Essentially, the problem is that safemalloc is excruciatingly
slow as it checks all allocated blocks for overrun at each
memory management primitive, yielding a almost exponential
slowdown for the memory management functions (malloc, realloc,
free). The overrun check basically consists of verifying some
bytes of a block for certain magic keys, which catches some
simple forms of overrun. Another minor problem is violation
of aliasing rules and that its own internal list of blocks
is prone to corruption.
Another issue with safemalloc is rather the maintenance cost
as the tool has a significant impact on the server code.
Given the magnitude of memory debuggers available nowadays,
especially those that are provided with the platform malloc
implementation, maintenance of a in-house and largely obsolete
memory debugger becomes a burden that is not worth the effort
due to its slowness and lack of support for detecting more
common forms of heap corruption.
Since there are third-party tools that can provide the same
functionality at a lower or comparable performance cost, the
solution is to simply remove safemalloc. Third-party tools
can provide the same functionality at a lower or comparable
performance cost.
The removal of safemalloc also allows a simplification of the
malloc wrappers, removing quite a bit of kludge: redefinition
of my_malloc, my_free and the removal of the unused second
argument of my_free. Since free() always check whether the
supplied pointer is null, redudant checks are also removed.
Also, this patch adds unit testing for my_malloc and moves
my_realloc implementation into the same file as the other
memory allocation primitives.
client/mysqldump.c:
Pass my_free directly as its signature is compatible with the
callback type -- which wasn't the case for free_table_ent.
Bug#16565 mysqld --help --verbose does not order variablesBug#20413 sql_slave_skip_counter is not shown in show variables
Bug#20415 Output of mysqld --help --verbose is incomplete
Bug#25430 variable not found in SELECT @@global.ft_max_word_len;
Bug#32902 plugin variables don't know their names
Bug#34599 MySQLD Option and Variable Reference need to be consistent in formatting!
Bug#34829 No default value for variable and setting default does not raise error
Bug#34834 ? Is accepted as a valid sql mode
Bug#34878 Few variables have default value according to documentation but error occurs
Bug#34883 ft_boolean_syntax cant be assigned from user variable to global var.
Bug#37187 `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`GLOBAL_VARIABLES`: inconsistent status
Bug#40988 log_output_basic.test succeeded though syntactically false.
Bug#41010 enum-style command-line options are not honoured (maria.maria-recover fails)
Bug#42103 Setting key_buffer_size to a negative value may lead to very large allocations
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
Bug#44797 plugins w/o command-line options have no disabling option in --help
Bug#46314 string system variables don't support expressions
Bug#46470 sys_vars.max_binlog_cache_size_basic_32 is broken
Bug#46586 When using the plugin interface the type "set" for options caused a crash.
Bug#47212 Crash in DBUG_PRINT in mysqltest.cc when trying to print octal number
Bug#48758 mysqltest crashes on sys_vars.collation_server_basic in gcov builds
Bug#49417 some complaints about mysqld --help --verbose output
Bug#49540 DEFAULT value of binlog_format isn't the default value
Bug#49640 ambiguous option '--skip-skip-myisam' (double skip prefix)
Bug#49644 init_connect and \0
Bug#49645 init_slave and multi-byte characters
Bug#49646 mysql --show-warnings crashes when server dies
CMakeLists.txt:
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
client/mysql.cc:
don't crash with --show-warnings when mysqld dies
config/ac-macros/plugins.m4:
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
include/my_getopt.h:
comments
include/my_pthread.h:
fix double #define
mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl:
run sys_vars suite by default
properly recognize envirinment variables (e.g. MTR_MAX_SAVE_CORE) set to 0
escape gdb command line arguments
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/r/rpl_init_slave_func.result:
init_slave+utf8 bug
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/t/rpl_init_slave_func.test:
init_slave+utf8 bug
mysys/my_getopt.c:
Bug#34599 MySQLD Option and Variable Reference need to be consistent in formatting!
Bug#46586 When using the plugin interface the type "set" for options caused a crash.
Bug#49640 ambiguous option '--skip-skip-myisam' (double skip prefix)
mysys/typelib.c:
support for flagset
sql/ha_ndbcluster.cc:
backport from telco tree
sql/item_func.cc:
Bug#49644 init_connect and \0
Bug#49645 init_slave and multi-byte characters
sql/sql_builtin.cc.in:
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
sql/sql_plugin.cc:
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
Bug#32902 plugin variables don't know their names
Bug#44797 plugins w/o command-line options have no disabling option in --help
sql/sys_vars.cc:
all server variables are defined here
storage/myisam/ft_parser.c:
remove unnecessary updates of param->quot
storage/myisam/ha_myisam.cc:
myisam_* variables belong here
strings/my_vsnprintf.c:
%o and %llx
unittest/mysys/my_vsnprintf-t.c:
%o and %llx tests
vio/viosocket.c:
bugfix: fix @@wait_timeout to work with socket timeouts (vs. alarm thread)
