[Python-checkins] bpo-36142: Add _PyMem_GetDebugAllocatorsName() (GH-12185)

[Victor Stinner]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a9df651eb4c18a07ec309df190419613e95cba7b
commit: a9df651eb4c18a07ec309df190419613e95cba7b
branch: master
author: Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-03-05T23:31:54+01:00
summary:

bpo-36142: Add _PyMem_GetDebugAllocatorsName() (GH-12185)

The development mode now uses the effective name of the debug memory
allocator ("pymalloc_debug" or "malloc_debug"). So the name doesn't
change after setting the memory allocator.

files:
M Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
M Lib/test/test_embed.py
M Objects/obmalloc.c
M Programs/_testembed.c
M Python/preconfig.c

diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h b/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
index 1e7da87cd75c..fedc7cc119bf 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyMem_SetDefaultAllocator(
     PyMemAllocatorDomain domain,
     PyMemAllocatorEx *old_alloc);
 
+PyAPI_FUNC(const char*) _PyMem_GetDebugAllocatorsName(void);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_embed.py b/Lib/test/test_embed.py
index 1f236a985ad6..2827e8708e11 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_embed.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_embed.py
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ class InitConfigTests(EmbeddingTestsMixin, unittest.TestCase):
             'legacy_windows_fs_encoding': 0,
             'legacy_windows_stdio': 0,
         })
+    DEBUG_ALLOCATOR = 'pymalloc_debug' if support.with_pymalloc() else 'malloc_debug'
 
     # main config
     COPY_MAIN_CONFIG = (
@@ -588,7 +589,7 @@ def test_init_env(self):
 
     def test_init_env_dev_mode(self):
         config = dict(self.INIT_ENV_CONFIG,
-                      allocator='debug',
+                      allocator=self.DEBUG_ALLOCATOR,
                       dev_mode=1)
         self.check_config("init_env_dev_mode", config)
 
@@ -596,7 +597,7 @@ def test_init_dev_mode(self):
         config = {
             'dev_mode': 1,
             'faulthandler': 1,
-            'allocator': 'debug',
+            'allocator': self.DEBUG_ALLOCATOR,
         }
         self.check_config("init_dev_mode", config)
 
diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c
index 1c2a32050f93..1afbcca14f28 100644
--- a/Objects/obmalloc.c
+++ b/Objects/obmalloc.c
@@ -221,6 +221,20 @@ static PyMemAllocatorEx _PyObject = PYOBJ_ALLOC;
 #endif
 
 
+/* Get the effective name of "debug" memory allocators,
+   as if _PyMem_GetAllocatorsName() is called after
+   _PyMem_SetupAllocators("debug"). */
+const char*
+_PyMem_GetDebugAllocatorsName(void)
+{
+#ifdef WITH_PYMALLOC
+    return "pymalloc_debug";
+#else
+    return "malloc_debug";
+#endif
+}
+
+
 static int
 pymem_set_default_allocator(PyMemAllocatorDomain domain, int debug,
                             PyMemAllocatorEx *old_alloc)
diff --git a/Programs/_testembed.c b/Programs/_testembed.c
index 70bf96036a2a..170672e4439a 100644
--- a/Programs/_testembed.c
+++ b/Programs/_testembed.c
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ static int test_forced_io_encoding(void)
 
 static int test_pre_initialization_api(void)
 {
+    /* the test doesn't support custom memory allocators */
+    putenv("PYTHONMALLOC=");
+
     /* Leading "./" ensures getpath.c can still find the standard library */
     _Py_EMBED_PREINIT_CHECK("Checking Py_DecodeLocale\n");
     wchar_t *program = Py_DecodeLocale("./spam", NULL);
@@ -235,6 +238,9 @@ static void bpo20891_thread(void *lockp)
 
 static int test_bpo20891(void)
 {
+    /* the test doesn't support custom memory allocators */
+    putenv("PYTHONMALLOC=");
+
     /* bpo-20891: Calling PyGILState_Ensure in a non-Python thread before
        calling PyEval_InitThreads() must not crash. PyGILState_Ensure() must
        call PyEval_InitThreads() for us in this case. */
diff --git a/Python/preconfig.c b/Python/preconfig.c
index 98e0edead177..46e1809fc548 100644
--- a/Python/preconfig.c
+++ b/Python/preconfig.c
@@ -453,7 +453,8 @@ preconfig_read(_PyPreConfig *config, const _PyPreCmdline *cmdline)
 
     /* allocator */
     if (config->dev_mode && config->allocator == NULL) {
-        config->allocator = _PyMem_RawStrdup("debug");
+        const char *allocator = _PyMem_GetDebugAllocatorsName();
+        config->allocator = _PyMem_RawStrdup(allocator);
         if (config->allocator == NULL) {
             return _Py_INIT_NO_MEMORY();
         }