- TSA is a static analyzer build by Google which finds race conditions
and deadlocks at compile time.
- It works by associating a shared member variable with a
synchronization primitive that protects it. The compiler can then
check at each access if proper locking happened before. A good
introduction are [0] and [1].
- TSA requires some help by the programmer via annotations. Luckily,
LLVM's libcxx already has annotations for std::mutex, std::lock_guard,
std::shared_mutex and std::scoped_lock. This commit enables them
(--> contrib/libcxx-cmake/CMakeLists.txt).
- Further, this commit adds convenience macros for the low-level
annotations for use in ClickHouse (--> base/defines.h). For
demonstration, they are leveraged in a few places.
- As we compile with "-Wall -Wextra -Weverything", the required compiler
flag "-Wthread-safety-analysis" was already enabled. Negative checks
are an experimental feature of TSA and disabled
(--> cmake/warnings.cmake). Compile times did not increase noticeably.
- TSA is used in a few places with simple locking. I tried TSA also
where locking is more complex. The problem was usually that it is
unclear which data is protected by which lock :-(. But there was
definitely some weird code where locking looked broken. So there is
some potential to find bugs.
*** Limitations of TSA besides the ones listed in [1]:
- The programmer needs to know which lock protects which piece of shared
data. This is not always easy for large classes.
- Two synchronization primitives used in ClickHouse are not annotated in
libcxx:
(1) std::unique_lock: A releaseable lock handle often together with
std::condition_variable, e.g. in solve producer-consumer problems.
(2) std::recursive_mutex: A re-entrant mutex variant. Its usage can be
considered a design flaw + typically it is slower than a standard
mutex. In this commit, one std::recursive_mutex was converted to
std::mutex and annotated with TSA.
- For free-standing functions (e.g. helper functions) which are passed
shared data members, it can be tricky to specify the associated lock.
This is because the annotations use the normal C++ rules for symbol
resolution.
[0] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html
[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/42958.pdf
cmake/target.cmake defines macros for the supported platforms, this
commit changes predefined system macros to our own macros.
__linux__ --> OS_LINUX
__APPLE__ --> OS_DARWIN
__FreeBSD__ --> OS_FREEBSD
Replxx: When disabled via -DENABLE_LIBRARIES=0 or -DENABLE_REPLXX (the
latter was undocumented) the build broke because replxx symbols were
used since [0] in header LineReader.h. This header should in theory
stay clean of replxx but doesn't for efficiency reasons.
This change makes compilation of replxx mandatory. As replxx is quite
small, I guess this is okay. (The alternative is to litter the code
with ifdefs for non-replxx and a replxx paths.)
[0] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/33201
Enable:
- bugprone-lambda-function-name: "Checks for attempts to get the name of
a function from within a lambda expression. The name of a lambda is
always something like operator(), which is almost never what was
intended."
- bugprone-unhandled-self-assignment: "Finds user-defined copy
assignment operators which do not protect the code against
self-assignment either by checking self-assignment explicitly or using
the copy-and-swap or the copy-and-move method.""
- hicpp-invalid-access-moved: "Warns if an object is used after it has
been moved."
- hicpp-use-noexcept: "This check replaces deprecated dynamic exception
specifications with the appropriate noexcept specification (introduced
in C++11)"
- hicpp-use-override: "Adds override (introduced in C++11) to overridden
virtual functions and removes virtual from those functions as it is
not required."
- performance-type-promotion-in-math-fn: "Finds calls to C math library
functions (from math.h or, in C++, cmath) with implicit float to
double promotions."
Split up:
- cppcoreguidelines-*. Some of them may be useful (haven't checked in
detail), therefore allow to toggle them individually.
Disable:
- linuxkernel-*. Obvious.
Official docs:
Some headers from C library were deprecated in C++ and are no longer
welcome in C++ codebases. Some have no effect in C++. For more details
refer to the C++ 14 Standard [depr.c.headers] section. This check
replaces C standard library headers with their C++ alternatives and
removes redundant ones.
Official docs:
This check replaces deprecated dynamic exception specifications with
the appropriate noexcept specification (introduced in C++11). By
default this check will replace throw() with noexcept, and
throw(<exception>[,...]) or throw(...) with noexcept(false).
The original motivation for this commit was that shared_ptr_helper used
std::shared_ptr<>() which does two heap allocations instead of
make_shared<>() which does a single allocation. Turned out that
1. the affected code (--> Storages/) is not on a hot path (rendering the
performance argument moot ...)
2. yet copying Storage objects is potentially dangerous and was
previously allowed.
Hence, this change
- removes shared_ptr_helper and as a result all inherited create() methods,
- instead, Storage objects are now created using make_shared<>() by the
caller (for that to work, many constructors had to be made public), and
- all Storage classes were marked as noncopyable using boost::noncopyable.
In sum, we are (likely) not making things faster but the code becomes
cleaner and harder to misuse.
When I tried to add cool new clang-tidy 14 warnings, I noticed that the
current clang-tidy settings already produce a ton of warnings. This
commit addresses many of these. Almost all of them were non-critical,
i.e. C vs. C++ style casts.
