linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add trace event for munmap

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Message-ID: <1278598955.1900.152.camel@laptop>
Date:	Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:22:35 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk, riel@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, anton@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add trace event for munmap

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:05 +0100, Eric B Munson wrote:
> This patch adds a trace event for munmap which will record the starting
> address of the unmapped area and the length of the umapped area.  This
> event will be used for modeling memory usage.

Does it make sense to couple this with a mmap()/mremap()/brk()
tracepoint?
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