Thread (208 messages) 208 messages, 21 authors, 2024-02-29

Re: [PATCH v3 00/35] Memory allocation profiling

From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2024-02-16 08:38:26
Also in: cgroups, linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-fsdevel, linux-iommu, linux-mm, lkml

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Suren Baghdasaryan [off-list ref] wrote:
Memory allocation, v3 and final:

Overview:
Low overhead [1] per-callsite memory allocation profiling. Not just for debug
kernels, overhead low enough to be deployed in production.

We're aiming to get this in the next merge window, for 6.9. The feedback
we've gotten has been that even out of tree this patchset has already
been useful, and there's a significant amount of other work gated on the
code tagging functionality included in this patchset [2].
I wonder if it wouldn't be too much trouble to write at least a brief
overview document under Documentation/ describing what this is all
about? Even as follow-up. People seeing the patch series have the
benefit of the cover letter and the commit messages, but that's hardly
documentation.

We have all these great frameworks and tools but their discoverability
to kernel developers isn't always all that great.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel
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