When a page fault led to the mapping of a new physical page, we were
updating the page tables for *every* region that shared the same
underlying VMObject.
Let's just not do that, avoiding a bunch of unnecessary page table
updates and TLB invalidations.
This allows us to enable Write-Combine on e.g. framebuffers,
significantly improving performance on bare metal.
To keep things simple we right now only use one of up to three bits
(bit 7 in the PTE), which maps to the PA4 entry in the PAT MSR, which
we set to the Write-Combine mode on each CPU at boot time.
The only purpose of the remap() in Region::try_clone() is to ensure
non-writable page table entries for CoW regions. If a region is already
non-writable, there's no need to waste time updating the page tables.
When mapping or unmapping completely inaccessible memory regions,
we don't need to update the page tables at all. This saves a bunch of
time in some situations, most notably during dynamic linking, where we
make a large VM reservation and immediately throw it away. :^)
We were already only tracking kernel regions, this patch just makes it
more clear by having it reflected in the name of the registration
helpers.
We also stop calling them for userspace regions, avoiding some spinlock
action in such cases.
When deleting an entire AddressSpace, we don't need to do TLB flushes
at all (since the entire page directory is going away anyway).
We also don't need to deallocate VM ranges one by one, since the entire
VM range allocator will be deleted anyway.
The Prekernel's memory is only accessed until MemoryManager has been
initialized. Keeping them around afterwards is both unnecessary and bad,
as it prevents the userland from using the 0x100000-0x155000 virtual
address range.
Co-authored-by: Idan Horowitz <idan.horowitz@gmail.com>
To make sure we don't lose changes, shared file mappings will now be
fully synced when they are unmapped, whether explicitly or implicitly
(by the program exiting/crashing/etc.)
This can incur a lot of work, since we don't keep track of dirty pages,
but that's something we can optimize down the road. :^)
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
SonarCloud flagged this "Code Smell", where we are accessing these
static methods as if they are instance methods. While it is technically
possible, it is very confusing to read when you realize they are static
functions.
We have seen cases where the map fails, but we return the region
to the caller, causing them to page fault later on when they touch
the region.
The fix is to always observe the return code of map/remap.
The quickmap_page() and unquickmap_page() functions are used to map a
single physical page at a kernel virtual address for temporary access.
These use the per-CPU quickmap buffer in the page tables, and access to
this is guarded by the MM lock. To prevent bugs, quickmap_page() should
not *take* the MM lock, but rather verify that it is already held!
This exposed two situations where we were using quickmap without holding
the MM lock during page fault handling. This patch is forced to fix
these issues (which is great!) :^)
This has several benefits:
1) We no longer just blindly derefence a null pointer in various places
2) We will get nicer runtime error messages if the current process does
turn out to be null in the call location
3) GCC no longer complains about possible nullptr dereferences when
compiling without KUBSAN
This makes for nicer handling of errors compared to checking whether a
RefPtr is null. Additionally, this will give way to return different
types of errors in the future.
First off: unregister the region from MemoryManager before unmapping it.
The order of operations here was a bit strange, presumably to avoid a
situation where a fault would happen while unmapping, and the fault
handler would find the MemoryManager region list in an invalid state.
Unregistering it before unmapping sidesteps the whole problem, and
allows us to easily fix another problem: a deadlock could occur due
to inconsistent acquisition order (PageDirectory must come before MM.)
It may happen that CPU A manages to page in from the same inode
while we're just entering the same page fault handler on CPU B.
Handle it gracefully by checking if the data has already been paged in
(instead of VERIFY'ing that it hasn't) and then remap the page if that's
the case.
When booting AP's, we identity map a region at 0x8000 while doing the
initial bringup sequence. This is the only thing in the kernel that
requires an identity mapping, yet we had a bunch of generic API's and a
dedicated VirtualRangeAllocator in every PageDirectory for this purpose.
This patch simplifies the situation by moving the identity mapping logic
to the AP boot code and removing the generic API's.
...and also RangeAllocator => VirtualRangeAllocator.
This clarifies that the ranges we're dealing with are *virtual* memory
ranges and not anything else.
