a mutex after a thread has unlocked it, it event writes data to the mutex
memory to clear contention bit, there is a race that other threads
can lock it and unlock it, then destroy it, so it should not write
data to the mutex memory if there isn't any waiter.
The new operation UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAKE2 try to fix the problem. It
requires thread library to clear the lock word entirely, then
call the WAKE2 operation to check if there is any waiter in kernel,
and try to wake up a thread, if necessary, the contention bit is set again
by the operation. This also mitgates the chance that other threads find
the contention bit and try to enter kernel to compete with each other
to wake up sleeping thread, this is unnecessary. With this change, the
mutex owner is no longer holding the mutex until it reaches a point
where kernel umtx queue is locked, it releases the mutex as soon as
possible.
Performance is improved when the mutex is contensted heavily. On Intel
i3-2310M, the runtime of a benchmark program is reduced from 26.87 seconds
to 2.39 seconds, it even is better than UMTX_OP_MUTEX_WAKE which is
deprecated now. http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/bench/mutex_perf.c
via procstat(1) and fstat(1):
- Change shm file descriptors to track the pathname they are associated
with and add a shm_path() method to copy the path out to a caller-supplied
buffer.
- Use the fo_stat() method of shared memory objects and shm_path() to
export the path, mode, and size of a shared memory object via
struct kinfo_file.
- Add a struct shmstat to the libprocstat(3) interface along with a
procstat_get_shm_info() to export the mode and size of a shared memory
object.
- Change procstat to always print out the path for a given object if it
is valid.
- Teach fstat about shared memory objects and to display their path,
mode, and size.
MFC after: 2 weeks
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
loaded and unloaded, also have sdt.ko register callbacks with kern_sdt.c
that will be called when a newly loaded KLD module adds more probes or
a module with probes is unloaded.
This fixes two issues: first, if a module with SDT probes was loaded after
sdt.ko was loaded, those new probes would not be available in DTrace.
Second, if a module with SDT probes was unloaded while sdt.ko was loaded,
the kernel would panic the next time DTrace had cause to try and do
anything with the no-longer-existent probes.
This makes it possible to create SDT probes in KLD modules, although there
are still two caveats: first, any SDT probes in a KLD module must be part
of a DTrace provider that is defined in that module. At present DTrace
only destroys probes when the provider is destroyed, so you can still
panic the system if a KLD module creates new probes in a provider from a
different module(including the kernel) and then unload the the first module.
Second, the system will panic if you unload a module containing SDT probes
while there is an active D script that has enabled those probes.
MFC after: 1 month
Function acquired reader lock if needed.
Assert check for reader or writer lock (RA_LOCKED / RA_UNLOCKED)
- While here, add knlist_init_mtx.9 to MLINKS and fix some style(9) issues
Reviewed by: glebius
Approved by: ae(mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
kernel.
When access restrictions are added to a page table entry, we flush the
corresponding virtual address mapping from the TLB. In contrast, when
access restrictions are removed from a page table entry, we do not
flush the virtual address mapping from the TLB. This is exactly as
recommended in AMD's documentation. In effect, when access
restrictions are removed from a page table entry, AMD's MMUs will
transparently refresh a stale TLB entry. In short, this saves us from
having to perform potentially costly TLB flushes. In contrast,
Intel's MMUs are allowed to generate a spurious page fault based upon
the stale TLB entry. Usually, such spurious page faults are handled
by vm_fault() without incident. However, when we are executing
no-fault sections of the kernel, we are not allowed to execute
vm_fault(). This change introduces special-case handling for spurious
page faults that occur in no-fault sections of the kernel.
In collaboration with: kib
Tested by: gibbs (an earlier version)
I would also like to acknowledge Hiroki Sato's assistance in
diagnosing this problem.
MFC after: 1 week
inserted after the priority token thus cleaning up the output.
- Remove the needless double internal do_add_char function.
- Resolve a possible deadlock if interrupts are
disabled and getnanotime is called
Reviewed by: bde kmacy, avg, sbruno (various versions)
Approved by: cperciva
MFC after: 2 weeks
hardclock() tick should be run on every active CPU, or on only one.
On my tests, avoiding extra interrupts because of this on 8-CPU Core i7
system with HZ=10000 saves about 2% of performance. At this moment option
implemented only for global timers, as reprogramming per-CPU timers is
too expensive now to be compensated by this benefit, especially since we
still have to regularly run hardclock() on at least one active CPU to
update system uptime. For global timer it is quite trivial: timer runs
always, but we just skip IPIs to other CPUs when possible.
Option is enabled by default now, keeping previous behavior, as periodic
hardclock() calls are still used at least to implement setitimer(2) with
ITIMER_VIRTUAL and ITIMER_PROF arguments. But since default schedulers don't
depend on it since r232917, we are much more free to experiment with it.
MFC after: 1 month
with HZ rate through the sched_tick() calls from hardclock().
Potentially it can be used to improve precision, but now it is just minus
one more reason to call hardclock() for every HZ tick on every active CPU.
SCHED_4BSD never used sched_tick(), but keep it in place for now, as at
least SCHED_FBFS existing in patches out of the tree depends on it.
MFC after: 1 month
Instead of using 25MHz equality threshold, look for the nearest value when
handling dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl and for exact match when it is expected.
ACPI may report extra level with frequency 1MHz above the nominal to
control Intel Turbo Boost operation. It is not a bug, but feature:
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2934/106000 2933/95000 2800/82000 ...
In this case value 2933 means 2.93GHz, but 2934 means 3.2-3.6GHz.
I've found that my Core i7-870 based system has Intel Turbo Boost disabled
by default and without this change it was absolutely invisible and hard
to control.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Pass number of events to the statclock() and profclock() functions
same as to hardclock() before to not call them many times in a loop.
- Rename them into statclock_cnt() and profclock_cnt().
- Turn statclock() and profclock() into compatibility wrappers,
still needed for arm.
- Rename hardclock_anycpu() into hardclock_cnt() for unification.
MFC after: 1 week
the cached name used for KTR_SCHED traces when a thread's name changes.
This way KTR_SCHED traces (and thus schedgraph) will notice when a thread's
name changes, most commonly via execve().
MFC after: 2 weeks
fifo_iseof() condition, allowing the v_fifoinfo to be reset and freed
by fifo_cleanup().
Precalculate EOF at the places were fo_wgen is changed, and cache the
state in a new pipe state flag PIPE_SAMEWGEN.
Reported and tested by: bf
Submitted by: gianni
MFC after: 1 week (a backport)
does not fit into registers, declare that we do not support this case
using CTASSERT(), and remove endianess-unsafe code to split return value
into td_retval.
While there, change the style of the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp
definition.
Requested by: bde
MFC after: 3 weeks
