// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements. // The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license. // See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information. // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // LazyCOW.h // // // Provides support for "lazy copy-on-write" pages. // // NGEN images contain a large amount of writable data. At runtime, we typically only actually write to a small portion of this data. // When we write to a writable page in an image, the OS must create a process-local copy of that page, so that other proceses // cannot see the written data. To prevent this copy from failing, the OS pre-commits space in the pagefile for all writable // pages when the image is loaded. Thus we get charged for every writable page, even if we only write to a few of them. // // FEATURE_LAZY_COW_PAGES enables "lazy copy-on-write." We mark the pages in the image file as read-only, and thus the OS // does not pre-commit pagefile for these pages. At runtime, prior to writing to any page, we update it to be writable. // This may fail, and thus is not appropriate for scenarios where strong reliability guarantees must be met. But for // devices with small memory this is still worth it. // // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #ifndef LAZY_COW_H #define LAZY_COW_H #ifdef FEATURE_LAZY_COW_PAGES #ifdef _WIN64 // due to the way we track pages, we cannot currently support 64-bit. #error FEATURE_LAZY_COW_PAGES is only supported on 32-bit platforms. #endif class PEDecoder; // If hModule is a native image, establishes copy-on-write tracking for the image. // FreeLazyCOWPages must be called immediately before the module is unloaded. void AllocateLazyCOWPages(PEDecoder * pImage); // If hModule is a native image, disestablishes copy-on-write tracking for the image. // The image must be immediately unloaded following this call. void FreeLazyCOWPages(PEDecoder * pImage); bool IsInReadOnlyLazyCOWPage(void* p); // Forces the page(s) covered by the given address range to be made writable, // if they are being tracked as copy-on-write pages. Otherwise does nothing. // Returns false if we could not allocate the necessary memory. bool EnsureWritablePagesNoThrow(void* p, size_t len); // Version for executable pages bool EnsureWritableExecutablePagesNoThrow(void* p, size_t len); // Throwing version of EnsureWritablePagesNoThrow void EnsureWritablePages(void* p, size_t len); // Version for executable pages void EnsureWritableExecutablePages(void* p, size_t len); #else //FEATURE_LAZY_COW_PAGES inline bool EnsureWritablePagesNoThrow(void* p, size_t len) { return true; } inline bool EnsureWritableExecutablePagesNoThrow(void* p, size_t len) { return true; } inline void EnsureWritablePages(void* p, size_t len) { } inline void EnsureWritableExecutablePages(void* p, size_t len) { } #endif //FEATURE_LAZY_COW_PAGES // Typed version of EnsureWritable. Returns p, so this can be inserted in expressions. // Ignores any failure to allocate. In typical cases this means that the write will AV. // In the CLR that's OK; we handle the AV, try EnsureWritable(void*,size_t), and // fail-fast when it fails. template inline T* EnsureWritablePages(T* p) { EnsureWritablePages(p, sizeof(T)); return p; } template inline T* EnsureWritableExecutablePages(T* p) { EnsureWritableExecutablePages(p, sizeof(T)); return p; } #endif // LAZY_COW_H