(useful to check the sanity of valgrind on request and/or from GDB,
when an error is reported by the tool).
Also re-order the NEWS entries to put the internals things after
the user level new functions.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13262
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
Valgrind 3.8.1 can work with statically linked lib or alternative
malloc libs.
Ensure FAQ properly describe this.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13144
(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
an immediate constant as the shift amount. This is needed for
powerpc Iop_ShlD64 etc. What it basically means that we do not
iterate over the bits in the 2nd operand because there are no
V-bits to set. An immediate constant is always completely defined.
Fixes bugzilla #305948.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12969
on hosts without floating point extension facility.
See companion patch VEX r2501.
Part of fixing bugzilla #306098.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12935
Testcase, vbit tester update, memcheck support for the new IROps,
NEWS announcement and opcode list update.
Patch by Christian Borntraeger (borntraeger@de.ibm.com).
Vbit tester tweaks by myself.
Fixes bugzilla #274695.
See also companion patch VEX r2496.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12921
default memory limits when building the PDF docs. Fixes#304754.
(Mark Wielaard, mjw@redhat.com)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12863
* 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
