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diff --git a/pkg/marshal/marshal.go b/pkg/marshal/marshal.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d8cb44b40 --- /dev/null +++ b/pkg/marshal/marshal.go @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +// Copyright 2019 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 marshal defines the Marshallable interface for +// serialize/deserializing go data structures to/from memory, according to the +// Linux ABI. +// +// Implementations of this interface are typically automatically generated by +// tools/go_marshal. See the go_marshal README for details. +package marshal + +import ( + "io" + + "gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/usermem" +) + +// CopyContext defines the memory operations required to marshal to and from +// user memory. Typically, kernel.Task is used to provide implementations for +// these operations. +type CopyContext interface { + // CopyScratchBuffer provides a task goroutine-local scratch buffer. See + // kernel.CopyScratchBuffer. + CopyScratchBuffer(size int) []byte + + // CopyOutBytes writes the contents of b to the task's memory. See + // kernel.CopyOutBytes. + CopyOutBytes(addr usermem.Addr, b []byte) (int, error) + + // CopyInBytes reads the contents of the task's memory to b. See + // kernel.CopyInBytes. + CopyInBytes(addr usermem.Addr, b []byte) (int, error) +} + +// Marshallable represents operations on a type that can be marshalled to and +// from memory. +// +// go-marshal automatically generates implementations for this interface for +// types marked as '+marshal'. +type Marshallable interface { + io.WriterTo + + // SizeBytes is the size of the memory representation of a type in + // marshalled form. + // + // SizeBytes must handle a nil receiver. Practically, this means SizeBytes + // cannot deference any fields on the object implementing it (but will + // likely make use of the type of these fields). + SizeBytes() int + + // MarshalBytes serializes a copy of a type to dst. + // Precondition: dst must be at least SizeBytes() in length. + MarshalBytes(dst []byte) + + // UnmarshalBytes deserializes a type from src. + // Precondition: src must be at least SizeBytes() in length. + UnmarshalBytes(src []byte) + + // Packed returns true if the marshalled size of the type is the same as the + // size it occupies in memory. This happens when the type has no fields + // starting at unaligned addresses (should always be true by default for ABI + // structs, verified by automatically generated tests when using + // go_marshal), and has no fields marked `marshal:"unaligned"`. + // + // Packed must return the same result for all possible values of the type + // implementing it. Violating this constraint implies the type doesn't have + // a static memory layout, and will lead to memory corruption. + // Go-marshal-generated code reuses the result of Packed for multiple values + // of the same type. + Packed() bool + + // MarshalUnsafe serializes a type by bulk copying its in-memory + // representation to the dst buffer. This is only safe to do when the type + // has no implicit padding, see Marshallable.Packed. When Packed would + // return false, MarshalUnsafe should fall back to the safer but slower + // MarshalBytes. + // Precondition: dst must be at least SizeBytes() in length. + MarshalUnsafe(dst []byte) + + // UnmarshalUnsafe deserializes a type by directly copying to the underlying + // memory allocated for the object by the runtime. + // + // This allows much faster unmarshalling of types which have no implicit + // padding, see Marshallable.Packed. When Packed would return false, + // UnmarshalUnsafe should fall back to the safer but slower unmarshal + // mechanism implemented in UnmarshalBytes. + // Precondition: src must be at least SizeBytes() in length. + UnmarshalUnsafe(src []byte) + + // CopyIn deserializes a Marshallable type from a task's memory. This may + // only be called from a task goroutine. This is more efficient than calling + // UnmarshalUnsafe on Marshallable.Packed types, as the type being + // marshalled does not escape. The implementation should avoid creating + // extra copies in memory by directly deserializing to the object's + // underlying memory. + // + // If the copy-in from the task memory is only partially successful, CopyIn + // should still attempt to deserialize as much data as possible. See comment + // for UnmarshalBytes. + CopyIn(cc CopyContext, addr usermem.Addr) (int, error) + + // CopyOut serializes a Marshallable type to a task's memory. This may only + // be called from a task goroutine. This is more efficient than calling + // MarshalUnsafe on Marshallable.Packed types, as the type being serialized + // does not escape. The implementation should avoid creating extra copies in + // memory by directly serializing from the object's underlying memory. + // + // The copy-out to the task memory may be partially successful, in which + // case CopyOut returns how much data was serialized. See comment for + // MarshalBytes for implications. + CopyOut(cc CopyContext, addr usermem.Addr) (int, error) + + // CopyOutN is like CopyOut, but explicitly requests a partial + // copy-out. Note that this may yield unexpected results for non-packed + // types and the caller may only want to allow this for packed types. See + // comment on MarshalBytes. + // + // The limit must be less than or equal to SizeBytes(). + CopyOutN(cc CopyContext, addr usermem.Addr, limit int) (int, error) +} + +// go-marshal generates additional functions for a type based on additional +// clauses to the +marshal directive. They are documented below. +// +// Slice API +// ========= +// +// Adding a "slice" clause to the +marshal directive for structs or newtypes on +// primitives like this: +// +// // +marshal slice:FooSlice +// type Foo struct { ... } +// +// Generates four additional functions for marshalling slices of Foos like this: +// +// // MarshalUnsafeFooSlice is like Foo.MarshalUnsafe, buf for a []Foo. It +// // might be more efficient that repeatedly calling Foo.MarshalUnsafe +// // over a []Foo in a loop if the type is Packed. +// // Preconditions: dst must be at least len(src)*Foo.SizeBytes() in length. +// func MarshalUnsafeFooSlice(src []Foo, dst []byte) (int, error) { ... } +// +// // UnmarshalUnsafeFooSlice is like Foo.UnmarshalUnsafe, buf for a []Foo. It +// // might be more efficient that repeatedly calling Foo.UnmarshalUnsafe +// // over a []Foo in a loop if the type is Packed. +// // Preconditions: src must be at least len(dst)*Foo.SizeBytes() in length. +// func UnmarshalUnsafeFooSlice(dst []Foo, src []byte) (int, error) { ... } +// +// // CopyFooSliceIn copies in a slice of Foo objects from the task's memory. +// func CopyFooSliceIn(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr usermem.Addr, dst []Foo) (int, error) { ... } +// +// // CopyFooSliceIn copies out a slice of Foo objects to the task's memory. +// func CopyFooSliceOut(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr usermem.Addr, src []Foo) (int, error) { ... } +// +// The name of the functions are of the format "Copy%sIn" and "Copy%sOut", where +// %s is the first argument to the slice clause. This directive is not supported +// for newtypes on arrays. +// +// The slice clause also takes an optional second argument, which must be the +// value "inner": +// +// // +marshal slice:Int32Slice:inner +// type Int32 int32 +// +// This is only valid on newtypes on primitives, and causes the generated +// functions to accept slices of the inner type instead: +// +// func CopyInt32SliceIn(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr usermem.Addr, dst []int32) (int, error) { ... } +// +// Without "inner", they would instead be: +// +// func CopyInt32SliceIn(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr usermem.Addr, dst []Int32) (int, error) { ... } +// +// This may help avoid a cast depending on how the generated functions are used. |