Following are change highlights associated with official releases. Important bug fixes are all mentioned, but internal enhancements are omitted here for brevity (even though they are more fun to write about). Much more detail can be found in the git revision history: http://www.canonware.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=jemalloc.git git://canonware.com/jemalloc.git * 2.0.1 Bug fixes: - Fix a race condition in heap profiling that could cause undefined behavior if opt.prof_accum were disabled. - Add missing mutex unlocks for some OOM error paths in the heap profiling code. - Fix a compilation error for non-C99 builds. * 2.0.0 This version focuses on the experimental *allocm() API, and on improved run-time configuration/introspection. Nonetheless, numerous performance improvements are also included. New features: - Implement the experimental {,r,s,d}allocm() API, which provides a superset of the functionality available via malloc(), calloc(), posix_memalign(), realloc(), malloc_usable_size(), and free(). These functions can be used to allocate/reallocate aligned zeroed memory, ask for optional extra memory during reallocation, prevent object movement during reallocation, etc. - Replace JEMALLOC_OPTIONS/JEMALLOC_PROF_PREFIX with MALLOC_CONF, which is more human-readable, and more flexible. For example: JEMALLOC_OPTIONS=AJP is now: MALLOC_CONF=abort:true,fill:true,stats_print:true - Port to Apple OS X. Sponsored by Mozilla. - Make it possible for the application to control thread-->arena mappings via the "thread.arena" mallctl. - Add compile-time support for all TLS-related functionality via pthreads TSD. This is mainly of interest for OS X, which does not support TLS, but has a TSD implementation with similar performance. - Override memalign() and valloc() if they are provided by the system. - Add the "arenas.purge" mallctl, which can be used to synchronously purge all dirty unused pages. - Make cumulative heap profiling data optional, so that it is possible to limit the amount of memory consumed by heap profiling data structures. - Add per thread allocation counters that can be accessed via the "thread.allocated" and "thread.deallocated" mallctls. Incompatible changes: - Remove JEMALLOC_OPTIONS and malloc_options (see MALLOC_CONF above). - Increase default backtrace depth from 4 to 128 for heap profiling. - Disable interval-based profile dumps by default. Bug fixes: - Remove bad assertions in fork handler functions. These assertions could cause aborts for some combinations of configure settings. - Fix strerror_r() usage to deal with non-standard semantics in GNU libc. - Fix leak context reporting. This bug tended to cause the number of contexts to be underreported (though the reported number of objects and bytes were correct). - Fix a realloc() bug for large in-place growing reallocation. This bug could cause memory corruption, but it was hard to trigger. - Fix an allocation bug for small allocations that could be triggered if multiple threads raced to create a new run of backing pages. - Enhance the heap profiler to trigger samples based on usable size, rather than request size. - Fix a heap profiling bug due to sometimes losing track of requested object size for sampled objects. * 1.0.3 Bug fixes: - Fix the libunwind-based implementation of stack backtracing (used for heap profiling). This bug could cause zero-length backtraces to be reported. - Add a missing mutex unlock in library initialization code. If multiple threads raced to initialize malloc, some of them could end up permanently blocked. * 1.0.2 Bug fixes: - Fix junk filling of large objects, which could cause memory corruption. - Add MAP_NORESERVE support for chunk mapping, because otherwise virtual memory limits could cause swap file configuration to fail. Contributed by Jordan DeLong. * 1.0.1 Bug fixes: - Fix compilation when --enable-fill is specified. - Fix threads-related profiling bugs that affected accuracy and caused memory to be leaked during thread exit. - Fix dirty page purging race conditions that could cause crashes. - Fix crash in tcache flushing code during thread destruction. * 1.0.0 This release focuses on speed and run-time introspection. Numerous algorithmic improvements make this release substantially faster than its predecessors. New features: - Implement autoconf-based configuration system. - Add mallctl*(), for the purposes of introspection and run-time configuration. - Make it possible for the application to manually flush a thread's cache, via the "tcache.flush" mallctl. - Base maximum dirty page count on proportion of active memory. - Compute various addtional run-time statistics, including per size class statistics for large objects. - Expose malloc_stats_print(), which can be called repeatedly by the application. - Simplify the malloc_message() signature to only take one string argument, and incorporate an opaque data pointer argument for use by the application in combination with malloc_stats_print(). - Add support for allocation backed by one or more swap files, and allow the application to disable over-commit if swap files are in use. - Implement allocation profiling and leak checking. Removed features: - Remove the dynamic arena rebalancing code, since thread-specific caching reduces its utility. Bug fixes: - Modify chunk allocation to work when address space layout randomization (ASLR) is in use. - Fix thread cleanup bugs related to TLS destruction. - Handle 0-size allocation requests in posix_memalign(). - Fix a chunk leak. The leaked chunks were never touched, so this impacted virtual memory usage, but not physical memory usage. * linux_20080828a, linux_20080827a These snapshot releases are the simple result of incorporating Linux-specific support into the FreeBSD malloc sources. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vim:filetype=text:textwidth=80