Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754980AbYGVVa7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:30:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752858AbYGVVaw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:30:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41128 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752782AbYGVVav (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:30:51 -0400 To: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, cl@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, mpm@selenic.co Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] kmemtrace: Core implementation. References: <1216751493-13785-1-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> <1216751493-13785-2-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:28:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1216751493-13785-2-git-send-email-eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> (eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:30 +0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 22 Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/