valgrind +2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Mon Aug 7 08:06:37 UTC 2006


Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> Running valgrind-3.1.0-2 on a gtkmm program I'm writing, I get
> 
> --662-- WARNING: unhandled syscall: 311
> --662-- You may be able to write your own handler.
> --662-- Read the file README_MISSING_SYSCALL_OR_IOCTL.
> 
> Followed the steps in README_MISSING_SYSCALL_OR_IOCTL and
> with some help from the valgrind mailing list it turns out there
> are some system calls in /usr/linux/asm/unistd.h that valgrind
> expects, but are not present in kernel-2.6.17-1.xxx. 
> Specifically, 311 refers to set_robust_lists. However,
> this system call IS present in kernel-2.6.17-7. 
> 
> I don't want to compile the kernel, if I don't have to.
> Does anyone know when the newer kernel might be available in FC5?

I may be wrong, but it seems the opposite to me:
valgrind is missing the handler for a syscall that the kernel has.

I'd try a more recent version of valgrind.

Best regards.
-- 
   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it




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