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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Sat Oct 15 2011 - 15:06:32 EST


Em Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:46:14AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
>
>
> On 10/15/2011 11:04 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/15/2011 08:59 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>> Btw., i noticed another weirdness - sometimes after startup i get
> >>> this message:
> >>>
> >>> /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so was updated, restart the long running apps that use it!
> >>>
> >>> but it was not updated recently:
> >>>
> >>> earth5:~/tip/tools/perf> ll /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
> >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2062920 Sep 28 15:11 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
> >>> earth5:~/tip/tools/perf> date
> >>> Sat Oct 15 16:59:04 CEST 2011
> >>> earth5:~/tip/tools/perf> uptime
> >>> 16:59:08 up 19 days, 21:35, 11 users, load average: 7.77, 7.48, 3.81
> >>
> >> I got the impression that comment was relative to when the
> >> processes were started versus prelink touching it. In your case the
> >> mod time of libc is after the uptime of the box.
> >
> > Ok, that makes sense. Do we report this in perf report output as
> > well?
>
> 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).

David,

Can you send me a patch that clarifies this situation?

- Arnaldo
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