The reasoning behind this, is that if we are consistent in our
documentation about the uint*_t stuff, people will be less tempted to
write new code that uses the non-standard types.
I am not going to bump the man page dates, as these changes can be
considered style nits. The meaning of the man pages is unaffected.
MFC after: 1 month
system calls to provide feed-forward clock management capabilities to
userspace processes. ffclock_getcounter() returns the current value of the
kernel's feed-forward clock counter. ffclock_getestimate() returns the current
feed-forward clock parameter estimates and ffclock_setestimate() updates the
feed-forward clock parameter estimates.
- Document the syscalls in the ffclock.2 man page.
- Regenerate the script-derived syscall related files.
Committed on behalf of Julien Ridoux and Darryl Veitch from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, as part of the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Feed-Forward
Clock Synchronization Algorithms" project.
For more information, see http://www.synclab.org/radclock/
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
madvise(2) except that it operates on a file descriptor instead of a
memory region. It is currently only supported on regular files.
Just as with madvise(2), the advice given to posix_fadvise(2) can be
divided into two types. The first type provide hints about data access
patterns and are used in the file read and write routines to modify the
I/O flags passed down to VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE(). These modes are
thus filesystem independent. Note that to ease implementation (and
since this API is only advisory anyway), only a single non-normal
range is allowed per file descriptor.
The second type of hints are used to hint to the OS that data will or
will not be used. These hints are implemented via a new VOP_ADVISE().
A default implementation is provided which does nothing for the WILLNEED
request and attempts to move any clean pages to the cache page queue for
the DONTNEED request. This latter case required two other changes.
First, a new V_CLEANONLY flag was added to vinvalbuf(). This requests
vinvalbuf() to only flush clean buffers for the vnode from the buffer
cache and to not remove any backing pages from the vnode. This is
used to ensure clean pages are not wired into the buffer cache before
attempting to move them to the cache page queue. The second change adds
a new vm_object_page_cache() method. This method is somewhat similar to
vm_object_page_remove() except that instead of freeing each page in the
specified range, it attempts to move clean pages to the cache queue if
possible.
To preserve the ABI of struct file, the f_cdevpriv pointer is now reused
in a union to point to the currently active advice region if one is
present for regular files.
Reviewed by: jilles, kib, arch@
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 month
A "process descriptor" file descriptor is used to manage processes
without using the PID namespace. This is required for Capsicum's
Capability Mode, where the PID namespace is unavailable.
New system calls pdfork(2) and pdkill(2) offer the functional equivalents
of fork(2) and kill(2). pdgetpid(2) allows querying the PID of the remote
process for debugging purposes. The currently-unimplemented pdwait(2) will,
in the future, allow querying rusage/exit status. In the interim, poll(2)
may be used to check (and wait for) process termination.
When a process is referenced by a process descriptor, it does not issue
SIGCHLD to the parent, making it suitable for use in libraries---a common
scenario when using library compartmentalisation from within large
applications (such as web browsers). Some observers may note a similarity
to Mach task ports; process descriptors provide a subset of this behaviour,
but in a UNIX style.
This feature is enabled by "options PROCDESC", but as with several other
Capsicum kernel features, is not enabled by default in GENERIC 9.0.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
These system calls have already been implemented in the kernel; now we
hook up libc symbols so userspace can drive them.
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
- While here, remove a few C comments that don't seem to contribute
anything additional to the man page.
PR: 146047
Submitted by: arundel
MFC after: 3 days
vop_stdallocate() is filesystem agnostic and will run as slow as a
read/write loop in userspace; however, it serves to correctly
implement the functionality for filesystems that do not implement a
VOP_ALLOCATE.
Note that __FreeBSD_version was already bumped today to 900036 for any
ports which would like to use this function.
Also reserve space in the syscall table for posix_fadvise(2).
Reviewed by: -arch (previous version)
syscall assembly files. This results in conflicting dependencies and can
cause unexpected results for parallel builds. This is because the .c file
and the .S file both generate the same .o file.
Submitted by: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
Calling rfork_thread(3) does not interoperate with pthreads and global state
is not properly protected.
Remove the BUGS section suggesting LinuxThreads entirely. With the current
pthread library libthr, all threads are kernel-level entities so there seems
little reason to use LinuxThreads.
it possible for the kernel to track login class the process is assigned to,
which is required for RCTL. This change also make setusercontext(3) call
setloginclass(2) and makes it possible to retrieve current login class using
id(1).
Reviewed by: kib (as part of a larger patch)
can link against them. Add man pages for the new system calls, with one
errant forward reference to changes not yet present in FreeBSD, but soon
will be.
Reviewed by: anderson
Obtained from: Capsicum Project
Sponsored by: Google, Inc.
Discussed with: benl, kris, pjd
MFC after: 3 months
As it was pointed out by Alan Cox, that no longer serves its purpose with
the modern UMA allocator compared to the old one used in 4.x days.
The removal of sysctl eliminates max_proc_mmap type overflow leading to
the broken mmap(2) seen with large amount of physical memory on arches
with factually unbound KVA space (such as amd64). It was found that
slightly less than 256GB of physmem was enough to trigger the overflow.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Approved by: avg (mentor)
MFC after: 2 months
architectures that support this .note. In particular, do not unneccessary
emit the notes on ia64 and sparc64, which ABI require non-executable stacks.
Tested by: marcel
Because {NGROUPS_MAX} may become variable, its value should be obtained
using sysconf(3). If a #define is used anyway, it should be obtained by
including <limits.h> as that is in POSIX like getgroups(2) itself is.
<sys/param.h> is not in POSIX.
MFC after: 1 week
This is what SUSv4 requires, and also the only thing that works if strict
standards compliance is requested or mknodat() is needed.
PR: standards/123688
Submitted by: gcooper
MFC after: 1 week
you tag a socket with an uint32_t value. The cookie can then be
used by the kernel for various purposes, e.g. setting the skipto
rule or pipe number in ipfw (this is the reason SO_USER_COOKIE has
been implemented; however there is nothing ipfw-specific in its
implementation).
The ipfw-related code that uses the optopn will be committed separately.
This change adds a field to 'struct socket', but the struct is not
part of any driver or userland-visible ABI so the change should be
harmless.
See the discussion at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/2009-October/004001.html
Idea and code from Paul Joe, small modifications and manpage
changes by myself.
Submitted by: Paul Joe
MFC after: 1 week
flag. [1]
- Note that also fchflags(2) will return EPERM for attempts to set or
unset the SF_SNAPSHOT flag.
Submitted by: Garrett Cooper [1]
MFC after: 1 week
It's a bit more pedantic regarding .Bl list elements. This has an added
benefit of unbreaking the ipfw(8) manpage, where groff was silently
skipping one list element.
the first line of a script exceeded MAXSHELLCMDLEN characters, then
exec_imgact_shell() silently truncated the line and passed on the truncated
interpreter name or argument. Now, exec_imgact_shell() will fail and return
ENOEXEC, which is the commonly used errno among Unix variants for this type
of error. (2) Previously, exec_imgact_shell()'s check on the length of the
interpreter's name was ineffective. In other words, exec_imgact_shell()
could not possibly fail and return ENAMETOOLONG. The reason being that the
length of the interpreter name had to exceed MAXSHELLCMDLEN characters in
order that ENAMETOOLONG be returned. But, the search for the end of the
interpreter name stops after at most MAXSHELLCMDLEN - 2 characters are
scanned. (In the end, this particular error is eventually discovered
outside of exec_imgact_shell() and ENAMETOOLONG is returned. So, the real
effect of this second change is that the error is detected earlier, in
exec_imgact_shell().)
Update the definition of MAXINTERP to the actual limit on the size of
the interpreter name that has been in effect since r142453 (from
2005).
In collaboration with: kib
add a wrapper for it in libc and rework the code in libthr, the
system call still can return EINTR, we keep this feature.
Discussed on: thread
Reviewed by: jilles
their implementations aren't in the same files. Introduce LIBC_ARCH
and use that in preference to MACHINE_CPUARCH. Tested by amd64 and
powerpc64 builds (thanks nathanw@)
the separate .o for libc_pic.a. This prevents rtld from making the
symbol global.
Putting the stack_protector_compat.c into the public domain acknowledged
by kan.
Reviewed by: kan
MFC after: 2 weeks
number of host CPUs and osreldate.
This eliminates the last sysctl(2) calls from the dynamically linked image
startup.
No objections from: kan
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
MFC after: 1 month
the jail(8) command. [10:04]
Fix a one-NUL-byte buffer overflow in libopie. [10:05]
Correctly sanity-check a buffer length in nfs mount. [10:06]
Approved by: so (cperciva)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:04.jail
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:06.nfsclient
bottom of the manpages and order them consistently.
GNU groff doesn't care about the ordering, and doesn't even mention
CAVEATS and SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS as common sections and where to put
them.
Found by: mdocml lint run
Reviewed by: ru
Although libthr's pthread_sigmask() just calls sigprocmask() and this is
unlikely to change, mention this POSIX requirement on applications.
MFC after: 1 week
This joint work of Dag-Erling Smørgrav and myself updates the
FFS quota system to support both traditional 32-bit and new 64-bit
quotas (for those of you who want to put 2+Tb quotas on your users).
By default quotas are not compiled into the kernel. To include them
in your kernel configuration you need to specify:
options QUOTA # Enable FFS quotas
If you are already running with the current 32-bit quotas, they
should continue to work just as they have in the past. If you
wish to convert to using 64-bit quotas, use `quotacheck -c 64';
if you wish to revert from 64-bit quotas back to 32-bit quotas,
use `quotacheck -c 32'.
There is a new library of functions to simplify the use of the
quota system, do `man quotafile' for details. If your application
is currently using the quotactl(2), it is highly recommended that
you convert your application to use the quotafile interface.
Note that existing binaries will continue to work.
Special thanks to John Kozubik of rsync.net for getting me
interested in pursuing 64-bit quota support and for funding
part of my development time on this project.
sigvec(2) references have been updated to sigaction(2), sigsetmask(2) and
sigblock(2) to sigprocmask(2), sigpause(2) to sigsuspend(2).
Some legacy man pages still refer to them, that is OK.
* un-document 'struct sigaltstack' tag for stack_t as this is BSD-specific;
this doesn't seem useful enough to document as such
* alternate stacks are per thread, not per process
* update error codes to what the kernel does and POSIX requires
MFC after: 1 week
Simplify the presented declaration of struct sigaction, noting the
caveat in the text. Real layout of the structure and exposed
implementation namespace only obfuscates the usage.
Submitted by: bde
MFC after: 3 days
A nice thing about POSIX 2008 is that it finally standardizes a way to
obtain file access/modification/change times in sub-second precision,
namely using struct timespec, which we already have for a very long
time. Unfortunately POSIX uses different names.
This commit adds compatibility macros, so existing code should still
build properly. Also change all source code in the kernel to work
without any of the compatibility macros. This makes it all a less
ambiguous.
I am also renaming st_birthtime to st_birthtim, even though it was a
local extension anyway. It seems Cygwin also has a st_birthtim.
According to POSIX open() must return ENOTDIR when the path name does
not refer to a path name. Change vn_open() to respect this flag. This
also simplifies the Linuxolator a bit.
o Incorporate review comments:
- Properly reference and lock the map
- Take into account that the VM map can change inbetween requests
- Add the fileid and fsid attributes
Credits: kib@
Reviewed by: kib@
obtain the memory map of the traced process. PT_VM_TIMESTAMP can be
used to check if the memory map changed since the last time to avoid
iterating over all the VM entries unnecesarily.
MFC after: 1 month
r195175. Remove all definitions, documentation, and usage.
fifo_misc.c:
Remove all kqueue tests as fifo_io.c performs all those that
would have remained.
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 3 weeks
X-MFC note: don't change vlan_link_state() function signature
copied from NetBSD's manpage, and it also matches the behavior
described by the Open Group's online copy of setpgid.2 at
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/setpgid.html
Obtained from: NetBSD
Submitted by: Petros Barbayiannis <petrosbarbayiannis@yahoo.gr>
MFC after: 1 week
Many operating systems also provide MAP_ANONYMOUS. It's not hard to
support this ourselves, we'd better add it to make it more likely for
applications to work out of the box.
Reviewed by: alc (mman.h)
well-known race condition, which elimination was the reason for the
function appearance in first place. If sigmask supplied as argument to
pselect() enables a signal, the signal might be delivered before thread
called select(2), causing lost wakeup. Reimplement pselect() in kernel,
making change of sigmask and sleep atomic.
Since signal shall be delivered to the usermode, but sigmask restored,
set TDP_OLDMASK and save old mask in td_oldsigmask. The TDP_OLDMASK
should be cleared by ast() in case signal was not gelivered during
syscall execution.
Reviewed by: davidxu
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month
- F_READAHEAD: specify the amount for sequential access. The amount is
specified in bytes and is rounded up to nearest block size.
- F_RDAHEAD: Darwin compatible version that use 128KB as the sequential
access size.
A third argument of zero disables the read-ahead behavior.
Please note that the read-ahead amount is also constrainted by sysctl
variable, vfs.read_max, which may need to be raised in order to better
utilize this feature.
Thanks Igor Sysoev for proposing the feature and submitting the original
version, and kib@ for his valuable comments.
Submitted by: Igor Sysoev <is rambler-co ru>
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 1 month
needed to satisfy static libraries that are compiled with -fpic
and linked into static binary afterwards. Several libraries in
gcc are examples of such static libs.
EV_RECEIPT is useful to disambiguating error conditions when multiple
events structures are passed to kevent(2). The error code is returned
in the data field and EV_ERROR is set.
Approved by: rwatson (co-mentor)
When the EV_DISPATCH flag is used the event source will be disabled
immediately after the delivery of an event. This is similar to the
EV_ONESHOT flag but it doesn't delete the event.
Approved by: rwatson (co-mentor)
Add user events support to kernel events which are not associated with any
kernel mechanism but are triggered by user level code. This is useful for
adding user level events to an event handler that may also be monitoring
kernel events.
Approved by: rwatson (co-mentor)
compiled with stack protector.
Use libssp_nonshared library to pull __stack_chk_fail_local symbol into
each library that needs it instead of pulling it from libc. GCC
generates local calls to this function which result in absolute
relocations put into position-independent code segment, making dynamic
loader do extra work every time given shared library is being relocated
and making affected text pages non-shareable.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: re (kib)
behavior is mandated by POSIX.
- Do not fail requests that pass a length greater than SSIZE_MAX
(such as > 2GB on 32-bit platforms). The 'len' parameter is actually
an unsigned 'size_t' so negative values don't really make sense.
Submitted by: Alexander Best alexbestms at math.uni-muenster.de
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
if the new file mode is the same as it was before; however, this
optimization must be disabled for filesystems that support NFSv4 ACLs.
Chmod uses pathconf(2) to determine whether this is the case - however,
pathconf(2) always follows symbolic links, while the 'chmod -h' doesn't.
This change adds lpathconf(3) to make it possible to solve that problem
in a clean way.
Reviewed by: rwatson (earlier version)
Approved by: re (kib)
Use libssp_nonshared library to pull __stack_chk_fail_local symbol into
each library that needs it instead of pulling it from libc. GCC generates
local calls to this function which result in absolute relocations put into
position-independent code segment, making dynamic loader do extra work everys
time given shared library is being relocated and making affected text pages
non-shareable.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
This adds the following functions to the acl(3) API: acl_add_flag_np,
acl_clear_flags_np, acl_create_entry_np, acl_delete_entry_np,
acl_delete_flag_np, acl_get_extended_np, acl_get_flag_np, acl_get_flagset_np,
acl_set_extended_np, acl_set_flagset_np, acl_to_text_np, acl_is_trivial_np,
acl_strip_np, acl_get_brand_np. Most of them are similar to what Darwin
does. There are no backward-incompatible changes.
Approved by: rwatson@
- The uid/cuid members of struct ipc_perm are now uid_t instead of unsigned
short.
- The gid/cgid members of struct ipc_perm are now gid_t instead of unsigned
short.
- The mode member of struct ipc_perm is now mode_t instead of unsigned short
(this is merely a style bug).
- The rather dubious padding fields for ABI compat with SV/I386 have been
removed from struct msqid_ds and struct semid_ds.
- The shm_segsz member of struct shmid_ds is now a size_t instead of an
int. This removes the need for the shm_bsegsz member in struct
shmid_kernel and should allow for complete support of SYSV SHM regions
>= 2GB.
- The shm_nattch member of struct shmid_ds is now an int instead of a
short.
- The shm_internal member of struct shmid_ds is now gone. The internal
VM object pointer for SHM regions has been moved into struct
shmid_kernel.
- The existing __semctl(), msgctl(), and shmctl() system call entries are
now marked COMPAT7 and new versions of those system calls which support
the new ABI are now present.
- The new system calls are assigned to the FBSD-1.1 version in libc. The
FBSD-1.0 symbols in libc now refer to the old COMPAT7 system calls.
- A simplistic framework for tagging system calls with compatibility
symbol versions has been added to libc. Version tags are added to
system calls by adding an appropriate __sym_compat() entry to
src/lib/libc/incldue/compat.h. [1]
PR: kern/16195 kern/113218 bin/129855
Reviewed by: arch@, rwatson
Discussed with: kan, kib [1]
