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authorEmanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>2021-08-09 11:01:12 +0200
committerHanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>2021-09-01 12:57:31 +0200
commitbd10a7397ed93be4ea97b1e377578d13922134f5 (patch)
treef9be271aadba4249f0c51481be3be0eedae17401 /docs/devel/testing.rst
parent4032d1f69c1f8c61b69a226148b71287129ae014 (diff)
docs/devel/testing: add -valgrind option to the debug section of QEMU iotests
Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Message-Id: <20210809090114.64834-15-eesposit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
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@@ -240,6 +240,12 @@ a failing test:
If the ``-gdb`` option is not used, ``$GDB_OPTIONS`` is ignored,
regardless of whether it is set or not.
+* ``-valgrind`` attaches a valgrind instance to QEMU. If it detects
+ warnings, it will print and save the log in
+ ``$TEST_DIR/<valgrind_pid>.valgrind``.
+ The final command line will be ``valgrind --log-file=$TEST_DIR/
+ <valgrind_pid>.valgrind --error-exitcode=99 $QEMU ...``
+
* ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing
for example the QMP commands and answers.