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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:20:24 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        suresh gumpula <gsuryacse7k@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Allocation/free history
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Hi!

Are you talking about userland? kernel? both?


-a


On 28 July 2014 10:40, suresh gumpula <gsuryacse7k@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    Knowing the PC of an allocation is very usefull in debugging. Having t=
he
> PC hash table and storing the pc hash  either with an object itself( at t=
he
> 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.
> BSD allocator uses power of 2, so storing at the end of an object might b=
e
> wasting lot of memory with large objects.
>
> It appears we don=E2=80=99t have something like this in current FBSD code=
line and
> would like to work on this ?  Any comments   please?
>
>
> It would be something like below. 8 bytes at the end of each object has
> fecepost which is usefull in finding overwrites and 2 hash indices to the
> PC table to track allocation history.
> (kgdb-amd64-7.4-87) x/40w 0xffffff153728b038
> 0xffffff153728b038:     0xf6970a05      0x06cb7e0c      0x305a134a
>  0x831c18bb
> 0xc0000bed      0x134a2115
>
> 0xffffff153728b050:     0x85687ef8      0xffffffff      0x00000001
>  0x83192201
>                         0xc0000bed      0x1741143b
>
> Thanks
> Suresh
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