- Use isync/lwsync unconditionally for acquire/release. Use of isync
guarantees a complete memory barrier, which is important for serialization
of bus space accesses with mutexes on multi-processor systems.
- Go back to using sync as the I/O memory barrier, which solves the same
problem as above with respect to mutex release using lwsync, while not
penalizing non-I/O operations like a return to sync on the atomic release
operations would.
- Place an acquisition barrier around thread lock acquisition in
cpu_switchin().
guarantees on acquire for the tlbie mutex. Conversely, the TLB invalidation
sequence provides guarantees that do not need to be redundantly applied on
release. Roll a small custom lock that is just right. Simultaneously,
convert the SLB tree changes back to lwsync, as changing them to sync
was a misdiagnosis of the tlbie barrier problem this commit actually fixes.
of sync (lwsync is an alternate encoding of sync on systems that do not
support it, providing graceful fallback). This provides more than an order
of magnitude reduction in the time required to acquire or release a mutex.
MFC after: 2 months
the page. This PMAP requires an additional lock besides the PMAP lock
in pmap_extract_and_hold(), which vm_page_pa_tryrelock() did not release.
Suggested by: kib
MFC after: 4 days
for whether the page is physical. On dense phys mem systems (32-bit),
VM_PHYS_TO_PAGE will not return NULL for device memory pages if device
memory is above physical memory even if there is no allocated vm_page.
Attempting to use the returned page could then cause either memory
corruption or a page fault.
are are not mapped during ranged operations and reduce the scope of the
tlbie lock only to the actual tlbie instruction instead of the entire
sequence. There are a few more optimization possibilities here as well.
uses of the page queues mutex with a new rwlock that protects the page
table and the PV lists. This reduces system time during a parallel
buildworld by 35%.
Reviewed by: alc
manipulation of the pvo_vlink and pvo_olink entries is already protected
by the table lock, so most remaining instances of the acquisition of the
page queues lock can likely be replaced with the table lock, or removed
if the table lock is already held.
Reviewed by: alc
or look them up individually in pmap_remove() and apply the same logic
in the other ranged operation (pmap_protect). This speeds up make
installworld by a factor of 2 on powerpc64.
MFC after: 1 week
profiling and kernel profiling. To enable kernel profiling one has to build
kgmon(8). I will enable the build once I managed to build and test powerpc
(32-bit) kernels with profiling support.
- add a powerpc64 PROF_PROLOGUE for _mcount.
- add macros to avoid adding the PROF_PROLOGUE in certain assembly entries.
- apply these macros where needed.
- add size information to the MCOUNT function.
MFC after: 3 weeks, together with r230291
possible, and double faults within an SLB trap handler are not. The result
is that it possible to take an SLB fault at any time, on any address, for
any reason, at any point in the kernel.
This lets us do two important things. First, it removes the (soft) 16 GB RAM
ceiling on PPC64 as well as any architectural limitations on KVA space.
Second, it lets the kernel tolerate poorly designed hypervisors that
have a tendency to fail to restore the SLB properly after a hypervisor
context switch.
MFC after: 6 weeks
pmap_remove() for large sparse requests. This can prevent pmap_remove()
operations on 64-bit process destruction or swapout that would take
several hundred times the lifetime of the universe to complete. This
behavior is largely indistinguishable from a hang.
one. Interestingly, these are actually the default for quite some time
(bus_generic_driver_added(9) since r52045 and bus_generic_print_child(9)
since r52045) but even recently added device drivers do this unnecessarily.
Discussed with: jhb, marcel
- While at it, use DEVMETHOD_END.
Discussed with: jhb
- Also while at it, use __FBSDID.
yielding a new public interface, vm_page_alloc_contig(). This new function
addresses some of the limitations of the current interfaces, contigmalloc()
and kmem_alloc_contig(). For example, the physically contiguous memory that
is allocated with those interfaces can only be allocated to the kernel vm
object and must be mapped into the kernel virtual address space. It also
provides functionality that vm_phys_alloc_contig() doesn't, such as wiring
the returned pages. Moreover, unlike that function, it respects the low
water marks on the paging queues and wakes up the page daemon when
necessary. That said, at present, this new function can't be applied to all
types of vm objects. However, that restriction will be eliminated in the
coming weeks.
From a design standpoint, this change also addresses an inconsistency
between vm_phys_alloc_contig() and the other vm_phys_alloc*() functions.
Specifically, vm_phys_alloc_contig() manipulated vm_page fields that other
functions in vm/vm_phys.c didn't. Moreover, vm_phys_alloc_contig() knew
about vnodes and reservations. Now, vm_page_alloc_contig() is responsible
for these things.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jhb
Luckily, it mostly wasn't important, so this didn't cause major problems.
Also improve register reuse when setting up trap frames very slightly.
Submitted by: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail dot com>
MFC after: 5 days
flags field. Updates to the atomic flags are performed using the atomic
ops on the containing word, do not require any vm lock to be held, and
are non-blocking. The vm_page_aflag_set(9) and vm_page_aflag_clear(9)
functions are provided to modify afalgs.
Document the changes to flags field to only require the page lock.
Introduce vm_page_reference(9) function to provide a stable KPI and
KBI for filesystems like tmpfs and zfs which need to mark a page as
referenced.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Tested by: marius, flo (sparc64); andreast (powerpc, powerpc64)
Approved by: re (bz)
to VPO_UNMANAGED (and also making the flag protected by the vm object
lock, instead of vm page queue lock).
- Mark the fake pages with both PG_FICTITIOUS (as it is now) and
VPO_UNMANAGED. As a consequence, pmap code now can use use just
VPO_UNMANAGED to decide whether the page is unmanaged.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho (x86, previous version), marius (sparc64),
marcel (arm, ia64, powerpc), ray (mips)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (bz)
sintrcnt/sintrnames which are symbols containing the size of the 2
tables.
- For amd64/i386 remove the storage of intr* stuff from assembly files.
This area can be widely improved by applying the same to other
architectures and likely finding an unified approach among them and
move the whole code to be MI. More work in this area is expected to
happen fairly soon.
No MFC is previewed for this patch.
Tested by: pluknet
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
instead of a PCPU field for curthread. This averts a race on SMP systems
with a high interrupt rate where the thread looking up the value of
curthread could be preempted and migrated between obtaining the PCPU
pointer and reading the value of pc_curthread, resulting in curthread being
observed to be the current thread on the thread's original CPU. This played
merry havoc with the system, in particular with mutexes. Many thanks to
jhb for helping me work this one out.
Note that Book-E is in principle susceptible to the same problem, but has
not been modified yet due to lack of Book-E hardware.
MFC after: 2 weeks
some interesting bugs (mostly on SMP systems) with atomic operations
silently failing in interrupt heavy situations, especially when using
overflow pages.
