We should never request a regions removal that we don't currently
own. We currently assert this everywhere else by all callers.
Instead lets just push the assert down into the RedBlackTree removal
and assume that we will always successfully remove the region.
This data structure is a much better fit for what is essentially a
sorted list of non-overlapping ranges.
Not using Vector means we no longer have to worry about Vector buffers
getting huge. Only nice & small allocations from now on.
We can have multiple PhysicalRegions (often the case when there is a
huge amount of RAM) so we really shouldn't print a debug message any
time someone tries to allocate from one. They will move on to another
region anyway.
We were incorrectly using sizeof(PhysicalPageEntry) for some address
calculations instead of sizeof(PageTableEntry).
It still worked correctly because they happen to be the same size.
We now keep all the PhysicalZones on one of two intrusive lists within
the PhysicalRegion.
The "usable" list contains all zones that can be allocated from,
and the "full" list contains all zones with no free pages.
Instead of creating a PhysicalRegion and then expanding it over and
over as we traverse the memory map on boot, we now compute the final
size of the contiguous physical range up front, and *then* create a
PhysicalRegion object.
Nobody was using this API to request anythign about `PAGE_SIZE`
alignment, so let's get rid of it for now. We can reimplement it if
we end up needing it.
Also note that it wasn't actually used anywhere.
The previous allocator was very naive and kept the state of all pages
in one big bitmap. When allocating, we had to scan through the bitmap
until we found an unset bit.
This patch introduces a new binary buddy allocator that manages the
physical memory pages.
Each PhysicalRegion is divided into zones (PhysicalZone) of 16MB each.
Any extra pages at the end of physical RAM that don't fit into a 16MB
zone are turned into 15 or fewer 1MB zones.
Each zone starts out with one full-sized block, which is then
recursively subdivided into halves upon allocation, until a block of
the request size can be returned.
There are more opportunities for improvement here: the way zone objects
are allocated and stored is non-optimal. Same goes for the allocation
of buddy block state bitmaps.
This enables the Lock class to block a thread even while the thread is
working on a BlockCondition. A thread can still only be either blocked
by a Lock or a BlockCondition.
This also establishes a linked list of threads that are blocked by a
Lock and unblocking directly unlocks threads and wakes them directly.
Instead of each PhysicalPage knowing whether it comes from the
supervisor pages or from the user pages, we can just check in both
sets when freeing a page.
It's just a handful of pointer range checks, nothing expensive.
We had an inconsistency in valid user addresses. is_user_range() was
checking against the kernel base address, but previous changes caused
the maximum valid user addressable range to be 32 MiB below that.
This patch stops mmap(MAP_FIXED) of a range between these two bounds
from panic-ing the kernel in RangeAllocator::allocate_specific.
Previously we would simply assume that Region allocation always
succeeded. There is still one such assumption when splitting user
regions inside a Space. That will be dealt with in a separate commit.