cause a problem of spiraling death due to buffer resource limitations.
The vfs_bio code in general had little ability to handle buffer resource
management, and now it does. Also, there are a lot more knobs for tuning the
vfs_bio code now. The knobs came free because of the need that there
always be some immediately available buffers (non-delayed or locked) for
use. Note that the buffer cache code is much less likely to get bogged
down with lots of delayed writes, even more so than before.
These changes add the ability to specify that a UFS file/directory
cannot be unlinked. This is basically a scaled back version
of the IMMUTABLE flag. The reason is to allow an administrator
to create a directory hierarchy that a group of users
can arbitrarily add/delete files from, but that the hierarchy
itself is safe from removal by them.
If the NOUNLINK definition is set to 0
then this results in no change to what happens normally.
(and results in identical binary (in the kernel)).
It can be proven that if this bit is never set by the admin,
no new behaviour is introduced..
Several "good idea" comments from reviewers plus one grumble
about creeping featurism.
This code is in production in 2.2 based systems
defining doff_t both here and in <ufs/ufs/dir.h> so that this file
is independent of <ufs/ufs/dir.h>. It still has old prerequisites
<sys/param.h> and <ufs/ufs/quota.h>, and a new Lite2 prerequisite of
<sys/lock.h>, sigh.
This might fix lsof, which was broken by namespace pollution giving
conflicting definitions of DIRBLKSIZ.
as shadows of their containing directory. This should solve the problem
of users not being able to delete their symlinks from /tmp once and for
all.
Symlinks do not have modes though, they are accessable to everything that
can read the directory (as before). They are made to show this fact at
lstat time (they appear as mode 0777 always, since that's how the the
lookup routines in the kernel treat them).
More commits will follow, eg: add a real lchown() syscall and man pages.
automatically have random generation numbers. The kenel way of handling those
also changed. Further it is advised to run fsirand on all your nfs exported
filesystems. the code is mostly copied from OpenBSD, with the randomization
chanegd to use /dev/urandom
Reviewed by: Garrett
Obtained from: OpenBSD
null casts. `time' is nonvolatile for accesses within a region locked
by splclock()/splx(). Accesses outside such a region are invalid, and
splx() must have the side effect of potentially changing all global
variables (since there are hundreds of sort of volatile variables like
`time'), so declaring `time' as volatile didn't have any real benefits.
form `tv = time'. Use a new function gettime(). The current version
just forces atomicicity without fixing precision or efficiency bugs.
Simplified some related valid accesses by using the central function.
of setting it (compiled into vfs_conf.c), but we have a dynamic system
in place. This could probably be better done via a runtime configure
flag in the VFS_SET() VFS declaration, perhaps VFCF_LOCAL, and have the
VFS code propagate this down into MNT_LOCAL at mount time. The other FS's
would need to be updated, havinf UFS and MSDOSFS filesystems without
MNT_LOCAL breaks a few things.. the man page rebuild scans for local
filesystems and currently fails, I suspect that other tools like find
and tar with their "local filesystem only" modes might be affected.
Restores the use of SBLOCK instead of the BSOFF/sectorsize calculation.
Using SBLOCK is bogus however in that it uses DEV_BSIZE instead of
the actual sector size, but that is taken care of in other places.
Changing the SBLOCK would be better, but it affects the system
in other places, and doing it this way makes it possible to
use filesystems that was made before the lite2 merge.
mount. This may have been a contributor to the 'null v_mount in
fsync()' problem
This is another, perhaps slightly less urgent, 2.2 last-minute candidate.
Reviewed by: sef
to not return without setting a return value when it
can't read a block error or detects a bad cylinder group,
since the caller is expecting a return value.
It will now panic at this point, since the thing
to do in this case would be to return a "bad block"
status to the caller, and the caller will panic
anyways when that happens.
Also updated to panic strings in this routine to read
"ffs_checkblk: ..." instead of "checkblk: ...".
changes, so don't expect to be able to run the kernel as-is (very well)
without the appropriate Lite/2 userland changes.
The system boots and can mount UFS filesystems.
Untested: ext2fs, msdosfs, NFS
Known problems: Incorrect Berkeley ID strings in some files.
Mount_std mounts will not work until the getfsent
library routine is changed.
Reviewed by: various people
Submitted by: Jeffery Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org>
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.
Firstly, now our read-ahead clustering is on a file descriptor basis and not
on a per-vnode basis. This will allow multiple processes reading the
same file to take advantage of read-ahead clustering. Secondly, there
previously was a problem with large reads still using the ramp-up
algorithm. Of course, that was bogus, and now we read the entire
"chunk" off of the disk in one operation. The read-ahead clustering
algorithm should use less CPU than the previous also (I hope :-)).
NOTE: THAT LKMS MUST BE REBUILT!!!
makes MADV_SEQUENTIAL much more effective. I suggest that
we start using MADV_SEQUENTIAL on system utilities that mmap
their input files, and the I/O is predominantely sequential.
Below is a test with 'cmp' on two relatively large binary files,
where the files are so large that the caching is ineffective:
+ ls -l t1.xxx t2.xxx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65598384 Dec 10 12:13 t1.xxx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65598384 Dec 10 12:14 t2.xxx
+ time cmp t1.xxx t2.xxx
3.78user 0.70system 1:33.43elapsed 4%CPU
+ time cmpmadv t1.xxx t2.xxx
4.21user 1.05system 0:30.93elapsed 17%CPU
This change is as a result of an observation made by BDE.
the sd & od drivers. There is also slight changes to fdisk & newfs
in order to comply with different sectorsizes.
Currently sectors of size 512, 1024 & 2048 are supported, the only
restriction beeing in fdisk, which hunts for the sectorsize of
the device.
This is based on patches to od.c and the other system files by
John Gumb & Barry Scott, minor changes and the sd.c patches by
me.
There also exist some patches for the msdos filesys code, but I
havn't been able to test those (yet).
John Gumb (john@talisker.demon.co.uk)
Barry Scott (barry@scottb.demon.co.uk)
We encountered an interesting situation where the superblock for
a file system got written to disk with the "fs_fmod" flag set to
one. It appears that this flag is normally supposed to be cleared
during ffs_sync(), but we experienced a crash, or some other weird
occurrence that left it on the disk set to 1.
Later this partition was mounted read-only... and the fs_fmod
field was never cleared, causing ffs_sync() to panic "rofs mod"
when trying to unmount that filesystem (ffs_vfsops.c: line 790).
fix:
set this bit to 0 when you load the superblock from disk.
(see more complete mail on this to hackers)
1. When a directory is renamed to an existing (empty) directory,
it is possible for the target vnode to become the source vnode
underneath you (because another process may complete the same
rename). It was assumed that this can't happen, and the bogus
errno EINVAL was returned. This was fairly harmless.
Fix: return ENOENT instead, as if the source directory was renamed
a little earlier.
2. The same metamorphosis is possible for non-directories. It was
assumed that this can't happen, and the code for handling "just
removing a link name" happened to be used. This would have worked
except for fatal bugs in the link name removal - the link name was
assumed to still be there, and a null pointer was followed.
Fix: check the result of relookup(). This fixes PR 1930.
Notes:
(a) POSIX seems to say that removing link names shall have no effect.
BSD (4.4Lite2 at least) does something reasonable instead.
(b) The relookup() may find a file unrelated to the original.
Removing this isn't correct. Consider 3 existing files A, B and
C, and concurrent renames: AB = rename(A, B), another AB, and
CA = rename("c", "a"). If rename() is atomic, then only the
following results are possible:
AB, AB (fails), CA: A = original C, B = original A, C = gone
AB, CA, AB: A = gone, B = original C, C = gone
CA, AB, AB (fails): A = gone, B = original C, C = gone
but ufs_rename() can give:
A,AB,CA,B (sorta): A = gone, B = original A, C = gone
This usually doesn't matter, since getting into a race is usually
an error.
---
These fixes should be in 2.1.6 and 2.2.
ufs_read() and ufs_write().
Found by: looking at warnings for comparing the result of lblktosize()
(which is usually daddr_t = long) with file sizes (which are u_quad_t
for ufs). File sizes should probably be off_t's to avoid warnings
when the are compared with file offsets, so the fixed lblktosize()
casts to off_t instead of u_quad_t.
Added definition of smalllblksize(). It is the same as the old
lblksize() and is more efficient for small block numbers on 32-bit
machines.
Use smalllblktosize() instead of its expansion in blksize() and
dblksize(). This keeps the line length short and makes it more
obvious that the shift can't overflow.
It is needed for implementation details but very little of it is
needed for the interface. Include it in the few places that didn't
already include it.
Include <sys/ioccom.h> in <sys/disklabel.h> (as already in
<sys/diskslice.h>) so that all the disk-related headers are almost
self-sufficient.
/*
* Structure defined by POSIX.4 to be like a timeval.
*/
struct timespec {
time_t ts_sec; /* seconds */
long ts_nsec; /* and nanoseconds */
};
The correct names of the fields are tv_sec and tv_nsec.
Reminded by: James Drobina <jdrobina@infinet.com>
is that it doesn't say _what_ did it! (the core dumped console message
is very useful for listing the process name and pid). This adds similar
information.
