[Valgrind-users] Valgrind @ FOSDEM - Sunday 2 February, 2014

[Mark W. <mj...@re...>]

Hi Valgrind hackers, developers and users,

Valgrind will have a devroom at FOSDEM 2014 on Sunday 2 February with
the follow talks:


Valgrind
Support in the
Eclipse IDE
 Roland
Grunberg 
10:00
10:25

Testing of
valgrind RPMs
in RHEL
 Miroslav
Franc 
10:30
10:55

SimuVEX
 Yan
Shoshitaishvili 
11:00
11:50

Helgrind: a
constraint-based data
race detector
 Julian
Seward 
13:00
13:50

Porting
Valgrind on
Solaris
 Ivo Raisr,
 Petr Pavlu 
14:00
14:25

GDB, so where
are we now?
 Pedro Alves 
15:00
15:25

Combining the
power of
Valgrind
and GDB
 Philippe
Waroquiers 
15:30
15:55

BoF: Valgrind
and GDB
integration
 Tom Tromey 
16:00
16:25

BoF: Ideas,
new features
and
directions for
Valgrind
 Mark
Wielaard 
16:30
17:45

More background information about the talks can be found at:
https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/valgrind/

For the last session we are still looking for ideas to discuss. It will
be an open discussion, so anything you like can be discussed. The
current list of discussion topics is:

* Release/bugfixing strategy/policy.
* Valgrind and transactional memory.
* Making Valgrind really multi-threaded, parallelising Memcheck,
  parallelising the rest of the framework, and tools.
* Better support compiled/JITted code. Allowing the JIT compiler to
  indicate to Valgrind the link between the JITted code and the source
  code.
* Modify memcheck to report the last leaked pointer to a block integrate
  "omega" as a memcheck option or omega as a separate tool.
  http://www.brainmurders.eclipse.co.uk/omega.html
* Should we continue to support MacOS?
  What about Valgrind on MS-Windows?
* Make Callgrind work sanely on ARM.
* Redo the JIT framework to reduce baseline overheads.
* Packaging valgrind for distros, handling patches, suppressions, etc.
* Flexible heuristic possibly leaked support. i.e. let the user specific
  an "expression" in a suppression file that if true would transform a
  possibly leaked into a reachable.
* An interactive SQL relational interface to Valgrind data structures
  https://github.com/mfragkoulis/PiCO_QL/tree/master/src/Valgrind-mod

I'll update the abstract of the BoF with the above and any other topics
people will bring up:
https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/valgrind_bof/

If you want to put something on the Valgrind BoF agenda please send a
small description (one or two paragraphs) to the the moderator Mark
Wielaard mj...@re... with in the subject: "FOSDEM devroom
discuss: ..." If you want to discuss a somewhat larger topic please do
feel free to send two or three slides in advance. Mark will collect
ideas/suggestions/... and present these and coordinate the discussion
(and keep track of the time, so every idea will be discussed).

Call For Video Volunteers

The FOSDEM organization can provide us with equipment to record some or
all of the talks in our devroom. But we need at volunteers to do the
actual recordings. An ideal candidate for this job would be someone who
is going to be watching talks in the Valgrind devroom most (or all) of
the time anyway, and who doesn't mind watching after a camera and/or an
audio mixer while watching the talk.

While some A/V experience is obviously useful for the volunteer, it is
absolutely not required; FOSDEM will provide the right gear and help set
it up, and FOSDEM organizers will also provide enough information so the
volunteers know what to do. This will include a live training session
during the opening talk (in Janson) for those who want it.

If you can and want to help record talks/discussions in the Valgrind
devroom that would be really appreciated.