- genfs_putpages: wait for i/o completion of PG_RELEASED/PG_PAGEOUT pages by
setting "wasclean" false when encountering them.
suggested by Stephan Uphoff in PR/24596 (1).
- genfs_putpages: write protect pages when cleaning out, if
we're going to take the vnode off the syncer's queue.
uvm_fault: don't write-map pages unless its vnode is already on
the syncer's queue.
fix PR/24596 (3) but in the different way from the suggested fix.
(to keep our current behaviour, ie. not to require explicit msync.
discussed on tech-kern@.)
- genfs_putpages: don't mistakenly take a vnode off the queue
by introducing a generation number in genfs_node.
genfs_getpages: increment the generation number.
suggested by Stephan Uphoff in PR/24596 (2).
- add some assertions.
to prevent unnecessary block allocations in the case that
page size > block size.
- ufs_balloc_range: use VM_PROT_WRITE+PGO_NOBLOCKALLOC rather than
VM_PROT_READ.
i/o is done. Instead, pass an opaque cookie which is then passed to a
new routine, coredump_write, which does the actual i/o. This allows the
method of doing i/o to change without affecting any future MD code.
Also, make netbsd32_core.c [re]use core_netbsd.c (in a similar manner that
core_elf64.c uses core_elf32.c) and eliminate that code duplication.
cpu_coredump{,32} is now called twice, first with a NULL iocookie to fill
the core structure and a second to actually write md parts of the coredump.
All i/o is nolonger random access and is suitable for shipping over a stream.
protection does not include VM_PROT_READ, so that the core dumping
doesn't error out with EFAULT when trying to write that region.
Addresses PR kern/30143; approach suggested by chs@.
little or no swap.
- even on a severe swap shortage, if we have some amount of file-backed pages,
don't bother to kill processes.
- if all pages in queue will be likely reactivated, just give up
page type balancing rather than spinning unnecessarily.
fix "warning: resource shortage: %d pages of swap lost".
extent(9) has some undesirable characteristics for swap allocation:
- it involves alloc-to-free.
- its operational cost is O(n*n) where n is number of entries.