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Tobias Klauser 77f9b2728e runtime: use MADV_FREE on Linux if available
On Linux, sysUnused currently uses madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) to signal the
kernel that a range of allocated memory contains unneeded data. After a
successful call, the range (but not the data it contained before the
call to madvise) is still available but the first access to that range
will unconditionally incur a page fault (needed to 0-fill the range).

A faster alternative is MADV_FREE, available since Linux 4.5. The
mechanism is very similar, but the page fault will only be incurred if
the kernel, between the call to madvise and the first access, decides to
reuse that memory for something else.

In sysUnused, test whether MADV_FREE is supported and fall back to
MADV_DONTNEED in case it isn't. This requires making the return value of
the madvise syscall available to the caller, so change runtime.madvise
to return it.

Fixes #23687

Change-Id: I962c3429000dd9f4a00846461ad128b71201bb04
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/135395
Run-TryBot: Tobias Klauser <tobias.klauser@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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