Bowrite guarantees that buffers queued after a call to bowrite will
be written after the specified buffer (on a particular device).
Bowrite does this either by taking advantage of hardware ordering support
(e.g. tagged queueing on SCSI devices) or resorting to a synchronous write.
were declared as non-const. This is backwards (_lkm_exec() changes the
pointers but all the target `struct execsw's are const). Fixed this
and poisoned related declarations to match and removed the bogus casts
that hid the bug.
the file access time update on reads and can be useful in reducing
filesystem overhead in cases where the access time is not important (like
Usenet news spools).
the primary and secondary return codes, causing it to not behave as
documented. This probably originates from the ancient BSD kernels that
had pipe(2) implemented by socketpair(2), there are no binaries left that
we can run that do this.
Pointed out by: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, PR#731
note that at_shutdown has a new parameter to indicate When
during a shutdown the callout should be made. also
add a RB_POWEROFF flag to reboot "howto" parameter..
tells the reboot code in our at_shutdown module to turn off the UPS
and kill the power. bound to be useful eventually on laptops
The interface into the "VMIO" system has changed to be more consistant
and robust. Essentially, it is now no longer necessary to call vn_open
to get merged VM/Buffer cache operation, and exceptional conditions
such as merged operation of VBLK devices is simpler and more correct.
This code corrects a potentially large set of problems including the
problems with ktrace output and loaded systems, file create/deletes,
etc.
Most of the changes to NFS are cosmetic and name changes, eliminating
a layer of subroutine calls. The direct calls to vput/vrele have
been re-instituted for better cross platform compatibility.
Reviewed by: davidg
half way through the range rather than possibly colliding with
fixed elements. Increase the size of the arrays to take this into account..
remember that each element in the array is now only 1 ponter so this
isn't that much..
also note a possible bug in debugging code in uipc_socket2.c (add XXX)
I've been meaning to do this for AGES as I keep having to patch those routines
whenever I write a proprietary package or similar..
any module that assigns resources to processes needs to know when
these events occur. there are existsing modules that should be modified
to take advantage of these.. e.g. SYSV IPC primatives
presently have #ifdef entries in exit()
this also helps with making LKMs out of such things..
(see the man pages at_exit(9) and at_fork(9))
called kern_shutdown.c
note: I couldn't see anything machine dependant in the
functions boot() and dumpsys() which were in machdep.c
I have left a prototype for cpu_boot() which would go in
machdep.c, but I have nothing to put in it. Iexpect others will
let me know in no uncertain ways that this or that is machine dependant
and should be there, but I'll way for that to happen.. :)
I haven't actually taken the functions OUT of machdep
or anywhere else yet.. I'm checking in this file so others can have a look
at it and comment. SO PLEASE DO COMMENT!
I am also (in another checkin) addinf a man(9) page for the new
at_shotdown().. er freudian slip there.. at_shutdown() call
so have a look at that (and at_exit and at_fork as well)
and feed me comments..
I'll heck in the changes to make these (shutdown) changes active tomorrow
if no-one objects too strongly..
Fixes unp_externalize panic which occurs when a process is at it's
ulimit for file descriptors and tries to receive a file descriptor from
another process.
Reviewed by: wollman
block number.. (assuming Debugger() returned). The disk drivers assume
that dscheck() sets both error markers (bp->b_error and set B_ERROR in
bp->b_flags) if it fails.
problem with the 'shell scripts' was found, but there was a 'strange'
problem found with a 486 laptop that we could not find. This commit
backs the code back to 25-jul, and will be re-entered after the snapshot
in smaller (more easily tested) chunks.
performance issues.
1) The pmap module has had too many inlines, and so the
object file is simply bigger than it needs to be.
Some common code is also merged into subroutines.
2) Removal of some *evil* PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE macro calls.
Unfortunately, a few have needed to be added also.
The removal caused the need for more vm_page_lookups.
I added lookup hints to minimize the need for the
page table lookup operations.
3) Removal of some bogus performance improvements, that
mostly made the code more complex (tracking individual
page table page updates unnecessarily). Those improvements
actually hurt 386 processors perf (not that people who
worry about perf use 386 processors anymore :-)).
4) Changed pv queue manipulations/structures to be TAILQ's.
5) The pv queue code has had some performance problems since
day one. Some significant scalability issues are resolved
by threading the pv entries from the pmap AND the physical
address instead of just the physical address. This makes
certain pmap operations run much faster. This does
not affect most micro-benchmarks, but should help loaded system
performance *significantly*. DG helped and came up with most
of the solution for this one.
6) Most if not all pmap bit operations follow the pattern:
pmap_test_bit();
pmap_clear_bit();
That made for twice the necessary pv list traversal. The
pmap interface now supports only pmap_tc_bit type operations:
pmap_[test/clear]_modified, pmap_[test/clear]_referenced.
Additionally, the modified routine now takes a vm_page_t arg
instead of a phys address. This eliminates a PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE
operation.
7) Several rewrites of routines that contain redundant code to
use common routines, so that there is a greater likelihood of
keeping the cache footprint smaller.
Saves about 280 butes of source per driver, 56 bytes in object size
and another 56 bytes moves from data to bss.
No functional change intended nor expected.
GENERIC should be about one k smaller now :-)
Fixed initialization of pipe_pgid - don't default to pid 0 (swapper) for
SIGIO.
Added comments about other implicit initializations, mostly for struct
stat.
Fixed initialization of st_mode. S_IFSOCK was for when pipes were sockets.
It is probably safe to fix the bogus S_ISFIFO() now that pipes can be
distinguished from sockets in all cases.
Don't return ENOSYS for inappropriate ioctls.
for big positive adjustments. The existence of big adjustments may
be a bug (it's not documented...) but there was no good reason for
the asymmetric behaviour.
Reviewed by: wollman
pr_usrreq mechanism which was poorly designed and error-prone. This
commit renames pr_usrreq to pr_ousrreq so that old code which depended on it
would break in an obvious manner. This commit also implements the new
interface for TCP, although the old function is left as an example
(#ifdef'ed out). This commit ALSO fixes a longstanding bug in the
TCP timer processing (introduced by davidg on 1995/04/12) which caused
timer processing on a TCB to always stop after a single timer had
expired (because it misinterpreted the return value from tcp_usrreq()
to indicate that the TCB had been deleted). Finally, some code
related to polling has been deleted from if.c because it is not
relevant t -current and doesn't look at all like my current code.
the high kernel calls into a protocol stack to perform requests on the
user's behalf. We replace the pr_usrreq() entry in struct protosw with a
pointer to a structure containing pointers to functions which implement
the various reuqests; each function is declared with the correct type and
number of arguments. (This is unlike the current scheme in which a quarter
of the requests take arguments of type other than (struct mbuf *) and the
difference is papered over with casts.) There are a few benefits to this
new scheme:
1) Arguments are passed with their correct types, and null-pointer dummies
are no longer necessary.
2) There should be slightly better caching effects from eliminating
the prximity to extraneous code and th switch in pr_usrreq().
3) It becomes much easier to change the types of the arguments to something
other than `struct mbuf *' (e.g.,pushing the work of sosend() into
the protocol as advocated by Van Jacobson).
There is one principal drawback: existing protocol stacks need to
be modified. This is alleviated by compatibility code in
uipc_socket2.c and uipc_domain.c which emulates the new interface
in terms of the old and vice versa.
This idea is not original to me. I read about what Jacobson did
in one of his papers and have tried to implement the first steps
towards something like that here. Much work remains to be done.
The i386 pmap module uses a special area of kernel virtual memory for mapping
of page tables pages when it needs to modify another process's virtual
address space. It's called the 'alternate page table map'. There is only one
of them and it's expected that only one process will be using it at once and
that the operation is atomic.
When the merged VM/buffer cache was implemented over a year ago, it became
necessary to rundown VM pages at I/O completion. The unfortunate and
unforeseen side effect of this is that pmap functions are now called at bio
interrupt time. If there happend to be a process using the alternate page
table map when this I/O completion occurred, it was possible for a different
process's address space to be switched into the alternate page table map -
leaving the current pmap process with the wrong address space mapped when
the interrupt completed. This resulted in BAD things happening like pages
being mapped or removed from the wrong address space, etc.. Since a very
common case of a process modifying another process's address space is during
fork when the kernel stack is inserted, one of the most common manifestations
of this bug was the kernel stack not being mapped properly, resulting in a
silent hang or reboot. This made it VERY difficult to troubleshoot this bug
(I've been trying to figure out the cause of this for >6 months). Fortunately,
the set of conditions that must be true before this problem occurs is
sufficiently rare enough that most people never saw the bug occur. As I/O
rates increase, however, so does the frequency of the crashes. This problem
used to kill wcarchive about every 10 days, but in more recent times when
the traffic exceeded >100GB/day, the machine could barely manage 6 hours of
uptime.
The fix is to make certain that no process has the pages mapped that are
involved in the I/O, before the I/O is started. The pages are made busy, so
no process will be able to map them, either, until the I/O has finished.
This side-steps the issue by still allowing the pmap functions to be called
at interrupt time, but also assuring that the alternate page table map won't
be switched.
Unfortunately, this appears to not be the only cause of this problem. :-(
Reviewed by: dyson
was due to non-aligned 64K transfers taking 17 pages. We currently
do not support >16 page transfers. The transfer is unfortunately truncated,
but since buffers are usually malloced, this is a problem only once in
a while. Savecore is a culprit, but tar/cpio usually aren't. This
is NOT the final fix (which is likely a bouncing scheme), but will at
least keep the system from crashing.
Fixed profiling of system times. It was pre-4.4Lite and didn't support
statclocks. System times were too small by a factor of 8.
Handle deferred profiling ticks the 4.4Lite way: use addupc_task() instead
of addupc(). Call addupc_task() directly instead of using the ADDUPC()
macro.
Removed vestigial support for PROFTIMER.
switch.s:
Removed addupc().
resourcevar.h:
Removed ADDUPC() and declarations of addupc().
cpu.h:
Updated a comment. i386's never were tahoe's, and the deferred profiling
tick became (possibly) multiple ticks in 4.4Lite.
Obtained from: mostly from NetBSD
compiler warnings which occur if you don't have 'options DEVFS' in
your kernel config file:
../../kern/kern_descrip.c: In function `fildesc_drvinit':
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1103: warning: unused variable `fd'
../../kern/kern_descrip.c: At top level:
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1095: warning: `devfs_token_stdin' defined but not use
d
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1096: warning: `devfs_token_stdout' defined but not us
ed
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1097: warning: `devfs_token_stderr' defined but not us
ed
../../kern/kern_descrip.c:1098: warning: `devfs_token_fildesc' defined but not u
sed
to match (pc98/random_machdep.c probably requires a similar change). This
is a problem area for the PC98 merge - all PC98 ifdefs in <machine/*.h> are
kludges to work around incorrect layering.
disklabel(8) to the kernel (dsopen()). Drivers should initialize the
hardware values (rpm, interleave, skews). Drivers currently don't do
this, but it usually doesn't matter since rotational position stuff is
normally disabled.
All new code is "#ifdef PC98"ed so this should make no difference to
PC/AT (and its clones) users.
Ok'd by: core
Submitted by: FreeBSD(98) development team
It is called from copyin and copyout.
The new routine is conditioned on I586_CPU and I586_FAST_BCOPY, so you
need
options "I586_FAST_BCOPY"
(quotes essenstial) in your kernel config file.
Also, if you have other kernel types configured in your kernel, an
additional check to make sure it is running on a Pentium is inserted.
(It is not clear why it doesn't help on P6s, it may be just that the
Orion chipset doesn't prefetch as efficiently as Tritons and friends.)
Bruce can now hack this away. :)
it assumes all of the data exists in the kernel. Also, fix
sysctl_new-kernel (unused until now) which had reversed operands to
bcopy().
Reviewed by: phk
Poul writes:
... actually the lock/sleep/wakeup cruft shouldn't be needed in the
kernel version I think, but just leave it there for now.
any statclock ticks. Pretend that all the time up to the first
statclock tick is system time. . This makes a difference mainly for
benchmarks that test short-lived processes - the user and system
times for processes that each lived for about 1ms only added up to
about 10% of the real time even when there was very little interrupt
activity.
Break the printing of a quad_t variable correctly.
gcc only inlines memcpy()'s whose count is constant and didn't inline
these. I want memcpy() in the kernel go away so that it's obvious that
it doesn't need to be optimized. Now it is only used for one struct
copy in si.c.
code without the B_READ flag being set. This is a problem when the
data is not cached, and the result will be a bogus attempted write.
Submitted by: Kato Takenori <kato@eclogite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
to be allocated at boot time. This is an expensive option, as they
consume physical ram and are not pageable etc. In certain situations,
this kind of option is quite useful, especially for news servers that
access a large number of directories at random and torture the name cache.
Defining 5000 or 10000 extra vnodes should cut down the amount of vnode
recycling somewhat, which should allow better name and directory caching
etc.
This is a "your mileage may vary" option, with no real indication of
what works best for your machine except trial and error. Too many will
cost you ram that you could otherwise use for disk buffers etc.
This is based on something John Dyson mentioned to me a while ago.
(returns EPERM always, the errno is specified by POSIX).
If you really have a desperate need to link or unlink a directory, you
can use fsdb. :-)
This should stop any chance of ftpd, rdist, "rm -rf", etc from
bugging out and damaging the filesystem structure or loosing races
with malicious users.
Reviewed by: davidg, bde
contributions or ideas from Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>,
Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <davidg@freebsd.org> and me:
More usage of the TAILQ macros. Additional minor fix to queue.h.
Performance enhancements to the pageout daemon.
Addition of a wait in the case that the pageout daemon
has to run immediately.
Slightly modify the pageout algorithm.
Significant revamp of the pmap/fork code:
1) PTE's and UPAGES's are NO LONGER in the process's map.
2) PTE's and UPAGES's reside in their own objects.
3) TOTAL elimination of recursive page table pagefaults.
4) The page directory now resides in the PTE object.
5) Implemented pmap_copy, thereby speeding up fork time.
6) Changed the pv entries so that the head is a pointer
and not an entire entry.
7) Significant cleanup of pmap_protect, and pmap_remove.
8) Removed significant amounts of machine dependent
fork code from vm_glue. Pushed much of that code into
the machine dependent pmap module.
9) Support more completely the reuse of already zeroed
pages (Page table pages and page directories) as being
already zeroed.
Performance and code cleanups in vm_map:
1) Improved and simplified allocation of map entries.
2) Improved vm_map_copy code.
3) Corrected some minor problems in the simplify code.
Implemented splvm (combo of splbio and splimp.) The VM code now
seldom uses splhigh.
Improved the speed of and simplified kmem_malloc.
Minor mod to vm_fault to avoid using pre-zeroed pages in the case
of objects with backing objects along with the already
existant condition of having a vnode. (If there is a backing
object, there will likely be a COW... With a COW, it isn't
necessary to start with a pre-zeroed page.)
Minor reorg of source to perhaps improve locality of ref.
(PR #1178).
Define a new SO_TIMESTAMP socket option for datagram sockets to return
packet-arrival timestamps as control information (PR #1179).
Submitted by: Louis Mamakos <loiue@TransSys.com>
the past, since it returns to the old system of allocating mbufs out of
a private area rather than using the kernel malloc(). While this may seem
like a backwards step to some, the new allocator is some 20% faster than
the old one and has much better caching properties.
Written by: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>
very busy servers (eg: news, web). This is an interaction between
embryonic processes that have not yet finished forking, and happen to
cause the kernel VM space to grow, hitting the uninitialised variable.
It was possible for this to strike at any time, depending on the size of
your kernel and load patterns. One machine had paniced occasionally
when cron launches a job since before the 2.1 release.
If you had "options DIAGNOSTIC", you may have seen references to bogus
addresses like 0xdeadc142 and the like.
This is a minimal change to fix the problem, it will probably be done
better by reordering p_vmspace to be in the startzero section, but it
becomes harder to validate then.
It's been vulnerable since pmap.c rev 1.40 (Jan 9, 1995), so it's been a
cause of problems since well before 2.0.5. This was when the merged
VM/buffer cache and the dynamic growing kernel VM space were first
committed. This probably fixes a few of PR's.
and B_READ before writing. This was was fatal. They also broke the
clearing of B_INVAL before doing i/o. This didn't actually matter.
Submitted by: mostly by joerg
compatibility slice. They were forgotten on last-close and then
creating them on first-open failed.
Devfs entries for slices other than the one containing the root file
system are still invisible unless you open a non-devfs inode on the
slice.
forked child to be dissociated from the parent).
Cleanup fork1(), implement vfork() and fork() in terms of rfork() flags.
Remove RFENVG, RFNOTEG, RFCNAMEG, RFCENVG which are Plan9 specific and cannot
possibly be implemented in FreeBSD.
Renumbered the flags to make up for the removal of the above flags.
Reviewed by: peter, smpatel
Submitted by: Mike Grupenhoff <kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu>
was duplicated until the canq filled up, and write() normally returned 0.
This case is apparently rare. It was reported for Jove's shell buffer in
PR 1130.
Make the SA_NODEFER handling more correct, previously if you called
sigaction to set a handler and had SA_NODEFER set, and manually masked
the signal itself in sa_mask, and when you read the settings back later,
you'd find SA_NODEFER incorrectly cleared.
Pointed out by: bde
the process's memory, it was possible for the procfs_domem() call to
return a residual leftover, but with no errno. Since this is no good for
ptrace which ignored the the residual, remap a leftover amount into an
errno rather than fooling the caller into thinking it was successful when
in fact it was not.
Submitted by: bde (a very long time ago :-)
Made the devfs `fd' devices bug for bug compatible with the ones created
by MAKEDEV:
- ownership is bin.bin, not root.wheel, except for std*. The devfsext
interface doesn't seem to allow specifying the ownership of /devfs/fd,
so it's still incompatible.
- std* aren't links to fd/[0-2].
Added scsi control devices.
Converted almost everything that I changed to use devfs_add_devswf()
and verbose id macros.
st.c:
Renamed enrst* to erst* since that's what the current name is (enrst
seems to be an old name).
vm_offset_t is currently unsigned long but should probably be plain
unsigned for i386's to match the choice of minimal types to represent
for fixed-width types in Lite2. Anyway, it shouldn't be assumed
to be unsigned long.
I only fixed the type mismatches that were detected when I changed
vm_offset_t to unsigned. Only pointer type mismatches were detected.
but didn't actually do anything with it (*blush*).
This should fix bde's test case where the test program set SA_RESETHAND
and when reading it back, it was gone.
Tweak/optimize SA_NODEFER so that the implementation is a little simpler
and does not incur (slight) overhead for every signal at delivery time.
files are off the vendor branch, so this should not change anything.
A "U" marker generally means that the file was not changed in between
the 4.4Lite and Lite-2 releases, and does not need a merge. "C" generally
means that there was a change.
[note new unused (in this form) syscalls.conf, to be 'cvs rm'ed]
the obsolete soqinsque and soqremque functions as well as collapsing
so_q0len and so_qlen into a single queue length of unaccepted connections.
Now the queue of unaccepted & complete connections is checked directly
for queued sockets. The new code should be functionally equivilent to
the old while being substantially faster - especially in cases where
large numbers of connections are often queued for accept (e.g. http).
Compile and link a new kernel, that will give native ELF support, and
provide the hooks for other ELF interpreters as well.
To make native ELF binaries use John Polstras elf-kit-1.0.1..
For the time being also use his ld-elf.so.1 and put it in
/usr/libexec.
The Linux emulator has been enhanced to also run ELF binaries, it
is however in its very first incarnation.
Just get some Linux ELF libs (Slackware-3.0) and put them in the
prober place (/compat/linux/...).
I've ben able to run all the Slackware-3.0 binaries I've tried
so far.
(No it won't run quake yet :)
residing in a buffer that had been dirtied by a process was being
handled incorrectly. The pages were mistakenly placed into the
cache queue. This would likely have the effect of mmaped page modifications
being lost when I/O system calls were being used simultaneously to
the same locations in a file.
Submitted by: davidg
on in the FreeBSD development, I had made a global lock around the
rlist code. This was bogus, and now the lock is maintained on a
per resource list basis. This now allows the rlist code to be used for
almost any non-interrupt level application.
linux binaries from the *BSD a.out loader. This is a hack, but lets me run
static NetBSD binaries. Dynamic binaries are a much bigger problem because
the shared libraries would conflict with our native libraries, so a
/compat/netbsd alternate namespace and translation would be needed.
netscape-2.0 for Linux running all the Java stuff. The scrollbars are now
working, at least on my machine. (whew! :-)
I'm uncomfortable with the size of this commit, but it's too
inter-dependant to easily seperate out.
The main changes:
COMPAT_LINUX is *GONE*. Most of the code has been moved out of the i386
machine dependent section into the linux emulator itself. The int 0x80
syscall code was almost identical to the lcall 7,0 code and a minor tweak
allows them to both be used with the same C code. All kernels can now
just modload the lkm and it'll DTRT without having to rebuild the kernel
first. Like IBCS2, you can statically compile it in with "options LINUX".
A pile of new syscalls implemented, including getdents(), llseek(),
readv(), writev(), msync(), personality(). The Linux-ELF libraries want
to use some of these.
linux_select() now obeys Linux semantics, ie: returns the time remaining
of the timeout value rather than leaving it the original value.
Quite a few bugs removed, including incorrect arguments being used in
syscalls.. eg: mixups between passing the sigset as an int, vs passing
it as a pointer and doing a copyin(), missing return values, unhandled
cases, SIOC* ioctls, etc.
The build for the code has changed. i386/conf/files now knows how
to build linux_genassym and generate linux_assym.h on the fly.
Supporting changes elsewhere in the kernel:
The user-mode signal trampoline has moved from the U area to immediately
below the top of the stack (below PS_STRINGS). This allows the different
binary emulations to have their own signal trampoline code (which gets rid
of the hardwired syscall 103 (sigreturn on BSD, syslog on Linux)) and so
that the emulator can provide the exact "struct sigcontext *" argument to
the program's signal handlers.
The sigstack's "ss_flags" now uses SS_DISABLE and SS_ONSTACK flags, which
have the same values as the re-used SA_DISABLE and SA_ONSTACK which are
intended for sigaction only. This enables the support of a SA_RESETHAND
flag to sigaction to implement the gross SYSV and Linux SA_ONESHOT signal
semantics where the signal handler is reset when it's triggered.
makesyscalls.sh no longer appends the struct sysentvec on the end of the
generated init_sysent.c code. It's a lot saner to have it in a seperate
file rather than trying to update the structure inside the awk script. :-)
At exec time, the dozen bytes or so of signal trampoline code are copied
to the top of the user's stack, rather than obtaining the trampoline code
the old way by getting a clone of the parent's user area. This allows
Linux and native binaries to freely exec each other without getting
trampolines mixed up.
queue type is not set to QUEUE_NONE. This appears to have
caused a hang bug that has been lurking.
2) Fix bugs that brelse'ing locked buffers do not "free" them, but the
code assumes so. This can cause hangs when LFS is used.
3) Use malloced memory for directories when applicable. The amount
of malloced memory is seriously limited, but should decrease the
amount of memory used by an average directory to 1/4 - 1/2 previous.
This capability is fully tunable. (Note that there is no config
parameter, and might never be.)
4) Bias slightly the buffer cache usage towards non-VMIO buffers. Since
the data in VMIO buffers is not lost when the buffer is reclaimed, this
will help performance. This is adjustable also.
is <sys/unistd.h>, with the prototype in <unistd.h>. sys/unistd.h
is visible to the kernel compile, and is #included by unistd.h.
Also, I missed a reference to a static int in the midst of my other diffs.
kern_fork.c: add the tiny bit of code for rfork operation.
kern/sysv_*: shmfork() takes one less arg, it was never used.
sys/shm.h: drop "isvfork" arg from shmfork() prototype
sys/param.h: declare rfork args.. (this is where OpenBSD put it..)
sys/filedesc.h: protos for fdshare/fdcopy.
vm/vm_mmap.c: add minherit code, add rounding to mmap() type args where
it makes sense.
vm/*: drop unused isvfork arg.
Note: this rfork() implementation copies the address space mappings,
it does not connect the mappings together. ie: once the two processes
have split, the pages may be shared, but the address space is not. If one
does a mmap() etc, it does not appear in the other. This makes it not
useful for pthreads, but it is useful in it's own right for having
light-weight threads in a static shared address space.
Obtained from: Original by Ron Minnich, extended by OpenBSD
fixes for previous version of new pipes from Bruce Evans. This
new version:
Supports more properly the semantics of select (BDE).
Supports "OLD_PIPE" correctly (kern_descrip.c, BDE).
Eliminates incorrect EPIPE returns (bash 'pipe broken' messages.)
Much faster yet, currently tuned relatively conservatively -- but now
gives approx 50% more perf than the new pipes code did originally.
(That was about 50% more perf than the original BSD pipe code.)
Known bugs outstanding:
No support for async io (SIGIO). Will be included soon.
Next to do:
Merge support for FIFOs.
Submitted by: bde
The code outputs the dc then calls the device specific externalize
routines to fill in the dc_data area. The old code assumed that dc_data
started one byte from the end of the dc, but with the compiler optimizing
alignment and padding, this isn't always the case. Do an explicit
&(dc.dc_data) - &dc. This fixes lsdev -c which must have been broken
for some time.
1) The calculation didn't account for NMBCLUSTERS, so if a large number of
clusters was specified, it would leave little or no space for kernel
malloc.
2) It was bogusly restricted to v_page_count. This doesn't take into
account the sparseness of the malloc area and would have caused
problems on machines with small amounts of memory. It should probably
instead be changed to set the malloc limit to be constrained by
the amount of memory, but I didn't do this.
First attempt at creating devfs entries for sliced devices. Doesn't
quite work yet, so the heart of it is disabled.
Added bdev and cdev args to dsopen().
Create devfs entries in dsopen() and (unsuccessfully) attempt to make
them go away at the right times. DEVFS is #undefed at the start so
that this shouldn't cause problems.
PT_ATTACH/PT_DETACH implemented now and fully operational.
PT_{GET|SET}{REGS|FPREFS} implemented now, using code shared with procfs
PT_{READ|WRITE}_{I|D} now uses code shared with procfs
ptrace opcodes now fully permission checked, including ownerships.
doing an operation to the u-area on a swapped process should no longer
panic.
running gdb as root works for me now, where it didn't before.
general cleanup..
Note, that this has some tightening of permissions/access checks etc.
Some of these may be going too far.. In particular, the "owner" of the
traced process is enforced. The process that created or attached to
the traced process is now the only one that can "do" things to it.
Speed up for vfs_bio -- addition of a routine bqrelse to greatly diminish
overhead for merged cache.
Efficiency improvement for vfs_cluster. It used to do alot of redundant
calls to cluster_rbuild.
Correct the ordering for vrele of .text and release of credentials.
Use the selective tlb update for 486/586/P6.
Numerous fixes to the size of objects allocated for files. Additionally,
fixes in the various pagers.
Fixes for proper positioning of vnode_pager_setsize in msdosfs and ext2fs.
Fixes in the swap pager for exhausted resources. The pageout code
will not as readily thrash.
Change the page queue flags (PG_ACTIVE, PG_INACTIVE, PG_FREE, PG_CACHE) into
page queue indices (PQ_ACTIVE, PQ_INACTIVE, PQ_FREE, PQ_CACHE),
thereby improving efficiency of several routines.
Eliminate even more unnecessary vm_page_protect operations.
Significantly speed up process forks.
Make vm_object_page_clean more efficient, thereby eliminating the pause
that happens every 30seconds.
Make sequential clustered writes B_ASYNC instead of B_DELWRI even in the
case of filesystems mounted async.
Fix a panic with busy pages when write clustering is done for non-VMIO
buffers.
Add more features to the one remaining to handle the job:
+ signed quantity.
# alternate format
- left padding
* read width as next arg.
n numeric in (argument specified) default radix.
Fix the DDB debugger to use these.
Use vprintf in debug routine in pcvt.
The warnings from gcc may become more wrong and intolerable because
of this.
Warning: I have not checked the entire source for unsupported or
changed constructs, but generally belive that there are only a few.
Suggested by: bde
sysv_ipc.c: add stub functions that either simply return (for the hooks
in kern_fork/kern_exit) or log() a messgae and call enosys() (for the
syscalls). sysv_ipc.c will become "standard" in conf/files and has
#ifs for all the permutations.
are about to go in. This is to fix the problem with the ibcs2 and linux
lkm's not being able to call the sysv ipc functions unless the build is
modified.
the range [210:260] by sweeping the problem under the rug. This change
has the following effects:
1) A new MIB variable in the kern branch is defined to allow modification
of the socket buffer layer's ``wastage factor'' (which determines how
much unused-but-allocated space in mbufs and mbuf clusters is allowed
in a socket buffer).
2) The default value of the wastage factor is changed from 2 to 8.
The original value was chosen when MINCLSIZE was 7*MLEN (!), and is not
appropriate for an environment where MINCLSIZE is much less.
The real solution to this problem is to scrap both mbufs and sockbufs
and completely redesign the buffering mechanism used at both levels.
