From: Bart Van Assche Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:15:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated to do list. X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_4_0~981 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54f96f1d13a559588a06f2afa06d8ebce5e74cbb;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git Updated to do list. git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7537 --- diff --git a/exp-drd/TODO.txt b/exp-drd/TODO.txt index e08aaa3246..1b6c7cb43a 100644 --- a/exp-drd/TODO.txt +++ b/exp-drd/TODO.txt @@ -4,26 +4,26 @@ Last updated February 17, 2008 Data-race detection algorithm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- pthread rwlock state tracking and support. -- Print an error message when memory is freed that contains a locked - reader-writer synchronization object. -- Print an error message when a semaphore is freed that is being waited upon. - 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. -- Make sure tc14_laog_dinphils is run during exp-drd regression tests. - 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 #. - 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 -- 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. - Performance testing and tuning. - testing on PPC and AIX (current implementation is only tested on X86 and AMD64). @@ -31,9 +31,8 @@ Data-race detection algorithm a crash on AMD64. Is this an exp-drd or a VEX bug ? - On x86 and amd64 platforms, add support for implicit locking arising from the use of the LOCK instruction prefix. -- Add test programs for destroying a condition variable / semaphore / barrier - being waited upon. - Convert the array in drd_thread.c with thread information into an OSet. +- Enable format string checking for DRD during compilation. Testing @@ -41,6 +40,7 @@ Testing - 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) Documentation @@ -65,6 +65,5 @@ Known bugs (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. -- tc04_free_lock fails on AMD64 + openSUSE 10.3 (free() locked mutex). - No error message is printed for tc20_verifywrap when a locked mutex is deallocated (mutex was allocated on the stack).