From 80b7cb8c3230bb29b065633c803694d8720ecadf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 11:59:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] 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> --- board/sandbox/README.sandbox | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) 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 ------- -- 2.39.5