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diff --git a/contrib/jemalloc/ChangeLog b/contrib/jemalloc/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f6edd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/jemalloc/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,322 @@ +Following are change highlights associated with official releases. Important +bug fixes are all mentioned, but internal enhancements are omitted here for +brevity (even though they are more fun to write about). Much more detail can be +found in the git revision history: + + http://www.canonware.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=jemalloc.git + git://canonware.com/jemalloc.git + +* 3.0.0 (XXX not yet released) + + Although this version adds some major new features, the primary focus is on + internal code cleanup that facilitates maintainability and portability, most + of which is not reflected in the ChangeLog. This is the first release to + incorporate substantial contributions from numerous other developers, and the + result is a more broadly useful allocator (see the git revision history for + contribution details). Note that the license has been unified, thanks to + Facebook granting a license under the same terms as the other copyright + holders (see COPYING). + + New features: + - Implement Valgrind support, redzones, and quarantine. + - Add support for additional operating systems: + + FreeBSD + + Mac OS X Lion + - Add support for additional architectures: + + MIPS + + SH4 + + Tilera + - Add support for cross compiling. + - Add nallocm(), which rounds a request size up to the nearest size class + without actually allocating. + - Implement aligned_alloc() (blame C11). + - Add the --disable-munmap option, and make it the default on Linux. + - Add the --with-mangling option. + - Add the --disable-experimental option. + - Add the "thread.tcache.enabled" mallctl. + + Incompatible changes: + - Enable stats by default. + - Enable fill by default. + - Disable lazy locking by default. + - Rename the "tcache.flush" mallctl to "thread.tcache.flush". + - Rename the "arenas.pagesize" mallctl to "arenas.page". + + Removed features: + - Remove the swap feature, including the "config.swap", "swap.avail", + "swap.prezeroed", "swap.nfds", and "swap.fds" mallctls. + - Remove highruns statistics, including the + "stats.arenas.<i>.bins.<j>.highruns" and + "stats.arenas.<i>.lruns.<j>.highruns" mallctls. + - As part of small size class refactoring, remove the "opt.lg_[qc]space_max", + "arenas.cacheline", "arenas.subpage", "arenas.[tqcs]space_{min,max}", and + "arenas.[tqcs]bins" mallctls. + - Remove the "arenas.chunksize" mallctl. + - Remove the "opt.lg_prof_tcmax" option. + - Remove the "opt.lg_prof_bt_max" option. + - Remove the "opt.lg_tcache_gc_sweep" option. + - Remove the --disable-tiny option, including the "config.tiny" mallctl. + - Remove the --enable-dynamic-page-shift configure option. + - Remove the --enable-sysv configure option. + + Bug fixes: + - Fix fork-related bugs that could cause deadlock in children between fork + and exec. + - Fix a statistics-related bug in the "thread.arena" mallctl that could cause + invalid statistics and crashes. + - Work around TLS dallocation via free() on Linux. This bug could cause + write-after-free memory corruption. + - Fix malloc_stats_print() to honor 'b' and 'l' in the opts parameter. + - Fix realloc(p, 0) to act like free(p). + - Do not enforce minimum alignment in memalign(). + - Check for NULL pointer in malloc_usable_size(). + - Fix bin->runcur management to fix a layout policy bug. This bug did not + affect correctness. + - Fix a bug in choose_arena_hard() that potentially caused more arenas to be + initialized than necessary. + - Add missing "opt.lg_tcache_max" mallctl implementation. + - Use glibc allocator hooks to make mixed allocator usage less likely. + - Fix build issues for --disable-tcache. + +* 2.2.5 (November 14, 2011) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix huge_ralloc() race when using mremap(2). This is a serious bug that + could cause memory corruption and/or crashes. + - Fix huge_ralloc() to maintain chunk statistics. + - Fix malloc_stats_print(..., "a") output. + +* 2.2.4 (November 5, 2011) + + Bug fixes: + - Initialize arenas_tsd before using it. This bug existed for 2.2.[0-3], as + well as for --disable-tls builds in earlier releases. + - Do not assume a 4 KiB page size in test/rallocm.c. + +* 2.2.3 (August 31, 2011) + + This version fixes numerous bugs related to heap profiling. + + Bug fixes: + - Fix a prof-related race condition. This bug could cause memory corruption, + but only occurred in non-default configurations (prof_accum:false). + - Fix off-by-one backtracing issues (make sure that prof_alloc_prep() is + excluded from backtraces). + - Fix a prof-related bug in realloc() (only triggered by OOM errors). + - Fix prof-related bugs in allocm() and rallocm(). + - Fix prof_tdata_cleanup() for --disable-tls builds. + - Fix a relative include path, to fix objdir builds. + +* 2.2.2 (July 30, 2011) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix a build error for --disable-tcache. + - Fix assertions in arena_purge() (for real this time). + - Add the --with-private-namespace option. This is a workaround for symbol + conflicts that can inadvertently arise when using static libraries. + +* 2.2.1 (March 30, 2011) + + Bug fixes: + - Implement atomic operations for x86/x64. This fixes compilation failures + for versions of gcc that are still in wide use. + - Fix an assertion in arena_purge(). + +* 2.2.0 (March 22, 2011) + + This version incorporates several improvements to algorithms and data + structures that tend to reduce fragmentation and increase speed. + + New features: + - Add the "stats.cactive" mallctl. + - Update pprof (from google-perftools 1.7). + - Improve backtracing-related configuration logic, and add the + --disable-prof-libgcc option. + + Bug fixes: + - Change default symbol visibility from "internal", to "hidden", which + decreases the overhead of library-internal function calls. + - Fix symbol visibility so that it is also set on OS X. + - Fix a build dependency regression caused by the introduction of the .pic.o + suffix for PIC object files. + - Add missing checks for mutex initialization failures. + - Don't use libgcc-based backtracing except on x64, where it is known to work. + - Fix deadlocks on OS X that were due to memory allocation in + pthread_mutex_lock(). + - Heap profiling-specific fixes: + + Fix memory corruption due to integer overflow in small region index + computation, when using a small enough sample interval that profiling + context pointers are stored in small run headers. + + Fix a bootstrap ordering bug that only occurred with TLS disabled. + + Fix a rallocm() rsize bug. + + Fix error detection bugs for aligned memory allocation. + +* 2.1.3 (March 14, 2011) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix a cpp logic regression (due to the "thread.{de,}allocatedp" mallctl fix + for OS X in 2.1.2). + - Fix a "thread.arena" mallctl bug. + - Fix a thread cache stats merging bug. + +* 2.1.2 (March 2, 2011) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix "thread.{de,}allocatedp" mallctl for OS X. + - Add missing jemalloc.a to build system. + +* 2.1.1 (January 31, 2011) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix aligned huge reallocation (affected allocm()). + - Fix the ALLOCM_LG_ALIGN macro definition. + - Fix a heap dumping deadlock. + - Fix a "thread.arena" mallctl bug. + +* 2.1.0 (December 3, 2010) + + This version incorporates some optimizations that can't quite be considered + bug fixes. + + New features: + - Use Linux's mremap(2) for huge object reallocation when possible. + - Avoid locking in mallctl*() when possible. + - Add the "thread.[de]allocatedp" mallctl's. + - Convert the manual page source from roff to DocBook, and generate both roff + and HTML manuals. + + Bug fixes: + - Fix a crash due to incorrect bootstrap ordering. This only impacted + --enable-debug --enable-dss configurations. + - Fix a minor statistics bug for mallctl("swap.avail", ...). + +* 2.0.1 (October 29, 2010) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix a race condition in heap profiling that could cause undefined behavior + if "opt.prof_accum" were disabled. + - Add missing mutex unlocks for some OOM error paths in the heap profiling + code. + - Fix a compilation error for non-C99 builds. + +* 2.0.0 (October 24, 2010) + + This version focuses on the experimental *allocm() API, and on improved + run-time configuration/introspection. Nonetheless, numerous performance + improvements are also included. + + New features: + - Implement the experimental {,r,s,d}allocm() API, which provides a superset + of the functionality available via malloc(), calloc(), posix_memalign(), + realloc(), malloc_usable_size(), and free(). These functions can be used to + allocate/reallocate aligned zeroed memory, ask for optional extra memory + during reallocation, prevent object movement during reallocation, etc. + - Replace JEMALLOC_OPTIONS/JEMALLOC_PROF_PREFIX with MALLOC_CONF, which is + more human-readable, and more flexible. For example: + JEMALLOC_OPTIONS=AJP + is now: + MALLOC_CONF=abort:true,fill:true,stats_print:true + - Port to Apple OS X. Sponsored by Mozilla. + - Make it possible for the application to control thread-->arena mappings via + the "thread.arena" mallctl. + - Add compile-time support for all TLS-related functionality via pthreads TSD. + This is mainly of interest for OS X, which does not support TLS, but has a + TSD implementation with similar performance. + - Override memalign() and valloc() if they are provided by the system. + - Add the "arenas.purge" mallctl, which can be used to synchronously purge all + dirty unused pages. + - Make cumulative heap profiling data optional, so that it is possible to + limit the amount of memory consumed by heap profiling data structures. + - Add per thread allocation counters that can be accessed via the + "thread.allocated" and "thread.deallocated" mallctls. + + Incompatible changes: + - Remove JEMALLOC_OPTIONS and malloc_options (see MALLOC_CONF above). + - Increase default backtrace depth from 4 to 128 for heap profiling. + - Disable interval-based profile dumps by default. + + Bug fixes: + - Remove bad assertions in fork handler functions. These assertions could + cause aborts for some combinations of configure settings. + - Fix strerror_r() usage to deal with non-standard semantics in GNU libc. + - Fix leak context reporting. This bug tended to cause the number of contexts + to be underreported (though the reported number of objects and bytes were + correct). + - Fix a realloc() bug for large in-place growing reallocation. This bug could + cause memory corruption, but it was hard to trigger. + - Fix an allocation bug for small allocations that could be triggered if + multiple threads raced to create a new run of backing pages. + - Enhance the heap profiler to trigger samples based on usable size, rather + than request size. + - Fix a heap profiling bug due to sometimes losing track of requested object + size for sampled objects. + +* 1.0.3 (August 12, 2010) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix the libunwind-based implementation of stack backtracing (used for heap + profiling). This bug could cause zero-length backtraces to be reported. + - Add a missing mutex unlock in library initialization code. If multiple + threads raced to initialize malloc, some of them could end up permanently + blocked. + +* 1.0.2 (May 11, 2010) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix junk filling of large objects, which could cause memory corruption. + - Add MAP_NORESERVE support for chunk mapping, because otherwise virtual + memory limits could cause swap file configuration to fail. Contributed by + Jordan DeLong. + +* 1.0.1 (April 14, 2010) + + Bug fixes: + - Fix compilation when --enable-fill is specified. + - Fix threads-related profiling bugs that affected accuracy and caused memory + to be leaked during thread exit. + - Fix dirty page purging race conditions that could cause crashes. + - Fix crash in tcache flushing code during thread destruction. + +* 1.0.0 (April 11, 2010) + + This release focuses on speed and run-time introspection. Numerous + algorithmic improvements make this release substantially faster than its + predecessors. + + New features: + - Implement autoconf-based configuration system. + - Add mallctl*(), for the purposes of introspection and run-time + configuration. + - Make it possible for the application to manually flush a thread's cache, via + the "tcache.flush" mallctl. + - Base maximum dirty page count on proportion of active memory. + - Compute various addtional run-time statistics, including per size class + statistics for large objects. + - Expose malloc_stats_print(), which can be called repeatedly by the + application. + - Simplify the malloc_message() signature to only take one string argument, + and incorporate an opaque data pointer argument for use by the application + in combination with malloc_stats_print(). + - Add support for allocation backed by one or more swap files, and allow the + application to disable over-commit if swap files are in use. + - Implement allocation profiling and leak checking. + + Removed features: + - Remove the dynamic arena rebalancing code, since thread-specific caching + reduces its utility. + + Bug fixes: + - Modify chunk allocation to work when address space layout randomization + (ASLR) is in use. + - Fix thread cleanup bugs related to TLS destruction. + - Handle 0-size allocation requests in posix_memalign(). + - Fix a chunk leak. The leaked chunks were never touched, so this impacted + virtual memory usage, but not physical memory usage. + +* linux_2008082[78]a (August 27/28, 2008) + + These snapshot releases are the simple result of incorporating Linux-specific + support into the FreeBSD malloc sources. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +vim:filetype=text:textwidth=80 |
