Function delegetas_init() did not report proper error messages
when there are failures, which made it hard to know where the problem
occurred.
Fixed the problem by adding specific error message for every possible
place that can fail. And since these failures are supposed to never
happen, ask the user to report a bug if they happened.
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.
This patch:
- Moves all definitions from the mysql_priv.h file into
header files for the component where the variable is
defined
- Creates header files if the component lacks one
- Eliminates all include directives from mysql_priv.h
- Eliminates all circular include cycles
- Rename time.cc to sql_time.cc
- Rename mysql_priv.h to sql_priv.h
The root cause of the crash is that a TranxNode is freed before it is used.
A TranxNode is allocated and inserted into the active list each time
a log event is written and flushed into the binlog file.
The memory for TranxNode is allocated with thd_alloc and will be freed
at the end of the statement. The after_commit/after_rollback callback
was supposed to be called before the end of each statement and remove the node from
the active list. However this assumption is not correct in all cases(e.g. call
'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE myisam_t SELECT * FROM innodb_t' in a transaction
and delete all temporary tables automatically when a session closed),
and can cause the memory allocated for TranxNode be freed
before it was removed from the active list. So The TranxNode pointer in the active
list would become a wild pointer and cause the crash.
After this patch, We have a class called a TranxNodeAllocate which manages the memory
for allocating and freeing TranxNode. It uses my_malloc to allocate memory.
Before this patch, semisync assumed transactions running in parallel
can not be larger than max_connections, but this is not true when
the event scheduler is executing events, and cause semisync run out
of preallocated transaction nodes.
Fix the problem by allocating transaction nodes dynamically.
This patch also fixed a possible deadlock when running UNINSTALL
PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_master and updating in parallel. Fixed by
releasing the internal Delegate lock before unlock the plugins.
