c8b0a7332c
proc or any VM system structure will have to be rebuilt!!!
Much needed overhaul of the VM system. Included in this first round of
changes:
1) Improved pager interfaces: init, alloc, dealloc, getpages, putpages,
haspage, and sync operations are supported. The haspage interface now
provides information about clusterability. All pager routines now take
struct vm_object's instead of "pagers".
2) Improved data structures. In the previous paradigm, there is constant
confusion caused by pagers being both a data structure ("allocate a
pager") and a collection of routines. The idea of a pager structure has
escentially been eliminated. Objects now have types, and this type is
used to index the appropriate pager. In most cases, items in the pager
structure were duplicated in the object data structure and thus were
unnecessary. In the few cases that remained, a un_pager structure union
was created in the object to contain these items.
3) Because of the cleanup of #1 & #2, a lot of unnecessary layering can now
be removed. For instance, vm_object_enter(), vm_object_lookup(),
vm_object_remove(), and the associated object hash list were some of the
things that were removed.
4) simple_lock's removed. Discussion with several people reveals that the
SMP locking primitives used in the VM system aren't likely the mechanism
that we'll be adopting. Even if it were, the locking that was in the code
was very inadequate and would have to be mostly re-done anyway. The
locking in a uni-processor kernel was a no-op but went a long way toward
making the code difficult to read and debug.
5) Places that attempted to kludge-up the fact that we don't have kernel
thread support have been fixed to reflect the reality that we are really
dealing with processes, not threads. The VM system didn't have complete
thread support, so the comments and mis-named routines were just wrong.
We now use tsleep and wakeup directly in the lock routines, for instance.
6) Where appropriate, the pagers have been improved, especially in the
pager_alloc routines. Most of the pager_allocs have been rewritten and
are now faster and easier to maintain.
7) The pagedaemon pageout clustering algorithm has been rewritten and
now tries harder to output an even number of pages before and after
the requested page. This is sort of the reverse of the ideal pagein
algorithm and should provide better overall performance.
8) Unnecessary (incorrect) casts to caddr_t in calls to tsleep & wakeup
have been removed. Some other unnecessary casts have also been removed.
9) Some almost useless debugging code removed.
10) Terminology of shadow objects vs. backing objects straightened out.
The fact that the vm_object data structure escentially had this
backwards really confused things. The use of "shadow" and "backing
object" throughout the code is now internally consistent and correct
in the Mach terminology.
11) Several minor bug fixes, including one in the vm daemon that caused
0 RSS objects to not get purged as intended.
12) A "default pager" has now been created which cleans up the transition
of objects to the "swap" type. The previous checks throughout the code
for swp->pg_data != NULL were really ugly. This change also provides
the rudiments for future backing of "anonymous" memory by something
other than the swap pager (via the vnode pager, for example), and it
allows the decision about which of these pagers to use to be made
dynamically (although will need some additional decision code to do
this, of course).
13) (dyson) MAP_COPY has been deprecated and the corresponding "copy
object" code has been removed. MAP_COPY was undocumented and non-
standard. It was furthermore broken in several ways which caused its
behavior to degrade to MAP_PRIVATE. Binaries that use MAP_COPY will
continue to work correctly, but via the slightly different semantics
of MAP_PRIVATE.
14) (dyson) Sharing maps have been removed. It's marginal usefulness in a
threads design can be worked around in other ways. Both #12 and #13
were done to simplify the code and improve readability and maintain-
ability. (As were most all of these changes)
TODO:
1) Rewrite most of the vnode pager to use VOP_GETPAGES/PUTPAGES. Doing
this will reduce the vnode pager to a mere fraction of its current size.
2) Rewrite vm_fault and the swap/vnode pagers to use the clustering
information provided by the new haspage pager interface. This will
substantially reduce the overhead by eliminating a large number of
VOP_BMAP() calls. The VOP_BMAP() filesystem interface should be
improved to provide both a "behind" and "ahead" indication of
contiguousness.
3) Implement the extended features of pager_haspage in swap_pager_haspage().
It currently just says 0 pages ahead/behind.
4) Re-implement the swap device (swstrategy) in a more elegant way, perhaps
via a much more general mechanism that could also be used for disk
striping of regular filesystems.
5) Do something to improve the architecture of vm_object_collapse(). The
fact that it makes calls into the swap pager and knows too much about
how the swap pager operates really bothers me. It also doesn't allow
for collapsing of non-swap pager objects ("unnamed" objects backed by
other pagers).
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| lfs_alloc.c | ||
| lfs_balloc.c | ||
| lfs_bio.c | ||
| lfs_cksum.c | ||
| lfs_debug.c | ||
| lfs_extern.h | ||
| lfs_inode.c | ||
| lfs_segment.c | ||
| lfs_subr.c | ||
| lfs_syscalls.c | ||
| lfs_vfsops.c | ||
| lfs_vnops.c | ||
| lfs.h | ||
| README | ||
| TODO | ||
# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/11/93
The file system is reasonably stable, but incomplete. There are
places where cleaning performance can be improved dramatically (see
comments in lfs_syscalls.c). For details on the implementation,
performance and why garbage collection always wins, see Dr. Margo
Seltzer's thesis available for anonymous ftp from toe.cs.berkeley.edu,
in the directory pub/personal/margo/thesis.ps.Z, or the January 1993
USENIX paper.
Missing Functionality:
Multiple block sizes and/or fragments are not yet implemented.
----------
The disk is laid out in segments. The first segment starts 8K into the
disk (the first 8K is used for boot information). Each segment is composed
of the following:
An optional super block
One or more groups of:
segment summary
0 or more data blocks
0 or more inode blocks
The segment summary and inode/data blocks start after the super block (if
present), and grow toward the end of the segment.
_______________________________________________
| | | | |
| summary | data/inode | summary | data/inode |
| block | blocks | block | blocks | ...
|_________|____________|_________|____________|
The data/inode blocks following a summary block are described by the
summary block. In order to permit the segment to be written in any order
and in a forward direction only, a checksum is calculated across the
blocks described by the summary. Additionally, the summary is checksummed
and timestamped. Both of these are intended for recovery; the former is
to make it easy to determine that it *is* a summary block and the latter
is to make it easy to determine when recovery is finished for partially
written segments. These checksums are also used by the cleaner.
Summary block (detail)
________________
| sum cksum |
| data cksum |
| next segment |
| timestamp |
| FINFO count |
| inode count |
| flags |
|______________|
| FINFO-1 | 0 or more file info structures, identifying the
| . | blocks in the segment.
| . |
| . |
| FINFO-N |
| inode-N |
| . |
| . |
| . | 0 or more inode daddr_t's, identifying the inode
| inode-1 | blocks in the segment.
|______________|
Inode blocks are blocks of on-disk inodes in the same format as those in
the FFS. However, spare[0] contains the inode number of the inode so we
can find a particular inode on a page. They are packed page_size /
sizeof(inode) to a block. Data blocks are exactly as in the FFS. Both
inodes and data blocks move around the file system at will.
The file system is described by a super-block which is replicated and
occurs as the first block of the first and other segments. (The maximum
number of super-blocks is MAXNUMSB). Each super-block maintains a list
of the disk addresses of all the super-blocks. The super-block maintains
a small amount of checkpoint information, essentially just enough to find
the inode for the IFILE (fs->lfs_idaddr).
The IFILE is visible in the file system, as inode number IFILE_INUM. It
contains information shared between the kernel and various user processes.
Ifile (detail)
________________
| cleaner info | Cleaner information per file system. (Page
| | granularity.)
|______________|
| segment | Space available and last modified times per
| usage table | segment. (Page granularity.)
|______________|
| IFILE-1 | Per inode status information: current version #,
| . | if currently allocated, last access time and
| . | current disk address of containing inode block.
| . | If current disk address is LFS_UNUSED_DADDR, the
| IFILE-N | inode is not in use, and it's on the free list.
|______________|
First Segment at Creation Time:
_____________________________________________________________
| | | | | | | |
| 8K pad | Super | summary | inode | ifile | root | l + f |
| | block | | block | | dir | dir |
|________|_______|_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|
^
Segment starts here.
Some differences from the Sprite LFS implementation.
1. The LFS implementation placed the ifile metadata and the super block
at fixed locations. This implementation replicates the super block
and puts each at a fixed location. The checkpoint data is divided into
two parts -- just enough information to find the IFILE is stored in
two of the super blocks, although it is not toggled between them as in
the Sprite implementation. (This was deliberate, to avoid a single
point of failure.) The remaining checkpoint information is treated as
a regular file, which means that the cleaner info, the segment usage
table and the ifile meta-data are stored in normal log segments.
(Tastes great, less filling...)
2. The segment layout is radically different in Sprite; this implementation
uses something a lot like network framing, where data/inode blocks are
written asynchronously, and a checksum is used to validate any set of
summary and data/inode blocks. Sprite writes summary blocks synchronously
after the data/inode blocks have been written and the existence of the
summary block validates the data/inode blocks. This permits us to write
everything contiguously, even partial segments and their summaries, whereas
Sprite is forced to seek (from the end of the data inode to the summary
which lives at the end of the segment). Additionally, writing the summary
synchronously should cost about 1/2 a rotation per summary.
3. Sprite LFS distinguishes between different types of blocks in the segment.
Other than inode blocks and data blocks, we don't.
4. Sprite LFS traverses the IFILE looking for free blocks. We maintain a
free list threaded through the IFILE entries.
5. The cleaner runs in user space, as opposed to kernel space. It shares
information with the kernel by reading/writing the IFILE and through
cleaner specific system calls.