adds self-modifying-code checks to all guest code taken from mappings
which are not file backed, but omits checks in code from file backed
mappings. This has the effect of giving complete smc-coverage of JIT
generated code -- since that is invariably generated into anonymous
mapped areas -- without burdening non-JIT generated code with such
checks. Running Firefox 6, --smc-check=all-non-file reduces by a
factor of between 3 and 10 the number of translations requiring a self
check, compared to --smc-check=all. These changes depend on the vex
interface changes in r2158.
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* Disabled several tests on ARM when gdb version < 7.1
gdb 7.0 has problems with next/step/... in ARM thumb code.
* Documented in manual-core.xml that ARM thumb code implies
a gdb version >= 7.1
* m_gdbserver.h/.c : take into account the thumb bit at several places
* use new IRStmt_IMark::delta field to distinguish ARM vs Thumb
instructions as committed in vex r2153
Patch from bug 214909 comment 99 (valgrind part).
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
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Fix some tests on ppc-debian6,s390x + handled Nick Nethercote, Josef
Weidendorfer comments
* improved testing & related doc
- added option --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns=yes to mcsig(no)pass.vgtest
+ updated manual-core.xml
- cleanup some comments in *.vgtest
- modified filter_gdb and filter_memcheck_monitor to
handle specific ppc/debian6.0 mcsig(no)pass output
handle specific s390x 'missing debug info'
- added more information in README_DEVELOPPERS on how to
investigate failing gdbserver tests.
* handled Nick Nethercote comment:
Replaced kludgy ms.snapshot detailed
by ms.detailed_snaphot
Updated documentation and test.
* handled Josef Weindendorfer comments:
- do not report an error if ptrace_scope file can't be read.
Instead, a debug trace is done if -d (debug) option given
- added an option -l to give the list of active Valgrind
gdbserver. Useful a.o. to support callgrind_control.
Updated documentation
- added ref. to vgdb help in the vgdb --help message
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
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chase/nochase decisions for child processes to be made on the basis
of their argv[] entries rather than on the name of their executables.
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behave more like the original proposal in #245535. This makes it
more flexible and general. Also rename it.
* new name is --fullpath-after=
* allow multiple instances of --fullpath-after=
* don't require the specified strings to be prefixes, only substrings
But retain the elegant backwards-compatibility trick in Bart's r11312
commit: if --fullpath-after= is not specified at all, then behave
exactly as before.
Fixes#245535. A mixture of patches from Bart Van Assche
(bart.vanassche@gmail.com), Alexander Potapenko (glider@google.com),
and me (integration and documentation).
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that specified shared objects contain specified symbols. Along with a
couple of regtests that unfortunately will fail on MacOSX.
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Specifies a comma-separated list of executable-names
(with "*" and "?" wildcards allowed) that should not be traced into
even when --trace-children=yes. Modified version of a patch
from Bill Hoffman. Fixes#148932.
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a manpage, and they're so simple I can't be bothered doing ones for them
(they don't even have sections in the manual).
Also fixed a few minor things relating to manpages.
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and created man pages for them. Renamed the XML files in the process for
consistency.
- Inlined cg-entities.xml into vg-entities.xml.
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- Added a manpage for ms_print.
- Added docs/xml/manpages-index.xml, which is just used as a convenient
single file to hang all the man pages off so they can be generated in a
single command.
- Added facility whereby manpage generation will attempt to find the
stylesheet in multiple places. This means I don't have to constantly edit
XSL_MAN_STYLE to build manpages on my machine.
- Changed vg-docs-path to start with $INSTALL instead of /usr/, because we
can't assume that's the installation dir.
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- Remove roadmap.txt, as we haven't used it for a while and Bugzilla does it
better.
- Inline docs/{internals,images,xml,lib}/Makefile.am into docs/Makefile.am,
because they're very simple. Fewer Makefile.am files is good.
- Remove the dead docs/images/massif*.png files and all references to them.
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- Match the ordering of the non-tool-specific options in the usage message
with the order in the user manual. As a result, we now always print
--alignment and --trace-malloc in the core's usage messages, which saves
malloc-replacing tools from doing it themselves (and brings it in line
with options that only apply to error-collecting tools).
- Improved the presentation of the Vex options with --help-debug.
- Removed documentation of -d in the manual because it's a debugging-only flag.
- Documented --read-var-info in the manual. This fixes bug 201169.
- Renamed --auto-run-dsymutil as --dsymutil and documented it in the usage
message.
- Fixed an XML error in manual-core-adv.xml.
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- Use "heap blocks" rather than "malloc'd blocks" as heap blocks covers
calloc, realloc, new, new[], memalign, etc.
- Used "GDB" and "GCC" throughout rather than "gcc" and "gdb".
- Made various tag uses more consistent.
- Greatly clarified the instructions on --xml=yes and its friends.
- Lots of other little improvements and fixes to out-of-date things and
Linux-centric things, mostly in Section 2.
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VALGRIND_{PRINTF,PRINTF_BACKTRACE,INTERNAL_PRINTF} were no longer appending
newlines. This meant that --trace-malloc=yes spewed everything onto a
single line, among other things.
Rather than adding the newline back in, I chose to offically change their
behaviour to not add the newlines, as this is more flexible (and the reason
for the underlying VG_(message) change). I updated all the relevant places
I could find.
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date from the man page.
Make the man page match the ordering in the user manual.
Put Nulgrind last in the user manual.
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line options. This commit changes them to all <option>.
Also make consistent how options with multiple names (eg. -h --help) are
shown.
Also, remove section describing --help and --version in Callgrind's chapter;
these aren't necessary and are presumably a hangover from when Callgrind was
a separate tool.
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docs, and the chapter/section numbering doesn't match the rest of the
numbering in the user manual.
Also change some of the names of the links in that file to match the
filename.
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- There were detailed descriptions of all the tools in the Quick Start
Guide, the Manual introduction, and the start of each tool chapter. To
avoid duplication/overlap, I removed these altogether from the Quick Start
Guide, and shortened them in the intro.
- Improved the description of what errors Memcheck can find.
- Made all tool chapters start with "Overview" section, for consistency.
- Made the "run with --tool=XXX" bit consistent in each tool chapter.
- Made all tool chapter titles match the description given when running them.
- Added BBV to the User Manual intro.
- Generally clarified, updated, and future-proofed various bits of text in
the Quick Start Guide and User Manual introduction.
Also:
- Changed Nulgrind's start-up description to "the minimal Valgrind tool".
- Fixed some punctuation in the usage message.
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