freebsd-skq/share/man/man9/pmap.9
markj fb5804c98d Remove support for idle page zeroing.
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
2016-09-03 20:38:13 +00:00

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.Dd August 30, 2016
.Dt PMAP 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pmap
.Nd machine-dependent portion of virtual memory subsystem
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In vm/vm.h
.In vm/pmap.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
module is the machine-dependent portion of the
.Fx
VM (Virtual Memory) sub-system.
Each function documented herein must have its own
architecture-dependent implementation.
.Pp
The
.Nm
module
is responsible for managing hardware-dependent objects such as page tables,
address maps, TLBs, etc.
.Pp
Machine-dependent code must provide the header file
.In machine/pmap.h .
This file contains the definition of the
.Vt pmap
structure:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
struct pmap {
/* Contents defined by pmap implementation. */
};
typedef struct pmap *pmap_t;
.Ed
.Pp
This header file may also define other data structures used by the
.Nm
implementation.
.Pp
The header file
.In vm/pmap.h
defines a structure for tracking
.Nm
statistics (see below).
This structure is defined as:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
struct pmap_statistics {
long resident_count; /* number of mapped pages */
long wired_count; /* number of wired pages */
};
.Ed
.Pp
The implementation's
.Vt "struct pmap"
must contain an instance of this structure having the name
.Va pm_stats ,
and it must be updated by the implementation after each relevant
.Nm
operation.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pmap_activate 9 ,
.Xr pmap_clear_modify 9 ,
.Xr pmap_copy 9 ,
.Xr pmap_copy_page 9 ,
.Xr pmap_enter 9 ,
.Xr pmap_extract 9 ,
.Xr pmap_extract_and_hold 9 ,
.Xr pmap_growkernel 9 ,
.Xr pmap_init 9 ,
.Xr pmap_init2 9 ,
.Xr pmap_is_modified 9 ,
.Xr pmap_is_prefaultable 9 ,
.Xr pmap_map 9 ,
.Xr pmap_mincore 9 ,
.Xr pmap_object_init_pt 9 ,
.Xr pmap_page_exists_quick 9 ,
.Xr pmap_page_init 9 ,
.Xr pmap_pinit 9 ,
.Xr pmap_pinit0 9 ,
.Xr pmap_pinit2 9 ,
.Xr pmap_protect 9 ,
.Xr pmap_qenter 9 ,
.Xr pmap_qremove 9 ,
.Xr pmap_quick_enter_page 9 ,
.Xr pmap_quick_remove_page 9 ,
.Xr pmap_release 9 ,
.Xr pmap_remove 9 ,
.Xr pmap_remove_all 9 ,
.Xr pmap_remove_pages 9 ,
.Xr pmap_resident_count 9 ,
.Xr pmap_ts_referenced 9 ,
.Xr pmap_unwire 9 ,
.Xr pmap_wired_count 9 ,
.Xr pmap_zero_area 9 ,
.Xr pmap_zero_page 9 ,
.Xr vm_map 9
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An Bruce M Simpson Aq Mt bms@spc.org .