Mach VM's now. Specific changes:
- Pages now need not have all of their mappings removed before being
put on the inactive list. They only need to have the "referenced"
attribute cleared. This makes putting pages onto the inactive list
much more efficient. In order to eliminate redundant clearings of
"refrenced", callers of uvm_pagedeactivate() must now do this
themselves.
- When checking the "modified" attribute for a page (for clearing
PG_CLEAN), make sure to only do it if PG_CLEAN is currently set on
the page (saves a potentially expensive pmap operation).
- When scanning the inactive list, if a page is referenced, reactivate
it (this part was actually added in uvm_pdaemon.c,v 1.27). This
now works properly now that pages on the inactive list are allowed to
have mappings.
- When scanning the inactive list and considering a page for freeing,
remove all mappings, and then check the "modified" attribute if the
page is marked PG_CLEAN.
- When scanning the active list, if the page was referenced since its
last sweep by the scanner, don't deactivate it. (This part was
actually added in uvm_pdaemon.c,v 1.28.)
These changes greatly improve interactive performance during
moderate to high memory and I/O load.
pending i/os to complete before returning even if PGO_CLEANIT is not
specified. this fixes two races:
(1) NFS write rpcs vs. setattr operations which truncate the file.
if the truncate doesn't wait for pending writes to complete then
a later write rpc completion can undo the effect of the truncate.
this problem has been reported by several people.
(2) write i/os in disk-based filesystem vs. the disk block being
freed by a truncation, allocated to a new file, and written
again with different data. if the disk driver reorders the requests
and does the second i/o first, the old data will clobber the new,
corrupting the new file. I haven't heard of anyone experiencing
this problem yet, but it's fixed now anyway.
<vm/pglist.h> -> <uvm/uvm_pglist.h>
<vm/vm_inherit.h> -> <uvm/uvm_inherit.h>
<vm/vm_kern.h> -> into <uvm/uvm_extern.h>
<vm/vm_object.h> -> nothing
<vm/vm_pager.h> -> into <uvm/uvm_pager.h>
also includes a bunch of <vm/vm_page.h> include removals (due to redudancy
with <vm/vm.h>), and a scattering of other similar headers.
Add a new type voff_t (defined as a synonym for off_t) to describe offsets
into uvm objects, and update the appropriate interfaces to use it, the
most visible effect being the ability to mmap() file offsets beyond
the range of a vaddr_t.
Originally by Chuck Silvers; blame me for problems caused by merging this
into non-UBC.
define a flag UVM_PGA_USERESERVE to allow non-kernel object
allocations to use pages from the reserve.
use the new flag for allocations in pmap modules.
and system call now just return EFAULT). A complete fix will
presumably have to wait for UBC and/or for vnode locking protocols to
be revamped to allow use of shared locks.
that we don't try and sync them later. should get rid of the
"uvm_vnp_sync: dying vnode on sync list" related warnings that were
occuring during a "make install."
UVM was written by chuck cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>, with some
minor portions derived from the old Mach code. i provided some help
getting swap and paging working, and other bug fixes/ideas. chuck
silvers <chuq@chuq.com> also provided some other fixes.
this is the UVM kernel code portion.
this will be KNF'd shortly. :-)
chs