With the previous code, if the range of priorities for timeshare batch
threads was greater than RQ_NQS, then the threads with low priorities in
the part of the range above RQ_NQS would be scheduled to the run-queues
as if they had high priorities at the beginning of the range.
In other words, threads with a nice level of +N could be scheduled as
if they had a nice level of -M.
Reported by: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com>
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
locate a process calling pfind() and do some additional checks like
p_candebug(). To reduce this code duplication a new function pget() is
introduced and used.
As the function may be useful not only in kern_proc.c it is in the
kernel name space.
Suggested by: kib
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
This is intended as a replacement for libkern's gets and mostly borrows
its implementation. It uses cngrab/cnungrab to delimit kernel's access
to console input.
Note: libkern's gets obviously doesn't share any bits of implementation
iwth libc's gets. They also have different APIs and the former doesn't
have the overflow problems of the latter.
Inspired by: bde
MFC after: 2 months
At the moment grab and ungrab methods of all console drivers are no-ops.
Current intended meaning of the calls is that the kernel takes control of
console input. In the future the semantics may be extended to mean that
the calling thread takes full ownership of the console (e.g. console
output from other threads could be suspended).
Inspired by: bde
MFC after: 2 months
case where a kevent would not fire on a regular file if an application read
to EOF and then seeked backwards into the file.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
The reverse direction of a pipe is lazily allocated on the first write in
that direction (because pipes are usually used in one direction only). A
special case is needed to ensure the pipe appears writable before the first
write because there are 0 bytes of pending data in 0 bytes of buffer space
at that point, leaving 0 bytes of data that can be written with the normal
code.
Note that the first write returns [ENOMEM] if kern.ipc.maxpipekva is
exceeded and does not block or return [EAGAIN], so selecting true for write
is correct even in that case.
PR: kern/93685
Submitted by: gianni
MFC after: 2 weeks
objects created by shm_open(2) into the kernel's address space. This
provides a convenient way for creating shared memory buffers between
userland and the kernel without requiring custom character devices.
Historical behavior of letting other CPUs merily go on is a default for
time being. The new behavior can be switched on via
kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic tunable and sysctl.
Stopping of the CPUs has (at least) the following benefits:
- more of the system state at panic time is preserved intact
- threads and interrupts do not interfere with dumping of the system
state
Only one thread runs uninterrupted after panic if stop_scheduler_on_panic
is set. That thread might call code that is also used in normal context
and that code might use locks to prevent concurrent execution of certain
parts. Those locks might be held by the stopped threads and would never
be released. To work around this issue, it was decided that instead of
explicit checks for panic context, we would rather put those checks
inside the locking primitives.
This change has substantial portions written and re-written by attilio
and kib at various times. Other changes are heavily based on the ideas
and patches submitted by jhb and mdf. bde has provided many insights
into the details and history of the current code.
The new behavior may cause problems for systems that use a USB keyboard
for interfacing with system console. This is because of some unusual
locking patterns in the ukbd code which have to be used because on one
hand ukbd is below syscons, but on the other hand it has to interface
with other usb code that uses regular mutexes/Giant for its concurrency
protection. Dumping to USB-connected disks may also be affected.
PR: amd64/139614 (at least)
In cooperation with: attilio, jhb, kib, mdf
Discussed with: arch@, bde
Tested by: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>,
gnn,
Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>,
glebius,
Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
(various versions of the patch)
MFC after: 3 months (or never)
thread_free(newtd). This to avoid a possible page fault in
cpu_thread_clean() as seen on amd64 with syscall fuzzing.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
of vm_kmem_size that may occur if the system administrator has specified a
vm.vm_kmem_size tunable value that exceeds the hard cap.
PR: 162741
Submitted by: Adam McDougall
Reviewed by: bde@
MFC after: 3 weeks
Optimize for the case, by lazily allocating the pipe inode number at the
fstat(2) time. If alloc_unr(9) returns failure, do not fail fstat(2), since
uses of inode numbers are even rare then fstat(2), but provide zero inode
forever. Note that alloc_unr() failure is unlikely due to total number
of pipes in the system limited by the number of file descriptors.
Based on the submission by: gianni
MFC after: 2 weeks
Citing jilles:
If we are ever going to do ASLR, the AUXV information tells an attacker
where the stack, executable and RTLD are located, which defeats much of
the point of randomizing the addresses in the first place.
Given that the AUXV information seems to be used by debuggers only anyway,
I think it would be good to move it to p_candebug() now.
The full virtual memory maps (KERN_PROC_VMMAP, procstat -v) are already
under p_candebug().
Suggested by: jilles
Discussed with: rwatson
MFC after: 1 week
having dereferenced it. We either should generally check the device_t's
supplied to bus functions before using them (which we seem to virtually
never do) or just assume that they are not NULL.
While at it make this code fit 78 columns.
Found with: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 4230
when actually setting a driver as especially ENOMEM is fatal in these
cases.
- Annotate other calls to device_set_devclass(9) and device_set_driver(9)
without the return value being checked and that are okay to fail.
Reviewed by: yongari (slightly earlier version)
in addition to the user priority for threads whose current real priority
is equal to the previous user priority or if the new priority is a
real-time priority. This allows priority changes of other threads to
have an immediate effect.
MFC after: 2 weeks
-1. But, because ino_t is unsigned, this case was not covered by the
test ino > 0 in pipeclose(), leading to the free_unr(-1). Fix it by
explicitely comparing with 0 and -1. [1]
Do no access freed memory, the inode number was cached to prevent access
to cpipe after it possibly was freed, but I failed to commit the right
patch.
Noted by: gianni [1]
Pointy hat to: kib
MFC after: 3 days
introduced when feed-forward clock support is enabled in the kernel:
- Rename the "choice" variable to "available".
- Streamline the implementation of the "active" variable's sysctl handler
function.
- Create a kern.sysclock sysctl node for general sysclock related configuration
options. Place the "available" and "active" variables under this node.
- Create a kern.sysclock.ffclock sysctl node for feed-forward clock specific
configuration options. Place the "version" and "ffcounter_bypass" variables
under this node.
- Tweak some of the description strings.
Discussed with: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
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/
Discussed with: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
reimplementing the [get]{bin,nano,micro}[up]time() wrapper functions in terms of
the new "fromclock" API instead.
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/
Discussed with: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
that new APIs with some performance sensitivity can be built on top of them.
These functions should not be called directly except in special circumstances.
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/
Discussed with: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
fbclock_{nanouptime|microuptime|bintime|nanotime|microtime}() functions to avoid
indirecting through a sysclock_ops wrapper function.
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)
