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:
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: Broke transaction locking in 4.4 in D52197. Will cherry-pick this change into 4.4 (which hasn't yet been fully released). Repro'd using db_bench.
Test Plan: unit tests and db_Bench
Reviewers: sdong, yhchiang, kradhakrishnan, ngbronson
Reviewed By: ngbronson
Subscribers: ngbronson, dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D54021
Summary: Stopped using std::timed_mutex as it has known issues in older versiong of gcc. Ran into these problems when testing MongoRocks.
Test Plan: unit tests. Manual mongo testing on gcc 4.8.
Reviewers: igor, yhchiang, rven, IslamAbdelRahman, kradhakrishnan, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D52197
Summary:
Prototype of API to allow MyRocks to override default Mutex/CondVar used by transactions with their own implementations. They would simply need to pass their own implementations of Mutex/CondVar to the templated TransactionDB::Open().
Default implementation of TransactionDBMutex/TransactionDBCondVar provided (but the code is not currently changed to use this).
Let me know if this API makes sense or if it should be changed
Test Plan: n/a
Reviewers: yhchiang, rven, igor, sdong, spetrunia
Reviewed By: spetrunia
Subscribers: maykov, dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D43761