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gnu: ghc: Make memory allocator decommit memory on Linux < 4.5. 

* gnu/packages/patches/ghc-8.0-fall-back-to-madv_dontneed.patch: New file.
* gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
* gnu/packages/haskell.scm (ghc-8): Use it.
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Danny Milosavljevic 2018-02-15 17:19:28 +01:00 committed by Leo Famulari
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@ -683,6 +683,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \
%D%/packages/patches/gegl-CVE-2012-4433.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/gemma-intel-compat.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/geoclue-config.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/ghc-8.0-fall-back-to-madv_dontneed.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/ghostscript-no-header-id.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/ghostscript-no-header-uuid.patch \

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@ -328,7 +328,8 @@ interactive environment for the functional language Haskell.")
(base32 "1c8qc4fhkycynk4g1f9hvk53dj6a1vvqi6bklqznns6hw59m8qhi"))
(patches
(search-patches
"ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch"))))
"ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch"
"ghc-8.0-fall-back-to-madv_dontneed.patch"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(supported-systems '("i686-linux" "x86_64-linux"))
(outputs '("out" "doc"))

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@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
ghc runtime by default (otherwise depending on a "configure" option)
does memory allocation on their own by first mmapping a 1 TB range of
memory into the process and then parceling out chunks from it.
If one of the chunks is not needed, the kernel needs to be informed -
otherwise the system would quickly run out of available RAM.
ghc does that via madvise(2).
There are two options when doing this informing:
MADV_FREE - Means "I don't need this range or the data in it any more".
Kernel promises to fail later accesses to it.
MADV_DONTNEED - Means "I don't need this range right now - and I don't
need the data in it anymore". Kernel promises to make later accesses to
it succeed (if necessary by providing a new page initialized with zeroes).
MADV_FREE was introduced in Linux 4.5.
glibc 2.25 and later always define MADV_FREE.
Unpatched ghc 8.0.2 will use either MADV_FREE or MADV_DONTNEED, determined
at ghc compile time. Which of them will actually succeed is determined
by the Linux kernel at run time.
This patch makes ghc try MADV_FREE. If it doesn't work, it falls back to
MADV_DONTNEED.
The end result is that ghc programs free their memory with Linux < 4.5 again.
See https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/6576bf83cdf4eac05eb88a24aa934a736c91e3da for more information.
--- a/rts/posix/OSMem.c
+++ b/rts/posix/OSMem.c
@@ -541,11 +541,24 @@ void osDecommitMemory(void *at, W_ size)
#ifdef MADV_FREE
// Try MADV_FREE first, FreeBSD has both and MADV_DONTNEED
- // just swaps memory out
+ // just swaps memory out. Linux >= 4.5 has both DONTNEED and FREE; either
+ // will work as they both allow the system to free anonymous pages.
+ // It is important that we try both methods as the kernel which we were
+ // built on may differ from the kernel we are now running on.
r = madvise(at, size, MADV_FREE);
-#else
- r = madvise(at, size, MADV_DONTNEED);
+ if(r < 0) {
+ if (errno == EINVAL) {
+ // Perhaps the system doesn't support MADV_FREE; fall-through and
+ // try MADV_DONTNEED.
+ } else {
+ sysErrorBelch("unable to decommit memory");
+ }
+ } else {
+ return;
+ }
#endif
+
+ r = madvise(at, size, MADV_DONTNEED);
if(r < 0)
sysErrorBelch("unable to decommit memory");
}