o With new KPI consumers can request contiguous ranges of pages, and
unlike before, all pages will be kept busied on return, like it was
done before with the 'reqpage' only. Now the reqpage goes away. With
new interface it is easier to implement code protected from race
conditions.
Such arrayed requests for now should be preceeded by a call to
vm_pager_haspage() to make sure that request is possible. This
could be improved later, making vm_pager_haspage() obsolete.
Strenghtening the promises on the business of the array of pages
allows us to remove such hacks as swp_pager_free_nrpage() and
vm_pager_free_nonreq().
o New KPI accepts two integer pointers that may optionally point at
values for read ahead and read behind, that a pager may do, if it
can. These pages are completely owned by pager, and not controlled
by the caller.
This shifts the UFS-specific readahead logic from vm_fault.c, which
should be file system agnostic, into vnode_pager.c. It also removes
one VOP_BMAP() request per hard fault.
Discussed with: kib, alc, jeff, scottl
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
of POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED so that it causes the backing pages to be moved to
the head of the inactive queue instead of being cached.
This affects the implementation of POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE as well, since it
works by applying POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to file ranges after they have been
read or written. At that point the corresponding buffers may still be
dirty, so the previous implementation would coalesce successive ranges and
apply POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to the result, ensuring that pages backing the
dirty buffers would eventually be cached. To preserve this behaviour in an
efficient manner, this change adds a new buf flag, B_NOREUSE, which causes
the pages backing a VMIO buf to be placed at the head of the inactive queue
when the buf is released. POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE then works by setting this
flag in bufs that underlie the specified range.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3726
Assume that a vnode is mapped shared and mlocked(), and then the vnode
is truncated, or truncated and then again extended past the mapping
point EOF. Truncation removes the pages past the truncation point,
and if pages are later created at this range, they are not properly
mapped into the mlocked region, and their wiring count is wrong.
The revert leaves the invalidated but wired pages on the object queue,
which means that the pages are found by vm_object_unwire() when the
mapped range is munlock()ed, and reused by the buffer cache when the
vnode is extended again.
The changes in r173708 were required since then vm_map_unwire() looked
at the page tables to find the page to unwire. This is no longer
needed with the vm_object_unwire() introduction, which follows the
objects shadow chain.
Also eliminate OBJPR_NOTWIRED flag for vm_object_page_remove(), which
is now redundand, we do not remove wired pages.
Reported by: trasz, Dmitry Sivachenko <trtrmitya@gmail.com>
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
When providing memory map information to userland, populate the vnode pointer
for tmpfs files. Set the memory mapping to appear as a vnode type, to match
FreeBSD 9 behavior.
This fixes the use of tmpfs files with the dtrace pid provider,
procstat -v, procfs, linprocfs, pmc (pmcstat), and ptrace (PT_VM_ENTRY).
Submitted by: Eric Badger <eric@badgerio.us> (initial revision)
Obtained from: Dell Inc.
PR: 198431
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: kib (mentor)
named objects to zero before the virtual address is selected. Previously,
the color setting was delayed until after the virtual address was
selected. In rtld, this delay effectively prevented the mapping of a
shared library's code section using superpages. Now, for example, we see
the first 1 MB of libc's code on armv6 mapped by a superpage after we've
gotten through the initial cold misses that bring the first 1 MB of code
into memory. (With the page clustering that we perform on read faults,
this happens quickly.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2013
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Tested by: Svatopluk Kraus (armv6)
MFC after: 6 weeks
to UFS, perform updates during syncer scans, which in particular means
that tmpfs now performs scan on sync. Also, this means that a mtime
update may be delayed up to 30 seconds after the write.
The vm_object' OBJ_TMPFS_DIRTY flag for tmpfs swap object is similar
to the OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY flag for the vnode object, it indicates that
object could have been dirtied. Adapt fast page fault handler and
vm_object_set_writeable_dirty() to handle OBJ_TMPFS_NODE same as
OBJT_VNODE.
Reported by: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
underlying physical pages are mapped by the pmap. If, for example, the
application has performed an mprotect(..., PROT_NONE) on any part of the
wired region, then those pages will no longer be mapped by the pmap.
So, using the pmap to lookup the wired pages in order to unwire them
doesn't always work, and when it doesn't work wired pages are leaked.
To avoid the leak, introduce and use a new function vm_object_unwire()
that locates the wired pages by traversing the object and its backing
objects.
At the same time, switch from using pmap_change_wiring() to the recently
introduced function pmap_unwire() for unwiring the region's mappings.
pmap_unwire() is faster, because it operates a range of virtual addresses
rather than a single virtual page at a time. Moreover, by operating on
a range, it is superpage friendly. It doesn't waste time performing
unnecessary demotions.
Reported by: markj
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho, jmg (arm)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
vnode for the tmpfs node owning this object. The flag is currently
used for two purposes. First, it allows to correctly handle VV_TEXT
for tmpfs vnode when the ref count on the object is decremented to 1,
similar to vnode_pager_dealloc() for regular filesystems. Second, it
prevents some operations, which are done on OBJT_SWAP vm objects
backing user anonymous memory, but are incorrect for the object owned
by tmpfs node.
The second kind of use of the OBJ_TMPFS flag is incorrect, since the
vnode might be reclaimed, which clears the flag, but vm object
operations must still be disallowed.
Introduce one more flag, OBJ_TMPFS_NODE, which is permanently set on
the object for VREG tmpfs node, and used instead of OBJ_TMPFS to test
whether vm object collapse and similar actions should be disabled.
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
for nodes used in vm_radix.
On architectures supporting direct mapping, also avoid to pre-allocate
the KVA for such nodes.
In order to do so make the operations derived from vm_radix_insert()
to fail and handle all the deriving failure of those.
vm_radix-wise introduce a new function called vm_radix_replace(),
which can replace a leaf node, already present, with a new one,
and take into account the possibility, during vm_radix_insert()
allocation, that the operations on the radix trie can recurse.
This means that if operations in vm_radix_insert() recursed
vm_radix_insert() will start from scratch again.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc (older version)
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho, scottl
msync(MS_INVALIDATE). The vm_fault_copy_entry() requires that object
range which corresponds to the user-wired vm_map_entry, is always
fully populated.
Add OBJPR_NOTWIRED flag for vm_object_page_remove() to request the
preserving behaviour, use it when calling vm_object_page_remove() from
vm_object_sync().
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
o Relax locking assertions for pmap_enter_object() and add them also
to architectures that currently don't have any
o Introduce VM_OBJECT_LOCK_DOWNGRADE() which is basically a downgrade
operation on the per-object rwlock
o Use all the mechanisms above to make vm_map_pmap_enter() to work
mostl of the times only with readlocks.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
vnode v_object to avoid double-buffering. Use the same object both as
the backing store for tmpfs node and as the v_object.
Besides reducing memory use up to 2x times for situation of mapping
files from tmpfs, it also makes tmpfs read and write operations copy
twice bytes less.
VM subsystem was already slightly adapted to tolerate OBJT_SWAP object
as v_object. Now the vm_object_deallocate() is modified to not
reinstantiate OBJ_ONEMAPPING flag and help the VFS to correctly handle
VV_TEXT flag on the last dereference of the tmpfs backing object.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho, bf
MFC after: 1 month
Replace the per-object resident and cached pages splay tree with a
path-compressed multi-digit radix trie.
Along with this, switch also the x86-specific handling of idle page
tables to using the radix trie.
This change is supposed to do the following:
- Allowing the acquisition of read locking for lookup operations of the
resident/cached pages collections as the per-vm_page_t splay iterators
are now removed.
- Increase the scalability of the operations on the page collections.
The radix trie does rely on the consumers locking to ensure atomicity of
its operations. In order to avoid deadlocks the bisection nodes are
pre-allocated in the UMA zone. This can be done safely because the
algorithm needs at maximum one new node per insert which means the
maximum number of the desired nodes is the number of available physical
frames themselves. However, not all the times a new bisection node is
really needed.
The radix trie implements path-compression because UFS indirect blocks
can lead to several objects with a very sparse trie, increasing the number
of levels to usually scan. It also helps in the nodes pre-fetching by
introducing the single node per-insert property.
This code is not generalized (yet) because of the possible loss of
performance by having much of the sizes in play configurable.
However, efforts to make this code more general and then reusable in
further different consumers might be really done.
The only KPI change is the removal of the function vm_page_splay() which
is now reaped.
The only KBI change, instead, is the removal of the left/right iterators
from struct vm_page, which are now reaped.
Further technical notes broken into mealpieces can be retrieved from the
svn branch:
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/attilio/vmcontention/
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
In collaboration with: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
Tested by: ian (arm)
Tested by: andreast (powerpc)
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.
The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
(in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
- The read-mode operations are added:
VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
versions must be avoided.
At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.
The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit. Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
Introduce a new KPI that verifies if the page cache is empty for a
specified vm_object. This KPI does not make assumptions about the
locking in order to be used also for building assertions at init and
destroy time.
It is mostly used to hide implementation details of the page cache.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: alc (vm_radix based version)
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
VM_OBJECT_LOCKED() macro is only used to implement a custom version
of lock assertions right now (which likely spread out thanks to
copy and paste).
Remove it and implement actual assertions.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Replace the sub-optimal uma_zone_set_obj() primitive with more modern
uma_zone_reserve_kva(). The new primitive reserves before hand
the necessary KVA space to cater the zone allocations and allocates pages
with ALLOC_NOOBJ. More specifically:
- uma_zone_reserve_kva() does not need an object to cater the backend
allocator.
- uma_zone_reserve_kva() can cater M_WAITOK requests, in order to
serve zones which need to do uma_prealloc() too.
- When possible, uma_zone_reserve_kva() uses directly the direct-mapping
by uma_small_alloc() rather than relying on the KVA / offset
combination.
The removal of the object attribute allows 2 further changes:
1) _vm_object_allocate() becomes static within vm_object.c
2) VM_OBJECT_LOCK_INIT() is removed. This function is replaced by
direct calls to mtx_init() as there is no need to export it anymore
and the calls aren't either homogeneous anymore: there are now small
differences between arguments passed to mtx_init().
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc (which also offered almost all the comments)
Tested by: pho, jhb, davide
macro VM_OBJECT_SLEEP().
This hides some implementation details like the usage of the msleep()
primitive and the necessity to access to the lock address directly.
For this reason VM_OBJECT_MTX() macro is now retired.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
in devfs if a particular race condition is hit in the device pager
code.
This was a side effect of change 227530 which changed the device
pager interface to call a new destructor routine for the cdev.
That destructor routine, old_dev_pager_dtor(), takes a VM object
handle.
The object handle is cast to a struct cdev *, and passed into
dev_rel().
That works in most cases, except the case in cdev_pager_allocate()
where there is a race condition between two threads allocating an
object backed by the same device. The loser of the race
deallocates its object at the end of the function.
The problem is that before inserting the object into the
dev_pager_object_list, the object's handle is changed from the
struct cdev pointer to the object's own address. This is to avoid
conflicts with the winner of the race, which already inserted an
object in the list with a handle that is a pointer to the same cdev
structure.
The object is then passed to vm_object_deallocate(), and eventually
makes its way down to old_dev_pager_dtor(). That function passes
the handle pointer (which is actually a VM object, not a struct
cdev as usual) into dev_rel(). dev_rel() decrements the reference
count in the assumed struct cdev (which happens to be 0), and
that triggers the assertion in dev_rel() that the reference count
is greater than or equal to 0.
The fix is to add a cdev pointer to the VM object, and use that
pointer when calling the cdev_pg_dtor() routine.
vm_object.h: Add a struct cdev pointer to the VM object
structure.
device_pager.c: In cdev_pager_allocate(), populate the new cdev
pointer.
In dev_pager_dealloc(), use the new cdev pointer
when calling the object's cdev_pg_dtor() routine.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
MFC after: 1 week
similar changes had to be made in various places throughout the machine-
independent virtual memory layer to support the new vm object type.
However, in most of these places, it's actually not the type of the vm
object that matters to us but instead certain attributes of its pages.
For example, OBJT_DEVICE, OBJT_MGTDEVICE, and OBJT_SG objects contain
fictitious pages. In other words, in most of these places, we were
testing the vm object's type to determine if it contained fictitious (or
unmanaged) pages.
To both simplify the code in these places and make the addition of future
vm object types easier, this change introduces two new vm object flags
that describe attributes of the vm object's pages, specifically, whether
they are fictitious or unmanaged.
Reviewed and tested by: kib
by vm_objects.
- Add flags for the per-object lock and free pages queue mutex lock.
Use the newly added flags to mark the cache root within the vm_object
structure.
Please note that other vm_object members should be marked with correct
locking but they are left for other commits.
In collabouration with: alc
MFC after: 3 days3 days3 days
than 4GB. Specifically, the inlined version of 'ptoa' of the the 'int'
count of pages overflowed on 64-bit platforms. While here, change
vm_object_madvise() to accept two vm_pindex_t parameters (start and end)
rather than a (start, count) tuple to match other VM APIs as suggested
by alc@.
if the filesystem performed short write and we are skipping the page
due to this.
Propogate write error from the pager back to the callers of
vm_pageout_flush(). Report the failure to write a page from the
requested range as the FALSE return value from vm_object_page_clean(),
and propagate it back to msync(2) to return EIO to usermode.
While there, convert the clearobjflags variable in the
vm_object_page_clean() and arguments of the helper functions to
boolean.
PR: kern/165927
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
v_writecount. Keep the amount of the virtual address space used by
the mappings in the new vm_object un_pager.vnp.writemappings
counter. The vnode v_writecount is incremented when writemappings gets
non-zero value, and decremented when writemappings is returned to
zero.
Writeable shared vnode-backed mappings are accounted for in vm_mmap(),
and vm_map_insert() is instructed to set MAP_ENTRY_VN_WRITECNT flag on
the created map entry. During deferred map entry deallocation,
vm_map_process_deferred() checks for MAP_ENTRY_VN_WRITECOUNT and
decrements writemappings for the vm object.
Now, the writeable mount cannot be demoted to read-only while
writeable shared mappings of the vnodes from the mount point
exist. Also, execve(2) fails for such files with ETXTBUSY, as it
should be.
Noted by: tegge
Reviewed by: tegge (long time ago, early version), alc
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks
u_int. With the auto-sized buffer cache on the modern machines, UFS
metadata can generate more the 65535 pages belonging to the buffers
undergoing i/o, overflowing the counter.
Reported and tested by: jimharris
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
layer for old KPI and KBI. New interface should be used together with
d_mmap_single cdevsw method.
Device pager can be allocated with the cdev_pager_allocate(9)
function, which takes struct cdev_pager_ops, containing
constructor/destructor and page fault handler methods supplied by
driver.
Constructor and destructor, called at the pager allocation and
deallocation time, allow the driver to handle per-object private data.
The pager handler is called to handle page fault on the vm map entry
backed by the driver pager. Driver shall return either the vm_page_t
which should be mapped, or error code (which does not cause kernel
panic anymore). The page handler interface has a placeholder to
specify the access mode causing the fault, but currently PROT_READ is
always passed there.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 month
madvise(2) except that it operates on a file descriptor instead of a
memory region. It is currently only supported on regular files.
Just as with madvise(2), the advice given to posix_fadvise(2) can be
divided into two types. The first type provide hints about data access
patterns and are used in the file read and write routines to modify the
I/O flags passed down to VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE(). These modes are
thus filesystem independent. Note that to ease implementation (and
since this API is only advisory anyway), only a single non-normal
range is allowed per file descriptor.
The second type of hints are used to hint to the OS that data will or
will not be used. These hints are implemented via a new VOP_ADVISE().
A default implementation is provided which does nothing for the WILLNEED
request and attempts to move any clean pages to the cache page queue for
the DONTNEED request. This latter case required two other changes.
First, a new V_CLEANONLY flag was added to vinvalbuf(). This requests
vinvalbuf() to only flush clean buffers for the vnode from the buffer
cache and to not remove any backing pages from the vnode. This is
used to ensure clean pages are not wired into the buffer cache before
attempting to move them to the cache page queue. The second change adds
a new vm_object_page_cache() method. This method is somewhat similar to
vm_object_page_remove() except that instead of freeing each page in the
specified range, it attempts to move clean pages to the cache queue if
possible.
To preserve the ABI of struct file, the f_cdevpriv pointer is now reused
in a union to point to the currently active advice region if one is
present for regular files.
Reviewed by: jilles, kib, arch@
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 month
option to vm_object_page_remove() asserts that the specified range of pages
is not mapped, or more precisely that none of these pages have any managed
mappings. Thus, vm_object_page_remove() need not call pmap_remove_all() on
the pages.
This change not only saves time by eliminating pointless calls to
pmap_remove_all(), but it also eliminates an inconsistency in the use of
pmap_remove_all() versus related functions, like pmap_remove_write(). It
eliminates harmless but pointless calls to pmap_remove_all() that were being
performed on PG_UNMANAGED pages.
Update all of the existing assertions on pmap_remove_all() to reflect this
change.
Reviewed by: kib
incorrectly calling vm_object_page_clean(). They are passing the length of
the range rather than the ending offset of the range.
Perform the OFF_TO_IDX() conversion in vm_object_page_clean() rather than the
callers.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 3 weeks
consumer of the flag, and it used the flag because OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY
was cleared early in vm_object_page_clean, before the cleaning pass
was done. This is no longer true after r216799.
Moreover, since OBJ_CLEANING is a flag, and not the counter, it could
be reset too prematurely when parallel vm_object_page_clean() are
performed.
Reviewed by: alc (as a part of the bigger patch)
MFC after: 1 month (after r216799 is merged)
in "struct vm_object". This is required to make it possible to account
for per-jail swap usage.
Reviewed by: kib@
Tested by: pho@
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
flag. Besides providing the redundand information, need to update both
vnode and object flags causes more acquisition of vnode interlock.
OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY is only checked for vnode-backed vm objects.
Remove VI_OBJDIRTY and make sure that OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY is set only for
vnode-backed vm objects.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks
a device pager (OBJT_DEVICE) object in that it uses fictitious pages to
provide aliases to other memory addresses. The primary difference is that
it uses an sglist(9) to determine the physical addresses for a given offset
into the object instead of invoking the d_mmap() method in a device driver.
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 2 weeks
dependent memory attributes:
Rename vm_cache_mode_t to vm_memattr_t. The new name reflects the
fact that there are machine-dependent memory attributes that have
nothing to do with controlling the cache's behavior.
Introduce vm_object_set_memattr() for setting the default memory
attributes that will be given to an object's pages.
Introduce and use pmap_page_{get,set}_memattr() for getting and
setting a page's machine-dependent memory attributes. Add full
support for these functions on amd64 and i386 and stubs for them on
the other architectures. The function pmap_page_set_memattr() is also
responsible for any other machine-dependent aspects of changing a
page's memory attributes, such as flushing the cache or updating the
direct map. The uses include kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_page_alloc(),
and the device pager:
kmem_alloc_contig() can now be used to allocate kernel memory with
non-default memory attributes on amd64 and i386.
vm_page_alloc() and the device pager will set the memory attributes
for the real or fictitious page according to the object's default
memory attributes.
Update the various pmap functions on amd64 and i386 that map pages to
incorporate each page's memory attributes in the mapping.
Notes: (1) Inherent to this design are safety features that prevent
the specification of inconsistent memory attributes by different
mappings on amd64 and i386. In addition, the device pager provides a
warning when a device driver creates a fictitious page with memory
attributes that are inconsistent with the real page that the
fictitious page is an alias for. (2) Storing the machine-dependent
memory attributes for amd64 and i386 as a dedicated "int" in "struct
md_page" represents a compromise between space efficiency and the ease
of MFCing these changes to RELENG_7.
In collaboration with: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
rlimit RLIMIT_SWAP that limits the amount of swap that may be reserved
for the uid.
The accounting information (charge) is associated with either map entry,
or vm object backing the entry, assuming the object is the first one
in the shadow chain and entry does not require COW. Charge is moved
from entry to object on allocation of the object, e.g. during the mmap,
assuming the object is allocated, or on the first page fault on the
entry. It moves back to the entry on forks due to COW setup.
The per-entry granularity of accounting makes the charge process fair
for processes that change uid during lifetime, and decrements charge
for proper uid when region is unmapped.
The interface of vm_pager_allocate(9) is extended by adding struct ucred *,
that is used to charge appropriate uid when allocation if performed by
kernel, e.g. md(4).
Several syscalls, among them is fork(2), may now return ENOMEM when
global or per-uid limits are enforced.
In collaboration with: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
memory with 4MB pages was added to pmap_object_init_pt(). This code
assumes that the pages of a OBJT_DEVICE object are always physically
contiguous. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. For example,
jhb@ informs me that the recently introduced /dev/ksyms driver creates
a OBJT_DEVICE object that violates this assumption. Thus, this
revision modifies pmap_object_init_pt() to abort the mapping if the
OBJT_DEVICE object's pages are not physically contiguous. This
revision also changes some inconsistent if not buggy behavior. For
example, the i386 version aborts if the first 4MB virtual page that
would be mapped is already valid. However, it incorrectly replaces
any subsequent 4MB virtual page mappings that it encounters,
potentially leaking a page table page. The amd64 version has a bug of
my own creation. It potentially busies the wrong page and always an
insufficent number of pages if it blocks allocating a page table page.
To my knowledge, there have been no reports of these bugs, hence,
their persistance. I suspect that the existing restrictions that
pmap_object_init_pt() placed on the OBJT_DEVICE objects that it would
choose to map, for example, that the first page must be aligned on a 2
or 4MB physical boundary and that the size of the mapping must be a
multiple of the large page size, were enough to avoid triggering the
bug for drivers like ksyms. However, one side effect of testing the
OBJT_DEVICE object's pages for physical contiguity is that a dubious
difference between pmap_object_init_pt() and the standard path for
mapping devices pages, i.e., vm_fault(), has been eliminated.
Previously, pmap_object_init_pt() would only instantiate the first
PG_FICTITOUS page being mapped because it never examined the rest.
Now, however, pmap_object_init_pt() uses the new function
vm_object_populate() to instantiate them all (in order to support
testing their physical contiguity). These pages need to be
instantiated for the mechanism that I have prototyped for
automatically maintaining the consistency of the PAT settings across
multiple mappings, particularly, amd64's direct mapping, to work.
(Translation: This change is also being made to support jhb@'s work on
the Nvidia feature requests.)
Discussed with: jhb@
Directory IO without a VM object will store data in 'malloced' buffers
severely limiting caching of the data. Without this change VM objects for
directories are only created on an open() of the directory.
TODO: Inline test if VM object already exists to avoid locking/function call
overhead.
Tested by: kris@
Reviewed by: jeff@
Reported by: David Filo
Recycle the vm object's "pg_color" field to represent the color of the
first virtual page address at which the object is mapped instead of the
color of the object's first physical page. Since an object may not be
mapped, introduce a flag "OBJ_COLORED" that indicates whether "pg_color"
is valid.
ways:
(1) Cached pages are no longer kept in the object's resident page
splay tree and memq. Instead, they are kept in a separate per-object
splay tree of cached pages. However, access to this new per-object
splay tree is synchronized by the _free_ page queues lock, not to be
confused with the heavily contended page queues lock. Consequently, a
cached page can be reclaimed by vm_page_alloc(9) without acquiring the
object's lock or the page queues lock.
This solves a problem independently reported by tegge@ and Isilon.
Specifically, they observed the page daemon consuming a great deal of
CPU time because of pages bouncing back and forth between the cache
queue (PQ_CACHE) and the inactive queue (PQ_INACTIVE). The source of
this problem turned out to be a deadlock avoidance strategy employed
when selecting a cached page to reclaim in vm_page_select_cache().
However, the root cause was really that reclaiming a cached page
required the acquisition of an object lock while the page queues lock
was already held. Thus, this change addresses the problem at its
root, by eliminating the need to acquire the object's lock.
Moreover, keeping cached pages in the object's primary splay tree and
memq was, in effect, optimizing for the uncommon case. Cached pages
are reclaimed far, far more often than they are reactivated. Instead,
this change makes reclamation cheaper, especially in terms of
synchronization overhead, and reactivation more expensive, because
reactivated pages will have to be reentered into the object's primary
splay tree and memq.
(2) Cached pages are now stored alongside free pages in the physical
memory allocator's buddy queues, increasing the likelihood that large
allocations of contiguous physical memory (i.e., superpages) will
succeed.
Finally, as a result of this change long-standing restrictions on when
and where a cached page can be reclaimed and returned by
vm_page_alloc(9) are eliminated. Specifically, calls to
vm_page_alloc(9) specifying VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT can now reclaim and
return a formerly cached page. Consequently, a call to malloc(9)
specifying M_NOWAIT is less likely to fail.
Discussed with: many over the course of the summer, including jeff@,
Justin Husted @ Isilon, peter@, tegge@
Tested by: an earlier version by kris@
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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.
the type of object represented by the handle argument.
- Allow vm_mmap() to map device memory via cdev objects in addition to
vnodes and anonymous memory. Note that mmaping a cdev directly does not
currently perform any MAC checks like mapping a vnode does.
- Unbreak the DRM getbufs ioctl by having it call vm_mmap() directly on the
cdev the ioctl is acting on rather than trying to find a suitable vnode
to map from.
Reviewed by: alc, arch@
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@
