The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
requiring the per-process spinlock to only requiring the process lock.
- Reflect these changes in the proc.h documentation and consumers throughout
the kernel. This is a substantial reduction in locking cost for these
fields and was made possible by recent changes to threading support.
uidinfo structure. This entirely removes contention observed on the
ui_mtxp mutex (as it is now gone).
- Convert the uihashtbl_mtx mutex to a rwlock, as most of the time we just
need to read-lock it.
Reviewed by: jhb, jeff, kris & others
Tested by: kris
a jail, etc. by simply calling setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, <PID>, 0) and
checking the return value: 0 means that the process exists and -1 that
it doesn't exist.
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 1 week
While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
maintain a separate td_incruntime to hold unbilled CPU usage for
the thread that has the previous properties of td_runtime.
When thread information is requested using the thread monitoring
sysctls, export thread td_runtime instead of process rusage runtime
in kinfo_proc.
This restores the display of individual ithread and other kernel
thread CPU usage since inception in ps -H and top -SH, as well for
libthr user threads, valuable debugging information lost with the
move to try kthreads since they are no longer independent processes.
There is universal agreement that we should rewrite the process and
thread export sysctls, but this commit gets things going a bit
better in the mean time. Likewise, there are resevations about the
continued validity of statclock given the speed of modern processors.
Reviewed by: attilio, emaste, jhb, julian
kernels exposed by the recent fixes to resource limits for 32-bit processes
on 64-bit kernels:
- Let ABIs expose their maximum stack size via a new pointer in sysentvec
and use that in preference to maxssiz during exec() rather than always
using maxssiz for all processses.
- Apply the ABI's limit fixup to the previous stack size when adjusting
RLIMIT_STACK to determine if the existing mapping for the stack needs to
be grown or shrunk (as well as how much it should be grown or shrunk).
Approved by: re (kensmith)
or idle priority of another process owned by the same user. This means
that privilege in rtprio(2) (and rtprio_thread(2)) is required indirectly
via p_cansched(9) or directly to set realtime/idle privilege, rather than
directly affecting target process authorization.
some cases, move to priv_check() if it was an operation on a thread and
no other flags were present.
Eliminate caller-side jail exception checking (also now-unused); jail
privilege exception code now goes solely in kern_jail.c.
We can't yet eliminate suser() due to some cases in the KAME code where
a privilege check is performed and then used in many different deferred
paths. Do, however, move those prototypes to priv.h.
Reviewed by: csjp
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
This patch fixes places where they should be called atomically changing
their locking requirements (both assume per-proc spinlock held) and
introducing rufetchcalc which wrappers both calls to be performed in
atomic way.
Reviewed by: jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
- Unsafeness on ruadd() in thread_exit()
- Unatomicity of thread_exiit() in the exit1() operations
This patch addresses these problems allocating p_fd as part of the
process and modifying the way it is accessed.
A small chunk of this patch, resolves a race about p_state in kern_wait(),
since we have to be sure about the zombif-ing process.
Submitted by: jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
td_ru. This removes the requirement for per-process synchronization in
statclock() and mi_switch(). This was previously supported by
sched_lock which is going away. All modifications to rusage are now
done in the context of the owning thread. reads proceed without locks.
- Aggregate exiting threads rusage in thread_exit() such that the exiting
thread's rusage is not lost.
- Provide a new routine, rufetch() to fetch an aggregate of all rusage
structures from all threads in a process. This routine must be used
in any place requiring a rusage from a process prior to it's exit. The
exited process's rusage is still available via p_ru.
- Aggregate tick statistics only on demand via rufetch() or when a thread
exits. Tick statistics are kept in the thread and protected by sched_lock
until it exits.
Initial patch by: attilio
Reviewed by: attilio, bde (some objections), arch (mostly silent)
processes under 64-bit kernels). Previously, each 32-bit process overwrote
its resource limits at exec() time. The problem with this approach is that
the new limits affect all child processes of the 32-bit process, including
if the child process forks and execs a 64-bit process. To fix this, don't
ovewrite the resource limits during exec(). Instead, sv_fixlimits() is
now replaced with a different function sv_fixlimit() which asks the ABI to
sanitize a single resource limit. We then use this when querying and
setting resource limits. Thus, if a 32-bit process sets a limit, then
that new limit will be inherited by future children. However, if the
32-bit process doesn't change a limit, then a future 64-bit child will
see the "full" 64-bit limit rather than the 32-bit limit.
MFC is tentative since it will break the ABI of old linux.ko modules (no
other modules are affected).
MFC after: 1 week
- Remove also "MP SAFE" after prior "MPSAFE" pass. (suggested by bde)
- Remove extra blank lines in some cases.
- Add extra blank lines in some cases.
- Remove no-op comments consisting solely of the function name, the word
"syscall", or the system call name.
- Add punctuation.
- Re-wrap some comments.
system calls now enter without Giant held, and then in some cases, acquire
Giant explicitly.
Remove a number of other MPSAFE annotations in the credential code and
tweak one or two other adjacent comments.
PRIO_USER case, possibly also other places that deferences
p_ucred.
In the past, we insert a new process into the allproc list right
after PID allocation, and release the allproc_lock sx. Because
most content in new proc's structure is not yet initialized,
this could lead to undefined result if we do not handle PRS_NEW
with care.
The problem with PRS_NEW state is that it does not provide fine
grained information about how much initialization is done for a
new process. By defination, after PRIO_USER setpriority(), all
processes that belongs to given user should have their nice value
set to the specified value. Therefore, if p_{start,end}copy
section was done for a PRS_NEW process, we can not safely ignore
it because p_nice is in this area. On the other hand, we should
be careful on PRS_NEW processes because we do not allow non-root
users to lower their nice values, and without a successful copy
of the copy section, we can get stale values that is inherted
from the uninitialized area of the process structure.
This commit tries to close the race condition by grabbing proc
mutex *before* we release allproc_lock xlock, and do copy as
well as zero immediately after the allproc_lock xunlock. This
guarantees that the new process would have its p_copy and p_zero
sections, as well as user credential informaion initialized. In
getpriority() case, instead of grabbing PROC_LOCK for a PRS_NEW
process, we just skip the process in question, because it does
not affect the final result of the call, as the p_nice value
would be copied from its parent, and we will see it during
allproc traverse.
Other potential solutions are still under evaluation.
Discussed with: davidxu, jhb, rwatson
PR: kern/108071
MFC after: 2 weeks
set real-time priority on a thread. It looks like this suser(9)
call was introduced after my first pass through replacing superuser
checks with named privilege checks.
Make part of John Birrell's KSE patch permanent..
Specifically, remove:
Any reference of the ksegrp structure. This feature was
never fully utilised and made things overly complicated.
All code in the scheduler that tried to make threaded programs
fair to unthreaded programs. Libpthread processes will already
do this to some extent and libthr processes already disable it.
Also:
Since this makes such a big change to the scheduler(s), take the opportunity
to rename some structures and elements that had to be moved anyhow.
This makes the code a lot more readable.
The ULE scheduler compiles again but I have no idea if it works.
The 4bsd scheduler still reqires a little cleaning and some functions that now do
ALMOST nothing will go away, but I thought I'd do that as a separate commit.
Tested by David Xu, and Dan Eischen using libthr and libpthread.
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.
Sponsored by: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed (at least in part) by: mlaier, jmg, pjd, bde, ceri,
Alex Lyashkov <umka at sevcity dot net>,
Skip Ford <skip dot ford at verizon dot net>,
Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin at laposte dot net>
triggers.
This should eliminate all the trivial messages which result from minor
increases in cpu_tick frequency.
Machines which don't du cpu clock fiddling shouldn't issue "backwards"
messages now.
Laptops and other machines where the initial estimate of cputicks may be
waaaay off will still issue warnings.
a calcru() wrapper that passes a local rusage_ext on the stack that is
a snapshot to do the calculations on. Now we can pass p->p_crux to
calcru1() in calccru() again which fixes the issues with runtime going
backwards messages when dead processes are harvested by init.
Reviewed by: phk
Tested by: Stefan Ehmann shoesoft at gmx dot net
Keep accounting time (in per-cpu) cputicks and the statistics counts
in the thread and summarize into struct proc when at context switch.
Don't reach across CPUs in calcru().
Add code to calibrate the top speed of cpu_tickrate() for variable
cpu_tick hardware (like TSC on power managed machines).
Don't enforce monotonicity (at least for now) in calcru. While the
calibrated cpu_tickrate ramps up it may not be true.
Use 27MHz counter on i386/Geode.
Use TSC on amd64 & i386 if present.
Use tick counter on sparc64
Keep track of time spent by the cpu in various contexts in units of
"cputicks" and scale to real-world microsec^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclock_t
only when somebody wants to inspect the numbers.
For now "cputicks" are still derived from the current timecounter
and therefore things should by definition remain sensible also on
SMP machines. (The main reason for this first milestone commit is
to verify that hypothesis.)
On slower machines, the avoided multiplications to normalize timestams
at every context switch, comes out as a 5-7% better score on the
unixbench/context1 microbenchmark. On more modern hardware no change
in performance is seen.
the raw values including for child process statistics and only compute the
system and user timevals on demand.
- Fix the various kern_wait() syscall wrappers to only pass in a rusage
pointer if they are going to use the result.
- Add a kern_getrusage() function for the ABI syscalls to use so that they
don't have to play stackgap games to call getrusage().
- Fix the svr4_sys_times() syscall to just call calcru() to calculate the
times it needs rather than calling getrusage() twice with associated
stackgap, etc.
- Add a new rusage_ext structure to store raw time stats such as tick counts
for user, system, and interrupt time as well as a bintime of the total
runtime. A new p_rux field in struct proc replaces the same inline fields
from struct proc (i.e. p_[isu]ticks, p_[isu]u, and p_runtime). A new p_crux
field in struct proc contains the "raw" child time usage statistics.
ruadd() has been changed to handle adding the associated rusage_ext
structures as well as the values in rusage. Effectively, the values in
rusage_ext replace the ru_utime and ru_stime values in struct rusage. These
two fields in struct rusage are no longer used in the kernel.
- calcru() has been split into a static worker function calcru1() that
calculates appropriate timevals for user and system time as well as updating
the rux_[isu]u fields of a passed in rusage_ext structure. calcru() uses a
copy of the process' p_rux structure to compute the timevals after updating
the runtime appropriately if any of the threads in that process are
currently executing. It also now only locks sched_lock internally while
doing the rux_runtime fixup. calcru() now only requires the caller to
hold the proc lock and calcru1() only requires the proc lock internally.
calcru() also no longer allows callers to ask for an interrupt timeval
since none of them actually did.
- calcru() now correctly handles threads executing on other CPUs.
- A new calccru() function computes the child system and user timevals by
calling calcru1() on p_crux. Note that this means that any code that wants
child times must now call this function rather than reading from p_cru
directly. This function also requires the proc lock.
- This finishes the locking for rusage and friends so some of the Giant locks
in exit1() and kern_wait() are now gone.
- The locking in ttyinfo() has been tweaked so that a shared lock of the
proctree lock is used to protect the process group rather than the process
group lock. By holding this lock until the end of the function we now
ensure that the process/thread that we pick to dump info about will no
longer vanish while we are trying to output its info to the console.
Submitted by: bde (mostly)
MFC after: 1 month
