Source File
malloc.go
Belonging Package
internal/runtime/gc
// Copyright 2025 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package gc
import
const (
ptrBits = 8 * goarch.PtrSize
// A malloc header is functionally a single type pointer, but
// we need to use 8 here to ensure 8-byte alignment of allocations
// on 32-bit platforms. It's wasteful, but a lot of code relies on
// 8-byte alignment for 8-byte atomics.
MallocHeaderSize = 8
// The minimum object size that has a malloc header, exclusive.
//
// The size of this value controls overheads from the malloc header.
// The minimum size is bound by writeHeapBitsSmall, which assumes that the
// pointer bitmap for objects of a size smaller than this doesn't cross
// more than one pointer-word boundary. This sets an upper-bound on this
// value at the number of bits in a uintptr, multiplied by the pointer
// size in bytes.
//
// We choose a value here that has a natural cutover point in terms of memory
// overheads. This value just happens to be the maximum possible value this
// can be.
//
// A span with heap bits in it will have 128 bytes of heap bits on 64-bit
// platforms, and 256 bytes of heap bits on 32-bit platforms. The first size
// class where malloc headers match this overhead for 64-bit platforms is
// 512 bytes (8 KiB / 512 bytes * 8 bytes-per-header = 128 bytes of overhead).
// On 32-bit platforms, this same point is the 256 byte size class
// (8 KiB / 256 bytes * 8 bytes-per-header = 256 bytes of overhead).
//
// Guaranteed to be exactly at a size class boundary. The reason this value is
// an exclusive minimum is subtle. Suppose we're allocating a 504-byte object
// and its rounded up to 512 bytes for the size class. If minSizeForMallocHeader
// is 512 and an inclusive minimum, then a comparison against minSizeForMallocHeader
// by the two values would produce different results. In other words, the comparison
// would not be invariant to size-class rounding. Eschewing this property means a
// more complex check or possibly storing additional state to determine whether a
// span has malloc headers.
MinSizeForMallocHeader = goarch.PtrSize * ptrBits
// PageSize is the increment in which spans are managed.
PageSize = 1 << PageShift
)
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