From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak hexdump proposal
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:48:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246268922.21450.3.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020906290243u7a362465p6b1f566257fa3239@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:43 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Sergey
> Senozhatsky<sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by> wrote:
> > What do you think about ability to 'watch' leaked region? (hex + ascii).
> > (done via lib/hexdump.c)
>
> What's your use case for this? I'm usually more interested in the
> stack trace when there's a memory leak.
I once had a need for such feature when investigating a memory leak (it
was more like debugging kmemleak) but a script combining dd, od
and /dev/kmem did the trick (I also work in an embedded world where I
have a halting debugger connected most of the times).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-29 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-28 17:36 Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-29 9:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-29 9:48 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2009-06-29 10:19 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-29 10:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-29 10:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-06-29 10:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-29 10:52 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-29 20:10 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-07-14 10:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 10:33 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-07-14 10:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 10:57 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-07-14 13:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 14:03 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-07-14 14:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-14 15:22 ` kmemleak: Printing of the objects hex dump Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-29 10:45 ` kmemleak hexdump proposal Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-29 10:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-06-29 11:08 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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