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+//
+// Copyright 2017 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+//
+
+// Extra extensions exported by some malloc implementations. These
+// extensions are accessed through a virtual base class so an
+// application can link against a malloc that does not implement these
+// extensions, and it will get default versions that do nothing.
+//
+// NOTE FOR C USERS: If you wish to use this functionality from within
+// a C program, see malloc_extension_c.h.
+
+#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_MALLOC_EXTENSION_H_
+#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_MALLOC_EXTENSION_H_
+
+#include <atomic>
+#include <map>
+#include <memory>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <string>
+#include "absl/base/macros.h"
+#include "absl/base/port.h"
+namespace absl {
+namespace base_internal {
+
+class MallocExtensionWriter;
+
+// Interface to a pluggable system allocator.
+class SysAllocator {
+ public:
+ SysAllocator() {
+ }
+ virtual ~SysAllocator();
+
+ // Allocates "size"-byte of memory from system aligned with "alignment".
+ // Returns null if failed. Otherwise, the returned pointer p up to and
+ // including (p + actual_size -1) have been allocated.
+ virtual void* Alloc(size_t size, size_t *actual_size, size_t alignment) = 0;
+
+ // Get a human-readable description of the current state of the
+ // allocator. The state is stored as a null-terminated std::string in
+ // a prefix of buffer.
+ virtual void GetStats(char* buffer, int length);
+};
+
+// The default implementations of the following routines do nothing.
+// All implementations should be thread-safe; the current ones
+// (DebugMallocImplementation and TCMallocImplementation) are.
+class MallocExtension {
+ public:
+ virtual ~MallocExtension();
+
+ // Verifies that all blocks are valid. Returns true if all are; dumps
+ // core otherwise. A no-op except in debug mode. Even in debug mode,
+ // they may not do any checking except with certain malloc
+ // implementations. Thread-safe.
+ virtual bool VerifyAllMemory();
+
+ // Verifies that p was returned by new, has not been deleted, and is
+ // valid. Returns true if p is good; dumps core otherwise. A no-op
+ // except in debug mode. Even in debug mode, may not do any checking
+ // except with certain malloc implementations. Thread-safe.
+ virtual bool VerifyNewMemory(const void* p);
+
+ // Verifies that p was returned by new[], has not been deleted, and is
+ // valid. Returns true if p is good; dumps core otherwise. A no-op
+ // except in debug mode. Even in debug mode, may not do any checking
+ // except with certain malloc implementations. Thread-safe.
+ virtual bool VerifyArrayNewMemory(const void* p);
+
+ // Verifies that p was returned by malloc, has not been freed, and is
+ // valid. Returns true if p is good; dumps core otherwise. A no-op
+ // except in debug mode. Even in debug mode, may not do any checking
+ // except with certain malloc implementations. Thread-safe.
+ virtual bool VerifyMallocMemory(const void* p);
+
+ // If statistics collection is enabled, sets *blocks to be the number of
+ // currently allocated blocks, sets *total to be the total size allocated
+ // over all blocks, sets histogram[n] to be the number of blocks with
+ // size between 2^n-1 and 2^(n+1), and returns true. Returns false, and
+ // does not change *blocks, *total, or *histogram, if statistics
+ // collection is disabled.
+ //
+ // Note that these statistics reflect memory allocated by new, new[],
+ // malloc(), and realloc(), but not mmap(). They may be larger (if not
+ // all pages have been written to) or smaller (if pages have been
+ // allocated by mmap()) than the total RSS size. They will always be
+ // smaller than the total virtual memory size.
+ static constexpr int kMallocHistogramSize = 64;
+ virtual bool MallocMemoryStats(int* blocks, size_t* total,
+ int histogram[kMallocHistogramSize]);
+
+ // Get a human readable description of the current state of the malloc
+ // data structures. The state is stored as a null-terminated std::string
+ // in a prefix of "buffer[0,buffer_length-1]".
+ // REQUIRES: buffer_length > 0.
+ virtual void GetStats(char* buffer, int buffer_length);
+
+ // Outputs to "writer" a sample of live objects and the stack traces
+ // that allocated these objects. The output can be passed to pprof.
+ virtual void GetHeapSample(MallocExtensionWriter* writer);
+
+ // Outputs to "writer" the stack traces that caused growth in the
+ // address space size. The output can be passed to "pprof".
+ virtual void GetHeapGrowthStacks(MallocExtensionWriter* writer);
+
+ // Outputs to "writer" a fragmentation profile. The output can be
+ // passed to "pprof". In particular, the result is a list of
+ // <n,total,stacktrace> tuples that says that "total" bytes in "n"
+ // objects are currently unusable because of fragmentation caused by
+ // an allocation with the specified "stacktrace".
+ virtual void GetFragmentationProfile(MallocExtensionWriter* writer);
+
+ // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+ // Control operations for getting and setting malloc implementation
+ // specific parameters. Some currently useful properties:
+ //
+ // generic
+ // -------
+ // "generic.current_allocated_bytes"
+ // Number of bytes currently allocated by application
+ // This property is not writable.
+ //
+ // "generic.heap_size"
+ // Number of bytes in the heap ==
+ // current_allocated_bytes +
+ // fragmentation +
+ // freed memory regions
+ // This property is not writable.
+ //
+ // tcmalloc
+ // --------
+ // "tcmalloc.max_total_thread_cache_bytes"
+ // Upper limit on total number of bytes stored across all
+ // per-thread caches. Default: 16MB.
+ //
+ // "tcmalloc.current_total_thread_cache_bytes"
+ // Number of bytes used across all thread caches.
+ // This property is not writable.
+ //
+ // "tcmalloc.pageheap_free_bytes"
+ // Number of bytes in free, mapped pages in page heap. These
+ // bytes can be used to fulfill allocation requests. They
+ // always count towards virtual memory usage, and unless the
+ // underlying memory is swapped out by the OS, they also count
+ // towards physical memory usage. This property is not writable.
+ //
+ // "tcmalloc.pageheap_unmapped_bytes"
+ // Number of bytes in free, unmapped pages in page heap.
+ // These are bytes that have been released back to the OS,
+ // possibly by one of the MallocExtension "Release" calls.
+ // They can be used to fulfill allocation requests, but
+ // typically incur a page fault. They always count towards
+ // virtual memory usage, and depending on the OS, typically
+ // do not count towards physical memory usage. This property
+ // is not writable.
+ //
+ // "tcmalloc.per_cpu_caches_active"
+ // Whether tcmalloc is using per-CPU caches (1 or 0 respectively).
+ // This property is not writable.
+ // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ // Get the named "property"'s value. Returns true if the property
+ // is known. Returns false if the property is not a valid property
+ // name for the current malloc implementation.
+ // REQUIRES: property != null; value != null
+ virtual bool GetNumericProperty(const char* property, size_t* value);
+
+ // Set the named "property"'s value. Returns true if the property
+ // is known and writable. Returns false if the property is not a
+ // valid property name for the current malloc implementation, or
+ // is not writable.
+ // REQUIRES: property != null
+ virtual bool SetNumericProperty(const char* property, size_t value);
+
+ // Mark the current thread as "idle". This routine may optionally
+ // be called by threads as a hint to the malloc implementation that
+ // any thread-specific resources should be released. Note: this may
+ // be an expensive routine, so it should not be called too often.
+ //
+ // Also, if the code that calls this routine will go to sleep for
+ // a while, it should take care to not allocate anything between
+ // the call to this routine and the beginning of the sleep.
+ //
+ // Most malloc implementations ignore this routine.
+ virtual void MarkThreadIdle();
+
+ // Mark the current thread as "busy". This routine should be
+ // called after MarkThreadIdle() if the thread will now do more
+ // work. If this method is not called, performance may suffer.
+ //
+ // Most malloc implementations ignore this routine.
+ virtual void MarkThreadBusy();
+
+ // Attempt to free any resources associated with cpu <cpu> (in the sense
+ // of only being usable from that CPU.) Returns the number of bytes
+ // previously assigned to "cpu" that were freed. Safe to call from
+ // any processor, not just <cpu>.
+ //
+ // Most malloc implementations ignore this routine (known exceptions:
+ // tcmalloc with --tcmalloc_per_cpu_caches=true.)
+ virtual size_t ReleaseCPUMemory(int cpu);
+
+ // Gets the system allocator used by the malloc extension instance. Returns
+ // null for malloc implementations that do not support pluggable system
+ // allocators.
+ virtual SysAllocator* GetSystemAllocator();
+
+ // Sets the system allocator to the specified.
+ //
+ // Users could register their own system allocators for malloc implementation
+ // that supports pluggable system allocators, such as TCMalloc, by doing:
+ // alloc = new MyOwnSysAllocator();
+ // MallocExtension::instance()->SetSystemAllocator(alloc);
+ // It's up to users whether to fall back (recommended) to the default
+ // system allocator (use GetSystemAllocator() above) or not. The caller is
+ // responsible to any necessary locking.
+ // See tcmalloc/system-alloc.h for the interface and
+ // tcmalloc/memfs_malloc.cc for the examples.
+ //
+ // It's a no-op for malloc implementations that do not support pluggable
+ // system allocators.
+ virtual void SetSystemAllocator(SysAllocator *a);
+
+ // Try to release num_bytes of free memory back to the operating
+ // system for reuse. Use this extension with caution -- to get this
+ // memory back may require faulting pages back in by the OS, and
+ // that may be slow. (Currently only implemented in tcmalloc.)
+ virtual void ReleaseToSystem(size_t num_bytes);
+
+ // Same as ReleaseToSystem() but release as much memory as possible.
+ virtual void ReleaseFreeMemory();
+
+ // Sets the rate at which we release unused memory to the system.
+ // Zero means we never release memory back to the system. Increase
+ // this flag to return memory faster; decrease it to return memory
+ // slower. Reasonable rates are in the range [0,10]. (Currently
+ // only implemented in tcmalloc).
+ virtual void SetMemoryReleaseRate(double rate);
+
+ // Gets the release rate. Returns a value < 0 if unknown.
+ virtual double GetMemoryReleaseRate();
+
+ // Returns the estimated number of bytes that will be allocated for
+ // a request of "size" bytes. This is an estimate: an allocation of
+ // SIZE bytes may reserve more bytes, but will never reserve less.
+ // (Currently only implemented in tcmalloc, other implementations
+ // always return SIZE.)
+ // This is equivalent to malloc_good_size() in OS X.
+ virtual size_t GetEstimatedAllocatedSize(size_t size);
+
+ // Returns the actual number N of bytes reserved by tcmalloc for the
+ // pointer p. This number may be equal to or greater than the
+ // number of bytes requested when p was allocated.
+ //
+ // This routine is just useful for statistics collection. The
+ // client must *not* read or write from the extra bytes that are
+ // indicated by this call.
+ //
+ // Example, suppose the client gets memory by calling
+ // p = malloc(10)
+ // and GetAllocatedSize(p) returns 16. The client must only use the
+ // first 10 bytes p[0..9], and not attempt to read or write p[10..15].
+ //
+ // p must have been allocated by this malloc implementation, must
+ // not be an interior pointer -- that is, must be exactly the
+ // pointer returned to by malloc() et al., not some offset from that
+ // -- and should not have been freed yet. p may be null.
+ // (Currently only implemented in tcmalloc; other implementations
+ // will return 0.)
+ virtual size_t GetAllocatedSize(const void* p);
+
+ // Returns kOwned if this malloc implementation allocated the memory
+ // pointed to by p, or kNotOwned if some other malloc implementation
+ // allocated it or p is null. May also return kUnknownOwnership if
+ // the malloc implementation does not keep track of ownership.
+ // REQUIRES: p must be a value returned from a previous call to
+ // malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), memalign(), posix_memalign(),
+ // valloc(), pvalloc(), new, or new[], and must refer to memory that
+ // is currently allocated (so, for instance, you should not pass in
+ // a pointer after having called free() on it).
+ enum Ownership {
+ // NOTE: Enum values MUST be kept in sync with the version in
+ // malloc_extension_c.h
+ kUnknownOwnership = 0,
+ kOwned,
+ kNotOwned
+ };
+ virtual Ownership GetOwnership(const void* p);
+
+ // The current malloc implementation. Always non-null.
+ static MallocExtension* instance() {
+ InitModuleOnce();
+ return current_instance_.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
+ }
+
+ // Change the malloc implementation. Typically called by the
+ // malloc implementation during initialization.
+ static void Register(MallocExtension* implementation);
+
+ // Type used by GetProperties. See comment on GetProperties.
+ struct Property {
+ size_t value;
+ // Stores breakdown of the property value bucketed by object size.
+ struct Bucket {
+ size_t min_object_size;
+ size_t max_object_size;
+ size_t size;
+ };
+ // Empty unless detailed info was asked for and this type has buckets
+ std::vector<Bucket> buckets;
+ };
+
+ // Type used by GetProperties. See comment on GetProperties.
+ enum StatLevel { kSummary, kDetailed };
+
+ // Stores in *result detailed statistics about the malloc
+ // implementation. *result will be a map keyed by the name of
+ // the statistic. Each statistic has at least a "value" field.
+ //
+ // Some statistics may also contain an array of buckets if
+ // level==kDetailed and the "value" can be subdivided
+ // into different buckets for different object sizes. If
+ // such detailed statistics are not available, Property::buckets
+ // will be empty. Otherwise Property::buckets will contain
+ // potentially many entries. For each bucket b, b.value
+ // will count the value contributed by objects in the range
+ // [b.min_object_size, b.max_object_size].
+ //
+ // Common across malloc implementations:
+ // generic.bytes_in_use_by_app -- Bytes currently in use by application
+ // generic.physical_memory_used -- Overall (including malloc internals)
+ // generic.virtual_memory_used -- Overall (including malloc internals)
+ //
+ // Tcmalloc specific properties
+ // tcmalloc.cpu_free -- Bytes in per-cpu free-lists
+ // tcmalloc.thread_cache_free -- Bytes in per-thread free-lists
+ // tcmalloc.transfer_cache -- Bytes in cross-thread transfer caches
+ // tcmalloc.central_cache_free -- Bytes in central cache
+ // tcmalloc.page_heap_free -- Bytes in page heap
+ // tcmalloc.page_heap_unmapped -- Bytes in page heap (no backing phys. mem)
+ // tcmalloc.metadata_bytes -- Used by internal data structures
+ // tcmalloc.thread_cache_count -- Number of thread caches in use
+ //
+ // Debug allocator
+ // debug.free_queue -- Recently freed objects
+ virtual void GetProperties(StatLevel level,
+ std::map<std::string, Property>* result);
+ private:
+ static MallocExtension* InitModule();
+
+ static void InitModuleOnce() {
+ // Pointer stored here so heap leak checker will consider the default
+ // instance reachable, even if current_instance_ is later overridden by
+ // MallocExtension::Register().
+ ABSL_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED static MallocExtension* default_instance =
+ InitModule();
+ }
+
+ static std::atomic<MallocExtension*> current_instance_;
+};
+
+// Base class than can handle output generated by GetHeapSample() and
+// GetHeapGrowthStacks(). Use the available subclass or roll your
+// own. Useful if you want explicit control over the type of output
+// buffer used (e.g. IOBuffer, Cord, etc.)
+class MallocExtensionWriter {
+ public:
+ virtual ~MallocExtensionWriter() {}
+ virtual void Write(const char* buf, int len) = 0;
+ protected:
+ MallocExtensionWriter() {}
+ MallocExtensionWriter(const MallocExtensionWriter&) = delete;
+ MallocExtensionWriter& operator=(const MallocExtensionWriter&) = delete;
+};
+
+// A subclass that writes to the std::string "out". NOTE: The generated
+// data is *appended* to "*out". I.e., the old contents of "*out" are
+// preserved.
+class StringMallocExtensionWriter : public MallocExtensionWriter {
+ public:
+ explicit StringMallocExtensionWriter(std::string* out) : out_(out) {}
+ virtual void Write(const char* buf, int len) {
+ out_->append(buf, len);
+ }
+
+ private:
+ std::string* const out_;
+ StringMallocExtensionWriter(const StringMallocExtensionWriter&) = delete;
+ StringMallocExtensionWriter& operator=(const StringMallocExtensionWriter&) =
+ delete;
+};
+
+} // namespace base_internal
+} // namespace absl
+
+// The nallocx function allocates no memory, but it performs the same size
+// computation as the malloc function, and returns the real size of the
+// allocation that would result from the equivalent malloc function call.
+// Default weak implementation returns size unchanged, but tcmalloc overrides it
+// and returns rounded up size. See the following link for details:
+// http://www.unix.com/man-page/freebsd/3/nallocx/
+extern "C" size_t nallocx(size_t size, int flags);
+
+#ifndef MALLOCX_LG_ALIGN
+#define MALLOCX_LG_ALIGN(la) (la)
+#endif
+
+#endif // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_MALLOC_EXTENSION_H_