- Now that apm loadable module can inform its existence to other kernel
components (e.g. i386/isa/clock.c:startrtclock()'s TCS hack).
- Exchange priority of SI_SUB_CPU and SI_SUB_KLD for above purpose.
- Add simple arbitration mechanism for APM vs. ACPI. This prevents
the kernel enables both of them.
- Remove obsolete `#ifdef DEV_APM' related code.
- Add abstracted interface for Powermanagement operations. Public apm(4)
functions, such as apm_suspend(), should be replaced new interfaces.
Currently only power_pm_suspend (successor of apm_suspend) is implemented.
Reviewed by: peter, arch@ and audit@
function symbols in the kernel in a list of C strings, with an extra
nul-termination at the end.
This sysctl requires addition of a new linker operation. Now,
linker_file_t's need to respond to "each_function_name" to export
their function symbols.
Note that the sysctl doesn't currently allow distinguishing multiple
symbols with the same name from different modules, but could quite
easily without a change to the linker operation. This will be a nicety
to have when it can be used.
Obtained from: NAI Labs CBOSS project
Funded by: DARPA
it has not yet returned. Use this flag to deny debugging requests while
the process is execve()ing, and close once and for all any race conditions
that might occur between execve() and various debugging interfaces.
Reviewed by: jhb, rwatson
of Giant during the Giant unwinding phase, and start work on instrumenting
Giant for the file and proc mutexes.
These wrappers allow developers to turn on and off Giant around various
subsystems. DEVELOPERS SHOULD NEVER TURN OFF GIANT AROUND A SUBSYSTEM JUST
BECAUSE THE SYSCTL EXISTS! General developers should only considering
turning on Giant for a subsystem whos default is off (to help track down
bugs). Only developers working on particular subsystems who know what
they are doing should consider turning off Giant.
These wrappers will greatly improve our ability to unwind Giant and test
the kernel on a (mostly) subsystem by subsystem basis. They allow Giant
unwinding developers (GUDs) to emplace appropriate subsystem and structural
mutexes in the main tree and then request that the larger community test
the work by turning off Giant around the subsystem(s), without the larger
community having to mess around with patches. These wrappers also allow
GUDs to boot into a (more likely to be) working system in the midst of
their unwinding work and to test that work under more controlled
circumstances.
There is a master sysctl, kern.giant.all, which defaults to 0 (off). If
turned on it overrides *ALL* other kern.giant sysctls and forces Giant to
be turned on for all wrapped subsystems. If turned off then Giant around
individual subsystems are controlled by various other kern.giant.XXX sysctls.
Code which overlaps multiple subsystems must have all related subsystem Giant
sysctls turned off in order to run without Giant.
while it is on a queue with the queue lock and remove the per-task locks.
- Remove TASK_DESTROY now that it is no longer needed.
- Go back to inlining TASK_INIT now that it is short again.
Inspired by: dfr
userland. The per thread ucred reference is immutable and thus needs no
locks to be read. However, until all the proc locking associated with
writes to p_ucred are completed, it is still not safe to use the per-thread
reference.
Tested on: x86 (SMP), alpha, sparc64
queue, and a mutex to protect the global list of taskqueues. The only
visible change is that a TASK_DESTROY() macro has been added to mirror
the TASK_INIT() macro to destroy a task before it is free'd.
Submitted by: Andrew Reiter <awr@watson.org>
real effect.
Optimize vfs_msync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. Improves looping case by 500%.
Optimize ffs_sync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. This makes a couple of assumptions,
which I believe are ok, in regards to vnode stability when the mount list
mutex is held. Improves looping case by 500%.
(more optimization work is needed on top of these fixes)
MFC after: 1 week
returns an success/failure code rather than the actual value.
- Add getenv_string() which copies a string from the environment to another
string and returns true on success.
- Change LOCK_DEBUG so that it is always on if KTR is compiled in
regardless of the state of KTR_COMPILE. This means that we no longer
need to include sys/ktr.h before sys/lock.h to ensure a valid setting
for LOCK_DEBUG.
- Change the use of LOCK_DEBUG so that it is now always defined and its
value is used instead of merely its definition. That is, instead of
#ifdef LOCK_DEBUG, code should now use #if LOCK_DEBUG > 0.
- Use this latest to #error out in sys/mutex.h if sys/lock.h isn't
included before sys/mutex.h to ensure that the proper versions of the
mutex operations are used.
- As a result of (2) sys/mutex.h no longer includes sys/ktr.h in the
KERNEL case.
Requested by: bde (1)
- crhold() returns a reference to the ucred whose refcount it bumps.
- crcopy() now simply copies the credentials from one credential to
another and has no return value.
- a new crshared() primitive is added which returns true if a ucred's
refcount is > 1 and false (0) otherwise.
Updated by peter following KSE and Giant pushdown.
I've running with this patch for two week with no ill side effects.
PR: kern/12014: Fix SysV Semaphore handling
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Until now, the ptrace syscall was implemented as a wrapper that called
various functions in procfs depending on which ptrace operation was
requested. Most of these functions were themselves wrappers around
procfs_{read,write}_{,db,fp}regs(), with only some extra error checks,
which weren't necessary in the ptrace case anyway.
This commit moves procfs_rwmem() from procfs_mem.c into sys_process.c
(renaming it to proc_rwmem() in the process), and implements ptrace()
directly in terms of procfs_{read,write}_{,db,fp}regs() instead of
having it fake up a struct uio and then call procfs_do{,db,fp}regs().
It also moves the prototypes for procfs_{read,write}_{,db,fp}regs()
and proc_rwmem() from proc.h to ptrace.h, and marks all procfs files
except procfs_machdep.c as "optional procfs" instead of "standard".
