Commits on Oct 30, 2024

1. Change default MR page size behaviour …

   Before this patch, we would default to the platform's
   smallest page size if it is not explicitly set on a memory region.
   
   However, I have noticed that users of Microkit (including myself)
   often forget that you can specify the page size of memory region
   yourself and so if you have a very large memory region, it is much
   more efficient to use say, 2MB pages, instead of 4K pages.
   
   From this experience, I believe that it is worthwhile to change
   the default behaviour to select the larget possible page size
   for the memory region that does not lead to any memory waste.
   For example, if you have a 4MB sized MR, 2MB page sizes would be used.
   If you have a 4.1MB sized MR, 4K page sizes would be used.
   
   I cannot think of any reasonable use-case with Microkit currently
   where people would be relying on this implicit default behaviour.
   
   Signed-off-by: Ivan-Velickovic <[email protected]>

   

   Ivan-Velickovic committed Oct 30, 2024
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