RFR: 8371637: allocateNativeInternal sometimes return incorrectly aligned memory [v7]
Harald Eilertsen
haraldei at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 20 21:08:10 UTC 2025
> `jdk.internal.foreign.SegmentFactories::allocateNativeInternal` assumes that the underlying implementation of malloc aligns allocations on 16 byte boundaries for 64 bit platforms, and 8 byte boundaries on 32 bit platforms. So for any allocation where the requested alignment is less than or equal to this default alignment it makes no adjustment.
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> However, this assumption does not hold for all allocators. Specifically jemallc, used by libc on FreeBSD will align small allocations on 8 or 4 byte boundaries, respectively. This causes allocateNativeInternal to sometimes return memory that is not properly aligned when the requested alignment is exactly 16 bytes.
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> To make sure we honour the requested alignment when it exaclty matches the quantum as defined by MAX_MALLOC_ALIGN, this patch ensures that we adjust the alignment also in this case.
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> This should make no difference for platforms where malloc allready aligns on the quantum, except for a few unnecessary trivial calculations.
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> This work was sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Harald Eilertsen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
Add explanatory comment
Co-authored-by: Jorn Vernee <JornVernee at users.noreply.github.com>
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28235/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28235/files/d5232988..8b3080ea
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28235&range=06
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28235&range=05-06
Stats: 2 lines in 1 file changed: 2 ins; 0 del; 0 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28235.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28235/head:pull/28235
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28235
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