Re: [PATCH 11/19] perf record: Release resources at exit

[Nick Piggin]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 10:08:46PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So that we can reduce the noise on valgrind when looking for memory
> leaks.

Really? That's rather crappy of valgrind. exit is well defined to
release resources and that's often a more efficient way to do it
It finds and batches things a lot better, eg. it can avoid all
TLB flushing of freeing memory that munmap requires.

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