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LibC+UE: Keep more unused chunked blocks around

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Previously each malloc size class would keep around a limited number of
unused blocks which were marked with MADV_SET_VOLATILE which could then
be reinitialized when additional blocks were needed.

This changes malloc() so that it also keeps around a number of blocks
without marking them with MADV_SET_VOLATILE. I termed these "hot"
blocks whereas blocks which were marked as MADV_SET_VOLATILE are called
"cold" blocks because they're more expensive to reinitialize.

In the worst case this could increase memory usage per process by
1MB when a program requests a bunch of memory and frees all of it.

Also, in order to make more efficient use of these unused blocks
they're now shared between size classes.
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Gunnar Beutner 2021-05-23 12:52:19 +02:00 • committed by Andreas Kling
parent bd2b17a70e
commit 39f0739381
4 changed files with 93 additions and 35 deletions
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Userland/DevTools/UserspaceEmulator/MallocTracer.h
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@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ public:
void target_did_malloc(Badge<Emulator>, FlatPtr address, size_t);
void target_did_free(Badge<Emulator>, FlatPtr address);
void target_did_realloc(Badge<Emulator>, FlatPtr address, size_t);
void target_did_change_chunk_size(Badge<Emulator>, FlatPtr, size_t);
void audit_read(const Region&, FlatPtr address, size_t);
void audit_write(const Region&, FlatPtr address, size_t);
@ -79,6 +80,8 @@ private:
void dump_memory_graph();
void populate_memory_graph();
void update_metadata(MmapRegion& mmap_region, size_t chunk_size);
Emulator& m_emulator;
MemoryGraph m_memory_graph {};