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authorTom <tomut@yahoo.com>2020-09-04 21:12:25 -0600
committerAndreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>2021-01-01 23:43:44 +0100
commitb2a52f62089e4799336cf0bf32eb307b077d2e72 (patch)
treed0e3763a1a452357c76b5fe68fa3ab1b6bc83147 /Kernel/VM/VMObject.h
parente21cc4cff63c36917d83730871dfff1a9f0eb927 (diff)
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Kernel: Implement lazy committed page allocation
By designating a committed page pool we can guarantee to have physical pages available for lazy allocation in mappings. However, when forking we will overcommit. The assumption is that worst-case it's better for the fork to die due to insufficient physical memory on COW access than the parent that created the region. If a fork wants to ensure that all memory is available (trigger a commit) then it can use madvise. This also means that fork now can gracefully fail if we don't have enough physical pages available.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Kernel/VM/VMObject.h b/Kernel/VM/VMObject.h
index e126113f79..f7bedf0f4b 100644
--- a/Kernel/VM/VMObject.h
+++ b/Kernel/VM/VMObject.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class VMObject : public RefCounted<VMObject>
public:
virtual ~VMObject();
- virtual NonnullRefPtr<VMObject> clone() = 0;
+ virtual RefPtr<VMObject> clone() = 0;
virtual bool is_anonymous() const { return false; }
virtual bool is_purgeable() const { return false; }