From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] perf record: Release resources at exit
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:30:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802073009.GB7841@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280711334-30000-12-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 10:08:46PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
>
> So that we can reduce the noise on valgrind when looking for memory
> leaks.
Really? That's rather crappy of valgrind. exit is well defined to
release resources and that's often a more efficient way to do it
It finds and batches things a lot better, eg. it can avoid all
TLB flushing of freeing memory that munmap requires.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 01/19] perf hists: Mark entries filtered by parent Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 02/19] perf sort: Make column width code per hists instance Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 03/19] perf ui: Restore SPACE as an alias to PGDN in annotate Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 04/19] perf hist: Introduce routine to measure lenght of formatted entry Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 05/19] perf ui: Consider the refreshed dimensions in ui_browser__show Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 06/19] perf ui: Show the scroll bar over the left window frame Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 07/19] perf ui: New hists tree widget Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 08/19] perf report: Don't abbreviate file paths relative to the cwd Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 09/19] perf tools: Remove unneeded code for tracking the cwd in perf sessions Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 10/19] perf man pages: Fix cut'n'paste error Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 11/19] perf record: Release resources at exit Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 7:30 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-08-02 7:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-08-02 8:03 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-02 9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-08-02 9:59 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-02 14:49 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 8:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 12/19] perf symbols: Precisely specify if dso->{long,short}_name should be freed Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 13/19] perf tools: Factor out buildid reading and make it implicit in dso__load Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 14/19] perf tools: remove extra build-id check factored into dso__load Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 15/19] perf symbols: Improve debug image search when loading symbols Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 16/19] perf tui: Make CTRL+Z suspend perf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 17/19] perf probe: Rename common fields/functions from kprobe to probe Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 18/19] perf tools: Release thread resources on PERF_RECORD_EXIT Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 1:08 ` [PATCH 19/19] perf tools: Release session and symbol resources on exit Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-08-02 6:26 ` [PATCH 00/19] perf/core improvements and fixes Ingo Molnar
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