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commit    b6659a3b9eead7e2a2e8eee6152720ec803b5ac2
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Tue Aug 04 22:18:46 2015 +0000

    Fix bogus "out of memory" reports in tuplestore.c.
    
    The tuplesort/tuplestore memory management logic assumed that the chunk
    allocation overhead for its memtuples array could not increase when
    increasing the array size.  This is and always was true for tuplesort,
    but we (I, I think) blindly copied that logic into tuplestore.c without
    noticing that the assumption failed to hold for the much smaller array
    elements used by tuplestore.  Given rather small work_mem, this could
    result in an improper complaint about "unexpected out-of-memory situation",
    as reported by Brent DeSpain in bug #13530.
    
    The easiest way to fix this is just to increase tuplestore's initial
    array size so that the assumption holds.  Rather than relying on magic
    constants, though, let's export a #define from aset.c that represents
    the safe allocation threshold, and make tuplestore's calculation depend
    on that.
    
    Do the same in tuplesort.c to keep the logic looking parallel, even though
    tuplesort.c isn't actually at risk at present.  This will keep us from
    breaking it if we ever muck with the allocation parameters in aset.c.
    
    Back-patch to all supported versions.  The error message doesn't occur
    pre-9.3, not so much because the problem can't happen as because the
    pre-9.3 tuplestore code neglected to check for it.  (The chance of
    trouble is a great deal larger as of 9.3, though, due to changes in the
    array-size-increasing strategy.)  However, allowing LACKMEM() to become
    true unexpectedly could still result in less-than-desirable behavior,
    so let's patch it all the way back.


src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c | 10 +++++++--- src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c | 11 +++++++++-- src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c | 11 ++++++++++- src/include/utils/memutils.h | 8 ++++++++ 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c index 81b734a6340..e3571a28a21 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c @@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ * * With the current parameters, request sizes up to 8K are treated as chunks, * larger requests go into dedicated blocks. Change ALLOCSET_NUM_FREELISTS - * to adjust the boundary point. (But in contexts with small maxBlockSize, - * we may set the allocChunkLimit to less than 8K, so as to avoid space - * wastage.) + * to adjust the boundary point; and adjust ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD in + * memutils.h to agree. (Note: in contexts with small maxBlockSize, we may + * set the allocChunkLimit to less than 8K, so as to avoid space wastage.) *-------------------- */ @@ -393,7 +393,11 @@ AllocSetContextCreate(MemoryContext parent, * We have to have allocChunkLimit a power of two, because the requested * and actually-allocated sizes of any chunk must be on the same side of * the limit, else we get confused about whether the chunk is "big". + * + * Also, allocChunkLimit must not exceed ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD. */ + Assert(ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT == ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD); + context->allocChunkLimit = ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT; while ((Size) (context->allocChunkLimit + ALLOC_CHUNKHDRSZ) > (Size) ((maxBlockSize - ALLOC_BLOCKHDRSZ) / ALLOC_CHUNK_FRACTION)) diff --git a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c index 8d9f1e79416..69042911cea 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c @@ -568,7 +568,14 @@ tuplesort_begin_common(int workMem, bool randomAccess) state->tapeset = NULL; state->memtupcount = 0; - state->memtupsize = 1024; /* initial guess */ + + /* + * Initial size of array must be more than ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD; + * see comments in grow_memtuples(). + */ + state->memtupsize = Max(1024, + ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD / sizeof(SortTuple) + 1); + state->memtuples = (SortTuple *) palloc(state->memtupsize * sizeof(SortTuple)); USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples)); @@ -990,7 +997,7 @@ grow_memtuples(Tuplesortstate *state) state->memtupsize * sizeof(SortTuple)); USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples)); if (LACKMEM(state)) - elog(ERROR, "unexpected out-of-memory situation during sort"); + elog(ERROR, "unexpected out-of-memory situation in tuplesort"); return true; } diff --git a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c index a216992a7a3..1db2fa4e526 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c @@ -260,7 +260,14 @@ tuplestore_begin_common(int eflags, bool interXact, int maxKBytes) state->memtupdeleted = 0; state->memtupcount = 0; - state->memtupsize = 1024; /* initial guess */ + + /* + * Initial size of array must be more than ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD; + * see comments in grow_memtuples(). + */ + state->memtupsize = Max(16384 / sizeof(void *), + ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD / sizeof(void *) + 1); + state->memtuples = (void **) palloc(state->memtupsize * sizeof(void *)); USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples)); @@ -643,6 +650,8 @@ tuplestore_puttuple_common(Tuplestorestate *state, void *tuple) repalloc(state->memtuples, state->memtupsize * sizeof(void *)); USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples)); + if (LACKMEM(state)) + elog(ERROR, "unexpected out-of-memory situation in tuplestore"); } } diff --git a/src/include/utils/memutils.h b/src/include/utils/memutils.h index aee23d3d2ec..84bb062f1d6 100644 --- a/src/include/utils/memutils.h +++ b/src/include/utils/memutils.h @@ -141,4 +141,12 @@ extern MemoryContext AllocSetContextCreate(MemoryContext parent, #define ALLOCSET_SMALL_INITSIZE (1 * 1024) #define ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE (8 * 1024) +/* + * Threshold above which a request in an AllocSet context is certain to be + * allocated separately (and thereby have constant allocation overhead). + * Few callers should be interested in this, but tuplesort/tuplestore need + * to know it. + */ +#define ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD 8192 + #endif /* MEMUTILS_H */ [parent: 359016d2e973]