In heavy-writing situations, QUEUE_LRU can contain a large number
of DELWRI buffers at its head. These buffers must be moved
to the tail if they cannot be written async in order to reduce
the scanning time required to skip past these buffers in later
getnewbuf() calls.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
condition ( bufspace > hibufspace ), an inappropriate scan of the empty
queue was performed looking for buffer space to free up.
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>
including alan, john, me, luoqi, and kirk
Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@frebsd.org>
This change implements a relatively sophisticated fix to getnewbuf().
There were two problems with getnewbuf(). First, the writerecursion
can lead to a system stack overflow when you have NFS and/or VN
devices in the system. Second, the free/dirty buffer accounting was
completely broken. Not only did the nfs routines blow it trying to
manually account for the buffer state, but the accounting that was
done did not work well with the purpose of their existance: figuring
out when getnewbuf() needs to sleep.
The meat of the change is to kern/vfs_bio.c. The remaining diffs are
all minor except for NFS, which includes both the fixes for bp
interaction AND fixes for a 'biodone(): buffer already done' lockup.
Sys/buf.h also contains a chaining structure which is not used by
this patchset but is used by other patches that are coming soon.
This patch deliniated by tags PRE_MAT_GETBUF and POST_MAT_GETBUF.
(sorry for the missing T matt)
This produced races resulting in panics and filesystem corruptions
under some circumstances.
Reviewed by: luoqi chen <luoqi@freebsd.org>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@freebsd.org>
the buffer as still being dirty. This isn't a perfect solution, but
throwing away the buffer contents will often result in filesystem
corruption and this solution will at least correctly deal with transient
errors.
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
B_DELWRI and B_CACHE flags, fixing a bug that showed up with NFS.
Also, a number of cases where manually inserted code has been removed
and replaced with an inline function call giving us better functional
isolation in the source.
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>
Fix NFS file corruption problem introduced in 1.188. The valid range
was not being set properly, causing a later reference to the buffer
to clear the B_CACHE bit.
object are not page aligned). This should fix the mount_msdos panic after a
failed attemp to mount as ffs.
Reviewed By: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
bio interrupts, and a truncated file that along with the precise alignment
of the planets could result in a page being freed multiple times or a
just-freed page being put onto the inactive queue.
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.
Reviewed by: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Fixed problem where write()s can get lost due to buffers flagged B_DELWRI
being improperly released in brelse().
The last consumer of this code (the old SCSI system) has left us and
the CAM code does it's own bouncing. The isa dma system has been
doing it's own bouncing for a while too.
Reviewed by: core
device drivers about sectors no longer in use.
Device-drivers receive the call through d_strategy, if they have
D_CANFREE in d_flags.
This allows flash based devices to erase the sectors and avoid
pointlessly carrying them around in compactions.
Reviewed by: Kirk Mckusick, bde
Sponsored by: M-Systems (www.m-sys.com)
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>
managed to avoid corruption of this variable by luck (the compiler used a
memory read-modify-write instruction which wasn't interruptable) but other
architectures cannot.
With this change, I am now able to 'make buildworld' on the alpha (sfx: the
crowd goes wild...)
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>
expecting a sub-page offset. We were passing the file position,
and vm_page_bits() could do some interesting things when base was
larger PAGE_SIZE.
if (size > PAGE_SIZE - base)
size = PAGE_SIZE - base;
is interesting when (PAGE_SIZE - base) is negative. I could imagine that
this could have interesting consequences for memory page -> device block
bit validation.
In vfs_bio.c, remove b_generation count usage,
remove redundant reassignbuf,
remove redundant spl(s),
manage page PG_ZERO flags more correctly,
utilize in invalid value for b_offset until it
is properly initialized. Add asserts
for #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC, when b_offset is
improperly used.
when a process is not performing I/O, and just waiting
on a buffer generally, make the sleep priority
low.
only check page validity in getblk for B_VMIO buffers.
In vfs_cluster, add b_offset asserts, correct pointer calculation
for clustered reads. Improve readability of certain parts of
the code. Remove redundant spl(s).
In vfs_subr, correct usage of vfs_bio_awrite (From Andrew Gallatin
<gallatin@cs.duke.edu>). More vtruncbuf problems fixed.
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."
MUST be PG_BUSY. It is bogus to free a page that isn't busy,
because it is in a state of being "unavailable" when being
freed. The additional advantage is that the page_remove code
has a better cross-check that the page should be busy and
unavailable for other use. There were some minor problems
with the collapse code, and this plugs those subtile "holes."
Also, the vfs_bio code wasn't checking correctly for PG_BUSY
pages. I am going to develop a more consistant scheme for
grabbing pages, busy or otherwise. For now, we are stuck
with the current morass.
Make vfs_bio buffer mgmt work better.
Buffers were being used after brelse.
Make nfs_getpages work independently of other NFS
interfaces. This eliminates some difficult
recursion problems and decreases pagefault
overhead.
Remove an erroneous vfs_unbusy_pages.
Fix a reentrancy problem, with nfs_vinvalbuf when
vnode is already being rundown.
Reassignbuf wasn't being called when needed under
certain circumstances.
(Thanks to Bill Paul for help.)
1) Start using TSM.
Struct procs continue to point to upages structure, after being freed.
Struct vmspace continues to point to pte object and kva space for kstack.
u_map is now superfluous.
2) vm_map's don't need to be reference counted. They always exist either
in the kernel or in a vmspace. The vmspaces are managed by reference
counts.
3) Remove the "wired" vm_map nonsense.
4) No need to keep a cache of kernel stack kva's.
5) Get rid of strange looking ++var, and change to var++.
6) Change more data structures to use our "zone" allocator. Added
struct proc, struct vmspace and struct vnode. This saves a significant
amount of kva space and physical memory. Additionally, this enables
TSM for the zone managed memory.
7) Keep ioopt disabled for now.
8) Remove the now bogus "single use" map concept.
9) Use generation counts or id's for data structures residing in TSM, where
it allows us to avoid unneeded restart overhead during traversals, where
blocking might occur.
10) Account better for memory deficits, so the pageout daemon will be able
to make enough memory available (experimental.)
11) Fix some vnode locking problems. (From Tor, I think.)
12) Add a check in ufs_lookup, to avoid lots of unneeded calls to bcmp.
(experimental.)
13) Significantly shrink, cleanup, and make slightly faster the vm_fault.c
code. Use generation counts, get rid of unneded collpase operations,
and clean up the cluster code.
14) Make vm_zone more suitable for TSM.
This commit is partially as a result of discussions and contributions from
other people, including DG, Tor Egge, PHK, and probably others that I
have forgotten to attribute (so let me know, if I forgot.)
This is not the infamous, final cleanup of the vnode stuff, but a necessary
step. Vnode mgmt should be correct, but things might still change, and
there is still some missing stuff (like ioopt, and physical backing of
non-merged cache files, debugging of layering concepts.)
config option in pmap. Fix a problem with faulting in pages. Clean-up
some loose ends in swap pager memory management.
The system should be much more stable, but all subtile bugs aren't fixed yet.
Fix the UIO optimization code.
Fix an assumption in vm_map_insert regarding allocation of swap pagers.
Fix an spl problem in the collapse handling in vm_object_deallocate.
When pages are freed from vnode objects, and the criteria for putting
the associated vnode onto the free list is reached, either put the
vnode onto the list, or put it onto an interrupt safe version of the
list, for further transfer onto the actual free list.
Some minor syntax changes changing pre-decs, pre-incs to post versions.
Remove a bogus timeout (that I added for debugging) from vn_lock.
PHK will likely still have problems with the vnode list management, and
so do I, but it is better than it was.
original BSD code. The association between the vnode and the vm_object
no longer includes reference counts. The major difference is that
vm_object's are no longer freed gratuitiously from the vnode, and so
once an object is created for the vnode, it will last as long as the
vnode does.
When a vnode object reference count is incremented, then the underlying
vnode reference count is incremented also. The two "objects" are now
more intimately related, and so the interactions are now much less
complex.
When vnodes are now normally placed onto the free queue with an object still
attached. The rundown of the object happens at vnode rundown time, and
happens with exactly the same filesystem semantics of the original VFS
code. There is absolutely no need for vnode_pager_uncache and other
travesties like that anymore.
A side-effect of these changes is that SMP locking should be much simpler,
the I/O copyin/copyout optimizations work, NFS should be more ponderable,
and further work on layered filesystems should be less frustrating, because
of the totally coherent management of the vnode objects and vnodes.
Please be careful with your system while running this code, but I would
greatly appreciate feedback as soon a reasonably possible.
it in struct proc instead.
This fixes a boatload of compiler warning, and removes a lot of cruft
from the sources.
I have not removed the /*ARGSUSED*/, they will require some looking at.
libkvm, ps and other userland struct proc frobbing programs will need
recompiled.
Rename vn_default_error to vop_defaultop all over the place.
Move vn_bwrite from vfs_bio.c to vfs_default.c and call it vop_stdbwrite.
Use vop_null instead of nullop.
Move vop_nopoll from vfs_subr.c to vfs_default.c
Move vop_sharedlock from vfs_subr.c to vfs_default.c
Move vop_nolock from vfs_subr.c to vfs_default.c
Move vop_nounlock from vfs_subr.c to vfs_default.c
Move vop_noislocked from vfs_subr.c to vfs_default.c
Use vop_ebadf instead of *_ebadf.
Add vop_defaultop for getpages on master vnode in MFS.
Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static: Put "static" in front of
them.
A couple of finer points by: bde
Add support for "interrupt driven configuration hooks".
A component of the kernel can register a hook, most likely
during auto-configuration, and receive a callback once
interrupt services are available. This callback will occur before
the root and dump devices are configured, so the configuration
task can affect the selection of those two devices or complete
any tasks that need to be performed prior to launching init.
System boot is posponed so long as a hook is registered. The
hook owner is responsible for removing the hook once their task
is complete or the system boot can continue.
kern_acct.c kern_clock.c kern_exit.c kern_synch.c kern_time.c:
Change the interface and implementation for the kernel callout
service. The new implemntaion is based on the work of
Adam M. Costello and George Varghese, published in a technical
report entitled "Redesigning the BSD Callout and Timer Facilities".
The interface used in FreeBSD is a little different than the one
outlined in the paper. The new function prototypes are:
struct callout_handle timeout(void (*func)(void *),
void *arg, int ticks);
void untimeout(void (*func)(void *), void *arg,
struct callout_handle handle);
If a client wishes to remove a timeout, it must store the
callout_handle returned by timeout and pass it to untimeout.
The new implementation gives 0(1) insert and removal of callouts
making this interface scale well even for applications that
keep 100s of callouts outstanding.
See the updated timeout.9 man page for more details.
local filesystem metadata at the first brelse call when the
block device vnode has v_tag set to VT_NFS.
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Tor Egge <tegge@idi.ntnu.no>
as chargeable CPU usage. This should mitigate the problem of processes
doing disk I/O hogging the CPU. Various users have reported the
problem, and test code shows that the problem should now be gone.
cause a problem of spiraling death due to buffer resource limitations.
The vfs_bio code in general had little ability to handle buffer resource
management, and now it does. Also, there are a lot more knobs for tuning the
vfs_bio code now. The knobs came free because of the need that there
always be some immediately available buffers (non-delayed or locked) for
use. Note that the buffer cache code is much less likely to get bogged
down with lots of delayed writes, even more so than before.
It is possible for multiple process to sleep concurrently waiting
for a buffer. When the buffer shortage is a shortage of space but
not a shortage of buffer headers, the processes took turns creating
empty buffers and waking each other to advertise the brelse() of
the empties; progress was never made because tsleep() always found
another high-priority process to run and everything was done at
splbio(), so vfs_update never had a chance to flush delayed writes,
not to mention that i/o never had a chance to complete.
The problem seems to be rare in practice, but it can easily be
reproduced by misusing block devices, at least for sufficently slow
devices on machines with a sufficiently small buffer cache. E.g.,
`tar cvf /dev/fd0 /kernel' on an 8MB system with no disk in fd0
causes the problem quickly; the same command with a disk in fd0
causes the problem not quite as quickly; and people have reported
problems newfs'ing file systems on block devices.
Block devices only cause this problem indirectly. They are pessimized
for time and space, and the space pessimization causes the shortage
(it manifests as internal fragmentation in buffer_map).
This should be fixed in 2.2.
and b_validend. The changes to vfs_bio.c are a bit ugly but hopefully
can be tidied up later by a slight redesign.
PR: kern/2573, kern/2754, kern/3046 (possibly)
Reviewed by: dyson
cache queue more often. The pageout daemon had to be waken up
more often than necessary since pages were not put on the
cache queue, when they should have been.
Submitted by: David Greenman <dg@freebsd.org>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
decrease the size of buffer_map to approx 2/3 of what it used to be
(buffer_map can be smaller now.) The original commit of these changes
increased the size of buffer_map to the point where the system would
not boot on large systems -- now large systems with large caches will
have even less problems than before.
scheme. Additionally, add the capability for checking for unexpected
kernel page faults. The maximum amount of kva space for buffers hasn't
been decreased from where it is, but it will now be possible to do so.
This scheme manages the kva space similar to the buffers themselves. If
there isn't enough kva space because of usage or fragementation, buffers
will be reclaimed until a buffer allocation is successful. This scheme
should be very resistant to fragmentation problems until/if the LFS code
is fixed and uses the bogus buffer locking scheme -- but a 'fixed' LFS
is not likely to use such a scheme.
Now there should be NO problem allocating buffers up to MAXPHYS.
larger than the vfs layer can provide. We now automatically support
32K clusters if MSDOSFS is installed, and panic if a filesystem tries
to allocate a buffer larger than MAXBSIZE.
This commit is a result of some "prodding" by BDE.
substantially increasing buffer space. Specifically, we double
the number of buffers, but allocate only half the amount of memory
per buffer. Note that VDIR files aren't cached unless instantiated
in a buffer. This will significantly improve caching.
The heuristic for managment of memory backing the buffer cache was
nice, but didn't work due to some architectural problems. Simplify
and improve the algorithm.
Major: When blocking occurs in allocbuf() for VMIO files,
excess wire counts could accumulate.
Major: Pages are incorrectly accumulated into the physical
buffer for clustered reads. This happens when bogus
page is needed.
Minor: When reclaiming buffers, the async flag on the buffer
needs to be zero, or the reclaim is not optimal.
Minor: The age flag should be cleared, if a buffer is wanted.
incorrect, and correct the support for B_ORDERED. The spl window
fix was from Peter Wemm, and his questions led me to find the problem with
the interrupt time page manipulation.
B_ASYNC flag broke things pretty bad (freeing buffer already on
queue or other wierd buffer queue errors.) The broken code is
left in commented out, but this makes the problem go away for
now.
The default level works with minimal overhead, but one can also enable
full, efficient use of a 512K cache. (Parameters can be generated
to support arbitrary cache sizes also.)
Bowrite guarantees that buffers queued after a call to bowrite will
be written after the specified buffer (on a particular device).
Bowrite does this either by taking advantage of hardware ordering support
(e.g. tagged queueing on SCSI devices) or resorting to a synchronous write.
The interface into the "VMIO" system has changed to be more consistant
and robust. Essentially, it is now no longer necessary to call vn_open
to get merged VM/Buffer cache operation, and exceptional conditions
such as merged operation of VBLK devices is simpler and more correct.
This code corrects a potentially large set of problems including the
problems with ktrace output and loaded systems, file create/deletes,
etc.
Most of the changes to NFS are cosmetic and name changes, eliminating
a layer of subroutine calls. The direct calls to vput/vrele have
been re-instituted for better cross platform compatibility.
Reviewed by: davidg
The i386 pmap module uses a special area of kernel virtual memory for mapping
of page tables pages when it needs to modify another process's virtual
address space. It's called the 'alternate page table map'. There is only one
of them and it's expected that only one process will be using it at once and
that the operation is atomic.
When the merged VM/buffer cache was implemented over a year ago, it became
necessary to rundown VM pages at I/O completion. The unfortunate and
unforeseen side effect of this is that pmap functions are now called at bio
interrupt time. If there happend to be a process using the alternate page
table map when this I/O completion occurred, it was possible for a different
process's address space to be switched into the alternate page table map -
leaving the current pmap process with the wrong address space mapped when
the interrupt completed. This resulted in BAD things happening like pages
being mapped or removed from the wrong address space, etc.. Since a very
common case of a process modifying another process's address space is during
fork when the kernel stack is inserted, one of the most common manifestations
of this bug was the kernel stack not being mapped properly, resulting in a
silent hang or reboot. This made it VERY difficult to troubleshoot this bug
(I've been trying to figure out the cause of this for >6 months). Fortunately,
the set of conditions that must be true before this problem occurs is
sufficiently rare enough that most people never saw the bug occur. As I/O
rates increase, however, so does the frequency of the crashes. This problem
used to kill wcarchive about every 10 days, but in more recent times when
the traffic exceeded >100GB/day, the machine could barely manage 6 hours of
uptime.
The fix is to make certain that no process has the pages mapped that are
involved in the I/O, before the I/O is started. The pages are made busy, so
no process will be able to map them, either, until the I/O has finished.
This side-steps the issue by still allowing the pmap functions to be called
at interrupt time, but also assuring that the alternate page table map won't
be switched.
Unfortunately, this appears to not be the only cause of this problem. :-(
Reviewed by: dyson
All new code is "#ifdef PC98"ed so this should make no difference to
PC/AT (and its clones) users.
Ok'd by: core
Submitted by: FreeBSD(98) development team
contributions or ideas from Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>,
Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <davidg@freebsd.org> and me:
More usage of the TAILQ macros. Additional minor fix to queue.h.
Performance enhancements to the pageout daemon.
Addition of a wait in the case that the pageout daemon
has to run immediately.
Slightly modify the pageout algorithm.
Significant revamp of the pmap/fork code:
1) PTE's and UPAGES's are NO LONGER in the process's map.
2) PTE's and UPAGES's reside in their own objects.
3) TOTAL elimination of recursive page table pagefaults.
4) The page directory now resides in the PTE object.
5) Implemented pmap_copy, thereby speeding up fork time.
6) Changed the pv entries so that the head is a pointer
and not an entire entry.
7) Significant cleanup of pmap_protect, and pmap_remove.
8) Removed significant amounts of machine dependent
fork code from vm_glue. Pushed much of that code into
the machine dependent pmap module.
9) Support more completely the reuse of already zeroed
pages (Page table pages and page directories) as being
already zeroed.
Performance and code cleanups in vm_map:
1) Improved and simplified allocation of map entries.
2) Improved vm_map_copy code.
3) Corrected some minor problems in the simplify code.
Implemented splvm (combo of splbio and splimp.) The VM code now
seldom uses splhigh.
Improved the speed of and simplified kmem_malloc.
Minor mod to vm_fault to avoid using pre-zeroed pages in the case
of objects with backing objects along with the already
existant condition of having a vnode. (If there is a backing
object, there will likely be a COW... With a COW, it isn't
necessary to start with a pre-zeroed page.)
Minor reorg of source to perhaps improve locality of ref.
residing in a buffer that had been dirtied by a process was being
handled incorrectly. The pages were mistakenly placed into the
cache queue. This would likely have the effect of mmaped page modifications
being lost when I/O system calls were being used simultaneously to
the same locations in a file.
Submitted by: davidg
queue type is not set to QUEUE_NONE. This appears to have
caused a hang bug that has been lurking.
2) Fix bugs that brelse'ing locked buffers do not "free" them, but the
code assumes so. This can cause hangs when LFS is used.
3) Use malloced memory for directories when applicable. The amount
of malloced memory is seriously limited, but should decrease the
amount of memory used by an average directory to 1/4 - 1/2 previous.
This capability is fully tunable. (Note that there is no config
parameter, and might never be.)
4) Bias slightly the buffer cache usage towards non-VMIO buffers. Since
the data in VMIO buffers is not lost when the buffer is reclaimed, this
will help performance. This is adjustable also.
Speed up for vfs_bio -- addition of a routine bqrelse to greatly diminish
overhead for merged cache.
Efficiency improvement for vfs_cluster. It used to do alot of redundant
calls to cluster_rbuild.
Correct the ordering for vrele of .text and release of credentials.
Use the selective tlb update for 486/586/P6.
Numerous fixes to the size of objects allocated for files. Additionally,
fixes in the various pagers.
Fixes for proper positioning of vnode_pager_setsize in msdosfs and ext2fs.
Fixes in the swap pager for exhausted resources. The pageout code
will not as readily thrash.
Change the page queue flags (PG_ACTIVE, PG_INACTIVE, PG_FREE, PG_CACHE) into
page queue indices (PQ_ACTIVE, PQ_INACTIVE, PQ_FREE, PQ_CACHE),
thereby improving efficiency of several routines.
Eliminate even more unnecessary vm_page_protect operations.
Significantly speed up process forks.
Make vm_object_page_clean more efficient, thereby eliminating the pause
that happens every 30seconds.
Make sequential clustered writes B_ASYNC instead of B_DELWRI even in the
case of filesystems mounted async.
Fix a panic with busy pages when write clustering is done for non-VMIO
buffers.
metadata and VBLK type devices. The code is currently mostly disabled,
and a work-around has been added to disabled attempted clustered writes
for VBLK type device buffers. Clustered write of meta-data is currently
a work in progress.
"getblk" hang. The B_WANTED flag was being cleared gratuitously,
also the optimization of gbincore for ignoring the B_INVAL flag was
incorrect. There is no place in the code where buffers are on the
hash list that are B_INVAL and not B_BUSY.
Move a lot of variables home to their own code (In good time before xmas :-)
Introduce the string descrition of format.
Add a couple more functions to poke into these marvels, while I try to
decide what the correct interface should look like.
Next is adding vars on the fly, and sysctl looking at them too.
Removed a tine bit of defunct and #ifdefed notused code in swapgeneric.
1) Make cluster buffer list be a non-malloced chain. This eliminates
yet another 'evil' M_WAITOK and generally cleans up the code.
2) Fix write clustering for ext2fs. It was just broken. Also, ffs
clustering had an efficiency problem that more bawrites were happening
than should have been.
3) Make changes to buf.h to support the above, plus remove b_pfcent
at the request of David Greenman.
Reviewed by: davidg (partially)
valid bytes, we must also clear the B_DONE flag. Some filesystems
depend on this (incl NFS) and is probably the cause of the biodone
error and subsequent crash. Anyway this change needs to be made.
Prototypes are located in <sys/sysproto.h>.
Add appropriate #include <sys/sysproto.h> to files that needed
protos from systm.h.
Add structure definitions to appropriate files that relied on sys/systm.h,
right before system call definition, as in the rest of the kernel source.
In kern_prot.c, instead of using the dummy structure "args", create
individual dummy structures named <syscall>_args. This makes
life easier for prototype generation.
1) "obj" was't initialized properly, resulting in an important vm_page_lookup
always failing (resulting in a panic).
2) busy pages could be put on the cache queue or freed (resulting in a panic).
support for EXT2FS. Note that the Sig-11 problems appear to be caused by
this, but there is still probably an underlying VM problem that let this
clustering bug cause vnode objects to appear to be corrupted.
The direct manifestation of this bug would have been severely mis-read
files. It is possible that processes would Sig-11 on very damaged
input files and might explain the mysterious differences in system
behaviour when phk's malloc is being used.
Better performance -- more aggressive read-ahead
under certain circumstanses.
Mods to support clustering on small
( < PAGE_SIZE) block size filesystems (e.g. ext2fs,
msdosfs.)
Submitted by: terry (terry lambert)
This is a composite of 3 patch sets submitted by terry.
they are:
New low-level init code that supports loadbal modules better
some cleanups in the namei code to help terry in 16-bit character support
some changes to the mount-root code to make it a little more
modular..
NOTE: mounting root off cdrom or NFS MIGHT be broken as I haven't been able
to test those cases..
certainly mounting root of disk still works just fine..
mfs should work but is untested. (tomorrows task)
The low level init stuff includes a total rewrite of init_main.c
to make it possible for new modules to have an init phase by simply
adding an entry to a TEXT_SET (or is it DATA_SET) list. thus a new module can
be added to the kernel without editing any other files other than the
'files' file.
