[PATCH v3 0/3] malloc: Enable profiling dlmalloc with valgrind

Sean Anderson seanga2 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 19:04:47 CET 2022


This series adds support for running valgrind against U-Boot's internal
malloc. This allows for much more useful reports to be generated.

Some example output of valgrind run against u-boot/master with this branch
applied may be found at [1]. Note that valgrind gives up around acpi. This
feature still needs a lot of work on suppressions/hints to filter out the noise
properly.

[1] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Forty-Bot/199bf06f9cdd6871e54f8f484c16e111/raw/2a2f99108eef84b48e27a54332f3f71f4e2e5342/gistfile1.txt

Changes in v3:
- Fix some warnings by converting some macros to use
  VALGRIND_DO_CLIENT_REQUEST_STMT
- Fix an additional rEALLOc branch missing VALGRIND_RESIZEINPLACE_BLOCK

Changes in v2:
- Fix one branch of rEALLOc missing a VALGRIND_*_BLOCK call
- Add some additional suppressions for cALLOc and rEALLOc
- Simplify calloc clearing logic
- Drop incorrect sbrk patch

Sean Anderson (3):
  Add valgrind headers to U-Boot
  malloc: Annotate allocator for valgrind
  doc: sandbox: Document how to run sandbox with valgrind

 Kconfig                     |   14 +
 Licenses/README             |    1 +
 Licenses/bzip2-1.0.6.txt    |   30 +
 common/dlmalloc.c           |   31 +-
 common/malloc_simple.c      |   10 +
 doc/arch/sandbox.rst        |   14 +-
 include/malloc.h            |    4 +
 include/valgrind/memcheck.h |  251 ++
 include/valgrind/valgrind.h | 7106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/u-boot.supp         |   53 +
 10 files changed, 7509 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Licenses/bzip2-1.0.6.txt
 create mode 100644 include/valgrind/memcheck.h
 create mode 100644 include/valgrind/valgrind.h
 create mode 100644 scripts/u-boot.supp

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