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authorAndreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>2015-09-30 21:10:36 +0200
committerAndreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>2015-09-30 21:10:36 +0200
commit1a63e630ae2c0dfa54bda79aa2d0dddbf67e2cc4 (patch)
tree1b3ace97996b556e0ec6d47c2815df44a4925dbe
parent55bc5d15c75d5773b11b604e5ac197389a26f3f4 (diff)
parent9ea99dbf369c498215705650b111e78cd53c94da (diff)
downloadNim-1a63e630ae2c0dfa54bda79aa2d0dddbf67e2cc4.tar.gz
Merge pull request #3345 from rbehrends/no-unmap
Add option to disable munmap() use in the allocator.
-rw-r--r--lib/system/alloc.nim11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/system/alloc.nim b/lib/system/alloc.nim
index 13a10e46f..3a1d7b666 100644
--- a/lib/system/alloc.nim
+++ b/lib/system/alloc.nim
@@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ sysAssert(roundup(65, 8) == 72, "roundup broken 2")
 # some platforms have really weird unmap behaviour: unmap(blockStart, PageSize)
 # really frees the whole block. Happens for Linux/PowerPC for example. Amd64
 # and x86 are safe though; Windows is special because MEM_RELEASE can only be
-# used with a size of 0:
-const weirdUnmap = not (defined(amd64) or defined(i386)) or defined(windows)
+# used with a size of 0. We also allow unmapping to be turned off with
+# -d:nimAllocNoUnmap:
+const doNotUnmap = not (defined(amd64) or defined(i386)) or
+                   defined(windows) or defined(nimAllocNoUnmap)
+
 
 when defined(posix):
   const
@@ -478,7 +481,7 @@ proc freeBigChunk(a: var MemRegion, c: PBigChunk) =
           excl(a.chunkStarts, pageIndex(c))
           c = cast[PBigChunk](le)
 
-  if c.size < ChunkOsReturn or weirdUnmap:
+  if c.size < ChunkOsReturn or doNotUnmap:
     incl(a, a.chunkStarts, pageIndex(c))
     updatePrevSize(a, c, c.size)
     listAdd(a.freeChunksList, c)
@@ -762,7 +765,7 @@ proc deallocOsPages(a: var MemRegion) =
   # we free every 'ordinarily' allocated page by iterating over the page bits:
   for p in elements(a.chunkStarts):
     var page = cast[PChunk](p shl PageShift)
-    when not weirdUnmap:
+    when not doNotUnmap:
       var size = if page.size < PageSize: PageSize else: page.size
       osDeallocPages(page, size)
     else: