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diff --git a/src/arena/arena.go b/src/arena/arena.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35b2fbd --- /dev/null +++ b/src/arena/arena.go @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. +// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style +// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. + +//go:build goexperiment.arenas + +/* +The arena package provides the ability to allocate memory for a collection +of Go values and free that space manually all at once, safely. The purpose +of this functionality is to improve efficiency: manually freeing memory +before a garbage collection delays that cycle. Less frequent cycles means +the CPU cost of the garbage collector is incurred less frequently. + +This functionality in this package is mostly captured in the Arena type. +Arenas allocate large chunks of memory for Go values, so they're likely to +be inefficient for allocating only small amounts of small Go values. They're +best used in bulk, on the order of MiB of memory allocated on each use. + +Note that by allowing for this limited form of manual memory allocation +that use-after-free bugs are possible with regular Go values. This package +limits the impact of these use-after-free bugs by preventing reuse of freed +memory regions until the garbage collector is able to determine that it is +safe. Typically, a use-after-free bug will result in a fault and a helpful +error message, but this package reserves the right to not force a fault on +freed memory. That means a valid implementation of this package is to just +allocate all memory the way the runtime normally would, and in fact, it +reserves the right to occasionally do so for some Go values. +*/ +package arena + +import ( + "internal/reflectlite" + "unsafe" +) + +// Arena represents a collection of Go values allocated and freed together. +// Arenas are useful for improving efficiency as they may be freed back to +// the runtime manually, though any memory obtained from freed arenas must +// not be accessed once that happens. An Arena is automatically freed once +// it is no longer referenced, so it must be kept alive (see runtime.KeepAlive) +// until any memory allocated from it is no longer needed. +// +// An Arena must never be used concurrently by multiple goroutines. +type Arena struct { + a unsafe.Pointer +} + +// NewArena allocates a new arena. +func NewArena() *Arena { + return &Arena{a: runtime_arena_newArena()} +} + +// Free frees the arena (and all objects allocated from the arena) so that +// memory backing the arena can be reused fairly quickly without garbage +// collection overhead. Applications must not call any method on this +// arena after it has been freed. +func (a *Arena) Free() { + runtime_arena_arena_Free(a.a) + a.a = nil +} + +// New creates a new *T in the provided arena. The *T must not be used after +// the arena is freed. Accessing the value after free may result in a fault, +// but this fault is also not guaranteed. +func New[T any](a *Arena) *T { + return runtime_arena_arena_New(a.a, reflectlite.TypeOf((*T)(nil))).(*T) +} + +// MakeSlice creates a new []T with the provided capacity and length. The []T must +// not be used after the arena is freed. Accessing the underlying storage of the +// slice after free may result in a fault, but this fault is also not guaranteed. +func MakeSlice[T any](a *Arena, len, cap int) []T { + var sl []T + runtime_arena_arena_Slice(a.a, &sl, cap) + return sl[:len] +} + +// Clone makes a shallow copy of the input value that is no longer bound to any +// arena it may have been allocated from, returning the copy. If it was not +// allocated from an arena, it is returned untouched. This function is useful +// to more easily let an arena-allocated value out-live its arena. +// T must be a pointer, a slice, or a string, otherwise this function will panic. +func Clone[T any](s T) T { + return runtime_arena_heapify(s).(T) +} + +//go:linkname reflect_arena_New reflect.arena_New +func reflect_arena_New(a *Arena, typ any) any { + return runtime_arena_arena_New(a.a, typ) +} + +//go:linkname runtime_arena_newArena +func runtime_arena_newArena() unsafe.Pointer + +//go:linkname runtime_arena_arena_New +func runtime_arena_arena_New(arena unsafe.Pointer, typ any) any + +// Mark as noescape to avoid escaping the slice header. +// +//go:noescape +//go:linkname runtime_arena_arena_Slice +func runtime_arena_arena_Slice(arena unsafe.Pointer, slice any, cap int) + +//go:linkname runtime_arena_arena_Free +func runtime_arena_arena_Free(arena unsafe.Pointer) + +//go:linkname runtime_arena_heapify +func runtime_arena_heapify(any) any |