Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support running QEMU on Valgrind

[Anthony Liguori]

On 10/30/2011 07:07 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Valgrind is a tool which can automatically detect many kinds of bugs.
>
> Running QEMU on Valgrind with x86_64 hosts was not possible because
> Valgrind aborts when memalign is called with an alignment larger than
> 1 MiB. QEMU normally uses 2 MiB on Linux x86_64.
>
> Now the alignment is reduced to the page size when QEMU is running on
> Valgrind.
>
> valgrind.h is a copy from Valgrind svn trunk r12226 with trailing
> whitespace stripped but otherwise unmodified, so it still raises lots
> of errors when checked with scripts/checkpatch.pl.
>
> It is included here to avoid a dependency on Valgrind.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil<address@hidden>

How about we just fix valgrind?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori