Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Valgrind writev() errors with 1.3.2.
From: jody (jody.xha_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-09 09:45:20
I should add that the "..." are verbatim, not ellipses which indicate
that i left something out!
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:43 PM, jody<jody.xha_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Squyres
>> Cisco Systems
>>
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