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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Huene
a2c439117a Implement user fault handling with userfaultfd on Linux.
This commit implements the `uffd` feature which turns on support for utilizing
the `userfaultfd` system call on Linux for the pooling instance allocator.

By handling page faults in userland, we are able to detect guard page accesses
without having to constantly change memory page protections.

This should help reduce the number of syscalls as well as kernel lock
contentions when many threads are allocating and deallocating instances.

Additionally, the user fault handler can lazy initialize linear
memories of an instance (implementation to come).
2021-03-04 18:18:52 -08:00
Peter Huene
e71ccbf9bc Implement the pooling instance allocator.
This commit implements the pooling instance allocator.

The allocation strategy can be set with `Config::with_allocation_strategy`.

The pooling strategy uses the pooling instance allocator to preallocate a
contiguous region of memory for instantiating modules that adhere to various
limits.

The intention of the pooling instance allocator is to reserve as much of the
host address space needed for instantiating modules ahead of time and to reuse
committed memory pages wherever possible.
2021-03-04 18:18:51 -08:00