* New command line options --xtree-leak=no|yes and --xtree-leak-file=<file>
to produce the end of execution leak report in a xtree callgrind format
file.
* New option 'xtleak' in the memcheck leak_check monitor command, to
produce the leak report in an xtree file.
* File name template arguments (such as --log-file, --xtree-memory-file, ...)
have a new %n format letter that is replaced by a sequence number.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@16205
Final patch of the xtree serie, which provides the documentation.
The xtree concept was committed in the revisions
16120 : Support pool of unique string in pub_tool_deduppoolalloc.h
16121 : Implement a cache 'address -> symbol name' in m_debuginfo.c
16122 : Add VG_(strIsMemberXA) in pub_tool_xarray.h
16123 : Addition of the pub_tool_xtree.h and pub_tool_xtmemory.h modules, and of the --xtree-memory* options
16124 : Addition of the options --xtree-memory and --xtree-memory-file
16125 : Small changes in callgrind_annotate and callgrind manual
16126 : Locally define vgPlain_scrcmp in 2 unit tests
16127 : Support for xtree memory profiling and xtmemory gdbsrv monitor command in helgrind
16128 : Support for xtree memory profiling and xtmemory gdbsrv monitor command in memcheck
16129 : Update massif implementation to xtree
Some smaller follow-up patches to be expected to add some regtests,
and refine documentation.
Thanks to Ivo, Julian and Josef for the review comments.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@16131
The msg telling brk cannot be extended confuses some users
so improve the documentation and have the msg referencing the doc.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15880
from libstdc++ when available, similar to existing __libc_freeres().
New option --run-cxx-freeres=<yes|no> can be used to change whether
this cleanup function is called or not.
Note that __gnu_cxx::__freeres() is currently available
only in gcc 6. It is not yet decided what to do about
libstdc++ from gcc 5.
Tracked under https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69945
for libstdc++.
Fixes BZ#345307 (partially).
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15840
This implements the interception of all globally public allocation
functions by default. It works by adding a flag to the spec to say the
interception only applies to global functions. Which is set for the
somalloc spec. The librarypath to match is set to "*" unless the user
overrides it. Then each DiSym keeps track of whether the symbol is local
or global. For a spec which has isGlobal set only isGlobal symbols will
match.
Note that because of padding to keep the addresses in DiSym aligned the
addition of the extra bool isGlobal doesn't actually grow the struct.
The comments explain how the struct could be made more compact on 32bit
systems, but this isn't as easy on 64bit systems. So I didn't try to do
that in this patch.
For ELF symbols keeping track of which are global is trivial. For pdb I
had to guess and made only the "Public" symbols global. I don't know
how/if macho keeps track of global symbols or not. For now I just mark
all of them local (which just means things work as previously on platforms
that use machos, no non-system symbols are matches by default for somalloc
unless the user explicitly tells which library name to match).
Included are two testcases for shared libraries (wrapmalloc) and staticly
linked (wrapmallocstatic) malloc/free overrides that depend on the new
default. One existing testcase (new_override) was adjusted to explicitly
not use the new somalloc default because it depends on a user defined
new implementation that has side-effects and should explicitly not be
intercepted.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15726
to restrict the change to those architectures that do provide automatic
D-I coherence (x86, amd64, s390x). This commit restores the default
value for all other architectures back to its pre r15601 state, so as not
to burden those architectures unnecessarily with =all-non-file.
Also, this rewrites the relevant manual section.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15602
the size of the translation table sectors, either to gain memory
or to avoid too many retranslations.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15016
This allows to decrease memory usage when using many threads,
if no big stacksize is needed by Valgrind.
If needed (e.g. for demangling big c++ symbols), the V stacksize
can be increased.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15004
for the number of connected processes. This is still lame but better
than asking her to recompile.
Part of fixing BZ #337869.
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* This option can be used to mark the begin/end of errors in textual
output mode, to facilitate searching/extracting errors in output files
mixing valgrind errors with program output.
* Use the new option in various existing regtests to test the various
possible usage.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14714
the man page to contain:
></programlisting>
<para>And here are the same errors with
<option>--read-var-info=yes</option>:</para>
<programlisting><![CDATA[
Rather than the nicely formatted 'And here ...' paragraph.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14561
Activating this hint using --sim-hints=no-nptl-pthread-stackcache
means the glibc nptl stack cache will be disabled.
Disabling this stack/tls cache avoids helgrind false positive race conditions
errors when using __thread variables.
Note: disabling the stack cache is done by a kludge, dependent on
internal knowledge of glibc code, and using libpthread debug info.
So, this kludge might be broken with newer glibc version.
This has been tested on various platforms and various
glibc versions 2.11, 2.16 and 2.18
To check if the disabling works, you can do:
valgrind --tool=helgrind --sim-hints=no-nptl-pthread-stackcache -d -v ./helgrind/tests/tls_threads |& grep kludge
If you see the below 2 lines, then hopefully the stack cache has been disabled.
--12624-- deactivate nptl pthread stackcache via kludge: found symbol stack_cache_actsize at addr 0x3AF178
--12624:1:sched pthread stack cache size disabling done via kludge
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14313
* Mention --read-inline-info=yes as an alternative to compile without inlining.
* Mention that stabs debuginfo reader is not working anymore since 3.9.0
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14160
showing inlined function calls.
See 278972 valgrind stacktraces and suppression do not handle inlined function call debuginfo
Reading the inlined dwarf call info is activated using the new clo
--read-inline-info=yes
Default is currently no but an objective is to optimise the performance
and memory in order to possibly set it on by default.
(see below discussion about performances).
Basically, the patch provides the following pieces:
1. Implement a new dwarf3 reader that reads the inlined call info
2. Some performance improvements done for this new parser, and
on some common code between the new parser and the var info parser.
3. Use the parsed inlined info to produce stacktrace showing inlined calls
4. Use the parsed inlined info in the suppression matching and suppression generation
5. and of course, some reg tests
1. new dwarf3 reader:
---------------------
Two options were possible: add the reading of the inlined info
in the current var info dwarf reader, or add a 2nd reader.
The 2nd approach was preferred, for the following reasons:
The var info reader is slow, memory hungry and quite complex.
Having a separate parsing phase for the inlined information
is simpler/faster when just reading the inlined info.
Possibly, a single parser would be faster when using both
--read-var-info=yes and --read-inline-info=yes.
However, var-info being extremely memory/cpu hungry, it is unlikely
to be used often, and having a separate parsing for inlined info
does in any case make not much difference.
(--read-var-info=yes is also now less interesting thanks to commit
r13991, which provides a fast and low memory "reasonable" location
for an address).
The inlined info parser reads the dwarf info to make calls
to priv_storage.h ML_(addInlInfo).
2. performance optimisations
----------------------------
* the abbrev cache has been improved in revision r14035.
* The new parser skips the non interesting DIEs
(the var-info parser has no logic to skip uninteresting DIEs).
* Some other minor perf optimisation here and there.
In total now, on a big executable, 15 seconds CPU are needed to
create the inlined info (on my slow x86 pentium).
With regards to memory, the dinfo arena:
with inlined info: 172281856/121085952 max/curr mmap'd
without : 157892608/106721280 max/curr mmap'd,
So, basically, inlined information costs about 15Mb of memory for
my big executable (compared to first version of the patch, this is
already using less memory, thanks to the strpool deduppoolalloc.
The needed memory can probably be decreased somewhat more.
3. produce better stack traces
------------------------------
VG_(describe_IP) has a new argument InlIPCursor *iipc which allows
to describe inlined function calls by doing repetitive calls
to describe_IP. See pub_tool_debuginfo.h for a description.
4. suppression generation and matching
--------------------------------------
* suppression generation now also uses an InlIPCursor *iipc
to generate a line for each inlined fn call.
* suppression matching: to allow suppression matching to
match one IP to several function calls in a suppression entry,
the 'inputCompleter' object (that allows to lazily generate
function or object names for a stacktrace when matching
an error with a suppression) has been generalised a little bit
more to also lazily generate the input sequence.
VG_(generic_match) has been updated so as to be more generic
with respect to the input completer : when providing an
input completer, VG_(generic_match) does not need anymore
to produce/compute any input itself : this is all delegated
to the input completer.
5. various regtests
-------------------
to test stack traces with inlined calls, and suppressions
of (some of) these errors using inlined fn calls matching.
Work still to do:
-----------------
* improve parsing performance
* improve the memory overhead.
* handling the directory name for files of the inlined function calls is not yet done.
(probably implies to refactor some code)
* see if m_errormgr.c *offsets arrays cannot be managed via xarray
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14036
The current manual and man page tells:
--tool=<toolname> [default: memcheck]
Run the Valgrind tool called toolname, e.g. Memcheck, Cachegrind, etc.
where the toolname examples do not list all the tools, and use uppercase
first letter, which is not understood.
So, use lower case, and give the list of all known tools.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13920
use of some more memory by decreasing the default value
or solve some conflicts with system libraries by increasing the value.
See user manual for details.
Note that the lowest accepted possible value is 0x1000, which is
the current value used by Macos in 32bits.
On linux, 0x10000 (64KB) seems to cause not much conflicts.
Default values are unchanged (i.e. are the same as when there
was no clo option).
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to ask GDB server to stop before program execution, at the end
of the program execution and on Valgrind internal errors.
- A new monitor command "v.set hostvisibility" that allows GDB server
to provide access to Valgrind internal host status/memory.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13900
r13682 Initial cut at 3.9.0 release notes.
r13683 Remove duplicate NEWS entries for 3.9.0.
r13689 Minor docs/NEWS fixes
r13690 Documentation updates for 3.9.0.
r13691 More documentation updates, re leak-checker changes
r13692 NEWS: Note increased max mem size.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13724
A previous commit had decreased to 6 (on android) and increased to 16
(other platforms) the nr of sectors in the translation cache.
This patch adds a command line option to let the user specify
the nr of sectors as e.g. 16 sectors might be a lot and cause
an out of memory for some workloads or might be too small for
huge executable or executables using a lot of shared libs.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13652
