Essentially, the problem is that safemalloc is excruciatingly
slow as it checks all allocated blocks for overrun at each
memory management primitive, yielding a almost exponential
slowdown for the memory management functions (malloc, realloc,
free). The overrun check basically consists of verifying some
bytes of a block for certain magic keys, which catches some
simple forms of overrun. Another minor problem is violation
of aliasing rules and that its own internal list of blocks
is prone to corruption.
Another issue with safemalloc is rather the maintenance cost
as the tool has a significant impact on the server code.
Given the magnitude of memory debuggers available nowadays,
especially those that are provided with the platform malloc
implementation, maintenance of a in-house and largely obsolete
memory debugger becomes a burden that is not worth the effort
due to its slowness and lack of support for detecting more
common forms of heap corruption.
Since there are third-party tools that can provide the same
functionality at a lower or comparable performance cost, the
solution is to simply remove safemalloc. Third-party tools
can provide the same functionality at a lower or comparable
performance cost.
The removal of safemalloc also allows a simplification of the
malloc wrappers, removing quite a bit of kludge: redefinition
of my_malloc, my_free and the removal of the unused second
argument of my_free. Since free() always check whether the
supplied pointer is null, redudant checks are also removed.
Also, this patch adds unit testing for my_malloc and moves
my_realloc implementation into the same file as the other
memory allocation primitives.
client/mysqldump.c:
Pass my_free directly as its signature is compatible with the
callback type -- which wasn't the case for free_table_ent.
Bug #42147 Concurrent DML and LOCK TABLE ... READ for InnoDB
table cause warnings in errlog
Concurrent execution of LOCK TABLES ... READ statement and DML statements
affecting the same InnoDB table on debug builds of MySQL server might lead
to "Found lock of type 6 that is write and read locked" warnings appearing
in error log.
The problem is that the table-level locking code allows a thread to acquire
TL_READ_NO_INSERT lock on a table even if there is another thread which holds
TL_WRITE_ALLOW_WRITE lock on the same table. At the same time, the locking
code assumes that that such locks are incompatible (for example, see check_locks()).
This doesn't lead to any problems other than warnings in error log for
debug builds of server since for InnoDB tables TL_READ_NO_INSERT type of
lock is only used for LOCK TABLES and for this statement InnoDB also
performs its own table-level locking.
Unfortunately, the table lock compatibility matrix cannot be updated to disallow
TL_READ_NO_INSERT when another thread holds TL_WRITE_ALLOW_WRITE without
causing starvation of LOCK TABLE READ in InnoDB under high write load.
This patch therefore contains no code changes.
The issue will be fixed later when LOCK TABLE READ has been updated
to not use table locks. This bug will therefore be marked as
"To be fixed later".
Code comment in thr_lock.c expanded to clarify the issue and a
test case based on the bug description added to innodb_mysql_lock.test.
Note that a global suppression rule has been added to both MTR v1 and v2
for the "Found lock of type 6 that is write and read locked" warning.
These suppression rules must be removed once this bug is properly fixed.
