Since we anticipate address_t not carrying provenance on CHERI, but
rather being vaddr_t there, it doesn't make sense to offer conversion
back to a provenance-carrying pointer.
Thankfully, there is not much to be done here: the uses were few and
could be replaced with the vocabulary of other pointer operations in
ds/address.h
Just always work with pointers using the functions defined in
ds/address.h. This more obviously preserves provenance through the
chain of reasoning. Note that there is still risk of malloc() being
used as an amplification oracle on CHERI, but there's no additional risk
from this change.
Rename the external_address into external_pointer.
It is important, in test_tasks_f, that the store of the size to the
allocated block be made visible to other processors before the store of
the pointer itself. Otherwise, other cores are justified in reading
junk.
This manifests on PowerPC as tripping the "Deallocating with incorrect
size supplied" assertion in alloc.h:/check_size because the value read
from the allocated block may not be a size but rather an internal queue
pointer, which is implausibly large, as sizes go.
* Fix sized delete of nullptr
The core snmalloc code assumes if you know the size, then it is not
nullptr. However, the C++ delete operator can be called with nullptr.
This change checks for that case.
* Improved malloc style tests
Added comprehensive testing of realloc, and other minor improvements
to reporting errors.
* Fix realloc resizing for large sizeclasses.
The rounding by sizeclass was incorrect for large allocation. This fixes
that.
* Ensure alloc_size is committed
There is an awkward interaction between alloc_size and
committing only what is requested. If the user assumes
everything up to alloc_size is available, then we need to
either store the more precise size for alloc_size to return
or commit the whole 2^n range, so that alloc_size stays simple.
This changes to just make the whole range committed.
In the future, we might want to store a more precise size, so
that the allocation can be sized more precisely.
* Reduce size of objects.
* Don't require 16-byte CAS on x86.
We only need to CAS 2 pointers, which is always possible on x86.
* Fix the way the Image variable is referenced.
* Replace failOnStderr by `set -eo pipefail` on Linux.
The x86 image doesn't have clangformat, which causes cmake to print a
warning on the stderr. Exit codes should be enough to detect failure.
* Use x86 images from snmallocciteam.
* clang-format
This change does two things
* correctly passes the template parameters into the callbacks fixing
correct zeroing of memory.
* By making the callbacks more specific it removes the warnings that GCC
was generating.
* Use C++17 inline statics
This leads to better codegen in GCC, and fixes some linking issues in OE.
* Detect GCC and OE combination and fall-back to lock based ABA.
* clangformat
* Defensive code for alloc/dealloc during TLS teardown
If an allocation or deallocation occurs during TLS teardown, then it is
possible for a new allocator to be created and then this is leaked. On
the mimalloc-bench mstressN benchmark this was observed leading to a
large memory leak.
This fix, detects if we are in the TLS teardown phase, and if so,
the calls to alloc or dealloc must return the allocator once they have
perform the specific operation.
Uses a separate variable to represent if a thread_local's destructor has
run already. This is used to detect thread teardown to put the
allocator into a special slow path to avoid leaks.
* Added some printing first operation to track progress
* Improve error messages on posix
Flush errors, print assert details, and present stack traces.
* Detect incorrect use of pool.
* Clang format.
* Replace broken LL/SC implementation
LL/SC implementation was broken, this replaces it with
a locking implementation. Changes the API to support LL/SC
for future implementation on ARM.
* Improve TLS teardown.
* Make std::function fully inlined.
* Factor out PALLinux stack trace.
* Add checks for leaking allocators.
* Add release build of Windows Clang
* Remote dealloc refactor.
* Improve remote dealloc
Change remote to count down to 0, so fast path does not need a constant.
Use signed value so that branch does not depend on addition.
* Inline remote_dealloc
The fast path of remote_dealloc is sufficiently compact that it can be
inlined.
* Improve fast path in Slab::alloc
Turn the internal structure into tail calls, to improve fast path.
Should be no algorithmic changes.
* Refactor initialisation to help fast path.
Break lazy initialisation into two functions, so it is easier to codegen
fast paths.
* Minor tidy to statically sized dealloc.
* Refactor semi-slow path for alloc
Make the backup path a bit faster. Only algorithmic change is to delay
checking for first allocation. Otherwise, should be unchanged.
* Test initial operation of a thread
The first operation a new thread takes is special. It results in
allocating an allocator, and swinging it into the TLS. This makes
this a very special path, that is rarely tested. This test generates
a lot of threads to cover the first alloc and dealloc operations.
* Correctly handle reusing get_noncachable
* Fix large alloc stats
Large alloc stats aren't necessarily balanced on a thread, this changes
to tracking individual pushs and pops, rather than the net effect
(with an unsigned value).
* Fix TLS init on large alloc path
* Add Bump ptrs to allocator
Each allocator has a bump ptr for each size class. This is no longer
slab local.
Slabs that haven't been fully allocated no longer need to be in the DLL
for this sizeclass.
* Change to a cycle non-empty list
This change reduces the branching in the case of finding a new free
list. Using a non-empty cyclic list enables branch free add, and a
single branch in remove to detect the empty case.
* Update differences
* Rename first allocation
Use needs initialisation as makes more sense for other scenarios.
* Use a ptrdiff to help with zero init.
* Make GlobalPlaceholder zero init
The GlobalPlaceholder allocator is now a zero init block of memory.
This removes various issues for when things are initialised. It is made read-only
to we detect write to it on some platforms.
* Increase Remote batch size
The remote batch size has not changed since the fast path optimisations.
The optimisations mean we are checking the queue considerably less
often, so the batch should be larger. This has a dramatic improvement
on performance on a few of the mimalloc microbenchmarks.
It is set to 4096 as this should cover the worse case scenario of only
remote deallocation at 16 bytes for the 2^16 slab size.
* Fixes for Clang-10
Clang-10 outputs a warning for calling alignment intrinsic with an
alignment of 1. At add constexpr to handle this case.
