From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 12:38:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: doc: how to trace consumerd with valgrind
X-Git-Tag: v2.8.7~15
X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2a459da77243b7d0b28fe905edfa722c6a84967;p=lttng-tools.git

doc: how to trace consumerd with valgrind

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
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diff --git a/doc/valgrind-howto.txt b/doc/valgrind-howto.txt
index 68dcaba1c..b1910e0a8 100644
--- a/doc/valgrind-howto.txt
+++ b/doc/valgrind-howto.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,8 @@ Build lttng-tools with "-DVALGRIND" to create executables compatible
 with the valgrind tool. The start with e.g.:
 
 valgrind --leak-check=full lttng-sessiond
+
+If you want to track memory allocations and accesses within
+lttng-sessiond children processes (e.g. lttng-consumerd) as well:
+
+valgrind --leak-check=full --trace-children=yes lttng-sessiond