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:
We haven't been actively mantaining RocksDB LITE recently and the size must have been gone up significantly. We are removing the support.
Most of changes were done through following comments:
unifdef -m -UROCKSDB_LITE `git grep -l ROCKSDB_LITE | egrep '[.](cc|h)'`
by Peter Dillinger. Others changes were manually applied to build scripts, CircleCI manifests, ROCKSDB_LITE is used in an expression and file db_stress_test_base.cc.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/11147
Test Plan: See CI
Reviewed By: pdillinger
Differential Revision: D42796341
fbshipit-source-id: 4920e15fc2060c2cd2221330a6d0e5e65d4b7fe2
Summary:
Add methods to set the various functions (Parse, Serialize, Equals) to the OptionTypeInfo. These methods simplify the number of constructors required for OptionTypeInfo and make the code a little clearer.
Add functions to the OptionTypeInfo for Prepare and Validate. These methods allow types other than Configurable and Customizable to have Prepare and Validate logic. These methods could be used by an option to guarantee that its settings were in a range or that a value was initialized.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/9411
Reviewed By: pdillinger
Differential Revision: D36174849
Pulled By: mrambacher
fbshipit-source-id: 72517d8c6bab4723788a4c1a9e16590bff870125
Summary:
ManagedObjects are shared pointer objects where RocksDB wants to share a single object between multiple configurations. For example, the Cache may be shared between multiple column families/tables or the Statistics may be shared between multiple databases.
ManagedObjects are stored in the ObjectRegistry by Type (e.g. Cache) and ID. For a given type/ID name, a single object is stored.
APIs were added to get/set/create these objects.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8658
Reviewed By: pdillinger
Differential Revision: D30806273
Pulled By: mrambacher
fbshipit-source-id: 832ac4423b210c4c4b4a456b35897334775d3160
Summary:
- Fix issue with OptionType::Vector when the nested item is a Customizable with no names
- Fix issue with OptionType::Vector to appropriately wrap the elements in a Vector;
- Fix an issue with nested Customizable object with a null immutable object still appearing in the mutable options;
- Fix/Add tests for null/empty customizable objects
- Move the RegisterTestObjects from customizable_test into testutil.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8566
Reviewed By: zhichao-cao
Differential Revision: D30303724
Pulled By: mrambacher
fbshipit-source-id: 33fa8ea2a3b663210cb356da05e64aab7585b1b5
Summary:
- Added Type/CreateFromString
- Added ability to load EventListeners to DBOptions
- Since EventListeners did not previously have a Name(), defaulted to "". If there is no name, the listener cannot be loaded from the ObjectRegistry.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8473
Reviewed By: zhichao-cao
Differential Revision: D29901488
Pulled By: mrambacher
fbshipit-source-id: 2d3a4aa6db1562ac03e7ad41b360e3521d486254
Summary:
Added the Customizable::ConfigureNewObject method. The method will configure the object if options are found and invoke PrepareOptions if the flag is set properly.
Added tests to test that PrepareOptions is properly called and to test if PrepareOptions fails.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8468
Reviewed By: zhichao-cao
Differential Revision: D29494703
Pulled By: mrambacher
fbshipit-source-id: d5767dee5d7a98620ac66190262101cd0aa9d2b7
Summary:
The Customizable class is an extension of the Configurable class and allows instances to be created by a name/ID. Classes that extend customizable can define their Type (e.g. "TableFactory", "Cache") and a method to instantiate them (TableFactory::CreateFromString). Customizable objects can be registered with the ObjectRegistry and created dynamically.
Future PRs will make more types of objects extend Customizable.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6590
Reviewed By: cheng-chang
Differential Revision: D24841553
Pulled By: zhichao-cao
fbshipit-source-id: d0c2132bd932e971cbfe2c908ca2e5db30c5e155
Peter Dillinger