Re: pgsql: Introduce pg_shmem_allocations_numa view

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 10:32:25PM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
> Attached is a minor tweak of the valgrind suppresion rules,

Thanks!

> to add the
> two places touching the memory. I was hoping I could add a single rule
> for pg_numa_touch_mem_if_required, but that does not work - it's a
> macro, not a function. So I had to add one rule for both functions,
> querying the NUMA. That's a bit disappointing, because it means it'll
> hide all other failues (of Memcheck:Addr8 type) in those functions.
>

Shouldn't we add 2 rules for Memcheck:Addr4 too?

> Perhaps it'd be be better to turn pg_numa_touch_mem_if_required into a
> proper (inlined) function, at least with USE_VALGRIND defined.

Yeah I think that's probably better to reduce the scope to what we really want to.

> Something
> like the v2 patch -

yeah, maybe:

- add a rule for Memcheck:Addr4?
- have the same parameters name for the macro and the function?

Regards,

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