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PageAllocator.map
pub fn map(n: usize, alignment: Alignment) ?[*]u8
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pub fn map(n: usize, alignment: Alignment) ?[*]u8 {
const page_size = std.heap.pageSize();
if (n >= maxInt(usize) - page_size) return null;
const alignment_bytes = alignment.toByteUnits();
if (native_os == .windows) {
var base_addr: ?*anyopaque = null;
var size: windows.SIZE_T = n;
const current_process = windows.GetCurrentProcess();
var status = ntdll.NtAllocateVirtualMemory(current_process, @ptrCast(&base_addr), 0, &size, .{ .COMMIT = true, .RESERVE = true }, .{ .READWRITE = true });
if (status == .SUCCESS and mem.isAligned(@intFromPtr(base_addr), alignment_bytes)) {
return @ptrCast(base_addr);
}
if (status == .SUCCESS) {
var region_size: windows.SIZE_T = 0;
_ = ntdll.NtFreeVirtualMemory(current_process, @ptrCast(&base_addr), ®ion_size, .{ .RELEASE = true });
}
const overalloc_len = n + alignment_bytes - page_size;
const page_aligned_len = mem.alignForward(usize, n, page_size);
base_addr = null;
size = overalloc_len;
status = ntdll.NtAllocateVirtualMemory(current_process, @ptrCast(&base_addr), 0, &size, .{ .RESERVE = true, .RESERVE_PLACEHOLDER = true }, .{ .NOACCESS = true });
if (status != .SUCCESS) return null;
const placeholder_addr = @intFromPtr(base_addr);
const aligned_addr = mem.alignForward(usize, placeholder_addr, alignment_bytes);
const prefix_size = aligned_addr - placeholder_addr;
if (prefix_size > 0) {
var prefix_base = base_addr;
var prefix_size_param: windows.SIZE_T = prefix_size;
_ = ntdll.NtFreeVirtualMemory(current_process, @ptrCast(&prefix_base), &prefix_size_param, .{ .RELEASE = true, .PRESERVE_PLACEHOLDER = true });
}
const suffix_start = aligned_addr + page_aligned_len;
const suffix_size = (placeholder_addr + overalloc_len) - suffix_start;
if (suffix_size > 0) {
var suffix_base = @as(?*anyopaque, @ptrFromInt(suffix_start));
var suffix_size_param: windows.SIZE_T = suffix_size;
_ = ntdll.NtFreeVirtualMemory(current_process, @ptrCast(&suffix_base), &suffix_size_param, .{ .RELEASE = true, .PRESERVE_PLACEHOLDER = true });
}
base_addr = @ptrFromInt(aligned_addr);
size = page_aligned_len;
status = ntdll.NtAllocateVirtualMemory(current_process, @ptrCast(&base_addr), 0, &size, .{ .COMMIT = true }, .{ .READWRITE = true });
if (status == .SUCCESS) {
return @ptrCast(base_addr);
}
base_addr = @as(?*anyopaque, @ptrFromInt(aligned_addr));
size = page_aligned_len;
_ = ntdll.NtFreeVirtualMemory(current_process, @ptrCast(&base_addr), &size, .{ .RELEASE = true });
return null;
}
const page_aligned_len = mem.alignForward(usize, n, page_size);
const max_drop_len = alignment_bytes -| page_size;
const overalloc_len = page_aligned_len + max_drop_len;
const maybe_unaligned_hint, const hint = blk: {
if (!enable_hints) break :blk .{ null, null };
const maybe_unaligned_hint = @atomicLoad(@TypeOf(addr_hint), &addr_hint, .unordered);
// we'll begin doing our hinting from there.
if (maybe_unaligned_hint == null) break :blk .{ null, null };
// Aligning hint does not use mem.alignForward, because it asserts that there will be no overflow.
const hint: ?[*]align(page_size_min) u8 = @ptrFromInt(switch (stack_direction) {
.down => ((@intFromPtr(maybe_unaligned_hint) -% page_aligned_len) & ~(alignment_bytes - 1)) -% max_drop_len,
.up => (@intFromPtr(maybe_unaligned_hint) +% (alignment_bytes - 1)) & ~(alignment_bytes - 1),
});
break :blk .{ maybe_unaligned_hint, hint };
};
const slice = posix.mmap(
hint,
overalloc_len,
.{ .READ = true, .WRITE = true },
.{ .TYPE = .PRIVATE, .ANONYMOUS = true },
-1,
0,
) catch return null;
const result_ptr = mem.alignPointer(slice.ptr, alignment_bytes).?;
// that the range of memory we were provided had a proper alignment in it
// somewhere. The extra bytes could be at the beginning, or end, or both.
const drop_len = result_ptr - slice.ptr;
if (drop_len != 0) posix.munmap(slice[0..drop_len]);
const remaining_len = overalloc_len - drop_len;
if (remaining_len > page_aligned_len) posix.munmap(@alignCast(result_ptr[page_aligned_len..remaining_len]));
if (enable_hints) {
const new_hint: [*]align(page_size_min) u8 = @alignCast(result_ptr + switch (stack_direction) {
.up => page_aligned_len,
.down => 0,
});
_ = @cmpxchgStrong(@TypeOf(addr_hint), &addr_hint, maybe_unaligned_hint, new_hint, .monotonic, .monotonic);
}
return result_ptr;
}