- Use 'RESOURCE' instead of the more generic 'TYPE' for the resource name
column header when displaying resource usage. This more closely matches
other procstat displays.
- Add descriptions of the display formats for -e, -l, -r, and -x. Fix a few
typos in indent settings while here.
- Add support for dumping current resource usage for processes via a new -r
flag to procstat.
- Add an -H flag to request information about threads rather than processes
when dumping statistics. Currently it is only used for -r to display
resource usage for individual threads instead of the entire process.
info from a process core file.
So now one can run procstat(1) on a process core e.g. to get a list of
files opened by a process when it crashed:
root@lisa:/ # procstat -f /root/vi.core
PID COMM FD T V FLAGS REF OFFSET PRO NAME
658 vi text v r r-------- - - - /usr/bin/vi
658 vi ctty v c rw------- - - - /dev/pts/0
658 vi cwd v d r-------- - - - /root
658 vi root v d r-------- - - - /
658 vi 0 v c rw------- 11 3208 - /dev/pts/0
658 vi 1 v c rw------- 11 3208 - /dev/pts/0
658 vi 2 v c rw------- 11 3208 - /dev/pts/0
658 vi 3 v r r----n-l- 1 0 - /tmp/vi.0AYKz3Lps7
658 vi 4 v r rw------- 1 0 - /var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.GaGYsz
658 vi 5 v r rw------- 1 0 - -
PR: kern/173723
Suggested by: jhb
MFC after: 1 month
capability mode and capabilities.
Right now no attempt is made to unwrap capabilities when operating on
a crashdump, so further refinement is required.
Approved by: re (bz)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
of the missing functionality from procfs(4) and new functionality for
monitoring and debugging specific processes. procstat(1) operates in
the following modes:
-b Display binary information for the process.
-c Display command line arguments for the process.
-f Display file descriptor information for the process.
-k Display the stacks of kernel threads in the process.
-s Display security credential information for the process.
-t Display thread information for the process.
-v Display virtual memory mappings for the process.
Further revision and modes are expected.
Testing, ideas, etc: cognet, sam, Skip Ford <skip at menantico dot com>
Wesley Shields <wxs at atarininja dot org>
