Thanks to the advice I received here, I now have my first 'real' Linux driver
up and running and am now at the optimization stage.
Is it possible to see the resources consumed by a module ? They don't show in
'ps/top' but I'm sure there are ways to see how much memory it uses (to check
for memory leaks) and how much CPU it takes. How ?
Thanks
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Guillaume Dargaud
http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 11:08 +0100, Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
Thanks to the advice I received here, I now have my first 'real' Linux driver
up and running and am now at the optimization stage.
Is it possible to see the resources consumed by a module ? They don't show in
'ps/top' but I'm sure there are ways to see how much memory it uses (to check
for memory leaks) and how much CPU it takes. How ?
Hi Guillaume,
It's actually not that easy to measure the resources used by a driver.
In general your driver code only runs on behalf of another process, and
so that process is where the cpu usage will be accounted.
One exception is if your driver spawns a kernel thread for something, in
that case you can see it with top.
For memory usage, you can monitor /proc/slabinfo and see if anything is
growing every time you access your driver. Another option is to enable
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK, which will try and detect real leaks for you.
cheers