1. 21 Sep, 2015 1 commit
  2. 11 Sep, 2015 1 commit
  3. 02 Sep, 2015 2 commits
  4. 19 Aug, 2015 1 commit
  5. 18 Aug, 2015 4 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray: Test for correctly handling conflict on array metadata · 9752178c
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      e.g. on .shape
      9752178c
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: ZBlk._p_invalidate() can be called more than once, in particular in case of conflicts · 800c14a9
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      When there is a conflict (on any object, but on ZBlk in particular) ZODB
      machinery calls its ._p_invalidate() twice:
      
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/tests/test_filezodb.py", line 661, in test_bigfile_filezodb_vs_conflicts
          tm2.commit()    # this should raise ConflictError and stay at 11 state
        File ".../transaction/_manager.py", line 111, in commit
          return self.get().commit()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 271, in commit
          self._commitResources()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 414, in _commitResources
          self._cleanup(L)
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 426, in _cleanup
          rm.abort(self)
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 436, in abort
          self._abort()
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 479, in _abort
          self._cache.invalidate(oid)
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 148, in _p_invalidate
          traceback.print_stack()
      
      and
      
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/tests/test_filezodb.py", line 661, in test_bigfile_filezodb_vs_conflicts
          tm2.commit()    # this should raise ConflictError and stay at 11 state
        File ".../transaction/_manager.py", line 111, in commit
          return self.get().commit()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 271, in commit
          self._commitResources()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 416, in _commitResources
          self._synchronizers.map(lambda s: s.afterCompletion(self))
        File ".../transaction/weakset.py", line 59, in map
          f(elt)
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 416, in <lambda>
          self._synchronizers.map(lambda s: s.afterCompletion(self))
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 831, in _storage_sync
          self._flush_invalidations()
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 539, in _flush_invalidations
          self._cache.invalidate(invalidated)
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 148, in _p_invalidate
          traceback.print_stack()
      
      i.e. first invalidation is done by commit cleanup:
      
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/transaction/blob/1.4.4/transaction/_transaction.py#L414
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L479
      
      and then Connection.afterCompletion() flushes invalidation again:
      
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/transaction/blob/1.4.4/transaction/_transaction.py#L416
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L833
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L539
      
      If there was no conflict - there will be no ConflictError raised and
      thus no Transaction._cleanup() done in its ._commitResources() ->
      invalidation called only once. But with ConflictError - it is twice.
      
      Adjust ZBlk._p_invalidate() not to delve into real invalidation more
      than once - else we will fail, as ZBlk._v_zfile becomes unbound after
      invalidation done the first time.
      800c14a9
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray: Test for ZBigArray invalidation via usual attribute, e.g. .shape · e6bea85f
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      All is currently handled correctly, but an observation is made that upon
      such invalidation we through away ._v_fileh i.e. we through away whole
      data cache just because an array was resized.
      e6bea85f
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Note that even LivePersistent goes to GHOST state on invalidation · 48b2bb74
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      LivePersistent can go to ghost state, because invalidation cannot be
      ignored, i.e. they indicate the object has been changed externally.
      
      This does not break our logic for ZBigFile and ZBigArray as
      invalidations can happen only at transaction boundary, so during the
      course of transaction those classes are guaranteed to stay uptodate and
      thus not loose ._v_file and ._v_fileh (which is the reason they inherit
      from LivePersistent).
      
      it is ok to loose ._v_file and ._v_fileh at transaction boundary and
      become ghost - those objects will be recreated upon going back uptodate
      and will stay alive again during the whole transaction window.
      
      We care only not to loose e.g. ._v_fileh inside transaction, because
      loosing that data manager and thus data it manages inside transaction
      can break synchronization logic and forget changed-through-mmap data.
      48b2bb74
  6. 17 Aug, 2015 5 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Fix typos · 26d5b35e
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      26d5b35e
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Do not hold reference to ZBigFileH indefinitely in Connection.onOpenCallback · 059c71e1
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      If we do - ZBigFileH objects just don't get garbage collected, and
      sooner or later this way it leaks enough filedescriptors so that main
      zope loop breaks:
      
          Traceback (most recent call last):
            File ".../bin/runzope", line 194, in <module>
              sys.exit(Zope2.Startup.run.run())
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 26, in run
              starter.run()
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 105, in run
              Lifetime.loop()
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Lifetime/__init__.py", line 43, in loop
              lifetime_loop()
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Lifetime/__init__.py", line 53, in lifetime_loop
              asyncore.poll(timeout, map)
            File ".../parts/python2.7/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 145, in poll
              r, w, e = select.select(r, w, e, timeout)
          ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()
      
          $ lsof -p <runzope-pid> |grep ramh | wc -l
          950
      
      So continuing 64d1f40b (bigfile/zodb: Monkey-patch for ZODB.Connection
      to support callback on .open()) let's change the implementation to use
      WeakSet for callbacks list.
      
      Yes, because weakref to bound methods release immediately, we give up
      flexibility to subscribe to arbitrary callbacks. If it become an issue,
      something like WeakMethod from py3 or recipes from the net how to do it
      are there.
      059c71e1
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      Drop support for ZODB < 3.10 · 105ab1c7
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ZODB 3.10.4 was released almost 4 years ago, and contains significant
      change how ghost objects coming from DB are initially setup.
      105ab1c7
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile: ZODB -> BigFileH invalidate propagation · 92bfd03e
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Continuing theme from the previous patch, here is propagation of
      invalidation messages from ZODB to BigFileH memory.
      
      The use-case here is that e.g. one fileh mapping was created in one
      connection, another in another, and after doing changes in second
      connection and committing there, the first fileh has to invalidate
      appropriate already-loaded pages, so its next transaction won't work
      with stale data.
      
      To do it, we hook into ZBlk._p_invalidate() and propagate the
      invalidation message to ZBigFile which then notifies all
      opened-through-it ZBigFileH to invalidate a page.
      
      ZBlk -> ZBigFile lookup is done without storing backpointer in ZODB -
      instead, every time ZBigFile touches ZBlk object (and thus potentially
      does GHOST -> Live transition to it), we (re-)bind it back to ZBigFile.
      Since ZBigFile is the only class that works with ZBlk objects it is safe
      to do so.
      
      For ZBigFile to notify "all-opened-through-it" ZBigFileH, a weakset is
      introduced to track them.
      
      Otherwise the real page invalidation work is done by virtmem (see
      previous patch).
      92bfd03e
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/virtmem: Client API to invalidate a fileh page · cb779c7b
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      FileH is a handle representing snapshot of a file. If, for a pgoffset,
      fileh already has loaded page, but we know the content of the file has
      changed externally after loading has been done, we need to propagate to
      fileh that such-and-such page should be invalidated (and reloaded on
      next access).
      
      This patch introduces
      
          fileh_invalidate_page(fileh, pgoffset)
      
      to do just that.
      
      In the next patch we'll use this facility to propagate invalidations of
      ZBlk ZODB objects to virtmem subsystem.
      
      NOTE
      
      Since invalidation removes "dirtiness" from a page state, several
      subsequent invalidations can make a fileh completely non-dirty
      (invalidating all dirty page). Previously fileh->dirty was just a one
      bit, so we needed to improve how we track dirtiness.
      
      One way would be to have a dirty list for fileh pages and operate on
      that. This has advantage to even optimize dirty pages processing like
      fileh_dirty_writeout() where we currently scan through all fileh pages
      just to write only PAGE_DIRTY ones.
      
      Another simpler way is to make fileh->dirty a counter and maintain that.
      
      Since we are going to move virtmem subsystem back into the kernel, here,
      a simpler less-intrusive approach is used.
      cb779c7b
  7. 12 Aug, 2015 4 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: ZODB.Connection can migrate between threads on close/open and we have to care · c7c01ce4
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Intro
      -----
      
      ZODB maintains pool of opened-to-DB connections. For each request Zope
      opens 1 connection and, after request handling is done, returns the
      connection back to ZODB pool (via Connection.close()). The same
      connection will be opened again for handling some future next request at
      some future time. This next open can happen in different-from-first
      request worker thread.
      
      TransactionManager  (as accessed by transaction.{get,commit,abort,...})
      is thread-local, that is e.g. transaction.get() returns different
      transaction for threads T1 and T2.
      
      When _ZBigFileH hooks into txn_manager to get a chance to run its
      .beforeCompletion() when transaction.commit() is run, it hooks into
      _current_ _thread_ transaction manager.
      
      Without unhooking on connection close, and circumstances where
      connection migrates to different thread this can lead to
      dissynchronization between ZBigFileH managing fileh pages and Connection
      with ZODB objects. And even to data corruption, e.g.
      
          T1              T2
      
          open
          zarray[0] = 11
          commit
          close
      
                          open                # opens connection as closed in T1
          open
                          zarray[0] = 21
          commit
                          abort
      
          close           close
      
      Here zarray[0]=21 _will_ be committed by T1 as part of T1 transaction -
      because when T1 does commit .beforeCompletion() for zarray is invoked,
      sees there is dirty data and propagate changes to zodb objects in
      connection for T2, joins connection for T2 into txn for T1, and then txn
      for t1 when doing two-phase-commit stores modified objects to DB ->
      oops.
      
      ----------------------------------------
      
      To prevent such dissynchronization _ZBigFileH needs to be a DataManager
      which works in sync with the connection it was initially created under -
      on connection close, unregister from transaction_manager, and on
      connection open, register to transaction manager in current, possibly
      different, thread context. Then there won't be incorrect
      beforeCompletion() notification and corruption.
      
      This issue, besides possible data corruption, was probably also exposing
      itself via following ways we've seen in production (everywhere
      connection was migrated from T1 to T2):
      
      1. Exception ZODB.POSException.ConnectionStateError:
              ConnectionStateError('Cannot close a connection joined to a transaction',)
              in <bound method Cleanup.__del__ of <App.ZApplication.Cleanup instance at 0x7f10f4bab050>> ignored
      
           T1          T2
      
                       modify zarray
                       commit/abort    # does not join zarray to T2.txn,
                                       # because .beforeCompletion() is
                                       # registered in T1.txn_manager
      
           commit                      # T1 invokes .beforeCompletion()
           ...                         # beforeCompletion() joins ZBigFileH and zarray._p_jar (=T2.conn) to T1.txn
           ...                         # commit is going on in progress
           ...
           ...         close           # T2 thinks request handling is done and
           ...                         # and closes connection. But T2.conn is
           ...                         # still joined to T1.txn
      
      2. Traceback (most recent call last):
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 121, in storeblk
             def storeblk(self, blk, buf):   return self.zself.storeblk(blk, buf)
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 220, in storeblk
             zblk._v_blkdata = bytes(buf)    # FIXME does memcpy
           File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 857, in setstate
             raise ConnectionStateError(msg)
         ZODB.POSException.ConnectionStateError: Shouldn't load state for 0x1f23a5 when the connection is closed
      
         Similar to "1", but close in T2 happens sooner, so that when T1 does
         the commit and tries to store object to database, Connection refuses to
         do the store:
      
           T1          T2
      
                       modify zarray
                       commit/abort
      
           commit
           ...         close
           ...
           ...
           . obj.store()
           ...
           ...
      
      3. Traceback (most recent call last):
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 121, in storeblk
             def storeblk(self, blk, buf):   return self.zself.storeblk(blk, buf)
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 221, in storeblk
             zblk._p_changed = True          # if zblk was already in DB: _p_state -> CHANGED
           File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 979, in register
             self._register(obj)
           File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 989, in _register
             self.transaction_manager.get().join(self)
           File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 220, in join
             Status.ACTIVE, Status.DOOMED, self.status))
         ValueError: expected txn status 'Active' or 'Doomed', but it's 'Committing'
      
        ( storeblk() does zblk._p_changed -> Connection.register(zblk) ->
          txn.join() but txn is already committing
      
          IOW storeblk() was invoked with txn.state being already 'Committing' )
      
          T1          T2
      
                      modify obj      # this way T2.conn joins T2.txn
                      modify zarray
      
          commit                      # T1 invokes .beforeCompletion()
          ...                         # beforeCompletion() joins only _ZBigFileH to T1.txn
          ...                         # (because T2.conn is already marked as joined)
          ...
          ...         commit/abort    # T2 does commit/abort - this touches only T2.conn, not ZBigFileH
          ...                         # in particular T2.conn is now reset to be not joined
          ...
          . tpc_begin                 # actual active commit phase of T1 was somehow delayed a bit
          . tpc_commit                # when changes from RAM propagate to ZODB objects associated
          .  storeblk                 # connection (= T2.conn !) is notified again,
          .   zblk = ...              # wants to join txn for it thinks its transaction_manager,
                                      # which when called from under T1 returns *T1* transaction manager for
                                      # which T1.txn is already in state='Committing'
      
      4. Empty transaction committed to NEO
      
         ( different from doing just transaction.commit() without changing
           any data - a connection was joined to txn, but set of modified
           object turned out to be empty )
      
         This is probably a race in Connection._register when both T1 and T2
         go to it at the same time:
      
         https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L988
      
         def _register(self, obj=None):
              if self._needs_to_join:
                  self.transaction_manager.get().join(self)
                  self._needs_to_join = False
      
          T1                          T2
      
                                      modify zarray
          commit
          ...
          .beforeCompletion           modify obj
          . if T2.conn.needs_join      if T2.conn.needs_join      # race here
          .   T2.conn.join(T1.txn)       T2.conn.join(T2.txn)     # as a result T2.conn joins both T1.txn and T2.txn
          .
          commit finishes             # T2.conn registered-for-commit object list is now empty
      
                                      commit
                                       tpc_begin
                                        storage.tpc_begin
                                       tpc_commit
                                        # no object stored, because for-commit-list is empty
      
      /cc @jm, @klaus, @Tyagov, @vpelletier
      c7c01ce4
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Monkey-patch for ZODB.Connection to support callback on .open() · 64d1f40b
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ZODB.Connection has support for calling callbacks on .close() but not on
      .open() . We'll need to hook into both Connection open/close process in the
      next patch (for _ZBigFileH to stay in sync with Connection state).
      
      NOTE
      
      on-open  callbacks are setup once and fire many times on every open,
      on-close callbacks are setup once and fire only once on next close.
      
      The reason for this is that on-close callbacks are useful for scheduling
      current connection cleanup, after its processing is done. But on-open
      callback is for future connection usage, which is generally not related
      to current connection.
      
      /cc @jm, @vpelletier
      64d1f40b
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      bigarray/zodb: Forgot to close DB in tests · 070aeaa9
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ( without dbclose, next test will not be able to open database - will
        timeout on open on waiting for FileStorage lock )
      070aeaa9
  8. 09 Aug, 2015 1 commit
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/py: Teach storeblk() how to correctly propagate traceback on error · 6da5172e
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Previously we were limited to printing traceback starting down from just
      storeblk() via explicit PyErr_PrintEx() - because pybuf was attached to
      memory which could go away right after return from C function - so we
      had to destroy that object for sure, not letting any traceback to hold a
      reference to it.
      
      This turned out to be too limiting and not showing full context where
      errors happen.
      
      So do the following trick: before returning, reattach pybuf to empty
      region at NULL, and this way we don't need to worry about pybuf pointing
      to memory which can go away -> thus instead of printing exception locally
      - just return it the usual way it is done with C api in Python.
      
      NOTE In contrast to PyMemoryViewObject, PyBufferObject definition is not
      public, so to support Python2 - had to copy its definition to PY2 compat
      header.
      
      NOTE2 loadblk() is not touched - the loading is done from sighandler
      context, which simulates as if it work in separate python thread, so it
      is leaved as is for now.
      6da5172e
  9. 06 Aug, 2015 8 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/virtmem: Big Virtmem lock · d53271b9
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      At present several threads running can corrupt internal virtmem
      datastructures (e.g. ram->lru_list, fileh->pagemap, etc).
      
      This can happen even if we have zope instances only with 1 worker thread
      - because there are other "system" thread, and python garbage collection
      can trigger at any thread, so if a virtmem object, e.g. VMA or FileH was
      there sitting at GC queue to be collected, their collection, and thus
      e.g. vma_unmap() and fileh_close() will be called from
      different-from-worker thread.
      
      Because of that virtmem just has to be aware of threads not to allow
      internal datastructure corruption.
      
      On the other hand, the idea of introducing userspace virtual memory
      manager turned out to be not so good from performance and complexity
      point of view, and thus the plan is to try to move it back into the
      kernel. This way it does not make sense to do a well-optimised locking
      implementation for userspace version.
      
      So we do just a simple single "protect-all" big lock for virtmem.
      
      Of a particular note is interaction with Python's GIL - any long-lived
      lock has to be taken with GIL released, because else it can deadlock:
      
          t1  t2
      
          G
          V   G
         !G   V
          G
      
      so we introduce helpers to make sure the GIL is not taken, and to retake
      it back if we were holding it initially.
      
      Those helpers (py_gil_ensure_unlocked / py_gil_retake_if_waslocked) are
      symmetrical opposites to what Python provides to make sure the GIL is
      locked (via PyGILState_Ensure / PyGILState_Release).
      
      Otherwise, the patch is more-or-less straightforward application for
      one-big-lock to protect everything idea.
      d53271b9
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      lib/utils: X- versions for pthread_mutex_{lock,unlock} · 78cbf2a0
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Mutex lock/unlock should not fail if mutex was correctly initialized/used.
      78cbf2a0
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile: Simple test that we can handle GC from-under sighandler · 786d418d
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      And specifically that GC'ed object __del__ calls into virtmem
      (vma_dealloc and fileh_dealloc) again.
      
      NOTE not sure it is a good idea to do GC from under sighandle, but
           currently it happens in practice, because we did not cared to
           protect against it.
      786d418d
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/virtmem: When restoring SIGSEGV, don't change procmask for other signals · d7c33cd7
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      We factored out SIGSEGV block/restore from fileh_dirty_writeout() to all
      functions in cb7a7055 (bigfile/virtmem: Block/restore SIGSEGV in
      non-pagefault-handling function). The restoration however just sets
      whole thread sigmask.
      
      It could be possible that between block/restore calls procmask for other
      signals could be changed, and this way - setting procmask directly - we
      will overwrite them.
      
      So be careful, and when restoring SIGSEGV mask, touch mask bit for only
      that signal.
      
      ( we need xsigismember helper to get this done, which is also introduced
        in this patch )
      d7c33cd7
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      lib/utils: pthread_sigmask() returns error directly, not in errno · 8fa9af7f
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      The mistake was there from the beginning - from 3e5e78cd (lib/utils:
      Small C utilities we'll use).
      8fa9af7f
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      lib/bug: BUGerr(err) - like BUGe() but takes error code explicitly · ec6ecd4e
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      We'll need this for function which return error not in errno - e.g.
      pthread_sigmask().
      ec6ecd4e
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      bigfile/virtmem: Block/restore SIGSEGV in non-pagefault-handling function · cb7a7055
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Non on-pagefault code should not access any not-mmapped memory.
      
      Here we just refactor the code we already had to block/restore
      SIGSEGV from fileh_dirty_writeout() and use it in all functions called
      from non-pagefaulting context, as promised.
      
      This way, if there is an error in virtmem implementation which
      incorrectly accesses prepared for BigFile maps memory, we'll just die
      with coredump instead of trying to incorrectly handle the pagefault.
      cb7a7055
  10. 27 Jul, 2015 1 commit
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray: In-place .append() · 1245acc9
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ca064f75 (bigarray: Support resizing in-place) added O(1) in-place
      BigArray.resize() which makes possible for users to append data to BigArray in
      O(δ) time.
      
      But it is easy for people to make off-by-one mistakes when calculating
      indices for append.
      
      So provide a convenient BigArray.append() which simplifies the following
      
          A                               # ZBigArray e.g. of shape       (N, 3)
          values                          # ndarray to append of shape    (δ, 3)
          n, δ = len(A), len(values)      # length of A's major index  =N
          A.resize((n+δ, A.shape[1:]))    # add δ new entries ; now len(A) =N+δ
          A[-δ:] = values                 # set data for last new δ entries
      
      into
      
          A.append(values)
      
      /cc @klaus
      1245acc9
  11. 24 Jul, 2015 1 commit
  12. 26 Jun, 2015 4 commits
  13. 25 Jun, 2015 4 commits
  14. 12 Jun, 2015 1 commit
  15. 02 Jun, 2015 2 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/py: We cannot use memoryview for py2 even on 2.7.10 · a5511edf
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Because numpy.ndarray does not accept it as buffer= argument
      
          https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5935
      
      and our memcpy crashes.
      
      NOTE if we'll need to use memoryview, we can adapt our memcpy to use
      array() directly which works with memoryview, as outlined in the above
      numpy issue.
      a5511edf
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      bigarray: Teach it how to automatically convert to ndarray (if enough address space is available) · 00db08d6
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      BigArrays can be big - up to 2^64 bytes, and thus in general it is not
      possible to represent whole BigArray as ndarray view, because address
      space is usually smaller on 64bit architectures.
      
      However users often try to pass BigArrays to numpy functions as-is, and
      numpy finds a way to convert, or start converting, BigArray to ndarray -
      via detecting it as a sequence, and extracting elements one-by-one.
      Which is slooooow.
      
      Because of the above, we provide users a well-defined service:
      - if virtual address space is available - we succeed at creating ndarray
        view for whole BigArray, without delay and copying.
      - if not - we report properly the error and give hint how BigArrays have
        to be processed in chunks.
      
      Verifying that big BigArrays cannot be converted to ndarray also tests
      for behaviour and issues fixed in last 5 patches.
      
      /cc @Tyagov
      /cc @klaus
      00db08d6