This was a premature optimization from the early days of SerenityOS.
The eternal heap was a simple bump pointer allocator over a static
byte array. My original idea was to avoid heap fragmentation and improve
data locality, but both ideas were rooted in cargo culting, not data.
We would reserve 4 MiB at boot and only ended up using ~256 KiB, wasting
the rest.
This patch replaces all kmalloc_eternal() usage by regular kmalloc().
Previously, the heap expansion logic could end up calling kmalloc
recursively, which was quite messy and hard to reason about.
This patch redesigns heap expansion so that it's kmalloc-free:
- We make a single large virtual range allocation at startup
- When expanding, we bump allocate VM from that region
- When expanding, we populate page tables directly ourselves,
instead of going via MemoryManager.
This makes heap expansion a great deal simpler. However, do note that it
introduces two new flaws that we'll need to deal with eventually:
- The single virtual range allocation is limited to 64 MiB and once
exhausted, kmalloc() will fail. (Actually, it will PANIC for now..)
- The kmalloc heap can no longer shrink once expanded. Subheaps stay
in place once constructed.
As a small cleanup, this also makes `page_round_up` verify its
precondition with `page_round_up_would_wrap` (which callers are expected
to call), rather than having its own logic.
Fixes#11297.
The Prekernel's memory is only accessed until MemoryManager has been
initialized. Keeping them around afterwards is both unnecessary and bad,
as it prevents the userland from using the 0x100000-0x155000 virtual
address range.
Co-authored-by: Idan Horowitz <idan.horowitz@gmail.com>
We can leave the .ksyms section mapped-but-read-only and then have the
symbols index simply point into it.
Note that we manually insert null-terminators into the symbols section
while parsing it.
This gets rid of ~950 KiB of kmalloc_eternal() at startup. :^)
We were already doing this for userspace memory regions (in the
Memory::AddressSpace class), so let's do it for kernel regions as well.
This gives a nice speed-up on test-js and probably basically everything
else as well. :^)
This is a handy helper that copies out the full contents of a physical
page into a caller-provided buffer. It uses quickmapping internally
(and takes the MM lock for the duration.)
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
This function was checking 1 byte after the provided range, which caused
it to reject valid userspace ranges that happened to end exactly at the
top of the user address space.
This fixes a long-standing issue with mysterious Optional errors in
Coredump::write_regions(). (It happened when trying to add a memory
region at the very top of the address space to a coredump.)
This expands the reach of error propagation greatly throughout the
kernel. Sadly, it also exposes the fact that we're allocating (and
doing other fallible things) in constructors all over the place.
This patch doesn't attempt to address that of course. That's work for
our future selves.
The default template argument is only used in one place, and it
looks like it was probably just an oversight. The rest of the Kernel
code all uses u8 as the type. So lets make that the default and remove
the unused template argument, as there doesn't seem to be a reason to
allow the size to be customizable.
The VMObject class now manages its own instance list (it was previously
a member of MemoryManager.) Removal from the list is done safely on the
last unref(), closing a race window in the previous implementation.
Note that VMObject::all_instances() now has its own lock instead of
using the global MM lock.
When booting AP's, we identity map a region at 0x8000 while doing the
initial bringup sequence. This is the only thing in the kernel that
requires an identity mapping, yet we had a bunch of generic API's and a
dedicated VirtualRangeAllocator in every PageDirectory for this purpose.
This patch simplifies the situation by moving the identity mapping logic
to the AP boot code and removing the generic API's.
...and also RangeAllocator => VirtualRangeAllocator.
This clarifies that the ranges we're dealing with are *virtual* memory
ranges and not anything else.
