* add a new flag --allow-mismatched-debuginfo to override the
CRC32/build-id checks, if needed
* tidy up logic for finding files on the --extra-debuginfo-path
and at the --debuginfo-server
* don't assert if connection to the debuginfo server is lost;
instead print a reasonable message and quit.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/branches/DISRV@13431
If the command line option --main-stacksize is not used,
the current ulimit value is used, with a min of 1MB
and a max of 16MB. Document this min/max default formula
in the --help.
Also indicate that Valgrind supports ARMv7
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13426
* Addition of a function to compute size of buffer needed for VG_(mkstemp)
* Use it to dimension buffers for all VG_(mkstemp) calls.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13409
Necessary changes to Valgrind to support MIPS64LE on Linux.
Minor cleanup/style changes embedded in the patch as well.
The change corresponds to r2687 in VEX.
Patch written by Dejan Jevtic and Petar Jovanovic.
More information about this issue:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313267
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13292
One of the recent changes, r2682 (Make HReg a struct), caused a build
break on several x86_64 and MIPS build bots/platforms that used older
gcc versions. The issue was that compilers generated calls to memmove,
and since it was built with -nodefaultlibs, the entry could not be
resolved. The fix wraps VG_(memmove) in memmove().
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13288
In a big applications, some recursive algorithms have created
hundreds of thousands of stacktraces, taking a lot of memory.
Option --merge-recursive-frames=<number> tells Valgrind to
detect and merge (collapse) recursive calls when recording stack traces.
The value is changeable using the monitor command
'v.set merge-recursive-frames'.
Also, this provides a new client request: VALGRIND_MONITOR_COMMAND
allowing to execute a gdbsrv monitor command from the client
program.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13246
information about the stack traces recorded by Valgrind.
This can be used to analyse one possible cause of Valgrind high
memory usage for some programs.
At work, a big set of regression tests crashed out of memory under Valgrind.
Two main causes for out of memory were identified:
1. big memory usage for stacktrace (exe contexts) recording by Valgrind
2. big number of partially initialised bytes.
This patch adds a gdbsrv monitor command that output (very) detailed
information about all the recorded exe context.
This has been used to analyse the problem 1. above,
showing the following identified causes for a (too) big nr of execontexts:
A. When the JIT handles an unknown SP update, even when --track-origins=no,
an execontext is (uselessly) created and recorded
to track the (never used) origin of some uninitialised stack memory.
This creates a whole bunch of 'one IP' execontexts.
B. same problem in handling some system calls (at least the brk system
calls always records an origin, even when --track-origins=yes).
C. The Valgrind unwinder cannot properly unwind some stack traces.
It unwinds a few frames, then go bezerk and stops at a "random" IP.
This then causes the same "logical" stacktrace to be truncated
and records thousands of times with this "differentiating" last IP.
For problem cause 2 above ( a lot of partially initialised bytes),
the idea is to similarly add another gdbsrv commands that will output
statistics about which stack traces are causing a lot of uninitialised bytes.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13220
--profile-flags=00000000 now prints summary statistics, one line per
profiled block, but with no translation details. Previously it had
no effect.
--profile-interval=<number> is a new flag that causes the profile data
to be dumped and zeroed every <number> event checks. This makes it
possible to get profile data without waiting for runs to end, and to
get profile data which depends on the current workload etc. If
--profile-interval=0 or is unset, the profile is printed only once, at
the end of the run, as before.
--profile-flags=XXXXXXXX (for at least one nonzero X) prints the
summary lines both at the start and end of the profile, so you don't
have to scroll back up to the top to see the summary.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13213
specification of an extra directory in which to look for debuginfo
objects. Fixes#310792. (Alex Chiang, achiang@canonical.com)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13154
(allows to have the list of opened fds and the associated info
on request from GDB or from the shell, using vgdb)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13072
patch from Mark Wielaard.
(with small modifications).
Also clarified some comments related to the resume reply.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13052
For example, options below are silently "accepted"+ignored:
valgrind --profile-heaps=yes --max-stackframes=35 memcheck/tests/trivialleak
valgrind --profile-heaps=oui --max-stackframes=3.141592654 memcheck/tests/trivialleak
Also fixed the on-line --help output for option --core-redzone-size
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13037
Option sp-at-mem-access can be used by tools which do not
need an up to date BP and IP at each mem access.
It is needed however to have SP up to date at each memory
access, as an up to date SP is needed to grow the stack in
m_signals.c
Tools massif, cachegrind and callgrind are using sp-at-mem-access
as default.
None tool could also use sp-at-mem-access but default is kept
to unwindregs-at-mem-access (similar to memcheck, drd, helgrind, exp-sgcheck).
exp-dhat, exp-bbv, lackey have not been looked at to see if they
could make use of sp-at-mem-access.
Validated on x86, amd64, ppc64 and s390x.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12872
* Option --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns has been removed.
It is replaced by --vex-iropt-register-updates which accepts
3 values : 'unwindregs-at-mem-access' (replacing
--vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns=no), 'allregs-at-mem-access'
(replacing --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns=yes)
and a new value 'allregs-at-each-insn'.
'allregs-at-each-insn' allows the Valgrind gdbserver to always
show up to date values to GDB.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12809
* For tools replacing the malloc library (e.g. Memcheck, Helgrind, ...),
the option --redzone-size=<number> allows to control the padding
blocks (redzones) added before and after each client allocated block.
Smaller redzones decrease the memory needed by Valgrind. Bigger
redzones increase the chance to detect blocks overrun or underrun.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12807
There are 4 cases now:
(1) Neither --trace-notbelow nor --trace-notabove are given
No superblocks are traced (same behaviour as before)
(2) --trace-notbelow=YY is given
Superblocks in interval [YY ... ] are traced. (same behaviour as before)
(3) --trace-notabove=XX is given
Superblocks in interval [0 ... XX] are traced.
(4) Both --trace-notbelow=YY and --trace-notabove=XX are given
Superblocks in the interval [XX..YY] are traced
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12701
This is needed to have the outer valgrind able to do stack
traces of the inner Valgrind before the main thread runs.
Without this, the outer crashes (segv) when doing a stack trace.
In mtV.txt, an ugly kludge was described to avoid this crash.
This is the clean solution replacing the kludge.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12638
* pub_tool_redir.h : define the prefix to be used for "soname synonym"
place holder
* vg_replace_malloc.c : define synonym place holder for malloc related
functions
* m_redir.c : when detecting a soname synonym place holder redir spec, search
in clo_soname_synonyms if there is a synonym pattern.
If yes, replace the soname pattern. If not, ignore the redir spec.
* various files: implement or document the new clo --soname-synonyms
* new test memcheck/tests/static_malloc.vgtest
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12559
When doing experiment with gcc 4.7.0 and link time optimisation,
encountered link failures on amd64 which were solved by adding
.globl and used attribute.
=> added .globl in similar places for arm/x86/ppc32/s390.
Did not touch darwin (which asm seems somewhat different).
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12506
This is the followup to rev 12488.
With this revision, translation chaining is not done
if the translation with 'from address' is not existing
anymore (discarded or erased).
The assumption documented in 12488 comment has been checked by:
* first reproduce a crash in Firefox when always setting
caused discard to False
* then upgrade to rev 12488
* with this upgrade, no crash anymore.
=> this verifies that the caused discard logic is properly
replaced by revision 12488.
So, the caused discard logic can be removed.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/branches/TCHAIN@12492
A '3 lines how to':
perl tests/vg_regtest --outer-valgrind=../trunk_untouched/install/bin/valgrind --all
(the outer results for a test xxx is in xxx.outer.log)
To run with another tool (e.g. drd), add the argument --outer-tool=drd
Still to do/things to improve:
* Most (inner) tests are successful when running under an outer
memcheck. Need to analyse the reasons of remaining failures.
* The memcheck annotations in m_mallocfree.c can be improved:
- A superblock is marked 'undefined', it should rather be marked
'no access'.
- When a free block is splitted, the remaining free block is
not made 'no access'. Instead, it is made 'undefined'.
=> this decreases the chance to find bugs.
=> this is not very efficient (e.g. the rest of a superblock
is often marked undefined repetitively).
Similarly, the free block created by VG_(arena_memalign)
is marked 'undefined'. 'No access' would be preferrable.
- mkInuseBlock marks the new block as undefined. This is probably
not needed, as VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK will do it already.
- VG_(arena_malloc) should give the requested size to
VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK, not the malloc usable size,
as this decreases the chance to find buffer overrun bugs.
But giving the requested size is tricky (see comments in
the code).
* need to do memcheck annotations in m_poolalloc.c
so as to allow leak checking for pool allocated elements.
* vg_regtest.in
- should analyse the results of the outer and should
produce a separate result for the tests for which
the outer detects an error or a memory leak or ...
Changes done:
README_DEVELOPERS: document the new outer/inner features.
manual-core.xml: document the new sim-hint no-inner-prefix
tests/outer_inner.supp: new file, containing the suppressions for inner.
vg_regtest.in: implement new args --outer-valgrind, --outer-tool, --outer-args.
m_mallocfree.c: annotations for memcheck.
m_libcprint.c: handle the new sim-hint no-inner-prefix
m_main.c: do an (early) parse of --sim-hints
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12441
(Rusty Russell, rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
tdb uses fcntl locks and mmap, and some of the tests fail under valgrind.
strace showed valgrind opening the tdb file, reading 1024 bytes, then closing
it. This is not allowed: POSIX says if you open and close a file, all fcntl
locks on it are dropped (insane, yes).
Finally got around to hacking the source to track this down: di_notify_mmap is
doing the damage. The simplest fix was to hand in an optional fd for it to
use, then have it do pread.
I had to fix your pread; surely this should seek back even if the platform
doesn't have pread support?
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12224
