cache: vnode_pager_setsize() must handle the case where a file is
truncated to a non-page-size-aligned boundary and there is a cached
page underlying the new end of file.
Reported by: kris, tegge
Tested by: kris
MFC after: 3 days
Now, we assume no more sched_lock protection for some of them and use the
distribuited loads method for vmmeter (distribuited through CPUs).
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
it introduced a check after the call to file system's get pages method
that assumes that the get pages method does not change the array of pages
that is passed to it. In the case of vnode_pager_generic_getpages(),
this assumption has been incorrect. The contents of the array of pages
may be shifted by vnode_pager_generic_getpages(). Likely, the problem
has been hidden by vnode_pager_haspage() limiting the set of pages that
are passed to vnode_pager_generic_getpages() such that a shift never
occurs.
The fix implemented herein is to adjust the pointer to the array of pages
rather than shifting the pages within the array.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Fix suggested by: tegge
an error returned by VOP_BMAP() and a hole in the file.
Change the callers to vnode_pager_addr() such that they return
VM_PAGER_ERROR when VOP_BMAP fails instead of a zero-filled page.
Reviewed by: tegge
MFC after: 3 weeks
vnode_pager_generic_getpages(): (1) that VOP_BMAP() is unsupported by the
underlying file system and (2) an error in performing the VOP_BMAP().
Previously, vnode_pager_generic_getpages() assumed that all errors were
of the first type. If, in fact, the error was of the second type, the
likely outcome was for the process to become permanently blocked on a busy
page.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Reviewed by: tegge
synchronized by the lock on the object containing the page.
Transition PG_WANTED and PG_SWAPINPROG to use the new field,
eliminating the need for holding the page queues lock when setting
or clearing these flags. Rename PG_WANTED and PG_SWAPINPROG to
VPO_WANTED and VPO_SWAPINPROG, respectively.
Eliminate the assertion that the page queues lock is held in
vm_page_io_finish().
Eliminate the acquisition and release of the page queues lock
around calls to vm_page_io_finish() in kern_sendfile() and
vfs_unbusy_pages().
be called without any vnode locks held. Remove calls to vn_start_write() and
vn_finished_write() in vnode_pager_putpages() and add these calls before the
vnode lock is obtained to most of the callers that don't already have them.
lock also protects this flag so it is not necessary.
- Don't rely on v_mount to detect whether or not we've been recycled, use
the more appropriate VI_DOOMED instead.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
MFC After: 1 week
The former type, size_t, was causing truncation to 32 bits on i386,
which immediately led to undersizing of VM objects backed by
files >4GB. In particular, sendfile(2) was broken for such files.
PR: kern/92243
MFC after: 5 days
vm_pager_init() is run before required nswbuf variable has been set
to correct value. This caused system to run with single pbuf available
for vnode_pager. Handle both cluster_pbuf_freecnt and vnode_pbuf_freecnt
variable in the same way.
Reported by: ade
Obtained from: alc
MFC after: 2 days
underlying vnode requires Giant.
- In vm_fault only acquire Giant if the underlying object has NEEDSGIANT
set.
- In vm_object_shadow inherit the NEEDSGIANT flag from the backing object.
down. If we have dirty pages, the putpages routine will need to know
what the vnode's object is so that it may write out dirty pages.
Pointy hat: phk
Found by: obrien
patch from kan@).
Pull bufobj_invalbuf() out of vinvalbuf() and make g_vfs call it on
close. This is not yet a generally safe function, but for this very
specific use it is safe. This solves the problem with buffers not
being flushed by unmount or after failed mount attempts.
the name Sande^H^H^H^H^Hvnode_create_vobject().
Make the new function take a size argument which removes the need for
a VOP_STAT() or a very pessimistic guess for disks.
Call that new function from vop_stdcreatevobject().
Make vnode_pager_alloc() private now that its only user came home.
- Use VFS_LOCK_GIANT() rather than directly acquiring giant in places
where giant is only held because vfs requires it.
Sponsored By: Isilon Systems, Inc.
revision 1.55, the address parameter to vnode_pager_addr() was changed
from an unsigned 32-bit quantity to a signed 64-bit quantity. However,
an out-of-range check on the address was not updated. Consequently,
memory-mapped I/O on files greater than 2GB could cause a kernel panic.
Since the address is now a signed 64-bit quantity, the problem resolution
is simply to remove a cast.
Reviewed by: bde@ and tegge@
PR: 73010
MFC after: 1 week
to implement the sanity check should have been changed when we converted
the implementation of vm_pindex_t from 32 to 64 bits. (Thus, RELENG_4 is
not affected.) The consequence of this error would be a legimate write to
an extremely large file being treated as an errant attempt to write meta-
data.
Discussed with: tegge@
instead of a vnode for it.
The vnode_pager does not and should not have any interest in what
the filesystem uses for backend.
(vfs_cluster doesn't use the backing store argument.)
because this call is only needed to wake threads that slept when they
discovered a dead object connected to a vnode. To eliminate unnecessary
calls to wakeup() by vnode_pager_dealloc(), introduce a new flag,
OBJ_DISCONNECTWNT.
Reviewed by: tegge@
We keep si_bsize_phys around for now as that is the simplest way to pull
the number out of disk device drivers in devfs_open(). The correct solution
would be to do an ioctl(DIOCGSECTORSIZE), but the point is probably mooth
when filesystems sit on GEOM, so don't bother for now.
Extend it with a strategy method.
Add bufstrategy() which do the usual VOP_SPECSTRATEGY/VOP_STRATEGY
song and dance.
Rename ibwrite to bufwrite().
Move the two NFS buf_ops to more sensible places, add bufstrategy
to them.
Add inlines for bwrite() and bstrategy() which calls through
buf->b_bufobj->b_ops->b_{write,strategy}().
Replace almost all VOP_STRATEGY()/VOP_SPECSTRATEGY() calls with bstrategy().
allocation and deallocation. This flag's principal use is shortly after
allocation. For such cases, clearing the flag is pointless. The only
unusual use of PG_ZERO is in vfs_bio_clrbuf(). However, allocbuf() never
requests a prezeroed page. So, vfs_bio_clrbuf() never sees a prezeroed
page.
Reviewed by: tegge@
on non-VCHR vnodes. This fixes a panic when reading data from files on a
filesystem with a small (less than a page) block size.
PR: 59271
Reviewed by: alc
vm_pageout_page_stats() from Giant.
- Modify vm_pager_put_pages() and vm_pager_page_unswapped() to expect the
vm object to be locked on entry. (All of the pager routines now expect
this.)
releasing the lock only if we are about to sleep (e.g., vm_pager_get_pages()
or vm_pager_has_pages()). If we sleep, we have marked the vm object with
the paging-in-progress flag.
comes along and flushes a file which has been mmap()'d SHARED/RW, with
dirty pages, it was flushing the underlying VM object asynchronously,
resulting in thousands of 8K writes. With this change the VM Object flushing
code will cluster dirty pages in 64K blocks.
Note that until the low memory deadlock issue is reviewed, it is not safe
to allow the pageout daemon to use this feature. Forced pageouts still
use fs block size'd ops for the moment.
MFC after: 3 days
indirectly through vm_page_protect(). The one remaining page flag that
is updated by vm_page_protect() is already being updated by our various
pmap implementations.
Note: A later commit will similarly change the VM_PROT_READ case and
eliminate vm_page_protect().
pmap_zero_page() and pmap_zero_page_area() were modified to accept
a struct vm_page * instead of a physical address, vm_page_zero_fill()
and vm_page_zero_fill_area() have served no purpose.
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.
Idea stolen from: BSD/OS
release of Giant. (Annotate as MPSAFE.)
o Also, in vnode_pager_alloc(), remove an unnecessary re-initialization
of struct vm_object::flags and move a statement that is duplicated
in both branches of an if-else.
the bio and buffer structures to have daddr64_t bio_pblkno,
b_blkno, and b_lblkno fields which allows access to disks
larger than a Terabyte in size. This change also requires
that the VOP_BMAP vnode operation accept and return daddr64_t
blocks. This delta should not affect system operation in
any way. It merely sets up the necessary interfaces to allow
the development of disk drivers that work with these larger
disk block addresses. It also allows for the development of
UFS2 which will use 64-bit block addresses.
style(9)
- Minor space adjustment in cases where we have "( ", " )", if(), return(),
while(), for(), etc.
- Add /* SYMBOL */ after a few #endifs.
Reviewed by: alc
commit by Kirk also fixed a softupdates bug that could easily be triggered
by server side NFS.
* An edge case with shared R+W mmap()'s and truncate whereby
the system would inappropriately clear the dirty bits on
still-dirty data. (applicable to all filesystems)
THIS FIX TEMPORARILY DISABLED PENDING FURTHER TESTING.
see vm/vm_page.c line 1641
* The straddle case for VM pages and buffer cache buffers when
truncating. (applicable to NFS client side)
* Possible SMP database corruption due to vm_pager_unmap_page()
not clearing the TLB for the other cpu's. (applicable to NFS
client side but could effect all filesystems). Note: not
considered serious since the corruption occurs beyond the file
EOF.
* When flusing a dirty buffer due to B_CACHE getting cleared,
we were accidently setting B_CACHE again (that is, bwrite() sets
B_CACHE), when we really want it to stay clear after the write
is complete. This resulted in a corrupt buffer. (applicable
to all filesystems but probably only triggered by NFS)
* We have to call vtruncbuf() when ftruncate()ing to remove
any buffer cache buffers. This is still tentitive, I may
be able to remove it due to the second bug fix. (applicable
to NFS client side)
* vnode_pager_setsize() race against nfs_vinvalbuf()... we have
to set n_size before calling nfs_vinvalbuf or the NFS code
may recursively vnode_pager_setsize() to the original value
before the truncate. This is what was causing the user mmap
bus faults in the nfs tester program. (applicable to NFS
client side)
* Fix to softupdates (see ufs/ffs/ffs_inode.c 1.73, commit made
by Kirk).
Testing program written by: Avadis Tevanian, Jr.
Testing program supplied by: jkh / Apple (see Dec2001 posting to freebsd-hackers with Subject 'NFS: How to make FreeBS fall on its face in one easy step')
MFC after: 1 week
file EOF. This works around a bug in the ISOFS (CDRom) BMAP code which
returns bogus values for requests beyond the file EOF rather then returning
an error, resulting in either corrupt data being mmap()'d beyond the file EOF
or resulting in a seg-fault on the last page of a mmap()'d file (mmap()s of
CDRom files).
Reported by: peter / Yahoo
MFC after: 3 days
would sometimes prevent a dirty page from being cleaned, even when synced,
resulting in the dirty page being re-flushed to disk every 30-60 seconds or
so, forever. The problem is that when the filesystem flushes a page to
its backing file it typically does not clear dirty bits representing areas
of the page that are beyond the file EOF. If the file is also mmap()'d and
a fault is taken, vm_fault (properly, is required to) set the vm_page_t->dirty
bits to VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL. This combination could leave us with an uncleanable,
unfreeable page.
The solution is to have the vnode_pager detect the edge case and manually
clear the dirty bits representing areas beyond the file EOF. The filesystem
does the rest and the page comes up clean after the write completes.
MFC after: 3 days
- crhold() returns a reference to the ucred whose refcount it bumps.
- crcopy() now simply copies the credentials from one credential to
another and has no return value.
- a new crshared() primitive is added which returns true if a ucred's
refcount is > 1 and false (0) otherwise.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
(this commit is just the first stage). Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.
faults can not be taken without holding Giant.
Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.
Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.
Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.
FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).
Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
in 4.2-REL which I ripped out in -stable and -current when implementing the
low-memory handling solution. However, maxlaunder turns out to be the saving
grace in certain very heavily loaded systems (e.g. newsreader box). The new
algorithm limits the number of pages laundered in the first pageout daemon
pass. If that is not sufficient then suceessive will be run without any
limit.
Write I/O is now pipelined using two sysctls, vfs.lorunningspace and
vfs.hirunningspace. This prevents excessive buffered writes in the
disk queues which cause long (multi-second) delays for reads. It leads
to more stable (less jerky) and generally faster I/O streaming to disk
by allowing required read ops (e.g. for indirect blocks and such) to occur
without interrupting the write stream, amoung other things.
NOTE: eventually, filesystem write I/O pipelining needs to be done on a
per-device basis. At the moment it is globalized.
the gating of system calls that cause modifications to the underlying
filesystem. The gating can be enabled by any filesystem that needs
to consistently suspend operations by adding the vop_stdgetwritemount
to their set of vnops. Once gating is enabled, the function
vfs_write_suspend stops all new write operations to a filesystem,
allows any filesystem modifying system calls already in progress
to complete, then sync's the filesystem to disk and returns. The
function vfs_write_resume allows the suspended write operations to
begin again. Gating is not added by default for all filesystems as
for SMP systems it adds two extra locks to such critical kernel
paths as the write system call. Thus, gating should only be added
as needed.
Details on the use and current status of snapshots in FFS can be
found in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot so for brevity and timelyness
is not included here. Unless and until you create a snapshot file,
these changes should have no effect on your system (famous last words).
to various pmap_*() functions instead of looking up the physical address
and passing that. In many cases, the first thing the pmap code was doing
was going to a lot of trouble to get back the original vm_page_t, or
it's shadow pv_table entry.
Inspired by: John Dyson's 1998 patches.
Also:
Eliminate pv_table as a seperate thing and build it into a machine
dependent part of vm_page_t. This eliminates having a seperate set of
structions that shadow each other in a 1:1 fashion that we often went to
a lot of trouble to translate from one to the other. (see above)
This happens to save 4 bytes of physical memory for each page in the
system. (8 bytes on the Alpha).
Eliminate the use of the phys_avail[] array to determine if a page is
managed (ie: it has pv_entries etc). Store this information in a flag.
Things like device_pager set it because they create vm_page_t's on the
fly that do not have pv_entries. This makes it easier to "unmanage" a
page of physical memory (this will be taken advantage of in subsequent
commits).
Add a function to add a new page to the freelist. This could be used
for reclaiming the previously wasted pages left over from preloaded
loader(8) files.
Reviewed by: dillon
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
(Much of this done by script)
Move B_ORDERED flag to b_ioflags and call it BIO_ORDERED.
Move b_pblkno and b_iodone_chain to struct bio while we transition, they
will be obsoleted once bio structs chain/stack.
Add bio_queue field for struct bio aware disksort.
Address a lot of stylistic issues brought up by bde.
substitute BUF_WRITE(foo) for VOP_BWRITE(foo->b_vp, foo)
substitute BUF_STRATEGY(foo) for VOP_STRATEGY(foo->b_vp, foo)
This patch is machine generated except for the ccd.c and buf.h parts.
field in struct buf: b_iocmd. The b_iocmd is enforced to have
exactly one bit set.
B_WRITE was bogusly defined as zero giving rise to obvious coding
mistakes.
Also eliminate the redundant struct buf flag B_CALL, it can just
as efficiently be done by comparing b_iodone to NULL.
Should you get a panic or drop into the debugger, complaining about
"b_iocmd", don't continue. It is likely to write on your disk
where it should have been reading.
This change is a step in the direction towards a stackable BIO capability.
A lot of this patch were machine generated (Thanks to style(9) compliance!)
Vinum users: Greg has not had time to test this yet, be careful.
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>. This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.
This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
underlying physical sector size when aligning I/O transfer sizes.
It cannot assume 512 bytes.
We assume the underlying sector size is a power of 2. If it isn't,
mmap() will break badly anyway (in the same way mmap broke with NFS
when NFS tried to cache piecemeal write ranges in buffers, before
we enforced read-buffer-before-write-piecemeal for NFS).
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>
lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
be done in future commits.
piecemeal, middle-of-file writes for NFS. These hacks have caused no
end of trouble, especially when combined with mmap(). I've removed
them. Instead, NFS will issue a read-before-write to fully
instantiate the struct buf containing the write. NFS does, however,
optimize piecemeal appends to files. For most common file operations,
you will not notice the difference. The sole remaining fragment in
the VFS/BIO system is b_dirtyoff/end, which NFS uses to avoid cache
coherency issues with read-merge-write style operations. NFS also
optimizes the write-covers-entire-buffer case by avoiding the
read-before-write. There is quite a bit of room for further
optimization in these areas.
The VM system marks pages fully-valid (AKA vm_page_t->valid =
VM_PAGE_BITS_ALL) in several places, most noteably in vm_fault. This
is not correct operation. The vm_pager_get_pages() code is now
responsible for marking VM pages all-valid. A number of VM helper
routines have been added to aid in zeroing-out the invalid portions of
a VM page prior to the page being marked all-valid. This operation is
necessary to properly support mmap(). The zeroing occurs most often
when dealing with file-EOF situations. Several bugs have been fixed
in the NFS subsystem, including bits handling file and directory EOF
situations and buf->b_flags consistancy issues relating to clearing
B_ERROR & B_INVAL, and handling B_DONE.
getblk() and allocbuf() have been rewritten. B_CACHE operation is now
formally defined in comments and more straightforward in
implementation. B_CACHE for VMIO buffers is based on the validity of
the backing store. B_CACHE for non-VMIO buffers is based simply on
whether the buffer is B_INVAL or not (B_CACHE set if B_INVAL clear,
and vise-versa). biodone() is now responsible for setting B_CACHE
when a successful read completes. B_CACHE is also set when a bdwrite()
is initiated and when a bwrite() is initiated. VFS VOP_BWRITE
routines (there are only two - nfs_bwrite() and bwrite()) are now
expected to set B_CACHE. This means that bowrite() and bawrite() also
set B_CACHE indirectly.
There are a number of places in the code which were previously using
buf->b_bufsize (which is DEV_BSIZE aligned) when they should have
been using buf->b_bcount. These have been fixed. getblk() now clears
B_DONE on return because the rest of the system is so bad about
dealing with B_DONE.
Major fixes to NFS/TCP have been made. A server-side bug could cause
requests to be lost by the server due to nfs_realign() overwriting
other rpc's in the same TCP mbuf chain. The server's kernel must be
recompiled to get the benefit of the fixes.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
unallocated parts of the last page when the file ended on a frag
but not a page boundary.
Delimitted by tags PRE_MATT_MMAP_EOF and POST_MATT_MMAP_EOF,
in files alpha/alpha/pmap.c i386/i386/pmap.c nfs/nfs_bio.c vm/pmap.h
vm/vm_page.c vm/vm_page.h vm/vnode_pager.c miscfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c
ufs/ufs/ufs_readwrite.c kern/vfs_bio.c
Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@freebsd.org>
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@freebsd.org>
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To prevent a deadlock, if we are extremely low on memory, force synchronous
operation by the VOP_PUTPAGES in vnode_pager_putpages.
values. The 'int' return value for the procedure was never used and
not well defined in any case when there are mixed errors on pages, so
it has been removed. vm_pager_put_pages() and associated vm_pager
functions now return void.
changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug
fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the
VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional
forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code
cleanup issues.
Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
1) The vnode pager wasn't properly tracking the file size due to
"size" being page rounded in some cases and not in others.
This sometimes resulted in corrupted files. First noticed by
Terry Lambert.
Fixed by changing the "size" pager_alloc parameter to be a 64bit
byte value (as opposed to a 32bit page index) and changing the
pagers and their callers to deal with this properly.
2) Fixed a bogus type cast in round_page() and trunc_page() that
caused some 64bit offsets and sizes to be scrambled. Removing
the cast required adding casts at a few dozen callers.
There may be problems with other bogus casts in close-by
macros. A quick check seemed to indicate that those were okay,
however.
when nfs is an LKM. Declare it in a header file. Don't forget to use
it in non-Lite2 code. Initialize it to -1 instead of to 0, since 0
will soon be the mount type number for the first vfs loaded.
NetBSD uses strcmp() to avoid this ugly global.
Add some overflow checks to read/write (from bde).
Change all modifications to vm_page::flags, vm_page::busy, vm_object::flags
and vm_object::paging_in_progress to use operations which are not
interruptable.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
as the value in b_vp is often not really what you want.
(and needs to be frobbed). more cleanups will follow this.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>
problems. Tor Egge and others have helped with various VM bugs
lately, but don't blame him -- blame me!!!
pmap.c:
1) Create an object for kernel page table allocations. This
fixes a bogus allocation method previously used for such, by
grabbing pages from the kernel object, using bogus pindexes.
(This was a code cleanup, and perhaps a minor system stability
issue.)
pmap.c:
2) Pre-set the modify and accessed bits when prudent. This will
decrease bus traffic under certain circumstances.
vfs_bio.c, vfs_cluster.c:
3) Rather than calculating the beginning virtual byte offset
multiple times, stick the offset into the buffer header, so
that the calculated offset can be reused. (Long long multiplies
are often expensive, and this is a probably unmeasurable performance
improvement, and code cleanup.)
vfs_bio.c:
4) Handle write recursion more intelligently (but not perfectly) so
that it is less likely to cause a system panic, and is also
much more robust.
vfs_bio.c:
5) getblk incorrectly wrote out blocks that are incorrectly sized.
The problem is fixed, and writes blocks out ONLY when B_DELWRI
is true.
vfs_bio.c:
6) Check that already constituted buffers have fully valid pages. If
not, then make sure that the B_CACHE bit is not set. (This was
a major source of Sig-11 type problems.)
vfs_bio.c:
7) Fix a potential system deadlock due to an incorrectly specified
sleep priority while waiting for a buffer write operation. The
change that I made opens the system up to serious problems, and
we need to examine the issue of process sleep priorities.
vfs_cluster.c, vfs_bio.c:
8) Make clustered reads work more correctly (and more completely)
when buffers are already constituted, but not fully valid.
(This was another system reliability issue.)
vfs_subr.c, ffs_inode.c:
9) Create a vtruncbuf function, which is used by filesystems that
can truncate files. The vinvalbuf forced a file sync type operation,
while vtruncbuf only invalidates the buffers past the new end of file,
and also invalidates the appropriate pages. (This was a system reliabiliy
and performance issue.)
10) Modify FFS to use vtruncbuf.
vm_object.c:
11) Make the object rundown mechanism for OBJT_VNODE type objects work
more correctly. Included in that fix, create pager entries for
the OBJT_DEAD pager type, so that paging requests that might slip
in during race conditions are properly handled. (This was a system
reliability issue.)
vm_page.c:
12) Make some of the page validation routines be a little less picky
about arguments passed to them. Also, support page invalidation
change the object generation count so that we handle generation
counts a little more robustly.
vm_pageout.c:
13) Further reduce pageout daemon activity when the system doesn't
need help from it. There should be no additional performance
decrease even when the pageout daemon is running. (This was
a significant performance issue.)
vnode_pager.c:
14) Teach the vnode pager to handle race conditions during vnode
deallocations.
has been some bitrot and incorrect assumptions in the vfs_bio code. These
problems have manifest themselves worse on NFS type filesystems, but can
still affect local filesystems under certain circumstances. Most of
the problems have involved mmap consistancy, and as a side-effect broke
the vfs.ioopt code. This code might have been committed seperately, but
almost everything is interrelated.
1) Allow (pmap_object_init_pt) prefaulting of buffer-busy pages that
are fully valid.
2) Rather than deactivating erroneously read initial (header) pages in
kern_exec, we now free them.
3) Fix the rundown of non-VMIO buffers that are in an inconsistent
(missing vp) state.
4) Fix the disassociation of pages from buffers in brelse. The previous
code had rotted and was faulty in a couple of important circumstances.
5) Remove a gratuitious buffer wakeup in vfs_vmio_release.
6) Remove a crufty and currently unused cluster mechanism for VBLK
files in vfs_bio_awrite. When the code is functional, I'll add back
a cleaner version.
7) The page busy count wakeups assocated with the buffer cache usage were
incorrectly cleaned up in a previous commit by me. Revert to the
original, correct version, but with a cleaner implementation.
8) The cluster read code now tries to keep data associated with buffers
more aggressively (without breaking the heuristics) when it is presumed
that the read data (buffers) will be soon needed.
9) Change to filesystem lockmgr locks so that they use LK_NOPAUSE. The
delay loop waiting is not useful for filesystem locks, due to the
length of the time intervals.
10) Correct and clean-up spec_getpages.
11) Implement a fully functional nfs_getpages, nfs_putpages.
12) Fix nfs_write so that modifications are coherent with the NFS data on
the server disk (at least as well as NFS seems to allow.)
13) Properly support MS_INVALIDATE on NFS.
14) Properly pass down MS_INVALIDATE to lower levels of the VM code from
vm_map_clean.
15) Better support the notion of pages being busy but valid, so that
fewer in-transit waits occur. (use p->busy more for pageouts instead
of PG_BUSY.) Since the page is fully valid, it is still usable for
reads.
16) It is possible (in error) for cached pages to be busy. Make the
page allocation code handle that case correctly. (It should probably
be a printf or panic, but I want the system to handle coding errors
robustly. I'll probably add a printf.)
17) Correct the design and usage of vm_page_sleep. It didn't handle
consistancy problems very well, so make the design a little less
lofty. After vm_page_sleep, if it ever blocked, it is still important
to relookup the page (if the object generation count changed), and
verify it's status (always.)
18) In vm_pageout.c, vm_pageout_clean had rotted, so clean that up.
19) Push the page busy for writes and VM_PROT_READ into vm_pageout_flush.
20) Fix vm_pager_put_pages and it's descendents to support an int flag
instead of a boolean, so that we can pass down the invalidate bit.
2) Do not unnecessarily force page blocking when paging
pages out.
3) Further improve swap pager performance and correctness,
including fixing the paging in progress deadlock (except
in severe I/O error conditions.)
4) Enable vfs_ioopt=1 as a default.
5) Fix and enable the page prezeroing in SMP mode.
All in all, SMP systems especially should show a significant
improvement in "snappyness."
These diffs implement the first stage of a VOP_{GET|PUT}PAGES pushdown
for local media FS's.
See ffs_putpages in /sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_readwrite.c for implementation
details for generic *_{get|put}pages for local media FS's. Support
is trivial to add for any FS that formerly relied on the default
behaviour of the vnode_pager in in EOPNOTSUPP cases (just copy the
ffs_getpages() code for the FS in question's *_{get|put}pages).
Obviously, it would be better if each local media FS implemented a
more optimal method, instead of calling an exported interface from
the /sys/vm/vnode_pager.c, but this is a necessary first step in
getting the FS's to a point where they can be supplied with better
implementations on a case-by-case basis.
Obviously, the cd9660_putpages() can be rather trivial (since it
is a read-only FS type 8-)).
A slight (temporary) modification is made to print a diagnostic message
in the case where the underlying filesystem attempts to engage in the
previous behaviour. Failure is likely to be ungraceful.
Submitted by: terry@freebsd.org (Terry Lambert)
