/* Copyright (c) 2011 Wildfire Games * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to * the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY * CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, * TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE * SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ /* * virtual memory interface. supercedes POSIX mmap; provides support for * large pages, autocommit, and specifying protection flags during allocation. */ #ifndef INCLUDED_SYSDEP_VM #define INCLUDED_SYSDEP_VM #include "lib/posix/posix_mman.h" // PROT_* namespace vm { // committing large pages (2 MiB) instead of regular 4 KiB pages can // increase TLB coverage and reduce misses for sequential access patterns. // however, small page TLBs have more entries, making them better suited // to random accesses. it may also take a long time to find/free up // contiguous regions of physical memory for large pages. applications // can express their preference or go along with the default, // which depends on several factors such as allocation size. enum PageType { kLarge, // use large if available kSmall, // always use small kDefault // heuristic }; /** * reserve address space and set the parameters for any later * on-demand commits. * * @param size desired number of bytes. any additional space * in the last page is also accessible. * @param commitSize [bytes] how much to commit each time. * larger values reduce the number of page faults at the cost of * additional internal fragmentation. must be a multiple of * largePageSize unless pageType == kSmall. * @param pageType chooses between large/small pages for commits. * @param prot memory protection flags for newly committed pages. * @return base address (aligned to the respective page size) or * 0 if address space/descriptor storage is exhausted * (an error dialog will also be raised). * must be freed via ReleaseAddressSpace. **/ LIB_API void* ReserveAddressSpace(size_t size, size_t commitSize = largePageSize, PageType pageType = kDefault, int prot = PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE); /** * release address space and decommit any memory. * * @param p a pointer previously returned by ReserveAddressSpace. * @param size is required by the POSIX implementation and * ignored on Windows. it also ensures compatibility with UniqueRange. **/ LIB_API void ReleaseAddressSpace(void* p, size_t size = 0); /** * map physical memory to previously reserved address space. * * @param address, size need not be aligned, but this function commits * any pages intersecting that interval. * @param pageType, prot - see ReserveAddressSpace. * @return whether memory was successfully committed. * * note: committing only maps virtual pages and does not actually allocate * page frames. Windows XP uses a first-touch heuristic - the page will * be taken from the node whose processor caused the fault. * therefore, worker threads should be the first to write to their memory. * * (this is surprisingly slow in XP, possibly due to PFN lock contention) **/ LIB_API bool Commit(uintptr_t address, size_t size, PageType pageType = kDefault, int prot = PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE); /** * unmap physical memory. * * @return whether the operation succeeded. **/ LIB_API bool Decommit(uintptr_t address, size_t size); /** * set the memory protection flags for all pages that intersect * the given interval. * the pages must currently be committed. * * @param prot memory protection flags: PROT_NONE or a combination of * PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE, PROT_EXEC. **/ LIB_API bool Protect(uintptr_t address, size_t size, int prot); /** * reserve address space and commit memory. * * @param size [bytes] to allocate. * @param pageType, prot - see ReserveAddressSpace. * @return zero-initialized memory aligned to the respective * page size. **/ LIB_API void* Allocate(size_t size, PageType pageType = kDefault, int prot = PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE); /** * decommit memory and release address space. * * @param p a pointer previously returned by Allocate. * @param size is required by the POSIX implementation and * ignored on Windows. it also ensures compatibility with UniqueRange. * * (this differs from ReleaseAddressSpace, which must account for * extra padding/alignment to largePageSize.) **/ LIB_API void Free(void* p, size_t size = 0); /** * install a handler that attempts to commit memory whenever a * read/write page fault is encountered. thread-safe. **/ LIB_API void BeginOnDemandCommits(); /** * decrements the reference count begun by BeginOnDemandCommit and * removes the page fault handler when it reaches 0. thread-safe. **/ LIB_API void EndOnDemandCommits(); LIB_API void DumpStatistics(); } // namespace vm #endif // #ifndef INCLUDED_SYSDEP_VM