On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 2:44 AM, Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit@...> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:12 PM Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit@...> wrote:

Hi,

If we want to use BPF for memory leak for driver modules, we can only
print outstanding allocations which could potentially be freed at a
later time.

Is there a simple way we could pre-load BPF (before driver insertion)
and check for the outstanding entries after the driver removal, which
are confirmed leaks?

This is useful to debug memory allocations at insmod/rmmod.

Currently, without insmod, BPF compilation fails as tracepoints are
not installed. And also if tracing is active, rmmod fails with
"resource in use".

Which tracepoint you tried to attach? For kernel memory, a few kmem
tracepoints are attached in memleak. If you want to attach a tracepoint
only defined by the module, yes, you may have to wait until the module
is inserted into the kernel.

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