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SubjectRe: [RFC] perf: mmap2 not covering VM_CLONE regions
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:44:41PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was alerted by people trying to use the PERF_RECORD_MMAP2
> record to disambiguate virtual address mappings that there is a case
> where the record does not contain enough information.
>
> As you know, the MMAP2 record adds the major, minor, ino number,
> inode generation numbers to a mapping. But it does that only for
> file or pseudo -file backed mappings. That covers file mmaps and also
> SYSV shared memory segments.
>
> However there is a another kind of situation that arises in some
> multi-process benchmarks where a region of memory is cloned
> using VM_CLONE. As such, the virtual addresses match between
> the processes but the major, minor, inode, inode generation fields
> are all zeroes because there is no inode associated with the mapping.
> Yet, it is important for the tool to know the mappings between the
> processes are pointing to the same physical data.
>
> We need to cover this case and I am seeking for advice on how to
> best address this need given that we discarded using the plain physical
> address for disambiguation.

Urgh.. who in his bloody mind is playing VM_CLNOE games that is not
pthread_creatE() ?


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