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    "id": 68738,
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    "date": "2020-04-17T08:03:41",
    "name": "[RFC,v2,0/2] malloc: support malloc and free tracking log",
    "submitter": {
        "id": 814,
        "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/people/814/?format=api",
        "name": "Xueming Li",
        "email": "xuemingl@mellanox.com"
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            "date": "2020-04-17T08:03:41",
            "name": "malloc: support malloc and free tracking log",
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        }
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    "headers": {
        "Return-Path": "<dev-bounces@dpdk.org>",
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        "Received": [
            "from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124])\n\tby inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21455A058A;\n\tFri, 17 Apr 2020 10:03:56 +0200 (CEST)",
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            "from git-send-mailer.rdmz.labs.mlnx (unknown [37.142.13.130])\n by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEC21DAA6\n for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:03:55 +0200 (CEST)"
        ],
        "From": "Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>",
        "To": "Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,\n Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,\n Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>",
        "Cc": "dev@dpdk.org,\n\tAsaf Penso <asafp@mellanox.com>",
        "Date": "Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:03:41 +0000",
        "Message-Id": "<1587110623-405-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@mellanox.com>",
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        "In-Reply-To": "<1586318694-31358-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@mellanox.com>",
        "References": "<1586318694-31358-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@mellanox.com>",
        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 0/2] malloc: support malloc and free tracking log",
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    "content": "DPDK uses second level memory allocation management, this makes\nregular memory profiler tool not applicant. This patch trys to\nprovide a lightweight malloc and free logging, then show leaked\nmemory entries based on logs.\n\nThis tool only target to malloc and free tracking, for memzone\nused by ring and mempool, \"dump_memzone\" in testpmd list them.\n\nThere will be another example that enable and dump tracking as\nsecondary process.\n\nThis tool came from Mellanox internal Hackathon, thanks Shahaf Shuler\n<shahafs@mellanox.com> who provided the idea.\n\nV0: initial version\nV1: log rte_realloc function\n    rename log size to req_size, real_size to size(total)\n    log padding and include padding in total size\n    rename log \"free\" field to \"type\", alloc_free to \"paired\"\n    rename malloc_log_index to malloc_log_count\n    split testpmd part into separate patch\n    add rte_malloc_log_stop() function\n    add log entry number check\n    change log dump detail level from (-1,0,1) to (0,1,2)\nV2: fix map file indent\n    change type of counter variables to unsigned\n    fix CI error\n\nXueming Li (2):\n  malloc: support malloc and free tracking log\n  app/testpmd: support malloc and free tracking log\n\n app/test-pmd/cmdline.c                      |  60 ++++++-\n doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst |  15 ++\n lib/librte_eal/common/eal_memcfg.h          |  26 +++\n lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.h         |   6 +-\n lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c          | 261 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-\n lib/librte_eal/include/rte_malloc.h         |  39 ++++-\n lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map          |   3 +\n 7 files changed, 401 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)"
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