a pair of records similar to syscall entry and return that a user can
use to determine how long page faults take. The new ktrace records are
enabled via the 'p' trace type, and are enabled in the default set of
trace points.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
to enable the collection of counts of synchronous and asynchronous
reads and writes for its associated filesystem. The counts are
displayed using `mount -v'.
Ensure that buffers used for paging indicate the vnode from
which they are operating so that counts of paging I/O operations
from the filesystem are collected.
This checkin only adds the setting of the mount point for the
UFS/FFS filesystem, but it would be trivial to add the setting
and clearing of the mount point at filesystem mount/unmount
time for other filesystems too.
Reviewed by: kib
kernel.
When access restrictions are added to a page table entry, we flush the
corresponding virtual address mapping from the TLB. In contrast, when
access restrictions are removed from a page table entry, we do not
flush the virtual address mapping from the TLB. This is exactly as
recommended in AMD's documentation. In effect, when access
restrictions are removed from a page table entry, AMD's MMUs will
transparently refresh a stale TLB entry. In short, this saves us from
having to perform potentially costly TLB flushes. In contrast,
Intel's MMUs are allowed to generate a spurious page fault based upon
the stale TLB entry. Usually, such spurious page faults are handled
by vm_fault() without incident. However, when we are executing
no-fault sections of the kernel, we are not allowed to execute
vm_fault(). This change introduces special-case handling for spurious
page faults that occur in no-fault sections of the kernel.
In collaboration with: kib
Tested by: gibbs (an earlier version)
I would also like to acknowledge Hiroki Sato's assistance in
diagnosing this problem.
MFC after: 1 week
than 4GB. Specifically, the inlined version of 'ptoa' of the the 'int'
count of pages overflowed on 64-bit platforms. While here, change
vm_object_madvise() to accept two vm_pindex_t parameters (start and end)
rather than a (start, count) tuple to match other VM APIs as suggested
by alc@.
if the filesystem performed short write and we are skipping the page
due to this.
Propogate write error from the pager back to the callers of
vm_pageout_flush(). Report the failure to write a page from the
requested range as the FALSE return value from vm_object_page_clean(),
and propagate it back to msync(2) to return EIO to usermode.
While there, convert the clearobjflags variable in the
vm_object_page_clean() and arguments of the helper functions to
boolean.
PR: kern/165927
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
external pagers in Mach. FreeBSD doesn't implement external pagers.
Moreover, it don't pageout the kernel object. So, the reasons for
having code don't hold.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 6 weeks
v_writecount. Keep the amount of the virtual address space used by
the mappings in the new vm_object un_pager.vnp.writemappings
counter. The vnode v_writecount is incremented when writemappings gets
non-zero value, and decremented when writemappings is returned to
zero.
Writeable shared vnode-backed mappings are accounted for in vm_mmap(),
and vm_map_insert() is instructed to set MAP_ENTRY_VN_WRITECNT flag on
the created map entry. During deferred map entry deallocation,
vm_map_process_deferred() checks for MAP_ENTRY_VN_WRITECOUNT and
decrements writemappings for the vm object.
Now, the writeable mount cannot be demoted to read-only while
writeable shared mappings of the vnodes from the mount point
exist. Also, execve(2) fails for such files with ETXTBUSY, as it
should be.
Noted by: tegge
Reviewed by: tegge (long time ago, early version), alc
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks
for a shared mapping and marking the entry for inheritance.
Other thread might execute vmspace_fork() in between (e.g. by fork(2)),
resulting in the mapping becoming private.
Noted and reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
Code should just use the devtoname() function to obtain the name of a
character device. Also add const keywords to pieces of code that need it
to build properly.
MFC after: 2 weeks
disconnected swap device.
This is quick and imperfect solution, as swap device will still be opened
and GEOM will not be able to destroy it. Proper solution would be to
automatically turn off and close disconnected swap device, but with existing
code it will cause panic if there is at least one page on device, even if
it is unimportant page of the user-level process. It needs some work.
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 1 week
excluding other allocations including UMA now entails the addition of
a single flag to kmem_alloc or uma zone create
Reviewed by: alc, avg
MFC after: 2 weeks
u_int. With the auto-sized buffer cache on the modern machines, UFS
metadata can generate more the 65535 pages belonging to the buffers
undergoing i/o, overflowing the counter.
Reported and tested by: jimharris
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
generation change if requested mode is async. The object generation is
only changed when the object is marked as OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY. For async
mode it is enough to write each dirty page, not to make a guarantee that
all pages are cleared after the vm_object_page_clean() returned.
Diagnosed by: truckman
Tested by: flo
Reviewed by: alc, truckman
MFC after: 2 weeks
MS_SYNC flag. The system must guarantee that all writes are finished
before syscalls returned. Schedule the writes in async mode, which is
much faster and allows the clustering to occur. Wait for writes using
VOP_FSYNC(), since we are syncing the whole file mapping.
Potentially, the restriction to only apply the optimization can be
relaxed by not requiring that the mapping cover whole file, as it is
done by other OSes.
Reported and tested by: az
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
use superpage reservations. So, for the first time, kernel virtual memory
that is allocated by contigmalloc(), kmem_alloc_attr(), and
kmem_alloc_contig() can be promoted to superpages. In fact, even a series
of small contigmalloc() allocations may collectively result in a promoted
superpage.
Eliminate some duplication of code in vm_reserv_alloc_page().
Change the type of vm_reserv_reclaim_contig()'s first parameter in order
that it be consistent with other vm_*_contig() functions.
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
Since the address of vm_page lock mutex depends on the kernel options,
it is easy for module to get out of sync with the kernel.
No vm_page_lockptr() accessor is provided for modules. It can be added
later if needed, unless proper KPI is developed to serve the needs.
Reviewed by: attilio, alc
MFC after: 3 weeks
defined and will allow consumers, willing to provide options, file and
line to locking requests, to not worry about options redefining the
interfaces.
This is typically useful when there is the need to build another
locking interface on top of the mutex one.
The introduced functions that consumers can use are:
- mtx_lock_flags_
- mtx_unlock_flags_
- mtx_lock_spin_flags_
- mtx_unlock_spin_flags_
- mtx_assert_
- thread_lock_flags_
Spare notes:
- Likely we can get rid of all the 'INVARIANTS' specification in the
ppbus code by using the same macro as done in this patch (but this is
left to the ppbus maintainer)
- all the other locking interfaces may require a similar cleanup, where
the most notable case is sx which will allow a further cleanup of
vm_map locking facilities
- The patch should be fully compatible with older branches, thus a MFC
is previewed (infact it uses all the underlying mechanisms already
present).
Comments review by: eadler, Ben Kaduk
Discussed with: kib, jhb
MFC after: 1 month
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
layer for old KPI and KBI. New interface should be used together with
d_mmap_single cdevsw method.
Device pager can be allocated with the cdev_pager_allocate(9)
function, which takes struct cdev_pager_ops, containing
constructor/destructor and page fault handler methods supplied by
driver.
Constructor and destructor, called at the pager allocation and
deallocation time, allow the driver to handle per-object private data.
The pager handler is called to handle page fault on the vm map entry
backed by the driver pager. Driver shall return either the vm_page_t
which should be mapped, or error code (which does not cause kernel
panic anymore). The page handler interface has a placeholder to
specify the access mode causing the fault, but currently PROT_READ is
always passed there.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 month
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
allocate the requested page because too few pages are cached or free.
Document the VM_ALLOC_COUNT() option to vm_page_alloc() and
vm_page_alloc_freelist().
Make style changes to vm_page_alloc() and vm_page_alloc_freelist(),
such as using a variable name that more closely corresponds to the
comments.
Use the defined types instead of int when manipulating masks.
Supposedly, it could fix support for 32KB page size in the
machine-independend VM layer.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
madvise(2) except that it operates on a file descriptor instead of a
memory region. It is currently only supported on regular files.
Just as with madvise(2), the advice given to posix_fadvise(2) can be
divided into two types. The first type provide hints about data access
patterns and are used in the file read and write routines to modify the
I/O flags passed down to VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE(). These modes are
thus filesystem independent. Note that to ease implementation (and
since this API is only advisory anyway), only a single non-normal
range is allowed per file descriptor.
The second type of hints are used to hint to the OS that data will or
will not be used. These hints are implemented via a new VOP_ADVISE().
A default implementation is provided which does nothing for the WILLNEED
request and attempts to move any clean pages to the cache page queue for
the DONTNEED request. This latter case required two other changes.
First, a new V_CLEANONLY flag was added to vinvalbuf(). This requests
vinvalbuf() to only flush clean buffers for the vnode from the buffer
cache and to not remove any backing pages from the vnode. This is
used to ensure clean pages are not wired into the buffer cache before
attempting to move them to the cache page queue. The second change adds
a new vm_object_page_cache() method. This method is somewhat similar to
vm_object_page_remove() except that instead of freeing each page in the
specified range, it attempts to move clean pages to the cache queue if
possible.
To preserve the ABI of struct file, the f_cdevpriv pointer is now reused
in a union to point to the currently active advice region if one is
present for regular files.
Reviewed by: jilles, kib, arch@
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 month
and use these new options in the mips pmap.
Wake up the page daemon in vm_page_alloc_freelist() if the number of free
and cached pages becomes too low.
Tidy up vm_page_alloc_init(). In particular, add a comment about an
important restriction on its use.
Tested by: jchandra@
eliminating duplicated code in the various pmap implementations.
Micro-optimize vm_phys_free_pages().
Introduce vm_phys_free_contig(). It is fast routine for freeing an
arbitrary number of physically contiguous pages. In particular, it
doesn't require the number of pages to be a power of two.
Use "u_long" instead of "unsigned long".
Bruce Evans (bde@) has convinced me that the "boundary" parameters
to kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_phys_alloc_contig(), and
vm_reserv_reclaim_contig() should be of type "vm_paddr_t" and not
"u_long". Make this change.
