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visor/pkg/gohacks/noescape_unsafe.go
Michael PrattandgVisor bot 375b4495de Split remaining gohacks functions into separate files
Functions using linkname are checked via checklinkname. Noescape has no
automatic check anymore, but if a future version of Go invalidates the
implementation, the result will be values escaping to the heap (performance
loss), rather than memory corruption, so I think having no check is OK.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 505173611
2023-01-27 11:59:38 -08:00

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// Copyright 2023 The gVisor Authors.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
package gohacks
import (
"unsafe"
)
// Noescape hides a pointer from escape analysis. Noescape is the identity
// function but escape analysis doesn't think the output depends on the input.
// Noescape is inlined and currently compiles down to zero instructions.
// USE CAREFULLY!
//
// Noescape is copy/pasted from Go's runtime/stubs.go:noescape(), and is valid
// as of Go 1.20. It is possible that this approach stops working in future
// versions of the toolchain, at which point `p` may still escape.
//
//go:nosplit
func Noescape(p unsafe.Pointer) unsafe.Pointer {
x := uintptr(p)
return unsafe.Pointer(x ^ 0)
}