Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] kmemtrace: Core implementation.

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as kmalloc,
> kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected data is then fed
> to the userspace application in order to analyse allocation hotspots,
> internal fragmentation and so on, making it possible to see how well an
> allocator performs, as well as debug and profile kernel code.
> [...]

It may make sense to mention in addition that this version of
kmemtrace uses markers as the low-level hook mechanism, and this makes
the data generated directly accessible to other tracing tools such as
systemtap.  Thank you!


- FChE
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