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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().
This commit is contained in:
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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@ -403,7 +403,6 @@ private:
JsonObjectSerializer<KBufferBuilder> json { builder };
json.add("kmalloc_allocated", stats.bytes_allocated);
json.add("kmalloc_available", stats.bytes_free);
json.add("kmalloc_eternal_allocated", stats.bytes_eternal);
json.add("user_physical_allocated", system_memory.user_physical_pages_used);
json.add("user_physical_available", system_memory.user_physical_pages - system_memory.user_physical_pages_used);
json.add("user_physical_committed", system_memory.user_physical_pages_committed);