commit a9df651eb4c18a07ec309df190419613e95cba7b
author Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> Tue Mar 05 23:31:54 2019 +0100
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Tue Mar 05 23:31:54 2019 +0100
tree 8c014426433938a9c94e7555b20eb13d78369cfa
parent d8b3a98c9098c66a714fd5593e1928af0ffbc631

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.

Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h

diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h b/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
index 1e7da87..fedc7cc 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_pymem.h
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@
     PyMemAllocatorDomain domain,
     PyMemAllocatorEx *old_alloc);
 
+PyAPI_FUNC(const char*) _PyMem_GetDebugAllocatorsName(void);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif

Lib/test/test_embed.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_embed.py b/Lib/test/test_embed.py
index 1f236a9..2827e87 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_embed.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_embed.py
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@
             '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_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 @@
         config = {
             'dev_mode': 1,
             'faulthandler': 1,
-            'allocator': 'debug',
+            'allocator': self.DEBUG_ALLOCATOR,
         }
         self.check_config("init_dev_mode", config)
 

Objects/obmalloc.c

diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c
index 1c2a320..1afbcca 100644
--- a/Objects/obmalloc.c
+++ b/Objects/obmalloc.c
@@ -221,6 +221,20 @@
 #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)

Programs/_testembed.c

diff --git a/Programs/_testembed.c b/Programs/_testembed.c
index 70bf960..170672e 100644
--- a/Programs/_testembed.c
+++ b/Programs/_testembed.c
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@
 
 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 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. */

Python/preconfig.c

diff --git a/Python/preconfig.c b/Python/preconfig.c
index 98e0ede..46e1809 100644
--- a/Python/preconfig.c
+++ b/Python/preconfig.c
@@ -453,7 +453,8 @@
 
     /* 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();
         }