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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Leszek Urbanski <tygrys@moo.pl>
Cc: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Free iovec arrays allocated by multiwrite_merge()
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:36:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD43747.1070403@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421201340.GB26113@moo.pl>

On 04/21/2010 11:13 PM, Leszek Urbanski wrote:
> <20100421200358.GH24351@us.ibm.com>; from Ryan Harper on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 15:03:58 -0500
>
>    
>>> Debugging with mtrace() also pointed to the iovec code as the culprit.
>>>        
>> I've not used mtrace before, could you dump your command invocation for
>> the list?  I know other's would be glad to see an example with kvm
>>      
> #include<mcheck.c>, put mtrace() and muntrace() around the code in main()
> in vl.c
>
> export MALLOC_TRACE=/some/file
>
> then run qemu with your usual options. After powering off the guest,
> run "mtrace /path/to/qemu-binary /some/file" - it's a perl script that makes
> the output more human readable.
>
> It's a little tricky, though - remember that it will see most allocations
> occurring in qemu-malloc.c - it only traces explicit glibc malloc() calls.
>    

Does it show only the immediate caller, without a complete stack trace?

If so, that sucks.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-25 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-20 22:29 Huge memory leak in virtio, see kvm-Bugs-2989366 Leszek Urbanski
2010-04-20 22:51 ` Alexander Graf
2010-04-21  7:53   ` Leszek Urbanski
2010-04-21  8:25     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-21  1:58 ` Ryan Harper
2010-04-21  6:08   ` Michael Tokarev
2010-04-21 13:29     ` Leszek Urbanski
2010-04-21 18:39       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-21 14:32     ` Ryan Harper
2010-04-21 18:27       ` [PATCH] block: Free iovec arrays allocated by multiwrite_merge() Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-21 18:35         ` Ryan Harper
2010-04-21 18:43           ` Brian Jackson
2010-04-21 19:59           ` Leszek Urbanski
2010-04-21 20:03             ` Ryan Harper
2010-04-21 20:13               ` Leszek Urbanski
2010-04-25 12:36                 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-04-25 13:27                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-25 13:35                     ` Avi Kivity

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