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191 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jason Evans
d8a390020c Fix a few mallctl() documentation errors.
Normalize mallctl() order (code and documentation).
2013-12-19 21:40:41 -08:00
Jason Evans
de73296d6b Add mallctl*() unit tests. 2013-12-19 21:40:13 -08:00
Jason Evans
1393d79a4c Remove ENOMEM from the documented set of *mallctl() errors.
*mallctl() always returns EINVAL and does partial result copying when
*oldlenp is to short to hold the requested value, rather than returning
ENOMEM.  Therefore remove ENOMEM from the documented set of possible
errors.
2013-12-18 15:35:45 -08:00
Jason Evans
d82a5e6a34 Implement the *allocx() API.
Implement the *allocx() API, which is a successor to the *allocm() API.
The *allocx() functions are slightly simpler to use because they have
fewer parameters, they directly return the results of primary interest,
and mallocx()/rallocx() avoid the strict aliasing pitfall that
allocm()/rallocx() share with posix_memalign().  The following code
violates strict aliasing rules:

    foo_t *foo;
    allocm((void **)&foo, NULL, 42, 0);

whereas the following is safe:

    foo_t *foo;
    void *p;
    allocm(&p, NULL, 42, 0);
    foo = (foo_t *)p;

mallocx() does not have this problem:

    foo_t *foo = (foo_t *)mallocx(42, 0);
2013-12-12 22:35:52 -08:00
Jason Evans
39e7fd0580 Fix ALLOCM_ARENA(a) handling in rallocm().
Fix rallocm() to use the specified arena for allocation, not just
deallocation.

Clarify ALLOCM_ARENA(a) documentation.
2013-11-25 18:02:35 -08:00
Jason Evans
aabaf851b2 Add ids for all mallctl entries.
Add ids for all mallctl entries, so that external documents can link to
arbitrary mallctl entries.
2013-10-30 14:52:09 -07:00
Jason Evans
705328ca46 Clarify how to use malloc_conf.
Clarify that malloc_conf is intended only for compile-time
configuration, since jemalloc may be initialized before main() is
entered.
2013-03-19 16:28:41 -07:00
Jason Evans
1bf2743e08 Add clipping support to lg_chunk option processing.
Modify processing of the lg_chunk option so that it clips an
out-of-range input to the edge of the valid range.  This makes it
possible to request the minimum possible chunk size without intimate
knowledge of allocator internals.

Submitted by Ian Lepore (see FreeBSD PR bin/174641).
2012-12-23 08:51:48 -08:00
Jan Beich
ed90c97332 document what stats.active does not track
Based on http://www.canonware.com/pipermail/jemalloc-discuss/2012-March/000164.html
2012-11-06 16:30:24 -08:00
Jason Evans
e3d13060c8 Purge unused dirty pages in a fragmentation-reducing order.
Purge unused dirty pages in an order that first performs clean/dirty run
defragmentation, in order to mitigate available run fragmentation.

Remove the limitation that prevented purging unless at least one chunk
worth of dirty pages had accumulated in an arena.  This limitation was
intended to avoid excessive purging for small applications, but the
threshold was arbitrary, and the effect of questionable utility.

Relax opt_lg_dirty_mult from 5 to 3.  This compensates for increased
likelihood of allocating clean runs, given the same ratio of clean:dirty
runs, and reduces the potential for repeated purging in pathological
large malloc/free loops that push the active:dirty page ratio just over
the purge threshold.
2012-11-06 00:59:53 -08:00
Jason Evans
609ae595f0 Add arena-specific and selective dss allocation.
Add the "arenas.extend" mallctl, so that it is possible to create new
arenas that are outside the set that jemalloc automatically multiplexes
threads onto.

Add the ALLOCM_ARENA() flag for {,r,d}allocm(), so that it is possible
to explicitly allocate from a particular arena.

Add the "opt.dss" mallctl, which controls the default precedence of dss
allocation relative to mmap allocation.

Add the "arena.<i>.dss" mallctl, which makes it possible to set the
default dss precedence on a per arena or global basis.

Add the "arena.<i>.purge" mallctl, which obsoletes "arenas.purge".

Add the "stats.arenas.<i>.dss" mallctl.
2012-10-12 18:26:16 -07:00
Jason Evans
174b70efb4 Disable tcache by default if running inside Valgrind.
Disable tcache by default if running inside Valgrind, in order to avoid
making unallocated objects appear reachable to Valgrind.
2012-05-15 23:31:53 -07:00
Jason Evans
781fe75e0a Auto-detect whether running inside Valgrind.
Auto-detect whether running inside Valgrind, thus removing the need to
manually specify MALLOC_CONF=valgrind:true.
2012-05-15 14:48:14 -07:00
Jason Evans
80fe0478e6 Generalize "stats.mapped" documentation.
Generalize "stats.mapped" documentation to state that all inactive
chunks are omitted, now that it is possible for mmap'ed chunks to be
omitted in addition to DSS chunks.
2012-05-09 23:08:48 -07:00
Jason Evans
2e671ffbad Add the --enable-mremap option.
Add the --enable-mremap option, and disable the use of mremap(2) by
default, for the same reason that freeing chunks via munmap(2) is
disabled by default on Linux: semi-permanent VM map fragmentation.
2012-05-09 16:12:00 -07:00
Jason Evans
d926c90500 Fix Valgrind URL in documentation.
Reported by Daichi GOTO.
2012-04-25 23:17:57 -07:00
Jason Evans
8f0e0eb1c0 Fix a memory corruption bug in chunk_alloc_dss().
Fix a memory corruption bug in chunk_alloc_dss() that was due to
claiming newly allocated memory is zeroed.

Reverse order of preference between mmap() and sbrk() to prefer mmap().

Clean up management of 'zero' parameter in chunk_alloc*().
2012-04-21 13:33:48 -07:00
Jason Evans
0b25fe79aa Update prof defaults to match common usage.
Change the "opt.lg_prof_sample" default from 0 to 19 (1 B to 512 KiB).

Change the "opt.prof_accum" default from true to false.

Add the "opt.prof_final" mallctl, so that "opt.prof_prefix" need not be
abused to disable final profile dumping.
2012-04-17 16:39:33 -07:00
Jason Evans
25a000e896 Update pprof (from gperftools 2.0). 2012-04-17 15:49:30 -07:00
Jason Evans
59ae2766af Add the --disable-munmap option.
Add the --disable-munmap option, remove the configure test that
attempted to detect the VM allocation quirk known to exist on Linux
x86[_64], and make --disable-munmap implicit on Linux.
2012-04-16 18:08:58 -07:00
Jason Evans
d6abcbb14b Always disable redzone by default.
Always disable redzone by default, even when --enable-debug is
specified.  The memory overhead for redzones can be substantial, which
makes this feature something that should only be opted into.
2012-04-12 17:09:54 -07:00
Jason Evans
122449b073 Implement Valgrind support, redzones, and quarantine.
Implement Valgrind support, as well as the redzone and quarantine
features, which help Valgrind detect memory errors.  Redzones are only
implemented for small objects because the changes necessary to support
redzones around large and huge objects are complicated by in-place
reallocation, to the point that it isn't clear that the maintenance
burden is worth the incremental improvement to Valgrind support.

Merge arena_salloc() and arena_salloc_demote().

Refactor i[v]salloc() to expose the 'demote' option.
2012-04-11 11:46:18 -07:00
Jason Evans
b147611b52 Add utrace(2)-based tracing (--enable-utrace). 2012-04-05 13:36:17 -07:00
Jason Evans
48db6167e7 Remove obsolete "config.dynamic_page_shift" mallctl documentation. 2012-04-03 01:33:55 -07:00
Jason Evans
ae4c7b4b40 Clean up *PAGE* macros.
s/PAGE_SHIFT/LG_PAGE/g and s/PAGE_SIZE/PAGE/g.

Remove remnants of the dynamic-page-shift code.

Rename the "arenas.pagesize" mallctl to "arenas.page".

Remove the "arenas.chunksize" mallctl, which is redundant with
"opt.lg_chunk".
2012-04-02 07:04:34 -07:00
Jason Evans
d4be8b7b6e Add the "thread.tcache.enabled" mallctl. 2012-03-26 19:02:49 -07:00
Jason Evans
7091b415bb Fix various documentation formatting regressions. 2012-03-19 09:36:44 -07:00
Jason Evans
e7b8fa18d2 Rename the "tcache.flush" mallctl to "thread.tcache.flush". 2012-03-16 17:09:32 -07:00
Jason Evans
0a0bbf63e5 Implement aligned_alloc().
Implement aligned_alloc(), which was added in the C11 standard.  The
function is weakly specified to the point that a minimally compliant
implementation would be painful to use (size must be an integral
multiple of alignment!), which in practice makes posix_memalign() a
safer choice.
2012-03-13 12:55:21 -07:00
Jason Evans
4507f34628 Remove the lg_tcache_gc_sweep option.
Remove the lg_tcache_gc_sweep option, because it is no longer
very useful.  Prior to the addition of dynamic adjustment of tcache fill
count, it was possible for fill/flush overhead to be a problem, but this
problem no longer occurs.
2012-03-05 14:34:37 -08:00
Jason Evans
7e77eaffff Add the --disable-experimental option. 2012-03-02 17:47:37 -08:00
Jason Evans
7e15dab94d Add nallocm().
Add nallocm(), which computes the real allocation size that would result
from the corresponding allocm() call.  nallocm() is a functional
superset of OS X's malloc_good_size(), in that it takes alignment
constraints into account.
2012-02-29 12:56:37 -08:00
Jason Evans
c90ad71237 Remove the sysv option. 2012-02-28 20:31:37 -08:00
Jason Evans
b172610317 Simplify small size class infrastructure.
Program-generate small size class tables for all valid combinations of
LG_TINY_MIN, LG_QUANTUM, and PAGE_SHIFT.  Use the appropriate table to generate
all relevant data structures, and remove the distinction between
tiny/quantum/cacheline/subpage bins.

Remove --enable-dynamic-page-shift.  This option didn't prove useful in
practice, and it prevented optimizations.

Add Tilera architecture support.
2012-02-28 16:50:47 -08:00
Jason Evans
5389146191 Remove the opt.lg_prof_bt_max option.
Remove opt.lg_prof_bt_max, and hard code it to 7.  The original
intention of this option was to enable faster backtracing by limiting
backtrace depth.  However, this makes graphical pprof output very
difficult to interpret.  In practice, decreasing sampling frequency is a
better mechanism for limiting profiling overhead.
2012-02-13 18:41:36 -08:00
Jason Evans
0b526ff94d Remove the opt.lg_prof_tcmax option.
Remove the opt.lg_prof_tcmax option and hard-code a cache size of 1024.
This setting is something that users just shouldn't have to worry about.
If lock contention actually ends up being a problem, the simple solution
available to the user is to reduce sampling frequency.
2012-02-13 18:04:26 -08:00
Jason Evans
746868929a Remove highruns statistics. 2012-02-13 15:18:19 -08:00
Jason Evans
ef8897b4b9 Make 8-byte tiny size class non-optional.
When tiny size class support was first added, it was intended to support
truly tiny size classes (even 2 bytes).  However, this wasn't very
useful in practice, so the minimum tiny size class has been limited to
sizeof(void *) for a long time now.  This is too small to be standards
compliant, but other commonly used malloc implementations do not even
bother using a 16-byte quantum  on systems with vector units (SSE2+,
AltiVEC, etc.).  As such, it is safe in practice to support an 8-byte
tiny size class on 64-bit systems that support 16-byte types.
2012-02-13 15:03:59 -08:00
Jason Evans
4162627757 Remove the swap feature.
Remove the swap feature, which enabled per application swap files.  In
practice this feature has not proven itself useful to users.
2012-02-13 10:56:17 -08:00
Jason Evans
745e30b157 Document swap.fds mallctl as read-write.
Fix the manual page to document the swap.fds mallctl as read-write,
rather than read-only.
2011-08-12 11:40:55 -07:00
Jason Evans
7427525c28 Move repo contents in jemalloc/ to top level. 2011-03-31 20:36:17 -07:00