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remove whole-process swapping
Long before Unix supported paging, it used process swapping to reclaim
memory.  The code is there and in theory it runs when we get *extremely* low
on memory.  In practice, it never runs since the definition of low-on-memory
is antiquated. (XXX: define what antiquated means)
You can check the number of swapout/swapin events with kstats:
$ kstat -p ::vm:swapin ::vm:swapout
remove xhat
The xhat infrastructure was added to support hardware such as the zulu
graphics card - hardware which had on-board MMUs.  The VM used the xhat code
to keep the CPU's and Zulu's page tables in-sync.  Since the only xhat user
was zulu (which is gone), we can safely remove it simplifying the whole VM
subsystem.
Assorted notes:
- AS_BUSY flag was used solely by xhat

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          --- old/usr/src/uts/common/vm/as.h
          +++ new/usr/src/uts/common/vm/as.h
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 118  118          struct seg *a_lastgap;  /* last seg found by as_gap() w/ AS_HI (mmap) */
 119  119          struct seg *a_lastgaphl; /* last seg saved in as_gap() either for */
 120  120                                  /* AS_HI or AS_LO used in as_addseg() */
 121  121          avl_tree_t a_segtree;   /* segments in this address space. (AVL tree) */
 122  122          avl_tree_t a_wpage;     /* watched pages (procfs) */
 123  123          uchar_t a_updatedir;    /* mappings changed, rebuild a_objectdir */
 124  124          timespec_t a_updatetime;        /* time when mappings last changed */
 125  125          vnode_t **a_objectdir;  /* object directory (procfs) */
 126  126          size_t  a_sizedir;      /* size of object directory */
 127  127          struct as_callback *a_callbacks; /* callback list */
 128      -        void *a_xhat;           /* list of xhat providers */
 129  128          proc_t  *a_proc;        /* back pointer to proc */
 130  129          size_t  a_resvsize;     /* size of reserved part of address space */
 131  130  };
 132  131  
 133  132  #define AS_PAGLCK               0x80
 134  133  #define AS_CLAIMGAP             0x40
 135  134  #define AS_UNMAPWAIT            0x20
 136  135  #define AS_NEEDSPURGE           0x10    /* mostly for seg_nf, see as_purge() */
 137  136  #define AS_NOUNMAPWAIT          0x02
 138      -#define AS_BUSY                 0x01    /* needed by XHAT framework */
 139  137  
 140  138  #define AS_ISPGLCK(as)          ((as)->a_flags & AS_PAGLCK)
 141  139  #define AS_ISCLAIMGAP(as)       ((as)->a_flags & AS_CLAIMGAP)
 142  140  #define AS_ISUNMAPWAIT(as)      ((as)->a_flags & AS_UNMAPWAIT)
 143      -#define AS_ISBUSY(as)           ((as)->a_flags & AS_BUSY)
 144  141  #define AS_ISNOUNMAPWAIT(as)    ((as)->a_flags & AS_NOUNMAPWAIT)
 145  142  
 146  143  #define AS_SETPGLCK(as)         ((as)->a_flags |= AS_PAGLCK)
 147  144  #define AS_SETCLAIMGAP(as)      ((as)->a_flags |= AS_CLAIMGAP)
 148  145  #define AS_SETUNMAPWAIT(as)     ((as)->a_flags |= AS_UNMAPWAIT)
 149      -#define AS_SETBUSY(as)          ((as)->a_flags |= AS_BUSY)
 150  146  #define AS_SETNOUNMAPWAIT(as)   ((as)->a_flags |= AS_NOUNMAPWAIT)
 151  147  
 152  148  #define AS_CLRPGLCK(as)         ((as)->a_flags &= ~AS_PAGLCK)
 153  149  #define AS_CLRCLAIMGAP(as)      ((as)->a_flags &= ~AS_CLAIMGAP)
 154  150  #define AS_CLRUNMAPWAIT(as)     ((as)->a_flags &= ~AS_UNMAPWAIT)
 155      -#define AS_CLRBUSY(as)          ((as)->a_flags &= ~AS_BUSY)
 156  151  #define AS_CLRNOUNMAPWAIT(as)   ((as)->a_flags &= ~AS_NOUNMAPWAIT)
 157  152  
 158  153  #define AS_TYPE_64BIT(as)       \
 159  154              (((as)->a_userlimit > (caddr_t)UINT32_MAX) ? 1 : 0)
 160  155  
 161  156  /*
 162  157   * Flags for as_map/as_map_ansegs
 163  158   */
 164  159  #define AS_MAP_NO_LPOOB         ((uint_t)-1)
 165  160  #define AS_MAP_HEAP             ((uint_t)-2)
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 281  276  int     as_map(struct as *as, caddr_t addr, size_t size, int ((*crfp)()),
 282  277                  void *argsp);
 283  278  void    as_purge(struct as *as);
 284  279  int     as_gap(struct as *as, size_t minlen, caddr_t *basep, size_t *lenp,
 285  280                  uint_t flags, caddr_t addr);
 286  281  int     as_gap_aligned(struct as *as, size_t minlen, caddr_t *basep,
 287  282              size_t *lenp, uint_t flags, caddr_t addr, size_t align,
 288  283              size_t redzone, size_t off);
 289  284  
 290  285  int     as_memory(struct as *as, caddr_t *basep, size_t *lenp);
 291      -size_t  as_swapout(struct as *as);
 292  286  int     as_incore(struct as *as, caddr_t addr, size_t size, char *vec,
 293  287                  size_t *sizep);
 294  288  int     as_ctl(struct as *as, caddr_t addr, size_t size, int func, int attr,
 295  289                  uintptr_t arg, ulong_t *lock_map, size_t pos);
 296  290  int     as_pagelock(struct as *as, struct page ***ppp, caddr_t addr,
 297  291                  size_t size, enum seg_rw rw);
 298  292  void    as_pageunlock(struct as *as, struct page **pp, caddr_t addr,
 299  293                  size_t size, enum seg_rw rw);
 300  294  int     as_setpagesize(struct as *as, caddr_t addr, size_t size, uint_t szc,
 301  295                  boolean_t wait);
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