Give FFS vnodes a specific bufwrite method which contains all the
background write stuff and then calls into the default bufwrite()
for the rest of the job.
Remove all the background write related stuff from the normal bufwrite.
This drags the softdep_move_dependencies() back into FFS.
Long term, it is worth looking at simply copying the data into
allocated memory and issuing the bio directly and not create the
"shadow buf" in the first place (just like copy-on-write is done
in snapshots for instance). I don't think we really gain anything
but complexity from doing this with a buf.
rather than forwarding interrupts from the clock devices around using IPIs:
- Add an IDT vector that pushes a clock frame and calls
lapic_handle_timer().
- Add functions to program the local APIC timer including setting the
divisor, and setting up the timer to either down a periodic countdown
or one-shot countdown.
- Add a lapic_setup_clock() function that the BSP calls from
cpu_init_clocks() to setup the local APIC timer if it is going to be
used. The setup uses a one-shot countdown to calibrate the timer. We
then program the timer on each CPU to fire at a frequency of hz * 3.
stathz is defined as freq / 23 (hz * 3 / 23), and profhz is defined as
freq / 2 (hz * 3 / 2). This gives the clocks relatively prime divisors
while keeping a low LCM for the frequency of the clock interrupts.
Thanks to Peter Jeremy for suggesting this approach.
- Remove the hardclock and statclock forwarding code including the two
associated IPIs. The bitmap IPI handler has now effectively degenerated
to just IPI_AST.
- When the local APIC timer is used we don't turn the RTC on at all, but
we still enable interrupts on the ISA timer 0 (i8254) for timecounting
purposes.
Split ffs_fsync() into a VOP_FSYNC() component and an internal part
called ffs_syncvnode().
Eliminate unnecessary thread argument and XXX'ed curthread passes
for same. Reduce softdep_sync_metadata() from a struct vop_fsync_args
to just the vnode argument it needs.
Convert internal VOP_FSYNC() calls to use ffs_syncvnode().
Windows DRIVER_OBJECT and DEVICE_OBJECT mechanism so that we can
simulate driver stacking.
In Windows, each loaded driver image is attached to a DRIVER_OBJECT
structure. Windows uses the registry to match up a given vendor/device
ID combination with a corresponding DRIVER_OBJECT. When a driver image
is first loaded, its DriverEntry() routine is invoked, which sets up
the AddDevice() function pointer in the DRIVER_OBJECT and creates
a dispatch table (based on IRP major codes). When a Windows bus driver
detects a new device, it creates a Physical Device Object (PDO) for
it. This is a DEVICE_OBJECT structure, with semantics analagous to
that of a device_t in FreeBSD. The Windows PNP manager will invoke
the driver's AddDevice() function and pass it pointers to the DRIVER_OBJECT
and the PDO.
The AddDevice() function then creates a new DRIVER_OBJECT structure of
its own. This is known as the Functional Device Object (FDO) and
corresponds roughly to a private softc instance. The driver uses
IoAttachDeviceToDeviceStack() to add this device object to the
driver stack for this PDO. Subsequent drivers (called filter drivers
in Windows-speak) can be loaded which add themselves to the stack.
When someone issues an IRP to a device, it travel along the stack
passing through several possible filter drivers until it reaches
the functional driver (which actually knows how to talk to the hardware)
at which point it will be completed. This is how Windows achieves
driver layering.
Project Evil now simulates most of this. if_ndis now has a modevent
handler which will use MOD_LOAD and MOD_UNLOAD events to drive the
creation and destruction of DRIVER_OBJECTs. (The load event also
does the relocation/dynalinking of the image.) We don't have a registry,
so the DRIVER_OBJECTS are stored in a linked list for now. Eventually,
the list entry will contain the vendor/device ID list extracted from
the .INF file. When ndis_probe() is called and detectes a supported
device, it will create a PDO for the device instance and attach it
to the DRIVER_OBJECT just as in Windows. ndis_attach() will then call
our NdisAddDevice() handler to create the FDO. The NDIS miniport block
is now a device extension hung off the FDO, just as it is in Windows.
The miniport characteristics table is now an extension hung off the
DRIVER_OBJECT as well (the characteristics are the same for all devices
handled by a given driver, so they don't need to be per-instance.)
We also do an IoAttachDeviceToDeviceStack() to put the FDO on the
stack for the PDO. There are a couple of fake bus drivers created
for the PCI and pccard buses. Eventually, there will be one for USB,
which will actually accept USB IRP.s
Things should still work just as before, only now we do things in
the proper order and maintain the correct framework to support passing
IRPs between drivers.
Various changes:
- corrected the comments about IRQL handling in subr_hal.c to more
accurately reflect reality
- update ndiscvt to make the drv_data symbol in ndis_driver_data.h a
global so that if_ndis_pci.o and/or if_ndis_pccard.o can see it.
- Obtain the softc pointer from the miniport block by referencing
the PDO rather than a private pointer of our own (nmb_ifp is no
longer used)
- implement IoAttachDeviceToDeviceStack(), IoDetachDevice(),
IoGetAttachedDevice(), IoAllocateDriverObjectExtension(),
IoGetDriverObjectExtension(), IoCreateDevice(), IoDeleteDevice(),
IoAllocateIrp(), IoReuseIrp(), IoMakeAssociatedIrp(), IoFreeIrp(),
IoInitializeIrp()
- fix a few mistakes in the driver_object and device_object definitions
- add a new module, kern_windrv.c, to handle the driver registration
and relocation/dynalinkign duties (which don't really belong in
kern_ndis.c).
- made ndis_block and ndis_chars in the ndis_softc stucture pointers
and modified all references to it
- fixed NdisMRegisterMiniport() and NdisInitializeWrapper() so they
work correctly with the new driver_object mechanism
- changed ndis_attach() to call NdisAddDevice() instead of ndis_load_driver()
(which is now deprecated)
- used ExAllocatePoolWithTag()/ExFreePool() in lookaside list routines
instead of kludged up alloc/free routines
- added kern_windrv.c to sys/modules/ndis/Makefile and files.i386.
The "business class upgrade" was implemented in UFS's VOP_LOCK
implementation ufs_lock() which is the wrong layer, so move it to
ffs_lock().
Also, as long as we have not abandonned advanced vfs-stacking we
should not preclude it from happening: instead of implementing a
copy locally, use the VOP_LOCK_APV(&ufs) to correctly arrive at
vop_stdlock() at the bottom.
The "business class upgrade" was implemented in UFS's VOP_LOCK
implementation ufs_lock() which is the wrong layer, so move it to
ffs_lock().
Also, as long as we have not abandonned advanced vfs-stacking we
should not preclude it from happening: instead of implementing a
copy locally, use the VOP_LOCK_APV(&ufs) to correctly arrive at
vop_stdlock() at the bottom.
This allows stacked or partitioned filesystems to say "Continue
the normal resolution from here", for instace from FFS to UFS.
Use VNASSERT() instead of KASSERT().
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.
Make the special hp versions match the general ones. Also use fixed
types in the WD80x3_generic probe, and change callers' arrays to
match. Fix a couple of minor style issues by using newstyle function
definitions in a couple places.
if_ed and rename it to ed_detach(). Tell other busses to use this
routine for detach.
Since I don't actually have any non-pccard ed hardware I can test
with, I've only tested with my pccards.
More improvements in this area likely are possible.
Prodded by: rwatson
copying data to a temporary buffer before the I/O, but also copying that
temporary buffer back to the original data location after the I/O. When
you're dumping kernel heap and stack and protected pages, this is very
very bad.
A belated thanks to Robert Watson for donating hardware for this (and future)
work.
MFC after: 3 days
the semantics in that the returned filename to use is now a kernel
pointer rather than a user space pointer. This required changing the
arguments to the CHECKALT*() macros some and changing the various system
calls that used pathnames to use the kern_foo() functions that can accept
kernel space filename pointers instead of calling the system call
directly.
- Use kern_open(), kern_access(), kern_execve(), kern_mkfifo(), kern_mknod(),
kern_setitimer(), kern_getrusage(), kern_utimes(), kern_unlink(),
kern_chdir(), kern_chmod(), kern_chown(), kern_symlink(), kern_readlink(),
kern_select(), kern_statfs(), kern_fstatfs(), kern_stat(), kern_lstat(),
kern_fstat().
- Drop the unused 'uap' argument from spx_open().
- Replace a stale duplication of vn_access() in xenix_access() lacking
recent additions such as MAC checks, etc. with a call to kern_access().
the semantics in that the returned filename to use is now a kernel
pointer rather than a user space pointer. This required changing the
arguments to the CHECKALT*() macros some and changing the various system
calls that used pathnames to use the kern_foo() functions that can accept
kernel space filename pointers instead of calling the system call
directly.
- Use kern_open(), kern_access(), kern_msgctl(), kern_execve(),
kern_mkfifo(), kern_mknod(), kern_statfs(), kern_fstatfs(),
kern_setitimer(), kern_stat(), kern_lstat(), kern_fstat(), kern_utimes(),
kern_pathconf(), and kern_unlink().
e.g., by trimming all non-alphabet characters and whitespace,
converting to lowercase, and considering only first (or last)
N letters (maybe only consonants). The fortune editor then
displays all fortunes that have the same hash, and allows to
remove one of them. The rest is written to stdout.
duplicating the contents of the same functions inline.
- Consolidate common code to convert a BSD statfs struct to a Linux struct
into a static worker function.
structure in the struct pointed to by the 3rd argument for IPC_STAT and
get rid of the 4th argument. The old way returned a pointer into the
kernel array that the calling function would then access afterwards
without holding the appropriate locks and doing non-lock-safe things like
copyout() with the data anyways. This change removes that unsafeness and
resulting race conditions as well as simplifying the interface.
- Implement kern_foo wrappers for stat(), lstat(), fstat(), statfs(),
fstatfs(), and fhstatfs(). Use these wrappers to cut out a lot of
code duplication for freebsd4 and netbsd compatability system calls.
- Add a new lookup function kern_alternate_path() that looks up a filename
under an alternate prefix and determines which filename should be used.
This is basically a more general version of linux_emul_convpath() that
can be shared by all the ABIs thus allowing for further reduction of
code duplication.
