// +build linux darwin // run // Copyright 2015 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. // Test that if a slice access causes a fault, a deferred func // sees the most recent value of the variables it accesses. // This is true today; the role of the test is to ensure it stays true. // // In the test, memcopy is the function that will fault, during dst[i] = src[i]. // The deferred func recovers from the error and returns, making memcopy // return the current value of n. If n is not being flushed to memory // after each modification, the result will be a stale value of n. // // The test is set up by mmapping a 64 kB block of memory and then // unmapping a 16 kB hole in the middle of it. Running memcopy // on the resulting slice will fault when it reaches the hole. package main import ( "log" "runtime/debug" "syscall" "unsafe" ) func memcopy(dst, src []byte) (n int, err error) { defer func() { err = recover().(error) }() for i := 0; i < len(dst) && i < len(src); i++ { dst[i] = src[i] n++ } return } func main() { // Turn the eventual fault into a panic, not a program crash, // so that memcopy can recover. debug.SetPanicOnFault(true) // Map 64 kB block of data with 16 kB hole in middle. data, err := syscall.Mmap(-1, 0, 64*1024, syscall.PROT_READ|syscall.PROT_WRITE, syscall.MAP_ANON|syscall.MAP_PRIVATE) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("mmap: %v", err) } // Note: Cannot call syscall.Munmap, because Munmap checks // that you are unmapping a whole region returned by Mmap. // We are trying to unmap just a hole in the middle. if _, _, err := syscall.Syscall(syscall.SYS_MUNMAP, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&data[32*1024])), 16*1024, 0); err != 0 { log.Fatalf("munmap: %v", err) } other := make([]byte, 64*1024) // Check that memcopy returns the actual amount copied // before the fault (32kB - 5, the offset we skip in the argument). n, err := memcopy(data[5:], other) if err == nil { log.Fatal("no error from memcopy across memory hole") } if n != 32*1024-5 { log.Fatal("memcopy returned %d, want %d", n, 32*1024-5) } }