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.
paging space and how much of it is in use (in pages).
Use this interface from the Linuxolator instead of groping around in the
internals of the swap_pager.
is not natural and needlessly exposes a lot of dirty laundry.
Move private interfaces between the two from swap_pager.h to swap_pager.c
and staticize as much as possible.
No functional change.
files, so that SWAP_META_PAGES does not vary either.
swap_pager.c ended up with a value of 16, everybody else 8. Go with
the 16 for now.
This should only have any effect in the "kill processes because we
are out of swap" scenario, where it will make some sort of estimate
of something more precise.
types are not required, as the overhead is unnecessary:
o In the i386 pmap_protect(), `sindex' and `eindex' represent page
indices within the 32-bit virtual address space.
o In swp_pager_meta_build() and swp_pager_meta_ctl(), use a temporary
variable to store the low few bits of a vm_pindex_t that gets used
as an array index.
o vm_uiomove() uses `osize' and `idx' for page offsets within a
map entry.
o In vm_object_split(), `idx' is a page offset within a map entry.
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
style(9)
- Minor space adjustment in cases where we have "( ", " )", if(), return(),
while(), for(), etc.
- Add /* SYMBOL */ after a few #endifs.
Reviewed by: alc
and isn't strictly required. However, it lowers the number of false
positives found when grep'ing the kernel sources for p_ucred to ensure
proper locking.
- crhold() returns a reference to the ucred whose refcount it bumps.
- crcopy() now simply copies the credentials from one credential to
another and has no return value.
- a new crshared() primitive is added which returns true if a ucred's
refcount is > 1 and false (0) otherwise.
information. The default limits only effect machines with > 1GB of ram
and can be overriden with two new kernel conf variables VM_SWZONE_SIZE_MAX
and VM_BCACHE_SIZE_MAX, or with loader variables kern.maxswzone and
kern.maxbcache. This has the effect of leaving more KVM available for
sizing NMBCLUSTERS and 'maxusers' and should avoid tripups where a sysad
adds memory to a machine and then sees the kernel panic on boot due to
running out of KVM.
Also change the default swap-meta auto-sizing calculation to allocate half
of what it was previously allocating. The prior defaults were way too high.
Note that we cannot afford to run out of swap-meta structures so we still
stay somewhat conservative here.
1) allocate fewer buckets
2) when failing to allocate swap zone, keep reducing the zone by
a third rather than a half in order to reduce the chance of
allocating way too little.
I also moved around some code for readability.
Suggested by: dillon
Reviewed by: dillon
(this commit is just the first stage). Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
acquired.
- Assert Giant is held in the strategy, getpages, and putpages methods and
the getchainbuf, flushchainbuf, and waitchainbuf functions.
- Always call flushchainbuf() w/o the VM lock.
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.
faults can not be taken without holding Giant.
Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.
Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.
Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.
FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).
Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
Protect pager object list manipulation with a mutex.
It doesn't look possible to combine them under a single sx lock because
creation may block and we can't have the object list manipulation block
on anything other than a mutex because of interrupt requests.
this information via the vm.nswapdev sysctl (number of swap areas)
and vm.swapdevX nodes (where X is the device), which contain the MIBs
dev, blocks, used, and flags. These changes are required to allow
top and other userland swap-monitoring utilities to run without
setgid kmem.
Submitted by: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>
Reviewed by: freebsd-audit
struct swblock entries by dividing the number of the entries by 2
until the swap metadata fits.
- Reject swapon(2) upon failure of swap_zone allocation.
This is just a temporary fix. Better solutions include:
(suggested by: dillon)
o reserving swap in SWAP_META_PAGES chunks, and
o swapping the swblock structures themselves.
Reviewed by: alfred, dillon
Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
situations prior to now.
The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
a low memory situation. All major modules related to I/O (except
networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
reserve memory pool. These modules now detect a low memory situation but
rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.
Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
being locked.
Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing. Not only will
I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
longer exist.
Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes
(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
statement. We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
aren't taking any chances. We'll turn the whole section into a
panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.
In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
initiating I/O. The problem always caused a panic before. Now it
doesn't. The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.
Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK. This code worked properly before only
because the calculations use signed arithmatic. Better to properly
extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
op.
In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
fix the bogus pages. The result was that it would potentially
invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.
There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
being duplicated, causing potential corruption. We have identified
a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
The problem does not occur very often.. it is very hard to
reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
people have reported.
Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
Pre-rfork code assumed inherent locking of a process's file descriptor
array. However, with the advent of rfork() the file descriptor table
could be shared between processes. This patch closes over a dozen
serious race conditions related to one thread manipulating the table
(e.g. closing or dup()ing a descriptor) while another is blocked in
an open(), close(), fcntl(), read(), write(), etc...
PR: kern/11629
Discussed with: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
in the face of non-stripe-aligned swap areas. The bug could cause a
panic during boot.
Refuse to configure a swap area that is too large (67 GB or so)
Properly document the power-of-2 requirement for SWB_NPAGES.
The patch is slightly different then the one Tor enclosed in the P.R.,
but accomplishes the same thing.
PR: kern/20273
Submitted by: Tor.Egge@fast.no
to various pmap_*() functions instead of looking up the physical address
and passing that. In many cases, the first thing the pmap code was doing
was going to a lot of trouble to get back the original vm_page_t, or
it's shadow pv_table entry.
Inspired by: John Dyson's 1998 patches.
Also:
Eliminate pv_table as a seperate thing and build it into a machine
dependent part of vm_page_t. This eliminates having a seperate set of
structions that shadow each other in a 1:1 fashion that we often went to
a lot of trouble to translate from one to the other. (see above)
This happens to save 4 bytes of physical memory for each page in the
system. (8 bytes on the Alpha).
Eliminate the use of the phys_avail[] array to determine if a page is
managed (ie: it has pv_entries etc). Store this information in a flag.
Things like device_pager set it because they create vm_page_t's on the
fly that do not have pv_entries. This makes it easier to "unmanage" a
page of physical memory (this will be taken advantage of in subsequent
commits).
Add a function to add a new page to the freelist. This could be used
for reclaiming the previously wasted pages left over from preloaded
loader(8) files.
Reviewed by: dillon
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
a struct buf. Don't try to examine B_ASYNC, it is a layering violation
to do so. The only current user of this interface is vn(4) which, since
it emulates a disk interface, operates on struct bio already.
Exceptions:
Vinum untouched. This means that it cannot be compiled.
Greg Lehey is on the case.
CCD not converted yet, casts to struct buf (still safe)
atapi-cd casts to struct buf to examine B_PHYS
(Much of this done by script)
Move B_ORDERED flag to b_ioflags and call it BIO_ORDERED.
Move b_pblkno and b_iodone_chain to struct bio while we transition, they
will be obsoleted once bio structs chain/stack.
Add bio_queue field for struct bio aware disksort.
Address a lot of stylistic issues brought up by bde.
substitute BUF_WRITE(foo) for VOP_BWRITE(foo->b_vp, foo)
substitute BUF_STRATEGY(foo) for VOP_STRATEGY(foo->b_vp, foo)
This patch is machine generated except for the ccd.c and buf.h parts.
field in struct buf: b_iocmd. The b_iocmd is enforced to have
exactly one bit set.
B_WRITE was bogusly defined as zero giving rise to obvious coding
mistakes.
Also eliminate the redundant struct buf flag B_CALL, it can just
as efficiently be done by comparing b_iodone to NULL.
Should you get a panic or drop into the debugger, complaining about
"b_iocmd", don't continue. It is likely to write on your disk
where it should have been reading.
This change is a step in the direction towards a stackable BIO capability.
A lot of this patch were machine generated (Thanks to style(9) compliance!)
Vinum users: Greg has not had time to test this yet, be careful.
swap_pager.c and related commits.
Essentially swap_pager.c is backed out to before the changes, but
swapdev_vp is converted into a real vnode with just VOP_STRATEGY().
It no longer abuses specfs vnops and no longer needs a dev_t and
/dev/drum (or /dev/swapdev) for the intermediate layer.
This essentially restores the vnode interface as the interface to the
bottom of the swap pager, and vm_swap.c provides a clean vnode interface.
This will need to be revisited when we swap to files (vnodes) - which
is the other reason for keeping the vnode interface between the swap pager
and the swap devices.
OK'ed by: dillon
multiplexed underlying swap devices (/dev/drum). The only thing it did
was to allow root to open /dev/drum, but not do anything with it.
Various utilities used to grovel around in here, but Matt has written
a much nicer (and clean) front-end to this for libkvm, and nothing uses
the old system any more.
The VM system was calling VOP_STRATEGY() on the vp of the first underlying
swap device (not the /dev/drum one, the first real device), and using
the VOP system to indirectly (and only) call swstrategy() to choose
an underlying device and enqueue it on that device. I have changed it
to avoid diverting through the VOP system and to call the only possible
target directly, saving a little bit of time and some complexity.
In all, nothing much changes, except some scaffolding to support the
roundabout way of calling swstrategy() is gone.
Matt gave me the ok to do this some time ago, and I apologize for taking
so long to get around to it.
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>. This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.
This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
Swap space can be freed from an interrupt and so swap reservation and
freeing must occur at splvm.
Add swap_pager_reserve() code to support a new swap pre-reservation
capability for the VN device.
Generally cleanup the swap code by simplifying the swp_pager_meta_build()
static function and consolidating the SWAPBLK_NONE test from a bit test
to an absolute compare. The bit test was left over from a rejected
swap allocation scheme that was not ultimately committed. A few other
minor cleanups were also made.
Reorganize the swap strategy code, again for VN support, to not
reallocate swap when writing as this messes up pre-reservation and
can fragment I/O unnecessarily as VN-baesd disk is messed around with.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>
lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
be done in future commits.
The old VN device broke in -4.x when the definition of B_PAGING
changed. This patch fixes this plus implements additional capabilities.
The new VN device can be backed by a file ( as per normal ), or it can
be directly backed by swap.
Due to dependencies in VM include files (on opt_xxx options) the new
vn device cannot be a module yet. This will be fixed in a later commit.
This commit delimitted by tags {PRE,POST}_MATT_VNDEV
be in progress at any given moment.
Add two swap tuneables to sysctl:
vm.swap_async_max: 4
vm.swap_cluster_max: 16
Recommended values are a cluster size of 8 or 16 pages. async_max is
about right for 1-4 swap devices. Reduce to 2 if swap is eating too much
bandwidth, or even 1 if swap is both eating too much bandwidth and sitting
on a slow network (10BaseT).
The defaults work well across a broad range of configurations and should
normally be left alone.
values. The 'int' return value for the procedure was never used and
not well defined in any case when there are mixed errors on pages, so
it has been removed. vm_pager_put_pages() and associated vm_pager
functions now return void.
and the swap_pager has been completely replaced.
The new swap pager uses the new blist radix-tree based bitmap allocator
for low level swap allocation and deallocation. The new allocator
is effectively O(5) while the old one was O(N), and the new allocator
allocates all required memory at init time rather then at allocate
memory on the fly at run time.
Swap metadata is allocated in clusters and stored in a hash table,
eliminating linearly allocated structures.
Many, many features have been rewritten or added. Swap space is now
reallocated on the fly providing a poor-mans auto defragmentation of
swap space. Swap space that is no longer needed is freed on a timely
basis so no garbage collection is necessary.
Swap I/O is marked B_ASYNC and NFS has been fixed to do the right
thing with it, so NFS-based paging now has around 10x the performance
as it did before ( previously NFS enforced synchronous I/O for paging ).
changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug
fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the
VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional
forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code
cleanup issues.
Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
"dying daemons" problem. (I thought this code was introduced in rev.1.80,
but it just relaxed the condition.)
Also, kill related "suggest more swap space" warning (also introduced in
1.80). It was confusing, to say the least...
Requested by: msmith
Not objected by: dg
almost always causes this panic for the curproc != pageproc case.
This case apparently doesn't happen in normal operation, but it
happens when vm_page_alloc_contig() is called when there is a memory
hogging application that hasn't already been paged out.
PR: 8632
Reviewed by: info@opensound.com (Dev Mazumdar), dg
Broken in: rev.1.89 (1998/02/23)
1) The vnode pager wasn't properly tracking the file size due to
"size" being page rounded in some cases and not in others.
This sometimes resulted in corrupted files. First noticed by
Terry Lambert.
Fixed by changing the "size" pager_alloc parameter to be a 64bit
byte value (as opposed to a 32bit page index) and changing the
pagers and their callers to deal with this properly.
2) Fixed a bogus type cast in round_page() and trunc_page() that
caused some 64bit offsets and sizes to be scrambled. Removing
the cast required adding casts at a few dozen callers.
There may be problems with other bogus casts in close-by
macros. A quick check seemed to indicate that those were okay,
however.
Add some overflow checks to read/write (from bde).
Change all modifications to vm_page::flags, vm_page::busy, vm_object::flags
and vm_object::paging_in_progress to use operations which are not
interruptable.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
as the value in b_vp is often not really what you want.
(and needs to be frobbed). more cleanups will follow this.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>
deallocation cycles. This should provide a measurable improvement
on swap and memory allocation on loaded systems. It is unlikely a
complete solution. Also, provide more map info with procfs.
Chuck Cranor spurred on this improvement.
has been some bitrot and incorrect assumptions in the vfs_bio code. These
problems have manifest themselves worse on NFS type filesystems, but can
still affect local filesystems under certain circumstances. Most of
the problems have involved mmap consistancy, and as a side-effect broke
the vfs.ioopt code. This code might have been committed seperately, but
almost everything is interrelated.
1) Allow (pmap_object_init_pt) prefaulting of buffer-busy pages that
are fully valid.
2) Rather than deactivating erroneously read initial (header) pages in
kern_exec, we now free them.
3) Fix the rundown of non-VMIO buffers that are in an inconsistent
(missing vp) state.
4) Fix the disassociation of pages from buffers in brelse. The previous
code had rotted and was faulty in a couple of important circumstances.
5) Remove a gratuitious buffer wakeup in vfs_vmio_release.
6) Remove a crufty and currently unused cluster mechanism for VBLK
files in vfs_bio_awrite. When the code is functional, I'll add back
a cleaner version.
7) The page busy count wakeups assocated with the buffer cache usage were
incorrectly cleaned up in a previous commit by me. Revert to the
original, correct version, but with a cleaner implementation.
8) The cluster read code now tries to keep data associated with buffers
more aggressively (without breaking the heuristics) when it is presumed
that the read data (buffers) will be soon needed.
9) Change to filesystem lockmgr locks so that they use LK_NOPAUSE. The
delay loop waiting is not useful for filesystem locks, due to the
length of the time intervals.
10) Correct and clean-up spec_getpages.
11) Implement a fully functional nfs_getpages, nfs_putpages.
12) Fix nfs_write so that modifications are coherent with the NFS data on
the server disk (at least as well as NFS seems to allow.)
13) Properly support MS_INVALIDATE on NFS.
14) Properly pass down MS_INVALIDATE to lower levels of the VM code from
vm_map_clean.
15) Better support the notion of pages being busy but valid, so that
fewer in-transit waits occur. (use p->busy more for pageouts instead
of PG_BUSY.) Since the page is fully valid, it is still usable for
reads.
16) It is possible (in error) for cached pages to be busy. Make the
page allocation code handle that case correctly. (It should probably
be a printf or panic, but I want the system to handle coding errors
robustly. I'll probably add a printf.)
17) Correct the design and usage of vm_page_sleep. It didn't handle
consistancy problems very well, so make the design a little less
lofty. After vm_page_sleep, if it ever blocked, it is still important
to relookup the page (if the object generation count changed), and
verify it's status (always.)
18) In vm_pageout.c, vm_pageout_clean had rotted, so clean that up.
19) Push the page busy for writes and VM_PROT_READ into vm_pageout_flush.
20) Fix vm_pager_put_pages and it's descendents to support an int flag
instead of a boolean, so that we can pass down the invalidate bit.
2) Do not unnecessarily force page blocking when paging
pages out.
3) Further improve swap pager performance and correctness,
including fixing the paging in progress deadlock (except
in severe I/O error conditions.)
4) Enable vfs_ioopt=1 as a default.
5) Fix and enable the page prezeroing in SMP mode.
All in all, SMP systems especially should show a significant
improvement in "snappyness."
have declined due to code-rot over time. The swap pager rundown code
has been clean-up, and unneeded wakeups removed. Lots of splbio's
are changed to splvm's. Also, set the dynamic tunables for the
pageout daemon to be more sane for larger systems (thereby decreasing
the daemon overheadla.)
MUST be PG_BUSY. It is bogus to free a page that isn't busy,
because it is in a state of being "unavailable" when being
freed. The additional advantage is that the page_remove code
has a better cross-check that the page should be busy and
unavailable for other use. There were some minor problems
with the collapse code, and this plugs those subtile "holes."
Also, the vfs_bio code wasn't checking correctly for PG_BUSY
pages. I am going to develop a more consistant scheme for
grabbing pages, busy or otherwise. For now, we are stuck
with the current morass.
1) Start using TSM.
Struct procs continue to point to upages structure, after being freed.
Struct vmspace continues to point to pte object and kva space for kstack.
u_map is now superfluous.
2) vm_map's don't need to be reference counted. They always exist either
in the kernel or in a vmspace. The vmspaces are managed by reference
counts.
3) Remove the "wired" vm_map nonsense.
4) No need to keep a cache of kernel stack kva's.
5) Get rid of strange looking ++var, and change to var++.
6) Change more data structures to use our "zone" allocator. Added
struct proc, struct vmspace and struct vnode. This saves a significant
amount of kva space and physical memory. Additionally, this enables
TSM for the zone managed memory.
7) Keep ioopt disabled for now.
8) Remove the now bogus "single use" map concept.
9) Use generation counts or id's for data structures residing in TSM, where
it allows us to avoid unneeded restart overhead during traversals, where
blocking might occur.
10) Account better for memory deficits, so the pageout daemon will be able
to make enough memory available (experimental.)
11) Fix some vnode locking problems. (From Tor, I think.)
12) Add a check in ufs_lookup, to avoid lots of unneeded calls to bcmp.
(experimental.)
13) Significantly shrink, cleanup, and make slightly faster the vm_fault.c
code. Use generation counts, get rid of unneded collpase operations,
and clean up the cluster code.
14) Make vm_zone more suitable for TSM.
This commit is partially as a result of discussions and contributions from
other people, including DG, Tor Egge, PHK, and probably others that I
have forgotten to attribute (so let me know, if I forgot.)
This is not the infamous, final cleanup of the vnode stuff, but a necessary
step. Vnode mgmt should be correct, but things might still change, and
there is still some missing stuff (like ioopt, and physical backing of
non-merged cache files, debugging of layering concepts.)
config option in pmap. Fix a problem with faulting in pages. Clean-up
some loose ends in swap pager memory management.
The system should be much more stable, but all subtile bugs aren't fixed yet.
vm_inherit_t. These types are smaller than ints, so the prototypes
should have used the promoted type (int) to match the old-style function
definitions. They use just vm_prot_t and/or vm_inherit_t. This depends
on gcc features to work. I fixed the definitions since this is easiest.
The correct fix may be to change the small types to u_int, to optimize
for time instead of space.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
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.)
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.
code improvements include significant simplification of the reservation
of the swap pager control blocks for reads. Add a panic for an inconsistent
swap pager control block count.
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.
were paged in under low swap space conditions to both loose their
backing store and their dirty bits. This would cause pages to
be demand zeroed under certain conditions in low VM space conditions
and consequential sig-11's or sig-10's. This situation was made
worse lately when the level for swap space reclaim threshold was
increased.
on in the FreeBSD development, I had made a global lock around the
rlist code. This was bogus, and now the lock is maintained on a
per resource list basis. This now allows the rlist code to be used for
almost any non-interrupt level application.
