Bug 249773 - valgrind fails with PPC64 applications
Summary: valgrind fails with PPC64 applications
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: valgrind
Version: 7
Hardware: ppc64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-26 22:10 UTC by Patrick Clément-Bonhomme
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 3.2.3-5.fc7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-09-12 16:43:24 UTC
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strace log of valgrind with a PPC64 application (2.74 KB, text/plain)
2007-07-26 22:10 UTC, Patrick Clément-Bonhomme
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Description Patrick Clément-Bonhomme 2007-07-26 22:10:32 UTC
Description of problem:
valgrind fails to start its tools (memcheck, cachegrind, helgrind) when it is
used to profile applications for PPC64 (e.g. 64-bit applications). Since
valgrind relies on these tools, the bug makes it practically useless.

The following error message is reported by valgrind while running it without any
option or argument:
$ valgrind name-of-application
valgrind: failed to start tool 'memcheck' for platform 'ppc64-linux': No such
file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
* valgrind.ppc64 3.2.3-2
* valgrind.ppc 3.2.3-2   

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find or compile a PPC64 application. 
2. Try to profile the application with valgrind :
   $ valgrind name-of-program
  
Actual results:
valgrind cannot find the requested tool, thus failing to profile the application.

Expected results:
valgrind and its tools should profile applications correctly.

Additional info:
* valgrind works correctly with PPC32 applications.
* If you cannot find a PPC64 application, you can use valgrind on /lib64/libc.so.6 :
  $ valgrind /lib64/libc.so.6
* It seems to be a path issue. While running valgrind with the debug switch, it
tries to access an unexisting file :
  [paclb@ps3-gel01 celldt]$ valgrind -d /tmp/celldt/convofilter
  --26657:1:debuglog DebugLog system started by Stage 1, level 1 logging requested
  --26657:1:launcher no tool requested, defaulting to 'memcheck'
  --26657:1:launcher selected platform 'ppc64-linux'
  --26657:1:launcher launching /usr/lib/valgrind/ppc64-linux/memcheck
valgrind: failed to start tool 'memcheck' for platform 'ppc64-linux': No such
file or directory

  The directory /usr/lib/valgrind/ppc64-linux doesn't exist, but
/usr/lib64/valgrind/ppc64-linux does (and contains the requested tools).
* I have included an strace of the previous command.

Comment 1 Patrick Clément-Bonhomme 2007-07-26 22:10:32 UTC
Created attachment 160082 [details]
strace log of valgrind with a PPC64 application

Comment 2 Patrick Clément-Bonhomme 2007-07-26 22:22:11 UTC
Just confirming that it is a path issue, since making the following symbolic
link does the job :
# ln -s /usr/lib64/valgrind/ppc64-linux /usr/lib/valgrind/ppc64-linux


Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-09-04 22:02:17 UTC
valgrind-3.2.3-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2007-09-12 16:43:20 UTC
valgrind-3.2.3-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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