CloudABI is a pure capability-based runtime environment for UNIX. It
works similar to Capsicum, except that processes already run in
capabilities mode on startup. All functionality that conflicts with this
model has been omitted, making it a compact binary interface that can be
supported by other operating systems without too much effort.
CloudABI is 'secure by default'; the idea is that it should be safe to
run arbitrary third-party binaries without requiring any explicit
hardware virtualization (Bhyve) or namespace virtualization (Jails). The
rights of an application are purely determined by the set of file
descriptors that you grant it on startup.
The datatypes and constants used by CloudABI's C library (cloudlibc) are
defined in separate files called syscalldefs_mi.h (pointer size
independent) and syscalldefs_md.h (pointer size dependent). We import
these files in sys/contrib/cloudabi and wrap around them in
cloudabi*_syscalldefs.h.
We then add stubs for all of the system calls in sys/compat/cloudabi or
sys/compat/cloudabi64, depending on whether the system call depends on
the pointer size. We only have nine system calls that depend on the
pointer size. If we ever want to support 32-bit binaries, we can simply
add sys/compat/cloudabi32 and implement these nine system calls again.
The next step is to send in code reviews for the individual system call
implementations, but also add a sysentvec, to allow CloudABI executabled
to be started through execve().
More information about CloudABI:
- GitHub: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc
- Talk at BSDCan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdF84x1EdA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2848
Reviewed by: emaste, brooks
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/freebsd
system calls to provide feed-forward clock management capabilities to
userspace processes. ffclock_getcounter() returns the current value of the
kernel's feed-forward clock counter. ffclock_getestimate() returns the current
feed-forward clock parameter estimates and ffclock_setestimate() updates the
feed-forward clock parameter estimates.
- Document the syscalls in the ffclock.2 man page.
- Regenerate the script-derived syscall related files.
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)
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
Add a new system call flag, SYF_CAPENABLED, which indicates that a
particular system call is available in capability mode.
Add a new configuration file, kern/capabilities.conf (similar files
may be introduced for other ABIs in the future), which enumerates
system calls that are available in capability mode. When a new
system call is added to syscalls.master, it will also need to be
added here (if needed). Teach sysent parts to use this file to set
values for SYF_CAPENABLED for the native ABI.
Reviewed by: anderson
Discussed with: benl, kris, pjd
Obtained from: Capsicum Project
MFC after: 3 months
syscalls. On the dynamic syscall deregistration, wait until all
threads leave the syscall code. This somewhat increases the safety
of the loadable modules unloading.
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month
in the type field of system call tables. Specifically, one can now use
the 'NO*' types as flags in addition to the 'COMPAT*' types. For example,
to tag 'COMPAT*' system calls as living in a KLD via NOSTD. The COMPAT*
type is required to be listed first in this case.
- Add new functions 'type()' and 'flag()' to the embedded awk script in
makesyscalls.sh that return true if a requested flag is found in the
type field ($3). The flag() function checks all of the flags in the
field, but type() only checks the first flag. type() is meant to be
used in the top-level "switch" statement and flag() should be used
otherwise.
- Retire the CPT_NOA type, it is now replaced with "COMPAT|NOARGS" using
the flags approach.
- Tweak the comment descriptions of COMPAT[46] system calls so that they
say "freebsd[46] foo" rather than "old foo".
- Document the COMPAT6 type.
- Sync comments in compat32 syscall table with the master table.
- Instead of using a syscall slot (370) just to get a function prototype
for lkmressys(), add an explicit function prototype to <sys/sysent.h>.
This also removes unused special case checks for 'lkmressys' from
makesyscalls.sh.
- Instead of having magic logic in makesyscalls.sh to only generate a
function prototype the first time 'lkmnosys' is seen, make 'NODEF'
always not generate a function prototype and include an explicit
prototype for 'lkmnosys' in <sys/sysent.h>.
- As a result of the fix in (2), update the LKM syscall entries in
the freebsd32 syscall table to use 'lkmnosys' rather than 'nosys'.
- Use NOPROTO for the __syscall() entry (198) in the native ABI. This
avoids the need for magic logic in makesyscalls.h to only generate
a function prototype the first time 'nosys' is encountered.
Also, change the visibility of compat syscalls a slightly. Compat
syscalls were missing from 'syscalls.h' entirely. This additionally adds
them with their compat prefix. eg: SYS_freebsd6_mmap.
Also, the syscalls.c names strings have different prefixes to differentiate
syscalls. Instead of several "old.mmap" strings, there will now be a
"compat.mmap" and "compat6.mmap" etc. Before, both would have had the
same "old.mmap" label.
Approved by: re
mark system calls as being MPSAFE:
- Stop conditionally acquiring Giant around system call invocations.
- Remove all of the 'M' prefixes from the master system call files.
- Remove support for the 'M' prefix from the script that generates the
syscall-related files from the master system call files.
- Don't explicitly set SYF_MPSAFE when registering nfssvc.
audit event identifier associated with each system call, which will
be stored by makesyscalls.sh in the sy_auevent field of struct sysent.
For now, default the audit identifier on all system calls to AUE_NULL,
but in the near future, other BSM event identifiers will be used. The
mapping of system calls to event identifiers is many:one due to
multiple system calls that map to the same end functionality across
compatibility wrappers, ABI wrappers, etc.
Submitted by: wsalamon
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
use it, if we ever did. They have been been VERY poorly maintained for
some time, possibly because they were a NOP. FWIW, This brings our table
formats back closer to the other *BSD's.
Option 'P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES' to compile them in, or load the "sem" module
to activate them.
Have kern/makesyscalls.sh emit an include for sys/_semaphore.h into sysproto.h
to pull in the typedef for semid_t.
Add the syscalls to the syscall table as module stubs.
syscalls are of type NODEF but not in a way that fits the given
definition of that type. The exact difference of lkmressys and
lkmnosys is unclear, which makes it all the more confusing. A
reevaluation of what we have and what we really need is in order.
Spotted by: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
Pointy hat: marcel
have its entry in the syscall table added. Nothing else is
done. This differs from type NOPROTO in that NOPROTO adds a
definition to syscall.h besides adding a sysent. A syscall can
now have multiple entries without conflict. Note that the
argssize is fixed and depends on the syscall name.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
Instead introduce the [M] prefix to existing keywords. e.g.
MSTD is the MP SAFE version of STD. This is prepatory for a
massive Giant lock pushdown. The old MPSAFE keyword made
syscalls.master too messy.
Begin comments MP-Safe procedures with the comment:
/*
* MPSAFE
*/
This comments means that the procedure may be called without
Giant held (The procedure itself may still need to obtain
Giant temporarily to do its thing).
sv_prepsyscall() is now MP SAFE and assumed to be MP SAFE
sv_transtrap() is now MP SAFE and assumed to be MP SAFE
ktrsyscall() and ktrsysret() are now MP SAFE (Giant Pushdown)
trapsignal() is now MP SAFE (Giant Pushdown)
Places which used to do the if (mtx_owned(&Giant)) mtx_unlock(&Giant)
test in syscall[2]() in */*/trap.c now do not. Instead they
explicitly unlock Giant if they previously obtained it, and then
assert that it is no longer held to catch broken system calls.
Rebuild syscall tables.
sysproto.h in addition to the existing padding afterwards.
This is needed to support big-endian architectures like sparc64.
Reviewed by: bde
Tested on alpha by: jhb
gcc's internal exit() prototypes and the (futile) hackery that we did to
try and avoid warnings. main() was renamed for similar reasons.
Remove an exit related hack from makesyscalls.sh.
this in awk using the hack of counting args of type off_t twice and args
of all other types once. This is too simple to work. It gave benignly
wrong results on alphas (off_t shouldn't be counted twice) and for
svr4_sys_mmap64() on i386's (off64_t should be counted twice). It gave
fatally wrong results for i386's with 64-bit longs (longs should be
counted twice). The correct value for sy_nargs is easier to determine
from the size of the args struct anyway, except for complications to
make the generated code almost readable.
Improved formatting of sysent tables by lining up the comments where
possible.
