Most kernel memory that is allocated after boot does not need to be
executable. There are a few exceptions. For example, kernel modules
do need executable memory, but they don't use UMA or malloc(9). The
BPF JIT compiler also needs executable memory and did use malloc(9)
until r317072.
(Note that a side effect of r316767 was that the "small allocation"
path in UMA on amd64 already returned non-executable memory. This
meant that some calls to malloc(9) or the UMA zone(9) allocator could
return executable memory, while others could return non-executable
memory. This change makes the behavior consistent.)
This change makes malloc(9) return non-executable memory unless the new
M_EXEC flag is specified. After this change, the UMA zone(9) allocator
will always return non-executable memory, and a KASSERT will catch
attempts to use the M_EXEC flag to allocate executable memory using
uma_zalloc() or its variants.
Allocations that do need executable memory have various choices. They
may use the M_EXEC flag to malloc(9), or they may use a different VM
interfact to obtain executable pages.
Now that malloc(9) again allows executable allocations, this change also
reverts most of r317072.
PR: 228927
Reviewed by: alc, kib, markj, jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15691
Currently both the page lock and a page queue lock must be held in
order to enqueue, dequeue or requeue a page in a given page queue.
The queue locks are a scalability bottleneck in many workloads. This
change reduces page queue lock contention by batching queue operations.
To detangle the page and page queue locks, per-CPU batch queues are
used to reference pages with pending queue operations. The requested
operation is encoded in the page's aflags field with the page lock
held, after which the page is enqueued for a deferred batch operation.
Page queue scans are similarly optimized to minimize the amount of
work performed with a page queue lock held.
Reviewed by: kib, jeff (previous versions)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14893
They were previously initialized by the corresponding page daemon
threads, but for vmd_inacthead this may be too late if
vm_page_deactivate_noreuse() is called during boot.
Reported and tested by: cperciva
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
per-cpu alloc and free of pages. The cache is filled with as few trips
to the phys allocator as possible by the use of a new
vm_phys_alloc_npages() function which allocates as many as N pages.
This code was originally by markj with the import function rewritten by
me.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14905
Rather than using the number of inactive queue scans as a metric for
how many clean pages are being freed by the page daemon, have the
page daemon keep a running counter of the number of pages it has freed,
and have the laundry thread use that when computing the background
laundering threshold.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14884
vmd_free_count with atomics.
This allows us to allocate and free from reservations without the free lock
except where a superpage is allocated from the physical layer, which is
roughly 1/512 of the operations on amd64.
Use the counter api to eliminate cache conention on counters.
Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14707
vmd_free_count manipulation. Reduce the scope of the free lock by
using a pageout lock to synchronize sleep and wakeup. Only trigger
the pageout daemon on transitions between states. Drive all wakeup
operations directly as side-effects from freeing memory rather than
requiring an additional function call.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14612
use it to regulate page daemon output.
This provides much smoother and more responsive page daemon output, anticipating
demand and avoiding pageout stalls by increasing the number of pages to match
the workload. This is a reimplementation of work done by myself and mlaier at
Isilon.
Reviewed by: bsdimp
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14402
Make vm_wait() take the vm_object argument which specifies the domain
set to wait for the min condition pass. If there is no object
associated with the wait, use curthread' policy domainset. The
mechanics of the wait in vm_wait() and vm_wait_domain() is supplied by
the new helper vm_wait_doms(), which directly takes the bitmask of the
domains to wait for passing min condition.
Eliminate pagedaemon_wait(). vm_domain_clear() handles the same
operations.
Eliminate VM_WAIT and VM_WAITPFAULT macros, the direct functions calls
are enough.
Eliminate several control state variables from vm_domain, unneeded
after the vm_wait() conversion.
Scetched and reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation, Mellanox Technologies
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14384
global to per-domain state. Protect reservations with the free lock
from the domain that they belong to. Refactor to make vm domains more
of a first class object.
Reviewed by: markj, kib, gallatin
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14000
