Prior to this change we triggered ARC reclaim when kmem usage passed 3/4
of the total available, as indicated by vmem_size(kmem_arena, VMEM_ALLOC).
This could lead large amounts of unused RAM e.g. on a 192GB machine with
ARC the only major RAM consumer, 40GB of RAM would remain unused.
The old method has also been seen to result in extreme RAM usage under
certain loads, causing poor performance and stalls.
We now trigger ARC reclaim when the number of free pages drops below the
value defined by the new sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_free_target, which defaults
to the value of vm.v_free_target.
Credit to Karl Denninger for the original patch on which this update was
based.
PR: 191510 and 187594
Tested by: dteske
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Multiplay
"vm_paging_target() > 0" was a reasonable way of determining if the
inactive queue scan met its target. However, now that other threads
can be allocating pages while the inactive queue scan is running, it's
an unreliable method. The effect of it being unreliable is that we
can start swapping out processes when we didn't intend to.
This issue has existed since the kernel was multithreaded, but the
changes to the inactive queue target in 10.0-RELEASE have made its
effects visible.
This change introduces a more direct method for determining if the
inactive queue scan met its target that is not affected by the actions
of other threads.
Reported by: Steve Polyack
Tested by: pho, Steve Polyack (an earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
called a scalable path. When several preconditions hold, the vm
object lock for the object containing the faulted page is taken in
read mode, instead of write, which allows parallel faults processing
in the region.
Namely, the fast path is taken when the faulted page already exists
and does not need copy on write, is already fully valid, and not busy.
For technical reasons, fast path is avoided when the fault is the
first write on the vnode object, or when the fault is for wiring or
debugger read or write.
On the fast path, pmap_enter(9) is passed the PMAP_ENTER_NOSLEEP flag,
since object lock is kept. Pmap might fail to create the entry, in
which case the fallback to slow path is performed.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Hardware provided and hosted by: The FreeBSD Foundation and
Sentex Data Communications
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 week
page queue even when the allocation is not wired. It is
responsibility of the vm_page_grab() caller to ensure that the page
does not end on the vm_object queue but not on the pagedaemon queue,
which would effectively create unpageable unwired page.
In exec_map_first_page() and vm_imgact_hold_page(), activate the page
immediately after unbusying it, to avoid leak.
In the uiomove_object_page(), deactivate page before the object is
unlocked. There is no leak, since the page is deactivated after
uiomove_fromphys() finished. But allowing non-queued non-wired page
in the unlocked object queue makes it impossible to assert that leak
does not happen in other places.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
pmap_enter(PMAP_ENTER_NOSLEEP). The PGA_WRITEABLE flag can be set
when either the page is busied, or the owner object is locked.
Update comments, move all assertions about page state when
PGA_WRITEABLE flag is set, into new helper
vm_page_assert_pga_writeable().
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
mapping size (currently unused). The flags includes the fault access
bits, wired flag as PMAP_ENTER_WIRED, and a new flag
PMAP_ENTER_NOSLEEP to indicate that pmap should not sleep.
For powerpc aim both 32 and 64 bit, fix implementation to ensure that
the requested mapping is created when PMAP_ENTER_NOSLEEP is not
specified, in particular, wait for the available memory required to
proceed.
In collaboration with: alc
Tested by: nwhitehorn (ppc aim32 and booke)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation and EMC / Isilon Storage Division
MFC after: 2 weeks
swap pager. Swap pager uses a private mutex to protect swap metadata,
and does not rely on the vm object lock to ensure integrity of it.
Weaken the requirement for the vm object lock by only asserting locked
object in vm_pager_page_unswapped(), instead of locked exclusively.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
With the current implementation of managed fictitious ranges when
also using VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE, a user could try to register a
fictitious range that starts inside of vm_page_array, but then
overrruns it (because the end of the fictitious range is greater than
vm_page_array_size + first_page). This would result in PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE
returning unallocated pages from past the end of vm_page_array. The
same could happen if a user tried to register a segment that starts
outside of vm_page_array but ends inside of it.
In order to fix this, allow vm_phys_fictitious_{reg/unreg}_range to
use a set of pages from vm_page_array, and allocate the rest.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: kib, alc
vm/vm_phys.c:
- Allow registering/unregistering fictitious ranges that overrun
vm_page_array.
We continue to use pmap_enter() for that. For unwiring virtual pages, we
now use pmap_unwire(), which unwires a range of virtual addresses instead
of a single virtual page.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
pmap_unwire() and vm_object_unwire().
Retire vm_fault_{un,}wire(), since they are no longer used.
(See r268327 and r269134 for the motivation behind this change.)
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
underlying physical pages are mapped by the pmap. If, for example, the
application has performed an mprotect(..., PROT_NONE) on any part of the
wired region, then those pages will no longer be mapped by the pmap.
So, using the pmap to lookup the wired pages in order to unwire them
doesn't always work, and when it doesn't work wired pages are leaked.
To avoid the leak, introduce and use a new function vm_object_unwire()
that locates the wired pages by traversing the object and its backing
objects.
At the same time, switch from using pmap_change_wiring() to the recently
introduced function pmap_unwire() for unwiring the region's mappings.
pmap_unwire() is faster, because it operates a range of virtual addresses
rather than a single virtual page at a time. Moreover, by operating on
a range, it is superpage friendly. It doesn't waste time performing
unnecessary demotions.
Reported by: markj
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho, jmg (arm)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
and tmpfs object cannot shadow. In other words, tmpfs vm object is
always at the bottom of the shadow chain.
Reported and tested by: bdrewery
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
vnode for the tmpfs node owning this object. The flag is currently
used for two purposes. First, it allows to correctly handle VV_TEXT
for tmpfs vnode when the ref count on the object is decremented to 1,
similar to vnode_pager_dealloc() for regular filesystems. Second, it
prevents some operations, which are done on OBJT_SWAP vm objects
backing user anonymous memory, but are incorrect for the object owned
by tmpfs node.
The second kind of use of the OBJ_TMPFS flag is incorrect, since the
vnode might be reclaimed, which clears the flag, but vm object
operations must still be disallowed.
Introduce one more flag, OBJ_TMPFS_NODE, which is permanently set on
the object for VREG tmpfs node, and used instead of OBJ_TMPFS to test
whether vm object collapse and similar actions should be disabled.
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
The number of vm fictitious regions was limited to 8 by default, but
Xen will make heavy usage of those kind of regions in order to map
memory from foreign domains, so instead of increasing the default
number, change the implementation to use a red-black tree to track vm
fictitious ranges.
The public interface remains the same.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: kib, alc
Approved by: gibbs
vm/vm_phys.c:
- Replace the vm fictitious static array with a red-black tree.
- Use a rwlock instead of a mutex, since now we also need to take the
lock in vm_phys_fictitious_to_vm_page, and it can be shared.
This includes:
o All directories named *ia64*
o All files named *ia64*
o All ia64-specific code guarded by __ia64__
o All ia64-specific makefile logic
o Mention of ia64 in comments and documentation
This excludes:
o Everything under contrib/
o Everything under crypto/
o sys/xen/interface
o sys/sys/elf_common.h
Discussed at: BSDcan
several reasons for this change:
pmap_change_wiring() has never (in my memory) been used to set the wired
attribute on a virtual page. We have always used pmap_enter() to do that.
Moreover, it is not really safe to use pmap_change_wiring() to set the wired
attribute on a virtual page. The description of pmap_change_wiring() says
that it assumes the existence of a mapping in the pmap. However, non-wired
mappings may be reclaimed by the pmap at any time. (See pmap_collect().)
Many implementations of pmap_change_wiring() will crash if the mapping does
not exist.
pmap_unwire() accepts a range of virtual addresses, whereas
pmap_change_wiring() acts upon a single virtual page. Since we are
typically unwiring a range of virtual addresses, pmap_unwire() will be more
efficient. Moreover, pmap_unwire() allows us to unwire superpage mappings.
Previously, we were forced to demote the superpage mapping, because
pmap_change_wiring() only allowed us to express the unwiring of a single
base page mapping at a time. This added to the overhead of unwiring for
large ranges of addresses, including the implicit unwiring that occurs at
process termination.
Implementations for arm and powerpc will follow.
Discussed with: jeff, marcel
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
have to undo it by calling crfree(). This reduces the total number of calls
by vm_map_insert() to crhold() and crfree() by 45% in my tests.
Eliminate an unnecessary variable from vm_map_insert().
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
that it creates (r267645), we can place the check that blocks map entry
coalescing on stack entries in vm_map_simplify_entry() where it properly
belongs.
Reviewed by: kib
numerical values as MAP_STACK_GROWS_*, but the former is for entries'
eflags, while the later for the cow argument of vm_map_insert().
Submitted by: alc
map entries list, and that it does not overlap with the previous and
next entries.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
corresponding flag(s) in the new map entry. Previously, the caller was
responsible for setting them after vm_map_insert() returned.
Pass MAP_STACK_GROWS_DOWN to vm_map_insert() from vm_map_growstack() when
extending the stack in the downward direction.
Together these changes slightly simplify the caller's task when creating a
downward growing stack. In particular, the caller no longer needs to clip
the previous entry, because the new stack entry can't possibly coalesce
with the previous entry.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
and prevents the request from deleting existing mappings in the
region, failing instead.
Reviewed by: alc
Discussed with: jhb
Tested by: markj, pho (previous version, as part of the bigger patch)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
the queue where to enqueue pages that are going to be unwired.
- Add stronger checks to the enqueue/dequeue for the pagequeues when
adding and removing pages to them.
Of course, for unmanaged pages the queue parameter of vm_page_unwire() will
be ignored, just as the active parameter today.
This makes adding new pagequeues quicker.
This change effectively modifies the KPI. __FreeBSD_version will be,
however, bumped just when the full cache of free pages will be
evicted.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
would be read once and cached in a local variable so that the resource limit
check and map entry insertion would be guaranteed to use the same value.
However, the value being passed to vm_map_insert() is still from "sgrowsiz"
and not the local variable. Correct this oversight.
Reviewed by: kib
since it will almost certanly fail. Take next bigger zone instead.
This situation should not happen with original bucket zones configuration:
"32 Bucket" zone uses "64 Bucket" and vice versa. But if "64 Bucket" zone
lock is congested, zone may grow its bucket size and start biting itself.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
machines. Specifically, there was a mismatch between how the routine
allocation and deallocation operations accessed the population map
and how the aggressively optimized reservation-breaking operation
accessed it. So, problems only occurred when reservations were broken.
This change makes the routine operations access the population map in
the same way as the reservation breaking operation.
This bug was introduced in r259999.
PR: 187080
Tested by: jmg (on an "armeb" machine)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
to !MAP_STACK mapping requests. For MAP_STACK | MAP_FIXED, clear any
mappings which could previously exist in the used range.
For this, teach vm_map_find() and vm_map_fixed() to handle
MAP_STACK_GROWS_DOWN or _UP cow flags, by calling a new
vm_map_stack_locked() helper, which is factored out from
vm_map_stack().
The side effect of the change is that MAP_STACK started obeying
MAP_ALIGNMENT and MAP_32BIT flags.
Reported by: rwatson
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
a partially populated reservation becomes fully populated, and decrease this
field when a fully populated reservation becomes partially populated.
Use this field to simplify the implementation of pmap_enter_object() on
amd64, arm, and i386.
On all architectures where we support superpages, the cost of creating a
superpage mapping is roughly the same as creating a base page mapping. For
example, both kinds of mappings entail the creation of a single PTE and PV
entry. With this in mind, use the page size field to make the
implementation of vm_map_pmap_enter(..., MAP_PREFAULT_PARTIAL) a little
smarter. Previously, if MAP_PREFAULT_PARTIAL was specified to
vm_map_pmap_enter(), that function would only map base pages. Now, it will
create up to 96 base page or superpage mappings.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
situation checked by assert is verified to not take place in
vm_map_wire(), and protection permissions on the wired entry can be
revoked afterward.
Reported by: markj
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
the kmem object lock is held. Do the pmap_remove() before acquiring the
kmem object lock.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
on execve(2), it calls vmspace_exec(), which frees the current
vmspace. The thread executing an exec syscall gets new vmspace
assigned, and old vmspace is freed if only referenced by the current
process. The free operation includes pmap_release(), which
de-constructs the paging structures used by hardware.
If the calling process is multithreaded, other threads are suspended
in the thread_suspend_check(), and need to be unsuspended and run to
be able to exit on successfull exec. Now, since the old vmspace is
destroyed, paging structures are invalid, threads are resumed on the
non-existent pmaps (page tables), which leads to triple fault on x86.
To fix, postpone the free of old vmspace until the threads are resumed
and exited. To avoid modifications to all image activators all of
which use exec_new_vmspace(), memoize the current (old) vmspace in
kern_execve(), and notify it about the need to call vmspace_free()
with a thread-private flag TDP_EXECVMSPC.
http://bugs.debian.org/743141
Reported by: Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedecker@ugent.be> through secteam
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
parent and child processes. Previously, we copied these pages even though
they are read only. However, the reason for copying them is historical and
no longer exists. In recent times, vm_map_protect() has developed the
ability to copy pages when write access is added to wired copy-on-write
pages. So, in this case, copy-on-write sharing of wired pages is not to be
feared. It is not going to lead to copy-on-write faults on wired memory.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
avoid soft page faults when adding write access to user wired entries in
vm_map_protect(). Previously, we only avoided the soft page fault when
the underlying pages were copy-on-write. In other words, we avoided the
pages faults that might sleep on page allocation, but not the trivial
page faults to update the physical map.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
need COW and is writeable (i.e. becoming writeable due to the
mprotect(2) operation), do not create a new backing object for the
entry. The caller of the function is vm_map_protect(), the call is
made to ensure that wired entry has all pages resident and wired in
the top level object and to enable the write. We might need to copy
read-only page from some backing objects into the top object or remap
the page with the write allowed.
This fixes the issue with mishandling of the swap accounting when
read-only wired mapping is upgraded to write-enabled after fork. The
previous code path did not accounted the new object, but it creation
is redundand anyway and the change provides an optimization for the
non-common situation.
Reported by: markj
Suggested and reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
