Revision bf24401a1f9cc8f4122405c7de1051d7823b6f0c authored by Andrew MacIntyre on 01 October 2008, 03:25:25 UTC, committed by Andrew MacIntyre on 01 October 2008, 03:25:25 UTC
FreeBSD 7's underlying malloc() is behaves differently to earlier versions and seriously overcommits available memory on amd64. This may affect other 64bit platforms in some circumstances, so the scale of the problematic test is wound back. Patch by Mark Dickinson, reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
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pyarena.h
/* An arena-like memory interface for the compiler.
*/
#ifndef Py_PYARENA_H
#define Py_PYARENA_H
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
typedef struct _arena PyArena;
/* PyArena_New() and PyArena_Free() create a new arena and free it,
respectively. Once an arena has been created, it can be used
to allocate memory via PyArena_Malloc(). Pointers to PyObject can
also be registered with the arena via PyArena_AddPyObject(), and the
arena will ensure that the PyObjects stay alive at least until
PyArena_Free() is called. When an arena is freed, all the memory it
allocated is freed, the arena releases internal references to registered
PyObject*, and none of its pointers are valid.
XXX (tim) What does "none of its pointers are valid" mean? Does it
XXX mean that pointers previously obtained via PyArena_Malloc() are
XXX no longer valid? (That's clearly true, but not sure that's what
XXX the text is trying to say.)
PyArena_New() returns an arena pointer. On error, it
returns a negative number and sets an exception.
XXX (tim): Not true. On error, PyArena_New() actually returns NULL,
XXX and looks like it may or may not set an exception (e.g., if the
XXX internal PyList_New(0) returns NULL, PyArena_New() passes that on
XXX and an exception is set; OTOH, if the internal
XXX block_new(DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE) returns NULL, that's passed on but
XXX an exception is not set in that case).
*/
PyAPI_FUNC(PyArena *) PyArena_New(void);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyArena_Free(PyArena *);
/* Mostly like malloc(), return the address of a block of memory spanning
* `size` bytes, or return NULL (without setting an exception) if enough
* new memory can't be obtained. Unlike malloc(0), PyArena_Malloc() with
* size=0 does not guarantee to return a unique pointer (the pointer
* returned may equal one or more other pointers obtained from
* PyArena_Malloc()).
* Note that pointers obtained via PyArena_Malloc() must never be passed to
* the system free() or realloc(), or to any of Python's similar memory-
* management functions. PyArena_Malloc()-obtained pointers remain valid
* until PyArena_Free(ar) is called, at which point all pointers obtained
* from the arena `ar` become invalid simultaneously.
*/
PyAPI_FUNC(void *) PyArena_Malloc(PyArena *, size_t size);
/* This routine isn't a proper arena allocation routine. It takes
* a PyObject* and records it so that it can be DECREFed when the
* arena is freed.
*/
PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArena_AddPyObject(PyArena *, PyObject *);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* !Py_PYARENA_H */
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