[Valgrind-users] Exclude/suppress individual allocation tracking in massif?

[Brian M. <bm...@ar...>]

Hello,

Is there any way to suppress the tracking of particular allocations while
running my app with massif? 

We have the situation that we are tracking the memory usage of a 
algorithmic process and are not concerned with certain allocations within 
our app as they are not counted against our memory budget. Is there any 
way using a suppression file or other approach that massif will 
exclude/ignore allocations that we specify as insignificant? I'm using the 
current cvs version of valgrind/massif and looking at the code, there was 
no obvious way to do this. Using the --alloc-fn switch is not exactly what 
we need, since those allocations are still accounted for as part of the 
overall picture, which is what we're trying to avoid.

I am willing to take a crack at making some mods myself, but I am looking 
for pointers so that I don't inadvertently mess up key internal 
housekeeping data or otherwise throw off my results in strange ways.

thanks in advance,
--Brian Mosher