On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 6:35 PM Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, Kent. > > On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 04:05:08AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > No, we're still waiting on the tracing people to _demonstrate_, not > > claim, that this is at all possible in a comparable way with tracing. > > So, we (meta) happen to do stuff like this all the time in the fleet to hunt > down tricky persistent problems like memory leaks, ref leaks, what-have-you. > In recent kernels, with kprobe and BPF, our ability to debug these sorts of > problems has improved a great deal. Below, I'm attaching a bcc script I used > to hunt down, IIRC, a double vfree. It's not exactly for a leak but leaks > can follow the same pattern. > For leaks there is example bcc https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/memleak.py