Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing, page-allocator: Add a postprocessing script for page-allocator-related ftrace events

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 22:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Did you never want to see whether firefox is leaking [any sort of] 
> memory, and if yes, on what callsites? Try something like on an 
> already running firefox context:
> 
>   perf stat -e kmem:mm_page_alloc \
>             -e kmem:mm_pagevec_free \
>             -e kmem:mm_page_free_direct \
>      -p $(pidof firefox-bin) sleep 10
> 
> .... and "perf record" for the specific callsites.

If these tracepoints were to use something like (not yet in mainline)

  TP_perf_assign(
 	__perf_data(obj);
  ),

Where obj was the thing being allocated/freed, you could, when using
PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR even match up alloc/frees, combined with
PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN you could then figure out where the unmatched
entries came from.

Might be useful, dunno.