}

	// Check physPageSize.
	if physPageSize == 0 {
		// The OS init code failed to fetch the physical page size.
		throw("failed to get system page size")
	}
	if physPageSize > maxPhysPageSize {
		print("system page size (", physPageSize, ") is larger than maximum page size (", maxPhysPageSize, ")\n")
		throw("bad system page size")
	}
	if physPageSize < minPhysPageSize {

	gcPercentGoal = (gcPercentGoal + uint64(physPageSize) - 1) &^ (uint64(physPageSize) - 1)

	// Represents where we are now in the heap's contribution to RSS in bytes.
	//
	// Guaranteed to always be a multiple of physPageSize on systems where
	// physPageSize <= pageSize since we map new heap memory at a size larger than
	// any physPageSize and released memory in multiples of the physPageSize.
	//

		// least ask bytes in size.
		nBase = alignUp(h.curArena.base+ask, physPageSize)
	}

	// Grow into the current arena.
	v := h.curArena.base
	h.curArena.base = nBase

	// Transition the space we're going to use from Reserved to Prepared.
	//
	// The allocation is always aligned to the heap arena
	// size which is always > physPageSize, so its safe to
	// just add directly to heapReleased.