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Re: perf fails to mmap data file (JFFS2)

From Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: perf fails to mmap data file (JFFS2)
Date 2015-09-03 21:00 +0200
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Kenth Eriksson <kenth.eriksson@transmode.com> writes:

> perf on 4.1 fails to mmap the perf data file (in
> __perf_session__process_events) with error code 22 (invalid
> argument). I believe the JFFS2 file system does not support PROT_READ
> and MAP_SHARED. How can this be fixed? Can we change from MAP_SHARED
> to MAP_PRIVATE, or is there a reason to make it shared?

MAP_PRIVATE should be fine.

-Andi
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perf fails to mmap data file (JFFS2) Kenth Eriksson <kenth.eriksson@transmode.com> - 2015-09-03 10:00 +0200
  Re: perf fails to mmap data file (JFFS2) Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2015-09-03 21:00 +0200
    [PATCH] Fix mmap error for perf data file. Not all file systems, e.g. JFFS2, support MAP_SHARED. Kenth Eriksson <kenth.eriksson@transmode.com> - 2015-09-04 09:10 +0200

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