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From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pgsql: Generational memory allocator
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Msg-id 20171125200014.qbewtip5oydqsklt@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: pgsql: Generational memory allocator  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Generational memory allocator  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Re: pgsql: Generational memory allocator  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

On 2017-11-25 14:50:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz> writes:
> >> BTW I also see these failures in hstore:
>
> >> ==15168== Source and destination overlap in memcpy(0x5d0fed0, 0x5d0fed0, 40)
> >> ==15168==    at 0x4C2E00C: memcpy@@GLIBC_2.14 (vg_replace_strmem.c:1018)
> >> ==15168==    by 0x15419A06: hstoreUniquePairs (hstore_io.c:343)
> >> ==15168==    by 0x15419EE4: hstore_in (hstore_io.c:416)
>
> > Huh ...
>
> I tried to duplicate this on my RHEL6 workstation, and failed to,
> even though adding an assertion easily proves that the hstore
> regression test does exercise the case.  So apparently the answer
> as to why skink isn't reporting this is just "not all versions of
> valgrind check it".

I suspect that the issue rather is that the compiler will sometimes
replace the memcpy() with an in-line member-by-member version. That'll
not be visible as a memcpy to valgrind.


> Meanwhile, skink has come back with a success as of 0f2458f, rendering
> the other mystery even deeper --- although at least this confirms the
> idea that the crashes we are seeing predate the generation.c patch.

Hm, wonder whether that could be optimization dependent too.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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