| Last updated February 17, 2008 |
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| Data-race detection algorithm |
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| - Implement segment merging, such that the number of segments per thread |
| remains limited even when there is no synchronization between threads. |
| - Add locking order checking. |
| - Discuss on the Valgrind mailing list how to make it possible to call |
| POSIX thread synchronization primitives from client code (drd_intercepts.c) |
| without triggering Valgrind's redirection mechanism. |
| - Discuss on the Valgrind mailing list the modificaiton of tests/vg_regtest |
| such that it ignores files ending in ~ or #. |
| - Continue the discussion on the Valgrind mailing list about docbook and |
| 'make dist'. |
| - Continue the discussion on the Valgrind mailing list about -Wformat. |
| - Explain on the Valgrind mailing list the difference between a bus lock |
| and acquire / release labels. |
| - Find out why a race is reported on std::string::string(std::string const&) |
| (stc test case 16). |
| - Add support for objects that are shared over threads and that use reference |
| counting, e.g. std::string -- no races should be reported on the reference |
| count. |
| - Add a regression test for pthread_mutex_timedlock(). |
| - Add test programs for destroying a condition variable / semaphore / barrier |
| being waited upon. |
| - Make sure tc14_laog_dinphils is run during exp-drd regression tests. |
| - Find a way for suppressing races reported on _IO_2_1_stdout. This race is |
| triggered by calling printf() from more than one thread. An example: |
| ./vg-in-place --tool=exp-drd exp-drd/tests/pth_barrier 2 1 |
| - Performance testing and tuning. |
| - testing on PPC and AIX (current implementation is only tested on X86 and |
| AMD64). |
| - Find out why there are sometimes races reported on exp-drd/test/matinv. |
| - [Fedora 8] Find out why pth_broadcast sometimes hangs on Fedora 8. Is this an |
| exp-drd, pth_broadcast, kernel or glibc bug ? |
| - On x86 and amd64 platforms, add support for implicit locking arising from |
| the use of the LOCK instruction prefix. |
| - Convert the array in drd_thread.c with thread information into an OSet. |
| - Enable format string checking for DRD during compilation. |
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| Testing |
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| - testing with more complex multithreaded test programs. |
| - test exp-drd's performance with the SPLASH-2 software, e.g. fft |
| (http://www-flash.stanford.edu/apps/SPLASH/). |
| - test with Synfig Studio (see also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158555) |
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| Documentation |
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| - Document the command-line options of the exp-drd tool. |
| - Explain that happens-before race detectors are also suited for certain |
| classes of programs that do not follow a locking discipline |
| (e.g. exp-drd/test/matinv.c). |
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| Limitations |
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| - Does not work with a glibc library compiled with linuxthreads -- NPTL is |
| required for proper operation. |
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| Known bugs |
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| - Gets killed by the OOM handler for realistically sized applications, |
| e.g. knode and OpenOffice. |
| - [x86_64] Reports "Allocation context: unknown" for BSS symbols on AMD64 |
| (works fine on i386). This is a bug in Valgrind's debug info reader |
| -- VG_(find_seginfo)() returns NULL for BSS symbols on x86_64. Not yet in |
| the KDE bug tracking system. |