[Gluster-devel] Script to identify ref leaks

[Niels de Vos]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:24:41PM +0000, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 18:15, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:34:04PM +0530, Sanoj Unnikrishnan wrote:
> > > +Mohit
> > > Mohit had written a similar script to RCA an issue couple of months back.
> > >
> > > It would help if we placed the scripts, tapsets in the source tree itself
> > > (maybe in a directory under glusterfs/extras/).
> > > We could also have the tapset packaged into debuginfo packages and
> > deployed
> > > under /usr/share/systemtap/ path upon installation.
> >
> > Yes, or we can place them in their own repository. I have a
> > gluster-debug repository where I plan to put tools I use for debugging.
> > This repository may well live at the Gluster organization on GitHub too.
> >
> > https://github.com/nixpanic/gluster-debug
> >
> > Many of the tools we use for debugging should not be version specific,
> > so having them in the glusterfs repository might be a little awkward?
> >
> > What are the opinions of others?
> 
> 
> My personal preference would be to host it under one central repo instead
> of individual github accounts. Versioning and such other issues can be
> tackled having good documentation around these tools.

Yes, of course. I intended to explain we put all the debug tools in
https://github.com/gluster/gluster-debug (does not exist yet). Those
tools can then also include debug utilities for related projects, not
only for the core glusterfs repository.

Niels

> 
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> >
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Sanoj
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Sonal Arora <sarora at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am working on finding ways to indentify ref leaks in glusterfs.
> > > >
> > > > Description of Issue :
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417539
> > > >
> > > > Goal : To make script which could detect all kind of ref leaks.
> > > >
> > > > Script : https://github.com/SonaArora/Tracing-userspace-app/blob/
> > > > master/ref-leak/try8-modified
> > > > The above script is a POC program to depict the idea of how to identify
> > > > leaks. Script is probing dict_ref() and dict_unref() and keeping a
> > track of
> > > > the pointers, back traces which are referenced/dereferenced by above
> > > > functions. If the count of refs is unequal to unrefs for each
> > pointer,it
> > > > will print all the traces corresponding to the leaked pointer.
> > > > Output : https://github.com/SonaArora/Tracing-userspace-
> > > > app/blob/master/ref-leak/output-refleak
> > > > I am working on post processing the output - to filter only the leaked
> > > > traces and to write the output after every few hours into a file.
> > > > The script can be extended to all objects being referenced (like
> > > > inodes/fds).
> > > >
> > > > End Goal : Future goal is to make it more versatile, dynamic and light
> > > > weight so that it can be even utilized on production environments
> > without
> > > > utilizing much of the system resources.
> > > >
> > > > Request your comments and suggestions.
> > > >
> > > > Best
> > > > -Sonal
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> -- 
> - Atin (atinm)
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