Motivation:
Alignment handling was broken, and basically turned into a fixed offset into each allocation address regardless of its initial value, instead of ensuring that the allocated address is either aligned or bumped to the nearest alignment offset.
The brokenness of the alignment handling extended so far, that overlapping ByteBuf instances could even be created, as was seen in #11101.
Modification:
Instead of fixing the per-allocation pointer bump, we now ensure that 1) the minimum page size is a whole multiple of the alignment, and 2) the reference memory for each chunk is bumped to the nearest aligned address, and finally 3) ensured that the reservations are whole multiples of the alignment, thus ensuring that the next allocation automatically occurs from an aligned address.
Incidentally, (3) above comes for free because the reservations are in whole pages, and in (1) we ensured that pages are sized in whole multiples of the alignment.
In order to ensure that the memory for a chunk is aligned, we introduce some new PlatformDependent infrastructure.
The PlatformDependent.alignDirectBuffer will produce a slice of the given buffer, and the slice will have an address that is aligned.
This method is plainly available on ByteBuffer in Java 9 onwards, but for pre-9 we have to use Unsafe, which means it can fail and might not be available on all platforms.
Attempts to create a PooledByteBufAllocator that uses alignment, when this is not supported, will throw an exception.
Luckily, I think use of aligned allocations are rare.
Result:
Aligned pooled byte bufs now work correctly, and never have any overlap.
Fixes#11101
Motivation:
Components in a composite buffer can "go missing" if the composite is a slice of another composite and the parent has changed its layout.
Modification:
Where we would previously have thrown a NullPointerException, we now have a null-check for the component, and we instead throw an IllegalStateException with a more descriptive message.
Result:
It's now a bit easier to understand what is going on in these situations.
Fixes#10908
Motivation:
File.createTempFile(String, String)` will create a temporary file in the system temporary directory if the 'java.io.tmpdir'. The permissions on that file utilize the umask. In a majority of cases, this means that the file that java creates has the permissions: `-rw-r--r--`, thus, any other local user on that system can read the contents of that file.
This can be a security concern if any sensitive data is stored in this file.
This was reported by Jonathan Leitschuh <jonathan.leitschuh@gmail.com> as a security problem.
Modifications:
Use Files.createTempFile(...) which will use safe-defaults when running on java 7 and later. If running on java 6 there isnt much we can do, which is fair enough as java 6 shouldnt be considered "safe" anyway.
Result:
Create temporary files with sane permissions by default.
Motivation:
when customer need large of 'byteBuf.capacity' in [7168, 8192], the size of 'chunk.subpages' may be inflated when large of byteBuf be released, not consistent with other 'byteBuf.capacity'
Modification:
when maxNumElems == 1 need consider remove from pool
Result:
Fixes#10896.
Co-authored-by: zxingy <zxingy@servyou.com.cn>
Motivation:
Found an invalid comment in UnpooledDirectByteBuf.
Modification:
Fixed a comment in UnpooledDirectByteBuf.
Result:
Fixed a comment in UnpooledDirectByteBuf.
Motivation:
We rely on this functionality in PoolChunk, and a bug was caught by a non-deterministic test failure
Modification:
Went back to the Algorithms book, and reimplemented remove() the way it was meant to.
Result:
No test failures after 200.000 runs, so we have some confidence the code is correct now.
Motivation:
The uncached access to PoolChunk can be made faster, and avoid allocating boxed Longs, if we have a primitive hash map and priority queue implementation for it.
Modification:
Add bespoke primitive implementations of a hash map and a priority queue for PoolChunk.
Remove all the long-boxing caused by the previous implementation.
The hashmap is a linear probing map with a fairly short probe that keeps the search within a couple of cache lines.
The priority queue is the same binary heap algorithm that's described in Algorithms by Sedgewick and Wayne.
The implementation avoids the Long boxing by relying on a long[] array.
This makes the internal-remove method faster, which is an important operation in PoolChunk.
Result:
Roughly 13% performance uplift in buffer allocations that miss cache.
Motivation:
https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/10267 introduced a change that reduced the fragmentation. Unfortunally it also introduced a regression when it comes to caching of normal allocations. This can have a negative performance impact depending on the allocation sizes.
Modifications:
- Fix algorithm to calculate the array size for normal allocation caches
- Correctly calculate indeox for normal caches
- Add unit test
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10805
Motivation:
Passing a null value of byte[] to the `Unsafe.copyMemory(xxx)` would cause the JVM crash
Modification:
Add null checking before calling `PlatformDependent.copyMemory(src, xxx)`
Result:
Fixes#10791 .
Motivation:
https in xmlns URIs does not work and will let the maven release plugin fail:
```
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.779 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-11-10T07:45:21Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3:prepare (default-cli) on project netty-parent: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3:prepare failed: The namespace xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" could not be added as a namespace to "project": The namespace prefix "xsi" collides with an additional namespace declared by the element -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
```
See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24014.
Modifications:
Use http for xmlns
Result:
Be able to use maven release plugin
Motivation:
PoolChunk maintains multiple PriorityQueue<Long> collections. The usage
of PoolChunk#removeAvailRun unboxes the Long values to long, and then
this method uses queue.remove(..) which will auto box the value back to
Long. This creates unnecessary allocations via Long.valueOf(long).
Modifications:
- Adjust method signature and usage of PoolChunk#removeAvailRun to avoid
boxing
Result:
Less allocations as a result of PoolChunk#removeAvailRun.
Motivation:
Some buffers implement ByteBuf#order(order) by wrapping themselves in a SwappedByteBuf.
The SwappedByteBuf is then responsible for swapping the byte order on accesses.
The explicitly little-endian accessor methods, however, should not be swapped to big-endian, but instead remain explicitly little-endian.
Modification:
The SwappedByteBuf was passing through calls to e.g. writeIntLE, to the big-endian equivalent, e.g. writeInt.
This has been changed so that these calls delegate to their explicitly little-endian counterpart.
Result:
This makes all buffers that make use of SwappedByteBuf for their endian-ness configuration, consistent with all the buffers that use other implementation strategies.
In the end, all buffers now behave exactly the same, when using their explicitly little-endian accessor methods.
Motivation:
HTTP is a plaintext protocol which means that someone may be able
to eavesdrop the data. To prevent this, HTTPS should be used whenever
possible. However, maintaining using https:// in all URLs may be
difficult. The nohttp tool can help here. The tool scans all the files
in a repository and reports where http:// is used.
Modifications:
- Added nohttp (via checkstyle) into the build process.
- Suppressed findings for the websites
that don't support HTTPS or that are not reachable
Result:
- Prevent using HTTP in the future.
- Encourage users to use HTTPS when they follow the links they found in
the code.
Motivation:
junit deprecated Assert.assertThat(...)
Modifications:
Use MatcherAssert.assertThat(...) as replacement for deprecated method
Result:
Less deprecation warnings
Motivation:
LGTM reports multiple issues. They need to be triaged,
and real ones should be fixed.
Modifications:
- Fixed multiple issues reported by LGTM, such as redundant conditions,
resource leaks, typos, possible integer overflows.
- Suppressed false-positives.
- Added a few testcases.
Result:
Fixed several possible issues, get rid of false alarms in the LGTM report.
Motivation:
As the PooledByteBufAllocator is a critical part of netty we should ensure it works as expected.
Modifications:
- Add a few more asserts to ensure we not see any corrupted state
- Null out slot in the subpage array once the subpage was freed and removed from the pool
- Merge methods into constructor as it was only called from the constructor anyway.
Result:
Code cleanup
Motivation:
- To make ensureWritable throw IOOBE when maxCapacity is exceeded, even if
the requested new capacity would overflow Integer.MAX_VALUE
Modification:
- AbstractByteBuf.ensureWritable0 is modified to detect when
targetCapacity has wrapped around
- Test added for correct behaviour in AbstractByteBufTest
Result:
- Calls to ensureWritable will always throw IOOBE when maxCapacity is
exceeded (and bounds checking is enabled)
Motivation:
writeUtf8 can suffer from inlining issues and/or megamorphic call-sites on the hot path due to ByteBuf hierarchy
Modifications:
Duplicate and specialize the code paths to reduce the need of polymorphic calls
Result:
Performance are more stable in user code
