output and replace it with a new visible sysctl kern.ipc.acceptqueue
of the same functionality. It specifies the maximum length of the
accept queue on a listen socket.
The old kern.ipc.somaxconn remains available for reading and writing
for compatibility reasons so that existing programs, scripts and
configurations continue to work. There no plans to ever remove the
orginal and now hidden kern.ipc.somaxconn.
Passing an invalid pointer results in undefined behaviour.
The wrappers in libthr access some of the data pointed to by the arguments
in userland, so that an invalid pointer will cause a signal and not an
[EFAULT] error return.
Furthermore, if the [EFAULT] error occurs when the kernel is writing, it is
not a proper error in the sense that the call still commits (changing the
signal disposition or accepting the signal).
MFC after: 1 week
Append '__' prefix to the tag of struct oflock, and put it under BSD
namespace. Structure is needed both by libc and kernel, thus cannot be
hidden under #ifdef _KERNEL.
Move a set of non-standard F_* and O_* constants into BSD namespace.
SUSv4 explicitely allows implemenation to pollute F_* and O_* names
after fcntl.h is included, but it costs us nothing to adhere
to the specification if exact POSIX compliance level is requested by
user code.
Change some spaces after #define to tabs.
Noted by and discussed with: bde
MFC after: 1 week
clock_gettime(2) functions if supported. The speedup seen in
microbenchmarks is in range 4x-7x depending on the hardware.
Only amd64 and i386 architectures are supported. Libc uses rdtsc and
kernel data to calculate current time, if enabled by kernel.
Hopefully, this code is going to migrate into vdso in some future.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: flo
MFC after: 1 month
First, extend the changes in r230782 to better handle the common case
of using NOREUSE with sequential reads. A NOREUSE file descriptor
will now track the last implicit DONTNEED request it made as a result
of a NOREUSE read. If a subsequent NOREUSE read is adjacent to the
previous range, it will apply the DONTNEED request to the entire range
of both the previous read and the current read. The effect is that
each read of a file accessed sequentially will apply the DONTNEED
request to the entire range that has been read. This allows NOREUSE
to properly handle misaligned reads by flushing each buffer to cache
once it has been completely read.
Second, apply the same changes made to read(2) by r230782 and this
change to writes. This provides much better performance in the
sequential write case as it allows writes to still be clustered. It
also provides much better performance for misaligned writes. It does
mean that NOREUSE will be generally ineffective for non-sequential
writes as the current implementation relies on a future NOREUSE
write's implicit DONTNEED request to flush the dirty buffer from the
current write.
MFC after: 2 weeks
The stat structures returned on pipes seems to contain all the
information required by POSIX. Especially the wording "and thus to a
pipe" makes little sense, because it seems to imply a certain
relationship between sockets and pipes that simply isn't there.
MFC after: 2 weeks
outside the range of valid file descriptors
PR: kern/164970
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Reviewed by: jilles
Approved by: cperciva
MFC after: 1 week
privilege attempts to toggle SF_SETTABLE flags.
- Use the '^' operator in the SF_SNAPSHOT anti-toggling check.
Flags are now stored to ip->i_flags in one place after all checks.
Submitted by: bde
On FreeBSD, all processes have a process group, so it is impossible for
kill(2) to fail this way. POSIX also doesn't mention this error
condition.
Discussed on: arch@
MFC after: 3 weeks
The reasoning behind this, is that if we are consistent in our
documentation about the uint*_t stuff, people will be less tempted to
write new code that uses the non-standard types.
I am not going to bump the man page dates, as these changes can be
considered style nits. The meaning of the man pages is unaffected.
MFC after: 1 month
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)
madvise(2) except that it operates on a file descriptor instead of a
memory region. It is currently only supported on regular files.
Just as with madvise(2), the advice given to posix_fadvise(2) can be
divided into two types. The first type provide hints about data access
patterns and are used in the file read and write routines to modify the
I/O flags passed down to VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE(). These modes are
thus filesystem independent. Note that to ease implementation (and
since this API is only advisory anyway), only a single non-normal
range is allowed per file descriptor.
The second type of hints are used to hint to the OS that data will or
will not be used. These hints are implemented via a new VOP_ADVISE().
A default implementation is provided which does nothing for the WILLNEED
request and attempts to move any clean pages to the cache page queue for
the DONTNEED request. This latter case required two other changes.
First, a new V_CLEANONLY flag was added to vinvalbuf(). This requests
vinvalbuf() to only flush clean buffers for the vnode from the buffer
cache and to not remove any backing pages from the vnode. This is
used to ensure clean pages are not wired into the buffer cache before
attempting to move them to the cache page queue. The second change adds
a new vm_object_page_cache() method. This method is somewhat similar to
vm_object_page_remove() except that instead of freeing each page in the
specified range, it attempts to move clean pages to the cache queue if
possible.
To preserve the ABI of struct file, the f_cdevpriv pointer is now reused
in a union to point to the currently active advice region if one is
present for regular files.
Reviewed by: jilles, kib, arch@
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 month
A "process descriptor" file descriptor is used to manage processes
without using the PID namespace. This is required for Capsicum's
Capability Mode, where the PID namespace is unavailable.
New system calls pdfork(2) and pdkill(2) offer the functional equivalents
of fork(2) and kill(2). pdgetpid(2) allows querying the PID of the remote
process for debugging purposes. The currently-unimplemented pdwait(2) will,
in the future, allow querying rusage/exit status. In the interim, poll(2)
may be used to check (and wait for) process termination.
When a process is referenced by a process descriptor, it does not issue
SIGCHLD to the parent, making it suitable for use in libraries---a common
scenario when using library compartmentalisation from within large
applications (such as web browsers). Some observers may note a similarity
to Mach task ports; process descriptors provide a subset of this behaviour,
but in a UNIX style.
This feature is enabled by "options PROCDESC", but as with several other
Capsicum kernel features, is not enabled by default in GENERIC 9.0.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
These system calls have already been implemented in the kernel; now we
hook up libc symbols so userspace can drive them.
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
- While here, remove a few C comments that don't seem to contribute
anything additional to the man page.
PR: 146047
Submitted by: arundel
MFC after: 3 days
vop_stdallocate() is filesystem agnostic and will run as slow as a
read/write loop in userspace; however, it serves to correctly
implement the functionality for filesystems that do not implement a
VOP_ALLOCATE.
Note that __FreeBSD_version was already bumped today to 900036 for any
ports which would like to use this function.
Also reserve space in the syscall table for posix_fadvise(2).
Reviewed by: -arch (previous version)
syscall assembly files. This results in conflicting dependencies and can
cause unexpected results for parallel builds. This is because the .c file
and the .S file both generate the same .o file.
Submitted by: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
Calling rfork_thread(3) does not interoperate with pthreads and global state
is not properly protected.
Remove the BUGS section suggesting LinuxThreads entirely. With the current
pthread library libthr, all threads are kernel-level entities so there seems
little reason to use LinuxThreads.
it possible for the kernel to track login class the process is assigned to,
which is required for RCTL. This change also make setusercontext(3) call
setloginclass(2) and makes it possible to retrieve current login class using
id(1).
Reviewed by: kib (as part of a larger patch)
can link against them. Add man pages for the new system calls, with one
errant forward reference to changes not yet present in FreeBSD, but soon
will be.
Reviewed by: anderson
Obtained from: Capsicum Project
Sponsored by: Google, Inc.
Discussed with: benl, kris, pjd
MFC after: 3 months
As it was pointed out by Alan Cox, that no longer serves its purpose with
the modern UMA allocator compared to the old one used in 4.x days.
The removal of sysctl eliminates max_proc_mmap type overflow leading to
the broken mmap(2) seen with large amount of physical memory on arches
with factually unbound KVA space (such as amd64). It was found that
slightly less than 256GB of physmem was enough to trigger the overflow.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Approved by: avg (mentor)
MFC after: 2 months
architectures that support this .note. In particular, do not unneccessary
emit the notes on ia64 and sparc64, which ABI require non-executable stacks.
Tested by: marcel
Because {NGROUPS_MAX} may become variable, its value should be obtained
using sysconf(3). If a #define is used anyway, it should be obtained by
including <limits.h> as that is in POSIX like getgroups(2) itself is.
<sys/param.h> is not in POSIX.
MFC after: 1 week
