Andreas Kling 843d0d0d15 Kernel: Detach AnonymousVMObject from shared COW pages set once emptied ...

We currently overcommit for COW when forking a process and cloning its
memory regions. Both the parent and child process share a set of.
committed COW pages.

If there's COW sharing across more than two processeses within a lineage
(e.g parent, child & grandchild), it's possible to exhaust these pages.
When the shared set is emptied, the next COW fault in each process must
detach from the shared set and fall back to on demand allocation.

This patch makes sure that we detach from the shared set once we
discover it to be empty (during COW fault handling). This fixes an issue
where we'd try to allocate from an exhausted shared set while building
GNU binutils inside SerenityOS.

2021-08-05 17:41:58 +02:00

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