remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
components for PV kernels. These components are now standard as they
are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by: royger
Tested by: royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes: yes
They were added for compatibility with the sched provider in Solaris and
illumos, but our sched provider is already incompatible since it uses native
types, so there isn't much point in keeping them around.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2167
Reviewed by: rpaulo
FreeBSD developers need more time to review patches in the surrounding
areas like the TCP stack which are using MPSAFE callouts to restore
distribution of callouts on multiple CPUs.
Bump the __FreeBSD_version instead of reverting it.
Suggested by: kmacy, adrian, glebius and kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1438
- Close a migration race where callout_reset() failed to set the
CALLOUT_ACTIVE flag.
- Callout callback functions are now allowed to be protected by
spinlocks.
- Switching the callout CPU number cannot always be done on a
per-callout basis. See the updated timeout(9) manual page for more
information.
- The timeout(9) manual page has been updated to reflect how all the
functions inside the callout API are working. The manual page has
been made function oriented to make it easier to deduce how each of
the functions making up the callout API are working without having
to first read the whole manual page. Group all functions into a
handful of sections which should give a quick top-level overview
when the different functions should be used.
- The CALLOUT_SHAREDLOCK flag and its functionality has been removed
to reduce the complexity in the callout code and to avoid problems
about atomically stopping callouts via callout_stop(). If someone
needs it, it can be re-added. From my quick grep there are no
CALLOUT_SHAREDLOCK clients in the kernel.
- A new callout API function named "callout_drain_async()" has been
added. See the updated timeout(9) manual page for a complete
description.
- Update the callout clients in the "kern/" folder to use the callout
API properly, like cv_timedwait(). Previously there was some custom
sleepqueue code in the callout subsystem, which has been removed,
because we now allow callouts to be protected by spinlocks. This
allows us to tear down the callout like done with regular mutexes,
and a "td_slpmutex" has been added to "struct thread" to atomically
teardown the "td_slpcallout". Further the "TDF_TIMOFAIL" and
"SWT_SLEEPQTIMO" states can now be completely removed. Currently
they are marked as available and will be cleaned up in a follow up
commit.
- Bump the __FreeBSD_version to indicate kernel modules need
recompilation.
- There has been several reports that this patch "seems to squash a
serious bug leading to a callout timeout and panic".
Kernel build testing: all architectures were built
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1438
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
Reviewed by: jhb, adrian, sbruno and emaste
- Wrong integer type was specified.
- Wrong or missing "access" specifier. The "access" specifier
sometimes included the SYSCTL type, which it should not, except for
procedural SYSCTL nodes.
- Logical OR where binary OR was expected.
- Properly assert the "access" argument passed to all SYSCTL macros,
using the CTASSERT macro. This applies to both static- and dynamically
created SYSCTLs.
- Properly assert the the data type for both static and dynamic
SYSCTLs. In the case of static SYSCTLs we only assert that the data
pointed to by the SYSCTL data pointer has the correct size, hence
there is no easy way to assert types in the C language outside a
C-function.
- Rewrote some code which doesn't pass a constant "access" specifier
when creating dynamic SYSCTL nodes, which is now a requirement.
- Updated "EXAMPLES" section in SYSCTL manual page.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
This fixes a panic in the i915 driver when one uses debug.kdb.enter=1
under vt(4).
PR: 193269
Reported by: emaste@
Submitted by: avg@
MFC after: 3 days
In its stead use the Solaris / illumos approach of emulating '-' (dash)
in probe names with '__' (two consecutive underscores).
Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 3 weeks
option, unbreak the lock tracing release semantic by embedding
calls to LOCKSTAT_PROFILE_RELEASE_LOCK() direclty in the inlined
version of the releasing functions for mutex, rwlock and sxlock.
Failing to do so skips the lockstat_probe_func invokation for
unlocking.
- As part of the LOCKSTAT support is inlined in mutex operation, for
kernel compiled without lock debugging options, potentially every
consumer must be compiled including opt_kdtrace.h.
Fix this by moving KDTRACE_HOOKS into opt_global.h and remove the
dependency by opt_kdtrace.h for all files, as now only KDTRACE_FRAMES
is linked there and it is only used as a compile-time stub [0].
[0] immediately shows some new bug as DTRACE-derived support for debug
in sfxge is broken and it was never really tested. As it was not
including correctly opt_kdtrace.h before it was never enabled so it
was kept broken for a while. Fix this by using a protection stub,
leaving sfxge driver authors the responsibility for fixing it
appropriately [1].
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: rstone
[0] Reported by: rstone
[1] Discussed with: philip
measurement of load caused by time-related events still using hardclock.
For example, without this change dummynet, scheduling events each hardclock
tick, was always miscounted as load of 1.
There is still aliasing with events delayed by the new precision mechanism,
but it probably can't be avoided without moving this sampling from using
callout to some lower-level code or handling it in some other special way.
Reviewed by: davide
Approved by: re (marius)
current lock classes KPI it was really difficult because there was no
way to pass an rmtracker object to the lock/unlock routines. In order
to accomplish the task, modify the aforementioned functions so that
they can return (or pass as argument) an uinptr_t, which is in the rm
case used to hold a pointer to struct rm_priotracker for current
thread. As an added bonus, this fixes rm_sleep() in the rm shared
case, which right now can communicate priotracker structure between
lc_unlock()/lc_lock().
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (delphij)
The distance between ticks and td_swvoltick should be calculated as
an unsigned number. Previously we could end up comparing a negative
number with hogticks in which case should_yield() would give incorrect
answer.
We should probably ensure that td_swvoltick is properly initialized.
Sponsored by: HybridCluster
MFC after: 5 days
calls to toggle TDF_SBDRY rather than passing PBDRY to individual sleep
calls.
- Remove the stop_allowed parameters from cursig() and issignal().
issignal() checks TDF_SBDRY directly.
- Remove the PBDRY and SLEEPQ_STOP_ON_BDRY flags.
Introduce sbt variants of msleep(), msleep_spin(), pause(), tsleep() in
the KPI, allowing to specify timeout in 'sbintime_t' rather than ticks.
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo, marius, ian, markj, Fabian Keil
Make loadavg calculation callout direct. There are several reasons for it:
- it is very simple and doesn't worth context switch to SWI;
- since SWI is no longer used here, we can remove twelve years old hack,
excluding this SWI from from the loadavg statistics;
- it fixes problem when eventtimer (HPET) shares interrupt with some other
device, and that interrupt thread counted as permanent loadavg of 1; now
loadavg accounted before that interrupt thread is scheduled.
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo, marius, ian, Fabian Keil, markj
compatible with the sched provider implemented by Solaris and its open-
source derivatives. Full documentation of the sched provider can be found
on Oracle's DTrace wiki pages.
Note that for compatibility with scripts originally written for Solaris,
serveral probes are defined that will never fire. These probes are defined
to fire when Solaris-specific features perform certain actions. As these
features are not present in FreeBSD, the probes can never fire.
Also, I have added a two probes that are not defined in Solaris, lend-pri
and load-change. These probes have been added to make it possible to
collect schedgraph data with DTrace.
Finally, a few probes are defined in Solaris to take a cpuinfo_t *
argument. As it was not immediately clear to me how to translate that to
FreeBSD, currently those probes are passed NULL in place of a cpuinfo_t *.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC after: 2 weeks
Historical behavior of letting other CPUs merily go on is a default for
time being. The new behavior can be switched on via
kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic tunable and sysctl.
Stopping of the CPUs has (at least) the following benefits:
- more of the system state at panic time is preserved intact
- threads and interrupts do not interfere with dumping of the system
state
Only one thread runs uninterrupted after panic if stop_scheduler_on_panic
is set. That thread might call code that is also used in normal context
and that code might use locks to prevent concurrent execution of certain
parts. Those locks might be held by the stopped threads and would never
be released. To work around this issue, it was decided that instead of
explicit checks for panic context, we would rather put those checks
inside the locking primitives.
This change has substantial portions written and re-written by attilio
and kib at various times. Other changes are heavily based on the ideas
and patches submitted by jhb and mdf. bde has provided many insights
into the details and history of the current code.
The new behavior may cause problems for systems that use a USB keyboard
for interfacing with system console. This is because of some unusual
locking patterns in the ukbd code which have to be used because on one
hand ukbd is below syscons, but on the other hand it has to interface
with other usb code that uses regular mutexes/Giant for its concurrency
protection. Dumping to USB-connected disks may also be affected.
PR: amd64/139614 (at least)
In cooperation with: attilio, jhb, kib, mdf
Discussed with: arch@, bde
Tested by: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>,
gnn,
Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>,
glebius,
Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
(various versions of the patch)
MFC after: 3 months (or never)
Simplify the description of pause() and shorten the KASSERT message in pause.
Also add a clamp for the timo argument in the non-KASSERT case.
Suggested by: Bruce Evans
MFC after: 1 week
to the kernel's pause() function. The pause() function can now be used
when cold != 0. Also assert that the timeout in system ticks must be
positive.
Suggested by: Bruce Evans
MFC after: 1 week
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
should not change. Fetch the td_user_pri under the thread lock. This
is probably not necessary but a magic number also seems preferable to
knowing the implementation details here.
Requested by: Jason Behmer < jason DOT behmer AT isilon DOT com >
- entirely eliminate some calls to uio_yeild() as being unnecessary,
such as in a sysctl handler.
- move should_yield() and maybe_yield() to kern_synch.c and move the
prototypes from sys/uio.h to sys/proc.h
- add a slightly more generic kern_yield() that can replace the
functionality of uio_yield().
- replace source uses of uio_yield() with the functional equivalent,
or in some cases do not change the thread priority when switching.
- fix a logic inversion bug in vlrureclaim(), pointed out by bde@.
- instead of using the per-cpu last switched ticks, use a per thread
variable for should_yield(). With PREEMPTION, the only reasonable
use of this is to determine if a lock has been held a long time and
relinquish it. Without PREEMPTION, this is essentially the same as
the per-cpu variable.
PCATCH, to indicate that thread shall not be stopped upon receipt of
SIGSTOP until it reaches the kernel->usermode boundary.
Also change thread_single(SINGLE_NO_EXIT) to only stop threads at
the user boundary unconditionally.
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)
kern_time.c:
- Unused variable `p'.
kern_thr.c:
- Variable `error' is always caught immediately, so no reason to
initialize it. There is no way that error != 0 at the end of
create_thread().
kern_sig.c:
- Unused variable `code'.
kern_synch.c:
- `rval' is always assigned in all different cases.
kern_rwlock.c:
- `v' is always overwritten with RW_UNLOCKED further on.
kern_malloc.c:
- `size' is always initialized with the proper value before being used.
kern_exit.c:
- `error' is always caught and returned immediately. abort2() never
returns a non-zero value.
kern_exec.c:
- `len' is always assigned inside the if-statement right below it.
tty_info.c:
- `td' is always overwritten by FOREACH_THREAD_IN_PROC().
Found by: LLVM's scan-build
with src/tools/sched/schedgraph.py. This allows developers to quickly
create a graphical view of ktr data for any resource in the system.
- Add sched_tdname() and the pcpu field 'name' for quickly and uniformly
identifying records associated with a thread or cpu.
- Reimplement the KTR_SCHED traces using the new generic facility.
Obtained from: attilio
Discussed with: jhb
Sponsored by: Nokia
variable wait routines. DROP_GIANT() already manages that state in the
Giant interlock case.
- Assert that Giant is held when it is passed as a sleep interlock.
We used to have a single wait channel inside the kernel which could be
used by threads that just wanted to sleep for some time (the next
second). The old TTY layer was the only piece of code that still used
lbolt, because I already removed the use of lbolt from the NFS clients
and the VFS syncer.
Approved by: philip
msleep/mtx_sleep or the various cv_*wait*() routines. Currently, the
"unlock" behavior of PDROP and cv_wait_unlock() with Giant is not
permitted as it is will be confusing since Giant is fully unrecursed and
unlocked during a thread sleep.
This is handy for subsystems which wish to allow unlocked drivers to
continue to use Giant such as CAM, the new TTY layer, and the new USB
stack. CAM currently uses a hack that I told Scott to use because I
really didn't want to permit this behavior, and the TTY and USB patches
both have various patches to permit this.
MFC after: 2 weeks
routine wakes up proc0 so that proc0 can swap the thread back in.
Historically, this has been done by waking up proc0 directly from
setrunnable() itself via a wakeup(). When waking up a sleeping thread
that was swapped out (the usual case when waking proc0 since only sleeping
threads are eligible to be swapped out), this resulted in a bit of
recursion (e.g. wakeup() -> setrunnable() -> wakeup()).
With sleep queues having separate locks in 6.x and later, this caused a
spin lock LOR (sleepq lock -> sched_lock/thread lock -> sleepq lock).
An attempt was made to fix this in 7.0 by making the proc0 wakeup use
the ithread mechanism for doing the wakeup. However, this required
grabbing proc0's thread lock to perform the wakeup. If proc0 was asleep
elsewhere in the kernel (e.g. waiting for disk I/O), then this degenerated
into the same LOR since the thread lock would be some other sleepq lock.
Fix this by deferring the wakeup of the swapper until after the sleepq
lock held by the upper layer has been locked. The setrunnable() routine
now returns a boolean value to indicate whether or not proc0 needs to be
woken up. The end result is that consumers of the sleepq API such as
*sleep/wakeup, condition variables, sx locks, and lockmgr, have to wakeup
proc0 if they get a non-zero return value from sleepq_abort(),
sleepq_broadcast(), or sleepq_signal().
Discussed with: jeff
Glanced at by: sam
Tested by: Jurgen Weber jurgen - ish com au
MFC after: 2 weeks
variables and sysctl nodes.
- In reset walk the children of kern_sched_stats and reset the counters
via the oid_arg1 pointer. This allows us to add arbitrary counters to
the tree and still reset them properly.
- Define a set of switch types to be passed with flags to mi_switch().
These types are named SWT_*. These types correspond to SCHED_STATS
counters and are automatically handled in this way.
- Make the new SWT_ types more specific than the older switch stats.
There are now stats for idle switches, remote idle wakeups, remote
preemption ithreads idling, etc.
- Add switch statistics for ULE's pickcpu algorithm. These stats include
how much migration there is, how often affinity was successful, how
often threads were migrated to the local cpu on wakeup, etc.
Sponsored by: Nokia
after each SYSINIT() macro invocation. This makes a number of
lightweight C parsers much happier with the FreeBSD kernel
source, including cflow's prcc and lxr.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: imp, rink
While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
sched_sleep(). This removes extra thread_lock() acquisition and
allows the scheduler to decide what to do with the static boost.
- Change the priority arguments to cv_* to match sleepq/msleep/etc.
where 0 means no priority change. Catch -1 in cv_broadcastpri() and
convert it to 0 for now.
- Set a flag when sleeping in a way that is compatible with swapping
since direct priority comparisons are meaningless now.
- Add a sysctl to ule, kern.sched.static_boost, that defaults to on which
controls the boost behavior. Turning it off gives better performance
in some workloads but needs more investigation.
- While we're modifying sleepq, change signal and broadcast to both
return with the lock held as the lock was held on enter.
Reviewed by: jhb, peter
maintain a separate td_incruntime to hold unbilled CPU usage for
the thread that has the previous properties of td_runtime.
When thread information is requested using the thread monitoring
sysctls, export thread td_runtime instead of process rusage runtime
in kinfo_proc.
This restores the display of individual ithread and other kernel
thread CPU usage since inception in ps -H and top -SH, as well for
libthr user threads, valuable debugging information lost with the
move to try kthreads since they are no longer independent processes.
There is universal agreement that we should rewrite the process and
thread export sysctls, but this commit gets things going a bit
better in the mean time. Likewise, there are resevations about the
continued validity of statclock given the speed of modern processors.
Reviewed by: attilio, emaste, jhb, julian
opposed to what process. Since threads by default have teh name of the
process unless over-written with more useful information, just print the
thread name instead.
