- Surround all accesses of the BKGRD{WAIT,INPROG} flags with the vnode
interlock.
- Don't use the B_LOCKED flag and QUEUE_LOCKED for background write
buffers. Check for the BKGRDINPROG flag before recycling or throwing
away a buffer. We do this instead because it is not safe for us to move
the original buffer to a new queue from the callback on the background
write buffer.
- Remove the B_LOCKED flag and the locked buffer queue. They are no longer
used.
- The vnode interlock is used around checks for BKGRDINPROG where it may
not be strictly necessary. If we hold the buf lock the a back-ground
write will not be started without our knowledge, one may only be
completed while we're not looking. Rather than remove the code, Document
two of the places where this extra locking is done. A pass should be
done to verify and minimize the locking later.
where physical addresses larger than virtual addresses, such as i386s
with PAE.
- Use this to represent physical addresses in the MI vm system and in the
i386 pmap code. This also changes the paddr parameter to d_mmap_t.
- Fix printf formats to handle physical addresses >4G in the i386 memory
detection code, and due to kvtop returning vm_paddr_t instead of u_long.
Note that this is a name change only; vm_paddr_t is still the same as
vm_offset_t on all currently supported platforms.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Discussed with: re, phk (cdevsw change)
- Create a new function bdone() which sets B_DONE and calls wakup(bp). This
is suitable for use as b_iodone for buf consumers who are not going
through the buf cache.
- Create a new function bwait() which waits for the buf to be done at a set
priority and with a specific wmesg.
- Replace several cases where the above functionality was implemented
without locking with the new functions.
requiring locked bufs in vfs_bio_awrite(). Previously the buf could
have been written out by fsync before we acquired the buf lock if it
weren't for giant. The cluster_wbuild() handles this race properly but
the single write at the end of vfs_bio_awrite() would not.
- Modify flushbufqueues() so there is only one copy of the loop. Pass a
parameter in that says whether or not we should sync bufs with deps.
- Call flushbufqueues() a second time and then break if we couldn't find
any bufs without deps.
- Define one flag GB_LOCK_NOWAIT that tells getblk() to pass the LK_NOWAIT
flag to the initial BUF_LOCK(). This will eventually be used in cases
were we want to use a buffer only if it is not currently in use.
- Convert all consumers of the getblk() api to use this extra parameter.
Reviwed by: arch
Not objected to by: mckusick
delta 1.371) we must ensure that we do not get ourselves into a
recursive trap endlessly trying to clean up after ourselves.
Reported by: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
track of the number of dirty buffers held by a vnode. When a
bdwrite is done on a buffer, check the existing number of dirty
buffers associated with its vnode. If the number rises above
vfs.dirtybufthresh (currently 90% of vfs.hidirtybuffers), one
of the other (hopefully older) dirty buffers associated with
the vnode is written (using bawrite). In the event that this
approach fails to curb the growth in it the vnode's number of
dirty buffers (due to soft updates rollback dependencies),
the more drastic approach of doing a VOP_FSYNC on the vnode
is used. This code primarily affects very large and actively
written files such as snapshots. This change should eliminate
hanging when taking snapshots or doing background fsck on
very large filesystems.
Hopefully, one day it will be possible to cache filesystem
metadata in the VM cache as is done with file data. As it
stands, only the buffer cache can be used which limits total
metadata storage to about 20Mb no matter how much memory is
available on the system. This rather small memory gets badly
thrashed causing a lot of extra I/O. For example, taking a
snapshot of a 1Tb filesystem minimally requires about 35,000
write operations, but because of the cache thrashing (we only
have about 350 buffers at our disposal) ends up doing about
237,540 I/O's thus taking twenty-five minutes instead of four
if it could run entirely in the cache.
Reported by: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
- Remove the buftimelock mutex and acquire the buf's interlock to protect
these fields instead.
- Hold the vnode interlock while locking bufs on the clean/dirty queues.
This reduces some cases from one BUF_LOCK with a LK_NOWAIT and another
BUF_LOCK with a LK_TIMEFAIL to a single lock.
Reviewed by: arch, mckusick
queue lock already held.
- In getblk() and flushbufqueues() use bremfreel() while we still have the
buf queue lock held to keep the lists consistent.
- Add LK_NOWAIT to two cases where we're essentially asserting that the bufs
are not locked while acquiring the locks. This will make sure that we get
the appropriate panic() and not another one for sleeping with a lock held.
that is protected by the vnode lock.
- Move B_SCANNED into b_vflags and call it BV_SCANNED.
- Create a vop_stdfsync() modeled after spec's sync.
- Replace spec_fsync, msdos_fsync, and hpfs_fsync with the stdfsync and some
fs specific processing. This gives all of these filesystems proper
behavior wrt MNT_WAIT/NOWAIT and the use of the B_SCANNED flag.
- Annotate the locking in buf.h
buf lists, synchronization variables, and atomic ops for the counters.
This change does not remove giant from any code although some pushdown
may be possible.
- In vfs_bio_awrite() don't access buf fields without the buf lock.
vm_pageout_deficit:
1. Update vm_pageout_deficit before VM_WAIT. There is no sense in
delaying the update; the sooner the pageout daemon receives this
information the better. Reviewed by: tegge
2. Update vm_pageout_deficit according to the number of pages still
needed to complete the allocation, not the original size of the
allocation. Submitted by: tegge
(These errors have existed since the introduction of vm_pageout_deficit
in revision 1.144.)
portable copy. Note that pmap_extract() must be used instead of
pmap_kextract().
This is precursor work to a reorganization of vmapbuf() to close remaining
user/kernel races (which can lead to a panic).
to sort out disk-io from file-io in the vm/buffer/filesystem space.
The intent is to sort VOP_STRATEGY calls into those which operate
on "real" vnodes and those which operate on VCHR vnodes. For
the latter kind, the call will be changed to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY,
possibly conditionally for those places where dual-use happens.
Add a default VOP_SPECSTRATEGY method which will call the normal
VOP_STRATEGY. First time it is called it will print debugging
information. This will only happen if a normal vnode is passed
to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY by mistake.
Add a real VOP_SPECSTRATEGY in specfs, which does what VOP_STRATEGY
does on a VCHR vnode today.
Add a new VOP_STRATEGY method in specfs to catch instances where
the conversion to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY has not yet happened. Handle
the request just like we always did, but first time called print
debugging information.
Apart up to two instances of console messages per boot, this amounts
to a glorified no-op commit.
If you get any of the messages on your console I would very much
like a copy of them mailed to phk@freebsd.org
they may be the only viable ones to flush. Thus it will now wait for
an inode lock if the other alternatives will result in rollbacks (and
immediate redirtying of the buffer). If only buffers with rollbacks
are available, one will be flushed, but then the buffer daemon will
wait briefly before proceeding. Failing to wait briefly effectively
deadlocks a uniprocessor since every other process writing to that
filesystem will wait for the buffer daemon to clean up which takes
close enough to forever to feel like a deadlock.
Reported by: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Approved by: re
indirectly through vm_page_protect(). The one remaining page flag that
is updated by vm_page_protect() is already being updated by our various
pmap implementations.
Note: A later commit will similarly change the VM_PROT_READ case and
eliminate vm_page_protect().
to help clean up. After selecting a potential buffer to write, this
patch has it acquire a lock on the vnode that owns the buffer before
trying to write it. The vnode lock is necessary to avoid a race with
some other process holding the vnode locked and trying to flush its
dirty buffers. In particular, if the vnode in question is a snapshot
file, then the race can lead to a deadlock. To avoid slowing down the
buf_daemon, it does a non-blocking lock request when trying to lock
the vnode. If it fails to get the lock it skips over the buffer and
continues down its queue looking for buffers to flush.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
v_tag is now const char * and should only be used for debugging.
Additionally:
1. All users of VT_NTS now check vfsconf->vf_type VFCF_NETWORK
2. The user of VT_PROCFS now checks for the new flag VV_PROCDEP, which
is propagated by pseudofs to all child vnodes if the fs sets PFS_PROCDEP.
Suggested by: phk
Reviewed by: bde, rwatson (earlier version)
Introduce biowait() function. Currently there is a race condition and the
mitigation is a timeout/retry. It is not obvious what kind of locking (if any)
is suitable for BIO_DONE, since the majority of users take are of this
themselves, and only a few places actually rely on the wakeup.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
in the original hardwired sysctl implementation.
The buf size calculator still overflows an integer on machines with large
KVA (eg: ia64) where the number of pages does not fit into an int. Use
'long' there.
Change Maxmem and physmem and related variables to 'long', mostly for
completeness. Machines are not likely to overflow 'int' pages in the
near term, but then again, 640K ought to be enough for anybody. This
comes for free on 32 bit machines, so why not?
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.
Idea stolen from: BSD/OS
As this code is not actually used by any of the existing
interfaces, it seems unlikely to break anything (famous
last words).
The internal kernel interface to manipulate these attributes
is invoked using two new IO_ flags: IO_NORMAL and IO_EXT.
These flags may be specified in the ioflags word of VOP_READ,
VOP_WRITE, and VOP_TRUNCATE. Specifying IO_NORMAL means that
you want to do I/O to the normal data part of the file and
IO_EXT means that you want to do I/O to the extended attributes
part of the file. IO_NORMAL and IO_EXT are mutually exclusive
for VOP_READ and VOP_WRITE, but may be specified individually
or together in the case of VOP_TRUNCATE. For example, when
removing a file, VOP_TRUNCATE is called with both IO_NORMAL
and IO_EXT set. For backward compatibility, if neither IO_NORMAL
nor IO_EXT is set, then IO_NORMAL is assumed.
Note that the BA_ and IO_ flags have been `merged' so that they
may both be used in the same flags word. This merger is possible
by assigning the IO_ flags to the low sixteen bits and the BA_
flags the high sixteen bits. This works because the high sixteen
bits of the IO_ word is reserved for read-ahead and help with
write clustering so will never be used for flags. This merge
lets us get away from code of the form:
if (ioflags & IO_SYNC)
flags |= BA_SYNC;
For the future, I have considered adding a new field to the
vattr structure, va_extsize. This addition could then be
exported through the stat structure to allow applications to
find out the size of the extended attribute storage and also
would provide a more standard interface for truncating them
(via VOP_SETATTR rather than VOP_TRUNCATE).
I am also contemplating adding a pathconf parameter (for
concreteness, lets call it _PC_MAX_EXTSIZE) which would
let an application determine the maximum size of the extended
atribute storage.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
methodology similar to the vm_map_entry splay and the VM splay that Alan
Cox is working on. Extensive testing has appeared to have shown no
increase in overhead.
Disadvantages
Dirties more cache lines during lookups.
Not as fast as a hash table lookup (but still N log N and optimal
when there is locality of reference).
Advantages
vnode->v_dirtyblkhd is now perfectly sorted, making fsync/sync/filesystem
syncer operate more efficiently.
I get to rip out all the old hacks (some of which were mine) that tried
to keep the v_dirtyblkhd tailq sorted.
The per-vnode splay tree should be easier to lock / SMPng pushdown on
vnodes will be easier.
This commit along with another that Alan is working on for the VM page
global hash table will allow me to implement ranged fsync(), optimize
server-side nfs commit rpcs, and implement partial syncs by the
filesystem syncer (aka filesystem syncer would detect that someone is
trying to get the vnode lock, remembers its place, and skip to the
next vnode).
Note that the buffer cache splay is somewhat more complex then other splays
due to special handling of background bitmap writes (multiple buffers with
the same lblkno in the same vnode), and B_INVAL discontinuities between the
old hash table and the existence of the buffer on the v_cleanblkhd list.
Suggested by: alc
- Cache a pointer to the vnode's object in the buf.
- Hold a reference to that object in addition to the vnode's reference just
to be consistent.
- Cleanup code that got the object indirectly through the vp and VOP calls.
This fixes at least one case where we were calling GETVOBJECT without a lock.
It also avoids an expensive layered call at the cost of another pointer in
struct buf.
improperly clearing more then just the invalid portions of the page. (This
bug is not known to have been triggered by anything).
Submitted by: tegge
MFC after: 7 days
filesystem expands the inode to 256 bytes to make space for 64-bit
block pointers. It also adds a file-creation time field, an ability
to use jumbo blocks per inode to allow extent like pointer density,
and space for extended attributes (up to twice the filesystem block
size worth of attributes, e.g., on a 16K filesystem, there is space
for 32K of attributes). UFS2 fully supports and runs existing UFS1
filesystems. New filesystems built using newfs can be built in either
UFS1 or UFS2 format using the -O option. In this commit UFS1 is
the default format, so if you want to build UFS2 format filesystems,
you must specify -O 2. This default will be changed to UFS2 when
UFS2 proves itself to be stable. In this commit the boot code for
reading UFS2 filesystems is not compiled (see /sys/boot/common/ufsread.c)
as there is insufficient space in the boot block. Once the size of the
boot block is increased, this code can be defined.
Things to note: the definition of SBSIZE has changed to SBLOCKSIZE.
The header file <ufs/ufs/dinode.h> must be included before
<ufs/ffs/fs.h> so as to get the definitions of ufs2_daddr_t and
ufs_lbn_t.
Still TODO:
Verify that the first level bootstraps work for all the architectures.
Convert the utility ffsinfo to understand UFS2 and test growfs.
Add support for the extended attribute storage. Update soft updates
to ensure integrity of extended attribute storage. Switch the
current extended attribute interfaces to use the extended attribute
storage. Add the extent like functionality (framework is there,
but is currently never used).
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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
without removing the buffer from the vnode's dirty buffer list, which
can result in a panic in NFS. Replaced the code with a call to bundirty()
which deals with it properly.
PR: kern/36108, kern/36174
Submitted by: various people
Special mention: to Danny Schales <dan@coes.LaTech.edu> for providing a core dump that helped me track this down.
MFC after: 1 day
pmap_qremove. pmap_kenter is not safe to use in MI code because it is not
guaranteed to flush the mapping from the tlb on all cpus. If the process
in question is preempted and migrates cpus between the call to pmap_kenter
and pmap_kremove, the original cpu will be left with stale mappings in its
tlb. This is currently not a problem for i386 because we do not use PG_G on
SMP, and thus all mappings are flushed from the tlb on context switches, not
just user mappings. This is not the case on all architectures, and if PG_G
is to be used with SMP on i386 it will be a problem. This was committed by
peter earlier as part of his fine grained tlb shootdown work for i386, which
was backed out for other reasons.
Reviewed by: peter
the bio and buffer structures to have daddr64_t bio_pblkno,
b_blkno, and b_lblkno fields which allows access to disks
larger than a Terabyte in size. This change also requires
that the VOP_BMAP vnode operation accept and return daddr64_t
blocks. This delta should not affect system operation in
any way. It merely sets up the necessary interfaces to allow
the development of disk drivers that work with these larger
disk block addresses. It also allows for the development of
UFS2 which will use 64-bit block addresses.
kern/kern_descrip.c:
Aquire Giant in fdrop_locked when file refcount hits zero, this removes
the requirement for the caller to own Giant for the most part.
kern/kern_ktrace.c:
Aquire Giant in ktrgenio, simplifies locking in upper read/write syscalls.
kern/vfs_bio.c:
Aquire Giant in bwillwrite if needed.
kern/sys_generic.c
Giant pushdown, remove Giant for:
read, pread, write and pwrite.
readv and writev aren't done yet because of the possible malloc calls
for iov to uio processing.
kern/sys_socket.c
Grab giant in the socket fo_read/write functions.
kern/vfs_vnops.c
Grab giant in the vnode fo_read/write functions.
Includes some minor whitespace changes, and re-ordering to be able to document
properly (e.g, grouping of variables and the SYSCTL macro calls for them, where
the documentation has been added.)
Reviewed by: phk (but all errors are mine)
There is some unresolved badness that has been eluding me, particularly
affecting uniprocessor kernels. Turning off PG_G helped (which is a bad
sign) but didn't solve it entirely. Userland programs still crashed.
shootdowns in a couple of key places. Do the same for i386. This also
hides some physical addresses from higher levels and has it use the
generic vm_page_t's instead. This will help for PAE down the road.
Obtained from: jake (MI code, suggestions for MD part)
Remove bowrite(), it is now unused.
This is the first step in getting entirely rid of BIO_ORDERED which is
a generally accepted evil thing.
Approved by: mckusick
commit by Kirk also fixed a softupdates bug that could easily be triggered
by server side NFS.
* An edge case with shared R+W mmap()'s and truncate whereby
the system would inappropriately clear the dirty bits on
still-dirty data. (applicable to all filesystems)
THIS FIX TEMPORARILY DISABLED PENDING FURTHER TESTING.
see vm/vm_page.c line 1641
* The straddle case for VM pages and buffer cache buffers when
truncating. (applicable to NFS client side)
* Possible SMP database corruption due to vm_pager_unmap_page()
not clearing the TLB for the other cpu's. (applicable to NFS
client side but could effect all filesystems). Note: not
considered serious since the corruption occurs beyond the file
EOF.
* When flusing a dirty buffer due to B_CACHE getting cleared,
we were accidently setting B_CACHE again (that is, bwrite() sets
B_CACHE), when we really want it to stay clear after the write
is complete. This resulted in a corrupt buffer. (applicable
to all filesystems but probably only triggered by NFS)
* We have to call vtruncbuf() when ftruncate()ing to remove
any buffer cache buffers. This is still tentitive, I may
be able to remove it due to the second bug fix. (applicable
to NFS client side)
* vnode_pager_setsize() race against nfs_vinvalbuf()... we have
to set n_size before calling nfs_vinvalbuf or the NFS code
may recursively vnode_pager_setsize() to the original value
before the truncate. This is what was causing the user mmap
bus faults in the nfs tester program. (applicable to NFS
client side)
* Fix to softupdates (see ufs/ffs/ffs_inode.c 1.73, commit made
by Kirk).
Testing program written by: Avadis Tevanian, Jr.
Testing program supplied by: jkh / Apple (see Dec2001 posting to freebsd-hackers with Subject 'NFS: How to make FreeBS fall on its face in one easy step')
MFC after: 1 week
in wdrain during a write. This flag needs to be used in devices whos
strategy routines turn-around and issue another high level I/O, such as
when MD turns around and issues a VOP_WRITE to vnode backing store, in order
to avoid deadlocking the dirty buffer draining code.
Remove a vprintf() warning from MD when the backing vnode is found to be
in-use. The syncer of buf_daemon could be flushing the backing vnode at
the time of an MD operation so the warning is not correct.
MFC after: 1 week
- crhold() returns a reference to the ucred whose refcount it bumps.
- crcopy() now simply copies the credentials from one credential to
another and has no return value.
- a new crshared() primitive is added which returns true if a ucred's
refcount is > 1 and false (0) otherwise.
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
timeout callwheel and buffer cache, out of the platform specific areas
and into the machine independant area. i386 and alpha adjusted here.
Other cpus can be fixed piecemeal.
Reviewed by: freebsd-smp, jake
VM caching of disks through mmap() and stopping syncing of open files
that had their last reference in the fs removed (ie: their unsync'ed
pages get discarded on close already, so I made it stop syncing too).
(this commit is just the first stage). Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
Tor created a while ago, removes the raw I/O piece (that has cache coherency
problems), and adds a buffer cache / VM freeing piece.
Essentially this patch causes O_DIRECT I/O to not be left in the cache, but
does not prevent it from going through the cache, hence the 80%. For
the last 20% we need a method by which the I/O can be issued directly to
buffer supplied by the user process and bypass the buffer cache entirely,
but still maintain cache coherency.
I also have the code working under -stable but the changes made to sys/file.h
may not be MFCable, so an MFC is not on the table yet.
Submitted by: tegge, dillon
- Always call vfs_setdirty() with vm_mtx held.
- Fix an old comment: vm_hold_unload_pages is called vm_hold_free_pages()
nowadays.
- Always call vm_hold_free_pages() w/o vm_mtx held.
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.
faults can not be taken without holding Giant.
Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.
Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.
Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.
FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).
Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
VOP_BWRITE() was a hack which made it possible for NFS client
side to use struct buf with non-bio backing.
This patch takes a more general approach and adds a bp->b_op
vector where more methods can be added.
The success of this patch depends on bp->b_op being initialized
all relevant places for some value of "relevant" which is not
easy to determine. For now the buffers have grown a b_magic
element which will make such issues a tiny bit easier to debug.
sized blocks. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.bigcgs=1'.
Add debugging option to disable background writes of cylinder
groups. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.dobkgrdwrite=0'.
These debugging options should be tried on systems that are panicing
with corrupted cylinder group maps to see if it makes the problem
go away. The set of panics in question are:
ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch
ffs_nodealloccg: map corrupted
ffs_nodealloccg: block not in map
ffs_alloccg: map corrupted
ffs_alloccg: block not in map
ffs_alloccgblk: cyl groups corrupted
ffs_alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
ffs_checkblk: partially free fragment
The following panics are less likely to be related to this problem,
but might be helped by these debugging options:
ffs_valloc: dup alloc
ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
ffs_blkfree: freeing free frag
ffs_vfree: freeing free inode
If you try these options, please report whether they helped reduce your
bitmap corruption panics to Kirk McKusick at <mckusick@mckusick.com>
and to Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>.
hit on the client side and prevent the server side from retiring writes.
Pipeline operations turned off for all READs (no big loss since reads are
usually synchronous) and for NFS writes, and left on for the default bwrite().
(MFC expected prior to 4.3 freeze)
Testing by: mjacob, dillon
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)
by myself. It solves a serious vm_map corruption problem that can occur
with the buffer cache when block sizes > 64K are used. This code has been
heavily tested in -stable but only tested somewhat on -current. An MFC
will occur in a few days. My additions include the vm_map_simplify_entry()
and minor buffer cache boundry case fix.
Make the buffer cache use a system map for buffer cache KVM rather then a
normal map.
Ensure that VM objects are not allocated for system maps. There were cases
where a buffer map could wind up with a backing VM object -- normally
harmless, but this could also result in the buffer cache blocking in places
where it assumes no blocking will occur, possibly resulting in corrupted
maps.
Fix a minor boundry case in the buffer cache size limit is reached that
could result in non-optimal code.
Add vm_map_simplify_entry() calls to prevent 'creeping proliferation'
of vm_map_entry's in the buffer cache's vm_map. Previously only a simple
linear optimization was made. (The buffer vm_map typically has only a
handful of vm_map_entry's. This stabilizes it at that level permanently).
PR: 20609
Submitted by: (Tor Egge) tegge
in 4.2-REL which I ripped out in -stable and -current when implementing the
low-memory handling solution. However, maxlaunder turns out to be the saving
grace in certain very heavily loaded systems (e.g. newsreader box). The new
algorithm limits the number of pages laundered in the first pageout daemon
pass. If that is not sufficient then suceessive will be run without any
limit.
Write I/O is now pipelined using two sysctls, vfs.lorunningspace and
vfs.hirunningspace. This prevents excessive buffered writes in the
disk queues which cause long (multi-second) delays for reads. It leads
to more stable (less jerky) and generally faster I/O streaming to disk
by allowing required read ops (e.g. for indirect blocks and such) to occur
without interrupting the write stream, amoung other things.
NOTE: eventually, filesystem write I/O pipelining needs to be done on a
per-device basis. At the moment it is globalized.
Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
situations prior to now.
The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
a low memory situation. All major modules related to I/O (except
networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
reserve memory pool. These modules now detect a low memory situation but
rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.
Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
being locked.
Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing. Not only will
I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
longer exist.
Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes
(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
statement. We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
aren't taking any chances. We'll turn the whole section into a
panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.
In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
initiating I/O. The problem always caused a panic before. Now it
doesn't. The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.
Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK. This code worked properly before only
because the calculations use signed arithmatic. Better to properly
extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
op.
In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
fix the bogus pages. The result was that it would potentially
invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.
There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
being duplicated, causing potential corruption. We have identified
a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
The problem does not occur very often.. it is very hard to
reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
people have reported.
Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
Add lockdestroy() and appropriate invocations, which corresponds to
lockinit() and must be called to clean up after a lockmgr lock is no
longer needed.
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
the gating of system calls that cause modifications to the underlying
filesystem. The gating can be enabled by any filesystem that needs
to consistently suspend operations by adding the vop_stdgetwritemount
to their set of vnops. Once gating is enabled, the function
vfs_write_suspend stops all new write operations to a filesystem,
allows any filesystem modifying system calls already in progress
to complete, then sync's the filesystem to disk and returns. The
function vfs_write_resume allows the suspended write operations to
begin again. Gating is not added by default for all filesystems as
for SMP systems it adds two extra locks to such critical kernel
paths as the write system call. Thus, gating should only be added
as needed.
Details on the use and current status of snapshots in FFS can be
found in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot so for brevity and timelyness
is not included here. Unless and until you create a snapshot file,
these changes should have no effect on your system (famous last words).
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
