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Kernel: Use a shared physical page for zero-filled pages until written
This patch adds a globally shared zero-filled PhysicalPage that will be mapped into every slot of every zero-filled AnonymousVMObject until that page is written to, achieving CoW-like zero-filled pages. Initial testing show that this doesn't actually achieve any sharing yet but it seems like a good design regardless, since it may reduce the number of page faults taken by programs. If you look at the refcount of MM.shared_zero_page() it will have quite a high refcount, but that's just because everything maps it everywhere. If you want to see the "real" refcount, you can build with the MAP_SHARED_ZERO_PAGE_LAZILY flag, and we'll defer mapping of the shared zero page until the first NP read fault. I've left this behavior behind a flag for future testing of this code.
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u16 ref_count() const { return m_retain_count; }
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bool is_shared_zero_page() const;
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PhysicalPage(PhysicalAddress paddr, bool supervisor, bool may_return_to_freelist = true);
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~PhysicalPage() {}
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