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Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures
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Kaleb Keithley |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures |
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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:08:08 -0400 (EDT) |
I don't suppose anyone has run any of gluster under the helgrind option of
valgrind?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vijay Bellur" <address@hidden>
To: "Vijay Bellur" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:38:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures
On 04/29/2013 11:05 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On 04/29/2013 10:31 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I found an uninitialized mutex and I am tracking another one. This is
>> not the first time I hit this kind of problem, which is invisible to
>> Linux developpers since Linux allows using an uninitialized mutex.
>>
>> I suggest chaning GF_CALLOC and friends so that it fills memory
>> with 0xdeadbeef during developement cycles. That would help people
>> catching that kind og issues earlier.
>>
>
> Maybe with -DDEBUG?
>
Hit send a bit too fast. There are a lot of places where we make an
implicit assumption that GF_CALLOC and the likes memset the memory area
to zero. It might not be an easy thing to achieve after all.
-Vijay
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- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, (continued)
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Vijay Bellur, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Vijay Bellur, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Jeff Darcy, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Vijay Bellur, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Jeff Darcy, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Anand Avati, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Kaleb KEITHLEY, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Jeff Darcy, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Kaleb KEITHLEY, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Jeff Darcy, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures,
Kaleb Keithley <=
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Emmanuel Dreyfus, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Anand Avati, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Emmanuel Dreyfus, 2013/04/30
Re: [Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures, Emmanuel Dreyfus, 2013/04/30