On 2017-04-04 23:23:30 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On 04/04/2017 10:42 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Andres nagged to me about valgrind runs taking much longer since
> > 9fab40ad introduced the SlabContext into reorderbuffer.c. And by
> > "longer" I mean hours instead of minutes.
> >
> > After a bit of investigation I stumbled on this line in slab.c:
> >
> > VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED(chunk, SlabChunkGetPointer(chunk));
> >
> > which is wrong, because the second parameter should be size and not
> > another pointer. This essentially marks a lot of memory as defined,
> > which results in the extreme test runtime.
> >
> > Instead, the line should be:
> >
> > VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED(SlabChunkGetPointer(chunk), sizeof(int32));
> >
> > Patch attached.
> >
>
> Turns out SlabCheck() was missing VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED, resulting in a
> valgrind failure with --enable-assert. Updated patch version attached,
> passing all tests in test_decoding.
Pushed, and re-enabled TestDecoding on skink.