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Kernel: Implement lazy committed page allocation

By designating a committed page pool we can guarantee to have physical
pages available for lazy allocation in mappings. However, when forking
we will overcommit. The assumption is that worst-case it's better for
the fork to die due to insufficient physical memory on COW access than
the parent that created the region. If a fork wants to ensure that all
memory is available (trigger a commit) then it can use madvise.

This also means that fork now can gracefully fail if we don't have
enough physical pages available.
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Tom 2020-09-04 21:12:25 -06:00 committed by Andreas Kling
parent e21cc4cff6
commit b2a52f6208
20 changed files with 329 additions and 67 deletions

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@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ public:
u32 ref_count() const { return m_ref_count.load(AK::memory_order_consume); }
bool is_shared_zero_page() const;
bool is_lazy_committed_page() const;
private:
PhysicalPage(PhysicalAddress paddr, bool supervisor, bool may_return_to_freelist = true);