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2013-06-23test-lib: valgrind for only tests matching a patternLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+3
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>
2013-04-01tests --valgrind: provide a mode without --track-originsLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+2
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>
2013-04-01tests: parameterize --valgrind optionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-10/+15
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>
2009-02-05valgrind: do not require valgrind 3.4.0 or newerLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+10
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>
2009-02-03Add valgrind support in test scriptsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+13
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>