From time to time people keep trying to use wendelin.core with
dtype=object arrays and get segfaults without anything in logs or
whatever else.

Wendelin.core does not support it, because in case of dtype=object elements are
really pointers and data for each object is stored in separate place in RAM
with different per-object size.

As we are memory-mapping arrays this won't work. It also does not
essentially work for numpy.memmap for the same reason:

    (z4+numpy) kirr@mini:~/src/wendelin$ dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.dat bs=128 count=1
    1+0 records in
    1+0 records out
    128 bytes copied, 0.000209873 s, 610 kB/s
    (z4+numpy) kirr@mini:~/src/wendelin$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=random.dat bs=128 count=1
    1+0 records in
    1+0 records out
    128 bytes copied, 0.000225726 s, 567 kB/s
    (z4+numpy) kirr@mini:~/src/wendelin$ ipython
    ...

    In [1]: import numpy as np

    In [2]: np.memmap('zero.dat', dtype=np.object)
    Out[2]:
    memmap([None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None,
           None, None, None, None, None], dtype=object)

    In [3]: np.memmap('random.dat', dtype=np.object)
    Out[3]: Segmentation fault

So let's clarify this to users via explicitly raising exception when
BigArray with non-appropriate dtype is trying to be created with
descriptive explanation also logged.

/reviewed-on !4

In 2.0 transaction made an incomatible change to require description to
always be unicode, not string. ZODB3 was not updated.

Reference: https://github.com/zopefoundation/transaction/pull/32

to avoid bugging on `pybuf->ob_refcnt != 1`when an exception was internally raised & caught somewhere in loadblk() implementation.

Details are in 9aa6a5d7, 61b18a40. The last patch also resorts to buffer unpinning when nothing helps (please see details about unpinning there).

Fixes: nexedi/wendelin.core#7

/cc @Tyagov @klaus @jm
/reviewed-on nexedi/wendelin.core!3

to avoid deadlocks.

Description is in the last patch.

Fixes: #6

/cc @Tyagov, @klaus, @jm
/reviewed-on !2

There are situations possible when both exc_traceback and frame objects are
garbage-collected, but frame's f_locals remains not collected because e.g. it
was explicitly added to somewhere. We cannot detect such cases (dicts are not
listed in referrers).

So if nothing helped, as a last resort, unpin pybuf from its original
memory and make it point to zero-sized NULL.

In general this is not strictly correct to do as other buffers &
memoryview objects created from pybuf, copy its pointer on
initialization and thus pybuf unpinning won't adjust them.

However we require BigFile implementations to make sure not to use
such-created objects, if any, after return from loadblk().

Finally fixes #7

This code was added in 6da5172e (bigfile/py: Teach storeblk() how to
correctly propagate traceback on error) to unpin a storeblk pybuf to not
care whether its refcount == 1 - this way to be able to propagate python
error upper not caring whether pybuf is still referenced or not.

9aa6a5d7 (bigfile/py: Teach loadblk() to automatically break reference
cycles to pybuf) adds a note that such unpinning is not strictly
correct: becuase of other buffer objects were created from pybuf - they
are copying pointers on initialization and unpinning pybuf won't adjust
them.

However for loadblk codepath it turned out (see next patch) it is not
completely possible to unreference pybuf in all cases. For this reason
loadblk will be falling back to unpinning too.

As a preparatory step move common code to shared functions.

It turns out some code wants to store tracebacks e.g. for further
logging/whatever. This way GC won't help to free up references to pybuf.
However if pybuf remain referenced only from calling frames, we can
change there reference to pybuf to a stub object "<pybuf>" and this way
remove the reference.

With added test but without loadblk changes the failure would be as:

    pybigfile_loadblk WARN: pybuf->ob_refcnt != 1 even after GC:
    pybuf (ob_refcnt=2):    <read-write buffer ptr 0x7fae4911f000, size 2097152 at 0x7fae4998cef0>
    pybuf referrers:        [<frame object at 0x556daff41aa0>]		<-- NOTE
    bigfile/_bigfile.c:613 pybigfile_loadblk        BUG!

As comments being removed states "on python3 exception state is cleared
upon exiting from `except`" - so let's move exc_* fetching under except
clause - this way we'll get correct exception objects on both py2 and py3.

We'll need it in next patch to get and analyze this list.

Instead of only printing "BUG" let's print information about objects
which still refer to pybuf - to help debugging.

For example with the following artificial pybuf leak

```
diff --git a/bigfile/tests/test_basic.py b/bigfile/tests/test_basic.py
index c737621..f5e057a 100644
--- a/bigfile/tests/test_basic.py
+++ b/bigfile/tests/test_basic.py
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ def test_basic():

 # test that python exception state is preserved across pagefaulting
 def test_pagefault_savestate():
+    zzz = []
     class BadFile(BigFile):
         def loadblk(self, blk, buf):
             # simulate some errors in-between to overwrite thread exception
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ def loadblk(self, blk, buf):
             # which result in holding additional ref to buf, but loadblk caller
             # will detect and handle this situation via garbage-collecting
             # above cycle.
+            zzz.append(buf)

             self.loadblk_run = 1
```

it dies this way:

    bigfile/_bigfile.c:567 pybigfile_loadblk WARN: pybuf->ob_refcnt != 1 even after GC:
    pybuf (ob_refcnt=2):    <read-write buffer ptr 0x7f08d3e88000, size 2097152 at 0x7f08d48b7070>
    pybuf referrers:        [[<read-write buffer ptr 0x7f08d3e88000, size 2097152 at 0x7f08d48b7070>]]
    bigfile/_bigfile.c:573 pybigfile_loadblk        BUG!

Because otherwise we bug on pybuf->ob_refcnt != 1.

Such cycles might happen if inside loadblk implementation an exception
is internally raised and then caught even in deeply internal function
which does not receive pybuf as argument or by some other way:

After

	_, _, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()

there is a reference loop created:

	exc_traceback
	  |        ^
	  |        |
	  v     .f_localsplus
	 frame

and since exc_traceback object holds reference to deepest frame, which via f_back
will be holding reference to frames up to frame with pybuf argument, it
will result in additional reference to pybuf being held until the above
cycle is garbage collected.

So to solve the problem while leaving loadblk, if pybuf->ob_refcnt !=
let's first do garbage-collection, and only then recheck left
references. After GC reference-loops created by exceptions should go
away.

NOTE PyGC_Collect() (C way to call gc.collect()) always performs
    GC - it is not affected by gc.disable() which disables only
    _automatic_ garbage collection.

NOTE it turned out out storeblk logic to unpin pybuf (see
    6da5172e "bigfile/py: Teach storeblk() how to correctly propagate
    traceback on error") is flawed, because when e.g. creating memoryview
    from pybuf internal pointer is copied and then clearing original buf
    does not result in clearing the copy.

NOTE it is ok to do gc.collect() from under sighandler - at least we are
    already doing it for a long time via running non-trivial python code
    which for sure triggers automatic GC from time to time (see also
    786d418d "bigfile: Simple test that we can handle GC from-under
    sighandler" for the reference)

Fixes: nexedi/wendelin.core#7

In the next patch we will need to use this from several places.

Like with loadblk (see f49c11a3 "bigfile/virtmem: Do loadblk() with
virtmem lock released" for the reference) storeblk() calls are
potentially slow and external code that serves the call can take other
locks in addition to virtmem lock taken by virtmem subsystem.
If that "other locks" are also taken before external code calls e.g.
with fileh_invalidate_page() in different codepath - a deadlock can happen:

      T1                  T2

      commit              invalidation-from-server received
      V -> storeblk
                          Z   <- ClientStorage.invalidateTransaction()
      Z -> zeo.store
                          V   <- fileh_invalidate_page (of unrelated page)

The solution to avoid deadlock, like for loadblk case, is to call storeblk()
with virtmem lock released.

However unlike loadblk which can be invoked at any time, storeblk is
invoked at commit time only so for storeblk case we handle rules for making
sure virtmem stays consistent after virtmem lock is retaken differently:

1. We disallow several parallel writeouts for one fileh. This way dirty
   pages handling logic can not mess up. This restriction is also
   consistent with ZODB 2 phase commit protocol where for a transaction
   commit logic is invoked/handled from only 1 thread.

2. For the same reason we disallow discard while writeout is in
   progress. This is also consistent with ZODB 2 phase commit protocol
   where txn.tpc_abort() is not expected to be called at the same time
   with txn.commit().

3. While writeout is in progress, for that fileh we disallow pages
   modifications and pages invalidations - because both operations would
   change at least fileh dirty pages list which is iterated over by
   writeout code with releasing/retaking the virtmem lock. By
   disallowing them we make sure fileh dirty pages list stays constant
   during whole fileh writeout.

   This restrictions are also consistent with ZODB commit semantics:

   - while an object is being stored into ZODB it is not expected it
     will be further modified or explicitly invalidated by client via
     ._p_invalidate()

   - server initiated invalidations come into effect only at transaction
     boundaries - when new transaction is started, not during commit time.

Also since now storeblk is called with virtmem lock released, for buffer
to store we no longer can use present page mapping in some vma directly,
because while virtmem lock is released that mappings can go away.

Fixes: #6

bigfile/tests/thread: Don't invalidate exactly same page to test general virtmem deadlock on loadblk

The main deadlock described in f49c11a3 (bigfile/virtmem: Do loadblk()
with virtmem lock released) (V,Z in T1; Z,V in T2) can happen if in T2 V
is taken for whatever reason - e.g. for invalidating completely
unrelated page to what is being loaded in T1.

For invalidation of the same page we have explicit separate
test_thread_load_vs_invalidate() which verifies how loadblk handles this
situation.

This patch prepares general test_thread_lock_vs_virtmem_lock() to also
test V vs Z deadlock for storeblk() case - when it will be called with
virtmem lock released: for storeblk it will be forbidden by virtmem
rules to invalidate pages of fileh for which writeout is in progress.

Updates: nexedi/wendelin.core#6

This allows writeout code not to scan whole pagemap to find dirty pages
to write out, which should be faster.

But more importantly iterating whole pagemap on writeout would become
unsafe, when in upcoming patch storeblk() will be called with virt_lock
released: because there pagemap could be modified e.g. due to processing
other read accesses.

So maintain fileh->dirty_pages list and use it when we need to go
through dirtied pages.

Updates: nexedi/wendelin.core#6

Currently fileh_dirty_writeout() writes page via storeblk() in order -
- those with lower ->f_pgoffset are stored first.

This happens because current fileh_dirty_writeout() iterates whole
pagemap to find dirty pages and pagemap iteration is ordered by
f_pgoffset.

In upcoming patch we'll rework writeout code not to iterate through
whole pagemap, but only through dirty pages. However the property that
pages are emitted in canonical order is useful, so let's make sure via
tests this will stay preserved:

In mkdirty2() we modify pages in 2, 0 order, but the latter code checks
(via storeblk_trace()) they were actually stored in 0, 2 order.

Just update to latest CCAN for it to be a fresh one.

13c0c17c (bigfile/zodb: Format #1 which is optimized for small changes)
used BTree to organize ZBlk1 block's chunks and for loadblkdata() added
"TODO we are missing to free internal BTree structures on data load".

#3 besides other
things showed that even when we deactivate ZData objects, we are still
keeping them as ghosts occupying memory and the same for IOBucket
objects.

This all happens because there is no proper way to deactivate whole
btree - including internal buckets objects. And since internal buckets
are not deactivated, they stay in picklecache and thus hold a reference
to ZData objects and ZData objects in turn, even if explicitly
deactivated, stay in memory.

We can fix this all via implementing whole-btree deactivation procedure.

To do so we need to iterate over all btree buckets recursively, but
unfortunately there is no BTree API to access/iterate btree's buckets.
We can however still get reference to first top-level buckets via
gc.get_referents(btree) and then scan buckets further without hacks.

gc.get_referents(btree) is a hack, but

- it works in O(1)  (we only get pointers from btree, not scanning all
  gcable objects and deducing them)
- it works reliable if we filter out non-interesting objects.

So in the end it works.

Before the patch loading more and more ZBlk1 data with objgraph
instrumentation was showing itself like

    #                                    Nobj        δ
    wendelin.bigfile.file_zodb.ZData     7168      +512
    BTrees.IOBTree.IOBucket               238       +17
    BTrees.IOBTree.IOBTree                 14        +1

and after this patch we now have

    BTrees.IOBTree.IOBTree                 14        +1

we cannot remove that "IOBTree + 1", since ZBlk1 is holding direct
reference on it (via .chunktab) and we have to keep ZBlk1 live with
._v_zfile and ._v_zblk set for invalidation to work. "+1 IOBtree" is
however small - 144 bytes per 2M (= 0.006%) so we can neglect that the
same way we neglect keeping ZBlk1 staying live for each block.

The following started to appear after recent gcc upgrade on my host:

bigfile/virtmem.c: In function `vma_on_pagefault':
bigfile/virtmem.c:696:9: warning: implicit declaration of function `usleep' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
         usleep(10000);  // XXX with 1000 uslepp still busywaits

This updates and fixes 487e5226 (setup: specify setuptools location
explicitly when calling make.) to use @kazuhiko original idea to
propagate only setuptools location. The reason is - when propagating
whole sys.path things break under tox tests:

---- 8< ----
========================================================================== test session starts ===========================================================================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.12, pytest-2.9.2, py-1.4.31, pluggy-0.3.1
rootdir: /home/kirr/src/wendelin/release/wendelin.core, inifile:
collected 33 items

bigarray/tests/test_arrayzodb.py .......
bigarray/tests/test_basic.py ........
bigfile/tests/test_basic.py ....
bigfile/tests/test_filefile.py .
bigfile/tests/test_filezodb.py ........
bigfile/tests/test_thread.py ....
lib/tests/test_calc.py .

======================================================================= 33 passed in 14.14 seconds =======================================================================
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -g -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -std=gnu99 -fplan9-extensions -Wno-declaration-after-statement -Wno-error=declaration-after-statement  -Iinclude -I3rdparty/ccan -I3rdparty/include   bigfile/tests/tfault.c lib/bug.c lib/utils.c 3rdparty/ccan/ccan/tap/tap.c  -o bigfile/tests/tfault.t
t/tfault-run bigfile/tests/tfault.t faultr on_pagefault
ok 1 - !pagefault_init()
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
  File ".../wendelin.core/.tox/py27-ZODB3-zblk0-fs-numpy110/lib/python2.7/encodings/__init__.py", line 123
    raise CodecRegistryError,\
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Current thread 0x00007f9b80024780 (most recent call first):
t/tfault-run: line 28: 21521 Аварийный останов         (core dumped) gdb -q -batch $tfault core > core.info
E: can't gdb(core)
Makefile:189: ошибка выполнения рецепта для цели «faultr.tfault»
make: *** [faultr.tfault] Ошибка 1
rm bigfile/tests/test_virtmem.t bigfile/tests/test_ram.t bigfile/tests/tfault.t bigfile/tests/test_pagemap.t
error: Failed to execute `make test`
ERROR: InvocationError: '.../wendelin.core/.tox/py27-ZODB3-zblk0-fs-numpy110/bin/python setup.py test'
________________________________________________________________________________ summary _________________________________________________________________________________
ERROR:   py27-ZODB3-zblk0-fs-numpy110: commands failed
---- 8< ----

What happens here is:

- gdb is used in automated tests
- gdb is linked with libpython3.5
- tox is currently running tests with python27
- setup.py sets PYTHONPATH to whole path from python27
- gdb, upon starting, initializes python runtime, which tries to load
  py27 modules under py35 -> oops.

So propagating only setuptools location practically solves the issue for
now, but still there is potential risk that in future, there will be
other modules put in the same location as setuptools (location is parent
dir of a module/package) which python tries to load on startup and which
might be incompatible between 2 & 3.

Thus not setting PYTHONPATH at all - e.g. creating environments
virtualenv way - would be better, but buildout fundamentally works the
other way. We can not also use -c 'buildout sys.path hack' in $PYTHON
itself, as $PYTHON is used in general way inside Makefile.

So let the hack with setuptools location in PYTHONPATH stay there until
it practically works.

If wendelin.core is built under buildout and setuptools exists only in
buildout environment, 'python setup.py' called inside make will fail
without this change.

    Building 'wendelin.core'
    Running easy_install:
    "/path/to/python2.7" "-c" "import sys; sys.path[0:0] = ['/path/to/setuptools-19.6.2-py2.7.egg']; from setuptools.command.easy_install import main; main()"...
    path_list=['/path/to/setuptools-19.6.2-py2.7.egg']
    ...
    <<< setup.py: os.system('make %s PYTHON="%s"' % (target, sys.executable))
    ...
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/xxx/wendelin.core-0.6/3rdparty/ccan'
    /path/to/python2.7 setup.py ll_build_ext --inplace
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "setup.py", line 18, in <module>
        from setuptools import setup, Extension, Command, find_packages
    ImportError: No module named setuptools
    Makefile:40: recipe for target 'bigfile/_bigfile.so' failed
    make: *** [bigfile/_bigfile.so] Error 1
    error: Setup script exited with error: Failed to execute `make all`

[ @kirr: as a solution we are propagating whole python path via make.

  This should cover both setuptools case, and any other future potential
  "preloaded-by-buildout" egg. ]

/reviewed-on nexedi/wendelin.core!1

@kazuhiko reports that wendelin.core build is currently broken on Python 3.5.
Indeed it was:

    In file included from bigfile/_bigfile.c:37:0:
    ./include/wendelin/compat_py2.h: In function ‘_PyThreadState_UncheckedGetx’:
    ./include/wendelin/compat_py2.h:66:28: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘_Py_atomic_load_relaxed’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
         return (PyThreadState*)_Py_atomic_load_relaxed(&_PyThreadState_Current);
                                ^
    ./include/wendelin/compat_py2.h:66:53: error: ‘_PyThreadState_Current’ undeclared (first use in this function)
         return (PyThreadState*)_Py_atomic_load_relaxed(&_PyThreadState_Current);
                                                         ^
    ./include/wendelin/compat_py2.h:66:53: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
    ./include/wendelin/compat_py2.h:67:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
     }
     ^

The story here is that in 3.5 they decided to remove direct access to
_PyThreadState_Current and atomic implementations - because that might
semantically conflict with other headers implementing atomics - and
provide only access by function.

Starting from Python 3.5.2rc1 the function to get current thread state
without asserting it is !NULL - _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() - was added:

    https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/df858591

so for those python versions we can directly use it.

After the fix wendelin.core tox tests pass under all python2.7, python3.4 and python3.5.

More context here:

    https://bugs.python.org/issue26154
    https://bugs.python.org/issue25150

Fixes: nexedi/wendelin.core#1

_PyThreadState_Current_GET() is a function to get current python thread
state without asserting it is !NULL. It was added as part of d53271b9
(bigfile/virtmem: Big Virtmem lock)

We are going to adapt it to Python 3.5 (see next patch), so before doing
so move it to our compatibility place.

In the new place the name is _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet -- like such
function is named in Python 3.5 (again, see next patch).

Updates: nexedi/wendelin.core#1

Now that ZODB 5.0 eggs are starting to appear (see e.g. [1] for context)
let's limit ZODB4 test setup to actually install ZODB4, not 5.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zodb/P05S0pyUbAM

Upon @jp request.

The link is absolute URL, since the readme can be shown in a lot of
places (on lab.nexedi.com, on pypi, on github, etc...)

We might also change the link to demo_zbigarray.py to be absolute URL
because of pypi case in the future.

Since the beginning of pagemap (45af76e6 "bigfile/pagemap: specialized
{} uint64 -> void * mapping") we had a bug sitting in
__pagemap_for_each_leaftab() (non-leaf iterating logic behind
pagemap_for_each):

After entry to stack-down was found, we did not updated tailv[l]
accordingly. Thus if there are non-adjacent entries an entry could be
e.g. emitted many times:

     l 3  __down 0x7f79da1ee000
     tailv[4]: 0x7f79da1ee000
      -> tailv[4] 0x7f79da1ee000  __down 0x7f79da1ed000

     l 4  __down 0x7f79da1ed000
     tailv[5]: 0x7f79da1ed000
     h 5  l 5  leaftab: 0x7f79da1ed000      <--
      lvl 5  idx 169  page 0x55aa
    ok 9 - pagemap_for_each(0) == 21930

     l 5  __down (nil)
     tailv[4]: 0x7f79da1ee008
      -> tailv[4] 0x7f79da1ee008  __down 0x7f79da1ed000

     l 4  __down 0x7f79da1ed000
     tailv[5]: 0x7f79da1ed000
     h 5  l 5  leaftab: 0x7f79da1ed000      <--
      lvl 5  idx 169  page 0x55aa
    not ok 10 - pagemap_for_each(1) == 140724106500272

And many-time-emitted entries are not only incorrect, but can also lead
to not-handled segmentation faults in e.g. fileh_close():

    https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/wendelin.core/blob/v0.6-1-gb0b2c52/bigfile/virtmem.c#L179

    /* drop all pages (dirty or not) associated with this fileh */
    pagemap_for_each(page, &fileh->pagemap) {
        /* it's an error to close fileh to mapping of which an access is
         * currently being done in another thread */
        BUG_ON(page->state == PAGE_LOADING);
        page_drop_memory(page);
        list_del(&page->lru);                           <-- HERE
        bzero(page, sizeof(*page)); /* just in case */
        free(page);
    }

( because after first bzero of a page, the page is all 0 bytes including
  page->lru{.next,.prev} so on the second time when the same page is
  emitted by pagemap_for_each, list_del(&page->lru) will try to set
  page->lru.next = ... which will segfault. )

So fix it by properly updating tailv[l] while we scan/iterate current level.

NOTE

This applies only to non-leaf pagemap levels, as leaf level is scanned
with separate loop in pagemap_for_each. That's why we probably did not
noticed this earlier - up until now our usual workloads was to change
data in adjacent batches and that means adjacent pages.

Though today @Tyagov was playing with wendelin.core in some other way and
it uncovered the bug.

In the time when README.rst was initially introduced (58279ac7 "readme:
Initial draft") GitLab was not handling relative links well and it was
necessary to construct them properly by hand.

Nowdays GitLab automatically adds namespace and project and blob/ref/
prefix to relative URL link, so there is no need to specify them
manually.

Actually specifying the prefix manually makes URL invalid, as it becomes
something like

    https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/wendelin.core/blob/master/wendelin.core/blob/master/demo/demo_zbigarray.py

Fix it.

This continues c7750965 (changelog: Convert it to pretty rst) - without
.rst extension gitlab shows this file as plain text.

>= 1.6 was already using latest in 1.6 series, but >= 1.6.2 is more explicit.

Also: in 1.6.2 NEO switched from MySQL-python to mysqlclient:

    nexedi/neoppod@5f0c93f5

so we switch it too.

Namely

    1.8.x, 1.9.x -> 1.10.x -> 1.11.x

Just update to latest CCAN for it to be a fresh one.

Throught the modules we use there are no real updates, just a fix for
one warning in array_size.

For ZBlk1 we already compare ZData content about whether it was changed
compared to data already stored to DB, and do not store it twice if data
is the same.

However ZBlk itself is always marked as changed, if corresponding memory
page was dirtied. This results in transactions like

Trans #33915309 tid=03b6944919befeee time=2016-04-17 22:01:06.034237 offset=140320105842
    status=' ' user='...' description='...'
  # ... other parts, but no ZData here
  data #00002 oid=000000000026fc4c size=79 class=wendelin.bigfile.file_zodb.ZBlk1

where ZBlk1 is committed the same without necessity.

NOTE we cannot avoid committing ZBlk in all cases, because it is used to signal
    other DB clients that a ZBlk needs to be invalidated and this way associated
    fileh pages are invalidated too.

    This cannot work via ZData, because ZData don't have back-pointer to
    ZBlk1 or to corresponding zfile.

Starting from setuptools 19.4, more concrete from the following commit:

    https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/ebc54982

setuptools sorts namespaced packages .__path__ to be in sync with sys.path .
That however breaks for wendelin.core used from in-tree or installed in
development mode, because we are doing tricks in top-level import redirector
(see e870781d "Top-level in-tree import redirector"):

    (z+numpy.v2)kirr@teco:~/tmp/trashme/wendelin.core$ python -c 'import wendelin'
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "wendelin.py", line 39, in <module>
        __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2081, in declare_namespace
        _handle_ns(packageName, path_item)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2026, in _handle_ns
        _rebuild_mod_path(path, packageName, module)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2050, in _rebuild_mod_path
        orig_path.sort(key=position_in_sys_path)
      File "/home/kirr/src/wendelin/venv/z+numpy.v2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2045, in position_in_sys_path
        return sys_path.index(_normalize_cached(os.sep.join(parts)))
    ValueError: '/home/kirr/tmp/trashme' is not in list

Here wendelin.py added /home/kirr/tmp/trashme/wendelin.core to .__path__ and
setuptools' _handle_ns() wants to order that dir's parent in correspondence
with sys.path, but parent path is not there - oops.

We can workaround the problem, by first not initializing .__path__ and letting

    __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)

fully handle and initialize it, and only after it is done we make the
correction for wendelin modules located not under .../wendelin.core/wendelin/
but under .../wendelin.core/ .

Importing was tested to work with the fix with both setuptools 20.6.7 and older
setuptools 17.1.1, i.e. here we should not be breaking backward compatibility.

/reported-by @tatuya, @Camata, @Tyagov

/reviewed-on kirr/wendelin.core!1

Commit ab9ca2df (bigarray: Add support for FORTRAN ordering) added
ability to define array order, but there I made a mistake of not caring
about how previously-saved to DB arrays would be read back.

The thing is BigArray gained new data member ._order which is
automatically saved to DB thanks to ZBigArray inheriting from
Persistent; on load-from-db path we just read object state from DB,
which for ZBigArray is dict, and restore object attributes from it.

But for previously-saved data, obviously, there is no 'order' entry and thus
this way restored objects are restored not in full to current code expectations
and it can boom e.g. this way:

    zarray.resize((new_one,old_shape[1]))
  Module wendelin.bigarray, line 190, in resize
    self._init0(new_shape, self.dtype, order=self._order)
  AttributeError: 'ZBigArray' object has no attribute '_order'

Solution to fix is: on restore-from-DB path, see if a data member is not
present on restored object, and if it has default value in BigArray set it to
that.

( code to get function defaults is from
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12627118/get-a-function-arguments-default-value )

/cc @Tyagov, @klaus