From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:09:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804291204450.12689@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428140026.32aaf3bf@infradead.org>
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Hmmm... Why do we have CONFIG_FRAMEPOINTER then?
>
> to make the backtraces more accurate.
Well so we display out of whack backtraces? There are also issues on
platforms that do not have a stack in the classic sense (rotating register
file on IA64 and Sparc64 f.e.). Determining a backtrace can be very
expensive.
> > The current implementation of vmalloc_caller() follows what we have
> > done with kmalloc_track_caller. Its low overhead and always on.
>
> stacktraces aren't entirely free, the cost is O(nr of modules) unfortunately ;(
The current implementation /proc/vmallocinfo avoids these issues and
with just one caller address it can print one line per vmalloc request.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-18 22:27 [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings Christoph Lameter
2008-03-18 22:27 ` [1/2] vmalloc: Show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20 4:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-03-20 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-21 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-18 22:27 ` [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information Christoph Lameter
2008-03-19 21:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-20 0:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 11:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 17:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 18:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 19:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 20:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-22 2:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-29 8:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 17:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-28 19:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-29 18:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-28 21:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-29 19:09 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-04-29 19:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-29 19:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-29 19:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-19 2:23 ` [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-19 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-19 23:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20 7:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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