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From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
To: 61960@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61960: 30.0.50; Unexec build reliably crashes during loadup
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2023 04:50:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63f3de6f0cc0d015d2dcbcdd6adc95482dc0c6ad.camel@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62049aa9ffcf9f39fd423fb87cd8dc8e0b77f9b8.camel@yandex.ru>

I've found a diff that fixes the build, but whether it's okay is worth discussion:

    diff --git a/src/gmalloc.c b/src/gmalloc.c
    index e655d69f660..f49bb01e08b 100644
    --- a/src/gmalloc.c
    +++ b/src/gmalloc.c
    @@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@ allocated_via_gmalloc (void *ptr)
         return false;
       size_t block = BLOCK (ptr);
       size_t blockmax = _heaplimit - 1;
    -  return block <= blockmax && _heapinfo[block].busy.type != 0;
    +  return block <= blockmax;
     }

     /* See the comments near the beginning of this file for explanations

Here's what happens: Emacs uses internal stack-based allocator (apparently allocating
with sbrk(), but I'm not sure) along with the system allocator. Whenever a memory is
allocated from the internal allocator, you can't call `free()` on it.

When Emacs wants to free memory, it calls `hybrid_free_1()`, which internally
determines whether the `ptr` passed belongs to system heap or to Emacs
stack. Determining in turn is done by `allocated_via_gmalloc()`.

Emacs also keeps the lowest and highest boundary of this stack in variables
`_heapbase` and `_heaplimit` accordingly (except the latter is measured in
"blocks"). The code in diff `block <= blockmax` simply makes sure that the `ptr`
passed is within the stack-allocated memory, which implies it can't be deallocated
with `free()`

There's a question though of the right-hand side that I remove, the
`_heapinfo[block].busy.type != 0;`. Apparently the `type` should keep some memory
info, and apparently there's a bug somewhere that screws it up. It is a bug worth
fixing, although for some reason `rr replay` doesn't work for me with `temacs`
(probably a bug in rr), and without reverse-execution tracking that down would be
very hard.

But I would argue that the right-hand side check has no value in this function,
because to determine the source of allocation it's enough to just check whether `ptr`
is in _heapbase .. _heaplimit range (barring the fact they're different units).






  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-02  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-04 14:55 bug#61960: 30.0.50; Unexec build reliably crashes during loadup Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-04 19:50 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-04 19:51   ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-04 20:05     ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-04 20:26       ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-05  5:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <xjf4jr0xkar.fsf@ma.sdf.org>
2023-03-04 21:56       ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-04 22:00         ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-04 22:08           ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-03-04 23:38             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-05  5:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <xjf7cvtx0q0.fsf@ma.sdf.org>
2023-03-06 18:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-07 14:59               ` Andrea Corallo
2023-03-07 15:33                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11  7:22                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
     [not found]                     ` <xjfpm9es4qe.fsf@ma.sdf.org>
2023-03-12 23:49                       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
     [not found]                         ` <xjf3566s29a.fsf@ma.sdf.org>
2023-03-15 13:56                           ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-15 14:26                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-16  0:30                               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-16  6:25                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                             ` <xjfv8j2qe69.fsf@ma.sdf.org>
2023-03-16  0:33                               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-16  6:26                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-05  5:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-02  1:50   ` Konstantin Kharlamov [this message]
2023-07-02  2:27     ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-07-02  5:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-02 11:32       ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-07-02 11:54         ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-07-02 14:10         ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-07-21 16:09           ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-07-21 16:30             ` Eli Zaretskii

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