Hello all,
I am debugging kernel module and use SystemTap to monitor requested and freed memory.
I see that SystemTap statistics shows that kfree() is called 5 times more than kalloc.
It happens not only on my module, it happens on VirtualBox vboxsf driver as well.
See hits count below kmalloc hits: 21561
kfree hits: 102175
----- probe hit report:
kernel.function("__kmalloc@mm/slub.c:3706"), (./kmalloc_argus.stp:10:1), hits: 21561, cycles: 21228min/52226avg/334688max, from: kernel.function("__kmalloc@mm/slub.c:3706") from: kernel.function("__kmalloc"), index: 0
kernel.function("__kmalloc@mm/slub.c:3706").return, (./kmalloc_argus.stp:25:1), hits: 21561, cycles: 18843min/51228avg/406816max, from: kernel.function("__kmalloc@mm/slub.c:3706").return from: kernel.function("__kmalloc").return, index: 1
kernel.function("kfree@mm/slub.c:3843"), (./kmalloc_argus.stp:38:1), hits: 102175, cycles: 400min/1557avg/499754max, from: kernel.function("kfree@mm/slub.c:3843") from: kernel.function("kfree"), index: 2
Please comment.
Lev
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