than as one-off hacks in various other parts of the kernel:
- Add a function maybe_preempt() that is called from sched_add() to
determine if a thread about to be added to a run queue should be
preempted to directly. If it is not safe to preempt or if the new
thread does not have a high enough priority, then the function returns
false and sched_add() adds the thread to the run queue. If the thread
should be preempted to but the current thread is in a nested critical
section, then the flag TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set and the thread is added
to the run queue. Otherwise, mi_switch() is called immediately and the
thread is never added to the run queue since it is switch to directly.
When exiting an outermost critical section, if TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set,
then clear it and call mi_switch() to perform the deferred preemption.
- Remove explicit preemption from ithread_schedule() as calling
setrunqueue() now does all the correct work. This also removes the
do_switch argument from ithread_schedule().
- Do not use the manual preemption code in mtx_unlock if the architecture
supports native preemption.
- Don't call mi_switch() in a loop during shutdown to give ithreads a
chance to run if the architecture supports native preemption since
the ithreads will just preempt DELAY().
- Don't call mi_switch() from the page zeroing idle thread for
architectures that support native preemption as it is unnecessary.
- Native preemption is enabled on the same archs that supported ithread
preemption, namely alpha, i386, and amd64.
This change should largely be a NOP for the default case as committed
except that we will do fewer context switches in a few cases and will
avoid the run queues completely when preempting.
Approved by: scottl (with his re@ hat)
to <sys/gmon.h>. Cleaned them up a little by not attempting to ifdef
for incomplete and out of date support for GUPROF in userland, as in
the sparc64 version.
elf_reloc() backends for two reasons. First, to support the possibility
of there being two elf linkers in the kernel (eg: amd64), and second, to
pass the relocbase explicitly (for relocating .o format kld files).
caller to vm_page_grab(). Although this gives VM_ALLOC_ZERO a
different meaning for vm_page_grab() than for vm_page_alloc(), I feel
such change is necessary to accomplish other goals. Specifically, I
want to make the PG_ZERO flag immutable between the time it is
allocated by vm_page_alloc() and freed by vm_page_free() or
vm_page_free_zero() to avoid locking overheads. Once we gave up on
the ability to automatically recognize a zeroed page upon entry to
vm_page_free(), the ability to mutate the PG_ZERO flag became useless.
Instead, I would like to say that "Once a page becomes valid, its
PG_ZERO flag must be ignored."
move its declaration to the machine-dependent header file on those
machines that use it. In principle, only i386 should have it.
Alpha and AMD64 should use their direct virtual-to-physical mapping.
- Remove pmap_kenter_temporary() from ia64. It is unused. Approved
by: marcel@
- ptrace_single_step() is no longer called with the proc lock held, so
don't try to unlock it and then relock it.
- Push Giant down into proc_rwmem() instead of forcing all the consumers
(including Alpha breakpoint support) to explicitly wrap calls to
proc_rwmem() with Giant.
Tested by: kensmith
with a larger kernel stack. Remove inclusion of opt_kstack_pages.h now
that it's unused.
Note: If anyone's toes got stepped on by me doing this let me know
privately please.
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
caused hangs on SMP systems under load. My theory was that an interrupted
thread was migrating and returning to PAL on a different CPU and that that
caused the hangs. To prevent this, I used the recently added sched_pin()
API to pin the interrupted thread to the CPU that received the interrupt
across ithread_schedule() to prevent migration. This seems to have fixed
the hangs based on tests by several folks on the alpha@ list.
Tested by: wilko, tisco, several others on alpha@
