has been some bitrot and incorrect assumptions in the vfs_bio code. These
problems have manifest themselves worse on NFS type filesystems, but can
still affect local filesystems under certain circumstances. Most of
the problems have involved mmap consistancy, and as a side-effect broke
the vfs.ioopt code. This code might have been committed seperately, but
almost everything is interrelated.
1) Allow (pmap_object_init_pt) prefaulting of buffer-busy pages that
are fully valid.
2) Rather than deactivating erroneously read initial (header) pages in
kern_exec, we now free them.
3) Fix the rundown of non-VMIO buffers that are in an inconsistent
(missing vp) state.
4) Fix the disassociation of pages from buffers in brelse. The previous
code had rotted and was faulty in a couple of important circumstances.
5) Remove a gratuitious buffer wakeup in vfs_vmio_release.
6) Remove a crufty and currently unused cluster mechanism for VBLK
files in vfs_bio_awrite. When the code is functional, I'll add back
a cleaner version.
7) The page busy count wakeups assocated with the buffer cache usage were
incorrectly cleaned up in a previous commit by me. Revert to the
original, correct version, but with a cleaner implementation.
8) The cluster read code now tries to keep data associated with buffers
more aggressively (without breaking the heuristics) when it is presumed
that the read data (buffers) will be soon needed.
9) Change to filesystem lockmgr locks so that they use LK_NOPAUSE. The
delay loop waiting is not useful for filesystem locks, due to the
length of the time intervals.
10) Correct and clean-up spec_getpages.
11) Implement a fully functional nfs_getpages, nfs_putpages.
12) Fix nfs_write so that modifications are coherent with the NFS data on
the server disk (at least as well as NFS seems to allow.)
13) Properly support MS_INVALIDATE on NFS.
14) Properly pass down MS_INVALIDATE to lower levels of the VM code from
vm_map_clean.
15) Better support the notion of pages being busy but valid, so that
fewer in-transit waits occur. (use p->busy more for pageouts instead
of PG_BUSY.) Since the page is fully valid, it is still usable for
reads.
16) It is possible (in error) for cached pages to be busy. Make the
page allocation code handle that case correctly. (It should probably
be a printf or panic, but I want the system to handle coding errors
robustly. I'll probably add a printf.)
17) Correct the design and usage of vm_page_sleep. It didn't handle
consistancy problems very well, so make the design a little less
lofty. After vm_page_sleep, if it ever blocked, it is still important
to relookup the page (if the object generation count changed), and
verify it's status (always.)
18) In vm_pageout.c, vm_pageout_clean had rotted, so clean that up.
19) Push the page busy for writes and VM_PROT_READ into vm_pageout_flush.
20) Fix vm_pager_put_pages and it's descendents to support an int flag
instead of a boolean, so that we can pass down the invalidate bit.
f00f_hack has run.
Use the global r_idt descriptor in f00f_hack when in SMP mode,
so the APs find the relocated interrupt descriptor table.
Submitted by: Partially from David A Adkins <adkin003@tc.umn.edu>
interrupts are masked, and EOI is sent iff the corresponding ISR bit
is set in the local apic. If the CPU cannot obtain the interrupt
service lock (currently the global kernel lock) the interrupt is
forwarded to the CPU holding that lock.
Clock interrupts now have higher priority than other slow interrupts.
the signal handling latency for cpu-bound processes that performs very
few system calls.
The IPI for forcing an additional software trap is no longer dependent upon
BETTER_CLOCK being defined.
2) Do not unnecessarily force page blocking when paging
pages out.
3) Further improve swap pager performance and correctness,
including fixing the paging in progress deadlock (except
in severe I/O error conditions.)
4) Enable vfs_ioopt=1 as a default.
5) Fix and enable the page prezeroing in SMP mode.
All in all, SMP systems especially should show a significant
improvement in "snappyness."
in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly
handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the
default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and
"VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems
with greater than 128MB.
Add some accouting for vm_zone memory allocations, and provide properly
for vm_zone allocations out of the kmem_map. Also move the vm_zone
allocation stats to the VM OID tree from the KERN OID tree.
Highlights:
* Simple model for underlying hardware.
* Hardware basis for timekeeping can be changed on the fly.
* Only one hardware clock responsible for TOD keeping.
* Provides a real nanotime() function.
* Time granularity: .232E-18 seconds.
* Frequency granularity: .238E-12 s/s
* Frequency adjustment is continuous in time.
* Less overhead for frequency adjustment.
* Improves xntpd performance.
Reviewed by: bde, bde, bde
of the various ad-hoc schemes.
2) When bringing in UPAGES, the pmap code needs to do another vm_page_lookup.
3) When appropriate, set the PG_A or PG_M bits a-priori to both avoid some
processor errata, and to minimize redundant processor updating of page
tables.
4) Modify pmap_protect so that it can only remove permissions (as it
originally supported.) The additional capability is not needed.
5) Streamline read-only to read-write page mappings.
6) For pmap_copy_page, don't enable write mapping for source page.
7) Correct and clean-up pmap_incore.
8) Cluster initial kern_exec pagin.
9) Removal of some minor lint from kern_malloc.
10) Correct some ioopt code.
11) Remove some dead code from the MI swapout routine.
12) Correct vm_object_deallocate (to remove backing_object ref.)
13) Fix dead object handling, that had problems under heavy memory load.
14) Add minor vm_page_lookup improvements.
15) Some pages are not in objects, and make sure that the vm_page.c can
properly support such pages.
16) Add some more page deficit handling.
17) Some minor code readability improvements.
Move sigjmp_buf and jmp_buf structure definitions to machine/setjmp.h
so that i386 can continue to use int as the basic register type and
alpha can use long. Bruce was concerned about possible differing
alignment. I've left the definition of _JBLEN in machine/setjmp.h
even though Bruce's example used the number directly. I don't know if
any other code relies on _JBLEN, so I left it to avoid potential
breakage.
- A nonprofiling version of s_lock (called s_lock_np) is used
by mcount.
- When profiling is active, more registers are clobbered in
seemingly simple assembly routines. This means that some
callers needed to save/restore extra registers.
- The stack pointer must have space for a 'fake' return address
in idle, to avoid stack underflow.
noticed some major enhancements available for UP situations. The number
of UP TLB flushes is decreased much more than significantly with these
changes. Since a TLB flush appears to cost minimally approx 80 cycles,
this is a "nice" enhancement, equiv to eliminating between 40 and 160
instructions per TLB flush.
Changes include making sure that kernel threads all use the same PTD,
and eliminate unneeded PTD switches at context switch time.
in <machine/cpu.h>. Moved the declarations to <machine/cputypes.h>.
Fixed style bugs in the moved code. Fixed everything that depended on
the nested include. Don't include <machine/cpu.h> (in the changed files)
unless something in it is used directly.
and fixed everything that dependended on it being declared in the old
place. It is used in "machine-independent" code in subr_prof.c.
Moved declaration of btext from subr_prof.c to <machine/cpu.h>. It
is machine-dependent.
in a P6 SMP system. Some MB bios'es don't set the registers up correctly
for the AP's. Additionally, set the memory between 0xa0000 and 0xbffff
as write combining.
PR: 4486
Submitted by: tegge@idi.ntnu.no (Tor Egge)
Implement a function is_adapter_memory() in order to determine what
should nto be dumped at all. Currently, only populated with the ``ISA
memory hole''. Adapter regions of other busses should be added.
