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Re: [PATCH][BZ #11087] Use atomic operations to track memory
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:15:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][BZ #11087] Use atomic operations to track memory
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- References: <20131017114140 dot GA24230 at domone dot podge> <52602D5F dot 8010002 at redhat dot com>
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:33:03PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 10/17/2013 07:41 AM, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I fixed this mostly because ulrich was wrong here in several ways.
> >
> > Calling added locking to update statistics as too expensive is nonsense
> > as this is needed only after mmap and mmap + associated minor faults
> > are much more costy.
> >
> > Also there is no locking needed, atomic add will do job well.
> >
> > This bug affects also malloc_stats.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > * malloc/malloc.c: Accurately track mmaped memory.
>
> While this patch fixes the consistency problems with the variables
> in question it doesn't fix concurrent stores of slightly different
> values to the same variables.
>
I asked that in patch for 12486 how this should be handled.
> > diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
> > index 2938234..cdbd6f3 100644
> > --- a/malloc/malloc.c
> > +++ b/malloc/malloc.c
> > @@ -2334,10 +2334,11 @@ static void* sysmalloc(INTERNAL_SIZE_T nb, mstate av)
> >
> > /* update statistics */
> >
> > - if (++mp_.n_mmaps > mp_.max_n_mmaps)
> > + __sync_fetch_and_add (&mp_.n_mmaps, 1);
> > + if (mp_.n_mmaps > mp_.max_n_mmaps)
> > mp_.max_n_mmaps = mp_.n_mmaps;
>
> Don't two threads race to update mp_.max_n_mmaps with potentially
> different values?
>
What about replacing this by
atomic_max (&mp_.n_mmaps, mp_.max_n_mmaps);