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

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

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:04 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Valgrind hackers, developers and users,
> 
> Valgrind will have a devroom at FOSDEM 2014 on Sunday 2 February with
> the follow talks:

Apologies for messing up the formatting. Here it is again, hopefully
better readable. If not, please just see:
https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/valgrind/

10:00 - 10:25
Valgrind Support in the Eclipse IDE
An Overview of the Eclipse Valgrind plugin provided by the Linux Tools
Project
Roland Grunberg 

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

11:00 - 11:50
SimuVEX
Using VEX in Symbolic Analysis
Yan Shoshitaishvili

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

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

15:00 - 15:25
GDB, so where are we now?
Status of GDB's ongoing target and run control projects
Pedro Alves

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

16:00 - 16:25
BoF: Valgrind and GDB integration
Crazy and fun ways to make the Valgrind/GDB combo more powerful
Tom Tromey

16:30 - 17:45
BoF: Ideas, new features and directions for Valgrind
Open discussion about small (or big) ideas to improve or change
Valgrind.
Mark Wielaard 

> 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.