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  2. Mar 31, 2014
  3. Feb 26, 2014
  4. Jan 22, 2014
  5. Jan 18, 2014
  6. Dec 06, 2013
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Disable floating point code/linking when possible. · d37d5ade
      Jason Evans authored
      Unless heap profiling is enabled, disable floating point code and don't
      link with libm.  This, in combination with e.g. EXTRA_CFLAGS=-mno-sse on
      x64 systems, makes it possible to completely disable floating point
      register use.  Some versions of glibc neglect to save/restore
      caller-saved floating point registers during dynamic lazy symbol
      loading, and the symbol loading code uses whatever malloc the
      application happens to have linked/loaded with, the result being
      potential floating point register corruption.
      d37d5ade
  7. Dec 04, 2013
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Refactor to support more varied testing. · 86abd0dc
      Jason Evans authored
      Refactor the test harness to support three types of tests:
      - unit: White box unit tests.  These tests have full access to all
        internal jemalloc library symbols.  Though in actuality all symbols
        are prefixed by jet_, macro-based name mangling abstracts this away
        from test code.
      - integration: Black box integration tests.  These tests link with
        the installable shared jemalloc library, and with the exception of
        some utility code and configure-generated macro definitions, they have
        no access to jemalloc internals.
      - stress: Black box stress tests.  These tests link with the installable
        shared jemalloc library, as well as with an internal allocator with
        symbols prefixed by jet_ (same as for unit tests) that can be used to
        allocate data structures that are internal to the test code.
      
      Move existing tests into test/{unit,integration}/ as appropriate.
      
      Split out internal parts of jemalloc_defs.h.in and put them in
      jemalloc_internal_defs.h.in.  This reduces internals exposure to
      applications that #include <jemalloc/jemalloc.h>.
      
      Refactor jemalloc.h header generation so that a single header file
      results, and the prototypes can be used to generate jet_ prototypes for
      tests.  Split jemalloc.h.in into multiple parts (jemalloc_defs.h.in,
      jemalloc_macros.h.in, jemalloc_protos.h.in, jemalloc_mangle.h.in) and
      use a shell script to generate a unified jemalloc.h at configure time.
      
      Change the default private namespace prefix from "" to "je_".
      
      Add missing private namespace mangling.
      
      Remove hard-coded private_namespace.h.  Instead generate it and
      private_unnamespace.h from private_symbols.txt.  Use similar logic for
      public symbols, which aids in name mangling for jet_ symbols.
      
      Add test_warn() and test_fail().  Replace existing exit(1) calls with
      test_fail() calls.
      86abd0dc
  8. Oct 21, 2013
  9. Oct 20, 2013
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix a race condition in the "arenas.extend" mallctl. · 7b65180b
      Jason Evans authored
      Fix a race condition in the "arenas.extend" mallctl that could lead to
      internal data structure corruption.  The race could be hit if one
      thread called the "arenas.extend" mallctl while another thread
      concurrently triggered initialization of one of the lazily created
      arenas.
      7b65180b
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix a Valgrind integration flaw. · dda90f59
      Jason Evans authored
      Fix a Valgrind integration flaw that caused Valgrind warnings about
      reads of uninitialized memory in internal zero-initialized data
      structures (relevant to tcache and prof code).
      dda90f59
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Update ChangeLog. · ff08ef70
      Jason Evans authored
      ff08ef70
  10. Oct 03, 2013
  11. Jun 03, 2013
  12. Mar 06, 2013
  13. Feb 06, 2013
  14. Feb 01, 2013
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix Valgrind integration. · 06912756
      Jason Evans authored
      Fix Valgrind integration to annotate all internally allocated memory in
      a way that keeps Valgrind happy about internal data structure access.
      06912756
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix a chunk recycling bug. · a7a28c33
      Jason Evans authored
      Fix a chunk recycling bug that could cause the allocator to lose track
      of whether a chunk was zeroed.  On FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OS X, it could
      cause corruption if allocating via sbrk(2) (unlikely unless running with
      the "dss:primary" option specified).  This was completely harmless on
      Linux unless using mlockall(2) (and unlikely even then, unless the
      --disable-munmap configure option or the "dss:primary" option was
      specified).  This regression was introduced in 3.1.0 by the
      mlockall(2)/madvise(2) interaction fix.
      a7a28c33
  15. Jan 31, 2013
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix two quarantine bugs. · d0e942e4
      Jason Evans authored
      Internal reallocation of the quarantined object array leaked the old array.
      
      Reallocation failure for internal reallocation of the quarantined object
      array (very unlikely) resulted in memory corruption.
      d0e942e4
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix potential TLS-related memory corruption. · bbe29d37
      Jason Evans authored
      Avoid writing to uninitialized TLS as a side effect of deallocation.
      Initializing TLS during deallocation is unsafe because it is possible
      that a thread never did any allocation, and that TLS has already been
      deallocated by the threads library, resulting in write-after-free
      corruption.  These fixes affect prof_tdata and quarantine; all other
      uses of TLS are already safe, whether intentionally (as for tcache) or
      unintentionally (as for arenas).
      bbe29d37
  16. Jan 23, 2013
  17. Dec 12, 2012
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix chunk_recycle() Valgrind integration. · 1271185b
      Jason Evans authored
      Fix chunk_recycyle() to unconditionally inform Valgrind that returned
      memory is undefined.  This fixes Valgrind warnings that would result
      from a huge allocation being freed, then recycled for use as an arena
      chunk.  The arena code would write metadata to the chunk header, and
      Valgrind would consider these invalid writes.
      1271185b
  18. Nov 30, 2012
  19. Nov 09, 2012
  20. Nov 06, 2012
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Purge unused dirty pages in a fragmentation-reducing order. · e3d13060
      Jason Evans authored
      Purge unused dirty pages in an order that first performs clean/dirty run
      defragmentation, in order to mitigate available run fragmentation.
      
      Remove the limitation that prevented purging unless at least one chunk
      worth of dirty pages had accumulated in an arena.  This limitation was
      intended to avoid excessive purging for small applications, but the
      threshold was arbitrary, and the effect of questionable utility.
      
      Relax opt_lg_dirty_mult from 5 to 3.  This compensates for increased
      likelihood of allocating clean runs, given the same ratio of clean:dirty
      runs, and reduces the potential for repeated purging in pathological
      large malloc/free loops that push the active:dirty page ratio just over
      the purge threshold.
      e3d13060
  21. Oct 17, 2012
  22. Oct 16, 2012
  23. May 24, 2012
  24. May 16, 2012
  25. May 15, 2012
  26. May 12, 2012
  27. May 11, 2012
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix large calloc() zeroing bugs. · d8ceef6c
      Jason Evans authored
      Refactor code such that arena_mapbits_{large,small}_set() always
      preserves the unzeroed flag, and manually manipulate the unzeroed flag
      in the one case where it actually gets reset (in arena_chunk_purge()).
      This fixes unzeroed preservation bugs in arena_run_split() and
      arena_ralloc_large_grow().  These bugs caused large calloc() to return
      non-zeroed memory under some circumstances.
      d8ceef6c
  28. Apr 25, 2012
  29. Apr 23, 2012
  30. Apr 21, 2012
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Fix a memory corruption bug in chunk_alloc_dss(). · 8f0e0eb1
      Jason Evans authored
      Fix a memory corruption bug in chunk_alloc_dss() that was due to
      claiming newly allocated memory is zeroed.
      
      Reverse order of preference between mmap() and sbrk() to prefer mmap().
      
      Clean up management of 'zero' parameter in chunk_alloc*().
      8f0e0eb1
  31. Apr 20, 2012
  32. Apr 18, 2012
    • Jason Evans's avatar
      Update prof defaults to match common usage. · 0b25fe79
      Jason Evans authored
      Change the "opt.lg_prof_sample" default from 0 to 19 (1 B to 512 KiB).
      
      Change the "opt.prof_accum" default from true to false.
      
      Add the "opt.prof_final" mallctl, so that "opt.prof_prefix" need not be
      abused to disable final profile dumping.
      0b25fe79