with the new snapshot code.
Update addaliasu to correctly implement the semantics of the old
checkalias function. When a device vnode first comes into existence,
check to see if an anonymous vnode for the same device was created
at boot time by bdevvp(). If so, adopt the bdevvp vnode rather than
creating a new vnode for the device. This corrects a problem which
caused the kernel to panic when taking a snapshot of the root
filesystem.
Change the calling convention of vn_write_suspend_wait() to be the
same as vn_start_write().
Split out softdep_flushworklist() from softdep_flushfiles() so that
it can be used to clear the work queue when suspending filesystem
operations.
Access to buffers becomes recursive so that snapshots can recursively
traverse their indirect blocks using ffs_copyonwrite() when checking
for the need for copy on write when flushing one of their own indirect
blocks. This eliminates a deadlock between the syncer daemon and a
process taking a snapshot.
Ensure that softdep_process_worklist() can never block because of a
snapshot being taken. This eliminates a problem with buffer starvation.
Cleanup change in ffs_sync() which did not synchronously wait when
MNT_WAIT was specified. The result was an unclean filesystem panic
when doing forcible unmount with heavy filesystem I/O in progress.
Return a zero'ed block when reading a block that was not in use at
the time that a snapshot was taken. Normally, these blocks should
never be read. However, the readahead code will occationally read
them which can cause unexpected behavior.
Clean up the debugging code that ensures that no blocks be written
on a filesystem while it is suspended. Snapshots must explicitly
label the blocks that they are writing during the suspension so that
they do not cause a `write on suspended filesystem' panic.
Reorganize ffs_copyonwrite() to eliminate a deadlock and also to
prevent a race condition that would permit the same block to be
copied twice. This change eliminates an unexpected soft updates
inconsistency in fsck caused by the double allocation.
Use bqrelse rather than brelse for buffers that will be needed
soon again by the snapshot code. This improves snapshot performance.
the gating of system calls that cause modifications to the underlying
filesystem. The gating can be enabled by any filesystem that needs
to consistently suspend operations by adding the vop_stdgetwritemount
to their set of vnops. Once gating is enabled, the function
vfs_write_suspend stops all new write operations to a filesystem,
allows any filesystem modifying system calls already in progress
to complete, then sync's the filesystem to disk and returns. The
function vfs_write_resume allows the suspended write operations to
begin again. Gating is not added by default for all filesystems as
for SMP systems it adds two extra locks to such critical kernel
paths as the write system call. Thus, gating should only be added
as needed.
Details on the use and current status of snapshots in FFS can be
found in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot so for brevity and timelyness
is not included here. Unless and until you create a snapshot file,
these changes should have no effect on your system (famous last words).
Don't fake any file types, just set vap->va_type to IFTOVT(stb.st_mode).
If something does not report its mode, vap->va_type is set to VNON
accordingly.
using decimal major and minor numbers. "ls -l" reports
disk partitions using decimal major numbers and hex
minor numbers.
make specfs use decimal major numbers and hex minor numbers,
just like "ls -l"
problems when fetch(1) was passed `-o -'. The rationale of this change
is that applications attempting to change underlying vnodes for /dev/fd
nodes are improperly written and the use of this interface should not
ever have been encouraged. Proper alternatives are fchmod, fchown and
others.
PR: 18952
- Remove stale, unused fdescnode->fd_link structure member.
stderr nodes. More specific items of this patch:
o Removed support for symbolic links, and the need for
fdesc_readlink().
o Put all the code from fdesc_attr() into fdesc_getattr() and removed
fdesc_attr(). This also made it easier to properly give all nodes
unique inode numbers.
o The removal of all non-fd nodes allowed the removal of the fdesc_read(),
fdesc_write(), and fdesc_ioctl() nodes, since we no longer have nodes
that get special handling.
o Correct the component name validity-checking in fdesc_lookup(). It
previously detected the end of the string by checking for a terminating
NUL, now it uses cnp->cn_namelen.
o Handle kqueue files as FIFOs. This is probably the closest file type
to represent this type of file there is, and it is unfortunately not
very representative of a kqueue. Creation time is not supported by
kqueue, so ctime, mtime and atime are all set to the current time when
getattr() was called.
o Also set st_[mca]time to the current time since there's no data in
socket structures that can be used to fill this in (FIFOs).
o Simplify fdesc_readdir() since it only has to report the numbered
fd nodes. Add `.' and `..' directory links as well.
o Remove read bits from directories as they tend to confuse programs
like tar(1).
Reviewed by: phk
Discussed with: bde (earlier on, not quite review)
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
ioccom.h defines only implementation detail, and should therefore
only be included from the #include which defines the ioctl tags,
in other words: never include it from *.c
There's no excuse to have code in synthetic filestores that allows direct
references to the textvp anymore.
Feature requested by: msmith
Feature agreed to by: warner
Move requested by: phk
Move agreed to by: bde
Exceptions:
Vinum untouched. This means that it cannot be compiled.
Greg Lehey is on the case.
CCD not converted yet, casts to struct buf (still safe)
atapi-cd casts to struct buf to examine B_PHYS
(name, value) pairs to be associated with inodes. This support is
used for ACLs, MAC labels, and Capabilities in the TrustedBSD
security extensions, which are currently under development.
In this implementation, attributes are backed to data vnodes in the
style of the quota support in FFS. Support for FFS extended
attributes may be enabled using the FFS_EXTATTR kernel option
(disabled by default). Userland utilities and man pages will be
committed in the next batch. VFS interfaces and man pages have
been in the repo since 4.0-RELEASE and are unchanged.
o ufs/ufs/extattr.h: UFS-specific extattr defines
o ufs/ufs/ufs_extattr.c: bulk of support routines
o ufs/{ufs,ffs,mfs}/*.[ch]: hooks and extattr.h includes
o contrib/softupdates/ffs_softdep.c: extattr.h includes
o conf/options, conf/files, i386/conf/LINT: added FFS_EXTATTR
o coda/coda_vfsops.c: XXX required extattr.h due to ufsmount.h
(This should not be the case, and will be fixed in a future commit)
Currently attributes are not supported in MFS. This will be fixed.
Reviewed by: adrian, bp, freebsd-fs, other unthanked souls
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
(Much of this done by script)
Move B_ORDERED flag to b_ioflags and call it BIO_ORDERED.
Move b_pblkno and b_iodone_chain to struct bio while we transition, they
will be obsoleted once bio structs chain/stack.
Add bio_queue field for struct bio aware disksort.
Address a lot of stylistic issues brought up by bde.
fragmentation problem due to geteblk() reserving too much space for the
buffer and imposes a larger granularity (16K) on KVA reservations for
the buffer cache to avoid fragmentation issues. The buffer cache size
calculations have been redone to simplify them (fewer defines, better
comments, less chance of running out of KVA).
The geteblk() fix solves a performance problem that DG was able reproduce.
This patch does not completely fix the KVA fragmentation problems, but
it goes a long way
Mostly Reviewed by: bde and others
Approved by: jkh
substitute BUF_WRITE(foo) for VOP_BWRITE(foo->b_vp, foo)
substitute BUF_STRATEGY(foo) for VOP_STRATEGY(foo->b_vp, foo)
This patch is machine generated except for the ccd.c and buf.h parts.
field in struct buf: b_iocmd. The b_iocmd is enforced to have
exactly one bit set.
B_WRITE was bogusly defined as zero giving rise to obvious coding
mistakes.
Also eliminate the redundant struct buf flag B_CALL, it can just
as efficiently be done by comparing b_iodone to NULL.
Should you get a panic or drop into the debugger, complaining about
"b_iocmd", don't continue. It is likely to write on your disk
where it should have been reading.
This change is a step in the direction towards a stackable BIO capability.
A lot of this patch were machine generated (Thanks to style(9) compliance!)
Vinum users: Greg has not had time to test this yet, be careful.
Fix potential bug with directory reading.
Explicitly limit file size to 4GB (msdos can't handle larger files).
Slightly reorganize msdosfs_read() to reduce number of 'if's.
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
the creation time for files to the uninitialized value:
vap->va_ctime = vap->va_ctime;
Changed to what was intended, assigning it to the modification time (thus
making all three values of access time, modification time and creation time
the same thing).
Reviewed by: grog
* lockstatus() and VOP_ISLOCKED() gets a new process argument and a new
return value: LK_EXCLOTHER, when the lock is held exclusively by another
process.
* The ASSERT_VOP_(UN)LOCKED family is extended to use what this gives them
* Extend the vnode_if.src format to allow more exact specification than
locked/unlocked.
This commit should not do any semantic changes unless you are using
DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS.
Discussed with: grog, mch, peter, phk
Reviewed by: peter
maps onto the upages. We used to use this extensively, particularly
for ps and gdb. Both of these have been "fixed". ps gets the p_stats
via eproc along with all the other stats, and gdb uses the regs, fpregs
etc files.
Once apon a time the UPAGES were mapped here, but that changed back
in January '96. This essentially kills my revisions 1.16 and 1.17.
The 2-page "hole" above the stack can be reclaimed now.
1. ntfs_read*attr*() functions now accept
uio structure to eliminate one data copying.
2. found and removed deadlock caused
by 6 concurent ls -lR.
3. started implementation of nromal
Unicode<->unix recodeing.
Obtained from: NetBSD
drops the counting in bwrite and puts it all in spec_strategy.
I did some tests and verified that the counts collected for writes
in spec_strategy is identical to the counts that we previously
collected in bwrite. We now also get read counts (async reads
come from requests for read-ahead blocks). Note that you need
to compile a new version of mount to get the read counts printed
out. The old mount binary is completely compatible, the only
reason to install a new mount is to get the read counts printed.
Submitted by: Craig A Soules <soules+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
p_trespass(struct proc *p1, struct proc *p2)
which returns zero or an errno depending on the legality of p1 trespassing
on p2.
Replace kern_sig.c:CANSIGNAL() with call to p_trespass() and one
extra signal related check.
Replace procfs.h:CHECKIO() macros with calls to p_trespass().
Only show command lines to process which can trespass on the target
process.
Note: Previous commit to these files (except coda_vnops and devfs_vnops)
that claimed to remove WILLRELE from VOP_RENAME actually removed it from
VOP_MKNOD.
Correctly lock vnodes when calling VOP_OPEN() from filesystem mount code.
Unify spec_open() for bdev and cdev cases.
Remove the disabled bdev specific read/write code.
file object. Also explain some possible directions to re-implement it --
I'm not sure it should be, given the minimal application use. (Other
than having the debugger automatically access the symbols for a process,
the main use I'd found was with some minor accounting ability, but _that_
depends on it being in the filesystem space; an ioctl access method would
be useless in that case.)
This is a code-less change; only a comment has been added.
continue doing it despite objections by me (the principal author).
Note that this doesn't fix the real problem -- the real problem is generally
bad setup by ignorant users, and education is the right way to fix it.
So while this doesn't actually solve the prolem mentioned in the complaint
(since it's still possible to do it via other methods, although they mostly
involve a bit more complicity), and there are better methods to do this,
nobody was willing or able to provide me with a real world example that
couldn't be worked around using the existing permissions and group
mechanism. And therefore, security by removing features is the method of
the day.
I only had three applications that used it, in any event. One of them would
have made debugging easier, but I still haven't finished it, and won't
now, so it doesn't really matter.
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.
to remove 'b'lock devices. The agreement is, essentially, that
block devices will be collapsed into character devices as a first
step (though I don't particularly agree), and raw device names 'rxxx'
will become simply 'xxx' in devfs in the second step (i.e. no 'rxxx'
names will exist). The renaming will not effect the original /dev
and the expectation is that devfs will eventually (but not immediately)
become the standard way to access devices in the system.
If it is determined that a reimplementation of block device access
characteristics is beneficial, a number of alternatives will
be possible that do not involve resurrecting the 'b'lock device class.
For example, an ioctl() that might be made on an open character device
descriptor or a generic buffered overlay device.
This commit removes the blockdev disablement sysctl which does not
apply to the solution that was reached.
This means that access to block devices nodes will act the
same as char device nodes for disk-like devices.
If you encounter problems after this, where programs accessing
disks directly fail to operate, please use the following command
to revert to previous behaviour:
sysctl -w vfs.bdev_buffered=1
And verify that this was indeed the cause of your trouble.
See the mail-archives of the arch@FreeBSD.org list for background.
two new functions spec_buf{read|write}.
Add sysctl vfs.bdev_buffered which defaults to 1 == true. This
sysctl can be used to experimentally turn buffered behaviour for
bdevs off. I should not be changed while any blockdevices are
open. Remove the misplaced sysctl vfs.enable_userblk_io.
No other changes in behaviour.
-----------------------------
The core of the signalling code has been rewritten to operate
on the new sigset_t. No methodological changes have been made.
Most references to a sigset_t object are through macros (see
signalvar.h) to create a level of abstraction and to provide
a basis for further improvements.
The NSIG constant has not been changed to reflect the maximum
number of signals possible. The reason is that it breaks
programs (especially shells) which assume that all signals
have a non-null name in sys_signame. See src/bin/sh/trap.c
for an example. Instead _SIG_MAXSIG has been introduced to
hold the maximum signal possible with the new sigset_t.
struct sigprop has been moved from signalvar.h to kern_sig.c
because a) it is only used there, and b) access must be done
though function sigprop(). The latter because the table doesn't
holds properties for all signals, but only for the first NSIG
signals.
signal.h has been reorganized to make reading easier and to
add the new and/or modified structures. The "old" structures
are moved to signalvar.h to prevent namespace polution.
Especially the coda filesystem suffers from the change, because
it contained lines like (p->p_sigmask == SIGIO), which is easy
to do for integral types, but not for compound types.
NOTE: kdump (and port linux_kdump) must be recompiled.
Thanks to Garrett Wollman and Daniel Eischen for pressing the
importance of changing sigreturn as well.
a lower layer to an upper layer. I'm not sure how necessary this is
for reading.
Fix bug in union_lookup() (note: there are probably still several bugs
in union_lookup()). This one set lerror as a side effect without
setting lowervp, causing copyup code further on down to crash on a null
lowervp pointer. Changed the side effect to use a temporary variable
instead.
fixed (many due to changing semantics in other parts of the kernel and not
the original author's fault), including one critical one: unionfs could
cause UFS corruption in the fronting store due to calling VOP_OPEN for
writing without turning on vmio for the UFS vnode.
Most of the bugs were related to semantics changes in VOP calls, lock
ordering problems (causing deadlocks), improper handling of a read-only
backing store (such as an NFS mount), improper referencing and locking
of vnodes, not using real struct locks for vnode locking, not using
recursive locks when accessing the fronting store, and things like that.
New functionality has been added: unionfs now has mmap() support, but
only partially tested, and rename has been enhanced considerably.
There are still some things that unionfs cannot do. You cannot
rename a directory without confusing unionfs, and there are issues
with softlinks, hardlinks, and special files. unionfs mostly doesn't
understand them (and never did).
There are probably still panic situations, but hopefully no where near
as many as before this commit.
The unionfs in this commit has been tested overlayed on /usr/src
(backing /usr/src being a read-only NFS mount, fronting /usr/src being
a local filesystem). kernel builds have been tested, buildworld is
undergoing testing. More testing is necessary.
have been there in the first place. A GENERIC kernel shrinks almost 1k.
Add a slightly different safetybelt under nostop for tty drivers.
Add some missing FreeBSD tags
fields in struct cdevsw:
d_stop moved to struct tty.
d_reset already unused.
d_devtotty linkage now provided by dev_t->si_tty.
These fields will be removed from struct cdevsw together with
d_params and d_maxio Real Soon Now.
The changes in this patch consist of:
initialize dev->si_tty in *_open()
initialize tty->t_stop
remove devtotty functions
rename ttpoll to ttypoll
a few adjustments to these changes in the generic code
a bump of __FreeBSD_version
add a couple of FreeBSD tags
d_maxio is replaced by the dev->si_iosize_max field which the driver
should be set in all calls to cdevsw->d_open if it has a better
idea than the system wide default.
The field is a generic dev_t field (ie: not disk specific) so that
tapes and other devices can use physio as well.
heuristic to detect sequential operation.
VM-related forced clustering code removed from ufs in preparation for a
commit to vm/vm_fault.c that does it more generally.
Reviewed by: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
transfer size calculation was incorrect resulting in the last read being
potentially larger then the actual extent of the device.
EOF and write handling has not yet been fixed.
Reviewed by: Tor.Egge@fast.no
Rename dev->si_bsize_max to si_iosize_max and set it in spec_open
if the device didn't.
Set vp->v_maxio from dev->si_bsize_max in spec_open rather than
in ufs_bmap.c
to buffered block devices are allowed. The default is to be backwards
compatible, i.e. reads and writes are allowed.
The idea is for a larger crowd to start running with this disabled and
see what problems, if any, crop up, and then to change the default to
off and see if any problems crop up in the next 6 months prior to
potentially removing support entirely. There are still a few people,
Julian and myself included, who believe the buffered block device
access from usermode to be useful.
Remove use of vnode->v_lastr from buffered block device I/O in
preparation for removal of vnode->v_lastr field, replacing it with
the already existing seqcount metric to detect sequential operation.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>
reasonable defaults.
This avoids confusing and ugly casting to eopnotsupp or making dummy functions.
Bogus casting of filesystem sysctls to eopnotsupp() have been removed.
This should make *_vfsops.c more readable and reduce bloat.
Reviewed by: msmith, eivind
Approved by: phk
Tested by: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
the other XXXFS_DIAGNOSTIC options (not very) and mostly controlled
tracing of normal operation. Use `#ifdef DEBUG' for non-diagnostics
and `#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC' for diagnostics.
a quick think and discussion among various people some form of some of
these changes will probably be recommitted.
The reversion requested was requested by dg while discussions proceed.
PHK has indicated that he can live with this, and it has been agreed
that some form of some of these changes may return shortly after further
discussion.
the highly non-recommended option ALLOW_BDEV_ACCESS is used.
(bdev access is evil because you don't get write errors reported.)
Kill si_bsize_best before it kills Matt :-)
Use the specfs routines rather having cloned copies in devfs.
format errors exposed by this. It has nothing to do with diagnostics
since it does little more than control tracing of normal operation.
Actual diagnostics for the union file system are still controlled by
the DIAGNOSTIC option.
or DDB and fixed printf format errors exposed by this. The options had
little to do with diagnostics; they mostly controlled tracing of normal
operation.
Make the alias list a SLIST.
Drop the "fast recycling" optimization of vnodes (including
the returning of a prexisting but stale vnode from checkalias).
It doesn't buy us anything now that we don't hardlimit
vnodes anymore.
Rename checkalias2() and checkalias() to addalias() and
addaliasu() - which takes dev_t and udev_t arg respectively.
Make the revoke syscalls use vcount() instead of VALIASED.
Remove VALIASED flag, we don't need it now and it is faster
to traverse the much shorter lists than to maintain the
flag.
vfs_mountedon() can check the dev_t directly, all the vnodes
point to the same one.
Print the devicename in specfs/vprint().
Remove a couple of stale LFS vnode flags.
Remove unimplemented/unused LK_DRAINED;
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().
Introduce BUF_STRATEGY(struct buf *, int flag) macro, and use it throughout.
please see comment in sys/conf.h about the flag argument.
Remove strategy argument from all the diskslice/label/bad144
implementations, it should be found from the dev_t.
Remove bogus and unused strategy1 routines.
Remove open/close arguments from dssize(). Pick them up from dev_t.
Remove unused and unfinished setgeom support from diskslice/label/bad144 code.
operations. This allows a device driver better insight into
what is going on that the current:
proc1: open /dev/foo R/O
devsw->open( R/O, proc1 )
proc2: open /dev/foo R/W
devsw->open( R/W, proc2 )
proc2: close
/* nothing, but device is
really only R/O open */
proc1: close
devsw->close( R/O, proc1 )
- %q -> %ll; don't assume that the promotion of off_t is quad_t; only
assume that off_t's are representable as long longs.
- printing of dev_t's was completely broken.
Fixed nearby printf format errors not reported by gcc -Wformat on i386's:
- printing of ino_t's and pointers was sloppy.
Translated from: a similar fix in ufs_readwrite.c rev.1.61.
Don't forget to set DE_ACCESS for short reads.
Check for invalid (negative) offsets before checking for reads of
0 bytes, as in ufs, although checking for invalid offsets at all
is probably a bug.
vnodes referencing this device.
Details:
cdevsw->d_parms has been removed, the specinfo is available
now (== dev_t) and the driver should modify it directly
when applicable, and the only driver doing so, does so:
vn.c. I am not sure the logic in checking for "<" was right
before, and it looks even less so now.
An intial pool of 50 struct specinfo are depleted during
early boot, after that malloc had better work. It is
likely that fewer than 50 would do.
Hashing is done from udev_t to dev_t with a prime number
remainder hash, experiments show no better hash available
for decent cost (MD5 is only marginally better) The prime
number used should not be close to a power of two, we use
83 for now.
Add new checkalias2() to get around the loss of info from
dev2udev() in bdevvp();
The aliased vnodes are hung on a list straight of the dev_t,
and speclisth[SPECSZ] is unused. The sharing of struct
specinfo means that the v_specnext moves into the vnode
which grows by 4 bytes.
Don't use a VBLK dev_t which doesn't make sense in MFS, now
we hang a dummy cdevsw on B/Cmaj 253 so that things look sane.
Storage overhead from all of this is O(50k).
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 400009
The next step will add the stuff needed so device-drivers can start to
hang things from struct specinfo
lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
be done in future commits.
The cdevsw_add() function now finds the major number(s) in the
struct cdevsw passed to it. cdevsw_add_generic() is no longer
needed, cdevsw_add() does the same thing.
cdevsw_add() will print an message if the d_maj field looks bogus.
Remove nblkdev and nchrdev variables. Most places they were used
bogusly. Instead check a dev_t for validity by seeing if devsw()
or bdevsw() returns NULL.
Move bdevsw() and devsw() functions to kern/kern_conf.c
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 400006
This commit removes:
72 bogus makedev() calls
26 bogus SYSINIT functions
if_xe.c bogusly accessed cdevsw[], author/maintainer please fix.
I4b and vinum not changed. Patches emailed to authors. LINT
probably broken until they catch up.
Reformat and initialize correctly all "struct cdevsw".
Initialize the d_maj and d_bmaj fields.
The d_reset field was not removed, although it is never used.
I used a program to do most of this, so all the files now use the
same consistent format. Please keep it that way.
Vinum and i4b not modified, patches emailed to respective authors.
udev_t in the kernel but still called dev_t in userland.
Provide functions to manipulate both types:
major() umajor()
minor() uminor()
makedev() umakedev()
dev2udev() udev2dev()
For now they're functions, they will become in-line functions
after one of the next two steps in this process.
Return major/minor/makedev to macro-hood for userland.
Register a name in cdevsw[] for the "filedescriptor" driver.
In the kernel the udev_t appears in places where we have the
major/minor number combination, (ie: a potential device: we
may not have the driver nor the device), like in inodes, vattr,
cdevsw registration and so on, whereas the dev_t appears where
we carry around a reference to a actual device.
In the future the cdevsw and the aliased-from vnode will be hung
directly from the dev_t, along with up to two softc pointers for
the device driver and a few houskeeping bits. This will essentially
replace the current "alias" check code (same buck, bigger bang).
A little stunt has been provided to try to catch places where the
wrong type is being used (dev_t vs udev_t), if you see something
not working, #undef DEVT_FASCIST in kern/kern_conf.c and see if
it makes a difference. If it does, please try to track it down
(many hands make light work) or at least try to reproduce it
as simply as possible, and describe how to do that.
Without DEVT_FASCIST I belive this patch is a no-op.
Stylistic/posixoid comments about the userland view of the <sys/*.h>
files welcome now, from userland they now contain the end result.
Next planned step: make all dev_t's refer to the same devsw[] which
means convert BLK's to CHR's at the perimeter of the vnodes and
other places where they enter the game (bootdev, mknod, sysctl).
Made a new (inline) function devsw(dev_t dev) and substituted it.
Changed to the BDEV variant to this format as well: bdevsw(dev_t dev)
DEVFS will eventually benefit from this change too.
Virtualize bdevsw[] from cdevsw. bdevsw() is now an (inline)
function.
Join CDEV_MODULE and BDEV_MODULE to DEV_MODULE (please pay attention
to the order of the cmaj/bmaj arguments!)
Join CDEV_DRIVER_MODULE and BDEV_DRIVER_MODULE to DEV_DRIVER_MODULE
(ditto!)
(Next step will be to convert all bdev dev_t's to cdev dev_t's
before they get to do any damage^H^H^H^H^H^Hwork in the kernel.)
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/
1:
s/suser/suser_xxx/
2:
Add new function: suser(struct proc *), prototyped in <sys/proc.h>.
3:
s/suser_xxx(\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)->p_ucred, \&\1->p_acflag)/suser(\1)/
The remaining suser_xxx() calls will be scrutinized and dealt with
later.
There may be some unneeded #include <sys/cred.h>, but they are left
as an exercise for Bruce.
More changes to the suser() API will come along with the "jail" code.
before mounting (should help to do not mount extended partitions:-).
Fixed problem with hanging while unmounting busy fs.
And (the most important) added some locks to prevent
simulaneous access to kernel structures!
cannot yet be closed, though.
I hope I got all credits right, and that the multiple submitted by lines
do not break anyone's scripts...
PR: kern/5038, kern/5567
Submitted by: Keith Jang <keith@email.gcn.net.tw>
Submitted by: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
Submitted by: Byung Yang <byung@wam.umd.edu>
Submitted by: Motomichi Matsuzaki <mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp>
