HBWMALLOC

Quality Control

- Note this only tests the compilation, not the execution, because the Travis CI ecosystem does not support hardware that makes the tests nontrivial.

Interface

int hbw_check_available(void);
void* hbw_malloc(size_t size);
void* hbw_calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size);
void* hbw_realloc (void *ptr, size_t size);
void hbw_free(void *ptr);
int hbw_posix_memalign(void **memptr, size_t alignment, size_t size);

Building

I will implement a serious build system later.

make -C src && make -C test

Environment Variables

HBWMALLOC_VERBOSE - print out extra information, such as when commands succeed.

HBWMALLOC_SOFTFAIL - by default, if HBW allocation fails, the library will abort. Setting this option allows the library to fall back to the default heap when the special heap is not available.

HBWMALLOC_BYTES - unimplemented.

HBWMALLOC_LOCKLESS - library calls will not be thread-safe, in which case the application must use its own mutual exclusion if calls are made from more than one thread.

Note that HBWMALLOC_LOCKLESS is set automatically if MPI is used in single-threaded mode (MPI_THREAD_SINGLE). If you use MPI_Init, you are implicitly requesting MPI_THREAD_SINGLE. It is erroneous to use threads in an MPI program in which MPI_THREAD_SINGLE is requested.

Contributors

• Jeff Hammond, Intel - Initial implementation.
• Adrian Jackson, EPCC - Fortran interface.