[petsc-dev] MatCreateSubMatrices in parallel with n=0 on a process causes memory leak

[Hong]

Brad:
You must call MatDestroySubMatrices(), not MatDestroyMatrices().
See petsc/src/mat/examples/tests/ex54.c

I'll add it to the help menu of MatCreateSubMatrices().

Hong

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> In PyLith we call MatCreateSubMatrices() and MatDestroyMatrices() with
> potentially different numbers of submatrices on each process. If each
> process has a nonzero number of submatrices things appear to be working
> fine. If a process has zero submatrices, I am getting a memory leak on that
> process (as reported by -malloc_dump). I did not get this behavior with
> PETSc 3.7.2 and earlier with MatGetSubMatrices() and MatDestroyMatrices().
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> Do I need to do something special when calling MatCreateSubMatrices() or
> MatDestroyMatrices() when the number of submatrices on a process is zero?
>
> The log with the petsc log summary and malloc dump output is attached.
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
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