on my P3, microbenchmarks show the unrolled version is 78x faster. In
actual use (recursive ls), this gives an average of 9% improvement in
system time and 2% improvement in wall time.
called in "open", causing mmap() to fail.
Where possible, pass size of file to vnode_create_vobject() rather
than having it find it out the hard way via VOP_LOOKUP
Reviewed by: phk
mmap() on NTFS files was hosed, returning pages offset from the
start of the disk rather than the start of the file. (ie, "cp" of
a 1-block file would get you a copy of the boot sector, not the
data in the file.) The solution isn't ideal, but gives a functioning
filesystem.
Cached vnode lookup was also broken, resulting in vnode haemorrhage.
A lookup on the same file twice would give you two vnodes, and the
resulting cached pages.
Just recently, mmap() was broken due to a lack of a call to
vnode_create_vobject() in ntfs_open().
Discussed with: phk@
with NFS.
We are moving responsibility for creating the vnode_pager object into
the filesystems which own the vnode, and this is one of the places
we have to cover.
We call vnode_create_vobject() directly because we own the vnode.
If we can get the size easily, pass it as an argument to save the
call to VOP_GETATTR() in vnode_create_vobject()
and KASSERT coverage.
After this check there is only one "nasty" cast in this code but there
is a KASSERT to protect against the wrong argument structure behind
that cast.
Un-inlining the meat of VOP_FOO() saves 35kB of text segment on a typical
kernel with no change in performance.
We also now run the checking and tracing on VOP's which have been layered
by nullfs, umapfs, deadfs or unionfs.
Add new (non-inline) VOP_FOO_AP() functions which take a "struct
foo_args" argument and does everything the VOP_FOO() macros
used to do with checks and debugging code.
Add KASSERT to VOP_FOO_AP() check for argument type being
correct.
Slim down VOP_FOO() inline functions to just stuff arguments
into the struct foo_args and call VOP_FOO_AP().
Put function pointer to VOP_FOO_AP() into vop_foo_desc structure
and make VCALL() use it instead of the current offsetoff() hack.
Retire vcall() which implemented the offsetoff()
Make deadfs and unionfs use VOP_FOO_AP() calls instead of
VCALL(), we know which specific call we want already.
Remove unneeded arguments to VCALL() in nullfs and umapfs bypass
functions.
Remove unused vdesc_offset and VOFFSET().
Generally improve style/readability of the generated code.
I'm not sure why a credential was added to these in the first place, it is
not used anywhere and it doesn't make much sense:
The credentials for syncing a file (ability to write to the
file) should be checked at the system call level.
Credentials for syncing one or more filesystems ("none")
should be checked at the system call level as well.
If the filesystem implementation needs a particular credential
to carry out the syncing it would logically have to the
cached mount credential, or a credential cached along with
any delayed write data.
Discussed with: rwatson
After disscussing things I have decided to take the easy and
consistent 90% solution instead of aiming for the very involved 99%
solution.
If we allow forceful unmounts of DEVFS we need to decide how to handle
the devices which are in use through this filesystem at the time.
We cannot just readopt the open devices in the main /dev instance since
that would open us to security issues.
For the majority of the devices, this is relatively straightforward
as we can just pretend they got revoke(2)'ed.
Some devices get tricky: /dev/console and /dev/tty for instance
does a sort of recursive open of the real console device. Other devices
may be mmap'ed (kill the processes ?).
And then there are disk devices which are mounted.
The correct thing here would be to recursively unmount the filesystems
mounte from devices from our DEVFS instance (forcefully) and if
this succeeds, complete the forcefully unmount of DEVFS. But if
one of the forceful unmounts fail we cannot complete the forceful
unmount of DEVFS, but we are likely to already have severed a lot
of stuff in the process of trying.
Event attempting this would be a lot of code for a very far out
corner-case which most people would never see or get in touch with.
It's just not worth it.
methods:
Read can see O_NONBLOCK and O_DIRECT.
Write can see O_NONBLOCK, O_DIRECT and O_FSYNC.
In addition O_DIRECT is shadowed as IO_DIRECT for now for backwards
compatibility.
fcntl.h.
This is in preparation for making the flags passed to device drivers be
consistently from fcntl.h for all entrypoints.
Today open, close and ioctl uses fcntl.h flags, while read and write
uses vnode.h flags.
