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/* -> /*- for copyright notices, minor format tweaks as necessary
2005-01-06 23:35:40 +00:00
/*-
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
* Copyright (c) 1987, 1991, 1993
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
* The Regents of the University of California.
struct malloc_type has had a 'magic' field statically initialized to M_MAGIC by MALLOC_DEFINE() for a long time; add assertions that malloc_type's passed to malloc(), free(), etc have that magic set. MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-19 12:41:37 +00:00
* Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Robert N. M. Watson
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
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BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
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* @(#)kern_malloc.c 8.3 (Berkeley) 1/4/94
*/
Expand comments for malloc(9) to better describe the design and statistics / memory types model.
2006-07-23 19:51:39 +00:00
/*
* Kernel malloc(9) implementation -- general purpose kernel memory allocator
* based on memory types. Back end is implemented using the UMA(9) zone
* allocator. A set of fixed-size buckets are used for smaller allocations,
* and a special UMA allocation interface is used for larger allocations.
* Callers declare memory types, and statistics are maintained independently
* for each memory type. Statistics are maintained per-CPU for performance
* reasons. See malloc(9) and comments in malloc.h for a detailed
* description.
*/
Use __FBSDID().
2003-06-11 00:56:59 +00:00
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
#include "opt_ddb.h"
Add support for the DTrace malloc provider which can enable probes on a per-malloc type basis.
2008-05-23 00:43:36 +00:00
#include "opt_kdtrace.h"
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
#include "opt_vm.h"
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
#include <sys/param.h>
The big 4.4BSD Lite to FreeBSD 2.0.0 (Development) patch. Reviewed by: Rodney W. Grimes Submitted by: John Dyson and David Greenman
1994-05-25 09:21:21 +00:00
#include <sys/systm.h>
Update for the KDB framework: o Make debugging code conditional upon KDB instead of DDB. o Call kdb_enter() instead of Debugger(). o Call kdb_backtrace() instead of db_print_backtrace() or backtrace(). kern_mutex.c: o Replace checks for db_active with checks for kdb_active and make them unconditional. kern_shutdown.c: o s/DDB_UNATTENDED/KDB_UNATTENDED/g o s/DDB_TRACE/KDB_TRACE/g o Save the TID of the thread doing the kernel dump so the debugger knows which thread to select as the current when debugging the kernel core file. o Clear kdb_active instead of db_active and do so unconditionally. o Remove backtrace() implementation. kern_synch.c: o Call kdb_reenter() instead of db_error().
2004-07-10 21:36:01 +00:00
#include <sys/kdb.h>
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
#include <sys/kernel.h>
Undo part of the tangle of having sys/lock.h and sys/mutex.h included in other "system" header files. Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files. Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files. OK'ed by: bde (with reservations)
2001-05-01 08:13:21 +00:00
#include <sys/lock.h>
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
#include <sys/malloc.h>
Fixed two bugs in the calculation of the malloc area (kmem_map) size: 1) The calculation didn't account for NMBCLUSTERS, so if a large number of clusters was specified, it would leave little or no space for kernel malloc. 2) It was bogusly restricted to v_page_count. This doesn't take into account the sparseness of the malloc area and would have caused problems on machines with small amounts of memory. It should probably instead be changed to set the malloc limit to be constrained by the amount of memory, but I didn't do this.
1996-01-29 09:58:34 +00:00
#include <sys/mbuf.h>
- machine/mutex.h -> sys/mutex.h - Use MUTEX_DECLARE() and MTX_COLD for the malloc_mtx mutex
2000-10-20 07:29:16 +00:00
#include <sys/mutex.h>
Untangled the vm.h include file spaghetti.
1995-12-07 12:48:31 +00:00
#include <sys/vmmeter.h>
Make intr_nesting_level per-process, rather than per-cpu. Setup interrupt threads to run with it always >= 1, so that malloc can detect M_WAITOK from "interrupt" context. This is also necessary in order to context switch from sched_ithd() directly. Reviewed By: peter
2001-01-21 19:25:07 +00:00
#include <sys/proc.h>
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
#include <sys/sbuf.h>
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
Introduce malloc_last_fail() which returns the number of seconds since malloc(9) failed last time. This is intended to help code adjust memory usage to the current circumstances. A typical use could be: if (malloc_last_fail() < 60) reduce_cache_by_one();
2002-11-01 18:58:12 +00:00
#include <sys/time.h>
Don't #include <sys/proc.h>, since machine/mutex.h does it now.
2000-09-23 00:01:37 +00:00
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
#include <vm/vm.h>
- Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH. - Remove all instances of the mallochash. - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from the kmem_obj. - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
#include <vm/pmap.h>
Untangled the vm.h include file spaghetti.
1995-12-07 12:48:31 +00:00
#include <vm/vm_param.h>
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
#include <vm/vm_kern.h>
Untangled the vm.h include file spaghetti.
1995-12-07 12:48:31 +00:00
#include <vm/vm_extern.h>
Get rid of the ad-hoc memory allocator for vm_map_entries, in lieu of a simple, clean zone type allocator. This new allocator will also be used for machine dependent pmap PV entries.
1997-08-05 00:02:08 +00:00
#include <vm/vm_map.h>
- Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH. - Remove all instances of the mallochash. - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from the kmem_obj. - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
#include <vm/vm_page.h>
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
#include <vm/uma.h>
#include <vm/uma_int.h>
Add a new UMA debugging facility. This will overwrite freed memory with 0xdeadc0de and then check for it just before memory is handed off as part of a new request. This will catch any post free/pre alloc modification of memory, as well as introduce errors for anything that tries to dereference it as a pointer. This code takes the form of special init, fini, ctor and dtor routines that are specificly used by malloc. It is in a seperate file because additional debugging aids will want to live here as well.
2002-04-30 07:54:25 +00:00
#include <vm/uma_dbg.h>
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
#include <vm/memguard.h>
#endif
Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9). It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. Tested by: kris
2006-01-31 11:09:21 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_REDZONE
#include <vm/redzone.h>
#endif
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
KASSERT that we cannot use M_WAITOK in interrupt context. Reviewed by: bde
1999-09-19 08:40:11 +00:00
#if defined(INVARIANTS) && defined(__i386__)
#include <machine/cpu.h>
#endif
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
#include <ddb/ddb.h>
Add support for the DTrace malloc provider which can enable probes on a per-malloc type basis.
2008-05-23 00:43:36 +00:00
#ifdef KDTRACE_HOOKS
#include <sys/dtrace_bsd.h>
dtrace_malloc_probe_func_t dtrace_malloc_probe;
#endif
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
/*
* When realloc() is called, if the new size is sufficiently smaller than
* the old size, realloc() will allocate a new, smaller block to avoid
* wasting memory. 'Sufficiently smaller' is defined as: newsize <=
* oldsize / 2^n, where REALLOC_FRACTION defines the value of 'n'.
*/
#ifndef REALLOC_FRACTION
#define REALLOC_FRACTION 1 /* new block if <= half the size */
#endif
Expand comments for malloc(9) to better describe the design and statistics / memory types model.
2006-07-23 19:51:39 +00:00
/*
* Centrally define some common malloc types.
*/
Before we start to mess with the VFS name-cache clean things up a little bit: Isolate the namecache in its own file, and give it a dedicated malloc type.
1999-10-03 12:18:29 +00:00
MALLOC_DEFINE(M_CACHE, "cache", "Various Dynamically allocated caches");
Get rid of MALLOC_INSTANTIATE and MALLOC_MAKE_TYPE(). Just handle the 3 malloc types declared in <sys/malloc.h> like other global malloc types.
1999-09-11 16:41:39 +00:00
MALLOC_DEFINE(M_DEVBUF, "devbuf", "device driver memory");
MALLOC_DEFINE(M_TEMP, "temp", "misc temporary data buffers");
KAME netinet6 basic part(no IPsec,no V6 Multicast Forwarding, no UDP/TCP for IPv6 yet) With this patch, you can assigne IPv6 addr automatically, and can reply to IPv6 ping. Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers Obtained from: KAME project
1999-11-22 02:45:11 +00:00
MALLOC_DEFINE(M_IP6OPT, "ip6opt", "IPv6 options");
MALLOC_DEFINE(M_IP6NDP, "ip6ndp", "IPv6 Neighbor Discovery");
Remove __P.
2002-03-19 21:25:46 +00:00
static void kmeminit(void *);
In keeping with style(9)'s recommendations on macros, use a ';' after each SYSINIT() macro invocation. This makes a number of lightweight C parsers much happier with the FreeBSD kernel source, including cflow's prcc and lxr. MFC after: 1 month Discussed with: imp, rink
2008-03-16 10:58:09 +00:00
SYSINIT(kmem, SI_SUB_KMEM, SI_ORDER_FIRST, kmeminit, NULL);
Reviewed by: julian with quick glances by bruce and others Submitted by: terry (terry lambert) This is a composite of 3 patch sets submitted by terry. they are: New low-level init code that supports loadbal modules better some cleanups in the namei code to help terry in 16-bit character support some changes to the mount-root code to make it a little more modular.. NOTE: mounting root off cdrom or NFS MIGHT be broken as I haven't been able to test those cases.. certainly mounting root of disk still works just fine.. mfs should work but is untested. (tomorrows task) The low level init stuff includes a total rewrite of init_main.c to make it possible for new modules to have an init phase by simply adding an entry to a TEXT_SET (or is it DATA_SET) list. thus a new module can be added to the kernel without editing any other files other than the 'files' file.
1995-08-28 09:19:25 +00:00
Last major round (Unless Bruce thinks of somthing :-) of malloc changes. Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also remembered the trick to making things static: Put "static" in front of them. A couple of finer points by: bde
1997-10-12 20:26:33 +00:00
static MALLOC_DEFINE(M_FREE, "free", "should be on free list");
Have MALLOC_DECLARE() initialize malloc types explicitly, and have them removed at module unload (if in a module of course). However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
1998-11-10 08:46:24 +00:00
static struct malloc_type *kmemstatistics;
Use vm_offset_t for kmembase and kmemlimit rather than char *, avoiding unnecessary casts, and making it possible to compile kern_malloc.c with strict aliasing. Submitted by: rdivacky Approved by: re (kensmith)
2007-06-27 13:39:38 +00:00
static vm_offset_t kmembase;
static vm_offset_t kmemlimit;
Introduce a new sysctl, kern.malloc_stats, which exports kernel malloc statistics via a binary structure stream: - Add structure 'malloc_type_stream_header', which defines a stream version, definition of MAXCPUS used in the stream, and a number of malloc_type records in the stream. - Add structure 'malloc_type_header', which defines the name of the malloc type being reported on. - When the sysctl is queried, return a stream header, followed by a series of type descriptions, each consisting of a type header followed by a series of MAXCPUS malloc_type_stats structures holding per-CPU allocation information. Typical values of MAXCPUS will be 1 (UP compiled kernel) and 16 (SMP compiled kernel). This query mechanism allows user space monitoring tools to extract memory allocation statistics in a machine-readable form, and to do so at a per-CPU granularity, allowing monitoring of allocation patterns across CPUs in order to better understand the distribution of work and memory flow over multiple CPUs. While here: - Bump statistics width to uint64_t, and hard code using fixed-width type in order to be more sure about structure layout in the stream. We allocate and free a lot of memory. - Add kmemcount, a counter of the number of registered malloc types, in order to avoid excessive manual counting of types. Export via a new sysctl to allow user-space code to better size buffers. - De-XXX comment on no longer maintaining the high watermark in old sysctl monitoring code. A follow-up commit of libmemstat(3), a library to monitor kernel memory allocation, will occur in the next few days. Likewise, similar changes to UMA.
2005-07-14 11:52:06 +00:00
static int kmemcount;
Fix null-pointer dereference crash when the system is intentionally run out of KVM through a mmap()/fork() bomb that allocates hundreds of thousands of vm_map_entry structures. Add panic to make null-pointer dereference crash a little more verbose. Add a new sysctl, vm.max_proc_mmap, which specifies the maximum number of mmap()'d spaces (discrete vm_map_entry's in the process). The value defaults to around 9000 for a 128MB machine. The test is scaled for the number of processes sharing a vmspace (aka linux threads). Setting the value to 0 disables the feature. PR: kern/16573 Approved by: jkh
2000-02-16 21:11:33 +00:00
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
#define KMEM_ZSHIFT 4
#define KMEM_ZBASE 16
#define KMEM_ZMASK (KMEM_ZBASE - 1)
- Only use UMA to cache malloc requests up to PAGE_SIZE. Values larger than this are requested very infrequently and waste memory when we cache spares.
2003-09-19 04:39:08 +00:00
#define KMEM_ZMAX PAGE_SIZE
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
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#define KMEM_ZSIZE (KMEM_ZMAX >> KMEM_ZSHIFT)
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
static u_int8_t kmemsize[KMEM_ZSIZE + 1];
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/*
* Small malloc(9) memory allocations are allocated from a set of UMA buckets
* of various sizes.
*
* XXX: The comment here used to read "These won't be powers of two for
* long." It's possible that a significant amount of wasted memory could be
* recovered by tuning the sizes of these buckets.
*/
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
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struct {
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
int kz_size;
char *kz_name;
uma_zone_t kz_zone;
} kmemzones[] = {
{16, "16", NULL},
{32, "32", NULL},
{64, "64", NULL},
{128, "128", NULL},
{256, "256", NULL},
{512, "512", NULL},
{1024, "1024", NULL},
{2048, "2048", NULL},
{4096, "4096", NULL},
- Only use UMA to cache malloc requests up to PAGE_SIZE. Values larger than this are requested very infrequently and waste memory when we cache spares.
2003-09-19 04:39:08 +00:00
#if PAGE_SIZE > 4096
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
{8192, "8192", NULL},
- Only use UMA to cache malloc requests up to PAGE_SIZE. Values larger than this are requested very infrequently and waste memory when we cache spares.
2003-09-19 04:39:08 +00:00
#if PAGE_SIZE > 8192
Re-add the 16384 bucket also. Submitted by: green
2002-04-29 17:53:23 +00:00
{16384, "16384", NULL},
- Only use UMA to cache malloc requests up to PAGE_SIZE. Values larger than this are requested very infrequently and waste memory when we cache spares.
2003-09-19 04:39:08 +00:00
#if PAGE_SIZE > 16384
Revert a portion of kern_malloc.c:1.99, which (in addition to adding malloc profiling) also modified the set of pre-defined buckets for the memory allocator. For reasons unknown to me, this resulted in extensive memory corruption in the kernel, in particular on SMP boxes, so I'm committing this work-around until Jeff gets a chance to debug it properly. David Wolfskill pointed me at this commit as the one that might be a problem; I've been running this code on two dual-processor burn-in boxes for about 12 hours now, and the rate of panics due to memory corruption has dropped to zero (from one every five minutes). Hopefully not treading on the toes of: jeff
2002-04-29 17:12:02 +00:00
{32768, "32768", NULL},
- Only use UMA to cache malloc requests up to PAGE_SIZE. Values larger than this are requested very infrequently and waste memory when we cache spares.
2003-09-19 04:39:08 +00:00
#if PAGE_SIZE > 32768
Revert a portion of kern_malloc.c:1.99, which (in addition to adding malloc profiling) also modified the set of pre-defined buckets for the memory allocator. For reasons unknown to me, this resulted in extensive memory corruption in the kernel, in particular on SMP boxes, so I'm committing this work-around until Jeff gets a chance to debug it properly. David Wolfskill pointed me at this commit as the one that might be a problem; I've been running this code on two dual-processor burn-in boxes for about 12 hours now, and the rate of panics due to memory corruption has dropped to zero (from one every five minutes). Hopefully not treading on the toes of: jeff
2002-04-29 17:12:02 +00:00
{65536, "65536", NULL},
- Only use UMA to cache malloc requests up to PAGE_SIZE. Values larger than this are requested very infrequently and waste memory when we cache spares.
2003-09-19 04:39:08 +00:00
#if PAGE_SIZE > 65536
#error "Unsupported PAGE_SIZE"
#endif /* 65536 */
#endif /* 32768 */
#endif /* 16384 */
#endif /* 8192 */
#endif /* 4096 */
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{0, NULL},
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};
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/*
* Zone to allocate malloc type descriptions from. For ABI reasons, memory
* types are described by a data structure passed by the declaring code, but
* the malloc(9) implementation has its own data structure describing the
* type and statistics. This permits the malloc(9)-internal data structures
* to be modified without breaking binary-compiled kernel modules that
* declare malloc types.
*/
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
static uma_zone_t mt_zone;
Enable the creation of a kmem map larger than 4GB. Submitted by: Tz-Huan Huang Make several variables related to kmem map auto-sizing static. Found by: CScout
2008-07-05 19:34:33 +00:00
u_long vm_kmem_size;
SYSCTL_ULONG(_vm, OID_AUTO, kmem_size, CTLFLAG_RD, &vm_kmem_size, 0,
Rename the kern.vm.kmem.size tunable to the more logical vm.kmem_size. To assure backward compatibility (conditional on !BURN_BRIDGES), look it up by its old name first, and log a warning (but accept the setting) if it was found. If both the old and new name are defined, the new name takes precedence. Also export vm.kmem_size as a read-only sysctl variable; I find it hard to tune a parameter when I don't know its default value, especially when that default value is computed at boot time.
2004-01-27 15:59:38 +00:00
"Size of kernel memory");
malloc/free(9) no longer require Giant. Use the malloc_mtx to protect the mallochash. Mallochash is going to go away as soon as I introduce the kfree/kmalloc api and partially overhaul the malloc wrapper. This can't happen until all users of the malloc api that expect memory to be aligned on the size of the allocation are fixed.
2002-05-02 07:22:19 +00:00
Enable the creation of a kmem map larger than 4GB. Submitted by: Tz-Huan Huang Make several variables related to kmem map auto-sizing static. Found by: CScout
2008-07-05 19:34:33 +00:00
static u_long vm_kmem_size_min;
SYSCTL_ULONG(_vm, OID_AUTO, kmem_size_min, CTLFLAG_RD, &vm_kmem_size_min, 0,
Add support for specifying a minimal size for vm.kmem_size in the loader via vm.kmem_size_min. Useful when using ZFS to make sure that vm.kmem size will be at least 256mb (for example) without forcing a particular value via vm.kmem_size. Approved by: njl (mentor) Reviewed by: alc
2007-04-21 01:14:48 +00:00
"Minimum size of kernel memory");
Enable the creation of a kmem map larger than 4GB. Submitted by: Tz-Huan Huang Make several variables related to kmem map auto-sizing static. Found by: CScout
2008-07-05 19:34:33 +00:00
static u_long vm_kmem_size_max;
SYSCTL_ULONG(_vm, OID_AUTO, kmem_size_max, CTLFLAG_RD, &vm_kmem_size_max, 0,
Turn VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX and VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE into tunables. MFC after: 3 days
2004-09-29 14:21:40 +00:00
"Maximum size of kernel memory");
Enable the creation of a kmem map larger than 4GB. Submitted by: Tz-Huan Huang Make several variables related to kmem map auto-sizing static. Found by: CScout
2008-07-05 19:34:33 +00:00
static u_int vm_kmem_size_scale;
Turn VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX and VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE into tunables. MFC after: 3 days
2004-09-29 14:21:40 +00:00
SYSCTL_UINT(_vm, OID_AUTO, kmem_size_scale, CTLFLAG_RD, &vm_kmem_size_scale, 0,
"Scale factor for kernel memory size");
malloc/free(9) no longer require Giant. Use the malloc_mtx to protect the mallochash. Mallochash is going to go away as soon as I introduce the kfree/kmalloc api and partially overhaul the malloc wrapper. This can't happen until all users of the malloc api that expect memory to be aligned on the size of the allocation are fixed.
2002-05-02 07:22:19 +00:00
/*
- Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH. - Remove all instances of the mallochash. - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from the kmem_obj. - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
* The malloc_mtx protects the kmemstatistics linked list.
malloc/free(9) no longer require Giant. Use the malloc_mtx to protect the mallochash. Mallochash is going to go away as soon as I introduce the kfree/kmalloc api and partially overhaul the malloc wrapper. This can't happen until all users of the malloc api that expect memory to be aligned on the size of the allocation are fixed.
2002-05-02 07:22:19 +00:00
*/
struct mtx malloc_mtx;
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Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
#ifdef MALLOC_PROFILE
uint64_t krequests[KMEM_ZSIZE + 1];
static int sysctl_kern_mprof(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS);
#endif
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
Introduce a new sysctl, kern.malloc_stats, which exports kernel malloc statistics via a binary structure stream: - Add structure 'malloc_type_stream_header', which defines a stream version, definition of MAXCPUS used in the stream, and a number of malloc_type records in the stream. - Add structure 'malloc_type_header', which defines the name of the malloc type being reported on. - When the sysctl is queried, return a stream header, followed by a series of type descriptions, each consisting of a type header followed by a series of MAXCPUS malloc_type_stats structures holding per-CPU allocation information. Typical values of MAXCPUS will be 1 (UP compiled kernel) and 16 (SMP compiled kernel). This query mechanism allows user space monitoring tools to extract memory allocation statistics in a machine-readable form, and to do so at a per-CPU granularity, allowing monitoring of allocation patterns across CPUs in order to better understand the distribution of work and memory flow over multiple CPUs. While here: - Bump statistics width to uint64_t, and hard code using fixed-width type in order to be more sure about structure layout in the stream. We allocate and free a lot of memory. - Add kmemcount, a counter of the number of registered malloc types, in order to avoid excessive manual counting of types. Export via a new sysctl to allow user-space code to better size buffers. - De-XXX comment on no longer maintaining the high watermark in old sysctl monitoring code. A follow-up commit of libmemstat(3), a library to monitor kernel memory allocation, will occur in the next few days. Likewise, similar changes to UMA.
2005-07-14 11:52:06 +00:00
static int sysctl_kern_malloc_stats(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS);
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/*
* time_uptime of the last malloc(9) failure (induced or real).
*/
Introduce malloc_last_fail() which returns the number of seconds since malloc(9) failed last time. This is intended to help code adjust memory usage to the current circumstances. A typical use could be: if (malloc_last_fail() < 60) reduce_cache_by_one();
2002-11-01 18:58:12 +00:00
static time_t t_malloc_fail;
Add a new kernel option, MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES, which compiles in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added: debug.malloc.failure_rate How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures -- I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other popular settings might be much lower or much higher. debug.malloc.failure_count Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have happened and whether failures are being generated. Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type, printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced failure. Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
2003-03-26 20:18:40 +00:00
/*
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* malloc(9) fault injection -- cause malloc failures every (n) mallocs when
* the caller specifies M_NOWAIT. If set to 0, no failures are caused.
Add a new kernel option, MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES, which compiles in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added: debug.malloc.failure_rate How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures -- I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other popular settings might be much lower or much higher. debug.malloc.failure_count Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have happened and whether failures are being generated. Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type, printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced failure. Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
2003-03-26 20:18:40 +00:00
*/
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#ifdef MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES
Add a new kernel option, MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES, which compiles in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added: debug.malloc.failure_rate How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures -- I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other popular settings might be much lower or much higher. debug.malloc.failure_count Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have happened and whether failures are being generated. Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type, printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced failure. Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
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SYSCTL_NODE(_debug, OID_AUTO, malloc, CTLFLAG_RD, 0,
"Kernel malloc debugging options");
static int malloc_failure_rate;
static int malloc_nowait_count;
static int malloc_failure_count;
SYSCTL_INT(_debug_malloc, OID_AUTO, failure_rate, CTLFLAG_RW,
&malloc_failure_rate, 0, "Every (n) mallocs with M_NOWAIT will fail");
Permit debug.malloc.failure_rate to be specified using a tunable so that the feature can be enabled during the boot process. Note the continued limitation that FreeBSD fails so rapidly with this setting enabled that it's hard to narrow down particular failures for correction; we really need per-malloc type failure rates.
2003-03-26 20:44:29 +00:00
TUNABLE_INT("debug.malloc.failure_rate", &malloc_failure_rate);
Add a new kernel option, MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES, which compiles in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added: debug.malloc.failure_rate How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures -- I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other popular settings might be much lower or much higher. debug.malloc.failure_count Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have happened and whether failures are being generated. Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type, printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced failure. Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
2003-03-26 20:18:40 +00:00
SYSCTL_INT(_debug_malloc, OID_AUTO, failure_count, CTLFLAG_RD,
&malloc_failure_count, 0, "Number of imposed M_NOWAIT malloc failures");
#endif
Introduce malloc_last_fail() which returns the number of seconds since malloc(9) failed last time. This is intended to help code adjust memory usage to the current circumstances. A typical use could be: if (malloc_last_fail() < 60) reduce_cache_by_one();
2002-11-01 18:58:12 +00:00
int
malloc_last_fail(void)
{
return (time_uptime - t_malloc_fail);
}
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
/*
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* An allocation has succeeded -- update malloc type statistics for the
* amount of bucket size. Occurs within a critical section so that the
* thread isn't preempted and doesn't migrate while updating per-PCU
* statistics.
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
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*/
static void
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
malloc_type_zone_allocated(struct malloc_type *mtp, unsigned long size,
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
int zindx)
{
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
struct malloc_type_internal *mtip;
struct malloc_type_stats *mtsp;
critical_enter();
mtip = mtp->ks_handle;
mtsp = &mtip->mti_stats[curcpu];
Fix the way how "InUse" column in 'vmstat -m' output works: - increase number of allocations count only on successfull malloc(9), so it doesn't confuse people; - because we need to check if 'size > 0', hide 'mtsp->mts_memalloced += size;' under the check as well, as for size=0 it is of course a no-op; - avoid critical_enter()/critical_exit() in case of failure in malloc_type_allocated() as there will be nothing to do. OK'ed by: rwatson MFC after: 2 days
2005-07-27 23:17:31 +00:00
if (size > 0) {
mtsp->mts_memalloced += size;
mtsp->mts_numallocs++;
}
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
if (zindx != -1)
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mtsp->mts_size |= 1 << zindx;
Add support for the DTrace malloc provider which can enable probes on a per-malloc type basis.
2008-05-23 00:43:36 +00:00
#ifdef KDTRACE_HOOKS
if (dtrace_malloc_probe != NULL) {
uint32_t probe_id = mtip->mti_probes[DTMALLOC_PROBE_MALLOC];
if (probe_id != 0)
(dtrace_malloc_probe)(probe_id,
(uintptr_t) mtp, (uintptr_t) mtip,
(uintptr_t) mtsp, size, zindx);
}
#endif
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
critical_exit();
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
}
void
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
malloc_type_allocated(struct malloc_type *mtp, unsigned long size)
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
{
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
Fix the way how "InUse" column in 'vmstat -m' output works: - increase number of allocations count only on successfull malloc(9), so it doesn't confuse people; - because we need to check if 'size > 0', hide 'mtsp->mts_memalloced += size;' under the check as well, as for size=0 it is of course a no-op; - avoid critical_enter()/critical_exit() in case of failure in malloc_type_allocated() as there will be nothing to do. OK'ed by: rwatson MFC after: 2 days
2005-07-27 23:17:31 +00:00
if (size > 0)
malloc_type_zone_allocated(mtp, size, -1);
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
}
/*
Spell statistics more correctly in comments.
2007-06-14 03:02:33 +00:00
* A free operation has occurred -- update malloc type statistics for the
Expand comments for malloc(9) to better describe the design and statistics / memory types model.
2006-07-23 19:51:39 +00:00
* amount of the bucket size. Occurs within a critical section so that the
* thread isn't preempted and doesn't migrate while updating per-CPU
* statistics.
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
*/
void
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
malloc_type_freed(struct malloc_type *mtp, unsigned long size)
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
{
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
struct malloc_type_internal *mtip;
struct malloc_type_stats *mtsp;
critical_enter();
mtip = mtp->ks_handle;
mtsp = &mtip->mti_stats[curcpu];
mtsp->mts_memfreed += size;
mtsp->mts_numfrees++;
Add support for the DTrace malloc provider which can enable probes on a per-malloc type basis.
2008-05-23 00:43:36 +00:00
#ifdef KDTRACE_HOOKS
if (dtrace_malloc_probe != NULL) {
uint32_t probe_id = mtip->mti_probes[DTMALLOC_PROBE_FREE];
if (probe_id != 0)
(dtrace_malloc_probe)(probe_id,
(uintptr_t) mtp, (uintptr_t) mtip,
(uintptr_t) mtsp, size, 0);
}
#endif
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
critical_exit();
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
}
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
/*
This is a rather large commit that encompasses the new swapper, changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code cleanup issues. Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
1999-01-21 08:29:12 +00:00
* malloc:
*
* Allocate a block of memory.
*
* If M_NOWAIT is set, this routine will not block and return NULL if
* the allocation fails.
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
*/
void *
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
malloc(unsigned long size, struct malloc_type *mtp, int flags)
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
{
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
int indx;
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
caddr_t va;
uma_zone_t zone;
Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9). It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. Tested by: kris
2006-01-31 11:09:21 +00:00
#if defined(DIAGNOSTIC) || defined(DEBUG_REDZONE)
Under #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC, fill malloc(9) allocations which do not have M_ZERO specified with 0x70. (malloc_flags=J for the kernel :-)
2003-02-01 10:07:49 +00:00
unsigned long osize = size;
#endif
Make malloc more extensible. The malloc type is now a pointer to the struct kmemstats that describes the type. This allows subsystems to declare their malloc types locally and <sys/malloc.h> doesn't need tweaked everytime somebody gets an idea. You can even have a type local to a lkm... I don't know if we really need the longdesc, comments welcome. TODO: There is a single nit in ext2fs, that will be fixed later, and I intend to remove all unused malloc types and distribute the rest closer to their use.
1997-10-10 14:06:34 +00:00
PHCC[1]: I had commented the #ifdef INVARIANTS checks out to make sure I ran this code in all kernels and forgot to comment the #ifdefs back in before I committed. Spotted by: bmilekic [1] PHCC = Pointy Hat Correction Commit
2003-03-10 20:24:54 +00:00
#ifdef INVARIANTS
struct malloc_type has had a 'magic' field statically initialized to M_MAGIC by MALLOC_DEFINE() for a long time; add assertions that malloc_type's passed to malloc(), free(), etc have that magic set. MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-19 12:41:37 +00:00
KASSERT(mtp->ks_magic == M_MAGIC, ("malloc: bad malloc type magic"));
Make malloc and mbuf allocation mode flags nonoverlapping. Under INVARIANTS whine if we get incompatible flags. Submitted by: imp
2003-03-10 19:39:53 +00:00
/*
Long overdue, keep up with mbuf.h,v 1.148.
2005-08-02 20:03:23 +00:00
* Check that exactly one of M_WAITOK or M_NOWAIT is specified.
Make malloc and mbuf allocation mode flags nonoverlapping. Under INVARIANTS whine if we get incompatible flags. Submitted by: imp
2003-03-10 19:39:53 +00:00
*/
Long overdue, keep up with mbuf.h,v 1.148.
2005-08-02 20:03:23 +00:00
indx = flags & (M_WAITOK | M_NOWAIT);
Make malloc and mbuf allocation mode flags nonoverlapping. Under INVARIANTS whine if we get incompatible flags. Submitted by: imp
2003-03-10 19:39:53 +00:00
if (indx != M_NOWAIT && indx != M_WAITOK) {
static struct timeval lasterr;
static int curerr, once;
if (once == 0 && ppsratecheck(&lasterr, &curerr, 1)) {
printf("Bad malloc flags: %x\n", indx);
Update for the KDB framework: o Make debugging code conditional upon KDB instead of DDB. o Call kdb_enter() instead of Debugger(). o Call kdb_backtrace() instead of db_print_backtrace() or backtrace(). kern_mutex.c: o Replace checks for db_active with checks for kdb_active and make them unconditional. kern_shutdown.c: o s/DDB_UNATTENDED/KDB_UNATTENDED/g o s/DDB_TRACE/KDB_TRACE/g o Save the TID of the thread doing the kernel dump so the debugger knows which thread to select as the current when debugging the kernel core file. o Clear kdb_active instead of db_active and do so unconditionally. o Remove backtrace() implementation. kern_synch.c: o Call kdb_reenter() instead of db_error().
2004-07-10 21:36:01 +00:00
kdb_backtrace();
Make malloc and mbuf allocation mode flags nonoverlapping. Under INVARIANTS whine if we get incompatible flags. Submitted by: imp
2003-03-10 19:39:53 +00:00
flags |= M_WAITOK;
once++;
}
}
PHCC[1]: I had commented the #ifdef INVARIANTS checks out to make sure I ran this code in all kernels and forgot to comment the #ifdefs back in before I committed. Spotted by: bmilekic [1] PHCC = Pointy Hat Correction Commit
2003-03-10 20:24:54 +00:00
#endif
Add a new kernel option, MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES, which compiles in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added: debug.malloc.failure_rate How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures -- I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other popular settings might be much lower or much higher. debug.malloc.failure_count Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have happened and whether failures are being generated. Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type, printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced failure. Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
2003-03-26 20:18:40 +00:00
#ifdef MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES
if ((flags & M_NOWAIT) && (malloc_failure_rate != 0)) {
atomic_add_int(&malloc_nowait_count, 1);
if ((malloc_nowait_count % malloc_failure_rate) == 0) {
atomic_add_int(&malloc_failure_count, 1);
Update the "last malloc failure timestamp" also for simulated malloc errors.
2003-04-25 21:49:24 +00:00
t_malloc_fail = time_uptime;
Add a new kernel option, MALLOC_MAKE_FAILURES, which compiles in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added: debug.malloc.failure_rate How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures -- I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other popular settings might be much lower or much higher. debug.malloc.failure_count Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have happened and whether failures are being generated. Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type, printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced failure. Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
2003-03-26 20:18:40 +00:00
return (NULL);
}
}
Add a basic sanity check on pointers passed to free(9). Should be improved by: jeff
2002-04-23 18:50:25 +00:00
#endif
Make malloc and mbuf allocation mode flags nonoverlapping. Under INVARIANTS whine if we get incompatible flags. Submitted by: imp
2003-03-10 19:39:53 +00:00
if (flags & M_WAITOK)
KSE Milestone 2 Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time). This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except that there is a thread associated with each process. Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!) Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
KASSERT(curthread->td_intr_nesting_level == 0,
Back out M_* changes, per decision of the TRB. Approved by: trb
2003-02-19 05:47:46 +00:00
("malloc(M_WAITOK) in interrupt context"));
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
Improve memguard a bit: - Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without changing the code and recompiling the kernel. - Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory type before module is loaded. - Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c. - Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there. - Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its short description (ks_shortdesc field). - Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet. If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY. - Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the default.
2005-12-30 11:45:07 +00:00
if (memguard_cmp(mtp))
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
return memguard_alloc(size, flags);
#endif
Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9). It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. Tested by: kris
2006-01-31 11:09:21 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_REDZONE
size = redzone_size_ntor(size);
#endif
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
if (size <= KMEM_ZMAX) {
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
if (size & KMEM_ZMASK)
size = (size & ~KMEM_ZMASK) + KMEM_ZBASE;
indx = kmemsize[size >> KMEM_ZSHIFT];
zone = kmemzones[indx].kz_zone;
#ifdef MALLOC_PROFILE
krequests[size >> KMEM_ZSHIFT]++;
#endif
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
va = uma_zalloc(zone, flags);
Reimplement contigmalloc(9) with an algorithm which stands a greatly- improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs. Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly) at a time. The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated. The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked. There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at run-time to see the difference it makes. A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig() and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0 uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation. When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the contigmalloc(9) manpage.
2004-07-19 06:21:27 +00:00
if (va != NULL)
- Make the keg abstraction more complete. Permit a zone to have multiple backend kegs so it may source compatible memory from multiple backends. This is useful for cases such as NUMA or different layouts for the same memory type. - Provide a new api for adding new backend kegs to secondary zones. - Provide a new flag for adjusting the layout of zones to stagger allocations better across cache lines. Sponsored by: Nokia
2009-01-25 09:11:24 +00:00
size = zone->uz_size;
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
malloc_type_zone_allocated(mtp, va == NULL ? 0 : size, indx);
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
} else {
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
size = roundup(size, PAGE_SIZE);
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
zone = NULL;
va = uma_large_malloc(size, flags);
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
malloc_type_allocated(mtp, va == NULL ? 0 : size);
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
}
Don't pass NULL pointer to memset if we are compiled with DIAGNOSTIC Approved by: re/rwatson
2003-05-12 05:09:56 +00:00
if (flags & M_WAITOK)
Back out M_* changes, per decision of the TRB. Approved by: trb
2003-02-19 05:47:46 +00:00
KASSERT(va != NULL, ("malloc(M_WAITOK) returned NULL"));
Don't pass NULL pointer to memset if we are compiled with DIAGNOSTIC Approved by: re/rwatson
2003-05-12 05:09:56 +00:00
else if (va == NULL)
Introduce malloc_last_fail() which returns the number of seconds since malloc(9) failed last time. This is intended to help code adjust memory usage to the current circumstances. A typical use could be: if (malloc_last_fail() < 60) reduce_cache_by_one();
2002-11-01 18:58:12 +00:00
t_malloc_fail = time_uptime;
Under #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC, fill malloc(9) allocations which do not have M_ZERO specified with 0x70. (malloc_flags=J for the kernel :-)
2003-02-01 10:07:49 +00:00
#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC
Don't pass NULL pointer to memset if we are compiled with DIAGNOSTIC Approved by: re/rwatson
2003-05-12 05:09:56 +00:00
if (va != NULL && !(flags & M_ZERO)) {
Under #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC, fill malloc(9) allocations which do not have M_ZERO specified with 0x70. (malloc_flags=J for the kernel :-)
2003-02-01 10:07:49 +00:00
memset(va, 0x70, osize);
}
Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9). It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. Tested by: kris
2006-01-31 11:09:21 +00:00
#endif
#ifdef DEBUG_REDZONE
if (va != NULL)
va = redzone_setup(va, osize);
Under #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC, fill malloc(9) allocations which do not have M_ZERO specified with 0x70. (malloc_flags=J for the kernel :-)
2003-02-01 10:07:49 +00:00
#endif
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
return ((void *) va);
}
/*
This is a rather large commit that encompasses the new swapper, changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code cleanup issues. Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
1999-01-21 08:29:12 +00:00
* free:
*
* Free a block of memory allocated by malloc.
*
* This routine may not block.
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
*/
void
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
free(void *addr, struct malloc_type *mtp)
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
{
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
uma_slab_t slab;
u_long size;
Make malloc more extensible. The malloc type is now a pointer to the struct kmemstats that describes the type. This allows subsystems to declare their malloc types locally and <sys/malloc.h> doesn't need tweaked everytime somebody gets an idea. You can even have a type local to a lkm... I don't know if we really need the longdesc, comments welcome. TODO: There is a single nit in ext2fs, that will be fixed later, and I intend to remove all unused malloc types and distribute the rest closer to their use.
1997-10-10 14:06:34 +00:00
struct malloc_type has had a 'magic' field statically initialized to M_MAGIC by MALLOC_DEFINE() for a long time; add assertions that malloc_type's passed to malloc(), free(), etc have that magic set. MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-19 12:41:37 +00:00
KASSERT(mtp->ks_magic == M_MAGIC, ("free: bad malloc type magic"));
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
/* free(NULL, ...) does nothing */
if (addr == NULL)
return;
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
Improve memguard a bit: - Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without changing the code and recompiling the kernel. - Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory type before module is loaded. - Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c. - Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there. - Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its short description (ks_shortdesc field). - Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet. If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY. - Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the default.
2005-12-30 11:45:07 +00:00
if (memguard_cmp(mtp)) {
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
memguard_free(addr);
return;
}
#endif
Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9). It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. Tested by: kris
2006-01-31 11:09:21 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_REDZONE
redzone_check(addr);
addr = redzone_addr_ntor(addr);
#endif
- Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH. - Remove all instances of the mallochash. - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from the kmem_obj. - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
slab = vtoslab((vm_offset_t)addr & (~UMA_SLAB_MASK));
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
if (slab == NULL)
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
panic("free: address %p(%p) has not been allocated.\n",
- Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH. - Remove all instances of the mallochash. - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from the kmem_obj. - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
addr, (void *)((u_long)addr & (~UMA_SLAB_MASK)));
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
if (!(slab->us_flags & UMA_SLAB_MALLOC)) {
Hide a pointer to the malloc_type bucket at the end of the freed memory. If this memory is modified after it has been freed we can now report it's previous owner.
2002-05-02 09:07:04 +00:00
#ifdef INVARIANTS
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
struct malloc_type **mtpp = addr;
Hide a pointer to the malloc_type bucket at the end of the freed memory. If this memory is modified after it has been freed we can now report it's previous owner.
2002-05-02 09:07:04 +00:00
#endif
Bring in mbuma to replace mballoc. mbuma is an Mbuf & Cluster allocator built on top of a number of extensions to the UMA framework, all included herein. Extensions to UMA worth noting: - Better layering between slab <-> zone caches; introduce Keg structure which splits off slab cache away from the zone structure and allows multiple zones to be stacked on top of a single Keg (single type of slab cache); perhaps we should look into defining a subset API on top of the Keg for special use by malloc(9), for example. - UMA_ZONE_REFCNT zones can now be added, and reference counters automagically allocated for them within the end of the associated slab structures. uma_find_refcnt() does a kextract to fetch the slab struct reference from the underlying page, and lookup the corresponding refcnt. mbuma things worth noting: - integrates mbuf & cluster allocations with extended UMA and provides caches for commonly-allocated items; defines several zones (two primary, one secondary) and two kegs. - change up certain code paths that always used to do: m_get() + m_clget() to instead just use m_getcl() and try to take advantage of the newly defined secondary Packet zone. - netstat(1) and systat(1) quickly hacked up to do basic stat reporting but additional stats work needs to be done once some other details within UMA have been taken care of and it becomes clearer to how stats will work within the modified framework. From the user perspective, one implication is that the NMBCLUSTERS compile-time option is no longer used. The maximum number of clusters is still capped off according to maxusers, but it can be made unlimited by setting the kern.ipc.nmbclusters boot-time tunable to zero. Work should be done to write an appropriate sysctl handler allowing dynamic tuning of kern.ipc.nmbclusters at runtime. Additional things worth noting/known issues (READ): - One report of 'ips' (ServeRAID) driver acting really slow in conjunction with mbuma. Need more data. Latest report is that ips is equally sucking with and without mbuma. - Giant leak in NFS code sometimes occurs, can't reproduce but currently analyzing; brueffer is able to reproduce but THIS IS NOT an mbuma-specific problem and currently occurs even WITHOUT mbuma. - Issues in network locking: there is at least one code path in the rip code where one or more locks are acquired and we end up in m_prepend() with M_WAITOK, which causes WITNESS to whine from within UMA. Current temporary solution: force all UMA allocations to be M_NOWAIT from within UMA for now to avoid deadlocks unless WITNESS is defined and we can determine with certainty that we're not holding any locks when we're M_WAITOK. - I've seen at least one weird socketbuffer empty-but- mbuf-still-attached panic. I don't believe this to be related to mbuma but please keep your eyes open, turn on debugging, and capture crash dumps. This change removes more code than it adds. A paper is available detailing the change and considering various performance issues, it was presented at BSDCan2004: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~bmilekic/netbuf_bmilekic.pdf Please read the paper for Future Work and implementation details, as well as credits. Testing and Debugging: rwatson, brueffer, Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra, ... Reviewed by: Lots of people (for different parts)
2004-05-31 21:46:06 +00:00
size = slab->us_keg->uk_size;
Hide a pointer to the malloc_type bucket at the end of the freed memory. If this memory is modified after it has been freed we can now report it's previous owner.
2002-05-02 09:07:04 +00:00
#ifdef INVARIANTS
/*
* Cache a pointer to the malloc_type that most recently freed
* this memory here. This way we know who is most likely to
* have stepped on it later.
*
* This code assumes that size is a multiple of 8 bytes for
* 64 bit machines
*/
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mtpp = (struct malloc_type **)
((unsigned long)mtpp & ~UMA_ALIGN_PTR);
mtpp += (size - sizeof(struct malloc_type *)) /
Hide a pointer to the malloc_type bucket at the end of the freed memory. If this memory is modified after it has been freed we can now report it's previous owner.
2002-05-02 09:07:04 +00:00
sizeof(struct malloc_type *);
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
*mtpp = mtp;
Hide a pointer to the malloc_type bucket at the end of the freed memory. If this memory is modified after it has been freed we can now report it's previous owner.
2002-05-02 09:07:04 +00:00
#endif
Bring in mbuma to replace mballoc. mbuma is an Mbuf & Cluster allocator built on top of a number of extensions to the UMA framework, all included herein. Extensions to UMA worth noting: - Better layering between slab <-> zone caches; introduce Keg structure which splits off slab cache away from the zone structure and allows multiple zones to be stacked on top of a single Keg (single type of slab cache); perhaps we should look into defining a subset API on top of the Keg for special use by malloc(9), for example. - UMA_ZONE_REFCNT zones can now be added, and reference counters automagically allocated for them within the end of the associated slab structures. uma_find_refcnt() does a kextract to fetch the slab struct reference from the underlying page, and lookup the corresponding refcnt. mbuma things worth noting: - integrates mbuf & cluster allocations with extended UMA and provides caches for commonly-allocated items; defines several zones (two primary, one secondary) and two kegs. - change up certain code paths that always used to do: m_get() + m_clget() to instead just use m_getcl() and try to take advantage of the newly defined secondary Packet zone. - netstat(1) and systat(1) quickly hacked up to do basic stat reporting but additional stats work needs to be done once some other details within UMA have been taken care of and it becomes clearer to how stats will work within the modified framework. From the user perspective, one implication is that the NMBCLUSTERS compile-time option is no longer used. The maximum number of clusters is still capped off according to maxusers, but it can be made unlimited by setting the kern.ipc.nmbclusters boot-time tunable to zero. Work should be done to write an appropriate sysctl handler allowing dynamic tuning of kern.ipc.nmbclusters at runtime. Additional things worth noting/known issues (READ): - One report of 'ips' (ServeRAID) driver acting really slow in conjunction with mbuma. Need more data. Latest report is that ips is equally sucking with and without mbuma. - Giant leak in NFS code sometimes occurs, can't reproduce but currently analyzing; brueffer is able to reproduce but THIS IS NOT an mbuma-specific problem and currently occurs even WITHOUT mbuma. - Issues in network locking: there is at least one code path in the rip code where one or more locks are acquired and we end up in m_prepend() with M_WAITOK, which causes WITNESS to whine from within UMA. Current temporary solution: force all UMA allocations to be M_NOWAIT from within UMA for now to avoid deadlocks unless WITNESS is defined and we can determine with certainty that we're not holding any locks when we're M_WAITOK. - I've seen at least one weird socketbuffer empty-but- mbuf-still-attached panic. I don't believe this to be related to mbuma but please keep your eyes open, turn on debugging, and capture crash dumps. This change removes more code than it adds. A paper is available detailing the change and considering various performance issues, it was presented at BSDCan2004: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~bmilekic/netbuf_bmilekic.pdf Please read the paper for Future Work and implementation details, as well as credits. Testing and Debugging: rwatson, brueffer, Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra, ... Reviewed by: Lots of people (for different parts)
2004-05-31 21:46:06 +00:00
uma_zfree_arg(LIST_FIRST(&slab->us_keg->uk_zones), addr, slab);
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
} else {
size = slab->us_size;
uma_large_free(slab);
Add sufficient braces to keep egcs happy about potentially ambiguous if/else nesting.
1999-05-06 18:13:11 +00:00
}
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
malloc_type_freed(mtp, size);
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
}
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
/*
* realloc: change the size of a memory block
*/
void *
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
realloc(void *addr, unsigned long size, struct malloc_type *mtp, int flags)
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
{
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
uma_slab_t slab;
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
unsigned long alloc;
void *newaddr;
struct malloc_type has had a 'magic' field statically initialized to M_MAGIC by MALLOC_DEFINE() for a long time; add assertions that malloc_type's passed to malloc(), free(), etc have that magic set. MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-19 12:41:37 +00:00
KASSERT(mtp->ks_magic == M_MAGIC,
("realloc: bad malloc type magic"));
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
/* realloc(NULL, ...) is equivalent to malloc(...) */
if (addr == NULL)
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
return (malloc(size, mtp, flags));
/*
* XXX: Should report free of old memory and alloc of new memory to
* per-CPU stats.
*/
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
Improve memguard a bit: - Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without changing the code and recompiling the kernel. - Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory type before module is loaded. - Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c. - Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there. - Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its short description (ks_shortdesc field). - Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet. If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY. - Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the default.
2005-12-30 11:45:07 +00:00
if (memguard_cmp(mtp)) {
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
slab = NULL;
alloc = size;
} else {
#endif
Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9). It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. Tested by: kris
2006-01-31 11:09:21 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_REDZONE
slab = NULL;
alloc = redzone_get_size(addr);
#else
- Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH. - Remove all instances of the mallochash. - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from the kmem_obj. - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
slab = vtoslab((vm_offset_t)addr & ~(UMA_SLAB_MASK));
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
/* Sanity check */
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
KASSERT(slab != NULL,
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
("realloc: address %p out of range", (void *)addr));
/* Get the size of the original block */
In realloc(9), determine size of the original block based on UMA_SLAB_MALLOC flag. In some circumstances (I observed it when I was doing a lot of reallocs) UMA_SLAB_MALLOC can be set even if us_keg != NULL. If this is the case we have wonderful, silent data corruption, because less data is copied to the newly allocated region than should be. I'm not sure when this bug was introduced, it could be there undetected for years now, as we don't have a lot of realloc(9) consumers and it was hard to reproduce it... ...but what I know for sure, is that I don't want to know who introduce the bug:) It took me two/three days to track it down (of course most of the time I was looking for the bug in my own code).
2005-12-28 01:53:13 +00:00
if (!(slab->us_flags & UMA_SLAB_MALLOC))
Bring in mbuma to replace mballoc. mbuma is an Mbuf & Cluster allocator built on top of a number of extensions to the UMA framework, all included herein. Extensions to UMA worth noting: - Better layering between slab <-> zone caches; introduce Keg structure which splits off slab cache away from the zone structure and allows multiple zones to be stacked on top of a single Keg (single type of slab cache); perhaps we should look into defining a subset API on top of the Keg for special use by malloc(9), for example. - UMA_ZONE_REFCNT zones can now be added, and reference counters automagically allocated for them within the end of the associated slab structures. uma_find_refcnt() does a kextract to fetch the slab struct reference from the underlying page, and lookup the corresponding refcnt. mbuma things worth noting: - integrates mbuf & cluster allocations with extended UMA and provides caches for commonly-allocated items; defines several zones (two primary, one secondary) and two kegs. - change up certain code paths that always used to do: m_get() + m_clget() to instead just use m_getcl() and try to take advantage of the newly defined secondary Packet zone. - netstat(1) and systat(1) quickly hacked up to do basic stat reporting but additional stats work needs to be done once some other details within UMA have been taken care of and it becomes clearer to how stats will work within the modified framework. From the user perspective, one implication is that the NMBCLUSTERS compile-time option is no longer used. The maximum number of clusters is still capped off according to maxusers, but it can be made unlimited by setting the kern.ipc.nmbclusters boot-time tunable to zero. Work should be done to write an appropriate sysctl handler allowing dynamic tuning of kern.ipc.nmbclusters at runtime. Additional things worth noting/known issues (READ): - One report of 'ips' (ServeRAID) driver acting really slow in conjunction with mbuma. Need more data. Latest report is that ips is equally sucking with and without mbuma. - Giant leak in NFS code sometimes occurs, can't reproduce but currently analyzing; brueffer is able to reproduce but THIS IS NOT an mbuma-specific problem and currently occurs even WITHOUT mbuma. - Issues in network locking: there is at least one code path in the rip code where one or more locks are acquired and we end up in m_prepend() with M_WAITOK, which causes WITNESS to whine from within UMA. Current temporary solution: force all UMA allocations to be M_NOWAIT from within UMA for now to avoid deadlocks unless WITNESS is defined and we can determine with certainty that we're not holding any locks when we're M_WAITOK. - I've seen at least one weird socketbuffer empty-but- mbuf-still-attached panic. I don't believe this to be related to mbuma but please keep your eyes open, turn on debugging, and capture crash dumps. This change removes more code than it adds. A paper is available detailing the change and considering various performance issues, it was presented at BSDCan2004: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~bmilekic/netbuf_bmilekic.pdf Please read the paper for Future Work and implementation details, as well as credits. Testing and Debugging: rwatson, brueffer, Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra, ... Reviewed by: Lots of people (for different parts)
2004-05-31 21:46:06 +00:00
alloc = slab->us_keg->uk_size;
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
else
alloc = slab->us_size;
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
/* Reuse the original block if appropriate */
if (size <= alloc
&& (size > (alloc >> REALLOC_FRACTION) || alloc == MINALLOCSIZE))
return (addr);
Add buffer corruption protection (RedZone) for kernel's malloc(9). It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime (on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was allocated and from where it was freed. Tested by: kris
2006-01-31 11:09:21 +00:00
#endif /* !DEBUG_REDZONE */
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
}
#endif
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
/* Allocate a new, bigger (or smaller) block */
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
if ((newaddr = malloc(size, mtp, flags)) == NULL)
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
return (NULL);
/* Copy over original contents */
bcopy(addr, newaddr, min(size, alloc));
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
free(addr, mtp);
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
return (newaddr);
}
/*
* reallocf: same as realloc() but free memory on failure.
*/
void *
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
reallocf(void *addr, unsigned long size, struct malloc_type *mtp, int flags)
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
{
void *mem;
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
if ((mem = realloc(addr, size, mtp, flags)) == NULL)
free(addr, mtp);
Add realloc() and reallocf(), and make free(NULL, ...) acceptable. Reviewed by: alfred
2002-03-13 01:42:33 +00:00
return (mem);
}
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
/*
* Initialize the kernel memory allocator
*/
Reviewed by: julian with quick glances by bruce and others Submitted by: terry (terry lambert) This is a composite of 3 patch sets submitted by terry. they are: New low-level init code that supports loadbal modules better some cleanups in the namei code to help terry in 16-bit character support some changes to the mount-root code to make it a little more modular.. NOTE: mounting root off cdrom or NFS MIGHT be broken as I haven't been able to test those cases.. certainly mounting root of disk still works just fine.. mfs should work but is untested. (tomorrows task) The low level init stuff includes a total rewrite of init_main.c to make it possible for new modules to have an init phase by simply adding an entry to a TEXT_SET (or is it DATA_SET) list. thus a new module can be added to the kernel without editing any other files other than the 'files' file.
1995-08-28 09:19:25 +00:00
/* ARGSUSED*/
static void
Consistently style function declarations in kern_malloc.c. MFC after: 3 days
2005-04-12 23:54:34 +00:00
kmeminit(void *dummy)
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
{
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
u_int8_t indx;
Fixed sign and overflow bugs that caused the allocation size of the kernel malloc region (kmem_map) to be wrong and semi-random on systems with more than 1GB of RAM. This is not a complete fix, but is sufficient for machines with 4GB or less of memory. A complete fix will require some changes to the getenv stuff so that 64bit values can be passed around. NOT FIXED: machines with more than 4GB of RAM (e.g. some large Alphas) since we're still using ints to hold some of the values. Reviewed by: bde
2000-01-28 04:04:58 +00:00
u_long mem_size;
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
int i;
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
Change callers of mtx_init() to pass in an appropriate lock type name. In most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks (which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used. Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
2002-04-04 21:03:38 +00:00
mtx_init(&malloc_mtx, "malloc", NULL, MTX_DEF);
Add malloc_mtx to protect malloc and friends, so that they're thread-safe. Reviewed by: peter
2000-09-11 02:32:30 +00:00
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
/*
* Try to auto-tune the kernel memory size, so that it is
* more applicable for a wider range of machine sizes.
* On an X86, a VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE value of 4 is good, while
* a VM_KMEM_SIZE of 12MB is a fair compromise. The
* VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX is dependent on the maximum KVA space
* available, and on an X86 with a total KVA space of 256MB,
* try to keep VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX at 80MB or below.
*
* Note that the kmem_map is also used by the zone allocator,
* so make sure that there is enough space.
*/
Bring in mbuma to replace mballoc. mbuma is an Mbuf & Cluster allocator built on top of a number of extensions to the UMA framework, all included herein. Extensions to UMA worth noting: - Better layering between slab <-> zone caches; introduce Keg structure which splits off slab cache away from the zone structure and allows multiple zones to be stacked on top of a single Keg (single type of slab cache); perhaps we should look into defining a subset API on top of the Keg for special use by malloc(9), for example. - UMA_ZONE_REFCNT zones can now be added, and reference counters automagically allocated for them within the end of the associated slab structures. uma_find_refcnt() does a kextract to fetch the slab struct reference from the underlying page, and lookup the corresponding refcnt. mbuma things worth noting: - integrates mbuf & cluster allocations with extended UMA and provides caches for commonly-allocated items; defines several zones (two primary, one secondary) and two kegs. - change up certain code paths that always used to do: m_get() + m_clget() to instead just use m_getcl() and try to take advantage of the newly defined secondary Packet zone. - netstat(1) and systat(1) quickly hacked up to do basic stat reporting but additional stats work needs to be done once some other details within UMA have been taken care of and it becomes clearer to how stats will work within the modified framework. From the user perspective, one implication is that the NMBCLUSTERS compile-time option is no longer used. The maximum number of clusters is still capped off according to maxusers, but it can be made unlimited by setting the kern.ipc.nmbclusters boot-time tunable to zero. Work should be done to write an appropriate sysctl handler allowing dynamic tuning of kern.ipc.nmbclusters at runtime. Additional things worth noting/known issues (READ): - One report of 'ips' (ServeRAID) driver acting really slow in conjunction with mbuma. Need more data. Latest report is that ips is equally sucking with and without mbuma. - Giant leak in NFS code sometimes occurs, can't reproduce but currently analyzing; brueffer is able to reproduce but THIS IS NOT an mbuma-specific problem and currently occurs even WITHOUT mbuma. - Issues in network locking: there is at least one code path in the rip code where one or more locks are acquired and we end up in m_prepend() with M_WAITOK, which causes WITNESS to whine from within UMA. Current temporary solution: force all UMA allocations to be M_NOWAIT from within UMA for now to avoid deadlocks unless WITNESS is defined and we can determine with certainty that we're not holding any locks when we're M_WAITOK. - I've seen at least one weird socketbuffer empty-but- mbuf-still-attached panic. I don't believe this to be related to mbuma but please keep your eyes open, turn on debugging, and capture crash dumps. This change removes more code than it adds. A paper is available detailing the change and considering various performance issues, it was presented at BSDCan2004: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~bmilekic/netbuf_bmilekic.pdf Please read the paper for Future Work and implementation details, as well as credits. Testing and Debugging: rwatson, brueffer, Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra, ... Reviewed by: Lots of people (for different parts)
2004-05-31 21:46:06 +00:00
vm_kmem_size = VM_KMEM_SIZE + nmbclusters * PAGE_SIZE;
Revert VMCNT_* operations introduction. Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should solve the sched_lock protection problems separately. Requested by: alc Approved by: jeff (mentor)
2007-05-31 22:52:15 +00:00
mem_size = cnt.v_page_count;
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
#if defined(VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE)
Turn VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX and VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE into tunables. MFC after: 3 days
2004-09-29 14:21:40 +00:00
vm_kmem_size_scale = VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE;
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
#endif
Turn VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX and VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE into tunables. MFC after: 3 days
2004-09-29 14:21:40 +00:00
TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("vm.kmem_size_scale", &vm_kmem_size_scale);
if (vm_kmem_size_scale > 0 &&
(mem_size / vm_kmem_size_scale) > (vm_kmem_size / PAGE_SIZE))
vm_kmem_size = (mem_size / vm_kmem_size_scale) * PAGE_SIZE;
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
Add support for specifying a minimal size for vm.kmem_size in the loader via vm.kmem_size_min. Useful when using ZFS to make sure that vm.kmem size will be at least 256mb (for example) without forcing a particular value via vm.kmem_size. Approved by: njl (mentor) Reviewed by: alc
2007-04-21 01:14:48 +00:00
#if defined(VM_KMEM_SIZE_MIN)
vm_kmem_size_min = VM_KMEM_SIZE_MIN;
#endif
Enable the creation of a kmem map larger than 4GB. Submitted by: Tz-Huan Huang Make several variables related to kmem map auto-sizing static. Found by: CScout
2008-07-05 19:34:33 +00:00
TUNABLE_ULONG_FETCH("vm.kmem_size_min", &vm_kmem_size_min);
Add support for specifying a minimal size for vm.kmem_size in the loader via vm.kmem_size_min. Useful when using ZFS to make sure that vm.kmem size will be at least 256mb (for example) without forcing a particular value via vm.kmem_size. Approved by: njl (mentor) Reviewed by: alc
2007-04-21 01:14:48 +00:00
if (vm_kmem_size_min > 0 && vm_kmem_size < vm_kmem_size_min) {
vm_kmem_size = vm_kmem_size_min;
}
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
#if defined(VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX)
Turn VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX and VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE into tunables. MFC after: 3 days
2004-09-29 14:21:40 +00:00
vm_kmem_size_max = VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX;
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
#endif
Enable the creation of a kmem map larger than 4GB. Submitted by: Tz-Huan Huang Make several variables related to kmem map auto-sizing static. Found by: CScout
2008-07-05 19:34:33 +00:00
TUNABLE_ULONG_FETCH("vm.kmem_size_max", &vm_kmem_size_max);
Turn VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX and VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE into tunables. MFC after: 3 days
2004-09-29 14:21:40 +00:00
if (vm_kmem_size_max > 0 && vm_kmem_size >= vm_kmem_size_max)
vm_kmem_size = vm_kmem_size_max;
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
Allow VM_KMEM_SIZE to be tuned from the kernel environment. This tuning value *completely* overrides any value precalculated by the kernel.
1999-01-21 21:54:32 +00:00
/* Allow final override from the kernel environment */
Enable the creation of a kmem map larger than 4GB. Submitted by: Tz-Huan Huang Make several variables related to kmem map auto-sizing static. Found by: CScout
2008-07-05 19:34:33 +00:00
TUNABLE_ULONG_FETCH("vm.kmem_size", &vm_kmem_size);
Allow VM_KMEM_SIZE to be tuned from the kernel environment. This tuning value *completely* overrides any value precalculated by the kernel.
1999-01-21 21:54:32 +00:00
Fixed sign and overflow bugs that caused the allocation size of the kernel malloc region (kmem_map) to be wrong and semi-random on systems with more than 1GB of RAM. This is not a complete fix, but is sufficient for machines with 4GB or less of memory. A complete fix will require some changes to the getenv stuff so that 64bit values can be passed around. NOT FIXED: machines with more than 4GB of RAM (e.g. some large Alphas) since we're still using ints to hold some of the values. Reviewed by: bde
2000-01-28 04:04:58 +00:00
/*
* Limit kmem virtual size to twice the physical memory.
* This allows for kmem map sparseness, but limits the size
* to something sane. Be careful to not overflow the 32bit
* ints while doing the check.
*/
Revert VMCNT_* operations introduction. Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should solve the sched_lock protection problems separately. Requested by: alc Approved by: jeff (mentor)
2007-05-31 22:52:15 +00:00
if (((vm_kmem_size / 2) / PAGE_SIZE) > cnt.v_page_count)
vm_kmem_size = 2 * cnt.v_page_count * PAGE_SIZE;
Try to dynamically size the VM_KMEM_SIZE (but is still able to be overridden in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems with greater than 128MB.
1998-02-23 07:41:23 +00:00
Add init_param3() to subr_param. This function is called immediately after the kernel map has been sized, and is the optimal place for the autosizing of memory allocations which occur within the kernel map to occur. Suggested by: bde
2003-07-11 00:01:03 +00:00
/*
Correct an error in the comments for init_param3(). Discussed with: silby
2008-07-04 19:36:58 +00:00
* Tune settings based on the kmem map's size at this time.
Add init_param3() to subr_param. This function is called immediately after the kernel map has been sized, and is the optimal place for the autosizing of memory allocations which occur within the kernel map to occur. Suggested by: bde
2003-07-11 00:01:03 +00:00
*/
init_param3(vm_kmem_size / PAGE_SIZE);
Use vm_offset_t for kmembase and kmemlimit rather than char *, avoiding unnecessary casts, and making it possible to compile kern_malloc.c with strict aliasing. Submitted by: rdivacky Approved by: re (kensmith)
2007-06-27 13:39:38 +00:00
kmem_map = kmem_suballoc(kernel_map, &kmembase, &kmemlimit,
Introduce a new parameter "superpage_align" to kmem_suballoc() that is used to request superpage alignment for the submap. Request superpage alignment for the kmem_map. Pass VMFS_ANY_SPACE instead of TRUE to vm_map_find(). (They are currently equivalent but VMFS_ANY_SPACE is the new preferred spelling.) Remove a stale comment from kmem_malloc().
2008-05-10 21:46:20 +00:00
vm_kmem_size, TRUE);
Get rid of the ad-hoc memory allocator for vm_map_entries, in lieu of a simple, clean zone type allocator. This new allocator will also be used for machine dependent pmap PV entries.
1997-08-05 00:02:08 +00:00
kmem_map->system_map = 1;
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
#ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
/*
* Initialize MemGuard if support compiled in. MemGuard is a
* replacement allocator used for detecting tamper-after-free
* scenarios as they occur. It is only used for debugging.
*/
vm_memguard_divisor = 10;
Improve memguard a bit: - Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without changing the code and recompiling the kernel. - Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory type before module is loaded. - Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c. - Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there. - Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its short description (ks_shortdesc field). - Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet. If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY. - Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the default.
2005-12-30 11:45:07 +00:00
TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("vm.memguard.divisor", &vm_memguard_divisor);
Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
2005-01-21 18:09:17 +00:00
/* Pick a conservative value if provided value sucks. */
if ((vm_memguard_divisor <= 0) ||
((vm_kmem_size / vm_memguard_divisor) == 0))
vm_memguard_divisor = 10;
memguard_init(kmem_map, vm_kmem_size / vm_memguard_divisor);
#endif
- Split UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE into UMA_ZFLAG_OFFPAGE and UMA_ZFLAG_HASH. - Remove all instances of the mallochash. - Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from the kmem_obj. - Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
2002-09-18 08:26:30 +00:00
uma_startup2();
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mt_zone = uma_zcreate("mt_zone", sizeof(struct malloc_type_internal),
#ifdef INVARIANTS
mtrash_ctor, mtrash_dtor, mtrash_init, mtrash_fini,
#else
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
#endif
UMA_ALIGN_PTR, UMA_ZONE_MALLOC);
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
for (i = 0, indx = 0; kmemzones[indx].kz_size != 0; indx++) {
int size = kmemzones[indx].kz_size;
char *name = kmemzones[indx].kz_name;
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
Add a new UMA debugging facility. This will overwrite freed memory with 0xdeadc0de and then check for it just before memory is handed off as part of a new request. This will catch any post free/pre alloc modification of memory, as well as introduce errors for anything that tries to dereference it as a pointer. This code takes the form of special init, fini, ctor and dtor routines that are specificly used by malloc. It is in a seperate file because additional debugging aids will want to live here as well.
2002-04-30 07:54:25 +00:00
kmemzones[indx].kz_zone = uma_zcreate(name, size,
#ifdef INVARIANTS
Hide a pointer to the malloc_type bucket at the end of the freed memory. If this memory is modified after it has been freed we can now report it's previous owner.
2002-05-02 09:07:04 +00:00
mtrash_ctor, mtrash_dtor, mtrash_init, mtrash_fini,
Add a new UMA debugging facility. This will overwrite freed memory with 0xdeadc0de and then check for it just before memory is handed off as part of a new request. This will catch any post free/pre alloc modification of memory, as well as introduce errors for anything that tries to dereference it as a pointer. This code takes the form of special init, fini, ctor and dtor routines that are specificly used by malloc. It is in a seperate file because additional debugging aids will want to live here as well.
2002-04-30 07:54:25 +00:00
#else
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
#endif
UMA_ALIGN_PTR, UMA_ZONE_MALLOC);
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
for (;i <= size; i+= KMEM_ZBASE)
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
kmemsize[i >> KMEM_ZSHIFT] = indx;
This is the first part of the new kernel memory allocator. This replaces malloc(9) and vm_zone with a slab like allocator. Reviewed by: arch@
2002-03-19 09:11:49 +00:00
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
}
Make malloc more extensible. The malloc type is now a pointer to the struct kmemstats that describes the type. This allows subsystems to declare their malloc types locally and <sys/malloc.h> doesn't need tweaked everytime somebody gets an idea. You can even have a type local to a lkm... I don't know if we really need the longdesc, comments welcome. TODO: There is a single nit in ext2fs, that will be fixed later, and I intend to remove all unused malloc types and distribute the rest closer to their use.
1997-10-10 14:06:34 +00:00
}
Have MALLOC_DECLARE() initialize malloc types explicitly, and have them removed at module unload (if in a module of course). However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
1998-11-10 08:46:24 +00:00
void
Consistently style function declarations in kern_malloc.c. MFC after: 3 days
2005-04-12 23:54:34 +00:00
malloc_init(void *data)
Make malloc more extensible. The malloc type is now a pointer to the struct kmemstats that describes the type. This allows subsystems to declare their malloc types locally and <sys/malloc.h> doesn't need tweaked everytime somebody gets an idea. You can even have a type local to a lkm... I don't know if we really need the longdesc, comments welcome. TODO: There is a single nit in ext2fs, that will be fixed later, and I intend to remove all unused malloc types and distribute the rest closer to their use.
1997-10-10 14:06:34 +00:00
{
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
struct malloc_type_internal *mtip;
struct malloc_type *mtp;
Make malloc more extensible. The malloc type is now a pointer to the struct kmemstats that describes the type. This allows subsystems to declare their malloc types locally and <sys/malloc.h> doesn't need tweaked everytime somebody gets an idea. You can even have a type local to a lkm... I don't know if we really need the longdesc, comments welcome. TODO: There is a single nit in ext2fs, that will be fixed later, and I intend to remove all unused malloc types and distribute the rest closer to their use.
1997-10-10 14:06:34 +00:00
Revert VMCNT_* operations introduction. Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should solve the sched_lock protection problems separately. Requested by: alc Approved by: jeff (mentor)
2007-05-31 22:52:15 +00:00
KASSERT(cnt.v_page_count != 0, ("malloc_register before vm_init"));
Remove the long description from the in-kernel datastructure. Put a magic field in there instead, to help catch uninitialized malloc types.
1997-10-28 19:01:02 +00:00
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mtp = data;
If we're passed garbage in malloc_init(), panic() rather than expecting a KASSERT to handle it. People are likely to turn off INVARIANTS RSN and loading an old module can cause garbage-in here. I saw the issue with an older nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver) loading into a new kernel - a crash wasn't seen 'till sysctl_kern_malloc_stats(). I was lucky that mtp->ks_shortdesc was NULL and not something horrible. While I'm here, KASSERT that malloc_uninit() isn't passed something that's not in kmemstatistics. MFC after: 3 weeks
2009-06-05 09:16:52 +00:00
if (mtp->ks_magic != M_MAGIC)
panic("malloc_init: bad malloc type magic");
struct malloc_type has had a 'magic' field statically initialized to M_MAGIC by MALLOC_DEFINE() for a long time; add assertions that malloc_type's passed to malloc(), free(), etc have that magic set. MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-19 12:41:37 +00:00
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mtip = uma_zalloc(mt_zone, M_WAITOK | M_ZERO);
mtp->ks_handle = mtip;
Some fixes from John Hood: 1) Fix the initialization of malloc structure that changed due to perf opt. 2) Remove unneeded include. 3) An initialization assert added to malloc. Submitted by: John Hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
1997-12-05 05:36:58 +00:00
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mtx_lock(&malloc_mtx);
mtp->ks_next = kmemstatistics;
kmemstatistics = mtp;
Introduce a new sysctl, kern.malloc_stats, which exports kernel malloc statistics via a binary structure stream: - Add structure 'malloc_type_stream_header', which defines a stream version, definition of MAXCPUS used in the stream, and a number of malloc_type records in the stream. - Add structure 'malloc_type_header', which defines the name of the malloc type being reported on. - When the sysctl is queried, return a stream header, followed by a series of type descriptions, each consisting of a type header followed by a series of MAXCPUS malloc_type_stats structures holding per-CPU allocation information. Typical values of MAXCPUS will be 1 (UP compiled kernel) and 16 (SMP compiled kernel). This query mechanism allows user space monitoring tools to extract memory allocation statistics in a machine-readable form, and to do so at a per-CPU granularity, allowing monitoring of allocation patterns across CPUs in order to better understand the distribution of work and memory flow over multiple CPUs. While here: - Bump statistics width to uint64_t, and hard code using fixed-width type in order to be more sure about structure layout in the stream. We allocate and free a lot of memory. - Add kmemcount, a counter of the number of registered malloc types, in order to avoid excessive manual counting of types. Export via a new sysctl to allow user-space code to better size buffers. - De-XXX comment on no longer maintaining the high watermark in old sysctl monitoring code. A follow-up commit of libmemstat(3), a library to monitor kernel memory allocation, will occur in the next few days. Likewise, similar changes to UMA.
2005-07-14 11:52:06 +00:00
kmemcount++;
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources
1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00
}
Have MALLOC_DECLARE() initialize malloc types explicitly, and have them removed at module unload (if in a module of course). However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
1998-11-10 08:46:24 +00:00
void
Consistently style function declarations in kern_malloc.c. MFC after: 3 days
2005-04-12 23:54:34 +00:00
malloc_uninit(void *data)
Have MALLOC_DECLARE() initialize malloc types explicitly, and have them removed at module unload (if in a module of course). However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
1998-11-10 08:46:24 +00:00
{
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
struct malloc_type_internal *mtip;
Detect memory leaks when memory type is being destroyed. This is very helpful for detecting kernel modules memory leaks on unload. Discussed and reviewed by: rwatson
2005-11-03 13:48:59 +00:00
struct malloc_type_stats *mtsp;
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
struct malloc_type *mtp, *temp;
Fix bug in malloc_uninit(): Releasing items from the mt_zone can not be done by a simple uma_zfree() call since mt_zone is allocated with the UMA_ZONE_MALLOC flag. Use uma_zfree_arg instead and supply the slab. This bug caused panics in low memory situations on unloading kernel modules containing MALLOC_DEFINE(..) statements. Submitted by: ups
2006-03-03 22:36:52 +00:00
uma_slab_t slab;
Detect memory leaks when memory type is being destroyed. This is very helpful for detecting kernel modules memory leaks on unload. Discussed and reviewed by: rwatson
2005-11-03 13:48:59 +00:00
long temp_allocs, temp_bytes;
int i;
Have MALLOC_DECLARE() initialize malloc types explicitly, and have them removed at module unload (if in a module of course). However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
1998-11-10 08:46:24 +00:00
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mtp = data;
struct malloc_type has had a 'magic' field statically initialized to M_MAGIC by MALLOC_DEFINE() for a long time; add assertions that malloc_type's passed to malloc(), free(), etc have that magic set. MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-19 12:41:37 +00:00
KASSERT(mtp->ks_magic == M_MAGIC,
("malloc_uninit: bad malloc type magic"));
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
KASSERT(mtp->ks_handle != NULL, ("malloc_deregister: cookie NULL"));
struct malloc_type has had a 'magic' field statically initialized to M_MAGIC by MALLOC_DEFINE() for a long time; add assertions that malloc_type's passed to malloc(), free(), etc have that magic set. MFC after: 2 weeks
2009-04-19 12:41:37 +00:00
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
mtx_lock(&malloc_mtx);
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
mtip = mtp->ks_handle;
mtp->ks_handle = NULL;
if (mtp != kmemstatistics) {
for (temp = kmemstatistics; temp != NULL;
temp = temp->ks_next) {
If we're passed garbage in malloc_init(), panic() rather than expecting a KASSERT to handle it. People are likely to turn off INVARIANTS RSN and loading an old module can cause garbage-in here. I saw the issue with an older nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver) loading into a new kernel - a crash wasn't seen 'till sysctl_kern_malloc_stats(). I was lucky that mtp->ks_shortdesc was NULL and not something horrible. While I'm here, KASSERT that malloc_uninit() isn't passed something that's not in kmemstatistics. MFC after: 3 weeks
2009-06-05 09:16:52 +00:00
if (temp->ks_next == mtp) {
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
temp->ks_next = mtp->ks_next;
If we're passed garbage in malloc_init(), panic() rather than expecting a KASSERT to handle it. People are likely to turn off INVARIANTS RSN and loading an old module can cause garbage-in here. I saw the issue with an older nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver) loading into a new kernel - a crash wasn't seen 'till sysctl_kern_malloc_stats(). I was lucky that mtp->ks_shortdesc was NULL and not something horrible. While I'm here, KASSERT that malloc_uninit() isn't passed something that's not in kmemstatistics. MFC after: 3 weeks
2009-06-05 09:16:52 +00:00
break;
}
Have MALLOC_DECLARE() initialize malloc types explicitly, and have them removed at module unload (if in a module of course). However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
1998-11-10 08:46:24 +00:00
}
If we're passed garbage in malloc_init(), panic() rather than expecting a KASSERT to handle it. People are likely to turn off INVARIANTS RSN and loading an old module can cause garbage-in here. I saw the issue with an older nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver) loading into a new kernel - a crash wasn't seen 'till sysctl_kern_malloc_stats(). I was lucky that mtp->ks_shortdesc was NULL and not something horrible. While I'm here, KASSERT that malloc_uninit() isn't passed something that's not in kmemstatistics. MFC after: 3 weeks
2009-06-05 09:16:52 +00:00
KASSERT(temp,
("malloc_uninit: type '%s' not found", mtp->ks_shortdesc));
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
} else
kmemstatistics = mtp->ks_next;
Introduce a new sysctl, kern.malloc_stats, which exports kernel malloc statistics via a binary structure stream: - Add structure 'malloc_type_stream_header', which defines a stream version, definition of MAXCPUS used in the stream, and a number of malloc_type records in the stream. - Add structure 'malloc_type_header', which defines the name of the malloc type being reported on. - When the sysctl is queried, return a stream header, followed by a series of type descriptions, each consisting of a type header followed by a series of MAXCPUS malloc_type_stats structures holding per-CPU allocation information. Typical values of MAXCPUS will be 1 (UP compiled kernel) and 16 (SMP compiled kernel). This query mechanism allows user space monitoring tools to extract memory allocation statistics in a machine-readable form, and to do so at a per-CPU granularity, allowing monitoring of allocation patterns across CPUs in order to better understand the distribution of work and memory flow over multiple CPUs. While here: - Bump statistics width to uint64_t, and hard code using fixed-width type in order to be more sure about structure layout in the stream. We allocate and free a lot of memory. - Add kmemcount, a counter of the number of registered malloc types, in order to avoid excessive manual counting of types. Export via a new sysctl to allow user-space code to better size buffers. - De-XXX comment on no longer maintaining the high watermark in old sysctl monitoring code. A follow-up commit of libmemstat(3), a library to monitor kernel memory allocation, will occur in the next few days. Likewise, similar changes to UMA.
2005-07-14 11:52:06 +00:00
kmemcount--;
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
Detect memory leaks when memory type is being destroyed. This is very helpful for detecting kernel modules memory leaks on unload. Discussed and reviewed by: rwatson
2005-11-03 13:48:59 +00:00
/*
* Look for memory leaks.
*/
temp_allocs = temp_bytes = 0;
for (i = 0; i < MAXCPU; i++) {
mtsp = &mtip->mti_stats[i];
temp_allocs += mtsp->mts_numallocs;
temp_allocs -= mtsp->mts_numfrees;
temp_bytes += mtsp->mts_memalloced;
temp_bytes -= mtsp->mts_memfreed;
}
if (temp_allocs > 0 || temp_bytes > 0) {
printf("Warning: memory type %s leaked memory on destroy "
"(%ld allocations, %ld bytes leaked).\n", mtp->ks_shortdesc,
temp_allocs, temp_bytes);
}
Fix bug in malloc_uninit(): Releasing items from the mt_zone can not be done by a simple uma_zfree() call since mt_zone is allocated with the UMA_ZONE_MALLOC flag. Use uma_zfree_arg instead and supply the slab. This bug caused panics in low memory situations on unloading kernel modules containing MALLOC_DEFINE(..) statements. Submitted by: ups
2006-03-03 22:36:52 +00:00
slab = vtoslab((vm_offset_t) mtip & (~UMA_SLAB_MASK));
uma_zfree_arg(mt_zone, mtip, slab);
Have MALLOC_DECLARE() initialize malloc types explicitly, and have them removed at module unload (if in a module of course). However; this introduces a new dependency on <sys/kernel.h> for things that use MALLOC_DECLARE(). Bruce told me it is better to add sys/kernel.h to the handful of files that need it rather than add an extra include to sys/malloc.h for kernel compiles. Updates to follow in subsequent commits.
1998-11-10 08:46:24 +00:00
}
Remove malloc_type's ks_limit. Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an index into it to report the size of the zone used. Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if malloc_type statistics become per cpu data. Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing the malloc buckets.
2002-04-15 04:05:53 +00:00
Improve memguard a bit: - Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without changing the code and recompiling the kernel. - Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory type before module is loaded. - Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c. - Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there. - Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its short description (ks_shortdesc field). - Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet. If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY. - Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the default.
2005-12-30 11:45:07 +00:00
struct malloc_type *
malloc_desc2type(const char *desc)
{
struct malloc_type *mtp;
mtx_assert(&malloc_mtx, MA_OWNED);
for (mtp = kmemstatistics; mtp != NULL; mtp = mtp->ks_next) {
if (strcmp(mtp->ks_shortdesc, desc) == 0)
return (mtp);
}
return (NULL);
}
Introduce a new sysctl, kern.malloc_stats, which exports kernel malloc statistics via a binary structure stream: - Add structure 'malloc_type_stream_header', which defines a stream version, definition of MAXCPUS used in the stream, and a number of malloc_type records in the stream. - Add structure 'malloc_type_header', which defines the name of the malloc type being reported on. - When the sysctl is queried, return a stream header, followed by a series of type descriptions, each consisting of a type header followed by a series of MAXCPUS malloc_type_stats structures holding per-CPU allocation information. Typical values of MAXCPUS will be 1 (UP compiled kernel) and 16 (SMP compiled kernel). This query mechanism allows user space monitoring tools to extract memory allocation statistics in a machine-readable form, and to do so at a per-CPU granularity, allowing monitoring of allocation patterns across CPUs in order to better understand the distribution of work and memory flow over multiple CPUs. While here: - Bump statistics width to uint64_t, and hard code using fixed-width type in order to be more sure about structure layout in the stream. We allocate and free a lot of memory. - Add kmemcount, a counter of the number of registered malloc types, in order to avoid excessive manual counting of types. Export via a new sysctl to allow user-space code to better size buffers. - De-XXX comment on no longer maintaining the high watermark in old sysctl monitoring code. A follow-up commit of libmemstat(3), a library to monitor kernel memory allocation, will occur in the next few days. Likewise, similar changes to UMA.
2005-07-14 11:52:06 +00:00
static int
sysctl_kern_malloc_stats(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
{
struct malloc_type_stream_header mtsh;
struct malloc_type_internal *mtip;
struct malloc_type_header mth;
struct malloc_type *mtp;
int buflen, count, error, i;
struct sbuf sbuf;
char *buffer;
mtx_lock(&malloc_mtx);
restart:
mtx_assert(&malloc_mtx, MA_OWNED);
count = kmemcount;
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
buflen = sizeof(mtsh) + count * (sizeof(mth) +
sizeof(struct malloc_type_stats) * MAXCPU) + 1;
buffer = malloc(buflen, M_TEMP, M_WAITOK | M_ZERO);
mtx_lock(&malloc_mtx);
if (count < kmemcount) {
free(buffer, M_TEMP);
goto restart;
}
sbuf_new(&sbuf, buffer, buflen, SBUF_FIXEDLEN);
/*
* Insert stream header.
*/
bzero(&mtsh, sizeof(mtsh));
mtsh.mtsh_version = MALLOC_TYPE_STREAM_VERSION;
mtsh.mtsh_maxcpus = MAXCPU;
mtsh.mtsh_count = kmemcount;
if (sbuf_bcat(&sbuf, &mtsh, sizeof(mtsh)) < 0) {
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
error = ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
/*
* Insert alternating sequence of type headers and type statistics.
*/
for (mtp = kmemstatistics; mtp != NULL; mtp = mtp->ks_next) {
mtip = (struct malloc_type_internal *)mtp->ks_handle;
/*
* Insert type header.
*/
bzero(&mth, sizeof(mth));
strlcpy(mth.mth_name, mtp->ks_shortdesc, MALLOC_MAX_NAME);
if (sbuf_bcat(&sbuf, &mth, sizeof(mth)) < 0) {
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
error = ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
/*
* Insert type statistics for each CPU.
*/
for (i = 0; i < MAXCPU; i++) {
if (sbuf_bcat(&sbuf, &mtip->mti_stats[i],
sizeof(mtip->mti_stats[i])) < 0) {
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
error = ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
}
}
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
sbuf_finish(&sbuf);
error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, sbuf_data(&sbuf), sbuf_len(&sbuf));
out:
sbuf_delete(&sbuf);
free(buffer, M_TEMP);
return (error);
}
SYSCTL_PROC(_kern, OID_AUTO, malloc_stats, CTLFLAG_RD|CTLTYPE_STRUCT,
0, 0, sysctl_kern_malloc_stats, "s,malloc_type_ustats",
"Return malloc types");
SYSCTL_INT(_kern, OID_AUTO, malloc_count, CTLFLAG_RD, &kmemcount, 0,
"Count of kernel malloc types");
Add support for the DTrace malloc provider which can enable probes on a per-malloc type basis.
2008-05-23 00:43:36 +00:00
void
malloc_type_list(malloc_type_list_func_t *func, void *arg)
{
struct malloc_type *mtp, **bufmtp;
int count, i;
size_t buflen;
mtx_lock(&malloc_mtx);
restart:
mtx_assert(&malloc_mtx, MA_OWNED);
count = kmemcount;
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
buflen = sizeof(struct malloc_type *) * count;
bufmtp = malloc(buflen, M_TEMP, M_WAITOK);
mtx_lock(&malloc_mtx);
if (count < kmemcount) {
free(bufmtp, M_TEMP);
goto restart;
}
for (mtp = kmemstatistics, i = 0; mtp != NULL; mtp = mtp->ks_next, i++)
bufmtp[i] = mtp;
mtx_unlock(&malloc_mtx);
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
(func)(bufmtp[i], arg);
free(bufmtp, M_TEMP);
}
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
#ifdef DDB
DB_SHOW_COMMAND(malloc, db_show_malloc)
{
struct malloc_type_internal *mtip;
struct malloc_type *mtp;
u_int64_t allocs, frees;
Increase usefulness of "show malloc" by moving from displaying the basic counters of allocs/frees/use for each malloc type to calculating InUse, MemUse, and Requests as displayed by the userspace vmstat -m. This is more useful when debugging malloc(9)-related memory leaks, where the count of allocs/frees may not usefully reflect that current memory allocation (i.e., when highly variable size allocations occur with the same malloc type, such as with contigmalloc). MFC after: 3 days Limitations observed by: scottl
2006-10-26 10:17:13 +00:00
u_int64_t alloced, freed;
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
int i;
Increase usefulness of "show malloc" by moving from displaying the basic counters of allocs/frees/use for each malloc type to calculating InUse, MemUse, and Requests as displayed by the userspace vmstat -m. This is more useful when debugging malloc(9)-related memory leaks, where the count of allocs/frees may not usefully reflect that current memory allocation (i.e., when highly variable size allocations occur with the same malloc type, such as with contigmalloc). MFC after: 3 days Limitations observed by: scottl
2006-10-26 10:17:13 +00:00
db_printf("%18s %12s %12s %12s\n", "Type", "InUse", "MemUse",
"Requests");
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
for (mtp = kmemstatistics; mtp != NULL; mtp = mtp->ks_next) {
mtip = (struct malloc_type_internal *)mtp->ks_handle;
allocs = 0;
frees = 0;
Increase usefulness of "show malloc" by moving from displaying the basic counters of allocs/frees/use for each malloc type to calculating InUse, MemUse, and Requests as displayed by the userspace vmstat -m. This is more useful when debugging malloc(9)-related memory leaks, where the count of allocs/frees may not usefully reflect that current memory allocation (i.e., when highly variable size allocations occur with the same malloc type, such as with contigmalloc). MFC after: 3 days Limitations observed by: scottl
2006-10-26 10:17:13 +00:00
alloced = 0;
freed = 0;
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
for (i = 0; i < MAXCPU; i++) {
allocs += mtip->mti_stats[i].mts_numallocs;
frees += mtip->mti_stats[i].mts_numfrees;
Increase usefulness of "show malloc" by moving from displaying the basic counters of allocs/frees/use for each malloc type to calculating InUse, MemUse, and Requests as displayed by the userspace vmstat -m. This is more useful when debugging malloc(9)-related memory leaks, where the count of allocs/frees may not usefully reflect that current memory allocation (i.e., when highly variable size allocations occur with the same malloc type, such as with contigmalloc). MFC after: 3 days Limitations observed by: scottl
2006-10-26 10:17:13 +00:00
alloced += mtip->mti_stats[i].mts_memalloced;
freed += mtip->mti_stats[i].mts_memfreed;
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
}
Increase usefulness of "show malloc" by moving from displaying the basic counters of allocs/frees/use for each malloc type to calculating InUse, MemUse, and Requests as displayed by the userspace vmstat -m. This is more useful when debugging malloc(9)-related memory leaks, where the count of allocs/frees may not usefully reflect that current memory allocation (i.e., when highly variable size allocations occur with the same malloc type, such as with contigmalloc). MFC after: 3 days Limitations observed by: scottl
2006-10-26 10:17:13 +00:00
db_printf("%18s %12ju %12juK %12ju\n",
mtp->ks_shortdesc, allocs - frees,
(alloced - freed + 1023) / 1024, allocs);
Add a "show malloc" command to DDB, which prints out the current stats for available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box. MFC after: 2 weeks
2005-10-20 17:41:47 +00:00
}
}
#endif
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
#ifdef MALLOC_PROFILE
static int
sysctl_kern_mprof(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
{
int linesize = 64;
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
struct sbuf sbuf;
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
uint64_t count;
uint64_t waste;
uint64_t mem;
int bufsize;
int error;
char *buf;
int rsize;
int size;
int i;
bufsize = linesize * (KMEM_ZSIZE + 1);
bufsize += 128; /* For the stats line */
bufsize += 128; /* For the banner line */
waste = 0;
mem = 0;
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
buf = malloc(bufsize, M_TEMP, M_WAITOK|M_ZERO);
sbuf_new(&sbuf, buf, bufsize, SBUF_FIXEDLEN);
sbuf_printf(&sbuf,
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
"\n Size Requests Real Size\n");
for (i = 0; i < KMEM_ZSIZE; i++) {
size = i << KMEM_ZSHIFT;
rsize = kmemzones[kmemsize[i]].kz_size;
count = (long long unsigned)krequests[i];
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
sbuf_printf(&sbuf, "%6d%28llu%11d\n", size,
(unsigned long long)count, rsize);
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
if ((rsize * count) > (size * count))
waste += (rsize * count) - (size * count);
mem += (rsize * count);
}
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
sbuf_printf(&sbuf,
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
"\nTotal memory used:\t%30llu\nTotal Memory wasted:\t%30llu\n",
(unsigned long long)mem, (unsigned long long)waste);
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
sbuf_finish(&sbuf);
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, sbuf_data(&sbuf), sbuf_len(&sbuf));
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
Kernel malloc layers malloc_type allocation over one of two underlying allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a per-type mutex associated with the malloc type. This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are implemented: - In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc). There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring the mutex in malloc_type. - Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats, of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact with malloc. - When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read - modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written only from the CPU that owns them. - Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs, and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the number of allocations. - While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced across CPUs. This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when monitoring statistics. Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will follow shortly. Several improvements from: bde Statistics approach discussed with: ups Tested by: scottl, others
2005-05-29 13:38:07 +00:00
sbuf_delete(&sbuf);
Finish adding support code for sysctl kern.mprof. This dumps some malloc information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on each row: Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes. Requests is the number of times this size was asked for. Real Size is the size we actually handed out. At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my system displays about 33% wasted memory. The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited earlier.
2002-04-15 05:24:01 +00:00
free(buf, M_TEMP);
return (error);
}
SYSCTL_OID(_kern, OID_AUTO, mprof, CTLTYPE_STRING|CTLFLAG_RD,
NULL, 0, sysctl_kern_mprof, "A", "Malloc Profiling");
#endif /* MALLOC_PROFILE */
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