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Re: [linuxtools-dev] Remote Valgrind 
Hi Marc,
This is interesting work and could be used in conjunction with the remote work being done or as an alternative to it.
The remote tools work is attempting to unify the tools so that there is only one server needed on the remote machine. Currently, there is a central method for running commands and accessing files on the remote system via RSE, or TCF via RSE (i.e. you can have a TCF or RSE server running remotely).
The current Valgrind remote launch sends the executable to the remote system and starts Valgrind there, outputs the data to a remote file, then shuttles the data file back for processing locally.
Whether the data is still output when Valgrind is running in the special gdbserver mode, I do not know at this time. If it does get generated, then Valgrind could still generate the chart data and one could use gdb to control the Valgrind run.
Alternatively, one could simply start Valgrind in the special mode on the remote system and use gdb to access it locally and by-pass the remote Valgrind launcher altogether. 

-- Jeff J.

On 11/08/2011 02:10 PM, Marc Khouzam wrote:

Hi,

there has been a lot of interest on using Linux Tools towards a
remote target.  I haven't followed the discussions in all their
details so I'm not sure if the following has been mentioned before.

It was brought to my attention that the very recent release of
Valgrind has some remote support through GDB.  I thought this
may be of interest to the people involved.  Maybe re-using CDT's
GDB integration could be an easy solution to control Valgrind.


Valgrind 3.7.0 Released (5 November 2011)

http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html

Some changes..:
====
* GDB server: Valgrind now has an embedded GDB server.  That means it
   is possible to control a Valgrind run from GDB, doing all the usual
   things that GDB can do (single stepping, breakpoints, examining
   data, etc).  Tool-specific functionality is also available.  For
   example, it is possible to query the definedness state of variables
   or memory from within GDB when running Memcheck; arbitrarily large
   memory watchpoints are supported, etc.  To use the GDB server, start
   Valgrind with the flag --vgdb-error=0 and follow the on-screen
   instructions.
====

Marc
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