- Do not dump into system files.
- Do not acquire write reference to the mount point where img.core is
written, in the coredump(). The vn_rdwr() calls from ELF imgact
request the write ref from vn_rdwr(). Recursive acqusition of the
write ref deadlocks with the unmount.
- Instead, take the range lock for the whole core file. This prevents
parallel dumping from two processes executing the same image,
converting the useless interleaved dump into sequential dumping,
with second core overwriting the first.
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
header (Elf_Ehdr) to determine if a particular interpretor wants to
accept it or not. Use this mechanism to filter EABI arm on OABI arm
kernels, and vice versa. This method could also be used to implement
OABI on EABI arm kernels, if desired, or to allow a single mips kernel
to run o32, n32 and n64 binaries.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D609
This includes:
o All directories named *ia64*
o All files named *ia64*
o All ia64-specific code guarded by __ia64__
o All ia64-specific makefile logic
o Mention of ia64 in comments and documentation
This excludes:
o Everything under contrib/
o Everything under crypto/
o sys/xen/interface
o sys/sys/elf_common.h
Discussed at: BSDcan
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
further refinement is required as some device drivers intended to be
portable over FreeBSD versions rely on __FreeBSD_version to decide whether
to include capability.h.
MFC after: 3 weeks
an address in the first 2GB of the process's address space. This flag should
have the same semantics as the same flag on Linux.
To facilitate this, add a new parameter to vm_map_find() that specifies an
optional maximum virtual address. While here, fix several callers of
vm_map_find() to use a VMFS_* constant for the findspace argument instead of
TRUE and FALSE.
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kib)
We cannot busy a page before doing pagefaults.
Infact, it can deadlock against vnode lock, as it tries to vget().
Other functions, right now, have an opposite lock ordering, like
vm_object_sync(), which acquires the vnode lock first and then
sleeps on the busy mechanism.
Before this patch is reinserted we need to break this ordering.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by: kib
- It does not let pages respect the LRU policy
- It bloats the active/inactive queues of few pages
Try to avoid it as much as possible with the long-term target to
completely remove it.
Use the soft-busy mechanism to protect page content accesses during
short-term operations (like uiomove_fromphys()).
After this change only vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() is still using the
hold mechanism for page content access.
There is an additional complexity there as the quick path cannot
immediately access the page object to busy the page and the slow path
cannot however busy more than one page a time (to avoid deadlocks).
Fixing such primitive can bring to complete removal of the page hold
mechanism.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
The notes format is a header of sizeof(int), which stores the size of
the corresponding data structure to provide some versioning, and data
in the format as it is returned by a related sysctl call.
The userland tools (procstat(1)) will be taught to extract this data,
providing additional info for postmortem analysis.
PR: kern/173723
Suggested by: jhb
Discussed with: jhb, kib
Reviewed by: jhb (initial version), kib
MFC after: 1 month
function is provided, which is used either to calculate the note size
or output it to sbuf. On the first pass the notes are registered in a
list and the resulting size is found, on the second pass the list is
traversed outputing notes to sbuf. For the sbuf a drain routine is
provided that writes data to a core file.
The main goal of the change is to make coredump to write notes
directly to the core file, without preliminary preparing them all in a
memory buffer. Storing notes in memory is not a problem for the
current, rather small, set of notes we write to the core, but it may
becomes an issue when we start to store procstat notes.
Reviewed by: jhb (initial version), kib
Discussed with: jhb, kib
MFC after: 3 weeks
Although native word padding (i.e. 8-byte on 64bit arch) looks to be
in agreement with standards, other parts of our code and other OSes
use 4-byte alignment.
This is not expected to change alignment for currently generated core
dump notes, as the notes look to consist of structures with sizes
multiple of 8 on 64-bit archs. But there are plans to add additional
notes, where 4-byte vs 8-byte alignment makes difference.
Discussed with: kib
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
the first page:
1. Cast uint16_t operands in a multiplication to unsigned int because
otherwise the implicit promotion to int results in a signed
multiplication that can overflow and the behaviour on integer
overflow is undefined.
2. Replace (offset + size > PAGE_SIZE) with (size > PAGE_SIZE - offset)
because the sum may overflow.
- Use the same tests to see if the path to the interpreter is on the first
page. There's no overflow here because size is already limited by
MAXPATHLEN, but the compiler optimises the new tests better. Also fix an
off-by-one error.
- Simplify tests to see if an ELF note program header is on the first page.
This also fixes an off-by-one error.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.
The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
(in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
- The read-mode operations are added:
VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
versions must be avoided.
At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.
The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit. Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.
The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.
Conducted and reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho
If you have a binary on a filesystem which is also mounted over by
nullfs, you could execute the binary from the lower filesystem, or
from the nullfs mount. When executed from lower filesystem, the lower
vnode gets VV_TEXT flag set, and the file cannot be modified while the
binary is active. But, if executed as the nullfs alias, only the
nullfs vnode gets VV_TEXT set, and you still can open the lower vnode
for write.
Add a set of VOPs for the VV_TEXT query, set and clear operations,
which are correctly bypassed to lower vnode.
Tested by: pho (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
ELF parser. Specifically, do not allow note reader and interpreter
path comparision in the brandelf code to read past end of the page.
This may happen if specially crafter ELF image is activated.
Submitted by: Lukasz Wojcik <lukasz.wojcik zoho com>
MFC after: 3 days
usermode, using shared page. The structures and functions have vdso
prefix, to indicate the intended location of the code in some future.
The versioned per-algorithm data is exported in the format of struct
vdso_timehands, which mostly repeats the content of in-kernel struct
timehands. Usermode reading of the structure can be lockless.
Compatibility export for 32bit processes on 64bit host is also
provided. Kernel also provides usermode with indication about
currently used timecounter, so that libc can fall back to syscall if
configured timecounter is unknown to usermode code.
The shared data updates are initiated both from the tc_windup(), where
a fast task is queued to do the update, and from sysctl handlers which
change timecounter. A manual override switch
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime allows to turn off the mechanism.
Only x86 architectures export the real algorithm data, and there, only
for tsc timecounter. HPET counters page could be exported as well, but
I prefer to not further glue the kernel and libc ABI there until
proper vdso-based solution is developed.
Minimal stubs neccessary for non-x86 architectures to still compile
are provided.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: flo
MFC after: 1 month
to an OBJT_VNODE-specific field of the vm object. The same
information can be just as easily obtained from the struct vattr that
is in struct image_params if the latter is passed to
elf*_load_section(). Moreover, by replacing the vmspace and vm
object parameters to elf*_load_section() with a struct image_params
parameter, we actually reduce the size of the object code.
In collaboration with: kib
won't happen before 9.0. This commit adds "#ifdef RACCT" around all the
"PROC_LOCK(p); racct_whatever(p, ...); PROC_UNLOCK(p)" instances, in order
to avoid useless locking/unlocking in kernels built without "options RACCT".
more explicit comments about what's going on and what future maintainers
need to do when e.g. adding a new operation to a sys_machdep.c.
Approved by: mentor(rwatson), re(bz)
should_yield(). Use this in various places. Encapsulate the common
case of check-and-yield into a new function maybe_yield().
Change several checks for a magic number of iterations to use
should_yield() instead.
MFC after: 1 week
PT_GNU_STACK program header, if present and enabled. Two new sysctls
are provided, kern.elf32.nxstack and kern.elf64.nxstack, that allow to
enable PT_GNU_STACK for ABIs of specified bitsize, if ABI decided to
support shared page.
Inform rtld about access mode of the stack initial mapping by
AT_STACKPROT aux vector.
At the moment, the default is disabled, waiting for the usermode
support bits.
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
executable status of segments instead of detecting the main text segment
by which segment contains the program entry point. This affects
obreak() and is required for correct operation of that function
on 64-bit PowerPC systems. The previous behavior was apparently
required only for the Alpha, which is no longer supported.
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested on: amd64, sparc64, powerpc
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
Enhanced process coredump routines.
This brings in the following features:
1) Limit number of cores per process via the %I coredump formatter.
Example:
if corefilename is set to %N.%I.core AND num_cores = 3, then
if a process "rpd" cores, then the corefile will be named
"rpd.0.core", however if it cores again, then the kernel will
generate "rpd.1.core" until we hit the limit of "num_cores".
this is useful to get several corefiles, but also prevent filling
the machine with corefiles.
2) Encode machine hostname in core dump name via %H.
3) Compress coredumps, useful for embedded platforms with limited space.
A sysctl kern.compress_user_cores is made available if turned on.
To enable compressed coredumps, the following config options need to be set:
options COMPRESS_USER_CORES
device zlib # brings in the zlib requirements.
device gzio # brings in the kernel vnode gzip output module.
4) Eventhandlers are fired to indicate coredumps in progress.
5) The imgact sv_coredump routine has grown a flag to pass in more
state, currently this is used only for passing a flag down to compress
the coredump or not.
Note that the gzio facility can be used for generic output of gzip'd
streams via vnodes.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: kan
