to the address of the user's aiocb rather than the kernel's aiocb. (In other
words, prior to this change, the ident field returned by kevent(2) on
completion of an AIO was effectively garbage.)
Submitted by: Romer Gil <rgil@cs.rice.edu>
that LIO_READ and LIO_WRITE were requests for kevent()-based
notification of completion. Modify _aio_aqueue() to recognize LIO_READ
and LIO_WRITE.
Notes: (1) The patch provided by the PR perpetuates a second bug in this
code, a direct access to user-space memory. This change fixes that bug
as well. (2) This change is to code that implements a deprecated interface.
It should probably be removed after an MFC.
PR: kern/39556
o Add a mutex (sb_mtx) to struct sockbuf. This protects the data in a
socket buffer. The mutex in the receive buffer also protects the data
in struct socket.
o Determine the lock strategy for each members in struct socket.
o Lock down the following members:
- so_count
- so_options
- so_linger
- so_state
o Remove *_locked() socket APIs. Make the following socket APIs
touching the members above now require a locked socket:
- sodisconnect()
- soisconnected()
- soisconnecting()
- soisdisconnected()
- soisdisconnecting()
- sofree()
- soref()
- sorele()
- sorwakeup()
- sotryfree()
- sowakeup()
- sowwakeup()
Reviewed by: alfred
Includes some minor whitespace changes, and re-ordering to be able to document
properly (e.g, grouping of variables and the SYSCTL macro calls for them, where
the documentation has been added.)
Reviewed by: phk (but all errors are mine)
New locks are:
- pgrpsess_lock which locks the whole pgrps and sessions,
- pg_mtx which protects the pgrp members, and
- s_mtx which protects the session members.
Please refer to sys/proc.h for the coverage of these locks.
Changes on the pgrp/session interface:
- pgfind() needs the pgrpsess_lock held.
- The caller of enterpgrp() is responsible to allocate a new pgrp and
session.
- Call enterthispgrp() in order to enter an existing pgrp.
- pgsignal() requires a pgrp lock held.
Reviewed by: jhb, alfred
Tested on: cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
(which is a quad-CPU machine running -current)
this is a low-functionality change that changes the kernel to access the main
thread of a process via the linked list of threads rather than
assuming that it is embedded in the process. It IS still embeded there
but remove all teh code that assumes that in preparation for the next commit
which will actually move it out.
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, benno rice,
sleeping on a process object but changed the corresponding
wakeup()s to the thread object. The result was that non-raw
aio ops waited for an aio daemon to timeout before action
was taken. Now, we sleep on the thread object.
PR: kern/34016
than necessary.
o Move a rarely-used goto label inside a critical section so that we don't
perform an splnet() for which there is no corresponding splx().
o Remove unnecessary splnet()/splx() around accesses to kaioinfo::kaio_jobdone
in aio_return().
o Use TAILQ_FOREACH for simple cases of iteration over kaioinfo::kaio_jobdone.
Remove the explicit call to aio_proc_rundown() from exit1(), instead AIO
will use at_exit(9).
Add functions at_exec(9), rm_at_exec(9) which function nearly the
same as at_exec(9) and rm_at_exec(9), these functions are called
on behalf of modules at the time of execve(2) after the image
activator has run.
Use a modified version of tegge's suggestion via at_exec(9) to close
an exploitable race in AIO.
Fix SYSCALL_MODULE_HELPER such that it's archetecuterally neutral,
the problem was that one had to pass it a paramater indicating the
number of arguments which were actually the number of "int". Fix
it by using an inline version of the AS macro against the syscall
arguments. (AS should be available globally but we'll get to that
later.)
Add a primative system for dynamically adding kqueue ops, it's really
not as sophisticated as it should be, but I'll discuss with jlemon when
he's around.
o The manual page for kevent says that EVFILT_AIO returns under the same
conditions as aio_error(). With that in mind, set the data field
of the returned struct kevent to the value that would be returned
by aio_error().
o Fix two compilation warnings.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
Also move the insertion of the request to after the request is validated,
there's still looks like there may be some problems if an invalid address
is passed to the aio routines, basically a possible leak or having a
not completely initialized structure on the queue may still be possible.
A new sig macro was made _SIG_VALID to check the validity of a signal,
it would be advisable to use it from now on (in kern/kern_sig.c) rather
than rolling your own.
PR: kern/17152
used for up to "vfs.aio.max_buf_aio" of the requests. If a request
size is MAXPHYS, but the request base isn't page aligned, vmapbuf()
will map the end of the user space buffer into the start of the kva
allocated for the next physical buffer. Don't use a physical buffer
in this case. (This change addresses problem report 25617.)
When an aio_read/write() on a raw device has completed, timeout() is
used to schedule a signal to the process. Thus, the reporting is
delayed up to 10 ms (assuming hz is 100). The process might have
terminated in the meantime, causing a trap 12 when attempting to
deliver the signal. Thus, the timeout must be cancelled when removing
the job.
aio jobs in state JOBST_JOBQGLOBAL should be removed from the
kaio_jobqueue list during process rundown.
During process rundown, some aio jobs might move from one list to a
different list that has already been "emptied", causing the rundown to
be incomplete. Retry the rundown.
A call to BUF_KERNPROC() is needed after obtaining a physical buffer
to disassociate the lock from the running process since it can return
to userland without releasing that lock.
PR: 25617
Submitted by: tegge
but potentially significant in -4.x.)
Eliminate a pointless parameter to aio_fphysio().
Remove unnecessary casts from aio_fphysio() and aio_physwakeup().
aiocb's allocated by zalloc(). In other words, zfree() was never
called. Now, we call zfree(). Why eliminate this micro-
optimization? At some later point, when we multithread the AIO
system, we would need a mutex to synchronize access to aio_freejobs,
making its use nearly indistinguishable in cost from zalloc() and
zfree().
Remove unnecessary fhold() and fdrop() calls from aio_qphysio(),
undo'ing a part of revision 1.86. The reference count on the file
structure is already incremented by _aio_aqueue() before it calls
aio_qphysio(). (Update the comments to document this fact.)
Remove unnecessary casts from _aio_aqueue(), aio_read(), aio_write()
and aio_waitcomplete().
Remove an unnecessary "return;" from aio_process().
Add "static" in various places.
related code from aio_read() and aio_write(). This field was
intended, but never used, to allow a mythical user-level library to
make an aio_read() or aio_write() behave like an ordinary read() or
write(), i.e., a blocking I/O operation.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:
mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)
similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:
mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.
The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.
Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:
MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH
The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:
mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.
Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.
Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.
Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.
Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.
Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
from struct proc, which are now unused (p_nthread already was).
Remove process flag P_KTHREADP which was untested and only set
in vfs_aio.c (it should use kthread_create). Move the yield
system call to kern_synch.c as kern_threads.c has been removed
completely.
moral support from: alfred, jhb
a kevent upon completion of the I/O. Specifically, introduce a new type
of sigevent notification, SIGEV_EVENT. If sigev_notify is SIGEV_EVENT,
then sigev_notify_kqueue names the kqueue that should receive the event
and sigev_value contains the "void *" is copied into the kevent's udata
field.
In contrast to the existing interface, this one: 1) works on
the Alpha 2) avoids the extra copyin() call for the kevent because all
of the information needed is in the sigevent and 3) could be
applied to request a single kevent upon completion of an entire lio_listio().
Reviewed by: jlemon
Pre-rfork code assumed inherent locking of a process's file descriptor
array. However, with the advent of rfork() the file descriptor table
could be shared between processes. This patch closes over a dozen
serious race conditions related to one thread manipulating the table
(e.g. closing or dup()ing a descriptor) while another is blocked in
an open(), close(), fcntl(), read(), write(), etc...
PR: kern/11629
Discussed with: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Otherwise, aio_read() and aio_write() on sockets are broken if a kevent is
registered. (The code after kevent registration for handling sockets assumes
that the struct file pointer "fp" still refers to the socket, not the kqueue.)
performed twice. Eliminate initialization that is already performed
by _aio_aqueue.
aio_physwakeup: Eliminate redundant synchronization that is already
performed by bufdone.
chgsbsize(), which are called rather frequently and may be called from an
interrupt context in the case of chgsbsize(). Instead, do the hash table
lookup and maintenance when credentials are changed, which is a lot less
frequent. Add pointers to the uidinfo structures to the ucred and pcred
structures for fast access. Pass a pointer to the credential to chgproccnt()
and chgsbsize() instead of passing the uid. Add a reference count to the
uidinfo structure and use it to decide when to free the structure rather
than freeing the structure when the resource consumption drops to zero.
Move the resource tracking code from kern_proc.c to kern_resource.c. Move
some duplicate code sequences in kern_prot.c to separate helper functions.
Change KASSERTs in this code to unconditional tests and calls to panic().
!VFS_AIO case. Lots of things have hooks into here (kqueue, exit(),
sockets, etc), I elected to keep the external interfaces the same
rather than spread more #ifdefs around the kernel.
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
(Much of this done by script)
Move B_ORDERED flag to b_ioflags and call it BIO_ORDERED.
Move b_pblkno and b_iodone_chain to struct bio while we transition, they
will be obsoleted once bio structs chain/stack.
Add bio_queue field for struct bio aware disksort.
Address a lot of stylistic issues brought up by bde.
substitute BUF_WRITE(foo) for VOP_BWRITE(foo->b_vp, foo)
substitute BUF_STRATEGY(foo) for VOP_STRATEGY(foo->b_vp, foo)
This patch is machine generated except for the ccd.c and buf.h parts.
field in struct buf: b_iocmd. The b_iocmd is enforced to have
exactly one bit set.
B_WRITE was bogusly defined as zero giving rise to obvious coding
mistakes.
Also eliminate the redundant struct buf flag B_CALL, it can just
as efficiently be done by comparing b_iodone to NULL.
Should you get a panic or drop into the debugger, complaining about
"b_iocmd", don't continue. It is likely to write on your disk
where it should have been reading.
This change is a step in the direction towards a stackable BIO capability.
A lot of this patch were machine generated (Thanks to style(9) compliance!)
Vinum users: Greg has not had time to test this yet, be careful.
VFS_AIO option is specified, all aio-related syscalls return ENOSYS.
The aio code is very fragile right now, and is unsuitable for default
inclusion in a production shell box.
Approved by: jkh
Make gratuitous style(9) fixes (me, not the submitter) to make the aio
code more readable.
PR: kern/12053
Submitted by: Chris Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu>
"rw" argument, rather than hijacking B_{READ|WRITE}.
Fix two bugs (physio & cam) resulting by the confusion caused by this.
Submitted by: Tor.Egge@fast.no
Reviewed by: alc, ken (partly)
far-reaching in fd-land, so you'll want to consult the code for
changes. The biggest change is that now, you don't use
fp->f_ops->fo_foo(fp, bar)
but instead
fo_foo(fp, bar),
which increments and decrements the fp refcount upon entry and exit.
Two new calls, fhold() and fdrop(), are provided. Each does what it
seems like it should, and if fdrop() brings the refcount to zero, the
fd is freed as well.
Thanks to peter ("to hell with it, it looks ok to me.") for his review.
Thanks to msmith for keeping me from putting locks everywhere :)
Reviewed by: peter
Introduce BUF_STRATEGY(struct buf *, int flag) macro, and use it throughout.
please see comment in sys/conf.h about the flag argument.
Remove strategy argument from all the diskslice/label/bad144
implementations, it should be found from the dev_t.
Remove bogus and unused strategy1 routines.
Remove open/close arguments from dssize(). Pick them up from dev_t.
Remove unused and unfinished setgeom support from diskslice/label/bad144 code.
SYSINIT_KT() etc (which is a static, compile-time procedure), use a
NetBSD-style kthread_create() interface. kproc_start is still available
as a SYSINIT() hook. This allowed simplification of chunks of the
sysinit code in the process. This kthread_create() is our old kproc_start
internals, with the SYSINIT_KT fork hooks grafted in and tweaked to work
the same as the NetBSD one.
One thing I'd like to do shortly is get rid of nfsiod as a user initiated
process. It makes sense for the nfs client code to create them on the
fly as needed up to a user settable limit. This means that nfsiod
doesn't need to be in /sbin and is always "available". This is a fair bit
easier to do outside of the SYSINIT_KT() framework.
the caller can easily find the child proc struct. fork(), rfork() etc
syscalls set p->p_retval[] themselves. Simplify the SYSINIT_KT() code
and other kernel thread creators to not need to use pfind() to find the
child based on the pid. While here, partly tidy up some of the fork1()
code for RF_SIGSHARE etc.
lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
be done in future commits.
Made a new (inline) function devsw(dev_t dev) and substituted it.
Changed to the BDEV variant to this format as well: bdevsw(dev_t dev)
DEVFS will eventually benefit from this change too.
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- Each cpu now has a separate gdt selector table. A new segment selector
is added to point to per-cpu pages, per-cpu global variables are now
accessed through this new selector (%fs). The selectors in gdt table are
rearranged for cache line optimization.
- fask_vfork is now on as default for both UP and SMP.
- Some aio code cleanup.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
John Dyson <dyson@iquest.net>
Julian Elischer <julian@whistel.com>
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
David Greenman <dg@root.com>
NetBSD compatible.
Add parameter to fo_read and fo_write. (The only flag FOF_OFFSET mean that
the offset is set in the struct uio).
Factor out some common code from read/pread/write/pwrite syscalls.
is the preparation step for moving pmap storage out of vmspace proper.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Matthew Dillion <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
c_caddr_t with extreme prejudice. Here the original casts to
caddr_t were to support K&R compilers (or missing prototypes),
but the relevant source files require an ANSI compiler.
changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug
fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the
VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional
forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code
cleanup issues.
Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
nearly so many casts here. Casting an pointer that was an integer
back to an integer just to compare it with -1 is bad, and casting
it back just to compare it with NULL is just wrong.
Not sure of the result of it..
(may or may not effect anything) but it's fixed now.
(found by: comparing what cvsup sent back to me with what I tested..)
There is only cdevsw (which should be renamed in a later edit to deventry
or something). cdevsw contains the union of what were in both bdevsw an
cdevsw entries. The bdevsw[] table stiff exists and is a second pointer
to the cdevsw entry of the device. it's major is in d_bmaj rather than
d_maj. some cleanup still to happen (e.g. dsopen now gets two pointers
to the same cdevsw struct instead of one to a bdevsw and one to a cdevsw).
rawread()/rawwrite() went away as part of this though it's not strictly
the same patch, just that it involves all the same lines in the drivers.
cdroms no longer have write() entries (they did have rawwrite (?)).
tapes no longer have support for bdev operations.
Reviewed by: Eivind Eklund and Mike Smith
Changes suggested by eivind.
"time" wasn't a atomic variable, so splfoo() protection were needed
around any access to it, unless you just wanted the seconds part.
Most uses of time.tv_sec now uses the new variable time_second instead.
gettime() changed to getmicrotime(0.
Remove a couple of unneeded splfoo() protections, the new getmicrotime()
is atomic, (until Bruce sets a breakpoint in it).
A couple of places needed random data, so use read_random() instead
of mucking about with time which isn't random.
Add a new nfs_curusec() function.
Mark a couple of bogosities involving the now disappeard time variable.
Update ffs_update() to avoid the weird "== &time" checks, by fixing the
one remaining call that passwd &time as args.
Change profiling in ncr.c to use ticks instead of time. Resolution is
the same.
Add new function "tvtohz()" to avoid the bogus "splfoo(), add time, call
hzto() which subtracts time" sequences.
Reviewed by: bde
_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options to work. Changes:
Change all "posix4" to "p1003_1b". Misnamed files are left
as "posix4" until I'm told if I can simply delete them and add
new ones;
Add _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls for FreeBSD and Linux;
Add man pages for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls;
Add options to LINT;
Minor fixes to P1003_1B code during testing.
or aio_write can return the pid of the new thread. This is due to the
way that return values from system calls being passed by side-effect in
the proc structure now. This commit fixes the problem with aio_read and
aio_write.
remove alot of overly verbose debugging statements.
ioproclist {
int aioprocflags; /* AIO proc flags */
TAILQ_ENTRY(aioproclist) list; /* List of processes */
struct proc *aioproc; /* The AIO thread */
TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist) jobtorun; /* suggested job to run */
};
/*
* data-structure for lio signal management
*/
struct aio_liojob {
int lioj_flags;
int lioj_buffer_count;
int lioj_buffer_finished_count;
int lioj_queue_count;
int lioj_queue_finished_count;
struct sigevent lioj_signal; /* signal on all I/O done */
TAILQ_ENTRY (aio_liojob) lioj_list;
struct kaioinfo *lioj_ki;
};
#define LIOJ_SIGNAL 0x1 /* signal on all done (lio) */
#define LIOJ_SIGNAL_POSTED 0x2 /* signal has been posted */
/*
* per process aio data structure
*/
struct kaioinfo {
int kaio_flags; /* per process kaio flags */
int kaio_maxactive_count; /* maximum number of AIOs */
int kaio_active_count; /* number of currently used AIOs */
int kaio_qallowed_count; /* maxiumu size of AIO queue */
int kaio_queue_count; /* size of AIO queue */
int kaio_ballowed_count; /* maximum number of buffers */
int kaio_queue_finished_count; /* number of daemon jobs finished */
int kaio_buffer_count; /* number of physio buffers */
int kaio_buffer_finished_count; /* count of I/O done */
struct proc *kaio_p; /* process that uses this kaio block */
TAILQ_HEAD (,aio_liojob) kaio_liojoblist; /* list of lio jobs */
TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist) kaio_jobqueue; /* job queue for process */
TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist) kaio_jobdone; /* done queue for process */
TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist) kaio_bufqueue; /* buffer job queue for process */
TAILQ_HEAD (,aiocblist) kaio_bufdone; /* buffer done queue for process */
};
#define KAIO_RUNDOWN 0x1 /* process is being run down */
#define KAIO_WAKEUP 0x2 /* wakeup process when there is a significant
event */
TAILQ_HEAD (,aioproclist) aio_freeproc, aio_activeproc;
TAILQ_HEAD(,aiocblist) aio_jobs; /* Async job list */
TAILQ_HEAD(,aiocblist) aio_bufjobs; /* Phys I/O job list */
TAILQ_HEAD(,aiocblist) aio_freejobs; /* Pool of free jobs */
static void aio_init_aioinfo(struct proc *p) ;
static void aio_onceonly(void *) ;
static int aio_free_entry(struct aiocblist *aiocbe);
static void aio_process(struct aiocblist *aiocbe);
static int aio_newproc(void) ;
static int aio_aqueue(struct proc *p, struct aiocb *job, int type) ;
static void aio_physwakeup(struct buf *bp);
static int aio_fphysio(struct proc *p, struct aiocblist *aiocbe, int type);
static int aio_qphysio(struct proc *p, struct aiocblist *iocb);
static void aio_daemon(void *uproc);
SYSINIT(aio, SI_SUB_VFS, SI_ORDER_ANY, aio_onceonly, NULL);
static vm_zone_t kaio_zone=0, aiop_zone=0,
aiocb_zone=0, aiol_zone=0, aiolio_zone=0;
/*
* Single AIOD vmspace shared amongst all of them
*/
static struct vmspace *aiovmspace = NULL;
/*
* Startup initialization
*/
void
aio_onceonly(void *na)
{
TAILQ_INIT(&aio_freeproc);
TAILQ_INIT(&aio_activeproc);
TAILQ_INIT(&aio_jobs);
TAILQ_INIT(&aio_bufjobs);
TAILQ_INIT(&aio_freejobs);
kaio_zone = zinit("AIO", sizeof (struct kaioinfo), 0, 0, 1);
aiop_zone = zinit("AIOP", sizeof (struct aioproclist), 0, 0, 1);
aiocb_zone = zinit("AIOCB", sizeof (struct aiocblist), 0, 0, 1);
aiol_zone = zinit("AIOL", AIO_LISTIO_MAX * sizeof (int), 0, 0, 1);
aiolio_zone = zinit("AIOLIO",
AIO_LISTIO_MAX * sizeof (struct aio_liojob), 0, 0, 1);
aiod_timeout = AIOD_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT;
aiod_lifetime = AIOD_LIFETIME_DEFAULT;
jobrefid = 1;
}
/*
* Init the per-process aioinfo structure.
* The aioinfo limits are set per-process for user limit (resource) management.
*/
void
aio_init_aioinfo(struct proc *p)
{
struct kaioinfo *ki;
if (p->p_aioinfo == NULL) {
ki = zalloc(kaio_zone);
p->p_aioinfo = ki
support was missing in the previous version of the AIO code. More
tunables added, and very efficient support for VCHR files has been added.
Kernel threads are not used for VCHR files, all work for such files is
done for the requesting process directly. Some attempt has been made to
charge the requesting process for resource utilization, but more work
is needed. aio_fsync is still missing (but the original fsync system
call can be used for now.) aio_cancel is essentially a noop, but that
is okay per POSIX. More aio_cancel functionality can be added later,
if it is found to be needed.
The functions implemented include:
aio_read, aio_write, lio_listio, aio_error, aio_return,
aio_cancel, aio_suspend.
The code has been implemented to support the POSIX spec 1003.1b
(formerly known as POSIX 1003.4 spec) features of the above. The
async I/O features are truly async, with the VCHR mode of operation
being essentially the same as physio (for appropriate files) for
maximum efficiency. This code also supports the signal capability,
is highly tunable, allowing management of resource usage, and
has been written to allow a per process usage quota.
Both the O'Reilly POSIX.4 book and the actual POSIX 1003.1b document
were the reference specs used. Any filedescriptor can be used with
these new system calls. I know of no exceptions where these
system calls will not work. (TTY's will also probably work.)
it in struct proc instead.
This fixes a boatload of compiler warning, and removes a lot of cruft
from the sources.
I have not removed the /*ARGSUSED*/, they will require some looking at.
libkvm, ps and other userland struct proc frobbing programs will need
recompiled.
Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static: Put "static" in front of
them.
A couple of finer points by: bde
now corrected. New tunables/instrumentation added. The code is now
likely "good enough to use." I will add the userland support soon.
The "high performance" mode for raw devices is still missing, and will
be added next. POSIX system calls that now appear to work:
aio_cancel, aio_error, aio_read, aio_return, aio_suspend, aio_write,
lio_listio. Missing, but to be added soon: aio_fsync.
POSIX.4. Additionally, there is some initial code that supports LIO.
This code supports AIO/LIO for all types of file descriptors, with
few if any restrictions. There will be a followup very soon that
will support significantly more efficient operation for VCHR type
files (raw.) This code is also dependent on some kernel features
that don't work under SMP yet. After I commit the changes to the
kernel to support proper address space sharing on SMP, this code
will also work under SMP.
