Previously this would be enabled when threads were used, but threads are now
basically always in use so there is no point. Further, this is only needed for
guarded allocation with --debug-memory which is not performance critical.
`posix_memalign` requires the `alignment` to be at least `sizeof(void *)`.
Previously, `MEM_mallocN_aligned` would simply return `NULL` if a too small
`alignment` was used. This was an OS specific issue.
The solution is to use a minimal alignment of `8` for all aligned allocations.
The unit tests have been extended to test more possible alignments (some
of which were broken before).
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6660
When calling `MEM_guarded_mallocN_aligned` with an alignment of 4,
a pointer that was returned that is 4 byte but not 8 byte aligned.
When freeing this pointer, `MEM_guarded_freeN` thinks that it is an
illegal pointer, because it asserts that `((intptr_t)memh) & 0x7 == 0`.
The fix is to always use at least 8 byte alignment.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5529
No functional change, this adds LIB definition and args to cmake files.
Without this it's difficult to migrate away from 'BLENDER_SORTED_LIBS'
since there are many platforms/configurations that could break when
changing linking order.
Manually add and enable WITHOUT_SORTED_LIBS to try building
without sorted libs (currently fails since all variables are empty).
This check will eventually be removed.
See T46725.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
With new jemalloc versions memory allocated by threads that then become
inactive is not longer automatically freed. Instead we have to enable a
background thread to do it.
Some testing is needed to find out of this is sufficient, because the
background thread only runs periodically.
While unlikely to have had any serious effects because of limited use, the
previous implementation was not actually atomic due to a data race and
incorrectly coded CAS loop. We also had duplicates of this code in a few
places, it's now been moved to a single location with all other atomic
operations.
The crash did not happen yet because we always had proper vmemh defined in
the parent scope.
Patch by Ivan Ivanov (aka obiwanus), thanks!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2715
The Issue
=======
For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.
Why Remove
==========
One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work. For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch
If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.
For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
Fixes T51301
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
While SCons building system was serving us really good for ages it's no longer
having much attention by the developers and started to become quite a difficult
task to maintain.
What's even worse -- there started to be quite serious divergence between SCons
and CMake which was only accumulating over the releases now. The fact that none
of the active developers are really using SCons and that our main studio is also
using CMake spotting bugs in the SCons builds became quite a difficult task and
we aren't always spotting them in time.
Meanwhile CMake became really mature building system which is available on every
platform we support and arguably it's also easier and more robust to use.
This commit includes:
- Removal of actual SCons building system
- Removal of SCons git submodule
- Removal of documentation which is stored in the sources and covers SCons
- Tweaks to the buildbot master to stop using SCons submodule
(this change requires deploying to the server)
- Tweaks to the install dependencies script to skip installing or mentioning
SCons building system
- Tweaks to various helper scripts to avoid mention of SCons folders/files
as well
Reviewers: mont29, dingto, dfelinto, lukastoenne, lukasstockner97, brecht, Severin, merwin, aligorith, psy-fi, campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1680
We don't like when NULL is send to MEM_freeN(), but there was some
differences between lockfree and guarded allocators:
- Lockfree would have silently crash, in both release and debug modes
- Guarded allocator would have printed error message, abort in debug
but keep working in release build.
This commit makes lockfree allocator behavior to match guarded one.
This gives more precise information about memory usage which might be real handy
when doing memory optimization.
It works good here for as long as i can tell but if for some reason you'll be
experiencing some weird slowdown please let me know.
Updating maximum requires a bit of a cycle which usually does 1 iteration only,
sometimes needs a bit more but seems there's no speed regressions.
For now the code is commented out. This way it's easier for others to verify
there's no speed regressions.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D626
