Re: Valgrind and shared_buffers (Was: Restore-reliability mode)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Valgrind and shared_buffers (Was: Restore-reliability mode)
Date: 2015-11-04 12:54:10
Message-ID: 20151104125410.GQ6104@alvherre.pgsql
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Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > I only tried a few tests, for lack of time, and it didn't produce any.
> > (To verify that the whole thing was working properly, I reduced the
> > range of memory made available during PinBuffer and that resulted in a
> > crash immediately). I am not really familiar with valgrind TBH and just
> > copied a recipe to run postmaster under it, so if someone with more
> > valgrind-fu could verify this, it would be great.
> >
> >
> > This part:
> >
> >> > > > Under CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY, wipe a shared buffer when its
> >> > > > global pin count falls to zero.
> >
> > can be done without any valgrind, I think. Any takers?
>
> It seems like this didn't go anywhere. Any chance that you'll find the
> time to work on this soon?

No. How about you? If you or someone else with more valgrind
familiarity than me look it over and think it's correct, I can push it.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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