Re: [GIT PULL 0/5] perf/core improvements and fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 17 2011 - 02:50:32 EST



* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:09:32PM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> > On 10/15/2011 01:06 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > >>
> > >> It should. The message comes from map__load() when it detects a deleted
> > >> mapping such as:
> > >>
> > >> 7f9e8d5c7000-7f9e8d5c8000 rw-p 0000c000 fd:02 1046947
> > >> /lib64/libpam.so.0.82.2.#prelink#.cM3f72 (deleted)
> > >>
> > >> I have removed prelink from most of my systems (managed to find one lone
> > >> server with the above).
> > >
> > > Can you send me a patch that clarifies this situation?
> >
> > Clarifies in what way? The code checks for "(deleted)" on the dso and
> > suggests a restart of the process.
>
> Perhaps telling that prelinking is the reason, so that users that
> don't recall updating anything understands the situation.

Yeah. I am certainly aware of prelinking yet it did not occur to me
when i saw the message.

Thanks,

Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/