Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Valgrind writev() errors with 1.3.2.
From: jody (jody.xha_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-09 09:43:54
Hi
I made a suppression file for the irrelevant memory leaks of ompi:
I make no claim that it catches all possible ones, but it catches all
that appear in my code.
{
OMPI_Leaks-init-malloc
Memcheck:Leak
fun:malloc
...
fun:PMPI_Init
...
fun:main
}
{
OMPI_Leaks-init-malloc2
Memcheck:Leak
fun:malloc
...
fun:PMPI_Init
}
{
OMPI_Leaks-init-calloc
Memcheck:Leak
fun:calloc
...
fun:PMPI_Init
...
fun:main
}
{
OMPI_Leaks-init-realloc
Memcheck:Leak
fun:realloc
...
fun:PMPI_Init
...
fun:main
}
{
OMPI_Leaks-finalize-malloc
Memcheck:Leak
fun:malloc
...
fun:PMPI_Init
...
fun:main
}
I guess one could proceed similarily for the uninitalized values
Jody
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Jeff Squyres<jsquyres_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> This is worth adding to the FAQ.
>
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Ashley Pittman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 23:41 -0600, tom fogal wrote:
>> > George Bosilca <bosilca_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> > > There is a whole page on valgrind web page about this topic. Please
>> > > read
>> > > http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core.html#manual-core.suppress
>> > > for more information.
>> >
>> > Even better, Ralph (et al.) is if we could just make valgrind think
>> > this is defined memory. One can do this with client requests:
>> >
>> > http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.clientreqs
>>
>> Using the Valgrind client requests unnecessarily is a very bad idea,
>> they are intended for where applications use their own memory allocator
>> (i.e. replace malloc/free) or are using custom kernel modules or
>> hardware which Valgrind doesn't know about.
>>
>> The correct solution is either to not send un-initialised memory or to
>> suppress the error using a suppression file as George said. As the
>> error is from MPI_Init() you can safely ignore it from a end-user
>> perspective.
>>
>> Ashley.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ashley Pittman
>>
>> Padb - A parallel job viewer for cluster computing
>> http://padb.pittman.org.uk
>>
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>
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> Jeff Squyres
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