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Never free a call-trace table a put() may still hold after a drain timeout - #840
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The dictionary drain can reclaim storage while a live outer guard still protects it. After a drain timeout, reactivating an uncleared buffer can also restore an older ID and leave cached context-value references unresolved in later JFR chunks.
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ddprof-lib/src/main/cpp/stringDictionary.h:714
Prevent the targeted drain from missing a live outer guard
When a dictionary accessor is interrupted by an unrelated nested guard, slotReferences() can read the inner active_ptr, then read an empty outer_stack after the inner destructor restores the outer pointer and clears its stack entry. If the outer resource is the first drain target, subsequent target scans miss it too. clearAll() can therefore report a successful drain and free storage the outer accessor still uses. The previous global drain observed the nonzero count. The scanner must handle reentrant pointer/stack transitions consistently before permitting reclamation.
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ddprof-lib/src/main/cpp/stringDictionary.h:690
Preserve ID mappings when reactivating an uncleared buffer
After rotate() times out, a straggler can publish a key into the old buffer after both copies missed it, while the current active buffer assigns that key a different ID. If its guard also causes clearStandby() to skip clearing, the retained entry survives reactivation. copyFrom() then preserves its older ID and silently discards the current mapping. Cached context-value encodings can consequently reference IDs absent from later JFR constant pools. Rotation must safely clear retained buffers or reconcile their IDs before reactivation; changing this clear alone is insufficient.
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Re the Bits Code Review findings on bd75c31 ("targeted drain can miss a live outer guard", "preserve ID mappings when reactivating an uncleared buffer"): both are in code that #839 already merged to
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CallTraceStorage reclaims table memory in clearTableOnly() and its destructor after a RefCountGuard drain, and in release builds proceeded to free the memory even when that drain timed out. In production this cannot happen: every put() runs under one of the Profiler stripe locks and every processTraces()/clear() caller holds lockAll(), which waits for in-flight puts without a time limit. The class comments claimed the opposite, that processTraces() is safe to run concurrently with put(). Document the real contract on CallTraceStorage and treat the drain as defense in depth. waitForRefCountToClear() now reports whether it drained; on a timeout clearTableOnly() leaks the detached chunks and the destructor leaks the table rather than freeing memory a put() may still be writing. Debug builds keep aborting on a timeout; gtest builds (UNIT_TEST) skip the abort so they can exercise the release behavior. Correct the clearTableOnly() and ProcessCallTracesRaceTest comments that described collect() racing an in-flight put(): with lockAll() held no put() can be in flight, so a global wait could only time out on guards of other resources such as StringDictionary lookups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous wording said processTraces(), clear() and the destructor must never run concurrently with put(). That overstates it: processTraces() and the destructor only reclaim tables that are already swapped out of _active_storage, which put() re-checks after taking its guard, so they tolerate concurrent put() by design. Only clear(), which resets the active table in place, needs put() excluded. Say so, and say that today lockAll() excludes put() from all of them anyway. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make RefCountGuard::waitForRefCountToClear() [[nodiscard]]; the one caller that discards it, StringDictionary::rotate(), now does so explicitly and says why. processTraces() keeps the result of its drain of the swapped-out active table. When that drain timed out, step 10 resets the table with the new CallTraceHashTable::clearAfterFailedDrain(), which leaks the chunks without draining a second time, so a broken contract costs one ~500ms wait and one counted timeout instead of two. A table reset after a failed drain also skips decrementCounters(): its memory stays allocated, and a stalled put() could still be changing the table it walks. The destructor does not tolerate a concurrent put(): put() loads _active_storage before taking its guard, so a put() in flight could find the CallTraceStorage object itself freed. Say so in the class comment, the destructor and CallTraceStorage.md. Test the destructor's conditional delete and the processTraces() path after a failed drain, through a test-only activeTableForTest(). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LeakSanitizer is off in the ASan gtests, so a destructor that dropped its deletes passed DestructorLeaksTableStillGuarded. Assert on NM_CALLTRACE instead: only the guarded table may outlive the destructor, and all table memory must be freed exactly once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What does this PR do?:
Documents how
CallTraceStoragereclaims tables relative toput(), and makes it never free a table that aput()may still be writing after a timed-out drain. No memory is leaked in normal operation: the leak path below is only taken after a drain timeout, which no production caller can hit today.put().processTraces()and the destructor tolerate concurrentput(). They only reclaim a table after swapping it out of_active_storage, whichput()re-checks after taking its guard, and after draining its guards.clear()resets the active table in place, so it requiresput()to be excluded. TodaylockAll()excludesput()from all of them anyway. This is now stated on the class, the methods and inCallTraceStorage.md. The old comment saidprocessTraces()"is safe to call concurrently with put() operations" without qualification.RefCountGuard::waitForRefCountToClear()now returns whether it drained. Debug builds still abort on a timeout. Gtest builds (UNIT_TEST) skip the abort so they can exercise the release behavior.clearTableOnly()leaks the detached chunks: it returns an emptyChunkList.delete.clearTableOnly()and in the header ofProcessCallTracesRaceTest. Both describedcollect()racing an in-flightput(), whichlockAll()rules out. It also adds the missing copyright header to that test file.Motivation:
PROF-16136 asked for an audit of the other drain callers.
CallTraceStorageuses the same "drain, then free regardless" pattern as the dictionary, but there it is latent, not reachable:put()runs under one of theProfilerstripe locks (profiler.cppcallers at 641/726/855; the earlierunlock()s are early returns).processTraces()(writeStackTraces()←finishChunk()←FlightRecorder::stop()/dump()) and ofclear()holdslockAll().lockAll()waits for in-flightput()s without a time limit, so the drains find no guard and cannot time out.Profiler::_instanceis never deleted.This was already true when #585 (PROF-14889) landed. So the 500 ms timeouts it observed must have come from the old global wait counting guards on other resources, i.e.
StringDictionarylookups, whichlockAll()does not exclude. #839 removes that global wait.Additional Notes:
lockAll()is held for the dump because of the per-stripe JFR buffers; it coversCallTraceStorageincidentally. If that ever changes, the rotation path stays memory-safe with this PR (a stalledput()costs a leaked table in release, an abort in debug), butclear()would need its own gate.processTraces()waits and logs twice: once after the swap, and again insideoriginal_active->clear(). Collection from the old active table still proceeds, as before.StringDictionary::rotate()also callswaitForRefCountToClear()and keeps aborting in debug builds on a timeout. In release, theclearStandby()drain added in Never reclaim dictionary storage after a timed-out drain #839 covers it.How to test the change?:
New gtest
CallTraceHashTableDrainTest.ClearWithGuardHeldLeaksChunks. It holds aRefCountGuardon a table while callingclear(), then reads a trace from the old chunk.held->trace_id.Also run:
gtestDebug(full), andtest_callTraceStorageunder ASan and TSan.compileFuzzer.testDebug: 225 tests, 0 failures, 19 skipped (includesProcessCallTracesRaceTest).For Datadog employees:
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