I think that these are all now done.
This commit refactors memalign and updates manual-core.xml
to say some behaviour of Valgrind depends on the build time
OS and libraries.
This commit implements in python a set of GDB commands corresponding to the
Valgrind gdbserver monitor commands.
Basically, the idea is that one GDB command is defined for each valgrind
gdbserver subcommand and will generate and send a monitor command to valgrind.
The python code is auto-loaded by GDB as soon as GDB observes that the valgrind
preload core shared lib is loaded (e.g. vgpreload_core-amd64-linux.so).
This automatic loading is done thanks to the .debug_gdb_scripts section
added in vg_preloaded.c file.
Sadly, the auto-load only happens once valgrind has started to execute the code
of ld that loads this vg_preload file.
I have tried 2 approaches to have the python code auto-loaded when attaching at
startup to valgrind:
* have valgrind gdbserver reporting first to GDB that the executable file is
the tool executable (with a .debug_gdb_scripts section) and then reporting
the real (guest) executable file.
The drawback of this approach is that it triggers a warning/question in GDB
according to the GDB setting 'set exec-file-mismatch'.
* have valgrind gdbserver pretending to be multiprocess enabled, and report
a fake process using the tool executable with a .debug_gdb_scripts section.
The drawback of this is that this always creates a second inferior in GDB,
which will be confusing.
Possibly, we might complete the below message :
==2984378== (action at startup) vgdb me ...
==2984378==
==2984378== TO DEBUG THIS PROCESS USING GDB: start GDB like this
==2984378== /path/to/gdb /home/philippe/valgrind/littleprogs/some_mem
==2984378== and then give GDB the following command
==2984378== target remote | /home/philippe/valgrind/git/improve/Inst/libexec/valgrind/../../bin/vgdb --pid=2984378
==2984378== --pid is optional if only one valgrind process is running
with:
==2984378== GDB valgrind python specific commands will be auto-loaded when execution begins.
==2984378== Alternatively, you might load it before with the GDB command:
==2984378== source /abs/path/to/valgrind/install/libexec/valgrind/valgrind-monitor.py
The following GDB setting traces the monitor commands sent by a GDB valgrind
command to the valgrind gdbserver:
set debug valgrind-execute-monitor on
How to use the new GDB valgrind commands?
-----------------------------------------
The usage of the GDB front end commands is compatible with the
monitor command as accepted today by Valgrind.
For example, the memcheck monitor command "xb' has the following usage:
xb <addr> [<len>]
With some piece of code:
'char some_mem [5];'
xb can be used the following way:
(gdb) print &some_mem
(gdb) $2 = (char (*)[5]) 0x1ffefffe8b
(gdb) monitor xb 0x1ffefffe8b 5
ff ff ff ff ff
0x4A43040: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
(gdb)
The same action can be done with the new GDB 'memcheck xb' command:
(gdb) memcheck xb 0x1ffefffe8b 5
ff ff ff ff ff
0x1FFEFFFE8B: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
(gdb)
At this point, you might ask yourself: "what is the interest ?".
Using GDB valgrind commands provides several advantages compared to
the valgrind gdbserver monitor commands.
Evaluation of arguments by GDB:
-------------------------------
For relevant arguments, the GDB command will evaluate its arguments using
the usual GDB evaluation logic, for example, instead of printing/copying
the address and size of 'some_mem', the following will work:
(gdb) memcheck xb &some_mem sizeof(some_mem)
ff ff ff ff ff
0x1FFEFFFE8B: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
(gdb)
or:
(gdb) p some_mem
$4 = "\000\000\000\000"
(gdb) memcheck xb &$4
ff ff ff ff ff
0x1FFEFFFE8B: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
(gdb)
This is both easier to use interactively and easier to use in GDB scripts,
as you can directly use variable names in the GDB valgrind commands.
Command completion by GDB:
--------------------------
The usual command completion in GDB will work for the GDB valgrind commands.
For example, typing TAB after the letter 'l' in:
(gdb) valgrind v.info l
will show the 2 "valgrind v.info" subcommands:
last_error location
(gdb) valgrind v.info l
Note that as usual, GDB will recognise a command as soon as it is unambiguous.
Usual help and apropos support by GDB:
--------------------------------------
The Valgrind gdbserver provides an online help using:
(gdb) monitor help
However, this gives the help for all monitor commands, and is not searchable.
GDB provides a better help and documentation search.
For example, the following commands can be used to get various help
or search the GDB Valgrind command online documentation:
help valgrind
help memcheck
help helgrind
help callgrind
help massif
to get help about the general valgrind commands or the tool specific commands.
Examples of searching the online documentation:
apropos valgrind.*location
apropos -v validity
apropos -v leak
User can define aliases for the valgrind commands:
--------------------------------------------------
The following aliases are predefined:
v and vg for valgrind
mc for memcheck
hg for helgrind
cg for callgrind
ms for massif
So, the following will be equivalent:
(gdb) valgrind v.info location &some_mem
(gdb) v v.i lo &some_mem
(gdb) alias Vl = valgrind v.info location
(gdb) Vl &some_mem
Thanks to Hassan El Karouni for the help in factorising the python
code common to all valgrind python commands using a decorator.
Note that this modifies files on darwin/solaris/bsd but I only did a linux
build so possibly this commit might cause a compilation error, that should
then be trivial to fix.
Also added memmem test in the list of ignored files.
For unauthenticated git clones it is slightly more secure to use the https
link because the site certificate will be checked. Also https might be more
accessible from all places than the git protocol port.
Currently debuginfod is enabled in Valgrind when the $DEBUGINFOD_URLS
environment variable is set and disabled when it isn't set.
This patch adds an --enable-debuginfod=<yes|no> command line option
to provide another level of control over whether Valgrind attempts
to download debuginfo. "yes" is the default value.
$DEBUGINFOD_URLS must still contain debuginfod server URLs in order
for this feature to work when --enable-debuginfod=yes.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453602
The paths to these files need to be fully specified in
the out of tree build case. glibc-2.X.supp is a generated file so the
full path is deliberately not specified in that case.
Also adjust the mpi include dir location as valgrind.h is
generated as well and needs to be taken out of build dir.
Also adjust the location of generated xml file. And the search paths
for the xmllint, xsltproc and xmlto programs.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
Currently the version is updated in 3 places, configure.ac,
include/valgrind.h and docs/xml/vg-entities.xml. This goes wrong from
time to time. So only define the version (and release date) once in
configure.ac and update both other places at configure time.
Files in the root directory
Several Makefile.am files that have dependencies on FreeBSD autoconf
variables. Included a few new filter files to act as placeholders
to create new freebsd subdirectories.
Updated NEWS with the FreeBSD bugzilla items plus a couple of other
items fixed indirectly.
Wrap up support for the miscellaneous-instruction-extensions facility 3
and the vector-enhancements facility 2: Add 'case' statements for the
remaining unhandled arch13 instructions to 'guest_s390_toIR.c', document
the new support in 's390-opcodes.csv', adjust 's390-check-opcodes.pl', and
announce the new feature in 'NEWS'.
debuginfod is an HTTP server for distributing ELF/DWARF debugging
information. When a debuginfo file cannot be found locally, Valgrind
is able to query debuginfod servers for the file using its build-id.
readelf.c: Add debuginfod_find_debug_file(). Spawns a child process to
exec `debuginfod-find` in order to query servers for the debuginfo
file. Also add helper debuginfod_find_path().
pub_core_pathscan.h: Moved from priv_initimg_pathscan.h in order to use
VG_(find_executable)() in readelf.c.
docs: Add information regarding debuginfod to valgrind.1
memcheck/tests/linux: Add new test debuginfod-check.
tests/vg_regtest.in: Clear $DEBUGINFOD_URLS before running any tests.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432215
Make --track-fds=yes not report on file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 (stdin,
stdout, and stderr) by default. Add a new option --track-fds=all that does
report on the std file descriptors still being open. Update testsuite and
documentation.
Original patch by Peter Kelly <pmk@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
Updated by Daniel Fahlgren <daniel@fahlgren.se>
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140939
Implement the new instructions/features that were added to z/Architecture
with the vector-enhancements facility 1. Also cover the instructions from
the vector-packed-decimal facility that are defined outside the chapter
"Vector Decimal Instructions", but not the ones from that chapter itself.
For a detailed list of newly supported instructions see the updates to
`docs/internals/s390-opcodes.csv'.
Since the miscellaneous instruction extensions facility 2 was already
addressed by Bug 404406, this completes the support necessary to run
general programs built with `--march=z14' under Valgrind. The
vector-packed-decimal facility is currently not exploited by the standard
toolchain and libraries.
When generating HTML it is useful if every element that can be referenced
has a stable id. If it doesn't a random one is generated which makes it
harder to link to parts of the manual on the website. It also generates
spurious diffs. Explicitly add an id tag for the sect2 and sect3 elements
in dh-manual, a unique id for each legalnotice element and for each
FAQ question and answer.
Make valid-manual and valid-manpages real, separate make targets.
This means they can be run in parallel and they will only be run
once when doing make check, unless one of the manual and manpages
files has been touched.
manpages-index.xml is just to easily get at each individual man page
with xsltproc. It wasn't a complete docbookx xml file. Now that it is
we can validate it with xmllint. It doesn't fully validate, but we
are close.
This makes the rule for xmllint easier since it doesn't need to
override the DTD to validate against. It also helps with other tools
tryinf to process the docbookx xml files.
It only ever worked on x86 and amd64, and even on those it had a high false
positive rate and was slow. Everything it does, ASan can do faster, better,
and on more architectures. So there's no reason to keep this tool any more.
The s390x register usage callback marks the target register of a
conditional move as HRmWrite only. It fails to mention the fact that the
target register is also an input to the insn (unless the condition is
"never" or "always").
This was discovered while investigating "grail" failures on s390x and
fixes the majority of them.
Add VEX support for the s390x "compare and signal" instructions KEBR,
KDBR, KXBR, KEB, and KDB. For now, let them behave exactly like their
non-signalling counterparts. Enhance the bfp-4 test case to cover these
instructions as well. Update the list of supported instructions in
s390-opcodes.csv. Add a disclaimer to README.s390, explaining that FP
signalling is not handled accurately on s390x at the moment.
Some lines in s390-opcodes.csv contain entries that look like this:
...,"arch12"implemented",...
They are probably introduced by some cut-and-paste error. This is fixed.
