bpo-29564:_PyMem_DumpTraceback() suggests enabling tracemalloc (GH-10510) (GH-10518)

If tracemalloc is not tracing Python memory allocations,
_PyMem_DumpTraceback() now suggests to enable tracemalloc
to get the traceback where the memory block has been allocated.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi.py b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
index ae9e08a09b..947da8c562 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
@@ -534,6 +534,8 @@ class PyMemDebugTests(unittest.TestCase):
                  r"    The block was made by call #[0-9]+ to debug malloc/realloc.\n"
                  r"    Data at p: cb cb cb .*\n"
                  r"\n"
+                 r"Enable tracemalloc to get the memory block allocation traceback\n"
+                 r"\n"
                  r"Fatal Python error: bad trailing pad byte")
         regex = regex.format(ptr=self.PTR_REGEX)
         regex = re.compile(regex, flags=re.DOTALL)
@@ -548,6 +550,8 @@ class PyMemDebugTests(unittest.TestCase):
                  r"    The block was made by call #[0-9]+ to debug malloc/realloc.\n"
                  r"    Data at p: cb cb cb .*\n"
                  r"\n"
+                 r"Enable tracemalloc to get the memory block allocation traceback\n"
+                 r"\n"
                  r"Fatal Python error: bad ID: Allocated using API 'm', verified using API 'r'\n")
         regex = regex.format(ptr=self.PTR_REGEX)
         self.assertRegex(out, regex)
diff --git a/Modules/_tracemalloc.c b/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
index 4f3bb5463f..a61bdb62fb 100644
--- a/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
+++ b/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
@@ -1492,6 +1492,12 @@ _PyMem_DumpTraceback(int fd, const void *ptr)
     traceback_t *traceback;
     int i;
 
+    if (!tracemalloc_config.tracing) {
+        PUTS(fd, "Enable tracemalloc to get the memory block "
+                 "allocation traceback\n\n");
+        return;
+    }
+
     traceback = tracemalloc_get_traceback(DEFAULT_DOMAIN, (uintptr_t)ptr);
     if (traceback == NULL)
         return;