nstime module guarantees monotonic clock update within a single nstime_t. This
means, if two separate nstime_t variables are read and updated separately,
nstime_subtract between them may result in underflow. Fixed by switching to the
time since utility provided by nstime.
Currently used only for guarding purposes, the hint is used to determine
if the allocation is supposed to be frequently reused. For example, it
might urge the allocator to ensure the allocation is cached.
In order for nstime_update to handle non-monotonic clocks, it requires the input
nstime to be initialized -- when reading for the first time, zero init has to be
done. Otherwise random stack value may be seen as clocks and returned.
As the code evolves, some code paths that have previously assigned
deferred_work_generated may cease being reached. This would leave the value
uninitialized. This change initializes the value for safety.
Adding guarded extents, which are regular extents surrounded by guard pages
(mprotected). To reduce syscalls, small guarded extents are cached as a
separate eset in ecache, and decay through the dirty / muzzy / retained pipeline
as usual.
This mallctl accepts an arena_config_t structure which
can be used to customize the behavior of the arena.
Right now it contains extent_hooks and a new option,
metadata_use_hooks, which controls whether the extent
hooks are also used for metadata allocation.
The medata_use_hooks option has two main use cases:
1. In heterogeneous memory systems, to avoid metadata
being placed on potentially slower memory.
2. Avoiding virtual memory from being leaked as a result
of metadata allocation failure originating in an extent hook.
This change allows every allocator conforming to PAI communicate that it
deferred some work for the future. Without it if a background thread goes into
indefinite sleep, there is no way to notify it about upcoming deferred work.
We wait a while after deciding a huge extent should get hugified to see if it
gets purged before long. This avoids hugifying extents that might shortly get
dehugified for purging.
Rename and use the hpa_dehugification_threshold option support code for this,
since it's now ignored.
Currently that just means max_alloc, but we're about to add more. While we're
touching these lines anyways, tweak things to be more in line with testing.
Using an edata_t both for hugepages and the allocations within those hugepages
was convenient at first, but has outlived its usefulness. Representing
hugepages explicitly, with their own data structure, will make future
development easier.
