Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types
Date: 2022-09-01 00:31:58
Message-ID: CAApHDvoKg1Nf1GZgaL9WeS+srja2+UBgFxjYDkO-A2_XHbfU-A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 12:23, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Is there reason to think we can't validate headers enough to catch
> clobbers?

For non-sentinel chunks, the next byte after the end of the chunk will
be storing the block offset for the following chunk. I think:

if (block != MemoryChunkGetBlock(chunk))
elog(WARNING, "problem in alloc set %s: bad block offset for chunk %p
in block %p",
name, chunk, block);

should catch those.

Maybe we should just consider always making room for a sentinel for
chunks that are on dedicated blocks. At most that's an extra 8 bytes
in some allocation that's either over 1024 or 8192 (depending on
maxBlockSize).

David

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