This commit thoroughly overhauls DHAT, moving it out of the
"experimental" ghetto. It makes moderate changes to DHAT itself,
including dumping profiling data to a JSON format output file. It also
implements a new data viewer (as a web app, in dhat/dh_view.html).
The main benefits over the old DHAT are as follows.
- The separation of data collection and presentation means you can run a
program once under DHAT and then sort the data in various ways. Also,
full data is in the output file, and the viewer chooses what to omit.
- The data can be sorted in more ways than previously. Some of these
sorts involve useful filters such as "short-lived" and "zero reads or
zero writes".
- The tree structure view avoids the need to choose stack trace depth.
This avoids both the problem of not enough depth (when records that
should be distinct are combined, and may not contain enough
information to be actionable) and the problem of too much depth (when
records that should be combined are separated, making them seem less
important than they really are).
- Byte and block measures are shown with a percentage relative to the
global count, which helps gauge relative significance of different
parts of the profile.
- Byte and blocks measures are also shown with an allocation rate
(bytes and blocks per million instructions), which enables comparisons
across multiple profiles, even if those profiles represent different
workloads.
- Both global and per-node measurements are taken at the global heap
peak ("At t-gmax"), which gives Massif-like insight into the point of
peak memory use.
- The final/liftimes stats are a bit more useful than the old deaths
stats. (E.g. the old deaths stats didn't take into account lifetimes
of unfreed blocks.)
- The handling of realloc() has changed. The sequence `p = malloc(100);
realloc(p, 200);` now increases the total block count by 2 and the
total byte count by 300. Previously it increased them by 1 and 200.
The new handling is a more operational view that better reflects the
effect of allocations on performance. It makes a significant
difference in the results, giving paths involving reallocation (e.g.
repeated pushing to a growing vector) more prominence.
Other things of note:
- There is now testing, both regression tests that run within the
standard test suite, and viewer-specific tests that cannot run within
the standard test suite. The latter are run by loading
dh_view.html?test=1 in a web browser.
- The commit puts all tool lists in Makefiles (and similar files) in the
following consistent order: memcheck, cachegrind, callgrind, helgrind,
drd, massif, dhat, lackey, none; exp-sgcheck, exp-bbv.
- A lot of fields in dh_main.c have been given more descriptive names.
Those names now match those used in dh_view.js.
Add test cases for the z13 vector FP support. Bring s390-opcodes.csv
up-to-date, reflecting that the z13 vector instructions are now supported.
Also remove the non-support disclaimer for the vector facility from
README.s390.
The patch was contributed by Vadim Barkov, with some clean-up and minor
adjustments by Andreas Arnez.
Author: Nicholas Nethercote <nnethercote@mozilla.com>
Use inlined frames in Massif XTree output.
This makes Massif's output much easier to follow.
The commit also removes a -1 used on all Massif stack frame addresses.
There was a big comment questioning the presence of that -1, and with it
gone the addresses now match those produced by DHAT.
* Create the 3.15 section in the NEWS file
(the idea is that this section is maintained during the development,
i.e. document user visible changes and/or the fixed bugs, as part of
the commit).
* start the fixed bug list with 399322 Improve callgrind_annotate output
* update vg-entities.xml for 3.15 next release.
This adds test cases and some internal stuff to the z/Architecture vector
integer and string instruction support.
Contributed by Vadim Barkov <vbrkov@gmail.com>.
This adds z/Architecture vector integer and string instruction support.
The main author of this patch is Vadim Barkov <vbrkov@gmail.com>. Some
fixes were provided by Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.ibm.com>.
This implements various z/Architecture instructions that conditionally
yield a data exception ("trap"). The condition is either based on a
comparison being true ("compare and trap") or on a loaded value being
zero ("load and trap"). These instructions haven't been widely used in
the past, but may now be emitted by newer compilers. Note that the
resulting signal for a data exception is SIGFPE, not SIGTRAP. Thus this
patch also adds a new jump kind Ijk_SigFPE.
(from bug 385408 comment 0):
Valgrind currently lacks support for the z/Architecture vector "support"
instructions introduced with z13. These are documented in the
z/Architecture Principles of Operation, Eleventh Edition (March, 2015),
chapter 21: "Vector Overview and Support Instructions".
Fixes BZ#374963.
Previously Valgrind failed to start when the executable contained
large text, data or bss segments. The load address was increased
for almost all platforms to 0x58000000 (from 0x38000000),
giving another 512 MB for the executable.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@16383
