Tests run with --valgrind call git commands through a wrapper script
that invokes valgrind on them. This script (valgrind.sh) is in turn
invoked through symlinks created for each command in t/valgrind/bin/.
Since e6e7530d (test helpers: move test-* to t/helper/ subdirectory)
these symlinks have been broken for test helpers -- they point to the
old locations in the root of the build directory. Fix that by teaching
the code for creating the links about the new location of the binaries,
and do the same in the wrapper script to allow it to find its payload.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the new --valgrind-only=<pattern> option, one can enable
--valgrind at a per-test granularity, exactly analogous to
--verbose-only from the previous commit.
The options are wired such that --valgrind implies --verbose (as
before), but --valgrind-only=<pattern> implies
--verbose-only=<pattern> unless --verbose is also in effect.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With --valgrind=memcheck-fast, the tests run under memcheck but
without the autodetected --track-origins. If you just run valgrind to
see *if* there is any memory issue with your program, the extra
information is not needed, and it comes at a roughly 30% hit in
runtime.
While it is possible to achieve the same through GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS,
this should be more discoverable and hopefully encourage more users to
run their tests with valgrind.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running tests under helgrind and DRD recently proved useful in
tracking down thread interaction issues. This can unfortunately not
be done through GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS because any tool other than
memcheck would complain about unknown options.
Let --valgrind take an optional parameter that describes the valgrind
tool to invoke. The default mode is to run memcheck as before.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Valgrind 3.4.0 is pretty new, and even if --track-origins is a nice
feature, it is not the end of the world if that is not available. So
play nice and use that option only when only an older version of
valgrind is available.
In the same spirit, refrain from the use of '...' in suppression
files, which is also a feature only valgrind 3.4 and newer understand.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds the ability to use valgrind's memcheck tool to
diagnose memory problems in Git while running the test scripts.
It requires valgrind 3.4.0 or newer.
It works by creating symlinks to a valgrind script, which have the same
name as our Git binaries, and then putting that directory in front of
the test script's PATH as well as set GIT_EXEC_PATH to that directory.
Git scripts are symlinked from that directory directly.
That way, Git binaries called by Git scripts are valgrinded, too.
Valgrind can be used by specifying "GIT_TEST_OPTS=--valgrind" in the
make invocation. Any invocation of git that finds any errors under
valgrind will exit with failure code 126. Any valgrind output will go
to the usual stderr channel for tests (i.e., /dev/null, unless -v has
been specified).
If you need to pass options to valgrind -- you might want to run
another tool than memcheck, for example -- you can set the environment
variable GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS.
A few default suppressions are included, since libz seems to trigger
quite a few false positives. We'll assume that libz works and that we
can ignore any errors which are reported there.
Note: it is safe to run the valgrind tests in parallel, as the links in
t/valgrind/bin/ are created using proper locking.
Initial patch and all the hard work by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
