means that the dynamic linker gets mapped in at the top of available
user virtual memory (typically just below the stack), shared libraries
get mapped downwards from that point, and calls to mmap() that don't
specify a preferred address will get mapped in below those.
This means that the heap and the mmap()ed allocations will grow
towards each other, allowing one or the other to grow larger than
before. Previously, the heap was limited to MAXDSIZ by the placement
of the dynamic linker (and the process's rlimits) and the space
available to mmap was hobbled by this reservation.
This is currently only enabled via an *option* for the i386 platform
(though other platforms are expected to follow). Add "options
USE_TOPDOWN_VM" to your kernel config file, rerun config, and rebuild
your kernel to take advantage of this.
Note that the pmap_prefer() interface has not yet been modified to
play nicely with this, so those platforms require a bit more work
(most notably the sparc) before they can use this new memory
arrangement.
This change also introduces a VM_DEFAULT_ADDRESS() macro that picks
the appropriate default address based on the size of the allocation or
the size of the process's text segment accordingly. Several drivers
and the SYSV SHM address assignment were changed to use this instead
of each one picking their own "default".
(there are still some details to work out) but expect that to go
away soon. To support these basic changes (creation of lfs_putpages,
lfs_gop_write, mods to lfs_balloc) several other changes were made, to
wit:
* Create a writer daemon kernel thread whose purpose is to handle page
writes for the pagedaemon, but which also takes over some of the
functions of lfs_check(). This thread is started the first time an
LFS is mounted.
* Add a "flags" parameter to GOP_SIZE. Current values are
GOP_SIZE_READ, meaning that the call should return the size of the
in-core version of the file, and GOP_SIZE_WRITE, meaning that it
should return the on-disk size. One of GOP_SIZE_READ or
GOP_SIZE_WRITE must be specified.
* Instead of using malloc(...M_WAITOK) for everything, reserve enough
resources to get by and use malloc(...M_NOWAIT), using the reserves if
necessary. Use the pool subsystem for structures small enough that
this is feasible. This also obsoletes LFS_THROTTLE.
And a few that are not strictly necessary:
* Moves the LFS inode extensions off onto a separately allocated
structure; getting closer to LFS as an LKM. "Welcome to 1.6O."
* Unified GOP_ALLOC between FFS and LFS.
* Update LFS copyright headers to correct values.
* Actually cast to unsigned in lfs_shellsort, like the comment says.
* Keep track of which segments were empty before the previous
checkpoint; any segments that pass two checkpoints both dirty and
empty can be summarily cleaned. Do this. Right now lfs_segclean
still works, but this should be turned into an effectless
compatibility syscall.
we read-lock the map and call uvm_map_lookup_entry() instead of simply
walking from the header to the next and to the next, etc.
Dumping from sparsely populated amaps could cause faults that would
result in amaps being split, which (in turn) resulted in the core
dumping routines dumping some regions of memory twice. This makes the
core file too large, the headers not match, gdb not work properly,
and so on.
Addresses PR 19260.
malloc types into a structure, a pointer to which is passed around,
instead of an int constant. Allow the limit to be adjusted when the
malloc type is defined, or with a function call, as suggested by
Jonathan Stone.
request may contain PGO_DONTCARE and nfs_getpages may unbusy them on error.
Fix is provided in PR#20028 by YAMAMOTO Takashi. (and same one is approved
by chuq while ago in private mail). It was my fault to forget to commit.
allocated ppref data to zero in the case of an amap that has empty
space at the front.
Don't set anything in the ppref array if "len" is zero.
Many thanks to Sami Kantoluoto for providing gdb access to a machine
that would reliably crash with problems related to the above, and to
Stephan Thesing for corroborating that the patch properly addressed
the problem.
Note that the ar_pageoff (and related variables) types must be changed
soon. The use of "int" here is not theoretically sufficient.
to sleep. Define UVM_KMF_NOWAIT in terms of UVM_FLAG_NOWAIT.
From Manuel Bouyer. Fixes a problem where any mapping with
read protection was created in a "nowait" context, causing
spurious failures.
uvm_map(). Change uvm_map() to honnor UVM_KMF_NOWAIT. For this, change
amap_extend() to take a flags parameter instead of just boolean for
direction, and introduce AMAP_EXTEND_FORWARDS and AMAP_EXTEND_NOWAIT flags
(AMAP_EXTEND_BACKWARDS is still defined as 0x0, to keep the code easier to
read).
Add a flag parameter to uvm_mapent_alloc().
This solves a problem a pool_get(PR_NOWAIT) could trigger a pool_get(PR_WAITOK)
in uvm_mapent_alloc().
Thanks to Chuck Silvers, enami tsugutomo, Andrew Brown and Jason R Thorpe
for feedback.
backed by physical pages (ie. because it reused a previously-freed one),
so that we can skip a bunch of useless work in that case.
this fixes the underlying problem behind PR 18543, and also speeds up fork()
quite a bit (eg. 7% on my pc, 1% on my ultra2) when we get a cache hit.
delay freeing the old am_ppref so that if we bail early due to
malloc() failures, valid ppref data hasn't been freed for no reason.
Based on comments from enami.
with:
Case #1 -- adjust offset: The slot offset in the aref can be
decremented to cover the required size addition.
Case #2 -- move pages and adjust offset: The slot offset is not large
enough, but the amap contains enough inactive space *after* the mapped
pages to make up the difference, so active slots are slid to the "end"
of the amap, and the slot offset is, again, adjusted to cover the
required size addition. This optimizes for hitting case #1 again on
the next small extension.
Case #3 -- reallocate, move pages, and adjust offset: There is not
enough inactive space in the amap, so the arrays are reallocated, and
the active pages are copied again to the "end" of the amap, and the
slot offset is adjusted to cover the required size. This also
optimizes for hitting case #1 on the next backwards extension.
This provides the missing piece in the "forward extension of
vm_map_entries" logic, so the merge failure counters have been
removed.
Not many applications will make any use of this at this time (except
for jvms and perhaps gcc3), but a "top-down" memory allocator will use
it extensively.
backwards and forwards) if the previous entry was backed by an amap.
Fixes pr kern/18789, where netscape 7 + a java applet actually manage
to incur forward and bimerges in userspace.
Code reviewed by fvdl and thorpej.
kqueue provides a stateful and efficient event notification framework
currently supported events include socket, file, directory, fifo,
pipe, tty and device changes, and monitoring of processes and signals
kqueue is supported by all writable filesystems in NetBSD tree
(with exception of Coda) and all device drivers supporting poll(2)
based on work done by Jonathan Lemon for FreeBSD
initial NetBSD port done by Luke Mewburn and Jason Thorpe
allocations can be merged either forwards or backwards, meaning no new
entries will be added to the list, and some can even be merged in both
directions, resulting in a surplus entry.
This code typically reduces the number of map entries in the
kernel_map by an order of magnitude or more. It also makes possible
recovery from the pathological case of "5000 processes created and
then killed", which leaves behind a large number of map entries.
The only forward merge case not covered is the instance of an amap
that has to be extended backwards (WIP). Note that this only affects
processes, not the kernel (the kernel doesn't use amaps), and that
merge opportunities like this come up *very* rarely, if at all. Eg,
after being up for eight days, I see only three failures in this
regard, and even those are most likely due to programs I'm developing
to exercise this case.
Code reviewed by thorpej, matt, christos, mrg, chuq, chuck, perry,
tls, and probably others. I'd like to thank my mother, the Hollywood
Foreign Press...
tearing down a vm_map. use this to skip the pmap_update()
at the end of all the removes, which allows pmaps to optimize
pmap tear-down. also, use the new pmap_remove_all() hook to
let the pmap implemenation know what we're up to.
return failure if swap is full and there are no free physical pages.
have malloc() use this flag if M_CANFAIL is passed to it.
use M_CANFAIL to allow amap_extend() to fail when memory is scarce.
this should prevent most of the remaining hangs in low-memory situations.
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
matt