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Summary

Fixes #539. The lower half's wrappers of mmap and munmap keep the arena's lists of free and allocated blocks, which the checkpoint uses to save the upper half's memory, but mremap went to the kernel directly. glibc's realloc of a block that malloc mapped calls mremap. The kernel then grew the mapping into a range that the free list still listed, or moved it outside the arena, and the allocated list kept the old size. With #537, a later mmap no longer overwrites the grown range, but a restart still lost it: the job crashed with SIGSEGV when it read the grown half.

2 commits:

• Add wrapper for mremap: mremap_wrapper() grows or shrinks a mapping in place only when the free list says the range is free, where the kernel never replaces a mapping. Otherwise, with MREMAP_MAYMOVE, it reserves a new range with arena_mmap() and moves the mapping onto it with MREMAP_FIXED, which replaces only the reservation. Then it updates both lists. patchLibc() makes the upper half libc's mremap jump to it. It finds mremap as it finds mmap and munmap, through a new helper, libc_symbol_offset(), which holds their lookup and its fallback to libc's debug file.
• Add a test of realloc growing a block: realloc_grow grows one 64 MB block to 128 MB in place, maps 256 MB after it, and grows another 64 MB block that must move. Each iteration checks the blocks and the mapping across checkpoints and restarts.

Notes for review

• A call with MREMAP_FIXED goes to the kernel as it is, as the mmap wrapper does for a caller's MAP_FIXED. With MREMAP_DONTUNMAP, the old range stays in the allocated list.
• The wrapper blocks signals and takes the wrappers' lock, as mmap_wrapper() and munmap_wrapper() do (Serialize the mmap wrapper and block signals in it (#542) #543).
• On failure, errno is set in the lower half's TLS, as in the other wrappers, so the caller does not see it.

Testing

Fedora 44, MPICH 5.0.1, ./configure (-O2, as in the CI):

Test	Polling	Blocking
autotest.py, all 48 tests with realloc_grow	48 of 48, no retries	48 of 48, no retries
realloc_grow, 20 runs	20 of 20	20 of 20
memory, 10 runs	10 of 10	10 of 10
mmap_threads, 10 runs	10 of 10	10 of 10

realloc_grow also passes natively. On main, its job crashed with SIGSEGV at the first restart.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Memory allocations can now grow within the configured arena when space permits, or move to another available range when needed and allowed.
  • Successful growth preserves existing data and avoids overlapping other mappings. Requests for fixed addresses and operations outside the configured arena continue to use the system’s standard memory mapping behavior.

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• mpi-proxy-split/lower-half/mem-wrapper.cpp
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• mpi-proxy-split/test/autotest.py
• mpi-proxy-split/test/realloc_grow.c

Walkthrough

The lower half now intercepts mremap and updates arena allocation tracking after remaps. The end-to-end suite adds a two-rank test for allocation growth, mapping overlap, and memory contents during checkpoint/restart iterations.

Changes: mremap arena tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Wrap and track mremap mpi-proxy-split/lower-half/mem-wrapper.cpp	Adds a serialized mremap wrapper. It attempts in-place resizing, reserves an arena range for eligible moves, updates allocated and free block lists on success, and patches libc’s mremap symbol.
Exercise realloc growth mpi-proxy-split/test/realloc_grow.c, mpi-proxy-split/test/Makefile, mpi-proxy-split/test/autotest.py	Adds a two-rank test for allocation growth, mapping overlap, and sampled memory contents. Registers the test in the end-to-end suite.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Glibc
  participant mremap_wrapper
  participant __mremap_wrapper
  participant _real_mremap
  participant allocated_blocks
  participant free_blocks
  Glibc->>mremap_wrapper: mremap request
  mremap_wrapper->>__mremap_wrapper: serialized request
  __mremap_wrapper->>_real_mremap: attempt in-place remap or fixed move
  _real_mremap-->>__mremap_wrapper: remapped address or failure
  __mremap_wrapper->>allocated_blocks: update allocation range
  __mremap_wrapper->>free_blocks: update free ranges
  __mremap_wrapper-->>mremap_wrapper: return remap result
  mremap_wrapper-->>Glibc: return address or failure

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Possibly related PRs

• mpickpt/mana#537: Adds arena mapping placement used by the new fixed-address move path.
• mpickpt/mana#543: Adds the signal-blocking and wrapper-locking sequence used by mremap_wrapper.

Suggested reviewers: pera-noaa

Merge Risk: Low · previous review f1f71

Ordinary realloc growth has no established failure, but direct mremap callers can receive incorrect error information or flag-dependent results. These bounded API compatibility issues warrant owner awareness and correction.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding an mremap wrapper. It matches the implementation and related test changes.
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #539 has one coding objective: route upper-half libc mremap to a lower-half wrapper so arena free and allocated lists stay correct when realloc grows or moves an mmap-backed bloc…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed files connect to #539 or to its test coverage: - mem-wrapper.cpp: adds _real_mremap, mremap_wrapper(), __mremap_wrapper(), and is_free_range(). These implement the #539 fix. The wrapper fo…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Directly linked issue #539 has one coding objective: route upper-half libc mremap to a lower-half wrapper so arena free and allocated lists stay correct when realloc grows or moves an mmap-backed block.

Evidence at head (diff against merge base aa06a9e):

• patchLibc() now resolves mremap through libc_symbol_offset() and installs a trampoline to mremap_wrapper(). This matches the existing mmap and munmap handling (#539, mem-wrapper.cpp).
• __mremap_wrapper() grows in place only when is_free_range() confirms the new range is in free_blocks. Otherwise it fails rather than replacing a mapping, unless MREMAP_MAYMOVE is set.
• With MREMAP_MAYMOVE, the wrapper reserves a range with arena_mmap(), then moves the mapping there with MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED. The kernel therefore replaces only the arena reservation. The block stays inside the arena, as #539 requires. The issue suggests taking the address from next_free_addr(). The reservation path reaches the same arena-placement goal.
• On success, the wrapper removes the old range from allocated_blocks and merges it into free_blocks, unless MREMAP_DONTUNMAP keeps it. It merges the new range into allocated_blocks and removes it from free_blocks. It also advances max_allocated_addr.
• The test realloc_grow covers the reproducer pattern: in-place growth, a later mapping, and a growth that must move. The PR reports passing runs on both polling and blocking modes.

Limits of this review: the arena_mmap() source was not inspected within the inspection budget. On the failure path after a successful reservation, if the MREMAP_FIXED call fails, the wrapper calls _real_munmap() directly. This does not update the block lists. Whether arena_mmap() already added the reservation to allocated_blocks was not verified. This affects error handling only, not the success-path requirement of #539.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

All changed files connect to #539 or to its test coverage:

• mem-wrapper.cpp: adds _real_mremap, mremap_wrapper(), __mremap_wrapper(), and is_free_range(). These implement the #539 fix. The wrapper follows the same signal-blocking and lock sequence as mmap_wrapper() and munmap_wrapper().
• mem-wrapper.cpp: extracts libc_symbol_offset() from the existing mmap and munmap lookup code. patchLibc() uses it for mmap, munmap, and mremap. This is a refactor that supports the new trampoline. Behavior for mmap and munmap is unchanged.
• test/realloc_grow.c, test/Makefile, test/autotest.py: add a regression test and register it in the E2E suite. This supports the #539 behavior.

Notes that do not make a change out of scope: MREMAP_FIXED calls pass to the kernel without arena bookkeeping. The PR documents this, and it matches the existing handling of caller MAP_FIXED in the mmap wrapper. Under this design, a caller using MREMAP_FIXED to target arena blocks can bypass the free and allocated lists. This is a design trade-off, not an unrelated change.

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Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Actionable comments posted: 4

Nitpick comments: 2

mpi-proxy-split/test/realloc_grow.c: 2

71-75: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Check the original block before and after the first realloc.

The first block's contents are never written before realloc(p, 2 * BLOCK). The next access to the grown block is fill(q, 2 * BLOCK, base), which overwrites the whole range. No check reads q before that overwrite, so content lost during in-place growth would not be detected. The moved-block path already writes its block before realloc and checks it afterward. Applying the same pattern to the in-place path closes the gap.

🧪 Suggested fix

   char *p = malloc(BLOCK);
   MT_CHECK(p != NULL, "%s", "malloc");
+  fill(p, BLOCK, base);
   char *q = realloc(p, 2 * BLOCK);
   MT_CHECK(q != NULL, "%s", "realloc");
+  check("grown block", q, 0, BLOCK, base, 0);
   fill(q, 2 * BLOCK, base);

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Review comment at @mpi-proxy-split/test/realloc_grow.c around lines 71 - 75:
Update the initial allocation and growth path around malloc and realloc in the
test to fill p before realloc and check the original BLOCK bytes in q
immediately after realloc, before fill overwrites them. Keep the existing checks
and subsequent fill unchanged.

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73-75: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Cover the in-place growth path in the first realloc check.

The test header says the first realloc grows the block in place. Line 74 checks only q != NULL, and every later check uses the returned q. A moved block therefore passes the whole test, so the test does not exercise the in-place growth path it describes.

Removing the in-place prose does not close this gap. It only makes the header match the test, and the in-place bookkeeping stays untested.

A q == p assertion is not yet safe. In the mremap wrapper's in-place branch, the block grows in place only when is_free_range holds for the range above it. Otherwise, with MREMAP_MAYMOVE, the mapping moves. The test does not establish that the range above p is free at its first malloc. Add a pointer-equality check only after the test establishes that placement precondition. Do not add an unconditional q == p check.

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Review comment at @mpi-proxy-split/test/realloc_grow.c around lines 73 - 75:
Update the first realloc scenario in realloc_grow so it establishes that the
range above p is free before requiring in-place growth; then check that realloc
returns the same pointer before continuing to use q. Do not add an unconditional
pointer-equality assertion when the placement precondition is not guaranteed.

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minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
Review comments at @mpi-proxy-split/lower-half/mem-wrapper.cpp:
- Around line 625-634: Update mremap_wrapper to preserve errno across the lower-
to upper-half transition: capture errno when __mremap_wrapper returns
MAP_FAILED, then restore it after RETURN_TO_UPPER_HALF so callers observe the
failure reason.
- Around line 662-663: At the start of __mremap_wrapper, validate flags against
the supported mremap flag set and return MAP_FAILED with errno set to EINVAL
when any unsupported bit is present, before the in-place resize can discard it.
- Around line 660-663: In the `mremap` growth path, when `is_free_range` is
false and `MREMAP_MAYMOVE` is absent, set `errno` to `ENOMEM` before returning
`MAP_FAILED`; preserve the existing `_real_mremap` behavior for allowed paths.
- Around line 660-663: Update __mremap_wrapper to keep MREMAP_DONTUNMAP out of
the flagless _real_mremap path, and include the flag in the MREMAP_MAYMOVE |
MREMAP_FIXED fallback call. Preserve the existing behavior for requests without
MREMAP_DONTUNMAP and ensure the old range remains allocated when the flag
requests it.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @mpi-proxy-split/test/realloc_grow.c:
- Around line 71-75: Update the initial allocation and growth path around malloc
and realloc in the test to fill p before realloc and check the original BLOCK
bytes in q immediately after realloc, before fill overwrites them. Keep the
existing checks and subsequent fill unchanged.
- Around line 73-75: Update the first realloc scenario in realloc_grow so it
establishes that the range above p is free before requiring in-place growth;
then check that realloc returns the same pointer before continuing to use q. Do
not add an unconditional pointer-equality assertion when the placement
precondition is not guaranteed.

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On the two nitpicks for realloc_grow.c: the first block is now filled before the realloc and checked after it (e2b69b0). On the in-place path: under MANA, the arena places the first 64 MB block at its top, so the wrapper grows it in place; a test program printed p == q in 3 of 3 runs. Natively, glibc moves it, so the test cannot assert q == p without failing natively.

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