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2025-07-01Silence valgrind about pg_numa_touch_mem_if_requiredTomas Vondra
When querying NUMA status of pages in shared memory, we need to touch the memory first to get valid results. This may trigger valgrind reports, because some of the memory (e.g. unpinned buffers) may be marked as noaccess. Solved by adding a valgrind suppresion. An alternative would be to adjust the access/noaccess status before touching the memory, but that seems far too invasive. It would require all those places to have detailed knowledge of what the shared memory stores. The pg_numa_touch_mem_if_required() macro is replaced with a function. Macros are invisible to suppressions, so it'd have to suppress reports for the caller - e.g. pg_get_shmem_allocations_numa(). So we'd suppress reports for the whole function, and that seems to heavy-handed. It might easily hide other valid issues. Reviewed-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aEtDozLmtZddARdB@msg.df7cb.de Backpatch-through: 18
2022-10-17Record dependencies of a cast on other casts that it requires.Tom Lane
When creating a cast that uses a conversion function, we've historically allowed the input and result types to be binary-compatible with the function's input and result types, rather than necessarily being identical. This means that the new cast is logically dependent on the binary-compatible cast or casts that it references: if those are defined by pg_cast entries, and you try to restore the new cast without having defined them, it'll fail. Hence, we should make pg_depend entries to record these dependencies so that pg_dump knows that there is an ordering requirement. This is not the only place where we allow such shortcuts; aggregate functions for example are similarly lax, and in principle should gain similar dependencies. However, for now it seems sufficient to fix the cast-versus-cast case, as pg_dump's other ordering heuristics should keep it out of trouble for other object types. Per report from David TuroĊˆ; thanks also to Robert Haas for preliminary investigation. I considered back-patching, but seeing that this issue has existed for many years without previous reports, it's not clear it's worth the trouble. Moreover, back-patching wouldn't be enough to ensure that the new pg_depend entries exist in existing databases anyway. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OF0A160F3E.578B15D1-ONC12588DA.003E4857-C12588DA.0045A428@notes.linuxbox.cz
2022-04-07pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.Andres Freund
Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful statistics. Now statistics are stored in shared memory. Statistics for variable-numbered objects are stored in a dshash hashtable (backed by dynamic shared memory). Fixed-numbered stats are stored in plain shared memory. The header for pgstat.c contains an overview of the architecture. The stats collector is not needed anymore, remove it. By utilizing the transactional statistics drop infrastructure introduced in a prior commit statistics entries cannot "leak" anymore. Previously leaked statistics were dropped by pgstat_vacuum_stat(), called from [auto-]vacuum. On systems with many small relations pgstat_vacuum_stat() could be quite expensive. Now that replicas drop statistics entries for dropped objects, it is not necessary anymore to reset stats when starting from a cleanly shut down replica. Subsequent commits will perform some further code cleanup, adapt docs and add tests. Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (in a much earlier version) Reviewed-By: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> (in a much earlier version) Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> (in a much earlier version) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319235115.y3wz7hpnnrshdyv6@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-06-09Avoid need for valgrind suppressions for pg_atomic_init_u64 on some platforms.Andres Freund
Previously we used pg_atomic_write_64_impl inside pg_atomic_init_u64. That works correctly, but on platforms without 64bit single copy atomicity it could trigger spurious valgrind errors about uninitialized memory, because we use compare_and_swap for atomic writes on such platforms. I previously suppressed one instance of this problem (6c878edc1df), but as Tom reports that wasn't enough. As the atomic variable cannot yet be concurrently accessible during initialization, it seems better to have pg_atomic_init_64_impl set the value directly. Change pg_atomic_init_u32_impl for symmetry. Reported-By: Tom Lane Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1714601.1591503815@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch: 9.5-
2020-06-06Refresh function name in CRC-associated Valgrind suppressions.Noah Misch
Back-patch to 9.5, where commit 4f700bcd20c087f60346cb8aefd0e269be8e2157 first appeared. Reviewed by Tom Lane. Reported by Andrew Dunstan. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4dfabec2-a3ad-0546-2d62-f816c97edd0c@2ndQuadrant.com
2019-01-19Revert "Add valgrind suppressions for wcsrtombs optimizations"Tomas Vondra
This reverts commit d3bbc4b96a5b4d055cf636596c6865913a099929. Per discussion, it's not desirable to add valgrind suppressions for outside our own code base (e.g. glibc in this case), especially when the suppressions may be platform-specific. There are better ways to deal with that, e.g. by providing local suppressions. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/90ac0452-e907-e7a4-b3c8-15bd33780e62%402ndquadrant.com
2018-11-17Add valgrind suppressions for wcsrtombs optimizationsTomas Vondra
wcsrtombs (called through wchar2char from common functions like lower, upper, etc.) uses various optimizations that may look like access to uninitialized data, triggering valgrind reports. For example AVX2 instructions load data in 256-bit chunks, and gconv does something similar with 32-bit chunks. This is faster than accessing the bytes one by one, and the uninitialized part of the buffer is not actually used. So suppress the bogus reports. The exact stack depends on possible optimizations - it might be AVX, SSE (as in the report by Aleksander Alekseev) or something else. Hence the last frame is wildcarded, to deal with this. Backpatch all the way back to 9.4. Author: Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/90ac0452-e907-e7a4-b3c8-15bd33780e62%402ndquadrant.com Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180220150838.GD18315@e733.localdomain
2018-11-08Adjust valgrind fix in commit 517b0d0b5fAndrew Dunstan
lousyjack still wasn't happy. I have tested this modification and it worked.
2018-11-07Quiet valgrind complaints following pread/pwrite changesAndrew Dunstan
Per complaints from buildfarm and elsewhere Patch from Jasper Pedersen Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0f419c91-49ab-2399-0143-13063bd97c46@redhat.com
2016-04-02Copyedit comments and documentation.Noah Misch
2016-03-09Add valgrind suppressions for python code.Andres Freund
Python's allocator does some low-level tricks for efficiency; unfortunately they trigger valgrind errors. Those tricks can be disabled making instrumentation easier; but few people testing postgres will have such a build of python. So add broad suppressions of the resulting errors. See also https://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Misc/README.valgrind This possibly will suppress valid errors, but without it it's basically impossible to use valgrind with plpython code. Author: Andres Freund Backpatch: 9.4, where we started to maintain valgrind suppressions
2016-03-09Add valgrind suppressions for bootstrap related code.Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund Backpatch: 9.4, where we started to maintain valgrind suppressions
2015-03-15Adjust valgrind suppressions wrt 025c02420.Andres Freund
2014-12-18Adjust valgrind suppression to the changes in 2c03216d8311.Andres Freund
CRC computation is now done in XLogRecordAssemble.
2014-11-14Add valgrind suppression for pg_atomic_init_u64.Andres Freund
pg_atomic_init_u64 (indirectly) uses compare/exchange to guarantee atomic writes on platforms where compare/exchange is available, but 64bit writes aren't atomic (yes, those exist). That leads to a harmless read of the initial value of variable.
2014-11-13Adapt valgrind.supp to the XLogInsert() split.Andres Freund
The CRC computation now happens in XLogInsertRecord(), not XLogInsert() itself anymore.
2014-09-01Add valgrind suppression for padding bytes in twophase records.Andres Freund
2014-05-13Add Valgrind suppression for reorderbuffer padding bytes.Noah Misch
Andres Freund
2013-10-29Prevent using strncpy with src == dest in TupleDescInitEntry.Tom Lane
The C and POSIX standards state that strncpy's behavior is undefined when source and destination areas overlap. While it remains dubious whether any implementations really misbehave when the pointers are exactly equal, some platforms are now starting to force the issue by complaining when an undefined call occurs. (In particular OS X 10.9 has been seen to dump core here, though the exact set of circumstances needed to trigger that remain elusive. Similar behavior can be expected to be optional on Linux and other platforms in the near future.) So tweak the code to explicitly do nothing when nothing need be done. Back-patch to all active branches. In HEAD, this also lets us get rid of an exception in valgrind.supp. Per discussion of a report from Matthias Schmitt.
2013-06-27Cooperate with the Valgrind instrumentation framework.Noah Misch
Valgrind "client requests" in aset.c and mcxt.c teach Valgrind and its Memcheck tool about the PostgreSQL allocator. This makes Valgrind roughly as sensitive to memory errors involving palloc chunks as it is to memory errors involving malloc chunks. Further client requests in PageAddItem() and printtup() verify that all bits being added to a buffer page or furnished to an output function are predictably-defined. Those tests catch failures of C-language functions to fully initialize the bits of a Datum, which in turn stymie optimizations that rely on _equalConst(). Define the USE_VALGRIND symbol in pg_config_manual.h to enable these additions. An included "suppression file" silences nominal errors we don't plan to fix. Reviewed in earlier versions by Peter Geoghegan and Korry Douglas.