Subject: bug#48812: 28.0.50; describe-bindings stucks and gets high CPU load

From: Naofumi Yasufuku <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 00:15:06 +0900

Attached simple patch could fix this.
Is there no regression with this change?

Regards,
—Naofumi

> On Jun 4, 2021, at 0:06, Naofumi Yasufuku <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> This describe-bindings stuck is caused by millions of shadow_lookup() calls
> in src/keymap.c describe_vector().
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ ./src/emacs
> describe_vector] shadow_lookup loop START: definition=self-insert-command shadowed_by=nil starting_i=128 i=4194175
> describe_vector] shadow_lookup loop END:   definition=self-insert-command shadowed_by=nil starting_i=128 i=4194175
> describe_vector] shadow_lookup loop START: definition=self-insert-command shadowed_by=nil starting_i=4194176 i=4194303
> describe_vector] shadow_lookup loop END:   definition=self-insert-command shadowed_by=nil starting_i=4194176 i=4194303
> describe_vector] shadow_lookup loop START: definition=digit-argument shadowed_by=nil starting_i=48 i=57
> describe_vector] shadow_lookup loop END:   definition=digit-argument shadowed_by=nil starting_i=48 i=57
> $ 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> diff --git a/src/keymap.c b/src/keymap.c
> index fb8eceaec1..0efa78ce9b 100644
> --- a/src/keymap.c
> +++ b/src/keymap.c
> @@ -3065,6 +3065,11 @@ describe_vector (Lisp_Object vector, Lisp_Object prefix, Lisp_Object args,
>        if (CHAR_TABLE_P (vector) && i != starting_i)
>  	{
>  	  Lisp_Object key = make_nil_vector (1);
> +	  fprintf (stderr, "%s] shadow_lookup loop START: definition=%s shadowed_by=%s starting_i=%d i=%d\n",
> +		   __func__,
> +		   SDATA (SYMBOL_NAME (definition)),
> +		   SDATA (SYMBOL_NAME (shadowed_by)),
> +		   starting_i, i);
>  	  for (int j = starting_i + 1; j <= i; j++)
>  	    {
>  	      ASET (key, 0, make_fixnum (j));
> @@ -3072,6 +3077,11 @@ describe_vector (Lisp_Object vector, Lisp_Object prefix, Lisp_Object args,
>  	      if (NILP (Fequal (tem, shadowed_by)))
>  		i = j - 1;
>  	    }
> +	  fprintf (stderr, "%s] shadow_lookup loop END:   definition=%s shadowed_by=%s starting_i=%d i=%d\n",
> +		   __func__,
> +		   SDATA (SYMBOL_NAME (definition)),
> +		   SDATA (SYMBOL_NAME (shadowed_by)),
> +		   starting_i, i);
>  	}
>  
>        /* If we have a range of more than one character,
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> This shadow_lookup() loop was introduced by the following commit:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> commit a6490343366f2b2331a91dcb693effb3a9dd78f5
> Author: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Fri Nov 13 15:28:29 2020 +0100
> 
>     Don't show key ranges if shadowed by different commands
> 
>     * src/keymap.c (describe_vector): Make sure found consecutive keys
>     are either not shadowed or, if they are, that they are shadowed by
>     the same command.  (Bug#9293)
>     * test/src/keymap-tests.el
>     (help--describe-vector/bug-9293-one-shadowed-in-range): New test.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 3, aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.25, cairo version 1.16.0)
>  of 2021-06-03 built on phoebe
> Repository revision: 089e0c4c55dcf72f9cf2f6f04b8a52fc7355499c
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101001
> System Description: Ubuntu 21.04
> 
> Configured features:
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> LCMS2 LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG
> RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XPM
> GTK3 ZLIB
> 
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
> 
> Major mode: C/*l
> 
> Minor modes in effect:
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> 
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
> 
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> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 118009 7881)
>  (symbols 48 9308 1)
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>  (string-bytes 1 1038142)
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