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
We continue to use pmap_enter() for that. For unwiring virtual pages, we
now use pmap_unwire(), which unwires a range of virtual addresses instead
of a single virtual page.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
