On 4 April 2014 02:45, Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was looking for some tools for memory profiling for Linux Kernel. I > I wish to analyze the memory usage statistics by comparing the results > (with and without the usage of Lookaside caches) by the consumer (Say > a certain driver).I found some tools such as kmemcheck[1] and KEDR [2] > but before I go further and explore these tools, I was wondering if > somebody has already used these tools to acquire similar statistics > or I should try out some other tool. > > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kmemcheck.txt > [2] http://kedr.berlios.de/ >Hi, >kmemcheck will probably not help you with memory usage statistics. It >may help you find certain programming errors (use after free, use of >uninitialised memory, etc.). >The slab allocator exports some information about memory allocations >that may or may not give you what you need. Try e.g. 'sudo slabtop'. I have got one question regarding that, how can I understand which function is asking for memory in the size-* cache names present in the output of /proc/slabinfo/ slabtop ? Pietro. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
