Summary:
The following are risks associated with pointer-to-pointer reinterpret_cast:
* Can produce the "wrong result" (crash or memory corruption). IIRC, in theory this can happen for any up-cast or down-cast for a non-standard-layout type, though in practice would only happen for multiple inheritance cases (where the base class pointer might be "inside" the derived object). We don't use multiple inheritance a lot, but we do.
* Can mask useful compiler errors upon code change, including converting between unrelated pointer types that you are expecting to be related, and converting between pointer and scalar types unintentionally.
I can only think of some obscure cases where static_cast could be troublesome when it compiles as a replacement:
* Going through `void*` could plausibly cause unnecessary or broken pointer arithmetic. Suppose we have
`struct Derived: public Base1, public Base2`. If we have `Derived*` -> `void*` -> `Base2*` -> `Derived*` through reinterpret casts, this could plausibly work (though technical UB) assuming the `Base2*` is not dereferenced. Changing to static cast could introduce breaking pointer arithmetic.
* Unnecessary (but safe) pointer arithmetic could arise in a case like `Derived*` -> `Base2*` -> `Derived*` where before the Base2 pointer might not have been dereferenced. This could potentially affect performance.
With some light scripting, I tried replacing pointer-to-pointer reinterpret_casts with static_cast and kept the cases that still compile. Most occurrences of reinterpret_cast have successfully been changed (except for java/ and third-party/). 294 changed, 257 remain.
A couple of related interventions included here:
* Previously Cache::Handle was not actually derived from in the implementations and just used as a `void*` stand-in with reinterpret_cast. Now there is a relationship to allow static_cast. In theory, this could introduce pointer arithmetic (as described above) but is unlikely without multiple inheritance AND non-empty Cache::Handle.
* Remove some unnecessary casts to void* as this is allowed to be implicit (for better or worse).
Most of the remaining reinterpret_casts are for converting to/from raw bytes of objects. We could consider better idioms for these patterns in follow-up work.
I wish there were a way to implement a template variant of static_cast that would only compile if no pointer arithmetic is generated, but best I can tell, this is not possible. AFAIK the best you could do is a dynamic check that the void* conversion after the static cast is unchanged.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/12308
Test Plan: existing tests, CI
Reviewed By: ltamasi
Differential Revision: D53204947
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 9de23e618263b0d5b9820f4e15966876888a16e2
Summary:
Quick fixes to examples to make it easier to get familiar with RocksDB for Windows users:
- Set proper temporary directory path on Windows for all examples (with C++17 we should start using std::filesystem)
- Fixed typo and got rid of warnings treated as errors in multi_processes_example.cc
- Get number of available cores on Windows in c_simple_example.c
- Add command to remove DB directory for Windows in compaction_filter_example.cc (print error, but carry on with example upon error, because error code is returned if there is no such directory on Windows)
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/7304
Reviewed By: jay-zhuang
Differential Revision: D23450900
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 4256134deb6ae6bb267ed1bd69f814842b95f60f
Summary:
When dynamically linking two binaries together, different builds of RocksDB from two sources might cause errors. To provide a tool for user to solve the problem, the RocksDB namespace is changed to a flag which can be overridden in build time.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6433
Test Plan: Build release, all and jtest. Try to build with ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE with another flag.
Differential Revision: D19977691
fbshipit-source-id: aa7f2d0972e1c31d75339ac48478f34f6cfcfb3e
Summary:
Further apply formatter to more recent commits.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5830
Test Plan: Run all existing tests.
Differential Revision: D17488031
fbshipit-source-id: 137458fd94d56dd271b8b40c522b03036943a2ab
Summary:
When using `PRIu64` type of printf specifier, current code base does the following:
```
#ifndef __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
#define __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
#endif
#include <inttypes.h>
```
However, this can be simplified to
```
#include <cinttypes>
```
as long as flag `-std=c++11` is used.
This should solve issues like https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/5159
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5402
Differential Revision: D15701195
Pulled By: miasantreble
fbshipit-source-id: 6dac0a05f52aadb55e9728038599d3d2e4b59d03
Summary:
This PR allows RocksDB to run in single-primary, multi-secondary process mode.
The writer is a regular RocksDB (e.g. an `DBImpl`) instance playing the role of a primary.
Multiple `DBImplSecondary` processes (secondaries) share the same set of SST files, MANIFEST, WAL files with the primary. Secondaries tail the MANIFEST of the primary and apply updates to their own in-memory state of the file system, e.g. `VersionStorageInfo`.
This PR has several components:
1. (Originally in #4745). Add a `PathNotFound` subcode to `IOError` to denote the failure when a secondary tries to open a file which has been deleted by the primary.
2. (Similar to #4602). Add `FragmentBufferedReader` to handle partially-read, trailing record at the end of a log from where future read can continue.
3. (Originally in #4710 and #4820). Add implementation of the secondary, i.e. `DBImplSecondary`.
3.1 Tail the primary's MANIFEST during recovery.
3.2 Tail the primary's MANIFEST during normal processing by calling `ReadAndApply`.
3.3 Tailing WAL will be in a future PR.
4. Add an example in 'examples/multi_processes_example.cc' to demonstrate the usage of secondary RocksDB instance in a multi-process setting. Instructions to run the example can be found at the beginning of the source code.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4899
Differential Revision: D14510945
Pulled By: riversand963
fbshipit-source-id: 4ac1c5693e6012ad23f7b4b42d3c374fecbe8886
