Jemalloc 4 purges dirty pages regularly during free() when the ratio of dirty
pages compared to active pages is higher than 1 << lg_dirty_mult. We set
lg_dirty_mult in jemalloc_config to limit RSS usage, but it also has an impact
on performance.
So instead of enforcing a high ratio to force more pages being purged, we keep
jemalloc's default ratio of 8, and force a regular purge of all dirty pages,
after cycle collection.
Keeping jemalloc's default ratio avoids cycle-collection-triggered purge to
have to go through really all dirty pages when there are a lot, in which case
the normal jemalloc purge during free() will already have kicked in. It also
takes care of everything that doesn't run the cycle collector still having
a level of purge, like plugins in the plugin-container.
At the same time, since jemalloc_purge_freed_pages does nothing with jemalloc 4,
repurpose the MEMORY_FREE_PURGED_PAGES_MS telemetry probe to track the time
spent in this cycle-collector-triggered purge.
The patch removes 455 occurrences of FAIL_ON_WARNINGS from moz.build files, and
adds 78 instances of ALLOW_COMPILER_WARNINGS. About half of those 78 are in
code we control and which should be removable with a little effort.
The bulk of this commit was generated by running:
run-clang-tidy.py \
-checks='-*,llvm-namespace-comment' \
-header-filter=^/.../mozilla-central/.* \
-fix
Bug 818922 made MOZ_REPLACE_MALLOC a global define, and that changed the
defines set when building mozjemalloc_compat.c for the jemalloc3
replace-malloc library. In turn, this made the symbol munging wrong for
that library, making the jemalloc_* functions exported as je_jemalloc_*
instead of replace_jemalloc_*.
This also effectively changes how DMD is enabled from requiring both
replace-malloc initialization and the DMD environment variable to
requiring only the former. The DMD environment variable can still be
used to specify options, but not to disable entirely.
This however doesn't touch all the parts that do enable DMD by setting
the DMD environment variable to 1, so the code to handle this value
is kept.
There are, sadly, many combinations of linkage in use throughout the tree.
The main differentiator, though, is between program/libraries related to
Gecko or not. Kind of. Some need mozglue, some don't. Some need dependent
linkage, some standalone.
Anyways, these new templates remove the need to manually define the
right dependencies against xpcomglue, nspr, mozalloc and mozglue
in most cases.
Places that build programs and were resetting MOZ_GLUE_PROGRAM_LDFLAGS
or that build libraries and were resetting MOZ_GLUE_LDFLAGS can now
just not use those Gecko-specific templates.
It appears to be an unnecessary optimization, since the compiler is still inlining
the functions when they're not marked static. OTOH, following patches will require
the _impl functions not to be static.
Since essentially everything is linked to libmozglue and libmozglue takes
precedence in symbol resolution in our dynamic linker, there is no need
to wrap most symbols. PR_GetEnv/PR_SetEnv still needs wrapping because
there's no other way to actually wrap the calls from NSPR itself and NSS,
as well as the symbols wrapped because our dynamic linker can't find them
in system libraries on some devices because they're weak.
