yielding a new public interface, vm_page_alloc_contig(). This new function
addresses some of the limitations of the current interfaces, contigmalloc()
and kmem_alloc_contig(). For example, the physically contiguous memory that
is allocated with those interfaces can only be allocated to the kernel vm
object and must be mapped into the kernel virtual address space. It also
provides functionality that vm_phys_alloc_contig() doesn't, such as wiring
the returned pages. Moreover, unlike that function, it respects the low
water marks on the paging queues and wakes up the page daemon when
necessary. That said, at present, this new function can't be applied to all
types of vm objects. However, that restriction will be eliminated in the
coming weeks.
From a design standpoint, this change also addresses an inconsistency
between vm_phys_alloc_contig() and the other vm_phys_alloc*() functions.
Specifically, vm_phys_alloc_contig() manipulated vm_page fields that other
functions in vm/vm_phys.c didn't. Moreover, vm_phys_alloc_contig() knew
about vnodes and reservations. Now, vm_page_alloc_contig() is responsible
for these things.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jhb
Luckily, it mostly wasn't important, so this didn't cause major problems.
Also improve register reuse when setting up trap frames very slightly.
Submitted by: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail dot com>
MFC after: 5 days
flags field. Updates to the atomic flags are performed using the atomic
ops on the containing word, do not require any vm lock to be held, and
are non-blocking. The vm_page_aflag_set(9) and vm_page_aflag_clear(9)
functions are provided to modify afalgs.
Document the changes to flags field to only require the page lock.
Introduce vm_page_reference(9) function to provide a stable KPI and
KBI for filesystems like tmpfs and zfs which need to mark a page as
referenced.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Tested by: marius, flo (sparc64); andreast (powerpc, powerpc64)
Approved by: re (bz)
to VPO_UNMANAGED (and also making the flag protected by the vm object
lock, instead of vm page queue lock).
- Mark the fake pages with both PG_FICTITIOUS (as it is now) and
VPO_UNMANAGED. As a consequence, pmap code now can use use just
VPO_UNMANAGED to decide whether the page is unmanaged.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho (x86, previous version), marius (sparc64),
marcel (arm, ia64, powerpc), ray (mips)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (bz)
sintrcnt/sintrnames which are symbols containing the size of the 2
tables.
- For amd64/i386 remove the storage of intr* stuff from assembly files.
This area can be widely improved by applying the same to other
architectures and likely finding an unified approach among them and
move the whole code to be MI. More work in this area is expected to
happen fairly soon.
No MFC is previewed for this patch.
Tested by: pluknet
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
instead of a PCPU field for curthread. This averts a race on SMP systems
with a high interrupt rate where the thread looking up the value of
curthread could be preempted and migrated between obtaining the PCPU
pointer and reading the value of pc_curthread, resulting in curthread being
observed to be the current thread on the thread's original CPU. This played
merry havoc with the system, in particular with mutexes. Many thanks to
jhb for helping me work this one out.
Note that Book-E is in principle susceptible to the same problem, but has
not been modified yet due to lack of Book-E hardware.
MFC after: 2 weeks
some interesting bugs (mostly on SMP systems) with atomic operations
silently failing in interrupt heavy situations, especially when using
overflow pages.
pmap_sync_icache() to sync random (possibly uncached or nonexisting!)
memory, causing kernel page faults or machine checks, most easily
triggered by using GDB. While here, add an additional safeguard to only
sync cacheable memory.
MFC after: 2 days
Renovate and improve the AIM Open Firmware support:
- Add RTAS (Run-Time Abstraction Services) support, found on all IBM systems
and some Apple ones
- Improve support for 32-bit real mode Open Firmware systems
- Pull some more OF bits over from the AIM directory
- Fix memory detection on IBM LPARs and systems with more than one /memory
node (by andreast@)
sf buf allocation, use wakeup() instead of wakeup_one() to notify sf
buffer waiters about free buffer.
sf_buf_alloc() calls msleep(PCATCH) when SFB_CATCH flag was given,
and for simultaneous wakeup and signal delivery, msleep() returns
EINTR/ERESTART despite the thread was selected for wakeup_one(). As
result, we loose a wakeup, and some other waiter will not be woken up.
Reported and tested by: az
Reviewed by: alc, jhb
MFC after: 1 week
table. The 'locked' attribute is used to circumvent the regular page table
locking for some special pages, with the result that including locked pages
here causes races when updating the stats.
logic to support modifying the page table through a hypervisor. This
uses KOBJ inheritance to provide subclasses of the base 64-bit AIM MMU
class with additional methods for page table manipulation.
Many thanks to Peter Grehan for suggesting this design and implementing
the MMU KOBJ inheritance mechanism.
DPCPU_DEFINE and VNET_DEFINE macros, as these cause problems for various
people working on the affected files. A better long-term solution is
still being considered. This reversal may give some modules empty
set_pcpu or set_vnet sections, but these are harmless.
Changes reverted:
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r215318 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:40:55 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 4 lines
Instead of unconditionally emitting .globl's for the __start_set_xxx and
__stop_set_xxx symbols, only emit them when the set_vnet or set_pcpu
sections are actually defined.
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r215317 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:38:11 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 3 lines
Apply the STATIC_VNET_DEFINE and STATIC_DPCPU_DEFINE macros throughout
the tree.
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r215316 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:23:02 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 2 lines
Add macros to define static instances of VNET_DEFINE and DPCPU_DEFINE.
that causes AP bringup to fail if some of the Cell HID-register code
is anywhere in the instruction stream. Pending a better solution, cache
performance on SMP Cell systems running without a hypervisor will be
suboptimal.
