[PATCH v2 1/3] Add valgrind headers to U-Boot

Sean Anderson seanga2 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 02:00:38 CET 2022


On 3/21/22 2:06 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 19:39, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 09:36:10PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/17/21 5:18 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 04:08:18PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Valgrind uses magic code sequences to define an ABI that the client may use
>>>>> to request behavior from the host. In particular, this may be used to
>>>>> inform valgrind about custom allocators, such as the one used in U-Boot.
>>>>>
>>>>> This adds headers defining these sequences to U-Boot. It also adds a config
>>>>> option to disable emission of these sequences entirely, in the (likely)
>>>>> event that the user does not wish to use valgrind. Note that this option
>>>>> was originally called NVALGRIND, but was renamed (and inverted) to
>>>>> CONFIG_VALGRIND.
>>>>>
>>>>> These headers were copied from valgrind 3.16.1-4 as distributed in Arch
>>>>> Linux. They are licensed with the bzip2 1.16 license. This appears to be a
>>>>> BSD license with some clauses from Zlib.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure which part of the series breaks building without valgrind
>>>> installed for everything, but some part of this does, please re-test.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this due to warnings? I noticed that compiling without
>>> CONFIG_VALGRIND set resulted in a bunch of "This statement has no
>>> effect" warnings after I had sent out this series. If this is it, I can
>>> investigate for v4.
>>
>> Yes, those warnings.  CI builds with -Werror on.
> 
> Did this patch get resent in the end?

No. I can have another look at this series later this week.

--Sean



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