Re: pgsql: Introduce pg_shmem_allocations_numa view

Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>

From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-06-25T06:45:55Z
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  1. Handle EPERM in pg_numa_init

  2. Add CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into pg_numa_query_pages

  3. Silence valgrind about pg_numa_touch_mem_if_required

  4. Limit the size of numa_move_pages requests

  5. 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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Bertrand Drouvot
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