Release 3.12.0 (20 October 2016)
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3.12.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual
collection of bug fixes.
This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux,
ARM64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux,
MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android,
MIPS32/Android, X86/Android, X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, X86/MacOSX
10.10 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.10. There is also preliminary support for
X86/MacOSX 10.11/12, AMD64/MacOSX 10.11/12 and TILEGX/Linux.
* ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
* POWER: Support for ISA 3.0 has been added
* mips: support for O32 FPXX ABI has been added.
* mips: improved recognition of different processors
* mips: determination of page size now done at run time
* amd64: Partial support for AMD FMA4 instructions.
* arm, arm64: Support for v8 crypto and CRC instructions.
* Improvements and robustification of the Solaris port.
* Preliminary support for MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) has been added.
Whilst 3.12.0 continues to support the 32-bit x86 instruction set, we
would prefer users to migrate to 64-bit x86 (a.k.a amd64 or x86_64)
where possible. Valgrind's support for 32-bit x86 has stagnated in
recent years and has fallen far behind that for 64-bit x86
instructions. By contrast 64-bit x86 is well supported, up to and
including AVX2.
* ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
* Memcheck:
- Added meta mempool support for describing a custom allocator which:
- Auto-frees all chunks assuming that destroying a pool destroys all
objects in the pool
- Uses itself to allocate other memory blocks
- New flag --ignore-range-below-sp to ignore memory accesses below
the stack pointer, if you really have to. The related flag
--workaround-gcc296-bugs=yes is now deprecated. Use
--ignore-range-below-sp=1024-1 as a replacement.
* DRD:
- Improved thread startup time significantly on non-Linux platforms.
* DHAT
- Added collection of the metric "tot-blocks-allocd"
* ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
* Replacement/wrapping of malloc/new related functions is now done not just
for system libraries by default, but for any globally defined malloc/new
related function (both in shared libraries and statically linked alternative
malloc implementations). The dynamic (runtime) linker is excluded, though.
To only intercept malloc/new related functions in
system libraries use --soname-synonyms=somalloc=nouserintercepts (where
"nouserintercepts" can be any non-existing library name).
This new functionality is not implemented for MacOS X.
* The maximum number of callers in a suppression entry is now equal to
the maximum size for --num-callers (500).
Note that --gen-suppressions=yes|all similarly generates suppressions
containing up to --num-callers frames.
* New and modified GDB server monitor features:
- Valgrind's gdbserver now accepts the command 'catch syscall'.
Note that you must have GDB >= 7.11 to use 'catch syscall' with
gdbserver.
* New option --run-cxx-freeres=<yes|no> can be used to change whether
__gnu_cxx::__freeres() cleanup function is called or not. Default is
'yes'.
* Valgrind is able to read compressed debuginfo sections in two formats:
- zlib ELF gABI format with SHF_COMPRESSED flag (gcc option -gz=zlib)
- zlib GNU format with .zdebug sections (gcc option -gz=zlib-gnu)
* Modest JIT-cost improvements: the cost of instrumenting code blocks
for the most common use case (x86_64-linux, Memcheck) has been
reduced by 10%-15%.
* Improved performance for programs that do a lot of discarding of
instruction address ranges of 8KB or less.
* The C++ symbol demangler has been updated.
* More robustness against invalid syscall parameters on Linux.
* ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
To see details of a given bug, visit
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
191069 Exiting due to signal not reported in XML output
199468 Suppressions: stack size limited to 25
while --num-callers allows more frames
212352 vex amd64 unhandled opc_aux = 0x 2, first_opcode == 0xDC (FCOM)
278744 cvtps2pd with redundant RexW
303877 valgrind doesn't support compressed debuginfo sections.
345307 Warning about "still reachable" memory when using libstdc++ from gcc 5
348345 Assertion fails for negative lineno
351282 V 3.10.1 MIPS softfloat build broken with GCC 4.9.3 / binutils 2.25.1
351692 Dumps created by valgrind are not readable by gdb (mips32 specific)
351804 Crash on generating suppressions for "printf" call on OS X 10.10
352197 mips: mmap2() not wrapped correctly for page size > 4096
353083 arm64 doesn't implement various xattr system calls
353084 arm64 doesn't support sigpending system call
353137 www: update info for Supported Platforms
353138 www: update "The Valgrind Developers" page
353370 don't advertise RDRAND in cpuid for Core-i7-4910-like avx2 machine
== 365325
== 357873
353384 amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0xD1 0x62 (pcmpXstrX $0x62)
353398 WARNING: unhandled amd64-solaris syscall: 207
353660 XML in auxwhat tag not escaping reserved symbols properly
353680 s390x: Crash with certain glibc versions due to non-implemented TBEGIN
353727 amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0xD1 0x72 (pcmpXstrX $0x72)
353802 ELF debug info reader confused with multiple .rodata sections
353891 Assert 'bad_scanned_addr < VG_ROUNDDN(start+len, sizeof(Addr))' failed
353917 unhandled amd64-solaris syscall fchdir(120)
353920 unhandled amd64-solaris syscall: 170
354274 arm: unhandled instruction: 0xEBAD 0x0AC1 (sub.w sl, sp, r1, lsl #3)
354392 unhandled amd64-solaris syscall: 171
354797 Vbit test does not include Iops for Power 8 instruction support
354883 tst->os_state.pthread - magic_delta assertion failure on OSX 10.11
== 361351
== 362920
== 366222
354933 Fix documentation of --kernel-variant=android-no-hw-tls option
355188 valgrind should intercept all malloc related global functions
355454 do not intercept malloc related symbols from the runtime linker
355455 stderr.exp of test cases wrapmalloc and wrapmallocstatic overconstrained
356044 Dwarf line info reader misinterprets is_stmt register
356112 mips: replace addi with addiu
356393 valgrind (vex) crashes because isZeroU happened
== 363497
== 364497
356676 arm64-linux: unhandled syscalls 125, 126 (sched_get_priority_max/min)
356678 arm64-linux: unhandled syscall 232 (mincore)
356817 valgrind.h triggers compiler errors on MSVC when defining NVALGRIND
356823 Unsupported ARM instruction: stlex
357059 x86/amd64: SSE cvtpi2ps with memory source does transition to MMX state
357338 Unhandled instruction for SHA instructions libcrypto Boring SSL
357673 crash if I try to run valgrind with a binary link with libcurl
357833 Setting RLIMIT_DATA to zero breaks with linux 4.5+
357871 pthread_spin_destroy not properly wrapped
357887 Calls to VG_(fclose) do not close the file descriptor
357932 amd64->IR: accept redundant REX prefixes for {minsd,maxsd} m128, xmm.
358030 support direct socket calls on x86 32bit (new in linux 4.3)
358478 drd/tests/std_thread.cpp doesn't build with GCC6
359133 Assertion 'eltSzB <= ddpa->poolSzB' failed
359181 Buffer Overflow during Demangling
359201 futex syscall "skips" argument 5 if op is FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET
359289 s390x: popcnt (B9E1) not implemented
359472 The Power PC vsubuqm instruction doesn't always give the correct result
359503 Add missing syscalls for aarch64 (arm64)
359645 "You need libc6-dbg" help message could be more helpful
359703 s390: wire up separate socketcalls system calls
359724 getsockname might crash - deref_UInt should call safe_to_deref
359733 amd64 implement ld.so strchr/index override like x86
359767 Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 1/5
359829 Power PC test suite none/tests/ppc64/test_isa_2_07.c uses
uninitialized data
359838 arm64: Unhandled instruction 0xD5033F5F (clrex)
359871 Incorrect mask handling in ppoll
359952 Unrecognised PCMPESTRM variants (0x70, 0x19)
360008 Contents of Power vr registers contents is not printed correctly when
the --vgdb-shadow-registers=yes option is used
360035 POWER PC instruction bcdadd and bcdsubtract generate result with
non-zero shadow bits
360378 arm64: Unhandled instruction 0x5E280844 (sha1h s4, s2)
360425 arm64 unsupported instruction ldpsw
== 364435
360519 none/tests/arm64/memory.vgtest might fail with newer gcc
360571 Error about the Android Runtime reading below the stack pointer on ARM
360574 Wrong parameter type for an ashmem ioctl() call on Android and ARM64
360749 kludge for multiple .rodata sections on Solaris no longer needed
360752 raise the number of reserved fds in m_main.c from 10 to 12
361207 Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 2/5
361226 s390x: risbgn (EC59) not implemented
361253 [s390x] ex_clone.c:42: undefined reference to `pthread_create'
361354 ppc64[le]: wire up separate socketcalls system calls
361615 Inconsistent termination for multithreaded process terminated by signal
361926 Unhandled Solaris syscall: sysfs(84)
362009 V dumps core on unimplemented functionality before threads are created
362329 Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 3/5
362894 missing (broken) support for wbit field on mtfsfi instruction (ppc64)
362935 [AsusWRT] Assertion 'sizeof(TTEntryC) <= 88' failed
362953 Request for an update to the Valgrind Developers page
363680 add renameat2() support
363705 arm64 missing syscall name_to_handle_at and open_by_handle_at
363714 ppc64 missing syscalls sync, waitid and name_to/open_by_handle_at
363858 Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 4/5
364058 clarify in manual limitations of array overruns detections
364413 pselect sycallwrapper mishandles NULL sigmask
364728 Power PC, missing support for several HW registers in
get_otrack_shadow_offset_wrk()
364948 Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 5/5
365273 Invalid write to stack location reported after signal handler runs
365912 ppc64BE segfault during jm-insns test (RELRO)
366079 FPXX Support for MIPS32 Valgrind
366138 Fix configure errors out when using Xcode 8 (clang 8.0.0)
366344 Multiple unhandled instruction for Aarch64
(0x0EE0E020, 0x1AC15800, 0x4E284801, 0x5E040023, 0x5E056060)
367995 Integration of memcheck with custom memory allocator
368120 x86_linux asm _start functions do not keep 16-byte aligned stack pointer
368412 False positive result for altivec capability check
368416 Add tc06_two_races_xml.exp output for ppc64
368419 Perf Events ioctls not implemented
368461 mmapunmap test fails on ppc64
368823 run_a_thread_NORETURN assembly code typo for VGP_arm64_linux target
369000 AMD64 fma4 instructions unsupported.
369169 ppc64 fails jm_int_isa_2_07 test
369175 jm_vec_isa_2_07 test crashes on ppc64
369209 valgrind loops and eats up all memory if cwd doesn't exist.
369356 pre_mem_read_sockaddr syscall wrapper can crash with bad sockaddr
369359 msghdr_foreachfield can crash when handling bad iovec
369360 Bad sigprocmask old or new sets can crash valgrind
369361 vmsplice syscall wrapper crashes on bad iovec
369362 Bad sigaction arguments crash valgrind
369383 x86 sys_modify_ldt wrapper crashes on bad ptr
369402 Bad set/get_thread_area pointer crashes valgrind
369441 bad lvec argument crashes process_vm_readv/writev syscall wrappers
369446 valgrind crashes on unknown fcntl command
369439 S390x: Unhandled insns RISBLG/RISBHG and LDE/LDER
369468 Remove quadratic metapool algorithm using VG_(HT_remove_at_Iter)
370265 ISA 3.0 HW cap stuff needs updating
371128 BCD add and subtract instructions on Power BE in 32-bit mode do not work
n-i-bz Fix incorrect (or infinite loop) unwind on RHEL7 x86 and amd64
n-i-bz massif --pages-as-heap=yes does not report peak caused by mmap+munmap
n-i-bz false positive leaks due to aspacemgr merging heap & non heap segments
n-i-bz Fix ppoll_alarm exclusion on OS X
n-i-bz Document brk segment limitation, reference manual in limit reached msg.
n-i-bz Fix clobber list in none/tests/amd64/xacq_xrel.c [valgrind r15737]
n-i-bz Bump allowed shift value for "add.w reg, sp, reg, lsl #N" [vex r3206]
n-i-bz amd64: memcheck false positive with shr %edx
n-i-bz arm3: Allow early writeback of SP base register in "strd rD, [sp, #-16]"
n-i-bz ppc: Fix two cases of PPCAvFpOp vs PPCFpOp enum confusion
n-i-bz arm: Fix incorrect register-number constraint check for LDAEX{,B,H,D}
n-i-bz DHAT: added collection of the metric "tot-blocks-allocd"
(3.12.0.RC1: 20 October 2016, vex r3282, valgrind r16094)
(3.12.0.RC2: 20 October 2016, vex r3282, valgrind r16096)
(3.12.0: 21 October 2016, vex r3282, valgrind r16098)
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