main/helgrind/hg_basics.h

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/*
   This file is part of Helgrind, a Valgrind tool for detecting errors
   in threaded programs.

   Copyright (C) 2007-2012 OpenWorks Ltd
      info@open-works.co.uk

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
   License, or (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
   02111-1307, USA.

   The GNU General Public License is contained in the file COPYING.
*/

#ifndef __HG_BASICS_H
#define __HG_BASICS_H


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#define HG_(str) VGAPPEND(vgHelgrind_,str)

void* HG_(zalloc) ( HChar* cc, SizeT n );
void  HG_(free)   ( void* p );
Char* HG_(strdup) ( HChar* cc, const Char* s );

static inline Bool HG_(is_sane_ThreadId) ( ThreadId coretid ) {
   return coretid >= 0 && coretid < VG_N_THREADS;
}


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/* Flags for controlling for which events sanity checking is done */
#define SCE_THREADS  (1<<0)  // Sanity check at thread create/join
#define SCE_LOCKS    (1<<1)  // Sanity check at lock events
#define SCE_BIGRANGE (1<<2)  // Sanity check at big mem range events
#define SCE_ACCESS   (1<<3)  // Sanity check at mem accesses
#define SCE_LAOG     (1<<4)  // Sanity check at significant LAOG events

#define SCE_BIGRANGE_T 256  // big mem range minimum size


/* Enable/disable lock order checking.  Sometimes it produces a lot of
   errors, possibly genuine, which nevertheless can be very
   annoying. */
extern Bool HG_(clo_track_lockorders);

/* When comparing race errors for equality, should the race address be
   taken into account?  For users, no, but for verification purposes
   (regtesting) this is sometimes important. */
extern Bool HG_(clo_cmp_race_err_addrs);

/* Controls how much history to collect, in order to show conflicting
   accesses.  There are three levels:

   0: "none": don't collect any history.  Fastest, but means we can
      only show one of the two stacks in a race.

   1: "approx": collect one stack trace per (notional) segment, that
      is, collect a stack trace for a thread every time its vector
      clock changes.  This faciliates showing the bounds of the
      conflicting segment(s), with relatively small overhead.

   2: "full": collect a stack trace every time the constraints for a
      location change.  This facilitates showing both stack traces in
      a race, although can be very expensive in time and space
      (depends on the rate that threads "drag" locations across
      vector-clock-change boundaries ("dragovers").  This involves
      collecting and storing large numbers of call stacks just in case
      we might need to show them later, and so is expensive (although
      very useful). */
extern UWord HG_(clo_history_level);

/* When doing "full" history collection, this determines the size of
   the conflicting-access cache, measured in terms of maximum possible
   number of elements in the previous-access map.  Must be between 10k
   amd 10 million.  Default is 1 million. */
extern UWord HG_(clo_conflict_cache_size);

/* Sanity check level.  This is an or-ing of
   SCE_{THREADS,LOCKS,BIGRANGE,ACCESS,LAOG}. */
extern Word HG_(clo_sanity_flags);

/* Treat heap frees as if the memory was written immediately prior to
   the free.  This shakes out races in which memory is referenced by
   one thread, and freed by another, and there's no observable
   synchronisation event to guarantee that the reference happens
   before the free. */
extern Bool HG_(clo_free_is_write);

/* Controls the application of VTS pruning.  There are three levels:

   0: "never": VTS pruning is never done

   1: "auto": (the default): VTS pruning is sometimes done after VTS
      GCs, just frequently enough to keep space use under control, as
      determined by heuristics in libhb_core.c.

   2: "always": VTS pruning is done after every VTS GC.  This is
      mostly a big time waster, but minimises space use. */
extern UWord HG_(clo_vts_pruning);

/* When False, race checking ignores memory references which are to
   the stack, which speeds things up a bit.  Default: True. */
extern Bool HG_(clo_check_stack_refs); 

#endif /* ! __HG_BASICS_H */

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