On 08/16/2017 08:10 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Afaict shm_create/shm_toc_allocate don't actually guarantee that the end
>> of the toc's memory is suitably aligned. But I didn't yet have any
>> coffee, so ...
>
> Robert, I'm not quite sure what the intended behaviour of shm_toc is wrt
> alignment. I see that individual chunks are BUFFERALIGNed (both during
> estimation, and allocation). But I don't see how the size of the entire
> toc is aligned, which seems a requirement, given we allocate from the
> end.
> Seems like we'd just have to add alignment of the total size to
> shm_toc_estimate()?
Yeah, that's the gist of it.
The attached patch seems to fix this. I'm not too familiar with this DSM
stuff, but this seems right to me. Unless someone has a better idea
soon, I'll commit this to make the buildfarm happy.
- Heikki
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