1 What: /sys/kernel/debug/kmemtrace/
3 Contact: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
6 In kmemtrace-enabled kernels, the following files are created:
8 /sys/kernel/debug/kmemtrace/
9 cpu<n> (0400) Per-CPU tracing data, see below. (binary)
10 total_overruns (0400) Total number of bytes which were dropped from
11 cpu<n> files because of full buffer condition,
13 abi_version (0400) Kernel's kmemtrace ABI version. (text)
15 Each per-CPU file should be read according to the relay interface. That is,
16 the reader should set affinity to that specific CPU and, as currently done by
17 the userspace application (though there are other methods), use poll() with
18 an infinite timeout before every read(). Otherwise, erroneous data may be
19 read. The binary data has the following _core_ format:
21 Event ID (1 byte) Unsigned integer, one of:
22 0 - represents an allocation (KMEMTRACE_EVENT_ALLOC)
23 1 - represents a freeing of previously allocated memory
24 (KMEMTRACE_EVENT_FREE)
25 Type ID (1 byte) Unsigned integer, one of:
26 0 - this is a kmalloc() / kfree()
27 1 - this is a kmem_cache_alloc() / kmem_cache_free()
28 2 - this is a __get_free_pages() et al.
29 Event size (2 bytes) Unsigned integer representing the
30 size of this event. Used to extend
31 kmemtrace. Discard the bytes you
33 Sequence number (4 bytes) Signed integer used to reorder data
34 logged on SMP machines. Wraparound
35 must be taken into account, although
37 Caller address (8 bytes) Return address to the caller.
38 Pointer to mem (8 bytes) Pointer to target memory area. Can be
39 NULL, but not all such calls might be
42 In case of KMEMTRACE_EVENT_ALLOC events, the next fields follow:
44 Requested bytes (8 bytes) Total number of requested bytes,
45 unsigned, must not be zero.
46 Allocated bytes (8 bytes) Total number of actually allocated
47 bytes, unsigned, must not be lower
49 Requested flags (4 bytes) GFP flags supplied by the caller.
50 Target CPU (4 bytes) Signed integer, valid for event id 1.
51 If equal to -1, target CPU is the same
52 as origin CPU, but the reverse might
55 The data is made available in the same endianness the machine has.
57 Other event ids and type ids may be defined and added. Other fields may be
58 added by increasing event size, but see below for details.
59 Every modification to the ABI, including new id definitions, are followed
60 by bumping the ABI version by one.
62 Adding new data to the packet (features) is done at the end of the mandatory
66 Feature data (Feature size - 3 bytes)
70 kmemtrace-user - git://repo.or.cz/kmemtrace-user.git