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authorkevin.xu <cming.xu@gmail.com>2020-04-27 21:51:31 +0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-04-27 21:51:31 +0800
commite896ca54db67524afc20b644d43c72185e72dc0e (patch)
tree2a16f3a62a5cafd098f1f028c621f1b655589d69 /pkg/gohacks/gohacks_unsafe.go
parent1f19624fa127d7d59cabe29593cc80b7fe6c81f8 (diff)
parent3c67754663f424f2ebbc0ff2a4c80e30618d5355 (diff)
Merge pull request #1 from google/master
catch up
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+// Copyright 2020 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Package gohacks contains utilities for subverting the Go compiler.
+package gohacks
+
+import (
+ "reflect"
+ "unsafe"
+)
+
+// Noescape hides a pointer from escape analysis. Noescape is the identity
+// function but escape analysis doesn't think the output depends on the input.
+// Noescape is inlined and currently compiles down to zero instructions.
+// USE CAREFULLY!
+//
+// (Noescape is copy/pasted from Go's runtime/stubs.go:noescape().)
+//
+//go:nosplit
+func Noescape(p unsafe.Pointer) unsafe.Pointer {
+ x := uintptr(p)
+ return unsafe.Pointer(x ^ 0)
+}
+
+// ImmutableBytesFromString is equivalent to []byte(s), except that it uses the
+// same memory backing s instead of making a heap-allocated copy. This is only
+// valid if the returned slice is never mutated.
+func ImmutableBytesFromString(s string) []byte {
+ shdr := (*reflect.StringHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&s))
+ var bs []byte
+ bshdr := (*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&bs))
+ bshdr.Data = shdr.Data
+ bshdr.Len = shdr.Len
+ bshdr.Cap = shdr.Len
+ return bs
+}
+
+// StringFromImmutableBytes is equivalent to string(bs), except that it uses
+// the same memory backing bs instead of making a heap-allocated copy. This is
+// only valid if bs is never mutated after StringFromImmutableBytes returns.
+func StringFromImmutableBytes(bs []byte) string {
+ // This is cheaper than messing with reflect.StringHeader and
+ // reflect.SliceHeader, which as of this writing produces many dead stores
+ // of zeroes. Compare strings.Builder.String().
+ return *(*string)(unsafe.Pointer(&bs))
+}