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.
- struct plimit includes a mutex to protect a reference count. The plimit
structure is treated similarly to struct ucred in that is is always copy
on write, so having a reference to a structure is sufficient to read from
it without needing a further lock.
- The proc lock protects the p_limit pointer and must be held while reading
limits from a process to keep the limit structure from changing out from
under you while reading from it.
- Various global limits that are ints are not protected by a lock since
int writes are atomic on all the archs we support and thus a lock
wouldn't buy us anything.
- All accesses to individual resource limits from a process are abstracted
behind a simple lim_rlimit(), lim_max(), and lim_cur() API that return
either an rlimit, or the current or max individual limit of the specified
resource from a process.
- dosetrlimit() was renamed to kern_setrlimit() to match existing style of
other similar syscall helper functions.
- The alpha OSF/1 compat layer no longer calls getrlimit() and setrlimit()
(it didn't used the stackgap when it should have) but uses lim_rlimit()
and kern_setrlimit() instead.
- The svr4 compat no longer uses the stackgap for resource limits calls,
but uses lim_rlimit() and kern_setrlimit() instead.
- The ibcs2 compat no longer uses the stackgap for resource limits. It
also no longer uses the stackgap for accessing sysctl's for the
ibcs2_sysconf() syscall but uses kernel_sysctl() instead. As a result,
ibcs2_sysconf() no longer needs Giant.
- The p_rlimit macro no longer exists.
Submitted by: mtm (mostly, I only did a few cleanups and catchups)
Tested on: i386
Compiled on: alpha, amd64
occurs when kmem_malloc() fails to allocate a sufficient number of vm
pages. Specifically, we avoid the lock-order reversal by not grabbing
Giant around pmap_remove() if the map is the kmem_map.
Approved by: re (jhb)
Reported by: Eugene <eugene3@web.de>
- Return EBUSY if the region was wired by mlock(2) and MS_INVALIDATE
is specified to msync(2). This is required by the Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 6.
- vm_map_sync() doesn't return KERN_FAILURE. Thus, msync(2) can't
possibly return EIO.
- The second major loop in vm_map_sync() handles sub maps. Thus,
failing on sub maps in the first major loop isn't necessary.
must return EINVAL if size is zero. Submitted by: tegge
- In order to avoid a race condition in multithreaded applications, the
check and removal operations by munmap(2) must be in the same critical
section. To accomodate this, vm_map_check_protection() is modified to
require its caller to obtain at least a read lock on the map.
if we drop into the pmap or vnode layers.
- Migrate the handling of zero-length msync(2)s into vm_map_sync() so that
multithread applications can't change the map between implementing the
zero-length hack in msync(2) and reacquiring the map lock in
vm_map_sync().
Reviewed by: tegge
that msync(2) is its only caller.
- Migrate the parts of the old vm_map_clean() that examined the internals
of a vm object to a new function vm_object_sync() that is implemented in
vm_object.c. At the same, introduce the necessary vm object locking so
that vm_map_sync() and vm_object_sync() can be called without Giant.
Reviewed by: tegge
the rstack functionality:
1. Fix a KASSERT that tests for the address to be above the upward
growable stack. Typically for rstack, the faulting address can be
identical to the record end of the upward growable entry, and
very likely is on ia64. The KASSERT tested for greater than, not
greater equal, so whenever the register stack had to be grown
the assertion fired.
2. When we grow the upward growable stack entry and adjust the
unlying object, don't forget to adjust the size of the VM map.
Not doing so would trigger an assert in vm_mapzdtor().
Pointy hat: marcel (for not testing with INVARIANTS).
- Specifying VM_MAP_WIRE_HOLESOK should not assume that the start
address is the beginning of the map. Instead, move to the first
entry after the start address.
- The implementation of VM_MAP_WIRE_HOLESOK was incomplete. This
caused the failure of mlockall(2) in some circumstances.
use the ability on ia64 to map the register stack. The orientation of
the stack (i.e. its grow direction) is passed to vm_map_stack() in the
overloaded cow argument. Since the grow direction is represented by
bits, it is possible and allowed to create bi-directional stacks.
This is not an advertised feature, more of a side-effect.
Fix a bug in vm_map_growstack() that's specific to rstacks and which
we could only find by having the ability to create rstacks: when
the mapped stack ends at the faulting address, we have not actually
mapped the faulting address. we need to include or cover the faulting
address.
Note that at this time mmap(2) has not been extended to allow the
creation of rstacks by processes. If such a need arises, this can
be done.
Tested on: alpha, i386, ia64, sparc64
order to use "unmanaged" pages in the kmem object, vm_map_delete() must
unconditionally perform pmap_remove(). Otherwise, sparc64 has problems.
Tested by: jake
growable (stack) entries that not only grow down, but also grow up.
Have vm_map_growstack() take these flags into account when growing
an entry.
This is the first step in adding support for upward growable stacks.
It is a required feature on ia64 to support the register stack (or
rstack as I like to call it -- it also means reverse stack). We do
not currently create rstacks, so the upward growing is not exercised
and the change should be a functional no-op.
Reviewed by: alc
- All those diffs to syscalls.master for each architecture *are*
necessary. This needed clarification; the stub code generation for
mlockall() was disabled, which would prevent applications from
linking to this API (suggested by mux)
- Giant has been quoshed. It is no longer held by the code, as
the required locking has been pushed down within vm_map.c.
- Callers must specify VM_MAP_WIRE_HOLESOK or VM_MAP_WIRE_NOHOLES
to express their intention explicitly.
- Inspected at the vmstat, top and vm pager sysctl stats level.
Paging-in activity is occurring correctly, using a test harness.
- The RES size for a process may appear to be greater than its SIZE.
This is believed to be due to mappings of the same shared library
page being wired twice. Further exploration is needed.
- Believed to back out of allocations and locks correctly
(tested with WITNESS, MUTEX_PROFILING, INVARIANTS and DIAGNOSTIC).
PR: kern/43426, standards/54223
Reviewed by: jake, alc
Approved by: jake (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
the "toss the largest process" emergency handling) from vm_map.c to
swap_pager.c.
The quantity calculated depends strongly on the internals of the
swap_pager and by moving it, we no longer need to expose the
internal metrics of the swap_pager to the world.
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.
- Add a parameter to vm_pageout_flush() that tells vm_pageout_flush()
whether its caller has locked the vm_object. (This is a temporary
measure to bootstrap vm_object locking.)
process to kill, don't block on a map lock while holding the
process lock. Instead, skip processes whose map locks are held
and find something else to kill.
- Add vm_map_trylock_read() to support the above.
Reviewed by: alc, mike (mentor)
It's unnecessary for two reasons: (1) Giant is at present already held in
such cases and (2) our various implementations of pmap_growkernel() look to
be MP safe. (For example, for sparc64 the proof of (2) is trivial.)
