[U-Boot] [PATCH 13/17] sandbox: Add documentation on how to run valgrind

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat May 18 17:59:50 UTC 2019


U-Boot sandbox can run with valgrind to check memory allocations. Add
documentation on how to do this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

 board/sandbox/README.sandbox | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/board/sandbox/README.sandbox b/board/sandbox/README.sandbox
index 5e8fa58ba29..c10dd444df0 100644
--- a/board/sandbox/README.sandbox
+++ b/board/sandbox/README.sandbox
@@ -442,6 +442,20 @@ If sdl-config is on a different path from the default, set the SDL_CONFIG
 environment variable to the correct pathname before building U-Boot.
 
 
+Using valgrind / memcheck
+-------------------------
+
+It is possible to run U-Boot under valgrind to check memory allocations:
+
+   valgrind u-boot
+
+If you are running sandbox SPL or TPL, then valgrind will not by default
+notice when U-Boot jumps from TPL to SPL, or from SPL to U-Boot proper. To
+fix this, use:
+
+   valgrind --trace-children=yes u-boot
+
+
 Testing
 -------
 
-- 
2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog



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