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ftrace vs Valgrind

A side-by-side look at ftrace and Valgrind. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

ftrace

ftrace

System & Hardware

Ftrace is a Linux kernel internal tracer used to observe and debug kernel behavior, including scheduling, function calls, interrupts, and more. It provides detailed execution tracing of the Linux kernel with low overhead.

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Valgrind

Valgrind

Development

Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. It can detect memory management and threading bugs, and profile programs. Valgrind helps programmers improve code quality by detecting reading/writing of uninitialized memory, memory leaks, and more.

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