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| author | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2019-05-18 11:59:50 -0600 |
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| committer | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2019-07-10 16:52:58 -0600 |
| commit | 80b7cb8c3230bb29b065633c803694d8720ecadf (patch) | |
| tree | 11a4f20dae2a76f2e6bb4deb4847c55855a3605c /board/sandbox | |
| parent | 24c2776ba9002fadbf7cf86a0f5bc6a17cc08290 (diff) | |
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sandbox: Add documentation on how to run valgrind
U-Boot sandbox can run with valgrind to check memory allocations. Add
documentation on how to do this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'board/sandbox')
| -rw-r--r-- | board/sandbox/README.sandbox | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/board/sandbox/README.sandbox b/board/sandbox/README.sandbox index 5e8fa58ba2..c10dd444df 100644 --- a/board/sandbox/README.sandbox +++ b/board/sandbox/README.sandbox @@ -442,6 +442,20 @@ If sdl-config is on a different path from the default, set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the correct pathname before building U-Boot. +Using valgrind / memcheck +------------------------- + +It is possible to run U-Boot under valgrind to check memory allocations: + + valgrind u-boot + +If you are running sandbox SPL or TPL, then valgrind will not by default +notice when U-Boot jumps from TPL to SPL, or from SPL to U-Boot proper. To +fix this, use: + + valgrind --trace-children=yes u-boot + + Testing ------- |