system's machine-dependent and machine-independent layers. Once
pmap_clear_write() is implemented on all of our supported
architectures, I intend to replace all calls to pmap_page_protect() by
calls to pmap_clear_write(). Why? Both the use and implementation of
pmap_page_protect() in our virtual memory system has subtle errors,
specifically, the management of execute permission is broken on some
architectures. The "prot" argument to pmap_page_protect() should
behave differently from the "prot" argument to other pmap functions.
Instead of meaning, "give the specified access rights to all of the
physical page's mappings," it means "don't take away the specified
access rights from all of the physical page's mappings, but do take
away the ones that aren't specified." However, owing to our i386
legacy, i.e., no support for no-execute rights, all but one invocation
of pmap_page_protect() specifies VM_PROT_READ only, when the intent
is, in fact, to remove only write permission. Consequently, a
faithful implementation of pmap_page_protect(), e.g., ia64, would
remove execute permission as well as write permission. On the other
hand, some architectures that support execute permission have
basically ignored whether or not VM_PROT_EXECUTE is passed to
pmap_page_protect(), e.g., amd64 and sparc64. This change represents
the first step in replacing pmap_page_protect() by the less subtle
pmap_clear_write() that is already implemented on amd64, i386, and
sparc64.
Discussed with: grehan@ and marcel@
pmap_remove_all() before rather than after the pmap is unlocked. At
present, the page queues lock provides sufficient sychronization. In the
future, the page queues lock may not always be held when free_pv_entry() is
called.
install custom pager functions didn't actually happen in practice (they
all just used the simple pager and passed in a local quit pointer). So,
just hardcode the simple pager as the only pager and make it set a global
db_pager_quit flag that db commands can check when the user hits 'q' (or a
suitable variant) at the pager prompt. Also, now that it's easy to do so,
enable paging by default for all ddb commands. Any command that wishes to
honor the quit flag can do so by checking db_pager_quit. Note that the
pager can also be effectively disabled by setting $lines to 0.
Other fixes:
- 'show idt' on i386 and pc98 now actually checks the quit flag and
terminates early.
- 'show intr' now actually checks the quit flag and terminates early.
ibcs2_getdents(), ibcs2_read(), ogetdirentries(), svr4_sys_getdents(),
and svr4_sys_getdents64() similar to that in getdirentries().
- Mark ibcs2_getdents(), ibcs2_read(), linux_getdents(), linux_getdents64(),
linux_readdir(), ogetdirentries(), svr4_sys_getdents(), and
svr4_sys_getdents64() MPSAFE.
to a copied-in copy of the 'union semun' and a uioseg to indicate which
memory space the 'buf' pointer of the union points to. This is then used
in linux_semctl() and svr4_sys_semctl() to eliminate use of the stackgap.
- Mark linux_ipc() and svr4_sys_semsys() MPSAFE.
from going away. mount(2) is now MPSAFE.
- Expand the scope of Giant some in unmount(2) to protect the mp structure
(or rather, to handle concurrent unmount races) from going away.
umount(2) is now MPSAFE, as well as linux_umount() and linux_oldumount().
- nmount(2) and linux_mount() were already MPSAFE.
pmap_copy() if the mapping is VM_INHERIT_SHARE. Suppose the mapping
is also wired. vmspace_fork() clears the wiring attributes in the vm
map entry but pmap_copy() copies the PG_W attribute in the PTE. I
don't think this is catastrophic. It blocks pmap_remove_pages() from
destroying the mapping and corrupts the pmap's wiring count.
This revision fixes the problem by changing pmap_copy() to clear the
PG_W attribute.
Reviewed by: tegge@
This driver was ported from OpenBSD by Shigeaki Tagashira
<shigeaki@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> and posted at
http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
It was additionally cleaned up by me.
It is still a work-in-progress and thus is purposefully not in GENERIC.
And it conflicts with nve(4), so only one should be loaded.
in 1999, and there are changes to the sysctl names compared to PR,
according to that discussion. The description is in sys/conf/NOTES.
Lines in the GENERIC files are added in commented-out form.
I'll attach the test script I've used to PR.
PR: kern/14584
Submitted by: babkin
VM_ALLOC_NORMAL instead of VM_ALLOC_SYSTEM when try is TRUE. In other
words, when get_pv_entry() is permitted to fail, it no longer tries as
hard to allocate a page.
Change pmap_enter_quick_locked() to fail rather than wait if it is
unable to allocate a page table page. This prevents a race between
pmap_enter_object() and the page daemon. Specifically, an inactive
page that is a successor to the page that was given to
pmap_enter_quick_locked() might become a cache page while
pmap_enter_quick_locked() waits and later pmap_enter_object() maps
the cache page violating the invariant that cache pages are never
mapped. Similarly, change
pmap_enter_quick_locked() to call pmap_try_insert_pv_entry() rather
than pmap_insert_entry(). Generally speaking,
pmap_enter_quick_locked() is used to create speculative mappings. So,
it should not try hard to allocate memory if free memory is scarce.
Add an assertion that the object containing m_start is locked in
pmap_enter_object(). Remove a similar assertion from
pmap_enter_quick_locked() because that function no longer accesses the
containing object.
Remove a stale comment.
Reviewed by: ups@
syscalls. This way there will be a log message printed to the console
(this time for real).
Note: UNIMPL should be used for syscalls we do not implement ever, e.g.
syscalls to load linux kernel modules.
Submitted by: rdivacky
Sponsored by: Goole SoC 2006
P4 IDs: 99600, 99602
when we're about to call kdb_trap() because the latter MI
function can disable interrupts by itself now.
Pointed out by: bde
X-MFC remark: depends on kern/subr_kdb.c#1.18
Sponsored by: RiNet (Cronyx Plus LLC)
Use the method described in IA-32 Intel Architecture Software
Developer's Manual chapter 11.6.6 to get valid mxcsr bits,
use the mxcsr mask to clear invalid bits passed by user code.
an explicit comment that it's needed for the linuxolator. This is not the
case anymore. For all other architectures there was only a "KEEP THIS".
I'm (and other people too) running a COMPAT_43-less kernel since it's not
necessary anymore for the linuxolator. Roman is running such a kernel for a
for longer time. No problems so far. And I doubt other (newer than ia32
or alpha) architectures really depend on it.
This may result in a small performance increase for some workloads.
If the removal of COMPAT_43 results in a not working program, please
recompile it and all dependencies and try again before reporting a
problem.
The only place where COMPAT_43 is needed (as in: does not compile without
it) is in the (outdated/not usable since too old) svr4 code.
Note: this does not remove the COMPAT_43TTY option.
Nagging by: rdivacky
There is a race with the current locking scheme and removing
it should have no measurable performance impact.
This fixes page faults leading to panics in pmap_enter_quick_locked()
on amd64/i386.
Reviewed by: alc,jhb,peter,ps
Update of syscall.master:
o Adding of several new dummy syscalls (268-310)
o Synchronization of amd64 syscall.master with i386 one
o Auditing added to amd64 syscall.master
o Change auditing type for lstat syscall (bugfix). [1]
P4-Changes: 98672, 98674
Noticed by: rwatson [1]
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2006
Submitted by: rdivacky
I picked it up again. The scheduler is forked from ULE, but the
algorithm to detect an interactive process is almost completely
different with ULE, it comes from Linux paper "Understanding the
Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler", although I still use same word
"score" as a priority boost in ULE scheduler.
Briefly, the scheduler has following characteristic:
1. Timesharing process's nice value is seriously respected,
timeslice and interaction detecting algorithm are based
on nice value.
2. per-cpu scheduling queue and load balancing.
3. O(1) scheduling.
4. Some cpu affinity code in wakeup path.
5. Support POSIX SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR.
Unlike scheduler 4BSD and ULE which using fuzzy RQ_PPQ, the scheduler
uses 256 priority queues. Unlike ULE which using pull and push, the
scheduelr uses pull method, the main reason is to let relative idle
cpu do the work, but current the whole scheduler is protected by the
big sched_lock, so the benefit is not visible, it really can be worse
than nothing because all other cpu are locked out when we are doing
balancing work, which the 4BSD scheduelr does not have this problem.
The scheduler does not support hyperthreading very well, in fact,
the scheduler does not make the difference between physical CPU and
logical CPU, this should be improved in feature. The scheduler has
priority inversion problem on MP machine, it is not good for
realtime scheduling, it can cause realtime process starving.
As a result, it seems the MySQL super-smack runs better on my
Pentium-D machine when using libthr, despite on UP or SMP kernel.
the arm to compile without all the extras that don't appear, at least
not in the flavors of ARM I deal with. This helps us save about 100k.
If I've botched the available devices on a platform, please let me
know and I'll correct ASAP.
that it just warns the user with a printf when it misaligns a piece
of memory that was requested through a busdma tag.
Some drivers (such as mpt, and probably others) were asking for alignments
that could not be satisfied, but as far as driver operation was concerned,
that did not matter. In the theory that other drivers will fall into
this same category, we agreed that panicing or making the allocation
fail will cause more hardship than is necessary. The printf should
be sufficient motivation to get the driver glitch fixed.
Add a quick hack to ensure that bus_dmamem_alloc properly aligns
small allocations with large alignment requirements.
Add a panic to detect cases where we've still failed to properly align.
