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.
We wait a while after deciding a huge extent should get hugified to see if it
gets purged before long. This avoids hugifying extents that might shortly get
dehugified for purging.
Rename and use the hpa_dehugification_threshold option support code for this,
since it's now ignored.
This fixes two simple but significant typos in the HPA:
- The conf string parsing accidentally set a min value of PAGE for
hpa_sec_batch_fill_extra; i.e. allocating 4096 extra pages every time we
attempted to allocate a single page. This puts us over the SEC flush limit,
so we then immediately flush all but one of them (probably triggering
purging).
- The HPA was using the default PAI batch alloc implementation, which meant it
did not actually get any locking advantages.
This snuck by because I did all the performance testing without using the PAI
interface or config settings. When I cleaned it up and put everything behind
nice interfaces, I only did correctness checks, and didn't try any performance
ones.
This change pulls the SEC options into a struct, which simplifies their handling
across various modules (e.g. PA needs to forward on SEC options from the
malloc_conf string, but it doesn't really need to know their names). While
we're here, make some of the fixed constants configurable, and unify naming from
the configuration options to the internals.
Currently that just means max_alloc, but we're about to add more. While we're
touching these lines anyways, tweak things to be more in line with testing.
qemu does not support this, yet [1], and you can get very tricky assert
if you will run program with jemalloc in use under qemu:
<jemalloc>: ../contrib/jemalloc/src/extent.c:1195: Failed assertion: "p[i] == 0"
[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10576637/
Here is a simple example that shows the problem [2]:
// Gist to check possible issues with MADV_DONTNEED
// For example it does not supported by qemu user
// There is a patch for this [1], but it hasn't been applied.
// [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg05422.html
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
void *addr = mmap(NULL, 1<<16, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap");
return 1;
}
memset(addr, 'A', 1<<16);
if (!madvise(addr, 1<<16, MADV_DONTNEED)) {
puts("MADV_DONTNEED does not return error. Check memory.");
for (int i = 0; i < 1<<16; ++i) {
assert(((unsigned char *)addr)[i] == 0);
}
} else {
perror("madvise");
}
if (munmap(addr, 1<<16)) {
perror("munmap");
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
### unpatched qemu
$ qemu-x86_64-static /tmp/test-MADV_DONTNEED
MADV_DONTNEED does not return error. Check memory.
test-MADV_DONTNEED: /tmp/test-MADV_DONTNEED.c:19: main: Assertion `((unsigned char *)addr)[i] == 0' failed.
qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped
Aborted (core dumped)
### patched qemu (by returning ENOSYS error)
$ qemu-x86_64 /tmp/test-MADV_DONTNEED
madvise: Success
### patch for qemu to return ENOSYS
diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index 897d20c076..5540792e0e 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -11775,7 +11775,7 @@ static abi_long do_syscall1(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1,
turns private file-backed mappings into anonymous mappings.
This will break MADV_DONTNEED.
This is a hint, so ignoring and returning success is ok. */
- return 0;
+ return ENOSYS;
#endif
#ifdef TARGET_NR_fcntl64
case TARGET_NR_fcntl64:
[2]: https://gist.github.com/azat/12ba2c825b710653ece34dba7f926ece
v2:
- review fixes
- add opt_dont_trust_madvise
v3:
- review fixes
- rename opt_dont_trust_madvise to opt_trust_madvise
The additional overhead of the function-call setup and flags checking is
relatively small, but costs us the replication of the entire realloc pathway in
terms of size.
With recent scalability improvements to the HPA, we're experimenting with much
lower arena counts; this gets annoying when trying to test across different
hardware configurations using only the narenas setting.
This comes in handy when overriding earlier settings to test alternate ones. We
don't really include tests for this, but I claim that's OK here:
- It's fairly straightforward
- It's fairly hard to test well
- This entire code path is undocumented and mostly for our internal
experimentation in the first place.
- I tested manually.
This allows setting arenas per cpu dynamically, rather than forcing the user to
know the number of CPUs in advance if they want a particular CPU/space tradeoff.
The existing checks are good at finding such issues (on tcache flush), but not
so good at pinpointing them. Debug mode can find them, but sometimes debug mode
slows down a program so much that hard-to-hit bugs can take a long time to
crash.
This commit adds functionality to keep programs mostly on their fast paths,
while also checking every sized delete argument they get.
This gives more accurate attribution of bytes and counts to stack traces,
without introducing backwards incompatibilities in heap-profile parsing tools.
We track the ideal reported (to the end user) number of bytes more carefully
inside core jemalloc. When dumping heap profiles, insteading of outputting our
counts directly, we output counts that will cause parsing tools to give a result
close to the value we want.
We retain the old version as an opt setting, to let users who are tracking
values on a per-component basis to keep their metrics stable until they decide
to switch.
