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Author SHA1 Message Date
Maria Matejka 57308fb277 Page allocator: Fixed minor bugs and added commentary 2022-11-03 12:38:57 +01:00
Maria Matejka 9d03c3f56c Memory pages are not munmapped, instead we just madvise()
Memory unmapping causes slow address space fragmentation, leading in
extreme cases to failing to allocate pages at all. Removing this problem
by keeping all the pages allocated to us, yet calling madvise() to let
kernel dispose of them.

This adds a little complexity and overhead as we have to keep the
pointers to the free pages, therefore to hold e.g. 1 GB of 4K pages with
8B pointers, we have to store 2 MB of data.
2022-11-02 12:56:54 +01:00
Maria Matejka 4e60b3ee72 Fixed a static assert in page allocator 2022-03-09 13:28:03 +01:00
Maria Matejka 9e60a1fbc3 Fixed resource initialization in unit tests 2022-03-09 10:30:42 +01:00
Maria Matejka c78247f9b9 Single-threaded version of sark-branch memory page management 2022-03-09 09:10:44 +01:00
Ondrej Zajicek (work) 2fc8b4c4ba Alloc: Use posix_memalign() instead of aligned_alloc()
For compatibility with older systems use posix_memalign(). We can
switch to aligned_alloc() when we commit to C11 for multithreading.
2022-02-08 22:42:00 +01:00
Maria Matejka 644e9ca94e Directly mapped pages are kept for future use if temporarily not needed 2021-11-24 19:42:52 +00:00
Maria Matejka 886dd92eee Slab: head now uses bitmask for used/free nodes info instead of lists
From now, there are no auxiliary pointers stored in the free slab nodes.
This led to strange debugging problems if use-after-free happened in
slab-allocated structures, especially if the structure's first member is
a next pointer.

This also reduces the memory needed by 1 pointer per allocated object.
OTOH, we now rely on pages being aligned to their size's multiple, which
is quite common anyway.
2021-03-25 16:47:48 +01:00