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Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro dot umontreal dot ca>
- Cc: emacs-devel at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:00:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:49:02 -0500
> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
>
> >> This is less of a problem if Emacs never frees a pointer after dump that
> >> it has allocated before dump. But I think this can happen (otherwise,
> >> all this would be quite easy to address).
> > Yes, it can and does happen, although not much.
>
> Indeed. This said, it'd make sense to try and avoid doing it.
AFAICS, it happens due to the following:
. We call regex.c functions, which reuse an allocated buffer,
extending it (via realloc) as needed; that buffer gets frozen with
malloc arena used during dumping
. We delete the terminal frame used by temacs and free its resources
. Not 100% sure, but I think we also release/reallocate some
font-related stuff
It's easy to catch all those cases by setting a breakpoint on realloc
and free during startup.