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pkg/sensors: fix memory use of unloaded sensors #3021

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Fixes #3013

Sensors that are disabled are not loaded and should not use memory, thus we clear the LoadedMapsInfo on unloading programs.

@mtardy mtardy added the release-note/bug This PR fixes an issue in a previous release of Tetragon. label Oct 21, 2024
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mtardy commented Oct 21, 2024

Regarding the metrics talked here #2984 (comment), I think it still makes sense to report 0 for a disabled policy.

Sensors that are disabled are not loaded and should not use memory, thus
we clear the LoadedMapsInfo on unloading programs.

Signed-off-by: Mahe Tardy <[email protected]>
@mtardy mtardy force-pushed the pr/mtardy/disable-kernel-memory branch from b350f2c to 8e2c979 Compare October 23, 2024 10:21
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This adds a high level tests making sure that the kernel memory bytes
stat is working and that disabling/enabling a policy should do what
expected with regard to kernel memory usage.

Signed-off-by: Mahe Tardy <[email protected]>
@mtardy mtardy merged commit 5d390cb into main Oct 24, 2024
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Disabled policies should update the tracing policy kernel memory consumption
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