* 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.
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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
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* 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
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and TMPDIR which was introduced when fixing bugzilla #267020.
Factor out VG_(tmpdir). New function VG_(vgdb_path_prefix).
Partially fixes bugzilla #280757.
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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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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).
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11430
messages now begin with "valgrind: ", and they're more often printed before
the preamble. This required introducing a new message kind, Vg_FailMsg, and
functions VG_(fmsg) and VG_(fmsg_bad_option), and removing
VG_(err_bad_option).
Where we used to have horrible output like this:
[ocean:~/grind/ws2] vg5 --tool=massif --threshold=101 date
==31877== Massif, a heap profiler
==31877== Copyright (C) 2003-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Nicholas Nethercote
==31877== Using Valgrind-3.6.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==31877== Command: date
==31877==
==31877== --threshold must be between 0.0 and 100.0
valgrind: Bad option '--threshold'; aborting.
valgrind: Use --help for more information.
We now have nice output like this:
[ocean:~/grind/ws2] vg2 --tool=massif --threshold=101 date
valgrind: Bad option: --threshold=101
valgrind: --threshold must be between 0.0 and 100.0
valgrind: Use --help for more information or consult the user manual.
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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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- 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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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.
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I tried using 'svn merge' to do the merge but it did a terrible job and
there were bazillions of conflicts. So instead I just took the diff between
the branch and trunk at r10155, applied the diff to the trunk, 'svn add'ed
the added files (no files needed to be 'svn remove'd) and committed.
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'__libc_start_main', in Massif, m_debuginfo and m_stacktrace. As part of
this, --show-below-main is now visible to tools, and Massif pays attention
to it.
Improved the description of --show-below-main=yes in the manual.
Replaced some instances of "__libc_start_main" in the test *.exp files with
"(below main)", which is what will actually be seen. Also updated
scalar.stderr.exp*, which should make it get closer to actually passing.
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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.
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stacks. Instead of hardwiring the main thread stack to a max of 16MB
and segfaulting the app beyond that point, allow the user to specify
the main stack size using the new flag --main-stacksize=<number>.
If said flag is not present, the current default, which is "MIN(16GB,
current ulimit -s value)", is used.
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causes child processes after fork to fall completely silent, which can
make the output a lot less confusing. In addition it is pretty much
essential in XML output mode, so as to avoid mixing up any child XML
output with the parent's.
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reading. Two sets of changes:
* New flags for debugging the readers.
--debug-dump=syms
--debug-dump=line
--debug-dump=frames
These (currently accepted but nonfunctional) are intended to
create output in the style of (that is, identical to)
/usr/bin/readelf --syms
/usr/bin/readelf --debug-dump=line
/usr/bin/readelf --debug-dump=frames
respectively. The plan is that flaws in these readers can then
be easily found by diff-ing the output against that from readelf.
Also, a new flag --trace-symtab-patt=<object filename pattern>
which is used to limit all debuginfo-related debug info to the
set of shared object names matching the given pattern. This
facilitates extracting the debuginfo details of one specific
shared object, which is usually what is required, rather than
having to wade through megabytes of junk from every object in
the process.
* Propagate the avma/svma/image address-naming scheme
(as described at the top of debuginfo.c) through large parts of
readelf.c and readdwarf.c.
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New option --sym-offsets=yes|no [no], which causes all symbols to be
shown in the form 'name+offset'. Mostly useful for debugging Valgrind
itself.
Also move command-line-error functions from m_main into m_options.
[Will move them back shortly.]
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go, but realistically we can't implement it portably, at least without
considerable performance overhead and some additional complexity.
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with respect to syscalls. It is detailed and comprehensive but does
not offer a way to deal with minor deviations in behaviour from the
vanilla kernel sources, either due to running a hacked kernel or
running a vanilla kernel with a custom kernel module loaded.
This commit adds a flexible way to handle such cases without polluting
the vanilla handler syswrap-*.c files or their supporting vki_*.h
header files. For each OS, a syswrap-OS-variants.c file is added,
containing wrappers for variants of OS. A new command line flag
--kernel-variants= carries a comma separated list of variant names
that apply to the current run. There are no other changes.
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the contents of environment variable VAR (viz, $VAR) are incorporated
into logfile names. This makes it easy to incorporate environmental
information into logfile names.
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