the unlikely event that sysctl_kmem_map_free() was performed on an
empty kmem map, it would incorrectly report the free space as zero.
Discussed with: avg
MFC after: 1 week
Also, express this new maximum as a fraction of the kernel's address
space size rather than a constant so that increasing KVA_PAGES will
automatically increase this maximum. As a side-effect of this change,
kern.maxvnodes will automatically increase by a proportional amount.
While I'm here ensure that this change doesn't result in an unintended
increase in maxpipekva on i386. Calculate maxpipekva based upon the
size of the kernel address space and the amount of physical memory
instead of the size of the kmem map. The memory backing pipes is not
allocated from the kmem map. It is allocated from its own submap of
the kernel map. In short, it has no real connection to the kmem map.
(In fact, the commit messages for the maxpipekva auto-sizing talk
about using the kernel map size, cf. r117325 and r117391, even though
the implementation actually used the kmem map size.) Although the
calculation is now done differently, the resulting value for
maxpipekva should remain almost the same on i386. However, on amd64,
the value will be reduced by 2/3. This is intentional. The recent
change to VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE on amd64 for the benefit of ZFS also had
the unnecessary side-effect of increasing maxpipekva. This change is
effectively restoring maxpipekva on amd64 to its prior value.
Eliminate init_param3() since it is no longer used.
sbuf_new_for_sysctl(9). This allows using an sbuf with a SYSCTL_OUT
drain for extremely large amounts of data where the caller knows that
appropriate references are held, and sleeping is not an issue.
Inspired by: rwatson
Add a drain function for struct sysctl_req, and use it for a variety
of handlers, some of which had to do awkward things to get a large
enough SBUF_FIXEDLEN buffer.
Note that some sysctl handlers were explicitly outputting a trailing
NUL byte. This behaviour was preserved, though it should not be
necessary.
Reviewed by: phk (original patch)
unexpected things in copyout(9) and so wiring the user buffer is not
sufficient to perform a copyout(9) while holding a random mutex.
Requested by: nwhitehorn
handlers, some of which had to do awkward things to get a large enough
FIXEDLEN buffer.
Note that some sysctl handlers were explicitly outputting a trailing NUL
byte. This behaviour was preserved, though it should not be necessary.
Reviewed by: phk
use-after-free over a longer time. Also release the backing pages of
a guarded allocation at free(9) time to reduce the overhead of using
memguard(9). Allow setting and varying the malloc type at run-time.
Add knobs to allow:
- randomly guarding memory
- adding un-backed KVA guard pages to detect underflow and overflow
- a lower limit on the size of allocations that are guarded
Reviewed by: alc
Reviewed by: brueffer, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs spoerlein net> (man page)
Silence from: -arch
Approved by: zml (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
zones for each malloc bucket size. The purpose is to isolate
different malloc types into hash classes, so that any buffer overruns
or use-after-free will usually only affect memory from malloc types in
that hash class. This is purely a debugging tool; by varying the hash
function and tracking which hash class was corrupted, the intersection
of the hash classes from each instance will point to a single malloc
type that is being misused. At this point inspection or memguard(9)
can be used to catch the offending code.
Add MALLOC_DEBUG_MAXZONES=8 to -current GENERIC configuration files.
The suggestion to have this on by default came from Kostik Belousov on
-arch.
This code is based on work by Ron Steinke at Isilon Systems.
Reviewed by: -arch (mostly silence)
Reviewed by: zml
Approved by: zml (mentor)
a KASSERT to handle it. People are likely to turn off INVARIANTS RSN
and loading an old module can cause garbage-in here.
I saw the issue with an older nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver) loading
into a new kernel - a crash wasn't seen 'till sysctl_kern_malloc_stats().
I was lucky that mtp->ks_shortdesc was NULL and not something horrible.
While I'm here, KASSERT that malloc_uninit() isn't passed something that's
not in kmemstatistics.
MFC after: 3 weeks
kern_time.c:
- Unused variable `p'.
kern_thr.c:
- Variable `error' is always caught immediately, so no reason to
initialize it. There is no way that error != 0 at the end of
create_thread().
kern_sig.c:
- Unused variable `code'.
kern_synch.c:
- `rval' is always assigned in all different cases.
kern_rwlock.c:
- `v' is always overwritten with RW_UNLOCKED further on.
kern_malloc.c:
- `size' is always initialized with the proper value before being used.
kern_exit.c:
- `error' is always caught and returned immediately. abort2() never
returns a non-zero value.
kern_exec.c:
- `len' is always assigned inside the if-statement right below it.
tty_info.c:
- `td' is always overwritten by FOREACH_THREAD_IN_PROC().
Found by: LLVM's scan-build
backend kegs so it may source compatible memory from multiple backends.
This is useful for cases such as NUMA or different layouts for the same
memory type.
- Provide a new api for adding new backend kegs to secondary zones.
- Provide a new flag for adjusting the layout of zones to stagger
allocations better across cache lines.
Sponsored by: Nokia
used to request superpage alignment for the submap.
Request superpage alignment for the kmem_map.
Pass VMFS_ANY_SPACE instead of TRUE to vm_map_find(). (They are currently
equivalent but VMFS_ANY_SPACE is the new preferred spelling.)
Remove a stale comment from kmem_malloc().
after each SYSINIT() macro invocation. This makes a number of
lightweight C parsers much happier with the FreeBSD kernel
source, including cflow's prcc and lxr.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: imp, rink
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
vm.kmem_size_min. Useful when using ZFS to make sure that vm.kmem size will
be at least 256mb (for example) without forcing a particular value via vm.kmem_size.
Approved by: njl (mentor)
Reviewed by: alc
counters of allocs/frees/use for each malloc type to calculating InUse,
MemUse, and Requests as displayed by the userspace vmstat -m. This is
more useful when debugging malloc(9)-related memory leaks, where the
count of allocs/frees may not usefully reflect that current memory
allocation (i.e., when highly variable size allocations occur with the
same malloc type, such as with contigmalloc).
MFC after: 3 days
Limitations observed by: scottl
the kernel malloc(9) state for vmstat -m. libmemstat is now used to
generate a machine-readable version which is converged by vmstat -m
into a human-readable version.
Not for MFC.
Releasing items from the mt_zone can not be done by a simple
uma_zfree() call since mt_zone is allocated with the UMA_ZONE_MALLOC
flag. Use uma_zfree_arg instead and supply the slab.
This bug caused panics in low memory situations on unloading kernel
modules containing MALLOC_DEFINE(..) statements.
Submitted by: ups
It detects both: buffer underflows and buffer overflows bugs at runtime
(on free(9) and realloc(9)) and prints backtraces from where memory was
allocated and from where it was freed.
Tested by: kris
- Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without
changing the code and recompiling the kernel.
- Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl
vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory
type before module is loaded.
- Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c.
- Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there.
- Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its
short description (ks_shortdesc field).
- Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it
doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet.
If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY.
- Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the
default.
UMA_SLAB_MALLOC flag.
In some circumstances (I observed it when I was doing a lot of reallocs)
UMA_SLAB_MALLOC can be set even if us_keg != NULL.
If this is the case we have wonderful, silent data corruption, because less
data is copied to the newly allocated region than should be.
I'm not sure when this bug was introduced, it could be there undetected
for years now, as we don't have a lot of realloc(9) consumers and it was
hard to reproduce it...
...but what I know for sure, is that I don't want to know who introduce
the bug:) It took me two/three days to track it down (of course most of
the time I was looking for the bug in my own code).
available kernel malloc types. Quite useful for post-mortem debugging of
memory leaks without a dump device configured on a panicked box.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- increase number of allocations count only on successfull malloc(9),
so it doesn't confuse people;
- because we need to check if 'size > 0', hide 'mtsp->mts_memalloced += size;'
under the check as well, as for size=0 it is of course a no-op;
- avoid critical_enter()/critical_exit() in case of failure in
malloc_type_allocated() as there will be nothing to do.
OK'ed by: rwatson
MFC after: 2 days
statistics via a binary structure stream:
- Add structure 'malloc_type_stream_header', which defines a stream
version, definition of MAXCPUS used in the stream, and a number of
malloc_type records in the stream.
- Add structure 'malloc_type_header', which defines the name of the
malloc type being reported on.
- When the sysctl is queried, return a stream header, followed by a
series of type descriptions, each consisting of a type header
followed by a series of MAXCPUS malloc_type_stats structures holding
per-CPU allocation information. Typical values of MAXCPUS will be 1
(UP compiled kernel) and 16 (SMP compiled kernel).
This query mechanism allows user space monitoring tools to extract
memory allocation statistics in a machine-readable form, and to do so
at a per-CPU granularity, allowing monitoring of allocation patterns
across CPUs in order to better understand the distribution of work and
memory flow over multiple CPUs.
While here:
- Bump statistics width to uint64_t, and hard code using fixed-width
type in order to be more sure about structure layout in the stream.
We allocate and free a lot of memory.
- Add kmemcount, a counter of the number of registered malloc types,
in order to avoid excessive manual counting of types. Export via a
new sysctl to allow user-space code to better size buffers.
- De-XXX comment on no longer maintaining the high watermark in old
sysctl monitoring code.
A follow-up commit of libmemstat(3), a library to monitor kernel memory
allocation, will occur in the next few days. Likewise, similar changes
to UMA.
allocators: a set of power-of-two UMA zones for small allocations, and the
VM page allocator for large allocations. In order to maintain unified
statistics for specific malloc types, kernel malloc maintains a separate
per-type statistics pool, which can be monitored using vmstat -m. Prior
to this commit, each pool of per-type statistics was protected using a
per-type mutex associated with the malloc type.
This change modifies kernel malloc to maintain per-CPU statistics pools
for each malloc type, and protects writing those statistics using critical
sections. It also moves to unsynchronized reads of per-CPU statistics
when generating coalesced statistics. To do this, several changes are
implemented:
- In the previous world order, the statistics memory was allocated by
the owner of the malloc type structure, allocated statically using
MALLOC_DEFINE(). This embedded the definition of the malloc_type
structure into all kernel modules. Move to a model in which a pointer
within struct malloc_type points at a UMA-allocated
malloc_type_internal data structure owned and maintained by
kern_malloc.c, and not part of the exported ABI/API to the rest of
the kernel. For the purposes of easing a possible MFC, re-use an
existing pointer in 'struct malloc_type', and maintain the current
malloc_type structure size, as well as layout with respect to the
fields reused outside of the malloc subsystem (such as ks_shortdesc).
There are several unused fields as a result of no longer requiring
the mutex in malloc_type.
- Struct malloc_type_internal contains an array of malloc_type_stats,
of size MAXCPU. The structure defined above avoids hard-coding a
kernel compile-time value of MAXCPU into kernel modules that interact
with malloc.
- When accessing per-cpu statistics for a malloc type, surround read -
modify - update requests with critical_enter()/critical_exit() in
order to avoid races during write. The per-CPU fields are written
only from the CPU that owns them.
- Per-CPU stats now maintained "allocated" and "freed" counters for
number of allocations/frees and bytes allocated/freed, since there is
no longer a coherent global notion of the totals. When coalescing
malloc stats, accept a slight race between reading stats across CPUs,
and avoid showing the user a negative allocation count for the type
in the event of a race. The global high watermark is no longer
maintained for a malloc type, as there is no global notion of the
number of allocations.
- While tearing up the sysctl() path, also switch to using sbufs. The
current "export as text" sysctl format is retained with the same
syntax. We may want to change this in the future to export more
per-CPU information, such as how allocations and frees are balanced
across CPUs.
This change results in a substantial speedup of kernel malloc and free
paths on SMP, as critical sections (where usable) out-perform mutexes
due to avoiding atomic/bus-locked operations. There is also a minor
improvement on UP due to the slightly lower cost of critical sections
there. The cost of the change to this approach is the loss of a
continuous notion of total allocations that can be exploited to track
per-type high watermarks, as well as increased complexity when
monitoring statistics.
Due to carefully avoiding changing the ABI, as well as hardening the ABI
against future changes, it is not necessary to recompile kernel modules
for this change. However, MFC'ing this change to RELENG_5 will require
also MFC'ing optimizations for soft critical sections, which may modify
exposed kernel ABIs. The internal malloc API is changed, and
modifications to vmstat in order to restore "vmstat -m" on core dumps will
follow shortly.
Several improvements from: bde
Statistics approach discussed with: ups
Tested by: scottl, others
designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more
and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race
conditions are more prevalent.
Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for
particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this
change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations
as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must:
1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config.
2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for
"XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with
the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional
but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type
is declared out of scope).
3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor
boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map
you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10,
so kmem_size/10.
ToDo:
1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page.
2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking
over malloc types.
3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone
allocations too.
4) Improve MemGuard if necessary.
This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs.
Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for
the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s
request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly)
at a time.
The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it
could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks
at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out
without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes
page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting
the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the
systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking
later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated.
The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense
to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward
to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to
have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the
allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked.
There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old
contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using
vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at
run-time to see the difference it makes.
A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the
allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig()
and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0
uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation.
When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory
is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been
exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these
statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the
contigmalloc(9) manpage.
o Make debugging code conditional upon KDB instead of DDB.
o Call kdb_enter() instead of Debugger().
o Call kdb_backtrace() instead of db_print_backtrace() or backtrace().
kern_mutex.c:
o Replace checks for db_active with checks for kdb_active and make
them unconditional.
kern_shutdown.c:
o s/DDB_UNATTENDED/KDB_UNATTENDED/g
o s/DDB_TRACE/KDB_TRACE/g
o Save the TID of the thread doing the kernel dump so the debugger
knows which thread to select as the current when debugging the
kernel core file.
o Clear kdb_active instead of db_active and do so unconditionally.
o Remove backtrace() implementation.
kern_synch.c:
o Call kdb_reenter() instead of db_error().
mbuma is an Mbuf & Cluster allocator built on top of a number of
extensions to the UMA framework, all included herein.
Extensions to UMA worth noting:
- Better layering between slab <-> zone caches; introduce
Keg structure which splits off slab cache away from the
zone structure and allows multiple zones to be stacked
on top of a single Keg (single type of slab cache);
perhaps we should look into defining a subset API on
top of the Keg for special use by malloc(9),
for example.
- UMA_ZONE_REFCNT zones can now be added, and reference
counters automagically allocated for them within the end
of the associated slab structures. uma_find_refcnt()
does a kextract to fetch the slab struct reference from
the underlying page, and lookup the corresponding refcnt.
mbuma things worth noting:
- integrates mbuf & cluster allocations with extended UMA
and provides caches for commonly-allocated items; defines
several zones (two primary, one secondary) and two kegs.
- change up certain code paths that always used to do:
m_get() + m_clget() to instead just use m_getcl() and
try to take advantage of the newly defined secondary
Packet zone.
- netstat(1) and systat(1) quickly hacked up to do basic
stat reporting but additional stats work needs to be
done once some other details within UMA have been taken
care of and it becomes clearer to how stats will work
within the modified framework.
From the user perspective, one implication is that the
NMBCLUSTERS compile-time option is no longer used. The
maximum number of clusters is still capped off according
to maxusers, but it can be made unlimited by setting
the kern.ipc.nmbclusters boot-time tunable to zero.
Work should be done to write an appropriate sysctl
handler allowing dynamic tuning of kern.ipc.nmbclusters
at runtime.
Additional things worth noting/known issues (READ):
- One report of 'ips' (ServeRAID) driver acting really
slow in conjunction with mbuma. Need more data.
Latest report is that ips is equally sucking with
and without mbuma.
- Giant leak in NFS code sometimes occurs, can't
reproduce but currently analyzing; brueffer is
able to reproduce but THIS IS NOT an mbuma-specific
problem and currently occurs even WITHOUT mbuma.
- Issues in network locking: there is at least one
code path in the rip code where one or more locks
are acquired and we end up in m_prepend() with
M_WAITOK, which causes WITNESS to whine from within
UMA. Current temporary solution: force all UMA
allocations to be M_NOWAIT from within UMA for now
to avoid deadlocks unless WITNESS is defined and we
can determine with certainty that we're not holding
any locks when we're M_WAITOK.
- I've seen at least one weird socketbuffer empty-but-
mbuf-still-attached panic. I don't believe this
to be related to mbuma but please keep your eyes
open, turn on debugging, and capture crash dumps.
This change removes more code than it adds.
A paper is available detailing the change and considering
various performance issues, it was presented at BSDCan2004:
http://www.unixdaemons.com/~bmilekic/netbuf_bmilekic.pdf
Please read the paper for Future Work and implementation
details, as well as credits.
Testing and Debugging:
rwatson,
brueffer,
Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra,
...
Reviewed by: Lots of people (for different parts)
assure backward compatibility (conditional on !BURN_BRIDGES), look it up
by its old name first, and log a warning (but accept the setting) if it
was found. If both the old and new name are defined, the new name takes
precedence.
Also export vm.kmem_size as a read-only sysctl variable; I find it hard to
tune a parameter when I don't know its default value, especially when that
default value is computed at boot time.
immediately after the kernel map has been sized, and is
the optimal place for the autosizing of memory allocations
which occur within the kernel map to occur.
Suggested by: bde
too small panics on PAE machines which have odd > 4GB sizes (4.5 gig
would render a 20MB of KVA for kmem_map instead of 200MB).
Submitted by: John Cagle <john.cagle@hp.com>, jeff
Reviewed by: jeff, peter, scottl, lots of USENIX folks
that the feature can be enabled during the boot process. Note the
continued limitation that FreeBSD fails so rapidly with this setting
enabled that it's hard to narrow down particular failures for
correction; we really need per-malloc type failure rates.
in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at
a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor
handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped
into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though
it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory
for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added:
debug.malloc.failure_rate
How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this
feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures --
I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other
popular settings might be much lower or much higher.
debug.malloc.failure_count
Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a
result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have
happened and whether failures are being generated.
Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type,
printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced
failure.
Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
I had commented the #ifdef INVARIANTS checks out to make sure I ran this
code in all kernels and forgot to comment the #ifdefs back in before I
committed.
Spotted by: bmilekic
[1] PHCC = Pointy Hat Correction Commit
compile-time constants). That is, a "bucket" now is not necessarily
a page-worth of mbufs or clusters, but it is MBUF_BUCK_SZ, CLUS_BUCK_SZ
worth of mbufs, clusters.
o Rename {mbuf,clust}_limit to {mbuf,clust}_hiwm and introduce
{mbuf,clust}_lowm, which currently has no effect but will be used
to set the low watermarks.
o Fix netstat so that it can deal with the differently-sized buckets
and teach it about the low watermarks too.
o Make sure the per-cpu stats for an absent CPU has mb_active set to 0,
explicitly.
o Get rid of the allocate refcounts from mbuf map mess. Instead,
just malloc() the refcounts in one shot from mbuf_init()
o Clean up / update comments in subr_mbuf.c
malloc(9) failed last time. This is intended to help code adjust
memory usage to the current circumstances.
A typical use could be:
if (malloc_last_fail() < 60)
reduce_cache_by_one();
- Remove all instances of the mallochash.
- Stash the slab pointer in the vm page's object pointer when allocating from
the kmem_obj.
- Use the overloaded object pointer to find slabs for malloced memory.
mallochash. Mallochash is going to go away as soon as I introduce the
kfree/kmalloc api and partially overhaul the malloc wrapper. This can't happen
until all users of the malloc api that expect memory to be aligned on the size
of the allocation are fixed.
Implement the following checks on freed memory in the bucket path:
- Slab membership
- Alignment
- Duplicate free
This previously was only done if we skipped the buckets. This code will slow
down INVARIANTS a bit, but it is smp safe. The checks were moved out of the
normal path and into hooks supplied in uma_dbg.
0xdeadc0de and then check for it just before memory is handed off as part
of a new request. This will catch any post free/pre alloc modification of
memory, as well as introduce errors for anything that tries to dereference
it as a pointer.
This code takes the form of special init, fini, ctor and dtor routines that
are specificly used by malloc. It is in a seperate file because additional
debugging aids will want to live here as well.
malloc profiling) also modified the set of pre-defined buckets for the
memory allocator. For reasons unknown to me, this resulted in extensive
memory corruption in the kernel, in particular on SMP boxes, so I'm
committing this work-around until Jeff gets a chance to debug it
properly. David Wolfskill pointed me at this commit as the one that
might be a problem; I've been running this code on two dual-processor
burn-in boxes for about 12 hours now, and the rate of panics due to
memory corruption has dropped to zero (from one every five minutes).
Hopefully not treading on the toes of: jeff
information related to bucket size effeciency. Three things are printed on
each row:
Size is the size the user actually asked for rounded to 16 bytes.
Requests is the number of times this size was asked for.
Real Size is the size we actually handed out.
At the end the total memory used and total waste is displayed. Currently my
system displays about 33% wasted memory.
The intent of this code is to gather statistics for tuning the malloc bucket
sizes. It is not intended to be run with INVARIANTS and it is not entirely
mp safe. It can be enabled via 'options MALLOC_PROFILE' which was commited
earlier.
Updated the kmemzones logic such that the ks_size bitmap can be used as an
index into it to report the size of the zone used.
Create the kern.malloc sysctl which replaces the kvm mechanism to report
similar data. This will provide an easy place for statistics aggregation if
malloc_type statistics become per cpu data.
Add some code ifdef'd under MALLOC_PROFILING to facilitate a tool for sizing
the malloc buckets.
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
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
- Callers of asleep() and await() have been converted to calling tsleep().
The only caller outside of M_ASLEEP was the ata driver, which called both
asleep() and await() with spl-raised, so there was no need for the
asleep() and await() pair. M_ASLEEP was unused.
Reviewed by: jasone, peter
order to avoid namespace collision with subr_mchain.c's mb_init(). This
wasn't "fatal" as the mbuf initialization routine mb_init() was local to
subr_mbuf.c which in turn didn't pull in subr_mchain.c's mb_init()
declaration, but it should deffinately be changed now before it creates
headache.
introduce a modified allocation mechanism for mbufs and mbuf clusters; one
which can scale under SMP and which offers the possibility of resource
reclamation to be implemented in the future. Notable advantages:
o Reduce contention for SMP by offering per-CPU pools and locks.
o Better use of data cache due to per-CPU pools.
o Much less code cache pollution due to excessively large allocation macros.
o Framework for `grouping' objects from same page together so as to be able
to possibly free wired-down pages back to the system if they are no longer
needed by the network stacks.
Additional things changed with this addition:
- Moved some mbuf specific declarations and initializations from
sys/conf/param.c into mbuf-specific code where they belong.
- m_getclr() has been renamed to m_get_clrd() because the old name is really
confusing. m_getclr() HAS been preserved though and is defined to the new
name. No tree sweep has been done "to change the interface," as the old
name will continue to be supported and is not depracated. The change was
merely done because m_getclr() sounds too much like "m_get a cluster."
- TEMPORARILY disabled mbtypes statistics displaying in netstat(1) and
systat(1) (see TODO below).
- Fixed systat(1) to display number of "free mbufs" based on new per-CPU
stat structures.
- Fixed netstat(1) to display new per-CPU stats based on sysctl-exported
per-CPU stat structures. All infos are fetched via sysctl.
TODO (in order of priority):
- Re-enable mbtypes statistics in both netstat(1) and systat(1) after
introducing an SMP friendly way to collect the mbtypes stats under the
already introduced per-CPU locks (i.e. hopefully don't use atomic() - it
seems too costly for a mere stat update, especially when other locks are
already present).
- Optionally have systat(1) display not only "total free mbufs" but also
"total free mbufs per CPU pool."
- Fix minor length-fetching issues in netstat(1) related to recently
re-enabled option to read mbuf stats from a core file.
- Move reference counters at least for mbuf clusters into an unused portion
of the cluster itself, to save space and need to allocate a counter.
- Look into introducing resource freeing possibly from a kproc.
Reviewed by (in parts): jlemon, jake, silby, terry
Tested by: jlemon (Intel & Alpha), mjacob (Intel & Alpha)
Preliminary performance measurements: jlemon (and me, obviously)
URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/mb_alloc/
around, use a common function for looking up and extracting the tunables
from the kernel environment. This saves duplicating the same function
over and over again. This way typically has an overhead of 8 bytes + the
path string, versus about 26 bytes + the path string.
