SF bug 542181: Realloc behavior

The bug report pointed out a bogosity in the comment block explaining
thread safety for arena management.  Repaired that comment, repaired a
couple others while I was at it, and added an assert.

_PyMalloc_DebugRealloc:  If this needed to get more memory, but couldn't,
it erroneously freed the original memory.  Repaired that.

This is for 2.3 only (unless we decide to backport the new pymalloc).
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Tim Peters 2002-04-11 06:36:45 +00:00
parent 362ed3451e
commit 52aefc8a7b
1 changed files with 16 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -321,13 +321,14 @@ pymalloc strives at all levels (arena, pool, and block) never to touch a piece
of memory until it's actually needed. of memory until it's actually needed.
So long as a pool is in the used state, we're certain there *is* a block So long as a pool is in the used state, we're certain there *is* a block
available for allocating. If pool->freeblock is NULL then, that means we available for allocating, and pool->freeblock is not NULL. If pool->freeblock
simply haven't yet gotten to one of the higher-address blocks. The offset points to the end of the free list before we've carved the entire pool into
from the pool_header to the start of "the next" virgin block is stored in blocks, that means we simply haven't yet gotten to one of the higher-address
the pool_header nextoffset member, and the largest value of nextoffset that blocks. The offset from the pool_header to the start of "the next" virgin
makes sense is stored in the maxnextoffset member when a pool is initialized. block is stored in the pool_header nextoffset member, and the largest value
All the blocks in a pool have been passed out at least once when and only of nextoffset that makes sense is stored in the maxnextoffset member when a
when nextoffset > maxnextoffset. pool is initialized. All the blocks in a pool have been passed out at least
once when and only when nextoffset > maxnextoffset.
Major obscurity: While the usedpools vector is declared to have poolp Major obscurity: While the usedpools vector is declared to have poolp
@ -467,8 +468,7 @@ new_arena(void)
maxarenas = 16; maxarenas = 16;
} }
else if (narenas == maxarenas) { else if (narenas == maxarenas) {
/* Grow arenas. Don't use realloc: if this fails, we /* Grow arenas.
* don't want to lose the base addresses we already have.
* *
* Exceedingly subtle: Someone may be calling the pymalloc * Exceedingly subtle: Someone may be calling the pymalloc
* free via PyMem_{DEL, Del, FREE, Free} without holding the * free via PyMem_{DEL, Del, FREE, Free} without holding the
@ -590,6 +590,7 @@ _PyMalloc_Malloc(size_t nbytes)
*/ */
++pool->ref.count; ++pool->ref.count;
bp = pool->freeblock; bp = pool->freeblock;
assert(bp != NULL);
if ((pool->freeblock = *(block **)bp) != NULL) { if ((pool->freeblock = *(block **)bp) != NULL) {
UNLOCK(); UNLOCK();
return (void *)bp; return (void *)bp;
@ -1057,12 +1058,15 @@ _PyMalloc_DebugRealloc(void *p, size_t nbytes)
return p; return p;
} }
assert(nbytes != 0);
/* More memory is needed: get it, copy over the first original_nbytes /* More memory is needed: get it, copy over the first original_nbytes
of the original data, and free the original memory. */ of the original data, and free the original memory. */
fresh = _PyMalloc_DebugMalloc(nbytes); fresh = _PyMalloc_DebugMalloc(nbytes);
if (fresh != NULL && original_nbytes > 0) if (fresh != NULL) {
if (original_nbytes > 0)
memcpy(fresh, p, original_nbytes); memcpy(fresh, p, original_nbytes);
_PyMalloc_DebugFree(p); _PyMalloc_DebugFree(p);
}
return fresh; return fresh;
} }