Idle page zeroing has been disabled by default on all architectures since
r170816 and has some bugs that make it seemingly unusable. Specifically,
the idle-priority pagezero thread exacerbates contention for the free page
lock, and yields the CPU without releasing it in non-preemptive kernels. The
pagezero thread also does not behave correctly when superpage reservations
are enabled: its target is a function of v_free_count, which includes
reserved-but-free pages, but it is only able to zero pages belonging to the
physical memory allocator.
Reviewed by: alc, imp, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7714
the PG_G global pte flag, pmap_invalidate_all() fails to flush global
TLB entries [*]. This is because TLB shootdown handler for such
configs reloads CR3, and on i386 pmap_invalidate_all() does the same
for the initiating CPU. Note that current code does not issue total
invalidation requests for the kernel_pmap.
Rename amd64 function invltlb_globpcid() to invltlb_glob(), it is not
specific for PCID for quite some time, and implement the same
functionality for i386. Use the function instead of invltlb() in
shootdown handlers and in i386 pmap_invalidate_all(), but only for the
kernel pmap (which maps pages with the PG_G attribute set), which
takes care of PG_G TLB entries on flush.
To detect the affected pmap in i386 TLB shootdown handler, pmap should
be passed to the smp_masked_invltlb() function, which makes amd64 and
i386 TLB shootdown code almost identical. Merge the code under x86/.
Noted by: jhb [*]
Reviewed by: cem, jhb, pho
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4346
remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
components for PV kernels. These components are now standard as they
are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by: royger
Tested by: royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes: yes
use PAE format for the page tables, but does not incur other
consequences of the full PAE config. In particular, vm_paddr_t and
bus_addr_t are left 32bit, and max supported memory is still limited
by 4GB.
The option allows to have nx permissions for memory mappings on i386
kernel, while keeping the usual i386 KBI and avoiding the kernel data
sizing problems typical for the PAE config.
Intel documented that the PAE format for page tables is available
starting with the Pentium Pro, but it is possible that the plain
Pentium CPUs have the required support (Appendix H). The goal is to
enable the option and non-exec mappings on i386 for the GENERIC
kernel. Anybody wanting a useful system on 486, have to reconfigure
the modern i386 kernel anyway.
Discussed with: alc, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
memory itself. Provide the formula to calculate the number of
required page tables. Correct the size of the struct vm_page for
non-PAE case.
Reviewed by: alc, jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
forced invalidation of the cache range regardless of the presence of
self-snoop feature. Some recent Intel GPUs in some modes are not
coherent, and dirty lines in CPU cache must be flushed before the
pages are transferred to GPU domain.
Reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Tested by: pho (amd64)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
reuse the first page of the crashdumpmap as CMAP1/CADDR1. For i386,
remove CMAP1/CADDR1 entirely and reuse CMAP3/CADDR3 for the memory test.
Reviewed by: alc, peter
MFC after: 2 weeks
Re-structure Xen HVM support so that:
- Xen is detected and hypercalls can be performed very
early in system startup.
- Xen interrupt services are implemented using FreeBSD's native
interrupt delivery infrastructure.
- the Xen interrupt service implementation is shared between PV
and HVM guests.
- Xen interrupt handlers can optionally use a filter handler
in order to avoid the overhead of dispatch to an interrupt
thread.
- interrupt load can be distributed among all available CPUs.
- the overhead of accessing the emulated local and I/O apics
on HVM is removed for event channel port events.
- a similar optimization can eventually, and fairly easily,
be used to optimize MSI.
Early Xen detection, HVM refactoring, PVHVM interrupt infrastructure,
and misc Xen cleanups:
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
Unification of PV & HVM interrupt infrastructure, bug fixes,
and misc Xen cleanups:
Submitted by: Roger Pau Monné
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
sys/x86/x86/local_apic.c:
sys/amd64/include/apicvar.h:
sys/i386/include/apicvar.h:
sys/amd64/amd64/apic_vector.S:
sys/i386/i386/apic_vector.s:
sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/exception.s:
sys/x86/include/segments.h:
Reserve IDT vector 0x93 for the Xen event channel upcall
interrupt handler. On Hypervisors that support the direct
vector callback feature, we can request that this vector be
called directly by an injected HVM interrupt event, instead
of a simulated PCI interrupt on the Xen platform PCI device.
This avoids all of the overhead of dealing with the emulated
I/O APIC and local APIC. It also means that the Hypervisor
can inject these events on any CPU, allowing upcalls for
different ports to be handled in parallel.
sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c:
Map Xen per-vcpu area during AP startup.
sys/amd64/include/intr_machdep.h:
sys/i386/include/intr_machdep.h:
Increase the FreeBSD IRQ vector table to include space
for event channel interrupt sources.
sys/amd64/include/pcpu.h:
sys/i386/include/pcpu.h:
Remove Xen HVM per-cpu variable data. These fields are now
allocated via the dynamic per-cpu scheme. See xen_intr.c
for details.
sys/amd64/include/xen/hypercall.h:
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/i386/include/xen/xenvar.h:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.c:
Prefer FreeBSD primatives to Linux ones in Xen support code.
sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/dev/xen/balloon/balloon.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c:
sys/dev/xen/control/control.c:
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c:
sys/dev/xen/netfront/netfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c:
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/include/pmap.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xenfunc.h:
sys/i386/isa/npx.c:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/mptable.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_clock_util.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_rtc.c:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/xen/features.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.c:
sys/xen/gnttab.h:
sys/xen/hvm.h:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus_if.m:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusb_front.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusvar.h:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore_dev.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstorevar.h:
Pull common Xen OS support functions/settings into xen/xen-os.h.
sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
Remove constants, macros, and functions unused in FreeBSD's Xen
support.
sys/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Introduce new functions xen_domain(), xen_pv_domain(), and
xen_hvm_domain(). These are used in favor of #ifdefs so that
FreeBSD can dynamically detect and adapt to the presence of
a hypervisor. The goal is to have an HVM optimized GENERIC,
but more is necessary before this is possible.
sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpcivar.h:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpci.c:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
sys/sys/kernel.h:
Refactor magic ioport, Hypercall table and Hypervisor shared
information page setup, and move it to a dedicated HVM support
module.
HVM mode initialization is now triggered during the
SI_SUB_HYPERVISOR phase of system startup. This currently
occurs just after the kernel VM is fully setup which is
just enough infrastructure to allow the hypercall table
and shared info page to be properly mapped.
sys/xen/hvm.h:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Add definitions and a method for configuring Hypervisor event
delievery via a direct vector callback.
sys/amd64/include/xen/xen-os.h:
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
sys/conf/files:
sys/conf/files.amd64:
sys/conf/files.i386:
Adjust kernel build to reflect the refactoring of early
Xen startup code and Xen interrupt services.
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
sys/dev/xen/blkfront/block.h:
sys/dev/xen/control/control.c:
sys/dev/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c:
sys/dev/xen/netfront/netfront.c:
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn_dev.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/console.c:
sys/dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c
Adjust drivers to use new xen_intr_*() API.
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c:
Since blkback defers all event handling to a taskqueue,
convert this task queue to a "fast" taskqueue, and schedule
it via an interrupt filter. This avoids an unnecessary
ithread context switch.
sys/xen/xenstore/xenstore.c:
The xenstore driver is MPSAFE. Indicate as much when
registering its interrupt handler.
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbus.c:
sys/xen/xenbus/xenbusvar.h:
Remove unused event channel APIs.
sys/xen/evtchn.h:
Remove all kernel Xen interrupt service API definitions
from this file. It is now only used for structure and
ioctl definitions related to the event channel userland
device driver.
Update the definitions in this file to match those from
NetBSD. Implementing this interface will be necessary for
Dom0 support.
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchnvar.h:
Add a header file for implemenation internal APIs related
to managing event channels event delivery. This is used
to allow, for example, the event channel userland device
driver to access low-level routines that typical kernel
consumers of event channel services should never access.
sys/xen/interface/event_channel.h:
sys/xen/xen_intr.h:
Standardize on the evtchn_port_t type for referring to
an event channel port id. In order to prevent low-level
event channel APIs from leaking to kernel consumers who
should not have access to this data, the type is defined
twice: Once in the Xen provided event_channel.h, and again
in xen/xen_intr.h. The double declaration is protected by
__XEN_EVTCHN_PORT_DEFINED__ to ensure it is never declared
twice within a given compilation unit.
sys/xen/xen_intr.h:
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchn.c:
sys/x86/xen/xen_intr.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/evtchn.c:
sys/dev/xen/xenpci/xenpcivar.h:
New implementation of Xen interrupt services. This is
similar in many respects to the i386 PV implementation with
the exception that events for bound to event channel ports
(i.e. not IPI, virtual IRQ, or physical IRQ) are further
optimized to avoid mask/unmask operations that aren't
necessary for these edge triggered events.
Stubs exist for supporting physical IRQ binding, but will
need additional work before this implementation can be
fully shared between PV and HVM.
sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/mp_machdep.c
sys/x86/xen/hvm.c:
Add support for placing vcpu_info into an arbritary memory
page instead of using HYPERVISOR_shared_info->vcpu_info.
This allows the creation of domains with more than 32 vcpus.
sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/clock.c:
sys/i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
sys/i386/xen/exception.s:
Add support for new event channle implementation.
Replace the per-object resident and cached pages splay tree with a
path-compressed multi-digit radix trie.
Along with this, switch also the x86-specific handling of idle page
tables to using the radix trie.
This change is supposed to do the following:
- Allowing the acquisition of read locking for lookup operations of the
resident/cached pages collections as the per-vm_page_t splay iterators
are now removed.
- Increase the scalability of the operations on the page collections.
The radix trie does rely on the consumers locking to ensure atomicity of
its operations. In order to avoid deadlocks the bisection nodes are
pre-allocated in the UMA zone. This can be done safely because the
algorithm needs at maximum one new node per insert which means the
maximum number of the desired nodes is the number of available physical
frames themselves. However, not all the times a new bisection node is
really needed.
The radix trie implements path-compression because UFS indirect blocks
can lead to several objects with a very sparse trie, increasing the number
of levels to usually scan. It also helps in the nodes pre-fetching by
introducing the single node per-insert property.
This code is not generalized (yet) because of the possible loss of
performance by having much of the sizes in play configurable.
However, efforts to make this code more general and then reusable in
further different consumers might be really done.
The only KPI change is the removal of the function vm_page_splay() which
is now reaped.
The only KBI change, instead, is the removal of the left/right iterators
from struct vm_page, which are now reaped.
Further technical notes broken into mealpieces can be retrieved from the
svn branch:
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/attilio/vmcontention/
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
In collaboration with: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
Tested by: ian (arm)
Tested by: andreast (powerpc)
Rename the pv_entry_t iterator from pv_list to pv_next.
Besides being more correct technically (as the name seems to suggest
this is a list while it is an iterator), it will also be needed by
vm_radix work to avoid a nameclash on macro expansions.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
layer, but it is read directly by the MI VM layer. This change introduces
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in order to completely encapsulate all direct
access to PGA_WRITEABLE in the pmap layer.
Aesthetics aside, I am making this change because amd64 will likely begin
using an alternative method to track write mappings, and having
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in place allows me to make such a change
without further modification to the MI VM layer.
As an added bonus, tidy up some nearby comments concerning page flags.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 6 weeks
longer uses the active and inactive paging queues. Instead, the pmap now
maintains an LRU-ordered list of pv entry pages, and pmap_pv_reclaim() uses
this list to select pv entries for reclamation.
Note: The old pmap_collect() tried to avoid reclaiming mappings for pages
that have either a hold_count or a busy field that is non-zero. However,
this isn't necessary for correctness, and the locking in pmap_collect() was
insufficient to guarantee that such mappings weren't reclaimed. The new
pmap_pv_reclaim() doesn't even try.
MFC after: 5 weeks
cpuset_t objects.
That is going to offer the underlying support for a simple bump of
MAXCPU and then support for number of cpus > 32 (as it is today).
Right now, cpumask_t is an int, 32 bits on all our supported architecture.
cpumask_t on the other side is implemented as an array of longs, and
easilly extendible by definition.
The architectures touched by this commit are the following:
- amd64
- i386
- pc98
- arm
- ia64
- XEN
while the others are still missing.
Userland is believed to be fully converted with the changes contained
here.
Some technical notes:
- This commit may be considered an ABI nop for all the architectures
different from amd64 and ia64 (and sparc64 in the future)
- per-cpu members, which are now converted to cpuset_t, needs to be
accessed avoiding migration, because the size of cpuset_t should be
considered unknown
- size of cpuset_t objects is different from kernel and userland (this is
primirally done in order to leave some more space in userland to cope
with KBI extensions). If you need to access kernel cpuset_t from the
userland please refer to example in this patch on how to do that
correctly (kgdb may be a good source, for example).
- Support for other architectures is going to be added soon
- Only MAXCPU for amd64 is bumped now
The patch has been tested by sbruno and Nicholas Esborn on opteron
4 x 12 pack CPUs. More testing on big SMP is expected to came soon.
pluknet tested the patch with his 8-ways on both amd64 and i386.
Tested by: pluknet, sbruno, gianni, Nicholas Esborn
Reviewed by: jeff, jhb, sbruno
Add pmap_invalidate_cache_pages() method on x86. It flushes the CPU
cache for the set of pages, which are not neccessary mapped. Since its
supposed use is to prepare the move of the pages ownership to a device
that does not snoop all CPU accesses to the main memory (read GPU in
GMCH), do not rely on CPU self-snoop feature.
amd64 implementation takes advantage of the direct map. On i386,
extract the helper pmap_flush_page() from pmap_page_set_memattr(), and
use it to make a temporary mapping of the flushed page.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
mechanical change. This opens the door for using PV device drivers
under Xen HVM on i386, as well as more general harmonisation of i386
and amd64 Xen support in FreeBSD.
Reviewed by: cperciva
MFC after: 3 weeks
Don't map physical to machine page numbers in pte_load_store, since it uses
PT_SET_VA (which takes a physical page number and converts it to a machine
page number).
MFC after: 3 days
Clean up the code by converting xpmap_ptom(VTOP(...)) to VTOM(...) and
converting xpmap_ptom(VM_PAGE_TO_PHYS(...)) to VM_PAGE_TO_MACH(...). In
a few places we take advantage of the fact that xpmap_ptom can commute with
setting PG_* flags.
This commit should have no net effect save to improve the readability of
this code.
pmap_kextract()) before pmap_bootstrap() is called.
Document the set of pmap functions that may be called before
pmap_bootstrap() is called.
Tested by: bde@
Reviewed by: kib@
Discussed with: jhb@
MFC after: 6 weeks
- change the type of pm_active to cpumask_t, which it is;
- in pmap_remove_pages(), compare with PCPU(curpmap), instead of
dereferencing the long chain of pointers [1].
For amd64 pmap, remove the unneeded checks for validity of curpmap
in pmap_activate(), since curpmap should be always valid after
r209789.
Submitted by: alc [1]
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 3 weeks
architecture from page queue lock to a hashed array of page locks
(based on a patch by Jeff Roberson), I've implemented page lock
support in the MI code and have only moved vm_page's hold_count
out from under page queue mutex to page lock. This changes
pmap_extract_and_hold on all pmaps.
Supported by: Bitgravity Inc.
Discussed with: alc, jeffr, and kib
page into 4KB pages as needed. This should be fairly rare in practice
on i386. This includes merging the following changes from the amd64 pmap:
180430, 180485, 180845, 181043, 181077, and 196318.
- Add basic support for changing attributes on PDEs to pmap_change_attr()
similar to the support in the initial version of pmap_change_attr() on
amd64 including inlines for pmap_pde_attr() and pmap_pte_attr().
- Extend pmap_demote_pde() to include the ability to instantiate a new page
table page where none existed before.
- Enhance pmap_change_attr(). Use pmap_demote_pde() to demote a 2/4MB page
mapping to 4KB page mappings when the specified attribute change only
applies to a portion of the 2/4MB page. Previously, in such cases,
pmap_change_attr() gave up and returned an error.
- Correct a critical accounting error in pmap_demote_pde().
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 3 days
when memory page caching attributes changed, and CPU does not support
self-snoop, but implemented clflush, for i386.
Take care of possible mappings of the page by sf buffer by utilizing
the mapping for clflush, otherwise map the page transiently. Amd64
used direct map.
Proposed and reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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)
1. Add support for automatic promotion of 4KB page mappings to 2MB page
mappings. Automatic promotion can be enabled by setting the tunable
"vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled" to a non-zero value. By default, automatic
promotion is disabled. Tested by: kris
2. To date, we have assumed that the TLB will only set the PG_M bit in a
PTE if that PTE has the PG_RW bit set. However, this assumption does
not hold on recent processors from Intel. For example, consider a PTE
that has the PG_RW bit set but the PG_M bit clear. Suppose this PTE
is cached in the TLB and later the PG_RW bit is cleared in the PTE,
but the corresponding TLB entry is not (yet) invalidated.
Historically, upon a write access using this (stale) TLB entry, the
TLB would observe that the PG_RW bit had been cleared and initiate a
page fault, aborting the setting of the PG_M bit in the PTE. Now,
however, P4- and Core2-family processors will set the PG_M bit before
observing that the PG_RW bit is clear and initiating a page fault. In
other words, the write does not occur but the PG_M bit is still set.
The real impact of this difference is not that great. Specifically,
we should no longer assert that any PTE with the PG_M bit set must
also have the PG_RW bit set, and we should ignore the state of the
PG_M bit unless the PG_RW bit is set.
pv_list_count from struct md_page. Ever since Peter rewrote the pv
entry allocator for amd64 and i386 pv_list_count has been correctly
maintained but otherwise unused.
amd64 mechanism over. Instead of page table hackery that isn't
actually needed, just use 'struct pcpu __pcpu[MAXCPU]' for backing like
all the other platforms do. Get rid of 'struct privatespace' and a
while mess of #ifdef SMP garbage that set it up. As a bonus, this
returns the 4MB of KVA that we stole to implement it the old way.
This also allows you to read the pcpu data for each cpu when reading a
minidump.
Background information: Originally, pcpu stuff was implemented as having
per-cpu page tables and magic to make different data structures appear
at the same actual address. In order to share page tables, we switched
to using the GDT and %fs/%gs to access it. But we still did the evil
magic to set it up for the old way. The "idle stacks" are not used
for the idle process anymore and are just used for a few functions during
bootup, then ignored. (excercise for reader: free these afterwards).
of NKPT is no longer enough to run amd64 with 16G of RAM, as it
doesn't have space for mapping a kernel (16M kernel would require
additionally 8 page tables).
WB (write-back) on x86 via control bits in PTEs and PDEs (including making
use of the PAT MSR). Changes include:
- A new pmap_mapdev_attr() function for amd64 and i386 which takes an
additional parameter (relative to pmap_mapdev()) specifying the cache
mode for this mapping. Note that on amd64 only WB mappings are done with
the direct map, all other modes result in a private mapping.
- pmap_mapdev() on i386 and amd64 now defaults to using UC (uncached)
mappings rather than WB. Previously we relied on the BIOS setting up
MTRR's to enforce memio regions being treated as UC. This might make
hw.cbb_start_memory unnecessary in some cases now for example.
- A new pmap_mapbios()/pmap_unmapbios() API has been added to allow places
that used pmap_mapdev() to map non-device memory (such as ACPI tables)
to do so using WB as before.
- A new pmap_change_attr() function for amd64 and i386 that changes the
caching mode for a range of KVA.
Reviewed by: alc
per page = effectively 12.19 bytes per pv entry after overheads).
Instead of using a shared UMA zone for 24 byte pv entries (two 8-byte tailq
nodes, a 4 byte pointer, and a 4 byte address), we allocate a page at a
time per process. This provides 336 pv entries per process (actually, per
pmap address space) and eliminates one of the 8-byte tailq entries since
we now can track per-process pv entries implicitly. The pointer to
the pmap can be eliminated by doing address arithmetic to find the metadata
on the page headers to find a single pointer shared by all 336 entries.
There is an 11-int bitmap for the freelist of those 336 entries.
This is mostly a mechanical conversion from amd64, except:
* i386 has to allocate kvm and map the pages, amd64 has them outside of kvm
* native word size is smaller, so bitmaps etc become 32 bit instead of 64
* no dump_add_page() etc stuff because they are in kvm always.
* various pmap internals tweaks because pmap uses direct map on amd64 but
on i386 it has to use sched_pin and temporary mappings.
Also, sysctl vm.pmap.pv_entry_max and vm.pmap.shpgperproc are now
dynamic sysctls. Like on amd64, i386 can now tune the pv entry limits
without a recompile or reboot.
This is important because of the following scenario. If you have a 1GB
file (262144 pages) mmap()ed into 50 processes, that requires 13 million
pv entries. At 24 bytes per pv entry, that is 314MB of ram and kvm, while
at 12 bytes it is 157MB. A 157MB saving is significant.
Test-run by: scottl (Thanks!)
- Move vtophys() macros next to vtopte() where vtopte() exists to match
comments above vtopte().
- Remove references to the alternate address space in the comment above
vtopte(). amd64 never had the alternate address space, and i386 lost it
prior to PAE support being added.
- s/entires/entries/ in comments.
Reviewed by: alc
