This generalises the "perm_malloc" function which was in ms_main.c
The new VG_(perm_malloc) is used in ms_main.c
and for execontext : when there are a lot of execontext, this
can save significant memory.
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In case of out of memory, Valgrind will output
the state of the address space manager and of the arena.
Then it will output a message to inform the user about the out of memory.
In case out of memory happens again while outputting the aspacemgr
or arena info, then another trial is done to only output the user msg.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13077
* 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
Note that VG_(arena_memalign) is not used by core or tools for the moment.
We have one single maxima for both the V core/tools and the client.
Enhanced memcheck/tests/memalign2.c to test 4 Mb and 16 Mb alignments.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12642
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
splittable superblocks. Bug #282105.
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
A previous patch (bug 250101) introduced the concept of reclaimable
superblock: a superblock that cannot be splitted in smaller blocks
and that can be munmapped.
This patch generalises the reclaimable concept : all superblocks are
now reclaimable. To reduce fragmentation, big superblocks are still
kept unsplittable.
The patch has 4 aspects:
1 The previous concept of 'reclaimable superblock' is renamed
'unsplittable superblock' (this is a mechanical change).
2 Ensure that splittable blocks can be reclaimed :
After each free, if the free results in a merged block which
completely covers the superblock, then the superblock can be reclaimed.
3 If a superblock is reclaimed and there exists some translations
for this superblock then discard the translations.
Note : I did not understand the comment speaking about
circular dependency. Just calling VG_(discard_translations) seems
to cause no problem. As m_transtab.c does not allocate client memory,
I believe no circular (dynamic) dependency can be done.
4 Activate 'unsplittable superblock' for all arenas.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12047
__builtin_setjmp and __builtin_longjmp so that they can be selectively
replaced, on a platform by platform basis. Does not change any
functionality. Related to #259977.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11687
workload: when scanning a freelist of a given size for a big-enough
block (to allocate), don't scan all the way around the list. Instead
give up after 100 blocks and try the freelist above. The pathological
case (as observed) is that the freelist contains tens of thousands of
blocks, but all are too small for the current request, hence they are
all visited pointlessly. If the new heuristic is used, the freelist
start point is moved along by one block, so that future searches
eventually inspect the entire freelist, just very slowly.
Also, some improvements to stats gathering, and rename of some
existing stats fields in struct Arena.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11567
This commit tidies up and rationalises what could be called the
"messaging" system -- that part of V to do with presenting output to
the user. In particular it brings significant improvements to XML
output.
Changes are:
* XML and normal text output now have separate file descriptors,
which solves longstanding problems for XML consumers caused by
the XML output getting polluted by unexpected non-XML output.
* This also means that we no longer have to hardwire all manner
of output settings (verbosity, etc) when XML is requested.
* The XML output format has been revised, cleaned up, and made
more suitable for use by error detecting tools in general
(various Memcheck-specific features have been removed). XML
output is enabled for Ptrcheck and Helgrind, and Memcheck is
updated to the new format.
* One side effect is that the behaviour of VG_(message) has been
made to be consistent with printf: it no longer automatically
adds a newline at the end of the output. This means multiple
calls to it can be used to build up a single line message; or a
single call can write a multi-line message. The ==pid==
preamble is automatically inserted at each newline.
* VG_(message)(Vg_UserMsg, ..args..) now has the abbreviated form
VG_(UMSG)(..args..); ditto VG_(DMSG) for Vg_DebugMsg and
VG_(EMSG) for Vg_DebugExtraMsg. A couple of other useful
printf derivatives have been added to pub_tool_libcprint.h,
most particularly VG_(vcbprintf).
* There's a small change in the core-tool interface to do with
error handling: VG_(needs_tool_errors) has a new method
void (*before_pp_Error)(Error* err) which, if non-NULL, is
called just before void (*pp_Error)(Error* err). This is to
give tools the chance to look at errors before any part of them
is printed, so they can print any XML preamble they like.
* coregrind/m_errormgr.c has been overhauled and cleaned up, and
is a bit simpler and more commented. In particular pp_Error
and VG_(maybe_record_error) are significantly changed.
The diff is huge, but mostly very boring. Most of the changes
are of the form
- VG_(message)(Vg_UserMsg, "this is a message %d", n);
+ VG_(message)(Vg_UserMsg, "this is a message %d\n", n);
Unfortunately as a result of this, it touches a large number
of source files.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10465
DARWIN branch. A big ugly DARWIN/trunk sync commit, mostly to do with
changing the representation of SysRes and vki_sigset_t. Functionality of
the trunk shouldn't be changed by it.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9876
caused by heap corruption by the client. Also clarified the FAQ about this.
Also updated the FAQ about decoding failures a little.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9556
be replaced if malloc() et al are replaced by a tool. This is because
different tools implement the function in different ways.
Add an appropriate malloc_usable_size() replacement to each of Memcheck,
Helgrind, DRD, Ptrcheck, Massif.
Update memcheck/tests/malloc_usable and add massif/tests/malloc_usable.
Merged from the DARWIN branch.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9193
make realloc(NULL, size) behave like malloc(size), and make
realloc(ptr, 0) behave like free(ptr), as the real libc realloc does.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8666
relatively minor extensions to m_debuginfo, a major overhaul of
m_debuginfo/readdwarf3.c to get its space usage under control, and
changes throughout the system to enable heap-use profiling.
The majority of the merged changes were committed into
branches/PTRCHECK as the following revs: 8591 8595 8598 8599 8601 and
8161.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8621
I don't really understand how 'struct mallinfo' makes any sense on a
64-bit platform given that all the field sizes are 32-bit ints, and
surely at least .arena and .uordblocks and probably others could
easily exceed 32-bit range.
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itself, if such exist. Attempt failed (or no such uses exist :-)
Commit does not change any code.
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sizes up to a multiple of 8 (or whatever --alignment is). This is combined
with the "admin" bytes, resulting in the "extra" bytes. Added
VG_(malloc_usable_size) to the tool interface to support this.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7133
exposes a performance problem with doing m_mallocfree.c sanity checks
(at --sanity-level=3, at least), caused by slowness in
listNo_to_pszB_min. This commit fixes the problem by caching the
results of queries to listNo_to_pszB_min.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6775
make VG_(arena_free) expensive if many superblocks have to be checked
before the right one is found. This change gives the arena a
dynamically expanding sorted array of superblocks, so that finding the
superblock containing an about-to-be-freed block (findSb) is now
O(log2 n) rather than linear in the number of superblocks in the
arena. Patch from Christoph Bartoschek.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6771
performance studies by Christoph Bartoschek:
* Increase the number of freelists per arena from 18 to 112, so as
to (drastically) cut down on the amount of freelist searching that
happens.
* Increase the size of the client and tool arenas, so as to reduce
the cost of finding arenas during freeing. This is a kludge; a
better solution would be to use binary search on superblocks, as
Christoph's patches do.
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