The implementation of the Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI) for
amd64, first version. It provides a workaround for the 'meltdown'
vulnerability. PTI is turned off by default for now, enable with the
loader tunable vm.pmap.pti=1.
The pmap page table is split into kernel-mode table and user-mode
table. Kernel-mode table is identical to the non-PTI table, while
usermode table is obtained from kernel table by leaving userspace
mappings intact, but only leaving the following parts of the kernel
mapped:
kernel text (but not modules text)
PCPU
GDT/IDT/user LDT/task structures
IST stacks for NMI and doublefault handlers.
Kernel switches to user page table before returning to usermode, and
restores full kernel page table on the entry. Initial kernel-mode
stack for PTI trampoline is allocated in PCPU, it is only 16
qwords. Kernel entry trampoline switches page tables. then the
hardware trap frame is copied to the normal kstack, and execution
continues.
IST stacks are kept mapped and no trampoline is needed for
NMI/doublefault, but of course page table switch is performed.
On return to usermode, the trampoline is used again, iret frame is
copied to the trampoline stack, page tables are switched and iretq is
executed. The case of iretq faulting due to the invalid usermode
context is tricky, since the frame for fault is appended to the
trampoline frame. Besides copying the fault frame and original
(corrupted) frame to kstack, the fault frame must be patched to make
it look as if the fault occured on the kstack, see the comment in
doret_iret detection code in trap().
Currently kernel pages which are mapped during trampoline operation
are identical for all pmaps. They are registered using
pmap_pti_add_kva(). Besides initial registrations done during boot,
LDT and non-common TSS segments are registered if user requested their
use. In principle, they can be installed into kernel page table per
pmap with some work. Similarly, PCPU can be hidden from userspace
mapping using trampoline PCPU page, but again I do not see much
benefits besides complexity.
PDPE pages for the kernel half of the user page tables are
pre-allocated during boot because we need to know pml4 entries which
are copied to the top-level paging structure page, in advance on a new
pmap creation. I enforce this to avoid iterating over the all
existing pmaps if a new PDPE page is needed for PTI kernel mappings.
The iteration is a known problematic operation on i386.
The need to flush hidden kernel translations on the switch to user
mode make global tables (PG_G) meaningless and even harming, so PG_G
use is disabled for PTI case. Our existing use of PCID is
incompatible with PTI and is automatically disabled if PTI is
enabled. PCID can be forced on only for developer's benefit.
MCE is known to be broken, it requires IST stack to operate completely
correctly even for non-PTI case, and absolutely needs dedicated IST
stack because MCE delivery while trampoline did not switched from PTI
stack is fatal. The fix is pending.
Reviewed by: markj (partially)
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Discussed with: jeff, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
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.
For processing, reclaim_pv_chunk() removes the pv_chunk from the lru
list, which makes pc_lru linkage invalid. Then the pmap lock is
released, which allows for other thread to free the last pv entry
allocated from the chunk and call free_pv_chunk(), which tries to
modify the invalid linkage.
Similarly, the chunk is inserted into the private tailq new_tail
temporary. Again, free_pv_chunk() might be run and corrupt the
linkage for the new_tail after the pmap lock is dropped.
This is a consequence of r299788 elimination of pvh_global_lock, which
allowed for reclaim to run in parallel with other pmap calls which
free pv chunks.
As a fix, do not remove the chunk from pc_lru queue, use a marker to
remember the position in the queue iteration. We can safely operate
on the chunks after the chunk's pmap is locked, we fetched the chunk
after the marker, and we checked that chunk pmap is same as we have
locked, because chunk removal from pc_lru requires both pv_chunk_mutex
and the pmap mutex owned.
Note that the fix lost an optimization which was present in the
previous algorithm. Namely, new_tail requeueing rotated the pv chunks
list so that reclaim didn't scan the same pv chunks that couldn't be
freed (because they contained a wired and/or superpage mapping) on
every invocation. An additional change is planned which would improve
this.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
add support for explicitly requesting that pmap_enter() create a 2MB page
mapping. (Essentially, this feature allows the machine-independent layer to
create superpage mappings preemptively, and not wait for automatic promotion
to occur.)
Export pmap_ps_enabled() to the machine-independent layer.
Add a flag to pmap_pv_insert_pde() that specifies whether it should fail or
reclaim a PV entry when one is not available.
Refactor pmap_enter_pde() into two functions, one by the same name, that is
a general-purpose function for creating PDE PG_PS mappings, and another,
pmap_enter_2mpage(), that is used to prefault 2MB read- and/or execute-only
mappings for execve(2), mmap(2), and shmat(2).
Submitted by: Yufeng Zhou <yz70@rice.edu> (an earlier version)
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 10 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11556
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
PG_PROMOTED, that indicates whether lingering 4KB page mappings might
need to be flushed on a PDE change that restricts or destroys a 2MB
page mapping. This flag allows the pmap to avoid range invalidations
that are both unnecessary and costly.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
MFC after: 6 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9665
Previously these were only declared under #ifdef SMP in <machine/smp.h>.
However, these variables are defind in pmap.c unconditionally, and efirt.c
references them unconditionally. This fixes non-SMP kernel builds.
Discussed with: kib
MFC after: 1 week
amd64 pmap.
The new pmap_pinit_pml4() function initializes the level 4 page table
with entries for the kernel mappings. Both functions are needed for
upcoming EFI Runtime Services support.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
the Vahalia' "Unix Internals" section 15.12 "Other TLB Consistency
Algorithms". The same algorithm is already utilized by the MIPS pmap
to handle ASIDs.
The PCID for the address space is now allocated per-cpu during context
switch to the thread using pmap, when no PCID on the cpu was ever
allocated, or the current PCID is invalidated. If the PCID is reused,
bit 63 of %cr3 can be set to avoid TLB flush.
Each cpu has PCID' algorithm generation count, which is saved in the
pmap pcpu block when pcpu PCID is allocated. On invalidation, the
pmap generation count is zeroed, which signals the context switch code
that already allocated PCID is no longer valid. The implication is
the TLB shootdown for the given cpu/address space, due to the
allocation of new PCID.
The pm_save mask is no longer has to be tracked, which (significantly)
reduces the targets of the TLB shootdown IPIs. Previously, pm_save
was reset only on pmap_invalidate_all(), which made it accumulate the
cpuids of all processors on which the thread was scheduled between
full TLB shootdowns.
Besides reducing the amount of TLB shootdowns and removing atomics to
update pm_saves in the context switch code, the algorithm is much
simpler than the maintanence of pm_save and selection of the right
address space in the shootdown IPI handler.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
Place the code introduced in r268660 into a separate function that can be
called from uiomove_fromphys. Instead of pre-allocating two KVA pages use
vmem_alloc to allocate them on demand when needed. This prevents blocking if
a page fault is taken while physical addresses from outside the DMAP are
used, since the lock is now removed.
Also introduce a safety catch in PHYS_TO_DMAP and DMAP_TO_PHYS.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D947
amd64/amd64/pmap.c:
- Factor out the code to deal with non DMAP addresses from pmap_copy_pages
and place it in pmap_map_io_transient.
- Change the code to use vmem_alloc instead of a set of pre-allocated
pages.
- Use pmap_qenter and don't pin the thread if there can be page faults.
amd64/amd64/uio_machdep.c:
- Use pmap_map_io_transient in order to correctly deal with physical
addresses not covered by the DMAP.
amd64/include/pmap.h:
- Add the prototypes for the new functions.
amd64/include/vmparam.h:
- Add safety catches to make sure PHYS_TO_DMAP and DMAP_TO_PHYS are only
used with addresses covered by the DMAP.
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
The least significant 8 bits of 'pm_flags' are now used for the IPI vector
to use for nested page table TLB shootdown.
Previously we used IPI_AST to interrupt the host cpu which is functionally
correct but could lead to misleading interrupt counts for AST handler. The
AST handler was also doing a lot more than what is required for the nested
page table TLB shootdown (EOI and IRET).
Make the amd64/pmap code aware of nested page table mappings used by bhyve
guests. This allows bhyve to associate each guest with its own vmspace and
deal with nested page faults in the context of that vmspace. This also
enables features like accessed/dirty bit tracking, swapping to disk and
transparent superpage promotions of guest memory.
Guest vmspace:
Each bhyve guest has a unique vmspace to represent the physical memory
allocated to the guest. Each memory segment allocated by the guest is
mapped into the guest's address space via the 'vmspace->vm_map' and is
backed by an object of type OBJT_DEFAULT.
pmap types:
The amd64/pmap now understands two types of pmaps: PT_X86 and PT_EPT.
The PT_X86 pmap type is used by the vmspace associated with the host kernel
as well as user processes executing on the host. The PT_EPT pmap is used by
the vmspace associated with a bhyve guest.
Page Table Entries:
The EPT page table entries as mostly similar in functionality to regular
page table entries although there are some differences in terms of what
bits are used to express that functionality. For e.g. the dirty bit is
represented by bit 9 in the nested PTE as opposed to bit 6 in the regular
x86 PTE. Therefore the bitmask representing the dirty bit is now computed
at runtime based on the type of the pmap. Thus PG_M that was previously a
macro now becomes a local variable that is initialized at runtime using
'pmap_modified_bit(pmap)'.
An additional wrinkle associated with EPT mappings is that older Intel
processors don't have hardware support for tracking accessed/dirty bits in
the PTE. This means that the amd64/pmap code needs to emulate these bits to
provide proper accounting to the VM subsystem. This is achieved by using
the following mapping for EPT entries that need emulation of A/D bits:
Bit Position Interpreted By
PG_V 52 software (accessed bit emulation handler)
PG_RW 53 software (dirty bit emulation handler)
PG_A 0 hardware (aka EPT_PG_RD)
PG_M 1 hardware (aka EPT_PG_WR)
The idea to use the mapping listed above for A/D bit emulation came from
Alan Cox (alc@).
The final difference with respect to x86 PTEs is that some EPT implementations
do not support superpage mappings. This is recorded in the 'pm_flags' field
of the pmap.
TLB invalidation:
The amd64/pmap code has a number of ways to do invalidation of mappings
that may be cached in the TLB: single page, multiple pages in a range or the
entire TLB. All of these funnel into a single EPT invalidation routine called
'pmap_invalidate_ept()'. This routine bumps up the EPT generation number and
sends an IPI to the host cpus that are executing the guest's vcpus. On a
subsequent entry into the guest it will detect that the EPT has changed and
invalidate the mappings from the TLB.
Guest memory access:
Since the guest memory is no longer wired we need to hold the host physical
page that backs the guest physical page before we can access it. The helper
functions 'vm_gpa_hold()/vm_gpa_release()' are available for this purpose.
PCI passthru:
Guest's with PCI passthru devices will wire the entire guest physical address
space. The MMIO BAR associated with the passthru device is backed by a
vm_object of type OBJT_SG. An IOMMU domain is created only for guest's that
have one or more PCI passthru devices attached to them.
Limitations:
There isn't a way to map a guest physical page without execute permissions.
This is because the amd64/pmap code interprets the guest physical mappings as
user mappings since they are numerically below VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS. Since PG_U
shares the same bit position as EPT_PG_EXECUTE all guest mappings become
automatically executable.
Thanks to Alan Cox and Konstantin Belousov for their rigorous code reviews
as well as their support and encouragement.
Thanks for John Baldwin for reviewing the use of OBJT_SG as the backing
object for pci passthru mmio regions.
Special thanks to Peter Holm for testing the patch on short notice.
Approved by: re
Discussed with: grehan
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho
- add fields to 'struct pmap' that are required to manage nested page tables.
- add a parameter to 'vmspace_alloc()' that can be used to override the
default pmap initialization routine 'pmap_pinit()'.
These changes are pushed ahead of the remaining changes in 'bhyve_npt_pmap'
in anticipation of the upcoming KBI freeze for 10.0.
Reviewed by: kib@, alc@
Approved by: re (glebius)
- Restore the pre-PCID TLB shootdown handlers for whole address space
and single page invalidation asm code, and assign the IPI handler to
them when PCID is not supported or disabled. Old handlers have
linear control flow. But, still use the common return sequence.
- Stop using pcpu for INVPCID descriptors in the invlrg handler. It
is enough to allocate descriptors on the stack. As result, two
SWAPGS instructions are shaved off from the code for Haswell+.
- Fix the reverted condition in invlrng for checking of the PCID
support [1], also in invlrng check that pmap is kernel pmap before
performing other tests. For the kernel pmap, which provides global
mappings, the INVLPG must be used for invalidation always.
- Save the pre-computed pmap' %CR3 register in the struct pmap. This
allows to remove several checks for pm_pcid validity when %CR3 is
reloaded [2].
Noted by: gibbs [1]
Discussed with: alc [2]
Tested by: pho, flo
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Intel CPUs. The feature tags TLB entries with the Id of the address
space and allows to avoid TLB invalidation on the context switch, it
is available only in the long mode. In the microbenchmarks, using the
PCID decreased latency of the context switches by ~30% on SandyBridge
class desktop CPUs, measured with the lat_ctx program from lmbench.
If available, use INVPCID instruction when a TLB entry in non-current
address space needs to be invalidated. The instruction is typically
available on the Haswell.
If needed, the use of PCID can be turned off with the
vm.pmap.pcid_enabled loader tunable set to 0. The state of the
feature is reported by the vm.pmap.pcid_enabled sysctl. The sysctl
vm.pmap.pcid_save_cnt reports the number of context switches which
avoided invalidating the TLB; compare with the total number of context
switches, available as sysctl vm.stats.sys.v_swtch.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho, bf
Bump up the KVA size proportionally from 512GB to 2TB.
The number of page table pages used by the direct map is now calculated at
run time based on 'Maxmem'. This means the small memory systems will not
see any additional tax in terms of page table pages for the direct map.
However all amd64 systems, regardless of the memory size, will use 3 more
pages to accomodate the bump in the KVA size.
More details available here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-June/043015.htmlhttp://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-July/043143.html
Tested with the following configurations:
- Sandybridge server with 64GB of memory.
- bhyve VM with 64MB of memory.
- bhyve VM with a 8GB of memory with the memory segment above 4GB cuddling
right up against the 4TB maximum memory limit.
Discussed on: hackers@, current@
Submitted by: Chris Torek (torek@torek.net)
pvh_global_lock. This allows the method to be executed in parallel,
avoiding undue contention on the pvh_global_lock for the multithreaded
pagedaemon.
The pmap_ts_referenced() function has to inspect the page mappings for
several pmaps, which need to be locked while pv list lock is owned.
This contradicts to the lock order, where pmap lock is before pv list
lock. Introduce the generation count for the pv list of the page or
superpage, which indicate any change in the pv list, and, as usual,
perform restart of the iteration if generation changed while pv lock
was dropped for blocking acquire of a pmap lock.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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
This eliminates the need to recompile the kernel when the default value
of NKPT is not big enough - for e.g. when loading large kernel modules
or memory disk images from the loader.
If NKPT is defined in the kernel configuration file then it overrides the
dynamic calculation.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
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.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 6 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
physical page mapping should span two or more MTRRs of different types.
Add a pmap function, pmap_demote_DMAP(), by which the MTRR module can
ensure that the direct map region doesn't have such a mapping.
[2] Fix a couple of nearby style errors in amd64_mrset().
[3] Re-enable the use of 1GB page mappings for implementing the direct
map. (See also r197580 and r213897.)
Tested by: kib@ on a Westmere-family processor [3]
MFC after: 3 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
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)
stored in the pmap is from the direct map region. The two exceptions have
been the kernel pmap and the swapper's pmap. These pmaps have used a
kernel virtual address established by pmap_bootstrap() for their shared
pml4 page table page. However, there is no reason not to use the direct
map for these pmaps as well.
mode changes, and cache and TLB invalidation when some or all of the
specified range is already mapped with the specified cache mode.
Submitted by: Magesh Dhasayyan
page directory pages from VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS through the end of the
kernel's bss. Specifically, the dependence was in pmap_growkernel()'s one-
time initialization of kernel_vm_end, not in its main body. (I could not,
however, resist the urge to optimize the main body.)
Reduce the number of preallocated page directory pages to just those needed
to support NKPT page table pages. (In fact, this allows me to revert a
couple of my earlier changes to create_pagetables().)
in practice, the error (currently) makes no difference because the computation
performed by KVADDR() hides the error. This revision fixes the error.
Also, eliminate a (now) unused definition.
maximum size of the kmem map can be greater than 4GB, there is little point
in making the kernel virtual address space larger than 6GB.
Tested by: kris@
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. (Expect this to change.)
Reviewed by: ups
Tested by: kris, Peter Holm
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.
