// Copyright 2011 Evan Shaw. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // This file defines the common package interface and contains a little bit of // factored out logic. // Package mmap allows mapping files into memory. It tries to provide a simple, reasonably portable interface, // but doesn't go out of its way to abstract away every little platform detail. // This specifically means: // * forked processes may or may not inherit mappings // * a file's timestamp may or may not be updated by writes through mappings // * specifying a size larger than the file's actual size can increase the file's size // * If the mapped file is being modified by another process while your program's running, don't expect consistent results between platforms package mmap import ( "errors" "os" "reflect" "unsafe" ) const ( // RDONLY maps the memory read-only. // Attempts to write to the MMap object will result in undefined behavior. RDONLY = 0 // RDWR maps the memory as read-write. Writes to the MMap object will update the // underlying file. RDWR = 1 << iota // COPY maps the memory as copy-on-write. Writes to the MMap object will affect // memory, but the underlying file will remain unchanged. COPY // If EXEC is set, the mapped memory is marked as executable. EXEC ) const ( // If the ANON flag is set, the mapped memory will not be backed by a file. ANON = 1 << iota ) // MMap represents a file mapped into memory. type MMap []byte // Map maps an entire file into memory. // If ANON is set in flags, f is ignored. func Map(f *os.File, prot, flags int) (MMap, error) { return MapRegion(f, -1, prot, flags, 0) } // MapRegion maps part of a file into memory. // The offset parameter must be a multiple of the system's page size. // If length < 0, the entire file will be mapped. // If ANON is set in flags, f is ignored. func MapRegion(f *os.File, length int, prot, flags int, offset int64) (MMap, error) { if offset%int64(os.Getpagesize()) != 0 { return nil, errors.New("offset parameter must be a multiple of the system's page size") } var fd uintptr if flags&ANON == 0 { fd = uintptr(f.Fd()) if length < 0 { fi, err := f.Stat() if err != nil { return nil, err } length = int(fi.Size()) } } else { if length <= 0 { return nil, errors.New("anonymous mapping requires non-zero length") } fd = ^uintptr(0) } return mmap(length, uintptr(prot), uintptr(flags), fd, offset) } func (m *MMap) header() *reflect.SliceHeader { return (*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(m)) } func (m *MMap) addrLen() (uintptr, uintptr) { header := m.header() return header.Data, uintptr(header.Len) } // Lock keeps the mapped region in physical memory, ensuring that it will not be // swapped out. func (m MMap) Lock() error { return m.lock() } // Unlock reverses the effect of Lock, allowing the mapped region to potentially // be swapped out. // If m is already unlocked, aan error will result. func (m MMap) Unlock() error { return m.unlock() } // Flush synchronizes the mapping's contents to the file's contents on disk. func (m MMap) Flush() error { return m.flush() } // Unmap deletes the memory mapped region, flushes any remaining changes, and sets // m to nil. // Trying to read or write any remaining references to m after Unmap is called will // result in undefined behavior. // Unmap should only be called on the slice value that was originally returned from // a call to Map. Calling Unmap on a derived slice may cause errors. func (m *MMap) Unmap() error { err := m.unmap() *m = nil return err }