49 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Philippe Waroquiers
f85702628a 342353 - Allow dumping full massif output while valgrind is still running
Patch from Andre Goddard Rosa



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14992
2015-03-07 19:20:12 +00:00
Julian Seward
97c113e7e0 valgrind and tool mon. cmds prefixes changes + doc fixes + new vgdb option
--cmd-time-out

* changed prefixes of Valgrind core monitor commands from vg. to v.
* removed prefixes of Tool monitor commands
* memcheck leak_check 'leakpossible' arg renamed to 'possibleleak'
* memcheck make_memory 'ifaddressabledefined' arg renamed to
'Definedifaddressable'
    (with uppercase D to avoid confusion with 'defined' arg).
* vgdb options
  - Some doc updates : more logical option order documentation,
       specify 'standalone' for options aimed at standalone usage.
  - added option --cmd-time-out for standalone vgdb
     (comment of Josef Weindendorfer, needed to interface with a callgrind GUI)
* updated tests according to the above.
* updated documentation according to the above.
* some additional minor doc fixes/clarifications

(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be).  Bug 214909
comment 111.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11844
2011-06-28 08:20:39 +00:00
Julian Seward
48d69a241a Move the GDBserver documentation from the "Valgrind core" chapter
to the "Valgrind core: advanced topics" chapter.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11821
2011-06-17 08:31:22 +00:00
Julian Seward
739bc05601 gdbserver: misc fixes (#214909 c 77)
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)



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11770
2011-05-17 17:15:07 +00:00
Julian Seward
2ee9e90486 Implement a GDB server in Valgrind. See #214909.
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11727
2011-05-06 21:02:55 +00:00
Julian Seward
b43eec1219 Documentation update for 3.6.0 (not including NEWS).
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11440
2010-10-13 21:47:29 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
ddc229eb09 Add --pages-as-heap option to Massif. Bug 203256.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11200
2010-07-01 02:35:03 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
7c60dc05e8 Document the default value of --stacks correctly.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11081
2010-03-07 22:15:48 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
aeae3a302c wibble
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10760
2009-08-10 01:34:27 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
4e495edf4a Make "option" terminology consistent some more. Also tweaked the mempool
Memcheck section a little.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10759
2009-08-10 01:29:14 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
c149a17389 Make usage messages given by -h and man pages consistent for the scripts.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10756
2009-08-09 23:27:00 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
6fcbcab519 Add a manpage for cg_annotate. Now only valgrind-listener and cg_merge lack
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.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10744
2009-08-07 07:56:20 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
e06f6f7164 Manpage improvements:
- 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.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10740
2009-08-07 06:54:44 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
88a2f8bed1 Thoroughly overhauled the Cachegrind manual chapter, mostly by putting
things in a more sensible order.  Also tweaked the Massif chapter a bit
more.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10730
2009-08-07 00:18:25 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
dbcea71779 More docs build tweaks:
- Actually remove the dead docs/images/massif*.png files (this was meant to
  happen in r10720).

- Inline $TOOL/docs/Makefile.am into $TOOL/Makefile.am for all 10 tools.  10
  fewer Makefile.am files FTW!


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10721
2009-08-05 08:08:18 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
d25bd715c1 More Massif manual tweaks.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10711
2009-08-05 04:04:53 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
e16d2be3f4 Comment and docs wibbles.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10710
2009-08-05 02:02:31 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
b6b2867271 Add a bit more to Massif's manual chapter.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10708
2009-08-04 06:48:09 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
05820177ef A couple of minor Massif manual improvements.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10707
2009-08-04 06:10:30 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
74c920d729 Overhaul Massif's manual, and a few minor related things.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10706
2009-08-04 05:59:46 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
d5b384f852 Various manual fix-ups:
- 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.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10701
2009-08-04 01:16:01 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
c6482fe114 Use <variablelist> for ms_print's and cg_annotate's options list.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10665
2009-07-30 04:48:05 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
75dafc2939 Remove some not-very useful info that tends to get out of date.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10663
2009-07-30 04:25:02 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
ac7761261a We currently use a mix of <option> and <computeroutput> tags for command
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.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10659
2009-07-30 02:57:52 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
78b2e5c83e Started overhauling the documentation:
- 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.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10652
2009-07-29 02:36:21 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
03cb74ca22 Make the graphs drawn by ms_print less confusing.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9642
2009-04-27 01:27:58 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
52cf1f5f05 Merge r9103 and r9105 (add --ignore-fn to Massif) from the Darwin branch.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9567
2009-04-17 04:26:41 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
bb0819a3bb Fix a bug in Massif and Cachegrind, whereby if program's forked, the child
wrote into the parent's output file even if %p was specified.

Josef, I think Callgrind does not have this bug, but you might want to say
something about forking in the manual, as I have done for Massif and
Cachegrind.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8154
2008-05-29 23:09:52 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
88e585d735 fix typo
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7364
2008-01-31 05:00:42 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
d603809d62 Minor Massif docs clarifications.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7276
2007-12-04 21:35:55 +00:00
Julian Seward
2fc4ae0c18 - Remove extraneous 'o' (will be stored in svn server for possible
future use)

- Fix tag

- Fix long line which wraps around in html output



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7247
2007-11-28 01:55:29 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
347873b9a4 Clarify peak-taking details.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7243
2007-11-27 21:38:14 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
3387ddba10 Massif doc fixes, mostly from Julian.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7242
2007-11-27 21:29:33 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
78e4acd024 Minor tweak to drawing of peak and detailed snapshot bars on the graph.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7231
2007-11-26 22:27:02 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
01e4f950f2 - Rewrote documentation.
- Added a new time unit, instructions executed, and made it the default -- it's
  much more reproducible and consistent than milliseconds.  Requires IRSB
  instrumentation and so slows down some programs (malloc-light ones such as
  bzip2) by about 20%, others by less.
- ms_print now doesn't overwrite the x-axis in the graphs.
- Added a test for --detailed-freq and --max-snapshots


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7229
2007-11-26 21:59:04 +00:00
Julian Seward
5e2a8da202 Spelling fixes and misc tidying for the manual. (Brian Gough)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7173
2007-11-17 09:43:25 +00:00
Julian Seward
edccec4447 Stop xsltproc barfing on un-escaped '&'.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7129
2007-11-09 23:59:14 +00:00
Julian Seward
daa5ec20ec Fix tag.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7115
2007-11-09 21:07:31 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
62eed24c67 Merged the MASSIF2 branch to the trunk. Main changes:
- ms_main.c: completely overhauled.

- massif/tests/*:  lots of them now.

- massif/perf/:  added.

- massif/hp2ps:  removed.  No longer used.

- vg_regtest: renamed the previously unused "posttest" notion to "post".
  Using it for checking ms_print's output.

Although the code has changed dramatically, as has the form of the tool's
output, the information presented in the output is basically the same,
although it's now (hopefully) much more useful.  So the tool name is
unchanged.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7069
2007-11-01 04:40:37 +00:00
Julian Seward
b91b51b42b Merge (from 3.2 branch) r6743 (Edit the manual to bring it up to date
and make some of the wording a bit more professional sounding.)



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6745
2007-05-23 21:58:33 +00:00
Julian Seward
7e63a350bb Fix typo.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5278
2005-12-04 14:54:31 +00:00
Donna Robinson
9888e86b06 Tidying up stuff re generating manpage from *.xml docs
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5277
2005-12-03 23:02:33 +00:00
Julian Seward
d07dbe4a52 Complete documentation trawl for 3.1.0.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5137
2005-11-15 20:56:23 +00:00
Donna Robinson
a9b1a6cc57 Added some targets for massif & core options
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@4005
2005-06-23 15:30:31 +00:00
Donna Robinson
b655e45a8e argh! there were loads of the little beggars ....
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3999
2005-06-23 00:17:51 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
7a75a9f583 Overhauled the docs. Removed all the HTML files, put in XML files as
converted by Donna.  Hooked it into the build system so they are only
built when specifically asked for, and when doing "make dist".

They're not perfect;  in particular, there are the following problems:
- The plain-text FAQ should be built from FAQ.xml, but this is not
  currently done.  (The text FAQ has been left in for now.)

- The PS/PDF building doesn't work -- it fails with an incomprehensible
  error message which I haven't yet deciphered.

Nonetheless, I'm putting it in so others can see it.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@3153
2004-11-30 10:43:45 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
0db27515b1 Putting "dist_" in front of a "_DATA" variable means it is included in "make
dist".  This avoids the need to put it in "EXTRA_DIST", and saves a few lines
in all the docs Makefile.am files.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@2614
2004-08-25 11:40:07 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
39c1f4e7fc Update and add various .cvsignore files.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@2260
2004-02-22 19:34:55 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
563c4e566a Adding Massif, the heap profiler.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@2245
2004-02-14 16:40:02 +00:00