We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.11.0,
available from http://www.valgrind.org.
3.11.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual
collection of bug fixes. This release adds full support for
X86/Solaris and AMD64/Solaris, improves support for Mac OS X 10.10
(Yosemite), and adds preliminary support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El
Capitan) and TileGX/Linux. Intel AVX2 support is more complete (64
bit targets only). There are many smaller refinements and new
features.
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 3.11.0 (22 September 2015)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3.11.0 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, X86/MacOSX
10.10 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.10. There is also preliminary support for
X86/MacOSX 10.11, AMD64/MacOSX 10.11 and TILEGX/Linux.
* ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
* Support for Solaris/x86 and Solaris/amd64 has been added.
* Preliminary support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) has been added.
* Preliminary support for the Tilera TileGX architecture has been added.
* s390x: It is now required for the host to have the "long displacement"
facility. The oldest supported machine model is z990.
* x86: on an SSE2 only host, Valgrind in 32 bit mode now claims to be a
Pentium 4. 3.10.1 wrongly claimed to be a Core 2, which is SSSE3.
* The JIT's register allocator is significantly faster, making the JIT
as a whole somewhat faster, so JIT-intensive activities, for example
program startup, are modestly faster, around 5%.
* There have been changes to the default settings of several command
line flags, as detailed below.
* Intel AVX2 support is more complete (64 bit targets only). On AVX2
capable hosts, the simulated CPUID will now indicate AVX2 support.
* ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
* Memcheck:
- The default value for --leak-check-heuristics has been changed from
"none" to "all". This helps to reduce the number of possibly
lost blocks, in particular for C++ applications.
- The default value for --keep-stacktraces has been changed from
"malloc-then-free" to "malloc-and-free". This has a small cost in
memory (one word per malloc-ed block) but allows Memcheck to show the
3 stacktraces of a dangling reference: where the block was allocated,
where it was freed, and where it is acccessed after being freed.
- The default value for --partial-loads-ok has been changed from "no" to
"yes", so as to avoid false positive errors resulting from some kinds
of vectorised loops.
- A new monitor command 'xb <addr> <len>' shows the validity bits of
<len> bytes at <addr>. The monitor command 'xb' is easier to use
than get_vbits when you need to associate byte data value with
their corresponding validity bits.
- The 'block_list' monitor command has been enhanced:
o it can print a range of loss records
o it now accepts an optional argument 'limited <max_blocks>'
to control the number of blocks printed.
o if a block has been found using a heuristic, then
'block_list' now shows the heuristic after the block size.
o the loss records/blocks to print can be limited to the blocks
found via specified heuristics.
- The C helper functions used to instrument loads on
x86-{linux,solaris} and arm-linux (both 32-bit only) have been
replaced by handwritten assembly sequences. This gives speedups
in the region of 0% to 7% for those targets only.
- A new command line option, --expensive-definedness-checks=yes|no,
has been added. This is useful for avoiding occasional invalid
uninitialised-value errors in optimised code. Watch out for
runtime degradation, as this can be up to 25%. As always, though,
the slowdown is highly application specific. The default setting
is "no".
* Massif:
- A new monitor command 'all_snapshots <filename>' dumps all
snapshots taken so far.
* Helgrind:
- Significant memory reduction and moderate speedups for
--history-level=full for applications accessing a lot of memory
with many different stacktraces.
- The default value for --conflict-cache-size=N has been doubled to
2000000. Users that were not using the default value should
preferably also double the value they give.
The default was changed due to the changes in the "full history"
implementation. Doubling the value gives on average a slightly more
complete history and uses similar memory (or significantly less memory
in the worst case) than the previous implementation.
- The Helgrind monitor command 'info locks' now accepts an optional
argument 'lock_addr', which shows information about the lock at the
given address only.
- When using --history-level=full, the new Helgrind monitor command
'accesshistory <addr> [<len>]' will show the recorded accesses for
<len> (or 1) bytes at <addr>.
* ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
* The default value for the --smc-check option has been changed from
"stack" to "all-non-file" on targets that provide automatic D-I
cache coherence (x86, amd64 and s390x). The result is to provide,
by default, transparent support for JIT generated and self-modifying
code on all targets.
* Mac OS X only: the default value for the --dsymutil option has been
changed from "no" to "yes", since any serious usage on Mac OS X
always required it to be "yes".
* The command line options --db-attach and --db-command have been removed.
They were deprecated in 3.10.0.
* When a process dies due to a signal, Valgrind now shows the signal
and the stacktrace at default verbosity (i.e. verbosity 1).
* The address description logic used by Memcheck and Helgrind now
describes addresses in anonymous segments, file mmap-ed segments,
shared memory segments and the brk data segment.
* The new option --error-markers=<begin>,<end> can be used to mark the
begin/end of errors in textual output mode, to facilitate
searching/extracting errors in output files that mix valgrind errors
with program output.
* The new option --max-threads=<number> can be used to change the number
of threads valgrind can handle. The default is 500 threads which
should be more than enough for most applications.
* The new option --valgrind-stacksize=<number> can be used to change the
size of the private thread stacks used by Valgrind. This is useful
for reducing memory use or increasing the stack size if Valgrind
segfaults due to stack overflow.
* The new option --avg-transtab-entry-size=<number> can be used to specify
the expected instrumented block size, either to reduce memory use or
to avoid excessive retranslation.
* Valgrind can be built with Intel's ICC compiler, version 14.0 or later.
* New and modified GDB server monitor features:
- When a signal is reported in GDB, you can now use the GDB convenience
variable $_siginfo to examine detailed signal information.
- Valgrind's gdbserver now allows the user to change the signal
to deliver to the process. So, use 'signal SIGNAL' to continue execution
with SIGNAL instead of the signal reported to GDB. Use 'signal 0' to
continue without passing the signal to the process.
- With GDB >= 7.10, the command 'target remote'
will automatically load the executable file of the process running
under Valgrind. This means you do not need to specify the executable
file yourself, GDB will discover it itself. See GDB documentation about
'qXfer:exec-file:read' packet for more info.
* ==================== 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.
116002 VG_(printf): Problems with justification of strings and integers
155125 avoid cutting away file:lineno after long function name
197259 Unsupported arch_prtctl PR_SET_GS option
201152 ppc64: Assertion in ppc32g_dirtyhelper_MFSPR_268_269
201216 Fix Valgrind does not support pthread_sigmask() on OS X
201435 Fix Darwin: -v does not show kernel version
208217 "Warning: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x2000747b" on Mac OS X
211256 Fixed an outdated comment regarding the default platform.
211529 Incomplete call stacks for code compiled by newer versions of MSVC
211926 Avoid compilation warnings in valgrind.h with -pedantic
212291 Fix unhandled syscall: unix:132 (mkfifo) on OS X
== 263119
226609 Crediting upstream authors in man page
231257 Valgrind omits path when executing script from shebang line
254164 OS X task_info: UNKNOWN task message [id 3405, to mach_task_self() [..]
269360 s390x: Fix addressing mode selection for compare-and-swap
302630 Memcheck: Assertion failed: 'sizeof(UWord) == sizeof(UInt)'
== 326797
312989 ioctl handling needs to do POST handling on generic ioctls and [..]
319274 Fix unhandled syscall: unix:410 (sigsuspend_nocancel) on OS X
324181 mmap does not handle MAP_32BIT (handle it now, rather than fail it)
327745 Fix valgrind 3.9.0 build fails on Mac OS X 10.6.8
330147 libmpiwrap PMPI_Get_count returns undefined value
333051 mmap of huge pages fails due to incorrect alignment
== 339163
334802 valgrind does not always explain why a given option is bad
335618 mov.w rN, pc/sp (ARM32)
335785 amd64->IR 0xC4 0xE2 0x75 0x2F (vmaskmovpd)
== 307399
== 343175
== 342740
== 346912
335907 segfault when running wine's ddrawex/tests/surface.c under valgrind
338602 AVX2 bit in CPUID missing
338606 Strange message for scripts with invalid interpreter
338731 ppc: Fix testuite build for toolchains not supporting -maltivec
338995 shmat with hugepages (SHM_HUGETLB) fails with EINVAL
339045 Getting valgrind to compile and run on OS X Yosemite (10.10)
== 340252
339156 gdbsrv not called for fatal signal
339215 Valgrind 3.10.0 contain 2013 in copyrights notice
339288 support Cavium Octeon MIPS specific BBIT*32 instructions
339636 Use fxsave64 and fxrstor64 mnemonics instead of old-school rex64 prefix
339442 Fix testsuite build failure on OS X 10.9
339542 Enable compilation with Intel's ICC compiler
339563 The DVB demux DMX_STOP ioctl doesn't have a wrapper
339688 Mac-specific ASM does not support .version directive (cpuid,
tronical and pushfpopf tests)
339745 Valgrind crash when check Marmalade app (partial fix)
339755 Fix known deliberate memory leak in setenv() on Mac OS X 10.9
339778 Linux/TileGx platform support for Valgrind
339780 Fix known uninitialised read in pthread_rwlock_init() on Mac OS X 10.9
339789 Fix none/tests/execve test on Mac OS X 10.9
339808 Fix none/tests/rlimit64_nofile test on Mac OS X 10.9
339820 vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x63 0xA 0x42 0x74 0x9 (pcmpistri $0x42)
340115 Fix none/tests/cmdline[1|2] tests on systems which define TMPDIR
340392 Allow user to select more accurate definedness checking in memcheck
to avoid invalid complaints on optimised code
340430 Fix some grammatical weirdness in the manual.
341238 Recognize GCC5/DWARFv5 DW_LANG constants (Go, C11, C++11, C++14)
341419 Signal handler ucontext_t not filled out correctly on OS X
341539 VG_(describe_addr) should not describe address as belonging to client
segment if it is past the heap end
341613 Enable building of manythreads and thread-exits tests on Mac OS X
341615 Fix none/tests/darwin/access_extended test on Mac OS X
341698 Valgrind's AESKEYGENASSIST gives wrong result in words 0 and 2 [..]
341789 aarch64: shmat fails with valgrind on ARMv8
341997 MIPS64: Cavium OCTEON insns - immediate operand handled incorrectly
342008 valgrind.h needs type cast [..] for clang/llvm in 64-bit mode
342038 Unhandled syscalls on aarch64 (mbind/get/set_mempolicy)
342063 wrong format specifier for test mcblocklistsearch in gdbserver_tests
342117 Hang when loading PDB file for MSVC compiled Firefox under Wine
342221 socket connect false positive uninit memory for unknown af family
342353 Allow dumping full massif output while valgrind is still running
342571 Valgrind chokes on AVX compare intrinsic with _CMP_GE_QS
== 346476
== 348387
== 350593
342603 Add I2C_SMBUS ioctl support
342635 OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) - missing system calls and fcntl code
342683 Mark memory past the initial brk limit as unaddressable
342783 arm: unhandled instruction 0xEEFE1ACA = "vcvt.s32.f32 s3, s3, #12"
342795 Internal glibc __GI_mempcpy call should be intercepted
342841 s390x: Support instructions fiebr(a) and fidbr(a)
343012 Unhandled syscall 319 (memfd_create)
343069 Patch updating v4l2 API support
343173 helgrind crash during stack unwind
343219 fix GET_STARTREGS for arm
343303 Fix known deliberate memory leak in setenv() on Mac OS X 10.10
343306 OS X 10.10: UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option
343332 Unhandled instruction 0x9E310021 (fcvtmu) on aarch64
343335 unhandled instruction 0x1E638400 (fccmp) aarch64
343523 OS X mach_ports_register: UNKNOWN task message [id 3403, to [..]
343525 OS X host_get_special_port: UNKNOWN host message [id 412, to [..]
343597 ppc64le: incorrect use of offseof macro
343649 OS X host_create_mach_voucher: UNKNOWN host message [id 222, to [..]
343663 OS X 10.10 Memchecj always reports a leak regardless of [..]
343732 Unhandled syscall 144 (setgid) on aarch64
343733 Unhandled syscall 187 (msgctl and related) on aarch64
343802 s390x: False positive "conditional jump or move depends on [..]
343902 --vgdb=yes doesn't break when --xml=yes is used
343967 Don't warn about setuid/setgid/setcap executable for directories
343978 Recognize DWARF5/GCC5 DW_LANG_Fortran 2003 and 2008 constants
344007 accept4 syscall unhandled on arm64 (242) and ppc64 (344)
344033 Helgrind on ARM32 loses track of mutex state in pthread_cond_wait
344054 www - update info for Solaris/illumos
344416 'make regtest' does not work cleanly on OS X
344235 Remove duplicate include of pub_core_aspacemgr.h
344279 syscall sendmmsg on arm64 (269) and ppc32/64 (349) unhandled
344295 syscall recvmmsg on arm64 (243) and ppc32/64 (343) unhandled
344307 2 unhandled syscalls on aarch64/arm64: umount2(39), mount (40)
344314 callgrind_annotate ... warnings about commands containing newlines
344318 socketcall should wrap recvmmsg and sendmmsg
344337 Fix unhandled syscall: mach:41 (_kernelrpc_mach_port_guard_trap)
344416 Fix 'make regtest' does not work cleanly on OS X
344499 Fix compilation for Linux kernel >= 4.0.0
344512 OS X: unhandled syscall: unix:348 (__pthread_chdir),
unix:349 (__pthread_fchdir)
344559 Garbage collection of unused segment names in address space manager
344560 Fix stack traces missing penultimate frame on OS X
344621 Fix memcheck/tests/err_disable4 test on OS X
344686 Fix suppression for pthread_rwlock_init on OS X 10.10
344702 Fix missing libobjc suppressions on OS X 10.10
== 344543
344936 Fix unhandled syscall: unix:473 (readlinkat) on OS X 10.10
344939 Fix memcheck/tests/xml1 on OS X 10.10
345016 helgrind/tests/locked_vs_unlocked2 is failing sometimes
345079 Fix build problems in VEX/useful/test_main.c
345126 Incorrect handling of VIDIOC_G_AUDIO and G_AUDOUT
345177 arm64: prfm (reg) not implemented
345215 Performance improvements for the register allocator
345248 add support for Solaris OS in valgrind
345338 TIOCGSERIAL and TIOCSSERIAL ioctl support on Linux
345394 Fix memcheck/tests/strchr on OS X
345637 Fix memcheck/tests/sendmsg on OS X
345695 Add POWERPC support for AT_DCACHESIZE and HWCAP2
345824 Fix aspacem segment mismatch: seen with none/tests/bigcode
345887 Fix an assertion in the address space manager
345928 amd64: callstack only contains current function for small stacks
345984 disInstr(arm): unhandled instruction: 0xEE193F1E
345987 MIPS64: Implement cavium LHX instruction
346031 MIPS: Implement support for the CvmCount register (rhwr %0, 31)
346185 Fix typo saving altivec register v24
346267 Compiler warnings for PPC64 code on call to LibVEX_GuestPPC64_get_XER()
and LibVEX_GuestPPC64_get_CR()
346270 Regression tests none/tests/jm_vec/isa_2_07 and
none/tests/test_isa_2_07_part2 have failures on PPC64 little endian
346307 fuse filesystem syscall deadlocks
346324 PPC64 missing support for lbarx, lharx, stbcx and sthcx instructions
346411 MIPS: SysRes::_valEx handling is incorrect
346416 Add support for LL_IOC_PATH2FID and LL_IOC_GETPARENT Lustre ioctls
346474 PPC64 Power 8, spr TEXASRU register not supported
346487 Compiler generates "note" about a future ABI change for PPC64
346562 MIPS64: lwl/lwr instructions are performing 64bit loads
and causing spurious "invalid read of size 8" warnings
346801 Fix link error on OS X: _vgModuleLocal_sf_maybe_extend_stack
347151 Fix suppression for pthread_rwlock_init on OS X 10.8
347233 Fix memcheck/tests/strchr on OS X 10.10 (Haswell)
347322 Power PC regression test cleanup
347379 valgrind --leak-check=full leak errors from system libs on OS X 10.8
== 217236
347389 unhandled syscall: 373 (Linux ARM syncfs)
347686 Patch set to cleanup PPC64 regtests
347978 Remove bash dependencies where not needed
347982 OS X: undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_global" [..]
347988 Memcheck: the 'impossible' happened: unexpected size for Addr (OSX/wine)
== 345929
348102 Patch updating v4l2 API support
348247 amd64 front end: jno jumps wrongly when overflow is not set
348269 Improve mmap MAP_HUGETLB support.
348334 (ppc) valgrind does not simulate dcbfl - then my program terminates
348345 Assertion fails for negative lineno
348377 Unsupported ARM instruction: yield
348565 Fix detection of command line option availability for clang
348574 vex amd64->IR pcmpistri SSE4.2 unsupported (pcmpistri $0x18)
348728 Fix broken check for VIDIOC_G_ENC_INDEX
348748 Fix redundant condition
348890 Fix clang warning about unsupported --param inline-unit-growth=900
348949 Bogus "ERROR: --ignore-ranges: suspiciously large range"
349034 Add Lustre ioctls LL_IOC_GROUP_LOCK and LL_IOC_GROUP_UNLOCK
349086 Fix UNKNOWN task message [id 3406, to mach_task_self(), [..]
349087 Fix UNKNOWN task message [id 3410, to mach_task_self(), [..]
349626 Implemented additional Xen hypercalls
349769 Clang/osx: ld: warning: -read_only_relocs cannot be used with x86_64
349790 Clean up of the hardware capability checking utilities.
349828 memcpy intercepts memmove causing src/dst overlap error (ppc64 ld.so)
349874 Fix typos in source code
349879 memcheck: add handwritten assembly for helperc_LOADV*
349941 di_notify_mmap might create wrong start/size DebugInfoMapping
350062 vex x86->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0xB (ROUNDSD) on OS X
350202 Add limited param to 'monitor block_list'
350290 s390x: Support instructions fixbr(a)
350359 memcheck/tests/x86/fxsave hangs indefinetely on OS X
350809 Fix none/tests/async-sigs for Solaris
350811 Remove reference to --db-attach which has been removed.
350813 Memcheck/x86: enable handwritten assembly helpers for x86/Solaris too
350854 hard-to-understand code in VG_(load_ELF)()
351140 arm64 syscalls setuid (146) and setresgid (149) not implemented
351386 Solaris: Cannot run ld.so.1 under Valgrind
351474 Fix VG_(iseqsigset) as obvious
351534 Fix incorrect header guard
351632 Fix UNKNOWN fcntl 97 on OS X 10.11
351756 Intercept platform_memchr$VARIANT$Haswell on OS X
351858 ldsoexec support on Solaris
351873 Newer gcc doesn't allow __builtin_tabortdc[i] in ppc32 mode
352130 helgrind reports false races for printfs using mempcpy on FILE* state
352284 s390: Conditional jump depends on uninitialised value(s) in vfprintf
352320 arm64 crash on none/tests/nestedfs
352765 Vbit test fails on Power 6
352768 The mbar instruction is missing from the Power PC support
352769 Power PC program priority register (PPR) is not supported
n-i-bz Provide implementations of certain compiler builtins to support
compilers that may not provide those
n-i-bz Old STABS code is still being compiled, but never used. Remove it.
n-i-bz Fix compilation on distros with glibc < 2.5
n-i-bz (vex 3098) Avoid generation of Neon insns on non-Neon hosts
n-i-bz Enable rt_sigpending syscall on ppc64 linux.
n-i-bz mremap did not work properly on shared memory
n-i-bz Fix incorrect sizeof expression in syswrap-xen.c reported by Coverity
n-i-bz In VALGRIND_PRINTF write out thread name, if any, to xml
(3.11.0.TEST1: 8 September 2015, vex r3187, valgrind r15646)
(3.11.0.TEST2: 21 September 2015, vex r3193, valgrind r15667)
(3.11.0: 22 September 2015, vex r3195, valgrind r15674)
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