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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 246645 10-Feb-2013 kib

MFC r246554:
The 'end' word was missed in the comment.


# 230882 01-Feb-2012 marius

MFC: r230630

For machines where the kernel address space is unrestricted increase
VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE to 2, awaiting more insight from alc@. As it turns
out, the VM apparently has problems with machines that have large holes
in the physical address space, causing the kmem_suballoc() call in
kmeminit() to fail with a VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE of 1. Using a value of 2
allows these, namely Blade 1500 with 2GB of RAM, to boot.

PR: 164227


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 223379 21-Jun-2011 marius

Fix whitespace


# 223378 21-Jun-2011 marius

On machines where we don't need to lock the kernel TSB into the dTLB and
thus may basically use the entire 64-bit kernel address space reduce
VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE to 1 allowing kernel to use more memory.


# 221855 13-May-2011 mdf

Move the ZERO_REGION_SIZE to a machine-dependent file, as on many
architectures (i386, for example) the virtual memory space may be
constrained enough that 2MB is a large chunk. Use 64K for arches
other than amd64 and ia64, with special handling for sparc64 due to
differing hardware.

Also commit the comment changes to kmem_init_zero_region() that I
missed due to not saving the file. (Darn the unfamiliar development
environment).

Arch maintainers, please feel free to adjust ZERO_REGION_SIZE as you
see fit.

Requested by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
MFC with: r221853


# 219608 13-Mar-2011 marius

Remove the advertising clause from the UCB license according to the
July 22, 1999 addendum.


# 217192 09-Jan-2011 kib

Move repeated MAXSLP definition from machine/vmparam.h to sys/vmmeter.h.
Update the outdated comments describing MAXSLP and the process
selection algorithm for swap out.

Comments wording and reviewed by: alc


# 216625 21-Dec-2010 marius

Revert r216080 so kmem_map is capped at 3/5 of the currently rather modest
kernel address space in order to leave space for the buffer cache, pipes,
thread stacks, etc on machines with more physical memory until we take
advantage of ASI_ATOMIC_QUAD_LDD_PHYS on CPUs providing it so we don't need
to lock the kernel TSB pages into the dTLB, basically making the entire
64-bit kernel address space available on relevant machines.

Submitted by: alc


# 216080 30-Nov-2010 fjoe

Change VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX to be just (VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS - VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS)

Suggested by: marius


# 216016 28-Nov-2010 fjoe

Define VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX on sparc64. Otherwise kernel built with
DEBUG_MEMGUARD panics early in kmeminit() with the message
"kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 1" because of zero "size" argument
passed to kmem_suballoc() due to "vm_kmem_size_max" being zero.

The problem also exists on ia64.


# 215093 10-Nov-2010 alc

Enable reservation-based physical memory allocation. Even without the
creation of large page mappings in the pmap, it can provide modest
performance benefits. In particular, for a "buildworld" on a 2x 1GHz
Ultrasparc IIIi it reduced the wall clock time by 2.2% and the system
time by 12.6%.

Tested by: marius@


# 210550 27-Jul-2010 jhb

Very rough first cut at NUMA support for the physical page allocator. For
now it uses a very dumb first-touch allocation policy. This will change in
the future.
- Each architecture indicates the maximum number of supported memory domains
via a new VM_NDOMAIN parameter in <machine/vmparam.h>.
- Each cpu now has a PCPU_GET(domain) member to indicate the memory domain
a CPU belongs to. Domain values are dense and numbered from 0.
- When a platform supports multiple domains, the default freelist
(VM_FREELIST_DEFAULT) is split up into N freelists, one for each domain.
The MD code is required to populate an array of mem_affinity structures.
Each entry in the array defines a range of memory (start and end) and a
domain for the range. Multiple entries may be present for a single
domain. The list is terminated by an entry where all fields are zero.
This array of structures is used to split up phys_avail[] regions that
fall in VM_FREELIST_DEFAULT into per-domain freelists.
- Each memory domain has a separate lookup-array of freelists that is
used when fulfulling a physical memory allocation. Right now the
per-domain freelists are listed in a round-robin order for each domain.
In the future a table such as the ACPI SLIT table may be used to order
the per-domain lookup lists based on the penalty for each memory domain
relative to a specific domain. The lookup lists may be examined via a
new vm.phys.lookup_lists sysctl.
- The first-touch policy is implemented by using PCPU_GET(domain) to
pick a lookup list when allocating memory.

Reviewed by: alc


# 188455 10-Feb-2009 marius

- Use the generally more appropriate PROM base rather than the
kernel one as the non-faulting flush address in the loader so
we can can change KERNBASE and VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS if we
ever want to without needing to worry about using a compatible
loader.
- Correctly check for LOADER_DEBUG.
- Add a missing const for page_sizes[].


# 181642 12-Aug-2008 marius

Assume OpenSolaris knows better and use their value for VM_MAX_PROM_ADDRESS.


# 174938 27-Dec-2007 alc

Add configuration knobs for the superpage reservation system. Initially,
the reservation will only be enabled on amd64.


# 172317 25-Sep-2007 alc

Change the management of cached pages (PQ_CACHE) in two fundamental
ways:

(1) Cached pages are no longer kept in the object's resident page
splay tree and memq. Instead, they are kept in a separate per-object
splay tree of cached pages. However, access to this new per-object
splay tree is synchronized by the _free_ page queues lock, not to be
confused with the heavily contended page queues lock. Consequently, a
cached page can be reclaimed by vm_page_alloc(9) without acquiring the
object's lock or the page queues lock.

This solves a problem independently reported by tegge@ and Isilon.
Specifically, they observed the page daemon consuming a great deal of
CPU time because of pages bouncing back and forth between the cache
queue (PQ_CACHE) and the inactive queue (PQ_INACTIVE). The source of
this problem turned out to be a deadlock avoidance strategy employed
when selecting a cached page to reclaim in vm_page_select_cache().
However, the root cause was really that reclaiming a cached page
required the acquisition of an object lock while the page queues lock
was already held. Thus, this change addresses the problem at its
root, by eliminating the need to acquire the object's lock.

Moreover, keeping cached pages in the object's primary splay tree and
memq was, in effect, optimizing for the uncommon case. Cached pages
are reclaimed far, far more often than they are reactivated. Instead,
this change makes reclamation cheaper, especially in terms of
synchronization overhead, and reactivation more expensive, because
reactivated pages will have to be reentered into the object's primary
splay tree and memq.

(2) Cached pages are now stored alongside free pages in the physical
memory allocator's buddy queues, increasing the likelihood that large
allocations of contiguous physical memory (i.e., superpages) will
succeed.

Finally, as a result of this change long-standing restrictions on when
and where a cached page can be reclaimed and returned by
vm_page_alloc(9) are eliminated. Specifically, calls to
vm_page_alloc(9) specifying VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT can now reclaim and
return a formerly cached page. Consequently, a call to malloc(9)
specifying M_NOWAIT is less likely to fail.

Discussed with: many over the course of the summer, including jeff@,
Justin Husted @ Isilon, peter@, tegge@
Tested by: an earlier version by kris@
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 170262 04-Jun-2007 alc

Add the machine-specific definitions for configuring the new physical
memory allocator.

Approved by: re


# 169291 05-May-2007 alc

Define every architecture as either VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE or
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE depending on whether the physical address space is
densely or sparsely populated with memory. The effect of this
definition is to determine which of two implementations of
vm_page_array and PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() is used. The legacy
implementation is obtained by defining VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE, and a new
implementation that trades off time for space is obtained by defining
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE. For now, all architectures except for ia64 and
sparc64 define VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on ia64
allows the entirety of my Itanium 2's memory to be used. Previously,
only the first 1 GB could be used. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on
sparc64 allows USIIIi-based systems to boot without crashing.

This change is a combination of Nathan Whitehorn's patch and my own
work in perforce.

Discussed with: kmacy, marius, Nathan Whitehorn
PR: 112194


# 168920 20-Apr-2007 sepotvin

Add support for specifying a minimal size for vm.kmem_size in the loader via
vm.kmem_size_min. Useful when using ZFS to make sure that vm.kmem size will
be at least 256mb (for example) without forcing a particular value via vm.kmem_size.

Approved by: njl (mentor)
Reviewed by: alc


# 108332 27-Dec-2002 jake

Define UMA_MD_SMALL_ALLOC so that uma_small_alloc and uma_small_free will
be used for zones that allocate objects of less 1 page. The biggest advantage
of this is that all of a sudden the majority of kernel malloc-ed data doesn't
need kva allocated for it. Besides microbenchmarks I haven't seen a measurable
performance improvement from doing this.


# 108245 23-Dec-2002 jake

- Change the way the direct mapped region is implemented to be generally
useful for accessing more than 1 page of contiguous physical memory, and
to use 4mb tlb entries instead of 8k. This requires that the system only
use the direct mapped addresses when they have the same virtual colour as
all other mappings of the same page, instead of being able to choose the
colour and cachability of the mapping.
- Adapt the physical page copying and zeroing functions to account for not
being able to choose the colour or cachability of the direct mapped
address. This adds a lot more cases to handle. Basically when a page has
a different colour than its direct mapped address we have a choice between
bypassing the data cache and using physical addresses directly, which
requires a cache flush, or mapping it at the right colour, which requires
a tlb flush. For now we choose to map the page and do the tlb flush.

This will allows the direct mapped addresses to be used for more things
that don't require normal pmap handling, including mapping the vm_page
structures, the message buffer, temporary mappings for crash dumps, and will
provide greater benefit for implementing uma_small_alloc, due to the much
greater tlb coverage.


# 101653 10-Aug-2002 jake

Auto size available kernel virtual address space based on phsyical memory
size. This avoids blowing out kva in kmeminit() on large memory machines
(4 gigs or more).

Reviewed by: tmm


# 99897 13-Jul-2002 jake

Use a fixed address for KERNBASE, so it doesn't change if the size of KVA
is increased. Its confusing for all the kernel addresses to change, and
doesn't serve much purpose as far as conserving address space.


# 98350 17-Jun-2002 jake

Add constants for the min and max prom addresses. Use these instead of
magic numbers. Use stxa_sync instead of stxa; membar #Sync; to ensure
that no instruction is placed between the two. This can cause random
corruption even though interrupts are already disabled.


# 91974 09-Mar-2002 jake

Increase VM_KMEM_SIZE to 16 megs from 12. Define VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE so that
the number of physical pages per KVA page allocated scales properly with
memory size. This fixes problems with kmem_map being too small.

Noticed by: mike, wollman
Submitted by: tmm


# 88653 29-Dec-2001 jake

Add comments as to why VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS is magic (abitrary).
Define the KVA_RANGE in terms of ttes, not sttes.
Remove UPT_MIN_ADDRESS. We no longer use a hard coded address for
the user tsb.


# 85241 20-Oct-2001 jake

Parameterize the size of the kernel virtual address space on KVA_PAGES.
Don't use a hard coded address constant for the virtual address of the
kernel tsb. Allocate kernel virtual address space for the kernel tsb
at runtime.
Remove unused parameter to pmap_bootstrap.
Adapt pmap.c to use KVA_PAGES.
Map the message buffer too.
Add some traces.
Implement pmap_protect.


# 84183 30-Sep-2001 jake

Move the kernel to end of the first 4 gigabytes of address space, so that
one 4 meg page can map both the kernel and the openfirmware mappings.
Add the openfirmware mappings to the kernel tsb so we can call the firmware
on the kernel trap table and access kernel memory normally.
Implement pmap_swapout_proc, pmap_swapin_proc, pmap_swapout_thread,
pmap_swapin_thread, pmap_activate, pmap_page_exists, and pmap_phys_address.


# 82899 03-Sep-2001 jake

Use the correct copyrights. Note where most of this came from.

Requested by: obrien


# 81334 09-Aug-2001 obrien

The author isn't a [UC] Regents. Correct the copyright language.


# 81179 06-Aug-2001 jake

The kernel runs at a much lower address now.


# 80709 31-Jul-2001 jake

Flesh out the sparc64 port considerably. This contains:
- mostly complete kernel pmap support, and tested but currently turned
off userland pmap support
- low level assembly language trap, context switching and support code
- fully implemented atomic.h and supporting cpufunc.h
- some support for kernel debugging with ddb
- various header tweaks and filling out of machine dependent structures


# 80708 31-Jul-2001 jake

Add skeleton machine dependent headers and c files for a port of freebsd
to a new architecture. This is the base of the sparc64 port, but contains
limited machine dependent code, and can be used a base for ports. Included
are:
- standard machine dependent headers, tweaked for a 64 bit, big endian
architecture, including empty versions of all the machine dependent
structures
- a machine independent atomic.h, which can be used until a port has
support for interrupts and the operations really need to be atomic
- stub versions of all the machine dependent functions, which panic
when called and print out the name of the function that needs to
be implemented. functions which are normally in assembly files are
not included, but this should reduce the number of different undefined
references on the first few compiles from hundreds to 5 or 6
Given minimal startup code and console support it should be trivial to
make this compile and run the first few sysinits on almost any architecture.

Requested by: alfred, imp, jhb