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2.5 KiB
57 lines
2.5 KiB
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This malloc is based on Doug Lea's malloc ( ftp://gee.cs.oswego.edu/pub/misc/ ), the changes
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are listed below. See http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101351949010285&w=2 for details.
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Basically, it's here because for now it has better performance than both glibc-2.2.x and
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FreeBSD's libc.
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There's a new configure switch, --enable-fast-malloc. By default it's turned off, disabling
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the system libc one and using this one. Using --enable-fast-malloc=full enables this
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malloc unconditionally, aiming for the maximum performance. By using only --enable-fast-malloc,
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it's possible to select both malloc implementations at runtime. When $KDE_MALLOC is set to 0,
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the system libc malloc is used, otherwise this malloc is used.
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For now, the requirements are :
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- x86 CPU (because of the spinlock implementation in assembler), it should be easy to add
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new ones
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- glibc (for --enable-fast-malloc=yes, =full doesn't need it), because it needs to refer
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to the libc implementation of malloc (__libc_malloc etc.)
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- gcc (for __inline__ , nothing else should depend on gcc)
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If you have any problem with this malloc, try first using --enable-fast-malloc=debug and
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recompiling libtdecore, or use valgrind. This malloc seems to be more vulnerable to heap
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corruption, such as deleting a block twice, so faulty code may run without problems
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with standard malloc shipped with your libc, but it will crash with this malloc. In case
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you think there's any problem with this malloc, please mail me.
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changes (against malloc-2.7.0):
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#define USE_MALLOC_LOCK
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#define INLINE __inline__
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#define USE_MEMCPY 0
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#define MMAP_CLEARS 1
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made all functions INLINE
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added #ifdef KDE_MALLOC_DEBUG -> #define DEBUG
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reordered all functions in order to avoid 'warning: `XYZ' declared inline after being called'
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especially moved the public_* ones at the end of the file
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commented out #including malloc.h
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added #include <config.h> at the top and enclosed whole file in #ifdef KDE_MALLOC
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taken posix_memalign() from glibc
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removed public icalloc(),icomalloc(),mtrim(),musable() (they don't exist everywhere anyway)
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enclosed the pthreads part by #if 0 and replaced it with spinlock from glibc CVS (in x86.h)
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also added :
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----------
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static mutex_t spinlock = MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
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#define MALLOC_PREACTION lock( &spinlock )
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#define MALLOC_POSTACTION unlock( &spinlock )
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----------
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public functions call either functions in this malloc or in libc, depending on $KDE_MALLOC
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the kde_malloc_is_used hack
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TODO:
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malloc_set_state/malloc_get_state ?
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Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>
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