Auto-detect whether running inside Valgrind.

Auto-detect whether running inside Valgrind, thus removing the need to
manually specify MALLOC_CONF=valgrind:true.
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Jason Evans
2012-05-15 14:48:14 -07:00
parent 3860eac170
commit 781fe75e0a
4 changed files with 31 additions and 30 deletions

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@@ -846,7 +846,9 @@ for (i = 0; i < nbins; i++) {
<literal>0x5a</literal>. This is intended for debugging and will
impact performance negatively. This option is disabled by default
unless <option>--enable-debug</option> is specified during
configuration, in which case it is enabled by default.</para></listitem>
configuration, in which case it is enabled by default unless running
inside <ulink
url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="opt.quarantine">
@@ -865,8 +867,9 @@ for (i = 0; i < nbins; i++) {
enabled. This feature is of particular use in combination with <ulink
url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink>, which can detect attempts
to access quarantined objects. This is intended for debugging and will
impact performance negatively. The default quarantine size is
0.</para></listitem>
impact performance negatively. The default quarantine size is 0 unless
running inside Valgrind, in which case the default is 16
MiB.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="opt.redzone">
@@ -885,7 +888,7 @@ for (i = 0; i < nbins; i++) {
which needs redzones in order to do effective buffer overflow/underflow
detection. This option is intended for debugging and will impact
performance negatively. This option is disabled by
default.</para></listitem>
default unless running inside Valgrind.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="opt.zero">
@@ -926,15 +929,9 @@ for (i = 0; i < nbins; i++) {
[<option>--enable-valgrind</option>]
</term>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink>
support enabled/disabled. If enabled, several other options are
automatically modified during options processing to work well with
Valgrind: <link linkend="opt.junk"><mallctl>opt.junk</mallctl></link>
and <link linkend="opt.zero"><mallctl>opt.zero</mallctl></link> are set
to false, <link
linkend="opt.quarantine"><mallctl>opt.quarantine</mallctl></link> is
set to 16 MiB, and <link
linkend="opt.redzone"><mallctl>opt.redzone</mallctl></link> is set to
true. This option is disabled by default.</para></listitem>
support enabled/disabled. This option is vestigal because jemalloc
auto-detects whether it is running inside Valgrind. This option is
disabled by default, unless running inside Valgrind.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="opt.xmalloc">
@@ -1865,9 +1862,7 @@ malloc_conf = "xmalloc:true";]]></programlisting>
it detects, because the performance impact for storing such information
would be prohibitive. However, jemalloc does integrate with the most
excellent <ulink url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink> tool if the
<option>--enable-valgrind</option> configuration option is enabled and the
<link linkend="opt.valgrind"><mallctl>opt.valgrind</mallctl></link> option
is enabled.</para>
<option>--enable-valgrind</option> configuration option is enabled.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="diagnostic_messages">
<title>DIAGNOSTIC MESSAGES</title>