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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>,
	"Thomas Rast" <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] tests --valgrind: provide a mode without --track-origins
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:00:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560f4d3cedf1cf32331f864bae94124c02495c06.1364716452.git.trast@inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1364716452.git.trast@inf.ethz.ch>

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>

With --valgrind=memcheck-fast, the tests run under memcheck but
without the autodetected --track-origins.  If you just run valgrind to
see *if* there is any memory issue with your program, the extra
information is not needed, and it comes at a roughly 30% hit in
runtime.

While it is possible to achieve the same through GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS,
this should be more discoverable and hopefully encourage more users to
run their tests with valgrind.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
---
 t/README               | 5 +++++
 t/valgrind/valgrind.sh | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index f5ee40f..9b41fe7 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ appropriately before running "make".
 	'drd', but you may use any tool recognized by your valgrind
 	installation.
 
+	As a special case, <tool> can be 'memcheck-fast', which uses
+	memcheck but disables --track-origins.  Use this if you are
+	running tests in bulk, to see if there are _any_ memory
+	issues.
+
 	Note that memcheck is run with the option --leak-check=no,
 	as the git process is short-lived and some errors are not
 	interesting. In order to run a single command under the same
diff --git a/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh b/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh
index 472ac2d..6b87c91 100755
--- a/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh
+++ b/t/valgrind/valgrind.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ base=$(basename "$0")
 TOOL_OPTIONS='--leak-check=no'
 
 case "$GIT_VALGRIND_MODE" in
+memcheck-fast)
+	;;
 memcheck)
 	VALGRIND_VERSION=$(valgrind --version)
 	VALGRIND_MAJOR=$(expr "$VALGRIND_VERSION" : '[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)')
-- 
1.8.2.467.gedf93a5

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-31  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-31  8:00 [PATCH 0/3] tests: --valgrind=tool Thomas Rast
2013-03-31  8:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] t/README: --valgrind already implies -v Thomas Rast
2013-03-31  8:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] tests: parameterize --valgrind option Thomas Rast
2013-03-31  8:00 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-03-31  8:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] tests: notice valgrind error in test_must_fail Thomas Rast
2013-04-01 14:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] tests: --valgrind=tool Johannes Schindelin

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