On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:41:16AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
The LXC driver makes use of new clone flags for creating containers.
It
creates a dummy container which immediately exits in order to test for
availabilty of this feature in the kernel. Unfortunately valgrind has
no knowledge of these new clone flags, gets very very unhappy and then
reports bogus memory leaks, bogus illegal instructions, and then often
SEGV's itself. Not cool. While obviously valgrind needs fixing, I looked
at its code, and it doesn't seem easy, so this patch adds a quick check
for a LD_PRELOAD environemnt variable which contains a library whose
name contains 'vgpreload'. If it sees this, LXC driver totally disables
itself. This lets me reliably valgrind the libvirtd daemon again.
Okay, this is a workaround hack, I'm fine applying it but
we should log this somewhere (TODO ?) to think about cleaning
this up when valgrind get fixed.
Daniel
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