// Physical memory allocator, intended to allocate // memory for user processes, kernel stacks, page table pages, // and pipe buffers. Allocates 4096-byte pages. #include "core/types.h" #include "core/defs.h" #include "core/param.h" #include "arch/memlayout.h" #include "arch/mmu.h" #include "core/spinlock.h" #include "core/sbuf.h" #include "core/dbg.h" void freerange(void *vstart, void *vend); extern char end[]; // first address after kernel loaded from ELF file struct run { struct run *next; }; // Free memory is two things: pages that have been allocated and given back, // on a list through their first word, and ranges that have never been handed // out at all, as a cursor and an end. kalloc() takes from the list first. // // Everything used to go on the list at boot, which means writing every page // of RAM -- a pointer and, from kfree(), 4 KB of junk -- before the first // process ran. On a 64 GB machine that is 64 GB of memset to say "this is // free". A range costs sixteen bytes however large it is, and a page is first // touched by whoever asked for it. // // `nfree` counts both, so the free total is a read rather than a walk of // millions of links under the lock every time top refreshes. #define NFRESH (2 * MEMREGION_MAX) struct fresh { addr_t next, end; // physical, page aligned }; struct { struct spinlock lock; int use_lock; struct run *freelist; struct fresh fresh[NFRESH]; int nfresh, cur; // ranges, and the first that may have pages uint64 nfree; // pages, list and ranges together } kmem; // Before the allocator has a lock, or under it. static void add_fresh(addr_t lo, addr_t hi) { lo = PGROUNDUP(lo); hi &= ~(addr_t)(PGSIZE - 1); if (lo >= hi) return; if (kmem.nfresh == NFRESH) { // Not reachable with MEMREGION_MAX regions per pass; but if it were, the // old way still works. freerange(P2V(lo), P2V(hi)); return; } kmem.fresh[kmem.nfresh].next = lo; kmem.fresh[kmem.nfresh].end = hi; kmem.nfresh++; kmem.nfree += (hi - lo) / PGSIZE; } // Catch kmem.freelist corruption at the point it's touched, rather than // letting a bad pointer be silently returned by kalloc() and crash whatever // code dereferences it minutes later on an unrelated call stack. static void check_run(struct run *r, char *where) { if(r == 0) return; if((addr_t)r % PGSIZE || (char*)r < end || V2P(r) >= PHYSTOP){ cprintf("kalloc: corrupt freelist entry %p at %s\n", r, where); panic("kalloc: corrupt freelist"); } } // vstart..vend is the window the kernel is willing to give away: from the end // of its own image to the bottom of the DMA arena. Inside that window the // firmware's map decides what is real -- free each usable region clipped to the // window, rather than walking the whole span and handing out the holes. // // The old code walked it as one range, which is what a BIOS map looks like. // Under UEFI it is not: OVMF puts an ACPI NVS region at 8 MB, so the run // containing the kernel stopped there and everything above it was lost. The // window still bounds things at both ends, so nothing below the kernel image // and nothing inside the DMA arena is ever freed, whatever the map says. void kinit1(void *vstart, void *vend) { initlock(&kmem.lock, "kmem"); kmem.use_lock = 0; kmem.freelist = 0; // empty // No map at all means e820_init() could not parse one; it leaves a single // synthetic region behind for exactly this reason, so this is belt and // braces rather than a path anything takes. if(nmem_usable == 0){ add_fresh(V2P((addr_t)vstart), V2P((addr_t)vend)); return; } addr_t lo_limit = V2P((addr_t)vstart); addr_t hi_limit = V2P((addr_t)vend); for(int i = 0; i < nmem_usable; i++){ addr_t lo = mem_usable[i].base; addr_t hi = mem_usable[i].end; if(lo < lo_limit) lo = lo_limit; if(hi > hi_limit) hi = hi_limit; if(lo >= hi) continue; add_fresh(lo, hi); } } // The page allocator, from the outside. // // Counting the free list is O(the free list), which on a gigabyte is a quarter // of a million links. That is fine for a command someone typed and would not // be fine anywhere else, so it lives here and nowhere near a hot path -- and // the walk is bounded, because the one time you most want to run this is when // you suspect the list is a loop. static void mem_dump(struct sbuf *out, const char *arg) { (void)arg; struct run *r; uint64 n = 0; int looped = 0; if (kmem.use_lock) acquire(&kmem.lock); for (r = kmem.freelist; r; r = r->next) { if (++n > (PHYSTOP / PGSIZE) + 16) { looped = 1; break; } } if (kmem.use_lock) release(&kmem.lock); sb_puts(out, "window 0x"); sb_puthex(out, (addr_t)end, 16); sb_puts(out, " upward; PHYSTOP is 0x"); sb_puthex(out, (addr_t)PHYSTOP, 16); sb_putc(out, '\n'); sb_kv(out, "listed ", n, "pages"); sb_kv(out, "free ", kmem.nfree, "pages"); sb_kv(out, " ", kmem.nfree * PGSIZE / 1024, "KB"); for (int i = 0; i < kmem.nfresh; i++) { sb_puts(out, " never used 0x"); sb_puthex(out, kmem.fresh[i].next, 12); sb_puts(out, "-0x"); sb_puthex(out, kmem.fresh[i].end, 12); sb_putc(out, '\n'); } if (looped) sb_puts(out, "\n the free list did not end -- it has a CYCLE in it\n"); } // The page allocator, and the kernel's own image. // // Both live here because both are answered from the same two facts -- where // the kernel ends and what is on the free list -- and because a page inside // the kernel image being on the free list is precisely the corruption this // query exists to catch. static void mem_whose(struct sbuf *out, struct whose *w) { addr_t kva = (addr_t)P2V(w->phys); struct run *r; uint64 n = 0; int found = 0; if (w->phys >= (addr_t)PHYSTOP) return; if (kva < (addr_t)end) { // Below `end` is the kernel image itself: text, rodata, data and bss, plus // everything the loader put under it. It is owned, permanently, by nothing // that can be asked -- so it is reported here. w->owners++; sb_puts(out, " kernel image (below `end` at 0x"); sb_puthex(out, (addr_t)end, 16); sb_puts(out, ")\n"); return; } if (kmem.use_lock) acquire(&kmem.lock); for (r = kmem.freelist; r; r = r->next) { if (++n > (PHYSTOP / PGSIZE) + 16) break; // a cycle; mem_dump says so if ((addr_t)r == kva) { found = 1; break; } } if (kmem.use_lock) release(&kmem.lock); for (int i = 0; !found && i < kmem.nfresh; i++) if (w->phys >= kmem.fresh[i].next && w->phys < kmem.fresh[i].end) { w->owners++; w->free_owners++; sb_puts(out, " kalloc FREE -- never handed out yet\n"); return; } if (found) { w->owners++; w->free_owners++; sb_puts(out, " kalloc FREE -- position "); sb_putu(out, n); sb_puts(out, " on the free list\n"); } } // The memory the loader's page tables could not reach. // // kinit1() runs before kvmalloc(), on page tables that map four gigabytes, and // freeing a page means writing a free-list pointer *into* it -- so anything // higher would fault. kvmalloc() has now mapped as much of physical memory as // the machine has, so the rest can be handed over. // // Two passes rather than one because of that ordering, and the ordering is // forced: kvmalloc() calls kalloc() for its own page tables, so the allocator // has to be working before the map it needs exists. void kinit_high(void) { uint64 added = 0; for (int i = 0; i < nmem_usable; i++) { uint64 lo = mem_usable[i].base; uint64 hi = mem_usable[i].end; if (lo < DIRECTMAP_BOOT) lo = DIRECTMAP_BOOT; if (hi > phystop) hi = phystop; if (lo >= hi) continue; if (kmem.use_lock) acquire(&kmem.lock); add_fresh(lo, hi); if (kmem.use_lock) release(&kmem.lock); added += hi - lo; } if (added) kinfo("mem: %d MB above 4 GB added to the allocator\n", (int)(added / (1024 * 1024))); } void kinit2() { kmem.use_lock = 1; dbg_register("mem", mem_dump, "the page allocator's free list"); dbg_register_whose("mem", mem_whose); } void freerange(void *vstart, void *vend) { char *p; p = (char*)PGROUNDUP((addr_t)vstart); for(; p + PGSIZE <= (char*)vend; p += PGSIZE) kfree(p); } // Free the page of physical memory pointed at by v, // which normally should have been returned by a // call to kalloc(). (The exception is when // initializing the allocator; see kinit above.) void kfree(char *v) { struct run *r; if((addr_t)v % PGSIZE || v < end || V2P(v) >= PHYSTOP) panic("kfree"); // Fill with junk to catch dangling refs. memset(v, 1, PGSIZE); if(kmem.use_lock) acquire(&kmem.lock); check_run(kmem.freelist, "kfree entry"); r = (struct run*)v; r->next = kmem.freelist; kmem.freelist = r; kmem.nfree++; if(kmem.use_lock) release(&kmem.lock); } // Allocate one 4096-byte page of physical memory. // Returns a pointer that the kernel can use. // Returns 0 if the memory cannot be allocated. char* kalloc(void) { struct run *r; if(kmem.use_lock) acquire(&kmem.lock); check_run(kmem.freelist, "kalloc entry"); r = kmem.freelist; if(r){ kmem.freelist = r->next; } else { while(kmem.cur < kmem.nfresh && kmem.fresh[kmem.cur].next >= kmem.fresh[kmem.cur].end) kmem.cur++; if(kmem.cur < kmem.nfresh){ r = (struct run*)P2V(kmem.fresh[kmem.cur].next); kmem.fresh[kmem.cur].next += PGSIZE; } } if(r) kmem.nfree--; if(kmem.use_lock) release(&kmem.lock); return (char*)r; } // Total free physical memory, in bytes. // // This walked the free list under the allocator's lock: two million links on // 8 GB, cache misses all, every second that top or a status bar was running -- // and every CPU that wanted a page in that time waited for it. One word now. uint64 kalloc_free_bytes(void) { return kmem.nfree * PGSIZE; }