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John Dyson 2d8acc0f4a VM level code cleanups. 
1)	Start using TSM.
	Struct procs continue to point to upages structure, after being freed.
	Struct vmspace continues to point to pte object and kva space for kstack.
	u_map is now superfluous.
2)	vm_map's don't need to be reference counted.  They always exist either
	in the kernel or in a vmspace.  The vmspaces are managed by reference
	counts.
3)	Remove the "wired" vm_map nonsense.
4)	No need to keep a cache of kernel stack kva's.
5)	Get rid of strange looking ++var, and change to var++.
6)	Change more data structures to use our "zone" allocator.  Added
	struct proc, struct vmspace and struct vnode.  This saves a significant
	amount of kva space and physical memory.  Additionally, this enables
	TSM for the zone managed memory.
7)	Keep ioopt disabled for now.
8)	Remove the now bogus "single use" map concept.
9)	Use generation counts or id's for data structures residing in TSM, where
	it allows us to avoid unneeded restart overhead during traversals, where
	blocking might occur.
10)	Account better for memory deficits, so the pageout daemon will be able
	to make enough memory available (experimental.)
11)	Fix some vnode locking problems. (From Tor, I think.)
12)	Add a check in ufs_lookup, to avoid lots of unneeded calls to bcmp.
	(experimental.)
13)	Significantly shrink, cleanup, and make slightly faster the vm_fault.c
	code.  Use generation counts, get rid of unneded collpase operations,
	and clean up the cluster code.
14)	Make vm_zone more suitable for TSM.

This commit is partially as a result of discussions and contributions from
other people, including DG, Tor Egge, PHK, and probably others that I
have forgotten to attribute (so let me know, if I forgot.)

This is not the infamous, final cleanup of the vnode stuff, but a necessary
step.  Vnode mgmt should be correct, but things might still change, and
there is still some missing stuff (like ioopt, and physical backing of
non-merged cache files, debugging of layering concepts.)
1998-01-22 17:30:44 +00:00
..
procfs_ctl.c Removed unused #includes. 1997-08-02 14:33:27 +00:00
procfs_fpregs.c Check permissions for fp regs as well as normal regs. 1997-08-12 05:23:51 +00:00
procfs_map.c Make our v_usecount vnode reference count work identically to the 1998-01-06 05:26:17 +00:00
procfs_mem.c VM level code cleanups. 1998-01-22 17:30:44 +00:00
procfs_note.c Removed unused #includes. 1997-08-02 14:33:27 +00:00
procfs_regs.c Fix procfs security hole -- check permissions on meaningful I/Os (namely, 1997-08-12 04:34:30 +00:00
procfs_status.c Removed unused #includes. 1997-08-02 14:33:27 +00:00
procfs_subr.c Fix a problem with procfs_exit() that resulted in missing some procfs 1997-12-12 03:33:43 +00:00
procfs_type.c Removed unused #includes. 1997-08-02 14:33:27 +00:00
procfs_vfsops.c Fixed a missing/misplaced/misstyled prototype. 1997-12-30 08:46:44 +00:00
procfs_vnops.c Make our v_usecount vnode reference count work identically to the 1998-01-06 05:26:17 +00:00
procfs.h Fixed a missing/misplaced/misstyled prototype. 1997-12-30 08:46:44 +00:00
README Back out part 1 of the MCFH that changed $Id$ to $FreeBSD$. We are not 1997-02-22 09:48:43 +00:00

README 

saute procfs lyonnais

procfs supports two levels of directory.  the filesystem root
directory contains a representation of the system process table.
this consists of an entry for each active and zombie process, and
an additional entry "curproc" which always represents the process
making the lookup request.

each of the sub-directories contains several files.  these files
are used to control and interrogate processes.  the files implemented
are:

	file	- xxx.  the exec'ed file.

	status  - r/o.  returns process status.

	ctl	- w/o.  sends a control message to the process.
			for example:
				echo hup > /proc/curproc/note
			will send a SIGHUP to the shell.
			whereas
				echo attach > /proc/1293/ctl
			would set up process 1293 for debugging.
			see below for more details.

	mem	- r/w.  virtual memory image of the process.
			parts of the address space are readable
			only if they exist in the target process.
			a more reasonable alternative might be
			to return zero pages instead of an error.
			comments?

	note	- w/o.  writing a string here sends the
			equivalent note to the process.
			[ not implemented. ]

	notepg	- w/o.  the same as note, but sends to all
			members of the process group.
			[ not implemented. ]

	regs	- r/w.	process register set.  this can be read
			or written any time even if the process
			is not stopped.  since the bsd kernel
			is single-processor, this implementation
			will get the "right" register values.
			a multi-proc kernel would need to do some
			synchronisation.

this then looks like:

% ls -li /proc
total 0
   9 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 0
  17 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 1
  89 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 10
  25 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 2
2065 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 257
2481 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 309
 265 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 32
3129 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 390
3209 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 400
3217 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 401
3273 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 408
 393 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 48
 409 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 50
 465 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 57
 481 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 59
 537 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  kmem   0 Sep 21 15:06 66
 545 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 67
 657 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 81
 665 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 82
 673 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 83
 681 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  0 Sep 21 15:06 84
3273 dr-xr-xr-x  2 jsp   staff  0 Sep 21 15:06 curproc
% ls -li /proc/curproc
total 408
3341 --w-------  1 jsp  staff       0 Sep 21 15:06 ctl
1554 -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin     90112 Mar 29 04:52 file
3339 -rw-------  1 jsp  staff  118784 Sep 21 15:06 mem
3343 --w-------  1 jsp  staff       0 Sep 21 15:06 note
3344 --w-------  1 jsp  staff       0 Sep 21 15:06 notepg
3340 -rw-------  1 jsp  staff       0 Sep 21 15:06 regs
3342 -r--r--r--  1 jsp  staff       0 Sep 21 15:06 status
% df /proc/curproc /proc/curproc/file
Filesystem  512-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
proc                 2       2       0   100%    /proc
/dev/wd0a        16186   13548    1018    93%    /
% cat /proc/curproc/status
cat 446 439 400 81 12,0 ctty 748620684 270000 0 0 0 20000 nochan 11 20 20 20 0 21 117



the basic sequence of commands written to "ctl" would be

	attach		- this stops the target process and
			  arranges for the sending process
			  to become the debug control process
	wait		- wait for the target process to come to
			  a steady state ready for debugging.
	step		- single step, with no signal delivery.
	run		- continue running, with no signal delivery,
			  until next trap or breakpoint.
	<signame>	- deliver signal <signame> and continue running.
	detach		- continue execution of the target process
			  and remove it from control by the debug process

in a normal debugging environment, where the target is fork/exec'd by
the debugger, the debugger should fork and the child should stop itself
(with a self-inflicted SIGSTOP).  the parent should do a "wait" then an
"attach".  as before, the child will hit a breakpoint on the first
instruction in any newly exec'd image.

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