Allocation/free history

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 31 02:16:25 UTC 2014


On 7/31/14, 12:05 AM, suresh gumpula wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> Its our proprietary OS called Simple kernel  and yes its in the 
> kernel space allocator.

who is "our"?
  :-)

>
> Thanks
> Suresh
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Julian Elischer 
> <julian at freebsd.org <mailto:julian at freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     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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