On 07/30/2010 04:26 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to use fork/execve to launch other programs running under
> valgrind from the parent.
>
> I'm seeing this in my logs.  I know the comment talks about exe with very
> large text, but does the ~2MB shown in this printout mean it's
> not too large and maybe there is some other reason?
>
> Is it somehow invalid to run valgrind through fork/execve?

I figured this out:  I was running the parent process with --trace-children,
and also explicitly running the children under valgrind.

Looks like that is a bad idea.  If someone wanted to update the UME error
message to warn about that case that would be nice as well.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Other apps seem to work fine under valgrind on this system, and
> I tried both the standard version that comes with Fedora 11 as well as
> today's SVN checkout.
>
> valgrind: mmap(0x38000000, 2080768) failed in UME with error 22 (Invalid 
> argument).
> valgrind: this can be caused by executables with very large text, data or bss 
> segments.
> valgrind: mmap(0x38000000, 2080768) failed in UME with error 22 (Invalid 
> argument).
> valgrind: this can be caused by executables with very large text, data or bss 
> segments.
> valgrind: mmap(0x38000000, 2080768) failed in UME with error 22 (Invalid 
> argument).
> valgrind: this can be caused by executables with very large text, data or bss 
> segments.
>
>
> My OS is 64-bit Fedora 11, 12GB RAM, core-i7 processor, etc.  I tried under 
> the 2.6.31
> kernel as well as .34.  My kernels are hand built and contain some hacks and 
> patches,
> but hopefully nothing that could influence this.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>


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Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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