Writeing a New Valgrind Tool¶
Introduction¶
Valgrind 把架構分成 core 和 plugin， 其中 core 負責 low-level infrastructure 讓上面的 plugin 可以容易做 instrumentation， 提供的內容包含 JIT compiler、low-level memory manager、signal handling、scheduler (pthread) 等等。
Simple Plugin¶
Valgrind 使用 GNU automake、autoconf
# 取得 Valgrind source code
svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk valgrind
cd valgrind
# 為自己的 plugin 取個名字 (和縮寫)
# 這邊先隨便取為 myplugin (mp)
mkdir -p myplugin/docs myplugin/tests
touch myplugin/docs/Makefile.am myplugin/tests/Makefile.am
cp none/Makefile.am myplugin/
sed -i 's/none/myplugin/g' myplugin/Makefile.am
sed -i 's/NONE/MYPLUGIN/g' myplugin/Makefile.am
sed -i 's/nl_/mp_/g' myplugin/Makefile.am
sed -i 's/nl-/mp-/g' myplugin/Makefile.am
# changing the details lines in nl_pre_clo_init() to something appropriate for the tool.
# These fields are used in the startup message, except for bug_reports_to which is used if a tool assertion fails.
cp none/nl_main.c myplugin/mp_main.c
sed -i 's/nl_/mp_/g' myplugin/mp_main.c
sed -i '/memcheck \\/a\ myplugin\\' Makefile.am
# 更新 configure.ac (configure.in 已經 deprecated，Valgrind 官網的文件還沒更新)
# 加到 AC_CONFIG_FILES
sed -i '/coregrind\/Makefile/a\ myplugin\/Makefile\n myplugin\/tests/Makefile\n myplugin\/docs/Makefile' configure.ac
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=`pwd`/inst
make -j8 install # putting copies of the tool in myplugin/ and inst/lib/valgrind/
# Test
inst/bin/valgrind --tool=myplugin date