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.
race where a thread could assume that a process was swapped in by
PHOLD() when it actually wasn't fully swapped in yet.
- In faultin(), always msleep() if PS_SWAPPINGIN is set instead of doing
this check after bumping p_lock in the PS_INMEM == 0 case. Also,
sched_lock is only needed for setting and clearning swapping PS_*
flags and the swap thread inhibitor.
- Don't set and clear the thread swap inhibitor in the same loops as the
pmap_swapin/out_thread() since we have to do it under sched_lock.
Instead, mimic the treatment of the PS_INMEM flag and use separate loops
to set the inhibitors when clearing PS_INMEM and clear the inhibitors
when setting PS_INMEM.
- swapout() now returns with the proc lock held as it holds the lock
while adjusting the swapping-related PS_* flags so that the proc lock
can be used to test those flags.
- Only use the proc lock to check the swapping-related PS_* flags in
several places.
- faultin() no longer requires sched_lock to be held by callers.
- Rename PS_SWAPPING to PS_SWAPPINGOUT to be less ambiguous now that we
have PS_SWAPPINGIN.
printed out needs a prefix such as when a thread is blocked on a lock.
- Use another local variable to close another race for the td_wmesg and
td_wchan members of struct thread.
on my system where I preload msdosfs and have it in my kernel.
There's likely another bug that's causing msdosfs_init() to be called
multiple times, but this makes that harmless.
a follow on commit to kern_sig.c
- signotify() now operates on a thread since unmasked pending signals are
stored in the thread.
- PS_NEEDSIGCHK moves to TDF_NEEDSIGCHK.
flexible process_fork, process_exec, and process_exit eventhandlers. This
reduces code duplication and also means that I don't have to go duplicate
the eventhandler locking three more times for each of at_fork, at_exec, and
at_exit.
Reviewed by: phk, jake, almost complete silence on arch@
fifo_open() waiting for another reader or writer if one arrived and
departed while we were waiting (or a little earlier).
Rev.1.79 broke blocking opens of fifos by making them time out after 1
second. This was bad for at least apsfilter.
Tested by: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>,
Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>,
phk
MFC after: 4 weeks
to avoid a "locking against myself" panic when udf_hashins() tries
to lock it again. Lock the vnode in udf_hashins() before adding it to
the hash bucket.
- Create a new function bdone() which sets B_DONE and calls wakup(bp). This
is suitable for use as b_iodone for buf consumers who are not going
through the buf cache.
- Create a new function bwait() which waits for the buf to be done at a set
priority and with a specific wmesg.
- Replace several cases where the above functionality was implemented
without locking with the new functions.
closely what function is really doing. Update all existing consumers
to use the new name.
Introduce a new vfs_stdsync function, which iterates over mount
point's vnodes and call FSYNC on each one of them in turn.
Make nwfs and smbfs use this new function instead of rolling their
own identical sync implementations.
Reviewed by: jeff
occurs when mounting the filesystem. The problem is that venus issues
the mount() syscall, which calls vfs_mount(), which calls coda_root()
which attempts to communicate with venus.
- Define one flag GB_LOCK_NOWAIT that tells getblk() to pass the LK_NOWAIT
flag to the initial BUF_LOCK(). This will eventually be used in cases
were we want to use a buffer only if it is not currently in use.
- Convert all consumers of the getblk() api to use this extra parameter.
Reviwed by: arch
Not objected to by: mckusick
Remove extraneous uses of vop_null, instead defering to the default op.
Rename vnode type "vfs" to the more descriptive "syncer".
Fix formatting for various filesystems that use vop_print.
branches:
Initialize struct cdevsw using C99 sparse initializtion and remove
all initializations to default values.
This patch is automatically generated and has been tested by compiling
LINT with all the fields in struct cdevsw in reverse order on alpha,
sparc64 and i386.
Approved by: re(scottl)
One of the vnodes is on different mount and is possibly on a different
kind of filesystem; treating it as an smbfs vnode then writing to it
will probably corrupt it.
PR: 48381
MFC after: 1 month
that is protected by the vnode lock.
- Move B_SCANNED into b_vflags and call it BV_SCANNED.
- Create a vop_stdfsync() modeled after spec's sync.
- Replace spec_fsync, msdos_fsync, and hpfs_fsync with the stdfsync and some
fs specific processing. This gives all of these filesystems proper
behavior wrt MNT_WAIT/NOWAIT and the use of the B_SCANNED flag.
- Annotate the locking in buf.h
prevent the compiler from optimizing assignments into byte-copy
operations which might make access to the individual fields non-atomic.
Use the individual fields throughout, and don't bother locking them with
Giant: it is no longer needed.
Inspired by: tjr
kind of pseudofs-based filesystem. Fixes (at least) one problem where
when procfs is mounted mupltiple times, trying to unmount one will often
cause the wrong one to get unmounted, and other problem where mounting
one procfs on top of another caused the kernel to lock up.
Reviewed by: des
was used to control code which were conditional on DEVFS' precense
since this avoided the need for large-scale source pollution with
#include "opt_geom.h"
Now that we approach making DEVFS standard, replace these tests
with an #ifdef to facilitate mechanical removal once DEVFS becomes
non-optional.
No functional change by this commit.
NULL. union_whiteout() expects the componentname argument to be non-NULL.
Fixes a NULL dereference panic when an existing union mount becomes the
upper layer of a new union mount.
access its controlling terminal.
In essense, history dictates that any process is allowed to open
/dev/tty for RW, irrespective of credential, because by definition
it is it's own controlling terminal.
Before DEVFS we relied on a hacky half-device thing (kern/tty_tty.c)
which did the magic deep down at device level, which at best was
disgusting from an architectural point of view.
My first shot at this was to use the cloning mechanism to simply
give people the right tty when they ask for /dev/tty, that's why
you get this, slightly counter intuitive result:
syv# ls -l /dev/tty `tty`
crw--w---- 1 u1 tty 5, 0 Jan 13 22:14 /dev/tty
crw--w---- 1 u1 tty 5, 0 Jan 13 22:14 /dev/ttyp0
Trouble is, when user u1 su(1)'s to user u2, he cannot open
/dev/ttyp0 anymore because he doesn't have permission to do so.
The above fix allows him to do that.
The interesting side effect is that one was previously only able
to access the controlling tty by indirection:
date > /dev/tty
but not by name:
date > `tty`
This is now possible, and that feels a lot more like DTRT.
PR: 46635
MFC candidate: could be.
pointer types, and remove a huge number of casts from code using it.
Change struct xfile xf_data to xun_data (ABI is still compatible).
If we need to add a #define for f_data and xf_data we can, but I don't
think it will be necessary. There are no operational changes in this
commit.
Previously all filesystems which relied on specfs to do devices
would have private overrides for vop_std*, so the vop_no* overrides
here had no effect. I overlooked the transitive nature of the vop
vectors when I removed the vop_std* in those filesystems.
Removing the override here restores device node locking to it's
previous modus operandi.
Spotted by: bde
to sort out disk-io from file-io in the vm/buffer/filesystem space.
The intent is to sort VOP_STRATEGY calls into those which operate
on "real" vnodes and those which operate on VCHR vnodes. For
the latter kind, the call will be changed to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY,
possibly conditionally for those places where dual-use happens.
Add a default VOP_SPECSTRATEGY method which will call the normal
VOP_STRATEGY. First time it is called it will print debugging
information. This will only happen if a normal vnode is passed
to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY by mistake.
Add a real VOP_SPECSTRATEGY in specfs, which does what VOP_STRATEGY
does on a VCHR vnode today.
Add a new VOP_STRATEGY method in specfs to catch instances where
the conversion to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY has not yet happened. Handle
the request just like we always did, but first time called print
debugging information.
Apart up to two instances of console messages per boot, this amounts
to a glorified no-op commit.
If you get any of the messages on your console I would very much
like a copy of them mailed to phk@freebsd.org
kern/vfs_defaults.c it is wrong for the individual filesystems to use
the std* functions as that prevents override of the default.
Found by: src/tools/tools/vop_table
here. It manifests itself by sendmail hanging in "fifoow" during
boot on a diskless machine with sendmail disabled.
Giving the sleep a 1sec timout breaks the deadlock, but does not solve
the underlying problem.
XXX comment applied.
busy and we are making progress towards making them not busy. This is
needed because smbfs vnodes reference their parent directory but may
appear after their parent in the mount's vnode list; one pass over the
list is not sufficient in this case.
This stops attempts to unmount idle smbfs mounts failing with EBUSY.
not to the parent's smbnode, which may be freed during the lifetime
of the child if the mount is forcibly unmounted. umount -f should now
work properly (ie. not panic) on smbfs mounts.
unused. Replace it with a dm_mount back-pointer to the struct mount
that the devfs_mount is associated with. Export that pointer to MAC
Framework entry points, where all current policies don't use the
pointer. This permits the SEBSD port of SELinux's FLASK/TE to compile
out-of-the-box on 5.0-CURRENT with full file system labeling support.
Approved by: re (murray)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
checking for "path == NULL" (like ffs) rather than MNT_ROOT. Otherwise
when you try and do an update or mountd does an NFS export, the remount
fails because the code tries to mount a fresh rootfs and gets an EBUSY.
The same bug is in 4.x (which is where I found it).
Sanity check by: mux
has a valid b_iocmd. Valid is any one of BIO_{READ,WRITE,DELETE}.
I have seen at least one case where the bio_cmd field was zero once the
request made it into GEOM. Putting the KASSERT here allows us to spot
the culprit in the backtrace.
terminating zero (it was treated as length missmatch). The mtools create
such slots if the name len is the product of 13 (max number of unicode
chars fitting in directory slot).
MFC after: 1 week
"refreshing" the label on the vnode before use, just get the label
right from inception. For single-label file systems, set the label
in the generic VFS getnewvnode() code; for multi-label file systems,
leave the labeling up to the file system. With UFS1/2, this means
reading the extended attribute during vfs_vget() as the inode is
pulled off disk, rather than hitting the extended attributes
frequently during operations later, improving performance. This
also corrects sematics for shared vnode locks, which were not
previously present in the system. This chances the cache
coherrency properties WRT out-of-band access to label data, but in
an acceptable form. With UFS1, there is a small race condition
during automatic extended attribute start -- this is not present
with UFS2, and occurs because EAs aren't available at vnode
inception. We'll introduce a work around for this shortly.
Approved by: re
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
check for and/or report I/O errors. The result is that a VFS_SYNC
or VOP_FSYNC called with MNT_WAIT could loop infinitely on ufs in
the presence of a hard error writing a disk sector or in a filesystem
full condition. This patch ensures that I/O errors will always be
checked and returned. This patch also ensures that every call to
VFS_SYNC or VOP_FSYNC with MNT_WAIT set checks for and takes
appropriate action when an error is returned.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
that works in the new threaded kernel. It was commented out of
the disksort routine earlier this year for the reasons given in
kern/subr_disklabel.c (which is where this code used to reside
before it moved to kern/subr_disk.c):
----------------------------
revision 1.65
date: 2002/04/22 06:53:20; author: phk; state: Exp; lines: +5 -0
Comment out Kirks io-request priority hack until we can do this in a
civilized way which doesn't cause grief.
The problem is that it is not generally safe to cast a "struct bio
*" to a "struct buf *". Things like ccd, vinum, ata-raid and GEOM
constructs bio's which are not entrails of a struct buf.
Also, curthread may or may not have anything to do with the I/O request
at hand.
The correct solution can either be to tag struct bio's with a
priority derived from the requesting threads nice and have disksort
act on this field, this wouldn't address the "silly-seek syndrome"
where two equal processes bang the diskheads from one edge to the
other of the disk repeatedly.
Alternatively, and probably better: a sleep should be introduced
either at the time the I/O is requested or at the time it is completed
where we can be sure to sleep in the right thread.
The sleep also needs to be in constant timeunits, 1/hz can be practicaly
any sub-second size, at high HZ the current code practically doesn't
do anything.
----------------------------
As suggested in this comment, it is no longer located in the disk sort
routine, but rather now resides in spec_strategy where the disk operations
are being queued by the thread that is associated with the process that
is really requesting the I/O. At that point, the disk queues are not
visible, so the I/O for positively niced processes is always slowed
down whether or not there is other activity on the disk.
On the issue of scaling HZ, I believe that the current scheme is
better than using a fixed quantum of time. As machines and I/O
subsystems get faster, the resolution on the clock also rises.
So, ten years from now we will be slowing things down for shorter
periods of time, but the proportional effect on the system will
be about the same as it is today. So, I view this as a feature
rather than a drawback. Hence this patch sticks with using HZ.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
that use it. Specifically, vop_stdlock uses the lock pointed to by
vp->v_vnlock. By default, getnewvnode sets up vp->v_vnlock to
reference vp->v_lock. Filesystems that wish to use the default
do not need to allocate a lock at the front of their node structure
(as some still did) or do a lockinit. They can simply start using
vn_lock/VOP_UNLOCK. Filesystems that wish to manage their own locks,
but still use the vop_stdlock functions (such as nullfs) can simply
replace vp->v_vnlock with a pointer to the lock that they wish to
have used for the vnode. Such filesystems are responsible for
setting the vp->v_vnlock back to the default in their vop_reclaim
routine (e.g., vp->v_vnlock = &vp->v_lock).
In theory, this set of changes cleans up the existing filesystem
lock interface and should have no function change to the existing
locking scheme.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
devfs VOP symlink creation by introducing a new entry point to determine
the label of the devfs_dirent prior to allocation of a vnode for the
symlink.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
on a process's pending signals, use the signal queue flattener,
ksiginfo_to_sigset_t, on the process, and on a local sigset_t, and then work
with that as needed.
gets signals operating based on a TailQ, and is good enough to run X11,
GNOME, and do job control. There are some intricate parts which could be
more refined to match the sigset_t versions, but those require further
evaluation of directions in which our signal system can expand and contract
to fit our needs.
After this has been in the tree for a while, I will make in kernel API
changes, most notably to trapsignal(9) and sendsig(9), to use ksiginfo
more robustly, such that we can actually pass information with our
(queued) signals to the userland. That will also result in using a
struct ksiginfo pointer, rather than a signal number, in a lot of
kern_sig.c, to refer to an individual pending signal queue member, but
right now there is no defined behaviour for such.
CODAFS is unfinished in this regard because the logic is unclear in
some places.
Sponsored by: New Gold Technology
Reviewed by: bde, tjr, jake [an older version, logic similar]
that a particular device driver is not Giant-challenged.
SPECFS will DROP_GIANT() ... PICKUP_GIANT() around calls to the
driver in question.
Notice that the interrupt path is not affected by this!
This does _NOT_ work for drivers accessed through cdevsw->d_strategy()
ie drivers for disk(-like), some tapes, maybe others.
/h/des/src/sys/coda/coda_venus.c: In function `venus_ioctl':
/h/des/src/sys/coda/coda_venus.c:277: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
different size
/h/des/src/sys/coda/coda_venus.c:292: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
different size
/h/des/src/sys/coda/coda_venus.c: In function `venus_readlink':
/h/des/src/sys/coda/coda_venus.c:380: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
different size
/h/des/src/sys/coda/coda_venus.c: In function `venus_readdir':
/h/des/src/sys/coda/coda_venus.c:637: warning: cast from pointer to integer of
different size
Submitted by: des-alpha-tinderbox
implement worthful VOP_BMAP() handler, so it expect the blkno not to be
changed by VOP_BMAP(). Otherwise, it'll have to find some tricky way to
determine if bp was VOP_BMAP()ed or not in VOP_STRATEGY().
PR: kern/42139
unlocked accesses to v_usecount.
- Lock access to the buf lists in the various sync routines. interlock
locking could be avoided almost entirely in leaf filesystems if the
fsync function had a generic helper.
constants VM_MIN_ADDRESS, VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS, USRSTACK and PS_STRINGS.
This is mainly so that they can be variable even for the native abi, based
on different machine types. Get stack protections from the sysentvec too.
This makes it trivial to map the stack non-executable for certain abis, on
machines that support it.
wasn't doing. Rather than just lock and unlock the vnode around the call
to VOP_FSYNC(), implement rwatson's suggestion to lock the file vnode
in kern_link() before calling VOP_LINK(), since the other filesystems
also locked the file vnode right away in their link methods. Remove the
locking and and unlocking from the leaf filesystem link methods.
Reviewed by: rwatson, bde (except for the unionfs_link() changes)
file servers fail to do it in the right way.
New NFLUSHWIRE flag marks pending flush request(s).
NB: not all cases covered by this commit.
Obtained from: Darwin
v_tag is now const char * and should only be used for debugging.
Additionally:
1. All users of VT_NTS now check vfsconf->vf_type VFCF_NETWORK
2. The user of VT_PROCFS now checks for the new flag VV_PROCDEP, which
is propagated by pseudofs to all child vnodes if the fs sets PFS_PROCDEP.
Suggested by: phk
Reviewed by: bde, rwatson (earlier version)
s/SNGL/SINGLE/
s/SNGLE/SINGLE/
Fix abbreviation for P_STOPPED_* etc flags, in original code they were
inconsistent and difficult to distinguish between them.
Approved by: julian (mentor)
accept an 'active_cred' argument reflecting the credential of the thread
initiating the ioctl operation.
- Change fo_ioctl() to accept active_cred; change consumers of the
fo_ioctl() interface to generally pass active_cred from td->td_ucred.
- In fifofs, initialize filetmp.f_cred to ap->a_cred so that the
invocations of soo_ioctl() are provided access to the calling f_cred.
Pass ap->a_td->td_ucred as the active_cred, but note that this is
required because we don't yet distinguish file_cred and active_cred
in invoking VOP's.
- Update kqueue_ioctl() for its new argument.
- Update pipe_ioctl() for its new argument, pass active_cred rather
than td_ucred to MAC for authorization.
- Update soo_ioctl() for its new argument.
- Update vn_ioctl() for its new argument, use active_cred rather than
td->td_ucred to authorize VOP_IOCTL() and the associated VOP_GETATTR().
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
fo_read() and fo_write(): explicitly use the cred argument to fo_poll()
as "active_cred" using the passed file descriptor's f_cred reference
to provide access to the file credential. Add an active_cred
argument to fo_stat() so that implementers have access to the active
credential as well as the file credential. Generally modify callers
of fo_stat() to pass in td->td_ucred rather than fp->f_cred, which
was redundantly provided via the fp argument. This set of modifications
also permits threads to perform these operations on behalf of another
thread without modifying their credential.
Trickle this change down into fo_stat/poll() implementations:
- badfo_poll(), badfo_stat(): modify/add arguments.
- kqueue_poll(), kqueue_stat(): modify arguments.
- pipe_poll(), pipe_stat(): modify/add arguments, pass active_cred to
MAC checks rather than td->td_ucred.
- soo_poll(), soo_stat(): modify/add arguments, pass fp->f_cred rather
than cred to pru_sopoll() to maintain current semantics.
- sopoll(): moidfy arguments.
- vn_poll(), vn_statfile(): modify/add arguments, pass new arguments
to vn_stat(). Pass active_cred to MAC and fp->f_cred to VOP_POLL()
to maintian current semantics.
- vn_close(): rename cred to file_cred to reflect reality while I'm here.
- vn_stat(): Add active_cred and file_cred arguments to vn_stat()
and consumers so that this distinction is maintained at the VFS
as well as 'struct file' layer. Pass active_cred instead of
td->td_ucred to MAC and to VOP_GETATTR() to maintain current semantics.
- fifofs: modify the creation of a "filetemp" so that the file
credential is properly initialized and can be used in the socket
code if desired. Pass ap->a_td->td_ucred as the active
credential to soo_poll(). If we teach the vnop interface about
the distinction between file and active credentials, we would use
the active credential here.
Note that current inconsistent passing of active_cred vs. file_cred to
VOP's is maintained. It's not clear why GETATTR would be authorized
using active_cred while POLL would be authorized using file_cred at
the file system level.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
these in the main filesystems. This does not change the resulting code
but makes the source a little bit more grepable.
Sponsored by: DARPA and NAI Labs.
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.
Idea stolen from: BSD/OS
embedded into their file_entry descriptor. This is more for
correctness, since these files cannot be bmap'ed/mmap'ed anyways.
Enforce this restriction.
Submitted by: tes@sgi.com
kernel access control.
Teach devfs how to respond to pathconf() _POSIX_MAC_PRESENT queries,
allowing it to indicate to user processes that individual vnode labels
are available.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
kernel access control.
Modify procfs so that (when mounted multilabel) it exports process MAC
labels as the vnode labels of procfs vnodes associated with processes.
Approved by: des
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
kernel access control.
Modify pseudofs so that it can support synthetic file systems with
the multilabel flag set. In particular, implement vop_refreshlabel()
as pn_refreshlabel(). Implement pfs_refreshlabel() to invoke this,
and have it fall back to the mount label if the file system does
not implement pn_refreshlabel() for the node. Otherwise, permit
the file system to determine how the service is provided.
Approved by: des
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
kernel access control.
Instrument devfs to support per-dirent MAC labels. In particular,
invoke MAC framework when devfs directory entries are instantiated
due to make_dev() and related calls, and invoke the MAC framework
when vnodes are instantiated from these directory entries. Implement
vop_setlabel() for devfs, which pushes the label update into the
devfs directory entry for semi-persistant store. This permits the MAC
framework to assign labels to devices and directories as they are
instantiated, and export access control information via devfs vnodes.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
except for the fact tha they are presently swapped out. Also add a process
flag to indicate that the process has started the struggle to swap
back in. This will be needed for the case where multiple threads
start the swapin action top a collision. Also add code to stop
a process fropm being swapped out if one of the threads in this
process is actually off running on another CPU.. that might hurt...
Submitted by: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
ruleset. If we do, that means there's a ruleset loop (10 includes 20
include 30 includes 10), which will quickly cause a double fault due
to stack overflow (since "include" is implemented by recursion).
(Previously, we only checked that X didn't include X.)
administrator to define certain properties of new devfs nodes before
they become visible to the userland. Both static (e.g., /dev/speaker)
and dynamic (e.g., /dev/bpf*, some removable devices) nodes are
supported. Each DEVFS mount may have a different ruleset assigned to
it, permitting different policies to be implemented for things like
jails.
Approved by: phk
- Initialize lock structure in vncache_alloc
- Return locked vnodes from vncache_alloc
- Setup vnode op vectors to use default lock, unlock, and islocked
- Implement simple locking scheme required for lookup
The ability to schedule multiple threads per process
(one one cpu) by making ALL system calls optionally asynchronous.
to come: ia64 and power-pc patches, patches for gdb, test program (in tools)
Reviewed by: Almost everyone who counts
(at various times, peter, jhb, matt, alfred, mini, bernd,
and a cast of thousands)
NOTE: this is still Beta code, and contains lots of debugging stuff.
expect slight instability in signals..
adding vnode to hash. The fix is to use atomic hash-lookup-and-add-if-
not-found operation. The odd thing is that this race can't happen
actually because the lowervp vnode is locked exclusively now during the
whole process of null node creation. This must be thought as a step
toward shared lookups.
Also remove vp->v_mount checks when looking for a match in the hash,
as this is the vestige.
Also add comments and cosmetic changes.
