cache: vm_object_page_remove() should convert any cached pages that
fall with the specified range to free pages. Otherwise, there could
be a problem if a file is first truncated and then regrown.
Specifically, some old data from prior to the truncation might reappear.
Generalize vm_page_cache_free() to support the conversion of either a
subset or the entirety of an object's cached pages.
Reported by: tegge
Reviewed by: tegge
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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)
changes the units from seconds to the value of 'ticks' when swapped
in/out. ULE does not have a periodic timer that scans all threads in
the system and as such maintaining a per-second counter is difficult.
- Change computations requiring the unit in seconds to subtract ticks
and divide by hz. This does make the wraparound condition hz times
more frequent but this is still in the range of several months to
years and the adverse effects are minimal.
Approved by: re
- 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)
status after vm_pager_put_pages() is VM_PAGER_PEND, then it could have
already been recycled, i.e., freed and reallocated to a new purpose;
thus, asserting that such pages cannot be written is inappropriate.
Reported by: kris
Submitted by: tegge
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 1 week
For this, introduce vm_map_fixed() that does that for MAP_FIXED case.
Dropping the lock allowed for parallel thread to occupy the freed space.
Reported by: Tijl Coosemans <tijl ulyssis org>
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 2 weeks
sys/vm/device_pager.c:
Protect the creation of the phys pager with non-NULL handle with the
phys_pager_mtx. Lookup of phys pager in the pagers list by handle is now
synchronized with its removal from the list, and phys_pager_mtx is put
before vm object lock in lock order. Dispose the phys_pager_alloc_lock
and tsleep calls, together with acquiring Giant, since phys_pager_mtx
now covers the same block.
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
of device pager in the pagers list by handle is now synchronized with
its removal from the list, and dev_pager_mtx is put before vm object
lock in lock order. Dispose the dev_pager_sx lock, since dev_pager_mtx
now covers the same block.
Noted by: kensmith
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
vm_object_terminate() on a device-backed object at the same time that
another processor, call it Pa, is performing dev_pager_alloc() on the
same device. The problem is that vm_pager_object_lookup() should not be
allowed to return a doomed object, i.e., an object with OBJ_DEAD set,
but it does. In detail, the unfortunate sequence of events is: Pt in
vm_object_terminate() holds the doomed object's lock and sets OBJ_DEAD
on the object. Pa in dev_pager_alloc() holds dev_pager_sx and calls
vm_pager_object_lookup(), which returns the doomed object. Next, Pa
calls vm_object_reference(), which requires the doomed object's lock, so
Pa waits for Pt to release the doomed object's lock. Pt proceeds to the
point in vm_object_terminate() where it releases the doomed object's
lock. Pa is now able to complete vm_object_reference() because it can
now complete the acquisition of the doomed object's lock. So, now the
doomed object has a reference count of one! Pa releases dev_pager_sx
and returns the doomed object from dev_pager_alloc(). Pt now acquires
dev_pager_mtx, removes the doomed object from dev_pager_object_list,
releases dev_pager_mtx, and finally calls uma_zfree with the doomed
object. However, the doomed object is still in use by Pa.
Repeating my key point, vm_pager_object_lookup() must not return a
doomed object. Moreover, the test for the object's state, i.e.,
doomed or not, and the increment of the object's reference count
should be carried out atomically.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 3 weeks
d_mmap methods. prep_cdevsw() already installs the shims that
acquire/drop Giant for the methods of a driver that specified the
D_NEEDGIANT flag.
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
1. Rewrite the backward scan. Specifically, reverse the order in which
pages are allocated so that upon failure it is never necessary to
free pages that were just allocated. Moreover, any allocated pages
can be put to use. This makes the backward scan behave just like the
forward scan.
2. Eliminate an explicit, unsynchronized check for low memory before
calling vm_page_alloc(). It serves no useful purpose. It is, in
effect, optimizing the uncommon case at the expense of the common
case.
Approved by: re (hrs)
MFC after: 3 weeks
vm_phys_free_pages(). Rename vm_phys_alloc_pages_locked() to
vm_phys_alloc_pages() and vm_phys_free_pages_locked() to
vm_phys_free_pages(). Add comments regarding the need for the free page
queues lock to be held by callers to these functions. No functional
changes.
Approved by: re (hrs)
vm_page_cowfault(). Initially, if vm_page_cowfault() sleeps, the given
page is wired, preventing it from being recycled. However, when
transmission of the page completes, the page is unwired and returned to
the page queues. At that point, the page is not in any special state
that prevents it from being recycled. Consequently, vm_page_cowfault()
should verify that the page is still held by the same vm object before
retrying the replacement of the page. Note: The containing object is,
however, safe from being recycled by virtue of having a non-zero
paging-in-progress count.
While I'm here, add some assertions and comments.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
MFC After: 3 weeks
vm_fault_additional_pages() that was introduced in revision 1.47. Then
as now, it is unnecessary because dev_pager_haspage() returns zero for
both the number of pages to read ahead and read behind, producing the
same exact behavior by vm_fault_additional_pages() as the special case
handling.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
tracks the total number of reactivated pages. (We have not been
counting reactivations by vm_fault() since revision 1.46.)
Correct a comment in vm_fault_additional_pages().
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 1 week
of Giant in vm_pageout_scan() with VFS_LOCK_GIANT(), I had to eliminate
the acquisition of the vnode interlock before releasing the vm object's
lock because the vnode interlock cannot be held when VFS_LOCK_GIANT() is
performed. Unfortunately, this allows the vnode to be recycled between
the release of the vm object's lock and the vget() on the vnode.
In this revision, I prevent the vnode from being recycled by acquiring
another reference to the vm object and underlying vnode before releasing
the vm object's lock.
This change also addresses another preexisting but trivial problem. By
acquiring another reference to the vm object, I also prevent the vm
object from being recycled. Previously, the "vnodes skipped" counter
could be wrong because if it examined a recycled vm object.
Reported by: kib
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 3 weeks
passed to vm_pageout_clean() cannot possibly be PG_UNMANAGED because
it came from the inactive queue and PG_UNMANAGED pages are not in any
page queue. Moreover, PG_UNMANAGED pages only exist in OBJT_PHYS
objects, and all pages within a OBJT_PHYS object are PG_UNMANAGED.
So, if the page that is passed to vm_pageout_clean() is not
PG_UNMANAGED, then it cannot be from an OBJT_PHYS object and its
neighbors from the same object cannot themselves be PG_UNMANAGED.
Reviewed by: tegge
This allocator uses a binary buddy system with a twist. First and
foremost, this allocator is required to support the implementation of
superpages. As a side effect, it enables a more robust implementation
of contigmalloc(9). Moreover, this reimplementation of
contigmalloc(9) eliminates the acquisition of Giant by
contigmalloc(..., M_NOWAIT, ...).
The twist is that this allocator tries to reduce the number of TLB
misses incurred by accesses through a direct map to small, UMA-managed
objects and page table pages. Roughly speaking, the physical pages
that are allocated for such purposes are clustered together in the
physical address space. The performance benefits vary. In the most
extreme case, a uniprocessor kernel running on an Opteron, I measured
an 18% reduction in system time during a buildworld.
This allocator does not implement page coloring. The reason is that
superpages have much the same effect. The contiguous physical memory
allocation necessary for a superpage is inherently colored.
Finally, the one caveat is that this allocator does not effectively
support prezeroed pages. I hope this is temporary. On i386, this is
a slight pessimization. However, on amd64, the beneficial effects of
the direct-map optimization outweigh the ill effects. I speculate
that this is true in general of machines with a direct map.
Approved by: re
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)
to the build.
This allocator uses a binary buddy system with a twist. First and
foremost, this allocator is required to support the implementation of
superpages. As a side effect, it enables a more robust implementation
of contigmalloc(9). Moreover, this reimplementation of
contigmalloc(9) eliminates the acquisition of Giant by
contigmalloc(..., M_NOWAIT, ...).
The twist is that this allocator tries to reduce the number of TLB
misses incurred by accesses through a direct map to small, UMA-managed
objects and page table pages. Roughly speaking, the physical pages
that are allocated for such purposes are clustered together in the
physical address space. The performance benefits vary. In the most
extreme case, a uniprocessor kernel running on an Opteron, I measured
an 18% reduction in system time during a buildworld.
This allocator does not implement page coloring. The reason is that
superpages have much the same effect. The contiguous physical memory
allocation necessary for a superpage is inherently colored.
Finally, the one caveat is that this allocator does not effectively
support prezeroed pages. I hope this is temporary. On i386, this is
a slight pessimization. However, on amd64, the beneficial effects of
the direct-map optimization outweigh the ill effects. I speculate
that this is true in general of machines with a direct map.
Approved by: re
- 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)
Now, we assume no more sched_lock protection for some of them and use the
distribuited loads method for vmmeter (distribuited through CPUs).
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
- 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)
td_ru. This removes the requirement for per-process synchronization in
statclock() and mi_switch(). This was previously supported by
sched_lock which is going away. All modifications to rusage are now
done in the context of the owning thread. reads proceed without locks.
- Aggregate exiting threads rusage in thread_exit() such that the exiting
thread's rusage is not lost.
- Provide a new routine, rufetch() to fetch an aggregate of all rusage
structures from all threads in a process. This routine must be used
in any place requiring a rusage from a process prior to it's exit. The
exited process's rusage is still available via p_ru.
- Aggregate tick statistics only on demand via rufetch() or when a thread
exits. Tick statistics are kept in the thread and protected by sched_lock
until it exits.
Initial patch by: attilio
Reviewed by: attilio, bde (some objections), arch (mostly silent)
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)
Change the VOP_OPEN(), vn_open() vnode operation and d_fdopen() cdev operation
argument from being file descriptor index into the pointer to struct file.
Proposed and reviewed by: jhb
Reviewed by: daichi (unionfs)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
These functions are intended to do the same actions of sx_xlock() and
sx_slock() but with the difference to perform an interruptible sleep, so
that sleep can be interrupted by external events.
In order to support these new featueres, some code renstruction is needed,
but external API won't be affected at all.
Note: use "void" cast for "int" returning functions in order to avoid tools
like Coverity prevents to whine.
Requested by: rwatson
Tested by: rwatson
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
vm_map_pmap_enter() unless the caller is madvise(MADV_WILLNEED). With
the exception of calls to vm_map_pmap_enter() from
madvise(MADV_WILLNEED), vm_fault_prefault() and vm_map_pmap_enter()
are both used to create speculative mappings. Thus, always
reactivating cached pages is a mistake. In principle, cached pages
should only be reactivated by an actual access. Otherwise, the
following misbehavior can occur. On a hard fault for a text page the
clustering algorithm fetches not only the required page but also
several of the adjacent pages. Now, suppose that one or more of the
adjacent pages are never accessed. Ultimately, these unused pages
become cached pages through the efforts of the page daemon. However,
the next activation of the executable reactivates and maps these
unused pages. Consequently, they are never replaced. In effect, they
become pinned in memory.
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>
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE depending on whether the physical address space is
densely or sparsely populated with memory. The effect of this
definition is to determine which of two implementations of
vm_page_array and PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() is used. The legacy
implementation is obtained by defining VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE, and a new
implementation that trades off time for space is obtained by defining
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE. For now, all architectures except for ia64 and
sparc64 define VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on ia64
allows the entirety of my Itanium 2's memory to be used. Previously,
only the first 1 GB could be used. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on
sparc64 allows USIIIi-based systems to boot without crashing.
This change is a combination of Nathan Whitehorn's patch and my own
work in perforce.
Discussed with: kmacy, marius, Nathan Whitehorn
PR: 112194
