While in userland, keep the thread's ucred reference in a shadow
field so that the usual place to store it is NULL.
If DIAGNOSTIC is not set, the thread ucred is kept valid until the next
kernel entry, at which time it is checked against the process cred
and possibly corrected. Produces a BIG speedup in
kernels with INVARIANTS set. (A previous commit corrected it
for the non INVARIANTS case already)
Reviewed by: dillon@freebsd.org
Remove bowrite(), it is now unused.
This is the first step in getting entirely rid of BIO_ORDERED which is
a generally accepted evil thing.
Approved by: mckusick
counter type, as threatened in rev.1.8 (the density doesn't need to
be recorded since it can be derived from other fields). This doesn't
affect binary compatibility, but new utilities won't be able to depend
on the contents of this field because libc/gmon/gmon.c was broken --
it wrote garbage to the spare fields.
Added a history counter type field to struct gmonparam. This breaks
binary compatibility a little, since kgmon wanted to read the whole
struct. Fixed kgmon to only depend on reading the critical earlier
parts of the struct. This should also fix 6+ year old breakage of
binary compatibility when the profrate field was added.
Only initialize the new field in struct gmon for now, so that the
compatibility code for this (in kgmon) gets tested. The compatibility
code has to guesstimate the value. The new field in struct gmonparam
is for the kernel to initialize so that kgmon doesn't have to guess.
deprecated in favor of the POSIX-defined lowercase variants.
o Change all occurrences of NTOHL() and associated marcros in the
source tree to use the lowercase function variants.
o Add missing license bits to sparc64's <machine/endian.h>.
Approved by: jake
o Clean up <machine/endian.h> files.
o Remove unused __uint16_swap_uint32() from i386's <machine/endian.h>.
o Remove prototypes for non-existent bswapXX() functions.
o Include <machine/endian.h> in <arpa/inet.h> to define the
POSIX-required ntohl() family of functions.
o Do similar things to expose the ntohl() family in libstand, <netinet/in.h>,
and <sys/param.h>.
o Prepend underscores to the ntohl() family to help deal with
complexities associated with having MD (asm and inline) versions, and
having to prevent exposure of these functions in other headers that
happen to make use of endian-specific defines.
o Create weak aliases to the canonical function name to help deal with
third-party software forgetting to include an appropriate header.
o Remove some now unneeded pollution from <sys/types.h>.
o Add missing <arpa/inet.h> includes in userland.
Tested on: alpha, i386
Reviewed by: bde, jake, tmm
buffer length, determine if the pointer is to a valid string. Currently,
the only check is whether a '\0' appears in the buffer. This is useful
when pulling in a structure from userland that may contain one or more
strings, and validity testing must be performed on elements of the
structure. When copying normal string arguments, copyinstr() is
expected to be used.
The use of the zone allocator may or may not be overkill.
There is an XXX: over in ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c that jlemon may need
to revisit.
This shaves about 60 bytes of struct vnode which on my laptop means
600k less RAM used for vnodes.
ucontext_t. Forward declare struct __ucontext in <sys/signal.h> and
remove reliance on <sys/ucontext.h> being included.
While I'm here, also hide osigcontext types from userland; suggested
by bde.
Namespace pollution noticed by: Kevin Day <toasty@shell.dragondata.com>
reaquiring it. In the same vein, don't bother dropping the thread cred
when goinf ot userland. We are guaranteed to nned it when we come back,
(which we are guaranteed to do).
Reviewed by: jhb@freebsd.org, bde@freebsd.org (slightly different version)
patch from a year ago: give file flags their own type. This does not
(yet) change the type used by system calls or library functions.
The underlying type was chosen to match what is returned by stat().
break scheduling because negative priorities were most fixed up by
converting kg_pri_user back to the correct type.
Fixed some style bugs in previous commit (non-terminated sentence fragments
and regressions in comments).
Almost all .c files have to include <sys/systm.h> for more than its
declaration of panic(), so little is gained from declaring panic() in
a wrong place. This probably depends on missing garbage collection
of the includes of <sys/systm.h> that were added to get snprintf()
declared for old versions of the ktr macros.
o Modify the system call syntax for extattr_{get,set}_{fd,file}() so
as not to use the scatter gather API (which appeared not to be used
by any consumers, and be less portable), rather, accepts 'data'
and 'nbytes' in the style of other simple read/write interfaces.
This changes the API and ABI.
o Modify system call semantics so that extattr_get_{fd,file}() return
a size_t. When performing a read, the number of bytes read will
be returned, unless the data pointer is NULL, in which case the
number of bytes of data are returned. This changes the API only.
o Modify the VOP_GETEXTATTR() vnode operation to accept a *size_t
argument so as to return the size, if desirable. If set to NULL,
the size will not be returned.
o Update various filesystems (pseodofs, ufs) to DTRT.
These changes should make extended attributes more useful and more
portable. More commits to rebuild the system call files, as well
as update userland utilities to follow.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
sys/time.h:137: integer constant out of range
sys/time.h:137: warning: decimal integer constant is so large that it is unsigned
sys/time.h:153: integer constant out of range
sys/time.h:153: warning: decimal integer constant is so large that it is unsigned
The binary format "bintime" is a 32.64 format, it will go to 64.64
when time_t does.
The bintime format is available to consumers of time in the kernel,
and is preferable where timeintervals needs to be accumulated.
This change simplifies much of the magic math inside the timecounters
and improves the frequency and time precision by a couple of bits.
I have not been able to measure a performance difference which was not
a tiny fraction of the standard deviation on the measurements.
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,
HZ=BIGNUM will strain the assumptions behind timecounters to the
point where they break.
This may or may not help people seeing microuptime() backwards messages.
Make the global timecounter variable volatile, it makes no difference in
the code GCC generates, but it makes represents the intent correctly.
Thanks to: jdp
MFC after: 2 weeks
kern_prot.c. This has apparently been sitting in my local tree for
ages, and has been generating a warning during the building of
kern_prot.o.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
SIOCSIFMAC, which are for the Mandatory Access Control
implementation. This will prevent collisions on the p4 development
branch.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
other threads as well as speed up the interfaces.
To fix the race and accomplish the speedup, remove selholddrop and
pollholddrop. The entire concept is somewhat bogus because holding
the individual struct file pointers offers us no guarantees that
another thread context won't close it on us thereby removing our
access to our own reference.
Selholddrop and pollholddrop also would do multiple locks and unlocks
of mutexes _per-file_ in the fd arrays to be scanned, this needed to
be sped up.
Instead of using selholddrop and pollholddrop, simply hold the
filedesc lock over the selscan and pollscan functions. This should
protect us against close(2)'s on the files as reduce the multiple
lock/unlock pairs per fd into a single lock over the filedesc.
