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Commit 8d304a99 authored by Ben Gamari's avatar Ben Gamari Committed by Marge Bot
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rts/m32: Refactor handling of allocator seeding

Previously, in an attempt to reduce fragmentation, each new allocator
would map a region of M32_MAX_PAGES fresh pages to seed itself. However,
this ends up being extremely wasteful since it turns out that we often
use fewer than this.  Consequently, these pages end up getting freed
which, ends up fragmenting our address space more than than we would
have if we had naively allocated pages on-demand.

Here we refactor m32 to avoid this waste while achieving the
fragmentation mitigation previously desired. In particular, we move all
page allocation into the global m32_alloc_page, which will pull a page
from the free page pool. If the free page pool is empty we then refill
it by allocating a region of M32_MAP_PAGES and adding them to the pool.

Furthermore, we do away with the initial seeding entirely. That is, the
allocator starts with no active pages: pages are rather allocated on an
as-needed basis.

On the whole this ends up being a pleasingly simple change,
simultaneously making m32 more efficient, more robust, and simpler.

Fixes #18980.
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