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[PULL,14/56] docs/devel/testing: add -valgrind option to the debug section of QEMU iotests

Message ID 20210901151619.689075-15-hreitz@redhat.com
State New
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Series [PULL,01/56] python: qemu: add timer parameter for qmp.accept socket | expand

Commit Message

Hanna Czenczek Sept. 1, 2021, 3:15 p.m. UTC 
From: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>

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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 docs/devel/testing.rst | 6 ++++++
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diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index 01e1919873..8ebcf85a31 100644
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
@@ -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.