1. Add support for automatic promotion of 4KB page mappings to 2MB page
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. Tested by: kris
2. To date, we have assumed that the TLB will only set the PG_M bit in a
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.
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.
amd64 mechanism over. Instead of page table hackery that isn't
actually needed, just use 'struct pcpu __pcpu[MAXCPU]' for backing like
all the other platforms do. Get rid of 'struct privatespace' and a
while mess of #ifdef SMP garbage that set it up. As a bonus, this
returns the 4MB of KVA that we stole to implement it the old way.
This also allows you to read the pcpu data for each cpu when reading a
minidump.
Background information: Originally, pcpu stuff was implemented as having
per-cpu page tables and magic to make different data structures appear
at the same actual address. In order to share page tables, we switched
to using the GDT and %fs/%gs to access it. But we still did the evil
magic to set it up for the old way. The "idle stacks" are not used
for the idle process anymore and are just used for a few functions during
bootup, then ignored. (excercise for reader: free these afterwards).
of NKPT is no longer enough to run amd64 with 16G of RAM, as it
doesn't have space for mapping a kernel (16M kernel would require
additionally 8 page tables).
WB (write-back) on x86 via control bits in PTEs and PDEs (including making
use of the PAT MSR). Changes include:
- A new pmap_mapdev_attr() function for amd64 and i386 which takes an
additional parameter (relative to pmap_mapdev()) specifying the cache
mode for this mapping. Note that on amd64 only WB mappings are done with
the direct map, all other modes result in a private mapping.
- pmap_mapdev() on i386 and amd64 now defaults to using UC (uncached)
mappings rather than WB. Previously we relied on the BIOS setting up
MTRR's to enforce memio regions being treated as UC. This might make
hw.cbb_start_memory unnecessary in some cases now for example.
- A new pmap_mapbios()/pmap_unmapbios() API has been added to allow places
that used pmap_mapdev() to map non-device memory (such as ACPI tables)
to do so using WB as before.
- A new pmap_change_attr() function for amd64 and i386 that changes the
caching mode for a range of KVA.
Reviewed by: alc
per page = effectively 12.19 bytes per pv entry after overheads).
Instead of using a shared UMA zone for 24 byte pv entries (two 8-byte tailq
nodes, a 4 byte pointer, and a 4 byte address), we allocate a page at a
time per process. This provides 336 pv entries per process (actually, per
pmap address space) and eliminates one of the 8-byte tailq entries since
we now can track per-process pv entries implicitly. The pointer to
the pmap can be eliminated by doing address arithmetic to find the metadata
on the page headers to find a single pointer shared by all 336 entries.
There is an 11-int bitmap for the freelist of those 336 entries.
This is mostly a mechanical conversion from amd64, except:
* i386 has to allocate kvm and map the pages, amd64 has them outside of kvm
* native word size is smaller, so bitmaps etc become 32 bit instead of 64
* no dump_add_page() etc stuff because they are in kvm always.
* various pmap internals tweaks because pmap uses direct map on amd64 but
on i386 it has to use sched_pin and temporary mappings.
Also, sysctl vm.pmap.pv_entry_max and vm.pmap.shpgperproc are now
dynamic sysctls. Like on amd64, i386 can now tune the pv entry limits
without a recompile or reboot.
This is important because of the following scenario. If you have a 1GB
file (262144 pages) mmap()ed into 50 processes, that requires 13 million
pv entries. At 24 bytes per pv entry, that is 314MB of ram and kvm, while
at 12 bytes it is 157MB. A 157MB saving is significant.
Test-run by: scottl (Thanks!)
- Move vtophys() macros next to vtopte() where vtopte() exists to match
comments above vtopte().
- Remove references to the alternate address space in the comment above
vtopte(). amd64 never had the alternate address space, and i386 lost it
prior to PAE support being added.
- s/entires/entries/ in comments.
Reviewed by: alc
dump format. The key reason to do this is so that we can dump sparse
address space. For example, we need to be able to skip the PCI hole
just below the 4GB boundary. Trying to destructively dump MMIO device
registers is Really Bad(TM). The frequent result of trying to do a
crash dump on a machine with 4GB or more ram was ugly (lockup or reboot).
This code has been taken directly from the IA64 dump_machdep.c code,
with just a few (mostly minor) mods.
Introduce a dump_avail[] array in the machdep.c code so that we have a
source of truth for what memory is present in a machine that needs to be
dumped. We can't use phys_avail[] because all sorts of things slice
memory out of it that we really need to dump. eg: the vm page array
and the dmesg buffer. dump_avail[] is pretty much an unmolested version
of phys_avail[]. It does have Maxmem correction.
Bump the i386 and amd64 dump format to version 2, but nothing actually
uses this. amd64 was actually using the i386 dump version number.
libkvm support to follow.
Approved by: re
Restructure pmap_enter() to prevent the loss of a page modified (PG_M) bit
in a race between processors. (This restructuring assumes the newly atomic
pte_load_store() for correct operation.)
Reviewed by: tegge@
PR: i386/61852
pmap_copy(). This entails additional locking in pmap_copy() and the
addition of a "flags" parameter to the page table page allocator for
specifying whether it may sleep when memory is unavailable. (Already,
pmap_copy() checks the availability of memory, aborting if it is scarce.
In theory, another CPU could, however, allocate memory between
pmap_copy()'s check and the call to the page table page allocator,
causing the current thread to release its locks and sleep. This change
makes this scenario impossible.)
Reviewed by: tegge@
value was only enough for 8GB of RAM, the new value can do 16GB. This still
isn't optimal since it doesn't scale. Fixing this for amd64 looks to be
fairly easy, but for i386 will be quite difficult.
Reviewed by: peter
pv entries per 1GB of user virtual memory. (eg: if we had 1GB file was
mmaped into 30 processes, that would theoretically reduce the KVA demand by
30MB for pv entries. In reality though, we limit pv entries so we don't
have that many at once.)
We used to store the vm_page_t for the page table page. But we recently
had the pa of the ptp, or can calculate it fairly quickly. If we wanted
to avoid the shift/mask operation in pmap_pde(), we could recover the
pa but that means we have to store it for a while.
This does not measurably change performance.
Suggested by: alc
Tested by: alc
move its declaration to the machine-dependent header file on those
machines that use it. In principle, only i386 should have it.
Alpha and AMD64 should use their direct virtual-to-physical mapping.
- Remove pmap_kenter_temporary() from ia64. It is unused. Approved
by: marcel@
pmap_pte() and pmap_pte_quick(). The distinction being based upon the
locks that are held by the caller. When the given pmap is not the
current pmap, pmap_pte() should be used when Giant is held and
pmap_pte_quick() should be used when the vm page queues lock is held.
- When assigning to PMAP1 or PMAP2, include PG_A anf PG_M.
- Reenable the inlining of pmap_is_current().
In collaboration with: tegge
avoid problems with some Pentium 4 cpus and some older PPro/Pentium2
cpus. There are several problems, some documented in Intel errata.
This patch:
1) moves the kernel to the second page in the PSE case. There is an
errata that says that you Must Not point a 4MB page at physical
address zero on older cpus. We avoided bugs here due to sheer luck.
2) sets up PSE page tables right from the start in locore, rather than
trying to switch from 4K to 4M (or 2M) pages part way through the boot
sequence at the same time that we're messing with PG_G.
For some reason, the pmap work over the last 18 months seems to tickle
the problems, and the PAE infrastructure changes disturb the cpu
bugs even more.
A couple of people have reported a problem with APM bios calls during
boot. I'll work with people to get this resolved.
Obtained from: bmilekic
the top of the address space to be reclaimed. The problem is that with
the APTD gone the mapable kernel address space runs right to the end of
the 32 bit address space. As a max this is 0x100000000, which can't be
represented in 32 bits, so we have to use ptd entry n-1 and pte offset
n-1, instead of ptd entry n and pte offset 0. There's still 1 page we
can't use, but we gain just under 4 megs of kva (8 megs with PAE).
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
as it could be and can do with some more cleanup. Currently its under
options LAZY_SWITCH. What this does is avoid %cr3 reloads for short
context switches that do not involve another user process. ie: we can
take an interrupt, switch to a kthread and return to the user without
explicitly flushing the tlb. However, this isn't as exciting as it could
be, the interrupt overhead is still high and too much blocks on Giant
still. There are some debug sysctls, for stats and for an on/off switch.
The main problem with doing this has been "what if the process that you're
running on exits while we're borrowing its address space?" - in this case
we use an IPI to give it a kick when we're about to reclaim the pmap.
Its not compiled in unless you add the LAZY_SWITCH option. I want to fix a
few more things and get some more feedback before turning it on by default.
This is NOT a replacement for Bosko's lazy interrupt stuff. This was more
meant for the kthread case, while his was for interrupts. Mine helps a
little for interrupts, but his helps a lot more.
The stats are enabled with options SWTCH_OPTIM_STATS - this has been a
pseudo-option for years, I just added a bunch of stuff to it.
One non-trivial change was to select a new thread before calling
cpu_switch() in the first place. This allows us to catch the silly
case of doing a cpu_switch() to the current process. This happens
uncomfortably often. This simplifies a bit of the asm code in cpu_switch
(no longer have to call choosethread() in the middle). This has been
implemented on i386 and (thanks to jake) sparc64. The others will come
soon. This is actually seperate to the lazy switch stuff.
Glanced at by: jake, jhb
kernel opition 'options PAE'. This will only work with device drivers which
either use busdma, or are able to handle 64 bit physical addresses.
Thanks to Lanny Baron from FreeBSD Systems for the loan of a test machine
with 6 gigs of ram.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories, FreeBSD Systems
accessing an alternate address space this causes 1 page table page at
a time to be mapped in, rather than using the recursive mapping technique
to map in an entire alternate address space. The recursive mapping
technique changes large portions of the address space and requires global
tlb flushes, which seem to cause problems when PAE is enabled. This will
also allow IPIs to be avoided when mapping in new page table pages using
the same technique as is used for pmap_copy_page and pmap_zero_page.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
where physical addresses larger than virtual addresses, such as i386s
with PAE.
- Use this to represent physical addresses in the MI vm system and in the
i386 pmap code. This also changes the paddr parameter to d_mmap_t.
- Fix printf formats to handle physical addresses >4G in the i386 memory
detection code, and due to kvtop returning vm_paddr_t instead of u_long.
Note that this is a name change only; vm_paddr_t is still the same as
vm_offset_t on all currently supported platforms.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Discussed with: re, phk (cdevsw change)
are machine dependent because they are not required to update the tlb when
mappings are added or removed, and doing so is machine dependent.
In addition, an implementation may require that pages mapped with pmap_kenter
have a backing vm_page_t, which is not necessarily true of all physical
pages, and so may choose to pass the vm_page_t to pmap_kenter instead of the
physical address in order to make this requirement clear.
for testing and setting the current and alternate address spaces.
- Changed PTDpde and APTDpde to arrays to support multiple page directory
pages.
ponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
