Lazily committed shared memory was not working in situations where one
process would write to the memory and another would only read from it.
Since the reading process would never cause a write fault in the shared
region, we'd never notice that the writing process had added real
physical pages to the VMObject. This happened because the lazily
committed pages were marked "present" in the page table.
This patch solves the issue by always allocating shared memory up front
and not trying to be clever about it.
Before this change, we would sometimes map a region into the address
space with !is_shared(), and then moments later call set_shared(true).
I found this very confusing while debugging, so this patch makes us pass
the initial shared flag to the Region constructor, ensuring that it's in
the correct state by the time we first map the region.
This brings mmap more in line with other operating systems. Prior to
this, it was impossible to request memory that was definitely committed,
instead MAP_PURGEABLE would provide a region that was not actually
purgeable, but also not fully committed, which meant that using such memory
still could cause crashes when the underlying pages could no longer be
allocated.
This fixes some random crashes in low-memory situations where non-volatile
memory is mapped (e.g. malloc, tls, Gfx::Bitmap, etc) but when a page in
these regions is first accessed, there is insufficient physical memory
available to commit a new page.
Rather than lazily committing regions by default, we now commit
the entire region unless MAP_NORESERVE is specified.
This solves random crashes in low-memory situations where e.g. the
malloc heap allocated memory, but using pages that haven't been
used before triggers a crash when no more physical memory is available.
Use this flag to create large regions without actually committing
the backing memory. madvise() can be used to commit arbitrary areas
of such regions after creating them.
This adds the ability for a Region to define volatile/nonvolatile
areas within mapped memory using madvise(). This also means that
memory purging takes into account all views of the PurgeableVMObject
and only purges memory that is not needed by all of them. When calling
madvise() to change an area to nonvolatile memory, return whether
memory from that area was purged. At that time also try to remap
all memory that is requested to be nonvolatile, and if insufficient
pages are available notify the caller of that fact.
This adds an allocate_tls syscall through which a userspace process
can request the allocation of a TLS region with a given size.
This will be used by the dynamic loader to allocate TLS for the main
executable & its libraries.
Since the CPU already does almost all necessary validation steps
for us, we don't really need to attempt to do this. Doing it
ourselves doesn't really work very reliably, because we'd have to
account for other processors modifying virtual memory, and we'd
have to account for e.g. pages not being able to be allocated
due to insufficient resources.
So change the copy_to/from_user (and associated helper functions)
to use the new safe_memcpy, which will return whether it succeeded
or not. The only manual validation step needed (which the CPU
can't perform for us) is making sure the pointers provided by user
mode aren't pointing to kernel mappings.
To make it easier to read/write from/to either kernel or user mode
data add the UserOrKernelBuffer helper class, which will internally
either use copy_from/to_user or directly memcpy, or pass the data
through directly using a temporary buffer on the stack.
Last but not least we need to keep syscall params trivial as we
need to copy them from/to user mode using copy_from/to_user.
This is something I've been meaning to do for a long time, and here we
finally go. This patch moves all sys$foo functions out of Process.cpp
and into files in Kernel/Syscalls/.
It's not exactly one syscall per file (although it could be, but I got
a bit tired of the repetitive work here..)
This makes hacking on individual syscalls a lot less painful since you
don't have to rebuild nearly as much code every time. I'm also hopeful
that this makes it easier to understand individual syscalls. :^)
