an error if it gets a link (like it does if it gets a socket). The
implications of letting users try and do file operations on symlinks
themselves were too worrying.
to not follow symlinks, but to open a handle on the link itself(!).
As strange as this might sound, it has several useful applications
safe race-free ways of opening files in hostile areas (eg: /tmp, a mode
1777 /var/mail, etc). It also would allow things like fchown() to work
on the link rather than having to implement a new syscall specifically for
that task.
Reviewed by: phk
ints. Remove some no longer needed casts. Initialize the per-cpu
global data area using the structs rather than knowing too much about
layout, alignment, etc.
* Figure out UTC relative to boottime. Four new functions provide
time relative to boottime.
* move "runtime" into struct proc. This helps fix the calcru()
problem in SMP.
* kill mono_time.
* add timespec{add|sub|cmp} macros to time.h. (XXX: These may change!)
* nanosleep, select & poll takes long sleeps one day at a time
Reviewed by: bde
Tested by: ache and others
- Attempt to handle PCI devices where the interrupt is
an ISA/EISA interrupt according to the mp table.
- Attempt to handle multiple IO APIC pins connected to
the same PCI or ISA/EISA interrupt source. Print a
warning if this happens, since performance is suboptimal.
This workaround is only used for PCI devices.
With these two workarounds, the -SMP kernel is capable of running on
my Asus P/I-P65UP5 motherboard when version 1.4 of the MP table is disabled.
"time" wasn't a atomic variable, so splfoo() protection were needed
around any access to it, unless you just wanted the seconds part.
Most uses of time.tv_sec now uses the new variable time_second instead.
gettime() changed to getmicrotime(0.
Remove a couple of unneeded splfoo() protections, the new getmicrotime()
is atomic, (until Bruce sets a breakpoint in it).
A couple of places needed random data, so use read_random() instead
of mucking about with time which isn't random.
Add a new nfs_curusec() function.
Mark a couple of bogosities involving the now disappeard time variable.
Update ffs_update() to avoid the weird "== &time" checks, by fixing the
one remaining call that passwd &time as args.
Change profiling in ncr.c to use ticks instead of time. Resolution is
the same.
Add new function "tvtohz()" to avoid the bogus "splfoo(), add time, call
hzto() which subtracts time" sequences.
Reviewed by: bde
_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options to work. Changes:
Change all "posix4" to "p1003_1b". Misnamed files are left
as "posix4" until I'm told if I can simply delete them and add
new ones;
Add _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls for FreeBSD and Linux;
Add man pages for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls;
Add options to LINT;
Minor fixes to P1003_1B code during testing.
They are atomic, but return in essence what is in the "time" variable.
gettime() is now a macro front for getmicrotime().
Various patches to use the two new functions instead of the various
hacks used in their absence.
Some puntuation and grammer patches from Bruce.
A couple of XXX comments.
everything is contained inside #ifdef VM86, so this option must be
present in the config file to use this functionality.
Thanks to Tor Egge, these changes should work on SMP machines. However,
it may not be throughly SMP-safe.
Currently, the only BIOS calls made are memory-sizing routines at bootup,
these replace reading the RTC values.
In vfs_bio.c, remove b_generation count usage,
remove redundant reassignbuf,
remove redundant spl(s),
manage page PG_ZERO flags more correctly,
utilize in invalid value for b_offset until it
is properly initialized. Add asserts
for #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC, when b_offset is
improperly used.
when a process is not performing I/O, and just waiting
on a buffer generally, make the sleep priority
low.
only check page validity in getblk for B_VMIO buffers.
In vfs_cluster, add b_offset asserts, correct pointer calculation
for clustered reads. Improve readability of certain parts of
the code. Remove redundant spl(s).
In vfs_subr, correct usage of vfs_bio_awrite (From Andrew Gallatin
<gallatin@cs.duke.edu>). More vtruncbuf problems fixed.
me any problems until after the previous commit. This problem then
caused a severe case of creeping crud on my diskdrive, and hosed
my system so bad, that I needed to do a complete reinstall. Sorry!!!
I assume that others have manifest this bug.
problems. Tor Egge and others have helped with various VM bugs
lately, but don't blame him -- blame me!!!
pmap.c:
1) Create an object for kernel page table allocations. This
fixes a bogus allocation method previously used for such, by
grabbing pages from the kernel object, using bogus pindexes.
(This was a code cleanup, and perhaps a minor system stability
issue.)
pmap.c:
2) Pre-set the modify and accessed bits when prudent. This will
decrease bus traffic under certain circumstances.
vfs_bio.c, vfs_cluster.c:
3) Rather than calculating the beginning virtual byte offset
multiple times, stick the offset into the buffer header, so
that the calculated offset can be reused. (Long long multiplies
are often expensive, and this is a probably unmeasurable performance
improvement, and code cleanup.)
vfs_bio.c:
4) Handle write recursion more intelligently (but not perfectly) so
that it is less likely to cause a system panic, and is also
much more robust.
vfs_bio.c:
5) getblk incorrectly wrote out blocks that are incorrectly sized.
The problem is fixed, and writes blocks out ONLY when B_DELWRI
is true.
vfs_bio.c:
6) Check that already constituted buffers have fully valid pages. If
not, then make sure that the B_CACHE bit is not set. (This was
a major source of Sig-11 type problems.)
vfs_bio.c:
7) Fix a potential system deadlock due to an incorrectly specified
sleep priority while waiting for a buffer write operation. The
change that I made opens the system up to serious problems, and
we need to examine the issue of process sleep priorities.
vfs_cluster.c, vfs_bio.c:
8) Make clustered reads work more correctly (and more completely)
when buffers are already constituted, but not fully valid.
(This was another system reliability issue.)
vfs_subr.c, ffs_inode.c:
9) Create a vtruncbuf function, which is used by filesystems that
can truncate files. The vinvalbuf forced a file sync type operation,
while vtruncbuf only invalidates the buffers past the new end of file,
and also invalidates the appropriate pages. (This was a system reliabiliy
and performance issue.)
10) Modify FFS to use vtruncbuf.
vm_object.c:
11) Make the object rundown mechanism for OBJT_VNODE type objects work
more correctly. Included in that fix, create pager entries for
the OBJT_DEAD pager type, so that paging requests that might slip
in during race conditions are properly handled. (This was a system
reliability issue.)
vm_page.c:
12) Make some of the page validation routines be a little less picky
about arguments passed to them. Also, support page invalidation
change the object generation count so that we handle generation
counts a little more robustly.
vm_pageout.c:
13) Further reduce pageout daemon activity when the system doesn't
need help from it. There should be no additional performance
decrease even when the pageout daemon is running. (This was
a significant performance issue.)
vnode_pager.c:
14) Teach the vnode pager to handle race conditions during vnode
deallocations.
of a disk, because that slice does not exist, try again mounting from the
compatability slice.
This handles the case where a disk has been initialised by 'disklabel
auto', which places a bogus and invalid slice entry on the disk.
The bootstrap is not smart enough to reject this slice, and pretends to
boot from it. Believing the the bootstrap at this point is unwise.
Booting from non-'wd' disks thus prepared is still broken, as
'disklabel -rwB xdN auto' does not initialise the disk type field, and
the bootstrap mistakenly claims that the disk is handled by 'wd'.
Behaviour is now consistent with DEVFS expected characteristics.
during the libc/libc_r to automatically pick up syscall names on
the assumption that default asm code needs to generated for them.
In the up-coming changes to the libc makefiles, there is the option
to provide a machine dependent asm source file which will turn off
the automatic generation of the default. There is also an option
to just stop code being generated for a syscall. In most cases,
though, the default asm code is all that is required, so this
change makes that the most convenient was to do business.
Idea suggested by: bde
