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Jacques Vidrine
8b7358ca43 Introduce a uiomove_frombuf helper routine that handles computing and
validating the offset within a given memory buffer before handing the
real work off to uiomove(9).

Use uiomove_frombuf in procfs to correct several issues with
integer arithmetic that could result in underflows/overflows.  As a
side-effect, the code is significantly simplified.

Add additional sanity checks when computing a memory allocation size
in pfs_read.

Submitted by:	rwatson  (original uiomove_frombuf -- bugs are mine :-)
Reported by:	Joost Pol <joost@pine.nl>  (integer underflows/overflows)
2003-10-02 15:00:55 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
677b542ea2 Use __FBSDID(). 2003-06-11 00:56:59 +00:00
Alan Cox
4412dc5468 - Add vm object locking to vm_pgmoveco().
- Add a comment to vm_pgmoveco() describing what remains to be done
   for vm locking.
2003-06-09 19:23:03 +00:00
John Baldwin
01de25134f Tweak the clearing of TDF_DEADLKTREAT so that we only bother grabbing the
lock and clearing the flag if it was clear when uiomove() was called.
2003-05-05 21:27:29 +00:00
John Baldwin
7908a1d477 Remove extraneous check. We are not going to return from copyin/out on
the stack of a thread A but actually be thread B instead of thread A.
2003-03-25 20:13:24 +00:00
Kenneth D. Merry
9b80d344ec Zero copy send and receive fixes:
- On receive, vm_map_lookup() needs to trigger the creation of a shadow
  object.  To make that happen, call vm_map_lookup() with PROT_WRITE
  instead of PROT_READ in vm_pgmoveco().

- On send, a shadow object will be created by the vm_map_lookup() in
  vm_fault(), but vm_page_cowfault() will delete the original page from
  the backing object rather than simply letting the legacy COW mechanism
  take over.  In other words, the new page should be added to the shadow
  object rather than replacing the old page in the backing object.  (i.e.
  vm_page_cowfault() should not be called in this case.)  We accomplish
  this by making sure fs.object == fs.first_object before calling
  vm_page_cowfault() in vm_fault().

Submitted by:	gallatin, alc
Tested by:	ken
2003-03-08 06:58:18 +00:00
Alan Cox
09c80124a3 Remove ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT. It is a long unfinished work-in-progress.
Discussed on:	arch@
2003-03-06 03:41:02 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
d5279f20c5 Convert one of our main caddr_t consumers, uiomove(9), to void *. 2003-03-02 15:29:13 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
34ca14c687 Clean up whitespace, unregisterize, ANSIfy, remove prototypes made
superfluous by ANSIfication.
2003-03-02 15:08:33 +00:00
Warner Losh
a163d034fa Back out M_* changes, per decision of the TRB.
Approved by: trb
2003-02-19 05:47:46 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
44956c9863 Remove M_TRYWAIT/M_WAITOK/M_WAIT. Callers should use 0.
Merge M_NOWAIT/M_DONTWAIT into a single flag M_NOWAIT.
2003-01-21 08:56:16 +00:00
Alan Cox
a28cc55e5b Reduce the number of times that we acquire and release the page queues
lock by making vm_page_rename()'s caller, rather than vm_page_rename(),
responsible for acquiring it.
2002-12-29 07:17:06 +00:00
Alan Cox
2952e1fb58 Extend the scope of the page queues lock in vm_pgmoveco(). 2002-12-20 21:18:29 +00:00
Alan Cox
ee113343eb Hold the page queues lock when performing vm_page_busy(). 2002-12-18 20:16:22 +00:00
Alan Cox
fdff30d256 Use pmap_remove_all() instead of pmap_remove() before freeing the page
in vm_pgmoveco(); the page may have more than one mapping.  Hold the page
queues lock when calling pmap_remove_all().

Approved by:	re (blanket)
2002-11-28 08:44:26 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
b43179fbe8 - Create a new scheduler api that is defined in sys/sched.h
- Begin moving scheduler specific functionality into sched_4bsd.c
 - Replace direct manipulation of scheduler data with hooks provided by the
   new api.
 - Remove KSE specific state modifications and single runq assumptions from
   kern_switch.c

Reviewed by:	-arch
2002-10-12 05:32:24 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
2b7f24d210 Change iov_base's type from char *' to the standard void *'. All
uses of iov_base which assume its type is `char *' (in order to do
pointer arithmetic) have been updated to cast iov_base to `char *'.
2002-10-11 14:58:34 +00:00
Alan Cox
4453ada654 o Convert a vm_page_sleep_busy() into a vm_page_sleep_if_busy()
with appropriate page queue locking.
2002-08-04 06:27:37 +00:00
Alan Cox
c1d5e2741e o Lock page queue accesses by vm_page_free(). 2002-07-21 19:06:46 +00:00
Kenneth D. Merry
a720097d24 Fix compilation with ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT turned on and ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS
turned off.

Clean up #ifdefs, and remove a bunch of unnecessary includes.

Reviewed by:	bde
Tested by:	netchild
2002-07-12 02:23:55 +00:00
Ian Dowse
37777f4d1f Add a hashdestroy() function to undo the actions of hashinit(). 2002-06-30 02:07:26 +00:00
Julian Elischer
e602ba25fd Part 1 of KSE-III
The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)

Reviewed by:	Almost everyone who counts
	(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
	and a cast of thousands)

	NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
	expect slight instability in signals..
2002-06-29 17:26:22 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
802082390b More caddr_t removal.
Change struct knote's kn_hook from caddr_t to void *.
2002-06-29 00:29:12 +00:00
Kenneth D. Merry
98cb733c67 At long last, commit the zero copy sockets code.
MAKEDEV:	Add MAKEDEV glue for the ti(4) device nodes.

ti.4:		Update the ti(4) man page to include information on the
		TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT and TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS kernel options,
		and also include information about the new character
		device interface and the associated ioctls.

man9/Makefile:	Add jumbo.9 and zero_copy.9 man pages and associated
		links.

jumbo.9:	New man page describing the jumbo buffer allocator
		interface and operation.

zero_copy.9:	New man page describing the general characteristics of
		the zero copy send and receive code, and what an
		application author should do to take advantage of the
		zero copy functionality.

NOTES:		Add entries for ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS, TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS,
		TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT, MSIZE, and MCLSHIFT.

conf/files:	Add uipc_jumbo.c and uipc_cow.c.

conf/options:	Add the 5 options mentioned above.

kern_subr.c:	Receive side zero copy implementation.  This takes
		"disposable" pages attached to an mbuf, gives them to
		a user process, and then recycles the user's page.
		This is only active when ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on
		and the kern.ipc.zero_copy.receive sysctl variable is
		set to 1.

uipc_cow.c:	Send side zero copy functions.  Takes a page written
		by the user and maps it copy on write and assigns it
		kernel virtual address space.  Removes copy on write
		mapping once the buffer has been freed by the network
		stack.

uipc_jumbo.c:	Jumbo disposable page allocator code.  This allocates
		(optionally) disposable pages for network drivers that
		want to give the user the option of doing zero copy
		receive.

uipc_socket.c:	Add kern.ipc.zero_copy.{send,receive} sysctls that are
		enabled if ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on.

		Add zero copy send support to sosend() -- pages get
		mapped into the kernel instead of getting copied if
		they meet size and alignment restrictions.

uipc_syscalls.c:Un-staticize some of the sf* functions so that they
		can be used elsewhere.  (uipc_cow.c)

if_media.c:	In the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl in ifmedia_ioctl(), avoid
		calling malloc() with M_WAITOK.  Return an error if
		the M_NOWAIT malloc fails.

		The ti(4) driver and the wi(4) driver, at least, call
		this with a mutex held.  This causes witness warnings
		for 'ifconfig -a' with a wi(4) or ti(4) board in the
		system.  (I've only verified for ti(4)).

ip_output.c:	Fragment large datagrams so that each segment contains
		a multiple of PAGE_SIZE amount of data plus headers.
		This allows the receiver to potentially do page
		flipping on receives.

if_ti.c:	Add zero copy receive support to the ti(4) driver.  If
		TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS is not defined, it now uses the
		jumbo(9) buffer allocator for jumbo receive buffers.

		Add a new character device interface for the ti(4)
		driver for the new debugging interface.  This allows
		(a patched version of) gdb to talk to the Tigon board
		and debug the firmware.  There are also a few additional
		debugging ioctls available through this interface.

		Add header splitting support to the ti(4) driver.

		Tweak some of the default interrupt coalescing
		parameters to more useful defaults.

		Add hooks for supporting transmit flow control, but
		leave it turned off with a comment describing why it
		is turned off.

if_tireg.h:	Change the firmware rev to 12.4.11, since we're really
		at 12.4.11 plus fixes from 12.4.13.

		Add defines needed for debugging.

		Remove the ti_stats structure, it is now defined in
		sys/tiio.h.

ti_fw.h:	12.4.11 firmware.

ti_fw2.h:	12.4.11 firmware, plus selected fixes from 12.4.13,
		and my header splitting patches.  Revision 12.4.13
		doesn't handle 10/100 negotiation properly.  (This
		firmware is the same as what was in the tree previously,
		with the addition of header splitting support.)

sys/jumbo.h:	Jumbo buffer allocator interface.

sys/mbuf.h:	Add a new external mbuf type, EXT_DISPOSABLE, to
		indicate that the payload buffer can be thrown away /
		flipped to a userland process.

socketvar.h:	Add prototype for socow_setup.

tiio.h:		ioctl interface to the character portion of the ti(4)
		driver, plus associated structure/type definitions.

uio.h:		Change prototype for uiomoveco() so that we'll know
		whether the source page is disposable.

ufs_readwrite.c:Update for new prototype of uiomoveco().

vm_fault.c:	In vm_fault(), check to see whether we need to do a page
		based copy on write fault.

vm_object.c:	Add a new function, vm_object_allocate_wait().  This
		does the same thing that vm_object allocate does, except
		that it gives the caller the opportunity to specify whether
		it should wait on the uma_zalloc() of the object structre.

		This allows vm objects to be allocated while holding a
		mutex.  (Without generating WITNESS warnings.)

		vm_object_allocate() is implemented as a call to
		vm_object_allocate_wait() with the malloc flag set to
		M_WAITOK.

vm_object.h:	Add prototype for vm_object_allocate_wait().

vm_page.c:	Add page-based copy on write setup, clear and fault
		routines.

vm_page.h:	Add page based COW function prototypes and variable in
		the vm_page structure.

Many thanks to Drew Gallatin, who wrote the zero copy send and receive
code, and to all the other folks who have tested and reviewed this code
over the years.
2002-06-26 03:37:47 +00:00
Peter Wemm
9d04103b7c Remove UIO_USERISPACE - we do not support any split instruction/data
address space machines (eg: pdp-11) and are not likely to ever do so.
Nothing in our kernel sets this.
2002-06-20 07:08:43 +00:00
Alan Cox
c50fe92b8d o Condition the compilation of uiomoveco() and vm_uiomove()
on ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT.
 o Add a comment to the effect that this code is experimental
   support for zero-copy I/O.
2002-05-05 22:42:40 +00:00
Julian Elischer
2c1007663f In a threaded world, differnt priorirites become properties of
different entities.  Make it so.

Reviewed by:	jhb@freebsd.org (john baldwin)
2002-02-11 20:37:54 +00:00
Thomas Moestl
2333d112fb Fix a bug introduced in r. 1.28: when copy{in,out} would fail for an
iovec that was not the last one in the uio, the error would be ignored
silently.

Bug found and fix proposed by:	jhb
2002-02-08 20:19:44 +00:00
John Baldwin
c86b6ff551 Change the preemption code for software interrupt thread schedules and
mutex releases to not require flags for the cases when preemption is
not allowed:

The purpose of the MTX_NOSWITCH and SWI_NOSWITCH flags is to prevent
switching to a higher priority thread on mutex releease and swi schedule,
respectively when that switch is not safe.  Now that the critical section
API maintains a per-thread nesting count, the kernel can easily check
whether or not it should switch without relying on flags from the
programmer.  This fixes a few bugs in that all current callers of
swi_sched() used SWI_NOSWITCH, when in fact, only the ones called from
fast interrupt handlers and the swi_sched of softclock needed this flag.
Note that to ensure that swi_sched()'s in clock and fast interrupt
handlers do not switch, these handlers have to be explicitly wrapped
in critical_enter/exit pairs.  Presently, just wrapping the handlers is
sufficient, but in the future with the fully preemptive kernel, the
interrupt must be EOI'd before critical_exit() is called.  (critical_exit()
can switch due to a deferred preemption in a fully preemptive kernel.)

I've tested the changes to the interrupt code on i386 and alpha.  I have
not tested ia64, but the interrupt code is almost identical to the alpha
code, so I expect it will work fine.  PowerPC and ARM do not yet have
interrupt code in the tree so they shouldn't be broken.  Sparc64 is
broken, but that's been ok'd by jake and tmm who will be fixing the
interrupt code for sparc64 shortly.

Reviewed by:	peter
Tested on:	i386, alpha
2002-01-05 08:47:13 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
3418ebebfe Make uio_yield() a global. Call uio_yield() between chunks
in vn_rdwr_inchunks(), allowing other processes to gain an exclusive
lock on the vnode.  Specifically: directory scanning, to avoid a race to the
root directory, and multiple child processes coring simultaniously so they
can figure out that some other core'ing child has an exclusive adv lock and
just exit instead.

This completely fixes performance problems when large programs core.  You
can have hundreds of copies (forked children) of the same binary core all
at once and not notice.

MFC after:	3 days
2001-09-26 06:54:32 +00:00
John Baldwin
bce9841972 Fix locking on td_flags for TDF_DEADLKTREAT. If the comments in the code
are true that curthread can change during this function, then this flag
needs to become a KSE flag, not a thread flag.
2001-09-13 22:33:37 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b40ce4165d KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after:    ha ha ha ha
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
John Baldwin
29905510e0 Remove spl's in uio_yield() that are covered by the sched_lock. 2001-07-03 15:58:37 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
37336173d3 After one too many PRs on the subject, bite the bullet and define IOV_MAX
and its associated constants.  Implement _SC_IOV_MAX in the usual way.
Be a bit sloppy about the namespace question; this should get cleared up
in time for 5.0.

MFC after:	1 month
2001-06-18 20:24:54 +00:00
Mark Murray
fb919e4d5a Undo part of the tangle of having sys/lock.h and sys/mutex.h included in
other "system" header files.

Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of
sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files.

Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files.

OK'ed by:	bde (with reservations)
2001-05-01 08:13:21 +00:00
Jonathan Lemon
c3d7bcdfc9 Introduce copyinfrom and copyinstrfrom, which can copy data from either
user or kernel space.  This will allow layering of os-compat (e.g.: linux)
system calls.  Apply the changes to mount.
2001-02-16 14:31:49 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
d5a08a6065 Implement a unified run queue and adjust priority levels accordingly.
- All processes go into the same array of queues, with different
  scheduling classes using different portions of the array.  This
  allows user processes to have their priorities propogated up into
  interrupt thread range if need be.
- I chose 64 run queues as an arbitrary number that is greater than
  32.  We used to have 4 separate arrays of 32 queues each, so this
  may not be optimal.  The new run queue code was written with this
  in mind; changing the number of run queues only requires changing
  constants in runq.h and adjusting the priority levels.
- The new run queue code takes the run queue as a parameter.  This
  is intended to be used to create per-cpu run queues.  Implement
  wrappers for compatibility with the old interface which pass in
  the global run queue structure.
- Group the priority level, user priority, native priority (before
  propogation) and the scheduling class into a struct priority.
- Change any hard coded priority levels that I found to use
  symbolic constants (TTIPRI and TTOPRI).
- Remove the curpriority global variable and use that of curproc.
  This was used to detect when a process' priority had lowered and
  it should yield.  We now effectively yield on every interrupt.
- Activate propogate_priority().  It should now have the desired
  effect without needing to also propogate the scheduling class.
- Temporarily comment out the call to vm_page_zero_idle() in the
  idle loop.  It interfered with propogate_priority() because
  the idle process needed to do a non-blocking acquire of Giant
  and then other processes would try to propogate their priority
  onto it.  The idle process should not do anything except idle.
  vm_page_zero_idle() will return in the form of an idle priority
  kernel thread which is woken up at apprioriate times by the vm
  system.
- Update struct kinfo_proc to the new priority interface.  Deliberately
  change its size by adjusting the spare fields.  It remained the same
  size, but the layout has changed, so userland processes that use it
  would parse the data incorrectly.  The size constraint should really
  be changed to an arbitrary version number.  Also add a debug.sizeof
  sysctl node for struct kinfo_proc.
2001-02-12 00:20:08 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
9ed346bab0 Change and clean the mutex lock interface.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:

mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.

The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.

Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:

MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH

The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:

mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.

Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.

Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.

Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.

Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.

Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
2001-02-09 06:11:45 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
ef73ae4b0c Use PCPU_GET, PCPU_PTR and PCPU_SET to access all per-cpu variables
other then curproc.
2001-01-10 04:43:51 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
7da6f97772 - Split the run queue and sleep queue linkage, so that a process
may block on a mutex while on the sleep queue without corrupting
it.
- Move dropping of Giant to after the acquire of sched_lock.

Tested by:	John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
		jhb
2000-11-17 18:09:18 +00:00
John Baldwin
20cdcc5b73 Don't release and acquire Giant in mi_switch(). Instead, release and
acquire Giant as needed in functions that call mi_switch().  The releases
need to be done outside of the sched_lock to avoid potential deadlocks
from trying to acquire Giant while interrupts are disabled.

Submitted by:	witness
2000-11-16 02:16:44 +00:00
John Baldwin
35e0e5b311 Catch up to moving headers:
- machine/ipl.h -> sys/ipl.h
- machine/mutex.h -> sys/mutex.h
2000-10-20 07:58:15 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
cb144e905c GC vax-only code 2000-09-14 16:51:47 +00:00
Jason Evans
0384fff8c5 Major update to the way synchronization is done in the kernel. Highlights
include:

* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*().  See mutex(9).  (Note: The
  alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)

* Per-CPU idle processes.

* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
  preempted (i386 only).

Partially contributed by:	BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least):	cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
2000-09-07 01:33:02 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
e39756439c Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by:		msmith and others
2000-05-26 02:09:24 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
740a1973a6 Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by:	phk
Reviewed by:	phk
Approved by:	mdodd
2000-05-23 20:41:01 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
923502ff91 useracc() the prequel:
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>.  This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.

This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
1999-10-29 18:09:36 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
ad8ac923fa These changes appear to give us benefits with both small (32MB) and
large (1G) memory machine configurations.  I was able to run 'dbench 32'
on a 32MB system without bring the machine to a grinding halt.

    * buffer cache hash table now dynamically allocated.  This will
      have no effect on memory consumption for smaller systems and
      will help scale the buffer cache for larger systems.

    * minor enhancement to pmap_clearbit().  I noticed that
      all the calls to it used constant arguments.  Making
      it an inline allows the constants to propogate to
      deeper inlines and should produce better code.

    * removal of inherent vfs_ioopt support through the emplacement
      of appropriate #ifdef's, with John's permission.  If we do not
      find a use for it by the end of the year we will remove it entirely.

    * removal of getnewbufloops* counters & sysctl's - no longer
      necessary for debugging, getnewbuf() is now optimal.

    * buffer hash table functions removed from sys/buf.h and localized
      to vfs_bio.c

    * VFS_BIO_NEED_DIRTYFLUSH flag and support code added
      ( bwillwrite() ), allowing processes to block when too many dirty
      buffers are present in the system.

    * removal of a softdep test in bdwrite() that is no longer necessary
      now that bdwrite() no longer attempts to flush dirty buffers.

    * slight optimization added to bqrelse() - there is no reason
      to test for available buffer space on B_DELWRI buffers.

    * addition of reverse-scanning code to vfs_bio_awrite().
      vfs_bio_awrite() will attempt to locate clusterable areas
      in both the forward and reverse direction relative to the
      offset of the buffer passed to it.  This will probably not
      make much of a difference now, but I believe we will start
      to rely on it heavily in the future if we decide to shift
      some of the burden of the clustering closer to the actual
      I/O initiation.

    * Removal of the newbufcnt and lastnewbuf counters that Kirk
      added.  They do not fix any race conditions that haven't already
      been fixed by the gbincore() test done after the only call
      to getnewbuf().  getnewbuf() is a static, so there is no chance
      of it being misused by other modules.  ( Unless Kirk can think
      of a specific thing that this code fixes.  I went through it
      very carefully and didn't see anything ).

    * removal of VOP_ISLOCKED() check in flushbufqueues().  I do not
      think this check is necessary, the buffer should flush properly
      whether the vnode is locked or not. ( yes? ).

    * removal of extra arguments passed to getnewbuf() that are not
      necessary.

    * missed cluster_wbuild() that had to be a cluster_wbuild_wb() in
      vfs_cluster.c

    * vn_write() now calls bwillwrite() *PRIOR* to locking the vnode,
      which should greatly aid flushing operations in heavy load
      situations - both the pageout and update daemons will be able
      to operate more efficiently.

    * removal of b_usecount.  We may add it back in later but for now
      it is useless.  Prior implementations of the buffer cache never
      had enough buffers for it to be useful, and current implementations
      which make more buffers available might not benefit relative to
      the amount of sophistication required to implement a b_usecount.
      Straight LRU should work just as well, especially when most things
      are VMIO backed.  I expect that (even though John will not like
      this assumption) directories will become VMIO backed some point soon.

Submitted by:	Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
Reviewed by:	Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
1999-07-08 06:06:00 +00:00
Julian Elischer
beef8a367c This solves a deadlock that can occur when read()ing into a file-mmap()
space. When doing this, it is possible to for another process to attempt
to get an exclusive lock on the vnode and deadlock the mmap/read
combination when the uiomove() call tries to obtain a second
shared lock on the vnode. There is still a potential deadlock
situation with write()/mmap().
Submitted by: Matt Dillon <dillon@freebsd.org>
Reviewed by: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@freebsd.org>
Delimmitted by tag PRE_MATT_MMAP_LOCK and POST_MATT_MMAP_LOCK
in kern/kern_lock.c kern/kern_subr.c
1999-03-12 03:09:29 +00:00