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There is quite a lot of stuff here. The problem is that setproctitle and kern.ps_strings were using the Valgrind host auxv rather than the guest. The proposed patch would have just ignored those memory ranges. I've gone a fair bit further than that 1. refactored the initimg code for building the client auxv. Previously we were simply ignoring any non-scalar entries. Now we copy most of thse as well. That means that 'strtab' built on the client stack no longet only contains strings, at can also now contain binary structures. Note I was a bit concerned that there may be some alignment issues, but I haven't seen any problems so far. 2. Added intercepts to sysctl and sysctlbyname for kern.ps_strings, then find AT_PS_STRINGS from the client auxv that is now usable from step 1. 3. Some refactoring of sysctl and sysctlbyname syscall wrappers. More to do there! 4. Added a setproctitle testcase (that also tests the sysctls). 5. Updated the auxv testcase now that more AT_* entries are handled.
Release notes for Valgrind
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you are building a binary package of Valgrind for distribution,
please read README_PACKAGERS. It contains some important information.
If you are developing Valgrind, please read README_DEVELOPERS. It contains
some useful information.
For instructions on how to build/install, see the end of this file.
If you have problems, consult the FAQ to see if there are workarounds.
Executive Summary
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Valgrind is a framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are
Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management
and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also
use Valgrind to build new tools.
The Valgrind distribution currently includes six production-quality
tools: a memory error detector, two thread error detectors, a cache
and branch-prediction profiler, a call-graph generating cache and
branch-prediction profiler, and a heap profiler. It also includes
three experimental tools: a heap/stack/global array overrun detector,
a different kind of heap profiler, and a SimPoint basic block vector
generator.
Valgrind is closely tied to details of the CPU, operating system and to
a lesser extent, compiler and basic C libraries. This makes it difficult
to make it portable. Nonetheless, it is available for the following
platforms:
- X86/Linux
- AMD64/Linux
- PPC32/Linux
- PPC64/Linux
- ARM/Linux
- ARM64/Linux
- x86/macOS
- AMD64/macOS
- S390X/Linux
- MIPS32/Linux
- MIPS64/Linux
- nanoMIPS/Linux
- X86/Solaris
- AMD64/Solaris
- X86/FreeBSD
- AMD64/FreeBSD
Note that AMD64 is just another name for x86_64, and Valgrind runs fine
on Intel processors. Also note that the core of macOS is called
"Darwin" and this name is used sometimes.
Valgrind is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
Read the file COPYING in the source distribution for details.
However: if you contribute code, you need to make it available as GPL
version 2 or later, and not 2-only.
Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A comprehensive user guide is supplied. Point your browser at
$PREFIX/share/doc/valgrind/manual.html, where $PREFIX is whatever you
specified with --prefix= when building.
Building and installing it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To install from the GIT repository:
0. Clone the code from GIT:
git clone git://sourceware.org/git/valgrind.git
There are further instructions at
http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/repository.html.
1. cd into the source directory.
2. Run ./autogen.sh to setup the environment (you need the standard
autoconf tools to do so).
3. Continue with the following instructions...
To install from a tar.bz2 distribution:
4. Run ./configure, with some options if you wish. The only interesting
one is the usual --prefix=/where/you/want/it/installed.
5. Run "make".
6. Run "make install", possibly as root if the destination permissions
require that.
7. See if it works. Try "valgrind ls -l". Either this works, or it
bombs out with some complaint. In that case, please let us know
(see http://valgrind.org/support/bug_reports.html).
Important! Do not move the valgrind installation into a place
different from that specified by --prefix at build time. This will
cause things to break in subtle ways, mostly when Valgrind handles
fork/exec calls.
The Valgrind Developers