- use a more accurate and more efficient method of compensating for
overheads. The old method counted too much time against leaf
functions.
- normally use the Pentium timestamp counter if available.
On Pentiums, the times are now accurate to within a couple of cpu
clock cycles per function call in the (unlikely) event that there
are no cache misses in or caused by the profiling code.
- optionally use an arbitrary Pentium event counter if available.
- optionally regress to using the i8254 counter.
- scaled the i8254 counter by a factor of 128. Now the i8254 counters
overflow slightly faster than the TSC counters for a 150MHz Pentium :-)
(after about 16 seconds). This is to avoid fractional overheads.
files.i386:
permon.c temporarily has to be classified as a profiling-routine
because a couple of functions in it may be called from profiling code.
options.i386:
- I586_CTR_GUPROF is currently unused (oops).
- I586_PMC_GUPROF should be something like 0x70000 to enable (but not
use unless prof_machdep.c is changed) support for Pentium event
counters. 7 is a control mode and the counter number 0 is somewhere
in the 0000 bits (see perfmon.h for the encoding).
profile.h:
- added declarations.
- cleaned up separation of user mode declarations.
prof_machdep.c:
Mostly clock-select changes. The default clock can be changed by
editing kmem. There should be a sysctl for this.
subr_prof.c:
- added copyright.
- calibrate overheads for the new method.
- documented new method.
- fixed races and and machine dependencies in start/stop code.
mcount.c:
Use the new overhead compensation method.
gmon.h:
- changed GPROF4 counter type from unsigned to int. Oops, this should
be machine-dependent and/or int32_t.
- reorganized overhead counters.
Submitted by: Pentium event counter changes mostly by wollman
add free vnodes back to the freelist. They must do their own vnode
management. Anyway, this change is *only* activated with their filesystem
and doesn't affect anyone else. Whoops, forgot the submitted-by lines
in my previous commits too.. :-(
Submitted-By: Tony Ardolino <tony@netcon.com>
The heuristic for managment of memory backing the buffer cache was
nice, but didn't work due to some architectural problems. Simplify
and improve the algorithm.
capable of being used for things other than swap space allocation,
and splvm would have been appropriate for only swap space allocation
and other VM things. My commit broke that (and was actually a mistake.)
previous snap. Specifically, kern_exit and kern_exec now makes a
call into the pmap module to do a very fast removal of pages from the
address space. Additionally, the pmap module now updates the PG_MAPPED
and PG_WRITABLE flags. This is an optional optimization, but helpful
on the X86.
(yes I had tested the hell out of this).
I've also temporarily disabled the code so that it behaves as it previously
did (tail drop's the syns) pending discussion with fenner about some socket
state flags that I don't fully understand.
Submitted by: fenner
Major: When blocking occurs in allocbuf() for VMIO files,
excess wire counts could accumulate.
Major: Pages are incorrectly accumulated into the physical
buffer for clustered reads. This happens when bogus
page is needed.
Minor: When reclaiming buffers, the async flag on the buffer
needs to be zero, or the reclaim is not optimal.
Minor: The age flag should be cleared, if a buffer is wanted.
1/ session leader
2/ Have a console device vnode (/dev/console)
3/ have NULL pointer for a consoel tty struct.
fix the only case where the tty struct is referenced without a prior
check for existance.
- kern.maxproc and kern.maxprocperuid were read-only (and thus essentially
useless. Apparently no one uses them).
- all the user sysctls were read-write (and thus it was possible for them
to be inconsistent with the authoritative fixed values in the library).
Removed unused #include.
It is needed for implementation details but very little of it is
needed for the interface. Include it in the few places that didn't
already include it.
Include <sys/ioccom.h> in <sys/disklabel.h> (as already in
<sys/diskslice.h>) so that all the disk-related headers are almost
self-sufficient.
incorrect, and correct the support for B_ORDERED. The spl window
fix was from Peter Wemm, and his questions led me to find the problem with
the interrupt time page manipulation.
data pointed at in a ktrace file, if this process is being ktrace'ed.
I'm using this to profile malloc usage.
The advantage is that there is no context around this call, ie, no
open file or socket, so it will work in any process, and you can
decide if you want it to collect data or not.
/*
* Structure defined by POSIX.4 to be like a timeval.
*/
struct timespec {
time_t ts_sec; /* seconds */
long ts_nsec; /* and nanoseconds */
};
The correct names of the fields are tv_sec and tv_nsec.
Reminded by: James Drobina <jdrobina@infinet.com>
B_ASYNC flag broke things pretty bad (freeing buffer already on
queue or other wierd buffer queue errors.) The broken code is
left in commented out, but this makes the problem go away for
now.
The default level works with minimal overhead, but one can also enable
full, efficient use of a 512K cache. (Parameters can be generated
to support arbitrary cache sizes also.)
for entire SYS5 SHM segments. This is totally unnecessary, and so the
correct allocation of VM objects has been substituted. (The vm_mmap
was misused -- vm_object_allocate is more appropriate.)
Bowrite guarantees that buffers queued after a call to bowrite will
be written after the specified buffer (on a particular device).
Bowrite does this either by taking advantage of hardware ordering support
(e.g. tagged queueing on SCSI devices) or resorting to a synchronous write.
were declared as non-const. This is backwards (_lkm_exec() changes the
pointers but all the target `struct execsw's are const). Fixed this
and poisoned related declarations to match and removed the bogus casts
that hid the bug.
the file access time update on reads and can be useful in reducing
filesystem overhead in cases where the access time is not important (like
Usenet news spools).
the primary and secondary return codes, causing it to not behave as
documented. This probably originates from the ancient BSD kernels that
had pipe(2) implemented by socketpair(2), there are no binaries left that
we can run that do this.
Pointed out by: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, PR#731
note that at_shutdown has a new parameter to indicate When
during a shutdown the callout should be made. also
add a RB_POWEROFF flag to reboot "howto" parameter..
tells the reboot code in our at_shutdown module to turn off the UPS
and kill the power. bound to be useful eventually on laptops
The interface into the "VMIO" system has changed to be more consistant
and robust. Essentially, it is now no longer necessary to call vn_open
to get merged VM/Buffer cache operation, and exceptional conditions
such as merged operation of VBLK devices is simpler and more correct.
This code corrects a potentially large set of problems including the
problems with ktrace output and loaded systems, file create/deletes,
etc.
Most of the changes to NFS are cosmetic and name changes, eliminating
a layer of subroutine calls. The direct calls to vput/vrele have
been re-instituted for better cross platform compatibility.
Reviewed by: davidg
half way through the range rather than possibly colliding with
fixed elements. Increase the size of the arrays to take this into account..
remember that each element in the array is now only 1 ponter so this
isn't that much..
also note a possible bug in debugging code in uipc_socket2.c (add XXX)
I've been meaning to do this for AGES as I keep having to patch those routines
whenever I write a proprietary package or similar..
any module that assigns resources to processes needs to know when
these events occur. there are existsing modules that should be modified
to take advantage of these.. e.g. SYSV IPC primatives
presently have #ifdef entries in exit()
this also helps with making LKMs out of such things..
(see the man pages at_exit(9) and at_fork(9))
called kern_shutdown.c
note: I couldn't see anything machine dependant in the
functions boot() and dumpsys() which were in machdep.c
I have left a prototype for cpu_boot() which would go in
machdep.c, but I have nothing to put in it. Iexpect others will
let me know in no uncertain ways that this or that is machine dependant
and should be there, but I'll way for that to happen.. :)
I haven't actually taken the functions OUT of machdep
or anywhere else yet.. I'm checking in this file so others can have a look
at it and comment. SO PLEASE DO COMMENT!
I am also (in another checkin) addinf a man(9) page for the new
at_shotdown().. er freudian slip there.. at_shutdown() call
so have a look at that (and at_exit and at_fork as well)
and feed me comments..
I'll heck in the changes to make these (shutdown) changes active tomorrow
if no-one objects too strongly..
Fixes unp_externalize panic which occurs when a process is at it's
ulimit for file descriptors and tries to receive a file descriptor from
another process.
Reviewed by: wollman
block number.. (assuming Debugger() returned). The disk drivers assume
that dscheck() sets both error markers (bp->b_error and set B_ERROR in
bp->b_flags) if it fails.
problem with the 'shell scripts' was found, but there was a 'strange'
problem found with a 486 laptop that we could not find. This commit
backs the code back to 25-jul, and will be re-entered after the snapshot
in smaller (more easily tested) chunks.
performance issues.
1) The pmap module has had too many inlines, and so the
object file is simply bigger than it needs to be.
Some common code is also merged into subroutines.
2) Removal of some *evil* PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE macro calls.
Unfortunately, a few have needed to be added also.
The removal caused the need for more vm_page_lookups.
I added lookup hints to minimize the need for the
page table lookup operations.
3) Removal of some bogus performance improvements, that
mostly made the code more complex (tracking individual
page table page updates unnecessarily). Those improvements
actually hurt 386 processors perf (not that people who
worry about perf use 386 processors anymore :-)).
4) Changed pv queue manipulations/structures to be TAILQ's.
5) The pv queue code has had some performance problems since
day one. Some significant scalability issues are resolved
by threading the pv entries from the pmap AND the physical
address instead of just the physical address. This makes
certain pmap operations run much faster. This does
not affect most micro-benchmarks, but should help loaded system
performance *significantly*. DG helped and came up with most
of the solution for this one.
6) Most if not all pmap bit operations follow the pattern:
pmap_test_bit();
pmap_clear_bit();
That made for twice the necessary pv list traversal. The
pmap interface now supports only pmap_tc_bit type operations:
pmap_[test/clear]_modified, pmap_[test/clear]_referenced.
Additionally, the modified routine now takes a vm_page_t arg
instead of a phys address. This eliminates a PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE
operation.
7) Several rewrites of routines that contain redundant code to
use common routines, so that there is a greater likelihood of
keeping the cache footprint smaller.
Saves about 280 butes of source per driver, 56 bytes in object size
and another 56 bytes moves from data to bss.
No functional change intended nor expected.
GENERIC should be about one k smaller now :-)
Fixed initialization of pipe_pgid - don't default to pid 0 (swapper) for
SIGIO.
Added comments about other implicit initializations, mostly for struct
stat.
Fixed initialization of st_mode. S_IFSOCK was for when pipes were sockets.
It is probably safe to fix the bogus S_ISFIFO() now that pipes can be
distinguished from sockets in all cases.
Don't return ENOSYS for inappropriate ioctls.
for big positive adjustments. The existence of big adjustments may
be a bug (it's not documented...) but there was no good reason for
the asymmetric behaviour.
Reviewed by: wollman
pr_usrreq mechanism which was poorly designed and error-prone. This
commit renames pr_usrreq to pr_ousrreq so that old code which depended on it
would break in an obvious manner. This commit also implements the new
interface for TCP, although the old function is left as an example
(#ifdef'ed out). This commit ALSO fixes a longstanding bug in the
TCP timer processing (introduced by davidg on 1995/04/12) which caused
timer processing on a TCB to always stop after a single timer had
expired (because it misinterpreted the return value from tcp_usrreq()
to indicate that the TCB had been deleted). Finally, some code
related to polling has been deleted from if.c because it is not
relevant t -current and doesn't look at all like my current code.
the high kernel calls into a protocol stack to perform requests on the
user's behalf. We replace the pr_usrreq() entry in struct protosw with a
pointer to a structure containing pointers to functions which implement
the various reuqests; each function is declared with the correct type and
number of arguments. (This is unlike the current scheme in which a quarter
of the requests take arguments of type other than (struct mbuf *) and the
difference is papered over with casts.) There are a few benefits to this
new scheme:
1) Arguments are passed with their correct types, and null-pointer dummies
are no longer necessary.
2) There should be slightly better caching effects from eliminating
the prximity to extraneous code and th switch in pr_usrreq().
3) It becomes much easier to change the types of the arguments to something
other than `struct mbuf *' (e.g.,pushing the work of sosend() into
the protocol as advocated by Van Jacobson).
There is one principal drawback: existing protocol stacks need to
be modified. This is alleviated by compatibility code in
uipc_socket2.c and uipc_domain.c which emulates the new interface
in terms of the old and vice versa.
This idea is not original to me. I read about what Jacobson did
in one of his papers and have tried to implement the first steps
towards something like that here. Much work remains to be done.
The i386 pmap module uses a special area of kernel virtual memory for mapping
of page tables pages when it needs to modify another process's virtual
address space. It's called the 'alternate page table map'. There is only one
of them and it's expected that only one process will be using it at once and
that the operation is atomic.
When the merged VM/buffer cache was implemented over a year ago, it became
necessary to rundown VM pages at I/O completion. The unfortunate and
unforeseen side effect of this is that pmap functions are now called at bio
interrupt time. If there happend to be a process using the alternate page
table map when this I/O completion occurred, it was possible for a different
process's address space to be switched into the alternate page table map -
leaving the current pmap process with the wrong address space mapped when
the interrupt completed. This resulted in BAD things happening like pages
being mapped or removed from the wrong address space, etc.. Since a very
common case of a process modifying another process's address space is during
fork when the kernel stack is inserted, one of the most common manifestations
of this bug was the kernel stack not being mapped properly, resulting in a
silent hang or reboot. This made it VERY difficult to troubleshoot this bug
(I've been trying to figure out the cause of this for >6 months). Fortunately,
the set of conditions that must be true before this problem occurs is
sufficiently rare enough that most people never saw the bug occur. As I/O
rates increase, however, so does the frequency of the crashes. This problem
used to kill wcarchive about every 10 days, but in more recent times when
the traffic exceeded >100GB/day, the machine could barely manage 6 hours of
uptime.
The fix is to make certain that no process has the pages mapped that are
involved in the I/O, before the I/O is started. The pages are made busy, so
no process will be able to map them, either, until the I/O has finished.
This side-steps the issue by still allowing the pmap functions to be called
at interrupt time, but also assuring that the alternate page table map won't
be switched.
Unfortunately, this appears to not be the only cause of this problem. :-(
Reviewed by: dyson
was due to non-aligned 64K transfers taking 17 pages. We currently
do not support >16 page transfers. The transfer is unfortunately truncated,
but since buffers are usually malloced, this is a problem only once in
a while. Savecore is a culprit, but tar/cpio usually aren't. This
is NOT the final fix (which is likely a bouncing scheme), but will at
least keep the system from crashing.
Fixed profiling of system times. It was pre-4.4Lite and didn't support
statclocks. System times were too small by a factor of 8.
Handle deferred profiling ticks the 4.4Lite way: use addupc_task() instead
of addupc(). Call addupc_task() directly instead of using the ADDUPC()
macro.
Removed vestigial support for PROFTIMER.
switch.s:
Removed addupc().
resourcevar.h:
Removed ADDUPC() and declarations of addupc().
cpu.h:
Updated a comment. i386's never were tahoe's, and the deferred profiling
tick became (possibly) multiple ticks in 4.4Lite.
Obtained from: mostly from NetBSD
compiler warnings which occur if you don't have 'options DEVFS' in
your kernel config file:
../../kern/kern_descrip.c: In function `fildesc_drvinit':
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1103: warning: unused variable `fd'
../../kern/kern_descrip.c: At top level:
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1095: warning: `devfs_token_stdin' defined but not use
d
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1096: warning: `devfs_token_stdout' defined but not us
ed
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1097: warning: `devfs_token_stderr' defined but not us
ed
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1098: warning: `devfs_token_fildesc' defined but not u
sed
to match (pc98/random_machdep.c probably requires a similar change). This
is a problem area for the PC98 merge - all PC98 ifdefs in <machine/*.h> are
kludges to work around incorrect layering.
disklabel(8) to the kernel (dsopen()). Drivers should initialize the
hardware values (rpm, interleave, skews). Drivers currently don't do
this, but it usually doesn't matter since rotational position stuff is
normally disabled.
All new code is "#ifdef PC98"ed so this should make no difference to
PC/AT (and its clones) users.
Ok'd by: core
Submitted by: FreeBSD(98) development team
It is called from copyin and copyout.
The new routine is conditioned on I586_CPU and I586_FAST_BCOPY, so you
need
options "I586_FAST_BCOPY"
(quotes essenstial) in your kernel config file.
Also, if you have other kernel types configured in your kernel, an
additional check to make sure it is running on a Pentium is inserted.
(It is not clear why it doesn't help on P6s, it may be just that the
Orion chipset doesn't prefetch as efficiently as Tritons and friends.)
Bruce can now hack this away. :)
it assumes all of the data exists in the kernel. Also, fix
sysctl_new-kernel (unused until now) which had reversed operands to
bcopy().
Reviewed by: phk
Poul writes:
... actually the lock/sleep/wakeup cruft shouldn't be needed in the
kernel version I think, but just leave it there for now.
any statclock ticks. Pretend that all the time up to the first
statclock tick is system time. . This makes a difference mainly for
benchmarks that test short-lived processes - the user and system
times for processes that each lived for about 1ms only added up to
about 10% of the real time even when there was very little interrupt
activity.
Break the printing of a quad_t variable correctly.
gcc only inlines memcpy()'s whose count is constant and didn't inline
these. I want memcpy() in the kernel go away so that it's obvious that
it doesn't need to be optimized. Now it is only used for one struct
copy in si.c.
code without the B_READ flag being set. This is a problem when the
data is not cached, and the result will be a bogus attempted write.
Submitted by: Kato Takenori <kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
to be allocated at boot time. This is an expensive option, as they
consume physical ram and are not pageable etc. In certain situations,
this kind of option is quite useful, especially for news servers that
access a large number of directories at random and torture the name cache.
Defining 5000 or 10000 extra vnodes should cut down the amount of vnode
recycling somewhat, which should allow better name and directory caching
etc.
This is a "your mileage may vary" option, with no real indication of
what works best for your machine except trial and error. Too many will
cost you ram that you could otherwise use for disk buffers etc.
This is based on something John Dyson mentioned to me a while ago.
(returns EPERM always, the errno is specified by POSIX).
If you really have a desperate need to link or unlink a directory, you
can use fsdb. :-)
This should stop any chance of ftpd, rdist, "rm -rf", etc from
bugging out and damaging the filesystem structure or loosing races
with malicious users.
Reviewed by: davidg, bde
contributions or ideas from Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>,
Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <davidg@freebsd.org> and me:
More usage of the TAILQ macros. Additional minor fix to queue.h.
Performance enhancements to the pageout daemon.
Addition of a wait in the case that the pageout daemon
has to run immediately.
Slightly modify the pageout algorithm.
Significant revamp of the pmap/fork code:
1) PTE's and UPAGES's are NO LONGER in the process's map.
2) PTE's and UPAGES's reside in their own objects.
3) TOTAL elimination of recursive page table pagefaults.
4) The page directory now resides in the PTE object.
5) Implemented pmap_copy, thereby speeding up fork time.
6) Changed the pv entries so that the head is a pointer
and not an entire entry.
7) Significant cleanup of pmap_protect, and pmap_remove.
8) Removed significant amounts of machine dependent
fork code from vm_glue. Pushed much of that code into
the machine dependent pmap module.
9) Support more completely the reuse of already zeroed
pages (Page table pages and page directories) as being
already zeroed.
Performance and code cleanups in vm_map:
1) Improved and simplified allocation of map entries.
2) Improved vm_map_copy code.
3) Corrected some minor problems in the simplify code.
Implemented splvm (combo of splbio and splimp.) The VM code now
seldom uses splhigh.
Improved the speed of and simplified kmem_malloc.
Minor mod to vm_fault to avoid using pre-zeroed pages in the case
of objects with backing objects along with the already
existant condition of having a vnode. (If there is a backing
object, there will likely be a COW... With a COW, it isn't
necessary to start with a pre-zeroed page.)
Minor reorg of source to perhaps improve locality of ref.
(PR #1178).
Define a new SO_TIMESTAMP socket option for datagram sockets to return
packet-arrival timestamps as control information (PR #1179).
Submitted by: Louis Mamakos <loiue@TransSys.com>
the past, since it returns to the old system of allocating mbufs out of
a private area rather than using the kernel malloc(). While this may seem
like a backwards step to some, the new allocator is some 20% faster than
the old one and has much better caching properties.
Written by: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>
