[PATCH] [bugpoint] Increase the default memory limit for subprocesses to 300MB.

Hal Finkel hfinkel at anl.gov
Thu Oct 24 08:55:26 PDT 2013


Chris,

The current 100M limit came from your suggestion in PR688. Are you okay with changing it to 300M?

 -Hal

----- Original Message -----
> I'm not the right person to review this, sorry.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Daniel Sanders
> <daniel.sanders at imgtec.com> wrote:
> > Hi jyasskin,
> >
> > Currently shared library builds (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON in cmake)
> > fail three
> > bugpoint tests (BugPoint/remove_arguments_test.ll,
> > BugPoint/crash-narrowfunctiontest.ll, and BugPoint/metadata.ll).
> >
> > If I run the bugpoint commands that llvm-lit runs with without
> > -silence-passes
> > I see errors such as this:
> >     opt: error while loading shared libraries:
> >     libLLVMSystemZInfo.so: failed to
> >     map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
> >
> > It seems that the increased size of the binaries in a shared
> > library build is
> > causing the subprocess to exceed the 100MB memory limit. This patch
> > therefore
> > increases the default limit to a level at which these tests pass.
> >
> > http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2013
> >
> > Files:
> >   tools/bugpoint/bugpoint.cpp
> >
> > Index: tools/bugpoint/bugpoint.cpp
> > ===================================================================
> > --- tools/bugpoint/bugpoint.cpp
> > +++ tools/bugpoint/bugpoint.cpp
> > @@ -49,8 +49,8 @@
> >
> >  static cl::opt<int>
> >  MemoryLimit("mlimit", cl::init(-1), cl::value_desc("MBytes"),
> > -             cl::desc("Maximum amount of memory to use. 0 disables
> > check."
> > -                      " Defaults to 100MB (800MB under
> > valgrind)."));
> > +            cl::desc("Maximum amount of memory to use. 0 disables
> > check."
> > +                     " Defaults to 300MB (800MB under
> > valgrind)."));
> >
> >  static cl::opt<bool>
> >  UseValgrind("enable-valgrind",
> > @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
> >      if (sys::RunningOnValgrind() || UseValgrind)
> >        MemoryLimit = 800;
> >      else
> > -      MemoryLimit = 100;
> > +      MemoryLimit = 300;
> >    }
> >
> >    BugDriver D(argv[0], FindBugs, TimeoutValue, MemoryLimit,
> >
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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory



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