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authorRichard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>2016-05-16 17:10:06 +0200
committerRichard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>2016-05-16 17:17:41 +0200
commitb4d07d3c60449dde5c567aaeb2db0cd9f39547bd (patch)
tree607ec71c34bf1417bf1ac4c4c8e7c47d8857251d /NEWS
parentbbcbebe456c921fc9494fec2bd1cbe1fa6696453 (diff)
Fix pageout deadlock
The pageout daemon uses small, internal, temporary objects to transport the data out to memory managers, which are expected to release the data once written out to backing store. Releasing this data is done with a vm_deallocate call. The problem with this is that vm_map is allowed to merge these objects, in which case vm_deallocate will only remove a reference instead of releasing the underlying pages, causing the pageout daemon to deadlock. This change makes the pageout daemon mark these objects so that they don't get merged. * vm/vm_object.c (vm_object_bootstrap): Update template. (vm_object_coalesce): Don't coalesce if an object is used for pageout. * vm/vm_object.h (struct vm_object): New `used_for_pageout` member. * vm/vm_pageout.c (vm_pageout_page): Mark new objects for pageout.
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