error due to copyout failure or short buffer.
The later breaks the usermode iterators of the sysctl results that pack
arbitrary number of variable-sized structures. Iterator expects that
kernel filled exactly oldlen bytes, and tries to interpret half-filled
or garbage structure at the end of the buffer. In particular,
kinfo_getfile(3) segfaulted.
Reported and tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks
During bootup, if /etc/rc.d/savecore detects a core dump file
on the dump device, the core file will be saved, and the crashinfo
script will be run to generate a human-readable report.
This will make it easier for end-users to provide feedback to
developers about kernel crashes.
Reviewed by: jhb
fget_unlocked().
- Save old file descriptor tables created on expansion until
the entire descriptor table is freed so that pointers may be
followed without regard for expanders.
- Mark the file zone as NOFREE so we may attempt to reference
potentially freed files.
- Convert several fget_locked() users to fget_unlocked(). This
requires us to manage reference counts explicitly but reduces
locking overhead in the common case.
new platform module. These are probed in early boot, and have the
responsibility of determining the layout of physical memory, determining
the CPU timebase frequency, and handling the zoo of SMP mechanisms
found on PowerPC.
Reviewed by: marcel, raj
Book-E parts by: raj
- For CPUs that only support MCE (the machine check exception) but not MCA
(i.e. Pentium), all this does is print out the value of the machine check
registers and then panic when a machine check exception occurs.
- For CPUs that support MCA (the machine check architecture), the support is
a bit more involved.
- First, there is limited support for decoding the CPU-independent MCA
error codes in the kernel, and the kernel uses this to output a short
description of any machine check events that occur.
- When a machine check exception occurs, all of the MCx banks on the
current CPU are scanned and any events are reported to the console
before panic'ing.
- To catch events for correctable errors, a periodic timer kicks off a
task which scans the MCx banks on all CPUs. The frequency of these
checks is controlled via the "hw.mca.interval" sysctl.
- Userland can request an immediate scan of the MCx banks by writing
a non-zero value to "hw.mca.force_scan".
- If any correctable events are encountered, the appropriate details
are stored in a 'struct mca_record' (defined in <machine/mca.h>).
The "hw.mca.count" is a count of such records and each record may
be queried via the "hw.mca.records" tree by specifying the record
index (0 .. count - 1) as the next name in the MIB similar to using
PIDs with the kern.proc.* sysctls. The idea is to export machine
check events to userland for more detailed processing.
- The periodic timer and hw.mca sysctls are only present if the CPU
supports MCA.
Discussed with: emaste (briefly)
MFC after: 1 month
direct dispatch policy for specific protocols (NETISR_USB). We leave
the additional 'flags' argument to netisr_register() for the time being,
even though it is no longer required.
NULL or change it. We initialize it before we set if_ioctl. It can
therefore never be NULL, and most other drivers don't bother with this
sanity check.
introduced in amd64 revision 1.540 and i386 revision 1.547. However, it
had no harmful effects until after a recent change, r189698, on amd64.
(In other words, the error is harmless in RELENG_7.)
The error is triggered by the failure to allocate a pv entry for the one
and only mapping in a page table page. I am addressing the error by
changing pmap_copy() to abort if either pv entry allocation or page
table page allocation fails. This is appropriate because the creation of
mappings by pmap_copy() is optional. They are a (possible) optimization,
and not a requirement.
Correct a nearby whitespace error in the i386 pmap_copy().
Crash reported by: jeff@
MFC after: 6 weeks
following changes:
Rename vfs_page_set_valid() to vfs_page_set_validclean() to reflect
what this function actually does. Suggested by: tegge
Introduce a new version of vfs_page_set_valid() that does no more than
what the function's name implies. Specifically, it does not update
the page's dirty mask, and thus it does not require the page queues
lock to be held.
Update two of the three callers to the old vfs_page_set_valid() to
call vfs_page_set_validclean() instead because they actually require
the page's dirty mask to be cleared.
Introduce vm_page_set_valid().
Reviewed by: tegge
registers contents.
- Use memory barriers to preserve the order of buffer space operations.
This might be needed if we'll ever use this driver on architectures
where ordering is not guaranteed.
