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Subject: Re: Allocation/free history
From: suresh gumpula <gsuryacse7k@gmail.com>
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Hi Julian,
Its our proprietary OS called Simple kernel  and yes its in the kernel
space allocator.

Thanks
Suresh


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@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?
>
>