Determinitic number of CPUs is important for percpu arena to work
correctly, since it uses cpu index - sched_getcpu(), and if it will
greater then number of CPUs bad thing will happen, or assertion will be
failed in debug build:
<jemalloc>: ../contrib/jemalloc/src/jemalloc.c:321: Failed assertion: "ind <= narenas_total_get()"
Aborted (core dumped)
Number of CPUs can be obtained from the following places:
- sched_getaffinity()
- sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
- sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
For the sched_getaffinity() you may simply use taskset(1) to run program
on a different cpu, and in case it will be not first, percpu will work
incorrectly, i.e.:
$ taskset --cpu-list $(( $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)-1 )) <your_program>
_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN uses /sys/devices/system/cpu/online, LXD/LXC
virtualize /sys/devices/system/cpu/online file [1], and so when you run
container with limited limits.cpus it will bind randomly selected CPU to
it
[1]: https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs/issues/301
_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF uses /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*, and AFAIK nobody
playing with dentries there.
So if all three of these are equal, percpu arenas should work correctly.
And a small note regardless _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN/_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF,
musl uses sched_getaffinity() for both. So this will also increase the
entropy.
Also note, that you can check is percpu arena really applied using
abort_conf:true.
Refs: https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/pull/1939
Refs: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/32806
v2: move malloc_cpu_count_is_deterministic() into
malloc_init_hard_recursible() since _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF does
allocations for readdir()
v3:
- mark cpu_count_is_deterministic static
- check only if percpu arena is enabled
- check narenas
Currently used only for guarding purposes, the hint is used to determine
if the allocation is supposed to be frequently reused. For example, it
might urge the allocator to ensure the allocation is cached.
While initially this file contained helper functions for one particular
test, now its usage spread across different test files. Purpose has
shifted towards a collection of handy arena ctl wrappers.
With prof enabled, number of page aligned allocations doesn't match the
number of slab "ends" because prof allocations skew the addresses. It
leads to 'pages' array overflow and hard to debug failures.
The CI consolidation project adds more operating systems to Travis. This
refactoring is aimed to decouple the configuration of each individual OS
from the actual job matrix generation and formatting. Otherwise,
format_job function would turn into a huge collection of ad-hoc
conditions.
The option has been misleading, because it stays disabled unless
prof_final is also specified. In practice it's impossible to detect that
the option is silently disabled, because it just doesn't provide any
output as if there are no memory leaks detected.
Some nstime_t operations require and assume the input nstime is initialized
(e.g. nstime_update) -- uninitialized input may cause silent failures which is
difficult to reproduce / debug. Add an explicit flag to track the state
(limited to debug build only).
Also fixed an use case in hpa (time of last_purge).
In order for nstime_update to handle non-monotonic clocks, it requires the input
nstime to be initialized -- when reading for the first time, zero init has to be
done. Otherwise random stack value may be seen as clocks and returned.
The event counters maintain a relationship with the current bytes: last_event <=
current < next_event. When a reinit happens (e.g. reincarnated tsd), the last
event needs progressing because all events start fresh from the current bytes.
When opt_retain is on, slab extents remain guarded in all states, even
retained. This works well if arena is never destroyed, because we
anticipate those slabs will be eventually reused. But if the arena is
destroyed, the slabs must be unguarded to prevent leaking guard pages.
On the rtree metadata lookup fast path, there will never be a NULL returned when
the cache key matches (which is unknown to the compiler). The previous logic
was checking for NULL return value, resulting in the extra branch (in addition to
the cache key match checking). Make the lookup_fast return a bool to indicate
cache miss / match, so that the extra branch is avoided.
As the code evolves, some code paths that have previously assigned
deferred_work_generated may cease being reached. This would leave the value
uninitialized. This change initializes the value for safety.
Adding guarded extents, which are regular extents surrounded by guard pages
(mprotected). To reduce syscalls, small guarded extents are cached as a
separate eset in ecache, and decay through the dirty / muzzy / retained pipeline
as usual.
This mallctl accepts an arena_config_t structure which
can be used to customize the behavior of the arena.
Right now it contains extent_hooks and a new option,
metadata_use_hooks, which controls whether the extent
hooks are also used for metadata allocation.
The medata_use_hooks option has two main use cases:
1. In heterogeneous memory systems, to avoid metadata
being placed on potentially slower memory.
2. Avoiding virtual memory from being leaked as a result
of metadata allocation failure originating in an extent hook.
Existing backtrace implementations skip native stack frames from runtimes like
Python. The hook allows to augment the backtraces to attribute allocations to
native functions in heap profiles.
The prof initialization is done only when opt_prof is true. This change makes
sure the prof_* mallctls only have limited read access (i.e. no access to prof
internals) when opt_prof is false.
In addition, initialize the global prof mutexes even if opt_prof is false. This
makes sure the mutex stats are set properly.
This change allows every allocator conforming to PAI communicate that it
deferred some work for the future. Without it if a background thread goes into
indefinite sleep, there is no way to notify it about upcoming deferred work.
Previously the calculation of sleep time between wakeups was implemented within
background_thread. This resulted in some parts of decay and hpa specific
logic mixing with background thread implementation. In this change, background
thread delegates this calculation to arena and it, in turn, delegates it to PAI.
The next step is to implement the actual calculation of time until deferred work
in HPA.
Prior to the change you could specify --enable-prof-libunwind without
--enable-prof which would do effectively nothing. This was confusing as I
expected --enable-prof-libunwind to act like --enable-prof, but use libunwind.
There is a race between the doc generation and the doc installation,
so make the install depend on the build for doc.
Signed-off-by: Mingli Yu <mingli.yu@windriver.com>
Specifically, this change allows the default alloc hook to used during
arenas.create. One use case is to invoke the default alloc hook in a customized
hook arena, i.e. the default hooks can be read out of a default arena, then
create customized ones based on these hooks. Note that mixing the default with
customized hooks is not recommended, and should only be considered when the
customization is simple and straightforward.
Retained pages are those which haven't been touched and are unbacked from OS
perspective. For a pageslab their number should equal "total pages in slab"
minus "touched pages".
When clang sees an unknown warning option, unlike gcc it doesn't fail the build
with error. It issues a warning. Hence JE_CFLAGS_ADD with warning options that
didnt't exist in clang would still mark those options as available. This led to
several warnings when built with clang or "gcc" on OSX. This change fixes those
warnings by simply making clang fail builds with non-existent warning options.
