cext: fix memory leak in phases computation
Without this a buffer whose size in bytes is the number of
changesets in the repository is leaked each time the repository is
opened and changeset phases are computed.
Impact: the current code in hgwebdir creates a new `localrepository`
instance for each HTTP request. Since any pull or push is made of several
requests, a team of 100 people can easily produce thousands of such
requests per day.
Being a low-level malloc, this leak can't be seen with the gc module and
tools relying on that, but was spotted by valgrind immediately.
Reproduction
------------
for i in range(cl_args.iterations):
repo = hg.repository(baseui, repo_path)
rev = repo.revs(rev).first()
ctx = repo[rev]
del ctx
del repo
# avoid any pollution by other type of leak
# (that should be fixed in 5.8)
repoview._filteredrepotypes.clear()
gc.collect()
Measurements
------------
Resident Set Size (RSS), taken on a clone of
mozilla-central for performance analysis (440 000
changesets).
before:
5.8+hg19.5ac0f2a8ba72 1000 iterations: 1606MB
5.8+hg19.5ac0f2a8ba72 10000 iterations: 5723MB
after:
5.8+hg20.e2084d39e145 1000 iterations: 555MB
5.8+hg20.e2084d39e145 10000 iterations: 555MB
(double checked, not a copy/paste error)
(e2084d39e14 is the present changeset, before amendment
of the message to add the measurements)
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> hooklib =
>
> [phases]
> publish = False
> EOF
$ hg init a
$ hg --cwd a debugbuilddag '.:parent.*parent'
$ hg --cwd a log -G
o changeset: 2:fa942426a6fd
| tag: tip
| parent: 0:1ea73414a91b
| user: debugbuilddag
| date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
| summary: r2
|
| o changeset: 1:66f7d451a68b
|/ user: debugbuilddag
| date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
| summary: r1
|
o changeset: 0:1ea73414a91b
tag: parent
user: debugbuilddag
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: r0
$ hg init b
$ cat <<EOF >> b/.hg/hgrc
> [hooks]
> pretxnclose.reject_new_heads = \
> python:hgext.hooklib.reject_new_heads.hook
> EOF
$ hg --cwd b pull ../a
pulling from ../a
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
error: pretxnclose.reject_new_heads hook failed: Changes on branch 'default' resulted in multiple heads
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: Changes on branch 'default' resulted in multiple heads
[255]
$ hg --cwd b pull ../a -r 1ea73414a91b
pulling from ../a
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files
new changesets 1ea73414a91b (1 drafts)
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)