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Kernel: Remove the kmalloc_eternal heap :^)

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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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Kernel/Graphics/VGACompatibleAdapter.h
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@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ namespace Kernel {
class VGACompatibleAdapter : public GenericGraphicsAdapter
, public PCI::Device {
AK_MAKE_ETERNAL
public:
static NonnullRefPtr<VGACompatibleAdapter> initialize_with_preset_resolution(PCI::DeviceIdentifier const&, PhysicalAddress, size_t framebuffer_width, size_t framebuffer_height, size_t framebuffer_pitch);
static NonnullRefPtr<VGACompatibleAdapter> initialize(PCI::DeviceIdentifier const&);