// // 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 #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "absl/base/attributes.h" #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 // 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 (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 . // // 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 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* 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 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; private: virtual void UnusedKeyMethod(); // Dummy key method to avoid weak vtable. }; // 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) {} void Write(const char* buf, int len) override; 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_