Plenty of allocation sites pass M_ZERO and sizes which are small and known
at compilation time. Handling them internally in malloc loses this information
and results in avoidable calls to memset.
Instead, let the compiler take the advantage of it whenever possible.
Discussed with: jeff
Read locking is over used in the kernel to guarantee liveness. This API makes
it easy to provide livenes guarantees without atomics.
Includes epoch_test kernel module to stress test the API.
Documentation will follow initial use case.
Test case and improvements to preemption handling in response to discussion
with mjg@
Reviewed by: imp@, shurd@
Approved by: sbruno@
Each malloc/free was testing dtrace_malloc_enabled and forcing
extra reads from the malloc type struct to see if perhaps a
dtmalloc probe was on.
Treat it like lockstat and sdt: have a global bolean.
malloc was showing at the top of profile during while running microbenchmarks.
#define DTMALLOC_PROBE_MAX 2
struct malloc_type_internal {
uint32_t mti_probes[DTMALLOC_PROBE_MAX];
u_char mti_zone;
struct malloc_type_stats mti_stats[MAXCPU];
};
Reading mti_zone it wastes a cacheline to hold mti_probes + mti_zone
(which we know is 0) + part of malloc stats of the first cpu which on top
induces false-sharing.
In particular will-it-scale lock1_processes -t 128 -s 10:
before: average:45879692
after: average:51655596
Note the counters can be padded but the right fix is to move them to
counter(9), leaving the struct read-only after creation (modulo dtrace
probes).
size of UMA zone allocation is greater than page size. In this case zone
of zones can not use UMA_MD_SMALL_ALLOC, and we need to postpone switch
off of this zone from startup_alloc() until full launch of VM.
o Always supply number of VM zones to uma_startup_count(). On machines
with UMA_MD_SMALL_ALLOC ignore it completely, unless zsize goes over
a page. In the latter case account VM zones for number of allocations
from the zone of zones.
o Rewrite startup_alloc() so that it will immediately switch off from
itself any zone that is already capable of running real alloc.
In worst case scenario we may leak a single page here. See comment
in uma_startup_count().
o Hardcode call to uma_startup2() into vm_mem_init(). Otherwise some
extra SYSINITs, e.g. vm_page_init() may sneak in before.
o While here, remove uma_boot_pages_mtx. With recent changes to boot
pages calculation, we are guaranteed to use all of the boot_pages
in the early single threaded stage.
Reported & tested by: mav
for UMA startup.
o Introduce another stage of UMA startup, which is entered after
vm_page_startup() finishes. After this stage we don't yet enable buckets,
but we can ask VM for pages. Rename stages to meaningful names while here.
New list of stages: BOOT_COLD, BOOT_STRAPPED, BOOT_PAGEALLOC, BOOT_BUCKETS,
BOOT_RUNNING.
Enabling page alloc earlier allows us to dramatically reduce number of
boot pages required. What is more important number of zones becomes
consistent across different machines, as no MD allocations are done before
the BOOT_PAGEALLOC stage. Now only UMA internal zones actually need to use
startup_alloc(), however that may change, so vm_page_startup() provides
its need for early zones as argument.
o Introduce uma_startup_count() function, to avoid code duplication. The
functions calculates sizes of zones zone and kegs zone, and calculates how
many pages UMA will need to bootstrap.
It counts not only of zone structures, but also of kegs, slabs and hashes.
o Hide uma_startup_foo() declarations from public file.
o Provide several DIAGNOSTIC printfs on boot_pages usage.
o Bugfix: when calculating zone of zones size use (mp_maxid + 1) instead of
mp_ncpus. Use resulting number not only in the size argument to zone_ctor()
but also as args.size.
Reviewed by: imp, gallatin (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14054
domains can be done by the _domain() API variants. UMA also supports a
first-touch policy via the NUMA zone flag.
The slab layer is now segregated by VM domains and is precise. It handles
iteration for round-robin directly. The per-cpu cache layer remains
a mix of domains according to where memory is allocated and freed. Well
behaved clients can achieve perfect locality with no performance penalty.
The direct domain allocation functions have to visit the slab layer and
so require per-zone locks which come at some expense.
Reviewed by: Attilio (a slightly older version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Additionally, move the overflow check logic out to WOULD_OVERFLOW() for
consumers to have a common means of testing for overflowing allocations.
WOULD_OVERFLOW() should be a secondary check -- on 64-bit platforms, just
because an allocation won't overflow size_t does not mean it is a sane size
to request. Callers should be imposing reasonable allocation limits far,
far, below overflow.
Discussed with: emaste, jhb, kp
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Similar to calloc() the mallocarray() function checks for integer
overflows before allocating memory.
It does not zero memory, unless the M_ZERO flag is set.
Reviewed by: pfg, vangyzen (previous version), imp (previous version)
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13766
The arena argument to kmem_*() is now only used in an assert. A follow-up
commit will remove the argument altogether before we freeze the API for the
next release.
This replaces the hard limit on kmem size with a soft limit imposed by UMA. When
the soft limit is exceeded we periodically wakeup the UMA reclaim thread to
attempt to shrink KVA. On 32bit architectures this should behave much more
gracefully as we exhaust KVA. On 64bit the limits are likely never hit.
Reviewed by: markj, kib (some objections)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix / Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13187
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.
A panicking thread always executes with a critical section held, so any
attempt to allocate or free memory while dumping will otherwise cause a
second panic. This can occur, for example, if xpt_polled_action() completes
non-dump I/O that was pending at the time of the panic. The fact that this
can occur is itself a bug, but asserting in this case does little but
reduce the reliability of kernel dumps.
Suggested by: kib
Reported by: pho
critical section.
uma_zalloc_arg()/uma_zalloc_free() may acquire a sleepable lock on the
zone. The malloc() family of functions may call uma_zalloc_arg() or
uma_zalloc_free().
The malloc(9) man page currently claims that free() will never sleep.
It also implies that the malloc() family of functions will not sleep
when called with M_NOWAIT. However, it is more correct to say that
these functions will not sleep indefinitely. Indeed, they may acquire
a sleepable lock. However, a developer may overlook this restriction
because the WITNESS check that catches attempts to call the malloc()
family of functions within a critical section is inconsistenly
applied.
This change clarifies the language of the malloc(9) man page to clarify
the restriction against calling the malloc() family of functions
while in a critical section or holding a spin lock. It also adds
KASSERTs at appropriate points to make the enforcement of this
restriction more consistent.
PR: 204633
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4197
Reviewed by: markj
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
fragmented conditions currently just wakes up the pagedaemon. The
kmem arena is significantly smaller then the total available physical
memory, which means that there are loads where kmem arena space could
be exhausted, while there is a lot of pages available still. The
woken up pagedaemon sees vm_pages_needed != 0, verifies the condition
vm_paging_needed() which is false, clears the pass and returns back to
sleep, not calling neither uma_reclaim() nor lowmem handler.
To handle low kmem arena conditions, create additional pagedaemon
thread which calls uma_reclaim() directly. The thread sleeps on the
dedicated channel and kmem_reclaim() wakes the thread in addition to
the pagedaemon.
Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
strings returned to userland include the nulterm byte.
Some uses of sbuf_new_for_sysctl() write binary data rather than strings;
clear the SBUF_INCLUDENUL flag after calling sbuf_new_for_sysctl() in
those cases. (Note that the sbuf code still automatically adds a nulterm
byte in sbuf_finish(), but since it's not included in the length it won't
get copied to userland along with the binary data.)
Remove explicit adding of a nulterm byte in a couple places now that it
gets done automatically by the sbuf drain code.
PR: 195668
footprint systems(32M/64M) and didn't leave enough free memory to load modules
when it was setting up page tables that for sizes that are never used on
these smallish boards.
Set kmem_zmax to PAGE_SIZE on these smaller systems (< 128M) to keep this
from happening. Verified on mips32 h/w.
PR: 193465
Submitted by: delphij
Reviewed by: adrian
Remove duplicate "debug_ktr.mask" sysctl definition.
Remove now unused variable from "kern_ktr.c".
This fixes build of "ktr" which was broken by r267961.
Let the default value for "vm_kmem_size_scale" be zero. It is setup
after that the sysctl has been initialized from "getenv()" in the
"kmeminit()" function to equal the "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" value, if
zero. On Sparc64 the "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" macro is not a constant. This
fixes build of Sparc64 which was broken by r267961.
Add a special macro to dynamically create SYSCTL root nodes, because
root nodes have a special parent. This fixes build of existing OFED
module and CANBUS module for pc98 which was broken by r267961.
Add missing "sysctl.h" includes to get the needed sysctl header file
declarations. This is needed after r267961.
MFC after: 2 weeks
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
To reduce the diff struct pcu.cnt field was not renamed, so
PCPU_OP(cnt.field) is still used. pc_cnt and pcpu are also used in
kvm(3) and vmstat(8). The goal was to not affect externally used KPI.
Bump __FreeBSD_version_ in case some out-of-tree module/code relies on the
the global cnt variable.
Exp-run revealed no ports using it directly.
No objection from: arch@
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
option, unbreak the lock tracing release semantic by embedding
calls to LOCKSTAT_PROFILE_RELEASE_LOCK() direclty in the inlined
version of the releasing functions for mutex, rwlock and sxlock.
Failing to do so skips the lockstat_probe_func invokation for
unlocking.
- As part of the LOCKSTAT support is inlined in mutex operation, for
kernel compiled without lock debugging options, potentially every
consumer must be compiled including opt_kdtrace.h.
Fix this by moving KDTRACE_HOOKS into opt_global.h and remove the
dependency by opt_kdtrace.h for all files, as now only KDTRACE_FRAMES
is linked there and it is only used as a compile-time stub [0].
[0] immediately shows some new bug as DTRACE-derived support for debug
in sfxge is broken and it was never really tested. As it was not
including correctly opt_kdtrace.h before it was never enabled so it
was kept broken for a while. Fix this by using a protection stub,
leaving sfxge driver authors the responsibility for fixing it
appropriately [1].
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: rstone
[0] Reported by: rstone
[1] Discussed with: philip
words, every architecture is now auto-sizing the kmem arena. This revision
changes kmeminit() so that the definition of VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE becomes
mandatory and the definition of VM_KMEM_SIZE becomes optional.
Replace or eliminate all existing definitions of VM_KMEM_SIZE. With
auto-sizing enabled, VM_KMEM_SIZE effectively became an alternate spelling
for VM_KMEM_SIZE_MIN on most architectures. Use VM_KMEM_SIZE_MIN for
clarity.
Change kmeminit() so that the effect of defining VM_KMEM_SIZE is similar to
that of setting the tunable vm.kmem_size. Whereas the macros
VM_KMEM_SIZE_{MAX,MIN,SCALE} have had the same effect as the tunables
vm.kmem_size_{max,min,scale}, the effects of VM_KMEM_SIZE and vm.kmem_size
have been distinct. In particular, whereas VM_KMEM_SIZE was overridden by
VM_KMEM_SIZE_{MAX,MIN,SCALE} and vm.kmem_size_{max,min,scale}, vm.kmem_size
was not. Remedy this inconsistency. Now, VM_KMEM_SIZE can be used to set
the size of the kmem arena at compile-time without that value being
overridden by auto-sizing.
Update the nearby comments to reflect the kmem submap being replaced by the
kmem arena. Stop duplicating the auto-sizing formula in every machine-
dependent vmparam.h and place it in kmeminit() where auto-sizing takes
place.
Reviewed by: kib (an earlier version)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
kmeminit() runs, so it contributes nothing to 'vm_kmem_size'; update a
comment to reflect that r254025 replaced the kmem submap with the kmem
arena.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: re (gjb)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
transparent layering and better fragmentation.
- Normalize functions that allocate memory to use kmem_*
- Those that allocate address space are named kva_*
- Those that operate on maps are named kmap_*
- Implement recursive allocation handling for kmem_arena in vmem.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
VM_KMEM_MAX_SIZE.
The code was not taking into account the size of the kernel_map, which
the kmem_map is allocated from, so it could produce a sub-map size too
large to fit. The simplest solution is to ignore VM_KMEM_MAX entirely
and base the memguard map's size off the kernel_map's size, since this
is always relevant and always smaller.
Found by: Justin Hibbits
long for specifying a boundary constraint.
- Change bus_dma tags to use bus_addr_t instead of bus_size_t for boundary
constraints.
These allow boundary constraints to be fully expressed for cases where
sizeof(bus_addr_t) != sizeof(bus_size_t). Specifically, it allows a
driver to properly specify a 4GB boundary in a PAE kernel.
Note that this cannot be safely MFC'd without a lot of compat shims due
to KBI changes, so I do not intend to merge it.
Reviewed by: scottl
of vm_kmem_size that may occur if the system administrator has specified a
vm.vm_kmem_size tunable value that exceeds the hard cap.
PR: 162741
Submitted by: Adam McDougall
Reviewed by: bde@
MFC after: 3 weeks
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
more general VM system interfaces. So, their implementation can now
reside in kern_malloc.c alongside the other functions that are declared
in malloc.h.
