Bug 651152

1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [67960]
a. Name of Feature: [LTC 5.7 FEAT] Valgrind System z support - installer part
b. Feature Description
This feature requests to add Valgrind package support to Linux on System z installations. The
package upgrade (3.6.0) and patch on top to have the System z back end is requested and tracked in a
different feature.


2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC zSeries BOE
Architectures:  zSeries - 64 native, 

Arch Specificity: both
Affects Kernel Modules: No
Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable
Category: other
Request Type: Code Development Support from Distributor
d. Upstream Acceptance: In Progress
Sponsor Priority P1
f. Severity: ship issue
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: 3rd party code
g. Component Version Target: ---
h. Code Development Support from Distributor

3. Business Case
Valgrind has proven to be a valuable tool debugging user-space memory management problem on x86 and
PPC platforms. Several customers have requested to have this tool on System z as well. Besides the
capabilities to debug memory problems other plugins (cachegrind) enable us to analyze the cache
access patterns of applications which turned out to be a key issue in order to get the best
performance on z10 machines.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis, jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com

Technical contact(s):
Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com