allocated as "no object" pages. Similar changes were made to the amd64
and i386 pmap last year. The primary reason being that maintaining
a pte object leads to lock order violations. A secondary reason being
that the pte object is redundant, i.e., the page table itself can be
used to lookup page table pages. (Historical note: The pte object
predates our ability to allocate "no object" pages. Thus, the pte
object was a necessary evil.)
- Unconditionally check the vm object lock's status in vm_page_remove().
Previously, this assertion could not be made on Alpha due to its use
of a pte object.
to not get a page fault if he has not defined a dump device.
Panic can often not do a dump as it can hang forever in some cases.
The original PR was for amd64 only. This is a generalised version of
that change.
PR: amd64/67712
Submitted by: wjw@withagen.nl <Willen Jan Withagen>
a fast interrupt handler doing an swi_sched(). This fixed the lockups I
saw on my laptop when using xmms in KDE and on rwatson's MySQL benchmarks
on SMP. This will eventually be removed and/or modified when I figure out
what the root cause is and fix that.
Replace the use of '=' in conditionals in the examples
by the more correct '=='.
Clarify the example explaining that .for expansion takes place before
.if handling by showing the correct code instead of saying 'the other
way around'. Change a variable name there so the example is more parseable
to the human reader.
PR: docs/65400
Submitted by: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz>
to the ARM port. We set FLT_ROUNDS to -1 (indeterminate), because the
rounding mode on ARM is static, i.e. part of the FP instruction
format. Or at least that's my understanding.
- It was added to libc instead of libm. Hopefully no programs rely
on this mistake.
- It didn't work properly on large long doubles because its argument
was converted to type double, resulting in undefined behavior.
improved chance of working despite pressure from running programs.
Instead of trying to throw a bunch of pages out to swap and hope for
the best, only a range that can potentially fulfill contigmalloc(9)'s
request will have its contents paged out (potentially, not forcibly)
at a time.
The new contigmalloc operation still operates in three passes, but it
could potentially be tuned to more or less. The first pass only looks
at pages in the cache and free pages, so they would be thrown out
without having to block. If this is not enough, the subsequent passes
page out any unwired memory. To combat memory pressure refragmenting
the section of memory being laundered, each page is removed from the
systems' free memory queue once it has been freed so that blocking
later doesn't cause the memory laundered so far to get reallocated.
The page-out operations are now blocking, as it would make little sense
to try to push out a page, then get its status immediately afterward
to remove it from the available free pages queue, if it's unlikely to
have been freed. Another change is that if KVA allocation fails, the
allocated memory segment will be freed and not leaked.
There is a sysctl/tunable, defaulting to on, which causes the old
contigmalloc() algorithm to be used. Nonetheless, I have been using
vm.old_contigmalloc=0 for over a month. It is safe to switch at
run-time to see the difference it makes.
A new interface has been used which does not require mapping the
allocated pages into KVA: vm_page.h functions vm_page_alloc_contig()
and vm_page_release_contig(). These are what vm.old_contigmalloc=0
uses internally, so the sysctl/tunable does not affect their operation.
When using the contigmalloc(9) and contigfree(9) interfaces, memory
is now tracked with malloc(9) stats. Several functions have been
exported from kern_malloc.c to allow other subsystems to use these
statistics, as well. This invalidates the BUGS section of the
contigmalloc(9) manpage.
specify "us" as the thread not the process/ksegrp/kse.
You can always find the others from the thread but the converse is not true.
Theorotically this would lead to runtime being allocated to the wrong
entity in some cases though it is not clear how often this actually happenned.
(would only affect threaded processes and would probably be pretty benign,
but it WAS a bug..)
Reviewed by: peter
is obviously not run a lot. (but is in some test cases).
This code is not usually run because it covers a case that doesn't
happen a lot (removing a node that has data traversing it).
where boot.config needs to reside. Also change /kernel
to /boot/loader, as that is the apparent default now. This
man page probably requires more updates.
time now to break with the past: do not write the PID in the first note.
Rationale:
1. [impact of the breakage] Process IDs in core files serve no immediate
purpose to the debugger itself. They are only useful to relate a core
file to a process. This can provide context to the person looking at
the core file, provided one keeps track of this. Overall, not having
the PID in the core file is only in very rare occasions unfortunate.
2. [reason of the breakage] Having one PRSTATUS note contain the PID,
while all others contain the LWPID of the corresponding kernel thread
creates an irregularity for the debugger that cannot easily be worked
around. This is caused by libthread_db correlating user thread IDs to
kernel thread (aka LWP) IDs and thus aware of the actual LWPIDs.
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