I put these in to match the use of spl*() in the NetBSD code I was basing this
on, but it appears to cause problems.
I'm doing this in a separate commit so as to be able to refer back if locking
becomes an issue at a later stage.
Define the atm_dev_free() routine so that its OK to free stuff that is defined
as volatile. Note this doesn't FORCE the arguemnts to be volatile,
just says that it's not an error if it is..
and isn't strictly required. However, it lowers the number of false
positives found when grep'ing the kernel sources for p_ucred to ensure
proper locking.
the pipe is locked and shouldn't be.
initialize pipe->pipe_mtxp to NULL when creating pipes in order not
to trip the above assertions.
swap pipe lock with giant around calls to pipe_destroy_write_buffer()
pipe_destroy_write_buffer issue noticed by: jhb
fully protect p_ucred yet so Giant is needed until all the p_ucred
locking is done. This is the original reason td_ucred was not used
immediately after its addition. Unfortunately, not using td_ucred is
not enough to avoid problems. Since p_ucred could be stale, we could
actually be dereferencing a stale pointer to dink with the refcount, so
we really need Giant to avoid foot-shooting. This allows td_ucred to
be safely used as well.
In order to determine what to page out, the vm_daemon checks
reference bits on all pages belonging to all processes. Unfortunately,
the algorithm used reacted badly with shared pages; each shared page
would be checked once per process sharing it; this caused an O(N^2)
growth of tlb invalidations. The algorithm has been changed so that
each page will be checked only 16 times.
Prior to this change, a fork/sleepbomb of 1300 processes could cause
the vm_daemon to take over 60 seconds to complete, effectively
freezing the system for that time period. With this change
in place, the vm_daemon completes in less than a second. Any system
with hundreds of processes sharing pages should benefit from this change.
Note that the vm_daemon is only run when the system is under extreme
memory pressure. It is likely that many people with loaded systems saw
no symptoms of this problem until they reached the point where swapping
began.
Special thanks go to dillon, peter, and Chuck Cranor, who helped me
get up to speed with vm internals.
PR: 33542, 20393
Reviewed by: dillon
MFC after: 1 week
