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     30 // ---
     31 // Author: Sanjay Ghemawat <opensource (at) google.com>
     32 
     33 #ifndef TCMALLOC_THREAD_CACHE_H_
     34 #define TCMALLOC_THREAD_CACHE_H_
     35 
     36 #include <config.h>
     37 #ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD
     38 #include <pthread.h>                    // for pthread_t, pthread_key_t
     39 #endif
     40 #include <stddef.h>                     // for size_t, NULL
     41 #ifdef HAVE_STDINT_H
     42 #include <stdint.h>                     // for uint32_t, uint64_t
     43 #endif
     44 #include <sys/types.h>                  // for ssize_t
     45 #include "common.h"
     46 #include "linked_list.h"
     47 #include "maybe_threads.h"
     48 #include "page_heap_allocator.h"
     49 #include "sampler.h"
     50 #include "static_vars.h"
     51 
     52 #include "common.h"            // for SizeMap, kMaxSize, etc
     53 #include "internal_logging.h"  // for ASSERT, etc
     54 #include "linked_list.h"       // for SLL_Pop, SLL_PopRange, etc
     55 #include "page_heap_allocator.h"  // for PageHeapAllocator
     56 #include "sampler.h"           // for Sampler
     57 #include "static_vars.h"       // for Static
     58 
     59 namespace tcmalloc {
     60 
     61 // Even if we have support for thread-local storage in the compiler
     62 // and linker, the OS may not support it.  We need to check that at
     63 // runtime.  Right now, we have to keep a manual set of "bad" OSes.
     64 #if defined(HAVE_TLS)
     65 extern bool kernel_supports_tls;   // defined in thread_cache.cc
     66 void CheckIfKernelSupportsTLS();
     67 inline bool KernelSupportsTLS() {
     68   return kernel_supports_tls;
     69 }
     70 #endif    // HAVE_TLS
     71 
     72 //-------------------------------------------------------------------
     73 // Data kept per thread
     74 //-------------------------------------------------------------------
     75 
     76 class ThreadCache {
     77  public:
     78   // All ThreadCache objects are kept in a linked list (for stats collection)
     79   ThreadCache* next_;
     80   ThreadCache* prev_;
     81 
     82   void Init(pthread_t tid);
     83   void Cleanup();
     84 
     85   // Accessors (mostly just for printing stats)
     86   int freelist_length(size_t cl) const { return list_[cl].length(); }
     87 
     88   // Total byte size in cache
     89   size_t Size() const { return size_; }
     90 
     91   // Allocate an object of the given size and class. The size given
     92   // must be the same as the size of the class in the size map.
     93   void* Allocate(size_t size, size_t cl);
     94   void Deallocate(void* ptr, size_t size_class);
     95 
     96   void Scavenge();
     97 
     98   int GetSamplePeriod();
     99 
    100   // Record allocation of "k" bytes.  Return true iff allocation
    101   // should be sampled
    102   bool SampleAllocation(size_t k);
    103 
    104   static void         InitModule();
    105   static void         InitTSD();
    106   static ThreadCache* GetThreadHeap();
    107   static ThreadCache* GetCache();
    108   static ThreadCache* GetCacheIfPresent();
    109   static ThreadCache* CreateCacheIfNecessary();
    110   static void         BecomeIdle();
    111 
    112   // Return the number of thread heaps in use.
    113   static inline int HeapsInUse();
    114 
    115   // Writes to total_bytes the total number of bytes used by all thread heaps.
    116   // class_count must be an array of size kNumClasses.  Writes the number of
    117   // items on the corresponding freelist.  class_count may be NULL.
    118   // The storage of both parameters must be zero intialized.
    119   // REQUIRES: Static::pageheap_lock is held.
    120   static void GetThreadStats(uint64_t* total_bytes, uint64_t* class_count);
    121 
    122   // Sets the total thread cache size to new_size, recomputing the
    123   // individual thread cache sizes as necessary.
    124   // REQUIRES: Static::pageheap lock is held.
    125   static void set_overall_thread_cache_size(size_t new_size);
    126   static size_t overall_thread_cache_size() {
    127     return overall_thread_cache_size_;
    128   }
    129 
    130  private:
    131   class FreeList {
    132    private:
    133     void*    list_;       // Linked list of nodes
    134 
    135 #ifdef _LP64
    136     // On 64-bit hardware, manipulating 16-bit values may be slightly slow.
    137     uint32_t length_;      // Current length.
    138     uint32_t lowater_;     // Low water mark for list length.
    139     uint32_t max_length_;  // Dynamic max list length based on usage.
    140     // Tracks the number of times a deallocation has caused
    141     // length_ > max_length_.  After the kMaxOverages'th time, max_length_
    142     // shrinks and length_overages_ is reset to zero.
    143     uint32_t length_overages_;
    144 #else
    145     // If we aren't using 64-bit pointers then pack these into less space.
    146     uint16_t length_;
    147     uint16_t lowater_;
    148     uint16_t max_length_;
    149     uint16_t length_overages_;
    150 #endif
    151 
    152    public:
    153     void Init() {
    154       list_ = NULL;
    155       length_ = 0;
    156       lowater_ = 0;
    157       max_length_ = 1;
    158       length_overages_ = 0;
    159     }
    160 
    161     // Return current length of list
    162     size_t length() const {
    163       return length_;
    164     }
    165 
    166     // Return the maximum length of the list.
    167     size_t max_length() const {
    168       return max_length_;
    169     }
    170 
    171     // Set the maximum length of the list.  If 'new_max' > length(), the
    172     // client is responsible for removing objects from the list.
    173     void set_max_length(size_t new_max) {
    174       max_length_ = new_max;
    175     }
    176 
    177     // Return the number of times that length() has gone over max_length().
    178     size_t length_overages() const {
    179       return length_overages_;
    180     }
    181 
    182     void set_length_overages(size_t new_count) {
    183       length_overages_ = new_count;
    184     }
    185 
    186     // Is list empty?
    187     bool empty() const {
    188       return list_ == NULL;
    189     }
    190 
    191     // Low-water mark management
    192     int lowwatermark() const { return lowater_; }
    193     void clear_lowwatermark() { lowater_ = length_; }
    194 
    195     void Push(void* ptr) {
    196       SLL_Push(&list_, ptr);
    197       length_++;
    198     }
    199 
    200     void* Pop() {
    201       ASSERT(list_ != NULL);
    202       length_--;
    203       if (length_ < lowater_) lowater_ = length_;
    204       return SLL_Pop(&list_);
    205     }
    206 
    207     void* Next() {
    208       return SLL_Next(&list_);
    209     }
    210 
    211     void PushRange(int N, void *start, void *end) {
    212       SLL_PushRange(&list_, start, end);
    213       length_ += N;
    214     }
    215 
    216     void PopRange(int N, void **start, void **end) {
    217       SLL_PopRange(&list_, N, start, end);
    218       ASSERT(length_ >= N);
    219       length_ -= N;
    220       if (length_ < lowater_) lowater_ = length_;
    221     }
    222   };
    223 
    224   // Gets and returns an object from the central cache, and, if possible,
    225   // also adds some objects of that size class to this thread cache.
    226   void* FetchFromCentralCache(size_t cl, size_t byte_size);
    227 
    228   // Releases some number of items from src.  Adjusts the list's max_length
    229   // to eventually converge on num_objects_to_move(cl).
    230   void ListTooLong(FreeList* src, size_t cl);
    231 
    232   // Releases N items from this thread cache.
    233   void ReleaseToCentralCache(FreeList* src, size_t cl, int N);
    234 
    235   // Increase max_size_ by reducing unclaimed_cache_space_ or by
    236   // reducing the max_size_ of some other thread.  In both cases,
    237   // the delta is kStealAmount.
    238   void IncreaseCacheLimit();
    239   // Same as above but requires Static::pageheap_lock() is held.
    240   void IncreaseCacheLimitLocked();
    241 
    242   // If TLS is available, we also store a copy of the per-thread object
    243   // in a __thread variable since __thread variables are faster to read
    244   // than pthread_getspecific().  We still need pthread_setspecific()
    245   // because __thread variables provide no way to run cleanup code when
    246   // a thread is destroyed.
    247   // We also give a hint to the compiler to use the "initial exec" TLS
    248   // model.  This is faster than the default TLS model, at the cost that
    249   // you cannot dlopen this library.  (To see the difference, look at
    250   // the CPU use of __tls_get_addr with and without this attribute.)
    251   // Since we don't really use dlopen in google code -- and using dlopen
    252   // on a malloc replacement is asking for trouble in any case -- that's
    253   // a good tradeoff for us.
    254 #ifdef HAVE_TLS
    255   static __thread ThreadCache* threadlocal_heap_
    256 # ifdef HAVE___ATTRIBUTE__
    257    __attribute__ ((tls_model ("initial-exec")))
    258 # endif
    259    ;
    260 #endif
    261 
    262   // Thread-specific key.  Initialization here is somewhat tricky
    263   // because some Linux startup code invokes malloc() before it
    264   // is in a good enough state to handle pthread_keycreate().
    265   // Therefore, we use TSD keys only after tsd_inited is set to true.
    266   // Until then, we use a slow path to get the heap object.
    267   static bool tsd_inited_;
    268   static pthread_key_t heap_key_;
    269 
    270   // Linked list of heap objects.  Protected by Static::pageheap_lock.
    271   static ThreadCache* thread_heaps_;
    272   static int thread_heap_count_;
    273 
    274   // A pointer to one of the objects in thread_heaps_.  Represents
    275   // the next ThreadCache from which a thread over its max_size_ should
    276   // steal memory limit.  Round-robin through all of the objects in
    277   // thread_heaps_.  Protected by Static::pageheap_lock.
    278   static ThreadCache* next_memory_steal_;
    279 
    280   // Overall thread cache size.  Protected by Static::pageheap_lock.
    281   static size_t overall_thread_cache_size_;
    282 
    283   // Global per-thread cache size.  Writes are protected by
    284   // Static::pageheap_lock.  Reads are done without any locking, which should be
    285   // fine as long as size_t can be written atomically and we don't place
    286   // invariants between this variable and other pieces of state.
    287   static volatile size_t per_thread_cache_size_;
    288 
    289   // Represents overall_thread_cache_size_ minus the sum of max_size_
    290   // across all ThreadCaches.  Protected by Static::pageheap_lock.
    291   static ssize_t unclaimed_cache_space_;
    292 
    293   // This class is laid out with the most frequently used fields
    294   // first so that hot elements are placed on the same cache line.
    295 
    296   size_t        size_;                  // Combined size of data
    297   size_t        max_size_;              // size_ > max_size_ --> Scavenge()
    298 
    299   // We sample allocations, biased by the size of the allocation
    300   Sampler       sampler_;               // A sampler
    301 
    302   FreeList      list_[kNumClasses];     // Array indexed by size-class
    303 
    304   pthread_t     tid_;                   // Which thread owns it
    305   bool          in_setspecific_;        // In call to pthread_setspecific?
    306 
    307   // Allocate a new heap. REQUIRES: Static::pageheap_lock is held.
    308   static ThreadCache* NewHeap(pthread_t tid);
    309 
    310   // Use only as pthread thread-specific destructor function.
    311   static void DestroyThreadCache(void* ptr);
    312 
    313   static void DeleteCache(ThreadCache* heap);
    314   static void RecomputePerThreadCacheSize();
    315 
    316   // Ensure that this class is cacheline-aligned. This is critical for
    317   // performance, as false sharing would negate many of the benefits
    318   // of a per-thread cache.
    319 } CACHELINE_ALIGNED;
    320 
    321 // Allocator for thread heaps
    322 // This is logically part of the ThreadCache class, but MSVC, at
    323 // least, does not like using ThreadCache as a template argument
    324 // before the class is fully defined.  So we put it outside the class.
    325 extern PageHeapAllocator<ThreadCache> threadcache_allocator;
    326 
    327 inline int ThreadCache::HeapsInUse() {
    328   return threadcache_allocator.inuse();
    329 }
    330 
    331 inline bool ThreadCache::SampleAllocation(size_t k) {
    332   return sampler_.SampleAllocation(k);
    333 }
    334 
    335 inline void* ThreadCache::Allocate(size_t size, size_t cl) {
    336   ASSERT(size <= kMaxSize);
    337   ASSERT(size == Static::sizemap()->ByteSizeForClass(cl));
    338 
    339   FreeList* list = &list_[cl];
    340   if (list->empty()) {
    341     return FetchFromCentralCache(cl, size);
    342   }
    343   size_ -= size;
    344   return list->Pop();
    345 }
    346 
    347 inline void ThreadCache::Deallocate(void* ptr, size_t cl) {
    348   FreeList* list = &list_[cl];
    349   size_ += Static::sizemap()->ByteSizeForClass(cl);
    350   ssize_t size_headroom = max_size_ - size_ - 1;
    351 
    352   // This catches back-to-back frees of allocs in the same size
    353   // class. A more comprehensive (and expensive) test would be to walk
    354   // the entire freelist. But this might be enough to find some bugs.
    355   ASSERT(ptr != list->Next());
    356 
    357   list->Push(ptr);
    358   ssize_t list_headroom =
    359       static_cast<ssize_t>(list->max_length()) - list->length();
    360 
    361   // There are two relatively uncommon things that require further work.
    362   // In the common case we're done, and in that case we need a single branch
    363   // because of the bitwise-or trick that follows.
    364   if ((list_headroom | size_headroom) < 0) {
    365     if (list_headroom < 0) {
    366       ListTooLong(list, cl);
    367     }
    368     if (size_ >= max_size_) Scavenge();
    369   }
    370 }
    371 
    372 inline ThreadCache* ThreadCache::GetThreadHeap() {
    373 #ifdef HAVE_TLS
    374   // __thread is faster, but only when the kernel supports it
    375   if (KernelSupportsTLS())
    376     return threadlocal_heap_;
    377 #endif
    378   return reinterpret_cast<ThreadCache *>(
    379       perftools_pthread_getspecific(heap_key_));
    380 }
    381 
    382 inline ThreadCache* ThreadCache::GetCache() {
    383   ThreadCache* ptr = NULL;
    384   if (!tsd_inited_) {
    385     InitModule();
    386   } else {
    387     ptr = GetThreadHeap();
    388   }
    389   if (ptr == NULL) ptr = CreateCacheIfNecessary();
    390   return ptr;
    391 }
    392 
    393 // In deletion paths, we do not try to create a thread-cache.  This is
    394 // because we may be in the thread destruction code and may have
    395 // already cleaned up the cache for this thread.
    396 inline ThreadCache* ThreadCache::GetCacheIfPresent() {
    397   if (!tsd_inited_) return NULL;
    398   return GetThreadHeap();
    399 }
    400 
    401 }  // namespace tcmalloc
    402 
    403 #endif  // TCMALLOC_THREAD_CACHE_H_
    404