- Count (scheduling of) software interrupts (SWIs) as SWIs, not as
hardware interrupts.
- Don't count (scheduling of) delayed SWIs as interrupts at all, since
in the delayed case it is expected that there are many more scheduling
calls than handling calls. Perhaps all interrupts should be counted
only when they are handled, but it is only counts of delayed SWIs that
shouldn never be combined with the other counts.
subr_trap.c:
- Count (handling of) Asynchronous System Traps (ASTs) as traps, not as
software interrupts.
Before these changes, the counter for SWIs only counted ASTs, and SWIs
weren't counted separately, but a subcounter for ASTs alone is less
needed than for most other exception sources.
4.4BSD-Lite uses the counters for similar things (actually matching
their names) on its main arches (hp300, ..., !i386) where more of the
exceptions are in hardware.
install custom pager functions didn't actually happen in practice (they
all just used the simple pager and passed in a local quit pointer). So,
just hardcode the simple pager as the only pager and make it set a global
db_pager_quit flag that db commands can check when the user hits 'q' (or a
suitable variant) at the pager prompt. Also, now that it's easy to do so,
enable paging by default for all ddb commands. Any command that wishes to
honor the quit flag can do so by checking db_pager_quit. Note that the
pager can also be effectively disabled by setting $lines to 0.
Other fixes:
- 'show idt' on i386 and pc98 now actually checks the quit flag and
terminates early.
- 'show intr' now actually checks the quit flag and terminates early.
if the specified priority is zero. This avoids a race where the calling
thread could read a snapshot of it's current priority, then a different
thread could change the first thread's priority, then the original thread
would call sched_prio() inside msleep() undoing the change made by the
second thread. I used a priority of zero as no thread that calls msleep()
or tsleep() should be specifying a priority of zero anyway.
The various places that passed 'curthread->td_priority' or some variant
as the priority now pass 0.
and increase flexibility to allow various different approaches to be tried
in the future.
- Split struct ithd up into two pieces. struct intr_event holds the list
of interrupt handlers associated with interrupt sources.
struct intr_thread contains the data relative to an interrupt thread.
Currently we still provide a 1:1 relationship of events to threads
with the exception that events only have an associated thread if there
is at least one threaded interrupt handler attached to the event. This
means that on x86 we no longer have 4 bazillion interrupt threads with
no handlers. It also means that interrupt events with only INTR_FAST
handlers no longer have an associated thread either.
- Renamed struct intrhand to struct intr_handler to follow the struct
intr_foo naming convention. This did require renaming the powerpc
MD struct intr_handler to struct ppc_intr_handler.
- INTR_FAST no longer implies INTR_EXCL on all architectures except for
powerpc. This means that multiple INTR_FAST handlers can attach to the
same interrupt and that INTR_FAST and non-INTR_FAST handlers can attach
to the same interrupt. Sharing INTR_FAST handlers may not always be
desirable, but having sio(4) and uhci(4) fight over an IRQ isn't fun
either. Drivers can always still use INTR_EXCL to ask for an interrupt
exclusively. The way this sharing works is that when an interrupt
comes in, all the INTR_FAST handlers are executed first, and if any
threaded handlers exist, the interrupt thread is scheduled afterwards.
This type of layout also makes it possible to investigate using interrupt
filters ala OS X where the filter determines whether or not its companion
threaded handler should run.
- Aside from the INTR_FAST changes above, the impact on MD interrupt code
is mostly just 's/ithread/intr_event/'.
- A new MI ddb command 'show intrs' walks the list of interrupt events
dumping their state. It also has a '/v' verbose switch which dumps
info about all of the handlers attached to each event.
- We currently don't destroy an interrupt thread when the last threaded
handler is removed because it would suck for things like ppbus(8)'s
braindead behavior. The code is present, though, it is just under
#if 0 for now.
- Move the code to actually execute the threaded handlers for an interrrupt
event into a separate function so that ithread_loop() becomes more
readable. Previously this code was all in the middle of ithread_loop()
and indented halfway across the screen.
- Made struct intr_thread private to kern_intr.c and replaced td_ithd
with a thread private flag TDP_ITHREAD.
- In statclock, check curthread against idlethread directly rather than
curthread's proc against idlethread's proc. (Not really related to intr
changes)
Tested on: alpha, amd64, i386, sparc64
Tested on: arm, ia64 (older version of patch by cognet and marcel)
state where sleeping on a sleep queue is not allowed. The facility
doesn't support recursion but uses a simple private per-thread flag
(TDP_NOSLEEPING). The sleepq_add() function will panic if the flag is
set and INVARIANTS is enabled.
- Use this new facility to replace the g_xup and g_xdown mutexes that were
(ab)used to achieve similar behavior.
- Disallow sleeping in interrupt threads when invoking interrupt handlers.
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: phk
away, instead only exit storming mode when an interrupt stops firing long
enough for the ithread to exit the loop and go back to sleep.
Tested by: macrus (cruder version)
a storm is detected, enter "storming" mode which throttles the interrupt
source such that the handlers are run once every clock tick. Previously
we allowed a full set of storm_threshold interations through the handler
before going back to sleep. Also, this currently will intentionally exit
storming mode once a second to see if the storm has passed.
Tested by: marcus
Discussed with: bde
- Tweak the updating of the ithread name in ithread_update() so that the
'+' and '*' characters for device names that were too short only get
added at the end after as many device names as possible were fit into
the allocated space. Prior to this, some long devices would result
in '+' chars showing up between two different devices rather than at the
end.
motherboard, in practice the changes resulted in many false positives for
heavy network loads, etc. resulting in poor performance. Also, the
motherboard referenced in the 1.109 log has other problems and simply does
not seem to work with the APIC enabled even with the changes in 1.109. The
correct fix for that board seems to be to not use the APIC at all. One
thing kept from 1.109 is that throttled interrupts are now effectively
polled on every clock tick rather than just 10 times per second.
MFC after: 1 month
Tested by: Shunsuke SHINOMIYA shino at fornext dot org
control the number of lines per page rather than a constant. The variable
can be examined and changed in ddb as '$lines'. Setting the variable to
0 will effectively turn off paging.
- Change db_putchar() to force out pending whitespace before outputting
newlines and carriage returns so that one can rub out content on the
current line via '\r \r' type strings.
- Change the simple pager to rub out the --More-- prompt explicitly when
the routine exits.
- Add some aliases to the simple pager to make it more compatible with
more(1): 'e' and 'j' do a single line. 'd' does half a page, and
'f' does a full page.
MFC after: 1 month
Inspired by: kris
but with slightly cleaned up interfaces.
The KSE structure has become the same as the "per thread scheduler
private data" structure. In order to not make the diffs too great
one is #defined as the other at this time.
The KSE (or td_sched) structure is now allocated per thread and has no
allocation code of its own.
Concurrency for a KSEGRP is now kept track of via a simple pair of counters
rather than using KSE structures as tokens.
Since the KSE structure is different in each scheduler, kern_switch.c
is now included at the end of each scheduler. Nothing outside the
scheduler knows the contents of the KSE (aka td_sched) structure.
The fields in the ksegrp structure that are to do with the scheduler's
queueing mechanisms are now moved to the kg_sched structure.
(per ksegrp scheduler private data structure). In other words how the
scheduler queues and keeps track of threads is no-one's business except
the scheduler's. This should allow people to write experimental
schedulers with completely different internal structuring.
A scheduler call sched_set_concurrency(kg, N) has been added that
notifies teh scheduler that no more than N threads from that ksegrp
should be allowed to be on concurrently scheduled. This is also
used to enforce 'fainess' at this time so that a ksegrp with
10000 threads can not swamp a the run queue and force out a process
with 1 thread, since the current code will not set the concurrency above
NCPU, and both schedulers will not allow more than that many
onto the system run queue at a time. Each scheduler should eventualy develop
their own methods to do this now that they are effectively separated.
Rejig libthr's kernel interface to follow the same code paths as
linkse for scope system threads. This has slightly hurt libthr's performance
but I will work to recover as much of it as I can.
Thread exit code has been cleaned up greatly.
exit and exec code now transitions a process back to
'standard non-threaded mode' before taking the next step.
Reviewed by: scottl, peter
MFC after: 1 week
a result of scheduling an ithread, cut a KTR_INTR trace record so
that it's clear in tracing interrupt activity where and when the
entropy harvesting code is invoked.
than as one-off hacks in various other parts of the kernel:
- Add a function maybe_preempt() that is called from sched_add() to
determine if a thread about to be added to a run queue should be
preempted to directly. If it is not safe to preempt or if the new
thread does not have a high enough priority, then the function returns
false and sched_add() adds the thread to the run queue. If the thread
should be preempted to but the current thread is in a nested critical
section, then the flag TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set and the thread is added
to the run queue. Otherwise, mi_switch() is called immediately and the
thread is never added to the run queue since it is switch to directly.
When exiting an outermost critical section, if TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set,
then clear it and call mi_switch() to perform the deferred preemption.
- Remove explicit preemption from ithread_schedule() as calling
setrunqueue() now does all the correct work. This also removes the
do_switch argument from ithread_schedule().
- Do not use the manual preemption code in mtx_unlock if the architecture
supports native preemption.
- Don't call mi_switch() in a loop during shutdown to give ithreads a
chance to run if the architecture supports native preemption since
the ithreads will just preempt DELAY().
- Don't call mi_switch() from the page zeroing idle thread for
architectures that support native preemption as it is unnecessary.
- Native preemption is enabled on the same archs that supported ithread
preemption, namely alpha, i386, and amd64.
This change should largely be a NOP for the default case as committed
except that we will do fewer context switches in a few cases and will
avoid the run queues completely when preempting.
Approved by: scottl (with his re@ hat)
switch to. If a non-NULL thread pointer is passed in, then the CPU will
switch to that thread directly rather than calling choosethread() to pick
a thread to choose to.
- Make sched_switch() aware of idle threads and know to do
TD_SET_CAN_RUN() instead of sticking them on the run queue rather than
requiring all callers of mi_switch() to know to do this if they can be
called from an idlethread.
- Move constants for arguments to mi_switch() and thread_single() out of
the middle of the function prototypes and up above into their own
section.
with an ASUS A7N8X-E motherboard in APIC mode, since storming interrupts
don't repeat immediately. Use DELAY(1) to wait a bit for them to repeat.
This affects all systems. Only delay for the first
(10 * intr_storm_threshold) interrupts (per interrupt handler) so that
this is only a pessimization while warming up. Throttle after calling
the sub-handlers instead of before so that the long delay given by
throttling can be used instead of the DELAY(1) to detect storms after
warming up.
Reduced the throttling period from 1/10 second to 1/hz seconds so that
throttling doesn't destroy performance so much. Interrupts that are
detected as storming are effectively handled by polling at a frequency
of hz Hz. On A7N8X-E's there is another hardware or configuration bug
that makes the throttled frequency closer to 2*hz Hz.
Specifically, we used to enable the source after locking sched_lock
and just before we had already decided to do a context switch.
This meant that an ithread could never process more than one interrupt
per context switch. Enabling earlier in the loop before sched_lock is
acquired allows an ithread to handle multiple interrupts per context
switch if interrupts fire very rapidly. For the case of heavy interrupt
load this can reduce the number of context switches (and thus overhead)
as well as reduce interrupt latency.
- Now that we can handle multiple interrupts per context switch, add simple
interrupt storm protection to threaded interrupts. If X number of
consecutive interrupts are triggered before the itherad voluntarily
yields to another thread, then the interrupt thread will sleep with the
associated interrupt source disabled (masked) for 1/10th of a second.
The default value of X is 500, but it can be tweaked via the tunable/
sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold. If an interrupt storm is detected, then
a message is output to the kernel console on the first occurrence per
interrupt thread. Interrupt storm protection can be disabled completely
by setting this value to 0. There is no scientific reasoning for the
1/10th of a second or 500 interrupts values, so they may require tweaking
at some point in the future.
Tested by: rwatson (an earlier version w/o the storm protection)
Tested by: mux (reportedly made a machine with two PCI interrupts
storming usable rather than hard locked)
Reviewed by: imp
SW_INVOL. Assert that one of these is set in mi_switch() and propery
adjust the rusage statistics. This is to simplify the large number of
users of this interface which were previously all required to adjust the
proper counter prior to calling mi_switch(). This also facilitates more
switch and locking optimizations.
- Change all callers of mi_switch() to pass the appropriate paramter and
remove direct references to the process statistics.
ithread_remove_handler() may fail to remove the interrupt handler if
it decides to let the ithread do the removal. The problem is that during
boot "cold" is set, which causes msleep() to return immediately. This
will cause ithread_remove_handler() to fail to wait for the ithread
to do the removal from the handler TAILQ before freeing the handler
back to the heap. Bad things will happen when some other user of the
TAILQ, such as ithread_add_handler() or the actual ithread attempts to use
the freed handler. Fix the problem by forcing ithread_remove_handler()
to do the actual removal itself if the "cold" flag is set.
Reviewed by: jhb
happen in interrupt context; 1) sleep locks, and 2) malloc/free
calls.
1) is fixed by using spin locks instead.
2) is fixed by preallocating a FIFO (implemented with a STAILQ)
and using elements from this FIFO instead. This turns out
to be rather fast.
OK'ed by: re (scottl)
Thanks to: peter, jhb, rwatson, jake
Apologies to: *
let the MD code choose whether or not to implement such a policy. The new
i386 interrupt code allows multiple FAST handlers for a given source for
example. However, the code does not allow FAST and non-FAST handlers to be
mixed.
- Add a DDB function to dump the contents of an ithread and optionally
details about each handler in that ithread. This function can be used
by MD code to implement DDB commands that display information about
interrupt sources and their registered handlers.
I was in two minds as to where to put them in the first case..
I should have listenned to the other mind.
Submitted by: parts by davidxu@
Reviewed by: jeff@ mini@
To fix scsi, don't wait for ithreads if we're dumping, it makes the
debugger sad.
To fix ata, use what appears to be a polling method if we're dumping,
I stole this from tmm but added code to ensure that this change is
only in effect while dumping.
Tested by: des
