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Re: [GIT PULL] leaking_addresses.pl changes for 4.16-rc1

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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) A bigger deal is that it now wants perl-bigint, as of commit 8d8a77fb99bd ("leaking_addresses: add range check for vsyscall memory").
memory").
And that is not apparently a common enough perl module to be installed by default.
by default.
Sure, I just ran
Sure, I just ran
dnf install 'perl(bigint)'
dnf install 'perl(bigint)'
and it did the right thing, but it does seem to be something of an inconvenience.
inconvenience.
And things are *slow*, to the point of breakage. I get timed out parsing: /proc/kallsyms
timed out parsing: /proc/2177/smaps
timed out parsing: /proc/2238/smaps
timed out parsing: /proc/2336/smaps
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...
and no actual output.

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