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Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in SWIG Python bindings

From: Trent Nelson <trent_at_snakebite.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:17:24 -0500

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:44:04AM -0800, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Trent Nelson wrote on Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 15:07:20 -0500:
> > Index: subversion/bindings/swig/python/tests/mergeinfo.py
> > ===================================================================
> > --- subversion/bindings/swig/python/tests/mergeinfo.py (revision 1234786)
> > +++ subversion/bindings/swig/python/tests/mergeinfo.py (working copy)
> > + def test_mergeinfo_leakage__lingering_range_t_objects_after_del(self):
> > + """Ensure that there are no svn_merge_range_t objects being tracked by
> > + the garbage collector after we explicitly `del` the results returned
> > + by svn_mergeinfo_parse(). We disable gc before the svn_mergeinfo_parse
> > + call and force an explicit collection cycle straight after the `del`;
> > + if our reference counts are correct, the allocated svn_merge_range_t
> > + objects will be garbage collected and thus, not appear in the list of
> > + objects returned by gc.get_objects()."""
> > + gc.disable()
> > + mergeinfo = core.svn_mergeinfo_parse(self.TEXT_MERGEINFO1)
> > + del mergeinfo
> > + gc.collect()
>
> It seems you need a gc.enable() call as well, to prevent the test from
> having effects on global state.

    You know what, you can get rid of that gc.disable() call. I put it
    in by habit; when I was trying to find the leak, I had breakpoints
    set within the CPython garbage collection routines -- if I didn't
    disable automatic collection, they'd trigger at extremely annoying
    times ;-)

    The gc.collect() call is sufficient.

> Do the swig-py tests support parallelized running? The testsuite for
> 'svn' does, and if the testsuite for swig-py does too then the 'gc' call
> have effects on other threads.

    I have... no idea :-) Given that check-swig-py basically just calls
    `python subversion/bindings/swig/python/tests/run_all.py', and that
    file just uses the standard Python unit test facilities... I'd say
    no, they're not currently designed to support parallel running.

    I'm sure we could totally shave that 40s test run time down a few
    notches if they, though ;-)

        Trent.
Received on 2012-01-24 16:18:02 CET

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