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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-08-03 16:11:01 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-08-03 16:11:01 +0200
commit5bc17330eb7667b96fee8baf3729c3310fa28b40 (patch)
treeac3204648c595d93ee2f3f84d53b04a987195400 /malloc
parente7516580ecabdc09861b5e38cec25db91331c3bc (diff)
downloadglibc-5bc17330eb7667b96fee8baf3729c3310fa28b40.tar.gz
elf: dl-minimal malloc needs to respect fundamental alignment
The dynamic linker currently uses __libc_memalign for TLS-related allocations. The goal is to switch to malloc instead. If the minimal malloc follows the ABI fundamental alignment, we can assume that malloc provides this alignment, and thus skip explicit alignment in a few cases as an optimization. It was requested on libc-alpha that MALLOC_ALIGNMENT should be used, although this results in wasted space if MALLOC_ALIGNMENT is larger than the fundamental alignment. (The dynamic linker cannot assume that the non-minimal malloc will provide an alignment of MALLOC_ALIGNMENT; the ABI provides _Alignof (max_align_t) only.)
Diffstat (limited to 'malloc')
-rw-r--r--malloc/malloc-internal.h53
-rw-r--r--malloc/malloc.c63
2 files changed, 53 insertions, 63 deletions
diff --git a/malloc/malloc-internal.h b/malloc/malloc-internal.h
index 98afd14040..a3df8c30ba 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc-internal.h
+++ b/malloc/malloc-internal.h
@@ -19,6 +19,59 @@
#ifndef _MALLOC_INTERNAL_H
#define _MALLOC_INTERNAL_H
+#include <malloc-machine.h>
+#include <malloc-sysdep.h>
+
+/* INTERNAL_SIZE_T is the word-size used for internal bookkeeping of
+ chunk sizes.
+
+ The default version is the same as size_t.
+
+ While not strictly necessary, it is best to define this as an
+ unsigned type, even if size_t is a signed type. This may avoid some
+ artificial size limitations on some systems.
+
+ On a 64-bit machine, you may be able to reduce malloc overhead by
+ defining INTERNAL_SIZE_T to be a 32 bit `unsigned int' at the
+ expense of not being able to handle more than 2^32 of malloced
+ space. If this limitation is acceptable, you are encouraged to set
+ this unless you are on a platform requiring 16byte alignments. In
+ this case the alignment requirements turn out to negate any
+ potential advantages of decreasing size_t word size.
+
+ Implementors: Beware of the possible combinations of:
+ - INTERNAL_SIZE_T might be signed or unsigned, might be 32 or 64 bits,
+ and might be the same width as int or as long
+ - size_t might have different width and signedness as INTERNAL_SIZE_T
+ - int and long might be 32 or 64 bits, and might be the same width
+
+ To deal with this, most comparisons and difference computations
+ among INTERNAL_SIZE_Ts should cast them to unsigned long, being
+ aware of the fact that casting an unsigned int to a wider long does
+ not sign-extend. (This also makes checking for negative numbers
+ awkward.) Some of these casts result in harmless compiler warnings
+ on some systems. */
+#ifndef INTERNAL_SIZE_T
+# define INTERNAL_SIZE_T size_t
+#endif
+
+/* The corresponding word size. */
+#define SIZE_SZ (sizeof (INTERNAL_SIZE_T))
+
+/* MALLOC_ALIGNMENT is the minimum alignment for malloc'ed chunks. It
+ must be a power of two at least 2 * SIZE_SZ, even on machines for
+ which smaller alignments would suffice. It may be defined as larger
+ than this though. Note however that code and data structures are
+ optimized for the case of 8-byte alignment. */
+#ifndef MALLOC_ALIGNMENT
+# define MALLOC_ALIGNMENT (2 * SIZE_SZ < __alignof__ (long double) \
+ ? __alignof__ (long double) : 2 * SIZE_SZ)
+#endif
+
+/* The corresponding bit mask value. */
+#define MALLOC_ALIGN_MASK (MALLOC_ALIGNMENT - 1)
+
+
/* Called in the parent process before a fork. */
void __malloc_fork_lock_parent (void) internal_function attribute_hidden;
diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
index 1f5f166ea2..bb52b3e177 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc/malloc.c
@@ -173,8 +173,6 @@
Changing default word sizes:
INTERNAL_SIZE_T size_t
- MALLOC_ALIGNMENT MAX (2 * sizeof(INTERNAL_SIZE_T),
- __alignof__ (long double))
Configuration and functionality options:
@@ -216,9 +214,6 @@
#include <stdlib.h> /* for getenv(), abort() */
#include <unistd.h> /* for __libc_enable_secure */
-#include <malloc-machine.h>
-#include <malloc-sysdep.h>
-
#include <atomic.h>
#include <_itoa.h>
#include <bits/wordsize.h>
@@ -304,64 +299,6 @@ __malloc_assert (const char *assertion, const char *file, unsigned int line,
/*
- INTERNAL_SIZE_T is the word-size used for internal bookkeeping
- of chunk sizes.
-
- The default version is the same as size_t.
-
- While not strictly necessary, it is best to define this as an
- unsigned type, even if size_t is a signed type. This may avoid some
- artificial size limitations on some systems.
-
- On a 64-bit machine, you may be able to reduce malloc overhead by
- defining INTERNAL_SIZE_T to be a 32 bit `unsigned int' at the
- expense of not being able to handle more than 2^32 of malloced
- space. If this limitation is acceptable, you are encouraged to set
- this unless you are on a platform requiring 16byte alignments. In
- this case the alignment requirements turn out to negate any
- potential advantages of decreasing size_t word size.
-
- Implementors: Beware of the possible combinations of:
- - INTERNAL_SIZE_T might be signed or unsigned, might be 32 or 64 bits,
- and might be the same width as int or as long
- - size_t might have different width and signedness as INTERNAL_SIZE_T
- - int and long might be 32 or 64 bits, and might be the same width
- To deal with this, most comparisons and difference computations
- among INTERNAL_SIZE_Ts should cast them to unsigned long, being
- aware of the fact that casting an unsigned int to a wider long does
- not sign-extend. (This also makes checking for negative numbers
- awkward.) Some of these casts result in harmless compiler warnings
- on some systems.
-*/
-
-#ifndef INTERNAL_SIZE_T
-#define INTERNAL_SIZE_T size_t
-#endif
-
-/* The corresponding word size */
-#define SIZE_SZ (sizeof(INTERNAL_SIZE_T))
-
-
-/*
- MALLOC_ALIGNMENT is the minimum alignment for malloc'ed chunks.
- It must be a power of two at least 2 * SIZE_SZ, even on machines
- for which smaller alignments would suffice. It may be defined as
- larger than this though. Note however that code and data structures
- are optimized for the case of 8-byte alignment.
-*/
-
-
-#ifndef MALLOC_ALIGNMENT
-# define MALLOC_ALIGNMENT (2 * SIZE_SZ < __alignof__ (long double) \
- ? __alignof__ (long double) : 2 * SIZE_SZ)
-#endif
-
-/* The corresponding bit mask value */
-#define MALLOC_ALIGN_MASK (MALLOC_ALIGNMENT - 1)
-
-
-
-/*
REALLOC_ZERO_BYTES_FREES should be set if a call to
realloc with zero bytes should be the same as a call to free.
This is required by the C standard. Otherwise, since this malloc