Allocation/free history

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 30 14:04:25 UTC 2014


On 7/29/14, 1:40 AM, suresh gumpula wrote:
> Hi,
>     Knowing the PC of an allocation is very usefull in debugging. Having the
> PC hash table and storing the pc hash  either with an object itself( at the
> end) or allocate an exra structure to hold the
> hash index  help us find out who/where an object was allocated.   We
> already have something like this in our own operating system and has been a
> useful thing in debugging.

what OS is that?

I assume you are talking about in the kernel?



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