* [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/heaptrack: new package
@ 2026-07-31 17:25 Luca Ceresoli via buildroot
2026-07-31 18:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Luca Ceresoli via buildroot @ 2026-07-31 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: buildroot; +Cc: Thomas Petazzoni, Luca Ceresoli
Add heaptrack, a memory allocation tracer toolkit.
This implementation builds all the command line components, not the
heaptrack_gui graphical visualization program.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
---
package/Config.in | 1 +
package/heaptrack/Config.in | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
package/heaptrack/heaptrack.hash | 1 +
package/heaptrack/heaptrack.mk | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index fc1e57d30dd7..7caf56e6de6f 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ menu "Debugging, profiling and benchmark"
source "package/fwts/Config.in"
source "package/gdb/Config.in"
source "package/google-breakpad/Config.in"
+ source "package/heaptrack/Config.in"
source "package/hyperfine/Config.in"
source "package/iozone/Config.in"
source "package/k3conf/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/heaptrack/Config.in b/package/heaptrack/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ea54195c9318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/heaptrack/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_HEAPTRACK
+ bool "heaptrack"
+ depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
+ depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_IOSTREAMS
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_PROGRAM_OPTIONS
+ # For heaptrack_print
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_FILESYSTEM
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUNWIND
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS
+ help
+ Heaptrack traces all memory allocations and annotates these
+ events with stack traces. Dedicated analysis tools then allow
+ you to interpret the heap memory profile to find hotspots,
+ memory leaks, allocation hotspots and temporary allocations.
+
+ Zstandard offers better (de)compression performance compared
+ with gzip/zlib, making heaptrack faster and datafiles smaller,
+ so enabling BR2_PACKAGE_ZSTD is recommended.
+
+ https://apps.kde.org/heaptrack/
+
+comment "heaptrack needs a toolchain w/ C++"
+ depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
diff --git a/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.hash b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d9eb6010ac18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+sha256 e69de2209ab0e16c8e26c1b60feeb852b3a88e46a4f16588c08254e1bd81a183 heaptrack-3e6cce3d210a6672fe6f92de0bed567c49b7a9c5-git4.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.mk b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6349e7aeb04d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# heaptrack
+#
+################################################################################
+
+HEAPTRACK_SITE_METHOD = git
+HEAPTRACK_SITE = https://invent.kde.org/sdk/heaptrack.git
+HEAPTRACK_VERSION = 3e6cce3d210a6672fe6f92de0bed567c49b7a9c5
+HEAPTRACK_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1-or-later, GPL-2.0-or-later (heaptrack_interpret)
+HEAPTRACK_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-only.txt \
+ LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt \
+ LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt \
+ LICENSES/BSL-1.0.txt \
+ LICENSES/MIT.txt \
+ LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt \
+ LICENSES/BSD-3-Clause.txt
+HEAPTRACK_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf linux boost libunwind zlib elfutils
+HEAPTRACK_CONF_OPTS += -DHEAPTRACK_BUILD_GUI=OFF -DHEAPTRACK_BUILD_PRINT=ON
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ZSTD),y)
+HEAPTRACK_DEPENDENCIES += zstd
+endif
+
+$(eval $(cmake-package))
---
base-commit: 9bc585a804b2ce7b5f82f538f6108cca27c3116a
change-id: 20260731-heaptrack-cd4f6f8fcec8
Best regards,
--
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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* Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/heaptrack: new package
2026-07-31 17:25 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/heaptrack: new package Luca Ceresoli via buildroot
@ 2026-07-31 18:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot @ 2026-07-31 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Luca Ceresoli; +Cc: buildroot
Hello,
On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 07:25:35PM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> diff --git a/package/heaptrack/Config.in b/package/heaptrack/Config.in
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..ea54195c9318
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/heaptrack/Config.in
> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_HEAPTRACK
> + bool "heaptrack"
> + depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
> + depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
You also need to replicate the "depends on" the things you select, so:
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # boost, libunwind, elfutils
depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # boost, elfutils
depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUNWIND_ARCH_SUPPORTS
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # libunwind
depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # libunwind, elfutils
Also, I'm curious about the BR2_LINUX_KERNEL dependency. heaptrack
builds its own kernel modules?
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_IOSTREAMS
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_PROGRAM_OPTIONS
> + # For heaptrack_print
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_FILESYSTEM
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUNWIND
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS
Also, these selects should be sorted alphabetically.
> + help
> + Heaptrack traces all memory allocations and annotates these
> + events with stack traces. Dedicated analysis tools then allow
> + you to interpret the heap memory profile to find hotspots,
> + memory leaks, allocation hotspots and temporary allocations.
> +
> + Zstandard offers better (de)compression performance compared
> + with gzip/zlib, making heaptrack faster and datafiles smaller,
> + so enabling BR2_PACKAGE_ZSTD is recommended.
> +
> + https://apps.kde.org/heaptrack/
> +
> +comment "heaptrack needs a toolchain w/ C++"
> + depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
This needs to be updated with the dependencies above.
> diff --git a/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.hash b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.hash
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..d9eb6010ac18
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.hash
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +sha256 e69de2209ab0e16c8e26c1b60feeb852b3a88e46a4f16588c08254e1bd81a183 heaptrack-3e6cce3d210a6672fe6f92de0bed567c49b7a9c5-git4.tar.gz
Add comment indicating the provenance of this hash.
Add the hashes of the license files.
> diff --git a/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.mk b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.mk
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..6349e7aeb04d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/heaptrack/heaptrack.mk
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +################################################################################
> +#
> +# heaptrack
> +#
> +################################################################################
> +
> +HEAPTRACK_SITE_METHOD = git
> +HEAPTRACK_SITE = https://invent.kde.org/sdk/heaptrack.git
> +HEAPTRACK_VERSION = 3e6cce3d210a6672fe6f92de0bed567c49b7a9c5
> +HEAPTRACK_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1-or-later, GPL-2.0-or-later (heaptrack_interpret)
> +HEAPTRACK_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-only.txt \
> + LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt \
> + LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt \
> + LICENSES/BSL-1.0.txt \
> + LICENSES/MIT.txt \
> + LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt \
> + LICENSES/BSD-3-Clause.txt
One tab indentation for follow-up lines is enough.
> +HEAPTRACK_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf linux boost libunwind zlib elfutils
> +HEAPTRACK_CONF_OPTS += -DHEAPTRACK_BUILD_GUI=OFF -DHEAPTRACK_BUILD_PRINT=ON
> +
> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ZSTD),y)
> +HEAPTRACK_DEPENDENCIES += zstd
> +endif
> +
> +$(eval $(cmake-package))
>
> ---
> base-commit: 9bc585a804b2ce7b5f82f538f6108cca27c3116a
> change-id: 20260731-heaptrack-cd4f6f8fcec8
Would it be difficult to add a test case in support/testing/?
Thanks a lot!
Thomas
--
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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