mindful of blocking on disk I/O and instead return EBUSY when such
blocking would occur.
Results from the DeBox project indicate that blocking on disk I/O
can slow the performance of a kqueue/poll based webserver. Using
a flag such as SF_NODISKIO and throwing connections that would block
to helper processes/threads helped increase performance.
Currently, only the Flash webserver uses this flag, although it could
probably be applied to thttpd with relative ease.
Idea by: Yaoping Ruan & Vivek Pai
nodes, or if they did, they're now locked away on the Kurt Gdel
memorial home for the numerically confused:
Don't cast a kernel pointer (from makedev(9)) to an integer (maj+minor combo).
says they may not modify existing files through FTP.
Renaming a file is effectively a way to modify it.
For instance, if a malicious party is unable to delete or overwrite
a sensitive file, they can nevertheless rename it to a hidden name
and then upload a troyan horse under the guise of the old file name.
contents in reply to a RETR command. Such clients consider RETR
as a way to tell a file from a directory. Mozilla is an example.
PR: bin/62232
Submitted by: Bob Finch <bob+freebsd <at> nas <dot> com>
MFC after: 1 week
on the card, unmap it first. This allows it to be picked up properly when
the queue gets kicked again. This was the root problem for the lost command
(i.e. stuck in getblk/vinvalb) problem. While here, panic if commands don't
map correctly instead of just silently ignoring the problem and dropping
command. Also slow down the dynamic allocation of new commands.
It should be safe to go back into the aac waters. Thanks to everyone who
suffered through this and provided good feedback.
802.11b chipset work. This chip is present on the SMC2602W version 3
NIC, which is what was used for testing. This driver creates kernel
threads (12 of them!) for various purposes, and required the following
routines:
PsCreateSystemThread()
PsTerminateSystemThread()
KeInitializeEvent()
KeSetEvent()
KeResetEvent()
KeInitializeMutex()
KeReleaseMutex()
KeWaitForSingleObject()
KeWaitForMultipleObjects()
IoGetDeviceProperty()
and several more. Also, this driver abuses the fact that NDIS events
and timers are actually Windows events and timers, and uses NDIS events
with KeWaitForSingleObject(). The NDIS event routines have been rewritten
to interface with the ntoskrnl module. Many routines with incorrect
prototypes have been cleaned up.
Also, this driver puts jobs on the NDIS taskqueue (via NdisScheduleWorkItem())
which block on events, and this interferes with the operation of
NdisMAllocateSharedMemoryAsync(), which was also being put on the
NDIS taskqueue. To avoid the deadlock, NdisMAllocateSharedMemoryAsync()
is now performed in the NDIS SWI thread instead.
There's still room for some cleanups here, and I really should implement
KeInitializeTimer() and friends.
seems to work well in RELENG_4. However, 5.X locking foo means that I'll
have to do some quick redesign.
Add ioctl handlers for ISP_GETROLE and ISP_SETROLE ioctls.
handling of resources shortages. The driver is now so fast that it can
completely fill all 512 slots on the card, but for some reason only 511
slots are being allocated. Anything that tries to go into the 512th
slot gets silently lost. Both bugs need to be fixed at a later date,
but this should fix the reports of hangs in getblk and vinvalb.
edge cases in the loop.
- Try to grab a command before dequeueing the bio from the bioq. The old
behaviour of requeuing deferred bios to the end of the bioq is arguably
wrong. This should be fixed in the future to check the bioq head without
automatically dequeueing the bio.
