On 5/1/19 7:38 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

On 2019/04/30 3:43, David Ahern wrote:

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The attached patch adds a tracepoint to notifier_call_chain. If you have
KALLSYMS enabled it will show the order of the function handlers:

perf record -e notifier:* -a -g &

ip netns del <NAME>
<wait a few seconds>

fg
<ctrl-c on perf-record>

perf script

with the header file this time.

What is the intent of your patch? I can see that many notifiers are called. But
how does this help identify which event is responsible for dropping the refcount?

In a previous response you stated: "Since I'm not a netdev person, I
appreciate if you can explain that shutdown sequence using a flow chart."

The notifier sequence tells you the order of cleanup handlers and what
happens when a namespace is destroyed.

The dev_hold / dev_put tracepoint helps find the refcnt leak but
requires some time analyzing the output to match up hold / put stack traces.