[PATCH v2 3/3] doc: sandbox: Document how to run sandbox with valgrind
Sean Anderson
seanga2 at gmail.com
Wed May 5 22:08:20 CEST 2021
This documents how to get more detailed results from valgrind made possible
by the last two commits.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
(no changes since v1)
doc/arch/sandbox.rst | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/arch/sandbox.rst b/doc/arch/sandbox.rst
index e052b6bdb0..9bc4fec5fe 100644
--- a/doc/arch/sandbox.rst
+++ b/doc/arch/sandbox.rst
@@ -481,14 +481,20 @@ Using valgrind / memcheck
It is possible to run U-Boot under valgrind to check memory allocations::
- valgrind u-boot
+ valgrind ./u-boot
+
+For more detailed results, enable `CONFIG_VALGRIND`. There are many false
+positives due to `malloc` itself. Suppress these with::
+
+ valgrind --suppressions=scripts/u-boot.supp ./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
+fix this, use `--trace-children=yes`. To show who alloc'd some troublesome
+memory, use `--track-origins=yes`. To uncover possible errors, try running all
+unit tests with::
+ valgrind --track-origins=yes --suppressions=scripts/u-boot.supp ./u-boot -Tc 'ut all'
Testing
-------
--
2.31.0
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