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)
The current code mixes the use of `flags' and `mode'. This is a bit
confusing, since the faccessat() function as a `flag' parameter to store
the AT_ flag.
Make this less confusing by using the same name as used in the POSIX
specification -- `amode'.
it can be used by in-kernel consumers.
- Make kern_posix_fallocate() public.
- Use kern_posix_fadvise() and kern_posix_fallocate() to implement the
freebsd32 wrappers for the two system calls.
to match native struct timespec ABI on __LP32__.
This change is a prerequisite for upcoming futimens()/utimensat() in whose
implementations it is assumed that timespec32 can take a negative value.
MFC after: 1 week
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
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
kernel for FreeBSD 9.0:
Add a new capability mask argument to fget(9) and friends, allowing system
call code to declare what capabilities are required when an integer file
descriptor is converted into an in-kernel struct file *. With options
CAPABILITIES compiled into the kernel, this enforces capability
protection; without, this change is effectively a no-op.
Some cases require special handling, such as mmap(2), which must preserve
information about the maximum rights at the time of mapping in the memory
map so that they can later be enforced in mprotect(2) -- this is done by
narrowing the rights in the existing max_protection field used for similar
purposes with file permissions.
In namei(9), we assert that the code is not reached from within capability
mode, as we're not yet ready to enforce namespace capabilities there.
This will follow in a later commit.
Update two capability names: CAP_EVENT and CAP_KEVENT become
CAP_POST_KEVENT and CAP_POLL_KEVENT to more accurately indicate what they
represent.
Approved by: re (bz)
Submitted by: jonathan
Sponsored by: Google Inc
Implement two previously-reserved Capsicum system calls:
- cap_new() creates a capability to wrap an existing file descriptor
- cap_getrights() queries the rights mask of a capability.
Approved by: mentor (rwatson), re (Capsicum blanket)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
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)
There is a generic problem with the shims for ioctls that receive
pointers to the usermode data areas in the data argument. We either have
to modify the handler to accept UIO_USERSPACE/UIO_SYSSPACE indicator, or
allocate and fill a usermode memory for data buffer in the host format.
The change goes the second route, in particular because we do not need
to modify the handler.
Submitted by: John Wehle <john feith com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
In particular:
- implement compat shims for old stat(2) variants and ogetdirentries(2);
- implement delivery of signals with ancient stack frame layout and
corresponding sigreturn(2);
- implement old getpagesize(2);
- provide a user-mode trampoline and LDT call gate for lcall $7,$0;
- port a.out image activator and connect it to the build as a module
on amd64.
The changes are hidden under COMPAT_43.
MFC after: 1 month
on the set of rules it maintains and the current resource usage. It also
privides userland API to manage that ruleset.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: kib (earlier version)
Code inspection shows freebsd32_ioctl calls fget for a fd and calls
a subroutine to handle each specific ioctl. It is expected that the
subroutine will call fdrop when done. However many of the subroutines
will exit out early if copyin encounters an error resulting in fdrop
never being called.
Submitted by: John Wehle <john feith com>
MFC after: 3 days
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)
compiled conditionally on options CAPABILITIES:
Add a new credential flag, CRED_FLAG_CAPMODE, which indicates that a
subject (typically a process) is in capability mode.
Add two new system calls, cap_enter(2) and cap_getmode(2), which allow
setting and querying (but never clearing) the flag.
Export the capability mode flag via process information sysctls.
Sponsored by: Google, Inc.
Reviewed by: anderson
Discussed with: benl, kris, pjd
Obtained from: Capsicum Project
MFC after: 3 months
setting SV_SHP flag and providing pointer to the vm object and mapping
address. Provide simple allocator to carve space in the page, tailored
to put the code with alignment restrictions.
Enable shared page use for amd64, both native and 32bit FreeBSD
binaries. Page is private mapped at the top of the user address
space, moving a start of the stack one page down. Move signal
trampoline code from the top of the stack to the shared page.
Reviewed by: alc
thread specific informations.
In order to do that, and in order to avoid KBI breakage with existing
infrastructure the following semantic is implemented:
- For live programs, a new member to the PT_LWPINFO is added (pl_tdname)
- For cores, a new ELF note is added (NT_THRMISC) that can be used for
storing thread specific, miscellaneous, informations. Right now it is
just popluated with a thread name.
GDB, then, retrieves the correct informations from the corefile via the
BFD interface, as it groks the ELF notes and create appropriate
pseudo-sections.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by: gianni
Discussed with: dim, kan, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
In particular, provide pagesize and pagesizes array, the canary value
for SSP use, number of host CPUs and osreldate.
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
MFC after: 1 month
