yielding a new public interface, vm_page_alloc_contig(). This new function
addresses some of the limitations of the current interfaces, contigmalloc()
and kmem_alloc_contig(). For example, the physically contiguous memory that
is allocated with those interfaces can only be allocated to the kernel vm
object and must be mapped into the kernel virtual address space. It also
provides functionality that vm_phys_alloc_contig() doesn't, such as wiring
the returned pages. Moreover, unlike that function, it respects the low
water marks on the paging queues and wakes up the page daemon when
necessary. That said, at present, this new function can't be applied to all
types of vm objects. However, that restriction will be eliminated in the
coming weeks.
From a design standpoint, this change also addresses an inconsistency
between vm_phys_alloc_contig() and the other vm_phys_alloc*() functions.
Specifically, vm_phys_alloc_contig() manipulated vm_page fields that other
functions in vm/vm_phys.c didn't. Moreover, vm_phys_alloc_contig() knew
about vnodes and reservations. Now, vm_page_alloc_contig() is responsible
for these things.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jhb
allocate the requested page because too few pages are cached or free.
Document the VM_ALLOC_COUNT() option to vm_page_alloc() and
vm_page_alloc_freelist().
Make style changes to vm_page_alloc() and vm_page_alloc_freelist(),
such as using a variable name that more closely corresponds to the
comments.
Use the defined types instead of int when manipulating masks.
Supposedly, it could fix support for 32KB page size in the
machine-independend VM layer.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
and use these new options in the mips pmap.
Wake up the page daemon in vm_page_alloc_freelist() if the number of free
and cached pages becomes too low.
Tidy up vm_page_alloc_init(). In particular, add a comment about an
important restriction on its use.
Tested by: jchandra@
common cases that can be handled in constant time. The insight being
that a page's parent in the vm object's tree is very often its
predecessor or successor in the vm object's ordered memq.
Tested by: jhb
MFC after: 10 days
word to handle the dirty mask updates in vm_page_clear_dirty_mask().
Remove the vm page queue lock around vm_page_dirty() call in vm_fault_hold()
the sole purpose of which was to protect dirty on architectures which
does not provide short or byte-wide atomics.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Tested by: flo (sparc64)
MFC after: 2 weeks
flags field. Updates to the atomic flags are performed using the atomic
ops on the containing word, do not require any vm lock to be held, and
are non-blocking. The vm_page_aflag_set(9) and vm_page_aflag_clear(9)
functions are provided to modify afalgs.
Document the changes to flags field to only require the page lock.
Introduce vm_page_reference(9) function to provide a stable KPI and
KBI for filesystems like tmpfs and zfs which need to mark a page as
referenced.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Tested by: marius, flo (sparc64); andreast (powerpc, powerpc64)
Approved by: re (bz)
to VPO_UNMANAGED (and also making the flag protected by the vm object
lock, instead of vm page queue lock).
- Mark the fake pages with both PG_FICTITIOUS (as it is now) and
VPO_UNMANAGED. As a consequence, pmap code now can use use just
VPO_UNMANAGED to decide whether the page is unmanaged.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho (x86, previous version), marius (sparc64),
marcel (arm, ia64, powerpc), ray (mips)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (bz)
(Saying that the lock on the object that the page belongs to must be held
only represents one aspect of the rules.)
Eliminate the use of the page queues lock for atomically performing read-
modify-write operations on the dirty field when the underlying architecture
supports atomic operations on char and short types.
Document the fact that 32KB pages aren't really supported.
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
vm_page_undirty(). The assert is not precise due to VPO_BUSY owner
to tracked, so assertion does not catch the case when VPO_BUSY is
owned by other thread.
Reviewed by: alc
KASSERT()s and eliminate the rest.
Replace excessive printf()s and a panic() in bufdone_finish() with a
KASSERT() in vm_page_io_finish().
Reviewed by: kib
assertion that is no longer required. Long ago, calls to vm_page_alloc()
from an interrupt handler had to specify VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT so that
vm_page_alloc() would not attempt to reclaim a PQ_CACHE page from another vm
object. Today, with the synchronization on a vm object's collection of
PQ_CACHE pages, this is no longer an issue. In fact, VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT now
reclaims PQ_CACHE pages just like VM_ALLOC_{NORMAL,SYSTEM}.
MFC after: 3 weeks
need it anymore. Moreover, its implementation had a type mismatch, a
long is not necessarily an uint64_t. (This mismatch was hidden by
casting.) Move the remaining two counters up a level in the sysctl
hierarchy. There is no reason for them to be under the vm.pmap node.
Reviewed by: kib
hold this lock until the end of the function.
With the aforementioned change to vm_pageout_clean(), page locks don't need
to support recursive (MTX_RECURSE) or duplicate (MTX_DUPOK) acquisitions.
Reviewed by: kib
vm_object_set_writeable_dirty().
Fix an issue where restart of the scan in vm_object_page_clean() did
not removed write permissions for newly added pages or, if the mapping
for some already scanned page changed to writeable due to fault.
Merge the two loops in vm_object_page_clean(), doing the remove of
write permission and cleaning in the same loop. The restart of the
loop then correctly downgrade writeable mappings.
Fix an issue where a second caller to msync() might actually return
before the first caller had actually completed flushing the
pages. Clear the OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY flag after the cleaning loop, not
before.
Calls to pmap_is_modified() are not needed after pmap_remove_write()
there.
Proposed, reviewed and tested by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
mapped and entered via vm_page_setup, keep track of it like we do
for amd64.
# A separate commit will be made to move this to a capability-based ifdef
# rather than arch-based ifdef.
Submitted by: alc@
MFC after: 1 week
vm_page_startup(). Specifically, the dump_avail array should be used
instead of the phys_avail array to calculate the size of vm_page_dump. For
example, the pages for the message buffer are allocated prior to
vm_page_startup() by subtracting them from the last entry in the phys_avail
array, but the first thing that vm_page_startup() does after creating the
vm_page_dump array is to set the bits corresponding to the message buffer
pages in that array. However, these bits might not actually exist in the
array, because the size of the array is determined by the current value in
the last entry of the phys_avail array. In general, the only reason why
this doesn't always result in an out-of-bounds array access is that the size
of the vm_page_dump array is rounded up to the next page boundary. This
change eliminates that dependence on rounding (and luck).
MFC after: 6 weeks
The current implementation of vm_page_alloc_freelist() does not handle
order > 0 correctly. Remove order parameter to the function and use it
only for order 0 pages.
Submitted by: alc
object page list. The only use of object generation count now is a
restart of the scan in vm_object_page_clean(), which makes sense to do
on the page addition. Page removals do not affect the dirtiness of the
object, as well as manipulations with the shadow chain.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
vm_page_startup uses MSGBUF_SIZE value for adding msgbuf pages to minidump.
If opt_msgbuf.h is not included and MSGBUF_SIZE is overriden in kernel
config, then not all msgbuf pages will be dumped. And most importantly,
struct msgbuf itself will not be included. Thus the dump would look
corrupted/incomplete to tools like kgdb, dmesg, etc that try to access
struct msgbuf as one of the first things they do when working on a crash
dump.
MFC after: 5 days
alc@.
The UMA zone based allocation is replaced by a scheme that creates
a new free page list for the KSEG0 region, and a new function
in sys/vm that allocates pages from a specific free page list.
This also fixes a race condition introduced by the UMA based page table
page allocation code. Dropping the page queue and pmap locks before
the call to uma_zfree, and re-acquiring them afterwards will introduce
a race condtion(noted by alc@).
The changes are :
- Revert the earlier changes in MIPS pmap.c that added UMA zone for
page table pages.
- Add a new freelist VM_FREELIST_HIGHMEM to MIPS vmparam.h for memory that
is not directly mapped (in 32bit kernel). Normal page allocations will first
try the HIGHMEM freelist and then the default(direct mapped) freelist.
- Add a new function 'vm_page_t vm_page_alloc_freelist(int flind, int
order, int req)' to vm/vm_page.c to allocate a page from a specified
freelist. The MIPS page table pages will be allocated using this function
from the freelist containing direct mapped pages.
- Move the page initialization code from vm_phys_alloc_contig() to a
new function vm_page_alloc_init(), and use this function to initialize
pages in vm_page_alloc_freelist() too.
- Split the function vm_phys_alloc_pages(int pool, int order) to create
vm_phys_alloc_freelist_pages(int flind, int pool, int order), and use
this function from both vm_page_alloc_freelist() and vm_phys_alloc_pages().
Reviewed by: alc
the maintenance of vm_pageout_deficit can be localized to just two places:
vm_page_alloc() and vm_pageout_scan().
This change also corrects an off-by-one error in the maintenance of
vm_pageout_deficit. Historically, the buffer cache functions, allocbuf()
and vm_hold_load_pages(), have not taken into account that vm_page_alloc()
already increments vm_pageout_deficit by one.
Reviewed by: kib
flag is always provided, and unconditionally retry after sleep for the
busy page or failed allocation.
The intent is to remove VM_ALLOC_RETRY eventually.
Proposed and reviewed by: alc
specify the increment of vm_pageout_deficit when sleeping due to page
shortage. Then, in allocbuf(), the code to allocate pages when extending
vmio buffer can be replaced by a call to vm_page_grab().
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
document one of the optional flags; clarify which of the flags are
optional (and which are not), and remove mention of a restriction on
the reclamation of cached pages that no longer holds since version 7.
MFC after: 1 week
vm_pageout_clean(). When iterating over a range of pages, these functions
can be cheaper than vm_page_lookup() because their implementation takes
advantage of the vm_object's memq being ordered.
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 3 weeks
and vm_pageout_page_stats(). These checks were recently introduced by
the first page locking commit, r207410, but they are not needed. At
the same time, eliminate some redundant accesses to the page's object
field. (These accesses should have neen eliminated by r207410.)
Make the assertion in vm_page_flag_set() stricter. Specifically, only
managed pages should have PG_WRITEABLE set.
Add a comment documenting an assertion to vm_page_flag_clear().
It has long been the case that fictitious pages have their wire count
permanently set to one. Add comments to vm_page_wire() and
vm_page_unwire() documenting this. Add assertions to these functions
as well.
Update the comment describing vm_page_unwire(). Much of the old
comment had little to do with vm_page_unwire(), but a lot to do with
_vm_page_deactivate(). Move relevant parts of the old comment to
_vm_page_deactivate().
Only pages that belong to an object can be paged out. Therefore, it
is pointless for vm_page_unwire() to acquire the page queues lock and
enqueue such pages in one of the paging queues. Generally speaking,
such pages are immediately freed after the call to vm_page_unwire().
Previously, it was the call to vm_page_free() that reacquired the page
queues lock and removed these pages from the paging queues. Now, we
will never acquire the page queues lock for this case. (It is also
worth noting that since both vm_page_unwire() and vm_page_free()
occurred with the page locked, the page daemon never saw the page with
its object field set to NULL.)
Change the panic with vm_page_unwire() to provide a more precise message.
Reviewed by: kib@
PG_REFERENCED changes in vm_pageout_object_deactivate_pages().
Simplify this function's inner loop using TAILQ_FOREACH(), and shorten
some of its overly long lines. Update a stale comment.
Assert that PG_REFERENCED may be cleared only if the object containing
the page is locked. Add a comment documenting this.
Assert that a caller to vm_page_requeue() holds the page queues lock,
and assert that the page is on a page queue.
Push down the page queues lock into pmap_ts_referenced() and
pmap_page_exists_quick(). (As of now, there are no longer any pmap
functions that expect to be called with the page queues lock held.)
Neither pmap_ts_referenced() nor pmap_page_exists_quick() should ever
be passed an unmanaged page. Assert this rather than returning "0"
and "FALSE" respectively.
ARM:
Simplify pmap_page_exists_quick() by switching to TAILQ_FOREACH().
Push down the page queues lock inside of pmap_clearbit(), simplifying
pmap_clear_modify(), pmap_clear_reference(), and pmap_remove_write().
Additionally, this allows for avoiding the acquisition of the page
queues lock in some cases.
PowerPC/AIM:
moea*_page_exits_quick() and moea*_page_wired_mappings() will never be
called before pmap initialization is complete. Therefore, the check
for moea_initialized can be eliminated.
Push down the page queues lock inside of moea*_clear_bit(),
simplifying moea*_clear_modify() and moea*_clear_reference().
The last parameter to moea*_clear_bit() is never used. Eliminate it.
PowerPC/BookE:
Simplify mmu_booke_page_exists_quick()'s control flow.
Reviewed by: kib@
pmap_is_referenced(). Eliminate the corresponding page queues lock
acquisitions from vm_map_pmap_enter() and mincore(), respectively. In
mincore(), this allows some additional cases to complete without ever
acquiring the page queues lock.
Assert that the page is managed in pmap_is_referenced().
On powerpc/aim, push down the page queues lock acquisition from
moea*_is_modified() and moea*_is_referenced() into moea*_query_bit().
Again, this will allow some additional cases to complete without ever
acquiring the page queues lock.
Reorder a few statements in vm_page_dontneed() so that a race can't lead
to an old reference persisting. This scenario is described in detail by a
comment.
Correct a spelling error in vm_page_dontneed().
Assert that the object is locked in vm_page_clear_dirty(), and restrict the
page queues lock assertion to just those cases in which the page is
currently writeable.
Add object locking to vnode_pager_generic_putpages(). This was the one
and only place where vm_page_clear_dirty() was being called without the
object being locked.
Eliminate an unnecessary vm_page_lock() around vnode_pager_setsize()'s call
to vm_page_clear_dirty().
Change vnode_pager_generic_putpages() to the modern-style of function
definition. Also, change the name of one of the parameters to follow
virtual memory system naming conventions.
Reviewed by: kib