machine: make sure DMA buffers do not escape unnecessarily

Writing the pointer of a buffer to memory-mapped I/O will normally cause
it to escape, which forces the compiler to heap-allocate the buffer. But
we do know how long the value stays alive, so we can tell the compiler
to keep it alive exactly until it is not needed anymore - and tell it to
not treat the pointer-to-uintptr cast as escaping.

compiler/symbol.go

@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ func (c *compilerContext) getFunction(fn *ssa.Function) (llvm.Type, llvm.Value)
 		llvmFn.AddFunctionAttr(c.ctx.CreateEnumAttribute(llvm.AttributeKindID("noreturn"), 0))
 	case "internal/abi.NoEscape":
 		llvmFn.AddAttributeAtIndex(1, c.ctx.CreateEnumAttribute(llvm.AttributeKindID("nocapture"), 0))
+	case "machine.keepAliveNoEscape", "machine.unsafeNoEscape":
+		llvmFn.AddAttributeAtIndex(1, c.ctx.CreateEnumAttribute(llvm.AttributeKindID("nocapture"), 0))
 	case "runtime.alloc":
 		// Tell the optimizer that runtime.alloc is an allocator, meaning that it
 		// returns values that are never null and never alias to an existing value.