Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/6] Allow Valgrind checking all QEMU processes

[Andrey Shinkevich]

On 16/08/2019 23:05, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 07:30:10PM +0300, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
>> In the current implementation of the QEMU bash iotests, only qemu-io
>> processes may be run under the Valgrind, which is a useful tool for
>> finding memory usage issues. Let's allow the common.rc bash script
>> runing all the QEMU processes, such as qemu-kvm, qemu-img, qemu-ndb
>> and qemu-vxhs, under the Valgrind tool.
>>
> 
> FIY, this looks very similar (in purpose) to:
> 
>     https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/71.0/WrapProcess.html
> 
> And in fact Valgrind was one of the original motivations:
> 
>     
> https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/blob/master/examples/wrappers/valgrind.sh
> 
> Maybe this can be helpful for the Python based iotests.
> 
> - Cleber.
> 

Thank you Cleber for the advice. That is the way I actually ran Python 
iotests under Valgrind on my host and discovered some issues with them 
already.

Andrey

>> v5:
>>    01: The patch "block/nbd: NBDReply is used being uninitialized" was 
>> detached
>>        and taken into account in the patch "nbd: Initialize reply on failure"
>>        by Eric Blake.
>>
>> v4:
>>    01: The patch "iotests: Set read-zeroes on in null block driver for 
>> Valgrind"
>>        was extended with new cases and issued as a separate series.
>>    02: The new patch "block/nbd: NBDReply is used being uninitialized" was
>>        added to resolve the failure of the iotest 083 run under Valgrind.
>>
>> v3:
>>    01: The new function _casenotrun() was added to the common.rc bash
>>        script to notify the user of test cases dropped for some reason.
>>        Suggested by Kevin.
>>        Particularly, the notification about the nonexistent TMPDIR in
>>        the test 051 was added (noticed by Vladimir).
>>    02: The timeout in some test cases was extended for Valgrind because
>>        it differs when running on the ramdisk.
>>    03: Due to the common.nbd script has been changed with the commit
>>        b28f582c, the patch "iotests: amend QEMU NBD process synchronization"
>>        is actual no more. Note that QEMU_NBD is launched in the bash nested
>>        shell in the _qemu_nbd_wrapper() as it was before in common.rc.
>>    04: The patch "iotests: new file to suppress Valgrind errors" was dropped
>>        due to my superficial understanding of the work of the function
>>        blk_pread_unthrottled(). Special thanks to Kevin who shed the light
>>        on the null block driver involved. Now, the parameter 'read-zeroes=on'
>>        is passed to the null block driver to initialize the buffer in the
>>        function guess_disk_lchs() that the Valgrind was complaining to.
>>
>> v2:
>>    01: The patch 2/7 of v1 was merged into the patch 1/7, suggested by 
>> Daniel.
>>    02: Another patch 7/7 was added to introduce the Valgrind error 
>> suppression
>>        file into the QEMU project.
>>    Discussed in the email thread with the message ID:
>>    <address@hidden>
>>
>> Andrey Shinkevich (6):
>>    iotests: allow Valgrind checking all QEMU processes
>>    iotests: exclude killed processes from running under  Valgrind
>>    iotests: Add casenotrun report to bash tests
>>    iotests: Valgrind fails with nonexistent directory
>>    iotests: extended timeout under Valgrind
>>    iotests: extend sleeping time under Valgrind
>>
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/028       |  6 +++-
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/039       |  5 +++
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/039.out   | 30 +++--------------
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/051       |  4 +++
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/061       |  2 ++
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/061.out   | 12 ++-----
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/137       |  1 +
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/137.out   |  6 +---
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/183       |  9 +++++-
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/192       |  6 +++-
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/247       |  6 +++-
>>   tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc | 76 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>   12 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
>>
>> -- 
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
>>

-- 
With the best regards,
Andrey Shinkevich