their
details. Each one used some but not all the fields, and the AddrInfo was
similar, and it was very confusing.
So I changed MC_Error and AddrInfo to be tagged unions, like Vex's IRExpr and
IRStmt types. The resulting code is a little more verbose but much easier
to understand. I also split up several error kinds, which also made things
simpler. The user-visible behaviour is identical except for a couple of
very minor things that I've documented in the NEWS file for the 3.3.0
release.
Ideally I'd get rid of the Addr and Char* fields in the core Error type,
which are not always used, and do them similarly within tools. But that
would require changing the core/tool interface, so I'm leaving it for the
moment.
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noaccess, writable, readable, other
Now they are:
noaccess, undefined, defined, partdefined
As a result, the following names:
make_writable, make_readable,
check_writable, check_readable, check_defined
have become:
make_mem_undefined, make_mem_defined,
check_mem_is_addressable, check_mem_is_defined, check_value_is_defined
(and likewise for the upper-case versions for client request macros).
The old MAKE_* and CHECK_* macros still work for backwards compatibility.
This is much better, because the old names were subtly misleading. For
example:
- "readable" really meant "readable and writable".
- "writable" really meant "writable and maybe readable, depending on how
the read value is used".
- "check_writable" really meant "check writable or readable"
The new names avoid these problems.
The recently-added macro which was called MAKE_DEFINED is now
MAKE_MEM_DEFINED_IF_ADDRESSABLE.
I also corrected the spelling of "addressable" in numerous places in
memcheck.h.
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Memcheck, replacing the 9-bits-per-byte shadow memory representation to a
2-bits-per-byte representation (with possibly a little more on the side) by
taking advantage of the fact that extremely few memory bytes are partially
defined.
For the SPEC2k benchmarks with "test" inputs, this speeds up Memcheck by a
(geometric mean) factor of 1.20, and reduces the size of shadow memory by a
(geometric mean) factor of 4.26.
At the same time, Addrcheck is removed. It hadn't worked for quite some
time, and with these improvements in Memcheck its raisons-d'etre have
shrivelled so much that it's not worth the effort to keep around. Hooray!
Nb: this code hasn't been tested on PPC. If things go wrong, look first in
the fast stack-handling functions (eg. mc_new_mem_stack_160,
MC_(helperc_MAKE_STACK_UNINIT)).
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- removed ref to cachegrind.org
vg-html-website.xsl
vg-html-chunk.xsl
- common stuff stripped out, and placed in
vg-html-common.xsl
vg-entities.xml
- added 2 more website url entities to replace hard-coded urls
in FAQ.xml
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monster-sized programs better, increase the default freelist volume
from 1M to 5M. Maybe even that is too small.
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of leak error messages, nor any examples. So I added one, and moved
what info there was about leaks out of its separate section, and into
the section describing all the kinds of error message.
BACKPORT TO 3_0_X
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Removed 'the' from 'the default' in 'parial' opt to be consistent
Added opt info for --avoid-strlen-errors (was missing)
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- fixed link to comply with house-style
mc-manual.xml:
- rm'd unhelpful sentence + it's footnote
quick-start-guide.xml:
- fixed up some section ids + xreflabels
so we don't get cool filenames like 'bk01s02.html'.
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up to date with reality. Please give this a proofread.
I ran out of steam at memcheck/docs/mc_techdocs.html, which is even more
hopelessly out of date. I will note that cacheprof.org is some kind of
dental insurance company now...
MERGED, PAINFULLY, FROM CVS HEAD
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converted by Donna. Hooked it into the build system so they are only
built when specifically asked for, and when doing "make dist".
They're not perfect; in particular, there are the following problems:
- The plain-text FAQ should be built from FAQ.xml, but this is not
currently done. (The text FAQ has been left in for now.)
- The PS/PDF building doesn't work -- it fails with an incomprehensible
error message which I haven't yet deciphered.
Nonetheless, I'm putting it in so others can see it.
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- All memory-related errors are now clear whether they are caused by
unaddressable or uninitialised memory. (Previously, writes were
clearly addressability errors, but reads could be either.) Mostly
done by replacing the 'isWrite' field in MAC_Error with 'isUnaddr'.
Also, mc_check_readable() now indicates not just if an error occurred,
but what kind of error (ie. addressability or definedness).
- Put machinery into place in the core to inform tools when registers
are being read by the core -- ie. a 'pre_reg_read' event. Most
notably, this facilitates syscall scalar arg definedness checking for
Memcheck. Currently this is only working for read(), write(), exit()
and exit_group(), but it will be extended as the syscalls are
overhauled as part of the arch-abstraction work.
A consequence of this is that the ParamErr messages have changed. This:
Syscall param write(buf) contains uninitialised byte(s)
now means that the pointer 'buf' is partially undefined. If the memory
pointed to by 'buf' is partially undefined or unaddressable, it says one of:
Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
Syscall param write(buf) points to unaddressable byte(s)
The docs have been updated accordingly.
I also added a couple of regression tests.
These two change sare notable for being the first improvements to
Memcheck's checking/errors in a long time.
I also folded mc_clientreqs.c into mc_main.c, which saves exporting a
whole bunch of things that are not used anywhere else.
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- Added include/x86-linux/ and include/linux/ subdirectories, with Makefile.am
files.
- Overhauled the definitions of kernel types. include/vg_kerneliface.h is now
three files, include/linux/vki.h, include/x86-linux/vki_arch.h, and
include/x86-linux/vki_arch_posixtypes.h. These files separate the
common/Linux and x86/Linux parts cleanly. All code is copied verbatim from
the relevant kernel headers, except that VKI_/vki_ prefixes are added as
necessary to distinguish them from glibc types. (This is done consistently,
unlike previously when some types did not have the prefixes.)
All code is clearly marked to show which particular header file it came from,
and the Linux version used. (I used 2.6.8.1, the most recent stable release,
for all of them.)
A few of the types changed; this is because they changed between the older
versions of Linux and the current 2.6.8.1. I checked that all these changes
were ok with respect to backwards compatibility for our purposes.
- vg_unsafe.h has been removed; we are no longer including any kernel headers,
as we have our own copies for everything. This is because installed kernel
headers are not reliable, and often cause compilation problems. (bug
#92420 is a recent example)
- Removed some no-longer-needed header-presence tests from configure.in.
- Some code in the rest of Valgrind was changed to account for some slight
changes in the names of our VKI_/vki_ kernel constants and types.
- Updated README_MISSING_SYSCALL_OR_IOCTL accordingly.
- Fixed off-by-one error with VKI_GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX (merged from stable branch)
The end result is that the kernel types situation should be much clearer, and
similar files can be created relatively easily for other architectures as
necessary.
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dist". This avoids the need to put it in "EXTRA_DIST", and saves a few lines
in all the docs Makefile.am files.
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the places that normal users will see:
- command line: --tool=foo (although --skin=foo still works)
- docs: removed all traces (included renaming coregrind_skins.html to
coregrind_tools.html)
- in the usage messages
- in error messages
Also did in in some places that I judged were unlikely to cause clashes with
existing workspaces:
- in the header comments of many files (eg. "This file is part of Memcheck, a
Valgrind tool for...")
- in the regtests script
- in the .supp files
- in AUTHORS
- in README_MISSING_SYSCALL_OR_IOCTL
Also update the AUTHORS file to mention Jeremy.
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valgrind.h. Although these requests are not implemented by the core, they can
be implemented by skins that track heap blocks, eg. Memcheck, Annelid, Massif.
This is in preparation for committing Massif to the repository.
I think I managed to make the change in a binary-compatible way. The only
inconvenience for users is that if they have a client program compiled with the
old requests in, Valgrind will abort with an explanatory message that tells
them to recompile. Once they've done that (no changes to their program are
required), it works again.
I even updated the docs.
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