Previously, the isc_mem_allocate() and isc_mem_free() would be used for
isc_mem_total test, but since we now use the real allocation
size (sallocx, malloc_size, malloc_usable_size) to track the allocation
size, it's impossible to get the test value right. Changing the test to
use isc_mem_get() and isc_mem_put() will use the exact size provided, so
the test would work again on all the platforms even when jemalloc is not
being used.
It was discovered that softhsm2.4 has a bug that causes invalid free()
call to be called when unloading libsofthsm.so.2 library. The native
PKCS#11 API is scheduled to removed in the 9.17+ release, we could
safely just disable jemalloc for this particular build.
This commit refactors the water mechanism in the isc_mem API to use
single pointer to a water_t structure that can be swapped with
atomic_exchange operation instead of having four different
values (water, water_arg, hi_water, lo_water) in the flat namespace.
This reduces the need for locking and prevents a race when water and
water_arg could be desynchronized.
Calls to jemalloc extended API with size == 0 ends up in undefined
behaviour. This commit makes the isc_mem_get() and friends calls
more POSIX aligned:
If size is 0, either a null pointer or a unique pointer that can be
successfully passed to free() shall be returned.
We picked the easier route (which have been already supported in the old
code) and return NULL on calls to the API where size == 0.
This commit adds support for systems where the jemalloc library is not
available as a package, here's the quick summary:
* On Linux - the jemalloc is usually available as a package, if
configured --without-jemalloc, the shim would be used around
malloc(), free(), realloc() and malloc_usable_size()
* On macOS - the jemalloc is available from homebrew or macports, if
configured --without-jemalloc, the shim would be used around
malloc(), free(), realloc() and malloc_size()
* On FreeBSD - the jemalloc is *the* system allocator, we just need
to check for <malloc_np.h> header to get access to non-standard API
* On NetBSD - the jemalloc is *the* system allocator, we just need to
check for <jemalloc/jemalloc.h> header to get access to non-standard
API
* On a system hostile to users and developers (read OpenBSD) - the
jemalloc API is emulated by using ((size_t *)ptr)[-1] field to hold
the size information. The OpenBSD developers care only for
themselves, so why should we care about speed on OpenBSD?
- isc_mempool_get() can no longer fail; when there are no more objects
in the pool, more are always allocated. checking for NULL return is
no longer necessary.
- the isc_mempool_setmaxalloc() and isc_mempool_getmaxalloc() functions
are no longer used and have been removed.
Current mempools are kind of hybrid structures - they serve two
purposes:
1. mempool with a lock is basically static sized allocator with
pre-allocated free items
2. mempool without a lock is a doubly-linked list of preallocated items
The first kind of usage could be easily replaced with jemalloc small
sized arena objects and thread-local caches.
The second usage not-so-much and we need to keep this (in
libdns:message.c) for performance reasons.
Previously, we only had capability to trace the mempool gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory pools get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
The isc_mem_allocate() comes with additional cost because of the memory
tracking. In this commit, we replace the usage with isc_mem_get()
because we track the allocated sizes anyway, so it's possible to also
replace isc_mem_free() with isc_mem_put().
The jemalloc non-standard API fits nicely with our memory contexts, so
just rewrite the memory context internals to use the non-public API.
There's just one caveat - since we no longer track the size of the
allocation for isc_mem_allocate/isc_mem_free combination, we need to use
sallocx() to get real allocation size in both allocator and deallocator
because otherwise the sizes would not match.
The ISC_MEM_DEBUGSIZE and ISC_MEM_DEBUGCTX did sanity checks on matching
size and memory context on the memory returned to the allocator. Those
will no longer needed when most of the allocator will be replaced with
jemalloc.
There's global variable called `malloc_conf` that can be used to
configure jemalloc behaviour at the program startup. We use following
configuration:
* xmalloc:true - abort-on-out-of-memory enabled.
* background_thread:true - Enable internal background worker threads
to handle purging asynchronously.
* metadata_thp:auto - allow jemalloc to use transparent huge page
(THP) for internal metadata initially, but may begin to do so when
metadata usage reaches certain level.
* dirty_decay_ms:30000 - Approximate time in milliseconds from the
creation of a set of unused dirty pages until an equivalent set of
unused dirty pages is purged and/or reused.
* muzzy_decay_ms:30000 - Approximate time in milliseconds from the
creation of a set of unused muzzy pages until an equivalent set of
unused muzzy pages is purged and/or reused.
More information about the specific meaning can be found in the jemalloc
manpage or online at http://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html
The jemalloc allocator is scalable high performance allocator, this is
the first in the series of commits that will add jemalloc as a memory
allocator for BIND 9.
This commit adds configure.ac check and Makefile modifications to use
jemalloc as BIND 9 allocator.
Previously, we only had capability to trace the memory gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory contexts get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
This commit makes BIND return HTTP status codes for malformed or too
small requests.
DNS request processing code would ignore such requests. Such an
approach works well for other DNS transport but does not make much
sense for HTTP, not allowing it to complete the request/response
sequence.
Suppose execution has reached the point where DNS message handling
code has been called. In that case, it means that the HTTP request has
been successfully processed, and, thus, we are expected to respond to
it either with a message containing some DNS payload or at least to
return an error status code. This commit ensures that BIND behaves
this way.
This error code fits better than the more generic "Internal Server
Error" (500) which implies that the problem is on the server.
Also, do not end the whole HTTP/2 session on a bad request.
We were too strict regarding the value and presence of "Accept" HTTP
header, slightly breaking compatibility with the specification.
According to RFC8484 client SHOULD add "Accept" header to the requests
but MUST be able to handle "application/dns-message" media type
regardless of the value of the header. That basically suggests we
ignore its value.
Besides, verifying the value of the "Accept" header is a bit tricky
because it could contain multiple media types, thus requiring proper
parsing. That is doable but does not provide us with any benefits.
Among other things, not verifying the value also fixes compatibility
with clients, which could advertise multiple media types as supported,
which we should accept. For example, it is possible for a perfectly
valid request to contain "application/dns-message", "application/*",
and "*/*" in the "Accept" header value. Still, we would treat such a
request as invalid.
The commit fixes BIND hanging when browsers end HTTP/2 streams
prematurely (for example, by sending RST_STREAM). It ensures that
isc__nmsocket_prep_destroy() will be called for an HTTP/2 stream,
allowing it to be properly disposed.
The problem was impossible to reproduce using dig or DoH benchmarking
software (e.g. flamethrower) because these do not tend to end HTTP/2
streams prematurely.
This commit adds two new autoconf options `--enable-doh` (enabled by
default) and `--with-libnghttp2` (mandatory when DoH is enabled).
When DoH support is disabled the library is not linked-in and support
for http(s) protocol is disabled in the netmgr, named and dig.
if a control channel listener was configured with more than one
key algorithm, message verification would be attempted with each
algorithm in turn. if the first key failed due to the wrong
signature length, the entire verification process was aborted,
rather than continuing on to try with another key.
The isc/platform.h header was left empty which things either already
moved to config.h or to appropriate headers. This is just the final
cleanup commit.
The last remaining defines needed for platforms without NAME_MAX and
PATH_MAX (I'm looking at you, GNU Hurd) were moved to isc/dir.h where
it's prevalently used.
The ISC_STRERRORSIZE was defined in isc/platform.h header as the
value was different between Windows and POSIX platforms. Now that
Windows is gone, move the define to where it belongs.
