On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 06:10:18PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Author: alc > Date: Sat Jul 26 18:10:18 2014 > New Revision: 269134 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/269134 > > Log: > When unwiring a region of an address space, do not assume that the > underlying physical pages are mapped by the pmap. If, for example, the > application has performed an mprotect(..., PROT_NONE) on any part of the > wired region, then those pages will no longer be mapped by the pmap. > So, using the pmap to lookup the wired pages in order to unwire them > doesn't always work, and when it doesn't work wired pages are leaked. > > To avoid the leak, introduce and use a new function vm_object_unwire() > that locates the wired pages by traversing the object and its backing > objects.
MFC planed? > At the same time, switch from using pmap_change_wiring() to the recently > introduced function pmap_unwire() for unwiring the region's mappings. > pmap_unwire() is faster, because it operates a range of virtual addresses > rather than a single virtual page at a time. Moreover, by operating on > a range, it is superpage friendly. It doesn't waste time performing > unnecessary demotions. > > Reported by: markj > Reviewed by: kib > Tested by: pho, jmg (arm) > Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"