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SubjectRe: [uml-devel] [PATCH 2/6] UML: Don't valgrind userspace
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:15:24PM -0700, Steve VanDeBogart wrote:
> Add a flag to tell Valgrind to run the forked child natively. Necessary
> because Valgrind makes additional system calls to instrumented processes,
> which confuse UML.

> +#ifdef UML_CONFIG_VALGRIND_SUPPORT
> + flags |= VALGRIND_CLONE_LETGO;
> +#endif
> + }

I keep forgetting that I have a really bad feeling about this:

+#define VALGRIND_CLONE_LETGO 0x80000000 /* do not track fork like childr
en*/

This is effectively appropriating part of the kernel's ABI for
valgrind's use. Not to mention that that bit is already taken:

#define CLONE_IO 0x80000000 /* Clone io context */

Could you do this with an annotation that says "let the next clone run
untraced"?

Jeff

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