Re: perf/jit doesn't cope well with mprotect() to jit containing pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 01:00:52PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> The problem is that (quoted below) without that hack the subsequent
> mmaps just expand the previous VMAs which leads to perf loosing its
> (address,range) -> symbol mappings for previously (in the same expanded
> range) known symbols.

I'm assuming this is the userspace tool doing that, right?

Acme, is that something we can cure? Instead of throwing away eveything
known of the previous map, merge them when they grow?

So I think the problem was that we don't track munmap(), so if you see
two overlapping mappings, we have no clue and assume an munmap() has
happened or something. I can't really remember, its been many many years
since I wrote all that :-(