This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
vm_offset_t is currently unsigned long but should probably be plain
unsigned for i386's to match the choice of minimal types to represent
for fixed-width types in Lite2. Anyway, it shouldn't be assumed
to be unsigned long.
I only fixed the type mismatches that were detected when I changed
vm_offset_t to unsigned. Only pointer type mismatches were detected.
Speed up for vfs_bio -- addition of a routine bqrelse to greatly diminish
overhead for merged cache.
Efficiency improvement for vfs_cluster. It used to do alot of redundant
calls to cluster_rbuild.
Correct the ordering for vrele of .text and release of credentials.
Use the selective tlb update for 486/586/P6.
Numerous fixes to the size of objects allocated for files. Additionally,
fixes in the various pagers.
Fixes for proper positioning of vnode_pager_setsize in msdosfs and ext2fs.
Fixes in the swap pager for exhausted resources. The pageout code
will not as readily thrash.
Change the page queue flags (PG_ACTIVE, PG_INACTIVE, PG_FREE, PG_CACHE) into
page queue indices (PQ_ACTIVE, PQ_INACTIVE, PQ_FREE, PQ_CACHE),
thereby improving efficiency of several routines.
Eliminate even more unnecessary vm_page_protect operations.
Significantly speed up process forks.
Make vm_object_page_clean more efficient, thereby eliminating the pause
that happens every 30seconds.
Make sequential clustered writes B_ASYNC instead of B_DELWRI even in the
case of filesystems mounted async.
Fix a panic with busy pages when write clustering is done for non-VMIO
buffers.
Changed vnodep -> vp for consistency with the rest of the kernel, and
changed iparams -> imgp for brevity.
kern_exec.c:
Explicitly initialized some additional parts of the image_params struct
to avoid bzeroing it. Rewrote the set-id code to reduce the number of
logical tests. The rewrite exposed a mostly benign bug in the algorithm:
traced set-id images would get ktracing disabled even if the set-id didn't
happen for other reasons.
Bruce finally caught this bogon for me, Thank you Bruce !
Due to some part of the VM/buffer/pmap magic doing clustering, this bogon
managed to work better than 99.9% of the time. Amazing.
If You ever again see a weird message from the gzip code, please tell me.
A word of wisdom, don't do this:
| cd /usr/bin
| for i in *
| do
| cp $i /tmp/a
| gzip -9 < /tmp/a > $i
| done
It will compress files with multiple links several times. do it this way:
| cd /usr/bin
| for i in *
| do
| gunzip -f < $i > /tmp/a
| gzip -9 < /tmp/a > $i
| done
- excise some unused code (#if 0'd out - don't want to nuke it yet)
- fix problems with "make depend" - some macros were screwing it up
- get rid of some static local variables
There still seems to be a small reentrancy problem somewhere.
1) cut this up into /sys/sys/inflate.h, sys/kern/inflate.c
sys/kern/ingact_gzip.c
2) make a lot more things static
3) make a lot of globals const
4) make some args const
5) first stage of making globals into a struct (not used yet)
The vm_allocate() call which was introduced between revisions 1.4 and
1.5 of imagact_gzip.c broke things. I have backed that out for the time
being. (Davidg: help please)
WARNING: if you have gzip enabled in your kernel, you must now run
config again, as another source file has been added. Otherwise your
kernel compile will fall over.
This is all still WIP. More commits to come.
Suggestions from: phk.
more weird kinds of a.out than anyone can argue for. This code failed to
load the first 28K of the text-segment, in the case where the first page
of the a.out contains only the a.out-header, and the text is still at 0x0.
Thanks Steven !
the uncompression buffer. Now malloc(M_GZIP) is used for all the Huffman-
tree stuff only. Numbers so far indicate < 15Kb Malloc use + 32 Kb for
the abovementioned buffer while uncompressing.
cleaned up much of the cruft in this thing.
No printf's in the case where things go well.
Gzip-headers can contain filenames and comments (as long as they're
shorter than the page-size.)
I don't think we leak memory, in the "exec/aout" code. I'm not quite sure
about the inflate code yet, but I don't think memory is lost.
Q: Can I add a class M_GZIP to <sys/malloc.h> and bump M_LAST one up
without any thing else needing tweaking ?
Poul-Henning
WARNING: THIS MATERIAL MIGHT GO AWAY!
This material needs the core-groups approval to stay here for the 2.0 release.
If the core-group does not concent to this commit, it will be backed out.
***
It is a non-gpl'ed "unzip" which will allow execution of a.out files which
have been sent through "gzip -9". The idea being saved disk-space.
Just now this code has quality rating: "working prototype".
To compress a file to be used with this, do it exactly this way:
gzip -9 -v < /bin/FOO > /tmp/FOO
remember to chmod /tmp/FOO as needed.
DON'T compress all of you binaries right away ! There are several things
which you should consider first:
1. Using compressed binaries, you use >MUCH< more VM, and thus swap-space.
2. It is slow.
3. It might crash your machine.
Apart from that, I welcome comments...
NB: There is also a change to sys/conf/files, but cvs core-dumped on me,
so it didn't get into the logs or emailed, but the commit seems to have
happended OK.
