Since the address of vm_page lock mutex depends on the kernel options,
it is easy for module to get out of sync with the kernel.
No vm_page_lockptr() accessor is provided for modules. It can be added
later if needed, unless proper KPI is developed to serve the needs.
Reviewed by: attilio, alc
MFC after: 3 weeks
yielding a new public interface, vm_page_alloc_contig(). This new function
addresses some of the limitations of the current interfaces, contigmalloc()
and kmem_alloc_contig(). For example, the physically contiguous memory that
is allocated with those interfaces can only be allocated to the kernel vm
object and must be mapped into the kernel virtual address space. It also
provides functionality that vm_phys_alloc_contig() doesn't, such as wiring
the returned pages. Moreover, unlike that function, it respects the low
water marks on the paging queues and wakes up the page daemon when
necessary. That said, at present, this new function can't be applied to all
types of vm objects. However, that restriction will be eliminated in the
coming weeks.
From a design standpoint, this change also addresses an inconsistency
between vm_phys_alloc_contig() and the other vm_phys_alloc*() functions.
Specifically, vm_phys_alloc_contig() manipulated vm_page fields that other
functions in vm/vm_phys.c didn't. Moreover, vm_phys_alloc_contig() knew
about vnodes and reservations. Now, vm_page_alloc_contig() is responsible
for these things.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jhb
Use the defined types instead of int when manipulating masks.
Supposedly, it could fix support for 32KB page size in the
machine-independend VM layer.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
word to handle the dirty mask updates in vm_page_clear_dirty_mask().
Remove the vm page queue lock around vm_page_dirty() call in vm_fault_hold()
the sole purpose of which was to protect dirty on architectures which
does not provide short or byte-wide atomics.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Tested by: flo (sparc64)
MFC after: 2 weeks
flags field. Updates to the atomic flags are performed using the atomic
ops on the containing word, do not require any vm lock to be held, and
are non-blocking. The vm_page_aflag_set(9) and vm_page_aflag_clear(9)
functions are provided to modify afalgs.
Document the changes to flags field to only require the page lock.
Introduce vm_page_reference(9) function to provide a stable KPI and
KBI for filesystems like tmpfs and zfs which need to mark a page as
referenced.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Tested by: marius, flo (sparc64); andreast (powerpc, powerpc64)
Approved by: re (bz)
to VPO_UNMANAGED (and also making the flag protected by the vm object
lock, instead of vm page queue lock).
- Mark the fake pages with both PG_FICTITIOUS (as it is now) and
VPO_UNMANAGED. As a consequence, pmap code now can use use just
VPO_UNMANAGED to decide whether the page is unmanaged.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho (x86, previous version), marius (sparc64),
marcel (arm, ia64, powerpc), ray (mips)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (bz)
(Saying that the lock on the object that the page belongs to must be held
only represents one aspect of the rules.)
Eliminate the use of the page queues lock for atomically performing read-
modify-write operations on the dirty field when the underlying architecture
supports atomic operations on char and short types.
Document the fact that 32KB pages aren't really supported.
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
vm_page_undirty(). The assert is not precise due to VPO_BUSY owner
to tracked, so assertion does not catch the case when VPO_BUSY is
owned by other thread.
Reviewed by: alc
The current implementation of vm_page_alloc_freelist() does not handle
order > 0 correctly. Remove order parameter to the function and use it
only for order 0 pages.
Submitted by: alc
alc@.
The UMA zone based allocation is replaced by a scheme that creates
a new free page list for the KSEG0 region, and a new function
in sys/vm that allocates pages from a specific free page list.
This also fixes a race condition introduced by the UMA based page table
page allocation code. Dropping the page queue and pmap locks before
the call to uma_zfree, and re-acquiring them afterwards will introduce
a race condtion(noted by alc@).
The changes are :
- Revert the earlier changes in MIPS pmap.c that added UMA zone for
page table pages.
- Add a new freelist VM_FREELIST_HIGHMEM to MIPS vmparam.h for memory that
is not directly mapped (in 32bit kernel). Normal page allocations will first
try the HIGHMEM freelist and then the default(direct mapped) freelist.
- Add a new function 'vm_page_t vm_page_alloc_freelist(int flind, int
order, int req)' to vm/vm_page.c to allocate a page from a specified
freelist. The MIPS page table pages will be allocated using this function
from the freelist containing direct mapped pages.
- Move the page initialization code from vm_phys_alloc_contig() to a
new function vm_page_alloc_init(), and use this function to initialize
pages in vm_page_alloc_freelist() too.
- Split the function vm_phys_alloc_pages(int pool, int order) to create
vm_phys_alloc_freelist_pages(int flind, int pool, int order), and use
this function from both vm_page_alloc_freelist() and vm_phys_alloc_pages().
Reviewed by: alc
the maintenance of vm_pageout_deficit can be localized to just two places:
vm_page_alloc() and vm_pageout_scan().
This change also corrects an off-by-one error in the maintenance of
vm_pageout_deficit. Historically, the buffer cache functions, allocbuf()
and vm_hold_load_pages(), have not taken into account that vm_page_alloc()
already increments vm_pageout_deficit by one.
Reviewed by: kib
flag is always provided, and unconditionally retry after sleep for the
busy page or failed allocation.
The intent is to remove VM_ALLOC_RETRY eventually.
Proposed and reviewed by: alc
specify the increment of vm_pageout_deficit when sleeping due to page
shortage. Then, in allocbuf(), the code to allocate pages when extending
vmio buffer can be replaced by a call to vm_page_grab().
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
is ordered by page index. This greatly simplifies the implementation,
since we no longer need to mark the pages with VPO_CLEANCHK to denote
the progress. It is enough to remember the current position by index
before dropping the object lock.
Remove VPO_CLEANCHK and VM_PAGER_IGNORE_CLEANCHK as unused.
Garbage-collect vm.msync_flush_flags sysctl.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
vm_pageout_clean(). When iterating over a range of pages, these functions
can be cheaper than vm_page_lookup() because their implementation takes
advantage of the vm_object's memq being ordered.
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 3 weeks
PG_REFERENCED changes in vm_pageout_object_deactivate_pages().
Simplify this function's inner loop using TAILQ_FOREACH(), and shorten
some of its overly long lines. Update a stale comment.
Assert that PG_REFERENCED may be cleared only if the object containing
the page is locked. Add a comment documenting this.
Assert that a caller to vm_page_requeue() holds the page queues lock,
and assert that the page is on a page queue.
Push down the page queues lock into pmap_ts_referenced() and
pmap_page_exists_quick(). (As of now, there are no longer any pmap
functions that expect to be called with the page queues lock held.)
Neither pmap_ts_referenced() nor pmap_page_exists_quick() should ever
be passed an unmanaged page. Assert this rather than returning "0"
and "FALSE" respectively.
ARM:
Simplify pmap_page_exists_quick() by switching to TAILQ_FOREACH().
Push down the page queues lock inside of pmap_clearbit(), simplifying
pmap_clear_modify(), pmap_clear_reference(), and pmap_remove_write().
Additionally, this allows for avoiding the acquisition of the page
queues lock in some cases.
PowerPC/AIM:
moea*_page_exits_quick() and moea*_page_wired_mappings() will never be
called before pmap initialization is complete. Therefore, the check
for moea_initialized can be eliminated.
Push down the page queues lock inside of moea*_clear_bit(),
simplifying moea*_clear_modify() and moea*_clear_reference().
The last parameter to moea*_clear_bit() is never used. Eliminate it.
PowerPC/BookE:
Simplify mmu_booke_page_exists_quick()'s control flow.
Reviewed by: kib@
an ordering dependence: A pmap operation that clears PG_WRITEABLE and calls
vm_page_dirty() must perform the call first. Otherwise, pmap_is_modified()
could return FALSE without acquiring the page queues lock because the page
is not (currently) writeable, and the caller to pmap_is_modified() might
believe that the page's dirty field is clear because it has not seen the
effect of the vm_page_dirty() call.
When I pushed down the page queues lock into pmap_is_modified(), I
overlooked one place where this ordering dependence is violated:
pmap_enter(). In a rare situation pmap_enter() can be called to replace a
dirty mapping to one page with a mapping to another page. (I say rare
because replacements generally occur as a result of a copy-on-write fault,
and so the old page is not dirty.) This change delays clearing PG_WRITEABLE
until after vm_page_dirty() has been called.
Fixing the ordering dependency also makes it easy to introduce a small
optimization: When pmap_enter() used to replace a mapping to one page with a
mapping to another page, it freed the pv entry for the first mapping and
later called the pv entry allocator for the new mapping. Now, pmap_enter()
attempts to recycle the old pv entry, saving two calls to the pv entry
allocator.
There is no point in setting PG_WRITEABLE on unmanaged pages, so don't.
Update a comment to reflect this.
Tidy up the variable declarations at the start of pmap_enter().
independent code. Move this code into mincore(), and eliminate the
page queues lock from pmap_mincore().
Push down the page queues lock into pmap_clear_modify(),
pmap_clear_reference(), and pmap_is_modified(). Assert that these
functions are never passed an unmanaged page.
Eliminate an inaccurate comment from powerpc/powerpc/mmu_if.m:
Contrary to what the comment says, pmap_mincore() is not simply an
optimization. Without a complete pmap_mincore() implementation,
mincore() cannot return either MINCORE_MODIFIED or MINCORE_REFERENCED
because only the pmap can provide this information.
Eliminate the page queues lock from vfs_setdirty_locked_object(),
vm_pageout_clean(), vm_object_page_collect_flush(), and
vm_object_page_clean(). Generally speaking, these are all accesses
to the page's dirty field, which are synchronized by the containing
vm object's lock.
Reduce the scope of the page queues lock in vm_object_madvise() and
vm_page_dontneed().
Reviewed by: kib (an earlier version)
here, make the style of assertion used by pmap_enter() consistent
across all architectures.
On entry to pmap_remove_write(), assert that the page is neither
unmanaged nor fictitious, since we cannot remove write access to
either kind of page.
With the push down of the page queues lock, pmap_remove_write() cannot
condition its behavior on the state of the PG_WRITEABLE flag if the
page is busy. Assert that the object containing the page is locked.
This allows us to know that the page will neither become busy nor will
PG_WRITEABLE be set on it while pmap_remove_write() is running.
Correct a long-standing bug in vm_page_cowsetup(). We cannot possibly
do copy-on-write-based zero-copy transmit on unmanaged or fictitious
pages, so don't even try. Previously, the call to pmap_remove_write()
would have failed silently.
pmap_page_is_mapped() in preparation for removing page queues locking
around calls to vm_page_free(). Setting aside the assertion that calls
pmap_page_is_mapped(), vm_page_free_toq() now acquires and holds the page
queues lock just long enough to actually add or remove the page from the
paging queues.
Update vm_page_unhold() to reflect the above change.
managed pages that didn't already have that lock held. (Freeing an
unmanaged page, such as the various pmaps use, doesn't require the page
lock.)
This allows a change in vm_page_remove()'s locking requirements. It now
expects the page lock to be held instead of the page queues lock.
Consequently, the page queues lock is no longer required at all by callers
to vm_page_rename().
Discussed with: kib
- re-assign page queue lock "Q"
- assign page lock "P"
- update several uncommented fields
- observe that hold_count is now protected by the page lock "P"
architecture from page queue lock to a hashed array of page locks
(based on a patch by Jeff Roberson), I've implemented page lock
support in the MI code and have only moved vm_page's hold_count
out from under page queue mutex to page lock. This changes
pmap_extract_and_hold on all pmaps.
Supported by: Bitgravity Inc.
Discussed with: alc, jeffr, and kib
following changes:
Rename vfs_page_set_valid() to vfs_page_set_validclean() to reflect
what this function actually does. Suggested by: tegge
Introduce a new version of vfs_page_set_valid() that does no more than
what the function's name implies. Specifically, it does not update
the page's dirty mask, and thus it does not require the page queues
lock to be held.
Update two of the three callers to the old vfs_page_set_valid() to
call vfs_page_set_validclean() instead because they actually require
the page's dirty mask to be cleared.
Introduce vm_page_set_valid().
Reviewed by: tegge
of the counter, that may happen when too many sendfile(2) calls are
being executed with this vnode [1].
To keep the size of the struct vm_page and offsets of the fields
accessed by out-of-tree modules, swap the types and locations
of the wire_count and cow fields. Add safety checks to detect cow
overflow and force fallback to the normal copy code for zero-copy
sockets. [2]
Reported by: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin citrin ru> [1]
Suggested by: alc [2]
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
vm/vm_contig.c, vm/vm_page.c, and vm/vm_pageq.c. Today, vm/vm_pageq.c
has withered to the point that it contains only four short functions,
two of which are only used by vm/vm_page.c. Since I can't foresee any
reason for vm/vm_pageq.c to grow, it is time to fold the remaining
contents of vm/vm_pageq.c back into vm/vm_page.c.
Add some comments. Rename one of the functions, vm_pageq_enqueue(),
that is now static within vm/vm_page.c to vm_page_enqueue().
Eliminate PQ_MAXCOUNT as it no longer serves any purpose.
cache: vm_object_page_remove() should convert any cached pages that
fall with the specified range to free pages. Otherwise, there could
be a problem if a file is first truncated and then regrown.
Specifically, some old data from prior to the truncation might reappear.
Generalize vm_page_cache_free() to support the conversion of either a
subset or the entirety of an object's cached pages.
Reported by: tegge
Reviewed by: tegge
Approved by: re (kensmith)
ways:
(1) Cached pages are no longer kept in the object's resident page
splay tree and memq. Instead, they are kept in a separate per-object
splay tree of cached pages. However, access to this new per-object
splay tree is synchronized by the _free_ page queues lock, not to be
confused with the heavily contended page queues lock. Consequently, a
cached page can be reclaimed by vm_page_alloc(9) without acquiring the
object's lock or the page queues lock.
This solves a problem independently reported by tegge@ and Isilon.
Specifically, they observed the page daemon consuming a great deal of
CPU time because of pages bouncing back and forth between the cache
queue (PQ_CACHE) and the inactive queue (PQ_INACTIVE). The source of
this problem turned out to be a deadlock avoidance strategy employed
when selecting a cached page to reclaim in vm_page_select_cache().
However, the root cause was really that reclaiming a cached page
required the acquisition of an object lock while the page queues lock
was already held. Thus, this change addresses the problem at its
root, by eliminating the need to acquire the object's lock.
Moreover, keeping cached pages in the object's primary splay tree and
memq was, in effect, optimizing for the uncommon case. Cached pages
are reclaimed far, far more often than they are reactivated. Instead,
this change makes reclamation cheaper, especially in terms of
synchronization overhead, and reactivation more expensive, because
reactivated pages will have to be reentered into the object's primary
splay tree and memq.
(2) Cached pages are now stored alongside free pages in the physical
memory allocator's buddy queues, increasing the likelihood that large
allocations of contiguous physical memory (i.e., superpages) will
succeed.
Finally, as a result of this change long-standing restrictions on when
and where a cached page can be reclaimed and returned by
vm_page_alloc(9) are eliminated. Specifically, calls to
vm_page_alloc(9) specifying VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT can now reclaim and
return a formerly cached page. Consequently, a call to malloc(9)
specifying M_NOWAIT is less likely to fail.
Discussed with: many over the course of the summer, including jeff@,
Justin Husted @ Isilon, peter@, tegge@
Tested by: an earlier version by kris@
Approved by: re (kensmith)
This allocator uses a binary buddy system with a twist. First and
foremost, this allocator is required to support the implementation of
superpages. As a side effect, it enables a more robust implementation
of contigmalloc(9). Moreover, this reimplementation of
contigmalloc(9) eliminates the acquisition of Giant by
contigmalloc(..., M_NOWAIT, ...).
The twist is that this allocator tries to reduce the number of TLB
misses incurred by accesses through a direct map to small, UMA-managed
objects and page table pages. Roughly speaking, the physical pages
that are allocated for such purposes are clustered together in the
physical address space. The performance benefits vary. In the most
extreme case, a uniprocessor kernel running on an Opteron, I measured
an 18% reduction in system time during a buildworld.
This allocator does not implement page coloring. The reason is that
superpages have much the same effect. The contiguous physical memory
allocation necessary for a superpage is inherently colored.
Finally, the one caveat is that this allocator does not effectively
support prezeroed pages. I hope this is temporary. On i386, this is
a slight pessimization. However, on amd64, the beneficial effects of
the direct-map optimization outweigh the ill effects. I speculate
that this is true in general of machines with a direct map.
Approved by: re
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE depending on whether the physical address space is
densely or sparsely populated with memory. The effect of this
definition is to determine which of two implementations of
vm_page_array and PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() is used. The legacy
implementation is obtained by defining VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE, and a new
implementation that trades off time for space is obtained by defining
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE. For now, all architectures except for ia64 and
sparc64 define VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on ia64
allows the entirety of my Itanium 2's memory to be used. Previously,
only the first 1 GB could be used. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on
sparc64 allows USIIIi-based systems to boot without crashing.
This change is a combination of Nathan Whitehorn's patch and my own
work in perforce.
Discussed with: kmacy, marius, Nathan Whitehorn
PR: 112194
immediately flag any page that is allocated to a OBJT_PHYS object as
unmanaged in vm_page_alloc() rather than waiting for a later call to
vm_page_unmanage(). This allows for the elimination of some uses of
the page queues lock.
Change the type of the kernel and kmem objects from OBJT_DEFAULT to
OBJT_PHYS. This allows us to take advantage of the above change to
simplify the allocation of unmanaged pages in kmem_alloc() and
kmem_malloc().
Remove vm_page_unmanage(). It is no longer used.
