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alc
32b13ee957 Roughly half of a typical pmap_mincore() implementation is machine-
independent code.  Move this code into mincore(), and eliminate the
page queues lock from pmap_mincore().

Push down the page queues lock into pmap_clear_modify(),
pmap_clear_reference(), and pmap_is_modified().  Assert that these
functions are never passed an unmanaged page.

Eliminate an inaccurate comment from powerpc/powerpc/mmu_if.m:
Contrary to what the comment says, pmap_mincore() is not simply an
optimization.  Without a complete pmap_mincore() implementation,
mincore() cannot return either MINCORE_MODIFIED or MINCORE_REFERENCED
because only the pmap can provide this information.

Eliminate the page queues lock from vfs_setdirty_locked_object(),
vm_pageout_clean(), vm_object_page_collect_flush(), and
vm_object_page_clean().  Generally speaking, these are all accesses
to the page's dirty field, which are synchronized by the containing
vm object's lock.

Reduce the scope of the page queues lock in vm_object_madvise() and
vm_page_dontneed().

Reviewed by:	kib (an earlier version)
2010-05-24 14:26:57 +00:00
alc
0a905b1db9 Resurrect pmap_is_referenced() and use it in mincore(). Essentially,
pmap_ts_referenced() is not always appropriate for checking whether or
not pages have been referenced because it clears any reference bits
that it encounters.  For example, in mincore(), clearing the reference
bits has two negative consequences.  First, it throws off the activity
count calculations performed by the page daemon.  Specifically, a page
on which mincore() has called pmap_ts_referenced() looks less active
to the page daemon than it should.  Consequently, the page could be
deactivated prematurely by the page daemon.  Arguably, this problem
could be fixed by having mincore() duplicate the activity count
calculation on the page.  However, there is a second problem for which
that is not a solution.  In order to clear a reference on a 4KB page,
it may be necessary to demote a 2/4MB page mapping.  Thus, a mincore()
by one process can have the side effect of demoting a superpage
mapping within another process!
2010-04-24 17:32:52 +00:00
jmallett
4f9a815abe o) Add a VM find-space option, VMFS_TLB_ALIGNED_SPACE, which searches the
address space for an address as aligned by the new pmap_align_tlb()
   function, which is for constraints imposed by the TLB. [1]
o) Add a kmem_alloc_nofault_space() function, which acts like
   kmem_alloc_nofault() but allows the caller to specify which find-space
   option to use. [1]
o) Use kmem_alloc_nofault_space() with VMFS_TLB_ALIGNED_SPACE to allocate the
   kernel stack address on MIPS. [1]
o) Make pmap_align_tlb() on MIPS align addresses so that they do not start on
   an odd boundary within the TLB, so that they are suitable for insertion as
   wired entries and do not have to share a TLB entry with another mapping,
   assuming they are appropriately-sized.
o) Eliminate md_realstack now that the kstack will be appropriately-aligned on
   MIPS.
o) Increase the number of guard pages to 2 so that we retain the proper
   alignment of the kstack address.

Reviewed by:	[1] alc
X-MFC-after:	Making sure alc has not come up with a better interface.
2010-04-18 22:32:07 +00:00
marcel
51bb720939 o Introduce vm_sync_icache() for making the I-cache coherent with
the memory or D-cache, depending on the semantics of the platform.
    vm_sync_icache() is basically a wrapper around pmap_sync_icache(),
    that translates the vm_map_t argumument to pmap_t.
o   Introduce pmap_sync_icache() to all PMAP implementation. For powerpc
    it replaces the pmap_page_executable() function, added to solve
    the I-cache problem in uiomove_fromphys().
o   In proc_rwmem() call vm_sync_icache() when writing to a page that
    has execute permissions. This assures that when breakpoints are
    written, the I-cache will be coherent and the process will actually
    hit the breakpoint.
o   This also fixes the Book-E PMAP implementation that was missing
    necessary locking while trying to deal with the I-cache coherency
    in pmap_enter() (read: mmu_booke_enter_locked).

The key property of this change is that the I-cache is made coherent
*after* writes have been done. Doing it in the PMAP layer when adding
or changing a mapping means that the I-cache is made coherent *before*
any writes happen. The difference is key when the I-cache prefetches.
2009-10-21 18:38:02 +00:00
alc
ea60573817 Add support to the virtual memory system for configuring machine-
dependent memory attributes:

Rename vm_cache_mode_t to vm_memattr_t.  The new name reflects the
fact that there are machine-dependent memory attributes that have
nothing to do with controlling the cache's behavior.

Introduce vm_object_set_memattr() for setting the default memory
attributes that will be given to an object's pages.

Introduce and use pmap_page_{get,set}_memattr() for getting and
setting a page's machine-dependent memory attributes.  Add full
support for these functions on amd64 and i386 and stubs for them on
the other architectures.  The function pmap_page_set_memattr() is also
responsible for any other machine-dependent aspects of changing a
page's memory attributes, such as flushing the cache or updating the
direct map.  The uses include kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_page_alloc(),
and the device pager:

  kmem_alloc_contig() can now be used to allocate kernel memory with
  non-default memory attributes on amd64 and i386.

  vm_page_alloc() and the device pager will set the memory attributes
  for the real or fictitious page according to the object's default
  memory attributes.

Update the various pmap functions on amd64 and i386 that map pages to
incorporate each page's memory attributes in the mapping.

Notes: (1) Inherent to this design are safety features that prevent
the specification of inconsistent memory attributes by different
mappings on amd64 and i386.  In addition, the device pager provides a
warning when a device driver creates a fictitious page with memory
attributes that are inconsistent with the real page that the
fictitious page is an alias for. (2) Storing the machine-dependent
memory attributes for amd64 and i386 as a dedicated "int" in "struct
md_page" represents a compromise between space efficiency and the ease
of MFCing these changes to RELENG_7.

In collaboration with: jhb

Approved by:	re (kib)
2009-07-12 23:31:20 +00:00
alc
a8f81206ad Retire pmap_addr_hint(). It is no longer used. 2008-05-18 04:16:57 +00:00
alc
9e8bccea75 Introduce pmap_align_superpage(). It increases the starting virtual
address of the given mapping if a different alignment might result in more
superpage mappings.
2008-05-09 16:48:07 +00:00
alc
545d26e30b Add an access type parameter to pmap_enter(). It will be used to implement
superpage promotion.

Correct a style error in kmem_malloc(): pmap_enter()'s last parameter is
a Boolean.
2008-01-03 07:34:34 +00:00
alc
5a0aa042a2 Correct a style error that was introduced in revision 1.77. 2008-01-01 20:36:04 +00:00
alc
d1ab859bdc Prevent the leakage of wired pages in the following circumstances:
First, a file is mmap(2)ed and then mlock(2)ed.  Later, it is truncated.
Under "normal" circumstances, i.e., when the file is not mlock(2)ed, the
pages beyond the EOF are unmapped and freed.  However, when the file is
mlock(2)ed, the pages beyond the EOF are unmapped but not freed because
they have a non-zero wire count.  This can be a mistake.  Specifically,
it is a mistake if the sole reason why the pages are wired is because of
wired, managed mappings.  Previously, unmapping the pages destroys these
wired, managed mappings, but does not reduce the pages' wire count.
Consequently, when the file is unmapped, the pages are not unwired
because the wired mapping has been destroyed.  Moreover, when the vm
object is finally destroyed, the pages are leaked because they are still
wired.  The fix is to reduce the pages' wired count by the number of
wired, managed mappings destroyed.  To do this, I introduce a new pmap
function pmap_page_wired_mappings() that returns the number of managed
mappings to the given physical page that are wired, and I use this
function in vm_object_page_remove().

Reviewed by: tegge
MFC after: 6 weeks
2007-11-17 22:52:29 +00:00
kib
9ae733819b Fix for the panic("vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed") and
silent NULL pointer dereference in the i386 and sparc64 pmap_pinit()
when the kmem_alloc_nofault() failed to allocate address space. Both
functions now return error instead of panicing or dereferencing NULL.

As consequence, vmspace_exec() and vmspace_unshare() returns the errno
int. struct vmspace arg was added to vm_forkproc() to avoid dealing
with failed allocation when most of the fork1() job is already done.

The kernel stack for the thread is now set up in the thread_alloc(),
that itself may return NULL. Also, allocation of the first process
thread is performed in the fork1() to properly deal with stack
allocation failure. proc_linkup() is separated into proc_linkup()
called from fork1(), and proc_linkup0(), that is used to set up the
kernel process (was known as swapper).

In collaboration with:	Peter Holm
Reviewed by:	jhb
2007-11-05 11:36:16 +00:00
alc
a152234cf9 Complete the transition from pmap_page_protect() to pmap_remove_write().
Originally, I had adopted sparc64's name, pmap_clear_write(), for the
function that is now pmap_remove_write().  However, this function is more
like pmap_remove_all() than like pmap_clear_modify() or
pmap_clear_reference(), hence, the name change.

The higher-level rationale behind this change is described in
src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c revision 1.567.  The short version is that I'm
trying to clean up and fix our support for execute access.

Reviewed by: marcel@ (ia64)
2006-08-01 19:06:06 +00:00
alc
004ef88e09 Add pmap_clear_write() to the interface between the virtual memory
system's machine-dependent and machine-independent layers.  Once
pmap_clear_write() is implemented on all of our supported
architectures, I intend to replace all calls to pmap_page_protect() by
calls to pmap_clear_write().  Why?  Both the use and implementation of
pmap_page_protect() in our virtual memory system has subtle errors,
specifically, the management of execute permission is broken on some
architectures.  The "prot" argument to pmap_page_protect() should
behave differently from the "prot" argument to other pmap functions.
Instead of meaning, "give the specified access rights to all of the
physical page's mappings," it means "don't take away the specified
access rights from all of the physical page's mappings, but do take
away the ones that aren't specified."  However, owing to our i386
legacy, i.e., no support for no-execute rights, all but one invocation
of pmap_page_protect() specifies VM_PROT_READ only, when the intent
is, in fact, to remove only write permission.  Consequently, a
faithful implementation of pmap_page_protect(), e.g., ia64, would
remove execute permission as well as write permission.  On the other
hand, some architectures that support execute permission have
basically ignored whether or not VM_PROT_EXECUTE is passed to
pmap_page_protect(), e.g., amd64 and sparc64.  This change represents
the first step in replacing pmap_page_protect() by the less subtle
pmap_clear_write() that is already implemented on amd64, i386, and
sparc64.

Discussed with: grehan@ and marcel@
2006-07-20 17:48:41 +00:00
ups
b3a7439a45 Remove mpte optimization from pmap_enter_quick().
There is a race with the current locking scheme and removing
it should have no measurable performance impact.
This fixes page faults leading to panics in pmap_enter_quick_locked()
on amd64/i386.

Reviewed by: alc,jhb,peter,ps
2006-06-15 01:01:06 +00:00
alc
ff4adb11fe Introduce the function pmap_enter_object(). It maps a sequence of resident
pages from the same object.  Use it in vm_map_pmap_enter() to reduce the
locking overhead of premapping objects.

Reviewed by: tegge@
2006-06-05 20:35:27 +00:00
peter
0f363b7d24 Remove the unused sva and eva arguments from pmap_remove_pages(). 2006-04-03 21:16:10 +00:00
alc
b77df1e33a Eliminate pmap_init2(). It's no longer used. 2005-11-20 06:09:49 +00:00
alc
8852c8f9e2 Reimplement the reclamation of PV entries. Specifically, perform
reclamation synchronously from get_pv_entry() instead of
asynchronously as part of the page daemon.  Additionally, limit the
reclamation to inactive pages unless allocation from the PV entry zone
or reclamation from the inactive queue fails.  Previously, reclamation
destroyed mappings to both inactive and active pages.  get_pv_entry()
still, however, wakes up the page daemon when reclamation occurs.  The
reason being that the page daemon may move some pages from the active
queue to the inactive queue, making some new pages available to future
reclamations.

Print the "reclaiming PV entries" message at most once per minute, but
don't stop printing it after the fifth time.  This way, we do not give
the impression that the problem has gone away.

Reviewed by: tegge
2005-11-09 08:19:21 +00:00
alc
39788de49e Pass a value of type vm_prot_t to pmap_enter_quick() so that it determine
whether the mapping should permit execute access.
2005-09-03 18:20:20 +00:00
alc
2d109601cb Introduce a procedure, pmap_page_init(), that initializes the
vm_page's machine-dependent fields.  Use this function in
vm_pageq_add_new_page() so that the vm_page's machine-dependent and
machine-independent fields are initialized at the same time.

Remove code from pmap_init() for initializing the vm_page's
machine-dependent fields.

Remove stale comments from pmap_init().

Eliminate the Boolean variable pmap_initialized from the alpha, amd64,
i386, and ia64 pmap implementations.  Its use is no longer required
because of the above changes and earlier changes that result in physical
memory that is being mapped at initialization time being mapped without
pv entries.

Tested by: cognet, kensmith, marcel
2005-06-10 03:33:36 +00:00
imp
f0bf889d0d /* -> /*- for license, minor formatting changes 2005-01-07 02:29:27 +00:00
alc
c380417937 - pmap_kenter_temporary() is unused by machine-independent code. Therefore,
move its declaration to the machine-dependent header file on those
   machines that use it.  In principle, only i386 should have it.
   Alpha and AMD64 should use their direct virtual-to-physical mapping.
 - Remove pmap_kenter_temporary() from ia64.  It is unused.  Approved
   by: marcel@
2004-04-10 22:41:46 +00:00
imp
04c9462c02 Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's license,
per letter dated July 22, 1999.

Approved by: core
2004-04-06 20:15:37 +00:00
alc
19e5eda309 Remove unused arguments from pmap_init(). 2004-04-05 00:37:50 +00:00
alc
f13324f65b Retire pmap_pinit2(). Alpha was the last platform that used it. However,
ever since alpha/alpha/pmap.c revision 1.81 introduced the list allpmaps,
there has been no reason for having this function on Alpha.  Briefly,
when pmap_growkernel() relied upon the list of all processes to find and
update the various pmaps to reflect a growth in the kernel's valid
address space, pmap_init2() served to avoid a race between pmap
initialization and pmap_growkernel().  Specifically, pmap_pinit2() was
responsible for initializing the kernel portions of the pmap and
pmap_pinit2() was called after the process structure contained a pointer
to the new pmap for use by pmap_growkernel().  Thus, an update to the
kernel's address space might be applied to the new pmap unnecessarily,
but an update would never be lost.
2004-03-07 21:06:48 +00:00
bms
d8d01a1fa7 Move pmap_resident_count() from the MD pmap.h to the MI pmap.h.
Add a definition of pmap_wired_count().
Add a definition of vmspace_wired_count().

Reviewed by:	truckman
Discussed with:	peter
2003-10-06 01:47:12 +00:00
alc
b1691aebe4 Migrate pmap_prefault() into the machine-independent virtual memory layer.
A small helper function pmap_is_prefaultable() is added.  This function
encapsulate the few lines of pmap_prefault() that actually vary from
machine to machine.  Note: pmap_is_prefaultable() and pmap_mincore() have
much in common.  Going forward, it's worth considering their merger.
2003-10-03 22:46:53 +00:00
alc
76fcb264a0 Add a new parameter to pmap_extract_and_hold() that is needed to eliminate
Giant from vmapbuf().

Idea from:	tegge
2003-09-12 07:07:49 +00:00
alc
a81d9ad0b9 Introduce a new pmap function, pmap_extract_and_hold(). This function
atomically extracts and holds the physical page that is associated with the
given pmap and virtual address.  Such a function is needed to make the
memory mapping optimizations used by, for example, pipes and raw disk I/O
MP-safe.

Reviewed by:	tegge
2003-09-08 02:45:03 +00:00
alc
0699f7e17f Background: pmap_object_init_pt() premaps the pages of a object in
order to avoid the overhead of later page faults.  In general, it
implements two cases: one for vnode-backed objects and one for
device-backed objects.  Only the device-backed case is really
machine-dependent, belonging in the pmap.

This commit moves the vnode-backed case into the (relatively) new
function vm_map_pmap_enter().  On amd64 and i386, this commit only
amounts to code rearrangement.  On alpha and ia64, the new machine
independent (MI) implementation of the vnode case is smaller and more
efficient than their pmap-based implementations.  (The MI
implementation takes advantage of the fact that objects in -CURRENT
are ordered collections of pages.)  On sparc64, pmap_object_init_pt()
hadn't (yet) been implemented.
2003-07-03 20:18:02 +00:00
alc
44509f207f - Export pmap_enter_quick() to the MI VM. This will permit the
implementation of a largely MI pmap_object_init_pt() for vnode-backed
   objects.  pmap_enter_quick() is implemented via pmap_enter() on sparc64
   and powerpc.
 - Correct a mismatch between pmap_object_init_pt()'s prototype and its
   various implementations.  (I plan to keep pmap_object_init_pt() as
   the MD hook for device-backed objects on i386 and amd64.)
 - Correct an error in ia64's pmap_enter_quick() and adjust its interface
   to match the other versions.  Discussed with: marcel
2003-06-29 21:20:04 +00:00
alc
83f108b04d Migrate the thread stack management functions from the machine-dependent
to the machine-independent parts of the VM.  At the same time, this
introduces vm object locking for the non-i386 platforms.

Two details:

1. KSTACK_GUARD has been removed in favor of KSTACK_GUARD_PAGES.  The
different machine-dependent implementations used various combinations
of KSTACK_GUARD and KSTACK_GUARD_PAGES.  To disable guard page, set
KSTACK_GUARD_PAGES to 0.

2. Remove the (unnecessary) clearing of PG_ZERO in vm_thread_new.  In
5.x, (but not 4.x,) PG_ZERO can only be set if VM_ALLOC_ZERO is passed
to vm_page_alloc() or vm_page_grab().
2003-06-14 23:23:55 +00:00
alc
d20c30720b Move the *_new_altkstack() and *_dispose_altkstack() functions out of the
various pmap implementations into the machine-independent vm.  They were
all identical.
2003-06-14 06:20:25 +00:00
jhb
526c3912c0 - Kill the pv_flags member of the alpha mdpage since it stop being used
in rev 1.61 of pmap.c.
- Now that pmap_page_is_free() is empty and since it is just a hack for
  the Alpha pmap, remove it.
2003-04-10 18:42:06 +00:00
jake
783ae539c3 - Add vm_paddr_t, a physical address type. This is required for systems
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)
2003-03-25 00:07:06 +00:00
jake
c1838df603 Made the prototypes for pmap_kenter and pmap_kremove MD. These functions
are machine dependent because they are not required to update the tlb when
mappings are added or removed, and doing so is machine dependent.
In addition, an implementation may require that pages mapped with pmap_kenter
have a backing vm_page_t, which is not necessarily true of all physical
pages, and so may choose to pass the vm_page_t to pmap_kenter instead of the
physical address in order to make this requirement clear.
2003-03-16 04:16:03 +00:00
mux
541937cf73 Cleanup of the d_mmap_t interface.
- Get rid of the useless atop() / pmap_phys_address() detour.  The
  device mmap handlers must now give back the physical address
  without atop()'ing it.
- Don't borrow the physical address of the mapping in the returned
  int.  Now we properly pass a vm_offset_t * and expect it to be
  filled by the mmap handler when the mapping was successful.  The
  mmap handler must now return 0 when successful, any other value
  is considered as an error.  Previously, returning -1 was the only
  way to fail.  This change thus accidentally fixes some devices
  which were bogusly returning errno constants which would have been
  considered as addresses by the device pager.
- Garbage collect the poorly named pmap_phys_address() now that it's
  no longer used.
- Convert all the d_mmap_t consumers to the new API.

I'm still not sure wheter we need a __FreeBSD_version bump for this,
since and we didn't guarantee API/ABI stability until 5.1-RELEASE.

Discussed with:		alc, phk, jake
Reviewed by:		peter
Compile-tested on:	LINT (i386), GENERIC (alpha and sparc64)
Runtime-tested on:	i386
2003-02-25 03:21:22 +00:00
alc
11334c6aeb Move kernel_vm_end's declaration to pmap.h; add a comment regarding the
synchronization of access to kernel_vm_end.
2003-02-15 19:38:23 +00:00
alc
c02d224c79 Move pmap_collect() out of the machine-dependent code, rename it
to reflect its new location, and add page queue and flag locking.

Notes: (1) alpha, i386, and ia64 had identical implementations
of pmap_collect() in terms of machine-independent interfaces;
(2) sparc64 doesn't require it; (3) powerpc had it as a TODO.
2002-11-13 05:39:58 +00:00
alc
78766a7b7a - Clear the page's PG_WRITEABLE flag in the i386's pmap_changebit()
if we're removing write access from the page's PTEs.
 - Export pmap_remove_all() on alpha, i386, and ia64.  (It's already
   exported on sparc64.)
2002-11-11 05:17:34 +00:00
scottl
3a150bca9c Some kernel threads try to do significant work, and the default KSTACK_PAGES
doesn't give them enough stack to do much before blowing away the pcb.
This adds MI and MD code to allow the allocation of an alternate kstack
who's size can be speficied when calling kthread_create.  Passing the
value 0 prevents the alternate kstack from being created.  Note that the
ia64 MD code is missing for now, and PowerPC was only partially written
due to the pmap.c being incomplete there.
Though this patch does not modify anything to make use of the alternate
kstack, acpi and usb are good candidates.

Reviewed by:	jake, peter, jhb
2002-10-02 07:44:29 +00:00
alc
d5f256dae2 o Retire pmap_pageable(). It's an advisory routine that none
of our platforms implements.
2002-08-25 04:20:05 +00:00
peter
62e40d1277 Add a special page zero entry point intended to be called via the single
threaded VM pagezero kthread outside of Giant.  For some platforms, this
is really easy since it can just use the direct mapped region.  For others,
IPI sending is involved or there are other issues, so grab Giant when
needed.

We still have preemption issues to deal with, but Alan Cox has an
interesting suggestion on how to minimize the problem on x86.

Use Luigi's hack for preserving the (lack of) priority.

Turn the idle zeroing back on since it can now actually do something useful
outside of Giant in many cases.
2002-07-08 04:24:26 +00:00
peter
b73c441dad Collect all the (now equivalent) pmap_new_proc/pmap_dispose_proc/
pmap_swapin_proc/pmap_swapout_proc functions from the MD pmap code
and use a single equivalent MI version.  There are other cleanups
needed still.

While here, use the UMA zone hooks to keep a cache of preinitialized
proc structures handy, just like the thread system does.  This eliminates
one dependency on 'struct proc' being persistent even after being freed.
There are some comments about things that can be factored out into
ctor/dtor functions if it is worth it.  For now they are mostly just
doing statistics to get a feel of how it is working.
2002-07-07 23:05:27 +00:00
peter
c0e3147cc6 Tidy up some loose ends.
i386/ia64/alpha - catch up to sparc64/ppc:
- replace pmap_kernel() with refs to kernel_pmap
- change kernel_pmap pointer to (&kernel_pmap_store)
  (this is a speedup since ld can set these at compile/link time)
all platforms (as suggested by jake):
- gc unused pmap_reference
- gc unused pmap_destroy
- gc unused struct pmap.pm_count
(we never used pm_count - we track address space sharing at the vmspace)
2002-04-29 07:43:16 +00:00
peter
3d8c7d4cab Pass vm_page_t instead of physical addresses to pmap_zero_page[_area]()
and pmap_copy_page().  This gets rid of a couple more physical addresses
in upper layers, with the eventual aim of supporting PAE and dealing with
the physical addressing mostly within pmap.  (We will need either 64 bit
physical addresses or page indexes, possibly both depending on the
circumstances.  Leaving this to pmap itself gives more flexibilitly.)

Reviewed by:	jake
Tested on:	i386, ia64 and (I believe) sparc64. (my alpha was hosed)
2002-04-15 16:00:03 +00:00
alfred
1446d09429 Remove __P. 2002-03-19 22:20:14 +00:00
eivind
0799ec54b1 - Remove a number of extra newlines that do not belong here according to
style(9)
- Minor space adjustment in cases where we have "( ", " )", if(), return(),
  while(), for(), etc.
- Add /* SYMBOL */ after a few #endifs.

Reviewed by:	alc
2002-03-10 21:52:48 +00:00
silby
230f96f3ce Fix a horribly suboptimal algorithm in the vm_daemon.
In order to determine what to page out, the vm_daemon checks
reference bits on all pages belonging to all processes.  Unfortunately,
the algorithm used reacted badly with shared pages; each shared page
would be checked once per process sharing it; this caused an O(N^2)
growth of tlb invalidations.  The algorithm has been changed so that
each page will be checked only 16 times.

Prior to this change, a fork/sleepbomb of 1300 processes could cause
the vm_daemon to take over 60 seconds to complete, effectively
freezing the system for that time period.  With this change
in place, the vm_daemon completes in less than a second.  Any system
with hundreds of processes sharing pages should benefit from this change.

Note that the vm_daemon is only run when the system is under extreme
memory pressure.  It is likely that many people with loaded systems saw
no symptoms of this problem until they reached the point where swapping
began.

Special thanks go to dillon, peter, and Chuck Cranor, who helped me
get up to speed with vm internals.

PR:		33542, 20393
Reviewed by:	dillon
MFC after:	1 week
2002-02-27 18:03:02 +00:00
julian
5596676e6c KSE Milestone 2
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
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00