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<h1>
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How to debug memory leaks/refcnt leaks</h1></center>
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<center>Last update: October 21st, 1999</center>
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<h2>
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What tools do we have?</h2>
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The mozilla team has developed a number of memory analysis tools to augment
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commercial tools like Purify. These can help us more quickly spot and fix
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memory leaks and memory bloat (our term for taking up too much memory,
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aka footprint). Here's a list of what we have at our disposal:
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<ul>
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<li>
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<b>BloatView </b>- This tool dumps out per-class statistics on the total
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number of refcounts and instances, as well as unreleased refcounts and
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un-deleted instances, and the amount of memory consumed by them. (more
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<a href="#BloatView">below</a>)</li>
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<li>
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<b>Boehm GC Leak Detector </b>- The Boehm garbage collector has be modified
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to serve as a leak detector. It's output can be post-processed by the "Leak
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Soup" tool to find the roots of leaked objects. This lets developers quickly
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focus on the key objects that need to be freed, rather than the whole graph
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of objects to which they refer. (more <a href="#Boehm">below</a>)</li>
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<li>
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<b>Refcount Tracing</b> - Stack traces can also be dumped out for object
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allocations and refcounting. This information can be post-processed by
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the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/performance/refcnt-balancer.html">Refcount
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Balancer</a> tool to match up AddRefs and Releases to find the code that
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has missing Releases. (more <a href="#RefcountTracing">below</a>)</li>
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<li>
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<b>Leaky</b> - This tool also dumps out stack traces (in a slightly different
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format) and can again be used to match up AddRefs with Releases in order
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to find missing Release calls. (more <a href="#Leaky">below</a>)</li>
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<li>
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<b>Menu items to interactively control Purify</b> - Interactively triggering
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a dump of all leaks or new leaks from within the running application is
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still one of the best ways to debug leaks in your subsystem. Menu items
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for this can be enabled for both viewer and apprunner. (more <a href="#Purify">below</a>)</li>
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</ul>
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More description on each of these will be provided below.
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<h2>
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How to turn on refcnt/memory logging</h2>
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Assuming you have a build with refcnt logging enabled (we'll tell you how
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to do that next), here's what you have to do to use it. All of the following
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environment variables can be set to any of these values:
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<ul>
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<li>
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<b>1</b> - log to stdout</li>
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<b>2</b> - log to stderr</li>
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<li>
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<b><i>filename</i></b> - write log to a file</li>
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</ul>
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The log environment variables are:
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<blockquote>XPCOM_MEM_BLOAT_LOG</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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<blockquote>If this environment variable is set then xpcom will use the
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"bloat" trackers. The bloat trackers gather data for the BloatView output
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that occurs when the program exits, when about:bloat is loaded, or a call
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to nsTraceRefcnt::DumpStatistics is made.
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<p>When an addref/release/ctor/dtor call is made, the data is logged and
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attributed to the particular data type.
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<p>By default enabling this environment variable will cause the BloatView
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software to dump out the entire database of collected data. If all you
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want to see is that data for objects that leaked, set the environment variable
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XPCOM_MEM_LEAK_LOG.</blockquote>
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XPCOM_MEM_LEAK_LOG
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<blockquote>This is basically a subset of XPCOM_MEM_BLOAT_LOG, and only
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shows classes that had object that were leaked, instead of statistics for
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all classes.</blockquote>
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XPCOM_MEM_REFCNT_LOG
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<blockquote>Setting this environment variable enables refcount tracing.
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<br>Only enable this for severe pain (unless you are using refcount tracing
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or leaky, see below). What this does is to enable logging (to stdout) of
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each and every call to addref/release without discrimination to the types
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involved. The output includes mapping the call-stacks at the time of the
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call to symbolic forms (on platforms that support this) and thus will be
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*very* *VERY* *VERY* slow. Did I say slow?</blockquote>
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XPCOM_MEM_ALLOC_LOG
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<blockquote>For losing architectures (those that don't have stack-crawl
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software written for them), xpcom supports logging at the *call site* to
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AddRef/Release using the usual cpp __FILE__ and __LINE__ number macro expansion
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hackery. This results in slower code, but at least you get *some* data
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about where the leaks might be occurring from.</blockquote>
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XPCOM_MEM_LEAKY_LOG
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<blockquote>For platforms that support leaky, xpcom will endeavor to find
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at run time the symbols "__log_addref" and "__log_release" and if found,
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instead of doing the slow painful stack crawls at program execution time
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instead it will pass the buck to the leaky software. This will allow your
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program to actually run in user friendly real time, but does require that
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your platform support leaky. Currently only linux supports leaky.</blockquote>
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</blockquote>
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In addition, the following variable may be set to a list of class names:
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<blockquote>XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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<blockquote>Instead of slowing to a useless, instead you can slow to a
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meer crawl by using this option. When enabled, the xpcom logging software
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will look for the XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES environment variable (for platforms
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that support getenv). The variable contains a comma seperated list of names
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which will be used to compare against the type's of the objects being logged.
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For example:
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<blockquote>env XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES=nsWebShell XPCOM_MEM_REFCNT_LOG=1
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./apprunner</blockquote>
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will show you just the AddRef/Release calls to instances of nsWebShell
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while running apprunner.Note that setting XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES will
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also list the <i>serial number</i> of each object that leaked in the
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"bloat log" (that is, the file specified by the XPCOM_MEM_BLOAT_LOG
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variable). An object's serial number is simply a unique number,
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starting at one, that is assigned to the object when it is allocated.
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</blockquote>
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</blockquote>
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You may use an object's serial number with the following variable to
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further restrict the reference count tracing:
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<blockquote>XPCOM_MEM_LOG_OBJECTS</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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<blockquote>Set this variable to a comma-separated list of object
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<i>serial number</i>. When this is set, along with
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XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES and XPCOM_MEM_REFCNT_LOG, a stack track will be
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generated for <em>only</em> the specific objects that you list. For
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example,
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<blockquote>env XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES=nsWebShell XPCOM_MEM_LOG_OBJECTS=2 XPCOM_MEM_REFCNT_LOG=1
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./apprunner</blockquote>
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will dump stack traces to the console for the 2nd
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<code>nsWebShell</code> object that gets allocated, and nothing else.
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</blockquote>
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</blockquote>
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<h2>
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<a NAME="BloatView"></a>1. BloatView</h2>
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BloatView dumps out per-class statistics on allocations and refcounts,
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and provides gross numbers on the amount of memory being leaked broken
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down by class. Here's a sample of the BloatView output:
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<pre>== BloatView: ALL (cumulative) LEAK AND BLOAT STATISTICS
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|<------Class----->|<-----Bytes------>|<----------------Objects---------------->|<--------------References-------------->|
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Per-Inst Leaked Total Rem Mean StdDev Total Rem Mean StdDev
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0 TOTAL 193 2480436 316271 12852 ( 5377.07 +/- 5376.38) 410590 16079 ( 2850.93 +/- 2849.79)
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1 StyleSetImpl 32 0 8 0 ( 3.88 +/- 3.15) 6304 0 ( 7.18 +/- 6.63)
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2 SinkContext 32 0 19 0 ( 1.87 +/- 1.04) 0 0 ( 0.00 +/- 0.00)
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3 nsXPCClasses 12 0 2 0 ( 1.00 +/- 0.71) 41 0 ( 5.57 +/- 4.98)
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4 NameSpaceURIKey 8 72 158 9 ( 8.16 +/- 7.62) 0 0 ( 0.00 +/- 0.00)
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5 nsSupportsArray 36 11304 2581 314 ( 477.13 +/- 476.53) 9223 314 ( 579.23 +/- 578.64)
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6 nsView 96 0 57 0 ( 27.64 +/- 26.98) 0 0 ( 0.00 +/- 0.00)
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7 nsEnderDocumentObser 12 0 1 0 ( 0.50 +/- 0.87) 1 0 ( 0.50 +/- 0.87)</pre>
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Here's how you interpret the columns:
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<li>
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<b>Class</b> - The name of the class in question. (Warning: The class name
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is truncated to 20 characters.)</li>
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<li>
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<b>Bytes Per-Inst </b>- The number of bytes returned if you were to write
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sizeof(<i>Class</i>). Note that this number does not reflect any memory
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held onto by the class, such as internal buffers, etc. (E.g. for nsStr
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-- you're seeing the size of the header struct, not the size of the string!)</li>
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<li>
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<b>Bytes Leaked</b> - The number of bytes per instance times the number
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of objects leaked (Bytes Per-Inst * Objects Rem). Use this number to look
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for the worst offenders. <font color="#FF0000">(Should be zero!)</font></li>
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<li>
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<b>Objects Total</b> - The total count of objects allocated of a given
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class.</li>
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<li>
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<b>Objects Rem</b> - The number of objects allocated of a given class that
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weren't deleted. <font color="#FF0000">(Should be zero!)</font></li>
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<li>
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<b>Objects Mean</b> - The mean (average) number of objects of a given class
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across the lifetime of the run. Data points are taken whenever new and
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delete are called (not at regular intervals).</li>
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<li>
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<b>Objects StdDev</b> - The standard deviation in the mean number of objects
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allocated.</li>
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<li>
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<b>References Total </b>- The total number of AddRefs performed on a given
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class.</li>
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<li>
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<b>References Rem</b> - The number of references on a given class that
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weren't Released. <font color="#FF0000">(Should be zero!)</font></li>
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<li>
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<b>References Mean</b> - The mean (average) number of references to a given
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class across the lifetime of the run. Data points are taken whenever AddRef
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and Release are called (not at regular intervals).</li>
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<li>
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<b>References StdDev</b> - The standard deviation in the mean number of
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references</li>
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</ul>
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Interesting things to look for:
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<ul>
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<li>
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<b><font color="#FF0000">Are your classes in the list?</font></b> - Look!
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If they aren't, then you're not using the NS_IMPL_ADDREF and NS_IMPL_RELEASE
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(or NS_IMPL_ISUPPORTS which calls them) for xpcom objects, or MOZ_COUNT_CTOR
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and MOZ_COUNT_DTOR for non-xpcom objects. Not having your classes in the
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list is <i>not</i> ok. That means no one is looking at them, and we won't
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be able to tell if someone introduces a leak. (see <a href="#Instrumenting">below</a>
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for how to fix this)</li>
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<b><font color="#FF0000">The Bytes Leaked for your classes should be zero!</font></b>
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- Need I say more? If it isn't, you should use the other tools to fix it.</li>
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<li>
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<b>The number of objects remaining might be equal to the total number of
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objects.</b> This could indicate a hand-written Release method (that doesn't
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use the NS_LOG_RELEASE macro from nsTraceRefcnt.h), or perhaps you're just
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not freeing any of the instances you've allocated. These sorts of leaks
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are easy to fix.</li>
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<li>
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<b>The total number of objects might be 1.</b> This might indicate a global
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variable or service. Usually this will have a large number of refcounts.</li>
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<li>
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<b>The number of refcounts might equal the total number of objects.</b>
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This class might be a candidate for a non-xpcom object (but be very cautious
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about changing this if it implements any interfaces besides nsISupports).</li>
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<li>
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<b>The mean number of objects is much lower than the total.</b> This indicates
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a few objects of this class are allocated and then freed, as opposed to
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the opposite case where there's a big build-up of instances that are all
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freed together (perhaps at the end of the program).</li>
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</ul>
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You can also dump out bloat statistics interactively by typing <a href="about:bloat">about:bloat</a>
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in the location bar, or by using the menu items under the QA menu in debug
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builds. Note that you need to have the XPCOM_MEM_BLOAT_LOG or XPCOM_MEM_LEAK_LOG
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envirionment variable defined first. You can also type <a href="about:bloat?new">about:bloat?new</a>
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to get a log since the last time you called it, or <a href="about:bloat?clear">about:bloat?clear</a>
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to clear the current set of statistics completely (use this option with
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caution as it can result in what look like negative refcounts, etc). Whenever
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these options are used, the log data is dumped to a file relative to the
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program's directory:
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<blockquote>bloatlogs/all-1999-10-16-010302.txt
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(a complete log resulting from the about:bloat command)
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<br>bloatlogs/new-1999-10-16-010423.txt (an incremental
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log resulting from the about:bloat?new command)</blockquote>
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Comparing Bloat Logs</h3>
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You can also compare any two bloat logs (either those produced when the
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program shuts down, or written to the bloatlogs directory) by running the
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following program:
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<blockquote>perl mozilla/tools/tinderbox/bloatdiff.pl <previous-log>
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<current-log></blockquote>
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This will give you output of the form:
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<blockquote>
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<pre>Bloat/Leak Delta Report
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Current file: dist/win32_D.OBJ/bin/bloatlogs/all-1999-10-22-133450.txt
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Previous file: dist/win32_D.OBJ/bin/bloatlogs/all-1999-10-16-010302.txt
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CLASS LEAKS delta BLOAT delta
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TOTAL 6113530 2.79% 67064808 9.18%
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StyleContextImpl 265440 81.19% 283584 -26.99%
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CToken 236500 17.32% 306676 20.64%
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nsStr 217760 14.94% 5817060 7.63%
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nsXULAttribute 113048 -70.92% 113568 -71.16%
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LiteralImpl 53280 26.62% 75840 19.40%
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nsXULElement 51648 0.00% 51648 0.00%
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nsProfile 51224 0.00% 51224 0.00%
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nsFrame 47568 -26.15% 48096 -50.49%
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CSSDeclarationImpl 42984 0.67% 43488 0.67%</pre>
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</blockquote>
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This "delta report" shows the leak offenders, sorted from most leaks to
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fewest. The delta numbers show the percentage change between runs for the
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amount of leaks and amount of bloat (<font color="#FF0000">negative numbers
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are better!</font>). The bloat number is a metric determined by multiplying
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the total number of objects allocated of a given class by the class size.
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Note that although this isn't necessarily the amount of memory consumed
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at any given time, it does give an indication of how much memory we're
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consuming. The more memory in general, the worse the performance and footprint.
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The percentage 99999.99% will show up indicating an "infinite" amount of
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leakage. This happens when something that didn't leak before is now leaking.
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<h3>
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Bloat Statistics on Tinderbox</h3>
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Each build rectangle on Tinderbox will soon be capable of displaying the
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total leaks delta and bloat delta percentages from one build to the next.
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Horray!
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<br>
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<br>
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<center><table BORDER COLS=2 WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="100" >
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<tr>
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<td> <u><font color="#3366FF">warren</font></u></td>
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<td BGCOLOR="#00CC00"> <u><font color="#3333FF">L</font></u>
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<u><font color="#3333FF">C</font></u>
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<br> L:-3
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<br> B:+21 </td>
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</tr>
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</table></center>
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<p>Hmmm. Warren checked in and the number of leaks went down by 3%. (Yes!)
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But the amount of bloat went up by 21%. (Ouch!) This probably should be
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investigated further. Sometimes bloat can go up because new features were
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added that just take up more memory (or if the set of test URLs were changed,
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and the activity is different from last time), but in general we'd like
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to see both of these numbers continue to go down. You can look at the end
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of the log (by clicking on the L) to see the bloat statistics and delta
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report for a breakdown of what actually happened.
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<br>
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<hr WIDTH="100%">
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<h2>
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<a NAME="Boehm"></a>2. Boehm GC Leak Detector</h2>
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more...
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<br>
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<hr WIDTH="100%">
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<h2>
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<a NAME="RefcountTracing"></a>3. Refcount Tracing</h2>
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Refcount tracing is used to capture stack traces of AddRef and Release
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calls to use with the Refcount Balancer. It is best to set the XPCOM_MEM_REFCNT_LOG
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environment variable to point to a file when using it.
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<p>See <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/performance/refcnt-balancer.html">Refcount
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Balancer</a> for more information.
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<p>
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<hr WIDTH="100%">
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<h2>
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<a NAME="Leaky"></a>4. Leaky</h2>
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<h3>
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Using this stuff with leaky</h3>
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First, setup these environment variables:
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<blockquote>setenv LD_PRELOAD ../lib/libleaky.so (assumes you execute apprunner/viewer
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in the dist/bin directory)
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<br>setenv LIBMALLOC_LOG 8 (tells leaky to log addref/release calls)
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<br>setenv XPCOM_MEM_LEAKY_LOG 1 (use leaky)
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<br>setenv XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES "a,b,c" (the list of types you care about)</blockquote>
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Then run the viewer or the apprunner and run your test. Then exit it. The
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result will be some large file in your current directory called "malloc-log"
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and a small file called "malloc-map". If these aren't there then somethings
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wrong.
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<p>If it works properly, then you now have the tracing data for the problem
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you are chasing in malloc-log. Use leaky to convert it to human readable
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form and debug away:
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<blockquote>leaky -dRq <viewer|apprunner> malloc-log > /tmp/log</blockquote>
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Leaky used to require c++filt, but now it does it itself. With the -R option,
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leaky will only log the refcnts that actually leaked (those that didn't
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go to zero).
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<h3>
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Leaky environment variables</h3>
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<blockquote>LD_PRELOAD
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<blockquote>Set this to the pathname to libleaky.so if you are using leaky
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to track memory operations.</blockquote>
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LIBMALLOC_LOG
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<blockquote>Set this to "8" to enable leaky to track addref/release calls
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that are logged by xpcom. Note that you must set bit 8 in xpcomrefcnt to
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connect xpcom's tracing to leakys tracing.</blockquote>
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</blockquote>
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<h3>
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Sample output</h3>
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Here is what you see when you enable some logging with XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES
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set to something:
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<p>nsWebShell 0x81189f8
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Release 5 nsWebShell::Release(void)+0x59
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nsCOMPtr<nsIContentViewerContainer>::~nsCOMPtr(void)+0x34
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nsChannelListener::OnStartRequest(nsIChannel *, nsISupports *)+0x550
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nsFileChannel::OnStartRequest(nsIChannel *, nsISupports *)+0x7b nsOnStartRequestEvent::HandleEvent(void)+0x46
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nsStreamListenerEvent::HandlePLEvent(PLEvent *)+0x62
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PL_HandleEvent+0x57 PL_ProcessPendingEvents+0x90
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nsEventQueueImpl::ProcessPendingEvents(void)+0x1d nsAppShell::SetDispatchListener(nsDispatchListener
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*)+0x3e gdk_get_show_events+0xbb
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g_io_add_watch+0xaa g_get_current_time+0x136
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g_get_current_time+0x6f1 g_main_run+0x81
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gtk_main+0xb9 nsAppShell::Run(void)+0x245
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nsAppShell::Run(void)+0xc7a92ede nsAppShell::Run(void)+0xc7a9317c
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__libc_start_main+0xeb
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<p>Here is what you see when you use the leaky tool to dump out addref/release
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leaks:
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<p>addref 082cccc8 0 00000001
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--> CViewSourceHTML::AddRef(void) CViewSourceHTML::QueryInterface(nsID
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&, void **) NS_NewViewSourceHTML(nsIDTD **) .LM708 GetSharedObjects(void)
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nsParser::RegisterDTD(nsIDTD *) RDFXMLDataSourceImpl::Refresh(int) nsChromeRegistry::InitRegistry(void)
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nsChromeProtocolHandler::NewChannel(char *, nsIURI *, nsILoadGroup *, nsIEventSinkGetter
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*, nsIChannel **) nsIOService::NewChannelFromURI(char *, nsIURI *, nsILoadGroup
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*, nsIEventSinkGetter *, nsIChannel **) NS_OpenURI(nsIChannel **, nsIURI
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*, nsILoadGroup *, nsIEventSinkGetter *) NS_OpenURI(nsIInputStream **,
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nsIURI *) CSSLoaderImpl::LoadSheet(URLKey &, SheetLoadData *) CSSLoaderImpl::LoadChildSheet(nsICSSStyleSheet
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*, nsIURI *, nsString &, int, int) CSSParserImpl::ProcessImport(int
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&, nsString &, nsString &) CSSParserImpl::ParseImportRule(int
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&) CSSParserImpl::ParseAtRule(int &) CSSParserImpl::Parse(nsIUnicharInputStream
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*, nsIURI *, nsICSSStyleSheet *&) CSSLoaderImpl::ParseSheet(nsIUnicharInputStream
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*, SheetLoadData *, int &, nsICSSStyleSheet *&) CSSLoaderImpl::LoadAgentSheet(nsIURI
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*, nsICSSStyleSheet *&, int &, void (*)(nsICSSStyleSheet *, void
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*), void *) nsLayoutModule::Initialize(void) nsLayoutModule::GetClassObject(nsIComponentManager
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*, nsID &, nsID &, void **) nsNativeComponentLoader::GetFactoryFromModule(nsDll
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*, nsID &, nsIFactory **) nsNativeComponentLoader::GetFactory(nsID
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&, char *, char *, nsIFactory **) .LM1381 nsComponentManagerImpl::FindFactory(nsID
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&, nsIFactory **) nsComponentManagerImpl::CreateInstance(nsID &,
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nsISupports *, nsID &, void **) nsComponentManager::CreateInstance(nsID
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&, nsISupports *, nsID &, void **) RDFXMLDataSourceImpl::Refresh(int)
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nsChromeRegistry::InitRegistry(void) nsChromeProtocolHandler::NewChannel(char
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*, nsIURI *, nsILoadGroup *, nsIEventSinkGetter *, nsIChannel **) nsIOService::NewChannelFromURI(char
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*, nsIURI *, nsILoadGroup *, nsIEventSinkGetter *, nsIChannel **) NS_OpenURI(nsIChannel
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**, nsIURI *, nsILoadGroup *, nsIEventSinkGetter *) nsDocumentBindInfo::Bind(nsIURI
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*, nsILoadGroup *, nsIInputStream *, unsigned short *) nsDocLoaderImpl::LoadDocument(nsIURI
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*, char *, nsIContentViewerContainer *, nsIInputStream *, nsISupports *,
|
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unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned short *) nsWebShell::DoLoadURL(nsIURI
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*, char *, nsIInputStream *, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned short
|
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*) nsWebShell::LoadURI(nsIURI *, char *, nsIInputStream *, int, unsigned
|
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int, unsigned int, nsISupports *, unsigned short *) nsWebShell::LoadURL(unsigned
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short *, char *, nsIInputStream *, int, unsigned int, unsigned int, nsISupports
|
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*, unsigned short *) nsWebShell::LoadURL(unsigned short *, nsIInputStream
|
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*, int, unsigned int, unsigned int, nsISupports *, unsigned short *) nsWebShellWindow::Initialize(nsIWebShellWindow
|
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*, nsIAppShell *, nsIURI *, int, int, nsIXULWindowCallbacks *, int, int,
|
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nsWidgetInitData &) nsAppShellService::JustCreateTopWindow(nsIWebShellWindow
|
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*, nsIURI *, int, int, unsigned int, nsIXULWindowCallbacks *, int, int,
|
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nsIWebShellWindow **) nsAppShellService::CreateTopLevelWindow(nsIWebShellWindow
|
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*, nsIURI *, int, int, unsigned int, nsIXULWindowCallbacks *, int, int,
|
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nsIWebShellWindow **) OpenChromURL(char *, int, int) HandleBrowserStartup(nsICmdLineService
|
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*, nsIPref *, int) DoCommandLines(nsICmdLineService *, int) main1(int,
|
|
char **) main __libc_start_main
|
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<p>
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<hr WIDTH="100%">
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<h2>
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|
<a NAME="Purify"></a>5. Purify</h2>
|
|
more...
|
|
<br>
|
|
<hr WIDTH="100%">
|
|
<h2>
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|
How to build xpcom with refcnt/memory logging</h2>
|
|
Built into xpcom is the ability to support the debugging of memory leaks.
|
|
By default, an optimized build of xpcom has this disabled. Also by default,
|
|
the debug builds have the logging facilities enabled. You can control either
|
|
of these options by changing environment variables before you build mozilla:
|
|
<blockquote>FORCE_BUILD_REFCNT_LOGGING</blockquote>
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|
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
<blockquote>If this is defined then regardless of the type of build, refcnt
|
|
logging (and related memory debugging) will be enabled in the build.</blockquote>
|
|
NO_BUILD_REFCNT_LOGGING
|
|
<blockquote>If this is defined then regardless of the type of build or
|
|
of the setting of the FORCE_BUILD_REFCNT_LOGGING, no refcnt logging will
|
|
be enabled and no memory debugging will be enabled. This variable overrides
|
|
FORCE_BUILD_REFCNT_LOGGING.</blockquote>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
The remaining discussion assumes that one way or another that xpcom has
|
|
been built with refcnt/memory logging enabled.
|
|
<h2>
|
|
<a NAME="Instrumenting"></a>How to instrument your objects for refcnt/memory
|
|
logging</h2>
|
|
First, if your object is an xpcom object and you use the NS_IMPL_ADDREF
|
|
and NS_IMPL_RELEASE (or a variation thereof) macro to implement your AddRef
|
|
and Release methods, then there is nothing you need do. By default, those
|
|
macros support refcnt logging directly.
|
|
<p>If your object is not an xpcom object then some manual editing is in
|
|
order. The following sample code shows what must be done:
|
|
<blockquote><b><tt>MOZ_DECL_CTOR_COUNTER(MyType);</tt></b>
|
|
<p><b><tt>MyType::MyType()</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>{</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt> MOZ_COUNT_CTOR(MyType);</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>}</tt></b>
|
|
<p><b><tt>MyType::~MyType()</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>{</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt> MOZ_COUNT_DTOR(MyType);</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>}</tt></b></blockquote>
|
|
Now currently the MOZ_DECL_CTOR_COUNTER expands to nothing so your code
|
|
will compile if you forget to add it; however, we reserve the right to
|
|
change that so please put it in.
|
|
<h2>
|
|
What are those macros doing for me anyway?</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p><br><b><tt>NS_IMPL_ADDREF</tt></b> has this additional line in it:
|
|
<blockquote><b><tt>NS_LOG_ADDREF(this, mRefCnt, #_class, sizeof(*this));</tt></b></blockquote>
|
|
What this is doing is logging the addref call using xpcom's nsTraceRefcnt
|
|
class. The implementation of that macro is:
|
|
<br>
|
|
<blockquote><b><tt>#define NS_LOG_ADDREF(_p, _rc, _type, _size) \</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt> nsTraceRefcnt::LogAddRef((_p), (_rc), (_type), (PRUint32)
|
|
(_size))</tt></b></blockquote>
|
|
Which as you can see just passes the buck to nsTraceRefcnt. nsTraceRefcnt
|
|
implements the logging support and will track addref/release/ctor/dtor
|
|
calls in a database that it builds up as the program is executing. In a
|
|
similar manner, NS_IMPL_RELEASE uses NS_LOG_RELEASE which uses nsTraceRefcnt::LogRelease.
|
|
<p>For the MOZ_DECL_CTOR_COUNTER, MOZ_COUNT_CTOR and MOZ_COUNT_DTOR macros
|
|
the expansion boils down to calls to nsTraceRefcnt::LogCtor and nsTraceRefcnt::LogDtor
|
|
calls. Again, the type of the object is passed in as well as the sizeof
|
|
of all the data type.
|
|
<blockquote><b><tt>#define MOZ_COUNT_CTOR(_type)
|
|
\</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>PR_BEGIN_MACRO
|
|
\</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt> nsTraceRefcnt::LogCtor((void*)this, #_type, sizeof(*this));
|
|
\</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>PR_END_MACRO</tt></b>
|
|
<p><b><tt>#define MOZ_COUNT_DTOR(_type)
|
|
\</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>PR_BEGIN_MACRO
|
|
\</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt> nsTraceRefcnt::LogDtor((void*)this, #_type, sizeof(*this));
|
|
\</tt></b>
|
|
<br><b><tt>PR_END_MACRO</tt></b></blockquote>
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