Previously, the UPAGES/KSTACK area of processes/threads would leak memory
at the time that a previously swapped process was terminated. Lukcily, the
leak was only 12K/proc, so it was unlikely to be a major problem unless you
had an undersized swap partition.
Submitted by: dillon
Reviewed by: silby
MFC after: 1 week
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
device drivers for bus system with other endinesses than the CPU (using
interfaces compatible to NetBSD):
- bwap16() and bswap32(). These have optimized implementations on some
architectures; for those that don't, there exist generic implementations.
- macros to convert from a certain byte order to host byte order and vice
versa, using a naming scheme like le16toh(), htole16().
These are implemented using the bswap functions.
- stream bus space access functions, which do not perform a byte order
conversion (while the normal access functions would if the bus endianess
differs from the CPU endianess).
htons(), htonl(), ntohs() and ntohl() are implemented using the new
functions above for kernel usage. None of the above interfaces is currently
exported to user land.
Make use of the new functions in a few places where local implementations
of the same functionality existed.
Reviewed by: mike, bde
Tested on alpha by: mike
work loads. It tapers off after that as gcc's working set generally just fits.
compiling bin/csh:
TSB_PAGES = 2
213.33 real 77.59 user 110.01 sys
TSB_PAGES = 4
116.43 real 75.78 user 19.16 sys
TSB_PAGES = 8
119.27 real 76.38 user 18.12 sys
Testing by: tmm
due to them being faster in certain cases. Therefore we need to save
and restore the v8 %y register around traps in kernel mode as well as
traps in usermode.
Tested by: obrien, tmm
until we do some testing to see what's best. This gives a massive reduction
in system time for processes with a relatively large working set. The size
of the tsb directly affects the rss size that a user process can keep mapped.
When it starts to get full replacements occur and the process takes a lot of
soft vm faults. Increasing the default from 1 page to 2 gives the following
before and after numbers for compiling vfs_bio.c:
before:
14.27 real 6.56 user 5.69 sys
after:
8.57 real 6.11 user 1.62 sys
This should make self hosted builds more tolerable.
I don't believe anyone is quite using the sparc64 kernel sources in CVS
yet -- things aren't just quite ready (but almost). So this commit should
be OK to make.
window to the user stack while in a nested kernel trap. We do this for
entry to the kernel from user mode, but if we get an interrupt in kernel
mode while there are still user windows in the cpu, and we attempt to spill
to the user stack, we may take too many nested traps and overflow the trap
stack, causing a red state exception. This is needed by upcoming changes
to allow the user tsb to not be locked in the tlb.
Reviewed by: tmm
virtual page number in a much more convenient way; all in one piece. This
greatly simplifies the comparison for a matching tte, and allows the fault
handlers to be much simpler due to not having to load wierd masks.
Rewrite the tlb fault handlers to account for the new format. These are also
written to allow faults on the user tsb inside of the fault handlers; the
kernel fault handler must be aware of this and not clobber the other's
registers. The faults do not yet occur due to other support that is needed
(and still under my desk).
Bug fixes from: tmm
Most of the contents are commented out as they are as-yet untested.
However, I wanted the contents to match our other arches, so that when
people make changes to {i386,alpha,ia64}, they will also make the same
changes here.
pmap_qenter and pmap_qremove in preference to pmap_kenter/pmap_kremove.
The former maps in multiple pages at a time, and so can do a ranged
flush. Don't assume that pmap_kenter and pmap_kremove will flush the tlb,
even though they still do. It will not once the MI code is updated to use
pmap_qenter and pmap_qremove.
will be used to reduce the number of tlb shootdown ipis in an smp system
by sending one ipi for a whole range of pages, instead of one per page.
Munge the context demap operations slightly to support demapping a non-primary
context.
If we don't do this here there's a 1 instruction race where an interrupt
could come in and crash the user process due to having no stack.
2. Pass %fsr to the user trap handler in %l4. Since %fsr can only be loaded
from or stored to memory, we need to do some contortions and temporarily
save it to the alternate global stack.
3. Reload the pcb and pcpu registers for traps in kernel mode, for sanity.
Submitted by: tmm (1, 2)
While in userland, keep the thread's ucred reference in a shadow
field so that the usual place to store it is NULL.
If DIAGNOSTIC is not set, the thread ucred is kept valid until the next
kernel entry, at which time it is checked against the process cred
and possibly corrected. Produces a BIG speedup in
kernels with INVARIANTS set. (A previous commit corrected it
for the non INVARIANTS case already)
Reviewed by: dillon@freebsd.org
deprecated in favor of the POSIX-defined lowercase variants.
o Change all occurrences of NTOHL() and associated marcros in the
source tree to use the lowercase function variants.
o Add missing license bits to sparc64's <machine/endian.h>.
Approved by: jake
o Clean up <machine/endian.h> files.
o Remove unused __uint16_swap_uint32() from i386's <machine/endian.h>.
o Remove prototypes for non-existent bswapXX() functions.
o Include <machine/endian.h> in <arpa/inet.h> to define the
POSIX-required ntohl() family of functions.
o Do similar things to expose the ntohl() family in libstand, <netinet/in.h>,
and <sys/param.h>.
o Prepend underscores to the ntohl() family to help deal with
complexities associated with having MD (asm and inline) versions, and
having to prevent exposure of these functions in other headers that
happen to make use of endian-specific defines.
o Create weak aliases to the canonical function name to help deal with
third-party software forgetting to include an appropriate header.
o Remove some now unneeded pollution from <sys/types.h>.
o Add missing <arpa/inet.h> includes in userland.
Tested on: alpha, i386
Reviewed by: bde, jake, tmm
patch from a year ago: give file flags their own type. This does not
(yet) change the type used by system calls or library functions.
The underlying type was chosen to match what is returned by stat().
