Bug 1716727 - [3/3] make stalling behavior conditional on process type r=glandium

For now, make Set_XREProcessType set a flag in mozjemalloc to avoid
stalling repeatedly in auxiliary processes.

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D151332

memory/build/mozjemalloc.cpp

@@ -1366,6 +1366,13 @@ static inline void ApplyZeroOrJunk(void* aPtr, size_t aSize) {
 
 // Experiment under bug 1716727. (See ./moz.build for details.)
 #ifdef XP_WIN
+
+// Whether the current process should always stall, or only stall once.
+static bool sShouldAlwaysStall = true;
+MOZ_JEMALLOC_API void mozjemalloc_experiment_set_always_stall(bool aVal) {
+  sShouldAlwaysStall = aVal;
+}
+
 #  ifdef MOZ_STALL_ON_OOM
 
 // Implementation of VirtualAlloc wrapper (bug 1716727).
@@ -1377,7 +1384,16 @@ constexpr size_t kMaxAttempts = 10;
 // Microsoft's documentation for ::Sleep() for details.)
 constexpr size_t kDelayMs = 50;
 
-// Drop-in wrapper around VirtualAlloc. When out of memory, attempts to stall
+Atomic<bool> sHasStalled{false};
+static bool ShouldStallAndRetry() {
+  if (sShouldAlwaysStall) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  // Otherwise, stall at most once.
+  return sHasStalled.compareExchange(false, true);
+}
+
+// Drop-in wrapper around VirtualAlloc. When out of memory, may attempt to stall
 // and retry rather than returning immediately, in hopes that the page file is
 // about to be expanded by Windows.
 //
@@ -1409,8 +1425,11 @@ constexpr size_t kDelayMs = 50;
     if (!(flAllocationType & MEM_COMMIT)) return nullptr;
   }
 
-  // Unconditionally retry. (At this level, we don't know whether the allocation
+  // Also return if we just aren't supposed to be retrying at the moment, for
-  // is fallible, and arguably we should retry even if we knew that it was.)
+  // whatever reason.
+  if (!ShouldStallAndRetry()) return nullptr;
+
+  // Otherwise, retry.
   for (size_t i = 0; i < kMaxAttempts; ++i) {
     ::Sleep(kDelayMs);
     void* ptr = ::VirtualAlloc(lpAddress, dwSize, flAllocationType, flProtect);

memory/build/mozmemory.h

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include "mozilla/Attributes.h"
 #include "mozilla/Types.h"
 #include "mozjemalloc_types.h"
+#include "stdbool.h"
 
 #ifdef MOZ_MEMORY
 // On OSX, malloc/malloc.h contains the declaration for malloc_good_size,
@@ -60,6 +61,13 @@ static inline void jemalloc_stats(jemalloc_stats_t* aStats) {
 }
 #  endif
 
+// Temporary configurator for experiment associated with bug 1716727.
+#  if defined(XP_WIN)
+MOZ_JEMALLOC_API void mozjemalloc_experiment_set_always_stall(bool);
+#  else
+static inline void mozjemalloc_experiment_set_always_stall(bool){};
+#  endif
+
 #endif  // MOZ_MEMORY
 
 #define NOTHROW_MALLOC_DECL(name, return_type, ...) \

toolkit/xre/nsEmbedFunctions.cpp

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "mozilla/DebugOnly.h"
 
 #include "nsXULAppAPI.h"
+#include "mozmemory.h"
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #if defined(MOZ_WIDGET_GTK)
@@ -274,14 +275,25 @@ void XRE_SetProcessType(const char* aProcessTypeString) {
   }
   called = true;
 
-  sChildProcessType = GeckoProcessType_Invalid;
+  sChildProcessType = [&] {
-  for (GeckoProcessType t :
+    for (GeckoProcessType t :
-       MakeEnumeratedRange(GeckoProcessType::GeckoProcessType_End)) {
+         MakeEnumeratedRange(GeckoProcessType::GeckoProcessType_End)) {
-    if (!strcmp(XRE_GeckoProcessTypeToString(t), aProcessTypeString)) {
+      if (!strcmp(XRE_GeckoProcessTypeToString(t), aProcessTypeString)) {
-      sChildProcessType = t;
+        return t;
-      return;
+      }
     }
-  }
+    return GeckoProcessType_Invalid;
+  }();
+
+#ifdef MOZ_MEMORY
+  // For the parent process, we're probably willing to accept an apparent
+  // lockup in preference to a crash. Always stall and retry.
+  //
+  // For child processes, an obvious OOM-crash may be preferable to slow
+  // performance. Retry at most once per process, then give up.
+  mozjemalloc_experiment_set_always_stall(sChildProcessType ==
+                                          GeckoProcessType_Default);
+#endif
 }
 
 #if defined(XP_WIN)