Overall, this is a non-functional change, except for kernels built with
SCHED_STATS. However, the switch types are useful for communicating the
intent of the caller.
1. Ensure that every caller provides a type. In most cases, we upgrade
the basic yield to sched_relinquish() aka SWT_RELINQUISH.
2. The case of sched_bind() is distinct, so add a new switch type SWT_BIND.
3. Remove the two unused types, SWT_PREEMPT and SWT_SLEEPQTIMO.
4. Remove SWT_NONE altogether and assert that callers always provide
a type flag.
5. Reference the mi_switch(9) man page in the comments, as these flags
will be documented there.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38184
Do this ahead of adding a man page that describes the function. No
functional change.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38181
Make most AST handlers dynamically registered. This allows to have
subsystem-specific handler source located in the subsystem files,
instead of making subr_trap.c aware of it. For instance, signal
delivery code on return to userspace is now moved to kern_sig.c.
Also, it allows to have some handlers designated as the cleanup (kclear)
type, which are called both at AST and on thread/process exit. For
instance, ast(), exit1(), and NFS server no longer need to be aware
about UFS softdep processing.
The dynamic registration also allows third-party modules to register AST
handlers if needed. There is one caveat with loadable modules: the
code does not make any effort to ensure that the module is not unloaded
before all threads processed through AST handler in it. In fact, this
is already present behavior for hwpmc.ko and ufs.ko. I do not think it
is worth the efforts and the runtime overhead to try to fix it.
Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: emaste (arm64), pho
Discussed with: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35888
The old fixed-point arithmetic used for calculating load averages had an
overflow at 1024. So on systems with extremely high load, the observed
load average would actually fall back to 0 and shoot up again, creating
a kind of sawtooth graph.
Fix this by using 64-bit math internally, while still reporting the load
average to userspace as a 32-bit number.
Sponsored by: Axcient
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35134
for compatibility with Linux.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32901
Implement lock_spin()/unlock_spin() lock class methods, moving the
assertion to _sleep() instead. Change assertions in callout(9) to
allow spin locks for both regular and C_DIRECT_EXEC cases. In case of
C_DIRECT_EXEC callouts spin locks are the only locks allowed actually.
As the first use case allow taskqueue_enqueue_timeout() use on fast
task queues. It actually becomes more efficient due to avoided extra
context switches in callout(9) thanks to C_DIRECT_EXEC.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31778
Add a PNOLOCK flag so that, in the race circumstance where
wakeup races are externally mitigated, tsleep() can be
called with a sleep time of 0 without triggering an
an assertion.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: Netflix
Introduce SLEEPQ_DROP sleepq_signal() flag, allowing one to drop the
sleep queue chain lock before returning. Reduced lock scope allows
significantly reduce lock contention inside taskqueue_enqueue() for
ZFS worker threads doing ~350K disk reads/s on 40-thread system.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
KCSAN complains about racy accesses in the locking code. Those races are
fine since they are inside a TD_SET_RUNNING() loop that expects the value
to be changed by another CPU.
Use relaxed atomic stores/loads to indicate that this variable can be
written/read by multiple CPUs at the same time. This will also prevent
the compiler from doing unexpected re-ordering.
Reported by: GENERIC-KCSAN
Test Plan: KCSAN no longer complains, kernel still runs fine.
Reviewed By: markj, mjg (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28569
blockcount_wait() still unconditionally waits for the count to reach
zero before returning.
Tested by: pho (a larger patch)
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24513
refcount(9) was recently extended to support waiting on a refcount to
drop to zero, as this was needed for a lockless VM object
paging-in-progress counter. However, this adds overhead to all uses of
refcount(9) and doesn't really match traditional refcounting semantics:
once a counter has dropped to zero, the protected object may be freed at
any point and it is not safe to dereference the counter.
This change removes that extension and instead adds a new set of KPIs,
blockcount_*, for use by VM object PIP and busy.
Reviewed by: jeff, kib, mjg
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23723
_sleep(9), wakeup(9), sleepqueue(9), et al do not dereference or modify the
channel pointers provided in any way; they are merely used as intptrs into a
dictionary structure to match waiters with wakers. Correctly annotate this
such that _sleep() and wakeup() may be used on const pointers without
invoking ugly patterns like __DECONST(). Plumb const through all of the
underlying sleepqueue bits.
No functional change.
Reviewed by: rlibby
Discussed with: kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22914
It is UB to evaluate pointer comparisons when pointers do not point within
the same object. Instead, convert the pointers to numbers and compare the
numbers.
Reported by: kib
Discussed with: rlibby
Don't hold the scheduler lock while doing context switches. Instead we
unlock after selecting the new thread and switch within a spinlock
section leaving interrupts and preemption disabled to prevent local
concurrency. This means that mi_switch() is entered with the thread
locked but returns without. This dramatically simplifies scheduler
locking because we will not hold the schedlock while spinning on
blocked lock in switch.
This change has not been made to 4BSD but in principle it would be
more straightforward.
Discussed with: markj
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22778
Eliminate recursion from most thread_lock consumers. Return from
sched_add() without the thread_lock held. This eliminates unnecessary
atomics and lock word loads as well as reducing the hold time for
scheduler locks. This will eventually allow for lockless remote adds.
Discussed with: kib
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22626
Epoch itself doesn't rely on the counter and it is provided
merely for sleeping subsystems to check it.
- In functions that sleep use THREAD_CAN_SLEEP() to assert
correctness. With EPOCH_TRACE compiled print epoch info.
- _sleep() was a wrong place to put the assertion for epoch,
right place is sleepq_add(), as there ways to call the
latter bypassing _sleep().
- Do not increase td_no_sleeping in non-preemptible epochs.
The critical section would trigger all possible safeguards,
no sleeping counter is extraneous.
Reviewed by: kib
wakeup_one() and underlying sleepq_signal() spend additional time trying
to be fair, waking thread with highest priority, sleeping longest time.
But in case of taskqueue there are many absolutely identical threads, and
any fairness between them is quite pointless. It makes even worse, since
round-robin wakeups not only make previous CPU affinity in scheduler quite
useless, but also hide from user chance to see CPU bottlenecks, when
sequential workload with one request at a time looks evenly distributed
between multiple threads.
This change adds new SLEEPQ_UNFAIR flag to sleepq_signal(), making it wakeup
thread that went to sleep last, but no longer in context switch (to avoid
immediate spinning on the thread lock). On top of that new wakeup_any()
function is added, equivalent to wakeup_one(), but setting the flag.
On top of that taskqueue(9) is switchied to wakeup_any() to wakeup its
threads.
As result, on 72-core Xeon v4 machine sequential ZFS write to 12 ZVOLs
with 16KB block size spend 34% less time in wakeup_any() and descendants
then it was spending in wakeup_one(), and total write throughput increased
by ~10% with the same as before CPU usage.
Reviewed by: markj, mmacy
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20669
Read locking is over used in the kernel to guarantee liveness. This API makes
it easy to provide livenes guarantees without atomics.
Includes epoch_test kernel module to stress test the API.
Documentation will follow initial use case.
Test case and improvements to preemption handling in response to discussion
with mjg@
Reviewed by: imp@, shurd@
Approved by: sbruno@
This reduces noise when kernel is compiled by newer GCC versions,
such as one used by external toolchain ports.
Reviewed by: kib, andrew(sys/arm and sys/arm64), emaste(partial), erj(partial)
Reviewed by: jhb (sys/dev/pci/* sys/kern/vfs_aio.c and sys/kern/kern_synch.c)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10385
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
in place. To do per-cpu stats, convert all fields that previously were
maintained in the vmmeters that sit in pcpus to counter(9).
- Since some vmmeter stats may be touched at very early stages of boot,
before we have set up UMA and we can do counter_u64_alloc(), provide an
early counter mechanism:
o Leave one spare uint64_t in struct pcpu, named pc_early_dummy_counter.
o Point counter(9) fields of vmmeter to pcpu[0].pc_early_dummy_counter,
so that at early stages of boot, before counters are allocated we already
point to a counter that can be safely written to.
o For sparc64 that required a whole dummy pcpu[MAXCPU] array.
Further related changes:
- Don't include vmmeter.h into pcpu.h.
- vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout and vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changed to 64-bit,
to match kernel representation.
- struct vmmeter hidden under _KERNEL, and only vmstat(1) is an exclusion.
This is based on benno@'s 4-year old patch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-July/014471.html
Reviewed by: kib, gallatin, marius, lidl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10156
This is done so that the thread state changes during the switch
are not confused with the thread state changes reported when the thread
spins on a lock.
Here is an example, three consecutive entries for the same thread (from top to
bottom):
KTRGRAPH group:"thread", id:"zio_write_intr_3 tid 100260", state:"sleep", attributes: prio:84, wmesg:"-", lockname:"(null)"
KTRGRAPH group:"thread", id:"zio_write_intr_3 tid 100260", state:"spinning", attributes: lockname:"sched lock 1"
KTRGRAPH group:"thread", id:"zio_write_intr_3 tid 100260", state:"running", attributes: none
The above trace could leave an impression that the final state of
the thread was "running".
After this change the sleep state will be reported after the "spinning"
and "running" states reported for the sched lock.
Reviewed by: jhb, markj
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Panzura
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9961
Previously "panic: msleep" could happen for a few different reasons.
Break the KASSERTs out into individual cases to identify the failing
condition. Found during the investigation that resulted in r308288.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8604
pause() uses a spin loop to simulate a sleep during early boot. However,
we only need this for thread0 to get far enough in the boot process to
enable timers (at which point pause() can sleep). For other kthreads,
sleeping in pause() is ok as the callout will be scheduled and will
eventually fire once thread0 initializes timers.
Tested by: Steven Kargl
Sleuthing by: markj
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
we never try to sleep while the thread is on a sleepqueue.
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8422
p_sched is unused.
The struct td_sched is always co-allocated with the struct thread,
except for the thread0. Avoid useless indirection, instead calculate
td_sched location using simple pointer arithmetic in td_get_sched(9).
For thread0, which is statically allocated, create a structure to
emulate layout of the dynamic allocation.
Reviewed by: jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6711
pause_sbt(). This allows pause() to continue working during a panic()
which is not invoking KDB. This is useful when debugging graphics
drivers using the LinuxKPI.
Obtained from: kmacy @
MFC after: 1 week
Previously, calls to *sleep() and cv_*wait*() immediately returned during
early boot. Instead, permit threads that request a sleep without a
timeout to sleep as wakeup() works during early boot. Sleeps with
timeouts are harder to emulate without working timers, so just punt and
panic explicitly if any thread tries to use those before timers are
working. Any threads that depend on timeouts should either wait until
SI_SUB_KICK_SCHEDULER to start or they should use DELAY() until timers
are available.
Until APs are started earlier this should be a no-op as other kthreads
shouldn't get a chance to start running until after timers are working
regardless of when they were created.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5724
buildkernel run.
Some of them were write-only under some kernel options, e.g. variables
keeping values only used by CTR() macros. It costs nothing to the
code readability and correctness to eliminate the warnings in those
cases too by removing the local cached values used only for
single-access.
Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2665
Reviewed by: rodrigc
Looked at by: bjk
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
years for head. However, it is continuously misused as the mpsafe argument
for callout_init(9). Deprecate the flag and clean up callout_init() calls
to make them more consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2613
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
components for PV kernels. These components are now standard as they
are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by: royger
Tested by: royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes: yes
They were added for compatibility with the sched provider in Solaris and
illumos, but our sched provider is already incompatible since it uses native
types, so there isn't much point in keeping them around.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2167
Reviewed by: rpaulo
