Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:58:10 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Recording allocation location for blocks of memory? |
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Hello!
I have vague memories of some facility some time some where that recorded who allocated a given block of memory, but am not seeing anything that does this at present. The problem is rare enough and the situation sufficiently performance-sensitive that things like ftrace need not apply, and the BPF guys suggest that BPF might not be the best tool for this job.
The problem I am trying to solve is that a generic function that detects reference count underflow that was passed to call_rcu(), and there are a lot of places where the underlying problem might lie, and pretty much no information. One thing that could help is something that identifies which use case the underflow corresponds to.
So, is there something out there (including old patches) that, given a pointer to allocated memory, gives some information about who allocated it? Or should I risk further inflaming the MM guys by creating one? ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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