PTE if that PTE has the PG_RW bit set. However, this assumption does
not hold on recent processors from Intel. For example, consider a PTE
that has the PG_RW bit set but the PG_M bit clear. Suppose this PTE
is cached in the TLB and later the PG_RW bit is cleared in the PTE,
but the corresponding TLB entry is not (yet) invalidated.
Historically, upon a write access using this (stale) TLB entry, the
TLB would observe that the PG_RW bit had been cleared and initiate a
page fault, aborting the setting of the PG_M bit in the PTE. Now,
however, P4- and Core2-family processors will set the PG_M bit before
observing that the PG_RW bit is clear and initiating a page fault. In
other words, the write does not occur but the PG_M bit is still set.
The real impact of this difference is not that great. Specifically,
we should no longer assert that any PTE with the PG_M bit set must
also have the PG_RW bit set, and we should ignore the state of the
PG_M bit unless the PG_RW bit is set. However, these changes enable
me to remove a work-around from pmap_promote_pde(), the superpage
promotion procedure.
(Note: The AMD processors that we have tested, including the latest,
the Phenom, still exhibit the historical behavior.)
Acknowledgments: After I observed the problem, Stephan (ups) was
instrumental in characterizing the exact behavior of Intel's recent
TLBs.
Tested by: Peter Holm
The overflow causes the wraparound with consequent corruption of the
(almost) whole address space mapping.
As Alan noted, pmap_copy() does not require the wrap-around checks
because it cannot be applied to the kernel's pmap. The checks there are
included for consistency.
Reported and tested by: kris (i386/pmap.c:pmap_remove() part)
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
lock in the 8259A drivers as these drivers are only used on UP systems.
This slightly reduces the penalty of an SMP kernel (such as GENERIC) on
a UP x86 machine.
resource to a CPU. The default method is to pass the request up to the
parent similar to BUS_CONFIG_INTR() so that all busses don't have to
explicitly implement bus_bind_intr. A bus_bind_intr(9) wrapper routine
similar to bus_setup/teardown_intr() is added for device drivers to use.
Unbinding an interrupt is done by binding it to NOCPU. The IRQ resource
must be allocated, but it can happen in any order with respect to
bus_setup_intr(). Currently it is only supported on amd64 and i386 via
nexus(4) methods that simply call the intr_bind() routine.
Tested by: gallatin
- Always include the ie_disable and ie_eoi methods in 'struct intr_event'
and collapse down to one intr_event_create() routine. The disable and
eoi hooks simply aren't used currently in the !INTR_FILTER case.
- Expand 'disab' to 'disable' in a few places.
- Use function casts for arm and i386:intr_eoi_src() instead of wrapper
routines since to trim one extra indirection.
Compiled on: {arm,amd64,i386,ia64,ppc,sparc64} x {FILTER, !FILTER}
Tested on: {amd64,i386} x {FILTER, !FILTER}
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
- Add a new intr_event method ie_assign_cpu() that is invoked when the MI
code wishes to bind an interrupt source to an individual CPU. The MD
code may reject the binding with an error. If an assign_cpu function
is not provided, then the kernel assumes the platform does not support
binding interrupts to CPUs and fails all requests to do so.
- Bind ithreads to CPUs on their next execution loop once an interrupt
event is bound to a CPU. Only shared ithreads are bound. We currently
leave private ithreads for drivers using filters + ithreads in the
INTR_FILTER case unbound.
- A new intr_event_bind() routine is used to bind an interrupt event to
a CPU.
- Implement binding on amd64 and i386 by way of the existing pic_assign_cpu
PIC method.
- For x86, provide a 'intr_bind(IRQ, cpu)' wrapper routine that looks up
an interrupt source and binds its interrupt event to the specified CPU.
MI code can currently (ab)use this by doing:
intr_bind(rman_get_start(irq_res), cpu);
however, I plan to add a truly MI interface (probably a bus_bind_intr(9))
where the implementation in the x86 nexus(4) driver would end up calling
intr_bind() internally.
Requested by: kmacy, gallatin, jeff
Tested on: {amd64, i386} x {regular, INTR_FILTER}
receivers from being given interrupts if any CPUs in the system were not
tagged as interrupt receivers that I introduced when switching the x86
interrupt code to track CPUs via FreeBSD CPU IDs rather than local APIC
IDs. In practice this only affects systems with Hyperthreading (though
disabling HTT in the BIOS would workaround the issue) as that is the only
case currently where one can have CPUs that aren't tagged as interrupt
receivers. On a Dell SC1425 test box with 2 x Xeon w/ HTT (so 4 logical
CPUs of which 2 were interrupt receivers) the result was that all
device interrupts were sent to CPU 0.
MFC after: 1 week
Pointy hat to: jhb
different "platforms" on x86 machines. The existing code already handles
having two platforms: ACPI and legacy. However, the existing approach was
rather hardcoded and difficult to extend. These changes take the approach
that each x86 hardware platform should provide its own nexus(4) driver (it
can inherit most of its behavior from the default legacy nexus(4) driver)
which is responsible for probing for the platform and performing
appropriate platform-specific setup during attach (such as adding a
platform-specific bus device). This does mean changing the x86 platform
busses to no longer use an identify routine for probing, but to move that
logic into their matching nexus(4) driver instead.
- Make the default nexus(4) driver in nexus.c on i386 and amd64 handle the
legacy platform. It's probe routine now returns BUS_PROBE_GENERIC so it
can be overriden.
- Expose a nexus_init_resources() routine which initializes the various
resource managers so that subclassed nexus(4) drivers can invoke it from
their attach routine.
- The legacy nexus(4) driver explicitly adds a legacy0 device in its
attach routine.
- The ACPI driver no longer contains an new-bus identify method. Instead
it exposes a public function (acpi_identify()) which is a probe routine
that the MD nexus(4) drivers can use to probe for ACPI. All of the
probe logic in acpi_probe() is now moved into acpi_identify() and
acpi_probe() is just a stub.
- On i386 and amd64, an ACPI-specific nexus(4) driver checks for ACPI via
acpi_identify() and claims the nexus0 device if the probe succeeds. It
then explicitly adds an acpi0 device in its attach routine.
- The legacy(4) driver no longer knows anything about the acpi0 device.
- On ia64 if acpi_identify() fails you basically end up with no devices.
This matches the previous behavior where the old acpi_identify() would
fail to add an acpi0 device again leaving you with no devices.
Discussed with: imp
Silence on: arch@
ABI and the direction flag, that is it now assumes that the direction
flag is cleared at the entry of a function and it doesn't clear once
more if needed. This new behaviour conforms to the i386/amd64 ABI.
Modify the signal handler frame setup code to clear the DF {e,r}flags
bit on the amd64/i386 for the signal handlers.
jhb@ noted that it might break old apps if they assumed DF == 1 would be
preserved in the signal handlers, but that such apps should be rare and
that older versions of gcc would not generate such apps.
Submitted by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien aurel32 net>
PR: 121422
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
PhysMask fields based on the number of physical address bits supported
by the current CPU. The old code assumed 36 bits on i386 and 40 bits on
amd64. In truth, all Intel CPUs up until recently used 36 bits (a newer
Intel CPU uses 38 bits) and all the Opteron CPUs used 40 bits.
In at least one case (the new Intel CPU) having the size of the mask field
wrong resulted in writing questionable values into the MTRR registers on
the application processors (BSP as well if you modify the MTRRs via
memcontrol or running X, etc.). The result of the questionable physmask
was that all of memory was apparently treated as uncached rather than
write-back resulting in a very significant performance hit.
Fix this by constructing a run-time mask for the PhysBase and PhysMask
fields based on the number of physical address bits supported by the CPU.
All 64-bit capable CPUs provide a count of PA bits supported via the
0x80000008 extended CPUID feature, so use that if it is available. If that
feature is not available, then assume 36 PA bits.
While I'm here, expand the (now-unused) macros for the PhysBase and
PhysMask fields to the current largest possible value (52 PA bits).
MFC after: 1 week
PR: i386/120516
Reported by: Nokia
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.
the cpufreq drivers to reliably use properties of PCI devices for quirks,
etc.
- For the legacy drivers, add CPU devices via an identify routine in the
CPU driver itself rather than in the legacy driver's attach routine.
- Add CPU devices after Host-PCI bridges in the acpi bus driver.
- Change the ichss(4) driver to use pci_find_bsf() to locate the ICH and
check its device ID rather than having a bogus PCI attachment that only
checked for the ID in probe and always failed. As a side effect, you
can now kldload ichss after boot.
- Fix the ichss(4) driver to use the correct device_t for the ICH (and not
for ichss0) when doing PCI config space operations to enable SpeedStep.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: njl, Andriy Gapon avg of icyb.net.ua
mappings. Automatic promotion can be enabled by setting the tunable
"vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled" to a non-zero value. By default, automatic
promotion is disabled. (Expect this to change.)
Reviewed by: ups
Tested by: kris, Peter Holm
tree structure that encodes the level of cache sharing and other
properties.
- Provide several convenience functions for creating one and two level
cpu trees as well as a default flat topology. The system now always
has some topology.
- On i386 and amd64 create a seperate level in the hierarchy for HTT
and multi-core cpus. This will allow the scheduler to intelligently
load balance non-uniform cores. Presently we don't detect what level
of the cache hierarchy is shared at each level in the topology.
- Add a mechanism for testing common topologies that have more information
than the MD code is able to provide via the kern.smp.topology tunable.
This should be considered a debugging tool only and not a stable api.
Sponsored by: Nokia
PAGE_SIZE or less, the bounce page counting logic was flawed and wouldn't
reserve any pages. Adjust to be correct. Review of other architectures is
forthcoming.
Submitted by: Joseph Golio
aligned (or at least not cross a page boundary). However, it turns out
that on at least one machine one table header does cross a page boundary.
This caused problems with the MADT early probe as it uses the crash dump
map to load ACPI tables by loading the RSDT/XSDT into pages 1 ... N and
loading the header of each ACPI table header into page 0 looking for the
MADT. However, if a table header crossed a page boundary, then page 1
would get trashed resulting in a panic. Fix this by reserving the first
2 pages for ACPI table headers (headers are less than a page in size,
so 2 pages will be sufficient) and use pages 2 .. N for the RSDT and XSDT.
Note: amd64 should probably be simplified to just use pmap_mapbios()
for all these tables which will use the direct map and not need the
crash dump hack.
MFC after: 5 days
Tested on: i386
Reported by: Pete French petefrench of ticketswitch.com
compiled under PMAP_DIAGNOSTIC are now KASSERT()s. (Note: The kernel
option DIAGNOSTIC still disables inlining of certain pmap functions.)
Eliminate dead code from pmap_enter(). This code implemented an assertion.
On i386, an equivalent check is already implemented. However, on amd64,
a small change is required to implement an equivalent check.
Eliminate \n from a nearby panic string.
Use KASSERT() to reimplement pmap_copy()'s two assertions.
in the range and precision of their type(s) on amd64, but FLT_EVAL_METHOD
said that they were evalated in the "interesting" (buggy) i387 methods.
float_t was broken compatibly with FLT_EVAL_METHOD.
These definitions seem to be broken on powerpc and possibly on arm.
float_t is float on powerpc with gcc [-notraditional] according to
glibc, and FLT_EVAL_METHOD is marked with XXX on arm.
the kernel's direct map instead of the pmap's recursive mapping to access
the lowest level in the page table. The direct map is preferable for two
reasons: (1) The TLB is more likely to hold the required direct mapping
because pmap_enter() has already used the direct map to access a nearby
PTE and (2) loading a direct mapping into the TLB involves walking only 2
or 3 levels of the page table instead of 4.
Unmasked exceptions (which can be fixed up using fpset*() before they
trap) are very rare, especially on amd64 since SSE exceptions trap
synchronously, but I want to merge the faster amd64 implementations of
fpset*() back to i386 without introducing the bug on i386.
The i386 implementation has always avoided the trap automatically by
changing things using load/store of the FP environment, but this is
very slow. Most changes only affect the control word, so they can
usually be done much more efficiently, and amd64 has always done this,
but loading the control word can trap.
This version use the fast method only in the usual case where it will
not trap. This only costs a couple of integer instructions (including
one branch which I haven't optimized carefully yet) in the usual case,
but bloats the inlines a lot. The inlines were already a bit too large
to handle both the FPU and SSE.
- fix a previous style fix: shifts should be in the correct direction even
if they are null.
- restore a comment about namespace pollution from floatingpoint.h 1.12 and
update it.
- remove unused namespace pollution FP_*REG.
- improve some comments.
- sort macro definitions for entry points.
- don't use underscores for macro args.
- fix this to compile with C++ by casting ints to enums in a few places
and by using the correct parameter type for _fpsetprec(). Remove
__cplusplus ifdefs which disabled the buggy code.
- remove __CC_SUPPORTS___INLINE ifdefs. `__inline' vs `inline', and either
of these #defined away, are supposed to be handled by very old ifdefs
in <sys/cdefs.h>. Thus the __CC_SUPPORTS___INLINE macro is not needed
here (or anywhere else that it used). It is less needed here than in
most places, since this file is userland-only and userland is far from
supporting INTEL_COMPILER. The __CC_SUPPORTS___INLINE__ macro which
was used here is even less needed. It is to support spelling `inline'
as `__inline__' instead of the usual spelling `__inline'.
Fix some style bugs that I missed in the previous commit (remove unused
asms and sort more variables).
pv_list_count from struct md_page. Ever since Peter rewrote the pv
entry allocator for amd64 and i386 pv_list_count has been correctly
maintained but otherwise unused.
instead of writing apologetic comments. As it turns out, I need every
kernel page table page to have a legitimate pindex to support superpage
promotion on kernel memory.
Correct a nearby style error: Pointers should be compared to NULL.
for that argument. This will allow DDB to detect the broad category of
reason why the debugger has been entered, which it can use for the
purposes of deciding which DDB script to run.
Assign approximate why values to all current consumers of the
kdb_enter() interface.
cards:
o RocketRAID 172x series
o RocketRAID 174x series
o RocketRAID 2210
o RocketRAID 222x series
o RocketRAID 2240
o RocketRAID 230x series
o RocketRAID 231x series
o RocketRAID 232x series
o RocketRAID 2340
o RocketRAID 2522
Many thanks to Highpoint for their continued support of FreeBSD.
Submitted by: Highpoint
register (MacBooks only).
This allows MacBooks to boot in SMP mode without any trick and solves
the timer problems with HZ=1000.
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: njl (mentor), jhb
Approved by: njl (mentor), jhb
with insufficient protection mode.
For the i386 and amd64, create the tunable, machdep.prot_fault_translation,
with the following behaviour:
0 = autodetect the signal to be delivered on KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE
from vm_fault based on the ELF OSABI note:
no note or __FreeBSD_version < 700004 - SIGBUS/BUS_PAGE_FAULT
note, and __FreeBSD_version >= 700004 - SIGSEGV/SEGV_ACCERR
1 = always SIGBUS/BUS_PAGE_FAULT
2 = always SIGSEGV/SEGV_ACCERR
This would do mostly automatic correction of ABI breakage, with the exception
of the untaged binaries for 7-CURRENT/RELENG_7 before the note is fixed. For
them, sysctl would allow to run the binary with manual settings.
Discussed with: portmgr (kris)
PR: kern/118304
MFC after: 3 days
- Introduce per-architecture stack_machdep.c to hold stack_save(9).
- Introduce per-architecture machine/stack.h to capture any common
definitions required between db_trace.c and stack_machdep.c.
- Add new kernel option "options STACK"; we will build in stack(9) if it is
defined, or also if "options DDB" is defined to provide compatibility
with existing users of stack(9).
Add new stack_save_td(9) function, which allows the capture of a stacktrace
of another thread rather than the current thread, which the existing
stack_save(9) was limited to. It requires that the thread be neither
swapped out nor running, which is the responsibility of the consumer to
enforce.
Update stack(9) man page.
Build tested: amd64, arm, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v
Runtime tested: amd64 (rwatson), arm (cognet), i386 (rwatson)
allocation fails and pv entries are reclaimed, there may be an unused pv
entry in a pv chunk that survived the reclamation. However, previously,
after reclamation, get_pv_entry() did not look for an unused pv entry in
a surviving pv chunk; it simply retried the page allocation. Now, it
does look for an unused pv entry before retrying the page allocation.
Note: This only applies to RELENG_7. Earlier branches use a different
pv entry allocator.
MFC after: 6 weeks
since the branch caches on at least Athlon XP through Athlon 64 CPU's
don't understand such instructions and guarantee a cache miss taking
at least 10 cycles. Use the documented workaround "ret $0" instead
("nop; ret" also works, but "ret $0" is probably faster on old CPUs).
Normal code (even asm code) doesn't branch to "ret", since there is
usually some cleanup to do, but the __mcount, .mcount and .mexitcount
entry points were optimized too well to have the minimum number of
instructions (3 instructions each if profiling is not enabled) and
they did this. I didn't see a significant number of cache misses for
.mexitcount, but for the shared "ret" for __mcount and .mcount I
observed cache misses costing 26 cycles each. For a send(2) syscall
that makes about 70 function calls, the cost of these cache misses
alone increased the syscall time from about 4000 cycles to about 7000
cycles. 4000 is for a profiling (GUPROF) kernel with profiling disabled;
after this fix, configuring profiling only costs about 600 cycles in the
4000, which is consistent with almost perfect branch prediction in the
mcounting calls.
unused except to obfuscate disassemblies. -mprofiler-epilogue is
currently with gcc-4 (it does too little), but -finstrument-functions
is broken in a different way (it does too much).
amd64 version: meger whitespace fixes from i386 version.
- On amd64, just assume type #1 is always used. PCI 2.0 mandated
deprecated type #2 and required type #1 for all future bridges which
was well before amd64 existed.
- For i386, ignore whatever value was in 0xcf8 before testing for type #1
and instead rely on the other tests to determine if type #1 works. Some
newer machines leave garbage in 0xcf8 during boot and as a result the
kernel doesn't find PCI at all (which greatly confuses ACPI which expects
PCI to exist when PCI busses are in the namespace).
MFC after: 3 days
Discussed with: scottl
Currently, Giant is not too much contented so that it is ok to treact it
like any other mutexes.
Please don't forget to update your own custom config kernel files.
Approved by: cognet, marcel (maintainers of arches where option is
not enabled at the moment)
routine. It is not needed as the existing tests for segment coalescing
already handle bounced addresses and it prevents legal segment coalescing
in certain edge cases.
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: scottl
include the ithread scheduling step. Without this, a preemption might
occur in between the interrupt getting masked and the ithread getting
scheduled. Since the interrupt handler runs in the context of curthread,
the scheudler might see it as having a such a low priority on a busy system
that it doesn't get to run for a _long_ time, leaving the interrupt stranded
in a disabled state. The only way that the preemption can happen is by
a fast/filter handler triggering a schduling event earlier in the handler,
so this problem can only happen for cases where an interrupt is being
shared by both a fast/filter handler and an ithread handler. Unfortunately,
it seems to be common for this sharing to happen with network and USB
devices, for example. This fixes many of the mysterious TCP session
timeouts and NIC watchdogs that were being reported. Many thanks to Sam
Lefler for getting to the bottom of this problem.
Reviewed by: jhb, jeff, silby
First, a file is mmap(2)ed and then mlock(2)ed. Later, it is truncated.
Under "normal" circumstances, i.e., when the file is not mlock(2)ed, the
pages beyond the EOF are unmapped and freed. However, when the file is
mlock(2)ed, the pages beyond the EOF are unmapped but not freed because
they have a non-zero wire count. This can be a mistake. Specifically,
it is a mistake if the sole reason why the pages are wired is because of
wired, managed mappings. Previously, unmapping the pages destroys these
wired, managed mappings, but does not reduce the pages' wire count.
Consequently, when the file is unmapped, the pages are not unwired
because the wired mapping has been destroyed. Moreover, when the vm
object is finally destroyed, the pages are leaked because they are still
wired. The fix is to reduce the pages' wired count by the number of
wired, managed mappings destroyed. To do this, I introduce a new pmap
function pmap_page_wired_mappings() that returns the number of managed
mappings to the given physical page that are wired, and I use this
function in vm_object_page_remove().
Reviewed by: tegge
MFC after: 6 weeks
- Populate the register values for the trapframe put on the stack by the
double fault handler.
- Teach DDB's trace routine to treat a double fault like other trap frames.
MFC after: 3 days
communicate that it relates to (is called by) thread_alloc()
o Add cpu_thread_free() which is called from thread_free()
to counter-act cpu_thread_alloc().
i386: Have cpu_thread_free() call cpu_thread_clean() to
preserve behaviour.
ia64: Have cpu_thread_free() call mtx_destroy() for the
mutex initialized in cpu_thread_alloc().
PR: ia64/118024
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.
This includes:
o mtree (for legal/intel_wpi)
o manpage for i386/amd64 archs
o module for i386/amd64 archs
o NOTES for i386/amd64 archs
Approved by: mlaier (comentor)
must be globally performed before calling any of the TLB invalidation
functions.
With one exception, on amd64, this requirement was already met. Fix this
one case. Also, as a clarification, change an existing atomic op into a
release. (Suggested by: jhb)
Reported and reviewed by: ups
MFC after: 3 days
silent NULL pointer dereference in the i386 and sparc64 pmap_pinit()
when the kmem_alloc_nofault() failed to allocate address space. Both
functions now return error instead of panicing or dereferencing NULL.
As consequence, vmspace_exec() and vmspace_unshare() returns the errno
int. struct vmspace arg was added to vm_forkproc() to avoid dealing
with failed allocation when most of the fork1() job is already done.
The kernel stack for the thread is now set up in the thread_alloc(),
that itself may return NULL. Also, allocation of the first process
thread is performed in the fork1() to properly deal with stack
allocation failure. proc_linkup() is separated into proc_linkup()
called from fork1(), and proc_linkup0(), that is used to set up the
kernel process (was known as swapper).
In collaboration with: Peter Holm
Reviewed by: jhb
warnings. Specifically, whenever vm_page_alloc(9) returned NULL to
get_pv_entry(), we issued a warning regardless of the number of pv
entries in use. (Note: The older pv entry allocator in RELENG_6 does
not have this problem.)
Reported by: Jeremy Chadwick
Eliminate the direct call to pagedaemon_wakeup() by get_pv_entry().
This was a holdover from earlier times when the page daemon was
responsible for the reclamation of pv entries.
MFC after: 5 days
refactored it to be a generic device.
Instead of being part of the standard kernel, there is now a 'nvram' device
for i386/amd64. It is in DEFAULTS like io and mem, and can be turned off
with 'nodevice nvram'. This matches the previous behavior when it was
first committed.
support machines having multiple independently numbered PCI domains
and don't support reenumeration without ambiguity amongst the
devices as seen by the OS and represented by PCI location strings.
This includes introducing a function pci_find_dbsf(9) which works
like pci_find_bsf(9) but additionally takes a domain number argument
and limiting pci_find_bsf(9) to only search devices in domain 0 (the
only domain in single-domain systems). Bge(4) and ofw_pcibus(4) are
changed to use pci_find_dbsf(9) instead of pci_find_bsf(9) in order
to no longer report false positives when searching for siblings and
dupe devices in the same domain respectively.
Along with this change the sole host-PCI bridge driver converted to
actually make use of PCI domain support is uninorth(4), the others
continue to use domain 0 only for now and need to be converted as
appropriate later on.
Note that this means that the format of the location strings as used
by pciconf(8) has been changed and that consumers of <sys/pciio.h>
potentially need to be recompiled.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: grehan, jhb, marcel
Approved by: re (kensmith), jhb (PCI maintainer hat)
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)
In particular:
- smp_tlb_mtx is no longer used, so it is axed.
- smp rendezvous lock isn't really a leaf spin-mutex. Its bad placement in
the table, however, has been the source of a false positive LOR reporting
with the dt_lock. However, smp rendezvous lock would have had sched_lock
there for older lock, so it wasn't still a leaf lock.
- allpmaps is only used in ia32 architecture, so it is inserted in the
appropriate stub.
Addictionally:
- kse_zombie_lock is no longer present, so its definition is axed out.
- zombie_lock doesn't need to have an exported symbol, so just let's it be
declared as static.
Tested by: kris
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
Together with the sys/i386/i386/trap.c rev. 1.306 it fixes the PR.
Submitted by: rdivacky
Suggested by: jhb
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
PR: kern/77710
Approved by: re (kensmith)
3 arguments, but we had forgotten the second argument. Also make the
Linux statfs64 struct depend on the architecture because it has an
extra 4 bytes padding on amd64 compared to i386.
The three argument fix is from David Taylor, the struct statfs64
stuff is my fault. With this patch I can install i386 Linux matlab
on an amd64 machine.
Submitted by: David Taylor <davidt_at_yadt.co.uk>
Approved by: re (kensmith)
was used in assembler code in such a way that no unresolved relocation
records were generated, so ld didn't flag the problem. You can see
this with an 'nm' of the kernel. There will be 'U MAXCPU' on SMP systems.
The impact of this is that the intrcount/intrnames arrays do not have
the intended amount of space reserved. This could lead to interesting
problems due to the arrays being present in the middle of kernel code.
An overflow would be rather interesting as executable code would be used
as per-cpu incrementing interrupt counters.
This fixes it for now by exporting MAXCPU to the assembler. A better fix
might be to define these data structures in C - they're only referenced
in the kernel from C code these days anyway.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
- p_sflag was mostly protected by PROC_LOCK rather than the PROC_SLOCK or
previously the sched_lock. These bugs have existed for some time.
- Allow swapout to try each thread in a process individually and then
swapin the whole process if any of these fail. This allows us to move
most scheduler related swap flags into td_flags.
- Keep ki_sflag for backwards compat but change all in source tools to
use the new and more correct location of P_INMEM.
Reported by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
of pages don't sum to anywhere near the total number of pages on amd64.
This is for the most part because uma_small_alloc() pages have never been
counted as wired pages, like their kmem_malloc() brethren. They should
be. This changes fixes that.
It is no longer necessary for the page queues lock to be held to free
pages allocated by uma_small_alloc(). I removed the acquisition and
release of the page queues lock from uma_small_free() on amd64 and ia64
weeks ago. This patch updates the other architectures that have
uma_small_alloc() and uma_small_free().
Approved by: re (kensmith)
per-primitive macros like MTX_NOPROFILE, SX_NOPROFILE or RW_NOPROFILE) is
not really honoured. In particular lock_profile_obtain_lock_failure() and
lock_profile_obtain_lock_success() are naked respect this flag.
The bug leads to locks marked with no-profiling to be profiled as well.
In the case of the clock_lock, used by the timer i8254 this leads to
unpredictable behaviour both on amd64 and ia32 (double faults panic,
sudden reboots, etc.). The amd64 clock_lock is also not marked as
not profilable as it should be.
Fix these bugs adding proper checks in the lock profiling code and at
clock_lock initialization time.
i8254 bug pointed out by: kris
Tested by: matteo, Giuseppe Cocomazzi <sbudella at libero dot it>
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
topology foo functions.
Working at the patch for topology problems in ia32/amd64 evicted some
problems regarding functions ordering in the SI_SUB_CPU family of
SYSINIT'ed subsystems.
In order to avoid problems with new modified to involved functions, a
correct ordering is not semantically specified for SI_SUB_CPU functions
(for a larger view of the issue please visit:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/075409.html )
Discussed with: peter
Tested by: kris, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
Approved by: jeff
Approved by: re
with Linux 2.6 emulation. This shall be reimplemented once FreeBSD gets
native scheduler affinity syscalls.
Submitted by: rdivacky
Reviewed by: jkim
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Approved by: re (kensmith)
longer create a pv entry for that mapping. (The two exceptions are
mappings into the kernel's exec and pipe submaps.) Consequently, there is
no reason for get_pv_entry() to dig deep into the free page queues, i.e.,
use VM_ALLOC_SYSTEM, by default. This revision changes get_pv_entry() to
use VM_ALLOC_NORMAL by default, i.e., before calling pmap_collect() to
reclaim pv entries.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
and newer CPUs (including Core 2 and Core / Core 2 based Xeons). The
driver attaches to each cpu device and creates a sysctl node in that
device's sysctl context (dev.cpu.N.temperature). When invoked, the
handler binds to the appropriate CPU to ensure a correct reading.
Submitted by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Tested by: des, marcus, Constantine A. Murenin, Ian FREISLICH
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 3 weeks
cpu_start_mp(). This is after we have read the cpuid registers to
calculate the hyperthreading_cpus value for the sysctl that enables or
disables hyperthread cores. Change mp_topology() to use that information
rather than trying to do it itself.
This solves the problem of ULE being incorrectly told that dual core
Athlon64 X2 or Operton cpus are hyperthreading cores. At the very least,
we now have a single piece of code to identify hyperthreading.
Obtained from: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)
value, then we would use a negative index into the trap_msg[] array
resulting in a nested page fault. Make the 'type' variable holding the
trap number unsigned to avoid this.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Approved by: re (rwatson)
print a one line error message. Add some comments on not being able to
trust the day of week field (I'll act on these comments in a follow up
commit).
Approved by: re
MFC after: 3 weeks
require fewer blocking loops.
- Don't use atomic ops with 4BSD or on UP.
- Only use the blocking loop if ULE is compiled in.
- Use the correct memory barrier.
Discussed with: attilio, jhb, ssouhlal
Tested by: current@
Approved by: re
kernels exposed by the recent fixes to resource limits for 32-bit processes
on 64-bit kernels:
- Let ABIs expose their maximum stack size via a new pointer in sysentvec
and use that in preference to maxssiz during exec() rather than always
using maxssiz for all processses.
- Apply the ABI's limit fixup to the previous stack size when adjusting
RLIMIT_STACK to determine if the existing mapping for the stack needs to
be grown or shrunk (as well as how much it should be grown or shrunk).
Approved by: re (kensmith)
the 7.0 timeframe.
This is needed because I4B is not locked and NET_NEEDS_GIANT goes away.
The plan is to lock I4B and bring everything back for 7.1.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
holding the page queues lock. Thus, the page table pages released by
pmap_remove() and pmap_remove_pages() can be freed after the page queues
lock is released.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
114 bytes of cmos ram in the PC clock chip. The big difference between
this and the Linux version is that we do not recalculate the checksums
for bytes 16..31.
We use this at work when cloning identical machines - we can copy the
bios settings as well. Reading /dev/nvram gives 114 bytes of data but
you can seek/read/write whichever bytes you like.
Yes, this is a "foot, gun, fire!" type of device.
more exposure. The current state of SCTP implementation is
considered to be ready for 32-bit platforms, but still need some
work/testing on 64-bit platforms.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Discussed with: rrs
making the relevant files standard. This avoids duplication and
makes it easier to override/disable unwanted schemes. Since ARM
doesn't have a DEFAULTS configuration file, leave the source
files for the BSD and MBR partitioning schemes in files.arm for
now.
In particular:
- Add an explicative table for locking of struct vmmeter members
- Apply new rules for some of those members
- Remove some unuseful comments
Heavily reviewed by: alc, bde, jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
caches with data caches after writing to memory. This typically
is required to make breakpoints work on ia64 and powerpc. For
those architectures the function is implemented.
oldthread should point at before we return.
- When cpu_switch() is called the td_lock pointer in the old thread may
point at the blocked lock. This prevents other processors from
switching into this thread while we're still switching out. Wait
until we're done deactivating the vmspace before we release the
thread by assigning to td_lock.
- Before we can activate the new vmspace we must make sure that the new
thread is not assigned to the blocked lock. It may be in the process
of switching out on another cpu. Spin until the new thread is
available.
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- There is no globally visible scheduler lock any longer. For now the
watchdog can only check Giant. This model of checking particular locks
is flawed and should be revisited. Other metrics should be considered.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Use sched_throw() rather than replicating the same cpu_throw() code for
each architecture. This also allows the scheduler to use any locking it
may want to.
- Use the thread_lock() rather than sched_lock when preempting.
- The scheduler lock is not required to synchronize release_aps.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Rename PCPU_LAZY_INC into PCPU_INC
- Add the PCPU_ADD interface which just does an add on the pcpu member
given a specific value.
Note that for most architectures PCPU_INC and PCPU_ADD are not safe.
This is a point that needs some discussions/work in the next days.
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
sysctl_handle_int is not sizeof the int type you want to export.
The type must always be an int or an unsigned int.
Remove the instances where a sizeof(variable) is passed to stop
people accidently cut and pasting these examples.
In a few places this was sysctl_handle_int was being used on 64 bit
types, which would truncate the value to be exported. In these
cases use sysctl_handle_quad to export them and change the format
to Q so that sysctl(1) can still print them.
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
handler is wrapped in a couple of functions - a filter wrapper and an
ithread wrapper. In this case (and just in this case), the filter
wrapper could ask the system to schedule the ithread and mask the
interrupt source if the wrapped handler is composed of just an ithread
handler: modify the "old" interrupt code to make it support
this situation, while the "new" interrupt code is already ok.
Discussed with: jhb
used to return PAGE_SIZE without respect to restrictions of a DMA tag.
This affected all of the busdma load functions that use
_bus_dmamap_loader_buffer() as their back-end.
Reviewed by: scottl
Note on dcons:
To enable dcons in kernel, put the following lines in /boot/loader.conf.
You may also want to enable dcons in /etc/ttys.
boot_multicons="YES"
#Force dcons to be the high-level console if a firewire bus presents.
#hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console=1
FireWire/dcons support in loader will come shortly.
(i386/amd64 only)
debugger is quite capable of handling Giant-free execution at this
point. Several other similar comments remain in trap.c on both i386
and amd64 awaiting analysis.
Implement all futex atomic operations in assembler to not depend on the
fuword() that does not allow to distinguish between -1 and failure return.
Correctly return 0 from atomic operations on success.
In collaboration with: rdivacky
Tested by: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel gmail com>, Milos Vyletel <mvyletel mzm cz>
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2007
same way it was enabled for Linux binares in linuxulator.
This allows binaries built with -pie. Many ports auto-detect -fPIE support
in GCC 4.2 and build binaries FreeBSD was unable to run.
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>