[Mono-dev] [PATCH] MONO_IOMAP reporting option - string allocation locations

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

  This patch adds code to the string allocation functions which need to be
as fast as
possible. I think it might be better to implement this as a profiler module,
a profiler can already receive notifications when an object is allocated.

                        Zoltan

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Marek Habersack <grendel at twistedcode.net>wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
>        Attached is an update to the original code I posted last week. The
> update adds support for reporting string allocation locations. It is useful
> with large code base where strings may be created in one location but used
> in many others. The code adds a new internal function which does the job of
> backtrace (3) but supports mono JIT. It's basically a lighter version of
> mono_jit_walk_stack which was too heavy for this purpose. The code needs to
> record stack location for each and every string allocated in the application
> and the runtime only to store it for later use when IOMAP kicks in. Doing
> that with mono_stack_walk rendered Mono many times slower and made debugging
> the application virtually impossible. The patch makes execution just
> slightly slower than usual. The reporting code uses simple heuristics to
> select the possible string allocation location - it attempts to ignore all
> methods from assemblies installed in GAC, from corlib and, should the two
> checks fail, from a list of assemblies and classes to ignore. This is done
> based on the premise that the Mono runtime and class libraries are
> case-sensitive and don't have the problem some applications might have
> (there's actually an instance where that assumption is incorrect - in
> System.Web we check for existence of web.config, Web.config and Web.Config -
> but it's intended :)). The results of the selection algorithm might not
> always be accurate, but they should be close enough to aid the developer to
> spot the location where string was allocated.
>        Please review and let me know if I can commit.
>
> marek
>
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