on i386 PAE. Previously, VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE could not be used on amd64 and
i386 because vm_page_startup() would not create vm_page structures for the
kernel page table pages allocated during pmap_bootstrap() but those vm_page
structures are needed when the kernel attempts to promote the corresponding
kernel virtual addresses to superpage mappings. To address this problem, a
new public function, vm_phys_add_seg(), is introduced and vm_phys_init() is
updated to reflect the creation of vm_phys_seg structures by calls to
vm_phys_add_seg().
Discussed with: Svatopluk Kraus
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
in userland rename in-kernel getenv()/setenv() to kern_setenv()/kern_getenv().
This fixes a namespace collision with libc symbols.
Submitted by: kmacy
Tested by: make universe
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
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
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
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
To reduce the diff struct pcu.cnt field was not renamed, so
PCPU_OP(cnt.field) is still used. pc_cnt and pcpu are also used in
kvm(3) and vmstat(8). The goal was to not affect externally used KPI.
Bump __FreeBSD_version_ in case some out-of-tree module/code relies on the
the global cnt variable.
Exp-run revealed no ports using it directly.
No objection from: arch@
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
no longer any need for the page's PG_CACHED and PG_FREE flags to be set and
cleared while the free page queues lock is held. Thus, vm_page_alloc(),
vm_page_alloc_contig(), and vm_page_alloc_freelist() can wait until after
the free page queues lock is released to clear the page's flags. Moreover,
the PG_FREE flag can be retired. Now that the reservation system no longer
uses it, its only uses are in a few assertions. Eliminating these
assertions is no real loss. Other assertions catch the same types of
misbehavior, like doubly freeing a page (see r260032) or dirtying a free
page (free pages are invalid and only valid pages can be dirtied).
Eliminate an unneeded variable from vm_page_alloc_contig().
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
and the equivalent functionality is now provided by sendfile(2) over
posix shared memory filedescriptor.
Remove the cow member of struct vm_page, and rearrange the remaining
members. While there, make hold_count unsigned.
Requested and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (delphij)
portion is invalidated, invalidate the whole page. Otherwise,
partially valid page appears on a page queue, which is wrong. This
could only happen for the last page, because only then buffer which
triggered invalidation could not cover the whole page.
Reported and tested by: pho (previous version)
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (delphij)
MFC after: 2 weeks
VPB_BIT_WAITERS flag were changed between reading of busy_lock and the
cas. The vm_page_sbusy(), which is the only user of
vm_page_trysbusy() in the tree, panics on the failure, which in these
cases is transient and do not mean that the current page state
prevents sbusying.
Retry the operation inside vm_page_trysbusy() if cas failed, only
return a failure when VPB_BIT_SHARED is cleared.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MADV_DONTNEED) and madvise(..., MADV_FREE). Specifically, introduce a new
pmap function, pmap_advise(), that operates on a range of virtual addresses
within the specified pmap, allowing for a more efficient implementation of
MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE. Previously, the implementation of
MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE relied on per-page pmap operations, such as
pmap_clear_reference(). Intuitively, the problem with this implementation
is that the pmap-level locks are acquired and released and the page table
traversed repeatedly, once for each resident page in the range
that was specified to madvise(2). A more subtle flaw with the previous
implementation is that pmap_clear_reference() would clear the reference bit
on all mappings to the specified page, not just the mapping in the range
specified to madvise(2).
Since our malloc(3) makes heavy use of madvise(2), this change can have a
measureable impact. For example, the system time for completing a parallel
"buildworld" on a 6-core amd64 machine was reduced by about 1.5% to 2.0%.
Note: This change only contains pmap_advise() implementations for a subset
of our supported architectures. I will commit implementations for the
remaining architectures after further testing. For now, a stub function is
sufficient because of the advisory nature of pmap_advise().
Discussed with: jeff, jhb, kib
Tested by: pho (i386), marcel (ia64)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
reclaim the last preexisting cached page in the object, resulting in a call
to vdrop(). Detect this scenario so that the vnode's hold count is
correctly maintained. Otherwise, we panic.
Reported by: scottl
Tested by: pho
Discussed with: attilio, jeff, kib
The flag was mandatory since r209792, where vm_page_grab(9) was
changed to only support the alloc retry semantic.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
wired, unwind back the wiring bits otherwise we can end up freeing a
page that is considered wired.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by: alc
maintaining better LRU of active pages.
- Change v_free_target to include the quantity previously represented by
v_cache_min so we don't need to add them together everywhere we use them.
- Add a pageout_wakeup_thresh that sets the free page count trigger for
waking the page daemon. Set this 10% above v_free_min so we wakeup before
any phase transitions in vm users.
- Adjust down v_free_target now that we're willing to accept more pagedaemon
wakeups. This means we process fewer pages in one iteration as well,
leading to shorter lock hold times and less overall disruption.
- Eliminate vm_pageout_page_stats(). This was a minor variation on the
PQ_ACTIVE segment of the normal pageout daemon. Instead we now process
1 / vm_pageout_update_period pages every second. This causes us to visit
the whole active list every 60 seconds. Previously we would only maintain
the active LRU when we were short on pages which would mean it could be
woefully out of date.
Reviewed by: alc (slight variant of this)
Discussed with: alc, kib, jhb
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
what is really needed on this code snipped is that all the pages that
are already fully inserted gets fully freed, while for the others the
object removal itself might be skipped, hence the object might be set to
NULL.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by: alc, kib
Reviewed by: alc
additional information, when the page is guaranteed to not belong to a
paging queue. Usually, this results in a lot of type casts which make
reasoning about the code correctness harder.
Sometimes m->object is used instead of pageq, which could cause real
and confusing bugs if non-NULL m->object is leaked. See r141955 and
r253140 for examples.
Change the pageq member into a union containing explicitly-typed
members. Use them instead of type-punning or abusing m->object in x86
pmaps, uma and vm_page_alloc_contig().
Requested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
for nodes used in vm_radix.
On architectures supporting direct mapping, also avoid to pre-allocate
the KVA for such nodes.
In order to do so make the operations derived from vm_radix_insert()
to fail and handle all the deriving failure of those.
vm_radix-wise introduce a new function called vm_radix_replace(),
which can replace a leaf node, already present, with a new one,
and take into account the possibility, during vm_radix_insert()
allocation, that the operations on the radix trie can recurse.
This means that if operations in vm_radix_insert() recursed
vm_radix_insert() will start from scratch again.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc (older version)
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho, scottl
Unify the 2 concept into a real, minimal, sxlock where the shared
acquisition represent the soft busy and the exclusive acquisition
represent the hard busy.
The old VPO_WANTED mechanism becames the hard-path for this new lock
and it becomes per-page rather than per-object.
The vm_object lock becames an interlock for this functionality:
it can be held in both read or write mode.
However, if the vm_object lock is held in read mode while acquiring
or releasing the busy state, the thread owner cannot make any
assumption on the busy state unless it is also busying it.
Also:
- Add a new flag to directly shared busy pages while vm_page_alloc
and vm_page_grab are being executed. This will be very helpful
once these functions happen under a read object lock.
- Move the swapping sleep into its own per-object flag
The KPI is heavilly changed this is why the version is bumped.
It is very likely that some VM ports users will need to change
their own code.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: jeff, kib
Tested by: gavin, bapt (older version)
Tested by: pho, scottl
into threads each processing queue in a single domain. The structure
of the pagedaemons and queues is kept intact, most of the changes come
from the need for code to find an owning page queue for given page,
calculated from the segment containing the page.
The tie between NUMA domain and pagedaemon thread/pagequeue split is
rather arbitrary, the multithreaded daemon could be allowed for the
single-domain machines, or one domain might be split into several page
domains, to further increase concurrency.
Right now, each pagedaemon thread tries to reach the global target,
precalculated at the start of the pass. This is not optimal, since it
could cause excessive page deactivation and freeing. The code should
be changed to re-check the global page deficit state in the loop after
some number of iterations.
The pagedaemons reach the quorum before starting the OOM, since one
thread inability to meet the target is normal for split queues. Only
when all pagedaemons fail to produce enough reusable pages, OOM is
started by single selected thread.
Launder is modified to take into account the segments layout with
regard to the region for which cleaning is performed.
Based on the preliminary patch by jeff, sponsored by EMC / Isilon
Storage Division.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
not busy, since its only caller brelse() can legitimately call it on
busy page. This happens for VOP_PUTPAGES() on filesystems that use
buffers and which VOP_WRITE() method marked the buffer containing page
as non-cacheable.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
reset by pmap_page_init() right after being initialized in vm_page_initfake().
The statement above is with reference to the amd64 implementation of
pmap_page_init().
Fix this by calling 'pmap_page_init()' in 'vm_page_initfake()' before changing
the 'memattr'.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
clearing the page's PGA_REFERENCED flag. Since we are typically
manipulating the page's act_count field when we are clearing its
PGA_REFERENCED flag, the page lock is already held everywhere that we clear
the PGA_REFERENCED flag. So, in fact, this revision only changes some
comments and an assertion. Nonetheless, it will enable later changes to
object locking in the pageout code.
Introduce vm_page_assert_locked(), which completely hides the implementation
details of the page lock from the caller, and use it in
vm_page_aflag_clear(). (The existing vm_page_lock_assert() could not be
used in vm_page_aflag_clear().) Over the coming weeks, I expect that we'll
either eliminate or replace the various uses of vm_page_lock_assert() with
vm_page_assert_locked().
Reviewed by: attilio
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
lock instead of the object lock, there is no reason for vm_page_activate()
to assert that the object is locked for either read or write access.
(The "VPO_UNMANAGED" flag never changes after page allocation.)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
o Relax locking assertions for pmap_enter_object() and add them also
to architectures that currently don't have any
o Introduce VM_OBJECT_LOCK_DOWNGRADE() which is basically a downgrade
operation on the per-object rwlock
o Use all the mechanisms above to make vm_map_pmap_enter() to work
mostl of the times only with readlocks.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
a vm page, denoted either by an address of the struct vm_page, or, if
the '/p' modifier is specified, by a physical address of the
corresponding frame.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
tree is used to maintain the object's collection of resident pages,
vm_page_lookup() no longer needs an exclusive lock.
Reviewed by: attilio
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
vm_page_insert() so that (1) vm_radix_lookup_le() is never called while the
free page queues lock is held and (2) vm_radix_lookup_le() is called at most
once. This change reduces the average time that the free page queues lock
is held by vm_page_alloc() as well as vm_page_alloc()'s average overall
running time.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Replace the per-object resident and cached pages splay tree with a
path-compressed multi-digit radix trie.
Along with this, switch also the x86-specific handling of idle page
tables to using the radix trie.
This change is supposed to do the following:
- Allowing the acquisition of read locking for lookup operations of the
resident/cached pages collections as the per-vm_page_t splay iterators
are now removed.
- Increase the scalability of the operations on the page collections.
The radix trie does rely on the consumers locking to ensure atomicity of
its operations. In order to avoid deadlocks the bisection nodes are
pre-allocated in the UMA zone. This can be done safely because the
algorithm needs at maximum one new node per insert which means the
maximum number of the desired nodes is the number of available physical
frames themselves. However, not all the times a new bisection node is
really needed.
The radix trie implements path-compression because UFS indirect blocks
can lead to several objects with a very sparse trie, increasing the number
of levels to usually scan. It also helps in the nodes pre-fetching by
introducing the single node per-insert property.
This code is not generalized (yet) because of the possible loss of
performance by having much of the sizes in play configurable.
However, efforts to make this code more general and then reusable in
further different consumers might be really done.
The only KPI change is the removal of the function vm_page_splay() which
is now reaped.
The only KBI change, instead, is the removal of the left/right iterators
from struct vm_page, which are now reaped.
Further technical notes broken into mealpieces can be retrieved from the
svn branch:
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/attilio/vmcontention/
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
In collaboration with: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
Tested by: ian (arm)
Tested by: andreast (powerpc)
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.
The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
(in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
- The read-mode operations are added:
VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
versions must be avoided.
At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.
The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit. Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
Introduce a new KPI that verifies if the page cache is empty for a
specified vm_object. This KPI does not make assumptions about the
locking in order to be used also for building assertions at init and
destroy time.
It is mostly used to hide implementation details of the page cache.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: alc (vm_radix based version)
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
