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
When file sealing and shm_open2 were introduced, we should have grown a new
kern_shm_open2 helper that did the brunt of the work with the new interface
while kern_shm_open remains the same. Instead, more complexity was
introduced to kern_shm_open to handle the additional features and consumers
had to keep changing in somewhat awkward ways, and a kern_shm_open2 was
added to wrap kern_shm_open.
Backpedal on this and correct the situation- kern_shm_open returns to the
interface it had prior to file sealing being introduced, and neither
function needs an initial_seals argument anymore as it's handled in
kern_shm_open2 based on the shmflags.
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
Now that flags may be set on posixshm, add an argument to kern_shm_open()
for the initial seals. To maintain past behavior where callers of
shm_open(2) are guaranteed to not have any seals applied to the fd they're
given, apply F_SEAL_SEAL for existing callers of kern_shm_open. A special
flag could be opened later for shm_open(2) to indicate that sealing should
be allowed.
We currently restrict initial seals to F_SEAL_SEAL. We cannot error out if
F_SEAL_SEAL is re-applied, as this would easily break shm_open() twice to a
shmfd that already existed. A note's been added about the assumptions we've
made here as a hint towards anyone wanting to allow other seals to be
applied at creation.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21392
The motivation for this change is to allow wrappers around shm to be written
that don't set CLOEXEC. kern_shm_open currently accepts O_CLOEXEC but sets
it unconditionally. kern_shm_open is used by the shm_open(2) syscall, which
is mandated by POSIX to set CLOEXEC, and CloudABI's sys_fd_create1().
Presumably O_CLOEXEC is intended in the latter caller, but it's unclear from
the context.
sys_shm_open() now unconditionally sets O_CLOEXEC to meet POSIX
requirements, and a comment has been dropped in to kern_fd_open() to explain
the situation and add a pointer to where O_CLOEXEC setting is maintained for
shm_open(2) correctness. CloudABI's sys_fd_create1() also unconditionally
sets O_CLOEXEC to match previous behavior.
This also has the side-effect of making flags correctly reflect the
O_CLOEXEC status on this fd for the rest of kern_shm_open(), but a
glance-over leads me to believe that it didn't really matter.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21119
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
An integrity check such as a check-hash or a cross-correlation failed.
The integrity error falls between EINVAL that identifies errors in
parameters to a system call and EIO that identifies errors with the
underlying storage media. EINTEGRITY is typically raised by intermediate
kernel layers such as a filesystem or an in-kernel GEOM subsystem when
they detect inconsistencies. Uses include allowing the mount(8) command
to return a different exit value to automate the running of fsck(8)
during a system boot.
These changes make no use of the new error, they just add it. Later
commits will be made for the use of the new error number and it will
be added to additional manual pages as appropriate.
Reviewed by: gnn, dim, brueffer, imp
Discussed with: kib, cem, emaste, ed, jilles
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18765
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
If a recvmsg(2) or recvmmsg(2) caller doesn't provide sufficient space
for all control messages, the kernel sets MSG_CTRUNC in the message
flags to indicate truncation of the control messages. In the case
of SCM_RIGHTS messages, however, we were failing to dispose of the
rights that had already been externalized into the recipient's file
descriptor table. Add a new function and mbuf type to handle this
cleanup task, and use it any time we fail to copy control messages
out to the recipient. To simplify cleanup, control message truncation
is now only performed at control message boundaries.
The change also fixes a few related bugs:
- Rights could be leaked to the recipient process if an error occurred
while copying out a message's contents.
- We failed to set MSG_CTRUNC if the truncation occurred on a control
message boundary, e.g., if the caller received two control messages
and provided only the exact amount of buffer space needed for the
first.
PR: 131876
Reviewed by: ed (previous version)
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16561
- 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
Even though pthreads doesn't support this, there are various alternative
APIs that use this. For example, uv_cond_timedwait() accepts a relative
timeout. So does Rust's std::sync::Condvar::wait_timeout().
Though I personally think that relative timeouts are bad (due to
imprecision for repeated operations), it does seem that people want
this. Extend the existing futex functions to keep track of whether an
absolute timeout is used in a boolean flag.
MFC after: 1 month
The most important change in this release is the removal of the
poll_fd() system call; CloudABI's equivalent of kevent(). Though I think
that kqueue is a lot saner than many of its alternatives, our
experience is that emulating this system call on other systems
accurately isn't easy. It has become a complex API, even though I'm not
convinced this complexity is needed. This is why we've decided to take a
different approach, by looking one layer up.
We're currently adding an event loop to CloudABI's C library that is API
compatible with libuv (except when incompatible with Capsicum).
Initially, this event loop will be built on top of plain inefficient
poll() calls. Only after this is finished, we'll work our way backwards
and design a new set of system calls to optimize it.
Interesting challenges will include integrating asynchronous I/O into
such a system call API. libuv currently doesn't aio(4) on Linux/BSD, due
to it being unreliable and having undesired semantics.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
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.
Now that all of the packaged software has been adjusted to either use
Flower (https://github.com/NuxiNL/flower) for making incoming/outgoing
network connections or can have connections injected, there is no longer
need to keep accept() around. It is now a lot easier to write networked
services that are address family independent, dual-stack, testable, etc.
Remove all of the bits related to accept(), but also to
getsockopt(SO_ACCEPTCONN).
With Flower (CloudABI's network connection daemon) becoming more
complete, there is no longer any need for creating any unconnected
sockets. Socket pairs in combination with file descriptor passing is all
that is necessary, as that is what is used by Flower to pass network
connections from the public internet to listening processes.
Remove all of the kernel bits that were used to implement socket(),
listen(), bindat() and connectat(). In principle, accept() and
SO_ACCEPTCONN may also be removed, but there are still some consumers
left.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
MFC after: 1 month
The CloudABI specification has had some minor changes over the last half
year. No substantial features have been added, but some features that
are deemed unnecessary in retrospect have been removed:
- mlock()/munlock():
These calls tend to be used for two different purposes: real-time
support and handling of sensitive (cryptographic) material that
shouldn't end up in swap. The former use case is out of scope for
CloudABI. The latter may also be handled by encrypting swap.
Removing this has the advantage that we no longer need to worry about
having resource limits put in place.
- SOCK_SEQPACKET:
Support for SOCK_SEQPACKET is rather inconsistent across various
operating systems. Some operating systems supported by CloudABI (e.g.,
macOS) don't support it at all. Considering that they are rarely used,
remove support for the time being.
- getsockname(), getpeername(), etc.:
A shortcoming of the sockets API is that it doesn't allow you to
create socket(pair)s, having fake socket addresses associated with
them. This makes it harder to test applications or transparently
forward (proxy) connections to them.
With CloudABI, we're slowly moving networking connectivity into a
separate daemon called Flower. In addition to passing around socket
file descriptors, this daemon provides address information in the form
of arbitrary string labels. There is thus no longer any need for
requesting socket address information from the kernel itself.
This change also updates consumers of the generated code accordingly.
Even though system calls end up getting renumbered, this won't cause any
problems in practice. CloudABI programs always call into the kernel
through a kernel-supplied vDSO that has the numbers updated as well.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
I got a report of this source file not building on Raspberry Pi. It's
interesting that this only fails for that target and not for others.
Again, that's no reason not to include the right headers.
PR: 217969
Reported by: Johannes Jost Meixner
MFC after: 1 week
Similar to the change for sendmsg(), create a pointer size independent
implementation of recvmsg() and let cloudabi32 and cloudabi64 call into
it. In case userspace requests one or more file descriptors, call
kern_recvit() in such a way that we get the control message headers in
an mbuf. Iterate over all of the headers and copy the file descriptors
to userspace.
Reduce the potential amount of code duplication between cloudabi32 and
cloudabi64 by creating a cloudabi_sock_recv() utility function. The
cloudabi32 and cloudabi64 modules will then only contain code to convert
the iovecs to the native pointer size.
In cloudabi_sock_recv(), we can now construct an SCM_RIGHTS cmsghdr in
an mbuf and pass that on to kern_sendit().
Rename kern_vm_* functions to kern_*. Move the prototypes to
syscallsubr.h. Also change Mach VM types to uintptr_t/size_t as
needed, to avoid headers pollution.
Requested by: alc, jhb
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9535
kern_vm_munmap(), and kern_vm_madvise(), and use them in various compats
instead of their sys_*() counterparts.
Reviewed by: ed, dchagin, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9378
instead of their sys_*() counterparts in various compats. The svr4
is left untouched, because there's no point.
Reviewed by: ed@, kib@
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9367
Descriptor returned by accept(2) should inherits capabilities rights from
the listening socket.
PR: 201052
Reviewed by: emaste, jonathan
Discussed with: many
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7724
On 32-bit platforms, our 64-bit timestamps need to be split up across
two registers. A simple assignment to td_retval[0] will cause the top 32
bits to get lost. By using memcpy(), we will automatically either use 1
or 2 registers depending on the size of register_t.
Now that we've switched over to using the vDSO on CloudABI, it becomes a
lot easier for us to phase out old features. System call numbering is no
longer something that's part of the ABI. It's fully based on names. As
long as the numbering used by the kernel and the vDSO is consistent
(which it always is), it's all right.
Let's put this to the test by removing a system call (thread_tcb_set())
that's already unused for quite some time now, but was only left intact
to serve as a placeholder. Sync in the new system call table that uses
alphabetic sorting of system calls.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
Make the kern_fsync() function public, so that it can be used by other
parts of the kernel. Fix up existing consumers to make use of it.
Requested by: kib
CloudABI executables already provide support for passing in vDSOs. This
functionality is used by the emulator for OS X to inject system call
handlers. On FreeBSD, we could use it to optimize calls to
gettimeofday(), etc.
Though I don't have any plans to optimize any system calls right now,
let's go ahead and already pass in a vDSO. This will allow us to
simplify the executables, as the traditional "syscall" shims can be
removed entirely. It also means that we gain more flexibility with
regards to adding and removing system calls.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7438
intention of the POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1TM-2008/Cor 1-2013.
A robust mutex is guaranteed to be cleared by the system upon either
thread or process owner termination while the mutex is held. The next
mutex locker is then notified about inconsistent mutex state and can
execute (or abandon) corrective actions.
The patch mostly consists of small changes here and there, adding
neccessary checks for the inconsistent and abandoned conditions into
existing paths. Additionally, the thread exit handler was extended to
iterate over the userspace-maintained list of owned robust mutexes,
unlocking and marking as terminated each of them.
The list of owned robust mutexes cannot be maintained atomically
synchronous with the mutex lock state (it is possible in kernel, but
is too expensive). Instead, for the duration of lock or unlock
operation, the current mutex is remembered in a special slot that is
also checked by the kernel at thread termination.
Kernel must be aware about the per-thread location of the heads of
robust mutex lists and the current active mutex slot. When a thread
touches a robust mutex for the first time, a new umtx op syscall is
issued which informs about location of lists heads.
The umtx sleep queues for PP and PI mutexes are split between
non-robust and robust.
Somewhat unrelated changes in the patch:
1. Style.
2. The fix for proper tdfind() call use in umtxq_sleep_pi() for shared
pi mutexes.
3. Removal of the userspace struct pthread_mutex m_owner field.
4. The sysctl kern.ipc.umtx_vnode_persistent is added, which controls
the lifetime of the shared mutex associated with a vnode' page.
Reviewed by: jilles (previous version, supposedly the objection was fixed)
Discussed with: brooks, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> (some aspects)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Some time ago I made a change to merge together the memory scope
definitions used by mmap (MAP_{PRIVATE,SHARED}) and lock objects
(PTHREAD_PROCESS_{PRIVATE,SHARED}). Though that sounded pretty smart
back then, it's backfiring. In the case of mmap it's used with other
flags in a bitmask, but for locking it's an enumeration. As our plan is
to automatically generate bindings for other languages, that looks a bit
sloppy.
Change all of the locking functions to use separate flags instead.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
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.
- Make the system call fail if prot contains bits other than read, write
and exec.
- Similar to OpenBSD's W^X, don't allow write and exec to be set at the
same time. I'd like to see for now what happens if we enforce this
policy unconditionally. If it turns out that this is far too strict,
we'll loosen this requirement.
fork1 required its callers to pass a pointer to struct proc * which would
be set to the new process (if any). procdesc and racct manipulation also
used said pointer.
However, the process could have exited prior to do_fork return and be
automatically reaped, thus making this a use-after-free.
Fix the problem by letting callers indicate whether they want the pid or
the struct proc, return the process in stopped state for the latter case.
Reviewed by: kib
CloudABI has approximately 50 system calls that do not depend on the
pointer size of the system. As the ABI is pretty compact, it takes
little effort to each truss(8) the formatting rules for these system
calls. Start off by formatting pointer size independent system calls.
Changes:
- Make it possible to include the CloudABI system call definitions in
FreeBSD userspace builds. Add ${root}/sys to the truss(8) Makefile so
we can pull in <compat/cloudabi/cloudabi_syscalldefs.h>.
- Refactoring: patch up amd64-cloudabi64.c to use the CLOUDABI_*
constants instead of rolling our own table.
- Add table entries for all of the system calls.
- Add new generic formatting types (UInt, IntArray) that we'll be using
to format unsigned integers and arrays of integers.
- Add CloudABI specific formatting types.
Approved by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3836
To make it easier to understand how Capsicum interacts with linkat() and
renameat(), rename the rights to CAP_{LINK,RENAME}AT_{SOURCE,TARGET}.
This also addresses a shortcoming in Capsicum, where it isn't possible
to disable linking to files stored in a directory. Creating hardlinks
essentially makes it possible to access files with additional rights.
Reviewed by: rwatson, wblock
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3411
The cloudlibc pdwait() function ends up using FreeBSD's kqueue() in
combination with EVFILT_PROCDESC. This depends on CAP_EVENT -- not
CAP_PDWAIT.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd
