- Reorganize locking in UVM and provide extra serialisation for pmap(9).
New lock order: [vmpage-owner-lock] -> pmap-lock.
- Simplify locking in some pmap(9) modules by removing P->V locking.
- Use lock object on vmobjlock (and thus vnode_t::v_interlock) to share
the locks amongst UVM objects where necessary (tmpfs, layerfs, unionfs).
- Rewrite and optimise x86 TLB shootdown code, make it simpler and cleaner.
Add TLBSTATS option for x86 to collect statistics about TLB shootdowns.
- Unify /dev/mem et al in MI code and provide required locking (removes
kernel-lock on some ports). Also, avoid cache-aliasing issues.
Thanks to Andrew Doran and Joerg Sonnenberger, as their initial patches
formed the core changes of this branch.
There are still about 1600 left, but they have ',' or /* ... */
in the actual variable definitions - which my awk script doesn't handle.
There are also many that need () -> (void).
(The script does handle misordered arguments.)
PR kern/40361 WAPBL locking panic in -current
PR kern/40361 WAPBL locking panic in -current
PR kern/40470 WAPBL corrupts ext2fs
PR kern/40562 busy loop in ffs_sync when unmounting a file system
PR kern/40525 panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
- A fix for an issue that can lead to "ffs_valloc: dup" due to dirty cg
buffers being invalidated. Problem discovered and patch by dholland@.
- If the syncer fails to lazily sync a vnode due to lock contention,
retry 1 second later instead of 30 seconds later.
- Flush inode atime updates every ~10 seconds (this makes most sense with
logging). Presently they didn't hit the disk for read-only files or
devices until the file system was unmounted. It would be better to trickle
the updates out but that would require more extensive changes.
- Fix issues with file system corruption, busy looping and other nasty
problems when logging and non-logging file systems are intermixed,
with one being the root file system.
- For logging, do not flush metadata on an inode-at-a-time basis if the sync
has been requested by ioflush. Previously, we could try hundreds of log
sync operations a second due to inode update activity, causing the syncer
to fall behind and metadata updates to be serialized across the entire
file system. Instead, burst out metadata and log flushes at a minimum
interval of every 10 seconds on an active file system (happens more often
if the log becomes full). Note this does not change the operation of
fsync() etc.
- With the flush issue fixed, re-enable concurrent metadata updates in
vfs_wapbl.c.
Simplify the mount locking. Remove all the crud to deal with recursion on
the mount lock, and crud to deal with unmount as another weirdo lock.
Hopefully this will once and for all fix the deadlocks with this. With this
commit there are two locks on each mount:
- krwlock_t mnt_unmounting. This is used to prevent unmount across critical
sections like getnewvnode(). It's only ever read locked with rw_tryenter(),
and is only ever write locked in dounmount(). A write hold can't be taken
on this lock if the current LWP could hold a vnode lock.
- kmutex_t mnt_updating. This is taken by threads updating the mount, for
example when going r/o -> r/w, and is only present to serialize updates.
In order to take this lock, a read hold must first be taken on
mnt_unmounting, and the two need to be held across the operation.
One effect of this change: previously if an unmount failed, we would make a
half hearted attempt to back out of it gracefully, but that was unlikely to
work in a lot of cases. Now while an unmount that will be aborted is in
progress, new file operations within the mount will fail instead of being
delayed. That is unlikely to be a problem though, because if the admin
requests unmount of a file system then s(he) has made a decision to deny
access to the resource.
The previous fix worked, but it opened a window where mounts could have
disappeared from mountlist while the caller was traversing it using
vfs_trybusy(). Fix that.
The symptom was that sometimes file systems would occasionally not appear
in output from 'df' or 'mount' if the system was busy. Resolution:
- Make mount locks work somewhat like vm_map locks.
- vfs_trybusy() now only fails if the mount is gone, or if someone is
unmounting the file system. Simple contention on mnt_lock doesn't
cause it to fail.
- vfs_busy() will wait even if the file system is being unmounted.
- Do reference counting for 'struct mount'. Each vnode associated with a
mount takes a reference, and in turn the mount takes a reference to the
vfsops.
- Now that mounts are reference counted, replace the overcomplicated mount
locking inherited from 4.4BSD with a recursable rwlock.
The general trend is to remove it from all kernel interfaces and
this is a start. In case the calling lwp is desired, curlwp should
be used.
quick consensus on tech-kern
file system.
The function vfs_write_suspend stops all new write operations to a file
system, allows any file system modifying system calls already in progress
to complete, then sync's the file system to disk and returns. The
function vfs_write_resume allows the suspended write operations to
complete.
From FreeBSD with slight modifications.
Approved by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
be inserted into ktrace records. The general change has been to replace
"struct proc *" with "struct lwp *" in various function prototypes, pass
the lwp through and use l_proc to get the process pointer when needed.
Bump the kernel rev up to 1.6V
default, as the copyright on the main file (ffs_softdep.c) is such
that is has been put into gnusrc. options SOFTDEP will pull this
in. This code also contains the trickle syncer.
Bump version number to 1.4O
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