aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/backend/utils/mmgr/slab.c
Commit message (Collapse)AuthorAge
* Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13.Tom Lane2020-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up, most of which weren't per project style anyway. Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get indented.
* Remove useless (and broken) logging logic in memory context functions.Tom Lane2020-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | Nobody really uses this stuff, especially not since we created valgrind-based infrastructure that does the same thing better. It is thus unsurprising that the generation.c and slab.c versions were actually broken. Rather than fix 'em, let's just remove 'em. Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8936216c-3492-3f6e-634b-d638fddc5f91@gmail.com
* Revert "Specialize MemoryContextMemAllocated()."Jeff Davis2020-03-19
| | | | This reverts commit e00912e11a9ec2d29274ed8a6465e81385906dc2.
* Specialize MemoryContextMemAllocated().Jeff Davis2020-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | An AllocSet doubles the size of allocated blocks (up to maxBlockSize), which means that the current block can represent half of the total allocated space for the memory context. But the free space in the current block may never have been touched, so don't count the untouched memory as allocated for the purposes of MemoryContextMemAllocated(). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ec63d70b668818255486a83ffadc3aec492c1f57.camel@j-davis.com
* Allocate freechunks bitmap as part of SlabContextTomas Vondra2020-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bitmap used by SlabCheck to cross-check free chunks in a block used to be allocated for each SlabCheck call, and was never freed. The memory leak could be fixed by simply adding a pfree call, but it's actually a bad idea to do any allocations in SlabCheck at all as it assumes the state of the memory management as a whole is sane. So instead we allocate the bitmap as part of SlabContext, which means we don't need to do any allocations in SlabCheck and the bitmap goes away together with the SlabContext. Backpatch to 10, where the Slab context was introduced. Author: Tomas Vondra Reported-by: Andres Freund Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Backpatch-through: 10 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200116044119.g45f7pmgz4jmodxj%40alap3.anarazel.de
* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-01
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Make the order of the header file includes consistent in backend modules.Amit Kapila2019-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | Similar to commits 7e735035f2 and dddf4cdc33, this commit makes the order of header file inclusion consistent for backend modules. In the passing, removed a couple of duplicate inclusions. Author: Vignesh C Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh and Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2Sznv8RR6Ex-iJO6xAdsxgWhCoETkaYX=+9DW3q0QCfA@mail.gmail.com
* Add transparent block-level memory accountingTomas Vondra2019-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds accounting of memory allocated in a memory context. Compared to various ad hoc solutions, the main advantage is that the accounting is transparent and does not require direct control over allocations (this matters for use cases where the allocations happen in user code, like for example aggregate states allocated in a transition functions). To reduce overhead, the accounting happens at the block level (not for individual chunks) and only the context immediately owning the block is updated. When inquiring about amount of memory allocated in a context, we have to recursively walk all children contexts. This "lazy" accounting works well for cases with relatively small number of contexts in the relevant subtree and/or with infrequent inquiries. Author: Jeff Davis Reivewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Melanie Plageman, Soumyadeep Chakraborty Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/027a129b8525601c6a680d27ce3a7172dab61aab.camel@j-davis.com
* Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 10Michael Paquier2019-08-13
| | | | | | | | | This addresses some issues with unnecessary code comments, fixes various typos in docs and comments, and removes some orphaned structures and definitions. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9aabc775-5494-b372-8bcb-4dfc0bd37c68@gmail.com
* Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 9Michael Paquier2019-08-05
| | | | | | | | This addresses more issues with code comments, variable names and unreferenced variables. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7ab243e0-116d-3e44-d120-76b3df7abefd@gmail.com
* Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane2019-05-22
| | | | | | | | | Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Allow memory contexts to have both fixed and variable ident strings.Tom Lane2018-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, we treated memory context names as potentially variable in all cases, and therefore always copied them into the context header. Commit 9fa6f00b1 rethought this a little bit and invented a distinction between fixed and variable names, skipping the copy step for the former. But we can make things both simpler and more useful by instead allowing there to be two parts to a context's identification, a fixed "name" and an optional, variable "ident". The name supplied in the context create call is now required to be a compile-time-constant string in all cases, as it is never copied but just pointed to. The "ident" string, if wanted, is supplied later. This is needed because typically we want the ident to be stored inside the context so that it's cleaned up automatically on context deletion; that means it has to be copied into the context before we can set the pointer. The cost of this approach is basically just an additional pointer field in struct MemoryContextData, which isn't much overhead, and is bought back entirely in the AllocSet case by not needing a headerSize field anymore, since we no longer have to cope with variable header length. In addition, we can simplify the internal interfaces for memory context creation still further, saving a few cycles there. And it's no longer true that a custom identifier disqualifies a context from participating in aset.c's freelist scheme, so possibly there's some win on that end. All the places that were using non-compile-time-constant context names are adjusted to put the variable info into the "ident" instead. This allows more effective identification of those contexts in many cases; for example, subsidary contexts of relcache entries are now identified by both type (e.g. "index info") and relname, where before you got only one or the other. Contexts associated with PL function cache entries are now identified more fully and uniformly, too. I also arranged for plancache contexts to use the query source string as their identifier. This is basically free for CachedPlanSources, as they contained a copy of that string already. We pay an extra pstrdup to do it for CachedPlans. That could perhaps be avoided, but it would make things more fragile (since the CachedPlanSource is sometimes destroyed first). I suspect future improvements in error reporting will require CachedPlans to have a copy of that string anyway, so it's not clear that it's worth moving mountains to avoid it now. This also changes the APIs for context statistics routines so that the context-specific routines no longer assume that output goes straight to stderr, nor do they know all details of the output format. This is useful immediately to reduce code duplication, and it also allows for external code to do something with stats output that's different from printing to stderr. The reason for pushing this now rather than waiting for v12 is that it rethinks some of the API changes made by commit 9fa6f00b1. Seems better for extension authors to endure just one round of API changes not two. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-FdtmFZ9y9REHD7VsSrnCkiBhsA4mdsLKSPauwXtQBeNA@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Rethink MemoryContext creation to improve performance.Tom Lane2017-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes a number of interrelated changes to reduce the overhead involved in creating/deleting memory contexts. The key ideas are: * Include the AllocSetContext header of an aset.c context in its first malloc request, rather than allocating it separately in TopMemoryContext. This means that we now always create an initial or "keeper" block in an aset, even if it never receives any allocation requests. * Create freelists in which we can save and recycle recently-destroyed asets (this idea is due to Robert Haas). * In the common case where the name of a context is a constant string, just store a pointer to it in the context header, rather than copying the string. The first change eliminates a palloc/pfree cycle per context, and also avoids bloat in TopMemoryContext, at the price that creating a context now involves a malloc/free cycle even if the context never receives any allocations. That would be a loser for some common usage patterns, but recycling short-lived contexts via the freelist eliminates that pain. Avoiding copying constant strings not only saves strlen() and strcpy() overhead, but is an essential part of the freelist optimization because it makes the context header size constant. Currently we make no attempt to use the freelist for contexts with non-constant names. (Perhaps someday we'll need to think harder about that, but in current usage, most contexts with custom names are long-lived anyway.) The freelist management in this initial commit is pretty simplistic, and we might want to refine it later --- but in common workloads that will never matter because the freelists will never get full anyway. To create a context with a non-constant name, one is now required to call AllocSetContextCreateExtended and specify the MEMCONTEXT_COPY_NAME option. AllocSetContextCreate becomes a wrapper macro, and it includes a test that will complain about non-string-literal context name parameters on gcc and similar compilers. An unfortunate side effect of making AllocSetContextCreate a macro is that one is now *required* to use the size parameter abstraction macros (ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES and friends) with it; the pre-9.6 habit of writing out individual size parameters no longer works unless you switch to AllocSetContextCreateExtended. Internally to the memory-context-related modules, the context creation APIs are simplified, removing the rather baroque original design whereby a context-type module called mcxt.c which then called back into the context-type module. That saved a bit of code duplication, but not much, and it prevented context-type modules from exercising control over the allocation of context headers. In passing, I converted the test-and-elog validation of aset size parameters into Asserts to save a few more cycles. The original thought was that callers might compute size parameters on the fly, but in practice nobody does that, so it's useless to expend cycles on checking those numbers in production builds. Also, mark the memory context method-pointer structs "const", just for cleanliness. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2264.1512870796@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Mostly-cosmetic improvements in memory chunk header alignment coding.Tom Lane2017-11-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add commentary about what we're doing and why. Apply the method used for padding in GenerationChunk to AllocChunkData, replacing the rather ad-hoc solution used in commit 7e3aa03b4. Reorder fields in GenerationChunk so that the padding calculation will work even if sizeof(size_t) is different from sizeof(void *) --- likely that will never happen, but we don't need the assumption if we do it like this. Improve static assertions about alignment. In passing, fix a couple of oversights in the "large chunk" path in GenerationAlloc(). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak. The main changes visible in this commit are: * Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations. * No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts, sizeof, or offsetof. * No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers. * Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely. * Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed with no space separating them from the code. * Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels. * Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less than the expected column 33. On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in indent itself. There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the changes as much as practical. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make slab allocator work on platforms with MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF < sizeof(int).Heikki Linnakangas2017-05-18
| | | | | | Notably, m68k only needs 2-byte alignment. Per report from Christoph Berg. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170517193957.fwntkgi6epuso5l2@msg.df7cb.de
* Fix two valgrind issues in slab allocator.Andres Freund2017-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | During allocation VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED was called with a pointer as size. That kind of works, but makes valgrind exceedingly slow for workloads involving the slab allocator. Secondly there was an access to memory marked as unreachable within SlabCheck(). Fix that too. Author: Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a6543b6d-6015-99b1-63ef-3ed55a76a730@2ndquadrant.com
* Suppress compiler warning in slab.c.Tom Lane2017-03-08
| | | | | | | | | Compilers that don't realize that elog(ERROR) doesn't return complained that SlabRealloc() failed to return a value. While at it, fix the rather muddled header comment for the function. Per buildfarm.
* Reduce size of common allocation header.Andres Freund2017-02-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new slab allocator needs different per-allocation information than the classical aset.c. The definition in 58b25e981 wasn't sufficiently careful on 32 platforms with 8 byte alignment, leading to buildfarm failures. That's not entirely easy to fix by just adjusting the definition. As slab.c doesn't actually need the size part(s) of the common header, all chunks are equally sized after all, it seems better to instead reduce the header to the part needed by all allocators, namely which context an allocation belongs to. That has the advantage of reducing the overhead of slab allocations, and also allows for more flexibility in future allocators. To avoid spreading the logic about accessing a chunk's context around, centralize it in GetMemoryChunkContext(), which allows to delete a good number of lines. A followup commit will revise the mmgr/README portion about StandardChunkHeader, and more. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170228074420.aazv4iw6k562mnxg@alap3.anarazel.de
* Add "Slab" MemoryContext implementation for efficient equal-sized allocations.Andres Freund2017-02-27
The default general purpose aset.c style memory context is not a great choice for allocations that are all going to be evenly sized, especially when those objects aren't small, and have varying lifetimes. There tends to be a lot of fragmentation, larger allocations always directly go to libc rather than have their cost amortized over several pallocs. These problems lead to the introduction of ad-hoc slab allocators in reorderbuffer.c. But it turns out that the simplistic implementation leads to problems when a lot of objects are allocated and freed, as aset.c is still the underlying implementation. Especially freeing can easily run into O(n^2) behavior in aset.c. While the O(n^2) behavior in aset.c can, and probably will, be addressed, custom allocators for this behavior are more efficient both in space and time. This allocator is for evenly sized allocations, and supports both cheap allocations and freeing, without fragmenting significantly. It does so by allocating evenly sized blocks via malloc(), and carves them into chunks that can be used for allocations. In order to release blocks to the OS as early as possible, chunks are allocated from the fullest block that still has free objects, increasing the likelihood of a block being entirely unused. A subsequent commit uses this in reorderbuffer.c, but a further allocator is needed to resolve the performance problems triggering this work. There likely are further potentialy uses of this allocator besides reorderbuffer.c. There's potential further optimizations of the new slab.c, in particular the array of freelists could be replaced by a more intelligent structure - but for now this looks more than good enough. Author: Tomas Vondra, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Petr Jelinek, Robert Haas, Jim Nasby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d15dff83-0b37-28ed-0809-95a5cc7292ad@2ndquadrant.com