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[Valgrind-developers] Valgrind-3.13.0 is available
Julian Seward
2017-06-16 08:49:34 UTC
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We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.13.0,
available from http://www.valgrind.org.

3.13.0 adds support for larger processes and programs, solidifies and improves
support on existing platforms, and provides new heap-use reporting facilities.
There are, as ever, many smaller refinements and bug fixes. The release notes
below give more details.

Our thanks to all those who contribute to Valgrind's development. This
release represents a great deal of time, energy and effort on the part of many
people.

Happy and productive debugging and profiling,

-- The Valgrind Developers



Release 3.13.0 (15 June 2017)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

3.13.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual collection of
bug fixes.

This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris and AMD64/MacOSX 10.12.

* ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================

* The translation cache size has been increased to keep up with the demands of
large applications. The maximum number of sectors has increased from 24 to
48. The default number of sectors has increased from 16 to 32 on all
targets except Android, where the increase is from 6 to 12.

* The amount of memory that Valgrind can use has been increased from 64GB to
128GB. In particular this means your application can allocate up to about
60GB when running on Memcheck.

* Valgrind's default load address has been changed from 0x3800'0000 to
0x5800'0000, so as to make it possible to load larger executables. This
should make it possible to load executables of size at least 1200MB.

* A massive spaceleak caused by reading compressed debuginfo files has been
fixed. Valgrind should now be entirely usable with gcc-7.0 "-gz" created
debuginfo.

* The C++ demangler has been updated.

* Support for demangling Rust symbols has been added.

* A new representation of stack traces, the "XTree", has been added. An XTree
is a tree of stacktraces with data associated with the stacktraces. This is
used by various tools (Memcheck, Helgrind, Massif) to report on the heap
consumption of your program. Reporting is controlled by the new options
--xtree-memory=none|allocs|full and --xtree-memory-file=<file>.

A report can also be produced on demand using the gdbserver monitor command
'xtmemory [<filename>]>'. The XTree can be output in 2 formats: 'callgrind
format' and 'massif format. The existing visualisers for these formats (e.g.
callgrind_annotate, KCachegrind, ms_print) can be used to visualise and
analyse these reports.

Memcheck can also produce XTree leak reports using the Callgrind file
format. For more details, see the user manual.

* ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================

* ppc64: support for ISA 3.0B and various fixes for existing 3.0 support

* amd64: fixes for JIT failure problems on long AVX2 code blocks

* amd64 and x86: support for CET prefixes has been added

* arm32: a few missing ARMv8 instructions have been implemented

* arm64, mips64, mips32: an alternative implementation of Load-Linked and
Store-Conditional instructions has been added. This is to deal with
processor implementations that implement the LL/SC specifications strictly
and as a result cause Valgrind to hang in certain situations. The
alternative implementation is automatically enabled at startup, as required.
You can use the option --sim-hints=fallback-llsc to force-enable it if you
want.

* Support for OSX 10.12 has been improved.

* On Linux, clone handling has been improved to honour CLONE_VFORK that
involves a child stack. Note however that CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM is handled
like CLONE_VFORK (by removing CLONE_VM), so applications that depend on
CLONE_VM exact semantics will (still) not work.

* The TileGX/Linux port has been removed because it appears to be both unused
and unsupported.

* ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================

* Memcheck:

- Memcheck should give fewer false positives when running optimised
Clang/LLVM generated code.

- Support for --xtree-memory and 'xtmemory [<filename>]>'.

- New command line options --xtree-leak=no|yes and --xtree-leak-file=<file>
to produce the end of execution leak report in a xtree callgrind format
file.

- New option 'xtleak' in the memcheck leak_check monitor command, to produce
the leak report in an xtree file.

* Massif:

- Support for --xtree-memory and 'xtmemory [<filename>]>'.

- For some workloads (typically, for big applications), Massif memory
consumption and CPU consumption has decreased significantly.

* Helgrind:

- Support for --xtree-memory and 'xtmemory [<filename>]>'.

- addition of client request VALGRIND_HG_GNAT_DEPENDENT_MASTER_JOIN, useful
for Ada gnat compiled applications.

* ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================

* For Valgrind developers: in an outer/inner setup, the outer Valgrind will
append the inner guest stacktrace to the inner host stacktrace. This helps
to investigate the errors reported by the outer, when they are caused by the
inner guest program (such as an inner regtest). See README_DEVELOPERS for
more info.

* To allow fast detection of callgrind files by desktop environments and file
managers, the format was extended to have an optional first line that
uniquely identifies the format ("# callgrind format"). Callgrind creates
this line now, as does the new xtree functionality.

* File name template arguments (such as --log-file, --xtree-memory-file, ...)
have a new %n format letter that is replaced by a sequence number.

* "--version -v" now shows the SVN revision numbers from which Valgrind was
built.

* ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================

The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.

To see details of a given bug, visit
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.

162848 --log-file output isn't split when a program forks
340777 Illegal instruction on mips (ar71xx)
341481 MIPS64: Iop_CmpNE32 triggers false warning on MIPS64 platforms
342040 Valgrind mishandles clone with CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM that clones
to a different stack.
344139 x86 stack-seg overrides, needed by the Wine people
344524 store conditional of guest applications always fail - observed on
Octeon3(MIPS)
348616 Wine/valgrind: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x5390 [..] (DVD_READ_STRUCT)
352395 Please provide SVN revision info in --version -v
352767 Wine/valgrind: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x5307 [..] (CDROMSTOP)
356374 Assertion 'DRD_(g_threadinfo)[tid].pt_threadid !=
INVALID_POSIX_THREADID' failed
358213 helgrind/drd bar_bad testcase hangs or crashes with new glibc pthread
barrier implementation
358697 valgrind.h: Some code remains even when defining NVALGRIND
359202 Add musl libc configure/compile
360415 amd64 instructions ADCX and ADOX are not implemented in VEX
== 372828 (vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0x4A 0x10)
360429 unhandled ioctl 0x530d with no size/direction hints (CDROMREADMODE1)
362223 assertion failed when .valgrindrc is a directory instead of a file
367543 bt/btc/btr/bts x86/x86_64 instructions are poorly-handled wrt flags
367942 Segfault vgPlain_do_sys_sigaction (m_signals.c:1138)
368507 can't malloc chunks larger than about 34GB
368529 Android arm target link error, missing atexit and pthread_atfork
368863 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 100 (get_robust_list)
368865 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 272 (kcmp)
368868 disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0xD53BE000 = cntfrq_el0 (ARMv8)
368917 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 218 (request_key)
368918 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 127 (sched_rr_get_interval)
368922 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 161 (sethostname)
368924 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 84 (sync_file_range)
368925 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 130 (tkill)
368926 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 97 (unshare)
369459 valgrind on arm64 violates the ARMv8 spec (ldxr/stxr)
370028 Reduce the number of compiler warnings on MIPS platforms
370635 arm64 missing syscall getcpu
371225 Fix order of timer_{gettime,getoverrun,settime} syscalls on arm64
371227 Clean AArch64 syscall table
371412 Rename wrap_sys_shmat to sys_shmat like other wrappers
371471 Valgrind complains about non legit memory leaks on placement new (C++)
371491 handleAddrOverrides() is [incorrect] when ASO prefix is used
371503 disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0xF89F0000
371869 support '%' in symbol Z-encoding
371916 execution tree xtree concept
372120 c++ demangler demangles symbols which are not c++
372185 Support of valgrind on ARMv8 with 32 bit executable
372188 vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0x4A 0x10 0x10 (PCMPxSTRx $0x10)
372195 Power PC, xxsel instruction is not always recognized.
372504 Hanging on exit_group
372600 process loops forever when fatal signals are arriving quickly
372794 LibVEX (arm32 front end): 'Assertion szBlg2 <= 3' failed
373046 Stacks registered by core are never deregistered
373069 memcheck/tests/leak_cpp_interior fails with GCC 5.1+
373086 Implement additional Xen hypercalls
373192 Calling posix_spawn in glibc 2.24 completely broken
373488 Support for fanotify API on ARM64 architecture
== 368864 WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 262 (fanotify_init)
373555 Rename BBPTR to GSPTR as it denotes guest state pointer only
373938 const IRExpr arguments for matchIRExpr()
374719 some spelling fixes
374963 increase valgrind's load address to prevent mmap failure
375514 valgrind_get_tls_addr() does not work in case of static TLS
375772 +1 error in get_elf_symbol_info() when computing value of 'hi' address
for ML_(find_rx_mapping)()
375806 Test helgrind/tests/tc22_exit_w_lock fails with glibc 2.24
375839 Temporary storage exhausted, with long sequence of vfmadd231ps insns
== 377159 "vex: the `impossible' happened" still present
== 375150 Assertion 'tres.status == VexTransOK' failed
== 378068 valgrind crashes on AVX2 function in FFmpeg
376142 Segfaults on MIPS Cavium Octeon boards
376279 disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0xD50320FF
376455 Solaris: unhandled syscall lgrpsys(180)
376518 Solaris: unhandled fast trap getlgrp(6)
376611 ppc64 and arm64 don't know about prlimit64 syscall
376729 PPC64, remove R2 from the clobber list
== 371668
376956 syswrap of SNDDRV and DRM_IOCTL_VERSION causing some addresses
to be wrongly marked as addressable
377066 Some Valgrind unit tests fail to compile on Ubuntu 16.10 with
PIE enabled by default
377376 memcheck/tests/linux/getregset fails with glibc2.24
377427 PPC64, lxv instruction failing on odd destination register
377478 PPC64: ISA 3.0 setup fixes
377698 Missing memory check for futex() uaddr arg for FUTEX_WAKE
and FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET, check only 4 args for FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET,
and 2 args for FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI
377717 Fix massive space leak when reading compressed debuginfo sections
377891 Update Xen 4.6 domctl wrappers
377930 fcntl syscall wrapper is missing flock structure check
378524 libvexmultiarch_test regression on s390x and ppc64
378535 Valgrind reports INTERNAL ERROR in execve syscall wrapper
378673 Update libiberty demangler
378931 Add ISA 3.0B additional isnstructions, add OV32, CA32 setting support
379039 syscall wrapper prctl(PR_SET_NAME) must not check more than 16 bytes
379094 Valgrind reports INTERNAL ERROR in rt_sigsuspend syscall wrapper
379371 UNKNOWN task message [id 3444, to mach_task_self(), reply 0x603]
(task_register_dyld_image_infos)
379372 UNKNOWN task message [id 3447, to mach_task_self(), reply 0x603]
(task_register_dyld_shared_cache_image_info)
379390 unhandled syscall: mach:70 (host_create_mach_voucher_trap)
379473 MIPS: add support for rdhwr cycle counter register
379504 remove TileGX/Linux port
379525 Support more x86 nop opcodes
379838 disAMode(x86): not an addr!
379703 PC ISA 3.0 fixes: stxvx, stxv, xscmpexpdp instructions
379890 arm: unhandled instruction: 0xEBAD 0x1B05 (sub.w fp, sp, r5, lsl #4)
379895 clock_gettime does not execute POST syscall wrapper
379925 PPC64, mtffs does not set the FPCC and C bits in the FPSCR correctly
379966 WARNING: unhandled amd64-linux syscall: 313 (finit_module)
380200 xtree generated callgrind files refer to files without directory name
380202 Assertion failure for cache line size (cls == 64) on aarch64.
380397 s390x: __GI_strcspn() replacement needed
n-i-bz Fix pub_tool_basics.h build issue with g++ 4.4.7.

(3.13.0.RC1: 2 June 2017, vex r3386, valgrind r16434)
(3.13.0.RC2: 9 June 2017, vex r3389, valgrind r16443)
(3.13.0: 14 June 2017, vex r3396, valgrind r16446)

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