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Konstantin Belousov
0fc6daa72d - Fix nullfs vnode reference leak in nullfs_reclaim_lowervp(). The
null_hashget() obtains the reference on the nullfs vnode, which must
  be dropped.

- Fix a wart which existed from the introduction of the nullfs
  caching, do not unlock lower vnode in the nullfs_reclaim_lowervp().
  It should be innocent, but now it is also formally safe.  Inform the
  nullfs_reclaim() about this using the NULLV_NOUNLOCK flag set on
  nullfs inode.

- Add a callback to the upper filesystems for the lower vnode
  unlinking. When inactivating a nullfs vnode, check if the lower
  vnode was unlinked, indicated by nullfs flag NULLV_DROP or VV_NOSYNC
  on the lower vnode, and reclaim upper vnode if so.  This allows
  nullfs to purge cached vnodes for the unlinked lower vnode, avoiding
  excessive caching.

Reported by:	G??ran L??wkrantz <goran.lowkrantz@ismobile.com>
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2013-05-11 11:17:44 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
051a23d4e8 - Constify local path variable for chflagsat().
- Use correct format characters (%lx) for u_long.

This fixes the build broken in r248599.
2013-03-22 07:40:34 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
e948704e4b Implement chflagsat(2) system call, similar to fchmodat(2), but operates on
file flags.

Reviewed by:	kib, jilles
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2013-03-21 22:59:01 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
b4b2596b97 - Make 'flags' argument to chflags(2), fchflags(2) and lchflags(2) of type
u_long. Before this change it was of type int for syscalls, but prototypes
  in sys/stat.h and documentation for chflags(2) and fchflags(2) (but not
  for lchflags(2)) stated that it was u_long. Now some related functions
  use u_long type for flags (strtofflags(3), fflagstostr(3)).
- Make path argument of type 'const char *' for consistency.

Discussed on:	arch
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2013-03-21 22:44:33 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
943c3bb968 Require CAP_SEEK if both O_APPEND and O_TRUNC flags are absent.
In other words we don't require CAP_SEEK if either O_APPEND or O_TRUNC flag is
given, because O_APPEND doesn't allow to overwrite existing data and O_TRUNC
requires CAP_FTRUNCATE already.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2013-03-16 23:19:13 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
d6b2bd0bc9 Style: Whitespace fixes. 2013-03-16 22:37:30 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
1ea67dd9e5 Style: Remove redundant space. 2013-03-16 22:36:24 +00:00
Attilio Rao
89f6b8632c Switch the vm_object mutex to be a rwlock. This will enable in the
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.

The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
  - VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
  - VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
  - VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
  - VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
    (in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
  - The read-mode operations are added:
    VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
    VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
  sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
  using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
  consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
  the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
  versions must be avoided.
  At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
  directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.

The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit.  Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by:	jeff
Reviewed by:	pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with:	alc
Tested by:	pho
2013-03-09 02:32:23 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
6d4e99aaef If the target file already exists, check for the CAP_UNLINKAT capabiity right
on the target directory descriptor, but only if this is renameat(2) and real
target directory descriptor is given (not AT_FDCWD). Without this fix regular
rename(2) fails if the target file already exists.

Reported by:	Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>
Reported by:	Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2013-03-02 09:58:47 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
2609222ab4 Merge Capsicum overhaul:
- Capability is no longer separate descriptor type. Now every descriptor
  has set of its own capability rights.

- The cap_new(2) system call is left, but it is no longer documented and
  should not be used in new code.

- The new syscall cap_rights_limit(2) should be used instead of
  cap_new(2), which limits capability rights of the given descriptor
  without creating a new one.

- The cap_getrights(2) syscall is renamed to cap_rights_get(2).

- If CAP_IOCTL capability right is present we can further reduce allowed
  ioctls list with the new cap_ioctls_limit(2) syscall. List of allowed
  ioctls can be retrived with cap_ioctls_get(2) syscall.

- If CAP_FCNTL capability right is present we can further reduce fcntls
  that can be used with the new cap_fcntls_limit(2) syscall and retrive
  them with cap_fcntls_get(2).

- To support ioctl and fcntl white-listing the filedesc structure was
  heavly modified.

- The audit subsystem, kdump and procstat tools were updated to
  recognize new syscalls.

- Capability rights were revised and eventhough I tried hard to provide
  backward API and ABI compatibility there are some incompatible changes
  that are described in detail below:

	CAP_CREATE old behaviour:
	- Allow for openat(2)+O_CREAT.
	- Allow for linkat(2).
	- Allow for symlinkat(2).
	CAP_CREATE new behaviour:
	- Allow for openat(2)+O_CREAT.

	Added CAP_LINKAT:
	- Allow for linkat(2). ABI: Reuses CAP_RMDIR bit.
	- Allow to be target for renameat(2).

	Added CAP_SYMLINKAT:
	- Allow for symlinkat(2).

	Removed CAP_DELETE. Old behaviour:
	- Allow for unlinkat(2) when removing non-directory object.
	- Allow to be source for renameat(2).

	Removed CAP_RMDIR. Old behaviour:
	- Allow for unlinkat(2) when removing directory.

	Added CAP_RENAMEAT:
	- Required for source directory for the renameat(2) syscall.

	Added CAP_UNLINKAT (effectively it replaces CAP_DELETE and CAP_RMDIR):
	- Allow for unlinkat(2) on any object.
	- Required if target of renameat(2) exists and will be removed by this
	  call.

	Removed CAP_MAPEXEC.

	CAP_MMAP old behaviour:
	- Allow for mmap(2) with any combination of PROT_NONE, PROT_READ and
	  PROT_WRITE.
	CAP_MMAP new behaviour:
	- Allow for mmap(2)+PROT_NONE.

	Added CAP_MMAP_R:
	- Allow for mmap(PROT_READ).
	Added CAP_MMAP_W:
	- Allow for mmap(PROT_WRITE).
	Added CAP_MMAP_X:
	- Allow for mmap(PROT_EXEC).
	Added CAP_MMAP_RW:
	- Allow for mmap(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE).
	Added CAP_MMAP_RX:
	- Allow for mmap(PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC).
	Added CAP_MMAP_WX:
	- Allow for mmap(PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC).
	Added CAP_MMAP_RWX:
	- Allow for mmap(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC).

	Renamed CAP_MKDIR to CAP_MKDIRAT.
	Renamed CAP_MKFIFO to CAP_MKFIFOAT.
	Renamed CAP_MKNODE to CAP_MKNODEAT.

	CAP_READ old behaviour:
	- Allow pread(2).
	- Disallow read(2), readv(2) (if there is no CAP_SEEK).
	CAP_READ new behaviour:
	- Allow read(2), readv(2).
	- Disallow pread(2) (CAP_SEEK was also required).

	CAP_WRITE old behaviour:
	- Allow pwrite(2).
	- Disallow write(2), writev(2) (if there is no CAP_SEEK).
	CAP_WRITE new behaviour:
	- Allow write(2), writev(2).
	- Disallow pwrite(2) (CAP_SEEK was also required).

	Added convinient defines:

	#define	CAP_PREAD		(CAP_SEEK | CAP_READ)
	#define	CAP_PWRITE		(CAP_SEEK | CAP_WRITE)
	#define	CAP_MMAP_R		(CAP_MMAP | CAP_SEEK | CAP_READ)
	#define	CAP_MMAP_W		(CAP_MMAP | CAP_SEEK | CAP_WRITE)
	#define	CAP_MMAP_X		(CAP_MMAP | CAP_SEEK | 0x0000000000000008ULL)
	#define	CAP_MMAP_RW		(CAP_MMAP_R | CAP_MMAP_W)
	#define	CAP_MMAP_RX		(CAP_MMAP_R | CAP_MMAP_X)
	#define	CAP_MMAP_WX		(CAP_MMAP_W | CAP_MMAP_X)
	#define	CAP_MMAP_RWX		(CAP_MMAP_R | CAP_MMAP_W | CAP_MMAP_X)
	#define	CAP_RECV		CAP_READ
	#define	CAP_SEND		CAP_WRITE

	#define	CAP_SOCK_CLIENT \
		(CAP_CONNECT | CAP_GETPEERNAME | CAP_GETSOCKNAME | CAP_GETSOCKOPT | \
		 CAP_PEELOFF | CAP_RECV | CAP_SEND | CAP_SETSOCKOPT | CAP_SHUTDOWN)
	#define	CAP_SOCK_SERVER \
		(CAP_ACCEPT | CAP_BIND | CAP_GETPEERNAME | CAP_GETSOCKNAME | \
		 CAP_GETSOCKOPT | CAP_LISTEN | CAP_PEELOFF | CAP_RECV | CAP_SEND | \
		 CAP_SETSOCKOPT | CAP_SHUTDOWN)

	Added defines for backward API compatibility:

	#define	CAP_MAPEXEC		CAP_MMAP_X
	#define	CAP_DELETE		CAP_UNLINKAT
	#define	CAP_MKDIR		CAP_MKDIRAT
	#define	CAP_RMDIR		CAP_UNLINKAT
	#define	CAP_MKFIFO		CAP_MKFIFOAT
	#define	CAP_MKNOD		CAP_MKNODAT
	#define	CAP_SOCK_ALL		(CAP_SOCK_CLIENT | CAP_SOCK_SERVER)

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by:	Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
Many aspects discussed with:	rwatson, benl, jonathan
ABI compatibility discussed with:	kib
2013-03-02 00:53:12 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
f4d0191b22 Reduce lock scope a little. 2013-03-01 21:57:02 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
f0ad2ecb9c Style. 2013-02-17 11:56:36 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
8e1d51ab40 - Require CAP_FSYNC capability right when opening a file with O_SYNC or O_FSYNC
flags.
- While here simplify check for locking flags.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2013-02-17 11:53:51 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
2ca4998342 Stop translating the ERESTART error from the open(2) into EINTR.
Posix requires that open(2) is restartable for SA_RESTART.

For non-posix objects, in particular, devfs nodes, still disable
automatic restart of the opens. The open call to a driver could have
significant side effects for the hardware.

Noted and reviewed by:	jilles
Discussed with:	bde
MFC after:	2 weeks
2013-02-07 14:53:33 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
4bbe7b0c20 Now that MPSAFE flag is gone, we can arrange code a bit better. 2013-01-31 22:20:05 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
b108953c6f Remove leftover label after Giant removal from VFS. 2013-01-31 22:15:41 +00:00
Ed Schouten
d7259a57bd Remove unused `vfslocked' variable.
I have no idea what this `vfslocked' thing means. I wonder how it ended
up here.
2012-10-22 21:14:26 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
5050aa86cf Remove the support for using non-mpsafe filesystem modules.
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.

The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.

Conducted and reviewed by:	attilio
Tested by:	pho
2012-10-22 17:50:54 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
36c6f3aaae Acquire the rangelock for truncate(2) as well.
Reported and reviewed by:	avg
Tested by:	pho
MFC after:	1 week
2012-10-15 18:15:18 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
55711729f3 - Enforce CAP_MKFIFO on mkfifoat(2), not on mknodat(2). Without this change
mkfifoat(2) was not restricted.
- Introduce CAP_MKNOD and enforce it on mknodat(2).

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-10-01 05:43:24 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
5c3e5c7f03 Require CAP_DELETE on directory descriptor for unlinkat(2).
Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-09-25 21:00:36 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
cffcbad2bf Require CAP_CREATE on directory descriptor for symlinkat(2).
Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-09-25 20:59:12 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
d2e166e654 Require CAP_CREATE on directory descriptor for linkat(2).
Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-09-25 20:58:15 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
1159429db8 O_EXEC flag is not part of the O_ACCMODE mask, check it separately.
If O_EXEC is provided don't require CAP_READ/CAP_WRITE, as O_EXEC
is mutually exclusive to O_RDONLY/O_WRONLY/O_RDWR.

Without this change CAP_FEXECVE capability right is not enforced.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
2012-09-25 20:48:49 +00:00
John Baldwin
e838f09cd0 Reorder the managament of advisory locks on open files so that the advisory
lock is obtained before the write count is increased during open() and the
lock is released after the write count is decreased during close().

The first change closes a race where an open() that will block with O_SHLOCK
or O_EXLOCK can increase the write count while it waits.  If the process
holding the current lock on the file then tries to call exec() on the file
it has locked, it can fail with ETXTBUSY even though the advisory lock is
preventing other threads from succesfully completeing a writable open().

The second change closes a race where a read-only open() with O_SHLOCK or
O_EXLOCK may return successfully while the write count is non-zero due to
another descriptor that had the advisory lock and was blocking the open()
still being in the process of closing.  If the process that completed the
open() then attempts to call exec() on the file it locked, it can fail with
ETXTBUSY even though the other process that held a write lock has closed
the file and released the lock.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	1 month
2012-07-31 18:25:00 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
c5c1199c83 Extend the KPI to lock and unlock f_offset member of struct file. It
now fully encapsulates all accesses to f_offset, and extends f_offset
locking to other consumers that need it, in particular, to lseek() and
variants of getdirentries().

Ensure that on 32bit architectures f_offset, which is 64bit quantity,
always read and written under the mtxpool protection. This fixes
apparently easy to trigger race when parallel lseek()s or lseek() and
read/write could destroy file offset.

The already broken ABI emulations, including iBCS and SysV, are not
converted (yet).

Tested by:	pho
No objections from:	jhb
MFC after:    3 weeks
2012-07-02 21:01:03 +00:00
John Baldwin
cd4ecf3cd2 Further refine the implementation of POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE.
First, extend the changes in r230782 to better handle the common case
of using NOREUSE with sequential reads.  A NOREUSE file descriptor
will now track the last implicit DONTNEED request it made as a result
of a NOREUSE read.  If a subsequent NOREUSE read is adjacent to the
previous range, it will apply the DONTNEED request to the entire range
of both the previous read and the current read.  The effect is that
each read of a file accessed sequentially will apply the DONTNEED
request to the entire range that has been read.  This allows NOREUSE
to properly handle misaligned reads by flushing each buffer to cache
once it has been completely read.

Second, apply the same changes made to read(2) by r230782 and this
change to writes.  This provides much better performance in the
sequential write case as it allows writes to still be clustered.  It
also provides much better performance for misaligned writes.  It does
mean that NOREUSE will be generally ineffective for non-sequential
writes as the current implementation relies on a future NOREUSE
write's implicit DONTNEED request to flush the dirty buffer from the
current write.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-06-19 18:42:24 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
7080f124d2 Now that dupfdopen() doesn't depend on finstall() being called earlier,
indx will never be -1 on error, as none of dupfdopen(), finstall() and
kern_capwrap() modifies it on error, but what is more important none of
those functions install and leave file at indx descriptor on error.

Leave an assert to prove my words.

MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-13 21:38:07 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
3812dcd3de Allocate descriptor number in dupfdopen() itself instead of depending on
the caller using finstall().
This saves us the filedesc lock/unlock cycle, fhold()/fdrop() cycle and closes
a race between finstall() and dupfdopen().

MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-13 21:32:35 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
7f35af0110 - Remove nfp variable that is not really needed.
- Update comment.
- Style nits.

MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-13 21:22:35 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
c64dd3bae1 Remove duplicated code.
MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-13 21:15:01 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
81424ab705 Add missing {.
MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-13 21:13:18 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
85c1550d63 Style.
MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-13 21:11:58 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
baf946221d There is no need to set td->td_retval[0] to -1 on error.
Confirmed by:	jhb
MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-13 21:10:00 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
f3cd980557 Style fixes and simplifications.
MFC after:	1 month
2012-06-11 16:08:03 +00:00
John Baldwin
7ac1b61aac Split the second half of vn_open_cred() (after a vnode has been found via
a lookup or created via VOP_CREATE()) into a new vn_open_vnode() function
and use this function in fhopen() instead of duplicating code from
vn_open_cred() directly.

Tested by:	pho
Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-06-08 18:32:09 +00:00
Gleb Kurtsou
76dcec5d09 Add kern_fhstat(), adjust sys_fhstat() to use it.
Extend kern_getdirentries() to accept uio segflag and optionally return
buffer residue.

Sponsored by:	Google Summer of Code 2011
2012-05-24 08:00:26 +00:00
Jaakko Heinonen
dd952f80bc The value of flags matching VNOVAL can't be supported. Return EOPNOTSUPP
from setfflags() in this case. This fixes the return value of
chflags(path, -1).

Discussed with:	bde
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-04-20 10:08:30 +00:00
Peter Holm
39e77c4c50 Perform the parameter validation before assigning it to a signed int
variable. This fixes the problem seen with readdir(3) fuzzing.

Submitted by:	bde
MFC after:	1 week
2012-03-09 21:31:12 +00:00
Peter Holm
ffae9d4d7c Free up allocated memory used by posix_fadvise(2). 2012-03-08 20:34:13 +00:00
John Baldwin
b47f624183 Add KTR_VFS traces to track modifications to a vnode's writecount. 2012-03-08 20:27:20 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
526d0bd547 Fix found places where uio_resid is truncated to int.
Add the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp, enabled by default. Setting the
sysctl to zero allows to perform the SSIZE_MAX-sized i/o requests from
the usermode.

Discussed with:	bde, das (previous versions)
MFC after:	1 month
2012-02-21 01:05:12 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
c480f781ea Current implementations of sync(2) and syncer vnode fsync() VOP uses
mnt_noasync counter to temporary remove MNTK_ASYNC mount option, which
is needed to guarantee a synchronous completion of the initiated i/o
before syscall or VOP return.  Global removal of MNTK_ASYNC option is
harmful because not only i/o started from corresponding thread becomes
synchronous, but all i/o is synchronous on the filesystem which is
initiated during sync(2) or syncer activity.

Instead of removing MNTK_ASYNC from mnt_kern_flag, provide a local
thread flag to disable async i/o for current thread only. Use the
opportunity to move DOINGASYNC() macro into sys/vnode.h and
consistently use it through places which tested for MNTK_ASYNC.

Some testing demonstrated 60-70% improvements in run time for the
metadata-intensive operations on async-mounted UFS volumes, but still
with great deviation due to other reasons.

Reviewed by:	mckusick
Tested by:	scottl
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-02-06 11:04:36 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
3ab0160340 Avoid LOR between vfs_busy() lock and covered vnode lock on quotaon().
The vfs_busy() is after covered vnode lock in the global lock order, but
since quotaon() does recursive VFS call to open quota file, we usually
end up locking covered vnode after mp is busied in sys_quotactl().

Change the interface of VFS_QUOTACTL(), requiring that mp was unbusied
by fs code, and do not try to pick up vfs_busy() reference in ufs quotaon,
esp. if vfs_busy cannot succeed due to unmount being performed.

Reported and tested by:	pho
MFC after:	1 week
2012-01-08 23:06:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
f427c78b19 Fire a kevent if necessary after seeking on a regular file. This fixes a
case where a kevent would not fire on a regular file if an application read
to EOF and then seeked backwards into the file.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	2 weeks
2011-12-16 20:10:00 +00:00
Eitan Adler
3eb9ab5255 Document a large number of currently undocumented sysctls. While here
fix some style(9) issues and reduce redundancy.

PR:		kern/155491
PR:		kern/155490
PR:		kern/155489
Submitted by:	Galimov Albert <wtfcrap@mail.ru>
Approved by:	bde
Reviewed by:	jhb
MFC after:	1 week
2011-12-13 00:38:50 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
561984be06 Fix a race between getvnode() dereferencing half-constructed file
and dupfdopen().

Reported and tested by:	pho
MFC after:	3 days
2011-11-24 20:34:06 +00:00
Ed Schouten
d3a993d46b Improve *access*() parameter name consistency.
The current code mixes the use of `flags' and `mode'. This is a bit
confusing, since the faccessat() function as a `flag' parameter to store
the AT_ flag.

Make this less confusing by using the same name as used in the POSIX
specification -- `amode'.
2011-11-19 06:35:15 +00:00
John Baldwin
7edec6214e - Split out a kern_posix_fadvise() from the posix_fadvise() system call so
it can be used by in-kernel consumers.
- Make kern_posix_fallocate() public.
- Use kern_posix_fadvise() and kern_posix_fallocate() to implement the
  freebsd32 wrappers for the two system calls.
2011-11-14 18:00:15 +00:00
John Baldwin
936c09ac0f Add the posix_fadvise(2) system call. It is somewhat similar to
madvise(2) except that it operates on a file descriptor instead of a
memory region.  It is currently only supported on regular files.

Just as with madvise(2), the advice given to posix_fadvise(2) can be
divided into two types.  The first type provide hints about data access
patterns and are used in the file read and write routines to modify the
I/O flags passed down to VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE().  These modes are
thus filesystem independent.  Note that to ease implementation (and
since this API is only advisory anyway), only a single non-normal
range is allowed per file descriptor.

The second type of hints are used to hint to the OS that data will or
will not be used.  These hints are implemented via a new VOP_ADVISE().
A default implementation is provided which does nothing for the WILLNEED
request and attempts to move any clean pages to the cache page queue for
the DONTNEED request.  This latter case required two other changes.
First, a new V_CLEANONLY flag was added to vinvalbuf().  This requests
vinvalbuf() to only flush clean buffers for the vnode from the buffer
cache and to not remove any backing pages from the vnode.  This is
used to ensure clean pages are not wired into the buffer cache before
attempting to move them to the cache page queue.  The second change adds
a new vm_object_page_cache() method.  This method is somewhat similar to
vm_object_page_remove() except that instead of freeing each page in the
specified range, it attempts to move clean pages to the cache queue if
possible.

To preserve the ABI of struct file, the f_cdevpriv pointer is now reused
in a union to point to the currently active advice region if one is
present for regular files.

Reviewed by:	jilles, kib, arch@
Approved by:	re (kib)
MFC after:	1 month
2011-11-04 04:02:50 +00:00