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authorTianhao Wang <shrik3@mailbox.org>2024-06-05 23:01:19 +0200
committerTianhao Wang <shrik3@mailbox.org>2024-06-11 15:17:14 +0200
commit38883485c80841f15365d0502418dcc224f01d45 (patch)
tree70f49473adccf65d7057570663c095fed8940165 /defs
parentbfe92f51f79f367354a933b78ec2b4e9d5336119 (diff)
mm: use linked-list-allocator as kmalloc
I'll implement my own allocator later. Currently using linked-list allocator [1] to manage the kernel heap (as in kmalloc, not vmalloc). It manages the ID-mapped region (from VA 0xffff_8000_0000_0000). This allocator is initialized to use the _largest_ physical memory block. If the kernel image (text and data) live in this zone then skip the occupied part. Key difference between kmalloc and vmalloc: - kmalloc pretty much manages the physical memory: the allocated address are within the id-mapped region (see above) therefore the allocated memory must also be contigous in physical memory. Such memory MUST NOT page fault. This is prone to fragmentation, so do not use kmalloc to allocate big objects (e.g. bigger than one 4k page). - vmalloc manages kernel heap memory and the mapping is managed by paging. Such memory could trigger pagefault in kernel mode. Note that the kmalloc conflicts with the previous used stack based PMA as they operates on the same VM zone. References: [1] https://github.com/rust-osdev/linked-list-allocator Signed-off-by: Tianhao Wang <shrik3@mailbox.org>
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-rw-r--r--defs/x86_64-hm-linker.ld1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/defs/x86_64-hm-linker.ld b/defs/x86_64-hm-linker.ld
index c8a213c..fab0699 100644
--- a/defs/x86_64-hm-linker.ld
+++ b/defs/x86_64-hm-linker.ld
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ SECTIONS
.t32 :
{
*(".text32")
- *(".text.interrupt_gate")
}
. = . + KERNEL_OFFSET;