[dpdk-dev] DPDK (and rte_*alloc family) friendly Valgrind

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Feb 11 08:34:44 CET 2016


2016-02-10 22:54, Luca Boccassi:
 I created a set of patches for Valgrind that add support for the
> rte_*alloc family of functions. We use it for memcheck (I added support
> for other all the other Valgrind tools like cachegrind as well, but it's
> less tested), and find it extremely useful, since the vanilla version
> cannot intercept and report leaks cause by rte_*alloc functions from
> librte_malloc.

Thank you Luca.
I think it deserves to be visible in the DPDK doc.
What about adding some explanations in
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/profile_app.html
or
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#malloc
?


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