We cannot busy a page before doing pagefaults.
Infact, it can deadlock against vnode lock, as it tries to vget().
Other functions, right now, have an opposite lock ordering, like
vm_object_sync(), which acquires the vnode lock first and then
sleeps on the busy mechanism.
Before this patch is reinserted we need to break this ordering.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by: kib
- It does not let pages respect the LRU policy
- It bloats the active/inactive queues of few pages
Try to avoid it as much as possible with the long-term target to
completely remove it.
Use the soft-busy mechanism to protect page content accesses during
short-term operations (like uiomove_fromphys()).
After this change only vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() is still using the
hold mechanism for page content access.
There is an additional complexity there as the quick path cannot
immediately access the page object to busy the page and the slow path
cannot however busy more than one page a time (to avoid deadlocks).
Fixing such primitive can bring to complete removal of the page hold
mechanism.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
The notes format is a header of sizeof(int), which stores the size of
the corresponding data structure to provide some versioning, and data
in the format as it is returned by a related sysctl call.
The userland tools (procstat(1)) will be taught to extract this data,
providing additional info for postmortem analysis.
PR: kern/173723
Suggested by: jhb
Discussed with: jhb, kib
Reviewed by: jhb (initial version), kib
MFC after: 1 month
function is provided, which is used either to calculate the note size
or output it to sbuf. On the first pass the notes are registered in a
list and the resulting size is found, on the second pass the list is
traversed outputing notes to sbuf. For the sbuf a drain routine is
provided that writes data to a core file.
The main goal of the change is to make coredump to write notes
directly to the core file, without preliminary preparing them all in a
memory buffer. Storing notes in memory is not a problem for the
current, rather small, set of notes we write to the core, but it may
becomes an issue when we start to store procstat notes.
Reviewed by: jhb (initial version), kib
Discussed with: jhb, kib
MFC after: 3 weeks
Although native word padding (i.e. 8-byte on 64bit arch) looks to be
in agreement with standards, other parts of our code and other OSes
use 4-byte alignment.
This is not expected to change alignment for currently generated core
dump notes, as the notes look to consist of structures with sizes
multiple of 8 on 64-bit archs. But there are plans to add additional
notes, where 4-byte vs 8-byte alignment makes difference.
Discussed with: kib
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
the first page:
1. Cast uint16_t operands in a multiplication to unsigned int because
otherwise the implicit promotion to int results in a signed
multiplication that can overflow and the behaviour on integer
overflow is undefined.
2. Replace (offset + size > PAGE_SIZE) with (size > PAGE_SIZE - offset)
because the sum may overflow.
- Use the same tests to see if the path to the interpreter is on the first
page. There's no overflow here because size is already limited by
MAXPATHLEN, but the compiler optimises the new tests better. Also fix an
off-by-one error.
- Simplify tests to see if an ELF note program header is on the first page.
This also fixes an off-by-one error.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
* VM_OBJECT_LOCK and VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK are mapped to write operations
* VM_OBJECT_SLEEP() is introduced as a general purpose primitve to
get a sleep operation using a VM_OBJECT_LOCK() as protection
* The approach must bear with vm_pager.h namespace pollution so many
files require including directly rwlock.h
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.
The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.
Conducted and reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho
If you have a binary on a filesystem which is also mounted over by
nullfs, you could execute the binary from the lower filesystem, or
from the nullfs mount. When executed from lower filesystem, the lower
vnode gets VV_TEXT flag set, and the file cannot be modified while the
binary is active. But, if executed as the nullfs alias, only the
nullfs vnode gets VV_TEXT set, and you still can open the lower vnode
for write.
Add a set of VOPs for the VV_TEXT query, set and clear operations,
which are correctly bypassed to lower vnode.
Tested by: pho (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
ELF parser. Specifically, do not allow note reader and interpreter
path comparision in the brandelf code to read past end of the page.
This may happen if specially crafter ELF image is activated.
Submitted by: Lukasz Wojcik <lukasz.wojcik zoho com>
MFC after: 3 days
usermode, using shared page. The structures and functions have vdso
prefix, to indicate the intended location of the code in some future.
The versioned per-algorithm data is exported in the format of struct
vdso_timehands, which mostly repeats the content of in-kernel struct
timehands. Usermode reading of the structure can be lockless.
Compatibility export for 32bit processes on 64bit host is also
provided. Kernel also provides usermode with indication about
currently used timecounter, so that libc can fall back to syscall if
configured timecounter is unknown to usermode code.
The shared data updates are initiated both from the tc_windup(), where
a fast task is queued to do the update, and from sysctl handlers which
change timecounter. A manual override switch
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime allows to turn off the mechanism.
Only x86 architectures export the real algorithm data, and there, only
for tsc timecounter. HPET counters page could be exported as well, but
I prefer to not further glue the kernel and libc ABI there until
proper vdso-based solution is developed.
Minimal stubs neccessary for non-x86 architectures to still compile
are provided.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: flo
MFC after: 1 month
to an OBJT_VNODE-specific field of the vm object. The same
information can be just as easily obtained from the struct vattr that
is in struct image_params if the latter is passed to
elf*_load_section(). Moreover, by replacing the vmspace and vm
object parameters to elf*_load_section() with a struct image_params
parameter, we actually reduce the size of the object code.
In collaboration with: kib
won't happen before 9.0. This commit adds "#ifdef RACCT" around all the
"PROC_LOCK(p); racct_whatever(p, ...); PROC_UNLOCK(p)" instances, in order
to avoid useless locking/unlocking in kernels built without "options RACCT".
more explicit comments about what's going on and what future maintainers
need to do when e.g. adding a new operation to a sys_machdep.c.
Approved by: mentor(rwatson), re(bz)
should_yield(). Use this in various places. Encapsulate the common
case of check-and-yield into a new function maybe_yield().
Change several checks for a magic number of iterations to use
should_yield() instead.
MFC after: 1 week
PT_GNU_STACK program header, if present and enabled. Two new sysctls
are provided, kern.elf32.nxstack and kern.elf64.nxstack, that allow to
enable PT_GNU_STACK for ABIs of specified bitsize, if ABI decided to
support shared page.
Inform rtld about access mode of the stack initial mapping by
AT_STACKPROT aux vector.
At the moment, the default is disabled, waiting for the usermode
support bits.
thread specific informations.
In order to do that, and in order to avoid KBI breakage with existing
infrastructure the following semantic is implemented:
- For live programs, a new member to the PT_LWPINFO is added (pl_tdname)
- For cores, a new ELF note is added (NT_THRMISC) that can be used for
storing thread specific, miscellaneous, informations. Right now it is
just popluated with a thread name.
GDB, then, retrieves the correct informations from the corefile via the
BFD interface, as it groks the ELF notes and create appropriate
pseudo-sections.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by: gianni
Discussed with: dim, kan, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
In particular, provide pagesize and pagesizes array, the canary value
for SSP use, number of host CPUs and osreldate.
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
MFC after: 1 month
executable status of segments instead of detecting the main text segment
by which segment contains the program entry point. This affects
obreak() and is required for correct operation of that function
on 64-bit PowerPC systems. The previous behavior was apparently
required only for the Alpha, which is no longer supported.
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested on: amd64, sparc64, powerpc
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
Enhanced process coredump routines.
This brings in the following features:
1) Limit number of cores per process via the %I coredump formatter.
Example:
if corefilename is set to %N.%I.core AND num_cores = 3, then
if a process "rpd" cores, then the corefile will be named
"rpd.0.core", however if it cores again, then the kernel will
generate "rpd.1.core" until we hit the limit of "num_cores".
this is useful to get several corefiles, but also prevent filling
the machine with corefiles.
2) Encode machine hostname in core dump name via %H.
3) Compress coredumps, useful for embedded platforms with limited space.
A sysctl kern.compress_user_cores is made available if turned on.
To enable compressed coredumps, the following config options need to be set:
options COMPRESS_USER_CORES
device zlib # brings in the zlib requirements.
device gzio # brings in the kernel vnode gzip output module.
4) Eventhandlers are fired to indicate coredumps in progress.
5) The imgact sv_coredump routine has grown a flag to pass in more
state, currently this is used only for passing a flag down to compress
the coredump or not.
Note that the gzio facility can be used for generic output of gzip'd
streams via vnodes.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: kan
and do not relocate the binary to ET_DYN_LOAD_ADDR. This allows for the
binary author to influence address map of the process. In particular,
when the binary is actually an interpeter, this allows to have almost
usual process address map.
Communicate the relocation bias of the mapping for interpeter-less
ET_DYN binary, that is interperter itself, in AT_BASE aux entry. This
way, rtld is able to find its dynamic structure and relocate itself.
Note that mapbase in the rtld is still wrong and requires further
fixing.
Reported and tested by: rwatson
Discussed with: kan
MFC after: 3 days
correctly and do not match a colliding Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
brandinfo statements.
For this mark the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD brandinfo that it must have
an .note.ABI-tag section and ignore the old EI_OSABI brandinfo
when comparing a possibly colliding set of options.
Due to SYSINIT we add the brandinfo in a non-deterministic order,
so native FreeBSD is not always first. We may want to consider
to force native FreeBSD to come first as well.
The only way a problem could currently be noticed is when running an
i386 binary without the .note.ABI-tag on amd64 and the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
brandinfo was matched first, as the fallback to ld-elf32.so.1 does
not exist in that case.
Reported and tested by: ticso
In collaboration with: kib
MFC after: 3 days
Handle GNU/Linux according to LSB Core Specification 4.0,
Chapter 11. Object Format, 11.8. ABI note tag.
Also check the first word of desc, not only name, according to
glibc abi-tags specification to distinguish between Linux and
kFreeBSD.
Add explicit handling for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which runs
on our kernels as well [2].
In {amd64,i386}/trap.c, when checking osrel of the current process,
also check the ABI to not change the signal behaviour for Linux
binary processes, now that we save an osrel version for all three
from the lists above in struct proc [2].
These changes make it possible to run FreeBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
and Linux binaries on the same machine again for at least i386 and
amd64, and no longer break kFreeBSD which was detected as GNU(/Linux).
PR: kern/135468
Submitted by: dchagin [1] (initial patch)
Suggested by: kib [2]
Tested by: Petr Salinger (Petr.Salinger seznam.cz) for kFreeBSD
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 3 days
1) Move the new field (brand_note) to the end of the Brandinfo structure.
2) Add a new flag BI_BRAND_NOTE that indicates that the brand_note pointer
is valid.
3) Use the brand_note field if the flag BI_BRAND_NOTE is set and as old
modules won't have the flag set, so the new field brand_note would be
ignored.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 6 days
Badly formed ELF note may cause the caclulated pointer to the next note
to point both after the note region, that was checked in the code, but
also to point before the region, that was not checked [1]. Remember the
first note location in note0 and leap out if the note is not between
note0 and note_end.
In the similar way, badly formed note may cause infinite loop by
pointing next note into the same or previous note. Guard against this by
limiting amount of loop iterations by arbitrary choosen big number.
For clarity, check the calculated note alignment in each iteration.
Reported by: Chris Palmer <chris noncombatant org> [1]
PR: kern/132886
Reviewed and tested by: dchagin
MFC after: 3 days
This fixes osrel fetching from the FreeBSD branding note for the 64bit
platforms.
Reported by: swell.k gmail com
Reviewed by: dchagin
Tested by: dchagin, swell.k gmail com
".note.ABI-tag" section.
The search order of a brand is changed, now first of all the
".note.ABI-tag" is looked through.
Move code which fetch osreldate for ELF binary to check_note() handler.
PR: 118473
Approved by: kib (mentor)
an interpreter definition in its program header), set the auxiliary
ELF argument AT_BASE to 0 rather than to the address that we would
have mapped the interpreter at if there had been one.
The ELF ABI specifications appear to be ambiguous as to the desired
behavior in this situation, as they define AT_BASE as the base address
of the interpreter, but do not mention what to do if there is none.
On Solaris, AT_BASE will be set to the base address of the static
binary if there is no interpreter, and on Linux, AT_BASE is set to 0.
We go with the Linux semantics as they are of more immediate utility
and allow the early runtime environment to know that the kernel has
not mapped an interpreter, but because AT_PHDR points at the ELF
header for the running binary, it is still possible to retrieve all
required mapping information when the process starts should it be
required. Either approach would be preferable to our current behavior
of passing a pointer to an unmapped region of user memory as AT_BASE.
MFC after: 3 weeks
