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Valgrind Software Quick Start Manual (319 pages)

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The Valgrind Quick Start Guide

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Valgrind User Manual

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- 1 Introduction
  
  13
  - An Overview of Valgrind
    13
  - How to Navigate this Manual
    14
- 2 Using and Understanding the Valgrind Core
  
  15
  - What Valgrind Does with Your Program
    15
  - Getting Started
    16
  - The Commentary
    16
  - Reporting of Errors
    18
  - Suppressing Errors
    18
  - Basic Options
    21
  - Core Command-Line Options
    21
  - Tool-Selection Option
    21
  - Error-Related Options
    23
  - Caveats
    25
    
    Malloc-Related Options
    28
    
    Uncommon Options
    28
    
    Debugging Options
    33
    
    Setting Default Options
    33
    
    Support for Threads
    33
    
    Scheduling and Multi-Thread Performance
    34
    
    Handling of Signals
    35
    
    Building and Installing Valgrind
    35
    
    If You Have Problems
    36
    
    Limitations
    36
    
    An Example Run
    38
    
    Warning Messages You Might See
    39
- 3 Using and Understanding the Valgrind Core: Advanced Topics
  
  41
  - The Client Request Mechanism
    41
  - More Information
    42
    
    Debugging Your Program Using Valgrind Gdbserver and GDB
    43
    
    Quick Start: Debugging in 3 Steps
    43
    
    Valgrind Gdbserver Overall Organisation
    44
    
    Connecting GDB to a Valgrind Gdbserver
    44
    
    Connecting to an Android Gdbserver
    46
    
    Monitor Command Handling by the Valgrind Gdbserver
    47
    
    Valgrind Gdbserver Thread Information
    49
    
    Examining and Modifying Valgrind Shadow Registers
    49
    
    Limitations of the Valgrind Gdbserver
    50
    
    Vgdb Command Line Options
    54
    
    Valgrind Monitor Commands
    55
    
    Function Wrapping
    57
    
    A Simple Example
    57
    
    Wrapping Speciﬁcations
    58
    
    Wrapping Semantics
    59
    
    Debugging
    60
    
    Limitations - Control Flow
    60
    
    Limitations - Original Function Signatures
    61
    
    Examples
    61
- 4 Memcheck: a Memory Error Detector
  
  62
- 5 Cachegrind: a Cache and Branch-Prediction Proﬁler
  
  89
  - Overview
    89
  - Using Cachegrind, Cg_Annotate and Cg_Merge
    89
  - Output File
    90
  - Running Cachegrind
    90
  - Running Cg_Annotate
    91
  - The Output Preamble
    91
  - The Global and Function-Level Counts
    92
  - Line-By-Line Counts
    93
  - Annotating Assembly Code Programs
    95
  - Cg_Annotate Warnings
    95
  - Forking Programs
    95
  - Unusual Annotation Cases
    96
  - Differencing Proﬁles with Cg_Diff
    97
  - Merging Proﬁles with Cg_Merge
    97
  - Cachegrind Command-Line Options
    98
  - Cg_Annotate Command-Line Options
    99
  - Cg_Diff Command-Line Options
    99
  - Acting on Cachegrind's Information
    100
  - Cache Simulation Speciﬁcs
    101
  - Simulation Details
    101
  - Accuracy
    102
  - Branch Simulation Speciﬁcs
    102
  - Cachegrind Output File Format
    103
  - How Cachegrind Works
    103
  - Implementation Details
    103
- 6 Callgrind: a Call-Graph Generating Cache and Branch Prediction Proﬁler
  
  105
  - Functionality
    105
  - Overview
    105
  - Basic Usage
    106
  - Advanced Usage
    107
  - Multiple Proﬁling Dumps from One Program Run
    107
  - Limiting the Range of Collected Events
    108
  - Avoiding Cycles
    109
  - Counting Global Bus Events
    109
  - Callgrind Command-Line Options
    110
  - Dump Creation Options
    110
  - Forking Programs
    110
  - Activity Options
    111
  - Data Collection Options
    111
  - Cost Entity Separation Options
    112
  - Cache Simulation Options
    113
  - Simulation Options
    113
  - Callgrind Monitor Commands
    114
  - Callgrind SpeciﬁC Client Requests
    115
  - Callgrind_Annotate Command-Line Options
    115
  - Callgrind_Control Command-Line Options
    116
  - Detected Errors: Misuses of the POSIX Pthreads API
    118
- 7 Helgrind: a Thread Error Detector
  
  118
  - Overview
    118
  - Detected Errors: Inconsistent Lock Orderings
    119
  - A Simple Data Race
    121
  - Detected Errors: Data Races
    121
  - Helgrind's Race Detection Algorithm
    123
  - Interpreting Race Error Messages
    125
  - Hints and Tips for Effective Use of Helgrind
    127
  - Helgrind Command-Line Options
    130
  - A To-Do List for Helgrind
    132
  - Helgrind Client Requests
    132
- 8 DRD: a Thread Error Detector
  
  133
  - Multithreaded Programming Paradigms
    133
  - Overview
    133
  - POSIX Threads Programming Model
    133
  - Data Race Detection
    134
  - Multithreaded Programming Problems
    134
  - DRD Command-Line Options
    135
  - Using DRD
    135
  - Detected Errors: Data Races
    137
  - Detected Errors: Lock Contention
    139
  - Detected Errors: Misuse of the POSIX Threads API
    139
  - Client Requests
    140
  - Debugging Boost.thread Programs
    143
  - Debugging GNOME Programs
    143
  - Debugging Openmp Programs
    143
  - DRD and Custom Memory Allocators
    144
  - DRD Versus Memcheck
    145
  - Hints and Tips for Effective Use of DRD
    145
  - Resource Requirements
    145
  - Mutex Types
    146
  - Using the POSIX Threads API Effectively
    146
  - Condition Variables
    147
  - Feedback
    147
  - Limitations
    147
  - Pthread_Cond_Timedwait and Timeouts
    147
  - An Example Program
    148
- 9 Massif: a Heap Proﬁler
  
  148
  - Overview
    148
  - Using Massif and Ms_Print
    148
  - Running Massif
    149
  - Running Ms_Print
    149
  - The Output Graph
    150
  - The Output Preamble
    150
  - The Snapshot Details
    153
  - Forking Programs
    157
  - Measuring All Memory in a Process
    157
  - Acting on Massif's Information
    158
  - Massif Command-Line Options
    158
  - Massif Client Requests
    160
  - Massif Monitor Commands
    160
  - Massif's Output File Format
    160
  - Ms_Print Command-Line Options
    160
- 10 DHAT: a Dynamic Heap Analysis Tool
  
  161
  - Overview
    161
  - Interpreting the Max-Live, Tot-Alloc and Deaths Fields
    162
  - Understanding Dhat's Output
    162
  - Interpreting the Acc-Ratios Fields
    163
  - Interpreting "Aggregated Access Counts by Offset" Data
    164
  - DHAT Command-Line Options
    165
  - How Sgcheck Works
    167
  - Overview
    167
  - Sgcheck Command-Line Options
    167
- 11 Sgcheck: an Experimental Stack and Global Array Overrun Detector
  
  167
  - Comparison with Memcheck
    168
  - Limitations
    168
  - Still to Do: Implementation Tidying
    169
  - Still to Do: User-Visible Functionality
    169
- 12 BBV: an Experimental Basic Block Vector Generation Tool
  
  170
  - Overview
    170
  - Using Basic Block Vectors to Create Simpoints
    170
  - Basic Block Vector File Format
    171
  - BBV Command-Line Options
    171
  - Implementation
    172
  - Threaded Executable Support
    172
  - Validation
    172
  - Performance
    173
  - Lackey Command-Line Options
    174
- 13 Lackey: an Example Tool
  
  174
  - Overview
    174
- 14 Nulgrind: the Minimal Valgrind Tool
  
  175
  - Overview
    175
  - Valgrind Faq
    176
  - Valgrind Technical Documentation
    186
Valgrind Technical Documentation

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- 1 The Design and Implementation of Valgrind
  
  188
  - Basics
    189
  - Getting Started
    189
  - Getting the Code
    189
  - How Tools Work
    189
  - Introduction
    189
- 2 Writing a New Valgrind Tool
  
  189
  - Writing the Code
    190
  - Finalisation
    191
  - Initialisation
    191
  - Instrumentation
    191
  - Other Important Information
    191
  - Advanced Topics
    192
  - Debugging Tips
    192
  - Suppressions
    192
  - Documentation
    193
  - Other Makeﬁle Hackery
    194
  - Proﬁling
    194
  - Regression Tests
    194
  - The Core/Tool Interface
    194
  - Final Words
    195
  - Basic Structure
    196
- 3 Callgrind Format Speciﬁcation
  
  196
  - Overview
    196
  - Simple Example
    196
  - Associations
    197
  - Extended Example
    197
  - Name Compression
    198
  - Subposition Compression
    199
  - Grammar
    200
  - Miscellaneous
    200
  - Reference
    200
  - Description of Header Lines
    202
  - Description of Body Lines
    204
    
    Valgrind Distribution Documents
    206
Valgrind Distribution Documents

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- Authors
  208
- News
  210
- Older News
  243
- Readme
  281
- Readme_Missing_Syscall_Or_Ioctl
  283
- Readme_Developers
  287
- Readme_Packagers
  293
- Readme.s390
  295
- Readme.android
  296
- Readme.android_Emulator
  299
- Readme.mips
  301
  - GNU Licenses
    303

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Table of Contents

The Valgrind Quick Start Guide

Valgrind User Manual

1 Introduction

2 Using and Understanding the Valgrind Core

3 Using and Understanding the Valgrind Core: Advanced Topics

4 Memcheck: a Memory Error Detector

5 Cachegrind: a Cache and Branch-Prediction Proﬁler

6 Callgrind: a Call-Graph Generating Cache and Branch Prediction Proﬁler

7 Helgrind: a Thread Error Detector

8 DRD: a Thread Error Detector

9 Massif: a Heap Proﬁler

10 DHAT: a Dynamic Heap Analysis Tool

11 Sgcheck: an Experimental Stack and Global Array Overrun Detector

12 BBV: an Experimental Basic Block Vector Generation Tool

13 Lackey: an Example Tool

14 Nulgrind: the Minimal Valgrind Tool

Valgrind Technical Documentation

1 The Design and Implementation of Valgrind

2 Writing a New Valgrind Tool

3 Callgrind Format Speciﬁcation

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