This PR provides a templated parameter to the allocation routines. This can be used to add special behaviour in
both the successful allocation behaviour, and in the failing
to allocate cases.
The intent of this is two enable two future features
* set_new_handler - so that the failure case doesn't just set ENOMEM, and return nullptr. But can handle both the Windows and C++ versions of (_)set_new_handler.
* The success handler can be used to add checking, zeroing and in the future storing precise size information in metadata for each allocation.
* Factor out explicit Config type
Instead of using snmalloc::Alloc::Config, expose snmalloc::Config, which is then used to derive the allocator type.
* Move globalalloc to front end.
* Remove unneed template parameter from global snmalloc functions.
* Remove SNMALLOC_PASS_THROUGH
VeronaRT now has an abstraction layer which can easily replace the allocator.
Having such a complex integration still in snmalloc does not make sense.
* Take some global functions off of local alloc.
* Drop comparison overloads on atomic Capptr.
Performing a comparison on two atomic ptr is a complex operation, and should not be implicit. The memory model order and such things needs to be considered by the caller.
* Remove function_ref and use templates
The implementation prefers to use templates over the function_ref. This now only exists in the Pal for a currently unused feature.
* Removing function_ref reduces stl needs.
* Remove use of __is_convertible to support older g++
* Inline function that is only used once.
* Remove unused function
* Restrict ThreadAlloc usage to globalalloc
This commit introduces various inline functions on snmalloc:: that perform allocation/deallocation using the thread local allocator.
They remove all usage from a particular test.
* Move cheri checks to own file.
* Refactor is_owned checks.
* Move alloc_size and check_size to globalalloc.
* Minor simplification of dealloc path
* Fix up is_owned to take a config
* Improve usage of scoped allocator.
* Handle Config_ in globalalloc.
When building test/perf/singlethread to use the system allocator, gcc
(Debian 14.2.0-3) correctly sees that we were using the value of a
pointer after it had been passed to the privileged free(), which is UB.
Flip the check and dealloc, so that we query the set of pointers we're
tracking first, using the pointer while the allocation is still live.
This provide a way to configure snmalloc to provide per object meta-data that is out of band. This can be used to provide different mitigations on top of snmalloc, such as storing memory tags in a compressed form, or provide a miracle pointer like feature.
This also includes a couple of TSAN fixes as it wasn't fully on in CI.
* Rename to use Config, rather than StateHandle/Globals/Backend
* Make Backend a type on Config that contains the address space management implementation
* Make Ranges part of the Backend configuration, so we can reuse code for different ways of managing memory
* Pull the common chains of range definitions into separate files for reuse.
* Move PagemapEntry to CommonConfig
* Expose Pagemap through backend, so frontend doesn't see Pagemap directly
* Remove global Pal and use DefaultPal, where one is not pass explicitly.
Co-authored-by: David Chisnall <davidchisnall@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Nathaniel Filardo <105816689+nwf-msr@users.noreply.github.com>
See src/snmalloc/README.md for an explanation of the layers.
Some other cleanups on the way:
Fine-grained stats support is now gone.
It's been broken for two years, it depends on iostream (which then
causes linker failures with libstdc++) and it's collecting the wrong
stats for the new design. After discussion with @mjp41, it's better to
remove it and introduce new stats support later, rather than keep broken
code in the main branch.
Tracing was controlled with a preprocessor macro, now there's also a
CMake option.
This is the set of changes required for snmalloc2 to be usable by the
process sandboxing code and incorporates some API changes that reduce
the amount of code required to embed snmalloc. Highlights:
- Merge the config and back-end classes.
- Everything in config is now global (all methods are static)
- The GlobalState class is gone (all global state is managed by global
methods on the config class)
- LocalState is now a member of the config class, all methods are
instance methods.
- Not every configuration needs to use the lazy initialisation hooks.
They now need to be provided only if they are used. If the
configuration does not provide an `ensure_init` method, it is not
called. If it does not provide an `is_initialised` method then the
global initialisation state is not checked.
- There is now an `snmalloc::Options` class that default initialises
itself to the default behaviour. Every configuration must provide a
`constexpr` instance of this class. Each flag can be separately
overridden and new flags can be added without breaking any existing
API consumers.
The config classes are moved into the backend directory.
# Pagemap
The Pagemap now stores all the meta-data for the object allocation. The meta-data in the pagemap is effectively a triple of the sizeclass, the remote allocator, and a pointer to a 64 byte block of meta-data for this chunk of memory. By storing the pointer to a block, it allows the pagemap to handle multiple slab sizes without branching on the fast path. There is one entry in the pagemap per 16KiB of address space, but by using the same entry in the pagemap for 4 adjacent entries, then we can treat a 64KiB range can be treated as a single slab of allocations.
This change also means there is almost no capability amplification required by the implementation on CHERI for finding meta-data. The only amplification is required, when we change the way a chunk is used to a size of object allocation.
# Backend
There is a second major aspect of the refactor that there is now a narrow API that abstracts the Pagemap, PAL and address space management. This should better enable the compartmentalisation and makes it easier to produce alternative backends for various research directions. This is a template parameter that can be used to specialised by the front-end in different ways.
# Thread local state
The thread local state has been refactored into two components, one (called 'localalloc') that is stored directly in the TLS and is constant initialised, and one that is allocated in the address space (called 'coreallloc') which is lazily created and pooled.
# Difference
This removes Superslabs/Medium slabs as there meta-data is now part of the pagemap.
* Replace time measuring macro
The DO_TIME macro was used originally to get performance numbers. The
macro makes tests hard to debug. This commit replaces it with a proper
C++ class with destructor.
* Bug fix
If the superslab meta data is large, then the calculation for the
sizeclasses that could use the short slab was incorrect. This fixes
that calculation.
Co-authored-by: Nathaniel Wesley Filardo <nfilardo@microsoft.com>
* Add concept of natural alignment to tests.
snmalloc naturally aligns blocks very heavily, so that
the largest power-of-two in the rounded size is the alignment.
This checks that in the test, and provides a method for
finding the natural alignment of a block.
* Improve USE_MALLOC to provide alignment
snmalloc provides a lot of alginment guarantees. This ensures that when
we pass through to the system allocator we still get those alignment
guarantees.
The commit also fixes the tests to work with USE_MALLOC, and builds a
set of unit tests for ctest to check behaviour.
Made the API so that get always returns an initialised Alloc*. Added
new fast path that doesn't perform checking, but can lead to very slow
behaviour if called and reused.
By caching the result of the first call to ThreadAlloc::get(), we were
always hitting a code path that should be hit once per thread in normal
operation.
