appropriate for different tag requirements. With the former global pool,
bounce pages might get allocated that are appropriate for one tag, but not
appropriate for another, but the system had no way to distinguish between them.
Now zones with distinct attributes are created to hold pages, and each tag
that requires bouncing is associated with a zone. New zones are created as
needed if no existing zones can meet the requirements of the tag. Stats for
each zone are tracked via the hw.busdma sysctl node.
This should help drivers that are failing with mysterious data corruption.
MFC After: 1 week
Change the spelling of the "catch" option to be consistent with the new
options. Implement the "no wait" option. An implementation of the "CPU
private" for i386 will be committed at a later date.
Expose some of the amd64-specific sysarch functions to allow alternative
implementations of the %fs/%gs code for TLS, threads, etc. USER_LDT does
not exist on the amd64 kernel, so we have to implement things other ways.
control the number of lines per page rather than a constant. The variable
can be examined and changed in ddb as '$lines'. Setting the variable to
0 will effectively turn off paging.
- Change db_putchar() to force out pending whitespace before outputting
newlines and carriage returns so that one can rub out content on the
current line via '\r \r' type strings.
- Change the simple pager to rub out the --More-- prompt explicitly when
the routine exits.
- Add some aliases to the simple pager to make it more compatible with
more(1): 'e' and 'j' do a single line. 'd' does half a page, and
'f' does a full page.
MFC after: 1 month
Inspired by: kris
the final set of traces -- someone with more busdma background
will probably want to review and expand this, as well as port to
other platforms. This tracing is sufficient to identify key
busdma events on i386, and in particular to draw attention to
bounce buffering events that may have a substantial performance
impact.
modes on a tty structure.
Both the ".init" and the current settings are initialized allowing
the function to be used both at attach and open time.
The function takes an argument to decide if echoing should be enabled.
Echoing should not be enabled for regular physical serial ports
unless they are consoles, in which case they should be configured
by ttyconsolemode() instead.
Use the new function throughout.
invalidate the TLB(s) if the old mapping wasn't used by the CPU. With
network interfaces that implement checksum off-loading, the old mapping is
almost never used by the CPU, only by the device driver for setting up the
DMA operation.
Reviewed by: tegge@
Restructure pmap_enter() to prevent the loss of a page modified (PG_M) bit
in a race between processors. (This restructuring assumes the newly atomic
pte_load_store() for correct operation.)
Reviewed by: tegge@
PR: i386/61852
RAM. Many older, legacy bridges only allow allocation from this
range. This only appies to devices who don't have their memory
assigned by the BIOS (since we allocate the ranges so assigned
exactly), so should have minimal impact.
Hoewver, for CardBus bridges (cbb), they rarely get the resources
allocated by the BIOS, and this patch helps them greatly. Typically
the 'bad Vcc' messages are caused by this problem.
that is no longer required. (In fact, it is not clear that it was ever
required in HEAD or RELENG_4, only RELENG_3 required a work-around.) Now,
as before revision 1.251, if the preexisting PTE is invalid, pmap_enter()
does not call pmap_invalidate_page() to update the TLB(s).
Note: Even with this change, the handling of a copy-on-write fault is
inefficient, in such cases pmap_enter() calls pmap_invalidate_page() twice.
Discussed with: bde@
PR: kern/16568
need to mask off the page offset bits. (This operation made some sense
prior to i386/i386/pmap.c revision 1.254 when we passed a physical address
rather than a vm_page pointer to pmap_enter().)
uses predate the change in the pmap_enter() interface that replaced the
page's physical address by the address of its vm_page structure. The
PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() was being used to compute the address of the same vm_page
structure that was being passed in.
1. Process p1 is currently being swapped in.
2. Process p2 calls linux_ptrace(PTRACE_GETFPXREGS, p1_pid, ...)
3. After acquiring a reference to FIRST_THREAD_IN_PROC(p1),
p2 blocks in faultin() while p1 finishes being swapped in.
This means p2 won't get back the lock on p1 until after p1's
threads are runnable.
4. After p1 is swapped in, the first thread in p1 exits.
5. p2 now uses its dangling reference to p1's first thread.
pmap_copy(). This entails additional locking in pmap_copy() and the
addition of a "flags" parameter to the page table page allocator for
specifying whether it may sleep when memory is unavailable. (Already,
pmap_copy() checks the availability of memory, aborting if it is scarce.
In theory, another CPU could, however, allocate memory between
pmap_copy()'s check and the call to the page table page allocator,
causing the current thread to release its locks and sleep. This change
makes this scenario impossible.)
Reviewed by: tegge@
multiprocessors. Specifically, the error is conditioning the call to
pmap_invalidate_page() on whether the pmap is active on the current CPU.
This call must be unconditional. Regardless of whether the pmap is active
on the CPU performing _pmap_unwire_pte_hold(), it could be active on another
CPU. For example, a call to pmap_remove_all() by the page daemon could
result in a call to _pmap_unwire_pte_hold() with the pmap inactive on the
current CPU and active on another CPU. In such circumstances, failing to
call pmap_invalidate_page() results in a stale TLB entry on the other CPU
that still maps the now deallocated page table page. What happens next is
typically a mysterious panic in pmap_enter() by the other CPU, either
"pmap_enter: attempted pmap_enter on 4MB page" or "pmap_enter: pte vanished,
va: 0x%lx". Both occur because the former page table page has been recycled
and allocated to a new purpose. Consequently, it no longer contains zeroes.
See also Peter's i386/i386/pmap.c revision 1.448 and the related e-mail
thread last year.
Many thanks to the engineers at Sandvine for providing clear and concise
information until all of the pieces of the puzzle fell into place and
for testing an earlier patch.
MT5 Candidate
a stack trace from ddb, the output will pause with a '--More--' prompt
every 18 lines. If you hit Enter, it will print another line and prompt
again. If you hit space it will output another page and then prompt.
If you hit 'q' or 'x' it will abort the rest of the stack trace.
- Fix the sparc64 userland stack trace to honor the total count of lines
to print. This is useful if your trace happens to walk back onto
0xdeadc0de and gets stuck in an endless loop.
MFC after: 1 month
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
the page table page's wired count rather than its hold count to contain
the reference count. My rationale for this change is based on several
factors:
1. The machine-independent and pmap layers used the same hold count field
in subtly different ways. The machine-independent layer uses the hold
count to implement a form of ephemeral wiring that is used by pipes,
physio, etc. In other words, subsystems where we wish to temporarily
block a page from being swapped out while it is mapped into the kernel's
address space. Such pages are never removed from the page queues.
Instead, the page daemon recognizes a non-zero hold count to mean "hands
off this page." In contrast, page table pages are never in the page
queues; they are wired from birth to death. The hold count was being
used as a kind of reference count, specifically, the number of valid
page table entries within the page. Not surprisingly, these two
different uses imply different synchronization rules: in the machine-
independent layer access to the hold count requires the page queues
lock; whereas in the pmap layer the pmap lock is required. Thus,
continued use by the pmap layer of vm_page_unhold(), which asserts that
the page queues lock is held, made no sense.
2. _pmap_unwire_pte_hold() was too forgiving in its handling of the wired
count. An unexpected wired count on a page table page was ignored and
the underlying page leaked.
3. In a word, microoptimization. Using the wired count exclusively, rather
than a combination of the wired and hold counts, makes the code slightly
smaller and faster.
Reviewed by: tegge@
