Previously we allocated a separate VM object for each kernel stack.
However, fully constructed kernel stacks are cached by UMA, so there is
no harm in using a single global object for all stacks. This reduces
memory consumption and makes it easier to define a memory allocation
policy for kernel stack pages, with the aim of reducing physical memory
fragmentation.
Add a global kstack_object, and use the stack KVA address to index into
the object like we do with kernel_object.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24473
be able to guarantee that they can be racquired without blocking.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23506
more consistent with other NUMA features as UMA_ZONE_FIRSTTOUCH and
UMA_ZONE_ROUNDROBIN. The system will now pick a select a default depending
on kernel configuration. API users need only specify one if they want to
override the default.
Remove the UMA_XDOMAIN and UMA_FIRSTTOUCH kernel options and key only off
of NUMA. XDOMAIN is now fast enough in all cases to enable whenever NUMA
is.
Reviewed by: markj
Discussed with: rlibby
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22831
tightening constraints on busy as a precursor to lockless page lookup and
should largely be a NOP for these cases.
Reviewed by: alc, kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22611
In r353734 the use of the page caches was limited to systems with a
relatively large amount of RAM per CPU. This was to mitigate some
issues reported with the system not able to keep up with memory pressure
in cases where it had been able to do so prior to the addition of the
direct free pool cache. This change re-enables those caches.
The change modifies uma_zone_set_maxcache(), which was introduced
specifically for the page cache zones. Rather than using it to limit
only the full bucket cache, have it also set uz_count_max to provide an
upper bound on the per-CPU cache size that is consistent with the number
of items requested. Remove its return value since it has no use.
Enable the page cache zones unconditionally, and limit them to 0.1% of
the domain's pages. The limit can be overridden by the
vm.pgcache_zone_max tunable as before.
Change the item size parameter passed to uma_zcache_create() to the
correct size, and stop setting UMA_ZONE_MAXBUCKET. This allows the page
cache buckets to be adaptively sized, like the rest of UMA's caches.
This also causes the initial bucket size to be small, so only systems
which benefit from large caches will get them.
Reviewed by: gallatin, jeff
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22393
Use __func__ to avoid this issue in the future.
Submitted by: Wuyang Chung <wuyang.chung1@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: markj, emaste
Obtained from: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/410
- VM_ALLOC_NOCREAT will grab without creating a page.
- vm_page_grab_valid() will grab and page in if necessary.
- vm_page_busy_acquire() automates some busy acquire loops.
Discussed with: alc, kib, markj
Tested by: pho (part of larger branch)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21546
There are several mechanisms by which a vm_page reference is held,
preventing the page from being freed back to the page allocator. In
particular, holding the page's object lock is sufficient to prevent the
page from being freed; holding the busy lock or a wiring is sufficent as
well. These references are protected by the page lock, which must
therefore be acquired for many per-page operations. This results in
false sharing since the page locks are external to the vm_page
structures themselves and each lock protects multiple structures.
Transition to using an atomically updated per-page reference counter.
The object's reference is counted using a flag bit in the counter. A
second flag bit is used to atomically block new references via
pmap_extract_and_hold() while removing managed mappings of a page.
Thus, the reference count of a page is guaranteed not to increase if the
page is unbusied, unmapped, and the object's write lock is held. As
a consequence of this, the page lock no longer protects a page's
identity; operations which move pages between objects are now
synchronized solely by the objects' locks.
The vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() KPIs are changed. The former
requires that either the object lock or the busy lock is held. The
latter no longer has a return value and may free the page if it releases
the last reference to that page. vm_page_unwire_noq() behaves the same
as before; the caller is responsible for checking its return value and
freeing or enqueuing the page as appropriate. vm_page_wire_mapped() is
introduced for use in pmap_extract_and_hold(). It fails if the page is
concurrently being unmapped, typically triggering a fallback to the
fault handler. vm_page_wire() no longer requires the page lock and
vm_page_unwire() now internally acquires the page lock when releasing
the last wiring of a page (since the page lock still protects a page's
queue state). In particular, synchronization details are no longer
leaked into the caller.
The change excises the page lock from several frequently executed code
paths. In particular, vm_object_terminate() no longer bounces between
page locks as it releases an object's pages, and direct I/O and
sendfile(SF_NOCACHE) completions no longer require the page lock. In
these latter cases we now get linear scalability in the common scenario
where different threads are operating on different files.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped. The DRM ports have been updated to
accomodate the KPI changes.
Reviewed by: jeff (earlier version)
Tested by: gallatin (earlier version), pho
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20486
uiomove_object_page() and exec_map_first_page() would previously wire a
page after having grabbed it. Ask vm_page_grab() to perform the wiring
instead: this removes some redundant code, and is cheaper in the case
where the requested page is not resident since the page allocator can be
asked to initialize the page as wired, whereas a separate vm_page_wire()
call requires the page lock.
In vm_imgact_hold_page(), use vm_page_unwire_noq() instead of
vm_page_unwire(PQ_NONE). The latter ensures that the page is dequeued
before returning, but this is unnecessary since vm_page_free() will
trigger a batched dequeue of the page.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho (part of a larger patch)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21440
The kernel thread stack zone performs first-touch allocations by
default, and must handle the case where the local memory domain
is empty. For most UMA zones this is handled in the keg layer,
but cache zones currently must implement a policy for this case.
Simply use a round-robin policy if UMA_ANYDOMAIN is passed.
Reported and tested by: bcran
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The hold_count and wire_count fields of struct vm_page are separate
reference counters with similar semantics. The remaining essential
differences are that holds are not counted as a reference with respect
to LRU, and holds have an implicit free-on-last unhold semantic whereas
vm_page_unwire() callers must explicitly determine whether to free the
page once the last reference to the page is released.
This change removes the KPIs which directly manipulate hold_count.
Functions such as vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() now return wired pages
instead. Since r328977 the overhead of maintaining LRU for wired pages
is lower, and in many cases vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() callers would
swap holds for wirings on the returned pages anyway, so with this change
we remove a number of page lock acquisitions.
No functional change is intended. __FreeBSD_version is bumped.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Discussed with: jeff
Discussed with: jhb, np (cxgbe)
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19247
These calls are not the same in general: the former will dequeue the
page if it is enqueued, while the latter will just leave it alone. But,
all existing uses of the former apply to unmanaged pages, which are
never enqueued in the first place. No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20470
Historically we have not distinguished between kernel wirings and user
wirings for accounting purposes. User wirings (via mlock(2)) were
subject to a global limit on the number of wired pages, so if large
swaths of physical memory were wired by the kernel, as happens with
the ZFS ARC among other things, the limit could be exceeded, causing
user wirings to fail.
The change adds a new counter, v_user_wire_count, which counts the
number of virtual pages wired by user processes via mlock(2) and
mlockall(2). Only user-wired pages are subject to the system-wide
limit which helps provide some safety against deadlocks. In
particular, while sources of kernel wirings typically support some
backpressure mechanism, there is no way to reclaim user-wired pages
shorting of killing the wiring process. The limit is exported as
vm.max_user_wired, renamed from vm.max_wired, and changed from u_int
to u_long.
The choice to count virtual user-wired pages rather than physical
pages was done for simplicity. There are mechanisms that can cause
user-wired mappings to be destroyed while maintaining a wiring of
the backing physical page; these make it difficult to accurately
track user wirings at the physical page layer.
The change also closes some holes which allowed user wirings to succeed
even when they would cause the system limit to be exceeded. For
instance, mmap() may now fail with ENOMEM in a process that has called
mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) if the new mapping would cause the user wiring
limit to be exceeded.
Note that bhyve -S is subject to the user wiring limit, which defaults
to 1/3 of physical RAM. Users that wish to exceed the limit must tune
vm.max_user_wired.
Reviewed by: kib, ngie (mlock() test changes)
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
MFC after: 45 days
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19908
Before this change we had two flavours of vm_domainset iterators: "page"
and "malloc". The latter was only used for kmem_*() and hard-coded its
behaviour based on kernel_object's policy. Moreover, its use contained
a race similar to that fixed by r338755 since the kernel_object's
iterator was being run without the object lock.
In some cases it is useful to be able to explicitly specify a policy
(domainset) or policy+iterator (domainset_ref) when performing memory
allocations. To that end, refactor the vm_dominset_* KPI to permit
this, and get rid of the "malloc" domainset_iter KPI in the process.
Reviewed by: jeff (previous version)
Tested by: pho (part of a larger patch)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17417
I committed some patches out of order and didn't build-test one of them.
Reported by: Jenkins, O. Hartmann <ohartmann@walstatt.org>
X-MFC with: r339601
On NUMA systems, we would not swap in processes unless all domains
had some free pages. This is too conservative in general. Instead,
permit swapins so long as at least one domain has free pages, and add
a kernel stack NUMA policy which ensures that we will try to allocate
kernel stack pages from any domain.
Reported and tested by: pho, Jan Bramkamp <crest@bultmann.eu>
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Discussed with: jeff
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17304
The current cache logic checks the total number of stacks in the kernel,
which even on small boxes significantly exceeds the 128 limit (e.g. an
8-way box with zfs has almost 800 stacks allocated).
Stacks are cached earlier for each main thread.
As a result the code is rarely executed, but when it is then (on boxes like
the above) it always fails. Since there are no provisions made for NUMA and
release time is approaching, just do a quick check to avoid acquiring the
lock.
Approved by: re (kib)
other allowed domains if the requested domain is below the minimum paging
threshold. Block in fork only if all domains available to the forking
thread are below the severe threshold rather than any.
Submitted by: jeff
Reported by: mjg
Reviewed by: alc, kib, markj
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16191
Exposing max_offset and min_offset defines in public headers is
causing clashes with variable names, for example when building QEMU.
Based on the submission by: royger
Reviewed by: alc, markj (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: re (marius)
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16881
Assert that all such memory is unwired on return to usermode.
The count of the wired memory will be used to detect the copyout mode.
Tested by: pho (as part of the larger patch)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
significant source of cache line contention from vm_page_alloc(). Use
accessors and vm_page_unwire_noq() so that the mechanism can be easily
changed in the future.
Reviewed by: markj
Discussed with: kib, glebius
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14273
global to per-domain state. Protect reservations with the free lock
from the domain that they belong to. Refactor to make vm domains more
of a first class object.
Reviewed by: markj, kib, gallatin
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14000
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
There is no NO_SWAPPING #ifdef left in the code.
Requested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12663
vm_page_grab() on consecutive page indices. Besides simplifying the code
in the caller, vm_page_grab_pages() allows for batching optimizations.
For example, the current implementation replaces calls to vm_page_lookup()
on consecutive page indices by cheaper calls to vm_page_next().
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho (an earlier version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11926
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
There is an order between covered vnode lock and allproc_lock, which
is established by calling mountcheckdirs() while owning the covered
vnode lock. mountcheckdirs() iterates over the processes, protected by
allproc_lock. This order is needed and seems to be not avoidable.
On the other hand, various VM daemons also need to iterate over all
processes, and they lock and unlock user maps. Since unlock of the
user map may trigger processing of the deferred map entries, it causes
vnode locking to occur. Or, when vmspace is freed, dropping references
on the vnode-backed object also lock vnodes. We get reverted order
comparing with the mount/unmount order.
For VM daemons, there is no need to own allproc_lock while we operate
on vmspaces. If the process is held, it serves as the marker for
allproc list, which allows to continue the iteration.
Add _PHOLD_LITE() macro, similar to _PHOLD(), but not causing swap-in
of the kernel stacks. It is used instead of _PHOLD() in vm code,
since e.g. calling faultin() in OOM conditions only exaggerates the
problem.
Modernize comment describing PHOLD.
Reported by: lists@yamagi.org
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 week
Approved by: re (gjb)
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6679
o With new KPI consumers can request contiguous ranges of pages, and
unlike before, all pages will be kept busied on return, like it was
done before with the 'reqpage' only. Now the reqpage goes away. With
new interface it is easier to implement code protected from race
conditions.
Such arrayed requests for now should be preceeded by a call to
vm_pager_haspage() to make sure that request is possible. This
could be improved later, making vm_pager_haspage() obsolete.
Strenghtening the promises on the business of the array of pages
allows us to remove such hacks as swp_pager_free_nrpage() and
vm_pager_free_nonreq().
o New KPI accepts two integer pointers that may optionally point at
values for read ahead and read behind, that a pager may do, if it
can. These pages are completely owned by pager, and not controlled
by the caller.
This shifts the UFS-specific readahead logic from vm_fault.c, which
should be file system agnostic, into vnode_pager.c. It also removes
one VOP_BMAP() request per hard fault.
Discussed with: kib, alc, jeff, scottl
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
initial thread stack is not adjusted by the tunable, the stack is
allocated too early to get access to the kernel environment. See
TD0_KSTACK_PAGES for the thread0 stack sizing on i386.
The tunable was tested on x86 only. From the visual inspection, it
seems that it might work on arm and powerpc. The arm
USPACE_SVC_STACK_TOP and powerpc USPACE macros seems to be already
incorrect for the threads with non-default kstack size. I only
changed the macros to use variable instead of constant, since I cannot
test.
On arm64, mips and sparc64, some static data structures are sized by
KSTACK_PAGES, so the tunable is disabled.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 week
in the requested array, then it is responsible for disposition of previous
page and is responsible for updating the entry in the requested array.
Now consumers of KPI do not need to re-lookup the pages after call to
vm_pager_get_pages().
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
interrupts and report the largest value seen as sysctl
debug.max_kstack_used. Useful to estimate how close the kernel stack
size is to overflow.
In collaboration with: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
page queue even when the allocation is not wired. It is
responsibility of the vm_page_grab() caller to ensure that the page
does not end on the vm_object queue but not on the pagedaemon queue,
which would effectively create unpageable unwired page.
In exec_map_first_page() and vm_imgact_hold_page(), activate the page
immediately after unbusying it, to avoid leak.
In the uiomove_object_page(), deactivate page before the object is
unlocked. There is no leak, since the page is deactivated after
uiomove_fromphys() finished. But allowing non-queued non-wired page
in the unlocked object queue makes it impossible to assert that leak
does not happen in other places.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
the queue where to enqueue pages that are going to be unwired.
- Add stronger checks to the enqueue/dequeue for the pagequeues when
adding and removing pages to them.
Of course, for unmanaged pages the queue parameter of vm_page_unwire() will
be ignored, just as the active parameter today.
This makes adding new pagequeues quicker.
This change effectively modifies the KPI. __FreeBSD_version will be,
however, bumped just when the full cache of free pages will be
evicted.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
To reduce the diff struct pcu.cnt field was not renamed, so
PCPU_OP(cnt.field) is still used. pc_cnt and pcpu are also used in
kvm(3) and vmstat(8). The goal was to not affect externally used KPI.
Bump __FreeBSD_version_ in case some out-of-tree module/code relies on the
the global cnt variable.
Exp-run revealed no ports using it directly.
No objection from: arch@
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
The flag was mandatory since r209792, where vm_page_grab(9) was
changed to only support the alloc retry semantic.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Unify the 2 concept into a real, minimal, sxlock where the shared
acquisition represent the soft busy and the exclusive acquisition
represent the hard busy.
The old VPO_WANTED mechanism becames the hard-path for this new lock
and it becomes per-page rather than per-object.
The vm_object lock becames an interlock for this functionality:
it can be held in both read or write mode.
However, if the vm_object lock is held in read mode while acquiring
or releasing the busy state, the thread owner cannot make any
assumption on the busy state unless it is also busying it.
Also:
- Add a new flag to directly shared busy pages while vm_page_alloc
and vm_page_grab are being executed. This will be very helpful
once these functions happen under a read object lock.
- Move the swapping sleep into its own per-object flag
The KPI is heavilly changed this is why the version is bumped.
It is very likely that some VM ports users will need to change
their own code.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: jeff, kib
Tested by: gavin, bapt (older version)
Tested by: pho, scottl
transparent layering and better fragmentation.
- Normalize functions that allocate memory to use kmem_*
- Those that allocate address space are named kva_*
- Those that operate on maps are named kmap_*
- Implement recursive allocation handling for kmem_arena in vmem.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
