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sandbox: Add documentation on how to run valgrind

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U-Boot sandbox can run with valgrind to check memory allocations. Add
documentation on how to do this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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Simon Glass 2019-05-18 11:59:50 -06:00
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@ -442,6 +442,20 @@ If sdl-config is on a different path from the default, set the SDL_CONFIG
environment variable to the correct pathname before building U-Boot.
Using valgrind / memcheck
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It is possible to run U-Boot under valgrind to check memory allocations:
valgrind u-boot
If you are running sandbox SPL or TPL, then valgrind will not by default
notice when U-Boot jumps from TPL to SPL, or from SPL to U-Boot proper. To
fix this, use:
valgrind --trace-children=yes u-boot
Testing
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