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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support running QEMU on Valgrind
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:19:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAEF4A8.70604@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EAEF0FB.9030802@weilnetz.de>

On 10/31/2011 02:03 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 31.10.2011 19:13, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> 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
>
>
> Do you think that Valgrind will be fixed before tests of QEMU 1.0 start?
> I don't, and I think that using Valgrind should be part of these tests!
>
> I'd add the patch now. As soon as Valgrind is fixed, it can be reverted.
> Or we add another patch with the Valgrind hack from libvirt.

I definitely don't want to pull in a valgrind header.  The LD_PRELOAD check 
seems a bit ugly but I'd rather carry that as an intermediate solution.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Regards,
> Stefan Weil
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31 19:19 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
2011-10-31 19:03   ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-31 19:19     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-10-31 18:22 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2011-10-31 18:51   ` Stefan Weil

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