Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-09-01T03:15:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 13:16, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm also wondering if this should also be backpatched back to v10,
> providing the build farm likes it well enough on master.

Does anyone have any objections to d5ee4db0e in its entirety being backpatched?

David



Commits

  1. Harden memory context allocators against bogus chunk pointers.

  2. Improve our ability to detect bogus pointers passed to pfree et al.

  3. Remove MemoryContextContains().

  4. Remove uses of MemoryContextContains in nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c.

  5. Temporarily make MemoryContextContains return false

  6. Make MemoryContextContains work correctly again

  7. Make more effort to put a sentinel at the end of allocated memory

  8. Fix some possibly latent bugs in slab.c

  9. Various cleanups of the new memory context header code

  10. Revert "Add missing padding from MemoryChunk struct"

  11. Use MAXALIGN() in calculations using sizeof(SlabBlock)

  12. Add missing padding from MemoryChunk struct

  13. Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management