These 3 syscalls should now be ready to run w/o KERNEL_LOCK(). This will reduce contention a lot. I'd be happy to hear from test reports on many architectures and possible workloads.
Do not forget to run "make syscalls" before building the kernel. Index: syscalls.master =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/syscalls.master,v retrieving revision 1.234 diff -u -p -r1.234 syscalls.master --- syscalls.master 25 Oct 2022 16:10:31 -0000 1.234 +++ syscalls.master 6 Nov 2022 10:50:45 -0000 @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ struct sigaction *osa); } 47 STD NOLOCK { gid_t sys_getgid(void); } 48 STD NOLOCK { int sys_sigprocmask(int how, sigset_t mask); } -49 STD { void *sys_mmap(void *addr, size_t len, int prot, \ +49 STD NOLOCK { void *sys_mmap(void *addr, size_t len, int prot, \ int flags, int fd, off_t pos); } 50 STD { int sys_setlogin(const char *namebuf); } #ifdef ACCOUNTING @@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ const struct kevent *changelist, int nchanges, \ struct kevent *eventlist, int nevents, \ const struct timespec *timeout); } -73 STD { int sys_munmap(void *addr, size_t len); } -74 STD { int sys_mprotect(void *addr, size_t len, \ +73 STD NOLOCK { int sys_munmap(void *addr, size_t len); } +74 STD NOLOCK { int sys_mprotect(void *addr, size_t len, \ int prot); } 75 STD { int sys_madvise(void *addr, size_t len, \ int behav); }