Source file src/runtime/mem.go
1 // Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 package runtime 6 7 import "unsafe" 8 9 // OS memory management abstraction layer 10 // 11 // Regions of the address space managed by the runtime may be in one of four 12 // states at any given time: 13 // 1) None - Unreserved and unmapped, the default state of any region. 14 // 2) Reserved - Owned by the runtime, but accessing it would cause a fault. 15 // Does not count against the process' memory footprint. 16 // 3) Prepared - Reserved, intended not to be backed by physical memory (though 17 // an OS may implement this lazily). Can transition efficiently to 18 // Ready. Accessing memory in such a region is undefined (may 19 // fault, may give back unexpected zeroes, etc.). 20 // 4) Ready - may be accessed safely. 21 // 22 // This set of states is more than strictly necessary to support all the 23 // currently supported platforms. One could get by with just None, Reserved, and 24 // Ready. However, the Prepared state gives us flexibility for performance 25 // purposes. For example, on POSIX-y operating systems, Reserved is usually a 26 // private anonymous mmap'd region with PROT_NONE set, and to transition 27 // to Ready would require setting PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE. However the 28 // underspecification of Prepared lets us use just MADV_FREE to transition from 29 // Ready to Prepared. Thus with the Prepared state we can set the permission 30 // bits just once early on, we can efficiently tell the OS that it's free to 31 // take pages away from us when we don't strictly need them. 32 // 33 // This file defines a cross-OS interface for a common set of helpers 34 // that transition memory regions between these states. The helpers call into 35 // OS-specific implementations that handle errors, while the interface boundary 36 // implements cross-OS functionality, like updating runtime accounting. 37 38 // sysAlloc transitions an OS-chosen region of memory from None to Ready. 39 // More specifically, it obtains a large chunk of zeroed memory from the 40 // operating system, typically on the order of a hundred kilobytes 41 // or a megabyte. This memory is always immediately available for use. 42 // 43 // sysStat must be non-nil. 44 // 45 // Don't split the stack as this function may be invoked without a valid G, 46 // which prevents us from allocating more stack. 47 // 48 //go:nosplit 49 func sysAlloc(n uintptr, sysStat *sysMemStat, vmaName string) unsafe.Pointer { 50 sysStat.add(int64(n)) 51 gcController.mappedReady.Add(int64(n)) 52 p := sysAllocOS(n, vmaName) 53 54 // When using ASAN leak detection, we must tell ASAN about 55 // cases where we store pointers in mmapped memory. 56 if asanenabled { 57 lsanregisterrootregion(p, n) 58 } 59 60 return p 61 } 62 63 // sysUnused transitions a memory region from Ready to Prepared. It notifies the 64 // operating system that the physical pages backing this memory region are no 65 // longer needed and can be reused for other purposes. The contents of a 66 // sysUnused memory region are considered forfeit and the region must not be 67 // accessed again until sysUsed is called. 68 func sysUnused(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) { 69 gcController.mappedReady.Add(-int64(n)) 70 sysUnusedOS(v, n) 71 } 72 73 // needZeroAfterSysUnused reports whether memory returned by sysUnused must be 74 // zeroed for use. 75 func needZeroAfterSysUnused() bool { 76 return needZeroAfterSysUnusedOS() 77 } 78 79 // sysUsed transitions a memory region from Prepared to Ready. It notifies the 80 // operating system that the memory region is needed and ensures that the region 81 // may be safely accessed. This is typically a no-op on systems that don't have 82 // an explicit commit step and hard over-commit limits, but is critical on 83 // Windows, for example. 84 // 85 // This operation is idempotent for memory already in the Prepared state, so 86 // it is safe to refer, with v and n, to a range of memory that includes both 87 // Prepared and Ready memory. However, the caller must provide the exact amount 88 // of Prepared memory for accounting purposes. 89 func sysUsed(v unsafe.Pointer, n, prepared uintptr) { 90 gcController.mappedReady.Add(int64(prepared)) 91 sysUsedOS(v, n) 92 } 93 94 // sysHugePage does not transition memory regions, but instead provides a 95 // hint to the OS that it would be more efficient to back this memory region 96 // with pages of a larger size transparently. 97 func sysHugePage(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) { 98 sysHugePageOS(v, n) 99 } 100 101 // sysNoHugePage does not transition memory regions, but instead provides a 102 // hint to the OS that it would be less efficient to back this memory region 103 // with pages of a larger size transparently. 104 func sysNoHugePage(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) { 105 sysNoHugePageOS(v, n) 106 } 107 108 // sysHugePageCollapse attempts to immediately back the provided memory region 109 // with huge pages. It is best-effort and may fail silently. 110 func sysHugePageCollapse(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) { 111 sysHugePageCollapseOS(v, n) 112 } 113 114 // sysFree transitions a memory region from any state to None. Therefore, it 115 // returns memory unconditionally. It is used if an out-of-memory error has been 116 // detected midway through an allocation or to carve out an aligned section of 117 // the address space. It is okay if sysFree is a no-op only if sysReserve always 118 // returns a memory region aligned to the heap allocator's alignment 119 // restrictions. 120 // 121 // sysStat must be non-nil. 122 // 123 // Don't split the stack as this function may be invoked without a valid G, 124 // which prevents us from allocating more stack. 125 // 126 //go:nosplit 127 func sysFree(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr, sysStat *sysMemStat) { 128 // When using ASAN leak detection, the memory being freed is 129 // known by the sanitizer. We need to unregister it so it's 130 // not accessed by it. 131 if asanenabled { 132 lsanunregisterrootregion(v, n) 133 } 134 135 sysStat.add(-int64(n)) 136 gcController.mappedReady.Add(-int64(n)) 137 sysFreeOS(v, n) 138 } 139 140 // sysFault transitions a memory region from Ready to Reserved. It 141 // marks a region such that it will always fault if accessed. Used only for 142 // debugging the runtime. 143 // 144 // TODO(mknyszek): Currently it's true that all uses of sysFault transition 145 // memory from Ready to Reserved, but this may not be true in the future 146 // since on every platform the operation is much more general than that. 147 // If a transition from Prepared is ever introduced, create a new function 148 // that elides the Ready state accounting. 149 func sysFault(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) { 150 gcController.mappedReady.Add(-int64(n)) 151 sysFaultOS(v, n) 152 } 153 154 // sysReserve transitions a memory region from None to Reserved. It reserves 155 // address space in such a way that it would cause a fatal fault upon access 156 // (either via permissions or not committing the memory). Such a reservation is 157 // thus never backed by physical memory. 158 // 159 // If the pointer passed to it is non-nil, the caller wants the 160 // reservation there, but sysReserve can still choose another 161 // location if that one is unavailable. 162 // 163 // NOTE: sysReserve returns OS-aligned memory, but the heap allocator 164 // may use larger alignment, so the caller must be careful to realign the 165 // memory obtained by sysReserve. 166 func sysReserve(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr, vmaName string) unsafe.Pointer { 167 p := sysReserveOS(v, n, vmaName) 168 169 // When using ASAN leak detection, we must tell ASAN about 170 // cases where we store pointers in mmapped memory. 171 if asanenabled { 172 lsanregisterrootregion(p, n) 173 } 174 175 return p 176 } 177 178 // sysMap transitions a memory region from Reserved to Prepared. It ensures the 179 // memory region can be efficiently transitioned to Ready. 180 // 181 // sysStat must be non-nil. 182 func sysMap(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr, sysStat *sysMemStat, vmaName string) { 183 sysStat.add(int64(n)) 184 sysMapOS(v, n, vmaName) 185 } 186