refcount(9) was recently extended to support waiting on a refcount to
drop to zero, as this was needed for a lockless VM object
paging-in-progress counter. However, this adds overhead to all uses of
refcount(9) and doesn't really match traditional refcounting semantics:
once a counter has dropped to zero, the protected object may be freed at
any point and it is not safe to dereference the counter.
This change removes that extension and instead adds a new set of KPIs,
blockcount_*, for use by VM object PIP and busy.
Reviewed by: jeff, kib, mjg
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23723
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.
This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.
Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT
Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718
objects backing tmpfs vnodes data.
The clean scan is limited to only remove write permissions from the
mapped pages of the objects. This fixes the issue that tmpfs vnode
mtime is not updated from writes to the mmaped area after the initial
page-in.
Noted by: mjg
Reviewed by: markj
Discussed with: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23432
Both vm_object_scan_all_shadowed() and vm_object_collapse_scan() might
observe an invalid page left in the default backing object by the
fault handler that retried. Check for the condition and refuse to collapse.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jeff
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23331
paging.
Shadow objects are marked with a COLLAPSING flag while they are collapsing with
their backing object. This gives us an explicit test rather than overloading
paging-in-progress. While split is on-going we mark an object with SPLIT.
These two operations will modify the swap tree so they must be serialized
and swap_pager_getpages() can now directly detect these conditions and page
more conservatively.
Callers to vm_object_collapse() now will reliably wait for a collapse to finish
so that the backing chain is as short as possible before other decisions are
made that may inflate the object chain. For example, split, coalesce, etc.
It is now safe to run fault concurrently with collapse. It is safe to increase
or decrease paging in progress with no lock so long as there is another valid
ref on increase.
This change makes collapse more reliable as a secondary benefit. The primary
benefit is making it safe to drop the object lock much earlier in fault or
never acquire it at all.
This was tested with a new shadow chain test script that uncovered long
standing bugs and will be integrated with stress2.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22908
page that was previously mapped read-only it exists in pmap until pmap_enter()
returns. However, we held no reference to the original page after the copy
was complete. This allowed vm_object_scan_all_shadowed() to collapse an
object that still had pages mapped. To resolve this, add another page pointer
to the faultstate so we can keep the page xbusy until we're done with
pmap_enter(). Handle busy pages in scan_all_shadowed. This is already done
in vm_object_collapse_scan().
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23155
Filesystems which want to use it in limited capacity can employ the
VOP_UNLOCK_FLAGS macro.
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21427
With the previous reviews, the page lock is no longer required in order
to perform queue operations on a page. It is also no longer needed in
the page queue scans. This change effectively eliminates remaining uses
of the page lock and also the false sharing caused by multiple pages
sharing a page lock.
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22885
removed from objects including calls to free. Pages must not be xbusy
when freed and not on an object. Strengthen assertions to match these
expectations. In practice very little code had to change busy handling
to meet these rules but we can now make stronger guarantees to busy
holders and avoid conditionally dropping busy in free.
Refine vm_page_remove() and vm_page_replace() semantics now that we have
stronger guarantees about busy state. This removes redundant and
potentially problematic code that has proliferated.
Discussed with: markj
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22822
that if fault fails to progress and needs to restart the loop it must free
the page it is working on and allocate again on restart. Resolve the few
places that need to be modified to support this condition and simply
deactivate the page. Presently, we only permit this when fault restarts
for busy contention. This has an added benefit of removing some object
trylocking in this case.
While here consolidate some page cleanup logic into fault_page_free() and
fault_page_release() to reduce redundant code and automate some teardown.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22653
This is a 32-bit structure embedded in each vm_page, consisting mostly
of page queue state. The use of a structure makes it easy to store a
snapshot of a page's queue state in a stack variable and use cmpset
loops to update that state without requiring the page lock.
This change merely adds the structure and updates references to atomic
state fields. No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: alc, jeff, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22650
A valid reference is all that is required. If we race with a deallocation
we will harmlessly misidentify the type of an already dead object.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22636
The handle value is stable for all shadow objects in the inheritance
chain. This allows to avoid descending the shadow chain to get to the
bottom of it in vm_map_entry_set_vnode_text(), and eliminate
corresponding object relocking which appeared to be contending.
Change vm_object_allocate_anon() and vm_object_shadow() to handle more
of the cred/charge initialization for the new shadow object, in
addition to set up the handle.
Reported by: jeff
Reviewed by: alc (previous version), jeff (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differrential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22541
omit the object lock if we are above a certain threshold. Hold only a
single vnode reference when the vnode object has any ref > 0. This
allows us to only lock the object and vnode on 0-1 and 1-0 transitions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22452
Regression from r352174. In the vm_page_rename() failure case we forgot
to unlock the vm object locks before sleeping and reacquiring them.
Reviewed by: jeff
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22542
Note that the change in vm_object_collapse() is arguably a correctness
fix. We must not collapse into content-identity carrying objects.
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22467
reudundant complicated checks and additional locking required only for
anonymous memory. Introduce vm_object_allocate_anon() to create these
objects. DEFAULT and SWAP objects now have the correct settings for
non-anonymous consumers and so individual consumers need not modify the
default flags to create super-pages and avoid ONEMAPPING/NOSPLIT.
Reviewed by: alc, dougm, kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22119
flag and use the same system.
This enables further fault locking improvements by allowing more faults to
proceed with a shared lock.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22116
Certain consumers still need to guarantee a stable reference so we can not
switch entirely to atomics yet. Exclusive lock holders can still modify
and examine the refcount without using the ref api.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21598
Atomics are used for page busy and valid state when the shared busy is
held. The details of the locking protocol and valid and dirty
synchronization are in the updated vm_page.h comments.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21594
busy acquires while held.
This allows code that would need to acquire and release a very large number
of page busy locks to use the old mechanism where busy is only checked and
not held. This comes at the cost of false positives but never false
negatives which the single consumer, vm_fault_soft_fast(), handles.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21592
This persists busy state across operations like rename and replace.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21549
This is the first in a series of patches that promotes the page busy field
to a first class lock that no longer requires the object lock for
consistency.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21548
In case the implementation ever changes from using a chain of next pointers,
then changing the macro definition will be necessary, but changing all the
files that iterate over vm_map entries will not.
Drop a counter in vm_object.c that would have an effect only if the
vm_map entry count was wrong.
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21882
Now, vm_page_busy_sleep() expects the page's object to be locked.
vm_object_unwire() does some unusual lazy locking of the object chain
and keeps objects locked until a busy page is encountered or the loop
terminates. When a busy page is encountered, rather than unlocking all
but the "bottom-level" object, we must instead skip the object to which
"tm" belongs.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jeff
Sponsored by: Intel, Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21790
- Remove a dead variable from the amd64 pmap_extract_and_hold().
- Fix grammar in the vm_page_wire man page.
Reported by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21639
Refcount waiting will set some flag bits in the refcount value.
Make sure these bits get cleared by using the REFCOUNT_COUNT()
macro to obtain the actual refcount.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21620
Reviewed by: kib@, markj@
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
- VM_ALLOC_NOCREAT will grab without creating a page.
- vm_page_grab_valid() will grab and page in if necessary.
- vm_page_busy_acquire() automates some busy acquire loops.
Discussed with: alc, kib, markj
Tested by: pho (part of larger branch)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21546
races with page busy state. The object lock is still used as an interlock
to ensure that the identity stays valid. Most callers should use
vm_page_sleep_if_busy() to handle the locking particulars.
Reviewed by: alc, kib, markj
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21255
There are several mechanisms by which a vm_page reference is held,
preventing the page from being freed back to the page allocator. In
particular, holding the page's object lock is sufficient to prevent the
page from being freed; holding the busy lock or a wiring is sufficent as
well. These references are protected by the page lock, which must
therefore be acquired for many per-page operations. This results in
false sharing since the page locks are external to the vm_page
structures themselves and each lock protects multiple structures.
Transition to using an atomically updated per-page reference counter.
The object's reference is counted using a flag bit in the counter. A
second flag bit is used to atomically block new references via
pmap_extract_and_hold() while removing managed mappings of a page.
Thus, the reference count of a page is guaranteed not to increase if the
page is unbusied, unmapped, and the object's write lock is held. As
a consequence of this, the page lock no longer protects a page's
identity; operations which move pages between objects are now
synchronized solely by the objects' locks.
The vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() KPIs are changed. The former
requires that either the object lock or the busy lock is held. The
latter no longer has a return value and may free the page if it releases
the last reference to that page. vm_page_unwire_noq() behaves the same
as before; the caller is responsible for checking its return value and
freeing or enqueuing the page as appropriate. vm_page_wire_mapped() is
introduced for use in pmap_extract_and_hold(). It fails if the page is
concurrently being unmapped, typically triggering a fallback to the
fault handler. vm_page_wire() no longer requires the page lock and
vm_page_unwire() now internally acquires the page lock when releasing
the last wiring of a page (since the page lock still protects a page's
queue state). In particular, synchronization details are no longer
leaked into the caller.
The change excises the page lock from several frequently executed code
paths. In particular, vm_object_terminate() no longer bounces between
page locks as it releases an object's pages, and direct I/O and
sendfile(SF_NOCACHE) completions no longer require the page lock. In
these latter cases we now get linear scalability in the common scenario
where different threads are operating on different files.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped. The DRM ports have been updated to
accomodate the KPI changes.
Reviewed by: jeff (earlier version)
Tested by: gallatin (earlier version), pho
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20486
We track text mappings explicitly, there is no removal of the text
refs on the object deallocate any more, so tmpfs objects should not be
treated specially. Doing so causes excess deref.
Reported and tested by: gallatin
Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21560
The hold_count and wire_count fields of struct vm_page are separate
reference counters with similar semantics. The remaining essential
differences are that holds are not counted as a reference with respect
to LRU, and holds have an implicit free-on-last unhold semantic whereas
vm_page_unwire() callers must explicitly determine whether to free the
page once the last reference to the page is released.
This change removes the KPIs which directly manipulate hold_count.
Functions such as vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() now return wired pages
instead. Since r328977 the overhead of maintaining LRU for wired pages
is lower, and in many cases vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() callers would
swap holds for wirings on the returned pages anyway, so with this change
we remove a number of page lock acquisitions.
No functional change is intended. __FreeBSD_version is bumped.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Discussed with: jeff
Discussed with: jhb, np (cxgbe)
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19247
Use it to indicate whether the page may be safely freed following
its removal from the object. Also change vm_page_remove() to assume
that the page's object pointer is non-NULL, and have callers perform
this check instead.
This is a step towards an implementation of an atomic reference counter
for each physical page structure.
Reviewed by: alc, dougm, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20758
Use it instead of accessing the wire_count field directly. No
functional change intended.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20485
kern_execve() locks text vnode exclusive to be able to set and clear
VV_TEXT flag. VV_TEXT is mutually exclusive with the v_writecount > 0
condition.
The change removes VV_TEXT, replacing it with the condition
v_writecount <= -1, and puts v_writecount under the vnode interlock.
Each text reference decrements v_writecount. To clear the text
reference when the segment is unmapped, it is recorded in the
vm_map_entry backed by the text file as MAP_ENTRY_VN_TEXT flag, and
v_writecount is incremented on the map entry removal
The operations like VOP_ADD_WRITECOUNT() and VOP_SET_TEXT() check that
v_writecount does not contradict the desired change. vn_writecheck()
is now racy and its use was eliminated everywhere except access.
Atomic check for writeability and increment of v_writecount is
performed by the VOP. vn_truncate() now increments v_writecount
around VOP_SETATTR() call, lack of which is arguably a bug on its own.
nullfs bypasses v_writecount to the lower vnode always, so nullfs
vnode has its own v_writecount correct, and lower vnode gets all
references, since object->handle is always lower vnode.
On the text vnode' vm object dealloc, the v_writecount value is reset
to zero, and deadfs vop_unset_text short-circuit the operation.
Reclamation of lowervp always reclaims all nullfs vnodes referencing
lowervp first, so no stray references are left.
Reviewed by: markj, trasz
Tested by: mjg, pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19923
NOSPLIT swap objects are not anonymous, they are used by tmpfs regular
files and POSIX shared memory. For such objects, collapse is not
permitted.
Reported by: mjg
Reviewed by: markj, trasz
Tested by: mjg, pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19923
This applies the fix in r283924 to the vm.objects sysctl
added by r283624 so the output will include the vnode
information (i.e. path) for tmpfs objects.
Reviewed by: kib, dab
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2724
