is now synchronized by a mutex, whereas access to user maps is still
synchronized by a lockmgr()-based lock. Why? No single type of lock,
including sx locks, meets the requirements of both types of vm map.
Sometimes we sleep while holding the lock on a user map. Thus, a
a mutex isn't appropriate. On the other hand, both lockmgr()-based
and sx locks release Giant when a thread/process blocks during
contention for a lock. This could lead to a race condition in a legacy
driver (that relies on Giant for synchronization) if it attempts to
kmem_malloc() and fails to immediately obtain the lock. Fortunately,
we never sleep while holding a system map lock.
- Add a mtx_destroy() to vm_object_collapse(). (This allows a bzero()
to migrate from _vm_object_allocate() to vm_object_zinit(), where it
will be performed less often.)
comes along and flushes a file which has been mmap()'d SHARED/RW, with
dirty pages, it was flushing the underlying VM object asynchronously,
resulting in thousands of 8K writes. With this change the VM Object flushing
code will cluster dirty pages in 64K blocks.
Note that until the low memory deadlock issue is reviewed, it is not safe
to allow the pageout daemon to use this feature. Forced pageouts still
use fs block size'd ops for the moment.
MFC after: 3 days
skipping read-only pages, which can result in valuable non-text-related
data not getting dumped, the ELF loader and the dynamic loader now mark
read-only text pages NOCORE and the coredump code only checks (primarily) for
complete inaccessibility of the page or NOCORE being set.
Certain applications which map large amounts of read-only data will
produce much larger cores. A new sysctl has been added,
debug.elf_legacy_coredump, which will revert to the old behavior.
This commit represents collaborative work by all parties involved.
The PR contains a program demonstrating the problem.
PR: kern/45994
Submitted by: "Peter Edwards" <pmedwards@eircom.net>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Reviewed by: jdp, dillon
MFC after: 7 days
resource starvation we clean-up as much of the vmspace structure as we
can when the last process using it exits. The rest of the structure
is cleaned up when it is reaped. But since exit1() decrements the ref
count it is possible for a double-free to occur if someone else, such as
the process swapout code, references and then dereferences the structure.
Additionally, the final cleanup of the structure should not occur until
the last process referencing it is reaped.
This commit solves the problem by introducing a secondary reference count,
calling 'vm_exitingcnt'. The normal reference count is decremented on exit
and vm_exitingcnt is incremented. vm_exitingcnt is decremented when the
process is reaped. When both vm_exitingcnt and vm_refcnt are 0, the
structure is freed for real.
MFC after: 3 weeks
intended to be used by significant memory consumers so that they may drain
some of their caches.
Inspired by: phk
Approved by: re
Tested on: x86, alpha
