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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2011-10-19 11:00:20 +0200
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2011-10-26 18:19:21 +0200
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erts-hipe: Deliberate leak of native fun entries
This is a workaround as hipe code upgrade/unloading does not work properly.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/emulator')
-rw-r--r--erts/emulator/beam/beam_load.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/beam_load.c b/erts/emulator/beam/beam_load.c
index bdf07d5028..264c5a18eb 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/beam_load.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/beam_load.c
@@ -5687,7 +5687,17 @@ patch_funentries(Eterm Patchlist)
fe = erts_get_fun_entry(Mod, uniq, index);
fe->native_address = (Uint *)native_address;
- erts_refc_dec(&fe->refc, 1);
+
+ /* Deliberate MEMORY LEAK of native fun entries!!!
+ *
+ * Uncomment line below when hipe code upgrade and purging works correctly.
+ * Today we may get cases when old (leaked) native code of a purged module
+ * gets called and tries to create instances of a deleted fun entry.
+ *
+ * Reproduced on a debug emulator with stdlib_test/qlc_SUITE:join_merge
+ *
+ * erts_refc_dec(&fe->refc, 1);
+ */
if (!patch(Addresses, (Uint) fe))
return 0;