This fixes some nasty procfs problems for SMP, makes ps(1) run much faster,
and makes ps(1) even less dependent on /proc which will aid chroot and
jails alike.
To disable this facility and revert to previous behaviour:
sysctl -w kern.ps_arg_cache_limit=0
For full details see the current@FreeBSD.org mail-archives.
for over 5 years since we switched to using procfs for kvm_uread().
This cleanup was motivated by recent breakage of the default swap file
(/dev/drum) when swapon() has not been called.
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
Include <machine/ansi.h> so that this file is self-sufficient again.
Rev.1.6 doesn't do this as claimed unless <nlist.h> has nonstandard
pollution.
Cleaned up includes.
This man page may be overdoing the cross references by referencing
man pages that are just links to other pages that are referenced.
kvm_uread() is still completely undocumented in kvm*.3.
<kvm.h> is self-sufficient again.
Moved typedefs and forward struct declarations out of __BEGIN_DECLS/
__END_DECLS.
Don't comment out the prototype for kvm_uread(). This was a 4 year
old kludge for previous breakage of self-sufficiency. The prototypwe
was broken instead.
Fixed bitrot (const poisoning) in the type of kvm_uread().
Fixed order of the declaration of kvm_uread().
fixes a type mismatch in the call to kvm_uread(). The bug has gone
undetected for almost 3 years because kvm_uproc()'s protoype has been
disabled for almost 4 years.
Trust sysctlbyname() to work properly if it succeeds.
Fixed style bugs in revs. 1.19 and 1.22.
loaded systems by retrying the sysctl() with a larger buffer if it
fails with ENOMEM. For good measure, allocate 10% more memory than
sysctl() claims is necessary.
PR: 8275
Reviewed by: David Greenman <dg@freebsd.org>
In some cases replace if (a == null) a = malloc(x); else a =
realloc(a, x); with simple reallocf(a, x). Per ANSI-C, this is
guaranteed to be the same thing.
I've been running these on my system here w/o ill effects for some
time. However, the CTM-express is at part 6 of 34 for the CAM
changes, so I've not been able to do a build world with the CAM in the
tree with these changes. Shouldn't impact anything, but...
know what they're doing if they do that. This will allow ps to use
the kvm_proc.c bits without having access to /dev/mem.
Fix kvm_proc.c to not need /dev/mem for access to argv/envp
are in kvm_uread():
- the setting of errno before checking it in the lseek() was lost.
- EOF handling was lost. kvm_uread() retried forever on EOF. EOF is
not really an error, but report it one as in rev.1.2.
- reporting of errno after a read error was lost.
Fixed style bugs in rev.1.3 and rev.1.12.
Not fixed: errno is not reported after lseek() failures.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
When malloc fails. don't try to memset NULL pointer, it cause core dump
Replace malloc+memset with calloc, theoretically it can do some
optimization of zeroing process internally
Improve error diagnostic
dead kernel debugging. The previous code was a "do nothing".
The most obvious side effect of this is that you can now do things like
this and reasonably expect them to work:
dmesg -M /var/crash/vmcore.3 -N /var/crash/kernel.3
ps -axl -M /var/crash/vmcore.3 -N /var/crash/kernel.3
A good deal of this was lifted from the gdb code to do this, as well as
from NetBSD's libkvm (which has completely different VM macros)
