- `-Wmissing-prototypes` and `-Wmissing-variable-declarations` are
helpful for finding dead code and/or things that should be `static`
but aren't marked as such.
- `-Wunused-macros` is of similar utility, but for identifying dead macros.
- `-Wunreachable-code` and `-Wunreachable-code-aggressive` do exactly
what they say: flag unreachable code.
`read(2)` and `write(2)` may read or write fewer bytes than were
requested. In order to robustly ensure that all of the requested bytes
are read/written, these edge-cases must be handled.
There are several benefits to this:
1. It's cleaner and more reliable to use the builtin to
inform the compiler of assumptions instead of hoping that the
optimizer understands your intentions.
2. `clang` will warn you if any of your assumptions would produce
side-effects (which the compiler will discard). [This blog post](https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2019/01/compiler-checked-contracts.html)
by Yann Collet highlights that a hazard of using the
`unreachable()`-based method of signaling assumptions is that it
can sometimes result in additional instructions being generated (see
[this Godbolt link](https://godbolt.org/z/lKNMs3) from the blog post
for an example).
As reported in #2449, under certain circumstances it's possible to get
stuck in an infinite loop attempting to purge from the HPA. We now
handle this by validating the HPA settings at the end of
configuration parsing and either normalizing them or aborting depending on
if `abort_conf` is set.
An arena's bins should normally be accessed via the `arena_get_bin`
function, which properly takes into account bin-shards. To ensure that
we don't accidentally commit code which incorrectly accesses the bins
directly, we mark the field with `__attribute__((deprecated))` with an
appropriate warning message, and suppress the warning in the few places
where directly accessing the bins is allowed.
Update from Ubuntu Focal Fossa to Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish. Staying up to
date is always good, but I'm also hoping that perhaps this newer release
contains fixes so that PowerPC VMs don't randomly hang indefinitely
while booting anymore, stalling our CI pipeline.
@interwq noticed [while reviewing an earlier PR](https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/pull/2478#discussion_r1256217261)
that I missed modifying this statistics accounting in line with the rest
of the changes from #2459. This is now fixed, such that sampled small
allocations increment the `.nmalloc`/`.ndalloc` of their effective bin
size instead of over-reporting memory usage by attributing all such
allocations to `SC_LARGE_MINCLASS`.
In many environments, the fallback `sbrk(2)` allocation path is never
used even if the system supports the syscall; if you're at the point
where `mmap(2)` is failing, `sbrk(2)` is unlikely to succeed. Without
changing the default, I've added the ability to disable the usage of DSS
altogether, so that you do not need to pay for the additional code size
and handful of extra runtime branches in such environments.
While this function isn't particularly hot, (accounting for just 0.27% of
time spent inside the allocator on average across the fleet), looking
at the generated assembly and performance profiles does show we're dispatching
to multiple different `memset`s when we could instead be just tail-calling
`memset` once, reducing code size and marginally improving performance.
In an attempt to make all headers self-contained, I inadvertently added
`#include`s which refer to intermediate, generated headers that aren't
included in the final install. Closes#2489.
Following from PR #2481, we replace all integer-to-pointer casts [which
hide pointer provenance information (and thus inhibit
optimizations)](https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/performance/no-int-to-ptr.html)
with equivalent operations that preserve this information. I have
enabled the corresponding clang-tidy check in our static analysis CI so
that we do not get bitten by this again in the future.
[N2699 - Sized Memory Deallocation](https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2699.htm)
introduced two new functions which were incorporated into the C23
standard, `free_sized` and `free_aligned_sized`. Both already have
analogues in Jemalloc, all we are doing here is adding the appropriate
wrappers.
Header files are now self-contained, which makes the relationships
between the files clearer, and crucially allows LSP tools like `clangd`
to function correctly in all of our header files. I have verified that
the headers are self-contained (aside from the various Windows shims) by
compiling them as if they were C files – in a follow-up commit I plan to
add this to CI to ensure we don't regress on this front.
This is a prerequisite to achieving self-contained headers. Previously,
the various tsd implementation headers (`tsd_generic.h`,
`tsd_tls.h`, `tsd_malloc_thread_cleanup.h`, and `tsd_win.h`) relied
implicitly on being included in `tsd.h` after a variety of dependencies
had been defined above them. This commit instead makes these
dependencies explicit by splitting them out into a separate file,
`tsd_internals.h`, which each of the tsd implementation headers includes
directly.
At least for LLVM, [casting from an integer to a pointer hides provenance information](https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/performance/no-int-to-ptr.html)
and inhibits optimizations. Here's a [Godbolt link](https://godbolt.org/z/5bYPcKoWT)
showing how this change removes a couple unnecessary branches in
`phn_merge_siblings`, which is a very hot function. Canary profiles show
only minor improvements (since most of the cost of this function is in
cache misses), but there's no reason we shouldn't take it.
For the sake of consistency, function definitions and their
corresponding declarations should use the same names for parameters.
I've enabled this check in static analysis to prevent this issue from
occurring again in the future.
Adding `-Wstrict-prototypes` to the default `CFLAGS` in PR #2473 had the
non-obvious side-effect of breaking configure-time feature detection,
because the [test-program `autoconf` generates for feature
detection](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.67/html_node/Generating-Sources.html#:~:text=main%20())
defines `main` as:
```c
int main()
```
Which causes all feature checks to fail, since this triggers
`-Wstrict-prototypes` and the feature checks use `-Werror`.
Resolved by only adding `-Wstrict-prototypes` to
`EXTRA_{CFLAGS,CXXFLAGS}` in CI, since these flags are not used during
feature detection and we control which compiler is used.
For better or worse, Jemalloc has a significant number of global
variables. Making all eligible global variables `static` and/or `const`
at least makes it slightly easier to reason about them, as these
qualifications communicate to the programmer restrictions on their use
without having to `grep` the whole codebase.
Validate that small allocations (i.e. those with `size <= SC_SMALL_MAXCLASS`)
which are sampled for profiling maintain the expected invariants even
though they now take up less space.
Previously, small allocations which were sampled as part of heap
profiling were rounded up to `SC_LARGE_MINCLASS`. This additional memory
usage becomes problematic when the page size is increased, as noted in #2358.
Small allocations are now rounded up to the nearest multiple of `PAGE`
instead, reducing the memory overhead by a factor of 4 in the most
extreme cases.
We have observed new workload patterns (namely ML training type) that cycle
through oversized allocations frequently, because 1) the dataset might be sparse
which is faster to go through, and 2) GPU accelerated. As a result, the eager
purging from the oversize arena becomes a bottleneck. To offer an easy
solution, allow normal purging of the oversized extents when background threads
are enabled.
It turns out LLVM does not include a build for every platform in the
assets for every release, just some of them. As such, I've pinned us to
the latest release version with a corresponding build.
Additionally, added a GitHub Action to ensure no more trailing
whitespace will creep in again in the future.
I'm excluding Markdown files from this check, since trailing whitespace
is significant there, and also excluding `build-aux/install-sh` because
there is significant trailing whitespace on the line that sets
`defaultIFS`.
Now that all of the various issues that static analysis uncovered have
been fixed (#2431, #2432, #2433, #2436, #2437, #2446), I've added a
GitHub action which will run static analysis for every PR going forward.
When static analysis detects issues with your code, the GitHub action
provides a link to download its findings in a form tailored for human
consumption.
Take a look at [this demonstration of what it looks like when static
analysis issues are
found](https://github.com/Svetlitski/jemalloc/actions/runs/5010245602)
on my fork for an example (make sure to follow the instructions in the
error message to download and inspect the results).
Fix or suppress the remaining warnings generated by static analysis.
This is a necessary step before we can incorporate static analysis into
CI. Where possible, I've preferred to modify the code itself instead of
just disabling the warning with a magic comment, so that if we decide to
use different static analysis tools in the future we will be covered
against them raising similar warnings.
In #2433, I inadvertently introduced a regression which causes the use of
uninitialized data. Namely, the control path I added for the safety
check in `arena_prof_info_get` neglected to set `prof_info->alloc_tctx`
when the check fails, resulting in `prof_info.alloc_tctx` being
uninitialized [when it is read at the end of
`prof_free`](90176f8a87/include/jemalloc/internal/prof_inlines.h (L272)).
Static analysis flagged this. It's possible to segfault in the
`*_tree_remove` function generated by `rb_gen`, as `nodep` may
still be `NULL` after the initial for loop. I can confirm from reviewing
the fleetwide coredump data that this was in fact being hit in
production, primarily through `tctx_tree_remove`, and much more rarely
through `gctx_tree_remove`.
instead of changing mmap_flags which makes the change permanent. This was
enforcing large alignments for allocations that did not need it causing
fragmentation. Reported by Andreas Gustafsson.
This is in preparation for upcoming changes I plan to make to this
logic. Extracting it into a common function will make this easier and
less error-prone, and cleans up the existing code regardless.
Running a simple Ruby and Python execution je_malloc_default and
do_rallocx() in the resulting SVG / text output. Prune these, too.
MALLOC_CONF='stats_print:true,lg_prof_sample:8,prof:true,prof_final:true' \
python3 -c '[x for x in range(10000000)]'
MALLOC_CONF='stats_print:true,lg_prof_sample:8,prof:true,prof_final:true' \
ruby -e 'puts (0..1000).map{"0"}.join(" ")'
It appears that this was a simple mistake where `hpa_shard_disable` was
being called instead of `hpa_shard_destroy`. At present
`hpa_shard_destroy` is not called anywhere at all outside of test-cases,
which further suggests that this is a bug. @davidtgoldblatt noted
however that since HPA is disabled for manual arenas and we don't
support destruction for auto arenas that presently there is no way to
actually trigger this bug. Nonetheless, it should be fixed.
