Upon each execve, we allocate a KVA range for use in copying data to the
new image. Pages must be faulted into the range, and when the range is
freed, the backing pages are freed and their mappings are destroyed. This
is a lot of needless overhead, and the exec_map management becomes a
bottleneck when many CPUs are executing execve concurrently. Moreover, the
number of available ranges is fixed at 16, which is insufficient on large
systems and potentially excessive on 32-bit systems.
The new allocator reduces overhead by making exec_map allocations
persistent. When a range is freed, pages backing the range are marked clean
and made easy to reclaim. With this change, the exec_map is sized based on
the number of CPUs.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8921
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