From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: valgrind-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support running QEMU on Valgrind
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:13:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAEE55C.7070400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319976446-12602-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de>
On 10/30/2011 07:07 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Valgrind is a tool which can automatically detect many kinds of bugs.
>
> Running QEMU on Valgrind with x86_64 hosts was not possible because
> Valgrind aborts when memalign is called with an alignment larger than
> 1 MiB. QEMU normally uses 2 MiB on Linux x86_64.
>
> Now the alignment is reduced to the page size when QEMU is running on
> Valgrind.
>
> valgrind.h is a copy from Valgrind svn trunk r12226 with trailing
> whitespace stripped but otherwise unmodified, so it still raises lots
> of errors when checked with scripts/checkpatch.pl.
>
> It is included here to avoid a dependency on Valgrind.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil<sw@weilnetz.de>
How about we just fix valgrind?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-31 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-30 12:07 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support running QEMU on Valgrind Stefan Weil
2011-10-30 13:41 ` Alexander Graf
2011-10-30 14:30 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-30 14:45 ` Alexander Graf
2011-10-31 6:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-10-31 6:38 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-10-31 17:09 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-31 18:30 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-10-31 19:01 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-31 18:13 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-10-31 19:03 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-31 19:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-31 18:22 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-10-31 18:51 ` Stefan Weil
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