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a new weak predicate function replacable by the malloc implementation,
__malloc_allzerop, is introduced. by default it's always false; the
default version will be used when static linking if the bump allocator
was used (in which case performance doesn't matter) or if malloc was
replaced by the application. only if the real internal malloc is
linked (always the case with dynamic linking) does the real version
get used.
if malloc was replaced dynamically, as indicated by __malloc_replaced,
the predicate function is ignored and conditional-memset is always
performed.
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abstractly, calloc is completely malloc-implementation-independent;
it's malloc followed by memset, or as we do it, a "conditional memset"
that avoids touching fresh zero pages.
previously, calloc was kept separate for the bump allocator, which can
always skip memset, and the version of calloc provided with the full
malloc conditionally skipped the clearing for large direct-mmapped
allocations. the latter is a moderately attractive optimization, and
can be added back if needed. however, further consideration to make it
correct under malloc replacement would be needed.
commit b4b1e10364c8737a632be61582e05a8d3acf5690 documented the
contract for malloc replacement as allowing omission of calloc, and
indeed that worked for dynamic linking, but for static linking it was
possible to get the non-clearing definition from the bump allocator;
if not for that, it would have been a link error trying to pull in
malloc.o.
the conditional-clearing code for the new common calloc is taken from
mal0_clear in oldmalloc, but drops the need to access actual page size
and just uses a fixed value of 4096. this avoids potentially needing
access to global data for the sake of an optimization that at best
marginally helps archs with offensively-large page sizes.
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replacement is subject to conditions on the replacement functions.
they may only call functions which are async-signal-safe, as specified
either by POSIX or as an implementation-defined extension. if any
allocator functions are replaced, at least malloc, realloc, and free
must be provided. if calloc is not provided, it will behave as
malloc+memset. any of the memalign-family functions not provided will
fail with ENOMEM.
in order to implement the above properties, calloc and __memalign
check that they are using their own malloc or free, respectively.
choice to check malloc or free is based on considerations of
supporting __simple_malloc. in order to make this work, calloc is
split into separate versions for __simple_malloc and full malloc;
commit ba819787ee93ceae94efd274f7849e317c1bff58 already did most of
the split anyway, and completing it saves an extra call frame.
previously, use of -Bsymbolic-functions made dynamic interposition
impossible. now, we are using an explicit dynamic-list, so add
allocator functions to the list. most are not referenced anyway, but
all are added for completeness.
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previously, calloc's implementation encoded assumptions about the
implementation of malloc, accessing a size_t word just prior to the
allocated memory to determine if it was obtained by mmap to optimize
out the zero-filling. when __simple_malloc is used (static linking a
program with no realloc/free), it doesn't matter if the result of this
check is wrong, since all allocations are zero-initialized anyway. but
the access could be invalid if it crosses a page boundary or if the
pointer is not sufficiently aligned, which can happen for very small
allocations.
this patch fixes the issue by moving the zero-fill logic into malloc.c
with the full malloc, as a new function named __malloc0, which is
provided by a weak alias to __simple_malloc (which always gives
zero-filled memory) when the full malloc is not in use.
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