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".
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.
if the vec pointer is valid rather than using uvm_useracc().
uvm_useracc() just tells you if the permissions of a user mapping allow
the desired access, not whether faulting on that mapping will succeed.
(either the current protection or the max protection) that reference
vnodes associated with a file system mounted with the NOEXEC option.
uvm_mmap(): Don't allow PROT_EXEC mappings to be established of vnodes
which are associated with a file system mounted with the NOEXEC option.
executable mappings. Stop overloading VTEXT for this purpose (VTEXT
also has another meaning).
- Rename vn_marktext() to vn_markexec(), and use it when executable
mappings of a vnode are established.
- In places where we want to set VTEXT, set it in v_flag directly, rather
than making a function call to do this (it no longer makes sense to
use a function call, since we no longer overload VTEXT with VEXECMAP's
meaning).
VEXECMAP suggested by Chuq Silvers.
- remove special treatment of pager_map mappings in pmaps. this is
required now, since I've removed the globals that expose the address range.
pager_map now uses pmap_kenter_pa() instead of pmap_enter(), so there's
no longer any need to special-case it.
- eliminate struct uvm_vnode by moving its fields into struct vnode.
- rewrite the pageout path. the pager is now responsible for handling the
high-level requests instead of only getting control after a bunch of work
has already been done on its behalf. this will allow us to UBCify LFS,
which needs tighter control over its pages than other filesystems do.
writing a page to disk no longer requires making it read-only, which
allows us to write wired pages without causing all kinds of havoc.
- use a new PG_PAGEOUT flag to indicate that a page should be freed
on behalf of the pagedaemon when it's unlocked. this flag is very similar
to PG_RELEASED, but unlike PG_RELEASED, PG_PAGEOUT can be cleared if the
pageout fails due to eg. an indirect-block buffer being locked.
this allows us to remove the "version" field from struct vm_page,
and together with shrinking "loan_count" from 32 bits to 16,
struct vm_page is now 4 bytes smaller.
- no longer use PG_RELEASED for swap-backed pages. if the page is busy
because it's being paged out, we can't release the swap slot to be
reallocated until that write is complete, but unlike with vnodes we
don't keep a count of in-progress writes so there's no good way to
know when the write is done. instead, when we need to free a busy
swap-backed page, just sleep until we can get it busy ourselves.
- implement a fast-path for extending writes which allows us to avoid
zeroing new pages. this substantially reduces cpu usage.
- encapsulate the data used by the genfs code in a struct genfs_node,
which must be the first element of the filesystem-specific vnode data
for filesystems which use genfs_{get,put}pages().
- eliminate many of the UVM pagerops, since they aren't needed anymore
now that the pager "put" operation is a higher-level operation.
- enhance the genfs code to allow NFS to use the genfs_{get,put}pages
instead of a modified copy.
- clean up struct vnode by removing all the fields that used to be used by
the vfs_cluster.c code (which we don't use anymore with UBC).
- remove kmem_object and mb_object since they were useless.
instead of allocating pages to these objects, we now just allocate
pages with no object. such pages are mapped in the kernel until they
are freed, so we can use the mapping to find the page to free it.
this allows us to remove splvm() protection in several places.
The sum of all these changes improves write throughput on my
decstation 5000/200 to within 1% of the rate of NetBSD 1.5
and reduces the elapsed time for "make release" of a NetBSD 1.5
source tree on my 128MB pc to 10% less than a 1.5 kernel took.
between creation of a file descriptor and close(2) when using kernel
assisted threads. What we do is stick descriptors in the table, but
mark them as "larval". This causes essentially everything to treat
it as a non-existent descriptor, except for fdalloc(), which sees a
filled slot so that it won't (incorrectly) allocate it again. When
a descriptor is fully constructed, the code that has constructed it
marks it as "mature" (which actually clears the "larval" flag), and
things continue to work as normal.
While here, gather all the code that gets a descriptor from the table
into a fd_getfile() function, and call it, rather than having the
same (sometimes incorrect) code copied all over the place.
doesn't have the exec bit set, we need to have PROT_EXEC set
in order for some expected mmap/mprotect behavior to work, so
do the last bit slightly differently: if udv_attach() fails, and
the protection (NOT maxprot) doens't include PROT_EXEC, then clear
PROT_EXEC from maxprot and try udv_attach() again.
Sigh, mmap really needs to be rototilled.
in the mmap() call. maxprot is used to create device mappings,
and always including PROT_EXEC causes the mapping to fail on the Alpha
when mapping a non-RAM offset of /dev/mem (which may be sparse, so
instruction fetch from there is disallowed).
routine. Works similarly fto pmap_prefer(), but allows callers
to specify a minimum power-of-two alignment of the region.
How we ever got along without this for so long is beyond me.
<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.
uvm_map_pageable(map, ...) implies unlocking passed map, just before the
function call.
- If we bail out before calling the uvm_map_pageable, unlock the map
by ourself to prevent a panic ``locking against myself''. The panic is,
for example, caused when cdrecord is invoked with too large fifo size.
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.
value (KERN_SUCCESS or KERN_RESOURCE_SHORTAGE) indicating if it succeeded
or failed. Change the `wired' and `access_type' arguments to a single
`flags' argument, which includes the access type, and flags:
PMAP_WIRED the old `wired' boolean
PMAP_CANFAIL pmap_enter() is allowed to fail
If PMAP_CANFAIL is not specified, the pmap should behave as it always
has in the face of a drastic resource shortage: fall over dead.
Change the fault handler to deal with failure (which indicates resource
shortage) by unlocking everything, waiting for the pagedaemon to free
more memory, then retrying the fault.
of some functions. Use these flags in uvm_map_pageable() to determine
if the map is locked on entry (replaces an already present boolean_t
argument `islocked'), and if the function should return with the map
still locked.
* Implement MADV_DONTNEED: deactivate pages in the specified range,
semantics similar to Solaris's MADV_DONTNEED.
* Add MADV_FREE: free pages and swap resources associated with the
specified range, causing the range to be reloaded from backing
store (vnodes) or zero-fill (anonymous), semantics like FreeBSD's
MADV_FREE and like Digital UNIX's MADV_DONTNEED (isn't it SO GREAT
that madvise(2) isn't standardized!?)
As part of this, move the non-map-modifying advice handling out of
uvm_map_advise(), and into sys_madvise().
As another part, implement general amap cleaning in uvm_map_clean(), and
change uvm_map_clean() to only push dirty pages to disk if PGO_CLEANIT
is set in its flags (and update sys___msync13() accordingly). XXX Add
a patchable global "amap_clean_works", defaulting to 1, which can disable
the amap cleaning code, just in case problems are unearthed; this gives
a developer/user a quick way to recover and send a bug report (e.g. boot
into DDB and change the value).
XXX Still need to implement a real uao_flush().
XXX Need to update the manual page.
With these changes, rebuilding libc will automatically cause the new
malloc(3) to use MADV_FREE to actually release pages and swap resources
when it decides that can be done.
> XXX (in)sanity check. We don't do proper datasize checking
> XXX for anonymous (or private writable) mmap(). However,
> XXX know that if we're trying to allocate more than the amount
> XXX remaining under our current data size limit, _that_ should
> XXX be disallowed.
This is one link on the chain of lossage known as PR#7897. It's
definitely not the right fix, but it's better than nothing.
- rather than treating MAP_COPY like MAP_PRIVATE by sheer virtue of it not
being MAP_SHARED, actually convert the MAP_COPY flag into MAP_PRIVATE.
- return EINVAL if MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE are both included in flags.
* Provide POSIX 1003.1b mlockall(2) and munlockall(2) system calls.
MCL_CURRENT is presently implemented. MCL_FUTURE is not fully
implemented. Also, the same one-unlock-for-every-lock caveat
currently applies here as it does to mlock(2). This will be
addressed in a future commit.
* Provide the mincore(2) system call, with the same semantics as
Solaris.
* Clean up the error recovery in uvm_map_pageable().
* Fix a bug where a process would hang if attempting to mlock a
zero-fill region where none of the pages in that region are resident.
[ This fix has been submitted for inclusion in 1.4.1 ]
matt