[dpdk-dev] Using valgrind with DPDK app

[Montorsi, Francesco]

Hi all,
I would like to know if it's possible to run my DPDK application (I'm using DPDK 19.11) under Valgrind.
I tried but it gets stuck apparently while accessing hugepages:

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AL: Detected memory type: socket_id:0 hugepage_sz:1073741824
EAL: Detected memory type: socket_id:1 hugepage_sz:1073741824
EAL: Creating 4 segment lists: n_segs:32 socket_id:0 hugepage_sz:1073741824
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x100033000 (size = 0x1000)
EAL: Memseg list allocated: 0x100000kB at socket 0
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x800000000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x140000000 (size = 0x800000000)
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x940000000 (size = 0x1000)
EAL: Memseg list allocated: 0x100000kB at socket 0
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x800000000 bytes
EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0xa80001000 != 0x1040000000) not respected!
EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x1040000000 (size = 0x800000000)
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0xac0001000 (size = 0x1000)
EAL: Memseg list allocated: 0x100000kB at socket 0
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x800000000 bytes
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I've seen there was some attempt a few years ago:
    http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2016-February/033108.html
has anything changed since that?

Also I see that Luca has created a project here
  https://github.com/bluca/valgrind-dpdk
but seems like there were no changes since 3 years... I wonder if that works or not with recent DPDK versions...

Thanks for any hint,

Francesco Montorsi