can be used in error messages. That should be helpful when debugging
multithreaded applications.
Patch by Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org> with some minor
modifications. Fixes BZ 322254.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13553
to put a "marker" msg in process log output
* v.info n_errs_found accepts optional msg, added in the output of
the monitor command.
* use VG_(printf) rather than VG_(gdb_printf) when output of command
should be redirected according to v.set gdb_output|log_output|mixed_output
* also avoid calling gdb_printf in output sink processing
to output zero bytes, as gdb_printf expects to have a null terminated
string, which is not ensured when 0 bytes have to be output.
* some minor reformatting (replace char* xxx by char *xxx).
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13532
On Ubuntu systems, ptrace_scoping could forbid a process to ptrace another.
This ptrace scoping was already handled for vgdb by using SET_PTRACER
(the valgrind process must be ptraced by vgdb when it is blocked
in a syscall).
set_ptracer is however also needed when the old mechanism --db-attach=yes
is used.
The following changes are done:
* make the set_ptracer logic callable outside gdbserver
* make set_ptracer less restrictive (i.e. allow all
processes of the user to ptrace). This removes a limitation for vgdb.
* call the set_ptracer in the child launched for --db-attach=yes
* cleaned up the ptrace scope restriction message and doc as vgdb
is now working properly by default, even with ptrace_scope enabled.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13384
(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
