When performing inlining LLVM unfortunately "leaks" types (the
types survive and are usable, but a new round of inlining will
recreate new structurally equivalent types). This accumulation
will over time amount to a memory leak which for some queries
can be large enough to trigger the OOM process killer.
To avoid accumulation of types, all IR related data is stored
in an LLVMContextRef which is dropped and recreated in order
to release all types. Dropping and recreating incurs overhead,
so it will be done only after 100 queries. This is a heuristic
which might be revisited, but until we can get the size of the
context from LLVM we are flying a bit blind.
This issue has been reported several times, there may be more
references to it in the archives on top of the threads linked
below.
Backpatching of this fix will be handled once it has matured
in master for a bit.
Reported-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reported-By: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Reported-By: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Reported-By: Lauri Laanmets <pcspets@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund and Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7acc8678-df5f-4923-9cf6-e843131ae89d@www.fastmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201218235607.GC30237@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPH-tTxLf44s3CvUUtQpkDr1D8Hxqc2NGDzGXS1ODsfiJ6WSqA@mail.gmail.com
Code inlined by LLVM can crash or fail with "Relocation type not
implemented yet!" if it tries to access thread local variables. Don't
inline such code.
Back-patch to 11, where LLVM arrived. Bug #16696.
Author: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16696-29d944a33801fbfe@postgresql.org
Bleeding-edge LLVM has stopped supplying replacements for various
C++14 library features, for people on older C++ versions. Since we're
not ready to require C++14 yet, just use plain old new instead of
make_unique. As revealed by buildfarm animal seawasp.
Back-patch to 11.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJWG7unNqmkxg7nC5o3o-0p2XP6co4r%3D9epqYMm8UY4Mw%40mail.gmail.com
Early previews of LLVM 9 reveal that our Min() macro causes compiler
errors in LLVM headers reached by the #include directives in
llvmjit_inline.cpp. Let's just undefine it. Per buildfarm animal
seawasp. Back-patch to 11.
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190606173216.GA6306%40alvherre.pgsql
Previously the attribute was only checked for external functions
inlined, not "static" functions that had to be inlined as
dependencies.
This isn't really a bug, but makes debugging a bit harder. The new
behaviour also makes more sense. Therefore backpatch.
Author: Andres Freund
Backpatch: 11-, where JIT compilation was added
This provides infrastructure to allow JITed code to inline code
implemented in C. This e.g. can be postgres internal functions or
extension code.
This already speeds up long running queries, by allowing the LLVM
optimizer to optimize across function boundaries. The optimization
potential currently doesn't reach its full potential because LLVM
cannot optimize the FunctionCallInfoData argument fully away, because
it's allocated on the heap rather than the stack. Fixing that is
beyond what's realistic for v11.
To be able to do that, use CLANG to convert C code to LLVM bitcode,
and have LLVM build a summary for it. That bitcode can then be used to
to inline functions at runtime. For that the bitcode needs to be
installed. Postgres bitcode goes into $pkglibdir/bitcode/postgres,
extensions go into equivalent directories. PGXS has been modified so
that happens automatically if postgres has been compiled with LLVM
support.
Currently this isn't the fastest inline implementation, modules are
reloaded from disk during inlining. That's to work around an apparent
LLVM bug, triggering an apparently spurious error in LLVM assertion
enabled builds. Once that is resolved we can remove the superfluous
read from disk.
Docs will follow in a later commit containing docs for the whole JIT
feature.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Thomas Munro
Bruce Momjian
Daniel Gustafsson
Michael Paquier
Andres Freund