because we could fail due to a small buffer and loop and rerun. If this
happens, then the vsnprintf() will have already taken the arguments off
the va_list. For i386 and others, this doesn't matter because the
va_list type is a passed as a copy. But on powerpc and amd64, this is
fatal because the va_list is a reference to an external structure that
keeps the vararg state due to the more complicated argument passing system.
On amd64, arguments can be passed as follows:
First 6 int/pointer type arguments go in registers, the rest go on
the memory stack.
Float and double are similar, except using SSE registers.
long double (80 bit precision) are similar except using the x87 stack.
Where the 'next argument' comes from depends on how many have been
processed so far and what type it is. For amd64, gcc keeps this state
somewhere that is referenced by the va_list.
I found a description that showed the va_copy was required here:
http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/cgi-bin/unixhelp/man-cgi?va_end+9
The single unix spec doesn't mention va_copy() at all.
Anyway, the problem was that the sysctl kern.geom.conf* nodes would panic
due to walking off the end of the va_arg lists in vsnprintf. A better fix
would be to have sbuf_vprintf() use a single pass and call kvprintf()
with a callback function that stored the results and grew the buffer
as needed.
Approved by: re (scottl)
size and the kernel's heap size, specifically, vm_kmem_size. This
function allows a maximum of 40% of the vm_kmem_size to be used for
vnodes and vm objects. This is a conservative bound based upon recent
problem reports. (In other words, a slight increase in this percentage
may be safe.)
Finally, machines with less than ~3GB of RAM should be unaffected
by this change, i.e., the maximum number of vnodes should remain
the same. If necessary, machines with 3GB or more of RAM can increase
the maximum number of vnodes by increasing vm_kmem_size.
Desired by: scottl
Tested by: jake
Approved by: re (rwatson,scottl)
keep the thread state variable consistent with its real state.
i.e. Don't say it's on the run queue when it isn't.
Also clarify the associated comment.
Turns a double panic back to a single panic :-/
Approved by: re@ (jhb)
prime objectives are:
o Implement a syscall path based on the epc inststruction (see
sys/ia64/ia64/syscall.s).
o Revisit the places were we need to save and restore registers
and define those contexts in terms of the register sets (see
sys/ia64/include/_regset.h).
Secundairy objectives:
o Remove the requirement to use contigmalloc for kernel stacks.
o Better handling of the high FP registers for SMP systems.
o Switch to the new cpu_switch() and cpu_throw() semantics.
o Add a good unwinder to reconstruct contexts for the rare
cases we need to (see sys/contrib/ia64/libuwx)
Many files are affected by this change. Functionally it boils
down to:
o The EPC syscall doesn't preserve registers it does not need
to preserve and places the arguments differently on the stack.
This affects libc and truss.
o The address of the kernel page directory (kptdir) had to
be unstaticized for use by the nested TLB fault handler.
The name has been changed to ia64_kptdir to avoid conflicts.
The renaming affects libkvm.
o The trapframe only contains the special registers and the
scratch registers. For syscalls using the EPC syscall path
no scratch registers are saved. This affects all places where
the trapframe is accessed. Most notably the unaligned access
handler, the signal delivery code and the debugger.
o Context switching only partly saves the special registers
and the preserved registers. This affects cpu_switch() and
triggered the move to the new semantics, which additionally
affects cpu_throw().
o The high FP registers are either in the PCB or on some
CPU. context switching for them is done lazily. This affects
trap().
o The mcontext has room for all registers, but not all of them
have to be defined in all cases. This mostly affects signal
delivery code now. The *context syscalls are as of yet still
unimplemented.
Many details went into the removal of the requirement to use
contigmalloc for kernel stacks. The details are mostly CPU
specific and limited to exception_save() and exception_restore().
The few places where we create, destroy or switch stacks were
mostly simplified by not having to construct physical addresses
and additionally saving the virtual addresses for later use.
Besides more efficient context saving and restoring, which of
course yields a noticable speedup, this also fixes the dreaded
SMP bootup problem as a side-effect. The details of which are
still not fully understood.
This change includes all the necessary backward compatibility
code to have it handle older userland binaries that use the
break instruction for syscalls. Support for break-based syscalls
has been pessimized in favor of a clean implementation. Due to
the overall better performance of the kernel, this will still
be notived as an improvement if it's noticed at all.
Approved by: re@ (jhb)
the vnode and restart the loop. Vflush() is vulnerable since it does not
hold a reference to the vnode and it holds no other locks while waiting
for the vnode lock. The vnode will no longer be on the list when the
loop is restarted.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
PT_DETACH ptrace(2) requests from functioning as advertised in the
manual page. As described in kern/35175, the PT_DETACH request will,
under certain circumstances, pass an unwanted signal on to the traced
process upan detaching from it. The PT_CONTINUE request will
sometimes fail if you make it pass a signal that has "properties" that
differ from the properties of the signal that origionally caused the
traced process to be stopped. Since PT_KILL is nothing than
PT_CONTINUE with SIGKILL, it is broken too. In the PT_KILL case, this
leads to an unkillable process.
PR: 44011
Submitted by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Approved by: re(jhb)
netstat(1) not display it for now because its effects are not yet
completely implemented and we're about to cut 5.2-RELEASE.
This is temporary.
Approved by: re (scottl, rwatson)
- Move struct sigacts out of the u-area and malloc() it using the
M_SUBPROC malloc bucket.
- Add a small sigacts_*() API for managing sigacts structures: sigacts_alloc(),
sigacts_free(), sigacts_copy(), sigacts_share(), and sigacts_shared().
- Remove the p_sigignore, p_sigacts, and p_sigcatch macros.
- Add a mutex to struct sigacts that protects all the members of the struct.
- Add sigacts locking.
- Remove Giant from nosys(), kill(), killpg(), and kern_sigaction() now
that sigacts is locked.
- Several in-kernel functions such as psignal(), tdsignal(), trapsignal(),
and thread_stopped() are now MP safe.
Reviewed by: arch@
Approved by: re (rwatson)
don't add the current time to it, but leave it as clear so that when the
timer is disabled, the it_value is always clear.
Reviewed by: bde
Approved by: re (rwatson)
desired buffer is found at one of the roots more than 60% of the time.
Thus, checking both roots before performing either splay eliminates
unnecessary splays on the first tree splayed.
Approved by: re (jhb)
synchronization primitives from inside DDB is generally a bad idea,
and in this case it frequently results in panics due to DDB commands
being executed from the sio fast interrupt context on a serial
console. Replace the locking with a note that a lack of locking
means that DDB may get see inconsistent views of the mount and vnode
lists, which could also result in a panic. More frequently,
though, this avoids a panic than causes it.
Discussed with ages ago: bde
Approved by: re (scottl)
reason for the duplication was that m_freem() was meant to eventually
be optimized to hold the lock of the cache being freed to as long as
possible across frees but the difficulty of implementing said
optimization right now is too high, given that in some cases (see MAC
and non-cluster external buffers), we need to call into other subsytems,
something not permissible when the cache lock is held.
This change minimizes code duplication while keeping at least the
atomic mbuf+cluster free optimization.
Suggested by: luigi
constants in question refer to the number of label slots, not the
maximum number of policies that may be loaded. This should reduce
confusion regarding an element in the MAC sysctl MIB, as well as
make it more clear what the affect of changing the compile-time
constants is.
Approved by: re (jhb)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
(1) Accept that we're now going to use mutexes, so don't attempt
to avoid treating them as mutexes. This cleans up locking
accessor function names some.
(2) Rename variables to _mtx, _cv, _count, simplifying the naming.
(3) Add a new form of the _busy() primitive that conditionally
makes the list busy: if there are entries on the list, bump
the busy count. If there are no entries, don't bump the busy
count. Return a boolean indicating whether or not the busy
count was bumped.
(4) Break mac_policy_list into two lists: one with the same name
holding dynamic policies, and a new list, mac_static_policy_list,
which holds policies loaded before mac_late and without the
unload flag set. The static list may be accessed without
holding the busy count, since it can't change at run-time.
(5) In general, prefer making the list busy conditionally, meaning
we pay only one mutex lock per entry point if all modules are
on the static list, rather than two (since we don't have to
lower the busy count when we're done with the framework). For
systems running just Biba or MLS, this will halve the mutex
accesses in the network stack, and may offer a substantial
performance benefits.
(6) Lay the groundwork for a dynamic-free kernel option which
eliminates all locking associated with dynamically loaded or
unloaded policies, for pre-configured systems requiring
maximum performance but less run-time flexibility.
These changes have been running for a few weeks on MAC development
branch systems.
Approved by: re (jhb)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
does the copyin stuff and then calls the second part kern_sendit to do
the hard work. Don't bother holding Giant during the copyin phase.
The intent of this is to allow the Linux emulator to impliment send*
syscalls without using the stackgap.
argument to the functions shm{at,ctl}1 and shm_find_segment_by_shmid{x}.
The BSD semantics didn't allow the usage of shared segment after
being marked for removal through IPC_RMID.
The patch involves the following functions:
- shmat
- shmctl
- shm_find_segment_by_shmid
- shm_find_segment_by_shmidx
- linux_shmat
- linux_shmctl
Submitted by: Orlando Bassotto <orlando.bassotto@ieo-research.it>
Reviewed by: marcel
trustworthy for vnode-backed objects.
- Restore the old behavior of vm_object_page_remove() when the end
of the given range is zero. Add a comment to vm_object_page_remove()
regarding this behavior.
Reported by: iedowse
double free of a mbuf occurs and cause an immediate panic, rather
than allowing free list corruption to occur.
This code is trapped under INVARIANTS, so it should not cause any
change in default performance.
Reviewed by: a bunch of people on -net
MFC after: 1 week
fini routines instead of in fork() and wait(). This has the nice side
benefit that the proc lock of any process on the allproc list is always
valid and sched_lock doesn't have to be used to test against PRS_NEW
anymore.
uptime. Where necessary, convert it back to Unix time by adding boottime
to it. This fixes a potential problem in the accounting code, which would
compute the elapsed time incorrectly if the Unix time was stepped during
the lifetime of the process.
