usermode, using shared page. The structures and functions have vdso
prefix, to indicate the intended location of the code in some future.
The versioned per-algorithm data is exported in the format of struct
vdso_timehands, which mostly repeats the content of in-kernel struct
timehands. Usermode reading of the structure can be lockless.
Compatibility export for 32bit processes on 64bit host is also
provided. Kernel also provides usermode with indication about
currently used timecounter, so that libc can fall back to syscall if
configured timecounter is unknown to usermode code.
The shared data updates are initiated both from the tc_windup(), where
a fast task is queued to do the update, and from sysctl handlers which
change timecounter. A manual override switch
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime allows to turn off the mechanism.
Only x86 architectures export the real algorithm data, and there, only
for tsc timecounter. HPET counters page could be exported as well, but
I prefer to not further glue the kernel and libc ABI there until
proper vdso-based solution is developed.
Minimal stubs neccessary for non-x86 architectures to still compile
are provided.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: flo
MFC after: 1 month
to an OBJT_VNODE-specific field of the vm object. The same
information can be just as easily obtained from the struct vattr that
is in struct image_params if the latter is passed to
elf*_load_section(). Moreover, by replacing the vmspace and vm
object parameters to elf*_load_section() with a struct image_params
parameter, we actually reduce the size of the object code.
In collaboration with: kib
won't happen before 9.0. This commit adds "#ifdef RACCT" around all the
"PROC_LOCK(p); racct_whatever(p, ...); PROC_UNLOCK(p)" instances, in order
to avoid useless locking/unlocking in kernels built without "options RACCT".
more explicit comments about what's going on and what future maintainers
need to do when e.g. adding a new operation to a sys_machdep.c.
Approved by: mentor(rwatson), re(bz)
should_yield(). Use this in various places. Encapsulate the common
case of check-and-yield into a new function maybe_yield().
Change several checks for a magic number of iterations to use
should_yield() instead.
MFC after: 1 week
PT_GNU_STACK program header, if present and enabled. Two new sysctls
are provided, kern.elf32.nxstack and kern.elf64.nxstack, that allow to
enable PT_GNU_STACK for ABIs of specified bitsize, if ABI decided to
support shared page.
Inform rtld about access mode of the stack initial mapping by
AT_STACKPROT aux vector.
At the moment, the default is disabled, waiting for the usermode
support bits.
thread specific informations.
In order to do that, and in order to avoid KBI breakage with existing
infrastructure the following semantic is implemented:
- For live programs, a new member to the PT_LWPINFO is added (pl_tdname)
- For cores, a new ELF note is added (NT_THRMISC) that can be used for
storing thread specific, miscellaneous, informations. Right now it is
just popluated with a thread name.
GDB, then, retrieves the correct informations from the corefile via the
BFD interface, as it groks the ELF notes and create appropriate
pseudo-sections.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by: gianni
Discussed with: dim, kan, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
In particular, provide pagesize and pagesizes array, the canary value
for SSP use, number of host CPUs and osreldate.
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
MFC after: 1 month
executable status of segments instead of detecting the main text segment
by which segment contains the program entry point. This affects
obreak() and is required for correct operation of that function
on 64-bit PowerPC systems. The previous behavior was apparently
required only for the Alpha, which is no longer supported.
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested on: amd64, sparc64, powerpc
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
Enhanced process coredump routines.
This brings in the following features:
1) Limit number of cores per process via the %I coredump formatter.
Example:
if corefilename is set to %N.%I.core AND num_cores = 3, then
if a process "rpd" cores, then the corefile will be named
"rpd.0.core", however if it cores again, then the kernel will
generate "rpd.1.core" until we hit the limit of "num_cores".
this is useful to get several corefiles, but also prevent filling
the machine with corefiles.
2) Encode machine hostname in core dump name via %H.
3) Compress coredumps, useful for embedded platforms with limited space.
A sysctl kern.compress_user_cores is made available if turned on.
To enable compressed coredumps, the following config options need to be set:
options COMPRESS_USER_CORES
device zlib # brings in the zlib requirements.
device gzio # brings in the kernel vnode gzip output module.
4) Eventhandlers are fired to indicate coredumps in progress.
5) The imgact sv_coredump routine has grown a flag to pass in more
state, currently this is used only for passing a flag down to compress
the coredump or not.
Note that the gzio facility can be used for generic output of gzip'd
streams via vnodes.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: kan
and do not relocate the binary to ET_DYN_LOAD_ADDR. This allows for the
binary author to influence address map of the process. In particular,
when the binary is actually an interpeter, this allows to have almost
usual process address map.
Communicate the relocation bias of the mapping for interpeter-less
ET_DYN binary, that is interperter itself, in AT_BASE aux entry. This
way, rtld is able to find its dynamic structure and relocate itself.
Note that mapbase in the rtld is still wrong and requires further
fixing.
Reported and tested by: rwatson
Discussed with: kan
MFC after: 3 days
correctly and do not match a colliding Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
brandinfo statements.
For this mark the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD brandinfo that it must have
an .note.ABI-tag section and ignore the old EI_OSABI brandinfo
when comparing a possibly colliding set of options.
Due to SYSINIT we add the brandinfo in a non-deterministic order,
so native FreeBSD is not always first. We may want to consider
to force native FreeBSD to come first as well.
The only way a problem could currently be noticed is when running an
i386 binary without the .note.ABI-tag on amd64 and the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
brandinfo was matched first, as the fallback to ld-elf32.so.1 does
not exist in that case.
Reported and tested by: ticso
In collaboration with: kib
MFC after: 3 days
Handle GNU/Linux according to LSB Core Specification 4.0,
Chapter 11. Object Format, 11.8. ABI note tag.
Also check the first word of desc, not only name, according to
glibc abi-tags specification to distinguish between Linux and
kFreeBSD.
Add explicit handling for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which runs
on our kernels as well [2].
In {amd64,i386}/trap.c, when checking osrel of the current process,
also check the ABI to not change the signal behaviour for Linux
binary processes, now that we save an osrel version for all three
from the lists above in struct proc [2].
These changes make it possible to run FreeBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
and Linux binaries on the same machine again for at least i386 and
amd64, and no longer break kFreeBSD which was detected as GNU(/Linux).
PR: kern/135468
Submitted by: dchagin [1] (initial patch)
Suggested by: kib [2]
Tested by: Petr Salinger (Petr.Salinger seznam.cz) for kFreeBSD
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 3 days
1) Move the new field (brand_note) to the end of the Brandinfo structure.
2) Add a new flag BI_BRAND_NOTE that indicates that the brand_note pointer
is valid.
3) Use the brand_note field if the flag BI_BRAND_NOTE is set and as old
modules won't have the flag set, so the new field brand_note would be
ignored.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 6 days
Badly formed ELF note may cause the caclulated pointer to the next note
to point both after the note region, that was checked in the code, but
also to point before the region, that was not checked [1]. Remember the
first note location in note0 and leap out if the note is not between
note0 and note_end.
In the similar way, badly formed note may cause infinite loop by
pointing next note into the same or previous note. Guard against this by
limiting amount of loop iterations by arbitrary choosen big number.
For clarity, check the calculated note alignment in each iteration.
Reported by: Chris Palmer <chris noncombatant org> [1]
PR: kern/132886
Reviewed and tested by: dchagin
MFC after: 3 days
This fixes osrel fetching from the FreeBSD branding note for the 64bit
platforms.
Reported by: swell.k gmail com
Reviewed by: dchagin
Tested by: dchagin, swell.k gmail com
".note.ABI-tag" section.
The search order of a brand is changed, now first of all the
".note.ABI-tag" is looked through.
Move code which fetch osreldate for ELF binary to check_note() handler.
PR: 118473
Approved by: kib (mentor)
an interpreter definition in its program header), set the auxiliary
ELF argument AT_BASE to 0 rather than to the address that we would
have mapped the interpreter at if there had been one.
The ELF ABI specifications appear to be ambiguous as to the desired
behavior in this situation, as they define AT_BASE as the base address
of the interpreter, but do not mention what to do if there is none.
On Solaris, AT_BASE will be set to the base address of the static
binary if there is no interpreter, and on Linux, AT_BASE is set to 0.
We go with the Linux semantics as they are of more immediate utility
and allow the early runtime environment to know that the kernel has
not mapped an interpreter, but because AT_PHDR points at the ELF
header for the running binary, it is still possible to retrieve all
required mapping information when the process starts should it be
required. Either approach would be preferable to our current behavior
of passing a pointer to an unmapped region of user memory as AT_BASE.
MFC after: 3 weeks
have_interp to TRUE. This allows the code in image activator to try
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 as interpreter when newinterp is not found to
execute.
Reviewed by: peter
MFC after: 2 weeks (together with r175105)
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.
conjuction with 'thread' argument passing which is always curthread.
Remove the unuseful extra-argument and pass explicitly curthread to lower
layer functions, when necessary.
KPI results broken by this change, which should affect several ports, so
version bumping and manpage update will be further committed.
Tested by: kris, pho, Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>
Remove this argument and pass curthread directly to underlying
VOP_LOCK1() VFS method. This modify makes the code cleaner and in
particular remove an annoying dependence helping next lockmgr() cleanup.
KPI results, obviously, changed.
Manpage and FreeBSD_version will be updated through further commits.
As a side note, would be valuable to say that next commits will address
a similar cleanup about VFS methods, in particular vop_lock1 and
vop_unlock.
Tested by: Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>,
Andrea Di Pasquale <whyx dot it at gmail dot com>
ABI override binary isn't found. This could probably be smoother, but
it is what I did in p4 change #126891 on 2007/09/27. It should solve
the "ld-elf32.so.1"-in-chroot problem.
dereferencing. Unaligned access could cause panic on strict alignment
architectures.
Reviewed by: marcel, marius (also tested on sparc64, thanks !)
MFC after: 3 days
silent NULL pointer dereference in the i386 and sparc64 pmap_pinit()
when the kmem_alloc_nofault() failed to allocate address space. Both
functions now return error instead of panicing or dereferencing NULL.
As consequence, vmspace_exec() and vmspace_unshare() returns the errno
int. struct vmspace arg was added to vm_forkproc() to avoid dealing
with failed allocation when most of the fork1() job is already done.
The kernel stack for the thread is now set up in the thread_alloc(),
that itself may return NULL. Also, allocation of the first process
thread is performed in the fork1() to properly deal with stack
allocation failure. proc_linkup() is separated into proc_linkup()
called from fork1(), and proc_linkup0(), that is used to set up the
kernel process (was known as swapper).
In collaboration with: Peter Holm
Reviewed by: jhb
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
