This is a freelist allocator with static size classes that works as a
complement to the generic kmalloc(). It's a lot faster than kmalloc()
since allocation just means popping from the freelist.
It's also significantly more compact when there are a lot of objects
smaller than the minimum kmalloc chunk size (32 bytes.)
This patch enables it for the Region and PhysicalPage classes.
In the PhysicalPage (8 bytes) case, it's a huge improvement since we
no longer waste 75% of the storage allocated.
There are also a number of ways this can be improved, so let's keep
working on it going forward.
After PhysicalPage::return_to_freelist(), an actual physical page
is returned back to the memory manager; which will create a new
PhysicalPage instance if it decides to reuse the physical page. This
means this PhysicalPage instance should be freed; otherwise it would
get leaked.
This makes no functional difference, but it makes it clear that
MemoryManager and PhysicalRegion take over the actual physical
page represented by this PhysicalPage instance.
Also run it across the whole tree to get everything using the One True Style.
We don't yet run this in an automated fashion as it's a little slow, but
there is a snippet to do so in makeall.sh.