Historically we have not distinguished between kernel wirings and user
wirings for accounting purposes. User wirings (via mlock(2)) were
subject to a global limit on the number of wired pages, so if large
swaths of physical memory were wired by the kernel, as happens with
the ZFS ARC among other things, the limit could be exceeded, causing
user wirings to fail.
The change adds a new counter, v_user_wire_count, which counts the
number of virtual pages wired by user processes via mlock(2) and
mlockall(2). Only user-wired pages are subject to the system-wide
limit which helps provide some safety against deadlocks. In
particular, while sources of kernel wirings typically support some
backpressure mechanism, there is no way to reclaim user-wired pages
shorting of killing the wiring process. The limit is exported as
vm.max_user_wired, renamed from vm.max_wired, and changed from u_int
to u_long.
The choice to count virtual user-wired pages rather than physical
pages was done for simplicity. There are mechanisms that can cause
user-wired mappings to be destroyed while maintaining a wiring of
the backing physical page; these make it difficult to accurately
track user wirings at the physical page layer.
The change also closes some holes which allowed user wirings to succeed
even when they would cause the system limit to be exceeded. For
instance, mmap() may now fail with ENOMEM in a process that has called
mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) if the new mapping would cause the user wiring
limit to be exceeded.
Note that bhyve -S is subject to the user wiring limit, which defaults
to 1/3 of physical RAM. Users that wish to exceed the limit must tune
vm.max_user_wired.
Reviewed by: kib, ngie (mlock() test changes)
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
MFC after: 45 days
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19908
According to markj@:
pageproc contains the page daemon and laundry threads, which are
responsible for managing the LRU page queues and writing back dirty
pages. vmproc's main task is to swap out kernel stacks when the system
is under memory pressure, and swap them back in when necessary. It's a
somewhat legacy component of the system and isn't required. You can
build a kernel without it by specifying "options NO_SWAPPING" (which is
a somewhat misleading name), in which vm_swapout_dummy.c is compiled
instead of vm_swapout.c.
Based on this, we want pageproc to emulate kswapd, not vmproc.
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18061
These are used by kms-drm to determine various heuristics relate
memory conditions.
The number of free swap pages is just a variable, and it can be
much cheaper by either adding a new getter, or simply extern'ing
swap_total. However, this patch opts to use the more expensive,
existing interface - since this isn't an operation in a high per
path.
This allows us to remove some more gpl linuxkpi and do the follo
kms-drm:
git rm linuxkpi/gplv2/include/linux/swap.h
Reviewed by: mmacy, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18052
other allowed domains if the requested domain is below the minimum paging
threshold. Block in fork only if all domains available to the forking
thread are below the severe threshold rather than any.
Submitted by: jeff
Reported by: mjg
Reviewed by: alc, kib, markj
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16191
There are no parts useful for usermode applications in
vm/vm_pageout.h. Even for the specific applications like fstat and
lsof.
In my opinion, this protection is redundant and instead userspace
should not include the header at all. Since there are apparently
broken third party codebases, give them a bit of slack by providing
transitional period.
Reported by: julian
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Make vm_wait() take the vm_object argument which specifies the domain
set to wait for the min condition pass. If there is no object
associated with the wait, use curthread' policy domainset. The
mechanics of the wait in vm_wait() and vm_wait_domain() is supplied by
the new helper vm_wait_doms(), which directly takes the bitmask of the
domains to wait for passing min condition.
Eliminate pagedaemon_wait(). vm_domain_clear() handles the same
operations.
Eliminate VM_WAIT and VM_WAITPFAULT macros, the direct functions calls
are enough.
Eliminate several control state variables from vm_domain, unneeded
after the vm_wait() conversion.
Scetched and reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation, Mellanox Technologies
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14384
global to per-domain state. Protect reservations with the free lock
from the domain that they belong to. Refactor to make vm domains more
of a first class object.
Reviewed by: markj, kib, gallatin
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14000
Both issues caused the page daemon to erroneously go to sleep when
applications are consuming free pages at a high rate, leaving the
application threads blocked in VM_WAIT.
1) After completing an inactive queue scan, concurrent allocations may
have prevented the page daemon from meeting the v_free_min threshold.
In this case, the page daemon was going to sleep even when the
inactive queue contained plenty of clean pages.
2) pagedaemon_wakeup() may be called without the free queues lock held.
This can lead to a lost wakeup if a call occurs after the page daemon
clears vm_pageout_wanted but before going to sleep.
Fix 1) by ensuring that we start a new inactive queue scan immediately
if v_free_count < v_free_min after a prior scan.
Fix 2) by adding a new subroutine, pagedaemon_wait(), called from
vm_wait() and vm_waitpfault(). It wakes up the page daemon if either
vm_pages_needed or vm_pageout_wanted is false, and atomically sleeps
on v_free_count.
Reported by: jeff
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13424
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
There is no NO_SWAPPING #ifdef left in the code.
Requested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12663
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
A comment near kmem_reclaim() implies that we already did that.
Calling the hook is useful, because some handlers, e.g. ARC,
might be able to release significant amounts of KVA.
Now that we have more than one place where vm_lowmem hook is called,
use this change as an opportunity to introduce flags that describe
a reason for calling the hook. No handler makes use of the flags yet.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Panzura
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9764
indicate that threads are waiting for free pages to become available and
(2) to indicate whether a wakeup call has been sent to the page daemon.
The trouble is that a single flag cannot really serve both purposes, because
we have two distinct targets for when to wakeup threads waiting for free
pages versus when the page daemon has completed its work. In particular,
the flag will be cleared by vm_page_free() before the page daemon has met
its target, and this can lead to the OOM killer being invoked prematurely.
To address this problem, a new flag "vm_pageout_wanted" is introduced.
Discussed with: jeff
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: markj
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
address and use this mechanism when:
1. kmem_alloc_{attr,contig}() can't find suitable free pages in the physical
memory allocator's free page lists. This replaces the long-standing
approach of scanning the inactive and inactive queues, converting clean
pages into PG_CACHED pages and laundering dirty pages. In contrast, the
new mechanism does not use PG_CACHED pages nor does it trigger a large
number of I/O operations.
2. on 32-bit MIPS processors, uma_small_alloc() and the pmap can't find
free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists that are
covered by the direct map. Tested by: adrian
3. ttm_bo_global_init() and ttm_vm_page_alloc_dma32() can't find suitable
free pages in the physical memory allocator's free page lists.
In the coming months, I expect that this new mechanism will be applied in
other places. For example, balloon drivers should use relocation to
minimize fragmentation of the guest physical address space.
Make vm_phys_alloc_contig() a little smarter (and more efficient in some
cases). Specifically, use vm_phys_segs[] earlier to avoid scanning free
page lists that can't possibly contain suitable pages.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Glanced at: jhb
Discussed with: jeff
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4444
if the filesystem performed short write and we are skipping the page
due to this.
Propogate write error from the pager back to the callers of
vm_pageout_flush(). Report the failure to write a page from the
requested range as the FALSE return value from vm_object_page_clean(),
and propagate it back to msync(2) to return EIO to usermode.
While there, convert the clearobjflags variable in the
vm_object_page_clean() and arguments of the helper functions to
boolean.
PR: kern/165927
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
backing storage. Such pages might be then reused, racing with the
assert in vm_object_page_collect_flush() that verified that dirty
pages from the run (most likely, pages with VM_PAGER_AGAIN status) are
write-protected still. In fact, the page indexes for the pages that
were removed from the object page list should be ignored by
vm_object_page_clean().
Return the length of successfully written run from vm_pageout_flush(),
that is, the count of pages between requested page and first page
after requested with status VM_PAGER_AGAIN. Supply the requested page
index in the array to vm_pageout_flush(). Use the returned run length
to forward the index of next page to clean in vm_object_page_clean().
Reported by: avg
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
fails to allocate MIPS page table pages. The current usage of VM_WAIT in
case of vm_phys_alloc_contig() failure is not correct, because:
"There is no guarantee that any of the available free (or cached) pages
after the VM_WAIT will fall within the range of suitable physical
addresses. Every time this function sleeps and a single page is freed
(or cached) by someone else, this function will be reawakened. With
a little bad luck, you could spin indefinitely."
We also add low and high parameters to vm_contig_grow_cache() and
vm_contig_launder() so that we restrict vm_contig_launder() to the range
of pages we are interested in.
Reported by: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
vm_pageout_fallback_object_lock(), to obtain the page lock
while having page queue lock locked, and still maintain the
page position in a queue.
Use the helper to lock the page in the pageout daemon and contig launder
iterators instead of skipping the page if its lock is contested.
Skipping locked pages easily causes pagedaemon or launder to not make a
progress with page cleaning.
Proposed and reviewed by: alc
into the separate function vm_pageout_oom(). Supply a parameter for
vm_pageout_oom() describing a reason for the call.
Call vm_pageout_oom() from the swp_pager_meta_build() when swap zone
is exhausted.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho, jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
vm_pageout_fallback_object_lock() in vm_contig_launder_page() to better
handle a lock-ordering problem. Consequently, trylock's failure on the
page's containing object no longer implies that the page cannot be
laundered.
MFC after: 6 weeks
to the object's type field and the call to vm_pageout_flush() are
synchronized.
- The above change allows for the eliminaton of the last parameter
to vm_pageout_flush().
- Synchronize access to the page's valid field in vm_pageout_flush()
using the containing object's lock.
striping to a per device round-robin algorithm.
Because of the policy of not attempting to retain previous swap
allocation on page-out, this means that a newly added swap device
almost instantly takes its 1/N share of the I/O load but it takes
somewhat longer for it to assume it's 1/N share of the pages if there
is plenty of space on the other devices.
Change the 8G total swapspace limitation to 8G per device instead
by using a per device blist rather than one global blist. This
reduces the memory footprint by 75% (typically a couple hundred
kilobytes) for the common case with one swapdevice but NSWAPDEV=4.
Remove the compile time constant limit of number of swap devices,
there is no limit now. Instead of a fixed size array, store the
per swapdev structure in a TAILQ.
Total swap space is still addressed by a 32 bit page number and
therefore the upper limit is now 2^42 bytes = 16TB (for i386).
We still do not allocate the first page of each device in order to
give some amount of protection to any bsdlabel at the start of the
device.
A new device is appended after the existing devices in the swap space,
no attempt is made to fill in holes left behind by swapoff (this can
trivially be changed should it ever become a problem).
The sysctl vm.nswapdev now reflects the number of currently configured
swap devices.
Rename vm_swap_size to swap_pager_avail for consistency with other
exported names.
Change argument type for vm_proc_swapin_all() and swap_pager_isswapped()
to be a struct swdevt pointer rather than an index.
Not changed: we are still using blists to manage the free space,
but since the swapspace is no longer fragmented by the striping
different resource managers might fare better.
- Add a parameter to vm_pageout_flush() that tells vm_pageout_flush()
whether its caller has locked the vm_object. (This is a temporary
measure to bootstrap vm_object locking.)
style(9)
- Minor space adjustment in cases where we have "( ", " )", if(), return(),
while(), for(), etc.
- Add /* SYMBOL */ after a few #endifs.
Reviewed by: alc
- Allow the OOM killer to target processes currently locked in
memory. These very often are the ones doing the memory hogging.
- Drop the wakeup priority of processes currently sleeping while
waiting for their page fault to complete. In order for the OOM
killer to work well, the killed process and other system processes
waiting on memory must be allowed to wakeup first.
Reviewed by: dillon
MFC after: 1 week
- Callers of asleep() and await() have been converted to calling tsleep().
The only caller outside of M_ASLEEP was the ata driver, which called both
asleep() and await() with spl-raised, so there was no need for the
asleep() and await() pair. M_ASLEEP was unused.
Reviewed by: jasone, peter
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug
fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the
VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional
forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code
cleanup issues.
Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
1) Start using TSM.
Struct procs continue to point to upages structure, after being freed.
Struct vmspace continues to point to pte object and kva space for kstack.
u_map is now superfluous.
2) vm_map's don't need to be reference counted. They always exist either
in the kernel or in a vmspace. The vmspaces are managed by reference
counts.
3) Remove the "wired" vm_map nonsense.
4) No need to keep a cache of kernel stack kva's.
5) Get rid of strange looking ++var, and change to var++.
6) Change more data structures to use our "zone" allocator. Added
struct proc, struct vmspace and struct vnode. This saves a significant
amount of kva space and physical memory. Additionally, this enables
TSM for the zone managed memory.
7) Keep ioopt disabled for now.
8) Remove the now bogus "single use" map concept.
9) Use generation counts or id's for data structures residing in TSM, where
it allows us to avoid unneeded restart overhead during traversals, where
blocking might occur.
10) Account better for memory deficits, so the pageout daemon will be able
to make enough memory available (experimental.)
11) Fix some vnode locking problems. (From Tor, I think.)
12) Add a check in ufs_lookup, to avoid lots of unneeded calls to bcmp.
(experimental.)
13) Significantly shrink, cleanup, and make slightly faster the vm_fault.c
code. Use generation counts, get rid of unneded collpase operations,
and clean up the cluster code.
14) Make vm_zone more suitable for TSM.
This commit is partially as a result of discussions and contributions from
other people, including DG, Tor Egge, PHK, and probably others that I
have forgotten to attribute (so let me know, if I forgot.)
This is not the infamous, final cleanup of the vnode stuff, but a necessary
step. Vnode mgmt should be correct, but things might still change, and
there is still some missing stuff (like ioopt, and physical backing of
non-merged cache files, debugging of layering concepts.)
Fix the UIO optimization code.
Fix an assumption in vm_map_insert regarding allocation of swap pagers.
Fix an spl problem in the collapse handling in vm_object_deallocate.
When pages are freed from vnode objects, and the criteria for putting
the associated vnode onto the free list is reached, either put the
vnode onto the list, or put it onto an interrupt safe version of the
list, for further transfer onto the actual free list.
Some minor syntax changes changing pre-decs, pre-incs to post versions.
Remove a bogus timeout (that I added for debugging) from vn_lock.
PHK will likely still have problems with the vnode list management, and
so do I, but it is better than it was.
is apparently useful for large shell systems, or systems with long running
idle processes. To enable the feature:
sysctl -w vm.swap_idle_enabled=1
Please note that some of the other vm sysctl variables have been renamed
to be more accurate.
Submitted by: Much of it from Matt Dillon <dillon@best.net>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
