bpo-32941: Add madvise() for mmap objects (GH-6172)

Allow mmap objects to access the madvise() system call.

Doc/library/mmap.rst

@@ -203,6 +203,20 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
          exception was raised on error under Unix.
 
 
+   .. method:: madvise(option[, start[, length]])
+
+      Send advice *option* to the kernel about the memory region beginning at
+      *start* and extending *length* bytes.  *option* must be one of the
+      :ref:`MADV_* constants <madvise-constants>` available on the system.  If
+      *start* and *length* are omitted, the entire mapping is spanned.  On
+      some systems (including Linux), *start* must be a multiple of the
+      :const:`PAGESIZE`.
+
+      Availability: Systems with the ``madvise()`` system call.
+
+      .. versionadded:: 3.8
+
+
    .. method:: move(dest, src, count)
 
       Copy the *count* bytes starting at offset *src* to the destination index
@@ -292,3 +306,38 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
       position of the file pointer; the file position is advanced by ``1``. If
       the mmap was created with :const:`ACCESS_READ`, then writing to it will
       raise a :exc:`TypeError` exception.
+
+.. _madvise-constants:
+
+MADV_* Constants
+++++++++++++++++
+
+.. data:: MADV_NORMAL
+          MADV_RANDOM
+          MADV_SEQUENTIAL
+          MADV_WILLNEED
+          MADV_DONTNEED
+          MADV_REMOVE
+          MADV_DONTFORK
+          MADV_DOFORK
+          MADV_HWPOISON
+          MADV_MERGEABLE
+          MADV_UNMERGEABLE
+          MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
+          MADV_HUGEPAGE
+          MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
+          MADV_DONTDUMP
+          MADV_DODUMP
+          MADV_FREE
+          MADV_NOSYNC
+          MADV_AUTOSYNC
+          MADV_NOCORE
+          MADV_CORE
+          MADV_PROTECT
+
+   These options can be passed to :meth:`mmap.madvise`.  Not every option will
+   be present on every system.
+
+   Availability: Systems with the madvise() system call.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.8

Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst

@@ -460,6 +460,15 @@ numbers. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`35606`)
 Added new function :func:`math.isqrt` for computing integer square roots.
 (Contributed by Mark Dickinson in :issue:`36887`.)
 
+
+mmap
+----
+
+The :class:`mmap.mmap` class now has an :meth:`~mmap.mmap.madvise` method to
+access the ``madvise()`` system call.
+(Contributed by Zackery Spytz in :issue:`32941`.)
+
+
 os
 --
 

Lib/test/test_mmap.py

@@ -739,6 +739,25 @@ class MmapTests(unittest.TestCase):
             # See bpo-34754 for details.
             self.assertRaises(OSError, mm.flush, 1, len(b'python'))
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(mmap.mmap, 'madvise'), 'needs madvise')
+    def test_madvise(self):
+        size = 8192
+        m = mmap.mmap(-1, size)
+
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "madvise start out of bounds"):
+            m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, size)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "madvise start out of bounds"):
+            m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, -1)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "madvise length invalid"):
+            m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, 0, -1)
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(OverflowError, "madvise length too large"):
+            m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, PAGESIZE, sys.maxsize)
+        self.assertEqual(m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL), None)
+        self.assertEqual(m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, PAGESIZE), None)
+        self.assertEqual(m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, PAGESIZE, size), None)
+        self.assertEqual(m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, 0, 2), None)
+        self.assertEqual(m.madvise(mmap.MADV_NORMAL, 0, size), None)
+
 
 class LargeMmapTests(unittest.TestCase):
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-20-20-57-00.bpo-32941.9FU0gL.rst

+Allow :class:`mmap.mmap` objects to access the madvise() system call
+(through :meth:`mmap.mmap.madvise`).

Modules/mmapmodule.c

@@ -708,11 +708,54 @@ mmap__sizeof__method(mmap_object *self, void *unused)
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef HAVE_MADVISE
+static PyObject *
+mmap_madvise_method(mmap_object *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+    int option;
+    Py_ssize_t start = 0, length;
+
+    CHECK_VALID(NULL);
+    length = self->size;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i|nn:madvise", &option, &start, &length)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (start < 0 || start >= self->size) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "madvise start out of bounds");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    if (length < 0) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "madvise length invalid");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    if (PY_SSIZE_T_MAX - start < length) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "madvise length too large");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (start + length > self->size) {
+        length = self->size - start;
+    }
+
+    if (madvise(self->data + start, length, option) != 0) {
+        PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    Py_RETURN_NONE;
+}
+#endif // HAVE_MADVISE
+
 static struct PyMethodDef mmap_object_methods[] = {
     {"close",           (PyCFunction) mmap_close_method,        METH_NOARGS},
     {"find",            (PyCFunction) mmap_find_method,         METH_VARARGS},
     {"rfind",           (PyCFunction) mmap_rfind_method,        METH_VARARGS},
     {"flush",           (PyCFunction) mmap_flush_method,        METH_VARARGS},
+#ifdef HAVE_MADVISE
+    {"madvise",         (PyCFunction) mmap_madvise_method,      METH_VARARGS},
+#endif
     {"move",            (PyCFunction) mmap_move_method,         METH_VARARGS},
     {"read",            (PyCFunction) mmap_read_method,         METH_VARARGS},
     {"read_byte",       (PyCFunction) mmap_read_byte_method,    METH_NOARGS},
@@ -1494,5 +1537,80 @@ PyInit_mmap(void)
     setint(dict, "ACCESS_READ", ACCESS_READ);
     setint(dict, "ACCESS_WRITE", ACCESS_WRITE);
     setint(dict, "ACCESS_COPY", ACCESS_COPY);
+
+#ifdef HAVE_MADVISE
+    // Conventional advice values
+#ifdef MADV_NORMAL
+    setint(dict, "MADV_NORMAL", MADV_NORMAL);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_RANDOM
+    setint(dict, "MADV_RANDOM", MADV_RANDOM);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_SEQUENTIAL
+    setint(dict, "MADV_SEQUENTIAL", MADV_SEQUENTIAL);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_WILLNEED
+    setint(dict, "MADV_WILLNEED", MADV_WILLNEED);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_DONTNEED
+    setint(dict, "MADV_DONTNEED", MADV_DONTNEED);
+#endif
+
+    // Linux-specific advice values
+#ifdef MADV_REMOVE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_REMOVE", MADV_REMOVE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_DONTFORK
+    setint(dict, "MADV_DONTFORK", MADV_DONTFORK);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_DOFORK
+    setint(dict, "MADV_DOFORK", MADV_DOFORK);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_HWPOISON
+    setint(dict, "MADV_HWPOISON", MADV_HWPOISON);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_MERGEABLE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_MERGEABLE", MADV_MERGEABLE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_UNMERGEABLE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_UNMERGEABLE", MADV_UNMERGEABLE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE", MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_HUGEPAGE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_HUGEPAGE", MADV_HUGEPAGE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_NOHUGEPAGE", MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_DONTDUMP
+    setint(dict, "MADV_DONTDUMP", MADV_DONTDUMP);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_DODUMP
+    setint(dict, "MADV_DODUMP", MADV_DODUMP);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_FREE // (Also present on FreeBSD and macOS.)
+    setint(dict, "MADV_FREE", MADV_FREE);
+#endif
+
+    // FreeBSD-specific
+#ifdef MADV_NOSYNC
+    setint(dict, "MADV_NOSYNC", MADV_NOSYNC);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_AUTOSYNC
+    setint(dict, "MADV_AUTOSYNC", MADV_AUTOSYNC);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_NOCORE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_NOCORE", MADV_NOCORE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_CORE
+    setint(dict, "MADV_CORE", MADV_CORE);
+#endif
+#ifdef MADV_PROTECT
+    setint(dict, "MADV_PROTECT", MADV_PROTECT);
+#endif
+#endif // HAVE_MADVISE
+
     return module;
 }

configure

@@ -11471,7 +11471,7 @@ for ac_func in alarm accept4 setitimer getitimer bind_textdomain_codeset chown \
  getgrouplist getgroups getlogin getloadavg getpeername getpgid getpid \
  getpriority getresuid getresgid getpwent getpwnam_r getpwuid_r getspnam getspent getsid getwd \
  if_nameindex \
- initgroups kill killpg lchmod lchown lockf linkat lstat lutimes mmap \
+ initgroups kill killpg lchmod lchown lockf linkat lstat lutimes madvise mmap \
  memrchr mbrtowc mkdirat mkfifo \
  mkfifoat mknod mknodat mktime mremap nice openat pathconf pause pipe2 plock poll \
  posix_fallocate posix_fadvise posix_spawn posix_spawnp pread preadv preadv2 \

configure.ac

@@ -3527,7 +3527,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(alarm accept4 setitimer getitimer bind_textdomain_codeset chown \
  getgrouplist getgroups getlogin getloadavg getpeername getpgid getpid \
  getpriority getresuid getresgid getpwent getpwnam_r getpwuid_r getspnam getspent getsid getwd \
  if_nameindex \
- mkfifoat mknod mknodat mktime mremap nice openat pathconf pause pipe2 plock poll \
+ madvise mkfifoat mknod mknodat mktime mremap nice openat pathconf pause pipe2 plock poll \
  posix_fallocate posix_fadvise posix_spawn posix_spawnp pread preadv preadv2 \
  pthread_condattr_setclock pthread_init pthread_kill putenv pwrite pwritev pwritev2 \
  readlink readlinkat readv realpath renameat \

pyconfig.h.in

@@ -658,6 +658,9 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `lutimes' function. */
 #undef HAVE_LUTIMES
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have the `madvise' function. */
+#undef HAVE_MADVISE
+
 /* Define this if you have the makedev macro. */
 #undef HAVE_MAKEDEV