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Author SHA1 Message Date
John Baldwin
6008862bc2 Change callers of mtx_init() to pass in an appropriate lock type name. In
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.

Tested on:	i386, alpha, sparc64
2002-04-04 21:03:38 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
d1b534dfc6 brelse() was improperly clearing B_DELWRI in the B_DELWRI|B_INVAL case
without removing the buffer from the vnode's dirty buffer list, which
can result in a panic in NFS.  Replaced the code with a call to bundirty()
which deals with it properly.

PR:		kern/36108, kern/36174
Submitted by:	various people
Special mention: to Danny Schales <dan@coes.LaTech.edu> for providing a core dump that helped me track this down.
MFC after:	1 day
2002-04-03 00:17:36 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
4d77a549fe Remove __P. 2002-03-19 21:25:46 +00:00
Bruce Evans
367b50a28f Fixed some printf format errors (hopefully all of the remaining daddr64_t
ones for GENERIC, and all others on the same line as those).  Reformat
the printfs if necessary to avoid new long lones or old format printf
errors.
2002-03-19 04:09:21 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
ac59490b5e Convert all pmap_kenter/pmap_kremove pairs in MI code to use pmap_qenter/
pmap_qremove.  pmap_kenter is not safe to use in MI code because it is not
guaranteed to flush the mapping from the tlb on all cpus.  If the process
in question is preempted and migrates cpus between the call to pmap_kenter
and pmap_kremove, the original cpu will be left with stale mappings in its
tlb.  This is currently not a problem for i386 because we do not use PG_G on
SMP, and thus all mappings are flushed from the tlb on context switches, not
just user mappings.  This is not the case on all architectures, and if PG_G
is to be used with SMP on i386 it will be a problem.  This was committed by
peter earlier as part of his fine grained tlb shootdown work for i386, which
was backed out for other reasons.

Reviewed by:	peter
2002-03-17 00:56:41 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
0d2af52141 Introduce the new 64-bit size disk block, daddr64_t. Change
the bio and buffer structures to have daddr64_t bio_pblkno,
b_blkno, and b_lblkno fields which allows access to disks
larger than a Terabyte in size. This change also requires
that the VOP_BMAP vnode operation accept and return daddr64_t
blocks. This delta should not affect system operation in
any way. It merely sets up the necessary interfaces to allow
the development of disk drivers that work with these larger
disk block addresses. It also allows for the development of
UFS2 which will use 64-bit block addresses.
2002-03-15 18:49:47 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
628abf6c69 Giant pushdown for read/write/pread/pwrite syscalls.
kern/kern_descrip.c:
Aquire Giant in fdrop_locked when file refcount hits zero, this removes
the requirement for the caller to own Giant for the most part.

kern/kern_ktrace.c:
Aquire Giant in ktrgenio, simplifies locking in upper read/write syscalls.

kern/vfs_bio.c:
Aquire Giant in bwillwrite if needed.

kern/sys_generic.c
Giant pushdown, remove Giant for:
   read, pread, write and pwrite.
readv and writev aren't done yet because of the possible malloc calls
for iov to uio processing.

kern/sys_socket.c
Grab giant in the socket fo_read/write functions.

kern/vfs_vnops.c
Grab giant in the vnode fo_read/write functions.
2002-03-15 08:03:46 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
f52bd684f3 * Move bswlist declaration and initialization from kern/vfs_bio.c to
vm/vm_pager.c, which is the only place it is used.
* Make the QUEUE_* definitions and bufqueues local to vfs_bio.c.
* constify buf_wmesg.
2002-03-05 18:20:58 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
eb8e6d5276 Document all functions, global and static variables, and sysctls.
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)
2002-03-05 15:38:49 +00:00
Peter Wemm
d1693e1701 Back out all the pmap related stuff I've touched over the last few days.
There is some unresolved badness that has been eluding me, particularly
affecting uniprocessor kernels.  Turning off PG_G helped (which is a bad
sign) but didn't solve it entirely.  Userland programs still crashed.
2002-02-27 09:51:33 +00:00
Peter Wemm
bd1e3a0f89 Jake further reduced IPI shootdowns on sparc64 in loops by using ranged
shootdowns in a couple of key places.  Do the same for i386.  This also
hides some physical addresses from higher levels and has it use the
generic vm_page_t's instead.  This will help for PAE down the road.

Obtained from:	jake (MI code, suggestions for MD part)
2002-02-27 02:14:58 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
57c10583aa GC: BIO_ORDERED, various infrastructure dealing with BIO_ORDERED. 2002-02-22 09:26:35 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
986066d065 Replace bowrite() with BUF_WRITE in ufs.
Remove bowrite(), it is now unused.

This is the first step in getting entirely rid of BIO_ORDERED which is
a generally accepted evil thing.

Approved by:	mckusick
2002-02-22 09:03:00 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
027df6bdd7 GC P_BUFEXHAUST leftovers, we've had a new mechanism to avoid buffer
cache lockups for over a year now.

MFC after:		0 days
2002-01-31 18:39:44 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
3ebeaf5984 This fixes a large number of bugs in our NFS client side code. A recent
commit by Kirk also fixed a softupdates bug that could easily be triggered
by server side NFS.

	* An edge case with shared R+W mmap()'s and truncate whereby
	  the system would inappropriately clear the dirty bits on
	  still-dirty data.  (applicable to all filesystems)

	  THIS FIX TEMPORARILY DISABLED PENDING FURTHER TESTING.
	  see vm/vm_page.c line 1641

	* The straddle case for VM pages and buffer cache buffers when
	  truncating.  (applicable to NFS client side)

	* Possible SMP database corruption due to vm_pager_unmap_page()
	  not clearing the TLB for the other cpu's.  (applicable to NFS
	  client side but could effect all filesystems).  Note: not
	  considered serious since the corruption occurs beyond the file
	  EOF.

	* When flusing a dirty buffer due to B_CACHE getting cleared,
	  we were accidently setting B_CACHE again (that is, bwrite() sets
	  B_CACHE), when we really want it to stay clear after the write
	  is complete.  This resulted in a corrupt buffer.  (applicable
	  to all filesystems but probably only triggered by NFS)

	* We have to call vtruncbuf() when ftruncate()ing to remove
	  any buffer cache buffers.  This is still tentitive, I may
	  be able to remove it due to the second bug fix.  (applicable
	  to NFS client side)

	* vnode_pager_setsize() race against nfs_vinvalbuf()... we have
	  to set n_size before calling nfs_vinvalbuf or the NFS code
	  may recursively vnode_pager_setsize() to the original value
	  before the truncate.  This is what was causing the user mmap
	  bus faults in the nfs tester program.  (applicable to NFS
	  client side)

	* Fix to softupdates (see ufs/ffs/ffs_inode.c 1.73, commit made
	  by Kirk).

Testing program written by: Avadis Tevanian, Jr.
Testing program supplied by: jkh / Apple (see Dec2001 posting to freebsd-hackers with Subject 'NFS: How to make FreeBS fall on its face in one easy step')
MFC after:	1 week
2001-12-14 01:16:57 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
a4233d5dc3 The nbuf calculation was assuming that PAGE_SIZE = 4096 bytes, which is
bogus.  The calculation has been adjusted to use units of kilobytes.

Noticed by: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
MFC after:	1 week
2001-12-08 20:37:08 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
8ba1f55b49 Placemark an interrupt race in -current which is currently protected by
Giant.  -stable will get spl*() fixes for the race.

Reported by: Rob Anderson <rob@isilon.com>
MFC after:	0 days
2001-11-08 18:09:18 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
7e76bb562e Implement IO_NOWDRAIN and B_NOWDRAIN - prevents the buffer cache from blocking
in wdrain during a write.  This flag needs to be used in devices whos
strategy routines turn-around and issue another high level I/O, such as
when MD turns around and issues a VOP_WRITE to vnode backing store, in order
to avoid deadlocking the dirty buffer draining code.

Remove a vprintf() warning from MD when the backing vnode is found to be
in-use.  The syncer of buf_daemon could be flushing the backing vnode at
the time of an MD operation so the warning is not correct.

MFC after:	1 week
2001-11-05 18:48:54 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
5eb13f768c Documentation
MFC after:	1 day
2001-10-21 06:26:55 +00:00
John Baldwin
bd78cece5d Change the kernel's ucred API as follows:
- crhold() returns a reference to the ucred whose refcount it bumps.
- crcopy() now simply copies the credentials from one credential to
  another and has no return value.
- a new crshared() primitive is added which returns true if a ucred's
  refcount is > 1 and false (0) otherwise.
2001-10-11 23:38:17 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
46cad5761c Enable vmiodirenable by default. Remove incorrect comment from sysctl.conf.
MFC after:	1 week
2001-09-26 19:35:04 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b40ce4165d KSE Milestone 2
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
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
0cf5e0ebd6 Remove the code that limited the buffer_map to 1/2 the size of the
kernel_map.  maxbcache takes care of this now and the 1/2 limit can
interfere with testing.

Suggested by: bde
2001-08-22 18:10:37 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
219d632c15 Move most of the kernel submap initialization code, including the
timeout callwheel and buffer cache, out of the platform specific areas
and into the machine independant area.  i386 and alpha adjusted here.
Other cpus can be fixed piecemeal.

Reviewed by:    freebsd-smp, jake
2001-08-22 04:07:27 +00:00
Peter Wemm
b219758f94 Revert previous accidental commit. FWIW, it was part of enabling
VM caching of disks through mmap() and stopping syncing of open files
that had their last reference in the fs removed (ie: their unsync'ed
pages get discarded on close already, so I made it stop syncing too).
2001-07-27 15:57:17 +00:00
Peter Wemm
24a590a074 Fix cut/paste blunder. Serves me right for doing a last minute tweak
to what I had for some time.

Submitted by:	bde
2001-07-27 15:52:49 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
0cddd8f023 With Alfred's permission, remove vm_mtx in favor of a fine-grained approach
(this commit is just the first stage).  Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
2001-07-04 16:20:28 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
ac8f990bde This patch implements O_DIRECT about 80% of the way. It takes a patchset
Tor created a while ago, removes the raw I/O piece (that has cache coherency
problems), and adds a buffer cache / VM freeing piece.

Essentially this patch causes O_DIRECT I/O to not be left in the cache, but
does not prevent it from going through the cache, hence the 80%.  For
the last 20% we need a method by which the I/O can be issued directly to
buffer supplied by the user process and bypass the buffer cache entirely,
but still maintain cache coherency.

I also have the code working under -stable but the changes made to sys/file.h
may not be MFCable, so an MFC is not on the table yet.

Submitted by:	tegge, dillon
2001-05-24 07:22:27 +00:00
John Baldwin
8aa66068ed - Always call bfreekva() w/o vm_mtx held.
- Always call vfs_setdirty() with vm_mtx held.
- Fix an old comment: vm_hold_unload_pages is called vm_hold_free_pages()
  nowadays.
- Always call vm_hold_free_pages() w/o vm_mtx held.
2001-05-23 22:24:49 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
2395531439 Introduce a global lock for the vm subsystem (vm_mtx).
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.

faults can not be taken without holding Giant.

Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.

Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.

Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.

FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).

Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
2001-05-19 01:28:09 +00:00
Greg Lehey
60fb0ce365 Revert consequences of changes to mount.h, part 2.
Requested by:	bde
2001-04-29 02:45:39 +00:00
Greg Lehey
d98dc34f52 Correct #includes to work with fixed sys/mount.h. 2001-04-23 09:05:15 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
793d6d5d57 bread() is a special case of breadn(), so don't replicate code. 2001-04-18 07:16:07 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
0dfba3cef1 Write a switch statement as less obscure if statements. 2001-04-17 20:22:07 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f84e29a06c This patch removes the VOP_BWRITE() vector.
VOP_BWRITE() was a hack which made it possible for NFS client
side to use struct buf with non-bio backing.

This patch takes a more general approach and adds a bp->b_op
vector where more methods can be added.

The success of this patch depends on bp->b_op being initialized
all relevant places for some value of "relevant" which is not
easy to determine.  For now the buffers have grown a b_magic
element which will make such issues a tiny bit easier to debug.
2001-04-17 08:56:39 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
5819ab3f12 Add debugging option to always read/write cylinder groups as full
sized blocks. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.bigcgs=1'.
Add debugging option to disable background writes of cylinder
groups. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.dobkgrdwrite=0'.
These debugging options should be tried on systems that are panicing
with corrupted cylinder group maps to see if it makes the problem
go away. The set of panics in question are:

	ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch
	ffs_nodealloccg: map corrupted
	ffs_nodealloccg: block not in map
	ffs_alloccg: map corrupted
	ffs_alloccg: block not in map
	ffs_alloccgblk: cyl groups corrupted
	ffs_alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
	ffs_checkblk: partially free fragment

The following panics are less likely to be related to this problem,
but might be helped by these debugging options:

	ffs_valloc: dup alloc
	ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
	ffs_blkfree: freeing free frag
	ffs_vfree: freeing free inode

If you try these options, please report whether they helped reduce your
bitmap corruption panics to Kirk McKusick at <mckusick@mckusick.com>
and to Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>.
2001-04-17 05:37:51 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
63692125a9 Fix lockup for loopback NFS mounts. The pipelined I/O limitations could be
hit on the client side and prevent the server side from retiring writes.
Pipeline operations turned off for all READs (no big loss since reads are
usually synchronous) and for NFS writes, and left on for the default bwrite().
(MFC expected prior to 4.3 freeze)

Testing by: mjacob, dillon
2001-02-28 04:13:11 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
9ed346bab0 Change and clean the mutex lock interface.
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)
2001-02-09 06:11:45 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
4e71e795a1 This commit represents work mainly submitted by Tor and slightly modified
by myself.  It solves a serious vm_map corruption problem that can occur
with the buffer cache when block sizes > 64K are used.  This code has been
heavily tested in -stable but only tested somewhat on -current.  An MFC
will occur in a few days.  My additions include the vm_map_simplify_entry()
and minor buffer cache boundry case fix.

Make the buffer cache use a system map for buffer cache KVM rather then a
normal map.

Ensure that VM objects are not allocated for system maps.  There were cases
where a buffer map could wind up with a backing VM object -- normally
harmless, but this could also result in the buffer cache blocking in places
where it assumes no blocking will occur, possibly resulting in corrupted
maps.

Fix a minor boundry case in the buffer cache size limit is reached that
could result in non-optimal code.

Add vm_map_simplify_entry() calls to prevent 'creeping proliferation'
of vm_map_entry's in the buffer cache's vm_map.  Previously only a simple
linear optimization was made.  (The buffer vm_map typically has only a
handful of vm_map_entry's.  This stabilizes it at that level permanently).

PR: 20609
Submitted by: (Tor Egge) tegge
2001-02-04 06:19:28 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
ef73ae4b0c Use PCPU_GET, PCPU_PTR and PCPU_SET to access all per-cpu variables
other then curproc.
2001-01-10 04:43:51 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
2b6b0df712 This implements a better launder limiting solution. There was a solution
in 4.2-REL which I ripped out in -stable and -current when implementing the
low-memory handling solution.  However, maxlaunder turns out to be the saving
grace in certain very heavily loaded systems (e.g. newsreader box).  The new
algorithm limits the number of pages laundered in the first pageout daemon
pass.  If that is not sufficient then suceessive will be run without any
limit.

Write I/O is now pipelined using two sysctls, vfs.lorunningspace and
vfs.hirunningspace.  This prevents excessive buffered writes in the
disk queues which cause long (multi-second) delays for reads.  It leads
to more stable (less jerky) and generally faster I/O streaming to disk
by allowing required read ops (e.g. for indirect blocks and such) to occur
without interrupting the write stream, amoung other things.

NOTE: eventually, filesystem write I/O pipelining needs to be done on a
per-device basis.  At the moment it is globalized.
2000-12-26 19:41:38 +00:00
John Baldwin
ffc831da27 Stick the kthread API in a kthread_* namespace, and the specialized kproc
functions in a kproc_* namespace.

Reviewed by:	-arch
2000-12-15 20:08:20 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
936524aa02 Implement a low-memory deadlock solution.
Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
    situations prior to now.

    The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
    a low memory situation.  All major modules related to I/O (except
    networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
    reserve memory pool.  These modules now detect a low memory situation but
    rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
    to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.

    Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
    being locked.

    Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
    holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing.  Not only will
    I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
    longer exist.

Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes

	(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
        was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
        statement.  We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
        aren't taking any chances.  We'll turn the whole section into a
        panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.

	In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
        clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
        for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
        initiating I/O.  The problem always caused a panic before.  Now it
        doesn't.  The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.

	Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK.  This code worked properly before only
        because the calculations use signed arithmatic.  Better to properly
        extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
        op.

	In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
        away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
        fix the bogus pages.  The result was that it would potentially
        invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.

	There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
        being duplicated, causing potential corruption.  We have identified
        a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
        So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
  	and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
	The problem does not occur very often..  it is very hard to
	reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
	people have reported.

Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
2000-11-18 23:06:26 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
1d7e3e42e7 Take VBLK devices further out of their missery.
This should fix the panic I introduced in my previous commit on this topic.
2000-11-02 21:14:13 +00:00
John Baldwin
35e0e5b311 Catch up to moving headers:
- machine/ipl.h -> sys/ipl.h
- machine/mutex.h -> sys/mutex.h
2000-10-20 07:58:15 +00:00
Jason Evans
a18b1f1d4d Convert lockmgr locks from using simple locks to using mutexes.
Add lockdestroy() and appropriate invocations, which corresponds to
lockinit() and must be called to clean up after a lockmgr lock is no
longer needed.
2000-10-04 01:29:17 +00:00
Boris Popov
9ff5ce6baf Add three new VOPs: VOP_CREATEVOBJECT, VOP_DESTROYVOBJECT and VOP_GETVOBJECT.
They will be used by nullfs and other stacked filesystems to support full
cache coherency.

Reviewed in general by:	mckusick, dillon
2000-09-12 09:49:08 +00:00
Jason Evans
0384fff8c5 Major update to the way synchronization is done in the kernel. Highlights
include:

* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*().  See mutex(9).  (Note: The
  alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)

* Per-CPU idle processes.

* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
  preempted (i386 only).

Partially contributed by:	BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least):	cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
2000-09-07 01:33:02 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
54e53ebda7 Now that buffer locks can be recursive, we need to delete the panics
that complain about them.

Obtained from:	Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
2000-07-25 18:28:46 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
f2a2857bb3 Add snapshots to the fast filesystem. Most of the changes support
the gating of system calls that cause modifications to the underlying
filesystem. The gating can be enabled by any filesystem that needs
to consistently suspend operations by adding the vop_stdgetwritemount
to their set of vnops. Once gating is enabled, the function
vfs_write_suspend stops all new write operations to a filesystem,
allows any filesystem modifying system calls already in progress
to complete, then sync's the filesystem to disk and returns. The
function vfs_write_resume allows the suspended write operations to
begin again. Gating is not added by default for all filesystems as
for SMP systems it adds two extra locks to such critical kernel
paths as the write system call. Thus, gating should only be added
as needed.

Details on the use and current status of snapshots in FFS can be
found in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot so for brevity and timelyness
is not included here. Unless and until you create a snapshot file,
these changes should have no effect on your system (famous last words).
2000-07-11 22:07:57 +00:00