Anything above or equal to the 2 GB mark has the left most bit set
(0x8000...), which was falsely interpreted as negative due to
local_offset being signed.
This makes it unsigned by using FlatPtr. To check for underflow as
was intended, lets use Checked instead.
Fixes#4585
There are plenty of places in the kernel that aren't
checking if they actually got their allocation.
This fixes some of them, but definitely not all.
Fixes#3390Fixes#3391
Also, let's make find_one_free_page() return nullptr
if it doesn't get a free index. This stops the kernel
crashing when out of memory and allows memory purging
to take place again.
Fixes#3487
Rather than trying to find a contiguous set of bits of size 1, just
find one single available bit using a hint.
Also, try to randomize returned physical pages a bit by placing them
into a 256 entry queue rather than making them available immediately.
Then, once the queue is filled, pick a random one, make it available
again and use that slot for the latest page to be returned.
uintptr_t is 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the target platform.
This will help us write pointer size agnostic code so that when the day
comes that we want to do a 64-bit port, we'll be in better shape.
As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
This significantly reduces the pressure on the kernel heap when
allocating a lot of pages.
Previously at about 250MB allocated, the free page list would outgrow
the kernel's heap. Given that there is no longer a page list, this does
not happen.
The next barrier will be the kernel memory used by the page records for
in-use memory. This kicks in at about 1GB.
