I'm not convinced there is anything major wrong with the patch but
them's the rules..
I am using my "David's mentor" hat to revert this as he's
offline for a while.
data structure called kse_upcall to manage UPCALL. All KSE binding
and loaning code are gone.
A thread owns an upcall can collect all completed syscall contexts in
its ksegrp, turn itself into UPCALL mode, and takes those contexts back
to userland. Any thread without upcall structure has to export their
contexts and exit at user boundary.
Any thread running in user mode owns an upcall structure, when it enters
kernel, if the kse mailbox's current thread pointer is not NULL, then
when the thread is blocked in kernel, a new UPCALL thread is created and
the upcall structure is transfered to the new UPCALL thread. if the kse
mailbox's current thread pointer is NULL, then when a thread is blocked
in kernel, no UPCALL thread will be created.
Each upcall always has an owner thread. Userland can remove an upcall by
calling kse_exit, when all upcalls in ksegrp are removed, the group is
atomatically shutdown. An upcall owner thread also exits when process is
in exiting state. when an owner thread exits, the upcall it owns is also
removed.
KSE is a pure scheduler entity. it represents a virtual cpu. when a thread
is running, it always has a KSE associated with it. scheduler is free to
assign a KSE to thread according thread priority, if thread priority is changed,
KSE can be moved from one thread to another.
When a ksegrp is created, there is always N KSEs created in the group. the
N is the number of physical cpu in the current system. This makes it is
possible that even an userland UTS is single CPU safe, threads in kernel still
can execute on different cpu in parallel. Userland calls kse_create to add more
upcall structures into ksegrp to increase concurrent in userland itself, kernel
is not restricted by number of upcalls userland provides.
The code hasn't been tested under SMP by author due to lack of hardware.
Reviewed by: julian
earlier acquired lock with the same witness as the lock currently being
acquired. If we had released several earlier acquired locks after
acquiring enough locks to require another lock_list_entry bucket in the
lock list, then subsequent lock_list_entry buckets could contain only one
lock instance in which case i would be zero.
Reported by: Joel M. Baldwin <qumqats@outel.org>
- Get the initial mode from the prom settings and don't clobber the mode
on open.
- Copy output into an internal ring buffer instead of accessing the tty
outq directly in the interrupt handler. This fixes a problem where
garbage would show up in the output stream.
- Reset the console port completely and reprogram all the parameters
before enabling it. This fixes seemingly random hangs on startup
when using a fast interrupt handler.
- Add minimal locking in place of spls.
- Remove dead code and minor cleanups.
- It actually works this time, honest!
- Fine grained TLB shootdowns for SMP on i386. IPI's are very expensive,
so try and optimize things where possible.
- Introduce ranged shootdowns that can be done as a single IPI.
- PG_G support for i386
- Specific-cpu targeted shootdowns. For example, there is no sense in
globally purging the TLB cache for where we are stealing a page from
the local unshared process on the local cpu. Use pm_active to track
this.
- Add some instrumentation for the tlb shootdown code.
- Rip out SMP code from <machine/cpufunc.h>
- Try and fix some very bogus PG_G and PG_PS interactions that were bad
enough to cause vm86 bios calls to break. vm86 depended on our existing
bugs and this was the cause of the VESA panics last time.
- Fix the silly one-line error that caused the 'panic: bad pte' last time.
- Fix a couple of other silly one-line errors that should have caused more
pain than they did.
Some more work is needed:
- pmap_{zero,copy}_page[_idle]. These can be done without IPI's if we
have a hook in cpu_switch.
- The IPI handlers need some cleanup. I have a bogus %ds load that can
be avoided.
- APTD handling is rather bogus and appears to be a large source of
global TLB IPI shootdowns for no really good reason.
I see speedups of between 1.5% and ~4% on buildworlds in a while 1 loop.
I expect to see a bigger difference when there is significant pageout
activity or the system otherwise has memory shortages.
I have backed out a few optimizations that I had been using over the last
few days in order to be a little more conservative. I'll revisit these
again over the next few days as the dust settles.
New option: DISABLE_PG_G - In case I missed something.
queue lock (revision 1.33 of vm/vm_page.c removed them).
o Make the free queue lock a spin lock because it's sometimes acquired
inside of a critical section.
The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
lock_object by another pointer (though all of lock_object should be
conditional on LOCK_DEBUG anyways) in exchange for an O(1) TAILQ_REMOVE()
in witness_destroy() (called for every mtx_destroy() and sx_destroy())
instead of an O(n) STAILQ_REMOVE. Since WITNESS is so dog slow as it is,
the speed-up is worth the space cost.
Suggested by: iedowse
being created and destroyed without a single long-term one around to ensure
the witness associated with that group of locks stays alive. The pipe
mutexes are an example of this group. For a dead witness we no longer
clear the witness name. Instead, when looking up the witness for a lock,
if a dead witness' (a witness with a refcount of 0) w_name pointer is
identical to the witness name of the lock then we revive that witness
instead of using a new witness for the lock. This results in far fewer
dead witness objects and also better preserves locking orders over the long
term resulting in more correct lock order checking. Note that we can't
ever derefence w_name of a dead witness since we don't know if the string
it is pointing to has been free()'d or kldunload()'d out from under us.
yet. We just return without performing any checks.
- Don't explicitly enter and exit critical sections when walking lock
lists. We don't need a critical section to walk the list of sleep
locks for a thread. We check to see if a spin lock list is empty
before we walk it. If the list is empty we don't need to walk it. If
it isn't then we already hold at least one spin lock and are already in
a critical section and thus don't need our own explicit critical
section.
be done internally.
Ensure that no one can fsetown() to a dying process/pgrp. We need
to check the process for P_WEXIT to see if it's exiting. Process
groups are already safe because there is no such thing as a pgrp
zombie, therefore the proctree lock completely protects the pgrp
from having sigio structures associated with it after it runs
funsetownlst.
Add sigio lock to witness list under proctree and allproc, but over
proc and pgrp.
Seigo Tanimura helped with this.
sx lock. Trying to get the lock order between these locks was getting
too complicated as the locking in wait1() was being fixed.
- leavepgrp() now requires an exclusive lock of proctree_lock to be held
when it is called.
- fixjobc() no longer gets a shared lock of proctree_lock now that it
requires an xlock be held by the caller.
- Locking notes in sys/proc.h are adjusted to note that everything that
used to be protected by the pgrpsess_lock is now protected by the
proctree_lock.
point to a more generic name for a lock that is more suitable for use by
witness when grouping locks. For example, although network driver locks
use the interface name for the name of each lock, they should all use the
same witness and be treated the same as witness. Another example is that
all UMA zone locks should be treated the same. The witness code has also
been updated to print out the lock type in addition to the lock name in a
few places where it is relevant.
with this flag. Remove the dup_list and dup_ok code from subr_witness. Now
we just check for the flag instead of doing string compares.
Also, switch the process lock, process group lock, and uma per cpu locks over
to this interface. The original mechanism did not work well for uma because
per cpu lock names are unique to each zone.
Approved by: jhb
simply need to prevent switching from another CPU and do not need
interrupts disabled.
- Add a comment to witness_list() about why displaying spin locks for
threads on other CPU's really is just a bad idea and probably shouldn't
be done.
There is some unresolved badness that has been eluding me, particularly
affecting uniprocessor kernels. Turning off PG_G helped (which is a bad
sign) but didn't solve it entirely. Userland programs still crashed.
on for a while:
- fine grained TLB shootdown for SMP on i386
- ranged TLB shootdowns.. eg: specify a range of pages to shoot down with
a single IPI, since the IPI is very expensive. Adjust some callers
that used to trigger this inside tight loops to do a ranged shootdown
at the end instead.
- PG_G support for SMP on i386 (options ENABLE_PG_G)
- defer PG_G activation till after we decide what we are going to do with
PSE and the 4MB pages at the start of the kernel. This should solve
some rumored strangeness about stale PG_G entries getting stuck
underneath the 4MB pages.
- add some instrumentation for the fine TLB shootdown
- convert some asm instruction wrappers from functions to inlines. gcc
seems to do a fair bit better with this.
- [temporarily!] pessimize the tlb shootdown IPI handlers. I will fix
this again shortly.
This has been working fairly well for me for a while, but I have tweaked
it again prior to commit since my last major testing round. The only
outstanding problem that I know of is PG_G related, which is why there
is an option for it (not on by default for SMP). I have seen a world
speedups by a few percent (as much as 4 or 5% in one case) but I have
*not* accurately measured this - I am a bit sceptical of these numbers.
New locks are:
- pgrpsess_lock which locks the whole pgrps and sessions,
- pg_mtx which protects the pgrp members, and
- s_mtx which protects the session members.
Please refer to sys/proc.h for the coverage of these locks.
Changes on the pgrp/session interface:
- pgfind() needs the pgrpsess_lock held.
- The caller of enterpgrp() is responsible to allocate a new pgrp and
session.
- Call enterthispgrp() in order to enter an existing pgrp.
- pgsignal() requires a pgrp lock held.
Reviewed by: jhb, alfred
Tested on: cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
(which is a quad-CPU machine running -current)
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,
- Create a private list of active pmaps rather than abusing the list of all
processes when we need to look up pmaps. The process list needs a sx lock
and we can't be getting sx locks in the middle of cpu_switch()
(pmap_activate() can call pmap_get_asn() from cpu_switch()). Instead, we
protect the list with a spinlock. This also means the list is shorter
since a pmap can be used by more than one process and we could (at least
in thoery) dink with pmap's more than once, but now we only touch each
pmap once when we have to update all of them.
- Wrap pmap_activate()'s code to get a new ASN in an explicit critical section
so that when it is called while doing an exec() we can't get preempted.
- Replace splhigh() in pmap_growkernel() with a critical section to prevent
preemption while we are adjusting the kernel page tables.
- Fixes abuse of PCPU_GET(), which doesn't return an L-value.
- Also adds some slight cleanups to the ASN handling by adding some macros
instead of magic numbers in relation to the ASN and ASN generations.
Reviewed by: dfr
mutex releases to not require flags for the cases when preemption is
not allowed:
The purpose of the MTX_NOSWITCH and SWI_NOSWITCH flags is to prevent
switching to a higher priority thread on mutex releease and swi schedule,
respectively when that switch is not safe. Now that the critical section
API maintains a per-thread nesting count, the kernel can easily check
whether or not it should switch without relying on flags from the
programmer. This fixes a few bugs in that all current callers of
swi_sched() used SWI_NOSWITCH, when in fact, only the ones called from
fast interrupt handlers and the swi_sched of softclock needed this flag.
Note that to ensure that swi_sched()'s in clock and fast interrupt
handlers do not switch, these handlers have to be explicitly wrapped
in critical_enter/exit pairs. Presently, just wrapping the handlers is
sufficient, but in the future with the fully preemptive kernel, the
interrupt must be EOI'd before critical_exit() is called. (critical_exit()
can switch due to a deferred preemption in a fully preemptive kernel.)
I've tested the changes to the interrupt code on i386 and alpha. I have
not tested ia64, but the interrupt code is almost identical to the alpha
code, so I expect it will work fine. PowerPC and ARM do not yet have
interrupt code in the tree so they shouldn't be broken. Sparc64 is
broken, but that's been ok'd by jake and tmm who will be fixing the
interrupt code for sparc64 shortly.
Reviewed by: peter
Tested on: i386, alpha
and it's associated state variables: icu_lock with the name "icu". This
renames the imen_mtx for x86 SMP, but also uses the lock to protect
access to the 8259 PIC on x86 UP. This also adds an appropriate lock to
the various Alpha chipsets which fixes problems with Alpha SMP machines
dropping interrupts with an SMP kernel.
- The MD functions critical_enter/exit are renamed to start with a cpu_
prefix.
- MI wrapper functions critical_enter/exit maintain a per-thread nesting
count and a per-thread critical section saved state set when entering
a critical section while at nesting level 0 and restored when exiting
to nesting level 0. This moves the saved state out of spin mutexes so
that interlocking spin mutexes works properly.
- Most low-level MD code that used critical_enter/exit now use
cpu_critical_enter/exit. MI code such as device drivers and spin
mutexes use the MI wrappers. Note that since the MI wrappers store
the state in the current thread, they do not have any return values or
arguments.
- mtx_intr_enable() is replaced with a constant CRITICAL_FORK which is
assigned to curthread->td_savecrit during fork_exit().
Tested on: i386, alpha
In this case, C99's __func__ is properly defined as:
static const char __func__[] = "function-name";
and GCC 3.1 will not allow it to be used in bogus string concatenation.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
