the thread kernel into a garbage collector thread which is started when
the fisrt thread is created (other than the initial thread). This
removes the window of opportunity where a context switch will cause a
thread that has locked the malloc spinlock, to enter the thread kernel,
find there is a dead thread and try to free memory, therefore trying
to lock the malloc spinlock against itself.
The garbage collector thread acts just like any other thread, so
instead of having a spinlock to control accesses to the dead thread
list, it uses a mutex and a condition variable so that it can happily
wait to be signalled when a thread exists.
launching an application into space when someone tries to debug it.
The dead thread list now has it's own link pointer, so use that when
reporting the grateful dead.
- Add support of a thread being listed in the dead thread list as well
as the thread list.
- Add a new thread state to make sigwait work properly. (Submitted by
Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>)
- Add global variable for the garbage collector mutex and condition
variable.
- Delete a couple of prototypes that are no longer required.
- Add a prototype for the garbage collector thread.
realloc functions check for recursion within the malloc code itself. In
a thread-safe library, the single spinlock ensures that no two threads
go inside the protected code at the same time. The thread implementation
is responsible for ensuring that the spinlock does in fact protect malloc.
There was a window of opportunity in which this was not the case. I'll fix
that with a commit RSN.
disks.
* Fix a whole raft of warnings, printf and otherwise.
* Make zalloc work for alpha (just a case of using the right typedef).
* Add some (disabled) malloc debug printing to stand.h.
compact and much better one donated by Matt Dillon. Implement a simple
sbrk() which uses the existing setheap() api.
Remove the custom allocator from the UFS code. It wasn't working quite
right, and it shouldn't be needed with the new allocator.
Fix a serious problem with changing the value of already-existent
environment variables. Don't attempt to modify the supposedly-const
argument to putenv()
Fix an off-by-one sizing error in the zipfs code detected by the new
allocator.
Submitted by: zmalloc from Matt Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
string. From the submitted patch:
Credit for patch: Chris Torek <torek@bsdi.com>
Tod Miller <millert@openbsd.org>
This makes us in line with SunOS 4.1.3_U1, Solaris 2.6, OpenBSD 2.3,
HP-UX 10.20, Irix 5.3. The previous behavior was in line with Ultrix 4.4.
PR: bin/7970
Submitted by: Niall Smart nialls@euristix.ie
Our spinlock implementation allows a particular thread to obtain a lock
multiple times, but release the lock with a single unlock call. Since
we're detecting recursion, we know the lock is already owned by the
current thread in a previous call and must not be released in the
current call. This is really far too dependent on this particular
spinlock implementation, so I've added commented out calls to
THREAD_UNLOCK in the appropriate places. We can activate this code when
spinlock is taught to count each lock operation.
generation was causing unaligned access faults on the Alpha.
I have incremented the devstat version number, since this is an interface
change. You'll need to recompile libdevstat, systat, iostat, vmstat and
rpc.rstatd along with your kernel.
Partially Submitted by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
The functions that were being compiled into the library have been moved to
scsi_all.c.
One warning: Any programs using scsi_start_stop() or scsi_read_write()
that included scsi_da.h but not scsi_all.h will need to be
changed to include scsi_all.h. This doesn't affect
camcontrol, and I don't think it affects any ports, but you
never know.
PR: kern/7969
Reviewed by: gibbs
In some cases replace if (a == null) a = malloc(x); else a =
realloc(a, x); with simple reallocf(a, x). Per ANSI-C, this is
guaranteed to be the same thing.
I've been running these on my system here w/o ill effects for some
time. However, the CTM-express is at part 6 of 34 for the CAM
changes, so I've not been able to do a build world with the CAM in the
tree with these changes. Shouldn't impact anything, but...
===================================
HARP | Host ATM Research Platform
===================================
HARP 3
What is this stuff?
-------------------
The Advanced Networking Group (ANG) at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center,
Inc. (MSCI), as part of its work on the MAGIC Gigabit Testbed, developed
the Host ATM Research Platform (HARP) software, which allows IP hosts to
communicate over ATM networks using standard protocols. It is intended to
be a high-quality platform for IP/ATM research.
HARP provides a way for IP hosts to connect to ATM networks. It supports
standard methods of communication using IP over ATM. A host's standard IP
software sends and receives datagrams via a HARP ATM interface. HARP provides
functionality similar to (and typically replaces) vendor-provided ATM device
driver software.
HARP includes full source code, making it possible for researchers to
experiment with different approaches to running IP over ATM. HARP is
self-contained; it requires no other licenses or commercial software packages.
HARP implements support for the IETF Classical IP model for using IP over ATM
networks, including:
o IETF ATMARP address resolution client
o IETF ATMARP address resolution server
o IETF SCSP/ATMARP server
o UNI 3.1 and 3.0 signalling protocols
o Fore Systems's SPANS signalling protocol
What's supported
----------------
The following are supported by HARP 3:
o ATM Host Interfaces
- FORE Systems, Inc. SBA-200 and SBA-200E ATM SBus Adapters
- FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters
- Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters
o ATM Signalling Protocols
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum ILMI address registration
- FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol
- Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs)
o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model
- RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5"
- RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5"
- RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM"
- RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)"
- Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt,
"A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP"
o ATM Sockets interface
- The file atm-sockets.txt contains further information
What's not supported
--------------------
The following major features of the above list are not currently supported:
o UNI point-to-multipoint support
o Driver support for Traffic Control/Quality of Service
o SPANS multicast and MPP support
o SPANS signalling using Efficient adapters
This software was developed under the sponsorship of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Reviewed (lightly) by: phk
Submitted by: Network Computing Services, Inc.
addresses by default.
Add a knob "icmp_bmcastecho" to "rc.network" to allow this
behaviour to be controlled from "rc.conf".
Document the controlling sysctl variable "net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho"
in sysctl(3).
Reviewed by: dg, jkh
Reminded on -hackers by: Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no>
Host ATM Research Platform (HARP), Network Computing Services, Inc.
This software was developed with the support of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
when it returns NULL to indicate failure, it will also free the memory
that was passed to it, if that was non-null.
This does not change the semantics of realloc.
A second commit will be done to commit the conversion of those places in
the code that can safely use this to avoid memory leaks when confronted
with low memory situations.
Beaten-to-death-but-finally-approved-in: -current
to fork. It is difficult to do real vfork in libc_r, since almost every
operation with file descriptsor changes _thread_fd_table and friends.
popen(3) works much better with this change.
- Fix some style errors I made back in 1995.
- Add a new flavor of the err(3) family, which takes an explicit
errno argument rather than implicitly examining errno. This
will make it easier to use these functions in conjunction with
modern library interfaces that return an errno value explicitly.
backing file for an anonymous (memory based) btree, and I don't think
that any setuid programs actually use it, but it is better to be safe
than sorry. This has been in my tree for a long time, maybe a year or
more...
Inspired by: Similar changes in OpenBSD, if memory serves (like nearly
a year ago)
standard places ("/etc/objformat", ${OBJFORMAT}, argv) for an
indication of the user's preferred object file format. This
consolidates some code that was starting to be duplicated in more
and more places.
Use the new function in ldconfig.
Note: I don't think that gcc should use getobjformat(), even though
it could. The compiler should limit itself to functions that are
widespread, to ease porting and cross-compilation.
the executable file, so it will work for both a.out and ELF format
files. I have split the object format specific code into separate
source files. It's cleaner than it was before, but it's still
pretty crufty.
Don't cheat on your make world for this update. A lot of things
have to be rebuilt for it to work, including the compiler and all
of the profiled libraries.
a port so there is nothing to be done on that side now.
Approved by: jkh
===
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Make this a relese coordinator decision (was Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued)
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 20:23:31 -0700
>decision is, I'll respect it.
Another chance to architect people's principles...I can hardly wait. Seems
quite appropriate for a Sunday - I just need to get one of those collection
plates (and money envelopes) so I can profit, too. :-)
Tcl stays in /usr/src for now, but it needs to be kept up to date; same
for perl. If Jordan doesn't have "setup" (written in tcl) ready for 3.0,
then tcl will be yanked prior to the 3.0 release (and made into a port).
As for the ports tree only supporting the last FreeBSD release, this seems
sensible to me. The "ports" have always been a moving target between releases
and the problem is only going to get worse when we expand to supporting other
processor architectures. In any case, Satoshi is and always has been in charge
of the ports tree and whatever he wants to do with it (within reason :-)) is
his decision.
Does this cover the issue completely? I admit to deleting messages in this
thread with unusual fervor (people have FAR too much time on their hands!).
There's a fair bit of reasoning behind the above, but since everyone is sick
of arguing about this, I'll spare you the analysis.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
and res_* modules in a way that works for ELF. I moved the aliases
out of res_stubs.c and into the individual modules where the entry
points are defined. Weak aliases don't work in ELF unless that is
the case. (Actually, I'm surprised it worked for a.out.)
This should fix the undefined "inet_addr" and related symbols in
various applications that fail to include <arpa/inet.h> or
<resolv.h> as they are supposed to do.
- replaced bogus dependencies of distribution sources on generated
sources by the same ones that bsd.lib.mk would generate if it knew
all the sources. We shoot ourself in the foot by not naming the
generated (included) sources *.h, so we can just put the generated
sources in SRCS.
- replaced -I${.CURDIR} by `-I.'. Here `.' is an alias for ${.OBJDIR}.
-I${.CURDIR} didn't do anything, since ${.CURDIR} is the default in
all cases here (it would be necessary for ""-style includes made from
sources in ${.OBJDIR}.
Don't use `+=' for setting CLEANFILES for the first time.
Added $Id$.
- Fix the README to reflect the new status of the ftp code.
- Change tons of 'if (xxx < 0)' to 'if (xxx == -1)'
- Add two new interface functions
- Fix the Makefile so it actually works (yay!)
Now the manpage is lagging even further behind... :( Next on the todo
list is to clean up the http code.
the diff is attached below. This is done on the 3.0 source-tree.
I have test this on 2.2-stable before, but I don't have a 3.0 machine
right now.
This patch is mainly to make libc support BIG5 encoding, thus add
zh_TW.BIG5 locale to 3.0.
Submitted by: Chen Hsiung Chan <frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw>
static to avoid them trying to use shared libraries before we're
ready. During the initial elf buildworld, the shared loader only
exists in the obj tree, so it can't be used.
are started instead of init (pid = 1). This allows an embedded
implementation quite like VxWorks, with (possibly) a single threaded
program running instead of init. The neat thing is that the same threaded
process can run in a multi-user workstation environment too.
