svn commit: r243631 - in head/sys: kern sys

Oleksandr Tymoshenko gonzo at bluezbox.com
Tue Dec 18 05:40:28 UTC 2012


On 2012-12-08, at 1:21 PM, Alan Cox <alc at rice.edu> wrote:

> On 12/08/2012 14:32, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>> 

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>> 
>> The trouble seems to come from NSFBUFS which is (512 + maxusers * 16)
>> resulting in a kernel map of (512 + 400 * 16) * PAGE_SIZE = 27MB.  This
>> seem to be pushing it with the smaller ARM kmap layout.
>> 
>> Does it boot and run when you set the tunable kern.ipc.nsfbufs=3500?
>> 
>> ARM does have a direct map mode as well which doesn't require the
>> allocation
>> of sfbufs.  I'm not sure which other problems that approach has.
>> 
> 
> 
> Only a few (3?) platforms use it.  It reduces the size of the user
> address space, and translation between physical addresses and direct map
> addresses is not computationally trivial as it is on other
> architectures, e.g., amd64, ia64.  However, it does try to use large
> page mappings.
> 
> 
>> Hopefully alc@ (added to cc) can answer that and also why the kmap of
>> 27MB
>> manages to wrench the ARM kernel.
>> 
> 
> 
> Arm does not define caps on either the buffer map size (param.h) or the
> kmem map size (vmparam.h).  It would probably make sense to copy these
> definitions from i386.


Adding caps didn't help. I did some digging and found out that although address range
0xc0000000 .. 0xffffffff is indeed valid for ARM in general actual KVA space varies for
each specific hardware platform. This "real" KVA is defined by <virtual_avail, virtual_end>
pair and ifI use them instead of <VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS, VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS>
in init_param2 function my pandaboard successfully boots. Since former pair is used for defining 
kernel_map boundaries I believe it should be used for auto tuning as well. 






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