Profiling application with valgrind and Qt Creator

GGAllin · wrote on 25 Aug 2016, 08:02

Hello everyone!
I'm trying to profile my appliaction with Valgrind,
Launching profiling function analizer, the analizer start correctly with this output

==1814== Callgrind, a call-graph generating cache profiler
==1814== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Josef Weidendorfer et al.
==1814== Using Valgrind-3.12.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==1814== Command: /Users/mariomeloni/Develop/build/bin/btb
==1814== 
--1814-- warning: L3 cache found, using its data for the LL simulation.
==1814== For interactive control, run 'callgrind_control -h'.
--1814-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option
--1814-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 2 times)
--1814-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 4 times)
--1814-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 8 times)
--1814-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 16 times)

But, the analysis get stuck for hours and nothing happen.
I'm talking about an application with 200 c++ classes.

Is this normal ?
Any idea about it ?

Thanks in advanced and sorry for my bad english ;)
GG.

quadbyte · wrote on 5 Nov 2017, 12:01

Hi all,

Quite same experience on macOS 10.13.1 platform, seems valgring is not working at all:

Profiling /Users/thierry/Dev/QuarkEmu/bin/QuarkEmuDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/QuarkEmuDebug
==60360== Callgrind, a call-graph generating cache profiler
==60360== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Josef Weidendorfer et al.
==60360== Using Valgrind-3.14.0.GIT and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==60360== Command: /Users/thierry/Dev/QuarkEmu/bin/QuarkEmuDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/QuarkEmuDebug
==60360== 
==60360== For interactive control, run 'callgrind_control -h'.
--60360-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option
--60360-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 2 times)
--60360-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 4 times)
UNKNOWN workq_ops option 128
==60360== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x104085ecf.
==60360==    at 0x104085ECF: _dispatch_kq_init (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104083E87: _dispatch_client_callout (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104083E3A: dispatch_once_f (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1040A1BA9: _dispatch_kq_poll (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1040A1839: _dispatch_kq_drain (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1040A0C07: _dispatch_kq_unote_update (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x10409BF37: _dispatch_source_refs_register (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x10409C061: _dispatch_source_finalize_activation (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x10409508D: _dispatch_queue_resume_finalize_activation (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1044384F6: _notify_lib_init (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104438B89: notify_register_dispatch (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104E03CA7: CFUserNotificationCreate (in /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation)
==60360== Your program just tried to execute an instruction that Valgrind
==60360== did not recognise.  There are two possible reasons for this.
==60360== 1. Your program has a bug and erroneously jumped to a non-code
==60360==    location.  If you are running Memcheck and you just saw a
==60360==    warning about a bad jump, it's probably your program's fault.
==60360== 2. The instruction is legitimate but Valgrind doesn't handle it,
==60360==    i.e. it's Valgrind's fault.  If you think this is the case or
==60360==    you are not sure, please let us know and we'll try to fix it.
==60360== Either way, Valgrind will now raise a SIGILL signal which will
==60360== probably kill your program.
==60360== 
==60360== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL)
==60360==  Illegal opcode at address 0x104085ECF
==60360==    at 0x104085ECF: _dispatch_kq_init (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104083E87: _dispatch_client_callout (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104083E3A: dispatch_once_f (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1040A1BA9: _dispatch_kq_poll (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1040A1839: _dispatch_kq_drain (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1040A0C07: _dispatch_kq_unote_update (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x10409BF37: _dispatch_source_refs_register (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x10409C061: _dispatch_source_finalize_activation (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x10409508D: _dispatch_queue_resume_finalize_activation (in /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x1044384F6: _notify_lib_init (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104438B89: notify_register_dispatch (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib)
==60360==    by 0x104E03CA7: CFUserNotificationCreate (in /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation)
==60360== 
==60360== Events    : Ir
==60360== Collected : 254070349
==60360== 
==60360== I   refs:      254,070,349
Le programme s'est terminé subitement.
** Le processus a planté **
Analyzing finished.

aha_1980 · wrote on 17 Nov 2017, 21:54

@quadbyte: There is QTCREATORBUG-19004 which looks like your problem. Please see there for more information about the problem and the possible solution (upgrading valgrind)