[dpdk-dev] [RFC] malloc: add malloc and free log function

Xueming Li xuemingl at mellanox.com
Fri Apr 3 09:54:14 CEST 2020


DPDK uses second level memory allocation management, this makes
regular memory profiler tool not applicant. This patch trys to
provide a lightweight malloc and free logging, then show leaked
memory entries based on logs.

This tool only target to malloc and free tracking, for memzone
used by ring and mempool, "dump_memzone" in testpmd list them.

There will be another example that enable and dump tracking as
secondary process.

This tool came from Mellanox internal Hackathon, thanks Shahaf Shuler
<shahafs at mellanox.com> who provided the idea.


Xueming Li (1):
  malloc: add malloc and free log function

 app/test-pmd/cmdline.c                      |  61 ++++++++++-
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst |  15 +++
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_memcfg.h          |  18 ++++
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h  |  30 +++++-
 lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.h         |   4 +-
 lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c          | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map          |   2 +
 7 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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1.8.3.1



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