/// module std.experimental.allocator.mmap_allocator; // MmapAllocator /** Allocator (currently defined only for Posix and Windows) using $(D $(LINK2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmap, mmap)) and $(D $(LUCKY munmap)) directly (or their Windows equivalents). There is no additional structure: each call to $(D allocate(s)) issues a call to $(D mmap(null, s, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)), and each call to $(D deallocate(b)) issues $(D munmap(b.ptr, b.length)). So $(D MmapAllocator) is usually intended for allocating large chunks to be managed by fine-granular allocators. */ struct MmapAllocator { /// The one shared instance. static shared MmapAllocator instance; /** Alignment is page-size and hardcoded to 4096 (even though on certain systems it could be larger). */ enum size_t alignment = 4096; version (Posix) { /// Allocator API. void[] allocate(size_t bytes) shared { import core.sys.posix.sys.mman : mmap, MAP_ANON, PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, MAP_FAILED; if (!bytes) return null; auto p = mmap(null, bytes, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0); if (p is MAP_FAILED) return null; return p[0 .. bytes]; } /// Ditto bool deallocate(void[] b) shared { import core.sys.posix.sys.mman : munmap; if (b.ptr) munmap(b.ptr, b.length) == 0 || assert(0); return true; } } else version (Windows) { import core.sys.windows.windows : VirtualAlloc, VirtualFree, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE, MEM_RELEASE; /// Allocator API. void[] allocate(size_t bytes) shared { if (!bytes) return null; auto p = VirtualAlloc(null, bytes, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE); if (p == null) return null; return p[0 .. bytes]; } /// Ditto bool deallocate(void[] b) shared { return b.ptr is null || VirtualFree(b.ptr, 0, MEM_RELEASE) != 0; } } } @system unittest { alias alloc = MmapAllocator.instance; auto p = alloc.allocate(100); assert(p.length == 100); alloc.deallocate(p); }