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From: Jeremy F. <je...@go...> - 2004-07-05 01:43:55
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On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 19:38 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > As a result it typically seems to get allocated in the valgrind part > of the address space which can't be accessed by the client while > pointer checking is turned on. As libaio tries to peek at it in order > to avoid entering the kernel when io_getevents is called and there > are no events pending this is a problem... > > Anybody got any suggestions for a way of handling this? The most immediate is to try and get the AIO people to change such a braindead API. There aren't any other instances of a syscall plonking things down in memory without some way to control it. Would mremap work on these things, so we can move them down into the client address space? J |