improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs.
Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for
the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s
request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly)
at a time.
The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it
could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks
at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out
without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes
page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting
the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the
systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking
later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated.
The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense
to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward
to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to
have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the
allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked.
There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old
contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using
vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at
run-time to see the difference it makes.
A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the
allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig()
and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0
uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation.
When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory
is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been
exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these
statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the
contigmalloc(9) manpage.
specify "us" as the thread not the process/ksegrp/kse.
You can always find the others from the thread but the converse is not true.
Theorotically this would lead to runtime being allocated to the wrong
entity in some cases though it is not clear how often this actually happenned.
(would only affect threaded processes and would probably be pretty benign,
but it WAS a bug..)
Reviewed by: peter
time now to break with the past: do not write the PID in the first note.
Rationale:
1. [impact of the breakage] Process IDs in core files serve no immediate
purpose to the debugger itself. They are only useful to relate a core
file to a process. This can provide context to the person looking at
the core file, provided one keeps track of this. Overall, not having
the PID in the core file is only in very rare occasions unfortunate.
2. [reason of the breakage] Having one PRSTATUS note contain the PID,
while all others contain the LWPID of the corresponding kernel thread
creates an irregularity for the debugger that cannot easily be worked
around. This is caused by libthread_db correlating user thread IDs to
kernel thread (aka LWP) IDs and thus aware of the actual LWPIDs.
Update comments accordingly.
that get certain types of control messages (ping6 and rtsol are
examples). This gets the new code closer to working:
1) Collect control mbufs for processing in the controlp ==
NULL case, so that they can be freed by externalize.
2) Loop over the list of control mbufs, as the externalize
function may not know how to deal with chains.
3) In the case where there is no externalize function,
remember to add the control mbuf to the controlp list so
that it will be returned.
4) After adding stuff to the controlp list, walk to the
end of the list of stuff that was added, incase we added
a chain.
This code can be further improved, but this is enough to get most
things working again.
Reviewed by: rwatson
NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES. This option has been enabled by default on amd64 for
quite some time, and has been extensively tested on i386 and sparc64. It
shows measurable performance gains in many circumstances, and few negative
effects. It would be nice in t he future if adaptive mutexes actually went
to sleep after a certain amount of spinning, but that will require quite a
bit more testing.
earlier in unp_connect() so that vp->v_socket can't change between
our copying its value to a local variable and later use of that
variable. This may have been responsible for a panic during
shutdown that I experienced where simultaneous closing of a listen
socket by rpcbind and a new connection being made to rpcbind by
mountd.
values from either user land or from the kernel. Use them for
[gs]etsockopt and to clean up some calls to [gs]etsockopt in the
Linux emulation code that uses the stackgap.
since they are only accessed by curthread and thus do not need any
locking.
- Move pr_addr and pr_ticks out of struct uprof (which is per-process)
and directly into struct thread as td_profil_addr and td_profil_ticks
as these variables are really per-thread. (They are used to defer an
addupc_intr() that was too "hard" until ast()).
future:
rename ttyopen() -> tty_open() and ttyclose() -> tty_close().
We need the ttyopen() and ttyclose() for the new generic cdevsw
functions for tty devices in order to have consistent naming.
for unknown events.
A number of modules return EINVAL in this instance, and I have left
those alone for now and instead taught MOD_QUIESCE to accept this
as "didn't do anything".
line as the announcement. Someone should probably update the "buffers
remaining" message since we now no longer should have any buffers remaining
at that point.
Until now the function has just returned zero for any event, but
that is downright wrong for MOD_UNLOAD and not very useful for any
future events we add where it may be crucial to be able to tell
if the event was unhandled or successful.
Change the function to return as follows:
MOD_LOAD -> 0
MOD_UNLOAD -> EBUSY
anything else -> EOPNOTSUPP
check to ensure that the caller is not prison root.
The intention is to fix file descriptor creation so that
prison root can not use the last remaining file descriptors.
This privilege should be reserved for non-jailed root users.
Approved by: bmilekic (mentor)
sched_add() rather than just doing it in sched_wakeup(). The old
ithread preemption code used to set NEEDRESCHED unconditionally if it
didn't preempt which masked this bug in SCHED_4BSD.
Noticed by: jake
Reported by: kensmith, marcel
Add a MOD_QUIESCE event for modules. This should return error (EBUSY)
of the module is in use.
MOD_UNLOAD should now only fail if it is impossible (as opposed to
inconvenient) to unload the module. Valid reasons are memory references
into the module which cannot be tracked down and eliminated.
When kldunloading, we abandon if MOD_UNLOAD fails, and if -force is
not given, MOD_QUIESCE failing will also prevent the unload.
For backwards compatibility, we treat EOPNOTSUPP from MOD_QUIESCE as
success.
Document that modules should return EOPNOTSUPP for unknown events.
1. Add tm_lwpid into kse_thr_mailbox to indicate which kernel
thread current user thread is running on. Add tm_dflags into
kse_thr_mailbox, the flags is written by debugger, it tells
UTS and kernel what should be done when the process is being
debugged, current, there two flags TMDF_SSTEP and TMDF_DONOTRUNUSER.
TMDF_SSTEP is used to tell kernel to turn on single stepping,
or turn off if it is not set.
TMDF_DONOTRUNUSER is used to tell kernel to schedule upcall
whenever possible, to UTS, it means do not run the user thread
until debugger clears it, this behaviour is necessary because
gdb wants to resume only one thread when the thread's pc is
at a breakpoint, and thread needs to go forward, in order to
avoid other threads sneak pass the breakpoints, it needs to remove
breakpoint, only wants one thread to go. Also, add km_lwp to
kse_mailbox, the lwp id is copied to kse_thr_mailbox at context
switch time when process is not being debugged, so when process
is attached, debugger can map kernel thread to user thread.
2. Add p_xthread to proc strcuture and td_xsig to thread structure.
p_xthread is used by a thread when it wants to report event
to debugger, every thread can set the pointer, especially, when
it is used in ptracestop, it is the last thread reporting event
will win the race. Every thread has a td_xsig to exchange signal
with debugger, thread uses TDF_XSIG flag to indicate it is reporting
signal to debugger, if the flag is not cleared, thread will keep
retrying until it is cleared by debugger, p_xthread may be
used by debugger to indicate CURRENT thread. The p_xstat is still
in proc structure to keep wait() to work, in future, we may
just use td_xsig.
3. Add TDF_DBSUSPEND flag, the flag is used by debugger to suspend
a thread. When process stops, debugger can set the flag for
thread, thread will check the flag in thread_suspend_check,
enters a loop, unless it is cleared by debugger, process is
detached or process is existing. The flag is also checked in
ptracestop, so debugger can temporarily suspend a thread even
if the thread wants to exchange signal.
4. Current, in ptrace, we always resume all threads, but if a thread
has already a TDF_DBSUSPEND flag set by debugger, it won't run.
Encouraged by: marcel, julian, deischen
1. Add tm_lwpid into kse_thr_mailbox to indicate which kernel
thread current user thread is running on. Add tm_dflags into
kse_thr_mailbox, the flags is written by debugger, it tells
UTS and kernel what should be done when the process is being
debugged, current, there two flags TMDF_SSTEP and TMDF_DONOTRUNUSER.
TMDF_SSTEP is used to tell kernel to turn on single stepping,
or turn off if it is not set.
TMDF_DONOTRUNUSER is used to tell kernel to schedule upcall
whenever possible, to UTS, it means do not run the user thread
until debugger clears it, this behaviour is necessary because
gdb wants to resume only one thread when the thread's pc is
at a breakpoint, and thread needs to go forward, in order to
avoid other threads sneak pass the breakpoints, it needs to remove
breakpoint, only wants one thread to go. Also, add km_lwp to
kse_mailbox, the lwp id is copied to kse_thr_mailbox at context
switch time when process is not being debugged, so when process
is attached, debugger can map kernel thread to user thread.
2. Add p_xthread to proc strcuture and td_xsig to thread structure.
p_xthread is used by a thread when it wants to report event
to debugger, every thread can set the pointer, especially, when
it is used in ptracestop, it is the last thread reporting event
will win the race. Every thread has a td_xsig to exchange signal
with debugger, thread uses TDF_XSIG flag to indicate it is reporting
signal to debugger, if the flag is not cleared, thread will keep
retrying until it is cleared by debugger, p_xthread may be
used by debugger to indicate CURRENT thread. The p_xstat is still
in proc structure to keep wait() to work, in future, we may
just use td_xsig.
3. Add TDF_DBSUSPEND flag, the flag is used by debugger to suspend
a thread. When process stops, debugger can set the flag for
thread, thread will check the flag in thread_suspend_check,
enters a loop, unless it is cleared by debugger, process is
detached or process is existing. The flag is also checked in
ptracestop, so debugger can temporarily suspend a thread even
if the thread wants to exchange signal.
4. Current, in ptrace, we always resume all threads, but if a thread
has already a TDF_DBSUSPEND flag set by debugger, it won't run.
Encouraged by: marcel, julian, deischen
pmap_remove_pages(). (The implementation of pmap_remove_pages() is
optional. If pmap_remove_pages() is unimplemented, the acquisition and
release of the page queues lock is unnecessary.)
Remove spl calls from the alpha, arm, and ia64 pmap_remove_pages().
a better name. I have a kern_[sg]etsockopt which I plan to commit
shortly, but the arguments to these function will be quite different
from so_setsockopt.
Approved by: alfred
This is to allow filesystems to decide based on the passed thread
which vnode to return.
Several filesystems used curthread, they now use the passed thread.
will be used heavily in debugging KSE threads. This breaks libpthread
on IA64, but because libpthread was not in 5.2.1 release, I would like
to change it so we needn't to introduce another syscall.
tracing process to obtain information about the LWP that caused the
traced process to stop. Debuggers can use this information to select
the thread currently running on the LWP as the current thread.
The request has been made compatible with NetBSD for as much as
possible. This implementation differs from NetBSD in the following
ways:
1. The data argument is allowed to be smaller than the size of the
ptrace_lwpinfo structure known to the kernel, but not 0. This
is opposite to what NetBSD allows. The reason for this is that
we can extend the structure without affecting older binaries.
2. On NetBSD the tracing process is to set the pl_lwpid field to
the Id of the LWP it wants information of. We don't do that.
Our ptrace interface allows passing the LWP Id instead of the
PID. The tracing process is to set the PID to the LWP Id it
wants information of.
3. When the PID is actually the PID of the tracing process, this
request returns the information about the LWP that caused the
process to stop. This was the whole purpose of the request in
the first place.
When the traced process has exited, this request will return the
LWP Id 0, indicating that the process state is not the result of
an event specific to a LWP.
changing the backend from outside the KDB frontend. For example from
within a backend. Rewrite kdb_sysctl_current to make use of this
function as well.
in soreceive() after removing an MT_SONAME mbuf from the head of the
socket buffer.
When processing MT_CONTROL mbufs in soreceive(), first remove all of
the MT_CONTROL mbufs from the head of the socket buffer to a local
mbuf chain, then feed them into dom_externalize() as a set, which
both avoids thrashing the socket buffer lock when handling multiple
control mbufs, and also avoids races with other threads acting on
the socket buffer when the socket buffer mutex is released to enter
the externalize code. Existing races that might occur if the protocol
externalize method blocked during processing have also been closed.
Now that we synchronize socket buffer and stack state following
modifications to the socket buffer, turn the manual synchronization
that previously followed control mbuf processing with a set of
assertions. This can eventually be removed.
The soreceive() code is now substantially more MPSAFE.
the head of the mbuf chains in a socket buffer, re-synchronizes the
cache pointers used to optimize socket buffer appends. This will be
used by soreceive() before dropping socket buffer mutexes to make sure
a consistent version of the socket buffer is visible to other threads.
While here, update copyright to account for substantial rewrite of much
socket code required for fine-grained locking.
locking on 'nextrecord' and concerns regarding potentially inconsistent
or stale use of socket buffer or stack fields if they aren't carefully
synchronized whenever the socket buffer mutex is released. Document
that the high-level sblock() prevents races against other readers on
the socket.
Also document the 'type' logic as to how soreceive() guarantees that
it will only return one of normal data or inline out-of-band data.
name in the debug.kdb.current sysctl. All other dereferences are
properly guarded, but this one was overlooked.
Reported by: Morten Rodal (morten at rodal dot no)
