cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_malloc.c src/sys/sys malloc.h

[Robert Watson]

rwatson     2005-07-23 17:11:33 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
    sys/kern             kern_malloc.c 
    sys/sys              malloc.h 
  Log:
  Merge kern_malloc.c:1.143,1.144 malloc.h:1.81 from HEAD to RELENG_6:
  
    Introduce a new sysctl, kern.malloc_stats, which exports kernel malloc
    statistics via a binary structure stream:
  
    - Add structure 'malloc_type_stream_header', which defines a stream
      version, definition of MAXCPUS used in the stream, and a number of
      malloc_type records in the stream.
  
    - Add structure 'malloc_type_header', which defines the name of the
      malloc type being reported on.
  
    - When the sysctl is queried, return a stream header, followed by a
      series of type descriptions, each consisting of a type header
      followed by a series of MAXCPUS malloc_type_stats structures holding
      per-CPU allocation information.  Typical values of MAXCPUS will be 1
      (UP compiled kernel) and 16 (SMP compiled kernel).
  
    This query mechanism allows user space monitoring tools to extract
    memory allocation statistics in a machine-readable form, and to do so
    at a per-CPU granularity, allowing monitoring of allocation patterns
    across CPUs in order to better understand the distribution of work and
    memory flow over multiple CPUs.
  
    While here:
  
    - Bump statistics width to uint64_t, and hard code using fixed-width
      type in order to be more sure about structure layout in the stream.
      We allocate and free a lot of memory.
  
    - Add kmemcount, a counter of the number of registered malloc types,
      in order to avoid excessive manual counting of types.  Export via a
      new sysctl to allow user-space code to better size buffers.
  
    - De-XXX comment on no longer maintaining the high watermark in old
      sysctl monitoring code.
  
    A follow-up commit of libmemstat(3), a library to monitor kernel memory
    allocation, will occur in the next few days.  Likewise, similar changes
    to UMA.
  
  kern_malloc.c:1.144:
  
    Correct build on 64-bit: cast u_int64_t to (unsigned long long) before
    printfing as (unsigned long long).  32-bit build on i386 didn't notice
    this.  Whoops.
  
    Reported by:    arved
    Tested by:      sledge
  
  Approved by:    re (kensmith)
  
  Revision   Changes    Path
  1.142.2.1  +94 -6     src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c
  1.80.2.1   +28 -8     src/sys/sys/malloc.h