Testing with the high frequency of 20000 Hz (to find problems) only found
the problem that this frequency is too high for slow i386's.
Disable interrupts while setting the timer frequency. This was unnecessary
before rev.1.57 and forgotten in rev.1.57. The critical (i8254) interrupts
are disabled in another way at boot time but not in the sysctl to change
the frequency.
Fixed profiling of system times. It was pre-4.4Lite and didn't support
statclocks. System times were too small by a factor of 8.
Handle deferred profiling ticks the 4.4Lite way: use addupc_task() instead
of addupc(). Call addupc_task() directly instead of using the ADDUPC()
macro.
Removed vestigial support for PROFTIMER.
switch.s:
Removed addupc().
resourcevar.h:
Removed ADDUPC() and declarations of addupc().
cpu.h:
Updated a comment. i386's never were tahoe's, and the deferred profiling
tick became (possibly) multiple ticks in 4.4Lite.
Obtained from: mostly from NetBSD
multiplication in addupc() overflowed for addresses >= 256K, assuming
the usual profil(2) scale parameter of 0x8000. addupc() will go away
soon.
Submitted by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
is only used by the icu support modules and by a few drivers that know
too much about the icu (most only use it to convert `n' to `IRQn'). isa.h
is only used by ioconf.c and by a few drivers that know too much about
isa addresses (a few have to, because config is deficient).
enable flag instead of enable_intr() to restore it to its usual state.
getit() is only called from DELAY() so there is no point in optimising
its speed (this wasn't so clear when it was extern), and using
enable_intr() made it inconvenient to call DELAY() from probes that need
to run with interrupts disabled.
1) Make it much less likely to miss a wakeup in vm_page_free_wakeup
2) Create a new entry point into pmap: pmap_ts_referenced, eliminates
the need to scan the pv lists twice in many cases. Perhaps there
is alot more to do here to work on minimizing pv list manipulation
3) Minor improvements to vm_pageout including the use of pmap_ts_ref.
4) Major changes and code improvement to pmap. This code has had
several serious bugs in page table page manipulation. In order
to simplify the problem, and hopefully solve it for once and all,
page table pages are no longer "managed" with the pv list stuff.
Page table pages are only (mapped and held/wired) or
(free and unused) now. Page table pages are never inactive,
active or cached. These changes have probably fixed the
hold count problems, but if they haven't, then the code is
simpler anyway for future bugfixing.
5) The pmap code has been sorely in need of re-organization, and I
have taken a first (of probably many) steps. Please tell me
if you have any ideas.
All new code is "#ifdef PC98"ed so this should make no difference to
PC/AT (and its clones) users.
Ok'd by: core
Submitted by: FreeBSD(98) development team
It is called from copyin and copyout.
The new routine is conditioned on I586_CPU and I586_FAST_BCOPY, so you
need
options "I586_FAST_BCOPY"
(quotes essenstial) in your kernel config file.
Also, if you have other kernel types configured in your kernel, an
additional check to make sure it is running on a Pentium is inserted.
(It is not clear why it doesn't help on P6s, it may be just that the
Orion chipset doesn't prefetch as efficiently as Tritons and friends.)
Bruce can now hack this away. :)
alias `pcb_cr3' instead. That is still one alias too many, but is convenient
for me since I've replaced the tss in the pcb by a few scalar variables in
the pcb.
altfmt was abused to sometimes screw up the disassembly of the bytes
following unconditional jump instructions. Gas doesn't pad to a longword
boundary like the comment said - that is the programmer's responsibility.
queue in vm_fault.
Move the PG_BUSY in vm_fault to the correct place.
Remove redundant/unnecessary code in pmap.c.
Properly block on rundown of page table pages, if they are busy.
I think that the VM system is in pretty good shape now, and the following
individuals (among others, in no particular order) have helped with this
recent bunch of bugs, thanks! If I left anyone out, I apologize!
Stephen McKay, Stephen Hocking, Eric J. Chet, Dan O'Brien, James Raynard,
Marc Fournier.
some problems with the page-table page management code, since it can't
deal with the notion of page-table pages being paged out or in transit.
Also, clean up some stylistic issues per some suggestions from
Stephen McKay.
process during pmap_copy. This minimizes unnecessary swapping or creation of
swap space. If there is a hold_count flaw for page-table
pages, clear the page before freeing it to lessen the chance of a system
crash -- this is a robustness thing only, NOT a fix.
close some windows that are opened up by page table allocations. The
prefaulting code no longer uses hold counts, but now uses the busy
flag for synchronization.
ansi and traditional cpp.
The nesting rules of macros are different, which required some changes.
Use __CONCAT(x,y) instead of /**/.
Redo some comments to use /* */ rather than "# comment" because the ansi
cpp cares about those, and also cares about quote matching.
queue corruption problems, and to apply Gary Palmer's code cleanups.
David Greenman helped with these problems also. There is still
a hang problem using X in small memory machines.
comparing the PTD pointers, they needed to be masked by PG_FRAME, and
they weren't. Also, the "improved" non-386 code wasn't really an
improvement, so I simplified and fixed the code. This might have
caused some of the panics caused by the VM megacommit.
With this fix from Stephen, we are getting the target fork performance
that I have been trying to attain: P5-166, before the mega-commit: 700-800usecs,
after: 600usecs, with Stephen's fix: 500usecs!!! Also, this could be the
solution of some strange panic problems...
Reviewed by: dyson@freebsd.org
Submitted by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>
contributions or ideas from Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>,
Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <davidg@freebsd.org> and me:
More usage of the TAILQ macros. Additional minor fix to queue.h.
Performance enhancements to the pageout daemon.
Addition of a wait in the case that the pageout daemon
has to run immediately.
Slightly modify the pageout algorithm.
Significant revamp of the pmap/fork code:
1) PTE's and UPAGES's are NO LONGER in the process's map.
2) PTE's and UPAGES's reside in their own objects.
3) TOTAL elimination of recursive page table pagefaults.
4) The page directory now resides in the PTE object.
5) Implemented pmap_copy, thereby speeding up fork time.
6) Changed the pv entries so that the head is a pointer
and not an entire entry.
7) Significant cleanup of pmap_protect, and pmap_remove.
8) Removed significant amounts of machine dependent
fork code from vm_glue. Pushed much of that code into
the machine dependent pmap module.
9) Support more completely the reuse of already zeroed
pages (Page table pages and page directories) as being
already zeroed.
Performance and code cleanups in vm_map:
1) Improved and simplified allocation of map entries.
2) Improved vm_map_copy code.
3) Corrected some minor problems in the simplify code.
Implemented splvm (combo of splbio and splimp.) The VM code now
seldom uses splhigh.
Improved the speed of and simplified kmem_malloc.
Minor mod to vm_fault to avoid using pre-zeroed pages in the case
of objects with backing objects along with the already
existant condition of having a vnode. (If there is a backing
object, there will likely be a COW... With a COW, it isn't
necessary to start with a pre-zeroed page.)
Minor reorg of source to perhaps improve locality of ref.
boundary, which means that it doesn't mark the start of the data
section (which is then inaccessible to the programmer ??).
Hopefully fixes recent locore reboot problems.
Macroize locore.s' page table setup even more, now it's almost readable.
Rename PG_U to PG_A (so that I can...)
Rename PG_u to PG_U. "PG_u" was just too ugly...
Remove some unused vars in pmap.c
Remove PG_KR and PG_KW
Remove SSIZE
Remove SINCR
Remove BTOPKERNBASE
This concludes my spring cleaning, modulus any bug fixes for messes I
have made on the way.
(Funny to be back here in pmap.c, that's where my first significant
contribution to 386BSD was... :-)
