* [musl] Dumping process heap from the core file
@ 2021-06-03 2:09 Srinivasan J
2021-06-05 15:50 ` Rich Felker
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Srinivasan J @ 2021-06-03 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: musl
Hi,
Is there an easy way to dump the heap from the process core which
is using musl-libc? The process is using musl-libc version v1.1.24. I
see that there is a _dump_heap() function, but that's not up to date.
I am thinking about using _dump_heap() as reference. But any other
suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
Srini
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* Re: [musl] Dumping process heap from the core file
2021-06-03 2:09 [musl] Dumping process heap from the core file Srinivasan J
@ 2021-06-05 15:50 ` Rich Felker
2021-06-23 3:51 ` Srinivasan J
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rich Felker @ 2021-06-05 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Srinivasan J; +Cc: musl
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 07:39:54AM +0530, Srinivasan J wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an easy way to dump the heap from the process core which
> is using musl-libc? The process is using musl-libc version v1.1.24. I
> see that there is a _dump_heap() function, but that's not up to date.
> I am thinking about using _dump_heap() as reference. But any other
> suggestions are welcome.
The mallocng heap structures are actually more walkable. There is
intentionally no public interface for doing this, but I have some
debug code left over from development that you could link into
static-linked programs with a particular known musl/mallocng version
or patch into libc.so for debugging purposes. I'll dig it up and post
it. Ping me if I forget about it.
Rich
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* Re: [musl] Dumping process heap from the core file
2021-06-05 15:50 ` Rich Felker
@ 2021-06-23 3:51 ` Srinivasan J
2021-06-23 18:32 ` Rich Felker
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Srinivasan J @ 2021-06-23 3:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rich Felker; +Cc: musl
Hi Rich,
Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, I need to debug a
core which used musl-libc version v1.1.24 to get details about size of
allocations in the heap. I see that mal.heap is no longer valid since
2015 [commit e3bc22f1eff87b8f029a6ab31f1a269d69e4b053]. So as you
said the only way to walk the heap would be using a patched libc.so?
Please do share any pointers.
Reference:
https://patchwork.criu.org/patch/10472/
Regards,
Srini
On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 9:20 PM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 07:39:54AM +0530, Srinivasan J wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is there an easy way to dump the heap from the process core which
> > is using musl-libc? The process is using musl-libc version v1.1.24. I
> > see that there is a _dump_heap() function, but that's not up to date.
> > I am thinking about using _dump_heap() as reference. But any other
> > suggestions are welcome.
>
> The mallocng heap structures are actually more walkable. There is
> intentionally no public interface for doing this, but I have some
> debug code left over from development that you could link into
> static-linked programs with a particular known musl/mallocng version
> or patch into libc.so for debugging purposes. I'll dig it up and post
> it. Ping me if I forget about it.
>
> Rich
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* Re: [musl] Dumping process heap from the core file
2021-06-23 3:51 ` Srinivasan J
@ 2021-06-23 18:32 ` Rich Felker
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rich Felker @ 2021-06-23 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Srinivasan J; +Cc: musl
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 09:21:49AM +0530, Srinivasan J wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, I need to debug a
> core which used musl-libc version v1.1.24 to get details about size of
> allocations in the heap. I see that mal.heap is no longer valid since
> 2015 [commit e3bc22f1eff87b8f029a6ab31f1a269d69e4b053]. So as you
> said the only way to walk the heap would be using a patched libc.so?
> Please do share any pointers.
Ah, in that case you could just start walking the headers
backward/forward from any known starting chunk.
Rich
> Reference:
> https://patchwork.criu.org/patch/10472/
>
> Regards,
> Srini
>
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 9:20 PM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 07:39:54AM +0530, Srinivasan J wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Is there an easy way to dump the heap from the process core which
> > > is using musl-libc? The process is using musl-libc version v1.1.24. I
> > > see that there is a _dump_heap() function, but that's not up to date.
> > > I am thinking about using _dump_heap() as reference. But any other
> > > suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > The mallocng heap structures are actually more walkable. There is
> > intentionally no public interface for doing this, but I have some
> > debug code left over from development that you could link into
> > static-linked programs with a particular known musl/mallocng version
> > or patch into libc.so for debugging purposes. I'll dig it up and post
> > it. Ping me if I forget about it.
> >
> > Rich
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