Re: valgrind spews

[Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>]

On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 21:43 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> On 23 March 2018 at 15:15, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 08:49 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Right, this is identical to what I reported. I get tons of these with
> > > the patch, not without.
> > 
> > Since I can reproduce this I will have a look at what is going on.
> 
> I wonder if the manner that fio allocates redzones is incompatible
> with valgrind's due to fio's redzone's potentially being smaller than
> the size of a pointer and the pre-redzone being partially inside the
> header structure. I'm attaching a patch I made but it still seems to
> generate valgrind warnings that aren't there when falling back to
> malloc/free without pools...

Hello Sitsofe,

Have you enabled github's feature to send an e-mail every time a pull request
is created or a comment is added? This issue should have been resolved by a
pull request I submitted this morning. That pull request has been accepted by
Jens.

Bart.