Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream

On 07/02/17 13:03, James Cowgill wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: retitle -1 valgrind: segfaults on MIPS Cavium Octeon boards
> Control: severity -1 important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:20:44 +0800 YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:39:49 +0200 Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Package: valgrind
>>> Version: 1:3.12.0~svn20160714-1+b1
>>> Severity: serious
>>>
>>
>> It seems that 1:3.12.0-1.1 doesn't have this problem.
>> I also test it on Loongson 3A.
>>
>> root@thor:/# valgrind /usr/bin/hello
>> ==2085== Memcheck, a memory error detector
>> ==2085== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
>> ==2085== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
>> ==2085== Command: /usr/bin/hello
>> ==2085==
>>
>> VEX: Unsupported baseline
>>      Found: Loongson-baseline
>> Cannot continue. Good-bye
> 
> Well this just means that valgrind refuses to run on Loongson. The code
> which triggers this bug hasn't yet run at this point.
> 
> However, if I hack /proc/cpuinfo so that it pretends to be an Octeon
> machine, then valgrind does work correctly on Loongson 3A machines (at
> least ls works). I can also get valgrind to work correctly on the CI20.
> 
> It seems this bug is Octeon specific. I'm downgrading the bug on that
> basis since it doesn't affect mipsel in general. It just so happens that
> the majority of the buildds and the 2 mips porterboxes are Octeons.

FYI this bug and a related bug causing hangs on Octeon have now been
fixed in upstream SVN.

See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376142

Thanks,
James

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