This patch changes local table memory to be managed by a linked list
rather than via the garbage collector. It reduces allocations from the
GC and also fixes a use-after-free bug in the concurrent-with-sweep
compactor I'm working on.
Without this, if a refinement defines a method that calls super and
includes a module with a module that calls super and has a activated
refinement at the point super is called, the module method super call
will end up calling back into the refinement method, creating a loop.
Fixes [Bug #17007]
98286e9850 made it so that
`Module#include` allocates an origin iclass on each use. Since `include`
is widely used, the extra allocation can contribute significantly to
memory usage.
Instead of always allocating in anticipation of prepend, this change
takes a different approach. The new setup inserts a origin iclass into
the super chains of all the children of the module when prepend happens
for the first time.
rb_ensure_origin is made static again since now that adding an origin
now means walking over all usages, we want to limit the number of places
where we do it.
The RubyVM uses C macro defines to feature detect whether
`backtrace(2)` support is available, and if so it includes C level backtraces
when the RubyVM itself crashes.
But on my machine, C level backtraces from `vm_dump.c` didn't work when
using a version of Ruby buillt on the machine, but worked fine when using a
version of Ruby built on another machine and copied to my machine.
The default autoconf test for backtraces uses a sigaltstack size that is
too small, so the SIGSEGV signal handler itself causes a SIGSEGV).
I noticed that signal.c uses a larger sigaltstack size:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_6_5/signal.c#L568
The specific variables it looks at:
- `HAVE_BACKTRACE`
this is a macro defined by autoconf because there is a line in the
configure script like `AC_CHECK_FUNCS(backtrace)` (see the autoconf
docs for more).
- `BROKEN_BACKTRACE`
this comes from a custom program that Ruby's configure script runs to
attempt to figure out whether actually using backtrace(2) in a real
program works. You can see the autoconf program here.
<https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_6_5/configure.ac#L2817-L2863>
It uses sigaltstack and SA_ONSTACK to create a seperate stack for
handling signals.
The problem was: SIGSTKSZ (which comes from a system header!) was not
suggesting a large enough stack size. When checking on an Ubuntu 16.04
box, we found that SIGSTKSZ was 8192 and MINSIGSTKSZ was 2048.
Nobuyoshi Nakada
Yusuke Endoh
Sergio
Simon Perepelitsa
Vít Ondruch
Benoit Daloze
Aaron Patterson
git
Jeremy Evans
aycabta
S.H
Tom Rothe
卜部昌平
Alan Wu
Jean Boussier
Burdette Lamar
Jake Zimmerman
Hiroshi SHIBATA
hyrious
Benoit Tigeot