include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
chgsbsize(), which are called rather frequently and may be called from an
interrupt context in the case of chgsbsize(). Instead, do the hash table
lookup and maintenance when credentials are changed, which is a lot less
frequent. Add pointers to the uidinfo structures to the ucred and pcred
structures for fast access. Pass a pointer to the credential to chgproccnt()
and chgsbsize() instead of passing the uid. Add a reference count to the
uidinfo structure and use it to decide when to free the structure rather
than freeing the structure when the resource consumption drops to zero.
Move the resource tracking code from kern_proc.c to kern_resource.c. Move
some duplicate code sequences in kern_prot.c to separate helper functions.
Change KASSERTs in this code to unconditional tests and calls to panic().
cloning infrastructure standard in kern_conf. Modules are now
the same with or without devfs support.
If you need to detect if devfs is present, in modules or elsewhere,
check the integer variable "devfs_present".
This happily removes an ugly hack from kern/vfs_conf.c.
This forces a rename of the eventhandler and the standard clone
helper function.
Include <sys/eventhandler.h> in <sys/conf.h>: it's a helper #include
like <sys/queue.h>
Remove all #includes of opt_devfs.h they no longer matter.
Remove old DEVFS support fields from dev_t.
Make uid, gid & mode members of dev_t and set them in make_dev().
Use correct uid, gid & mode in make_dev in disk minilayer.
Add support for registering alias names for a dev_t using the
new function make_dev_alias(). These will show up as symlinks
in DEVFS.
Use makedev() rather than make_dev() for MFSs magic devices to prevent
DEVFS from noticing this abuse.
Add a field for DEVFS inode number in dev_t.
Add new DEVFS in fs/devfs.
Add devfs cloning to:
disk minilayer (ie: ad(4), sd(4), cd(4) etc etc)
md(4), tun(4), bpf(4), fd(4)
If DEVFS add -d flag to /sbin/inits args to make it mount devfs.
Add commented out DEVFS to GENERIC
- stop using the evil 'struct trapframe' argument for mi_startup()
(formerly main()). There are much better ways of doing it.
- do not use prepare_usermode() - setregs() in execve() will do it
all for us as long as the p_md.md_regs pointer is set. (which is
now done in machdep.c rather than init_main.c. The Alpha port did it
this way all along and is much cleaner).
- collect all the magic %cr0 etc register settings into one place and
have the AP's call that instead of using magic numbers (!!) that keep
changing over and over again.
- Make it safe to call kthread_create() earlier, including during the
device probe sequence. It doesn't need the callback mechanism that
NetBSD's version uses.
- kthreads created this way are root-less as they exist before the root
filesystem is mounted. init(1) is set up so that it aquires the root
pointers prior to running. If other kthreads want filesystem acccess
we can make this code more generic.
- set all threads start times once we have decided what time it is.
- init uses a trampoline rather than the evil prepare_usermode() hack.
- kern_descrip.c has a couple of tweaks to deal with forking when there
is no rootdir or cwd etc.
- adjust the early SYSINIT() sequence so that a few prereqisites are in
place. eg: make sure the run queue is initialized before doing forks.
With this, the USB code can easily create a kthread to do the device
tree discovery. (I have tested it, it works nicely).
There are still some open issues before this is truely useful.
- tsleep() does not like working before the clock is running. It
sort-of tries to spin wait, but it can do more useful things now.
- stopping a kthread in kld code at unload time is "interesting" but
we have a solution for that.
The Alpha code needs no changes for this. It already uses pretty much the
same strategies, but a little cleaner.
1) while allocating a uidinfo struct malloc is called with M_WAITOK,
it's possible that while asleep another process by the same user
could have woken up earlier and inserted an entry into the uid
hash table. Having redundant entries causes inconsistancies that
we can't handle.
fix: do a non-waiting malloc, and if that fails then do a blocking
malloc, after waking up check that no one else has inserted an entry
for us already.
2) Because many checks for sbsize were done as "test then set" in a non
atomic manner it was possible to exceed the limits put up via races.
fix: instead of querying the count then setting, we just attempt to
set the count and leave it up to the function to return success or
failure.
3) The uidinfo code was inlining and repeating, lookups and insertions
and deletions needed to be in their own functions for clarity.
Reviewed by: green
how the kernel was booted and perhaps do conditional things
based upon it (sysinstall, for example, will now turn Debug mode
on automatically if boot -v was done).
Submitted by: msmith
Suggested by: ulf
differentiate between one of three different scenarios:
1. No init.
2. Path to init munged by an incorrect loader configuration.
3. Root file system not mounted.
Reviewed-by: billf
Alot of the code in sys/kern directly accesses the *Q_HEAD and *Q_ENTRY
structures for list operations. This patch makes all list operations
in sys/kern use the queue(3) macros, rather than directly accessing the
*Q_{HEAD,ENTRY} structures.
This batch of changes compile to the same object files.
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Jake Burkholder <jake@checker.org>
PR: 14914
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>. This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.
This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
Diskslice/label code not yet handled.
Vinum, i4b, alpha, pc98 not dealt with (left to respective Maintainers)
Add the correct hook for devfs to kern_conf.c
The net result of this excercise is that a lot less files depends on DEVFS,
and devtoname() gets more sensible output in many cases.
A few drivers had minor additional cleanups performed relating to cdevsw
registration.
A few drivers don't register a cdevsw{} anymore, but only use make_dev().
SYSINIT_KT() etc (which is a static, compile-time procedure), use a
NetBSD-style kthread_create() interface. kproc_start is still available
as a SYSINIT() hook. This allowed simplification of chunks of the
sysinit code in the process. This kthread_create() is our old kproc_start
internals, with the SYSINIT_KT fork hooks grafted in and tweaked to work
the same as the NetBSD one.
One thing I'd like to do shortly is get rid of nfsiod as a user initiated
process. It makes sense for the nfs client code to create them on the
fly as needed up to a user settable limit. This means that nfsiod
doesn't need to be in /sbin and is always "available". This is a fair bit
easier to do outside of the SYSINIT_KT() framework.
the caller can easily find the child proc struct. fork(), rfork() etc
syscalls set p->p_retval[] themselves. Simplify the SYSINIT_KT() code
and other kernel thread creators to not need to use pfind() to find the
child based on the pid. While here, partly tidy up some of the fork1()
code for RF_SIGSHARE etc.
upset about it (and generate things like __main() calls that are reserved
for main()). Renaming was phk's suggestion, but I'd already thought about
it too. (phk liked my suggested name tada() but I decided against it :-)
Reviewed by: phk
INIT_PATH config option.
Also fix two bugs which caused an infinite loop in none of the programs
in the init_path were found. That code was obviously not tested!
This patch also moves the bogus comment (the comment is still not quite
right) and (as a side effect) removes some verbose initialisations (we
depend on static initialisation to 0 for almost everything in proc0).
The alpha kernels are bootable again. The change won't affect i386's
until machdep.c is changed.
Submitted by: bde
This is a seriously beefed up chroot kind of thing. The process
is jailed along the same lines as a chroot does it, but with
additional tough restrictions imposed on what the superuser can do.
For all I know, it is safe to hand over the root bit inside a
prison to the customer living in that prison, this is what
it was developed for in fact: "real virtual servers".
Each prison has an ip number associated with it, which all IP
communications will be coerced to use and each prison has its own
hostname.
Needless to say, you need more RAM this way, but the advantage is
that each customer can run their own particular version of apache
and not stomp on the toes of their neighbors.
It generally does what one would expect, but setting up a jail
still takes a little knowledge.
A few notes:
I have no scripts for setting up a jail, don't ask me for them.
The IP number should be an alias on one of the interfaces.
mount a /proc in each jail, it will make ps more useable.
/proc/<pid>/status tells the hostname of the prison for
jailed processes.
Quotas are only sensible if you have a mountpoint per prison.
There are no privisions for stopping resource-hogging.
Some "#ifdef INET" and similar may be missing (send patches!)
If somebody wants to take it from here and develop it into
more of a "virtual machine" they should be most welcome!
Tools, comments, patches & documentation most welcome.
Have fun...
Sponsored by: http://www.rndassociates.com/
Run for almost a year by: http://www.servetheweb.com/
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- Each cpu now has a separate gdt selector table. A new segment selector
is added to point to per-cpu pages, per-cpu global variables are now
accessed through this new selector (%fs). The selectors in gdt table are
rearranged for cache line optimization.
- fask_vfork is now on as default for both UP and SMP.
- Some aio code cleanup.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
John Dyson <dyson@iquest.net>
Julian Elischer <julian@whistel.com>
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
David Greenman <dg@root.com>
not per-process. Keep it in `switchtime' consistently.
It is now clear that the timestamp is always valid in fork_trampoline()
except when the child is running on a previously idle cpu, which
can only happen if there are multiple cpus, so don't check or set
the timestamp in fork_trampoline except in the (i386) SMP case.
Just remove the alpha code for setting it unconditionally, since
there is no SMP case for alpha and the code had rotted.
Parts reviewed by: dfr, phk
is the preparation step for moving pmap storage out of vmspace proper.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Matthew Dillion <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
complaints about ps_refcnt greater than two when we try to fork() a
kthread from proc0 with RFSIGSHARE flag set.
Noticed by: Tor Egge <tegge@fast.no>
Reviewed by: Richard Seaman, Jr. <dick@tar.com>
This takes the conditionals out of the code that has been tested by
various people for a while.
ps and friends (libkvm) will need a recompile as some proc structure
changes are made.
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
shared signal handling when there is shared signal handling being
used.
This removes the main objection to making the shared signal handling
a standard ability in rfork() and friends and 'unconditionalising'
this code. (i.e. the allocation of an extra 328 bytes per process).
Signal handling information remains in the U area until such a time as
it's reference count would be incremented to > 1. At that point a new
struct is malloc'd and maintained in KVM so that it can be shared between
the processes (threads) using it.
A function to check the reference count and move the struct back to the U
area when it drops back to 1 is also supplied. Signal information is
therefore now swapable for all processes that are not sharing that
information with other processes. THis should addres the concerns raised
by Garrett and others.
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
* Move the user stack from VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS to a place below the 32bit
boundary (needed to support 32bit OSF programs). This should also save
one pagetable per process.
* Add cvtqlsv to the set of instructions handled by the floating point
software completion code.
* Disable all floating point exceptions by default.
* A minor change to execve to allow the OSF1 image activator to support
dynamic loading.
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <lists@tar.com>
Obtained from: linux :-)
Code to allow Linux Threads to run under FreeBSD.
By default not enabled
This code is dependent on the conditional
COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS (suggested by Garret)
This is not yet a 'real' option but will be within some number of hours.
check off SYSINIT entries as they are run, and when more arrive, we re-sort
and restart (skipping the already-run entries).
This can *only* be done after KMEM (and malloc) is up and running - this is
fine because KLD is the only consumer of this and it's done after that.
The nice thing about this is that the SYSINIT's within preloaded KLD modules
are executed in their natural order. It should be possible to register
devices for the probes which follow, etc. (soon.. several key things
prevent this, such as use of linker sets for things like pci devices).
Fixed bitrot in K&R support (suword() now takes a long word).
Didn't fix corresponding bitrot in store.9 and fetch.9.
The correct types for the store and fetch families are problematic.
The `word' functions are unfortunately named and need to be split
to handle ints/longs/object pointers/function pointers. Storing
argv[] as longs is quite broken when longs are longer than pointers,
but usually works because it clobbers variables that will soon be
reinitialized.
FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
Clean up (or if antipodic: down) some of the msgbuf stuff.
Use an inline function rather than a macro for timecounter delta.
Maintain process "on-cpu" time as 64 bits of microseconds to avoid
needless second rollover overhead.
Avoid calling microuptime the second time in mi_switch() if we do
not pass through _idle in cpu_switch()
This should reduce our context-switch overhead a bit, in particular
on pre-P5 and SMP systems.
WARNING: Programs which muck about with struct proc in userland
will have to be fixed.
Reviewed, but found imperfect by: bde
