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/// Values supported by [`Mmap::advise`][crate::Mmap::advise] and [`MmapMut::advise`][crate::MmapMut::advise] functions.
///
/// See [madvise()](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html) map page.
#[repr(i32)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Hash)]
pub enum Advice {
/// **MADV_NORMAL**
///
/// No special treatment. This is the default.
Normal = libc::MADV_NORMAL,
/// **MADV_RANDOM**
///
/// Expect page references in random order. (Hence, read
/// ahead may be less useful than normally.)
Random = libc::MADV_RANDOM,
/// **MADV_SEQUENTIAL**
///
/// Expect page references in sequential order. (Hence, pages
/// in the given range can be aggressively read ahead, and may
/// be freed soon after they are accessed.)
Sequential = libc::MADV_SEQUENTIAL,
/// **MADV_WILLNEED**
///
/// Expect access in the near future. (Hence, it might be a
/// good idea to read some pages ahead.)
WillNeed = libc::MADV_WILLNEED,
/// **MADV_DONTFORK** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.16)
///
/// Do not make the pages in this range available to the child
/// after a fork(2). This is useful to prevent copy-on-write
/// semantics from changing the physical location of a page if
/// the parent writes to it after a fork(2). (Such page
/// relocations cause problems for hardware that DMAs into the
/// page.)
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
DontFork = libc::MADV_DONTFORK,
/// **MADV_DOFORK** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.16)
///
/// Undo the effect of MADV_DONTFORK, restoring the default
/// behavior, whereby a mapping is inherited across fork(2).
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
DoFork = libc::MADV_DOFORK,
/// **MADV_MERGEABLE** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.32)
///
/// Enable Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) for the pages in the
/// range specified by addr and length. The kernel regularly
/// scans those areas of user memory that have been marked as
/// mergeable, looking for pages with identical content.
/// These are replaced by a single write-protected page (which
/// is automatically copied if a process later wants to update
/// the content of the page). KSM merges only private
/// anonymous pages (see mmap(2)).
///
/// The KSM feature is intended for applications that generate
/// many instances of the same data (e.g., virtualization
/// systems such as KVM). It can consume a lot of processing
/// power; use with care. See the Linux kernel source file
/// Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst for more details.
///
/// The MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE operations are
/// available only if the kernel was configured with
/// CONFIG_KSM.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
Mergeable = libc::MADV_MERGEABLE,
/// **MADV_UNMERGEABLE** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.32)
///
/// Undo the effect of an earlier MADV_MERGEABLE operation on
/// the specified address range; KSM unmerges whatever pages
/// it had merged in the address range specified by addr and
/// length.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
Unmergeable = libc::MADV_UNMERGEABLE,
/// **MADV_HUGEPAGE** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.38)
///
/// Enable Transparent Huge Pages (THP) for pages in the range
/// specified by addr and length. Currently, Transparent Huge
/// Pages work only with private anonymous pages (see
/// mmap(2)). The kernel will regularly scan the areas marked
/// as huge page candidates to replace them with huge pages.
/// The kernel will also allocate huge pages directly when the
/// region is naturally aligned to the huge page size (see
/// posix_memalign(2)).
///
/// This feature is primarily aimed at applications that use
/// large mappings of data and access large regions of that
/// memory at a time (e.g., virtualization systems such as
/// QEMU). It can very easily waste memory (e.g., a 2 MB
/// mapping that only ever accesses 1 byte will result in 2 MB
/// of wired memory instead of one 4 KB page). See the Linux
/// kernel source file
/// Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more
/// details.
///
/// Most common kernels configurations provide MADV_HUGEPAGE-
/// style behavior by default, and thus MADV_HUGEPAGE is
/// normally not necessary. It is mostly intended for
/// embedded systems, where MADV_HUGEPAGE-style behavior may
/// not be enabled by default in the kernel. On such systems,
/// this flag can be used in order to selectively enable THP.
/// Whenever MADV_HUGEPAGE is used, it should always be in
/// regions of memory with an access pattern that the
/// developer knows in advance won't risk to increase the
/// memory footprint of the application when transparent
/// hugepages are enabled.
///
/// The MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE operations are
/// available only if the kernel was configured with
/// CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
HugePage = libc::MADV_HUGEPAGE,
/// **MADV_NOHUGEPAGE** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.38)
///
/// Ensures that memory in the address range specified by addr
/// and length will not be backed by transparent hugepages.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
NoHugePage = libc::MADV_NOHUGEPAGE,
/// **MADV_DONTDUMP** - Linux only (since Linux 3.4)
///
/// Exclude from a core dump those pages in the range
/// specified by addr and length. This is useful in
/// applications that have large areas of memory that are
/// known not to be useful in a core dump. The effect of
/// **MADV_DONTDUMP** takes precedence over the bit mask that is
/// set via the `/proc/[pid]/coredump_filter` file (see
/// core(5)).
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
DontDump = libc::MADV_DONTDUMP,
/// **MADV_DODUMP** - Linux only (since Linux 3.4)
///
/// Undo the effect of an earlier MADV_DONTDUMP.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
DoDump = libc::MADV_DODUMP,
/// **MADV_HWPOISON** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.32)
///
/// Poison the pages in the range specified by addr and length
/// and handle subsequent references to those pages like a
/// hardware memory corruption. This operation is available
/// only for privileged (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) processes. This
/// operation may result in the calling process receiving a
/// SIGBUS and the page being unmapped.
///
/// This feature is intended for testing of memory error-
/// handling code; it is available only if the kernel was
/// configured with CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
HwPoison = libc::MADV_HWPOISON,
/// **MADV_POPULATE_READ** - Linux only (since Linux 5.14)
///
/// Populate (prefault) page tables readable, faulting in all
/// pages in the range just as if manually reading from each
/// page; however, avoid the actual memory access that would have
/// been performed after handling the fault.
///
/// In contrast to MAP_POPULATE, MADV_POPULATE_READ does not hide
/// errors, can be applied to (parts of) existing mappings and
/// will always populate (prefault) page tables readable. One
/// example use case is prefaulting a file mapping, reading all
/// file content from disk; however, pages won't be dirtied and
/// consequently won't have to be written back to disk when
/// evicting the pages from memory.
///
/// Depending on the underlying mapping, map the shared zeropage,
/// preallocate memory or read the underlying file; files with
/// holes might or might not preallocate blocks. If populating
/// fails, a SIGBUS signal is not generated; instead, an error is
/// returned.
///
/// If MADV_POPULATE_READ succeeds, all page tables have been
/// populated (prefaulted) readable once. If MADV_POPULATE_READ
/// fails, some page tables might have been populated.
///
/// MADV_POPULATE_READ cannot be applied to mappings without read
/// permissions and special mappings, for example, mappings
/// marked with kernel-internal flags such as VM_PFNMAP or VM_IO,
/// or secret memory regions created using memfd_secret(2).
///
/// Note that with MADV_POPULATE_READ, the process can be killed
/// at any moment when the system runs out of memory.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
PopulateRead = libc::MADV_POPULATE_READ,
/// **MADV_POPULATE_WRITE** - Linux only (since Linux 5.14)
///
/// Populate (prefault) page tables writable, faulting in all
/// pages in the range just as if manually writing to each each
/// page; however, avoid the actual memory access that would have
/// been performed after handling the fault.
///
/// In contrast to MAP_POPULATE, MADV_POPULATE_WRITE does not
/// hide errors, can be applied to (parts of) existing mappings
/// and will always populate (prefault) page tables writable.
/// One example use case is preallocating memory, breaking any
/// CoW (Copy on Write).
///
/// Depending on the underlying mapping, preallocate memory or
/// read the underlying file; files with holes will preallocate
/// blocks. If populating fails, a SIGBUS signal is not gener‐
/// ated; instead, an error is returned.
///
/// If MADV_POPULATE_WRITE succeeds, all page tables have been
/// populated (prefaulted) writable once. If MADV_POPULATE_WRITE
/// fails, some page tables might have been populated.
///
/// MADV_POPULATE_WRITE cannot be applied to mappings without
/// write permissions and special mappings, for example, mappings
/// marked with kernel-internal flags such as VM_PFNMAP or VM_IO,
/// or secret memory regions created using memfd_secret(2).
///
/// Note that with MADV_POPULATE_WRITE, the process can be killed
/// at any moment when the system runs out of memory.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
PopulateWrite = libc::MADV_POPULATE_WRITE,
/// **MADV_ZERO_WIRED_PAGES** - Darwin only
///
/// Indicates that the application would like the wired pages in this address range to be
/// zeroed out if the address range is deallocated without first unwiring the pages (i.e.
/// a munmap(2) without a preceding munlock(2) or the application quits). This is used
/// with madvise() system call.
#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "ios"))]
ZeroWiredPages = libc::MADV_ZERO_WIRED_PAGES,
}
/// Values supported by [`Mmap::unsafe_advise`][crate::Mmap::unsafe_advise] and [`MmapMut::unsafe_advise`][crate::MmapMut::unsafe_advise] functions.
///
/// These flags can be passed to the [madvise (2)][man_page] system call
/// and effects on the mapped pages which are conceptually writes,
/// i.e. the change the observable contents of these pages which
/// implies undefined behaviour if the mapping is still borrowed.
///
/// Hence, these potentially unsafe flags must be used with the unsafe
/// methods and the programmer has to justify that the code
/// does not keep any borrows of the mapping active while the mapped pages
/// are updated by the kernel's memory management subsystem.
///
/// [man_page]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html
#[repr(i32)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Hash)]
pub enum UncheckedAdvice {
/// **MADV_DONTNEED**
///
/// Do not expect access in the near future. (For the time
/// being, the application is finished with the given range,
/// so the kernel can free resources associated with it.)
///
/// After a successful MADV_DONTNEED operation, the semantics
/// of memory access in the specified region are changed:
/// subsequent accesses of pages in the range will succeed,
/// but will result in either repopulating the memory contents
/// from the up-to-date contents of the underlying mapped file
/// (for shared file mappings, shared anonymous mappings, and
/// shmem-based techniques such as System V shared memory
/// segments) or zero-fill-on-demand pages for anonymous
/// private mappings.
///
/// Note that, when applied to shared mappings, MADV_DONTNEED
/// might not lead to immediate freeing of the pages in the
/// range. The kernel is free to delay freeing the pages
/// until an appropriate moment. The resident set size (RSS)
/// of the calling process will be immediately reduced
/// however.
///
/// **MADV_DONTNEED** cannot be applied to locked pages, Huge TLB
/// pages, or VM_PFNMAP pages. (Pages marked with the kernel-
/// internal VM_PFNMAP flag are special memory areas that are
/// not managed by the virtual memory subsystem. Such pages
/// are typically created by device drivers that map the pages
/// into user space.)
///
/// # Safety
///
/// Using the returned value with conceptually write to the
/// mapped pages, i.e. borrowing the mapping when the pages
/// are freed results in undefined behaviour.
DontNeed = libc::MADV_DONTNEED,
//
// The rest are Linux-specific
//
/// **MADV_FREE** - Linux (since Linux 4.5) and Darwin
///
/// The application no longer requires the pages in the range
/// specified by addr and len. The kernel can thus free these
/// pages, but the freeing could be delayed until memory
/// pressure occurs. For each of the pages that has been
/// marked to be freed but has not yet been freed, the free
/// operation will be canceled if the caller writes into the
/// page. After a successful MADV_FREE operation, any stale
/// data (i.e., dirty, unwritten pages) will be lost when the
/// kernel frees the pages. However, subsequent writes to
/// pages in the range will succeed and then kernel cannot
/// free those dirtied pages, so that the caller can always
/// see just written data. If there is no subsequent write,
/// the kernel can free the pages at any time. Once pages in
/// the range have been freed, the caller will see zero-fill-
/// on-demand pages upon subsequent page references.
///
/// The MADV_FREE operation can be applied only to private
/// anonymous pages (see mmap(2)). In Linux before version
/// 4.12, when freeing pages on a swapless system, the pages
/// in the given range are freed instantly, regardless of
/// memory pressure.
///
/// # Safety
///
/// Using the returned value with conceptually write to the
/// mapped pages, i.e. borrowing the mapping while the pages
/// are still being freed results in undefined behaviour.
#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "ios"))]
Free = libc::MADV_FREE,
/// **MADV_REMOVE** - Linux only (since Linux 2.6.16)
///
/// Free up a given range of pages and its associated backing
/// store. This is equivalent to punching a hole in the
/// corresponding byte range of the backing store (see
/// fallocate(2)). Subsequent accesses in the specified
/// address range will see bytes containing zero.
///
/// The specified address range must be mapped shared and
/// writable. This flag cannot be applied to locked pages,
/// Huge TLB pages, or VM_PFNMAP pages.
///
/// In the initial implementation, only tmpfs(5) was supported
/// **MADV_REMOVE**; but since Linux 3.5, any filesystem which
/// supports the fallocate(2) FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE mode also
/// supports MADV_REMOVE. Hugetlbfs fails with the error
/// EINVAL and other filesystems fail with the error
/// EOPNOTSUPP.
///
/// # Safety
///
/// Using the returned value with conceptually write to the
/// mapped pages, i.e. borrowing the mapping when the pages
/// are freed results in undefined behaviour.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
Remove = libc::MADV_REMOVE,
/// **MADV_FREE_REUSABLE** - Darwin only
///
/// Behaves like **MADV_FREE**, but the freed pages are accounted for in the RSS of the process.
///
/// # Safety
///
/// Using the returned value with conceptually write to the
/// mapped pages, i.e. borrowing the mapping while the pages
/// are still being freed results in undefined behaviour.
#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "ios"))]
FreeReusable = libc::MADV_FREE_REUSABLE,
/// **MADV_FREE_REUSE** - Darwin only
///
/// Marks a memory region previously freed by **MADV_FREE_REUSABLE** as non-reusable, accounts
/// for the pages in the RSS of the process. Pages that have been freed will be replaced by
/// zero-filled pages on demand, other pages will be left as is.
///
/// # Safety
///
/// Using the returned value with conceptually write to the
/// mapped pages, i.e. borrowing the mapping while the pages
/// are still being freed results in undefined behaviour.
#[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "ios"))]
FreeReuse = libc::MADV_FREE_REUSE,
}
// Future expansion:
// MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE (since Linux 2.6.33)
// MADV_WIPEONFORK (since Linux 4.14)
// MADV_KEEPONFORK (since Linux 4.14)
// MADV_COLD (since Linux 5.4)
// MADV_PAGEOUT (since Linux 5.4)