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When determining whether an allocated chunk is still reachable, Valgrind will consider only pointers within what it believes to be allocated chunks. Normally, all of a block obtained from malloc() would be considered "allocated" --- but it turns out that if we use VALGRIND_MEMPOOL_ALLOC to designate sub-section(s) of a malloc'ed block as allocated, all the rest of that malloc'ed block is ignored. This leads to lots of false positives of course. In particular, in any multi-malloc-block context, all but the primary block were reported as leaked. We also had a problem with context "ident" strings, which were reported as leaked unless there was some other pointer to them besides the one in the context header. To fix, we need to use VALGRIND_MEMPOOL_ALLOC to designate a context's management structs (the context struct itself and any per-block headers) as allocated chunks. That forces moving the VALGRIND_CREATE_MEMPOOL/VALGRIND_DESTROY_MEMPOOL calls into the per-context-type code, so that the pool identifier can be made as soon as we've allocated the initial block, but otherwise it's fairly straightforward. Note that in Valgrind's eyes there is no distinction between these allocations and the allocations that the mmgr modules hand out to user code. That's fine for now, but perhaps someday we'll want to do better yet. When reading this patch, it's helpful to start with the comments added at the head of mcxt.c. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/285483.1746756246@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210317181531.7oggpqevzz6bka3g@alap3.anarazel.de |
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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