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Date:      Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:18:48 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?B?VsOhY2xhdiBaZW1hbg==?= <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: valgrind on FreeBSD?
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote, On 9.10.2011 16:11:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:48:57PM +0200, V??clav Zeman wrote:
>> V??clav Zeman wrote, On 9.10.2011 15:25:
>>> Bakul Shah wrote, On 6.10.2011 8:40:
>>>> On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:06:04 +0200 =3D?UTF-8?B?VsOhY2xhdiBaZW1hbg=3D=
=3D?=3D <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz>  wrote:
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> No matter what I try, valgrind on 7.3-STABLE is giving me this, bot=
h Valgrind
>>>>> ports:
>>>>>
>>>>> valgrind: Startup or configuration error:
>>>>>    Can't establish current working directory at startup
>>>>> valgrind: Unable to start up properly.  Giving up.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do I need to do to make it work?
>>>>
>>>> Try running valgrind under ktrace (& view with kdump). That
>>>> will tell you what directory it is trying to access or what
>>>> syscall fails and why.
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> So I have done that and more. I have first updated from 7.3 to 8.2 (R=
ELENG_8
>>> actually). I have not managed to recompile all of the installed Ports=
 yet,
>>> but I made sure to recompile valgrind and its dependencies. The same =
thing
>>> has happened!
>>>
>>> As I have said, I have done the ktrace and here is the interesting bi=
t:
>>>
>>>  78028 valgrind NAMI  "/usr/local/lib/valgrind/memcheck-amd64-freebsd=
"
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   execve 0
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  getpid
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   getpid 78028/0x130cc
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL
>>> __sysctl(0x39a91450,0x4,0x389a3800,0x39a91468,0,0)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free SCTL  "kern.proc.vmmap.78028"
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   __sysctl 0
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL
>>> mmap(0x400009000,0x400000,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,MAP_PRIVATE|=
MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANON,0xffffffffffffffff,0)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   mmap 17179906048/0x400009000
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA,0x39e6a780)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   getrlimit 0
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA,0x39a919e0)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   setrlimit 0
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK,0x39e6a790)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   getrlimit 0
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  __getcwd(0x3882d700,0x3ff)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free NAMI  ".."
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   __getcwd -1 errno 2 No such file or =
directory
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  write(0x2,0x3830b060,0x6c)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free GIO   fd 2 wrote 108 bytes
>>>        "valgrind: Startup or configuration error:
>>>         valgrind:    Can't establish current working directory at sta=
rtup
>>>        "
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   write 108/0x6c
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  write(0x2,0x3830b060,0x33)
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free GIO   fd 2 wrote 51 bytes
>>>        "valgrind: Unable to start up properly.  Giving up.
>>>        "
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free RET   write 51/0x33
>>>  78028 memcheck-amd64-free CALL  exit(0x1)
>>>
>>> Now what? Why would the __getcwd call be failing with "No such file o=
r
>>> directory"?
>>>
>> It is the nullfs!
>>
>> I have /home mounted using nullfs to /usr/home:
>>
>> /usr/home               /home                   nullfs  rw,multilabel,=
acls
>>    0 0
>>
>> When I run valgrind from the /usr based directory, it works:
>>
>> shell::wilx:/usr/home/users/wilx/tmp/yttool> valgrind --tool=3Dmemchec=
k ./yttool
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D Memcheck, a memory error detector
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Se=
ward et al.
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D Using Valgrind-3.6.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for c=
opyright info
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D Command: ./yttool
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D HEAP SUMMARY:
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D     in use at exit: 20,395 bytes in 119 blocks
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D   total heap usage: 6,719 allocs, 6,600 frees, 716,7=
87 bytes allocated
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D LEAK SUMMARY:
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D      possibly lost: 134 bytes in 4 blocks
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D    still reachable: 20,261 bytes in 115 blocks
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D Rerun with --leak-check=3Dfull to see details of lea=
ked memory
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun =
with: -v
>> =3D=3D34679=3D=3D ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed:=
 0 from 0)
>>
>> But when I run it from the nullfs mount, it fails:
>>
>> shell::wilx:/usr/home/users/wilx/tmp/yttool> cd $HOME/tmp/yttool
>> shell::wilx:~/tmp/yttool> valgrind --tool=3Dmemcheck ./yttool
>> valgrind: Startup or configuration error:
>> valgrind:    Can't establish current working directory at startup
>> valgrind: Unable to start up properly.  Giving up.
>=20
> Amazing how userland utilities behave differently depending upon the
> underlying filesystem type, eh?  Good thing I asked what your underlyin=
g
> filesystem types were.  Don't ever think that "it'll all just work".
> :-)
>=20
> I believe there are other issues/stipulations with nullfs (some have
> been reported over the years), so I'm not too surprised by this issue.
> I have no idea who currently maintains nullfs(5) either; it looks like =
a
> major group effort given the committers who have touched it in the past=

> few years:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/fs/nullfs/
>=20
> I'm CC'ing Kostik (kib@) as he might have some ideas.
>=20
> If this isn't a known issue, please file a PR for the issue with
> nullfs(5).  The issue is not within valgrind, so the PR should not be
> for that.
I have filled a PR: <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D161424>=


>=20
> As for a workaround: is there some reason you can't just use "ln -s
> /usr/home /home" and solve the problem?
None. I remember using nullfs for /home instead of the link because I jus=
t
liked that it never has shown /usr there and also because it seemed coole=
r. :)

--=20
VZ


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