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diff --git a/tools/go_marshal/marshal/marshal.go b/tools/go_marshal/marshal/marshal.go
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+// 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 (
+ "gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/usermem"
+)
+
+// Task provides a subset of kernel.Task, used in marshalling. We don't import
+// the kernel package directly to avoid circular dependency.
+type Task 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 a type that can be marshalled to and from memory.
+type Marshallable interface {
+ // SizeBytes is the size of the memory representation of a type in
+ // marshalled form.
+ SizeBytes() int
+
+ // MarshalBytes serializes a copy of a type to dst. dst must be at least
+ // SizeBytes() long.
+ MarshalBytes(dst []byte)
+
+ // UnmarshalBytes deserializes a type from src. src must be at least
+ // SizeBytes() long.
+ 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() 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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ CopyIn(task Task, 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.
+ CopyOut(task Task, addr usermem.Addr) (int, error)
+}
diff --git a/tools/go_marshal/marshal/marshal_state_autogen.go b/tools/go_marshal/marshal/marshal_state_autogen.go
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+// automatically generated by stateify.
+
+package marshal