Jirka Hladky, le Thu 11 Nov 2010 20:03:20 +0100, a écrit :
> On Thursday, November 11, 2010 07:19:41 pm Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Jirka Hladky, le Thu 11 Nov 2010 14:50:46 +0100, a écrit :
> > > "On this system function XYZ is not supported by GLIBC/KERNEL)"
> > >
> > > I'm missing the information:
> > >
> > > -which function is not implemented
> >
> > Well, you have it: hwloc_proc_getmembind()
> > How it'd be called by the OS in the future is unknown of course.
> >
> > > -where this function belong - is it system call, glibc or hwloc's
> > > function?
> >
> > It's always system call or glibc function, it depends on the system and
> > we can't know where it'd be implemented in the future. Or our lack of
> > knowledge of which system call can provide the functionality.
>
> Well, I think I have not expressed myself correctly. At the moment we have:
>
> hwloc_get_membind failed (errno 38 Function not implemented)
>
> I would like to see which glibc/system call has failed.
> Example:
> ============================================
> err = get_mempolicy(&linuxpolicy, linuxmask, max_os_index, 0, 0);
> if (err < 0) {
> perror("get_mempolicy"); <====== ADD THIS LINE
> goto out_with_mask;
> }
My point is that the fix here is _not_ about get_mempolicy. Hwloc didn't
even call it. Hwloc just knows that Linux doesn't provide any function
to get the mempolicy of another process. The get_mempolicy function
doesn't take a pid, and thus will never take one, so another OS function
will have to be defined in the future by Linux people, which will wear
another name. So printing "get_mempolicy" will not actually help.
> My first impression when I saw the error message above was that function
> "hwloc_get_membind" is not implemented.
hwloc_bind should probably print "hwloc_proc_get_membind" instead when
it gives the flag, indeed. I don't think much more can be printed.
Samuel
