# 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.
* 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
* 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
Fixes a few places where Clang complains about Windows specific code,
and also uses macros supported by Clang on Windows. A few places
separating platform and compiler specific code, as MSVC and WIN32 were
used interchangably previously.
`load` does not load (`read` and `compare_exchange` do) so give it a
different name. For the cases where `ptr` was previously the pointer we
were guarding, rename it to `raw`.
