3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Trustin Lee
e88172495a Ensure backward compatibility
.. by resurrecting the removed methods and system properties.
2013-12-05 01:02:38 +09:00
Trustin Lee
65b522a2a7 Better buffer leak reporting
- Remove the reference to ResourceLeak from the buffer implementations
  and use wrappers instead:
  - SimpleLeakAwareByteBuf and AdvancedLeakAwareByteBuf
  - It is now allocator's responsibility to create a leak-aware buffer.
  - Added AbstractByteBufAllocator.toLeakAwareBuffer() for easier
    implementation
- Add WrappedByteBuf to reduce duplication between *LeakAwareByteBuf and
  UnreleasableByteBuf
- Raise the level of leak reports to ERROR - because it will break the
  app eventually
- Replace enabled/disabled property with the leak detection level
  - Only print stack trace when level is ADVANCED or above to avoid user
    confusion
- Add the 'leak' build profile, which enables highly detailed leak
  reporting during the build
- Remove ResourceLeakException which is unsed anymore
2013-12-05 00:51:39 +09:00
Trustin Lee
337f5bbb8e Automatic diagnosis of resource leaks
Now that we are going to use buffer pooling by default, it is obvious
that a user will forget to call .free() and report memory leak. In this
case, we should have a tool to determine if it is a bug in our allocator
implementation or in the user's code.

This pull request adds a system property flag called
'io.netty.resourceLeakDetection'. If set, when a user forgets to call
.free(), the ResourceLeakDetector will detect it and log a message with
detailed stack trace to tell where the leaked buffer has been allocated.

Because obtaining stack trace is an expensive operation, I used sampling
technique. Allocation is recorded only for every 113th allocation. I
chose 113 because it's a prime number.

In production, a user might not want to enable this option due to
potential performance impact. If a user does not specify the
'-Dio.netty.resourceLeakDetection' option leak detection is disabled.

Even if the leak detection is enabled, the overhead should be less than
5% because only ~1% of allocations are monitored.

I also replaced SharedResourceMisuseDetector with ResourceLeakDetector.
2013-01-15 14:15:27 +09:00