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Kernel: Remove the kmalloc_eternal heap :^)

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().
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Andreas Kling 2021-12-28 19:12:22 +01:00
parent a1be135891
commit ac7ce12123
46 changed files with 5 additions and 82 deletions

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@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ struct UidAndGid {
};
class VirtualFileSystem {
AK_MAKE_ETERNAL
public:
// Required to be at least 8 by POSIX
// https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html