cpu_switch() where both the old and new threads are passed in as
arguments. Only powerpc uses the old conventions now.
- Update comments in the Alpha swtch.s to reflect KSE changes.
Tested by: obrien, marcel
- All those diffs to syscalls.master for each architecture *are*
necessary. This needed clarification; the stub code generation for
mlockall() was disabled, which would prevent applications from
linking to this API (suggested by mux)
- Giant has been quoshed. It is no longer held by the code, as
the required locking has been pushed down within vm_map.c.
- Callers must specify VM_MAP_WIRE_HOLESOK or VM_MAP_WIRE_NOHOLES
to express their intention explicitly.
- Inspected at the vmstat, top and vm pager sysctl stats level.
Paging-in activity is occurring correctly, using a test harness.
- The RES size for a process may appear to be greater than its SIZE.
This is believed to be due to mappings of the same shared library
page being wired twice. Further exploration is needed.
- Believed to back out of allocations and locks correctly
(tested with WITNESS, MUTEX_PROFILING, INVARIANTS and DIAGNOSTIC).
PR: kern/43426, standards/54223
Reviewed by: jake, alc
Approved by: jake (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
From alc:
Move pageable pipe memory to a seperate kernel submap to avoid awkward
vm map interlocking issues. (Bad explanation provided by me.)
From me:
Rework pipespace accounting code to handle this new layout, and adjust
our default values to account for the fact that we now have a solid
limit on allocations.
Also, remove the "maxpipes" limit, as it no longer has a purpose.
(The limit on kva usage solves the problem of having two many pipes.)
application could cause a wired page to be freed. In general,
vm_page_hold() should be preferred for ephemeral kernel mappings of pages
borrowed from a user-level address space. (vm_page_wire() should really be
reserved for indefinite duration pinning by the "owner" of the page.)
Discussed with: silby
Submitted by: tegge
psignal()/tdsignal(). The test was historically in psignal(). It was
changed into a KASSERT, and then later moved to tdsignal() when the
latter was introduced.
Reviewed by: iedowse, jhb
ioctls.
In the particular case of ptrace(), this commit more-or-less reverts
revision 1.53 of sys_process.c, which appears to have been erroneous.
Reviewed by: iedowse, jhb
a reference to the containing object. The purpose of the reference
being to prevent the destruction of the object and an attempt to free
the wired page. (Wired pages can't be freed.) Unfortunately, this
approach does not work. Some operations, like fork(2) that call
vm_object_split(), can move the wired page to a difference object,
thereby making the reference pointless and opening the possibility
of the wired page being freed.
A solution is to use vm_page_hold() in place of vm_page_wire(). Held
pages can be freed. They are moved to a special hold queue until the
hold is released.
Submitted by: tegge
semaphore and doing so can lead to a possible reversal. WITNESS would have
caught this if semaphores were used more often in the kernel.
Submitted by: Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu>, Dawson Engler
connection is to be established asynchronously, behave as in the
case of non-blocking mode:
- keep the SS_ISCONNECTING bit set thus indicating that
the connection establishment is in progress, which is the case
(clearing the bit in this case was just a bug);
- return EALREADY, instead of the confusing and unreasonable
EADDRINUSE, upon further connect(2) attempts on this socket
until the connection is established (this also brings our
connect(2) into accord with IEEE Std 1003.1.)
than i386 or AMD64, TP register points to thread mailbox, and they can not
atomically clear km_curthread in kse mailbox, in this case, thread retrieves
its thread pointer from TP register and sets flag TMF_NOUPCALL in its thread
mailbox to indicate a critical region.
use vrele() instead of vput() on the parent directory vnode returned
by namei() in the case where it is equal to the target vnode. This
handles namei()'s somewhat strange (but documented) behaviour of
not locking either vnode when the two vnodes are equal and LOCKPARENT
but not LOCKLEAF is specified.
Note that since a vnode double-unlock is not currently fatal, these
coding errors were effectively harmless.
Spotted by: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
Reviewed by: mckusick
malloc and mbuf allocation all not requiring Giant.
1) ostat, fstat and nfstat don't need Giant until they call fo_stat.
2) accept can copyin the address length without grabbing Giant.
3) sendit doesn't need Giant, so don't bother grabbing it until kern_sendit.
4) move Giant grabbing from each indivitual recv* syscall to recvit.
support routines in kern_acl.c:
- Define ACL_OVERRIDE_MASK and ACL_PRESERVE_MASK centrally in acl.h: the
mode bits that are (and aren't) stored in the ACL.
- Add acl_posix1e_acl_to_mode(): given a POSIX.1e extended ACL, generate
a compatibility mode (only the bits supported by the POSIX.1e ACL).
- acl_posix1e_newfilemode(): Given a requested creation mode and default
ACL, calculate the mode for the new file system object (only the bits
supported by the POSIX.1e ACL).
PR: 50148
Reported by: Ritz, Bruno <bruno_ritz@gmx.ch>
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
another thread. We use the td_oncpu member of the other field to locate
it's associated CPU and then search the that CPU's list of spin locks
contained in its per-CPU data. This is not always safe and may in fact
panic or just not work, but it is useful in at least one case.
on a non-blocking pipe in cases where select(2) returns the file
descriptor as ready for write. This in turns causes libc_r, for
one, to busy wait in such cases.
Note: it is a quick performance fix, a more complex fix might be
required in case this turns out to have unexpected side effects.
Reviewed by: silby
MFC after: 3 days
thread's pid to make debugging easier for people who don't want to have to
use the intended tool for these panics (witness).
Indirectly prodded by: kris
a long-standing mistake in the way a portion of a pipe's KVA is
allocated. Specifically, kmem_alloc_pageable() is inappropriate
for use in the "direct" case because it allows a preceding vm map entry
and vm object to be extended to support the new KVA allocation.
However, the direct case KVA allocation should not have a backing
vm object. This is corrected by using kmem_alloc_nofault().
Submitted by: tegge (with the above explanation by me)
kernel ACL interfaces and system call names.
Break out UFS2 and FFS extattr delete and list vnode operations from
setextattr and getextattr to deleteextattr and listextattr, which
cleans up the implementations, and makes the results more readable,
and makes the APIs more clear.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
kern.file sysctl, don't return information about processes that
fail p_cansee(td, p). This prevents sockstat and related
programs from seeing file descriptors owned by processes not
in the same jail as the thread, as well as having implications
for MAC, etc.
This is a partial solution: it permits an information leak about
the number of descriptors in the sizing calculation (but this is
not new information, you can also get it from kern.openfiles),
and doesn't attempt to mask file descriptors based on the
properties of the descriptor, only the process referencing it.
However, it provides most of what you want under most
circumstances, without complicating the locking.
PR: 54211
Based on a patch submitted by: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>
