From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754131AbYJBJtp (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:49:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753038AbYJBJti (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:49:38 -0400 Received: from zertifikatstelle.de ([87.106.91.100]:43218 "EHLO mail.mailbarrier.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752774AbYJBJth (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:49:37 -0400 Message-ID: <48E4992E.6030102@mailbarrier.de> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:49:34 +0200 From: Gregor Rebel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Anybody interested in a kernel memory manager? References: <48E46214.2090108@mailbarrier.de> In-Reply-To: <48E46214.2090108@mailbarrier.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi again, maybe the name is misleading, a better would could be kernel resource tracker. -- Gregor > Hi, > > I'm currently writing two modules related to XEN. Both modules need to > acquire dynamic memory (via __get_free_pages() and kmalloc() ). > In order to reuse some code, I wrote a third module which can provide > simple memory-services to other modules: > * Allocated pages and memories of each client-module gets tracked > * When a module is about to exit, it can issue one function call to > release all of its memories > * Before first using the memory manager, each module has to obtain a > unique owner id number by calling a registration function > * by loading the memory manager with a debug argument, memory > allocations automatically get logged into syslog facility > > I know, that currently each module keeps track of its memory allocations > on its own. > > Is there a general interest to have such a memory manager in the kernel? > > > -- > Gregor > > -- > 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/ > >