The stat() and open() calls have been changed to make use of this new functionality. Using shared locks in
these cases is sufficient and can significantly reduce their latency if IO is pending to these vnodes. Also,
this reduces the number of exclusive locks that are floating around in the system, which helps reduce the
number of deadlocks that occur.
A new kernel option "LOOKUP_SHARED" has been added. It defaults to off so this patch can be turned on for
testing, and should eventually go away once it is proven to be stable. I have personally been running this
patch for over a year now, so it is believed to be fully stable.
Reviewed by: jake, obrien
Approved by: jake
test and play with this.
This is not yet production quality and should be run only on dedicated
test boxes.
For people who want to develop transformations for GEOM there exist a
set of shims to run geom in userland (ask phk@freebsd.org).
Reports of all kinds to: phk@freebsd.org
Please include in report:
dmesg
sysctl debug.geomdot
sysctl debug.geomconf
Known significant limitations:
no kernel dump facility.
ioctls severely restricted.
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
update the free-space statistics in some cases. The problem affected
directory blocks when the free space dropped below the size of the
maximum allowed entry size. When this happened, the free-space
summary information could claim that there are no further blocks
that can fit a maximum-size entry, even if there are.
The effect of this bug is that the directory may be enlarged even
though there is space within the directory for the new entry. This
wastes disk space and has a negative impact on performance.
Fix it by correctly computing the dh_firstfree array index, adding
a helper macro for clarity. Put an extra sanity check into
ufsdirhash_checkblock() to detect the situation in future.
Found by: dwmalone
Reviewed by: dwmalone
MFC after: 1 week
read-only.
The trouble here is that we don't reopen the device in read/write mode
when we remount in read/write mode resulting in a filesystem sending
write requests to a device which was only opened read/only.
I'm not quite sure how such a reopen would best be done and defer
the problem to more agile hackers.
unit allocation with a bitmap in the generic layer. This
allows us to get rid of the duplicated rman code in every
clonable interface.
Reviewed by: brooks
Approved by: phk
style(9)
- Minor space adjustment in cases where we have "( ", " )", if(), return(),
while(), for(), etc.
- Add /* SYMBOL */ after a few #endifs.
Reviewed by: alc
machdep.guessed_bootdev, and add code to sysctl to parse its value
and give a (not necessarily correct) name to the device we booted
from (the main motivation for this code is to use the info in the
PicoBSD boot scripts, and the impact on the kernel is minimal).
NOTE: the information available in bootdev is not always reliable,
so you should not trust it too much. The parsing code is the same
as in boot2.c, and cannot cover all cases -- as it is, it seems to
work fine with floppies and IDE disks recognised by the BIOS. It
_should_ work as well with SCSI disks recognised by the BIOS.
Booting from a CDROM in floppy emulation will return /dev/fd0 (because
this is what the BIOS tells us).
Booting off the network (e.g. with etherboot) leaves bootdev unset so
the value will be printed as "invalid (0xffffffff)".
Finally, this feature might go away at some point, hopefully when we
have a more reliable way to get the same information.
MFC-after: 5 days
in "missing dependencies" error when loading some kld modules. It is sad to
see how often these days style cleanus break doesn't broken things. Perhaps
people should recall good old principle: "don't fix it if it isn't broken".
