/****************************************************** The interface to the operating system process control primitives (c) 1995 Innobase Oy Created 9/30/1995 Heikki Tuuri *******************************************************/ #ifndef os0proc_h #define os0proc_h #include "univ.i" typedef void* os_process_t; typedef unsigned long int os_process_id_t; /* The cell type in os_awe_allocate_mem page info */ #if defined(__WIN2000__) && defined(ULONG_PTR) typedef ULONG_PTR os_awe_t; #else typedef ulint os_awe_t; #endif /* Physical page size when Windows AWE is used. This is the normal page size of an Intel x86 processor. We cannot use AWE with 2 MB or 4 MB pages. */ #define OS_AWE_X86_PAGE_SIZE 4096 /******************************************************************** Windows AWE support. Tries to enable the "lock pages in memory" privilege for the current process so that the current process can allocate memory-locked virtual address space to act as the window where AWE maps physical memory. */ ibool os_awe_enable_lock_pages_in_mem(void); /*=================================*/ /* out: TRUE if success, FALSE if error; prints error info to stderr if no success */ /******************************************************************** Allocates physical RAM memory up to 64 GB in an Intel 32-bit x86 processor. */ ibool os_awe_allocate_physical_mem( /*=========================*/ /* out: TRUE if success */ os_awe_t** page_info, /* out, own: array of opaque data containing the info for allocated physical memory pages; each allocated 4 kB physical memory page has one slot of type os_awe_t in the array */ ulint n_megabytes); /* in: number of megabytes to allocate */ /******************************************************************** Allocates a window in the virtual address space where we can map then pages of physical memory. */ byte* os_awe_allocate_virtual_mem_window( /*===============================*/ /* out, own: allocated memory, or NULL if did not succeed */ ulint size); /* in: virtual memory allocation size in bytes, must be < 2 GB */ /******************************************************************** With this function you can map parts of physical memory allocated with the ..._allocate_physical_mem to the virtual address space allocated with the previous function. Intel implements this so that the process page tables are updated accordingly. A test on a 1.5 GHz AMD processor and XP showed that this takes < 1 microsecond, much better than the estimated 80 us for copying a 16 kB page memory to memory. But, the operation will at least partially invalidate the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) of all processors. Under a real-world load the performance hit may be bigger. */ ibool os_awe_map_physical_mem_to_window( /*==============================*/ /* out: TRUE if success; the function calls exit(1) in case of an error */ byte* ptr, /* in: a page-aligned pointer to somewhere in the virtual address space window; we map the physical mem pages here */ ulint n_mem_pages, /* in: number of 4 kB mem pages to map */ os_awe_t* page_info); /* in: array of page infos for those pages; each page has one slot in the array */ /******************************************************************** Converts the current process id to a number. It is not guaranteed that the number is unique. In Linux returns the 'process number' of the current thread. That number is the same as one sees in 'top', for example. In Linux the thread id is not the same as one sees in 'top'. */ ulint os_proc_get_number(void); /*====================*/ /******************************************************************** Allocates non-cacheable memory. */ void* os_mem_alloc_nocache( /*=================*/ /* out: allocated memory */ ulint n); /* in: number of bytes */ /******************************************************************** Sets the priority boost for threads released from waiting within the current process. */ void os_process_set_priority_boost( /*==========================*/ ibool do_boost); /* in: TRUE if priority boost should be done, FALSE if not */ #ifndef UNIV_NONINL #include "os0proc.ic" #endif #endif