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Core: fixed a race resulting in extra sem_post()'s. The mtx->wait counter was not decremented if we were able to obtain the lock right after incrementing it. This resulted in unneeded sem_post() calls, eventually leading to EOVERFLOW errors being logged, "sem_post() failed while wake shmtx (75: Value too large for defined data type)". To close the race, mtx->wait is now decremented if we obtain the lock right after incrementing it in ngx_shmtx_lock(). The result can become -1 if a concurrent ngx_shmtx_unlock() decrements mtx->wait before the added code does. However, that only leads to one extra iteration in the next call of ngx_shmtx_lock().
author Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
date Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:22:43 +0300
parents d620f497c50f
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/*
 * Copyright (C) Igor Sysoev
 * Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.
 */


#ifndef _NGX_ALLOC_H_INCLUDED_
#define _NGX_ALLOC_H_INCLUDED_


#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>


void *ngx_alloc(size_t size, ngx_log_t *log);
void *ngx_calloc(size_t size, ngx_log_t *log);

#define ngx_free          free


/*
 * Linux has memalign() or posix_memalign()
 * Solaris has memalign()
 * FreeBSD 7.0 has posix_memalign(), besides, early version's malloc()
 * aligns allocations bigger than page size at the page boundary
 */

#if (NGX_HAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN || NGX_HAVE_MEMALIGN)

void *ngx_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size, ngx_log_t *log);

#else

#define ngx_memalign(alignment, size, log)  ngx_alloc(size, log)

#endif


extern ngx_uint_t  ngx_pagesize;
extern ngx_uint_t  ngx_pagesize_shift;
extern ngx_uint_t  ngx_cacheline_size;


#endif /* _NGX_ALLOC_H_INCLUDED_ */