If you use a vg-in-place outer, then you obtain errors such as:
valgrind: mmap(0x38000000, 3293184) failed in UME with error 22 (Invalid argument).
valgrind: this can be caused by executables with very large text, data or bss segments.
What must be used is the "make install"-ed valgrind
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Otherwise the function redirections / client requests seem
to get confused. Symptoms are error messages such as
--3031-- VG_USERREQ__CLIENT_CALL1: func=0x0
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* perf/vg_perf:
Similarly to tests/vg_regtest, perf/vg_perf now accepts the 3
optional arguments:
--outer-valgrind
--outer-tool
--outer-args
This allows easy analysis or comparison of performance between
different Valgrind versions (e.g. using callgrind, or cachegrind/cg_diff).
* See README_DEVELOPERS for more details.
* vg_regtest modified so as to use the 'in-place' build of inner, rather
than the installed version.
* added option --smc-check=all-non-file to vg_perf and vg_regtest
outer default arguments (needed when evaluating a Valgrind which does
translation chaining).
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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
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* manual-core.xml : fix a typo
* include/pub_tool_inner.h : new file, defining macros for inner annotation
include/Makefile.am : reference this new file.
* syswrap-linux.c : when ENABLE_INNER, register the stacks for the outer.
(otherwise, nothing works properly).
* m_redir.c : avoid inner interpreting the outer vgpreload instructions.
* sema.c : annotate the semaphore with RWLOCK annotations for helgrind
* ticket-lock-linux.c : similar.
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more detailed explanation (if they're reading the README, we probably don't
need to convince them about Valgrind's wonderfulness).
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changes from r4341 through r4787 inclusive). That branch is now dead.
Please do not commit anything else to it.
For the most part the merge was not troublesome. The main areas of
uncertainty are:
- build system: I had to import by hand Makefile.core-AM_CPPFLAGS.am
and include it in a couple of places. Building etc seems to still
work, but I haven't tried building the documentation.
- syscall wrappers: Following analysis by Greg & Nick, a whole lot of
stuff was moved from -generic to -linux after the branch was created.
I think that is satisfactorily glued back together now.
- Regtests: although this appears to work, no .out files appear, which
is strange, and makes it hard to diagnose regtest failures. In
particular memcheck/tests/x86/scalar.stderr.exp remains in a
conflicted state.
- amd64 is broken (slightly), and ppc32 will be unbuildable. I'll
attend to the former shortly.
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README), and add some instructions about attaching GDB to Valgrind itself
within it.
This fixes bug 90138.
MERGE WITH STABLE
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in it, much of it from 1.0.X days. Did it in such a way that if it doesn't get
touched (and it undoubtedly won't) it won't really go out of date, eg. by
removing temporary details like version numbers, dates, details of specific
software incompatibilities. It's much better to be vague but correct, than
precise but incorrect; having incorrect info in a file as important as the
README is bad. Also removed the README_KDE3_FOLKS file because it's pretty
redundant now. Also added some changes that had been made in the stable branch
but not the HEAD.
Did similar, but smaller changes to README_DEVELOPERS and README_PACKAGERS.
Also updated the valgrind.spec.in file to use the new, post-1.0.X description
in the README.
Also fixed a minor omission in Addrcheck's docs.
MERGE TO STABLE
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