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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Watson
ccf4e07e83 Increase the number of caller memory storage slots from 2 or 4 to
MEMSTAT_MAXCALLER (8), and expose MEMSTAT_MAXCALLER via memstat.h so
that applications can check their assumptions about how many slots
are available.

Remove 'spare' memory storage in struct malloc_type, since we now
don't expose the data structure internals to applications and rely
on accessor methods, this approach to ABI stability isn't required.

MFC after:	7 days
2005-07-15 11:19:55 +00:00
Robert Watson
0cddce4989 Add libmemstat(3), a library for use by debugging and monitoring
applications in tracking kernel memory statistics.  It provides an
abstracted interface to uma(9) and malloc(9) statistics, wrapped
around the recently added binary stream sysctls for the allocators.

Using this interface, it is easy to build monitoring tools, query
specific memory types for usage information, etc.  Facilities are
provided for binding caller-provided data to memory types,
incremental updates of memory types, and queries that span multiple
allocators.

Support for additional allocators is (relatively) easy to add.

The API for libmemstat(3) will probably change some over time as
consumers are written, and requirements evolve.  It is written to
avoid encoding ABIs for data structure layout into consuming
applications for this reason.

MFC after:	1 week
2005-07-14 17:40:02 +00:00