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bug #45244: memory consumption increases with runtime

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Tue 02 Jun 2015 09:37:32 PM UTC
Votes: 20
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Bug
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Component Version:  4.1 Operating System:  POSIX-Based
Fixed Release:  None Triage Status:  None
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Tue 02 Jun 2015 09:37:32 PM UTC, original submission:  

While executing, make allocates memory to hold the automatic variables for each target.  This memory is not free'd after the target is built, so it just accumulates until exit.

In my use case, the variables $+, $^, and $? are responsible for most of the memory allocation because they list all of the target's prerequisites.  My use case has the triple-whammy of long prerequisite names and many prerequisites on my many targets.

To reproduce the issue, please find the script "makefile_generator.rb" attached.  This creates an example makefile to demonstrate the problem.

Commands:
makefile_generator.rb 250 300 .1 (creates 300 targets with names 250 characters long, each does "sleep .1")
valgrind --tool=massif make all
ms_print massif.out.*

I've also attached  massif_report.txt generated using these steps. (My report comes from make 4.0, but I've observed the problem in 4.1 as well.)

The graph obviously shows the memory consumption increasing throughout the run.

In the final sample, you can see that 90.35% of the memory was allocated via xstrdup.  Most of these allocations come from 3 places:
| | | ->29.95% (11,181,817B) 0x405A6C: set_file_variables (commands.c:231)
| | | ->29.95% (11,181,817B) 0x405C84: set_file_variables (commands.c:315)
| | | ->29.95% (11,181,817B) 0x405CC9: set_file_variables (commands.c:318)

These correspond to the places where automatic variables are created:
$+ here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/commands.c?id=4.0#n231
$^ here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/commands.c?id=4.0#n315
$? here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/commands.c?id=4.0#n318

I couldn't figure out exactly where it would be safe to free this memory, but this modification seems to work:

--- a/remake.c
+++ b/remake.c
@@ -876,6 +876,13 @@ notice_finished_file (struct file *file)
   file->command_state = cs_finished;
   file->updated = 1;
 
+  /* I'm assuming that since this file is finished, we won't need
+   its variables anymore.../
+  if (file->variables)
+    free_variable_set (file->variables);
+  if (file->pat_variables)
+    free_variable_set (file->pat_variables);
+
   if (touch_flag
       /* The update status will be:
            us_success   if 0 or more commands (+ or ${MAKE}) were run and won;

I did some quick-and-dirty benchmarking, and this change doesn't seem to cost much extra CPU time, either.

Thanks,
mblythe

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file #34149:  makefile_generator.rb added by None (374B - application/octet-stream)
file #34150:  massif_report.txt added by None (157KiB - text/plain)

 

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