Some pages (e.g., hugetlb pages) cannot be purged, and should be
prioritized for reuse. A custom extent_alloc hook signals this by
OR'ing EXTENT_ALLOC_FLAG_PINNED into the low bits of the returned
pointer; jemalloc strips the flag bits and caches pinned extents in
a dedicated ecache_pinned, separate from the dirty/muzzy decay
pipeline.
Pinned extents do not coalesce eagerly, except for ones larger than
SC_LARGE_MINCLASS. A prefer-small policy reuses the smallest fitting
pinned extent, to avoid unnecessary split/fragmentation.
Header files are now self-contained, which makes the relationships
between the files clearer, and crucially allows LSP tools like `clangd`
to function correctly in all of our header files. I have verified that
the headers are self-contained (aside from the various Windows shims) by
compiling them as if they were C files – in a follow-up commit I plan to
add this to CI to ensure we don't regress on this front.
Adding guarded extents, which are regular extents surrounded by guard pages
(mprotected). To reduce syscalls, small guarded extents are cached as a
separate eset in ecache, and decay through the dirty / muzzy / retained pipeline
as usual.
Now that all merging go through try_acquire_edata_neighbor, the mergeablility
checks (including head state checking) are done before reaching the merge hook.
In other words, merge hook will never be called if the head state doesn't agree.
Bin Liu