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Memory leak with ocaml 3.09 but not with ocaml <= 3.08.1
- Vincenzo Ciancia
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| From: | Vincenzo Ciancia <vincenzo_yahoo_addressguard-gmane@y...> |
| Subject: | Memory leak with ocaml 3.09 but not with ocaml <= 3.08.1 |
Hi all, I have a memory leak in ocamlfuse. Since fuse is based on callbacks,
and requests should be processed concurrently, I had to invert control, but
to avoid duplicate code in ocaml and c, I did things like this:
1. ocaml waits for messages from the kernel
2. then for each message received, ocaml creates an ocaml thread, and then
calls C to allow processing of messages
3. after decoding a message (in an ocaml thread) C performs a callback to a
C callback for each operation, which in turn calls back ocaml
In this way I allow the fuse C library to decode messages, while I allow
ocaml to create threads for this purpose.
Everything was working very well with ocaml 3.08, but using ocaml 3.09 I
have a memory leak as I said.
My C callbacks, which then call back ocaml, look like this:
static int ops_OPNAME(ARGS)
{
leave_blocking_section();
value vstring;
value vpath;
value vres;
value vtmp;
int res=-1;
vpath = copy_string(path);
[OPERATION SPECIFIC CODE]
if (Tag_val(vres)==1) /* Result is not Bad */
{
[OPERATION SPECIFIC CODE]
}
else
{
if (Is_block(Field(vres,0))) /* This is EUNKNOWNERR of int in ocaml */
res=-Int_val(Field(Field(vres,0),0));
else res=-ml2c_unix_error(Int_val(Field(vres,0)));
}
enter_blocking_section();
return res;
}
If someone gives advice on how to discover where the memory leak is, I
promise to file a bug report if it is the case.
Bye
Vincenzo
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