/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * memutils.h * This file contains declarations for memory allocation utility * functions. These are functions that are not quite widely used * enough to justify going in utils/palloc.h, but are still part * of the API of the memory management subsystem. * * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * $Id: memutils.h,v 1.51 2003/05/02 20:54:36 tgl Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef MEMUTILS_H #define MEMUTILS_H #include "nodes/memnodes.h" /* * MaxAllocSize * Quasi-arbitrary limit on size of allocations. * * Note: * There is no guarantee that allocations smaller than MaxAllocSize * will succeed. Allocation requests larger than MaxAllocSize will * be summarily denied. * * XXX This is deliberately chosen to correspond to the limiting size * of varlena objects under TOAST. See VARATT_MASK_SIZE in postgres.h. */ #define MaxAllocSize ((Size) 0x3fffffff) /* 1 gigabyte - 1 */ #define AllocSizeIsValid(size) (0 < (size) && (size) <= MaxAllocSize) /* * All chunks allocated by any memory context manager are required to be * preceded by a StandardChunkHeader at a spacing of STANDARDCHUNKHEADERSIZE. * A currently-allocated chunk must contain a backpointer to its owning * context as well as the allocated size of the chunk. The backpointer is * used by pfree() and repalloc() to find the context to call. The allocated * size is not absolutely essential, but it's expected to be needed by any * reasonable implementation. */ typedef struct StandardChunkHeader { MemoryContext context; /* owning context */ Size size; /* size of data space allocated in chunk */ #ifdef MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING /* when debugging memory usage, also store actual requested size */ Size requested_size; #endif } StandardChunkHeader; #define STANDARDCHUNKHEADERSIZE MAXALIGN(sizeof(StandardChunkHeader)) /* * Standard top-level memory contexts. * * Only TopMemoryContext and ErrorContext are initialized by * MemoryContextInit() itself. */ extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext TopMemoryContext; extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext ErrorContext; extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext PostmasterContext; extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext CacheMemoryContext; extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext MessageContext; extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext TopTransactionContext; /* These two are transient links to contexts owned by other objects: */ extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext QueryContext; extern DLLIMPORT MemoryContext PortalContext; /* * Memory-context-type-independent functions in mcxt.c */ extern void MemoryContextInit(void); extern void MemoryContextReset(MemoryContext context); extern void MemoryContextDelete(MemoryContext context); extern void MemoryContextResetChildren(MemoryContext context); extern void MemoryContextDeleteChildren(MemoryContext context); extern void MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(MemoryContext context); extern Size GetMemoryChunkSpace(void *pointer); extern MemoryContext GetMemoryChunkContext(void *pointer); extern void MemoryContextStats(MemoryContext context); #ifdef MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING extern void MemoryContextCheck(MemoryContext context); #endif extern bool MemoryContextContains(MemoryContext context, void *pointer); /* * This routine handles the context-type-independent part of memory * context creation. It's intended to be called from context-type- * specific creation routines, and noplace else. */ extern MemoryContext MemoryContextCreate(NodeTag tag, Size size, MemoryContextMethods *methods, MemoryContext parent, const char *name); /* * Memory-context-type-specific functions */ /* aset.c */ extern MemoryContext AllocSetContextCreate(MemoryContext parent, const char *name, Size minContextSize, Size initBlockSize, Size maxBlockSize); /* * Recommended default alloc parameters, suitable for "ordinary" contexts * that might hold quite a lot of data. */ #define ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MINSIZE 0 #define ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_INITSIZE (8 * 1024) #define ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MAXSIZE (8 * 1024 * 1024) /* * Recommended alloc parameters for "small" contexts that are not expected * to contain much data (for example, a context to contain a query plan). */ #define ALLOCSET_SMALL_MINSIZE 0 #define ALLOCSET_SMALL_INITSIZE (1 * 1024) #define ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE (8 * 1024) #endif /* MEMUTILS_H */