For software like PostgreSQL and SQLite that sometimes reads sequentially
while also writing sequentially some distance behind with interleaved
syscalls on the same fd, performance is better on UFS if we do
sequential access heuristics separately for reads and writes.
Patch originally by Andrew Gierth in 2008, updated and proposed by me with
his permission.
Reviewed by: mjg, kib, tmunro
Approved by: mjg (mentor)
Obtained from: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25024
Filesystems which want to use it in limited capacity can employ the
VOP_UNLOCK_FLAGS macro.
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21427
the file associated with the given file descriptor.
Reviewed by: kib, asomers
Reviewed by: cem, jilles, brooks (they reviewed previous version)
Discussed with: pjd, and many others
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14567
Flags prevent open(2) and *at(2) vfs syscalls name lookup from
escaping the starting directory. Supposedly the interface is similar
to the same proposed Linux flags.
Reviewed by: jilles (code, previous version of manpages), 0mp (manpages)
Discussed with: allanjude, emaste, jonathan
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17547
- Add macros to allow preinitialization of cap_rights_t.
- Convert most commonly used code paths to use preinitialized cap_rights_t.
A 3.6% speedup in fstat was measured with this change.
Reported by: mjg
Reviewed by: oshogbo
Approved by: sbruno
MFC after: 1 month
Now that CloudABI's sockets API has been changed to be addressless and
only connected socket instances are used (e.g., socket pairs), they have
become fairly similar to pipes. The only differences on CloudABI is that
socket pairs additionally support shutdown(), send() and recv().
To simplify the ABI, we've therefore decided to remove pipes as a
separate file descriptor type and just let pipe() return a socket pair
of type SOCK_STREAM. S_ISFIFO() and S_ISSOCK() are now defined
identically.
The type definitions and constants that were used by COMPAT_CLOUDABI64
are a literal copy of some headers stored inside of CloudABI's C
library, cloudlibc. What is annoying is that we can't make use of
cloudlibc's system call list, as the format is completely different and
doesn't provide enough information. It had to be synced in manually.
We recently decided to solve this (and some other problems) by moving
the ABI definitions into a separate file:
https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi/blob/master/cloudabi.txt
This file is processed by a pile of Python scripts to generate the
header files like before, documentation (markdown), but in our case more
importantly: a FreeBSD system call table.
This change discards the old files in sys/contrib/cloudabi and replaces
them by the latest copies, which requires some minor changes here and
there. Because cloudabi.txt also enforces consistent names of the system
call arguments, we have to patch up a small number of system call
implementations to use the new argument names.
The new header files can also be included directly in FreeBSD kernel
space without needing any includes/defines, so we can now remove
cloudabi_syscalldefs.h and cloudabi64_syscalldefs.h. Patch up the
sources to include the definitions directly from sys/contrib/cloudabi
instead.
If CloudABI processes open files with a set of requested rights that do
not match any of the privileges granted by O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY or O_RDWR,
we'd better fall back to O_RDONLY -- not O_WRONLY.
CloudABI purely operates on file descriptor rights (CAP_*). File
descriptor access modes (O_ACCMODE) are emulated on top of rights.
Instead of accepting the traditional flags argument, file_open() copies
in an fdstat_t object that contains the initial rights the descriptor
should have, but also file descriptor flags that should persist after
opening (APPEND, NONBLOCK, *SYNC). Only flags that don't persist (EXCL,
TRUNC, CREAT, DIRECTORY) are passed in as an argument.
file_open() first converts the rights, the persistent flags and the
non-persistent flags to fflags. It then calls into vn_open(). If
successful, it installs the file descriptor with the requested
rights, trimming off rights that don't apply to the type of
the file that has been opened.
Unlike kern_openat(), this function does not support /dev/fd/*. I can't
think of a reason why we need to support this for CloudABI.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3235
Summary:
CloudABI's readdir() system call could be thought of as a mixture
between FreeBSD's getdents(2) and pread(). Instead of using the file
descriptor offset, userspace provides a 64-bit cloudabi_dircookie_t
continue reading at a given point. CLOUDABI_DIRCOOKIE_START, having
value 0, can be used to return entries at the start of the directory.
The file descriptor offset is not used to store the cookie for the
reason that in a file descriptor centric environment, it would make
sense to allow concurrent use of a single file descriptor.
The remaining space returned by the system call should be filled with a
partially truncated copy of the next entry. The advantage of doing this
is that it gracefully deals with long filenames. If the C library
provides a buffer that is too small to hold a single entry, it can still
extract the directory entry header, meaning that it can retry the read
with a larger buffer or skip it using the cookie.
Test Plan:
This implementation passes the cloudlibc unit tests at:
https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc/tree/master/src/libc/dirent
Reviewers: marcel, kib
Reviewed By: kib
Subscribers: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3226
CloudABI uses a system call interface to modify file attributes that is
more similar to KPI's/FUSE, namely where a stat structure is passed back
to the kernel, together with a bitmask of attributes that should be
changed. This would allow us to update any set of attributes atomically.
That said, I'd rather not go as far as to actually implement it that
way, as it would require us to duplicate more code than strictly needed.
Let's just stick to the combinations that are actually used by
cloudlibc.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd
The file_create() system call can be used to create files of a given
type. Right now it can only be used to create directories and FIFOs. As
CloudABI does not expose filesystem permissions, this system call lacks
a mode argument. Simply use 0777 or 0666 depending on the file type.
Summary:
CloudABI provides access to two different stat structures:
- fdstat, containing file descriptor level status: oflags, file
descriptor type and Capsicum rights, used by cap_rights_get(),
fcntl(F_GETFL), getsockopt(SO_TYPE).
- filestat, containing your regular file status: timestamps, inode
number, used by fstat().
Unlike FreeBSD's stat::st_mode, CloudABI file descriptor types don't
have overloaded meanings (e.g., returning S_ISCHR() for kqueues). Add a
utility function to extract the type of a file descriptor accurately.
CloudABI does not work with O_ACCMODEs. File descriptors have two sets
of Capsicum-style rights: rights that apply to the file descriptor
itself ('base') and rights that apply to any new file descriptors
yielded through openat() ('inheriting'). Though not perfect, we can
pretty safely decompose Capsicum rights to such a pair. This is done in
convert_capabilities().
Test Plan: Tests for these system calls are fairly extensive in cloudlibc.
Reviewers: jonathan, mjg, #manpages
Reviewed By: mjg
Subscribers: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3171
Summary:
Unlike FreeBSD, CloudABI does not use null terminated strings for its
pathnames. Introduce a function called copyin_path() that can be used by
all of the filesystem system calls that use pathnames. This change
already implements the system calls that don't depend on any additional
functionality (e.g., conversion of struct stat).
Also implement the socket system calls that operate on pathnames, namely
the ones used by the C library functions bindat() and connectat(). These
don't receive a 'struct sockaddr_un', but just the pathname, meaning
they could be implemented in such a way that they don't depend on the
size of sun_path. For now, just use the existing interfaces.
Add a missing #include to cloudabi_syscalldefs.h to get this code to
build, as one of its macros depends on UINT64_C().
Test Plan:
These implementations have already been tested in the CloudABI branch on
GitHub. They pass all of the tests.
Reviewers: kib, pjd
Subscribers: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3097
We can map these system calls directly to the FreeBSD counterparts. The
other filesystem related system calls will be sent out for review
separately, as they are a bit more complex to get right.
CloudABI is a pure capability-based runtime environment for UNIX. It
works similar to Capsicum, except that processes already run in
capabilities mode on startup. All functionality that conflicts with this
model has been omitted, making it a compact binary interface that can be
supported by other operating systems without too much effort.
CloudABI is 'secure by default'; the idea is that it should be safe to
run arbitrary third-party binaries without requiring any explicit
hardware virtualization (Bhyve) or namespace virtualization (Jails). The
rights of an application are purely determined by the set of file
descriptors that you grant it on startup.
The datatypes and constants used by CloudABI's C library (cloudlibc) are
defined in separate files called syscalldefs_mi.h (pointer size
independent) and syscalldefs_md.h (pointer size dependent). We import
these files in sys/contrib/cloudabi and wrap around them in
cloudabi*_syscalldefs.h.
We then add stubs for all of the system calls in sys/compat/cloudabi or
sys/compat/cloudabi64, depending on whether the system call depends on
the pointer size. We only have nine system calls that depend on the
pointer size. If we ever want to support 32-bit binaries, we can simply
add sys/compat/cloudabi32 and implement these nine system calls again.
The next step is to send in code reviews for the individual system call
implementations, but also add a sysentvec, to allow CloudABI executabled
to be started through execve().
More information about CloudABI:
- GitHub: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc
- Talk at BSDCan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdF84x1EdA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2848
Reviewed by: emaste, brooks
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd
