address and use this mechanism when:
1. kmem_alloc_{attr,contig}() can't find suitable free pages in the physical
memory allocator's free page lists. This replaces the long-standing
approach of scanning the inactive and inactive queues, converting clean
pages into PG_CACHED pages and laundering dirty pages. In contrast, the
new mechanism does not use PG_CACHED pages nor does it trigger a large
number of I/O operations.
2. on 32-bit MIPS processors, uma_small_alloc() and the pmap can't find
free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists that are
covered by the direct map. Tested by: adrian
3. ttm_bo_global_init() and ttm_vm_page_alloc_dma32() can't find suitable
free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists.
In the coming months, I expect that this new mechanism will be applied in
other places. For example, balloon drivers should use relocation to
minimize fragmentation of the guest physical address space.
Make vm_phys_alloc_contig() a little smarter (and more efficient in some
cases). Specifically, use vm_phys_segs[] earlier to avoid scanning free
page lists that can't possibly contain suitable pages.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Glanced at: jhb
Discussed with: jeff
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4444
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
Remove redundant lookup of the old page from vm_page_replace. Verification
that the old page exists is already done by vm_radix_replace.
Submitted by: Ryan Libby <rlibby@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Follow-up to: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4326
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4471
reclaimed in FIFO order by the pagedaemon. Previously we would enqueue
such pages at the head of the inactive queue, yielding a LIFO reclaim order.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
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
queue and (2) returns a Boolean indicating whether the page's wire count
transitioned to zero.
Exploit this change in vfs_vmio_release() to avoid pointlessly enqueueing
a page that is about to be freed.
(An earlier version of this change was developed by attilio@ and kmacy@.
Any errors in this version are my own.)
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
with a reference count of zero can't possibly be mapped, so there is never a
need for vm_page_set_invalid() to call pmap_remove_all() on them.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
This was added in r51337 as part of the implementation of
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). Its objective was to ensure that the page daemon
would eventually reclaim other unreferenced pages (i.e., unreferenced pages
not touched by madvise()) from the active queue.
Now that the pagedaemon performs steady scanning of the active page queue,
this weighted handling is unnecessary. Instead, always "cache" clean pages
by moving them to the head of the inactive page queue. This simplifies the
implementation of vm_page_advise() and eliminates the fragmentation that
resulted from the distribution of pages among multiple queues.
Suggested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3401
r283162.
Fix a cosmetic issue with vm_page_alloc() calling vm_page_free_toq()
with the page not completely satisfying vm_page_free() assertions.
The page is not owned by the object, since insertion failed. But
besides m->object reset to NULL, we should also set VPO_UNMANAGED flag
for consistency.
Reported by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
components for PV kernels. These components are now standard as they
are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by: royger
Tested by: royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes: yes
a text file with a list of physical memory addresses to exclude, and have it
loaded at boot time via the provided example in loader.conf. The tunable
'vm.blacklist' remains, but using an external file means that there's no
practical limit to the size of the list. This change also improves the
scanning algorithm for processing the list, scanning the list only once
instead of scanning it for every page in the system. Both the sysctl and
the file can be unsorted and contain duplicates so long as each entry is
numeric (decimal or hex) and is separated by a space, comma, or newline
character. The sysctl 'vm.page_blacklist' is now provided to report what
memory locations were successfully excluded.
Reviewed by: imp, emax
Obtained from: Netflix, Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
vm.boot_pages is marked as a CTLFLAG_RDTUN, but it's used by the VM
before the sysctl subsystem is initialsed. We manually fetch the
variable from the environment to work around this problem.
Tested by: Keith White kwhite at uottawa.ca
MFC after: 1 week
on i386 PAE. Previously, VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE could not be used on amd64 and
i386 because vm_page_startup() would not create vm_page structures for the
kernel page table pages allocated during pmap_bootstrap() but those vm_page
structures are needed when the kernel attempts to promote the corresponding
kernel virtual addresses to superpage mappings. To address this problem, a
new public function, vm_phys_add_seg(), is introduced and vm_phys_init() is
updated to reflect the creation of vm_phys_seg structures by calls to
vm_phys_add_seg().
Discussed with: Svatopluk Kraus
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
in userland rename in-kernel getenv()/setenv() to kern_setenv()/kern_getenv().
This fixes a namespace collision with libc symbols.
Submitted by: kmacy
Tested by: make universe
pmap_enter(PMAP_ENTER_NOSLEEP). The PGA_WRITEABLE flag can be set
when either the page is busied, or the owner object is locked.
Update comments, move all assertions about page state when
PGA_WRITEABLE flag is set, into new helper
vm_page_assert_pga_writeable().
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
the queue where to enqueue pages that are going to be unwired.
- Add stronger checks to the enqueue/dequeue for the pagequeues when
adding and removing pages to them.
Of course, for unmanaged pages the queue parameter of vm_page_unwire() will
be ignored, just as the active parameter today.
This makes adding new pagequeues quicker.
This change effectively modifies the KPI. __FreeBSD_version will be,
however, bumped just when the full cache of free pages will be
evicted.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
a partially populated reservation becomes fully populated, and decrease this
field when a fully populated reservation becomes partially populated.
Use this field to simplify the implementation of pmap_enter_object() on
amd64, arm, and i386.
On all architectures where we support superpages, the cost of creating a
superpage mapping is roughly the same as creating a base page mapping. For
example, both kinds of mappings entail the creation of a single PTE and PV
entry. With this in mind, use the page size field to make the
implementation of vm_map_pmap_enter(..., MAP_PREFAULT_PARTIAL) a little
smarter. Previously, if MAP_PREFAULT_PARTIAL was specified to
vm_map_pmap_enter(), that function would only map base pages. Now, it will
create up to 96 base page or superpage mappings.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
To reduce the diff struct pcu.cnt field was not renamed, so
PCPU_OP(cnt.field) is still used. pc_cnt and pcpu are also used in
kvm(3) and vmstat(8). The goal was to not affect externally used KPI.
Bump __FreeBSD_version_ in case some out-of-tree module/code relies on the
the global cnt variable.
Exp-run revealed no ports using it directly.
No objection from: arch@
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
no longer any need for the page's PG_CACHED and PG_FREE flags to be set and
cleared while the free page queues lock is held. Thus, vm_page_alloc(),
vm_page_alloc_contig(), and vm_page_alloc_freelist() can wait until after
the free page queues lock is released to clear the page's flags. Moreover,
the PG_FREE flag can be retired. Now that the reservation system no longer
uses it, its only uses are in a few assertions. Eliminating these
assertions is no real loss. Other assertions catch the same types of
misbehavior, like doubly freeing a page (see r260032) or dirtying a free
page (free pages are invalid and only valid pages can be dirtied).
Eliminate an unneeded variable from vm_page_alloc_contig().
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
and the equivalent functionality is now provided by sendfile(2) over
posix shared memory filedescriptor.
Remove the cow member of struct vm_page, and rearrange the remaining
members. While there, make hold_count unsigned.
Requested and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (delphij)
portion is invalidated, invalidate the whole page. Otherwise,
partially valid page appears on a page queue, which is wrong. This
could only happen for the last page, because only then buffer which
triggered invalidation could not cover the whole page.
Reported and tested by: pho (previous version)
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (delphij)
MFC after: 2 weeks
VPB_BIT_WAITERS flag were changed between reading of busy_lock and the
cas. The vm_page_sbusy(), which is the only user of
vm_page_trysbusy() in the tree, panics on the failure, which in these
cases is transient and do not mean that the current page state
prevents sbusying.
Retry the operation inside vm_page_trysbusy() if cas failed, only
return a failure when VPB_BIT_SHARED is cleared.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MADV_DONTNEED) and madvise(..., MADV_FREE). Specifically, introduce a new
pmap function, pmap_advise(), that operates on a range of virtual addresses
within the specified pmap, allowing for a more efficient implementation of
MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE. Previously, the implementation of
MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE relied on per-page pmap operations, such as
pmap_clear_reference(). Intuitively, the problem with this implementation
is that the pmap-level locks are acquired and released and the page table
traversed repeatedly, once for each resident page in the range
that was specified to madvise(2). A more subtle flaw with the previous
implementation is that pmap_clear_reference() would clear the reference bit
on all mappings to the specified page, not just the mapping in the range
specified to madvise(2).
Since our malloc(3) makes heavy use of madvise(2), this change can have a
measureable impact. For example, the system time for completing a parallel
"buildworld" on a 6-core amd64 machine was reduced by about 1.5% to 2.0%.
Note: This change only contains pmap_advise() implementations for a subset
of our supported architectures. I will commit implementations for the
remaining architectures after further testing. For now, a stub function is
sufficient because of the advisory nature of pmap_advise().
Discussed with: jeff, jhb, kib
Tested by: pho (i386), marcel (ia64)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
reclaim the last preexisting cached page in the object, resulting in a call
to vdrop(). Detect this scenario so that the vnode's hold count is
correctly maintained. Otherwise, we panic.
Reported by: scottl
Tested by: pho
Discussed with: attilio, jeff, kib
The flag was mandatory since r209792, where vm_page_grab(9) was
changed to only support the alloc retry semantic.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
wired, unwind back the wiring bits otherwise we can end up freeing a
page that is considered wired.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by: alc
maintaining better LRU of active pages.
- Change v_free_target to include the quantity previously represented by
v_cache_min so we don't need to add them together everywhere we use them.
- Add a pageout_wakeup_thresh that sets the free page count trigger for
waking the page daemon. Set this 10% above v_free_min so we wakeup before
any phase transitions in vm users.
- Adjust down v_free_target now that we're willing to accept more pagedaemon
wakeups. This means we process fewer pages in one iteration as well,
leading to shorter lock hold times and less overall disruption.
- Eliminate vm_pageout_page_stats(). This was a minor variation on the
PQ_ACTIVE segment of the normal pageout daemon. Instead we now process
1 / vm_pageout_update_period pages every second. This causes us to visit
the whole active list every 60 seconds. Previously we would only maintain
the active LRU when we were short on pages which would mean it could be
woefully out of date.
Reviewed by: alc (slight variant of this)
Discussed with: alc, kib, jhb
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
what is really needed on this code snipped is that all the pages that
are already fully inserted gets fully freed, while for the others the
object removal itself might be skipped, hence the object might be set to
NULL.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by: alc, kib
Reviewed by: alc
