Add a pooling allocator mode based on copy-on-write mappings of memfds.
As first suggested by Jan on the Zulip here [1], a cheap and effective way to obtain copy-on-write semantics of a "backing image" for a Wasm memory is to mmap a file with `MAP_PRIVATE`. The `memfd` mechanism provided by the Linux kernel allows us to create anonymous, in-memory-only files that we can use for this mapping, so we can construct the image contents on-the-fly then effectively create a CoW overlay. Furthermore, and importantly, `madvise(MADV_DONTNEED, ...)` will discard the CoW overlay, returning the mapping to its original state. By itself this is almost enough for a very fast instantiation-termination loop of the same image over and over, without changing the address space mapping at all (which is expensive). The only missing bit is how to implement heap *growth*. But here memfds can help us again: if we create another anonymous file and map it where the extended parts of the heap would go, we can take advantage of the fact that a `mmap()` mapping can be *larger than the file itself*, with accesses beyond the end generating a `SIGBUS`, and the fact that we can cheaply resize the file with `ftruncate`, even after a mapping exists. So we can map the "heap extension" file once with the maximum memory-slot size and grow the memfd itself as `memory.grow` operations occur. The above CoW technique and heap-growth technique together allow us a fastpath of `madvise()` and `ftruncate()` only when we re-instantiate the same module over and over, as long as we can reuse the same slot. This fastpath avoids all whole-process address-space locks in the Linux kernel, which should mean it is highly scalable. It also avoids the cost of copying data on read, as the `uffd` heap backend does when servicing pagefaults; the kernel's own optimized CoW logic (same as used by all file mmaps) is used instead. [1] https://bytecodealliance.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/206238-general/topic/Copy.20on.20write.20based.20instance.20reuse/near/266657772
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@@ -51,9 +51,17 @@ pub unsafe fn platform_init() {
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register(&mut PREV_SIGFPE, libc::SIGFPE);
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}
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// On ARM, handle Unaligned Accesses.
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// On Darwin, guard page accesses are raised as SIGBUS.
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if cfg!(target_arch = "arm") || cfg!(target_os = "macos") || cfg!(target_os = "freebsd") {
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// Sometimes we need to handle SIGBUS too:
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// - On ARM, handle Unaligned Accesses.
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// - On Darwin, guard page accesses are raised as SIGBUS.
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// - With the MemFD allocator, heap growth is controlled by
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// ftruncate'ing an mmap'd file, and so out-of-bounds accesses
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// are raised as SIGBUS.
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if cfg!(target_arch = "arm")
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|| cfg!(target_os = "macos")
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|| cfg!(target_os = "freebsd")
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|| cfg!(feature = "memfd-allocator")
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{
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register(&mut PREV_SIGBUS, libc::SIGBUS);
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}
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}
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