in place. To do per-cpu stats, convert all fields that previously were
maintained in the vmmeters that sit in pcpus to counter(9).
- Since some vmmeter stats may be touched at very early stages of boot,
before we have set up UMA and we can do counter_u64_alloc(), provide an
early counter mechanism:
o Leave one spare uint64_t in struct pcpu, named pc_early_dummy_counter.
o Point counter(9) fields of vmmeter to pcpu[0].pc_early_dummy_counter,
so that at early stages of boot, before counters are allocated we already
point to a counter that can be safely written to.
o For sparc64 that required a whole dummy pcpu[MAXCPU] array.
Further related changes:
- Don't include vmmeter.h into pcpu.h.
- vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout and vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changed to 64-bit,
to match kernel representation.
- struct vmmeter hidden under _KERNEL, and only vmstat(1) is an exclusion.
This is based on benno@'s 4-year old patch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-July/014471.html
Reviewed by: kib, gallatin, marius, lidl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10156
The MFC will include a compat definition of smp_no_rendevous_barrier()
that calls smp_no_rendezvous_barrier().
Reviewed by: gnn, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10313
mp_maxid or CPU_FOREACH() as appropriate. This fixes a number of places in
the kernel that assumed CPU IDs are dense in [0, mp_ncpus) and would try,
for example, to run tasks on CPUs that did not exist or to allocate too
few buffers on systems with sparse CPU IDs in which there are holes in the
range and mp_maxid > mp_ncpus. Such circumstances generally occur on
systems with SMT, but on which SMT is disabled. This patch restores system
operation at least on POWER8 systems configured in this way.
There are a number of other places in the kernel with potential problems
in these situations, but where sparse CPU IDs are not currently known
to occur, mostly in the ARM machine-dependent code. These will be fixed
in a follow-up commit after the stable/11 branch.
PR: kern/210106
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (glebius)
Issues were noted by Bruce Evans and are present on all architectures.
On i386, a counter fetch should use atomic read of 64bit value,
otherwise carry from the increment on other CPU could be lost for the
given fetch, making error of 2^32. If 64bit read (cmpxchg8b) is not
available on the machine, it cannot be SMP and it is enough to disable
preemption around read to avoid the split read.
On x86 the counter increment is not atomic on purpose, which makes it
possible for the store of the incremented result to override just
zeroed per-cpu slot. The effect would be a counter going off by
arbitrary value after zeroing. Perform the counter zeroing on the
same processor which does the increments, making the operations
mutually exclusive. On i386, same as for the fetching, if the
cmpxchg8b is not available, machine is not SMP and we disable
preemption for zeroing.
PowerPC64 is treated the same as amd64.
For other architectures, the changes made to allow the compilation to
succeed, without fixing the issues with zeroing or fetching. It
should be possible to handle them by using the 64bit loads and stores
atomic WRT preemption (assuming the architectures also converted from
using critical sections to proper asm). If architecture does not
provide the facility, using global (spin) mutex would be non-optimal
but working solution.
Noted by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.
In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
