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Issue 2518253002: Move Partition Allocator into Chromium base. (Closed)

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1 # PartitionAlloc Design	1 # PartitionAlloc Design
	Primiano Tucci (use gerrit) 2016/11/22 14:28:32 since you are moving this, can you also update doc since you are moving this, can you also update docs/memory-infra/README.md that links to this file? palmer 2016/11/24 01:05:55 Done. Show quoted text > since you are moving this, can you also update docs/memory-infra/README.md that links to this file? Done.
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3 This document explains a high-level design of PartitionAlloc.	3 This document explains a high-level design of PartitionAlloc.

4 If you're interested in its in-depth implementation, see comments	4 If you're interested in its in-depth implementation, see comments

5 in PartitionAlloc.h.	5 in PartitionAlloc.h.

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7 [TOC]	7 [TOC]

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9 ## Overview	9 ## Overview

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11 PartitionAlloc is a memory allocator optimized for performance and security	11 PartitionAlloc is a memory allocator optimized for performance and security

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88 Linear overflow or underflow cannot corrupt the metadata.	88 Linear overflow or underflow cannot corrupt the metadata.

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90 * Buckets are helpful to allocate different-sized objects on different addresses .	90 * Buckets are helpful to allocate different-sized objects on different addresses .

91 One page can contain only similar-sized objects.	91 One page can contain only similar-sized objects.

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93 * Dereference of a freelist pointer should fault.	93 * Dereference of a freelist pointer should fault.

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95 * Partial pointer overwrite of freelist pointer should fault.	95 * Partial pointer overwrite of freelist pointer should fault.

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97 * Large allocations are guard-paged at the beginning and end.	97 * Large allocations are guard-paged at the beginning and end.

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