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Austin Clements f407ca9288 runtime: support smaller physical pages than PhysPageSize
Most operations need an upper bound on the physical page size, which
is what sys.PhysPageSize is for (this is checked at runtime init on
Linux). However, a few operations need a *lower* bound on the physical
page size. Introduce a "minPhysPageSize" constant to act as this lower
bound and use it where it makes sense:

1) In addrspace_free, we have to query each page in the given range.
   Currently we increment by the upper bound on the physical page
   size, which means we may skip over pages if the true size is
   smaller. Worse, we currently pass a result buffer that only has
   enough room for one page. If there are actually multiple pages in
   the range passed to mincore, the kernel will overflow this buffer.
   Fix these problems by incrementing by the lower-bound on the
   physical page size and by passing "1" for the length, which the
   kernel will round up to the true physical page size.

2) In the write barrier, the bad pointer check tests for pointers to
   the first physical page, which are presumably small integers
   masquerading as pointers. However, if physical pages are smaller
   than we think, we may have legitimate pointers below
   sys.PhysPageSize. Hence, use minPhysPageSize for this test since
   pointers should never fall below that.

In particular, this applies to ARM64 and MIPS. The runtime is
configured to use 64kB pages on ARM64, but by default Linux uses 4kB
pages. Similarly, the runtime assumes 16kB pages on MIPS, but both 4kB
and 16kB kernel configurations are common. This also applies to ARM on
systems where the runtime is recompiled to deal with a larger page
size. It is also a step toward making the runtime use only a
dynamically-queried page size.

Change-Id: I1fdfd18f6e7cbca170cc100354b9faa22fde8a69
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/25020
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
2016-07-20 18:28:43 +00:00
.github doc: update issue template 2016-03-09 00:52:16 +00:00
api unicode: upgrade to version 9.0.0 2016-06-28 15:08:11 +00:00
doc doc/go1.7.html: start sentence on a new line 2016-07-18 21:07:34 +00:00
lib/time lib/time: update to IANA release 2016f (July 2016) 2016-07-07 16:15:13 +00:00
misc cmd/cgo: error, not panic, if not enough arguments to function 2016-06-21 04:32:04 +00:00
src runtime: support smaller physical pages than PhysPageSize 2016-07-20 18:28:43 +00:00
test cmd/compile, syscall: add //go:uintptrescapes comment, and use it 2016-07-06 20:48:41 +00:00
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