Tracing allocators of virtual memory and main memory

Nicholas Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 13:30:55 EDT 2015



On March 11, 2015 12:07:29 PM EDT, sahil aggarwal <sahil.agg15 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>If i want to trace the allocators of virtual memory and main memory of
>process using ftrace on which functions i need to enable the probe.?
>
>Currently i have enabled sys_mmap,sys_brk for virtual allocations and
>mm_page_alloc, kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc for main memory allocation.
>Will this give me whole picture of virtual and main memory
>allocations.?
>
>Thanks
>Regards
>Sahil
>
>______
Greetings Sachil, 
The best way to do this is find 
out the PID of your application 
and look for it in /proc as there
should be a directory with the
 information your looking for. 
Nick
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