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# 285830 23-Jul-2015 gjb

- Copy stable/10@285827 to releng/10.2 in preparation for 10.2-RC1
builds.
- Update newvers.sh to reflect RC1.
- Update __FreeBSD_version to reflect 10.2.
- Update default pkg(8) configuration to use the quarterly branch.[1]

Discussed with: re, portmgr [1]
Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 284202 10-Jun-2015 kib

MFC r283601:
Add V_MNTREF flag, to indicate that caller of vn_start*_write() already
owns a reference on the mount point, and the functions can consume it.


# 276649 04-Jan-2015 kib

MFC r276008:
Add VN_OPEN_NAMECACHE flag for vn_open_cred(9), which requests that
the created file name was cached. Use the flag for core dumps.


# 276500 01-Jan-2015 kib

MFC r275897:
Set NOCACHE flag for CREATE namei() calls, do not specially handle
MAKEENTRY in VOP_LOOKUP().


# 275957 20-Dec-2014 kib

MFC r275744:
Only sleep interruptible while waiting for suspension end when
filesystem specified VFCF_SBDRY flag, i.e. for NFS.


# 274787 21-Nov-2014 kib

MFC r274501:
In vfs_write_suspend_umnt(), if suspension cannot be established, do
not forget to restore write ops count when returning the error.


# 273254 18-Oct-2014 kib

MFC r272534:
Add IO_RANGELOCKED flag for vn_rdwr(9), which specifies that vnode is
not locked, but range is.


# 272948 11-Oct-2014 kib

MFC r272538:
Slightly reword comment. Move code, which is described by the
comment, after it.


# 272187 26-Sep-2014 mjg

MFC r270993:

Fix up proc_realparent to always return correct process.

Prior to the change it would always return initproc for non-traced processes.

This fixes a regression in inferior().

Approved by: re (marius)


# 269171 28-Jul-2014 kib

MFC r268612:
Add helper helper vfs_write_suspend_umnt().

Fix the bug in the FFS unmount, when suspension failed, the ufs
extattrs were not reinitialized.


# 269165 28-Jul-2014 kib

MFC r268606:
Generalize vn_get_ino() to allow filesystems to use custom vnode
producer. Convert inline copies of vn_get_ino() in msdosfs and cd9660
into the uses of vn_get_ino_gen().


# 268015 29-Jun-2014 kib

MFC r267491:
Use vn_io_fault for the writes from core dumping code.


# 267816 24-Jun-2014 kib

MFC r267564:
In msdosfs_setattr(), add a check for result of the utimes(2) permissions test.
Refactor the permission checks for utimes(2).


# 259817 24-Dec-2013 kib

MFC r259522:
If vn_open_vnode() succeeded in opening the vnode, but subsequent
advisory lock cannot be obtained, prevent double-close of the vnode in
vn_close() called from the fdrop(), by resetting file' f_ops methods.


# 259499 17-Dec-2013 kib

MFC r258039:
Avoid overflow for the page counts.

MFC r258365:
Revert back to use int for the page counts.
Rearrange the checks to correctly handle overflowing address arithmetic.


# 259294 13-Dec-2013 kib

MFC r257898:
Change VFS_PROLOGUE() to evaluate the mp once, convert
MNTK_SHARED_WRITES and MNTK_EXTENDED_SHARED tests into inline functions.


# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 255510 13-Sep-2013 kib

When opening or closing fifo, ensure that the vnode is locked
exclusively. Filesystems are assumed to disable shared locking for
the fifo vnode locks, but some do not.

Reported and tested by: olgeni
Discussed with: avg
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: re (glebius)


# 254602 21-Aug-2013 kib

Make the seek a method of the struct fileops.

Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 254415 16-Aug-2013 kib

Restore the previous sendfile(2) behaviour on the block devices.
Provide valid .fo_sendfile method for several missed struct fileops.

Reviewed by: glebius
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 254356 15-Aug-2013 glebius

Make sendfile() a method in the struct fileops. Currently only
vnode backed file descriptors have this method implemented.

Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 253106 09-Jul-2013 kib

There are several code sequences like
vfs_busy(mp);
vfs_write_suspend(mp);
which are problematic if other thread starts unmount between two
calls. The unmount starts a write, while vfs_write_suspend() drain
writers. On the other hand, unmount drains busy references, causing
the deadlock.

Add a flag argument to vfs_write_suspend and require the callers of it
to specify VS_SKIP_UNMOUNT flag, when the call is performed not in the
mount path, i.e. the covered vnode is not locked. The suspension is
not attempted if VS_SKIP_UNMOUNT is specified and unmount is in
progress.

Reported and tested by: Andreas Longwitz <longwitz@incore.de>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 251184 31-May-2013 jhb

Style fixes to vn_ioctl().

Suggested by: bde


# 250220 03-May-2013 jhb

Fix FIONREAD on regular files. The computed result was being ignored and
it was being passed down to VOP_IOCTL() where it promptly resulted in
ENOTTY due to a missing else for the past 8 years. While here, use a
shared vnode lock while fetching the current file's size.

MFC after: 1 week


# 248933 30-Mar-2013 mdf

Use a shared lock for VOP_GETEXTATTR, as it is a read-like operation.

MFC after: 1 week


# 248329 15-Mar-2013 kib

Separate the copyright lines and the informational block by a blank line.

Requested by: joel
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 248325 15-Mar-2013 kib

Add my copyright for the 2012 year work, in particular vn_io_fault()
and f_offset locking. Add required Foundation notice for r248319.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 248319 15-Mar-2013 kib

Implement the helper function vn_io_fault_pgmove(), intended to use by
the filesystem VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE() implementations in the same
way as vn_io_fault_uiomove() over the unmapped buffers. Helper
provides the convenient wrapper over the pmap_copy_pages() for struct
uio consumers, taking care of the TDP_UIOHELD situations.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 248084 09-Mar-2013 attilio

Switch the vm_object mutex to be a rwlock. This will enable in the
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.

The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
(in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
- The read-mode operations are added:
VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
versions must be avoided.
At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.

The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit. Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).

Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho


# 247586 01-Mar-2013 pjd

Remove unnecessary variables.


# 246832 15-Feb-2013 pluknet

vn_io_faults_cnt:
- use u_long consistently
- use SYSCTL_ULONG to match the type of variable

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week


# 246169 31-Jan-2013 pjd

Simplify code a bit. This is leftover after Giant removal from VFS.


# 245286 11-Jan-2013 kib

Add flags argument to vfs_write_resume() and remove
vfs_write_resume_flags().

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 244925 01-Jan-2013 kib

The process_deferred_inactive() function locks the vnodes of the ufs
mount, which means that is must not be called while the snaplock is
owned. The vfs_write_resume(9) does call the function as the
VFS_SUSP_CLEAN() method, which is too early and falls into the region
still protected by snaplock.

Add yet another flag for the vfs_write_resume_flags() to avoid calling
suspension cleanup handler after the suspend is lifted, and use it in
the ffs_snapshot() call to vfs_write_resume.

Reported and tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 244795 28-Dec-2012 kib

Make it possible to atomically resume writes on the mount and account
the write start, by adding a variation of the vfs_write_resume(9)
which accepts flags.

Use the new function to prevent a deadlock between parallel suspension
and snapshotting a UFS mount. The ffs_snapshot() code performed
vfs_write_resume() followed by vn_start_write() while owning the
snaplock. If the suspension intervene between resume and
vn_start_write(), the deadlock occured after the suspending thread
tried to lock the snaplock, most typically during the write in the
ffs_copyonwrite().

Reported and tested by: Andreas Longwitz <longwitz@incore.de>
Reviewed by: mckusick
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-note: make the vfs_write_resume(9) function a macro after the MFC,
in HEAD


# 243612 27-Nov-2012 pjd

- Add NOCAPCHECK flag to namei that allows lookup to work even if the process
is in capability mode.
- Add VN_OPEN_NOCAPCHECK flag for vn_open_cred() to will ne converted into
NOCAPCHECK namei flag.

This functionality will be used to enable core dumps for sandboxed processes.

Reviewed by: rwatson
Obtained from: WHEEL Systems
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 242476 02-Nov-2012 kib

The r241025 fixed the case when a binary, executed from nullfs mount,
was still possible to open for write from the lower filesystem. There
is a symmetric situation where the binary could already has file
descriptors opened for write, but it can be executed from the nullfs
overlay.

Handle the issue by passing one v_writecount reference to the lower
vnode if nullfs vnode has non-zero v_writecount. Note that only one
write reference can be donated, since nullfs only keeps one use
reference on the lower vnode. Always use the lower vnode v_writecount
for the checks.

Introduce the VOP_GET_WRITECOUNT to read v_writecount, which is
currently always bypassed to the lower vnode, and VOP_ADD_WRITECOUNT
to manipulate the v_writecount value, which manages a single bypass
reference to the lower vnode. Caling the VOPs instead of directly
accessing v_writecount provide the fix described in the previous
paragraph.

Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 241896 22-Oct-2012 kib

Remove the support for using non-mpsafe filesystem modules.

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


# 241025 28-Sep-2012 kib

Fix the mis-handling of the VV_TEXT on the nullfs vnodes.

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


# 240936 25-Sep-2012 pjd

vn_write() always expects FOF_OFFSET flag, which is asserted at the begining,
so there is no need to check for it.

Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 238952 31-Jul-2012 jhb

Reorder the managament of advisory locks on open files so that the advisory
lock is obtained before the write count is increased during open() and the
lock is released after the write count is decreased during close().

The first change closes a race where an open() that will block with O_SHLOCK
or O_EXLOCK can increase the write count while it waits. If the process
holding the current lock on the file then tries to call exec() on the file
it has locked, it can fail with ETXTBUSY even though the advisory lock is
preventing other threads from succesfully completeing a writable open().

The second change closes a race where a read-only open() with O_SHLOCK or
O_EXLOCK may return successfully while the write count is non-zero due to
another descriptor that had the advisory lock and was blocking the open()
still being in the process of closing. If the process that completed the
open() then attempts to call exec() on the file it locked, it can fail with
ETXTBUSY even though the other process that held a write lock has closed
the file and released the lock.

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month


# 238029 02-Jul-2012 kib

Extend the KPI to lock and unlock f_offset member of struct file. It
now fully encapsulates all accesses to f_offset, and extends f_offset
locking to other consumers that need it, in particular, to lseek() and
variants of getdirentries().

Ensure that on 32bit architectures f_offset, which is 64bit quantity,
always read and written under the mtxpool protection. This fixes
apparently easy to trigger race when parallel lseek()s or lseek() and
read/write could destroy file offset.

The already broken ABI emulations, including iBCS and SysV, are not
converted (yet).

Tested by: pho
No objections from: jhb
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 237365 21-Jun-2012 kib

Fix locking for f_offset, vn_read() and vn_write() cases only, for now.

It seems that intended locking protocol for struct file f_offset field
was as follows: f_offset should always be changed under the vnode lock
(except fcntl(2) and lseek(2) did not followed the rules). Since
read(2) uses shared vnode lock, FOFFSET_LOCKED block is additionally
taken to serialize shared vnode lock owners.

This was broken first by enabling shared lock on writes, then by
fadvise changes, which moved f_offset assigned from under vnode lock,
and last by vn_io_fault() doing chunked i/o. More, due to uio_offset
not yet valid in vn_io_fault(), the range lock for reads was taken on
the wrong region.

Change the locking for f_offset to always use FOFFSET_LOCKED block,
which is placed before rangelocks in the lock order.

Extract foffset_lock() and foffset_unlock() functions which implements
FOFFSET_LOCKED lock, and consistently lock f_offset with it in the
vn_io_fault() both for reads and writes, even if MNTK_NO_IOPF flag is
not set for the vnode mount. Indicate that f_offset is already valid
for vn_read() and vn_write() calls from vn_io_fault() with FOF_OFFSET
flag, and assert that all callers of vn_read() and vn_write() follow
this protocol.

Extract get_advice() function to calculate the POSIX_FADV_XXX value
for the i/o region, and use it were appropriate.

Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 237274 19-Jun-2012 jhb

Further refine the implementation of POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE.

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


# 236762 08-Jun-2012 jhb

Split the second half of vn_open_cred() (after a vnode has been found via
a lookup or created via VOP_CREATE()) into a new vn_open_vnode() function
and use this function in fhopen() instead of duplicating code from
vn_open_cred() directly.

Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 236517 03-Jun-2012 kib

Add a knob to disable vn_io_fault.

MFC after: 1 month


# 236516 03-Jun-2012 kib

Count and export the number of prefaulting happen.

MFC after: 1 month


# 236321 30-May-2012 kib

vn_io_fault() is a facility to prevent page faults while filesystems
perform copyin/copyout of the file data into the usermode
buffer. Typical filesystem hold vnode lock and some buffer locks over
the VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE() operations, and since page fault
handler may need to recurse into VFS to get the page content, a
deadlock is possible.

The facility works by disabling page faults handling for the current
thread and attempting to execute i/o while allowing uiomove() to
access the usermode mapping of the i/o buffer. If all buffer pages are
resident, uiomove() is successfull and request is finished. If EFAULT
is returned from uiomove(), the pages backing i/o buffer are faulted
in and held, and the copyin/out is performed using uiomove_fromphys()
over the held pages for the second attempt of VOP call.

Since pages are hold in chunks to prevent large i/o requests from
starving free pages pool, and since vnode lock is only taken for
i/o over the current chunk, the vnode lock no longer protect atomicity
of the whole i/o request. Use newly added rangelocks to provide the
required atomicity of i/o regardind other i/o and truncations.

Filesystems need to explicitely opt-in into the scheme, by setting the
MNTK_NO_IOPF struct mount flag, and optionally by using
vn_io_fault_uiomove(9) helper which takes care of calling uiomove() or
converting uio into request for uiomove_fromphys().

Reviewed by: bf (comments), mdf, pjd (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Tested by: flo, Gustau P?rez <gperez entel upc edu> (previous version)
MFC after: 2 months


# 236043 26-May-2012 kib

Add a vn_bmap_seekhole(9) vnode helper which can be used by any
filesystem which supports VOP_BMAP(9) to implement SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA
commands for lseek(2).

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 232701 08-Mar-2012 jhb

Add KTR_VFS traces to track modifications to a vnode's writecount.


# 231949 21-Feb-2012 kib

Fix found places where uio_resid is truncated to int.

Add the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp, enabled by default. Setting the
sysctl to zero allows to perform the SSIZE_MAX-sized i/o requests from
the usermode.

Discussed with: bde, das (previous versions)
MFC after: 1 month


# 230782 30-Jan-2012 jhb

Refine the implementation of POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE for the read(2) case such
that instead of using direct I/O it allows read-ahead similar to
POSIX_FADV_NORMAL, but invokes VOP_ADVISE(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) after the
read(2) has completed to purge just-read data. The write(2) path continues
to use direct I/O for POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE for now. Note that NOREUSE works
optimally if an application reads and writes full fs blocks.


# 227070 04-Nov-2011 jhb

Add the posix_fadvise(2) system call. It is somewhat similar to
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


# 225617 16-Sep-2011 kmacy

In order to maximize the re-usability of kernel code in user space this
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.

Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)


# 225166 25-Aug-2011 mm

Generalize ffs_pages_remove() into vn_pages_remove().

Remove mapped pages for all dataset vnodes in zfs_rezget() using
new vn_pages_remove() to fix mmapped files changed by
zfs rollback or zfs receive -F.

PR: kern/160035, kern/156933
Reviewed by: kib, pjd
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week


# 224914 16-Aug-2011 kib

Add the fo_chown and fo_chmod methods to struct fileops and use them
to implement fchown(2) and fchmod(2) support for several file types
that previously lacked it. Add MAC entries for chown/chmod done on
posix shared memory and (old) in-kernel posix semaphores.

Based on the submission by: glebius
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)


# 221829 13-May-2011 mdf

Use a name instead of a magic number for kern_yield(9) when the priority
should not change. Fetch the td_user_pri under the thread lock. This
is probably not necessary but a magic number also seems preferable to
knowing the implementation details here.

Requested by: Jason Behmer < jason DOT behmer AT isilon DOT com >


# 218424 08-Feb-2011 mdf

Based on discussions on the svn-src mailing list, rework r218195:

- entirely eliminate some calls to uio_yeild() as being unnecessary,
such as in a sysctl handler.

- move should_yield() and maybe_yield() to kern_synch.c and move the
prototypes from sys/uio.h to sys/proc.h

- add a slightly more generic kern_yield() that can replace the
functionality of uio_yield().

- replace source uses of uio_yield() with the functional equivalent,
or in some cases do not change the thread priority when switching.

- fix a logic inversion bug in vlrureclaim(), pointed out by bde@.

- instead of using the per-cpu last switched ticks, use a per thread
variable for should_yield(). With PREEMPTION, the only reasonable
use of this is to determine if a lock has been held a long time and
relinquish it. Without PREEMPTION, this is essentially the same as
the per-cpu variable.


# 209543 26-Jun-2010 pjd

Correct arguments order.


# 207725 06-May-2010 trasz

Avoid overflow.

Submitted by: bde@


# 207719 06-May-2010 trasz

Style fixes and removal of unneeded variable.

Submitted by: bde@


# 207662 05-May-2010 trasz

Move checking against RLIMIT_FSIZE into one place, vn_rlimit_fsize().

Reviewed by: kib


# 206129 03-Apr-2010 avg

vn_stat: take into account va_blocksize when setting st_blksize

As currently st_blksize is always PAGE_SIZE, it is playing safe to not
use any smaller value. For some cases this might not be optimal, but
at least nothing should get broken.

Generally I don't expect this commit to change much for the following
reasons (in case of VREG, VDIR):
- application I/O and physical I/O are sufficiently decoupled by
filesystem code, buffer cache code, cluster and read-ahead logic
- not all applications use st_blksize as a hint, some use f_iosize, some
use fixed block sizes

I expect writes to the middle of files on ZFS to benefit the most from
this change.

Silence from: fs@
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 205792 28-Mar-2010 ed

Rename st_*timespec fields to st_*tim for POSIX 2008 compliance.

A nice thing about POSIX 2008 is that it finally standardizes a way to
obtain file access/modification/change times in sub-second precision,
namely using struct timespec, which we already have for a very long
time. Unfortunately POSIX uses different names.

This commit adds compatibility macros, so existing code should still
build properly. Also change all source code in the kernel to work
without any of the compatibility macros. This makes it all a less
ambiguous.

I am also renaming st_birthtime to st_birthtim, even though it was a
local extension anyway. It seems Cygwin also has a st_birthtim.


# 205423 21-Mar-2010 ed

Actually make O_DIRECTORY work.

According to POSIX open() must return ENOTDIR when the path name does
not refer to a path name. Change vn_open() to respect this flag. This
also simplifies the Linuxolator a bit.


# 200273 08-Dec-2009 trasz

Don't add VAPPEND if the file is not being opened for writing. Note that this
only affects cases where open(2) is being used improperly - i.e. when the user
specifies O_APPEND without O_WRONLY or O_RDWR.

Reviewed by: rwatson


# 198876 04-Nov-2009 trasz

Revert r198874, pending further discussion.


# 198874 04-Nov-2009 trasz

Make sure we don't end up with VAPPEND without VWRITE, if someone calls open(2)
like this: open(..., O_APPEND).


# 197579 28-Sep-2009 delphij

Add two new fcntls to enable/disable read-ahead:

- F_READAHEAD: specify the amount for sequential access. The amount is
specified in bytes and is rounded up to nearest block size.
- F_RDAHEAD: Darwin compatible version that use 128KB as the sequential
access size.

A third argument of zero disables the read-ahead behavior.

Please note that the read-ahead amount is also constrainted by sysctl
variable, vfs.read_max, which may need to be raised in order to better
utilize this feature.

Thanks Igor Sysoev for proposing the feature and submitting the original
version, and kib@ for his valuable comments.

Submitted by: Igor Sysoev <is rambler-co ru>
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 1 month


# 196733 01-Sep-2009 kib

Fix mount reference leak when V_XSLEEP is specified to vn_start_write().

Submitted by: tegge


# 196692 31-Aug-2009 kib

Make the mnt_writeopcount and mnt_secondary_writes counters,
used by the suspension code, not greater then mnt_ref reference
counter value. Increment mnt_ref together with write counter
in vn_start_write()/ vn_start_secondary_write(), releasing in
vn_finished_write/vn_finished_secondary_write().

Since r186197, unmount code requires that no writers occured after all
references are expired. We still could get write counter incremented
for freed or reused struct mount, but it seems to be innocent, since
corresponding vnode should be referenced and reclaimed then.

Reported by: pho (last half a year), erwin
Reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho, erwin
MFC after: 1 week


# 195294 02-Jul-2009 kib

In vn_vget_ino() and their inline equivalents, mnt_ref() the mount point
around the sequence that drop vnode lock and then busies the mount point.
Not having vlocked node or direct reference to the mp allows for the
forced unmount to proceed, making mp unmounted or reused.

Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jeff
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 194586 21-Jun-2009 kib

Add another flags argument to vn_open_cred. Use it to specify that some
vn_open_cred invocations shall not audit namei path.

In particular, specify VN_OPEN_NOAUDIT for dotdot lookup performed by
default implementation of vop_vptocnp, and for the open done for core
file. vn_fullpath is called from the audit code, and vn_open there need
to disable audit to avoid infinite recursion. Core file is created on
return to user mode, that, in particular, happens during syscall return.
The creation of the core file is audited by direct calls, and we do not
want to overwrite audit information for syscall.

Reported, reviewed and tested by: rwatson


# 193762 08-Jun-2009 ps

Simply shared vnode locking and extend it to also include fsync.
Also, in vop_write, no longer assert for exclusive locks on the
vnode.

Reviewed by: jhb, kmacy, jeffr


# 193511 05-Jun-2009 rwatson

Move "options MAC" from opt_mac.h to opt_global.h, as it's now in GENERIC
and used in a large number of files, but also because an increasing number
of incorrect uses of MAC calls were sneaking in due to copy-and-paste of
MAC-aware code without the associated opt_mac.h include.

Discussed with: pjd


# 193442 04-Jun-2009 ps

When checking for shared writes, use the struct mount returned from
vn_start_write.

Reviewed by: jhb


# 193440 04-Jun-2009 ps

Support shared vnode locks for write operations when the offset is
provided on filesystems that support it. This really improves mysql
+ innodb performance on ZFS.

Reviewed by: jhb, kmacy, jeffr


# 191990 11-May-2009 attilio

Remove the thread argument from the FSD (File-System Dependent) parts of
the VFS. Now all the VFS_* functions and relating parts don't want the
context as long as it always refers to curthread.

In some points, in particular when dealing with VOPs and functions living
in the same namespace (eg. vflush) which still need to be converted,
pass curthread explicitly in order to retain the old behaviour.
Such loose ends will be fixed ASAP.

While here fix a bug: now, UFS_EXTATTR can be compiled alone without the
UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART option.

VFS KPI is heavilly changed by this commit so thirdy parts modules needs
to be recompiled. Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to signal such
situation.


# 191895 07-May-2009 kib

Eliminate the loop and the call to pause(9) in vfs_vget_ino(). If
vfs_busy(MBF_NOWAIT) failed, unlock the vnode and sleep in vfs_busy().

Suggested and reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 191028 13-Apr-2009 kmacy

- use a shared lock for reads
- remove stale comment

Reviewed by: jeffr


# 190888 10-Apr-2009 rwatson

Remove VOP_LEASE and supporting functions. This hasn't been used since
the removal of NQNFS, but was left in in case it was required for NFSv4.
Since our new NFSv4 client and server can't use it for their
requirements, GC the old mechanism, as well as other unused lease-
related code and interfaces.

Due to its impact on kernel programming and binary interfaces, this
change should not be MFC'd.

Proposed by: jeff
Reviewed by: jeff
Discussed with: rmacklem, zach loafman @ isilon


# 189696 11-Mar-2009 jhb

Add a new internal mount flag (MNTK_EXTENDED_SHARED) to indicate that a
filesystem supports additional operations using shared vnode locks.
Currently this is used to enable shared locks for open() and close() of
read-only file descriptors.
- When an ISOPEN namei() request is performed with LOCKSHARED, use a
shared vnode lock for the leaf vnode only if the mount point has the
extended shared flag set.
- Set LOCKSHARED in vn_open_cred() for requests that specify O_RDONLY but
not O_CREAT.
- Use a shared vnode lock around VOP_CLOSE() if the file was opened with
O_RDONLY and the mountpoint has the extended shared flag set.
- Adjust md(4) to upgrade the vnode lock on the vnode it gets back from
vn_open() since it now may only have a shared vnode lock.
- Don't enable shared vnode locks on FIFO vnodes in ZFS and UFS since
FIFO's require exclusive vnode locks for their open() and close()
routines. (My recent MPSAFE patches for UDF and cd9660 already included
this change.)
- Enable extended shared operations on UFS, cd9660, and UDF.

Submitted by: ups
Reviewed by: pjd (ZFS bits)
MFC after: 1 month


# 187528 21-Jan-2009 kib

Move the code from ufs_lookup.c used to do dotdot lookup, into
the helper function. It is supposed to be useful for any filesystem
that has to unlock dvp to walk to the ".." entry in lookup routine.

Requested by: jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month


# 185431 29-Nov-2008 pjd

Improve KASSERT() call a bit:
- Print flags in hex.
- Note that flags can be fine and panic can be due unexpected error condition.
- Remove redundant new line character.

Eventhough panic message excess 80 characters keep it in one line so it is
easier to grep.


# 185011 16-Nov-2008 kib

Revert r184118. There is actually a code in the kernel, for instance in
kern_unlinkat(), that expects that vn_start_write() actually fills the mp
even when the call failed.

As Tor noted, that pattern relies on the the type stability of the mount
points, as well as that suspended mount points are never freed and
V_XSLEEP is always passed to vn_start_write() when called on a freed
mount point.

Reported by: stass
Reviewed by: tegge
PR: 123768


# 184600 03-Nov-2008 jhb

Use shared vnode locks instead of exclusive vnode locks for the access(),
chdir(), chroot(), eaccess(), fpathconf(), fstat(), fstatfs(), lseek()
(when figuring out the current size of the file in the SEEK_END case),
pathconf(), readlink(), and statfs() system calls.

Submitted by: ups (mostly)
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month


# 184554 02-Nov-2008 attilio

Improve VFS locking:
- Implement real draining for vfs consumers by not relying on the
mnt_lock and using instead a refcount in order to keep track of lock
requesters.
- Due to the change above, remove the mnt_lock lockmgr because it is now
useless.
- Due to the change above, vfs_busy() is no more linked to a lockmgr.
Change so its KPI by removing the interlock argument and defining 2 new
flags for it: MBF_NOWAIT which basically replaces the LK_NOWAIT of the
old version (which was unlinked from the lockmgr alredy) and
MBF_MNTLSTLOCK which provides the ability to drop the mountlist_mtx
once the mnt interlock is held (ability still desired by most consumers).
- The stub used into vfs_mount_destroy(), that allows to override the
mnt_ref if running for more than 3 seconds, make it totally useless.
Remove it as it was thought to work into older versions.
If a problem of "refcount held never going away" should appear, we will
need to fix properly instead than trust on such hackish solution.
- Fix a bug where returning (with an error) from dounmount() was still
leaving the MNTK_MWAIT flag on even if it the waiters were actually
woken up. Just a place in vfs_mount_destroy() is left because it is
going to recycle the structure in any case, so it doesn't matter.
- Remove the markercnt refcount as it is useless.

This patch modifies VFS ABI and breaks KPI for vfs_busy() so manpages and
__FreeBSD_version will be modified accordingly.

Discussed with: kib
Tested by: pho


# 184413 28-Oct-2008 trasz

Introduce accmode_t. This is required for NFSv4 ACLs - it will be neccessary
to add more V* constants, and the variables changed by this patch were often
being assigned to mode_t variables, which is 16 bit.

Approved by: rwatson (mentor)


# 184118 21-Oct-2008 kib

Change vn_start_write() to clear *mpp on all failures when non-NULL vp
is supplied, since vm_pageout_scan() expects it to be cleared on error.

Submitted by: tegge
PR: 123768
MFC after: 1 week


# 184074 20-Oct-2008 kib

Assert that v_holdcnt is non-zero before entering lockmgr in vn_lock
and ffs_lock. This cannot catch situations where holdcnt is incremented
not by curthread, but I think it is useful.

Reviewed by: tegge, attilio
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 183213 20-Sep-2008 kib

Initialize va_rdev to NODEV and va_fsid to VNOVAL before the
VOP_GETATTR() call in vn_stat(). Thus if a file system doesn't
initialize those fields in VOP_GETATTR() they will have a sane default
value.

Submitted by: Jaakko Heinonen <jh saunalahti fi>
Discussed on: freebsd-fs
MFC after: 1 month


# 183211 20-Sep-2008 kib

Initialize birthtime fields in vn_stat() to prevent stat(2) from
returning uninitialized birthtime. Most file systems don't initialize
birthtime properly in their VOP_GETTATTR().

Submitted by: Jaakko Heinonen <jh saunalahti fi>
Reviewed by: bde
Discussed on: freebsd-fs
MFC after: 1 month


# 183073 16-Sep-2008 kib

When attempt is made to suspend a filesystem that is already syspended,
wait until the current suspension is lifted instead of silently returning
success immediately. The consequences of calling vfs_write() resume when
not owning the suspension are not well-defined at best.

Add the vfs_susp_clean() mount method to be called from
vfs_write_resume(). Set it to process_deferred_inactive() for ffs, and
stop calling it manually.

Add the thread flag TDP_IGNSUSP that allows to bypass the suspension
point in the vn_start_write. It is intended for use by VFS in the
situations where the suspender want to do some i/o requiring calls to
vn_start_write(), and this i/o cannot be done later.

Reviewed by: tegge
In collaboration with: pho
MFC after: 1 month


# 183071 16-Sep-2008 kib

Garbage-collect vn_write_suspend_wait().

Suggested and reviewed by: tegge
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month


# 182371 28-Aug-2008 attilio

Decontextualize the couplet VOP_GETATTR / VOP_SETATTR as the passed thread
was always curthread and totally unuseful.

Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>


# 181254 03-Aug-2008 rwatson

Remove broken code to replace st_mode value with ACCESSPERMS when
lstat(2) is called on symlinks -- this code appears never to have
worked. The PR this addresses suggests that the intended
original behavior is the right one, but as bde points out in the
PR comments, we do actually support storing a mode on symlinks,
so returning it seems reasonable.

This is consistent with Mac OS X, which despite documentation to
the contrary does return the mode set on a symlink, but not some
other platforms. The Single Unix Spec requires only that the
returned bits be "meaningful", which seems at best unhelpful as
advice goes.

PR: 25018
MFC after: 3 days


# 177784 31-Mar-2008 kib

Add the support for the O_EXEC open(2) mode, as specified by the
POSIX Extended API Set Part 2 extension specification.

Reviewed by: rwatson, rdivacky
Tested by: pho


# 177727 29-Mar-2008 jeff

- Don't allow calls to vn_lock() with no lock type requested. Callers
which simply want a reference should use vref(). Callers which want
to check validity need to hold a lock while performing any action
based on that validity. vn_lock() would always release the interlock
before returning making any action synchronous with the validity check
impossible.


# 177538 24-Mar-2008 jeff

- Don't acquire the vnode interlock in _vn_lock() unless no lock type
is requested. Handle this case specially before the while loop.
- Use the held vnode lock to check for VI_DOOMED. The vnode lock and
interlock must both be held to set VI_DOOMED so either one held, even
shared, is sufficient to check it.

No objection by: kib


# 175294 13-Jan-2008 attilio

VOP_LOCK1() (and so VOP_LOCK()) and VOP_UNLOCK() are only used in
conjuction with 'thread' argument passing which is always curthread.
Remove the unuseful extra-argument and pass explicitly curthread to lower
layer functions, when necessary.

KPI results broken by this change, which should affect several ports, so
version bumping and manpage update will be further committed.

Tested by: kris, pho, Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>


# 175202 10-Jan-2008 attilio

vn_lock() is currently only used with the 'curthread' passed as argument.
Remove this argument and pass curthread directly to underlying
VOP_LOCK1() VFS method. This modify makes the code cleaner and in
particular remove an annoying dependence helping next lockmgr() cleanup.
KPI results, obviously, changed.

Manpage and FreeBSD_version will be updated through further commits.

As a side note, would be valuable to say that next commits will address
a similar cleanup about VFS methods, in particular vop_lock1 and
vop_unlock.

Tested by: Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>,
Andrea Di Pasquale <whyx dot it at gmail dot com>


# 175140 07-Jan-2008 jhb

Make ftruncate a 'struct file' operation rather than a vnode operation.
This makes it possible to support ftruncate() on non-vnode file types in
the future.
- 'struct fileops' grows a 'fo_truncate' method to handle an ftruncate() on
a given file descriptor.
- ftruncate() moves to kern/sys_generic.c and now just fetches a file
object and invokes fo_truncate().
- The vnode-specific portions of ftruncate() move to vn_truncate() in
vfs_vnops.c which implements fo_truncate() for vnode file types.
- Non-vnode file types return EINVAL in their fo_truncate() method.

Submitted by: rwatson


# 175106 05-Jan-2008 bde

In sequential_heuristic():
- spell 16384 as 16384 and not as BKVASIZE. 16384 is (not quite) just a
magic size that works well in practice. BKVASIZE should be MAXBSIZE
(65536), but is 16384 because i386's don't have enough kva for it to
be MAXBSIZE; 16384 works (not so well) for it for much the same reasons
that it works well in the heuristic.
- expand and/or add comments about this and other details.
- don't explicitly inline this function.
- fix some other style bugs.


# 174988 30-Dec-2007 jeff

Remove explicit locking of struct file.
- Introduce a finit() which is used to initailize the fields of struct file
in such a way that the ops vector is only valid after the data, type,
and flags are valid.
- Protect f_flag and f_count with atomic operations.
- Remove the global list of all files and associated accounting.
- Rewrite the unp garbage collection such that it no longer requires
the global list of all files and instead uses a list of all unp sockets.
- Mark sockets in the accept queue so we don't incorrectly gc them.

Tested by: kris, pho


# 172930 24-Oct-2007 rwatson

Merge first in a series of TrustedBSD MAC Framework KPI changes
from Mac OS X Leopard--rationalize naming for entry points to
the following general forms:

mac_<object>_<method/action>
mac_<object>_check_<method/action>

The previous naming scheme was inconsistent and mostly
reversed from the new scheme. Also, make object types more
consistent and remove spaces from object types that contain
multiple parts ("posix_sem" -> "posixsem") to make mechanical
parsing easier. Introduce a new "netinet" object type for
certain IPv4/IPv6-related methods. Also simplify, slightly,
some entry point names.

All MAC policy modules will need to be recompiled, and modules
not updates as part of this commit will need to be modified to
conform to the new KPI.

Sponsored by: SPARTA (original patches against Mac OS X)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project, Apple Computer


# 171599 26-Jul-2007 pjd

When we do open, we should lock the vnode exclusively. This fixes few races:
- fifo race, where two threads assign v_fifoinfo,
- v_writecount modifications,
- v_object modifications,
- and probably more...

Discussed with: kib, ups
Approved by: re (rwatson)


# 170152 31-May-2007 kib

Revert UF_OPENING workaround for CURRENT.
Change the VOP_OPEN(), vn_open() vnode operation and d_fdopen() cdev operation
argument from being file descriptor index into the pointer to struct file.

Proposed and reviewed by: jhb
Reviewed by: daichi (unionfs)
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 169671 18-May-2007 kib

Since renaming of vop_lock to _vop_lock, pre- and post-condition
function calls are no more generated for vop_lock.
Rename _vop_lock to vop_lock1 to satisfy tools/vnode_if.awk assumption
about vop naming conventions. This restores pre/post-condition calls.


# 169658 17-May-2007 peter

Eliminate a micro-optimization that hasn't had any effect for 15+ years.


# 166674 12-Feb-2007 mpp

Add a VNASSERT to vn_close to detect if v_writecount is going
to become negative. This will detect the underflow when it
happens, instead of having it discovered when the vnode is
taken off the freelist, long after the offending process is long
gone.


# 164248 13-Nov-2006 kmacy

change vop_lock handling to allowing tracking of callers' file and line for
acquisition of lockmgr locks

Approved by: scottl (standing in for mentor rwatson)


# 164033 06-Nov-2006 rwatson

Sweep kernel replacing suser(9) calls with priv(9) calls, assigning
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.

Sponsored by: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed (at least in part) by: mlaier, jmg, pjd, bde, ceri,
Alex Lyashkov <umka at sevcity dot net>,
Skip Ford <skip dot ford at verizon dot net>,
Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin at laposte dot net>


# 163606 22-Oct-2006 rwatson

Complete break-out of sys/sys/mac.h into sys/security/mac/mac_framework.h
begun with a repo-copy of mac.h to mac_framework.h. sys/mac.h now
contains the userspace and user<->kernel API and definitions, with all
in-kernel interfaces moved to mac_framework.h, which is now included
across most of the kernel instead.

This change is the first step in a larger cleanup and sweep of MAC
Framework interfaces in the kernel, and will not be MFC'd.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: SPARTA


# 159917 24-Jun-2006 pjd

Simplify the code and remove two mutex operations.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 158642 16-May-2006 ps

Allow concurrent read(2)/readv(2) access to a file.
Lock file offset against multiple read calls.

Submitted by: ups
Obtained from: Yahoo!
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 158128 28-Apr-2006 pjd

vn_start_write() is called only when v_type != VCHR, so corresponding
vn_finished_write() should also be called only then.

BTW. I fixed two functions here: vn_rdwr() and vn_write(). The latter seems
to be unused.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# 157325 31-Mar-2006 jeff

- Release the references acquired by VOP_GETWRITEMOUNT and vfs_getvfs().

Discussed with: tegge
Tested by: kris
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 157230 28-Mar-2006 jhb

Change vn_open() to honor the MPSAFE flag in the passed in nameidata object
and use that instead of testing fdidx against -1 to determine if it should
release Giant if Giant was locked due to the requested file residing on a
non-MPSAFE VFS.

Discussed with: jeff


# 156978 22-Mar-2006 jeff

- Remove explicit giant acquires and replace it with VFS_LOCK_GIANT.

Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 156574 11-Mar-2006 csjp

Make sure that we are adding a path token to the audit record in open(2).
Do this by making sure we are using the AUDITVNODE1 mask in the namei flags.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project


# 156560 11-Mar-2006 tegge

Block secondary writes while expunging active unlinked files.

Fix detection of active unlinked files by checking VI_OWEINACT and
VI_DOINGINACT in addition to v_usecount.

Defer inactive handling for unlinked files if the file system is mostly
suspended (secondary writes being blocked).

Perform deferred inactive handling after the file system is resumed.


# 156451 08-Mar-2006 tegge

Use vn_start_secondary_write() and vn_finished_secondary_write() as a
replacement for vn_write_suspend_wait() to better account for secondary write
processing.

Close race where secondary writes could be started after ffs_sync() returned
but before the file system was marked as suspended.

Detect if secondary writes or softdep processing occurred during vnode sync
loop in ffs_sync() and retry the loop if needed.


# 153400 14-Dec-2005 des

Eradicate caddr_t from the VFS API.


# 148668 03-Aug-2005 jeff

- Replace the series of DEBUG_LOCKS hacks which tried to save the vn_lock
caller by saving the stack of the last locker/unlocker in lockmgr. We
also put the stack in KTR at the moment.

Contributed by: Antoine Brodin <antoine.brodin@laposte.net>


# 147352 14-Jun-2005 jeff

- Remove vnode lock asserts at the end of vfs syscalls. These asserts were
used to ensure that we weren't exiting the syscall with a lock still
held. This wasn't safe, however, because we'd already executed a vput()
and on a loaded system the vnode may have been free'd by the time we
assert. This functionality is also handled by the td_locks assert in
userret, which doesn't tell you what the syscall was, but will at least
panic before you deadlock.

Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
Discovred by: Peter Holm
Approved by: re (blanket vfs)


# 147328 13-Jun-2005 jeff

- It has long been my suspicion that we don't actually need a loop in
vn_lock(). Add an assert that will help me gain more confidence that this
is correct.

Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 145587 27-Apr-2005 jeff

- Stop checking vxthread, we've asserted that it was useless for several
weeks.


# 145584 27-Apr-2005 jeff

- Pass the ISOPEN flag to namei so filesystems will know we're about to
open them or otherwise access the data.


# 144899 11-Apr-2005 jeff

- Assert that we're no longer doing recursive vn_locks in inactive/reclaim
as I'd like to get rid of the vxthread.
- Handle lock requests which don't actually want a lock as this is a
much more convenient place to handle this condition than in vget().
These requests simply want to know that VI_DOOMED isn't set.
- Correct a test at the end of vn_lock, if error !=0 should be
if error == 0, this has been broken since I comitted the VI_DOOMED
changes, but no one ran into it because vget() duplicated this
functionality.

Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 144643 05-Apr-2005 csjp

Assert that the vnode is locked. This is meant to catch bugs or
mis-use of the vnode API in conditions where IO_NODELOCKED has been
used without the vnode actually being locked.


# 144367 31-Mar-2005 jeff

- LK_NOPAUSE is a nop now.

Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 144050 24-Mar-2005 jeff

- Remove some long dead LOOKUP_SHARED code that tracked the lock state.
- Always pass LOCKSHARED and rely on namei() to ignore it when
LOOKUP_SHARED is not set.

Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 143498 13-Mar-2005 jeff

- Do a vn_start_write in vn_close, we may write if this is the last ref
on an unlinked file. We can't know if this is the case until after we
have the lock.
- Lock the vnode in vn_close, many filesystems had code which was unsafe
without the lock held, and holding it greatly simplifies vgone().
- Adjust vn_lock() to check for the VI_DOOMED flag where appropriate.

Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 142348 24-Feb-2005 csjp

Add locking assertions into vn_extattr_set, vn_extattr_get and
vn_extattr_rm. This is meant to catch conditions where IO_NODELOCKED
has been specified without the vnode being locked.

Discussed with: rwatson
MFC after: 1 week


# 142011 17-Feb-2005 phk

Introduce vx_wait{l}() and use it instead of home-rolled versions.


# 140779 24-Jan-2005 phk

Don't call VOP_CREATEVOBJECT(), it's the responsibility of the
filesystem which owns the vnode.


# 140716 24-Jan-2005 jeff

- Remove GIANT_REQUIRED where giant is no longer required.
- Protect access to mnt_kern_flag with the mountpoint mutex.
- Use the appropriate nd flags to deal with giant in vn_open_cred().
We currently determine whether the caller is mpsafe by checking
for a valid fdidx. Any caller coming from user-space is now
mpsafe and supplies a valid fd. No kenrel callers have been
converted to mpsafe, so this check is sufficient for now.
- Use VFS_LOCK_GIANT instead of manual giant acquisition where
appropriate.

Sponsored By: Isilon Systems, Inc.


# 140181 13-Jan-2005 phk

Ditch vfs_object_create() and make the callers call VOP_CREATEVOBJECT()
directly.


# 140048 11-Jan-2005 phk

Remove the unused credential argument from VOP_FSYNC() and VFS_SYNC().

I'm not sure why a credential was added to these in the first place, it is
not used anywhere and it doesn't make much sense:

The credentials for syncing a file (ability to write to the
file) should be checked at the system call level.

Credentials for syncing one or more filesystems ("none")
should be checked at the system call level as well.

If the filesystem implementation needs a particular credential
to carry out the syncing it would logically have to the
cached mount credential, or a credential cached along with
any delayed write data.

Discussed with: rwatson


# 139804 06-Jan-2005 imp

/* -> /*- for copyright notices, minor format tweaks as necessary


# 137866 18-Nov-2004 phk

Ok, first blunder: ioctls are not entirely unused on vnodes anymore :-)

Add dropped call to VOP_IOCTL().


# 137806 17-Nov-2004 phk

Push Giant down through ioctl.

Don't grab Giant in the upper syscall/wrapper code

NET_LOCK_GIANT in the socket code (sockets/fifos).

mtx_lock(&Giant) in the vnode code.

mtx_lock(&Giant) in the opencrypto code. (This may actually not be
needed, but better safe than sorry).

Devfs grabs Giant if the driver is marked as needing Giant.


# 137805 17-Nov-2004 phk

Push Giant down through select and poll.

Don't grab Giant in the upper syscall/wrapper code

NET_LOCK_GIANT in the socket code (sockets/fifos).

mtx_lock(&Giant) in the vnode code.

Devfs grabs Giant if the driver is marked as needing Giant.


# 137753 15-Nov-2004 phk

Give vn_poll single exit point (to make it easier to insert
"mtx_unlock(&Giant)" real soon now).


# 137508 10-Nov-2004 phk

Slim vnodes by another four bytes by eliminating the (now) unused field
v_cachedid.


# 137483 09-Nov-2004 phk

Remove vnode->v_cachedfs.

It was only used for the highly dangerous "export all vnodes with a sysctl"
function.


# 136966 26-Oct-2004 phk

Put the I/O block size in bufobj->bo_bsize.

We keep si_bsize_phys around for now as that is the simplest way to pull
the number out of disk device drivers in devfs_open(). The correct solution
would be to do an ioctl(DIOCGSECTORSIZE), but the point is probably mooth
when filesystems sit on GEOM, so don't bother for now.


# 136964 26-Oct-2004 phk

Remove unused si_bsize_best field from struct cdev.


# 135709 24-Sep-2004 phk

Hold dev_lock and check for NULL devsw pointer when we service FIODTYPE ioctl.


# 135540 21-Sep-2004 phk

If a vnode has no v_rdev we cannot hope to answer FIODTYPE ioctl.


# 133741 15-Aug-2004 jmg

Add locking to the kqueue subsystem. This also makes the kqueue subsystem
a more complete subsystem, and removes the knowlege of how things are
implemented from the drivers. Include locking around filter ops, so a
module like aio will know when not to be unloaded if there are outstanding
knotes using it's filter ops.

Currently, it uses the MTX_DUPOK even though it is not always safe to
aquire duplicate locks. Witness currently doesn't support the ability
to discover if a dup lock is ok (in some cases).

Reviewed by: green, rwatson (both earlier versions)


# 133236 06-Aug-2004 rwatson

Flag a broad range of VFS operations as GIANT_REQUIRED in order to
catch leaking into VFS without Giant.

Inch Giant a little lower in several file descriptor operations on
vnodes to cover only VFS operations that need it, rather than file
flag reading, etc.


# 132554 22-Jul-2004 rwatson

Push Giant acquisition down into fo_stat() from most callers. Acquire
Giant conditional on debug.mpsafenet in the socket soo_stat() routine,
unconditionally in vn_statfile() for VFS, and otherwise don't acquire
Giant. Accept an unlocked read in kqueue_stat(), and cryptof_stat() is
a no-op. Don't acquire Giant in fstat() system call.

Note: in fdescfs, fo_stat() is called while holding Giant due to the VFS
stack sitting on top, and therefore there will still be Giant recursion
in this case.


# 132549 22-Jul-2004 rwatson

Push acquisition of Giant from fdrop_closed() into fo_close() so that
individual file object implementations can optionally acquire Giant if
they require it:

- soo_close(): depends on debug.mpsafenet
- pipe_close(): Giant not acquired
- kqueue_close(): Giant required
- vn_close(): Giant required
- cryptof_close(): Giant required (conservative)

Notes:

Giant is still acquired in close() even when closing MPSAFE objects
due to kqueue requiring Giant in the calling closef() code.
Microbenchmarks indicate that this removal of Giant cuts 3%-3% off
of pipe create/destroy pairs from user space with SMP compiled into
the kernel.

The cryptodev and opencrypto code appears MPSAFE, but I'm unable to
test it extensively and so have left Giant over fo_close(). It can
probably be removed given some testing and review.


# 131934 10-Jul-2004 marcel

Update for the KDB framework:
o Call kdb_enter() instead of Debugger().


# 130101 05-Jun-2004 tjr

Change the types of vn_rdwr_inchunks()'s len and aresid arguments to
size_t and size_t *, respectively. Update callers for the new interface.
This is a better fix for overflows that occurred when dumping segments
larger than 2GB to core files.


# 129973 01-Jun-2004 rwatson

Rather than assert f_type==DTYPE_VNODE, conditionally perform the
file lock release based on f_type==DTYPE_VNODE. vn_closefile() is
used by non-vnode types as well (fifo).


# 129948 01-Jun-2004 rwatson

Push the VOP_ADVLOCK() call to release advisory locks on vnode file
descriptors out of fdrop_locked() and into vn_closefile(). This
removes all knowledge of vnodes from fdrop_locked(), since the lock
behavior was specific to vnodes. This also removes the specific
requirement for Giant in fdrop_locked(), it's now only required by
code that it calls into.

Add GIANT_REQUIRED to vn_closefile() since VFS requires Giant.


# 129904 31-May-2004 rwatson

Assert Giant in vn_start_write() and vn_finished_write().


# 127911 05-Apr-2004 imp

Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's license,
per letter dated July 22, 1999.

Approved by: core


# 126902 13-Mar-2004 bde

Align the offset in vn_rdwr_inchunks() so that at most the first and
the last chunk are misaligned relative to a MAXBSIZE byte boundary.
vn_rdwr_inchunks() is used mainly for elf core dumps, and elf sections
are usually perfectly misaligned relative to MAXBSIZE, and chunking
prevents the file system from doing much realigning.

This gives a surprisingly large speedup for core dumps -- from 50 to
13 seconds for a 512MB core dump here. The pessimization was mostly
from an interaction of the misalignment with IO_DIRECT. It increased
the number of i/o's for each chunk by a factor of 5 (3 writes and 2
read-before-writes instead of 1 write).


# 123932 28-Dec-2003 bde

v_vxproc was a bogus name for a thread (pointer).


# 120743 04-Oct-2003 jeff

- If we are called with LK_NOWAIT in vn_lock() we may be holding a mutex
and should not sleep while waiting for XLOCK to clear. Care needs to be
taken in functions that use this capability to avoid spinning.


# 118131 28-Jul-2003 rwatson

Rename VOP_RMEXTATTR() to VOP_DELETEEXTATTR() for consistency with the
kernel ACL interfaces and system call names.

Break out UFS2 and FFS extattr delete and list vnode operations from
setextattr and getextattr to deleteextattr and listextattr, which
cleans up the implementations, and makes the results more readable,
and makes the APIs more clear.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories


# 118097 27-Jul-2003 phk

Pass the fdidx argument from vn_open{_cred}() onto VOP_OPEN()


# 118094 27-Jul-2003 phk

Add fdidx argument to vn_open() and vn_open_cred() and pass -1 throughout.


# 118047 26-Jul-2003 phk

Add a "int fd" argument to VOP_OPEN() which in the future will
contain the filedescriptor number on opens from userland.

The index is used rather than a "struct file *" since it conveys a bit
more information, which may be useful to in particular fdescfs and /dev/fd/*

For now pass -1 all over the place.


# 116699 22-Jun-2003 rwatson

Prefer the vop_rmextattr() vnode operation for removing extended
attributes from objects over vop_setextattr() with a NULL uio; if
the file system doesn't support the vop_rmextattr() method, fall
back to the vop_setextattr() method.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories


# 116678 22-Jun-2003 phk

Add a f_vnode field to struct file.

Several of the subtypes have an associated vnode which is used for
stuff like the f*() functions.

By giving the vnode a speparate field, a number of checks for the specific
subtype can be replaced simply with a check for f_vnode != NULL, and
we can later free f_data up to subtype specific use.

At this point in time, f_data still points to the vnode, so any code I
might have overlooked will still work.


# 116550 18-Jun-2003 phk

Introduce a new flag on a file descriptor: DFLAG_SEEKABLE and use that
rather than assume that only DTYPE_VNODE is seekable.


# 116546 18-Jun-2003 phk

Initialize struct fileops with C99 sparse initialization.


# 116182 11-Jun-2003 obrien

Use __FBSDID().


# 115791 04-Jun-2003 rwatson

Assert the vnode lock when returning successfully from vn_open_cred().


# 114216 29-Apr-2003 kan

Deprecate machine/limits.h in favor of new sys/limits.h.
Change all in-tree consumers to include <sys/limits.h>

Discussed on: standards@
Partially submitted by: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>


# 112684 26-Mar-2003 tegge

fp->f_offset doesn't need any protection when it isn't accessed.


# 110908 15-Feb-2003 alfred

Do not allow kqueues to be passed via unix domain sockets.


# 109153 13-Jan-2003 dillon

Bow to the whining masses and change a union back into void *. Retain
removal of unnecessary casts and throw in some minor cleanups to see if
anyone complains, just for the hell of it.


# 109123 12-Jan-2003 dillon

Change struct file f_data to un_data, a union of the correct struct
pointer types, and remove a huge number of casts from code using it.

Change struct xfile xf_data to xun_data (ABI is still compatible).

If we need to add a #define for f_data and xf_data we can, but I don't
think it will be necessary. There are no operational changes in this
commit.


# 108897 07-Jan-2003 green

In vn_open(), unset ndp->ni_vp when returning failure so that code
which expects it to be NULL unless the return value was 0 will work.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories


# 108356 28-Dec-2002 dillon

Abstract-out the constants for the sequential heuristic.

No operational changes.

MFC after: 1 day


# 108255 24-Dec-2002 phk

White-space changes.


# 108238 23-Dec-2002 phk

Detediousficate declaration of fileops array members by introducing
typedefs for them.


# 105902 25-Oct-2002 mckusick

Within ufs, the ffs_sync and ffs_fsync functions did not always
check for and/or report I/O errors. The result is that a VFS_SYNC
or VOP_FSYNC called with MNT_WAIT could loop infinitely on ufs in
the presence of a hard error writing a disk sector or in a filesystem
full condition. This patch ensures that I/O errors will always be
checked and returned. This patch also ensures that every call to
VFS_SYNC or VOP_FSYNC with MNT_WAIT set checks for and takes
appropriate action when an error is returned.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 105475 19-Oct-2002 rwatson

Drop in the MAC check for file creation as part of open().

Approved by: re
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories


# 104017 26-Sep-2002 phk

Under DIAGNOSTIC, complain if ENOIOCTL leaks out through VOP_IOCTL().


# 102412 25-Aug-2002 charnier

Replace various spelling with FALLTHROUGH which is lint()able


# 102297 23-Aug-2002 jeff

- Fix a mistake in my last few commits. The PDROP flag stops msleep from
re-acquiring the mutex.

Pointy hat to: me
Noticed by: tegge


# 102256 22-Aug-2002 jeff

- Closer inspection revealed a possible deadlock situation in vn_lock() that
was introduced by my last commit but not caught by stress testing. Fix
that and slightly restructure the code so that it is more readable.


# 102255 22-Aug-2002 jeff

- Make vn_lock() vget() and VOP_LOCK() all behave the same way WRT
LK_INTERLOCK. The interlock will never be held on return from these
functions even when there is an error. Errors typically only occur when
the XLOCK is held which means this isn't the vnode we want anyway. Almost
all users of these interfaces expected this behavior even though it was
not provided before.


# 102254 22-Aug-2002 jeff

- Return two shared locks to exclusive locks. This was premature.
- Document the problems that prevent us from using shared locks.


# 102252 22-Aug-2002 jeff

- Fix interlock handling in vn_lock(). Previously, vn_lock() could return
with interlock held in error conditions when the caller did not specify
LK_INTERLOCK.
- Add several comments to vn_lock() describing the rational behind the code
flow since it was not immediately obvious.


# 102214 21-Aug-2002 jeff

- Document two cases, one in vget and the other in vn_lock, where the state
of interlock on exit is not consistent. There are probably several bugs
relating to this.


# 102129 19-Aug-2002 rwatson

Pass active_cred and file_cred into the MAC framework explicitly
for mac_check_vnode_{poll,read,stat,write}(). Pass in fp->f_cred
when calling these checks with a struct file available. Otherwise,
pass NOCRED. All currently MAC policies use active_cred, but
could now offer the cached credential semantic used for the base
system security model.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 102112 19-Aug-2002 rwatson

Break out mac_check_vnode_op() into three seperate checks:
mac_check_vnode_poll(), mac_check_vnode_read(), mac_check_vnode_write().
This improves the consistency with other existing vnode checks, and
allows policies to avoid implementing switch statements to determine
what operations they do and do not want to authorize.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 102003 17-Aug-2002 rwatson

In continuation of early fileop credential changes, modify fo_ioctl() to
accept an 'active_cred' argument reflecting the credential of the thread
initiating the ioctl operation.

- Change fo_ioctl() to accept active_cred; change consumers of the
fo_ioctl() interface to generally pass active_cred from td->td_ucred.
- In fifofs, initialize filetmp.f_cred to ap->a_cred so that the
invocations of soo_ioctl() are provided access to the calling f_cred.
Pass ap->a_td->td_ucred as the active_cred, but note that this is
required because we don't yet distinguish file_cred and active_cred
in invoking VOP's.
- Update kqueue_ioctl() for its new argument.
- Update pipe_ioctl() for its new argument, pass active_cred rather
than td_ucred to MAC for authorization.
- Update soo_ioctl() for its new argument.
- Update vn_ioctl() for its new argument, use active_cred rather than
td->td_ucred to authorize VOP_IOCTL() and the associated VOP_GETATTR().

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 101983 16-Aug-2002 rwatson

Make similar changes to fo_stat() and fo_poll() as made earlier to
fo_read() and fo_write(): explicitly use the cred argument to fo_poll()
as "active_cred" using the passed file descriptor's f_cred reference
to provide access to the file credential. Add an active_cred
argument to fo_stat() so that implementers have access to the active
credential as well as the file credential. Generally modify callers
of fo_stat() to pass in td->td_ucred rather than fp->f_cred, which
was redundantly provided via the fp argument. This set of modifications
also permits threads to perform these operations on behalf of another
thread without modifying their credential.

Trickle this change down into fo_stat/poll() implementations:

- badfo_poll(), badfo_stat(): modify/add arguments.
- kqueue_poll(), kqueue_stat(): modify arguments.
- pipe_poll(), pipe_stat(): modify/add arguments, pass active_cred to
MAC checks rather than td->td_ucred.
- soo_poll(), soo_stat(): modify/add arguments, pass fp->f_cred rather
than cred to pru_sopoll() to maintain current semantics.
- sopoll(): moidfy arguments.
- vn_poll(), vn_statfile(): modify/add arguments, pass new arguments
to vn_stat(). Pass active_cred to MAC and fp->f_cred to VOP_POLL()
to maintian current semantics.
- vn_close(): rename cred to file_cred to reflect reality while I'm here.
- vn_stat(): Add active_cred and file_cred arguments to vn_stat()
and consumers so that this distinction is maintained at the VFS
as well as 'struct file' layer. Pass active_cred instead of
td->td_ucred to MAC and to VOP_GETATTR() to maintain current semantics.

- fifofs: modify the creation of a "filetemp" so that the file
credential is properly initialized and can be used in the socket
code if desired. Pass ap->a_td->td_ucred as the active
credential to soo_poll(). If we teach the vnop interface about
the distinction between file and active credentials, we would use
the active credential here.

Note that current inconsistent passing of active_cred vs. file_cred to
VOP's is maintained. It's not clear why GETATTR would be authorized
using active_cred while POLL would be authorized using file_cred at
the file system level.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 101941 15-Aug-2002 rwatson

In order to better support flexible and extensible access control,
make a series of modifications to the credential arguments relating
to file read and write operations to cliarfy which credential is
used for what:

- Change fo_read() and fo_write() to accept "active_cred" instead of
"cred", and change the semantics of consumers of fo_read() and
fo_write() to pass the active credential of the thread requesting
an operation rather than the cached file cred. The cached file
cred is still available in fo_read() and fo_write() consumers
via fp->f_cred. These changes largely in sys_generic.c.

For each implementation of fo_read() and fo_write(), update cred
usage to reflect this change and maintain current semantics:

- badfo_readwrite() unchanged
- kqueue_read/write() unchanged
pipe_read/write() now authorize MAC using active_cred rather
than td->td_ucred
- soo_read/write() unchanged
- vn_read/write() now authorize MAC using active_cred but
VOP_READ/WRITE() with fp->f_cred

Modify vn_rdwr() to accept two credential arguments instead of a
single credential: active_cred and file_cred. Use active_cred
for MAC authorization, and select a credential for use in
VOP_READ/WRITE() based on whether file_cred is NULL or not. If
file_cred is provided, authorize the VOP using that cred,
otherwise the active credential, matching current semantics.

Modify current vn_rdwr() consumers to pass a file_cred if used
in the context of a struct file, and to always pass active_cred.
When vn_rdwr() is used without a file_cred, pass NOCRED.

These changes should maintain current semantics for read/write,
but avoid a redundant passing of fp->f_cred, as well as making
it more clear what the origin of each credential is in file
descriptor read/write operations.

Follow-up commits will make similar changes to other file descriptor
operations, and modify the MAC framework to pass both credentials
to MAC policy modules so they can implement either semantic for
revocation.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 101741 12-Aug-2002 rwatson

Implement IO_NOMACCHECK in vn_rdwr() -- perform MAC checks (assuming
'options MAC') as long as IO_NOMACCHECK is not set in the IO flags.
If IO_NOMACCHECK is set, bypass MAC checks in vn_rdwr(). This allows
vn_rdwr() to be used as a utility function inside of file systems
where MAC checks have already been performed, or where the operation
is being done on behalf of the kernel not the user.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI LAbs


# 101525 08-Aug-2002 rwatson

Due to layering problems, remove the MAC checks from vn_rdwr() -- this
VOP wrapper is called from within file systems so can result in odd
loopback effects when MAC enforcement is use with the active (as
opposed to saved) credential. These checks will be moved elsewhere.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 101308 04-Aug-2002 jeff

- Replace v_flag with v_iflag and v_vflag
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.

Idea stolen from: BSD/OS


# 101175 01-Aug-2002 rwatson

Since we have the struct file data pointer cached in vp, use that
instead when invoking VOP_POLL().


# 101166 01-Aug-2002 rwatson

Introduce support for Mandatory Access Control and extensible
kernel access control

Invoke appropriate MAC framework entry points to authorize a number
of vnode operations, including read, write, stat, poll. This permits
MAC policies to revoke access to files following label changes,
and to limit information spread about the file to user processes.

Note: currently the file cached credential is used for some of
these authorization check. We will need to expand some of the
MAC entry point APIs to permit multiple creds to be passed to
the access control check to allow diverse policy behavior.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 101164 01-Aug-2002 rwatson

Introduce support for Mandatory Access Control and extensible
kernel access control.

Restructure the vn_open_cred() access control checks to invoke
the MAC entry point for open authorization. Note that MAC can
reject open requests where existing DAC code skips the open
authorization check due to O_CREAT. However, the failure mode
here is the same as other failure modes following creation,
wherein an empty file may be left behind.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 101039 31-Jul-2002 des

Introduce struct xvnode, which will be used instead of struct vnode for
sysctl purposes. Also add two fields to struct vnode, v_cachedfs and
v_cachedid, which hold the vnode's device and file id and are filled in
by vn_open_cred() and vn_stat().

Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 100496 22-Jul-2002 rwatson

Set VAPPEND in open mode when O_APPEND is specified as an argument to
open() of fhopen(). Currently this has no actual affect due to the
treatment of VAPPEND in vaccess() and vaccess_acl() as a subset of
VWRITE, but when MAC comes in, MAC will distinguish the two. Note:
if any file systems are cutting their own permission models, they
may wish to now take this into account.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 100201 16-Jul-2002 mckusick

Change the name of st_createtime to st_birthtime. This change is
made to reduce confusion between st_ctime and st_createtime.

Submitted by: Eric Allman <eric@sendmail.org>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 99009 29-Jun-2002 alfred

More caddr_t removal, make fo_ioctl take a void * instead of a caddr_t.


# 98981 28-Jun-2002 jeff

Clean up vn_rdwr locking.

- Do shared locks on read.
- Only do vn_{start,finished}_write when writing.


# 98734 24-Jun-2002 mckusick

Use proper size in bzero of stat structure.

Submitted by: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 98644 22-Jun-2002 mckusick

This patch fixes a size problem with the stat structure for
64-bit architectures that was introduced in the UFS2 code
merge two days ago. The stat structure change that caused
the problem was the addition of the file create time.

Submitted by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 98542 21-Jun-2002 mckusick

This commit adds basic support for the UFS2 filesystem. The UFS2
filesystem expands the inode to 256 bytes to make space for 64-bit
block pointers. It also adds a file-creation time field, an ability
to use jumbo blocks per inode to allow extent like pointer density,
and space for extended attributes (up to twice the filesystem block
size worth of attributes, e.g., on a 16K filesystem, there is space
for 32K of attributes). UFS2 fully supports and runs existing UFS1
filesystems. New filesystems built using newfs can be built in either
UFS1 or UFS2 format using the -O option. In this commit UFS1 is
the default format, so if you want to build UFS2 format filesystems,
you must specify -O 2. This default will be changed to UFS2 when
UFS2 proves itself to be stable. In this commit the boot code for
reading UFS2 filesystems is not compiled (see /sys/boot/common/ufsread.c)
as there is insufficient space in the boot block. Once the size of the
boot block is increased, this code can be defined.

Things to note: the definition of SBSIZE has changed to SBLOCKSIZE.
The header file <ufs/ufs/dinode.h> must be included before
<ufs/ffs/fs.h> so as to get the definitions of ufs2_daddr_t and
ufs_lbn_t.

Still TODO:
Verify that the first level bootstraps work for all the architectures.
Convert the utility ffsinfo to understand UFS2 and test growfs.
Add support for the extended attribute storage. Update soft updates
to ensure integrity of extended attribute storage. Switch the
current extended attribute interfaces to use the extended attribute
storage. Add the extent like functionality (framework is there,
but is currently never used).

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>


# 96616 14-May-2002 jeff

Disable the shared locking namei() code for now. It breaks several stacking
filesystems. This is on hold until the rest of VFS Locking is reviewed and
deemed safe. It can be enabled with 'options LOOKUP_SHARED'.


# 94861 16-Apr-2002 jhb

Lock proctree_lock instead of pgrpsess_lock.


# 94646 14-Apr-2002 jeff

Use VOP_GETVOBJECT instead of accessing the member directly. This fixed
an issue with nullfs and NAMEI shared.

Submitted by: Alexander Kabaev


# 94262 09-Apr-2002 jeff

Turn #ifdef LOOKUP_SHARED into #ifndef LOOKUP_EXCLUSIVE to enable this
behavior by default. Also, change the options line to reflect this.

If there are no problems reported this will become the only behavior and the
knob will be removed in a month or so.

Demanded by: obrien


# 93593 01-Apr-2002 jhb

Change the suser() API to take advantage of td_ucred as well as do a
general cleanup of the API. The entire API now consists of two functions
similar to the pre-KSE API. The suser() function takes a thread pointer
as its only argument. The td_ucred member of this thread must be valid
so the only valid thread pointers are curthread and a few kernel threads
such as thread0. The suser_cred() function takes a pointer to a struct
ucred as its first argument and an integer flag as its second argument.
The flag is currently only used for the PRISON_ROOT flag.

Discussed on: smp@


# 93188 26-Mar-2002 bde

Added used include of <sys/sx.h>. Don't depend on namespace pollution in
<sys/file.h>.


# 92723 19-Mar-2002 alfred

Remove __P.


# 92310 15-Mar-2002 alfred

Giant pushdown for read/write/pread/pwrite syscalls.

kern/kern_descrip.c:
Aquire Giant in fdrop_locked when file refcount hits zero, this removes
the requirement for the caller to own Giant for the most part.

kern/kern_ktrace.c:
Aquire Giant in ktrgenio, simplifies locking in upper read/write syscalls.

kern/vfs_bio.c:
Aquire Giant in bwillwrite if needed.

kern/sys_generic.c
Giant pushdown, remove Giant for:
read, pread, write and pwrite.
readv and writev aren't done yet because of the possible malloc calls
for iov to uio processing.

kern/sys_socket.c
Grab giant in the socket fo_read/write functions.

kern/vfs_vnops.c
Grab giant in the vnode fo_read/write functions.


# 92130 12-Mar-2002 jeff

This patch adds the "LOCKSHARED" option to namei which causes it to only acquire shared locks on leafs.
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


# 92069 11-Mar-2002 tanimura

Stop abusing the pgrpsess_lock.


# 91690 05-Mar-2002 eivind

Document all functions, global and static variables, and sysctls.
Includes some minor whitespace changes, and re-ordering to be able to document
properly (e.g, grouping of variables and the SYSCTL macro calls for them, where
the documentation has been added.)

Reviewed by: phk (but all errors are mine)


# 91406 27-Feb-2002 jhb

Simple p_ucred -> td_ucred changes to start using the per-thread ucred
reference.


# 91140 23-Feb-2002 tanimura

Lock struct pgrp, session and sigio.

New locks are:

- pgrpsess_lock which locks the whole pgrps and sessions,
- pg_mtx which protects the pgrp members, and
- s_mtx which protects the session members.

Please refer to sys/proc.h for the coverage of these locks.

Changes on the pgrp/session interface:

- pgfind() needs the pgrpsess_lock held.

- The caller of enterpgrp() is responsible to allocate a new pgrp and
session.

- Call enterthispgrp() in order to enter an existing pgrp.

- pgsignal() requires a pgrp lock held.

Reviewed by: jhb, alfred
Tested on: cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
(which is a quad-CPU machine running -current)


# 90946 20-Feb-2002 rwatson

More cleanups relating to vm object allocation failure: make sure we
call VOP_CLOSE() with vp unlocked; clean up the return path a little,
in as much as our namei/vnode operation return paths can be cleared
up. For a return case that was apparently never taken, this sure
is ugly.

Reviewed by: jeffr


# 90846 18-Feb-2002 iedowse

Add the braces missed by revision 1.131.

Pointy hat to: rwatson


# 90818 18-Feb-2002 rwatson

When vn_open() is failing because it cannot allocate a vm object, call
VOP_CLOSE() on the vnode, so that VOP_OPEN() and VOP_CLOSE() calls
are symmetric in all failure cases. This prevents an 'open' reference
from being leaked in that unlikely failure scenario.


# 90486 10-Feb-2002 rwatson

Make sure to hold vnode lock when calling into VOP_GETATTR().

Discussed with: mckusick, phk


# 90448 10-Feb-2002 rwatson

Part I: Update extended attribute API and ABI:

o Modify the system call syntax for extattr_{get,set}_{fd,file}() so
as not to use the scatter gather API (which appeared not to be used
by any consumers, and be less portable), rather, accepts 'data'
and 'nbytes' in the style of other simple read/write interfaces.
This changes the API and ABI.

o Modify system call semantics so that extattr_get_{fd,file}() return
a size_t. When performing a read, the number of bytes read will
be returned, unless the data pointer is NULL, in which case the
number of bytes of data are returned. This changes the API only.

o Modify the VOP_GETEXTATTR() vnode operation to accept a *size_t
argument so as to return the size, if desirable. If set to NULL,
the size will not be returned.

o Update various filesystems (pseodofs, ufs) to DTRT.

These changes should make extended attributes more useful and more
portable. More commits to rebuild the system call files, as well
as update userland utilities to follow.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# 89784 25-Jan-2002 phk

Make st_blksize default to PAGE_SIZE instead of zero.


# 89526 19-Jan-2002 dillon

Remove 'VXLOCK: interlock avoided' warnings. This can now occur in normal
operation. The vgonel() code has always called vclean() but until we
started proactively freeing vnodes it would never actually be called with
a dirty vnode, so this situation did not occur prior to the vnlru() code.
Now that we proactively free vnodes when kern.maxvnodes is hit, however,
vclean() winds up with work to do and improperly generates the warnings.

Reviewed by: peter
Approved by: re (for MFC)
MFC after: 1 day


# 89306 13-Jan-2002 alfred

SMP Lock struct file, filedesc and the global file list.

Seigo Tanimura (tanimura) posted the initial delta.

I've polished it quite a bit reducing the need for locking and
adapting it for KSE.

Locks:

1 mutex in each filedesc
protects all the fields.
protects "struct file" initialization, while a struct file
is being changed from &badfileops -> &pipeops or something
the filedesc should be locked.

1 mutex in each struct file
protects the refcount fields.
doesn't protect anything else.
the flags used for garbage collection have been moved to
f_gcflag which was the FILLER short, this doesn't need
locking because the garbage collection is a single threaded
container.
could likely be made to use a pool mutex.

1 sx lock for the global filelist.

struct file * fhold(struct file *fp);
/* increments reference count on a file */

struct file * fhold_locked(struct file *fp);
/* like fhold but expects file to locked */

struct file * ffind_hold(struct thread *, int fd);
/* finds the struct file in thread, adds one reference and
returns it unlocked */

struct file * ffind_lock(struct thread *, int fd);
/* ffind_hold, but returns file locked */

I still have to smp-safe the fget cruft, I'll get to that asap.


# 88149 18-Dec-2001 dillon

This is a forward port of Peter's vlrureclaim() fix, with some minor mods
by me to make it more efficient. The original code had serious balancing
problems and could also deadlock easily. This code relegates the vnode
reclamation to its own kproc and relaxes the vnode reclamation requirements
to better maintain kern.maxvnodes. This code still doesn't balance as well
as it could, but it does a much better job then the original code.

Approved by: re@freebsd.org
Obtained from: ps, peter, dillon
MFS Assuming: Assuming no problems crop up in Yahoo testing
MFC after: 7 days


# 86278 11-Nov-2001 alfred

turn vn_open() into a wrapper around vn_open_cred() which allows
one to perform a vn_open using temporary/other/fake credentials.

Modify the nfs client side locking code to use vn_open_cred() passing
proc0's ucred instead of the old way which was to temporary raise
privs while running vn_open(). This should close the race hopefully.


# 85369 23-Oct-2001 rwatson

o vn_open() fails to call VOP_CLOSE() if vfs_object_create fails. Ideally
all successful calls to VOP_OPEN() might be reflected in a call to
VOP_CLOSE(). For now, simply add a comment reflecting this problem;
this should be fixed at some point.


# 84811 11-Oct-2001 jhb

Add missing includes of sys/lock.h.


# 83959 26-Sep-2001 dillon

Make uio_yield() a global. Call uio_yield() between chunks
in vn_rdwr_inchunks(), allowing other processes to gain an exclusive
lock on the vnode. Specifically: directory scanning, to avoid a race to the
root directory, and multiple child processes coring simultaniously so they
can figure out that some other core'ing child has an exclusive adv lock and
just exit instead.

This completely fixes performance problems when large programs core. You
can have hundreds of copies (forked children) of the same binary core all
at once and not notice.

MFC after: 3 days


# 83366 12-Sep-2001 julian

KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha


# 83222 08-Sep-2001 dillon

This brings in a Yahoo coredump patch from Paul, with additional mods by
me (addition of vn_rdwr_inchunks). The problem Yahoo is solving is that
if you have large process images core dumping, or you have a large number of
forked processes all core dumping at the same time, the original coredump code
would leave the vnode locked throughout. This can cause the directory vnode
to get locked up, which can cause the parent directory vnode to get locked
up, and so on all the way to the root node, locking the entire machine up
for extremely long periods of time.

This patch solves the problem in two ways. First it uses an advisory
non-blocking lock to abort multiple processes trying to core to the same
file. Second (my contribution) it chunks up the writes and uses bwillwrite()
to avoid holding the vnode locked while blocking in the buffer cache.

Submitted by: ps
Reviewed by: dillon
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 82211 23-Aug-2001 ache

vn_stat(): if va_size (u_quad_t) > OFF_MAX, return EOVERFLOW, don't copy it
blindly to st_size


# 77115 24-May-2001 dillon

This patch implements O_DIRECT about 80% of the way. It takes a patchset
Tor created a while ago, removes the raw I/O piece (that has cache coherency
problems), and adds a buffer cache / VM freeing piece.

Essentially this patch causes O_DIRECT I/O to not be left in the cache, but
does not prevent it from going through the cache, hence the 80%. For
the last 20% we need a method by which the I/O can be issued directly to
buffer supplied by the user process and bypass the buffer cache entirely,
but still maintain cache coherency.

I also have the code working under -stable but the changes made to sys/file.h
may not be MFCable, so an MFC is not on the table yet.

Submitted by: tegge, dillon


# 76117 29-Apr-2001 grog

Revert consequences of changes to mount.h, part 2.

Requested by: bde


# 75943 25-Apr-2001 mckusick

When closing the last reference to an unlinked file, it is freed
by the inactive routine. Because the freeing causes the filesystem
to be modified, the close must be held up during periods when the
filesystem is suspended.

For snapshots to be consistent across crashes, they must write
blocks that they copy and claim those written blocks in their
on-disk block pointers before the old blocks that they referenced
can be allowed to be written.

Close a loophole that allowed unwritten blocks to be skipped when
doing ffs_sync with a request to wait for all I/O activity to be
completed.


# 75858 23-Apr-2001 grog

Correct #includes to work with fixed sys/mount.h.


# 74811 26-Mar-2001 bp

Previous commit broke interlock locking for !LK_RETRY case.


# 74803 26-Mar-2001 bp

Prevent race condition by using msleep() instead of mtx_unlock()/tsleep().

Reviewed by: alfred


# 74437 19-Mar-2001 rwatson

o Rename "namespace" argument to "attrnamespace" as namespace is a C++
reserved word.

Submitted by: jkh
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project


# 74273 15-Mar-2001 rwatson

o Change the API and ABI of the Extended Attribute kernel interfaces to
introduce a new argument, "namespace", rather than relying on a first-
character namespace indicator. This is in line with more recent
thinking on EA interfaces on various mailing lists, including the
posix1e, Linux acl-devel, and trustedbsd-discuss forums. Two namespaces
are defined by default, EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM and
EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_USER, where the primary distinction lies in the
access control model: user EAs are accessible based on the normal
MAC and DAC file/directory protections, and system attributes are
limited to kernel-originated or appropriately privileged userland
requests.

o These API changes occur at several levels: the namespace argument is
introduced in the extattr_{get,set}_file() system call interfaces,
at the vnode operation level in the vop_{get,set}extattr() interfaces,
and in the UFS extended attribute implementation. Changes are also
introduced in the VFS extattrctl() interface (system call, VFS,
and UFS implementation), where the arguments are modified to include
a namespace field, as well as modified to advoid direct access to
userspace variables from below the VFS layer (in the style of recent
changes to mount by adrian@FreeBSD.org). This required some cleanup
and bug fixing regarding VFS locks and the VFS interface, as a vnode
pointer may now be optionally submitted to the VFS_EXTATTRCTL()
call. Updated documentation for the VFS interface will be committed
shortly.

o In the near future, the auto-starting feature will be updated to
search two sub-directories to the ".attribute" directory in appropriate
file systems: "user" and "system" to locate attributes intended for
those namespaces, as the single filename is no longer sufficient
to indicate what namespace the attribute is intended for. Until this
is committed, all attributes auto-started by UFS will be placed in
the EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM namespace.

o The default POSIX.1e attribute names for ACLs and Capabilities have
been updated to no longer include the '$' in their filename. As such,
if you're using these features, you'll need to rename the attribute
backing files to the same names without '$' symbols in front.

o Note that these changes will require changes in userland, which will
be committed shortly. These include modifications to the extended
attribute utilities, as well as to libutil for new namespace
string conversion routines. Once the matching userland changes are
committed, a buildworld is recommended to update all the necessary
include files and verify that the kernel and userland environments
are in sync. Note: If you do not use extended attributes (most people
won't), upgrading is not imperative although since the system call
API has changed, the new userland extended attribute code will no longer
compile with old include files.

o Couple of minor cleanups while I'm there: make more code compilation
conditional on FFS_EXTATTR, which should recover a bit of space on
kernels running without EA's, as well as update copyright dates.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project


# 72521 15-Feb-2001 jlemon

Extend kqueue down to the device layer.

Backwards compatible approach suggested by: peter


# 72200 09-Feb-2001 bmilekic

Change and clean the mutex lock interface.

mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:

mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.

The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.

Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:

MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH

The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:

mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.

Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.

Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.

Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.

Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.

Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)


# 71576 24-Jan-2001 jasone

Convert all simplelocks to mutexes and remove the simplelock implementations.


# 68885 18-Nov-2000 dillon

Implement a low-memory deadlock solution.

Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
situations prior to now.

The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
a low memory situation. All major modules related to I/O (except
networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
reserve memory pool. These modules now detect a low memory situation but
rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.

Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
being locked.

Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing. Not only will
I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
longer exist.

Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes

(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
statement. We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
aren't taking any chances. We'll turn the whole section into a
panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.

In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
initiating I/O. The problem always caused a panic before. Now it
doesn't. The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.

Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK. This code worked properly before only
because the calculations use signed arithmatic. Better to properly
extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
op.

In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
fix the bogus pages. The result was that it would potentially
invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.

There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
being duplicated, causing potential corruption. We have identified
a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
The problem does not occur very often.. it is very hard to
reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
people have reported.

Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>


# 68259 02-Nov-2000 phk

Take VBLK devices further out of their missery.

This should fix the panic I introduced in my previous commit on this topic.


# 67365 20-Oct-2000 jhb

Catch up to moving headers:
- machine/ipl.h -> sys/ipl.h
- machine/mutex.h -> sys/mutex.h


# 66615 04-Oct-2000 jasone

Convert lockmgr locks from using simple locks to using mutexes.

Add lockdestroy() and appropriate invocations, which corresponds to
lockinit() and must be called to clean up after a lockmgr lock is no
longer needed.


# 66272 22-Sep-2000 rwatson

o Introduce vn_extattr_rm(), a helper function in the style of
vn_extattr_get() and vn_extattr_set(). vn_extattr_rm() removes the
specified extended attribute from a vnode, authorizing the change as
the kernel (NULL cred).

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project


# 65463 05-Sep-2000 rwatson

o vn_extattr_set() will now call appropriate vn_start_write() and
vn_finished_write() if IO_NODELOCKED is not set.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project


# 64405 08-Aug-2000 rwatson

o Introduce vn_extattr_{get,set}, wrapper routines for VOP_GETEXTATTR
and VOP_SETEXTATTR to simplify calling from in-kernel consumers,
such as capability code. Both accept a vnode (optionally locked,
with ioflg to indicate that), attribute name, and a buffer + buffer
length in UIO_SYSSPACE. Both authorize the call as a kernel request,
with cred set to NULL for the actual VOP_ calls.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project


# 63788 24-Jul-2000 mckusick

This patch corrects the first round of panics and hangs reported
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.


# 62976 11-Jul-2000 mckusick

Add snapshots to the fast filesystem. Most of the changes support
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).


# 62550 04-Jul-2000 mckusick

Move the truncation code out of vn_open and into the open system call
after the acquisition of any advisory locks. This fix corrects a case
in which a process tries to open a file with a non-blocking exclusive
lock. Even if it fails to get the lock it would still truncate the
file even though its open failed. With this change, the truncation
is done only after the lock is successfully acquired.

Obtained from: BSD/OS


# 62086 25-Jun-2000 jlemon

Fix stupid braino in last commit, initialize `vp' before we test vp->v_tag.

Spotted by: dillon


# 61963 22-Jun-2000 jlemon

Add a hack to fail registration of kq events on a non-ufs filesystem, as
support for those is non-existent at the moment.


# 60938 26-May-2000 jake

Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by: msmith and others


# 60833 23-May-2000 jake

Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by: phk
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: mdodd


# 60474 12-May-2000 asmodai

Fix comment typo.

Submitted by: nrahlstr


# 60041 05-May-2000 phk

Separate the struct bio related stuff out of <sys/buf.h> into
<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


# 59794 30-Apr-2000 phk

Remove unneeded #include <vm/vm_zone.h>

Generated by: src/tools/tools/kerninclude


# 59288 16-Apr-2000 jlemon

Introduce kqueue() and kevent(), a kernel event notification facility.


# 58909 02-Apr-2000 dillon

Change the write-behind code to take more care when starting
async I/O's. The sequential read heuristic has been extended to
cover writes as well. We continue to call cluster_write() normally,
thus blocks in the file will still be reallocated for large (but still
random) I/O's, but I/O will only be initiated for truely sequential
writes.

This solves a number of annoying situations, especially with DBM (hash
method) writes, and also has the side effect of fixing a number of
(stupid) benchmarks.

Reviewed-by: mckusick


# 55756 10-Jan-2000 phk

Give vn_isdisk() a second argument where it can return a suitable errno.

Suggested by: bde


# 55696 10-Jan-2000 mckusick

Add bwillwrite to all system calls that create things in the filesystem.
Benchmarks that create huge trees of empty files overwhelm the buffer cache.


# 54655 15-Dec-1999 eivind

Introduce NDFREE (and remove VOP_ABORTOP)


# 53350 18-Nov-1999 dillon

Ensure that garbage from the kernel stack does not wind up being
returned to user mode in the spare fields of the stat structure.

PR: kern/14966
Reviewed by: dillon@freebsd.org
Submitted by: Kelly Yancey kbyanc@posi.net


# 52985 08-Nov-1999 peter

Add a vnode fo_stat() entry point.


# 51418 19-Sep-1999 green

This is what was "fdfix2.patch," a fix for fd sharing. It's pretty
far-reaching in fd-land, so you'll want to consult the code for
changes. The biggest change is that now, you don't use
fp->f_ops->fo_foo(fp, bar)
but instead
fo_foo(fp, bar),
which increments and decrements the fp refcount upon entry and exit.
Two new calls, fhold() and fdrop(), are provided. Each does what it
seems like it should, and if fdrop() brings the refcount to zero, the
fd is freed as well.

Thanks to peter ("to hell with it, it looks ok to me.") for his review.
Thanks to msmith for keeping me from putting locks everywhere :)

Reviewed by: peter


# 51111 09-Sep-1999 julian

Changes to centralise the default blocksize behaviour.
More likely to follow.

Submitted by: phk@freebsd.org


# 50830 03-Sep-1999 julian

Revert a bunch of contraversial changes by PHK. After
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.


# 50727 01-Sep-1999 phk

Improve the returned values in st_blksize a little bit, avoid
accessing union fields not valid for dev_t type.


# 50623 30-Aug-1999 phk

Make bdev userland access work like cdev userland access unless
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.


# 50477 28-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 50459 27-Aug-1999 green

Add FIODTYPE ioctl for getting d_flags (type) info on a device.

Okayed by: phk


# 50346 25-Aug-1999 phk

Add a couple of missing but unimportant break; statements.


# 49683 13-Aug-1999 phk

oops: Add missing include.


# 49682 13-Aug-1999 phk

Move the special-casing of stat(2)->st_blksize for device files
from UFS to the generic level. For chr/blk devices we don't care
about the blocksize of the filesystem, we want what the device
asked for.


# 49413 04-Aug-1999 green

Fix fd race conditions (during shared fd table usage.) Badfileops is
now used in f_ops in place of NULL, and modifications to the files
are more carefully ordered. f_ops should also be set to &badfileops
upon "close" of a file.

This does not fix other problems mentioned in this PR than the first
one.

PR: 11629
Reviewed by: peter


# 49101 26-Jul-1999 alc

Add sysctl and support code to allow directories to be VMIO'd. The default
setting for the sysctl is OFF, which is the historical operation.

Submitted by: dillon


# 48677 08-Jul-1999 mckusick

These changes appear to give us benefits with both small (32MB) and
large (1G) memory machine configurations. I was able to run 'dbench 32'
on a 32MB system without bring the machine to a grinding halt.

* buffer cache hash table now dynamically allocated. This will
have no effect on memory consumption for smaller systems and
will help scale the buffer cache for larger systems.

* minor enhancement to pmap_clearbit(). I noticed that
all the calls to it used constant arguments. Making
it an inline allows the constants to propogate to
deeper inlines and should produce better code.

* removal of inherent vfs_ioopt support through the emplacement
of appropriate #ifdef's, with John's permission. If we do not
find a use for it by the end of the year we will remove it entirely.

* removal of getnewbufloops* counters & sysctl's - no longer
necessary for debugging, getnewbuf() is now optimal.

* buffer hash table functions removed from sys/buf.h and localized
to vfs_bio.c

* VFS_BIO_NEED_DIRTYFLUSH flag and support code added
( bwillwrite() ), allowing processes to block when too many dirty
buffers are present in the system.

* removal of a softdep test in bdwrite() that is no longer necessary
now that bdwrite() no longer attempts to flush dirty buffers.

* slight optimization added to bqrelse() - there is no reason
to test for available buffer space on B_DELWRI buffers.

* addition of reverse-scanning code to vfs_bio_awrite().
vfs_bio_awrite() will attempt to locate clusterable areas
in both the forward and reverse direction relative to the
offset of the buffer passed to it. This will probably not
make much of a difference now, but I believe we will start
to rely on it heavily in the future if we decide to shift
some of the burden of the clustering closer to the actual
I/O initiation.

* Removal of the newbufcnt and lastnewbuf counters that Kirk
added. They do not fix any race conditions that haven't already
been fixed by the gbincore() test done after the only call
to getnewbuf(). getnewbuf() is a static, so there is no chance
of it being misused by other modules. ( Unless Kirk can think
of a specific thing that this code fixes. I went through it
very carefully and didn't see anything ).

* removal of VOP_ISLOCKED() check in flushbufqueues(). I do not
think this check is necessary, the buffer should flush properly
whether the vnode is locked or not. ( yes? ).

* removal of extra arguments passed to getnewbuf() that are not
necessary.

* missed cluster_wbuild() that had to be a cluster_wbuild_wb() in
vfs_cluster.c

* vn_write() now calls bwillwrite() *PRIOR* to locking the vnode,
which should greatly aid flushing operations in heavy load
situations - both the pageout and update daemons will be able
to operate more efficiently.

* removal of b_usecount. We may add it back in later but for now
it is useless. Prior implementations of the buffer cache never
had enough buffers for it to be useful, and current implementations
which make more buffers available might not benefit relative to
the amount of sophistication required to implement a b_usecount.
Straight LRU should work just as well, especially when most things
are VMIO backed. I expect that (even though John will not like
this assumption) directories will become VMIO backed some point soon.

Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>


# 48468 02-Jul-1999 phk

Make sure that stat(2) and friends always return a valid st_dev field.

Pseudo-FS need not fill in the va_fsid anymore, the syscall code
will use the first half of the fsid, which now looks like a udev_t
with major 255.


# 46155 28-Apr-1999 phk

This Implements the mumbled about "Jail" feature.

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/


# 46112 27-Apr-1999 phk

Suser() simplification:

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.


# 45893 21-Apr-1999 alc

Address several problems in vn_read and vn_write:

1. Make read-ahead work for pread and aio_read.

2. Fix one place where a comparison of uio_offset with -1
wasn't updated to use FOF_OFFSET.

3. Honor O_APPEND in the FOF_OFFSET case.

In addition, use the variable name "ioflag" in both vn_read and
vn_write to avoid possible confusion between the variable "flag"
and the parameter "flags".

Submitted by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> and me


# 45311 04-Apr-1999 dt

Add standard padding argument to pread and pwrite syscall. That should make them
NetBSD compatible.

Add parameter to fo_read and fo_write. (The only flag FOF_OFFSET mean that
the offset is set in the struct uio).

Factor out some common code from read/pread/write/pwrite syscalls.


# 45051 26-Mar-1999 alc

Changed vn_read/write such that fp->f_offset isn't touched
if uio->uio_offset != -1. This fixes a problem with aio_read/write
and permits a straightforward implementation of pread/pwrite.

PR: kern/8669
Submitted by: John Plevyak <jplevyak@inktomi.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>


# 43426 30-Jan-1999 phk

Use suser() to determine super-user-ness, don't examine cr_uid directly.


# 42900 20-Jan-1999 eivind

Add 'options DEBUG_LOCKS', which stores extra information in struct
lock, and add some macros and function parameters to make sure that
the information get to the point where it can be put in the lock
structure.

While I'm here, add DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS to LINT.


# 42315 05-Jan-1999 eivind

Remove the 'waslocked' parameter to vfs_object_create().


# 40815 02-Nov-1998 peter

Only do one VOP_ACCESS() per open() instead of two. This should reduce
the NFSv3 ACCESS RPC problems a little for busy clients that do a lot of
open/close. The nfs code could probably cache the results, but I'm not
sure whether this would be legal or useful. The problem is that with
a CPU farm, on each open there would be a lookup, getattr then access RPC
then the read/write RPC activity. Caching the access results probably
isn't going to help much if the clients access lots of files. Having the
nfs_access() routine interpret the getattr results is a bit of a hack, but
it's how NFSv2 is done and it might be OK for a mount attribute for v3.


# 37180 27-Jun-1998 phk

Report the mode as the result of the VOP_GETATTR rather than the
vnodes type, they may not correspond.


# 36735 07-Jun-1998 dfr

This commit fixes various 64bit portability problems required for
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.


# 35823 07-May-1998 msmith

In the words of the submitter:

---------
Make callers of namei() responsible for releasing references or locks
instead of having the underlying filesystems do it. This eliminates
redundancy in all terminal filesystems and makes it possible for stacked
transport layers such as umapfs or nullfs to operate correctly.

Quality testing was done with testvn, and lat_fs from the lmbench suite.

Some NFS client testing courtesy of Patrik Kudo.

vop_mknod and vop_symlink still release the returned vpp. vop_rename
still releases 4 vnode arguments before it returns. These remaining cases
will be corrected in the next set of patches.
---------

Submitted by: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>


# 35113 10-Apr-1998 alex

Grammar police.


# 35105 08-Apr-1998 wosch

New mount option nosymfollow. If enabled, the kernel lookup()
function will not follow symbolic links on the mounted
file system and return EACCES (Permission denied).


# 35088 06-Apr-1998 peter

Today is not my lucky day. Fix missing brace and I got a request
to use EMLINK instead.


# 35086 06-Apr-1998 peter

Use a different errno (ELOOP (as sef mentioned) since the text that goes
with the error sounds ok for the condition) if O_NOFOLLOW gets a link.


# 35085 06-Apr-1998 peter

Rather than let users get fd's to symlink files, make O_NOFOLLOW cause
an error if it gets a link (like it does if it gets a socket). The
implications of letting users try and do file operations on symlinks
themselves were too worrying.


# 35082 06-Apr-1998 peter

Implement a new open(2) flag: O_NOFOLLOW. This will instruct open
to not follow symlinks, but to open a handle on the link itself(!).
As strange as this might sound, it has several useful applications
safe race-free ways of opening files in hostile areas (eg: /tmp, a mode
1777 /var/mail, etc). It also would allow things like fchown() to work
on the link rather than having to implement a new syscall specifically for
that task.

Reviewed by: phk


# 33822 25-Feb-1998 bde

Removed unused #includes.


# 33134 06-Feb-1998 eivind

Back out DIAGNOSTIC changes.


# 33108 04-Feb-1998 eivind

Turn DIAGNOSTIC into a new-style option.


# 32454 12-Jan-1998 dyson

Fix some vnode management problems, and better mgmt of vnode free list.
Fix the UIO optimization code.
Fix an assumption in vm_map_insert regarding allocation of swap pagers.
Fix an spl problem in the collapse handling in vm_object_deallocate.
When pages are freed from vnode objects, and the criteria for putting
the associated vnode onto the free list is reached, either put the
vnode onto the list, or put it onto an interrupt safe version of the
list, for further transfer onto the actual free list.
Some minor syntax changes changing pre-decs, pre-incs to post versions.
Remove a bogus timeout (that I added for debugging) from vn_lock.

PHK will likely still have problems with the vnode list management, and
so do I, but it is better than it was.


# 32286 06-Jan-1998 dyson

Make our v_usecount vnode reference count work identically to the
original BSD code. The association between the vnode and the vm_object
no longer includes reference counts. The major difference is that
vm_object's are no longer freed gratuitiously from the vnode, and so
once an object is created for the vnode, it will last as long as the
vnode does.

When a vnode object reference count is incremented, then the underlying
vnode reference count is incremented also. The two "objects" are now
more intimately related, and so the interactions are now much less
complex.

When vnodes are now normally placed onto the free queue with an object still
attached. The rundown of the object happens at vnode rundown time, and
happens with exactly the same filesystem semantics of the original VFS
code. There is absolutely no need for vnode_pager_uncache and other
travesties like that anymore.

A side-effect of these changes is that SMP locking should be much simpler,
the I/O copyin/copyout optimizations work, NFS should be more ponderable,
and further work on layered filesystems should be less frustrating, because
of the totally coherent management of the vnode objects and vnodes.

Please be careful with your system while running this code, but I would
greatly appreciate feedback as soon a reasonably possible.


# 32072 29-Dec-1997 dyson

Fix the decl of vfs_ioopt, allow LFS to compile again, fix a minor problem
with the object cache removal.


# 32071 29-Dec-1997 dyson

Lots of improvements, including restructring the caching and management
of vnodes and objects. There are some metadata performance improvements
that come along with this. There are also a few prototypes added when
the need is noticed. Changes include:

1) Cleaning up vref, vget.
2) Removal of the object cache.
3) Nuke vnode_pager_uncache and friends, because they aren't needed anymore.
4) Correct some missing LK_RETRY's in vn_lock.
5) Correct the page range in the code for msync.

Be gentle, and please give me feedback asap.


# 31564 06-Dec-1997 sef

Changes to allow event-based process monitoring and control.


# 31443 29-Nov-1997 dyson

Fix and complete the AIO syscalls. There are some performance enhancements
coming up soon, but the code is functional. Docs will be forthcoming.


# 31016 07-Nov-1997 phk

Remove a bunch of variables which were unused both in GENERIC and LINT.

Found by: -Wunused


# 30783 27-Oct-1997 bde

Use 127 instead of CHAR_MAX for the limit on the sequence count. The
limit doesn't have anything to do with characters. The count mainly
needs to fit in the VOP_READ() ioflag after being left shifted by 16.

Moved vn_lock() before vn_closefile(). vn_lock() was mismerged from
Lite2.

Removed some gratuitous braces.


# 30137 06-Oct-1997 dyson

Relax the vnode locking for read only operations.


# 29360 14-Sep-1997 peter

vn_select -> vn_poll


# 29041 02-Sep-1997 bde

Removed unused #includes.


# 24625 04-Apr-1997 dfr

[Previous comment was incorrect for these files]
Added calls to VFS lock debugging macros to make fixing filesystems' locking
easier.


# 24624 04-Apr-1997 dfr

Add a function vop_sharedlock which a copy of vop_nolock without the
implementation #ifdef out. This can be used for now by NFS. As soon
as all the other filesystems' locking is fixed, this can go away.

Print the vnode address in vprint for easier debugging.


# 24206 24-Mar-1997 bde

Don't include <sys/ioctl.h> in the kernel. Stage 4: include
<sys/ttycom.h> and sometimes <sys/filio.h> instead of <sys/ioctl.h>
in miscellaneous files. Most of these files have nothing to do
with ttys but need to include <sys/ttycom.h> to get the definitions
of TIOC[SG]PGRP which are (ab)used to convert F[SG]ETOWN fcntls into
ioctls.


# 24131 23-Mar-1997 bde

Don't #include <sys/fcntl.h> in <sys/file.h> if KERNEL is defined.
Fixed everything that depended on getting fcntl.h stuff from the wrong
place. Most things don't depend on file.h stuff at all.


# 23519 08-Mar-1997 guido

Fix style bugs and other bugs in the NFS fix.


# 23474 07-Mar-1997 gpalmer

Fix (I hope) the NFS hole. This is only compile tested.

Submitted by: (partly) davids@SECNET.COM via BUGTRAQ


# 22975 22-Feb-1997 peter

Back out part 1 of the MCFH that changed $Id$ to $FreeBSD$. We are not
ready for it yet.


# 22521 10-Feb-1997 dyson

This is the kernel Lite/2 commit. There are some requisite userland
changes, so don't expect to be able to run the kernel as-is (very well)
without the appropriate Lite/2 userland changes.

The system boots and can mount UFS filesystems.

Untested: ext2fs, msdosfs, NFS
Known problems: Incorrect Berkeley ID strings in some files.
Mount_std mounts will not work until the getfsent
library routine is changed.

Reviewed by: various people
Submitted by: Jeffery Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org>


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 21002 29-Dec-1996 dyson

This commit is the embodiment of some VFS read clustering improvements.
Firstly, now our read-ahead clustering is on a file descriptor basis and not
on a per-vnode basis. This will allow multiple processes reading the
same file to take advantage of read-ahead clustering. Secondly, there
previously was a problem with large reads still using the ramp-up
algorithm. Of course, that was bogus, and now we read the entire
"chunk" off of the disk in one operation. The read-ahead clustering
algorithm should use less CPU than the previous also (I hope :-)).

NOTE: THAT LKMS MUST BE REBUILT!!!


# 17761 21-Aug-1996 dyson

Even though this looks like it, this is not a complex code change.
The interface into the "VMIO" system has changed to be more consistant
and robust. Essentially, it is now no longer necessary to call vn_open
to get merged VM/Buffer cache operation, and exceptional conditions
such as merged operation of VBLK devices is simpler and more correct.

This code corrects a potentially large set of problems including the
problems with ktrace output and loaded systems, file create/deletes,
etc.

Most of the changes to NFS are cosmetic and name changes, eliminating
a layer of subroutine calls. The direct calls to vput/vrele have
been re-instituted for better cross platform compatibility.

Reviewed by: davidg


# 14424 09-Mar-1996 dyson

Remove a now unnecessary function prototype.


# 14317 02-Mar-1996 dyson

Enable VMIO for non-VDIR metadata and block device.


# 13490 19-Jan-1996 dyson

Eliminated many redundant vm_map_lookup operations for vm_mmap.
Speed up for vfs_bio -- addition of a routine bqrelse to greatly diminish
overhead for merged cache.
Efficiency improvement for vfs_cluster. It used to do alot of redundant
calls to cluster_rbuild.
Correct the ordering for vrele of .text and release of credentials.
Use the selective tlb update for 486/586/P6.
Numerous fixes to the size of objects allocated for files. Additionally,
fixes in the various pagers.
Fixes for proper positioning of vnode_pager_setsize in msdosfs and ext2fs.
Fixes in the swap pager for exhausted resources. The pageout code
will not as readily thrash.
Change the page queue flags (PG_ACTIVE, PG_INACTIVE, PG_FREE, PG_CACHE) into
page queue indices (PQ_ACTIVE, PQ_INACTIVE, PQ_FREE, PQ_CACHE),
thereby improving efficiency of several routines.
Eliminate even more unnecessary vm_page_protect operations.
Significantly speed up process forks.
Make vm_object_page_clean more efficient, thereby eliminating the pause
that happens every 30seconds.
Make sequential clustered writes B_ASYNC instead of B_DELWRI even in the
case of filesystems mounted async.
Fix a panic with busy pages when write clustering is done for non-VMIO
buffers.


# 12913 17-Dec-1995 phk

Staticize.
Unstaticize a function in scsi/scsi_base that was used, with an undocumented
option.
My last count on the LINT kernel shows:
Total symbols: 3647
unref symbols: 463
undef symbols: 4
1 ref symbols: 1751
2 ref symbols: 485
Approaching the pain threshold now.


# 12767 11-Dec-1995 dyson

Changes to support 1Tb filesizes. Pages are now named by an
(object,index) pair instead of (object,offset) pair.


# 12662 07-Dec-1995 dg

Untangled the vm.h include file spaghetti.


# 11644 22-Oct-1995 dg

Moved the filesystem read-only check out of the syscalls and into the
filesystem layer, as was done in lite-2. Merged in some other cosmetic
changes while I was at it. Rewrote most of msdosfs_access() to be more
like ufs_access() and to include the FS read-only check.

Obtained from: partially from 4.4BSD-lite2


# 11261 06-Oct-1995 phk

A little hack to avoid a 64bit divide. Can go away if Gcc ever learns to
optimise 64bit stuff...


# 9588 20-Jul-1995 dg

vnode_pager_alloc() never returns NULL, so don't check for it.


# 9540 16-Jul-1995 bde

Don't include <sys/tty.h> in drivers that aren't tty drivers or in general
files that don't depend on the internals of <sys/tty.h>


# 9507 13-Jul-1995 dg

NOTE: libkvm, w, ps, 'top', and any other utility which depends on struct
proc or any VM system structure will have to be rebuilt!!!

Much needed overhaul of the VM system. Included in this first round of
changes:

1) Improved pager interfaces: init, alloc, dealloc, getpages, putpages,
haspage, and sync operations are supported. The haspage interface now
provides information about clusterability. All pager routines now take
struct vm_object's instead of "pagers".

2) Improved data structures. In the previous paradigm, there is constant
confusion caused by pagers being both a data structure ("allocate a
pager") and a collection of routines. The idea of a pager structure has
escentially been eliminated. Objects now have types, and this type is
used to index the appropriate pager. In most cases, items in the pager
structure were duplicated in the object data structure and thus were
unnecessary. In the few cases that remained, a un_pager structure union
was created in the object to contain these items.

3) Because of the cleanup of #1 & #2, a lot of unnecessary layering can now
be removed. For instance, vm_object_enter(), vm_object_lookup(),
vm_object_remove(), and the associated object hash list were some of the
things that were removed.

4) simple_lock's removed. Discussion with several people reveals that the
SMP locking primitives used in the VM system aren't likely the mechanism
that we'll be adopting. Even if it were, the locking that was in the code
was very inadequate and would have to be mostly re-done anyway. The
locking in a uni-processor kernel was a no-op but went a long way toward
making the code difficult to read and debug.

5) Places that attempted to kludge-up the fact that we don't have kernel
thread support have been fixed to reflect the reality that we are really
dealing with processes, not threads. The VM system didn't have complete
thread support, so the comments and mis-named routines were just wrong.
We now use tsleep and wakeup directly in the lock routines, for instance.

6) Where appropriate, the pagers have been improved, especially in the
pager_alloc routines. Most of the pager_allocs have been rewritten and
are now faster and easier to maintain.

7) The pagedaemon pageout clustering algorithm has been rewritten and
now tries harder to output an even number of pages before and after
the requested page. This is sort of the reverse of the ideal pagein
algorithm and should provide better overall performance.

8) Unnecessary (incorrect) casts to caddr_t in calls to tsleep & wakeup
have been removed. Some other unnecessary casts have also been removed.

9) Some almost useless debugging code removed.

10) Terminology of shadow objects vs. backing objects straightened out.
The fact that the vm_object data structure escentially had this
backwards really confused things. The use of "shadow" and "backing
object" throughout the code is now internally consistent and correct
in the Mach terminology.

11) Several minor bug fixes, including one in the vm daemon that caused
0 RSS objects to not get purged as intended.

12) A "default pager" has now been created which cleans up the transition
of objects to the "swap" type. The previous checks throughout the code
for swp->pg_data != NULL were really ugly. This change also provides
the rudiments for future backing of "anonymous" memory by something
other than the swap pager (via the vnode pager, for example), and it
allows the decision about which of these pagers to use to be made
dynamically (although will need some additional decision code to do
this, of course).

13) (dyson) MAP_COPY has been deprecated and the corresponding "copy
object" code has been removed. MAP_COPY was undocumented and non-
standard. It was furthermore broken in several ways which caused its
behavior to degrade to MAP_PRIVATE. Binaries that use MAP_COPY will
continue to work correctly, but via the slightly different semantics
of MAP_PRIVATE.

14) (dyson) Sharing maps have been removed. It's marginal usefulness in a
threads design can be worked around in other ways. Both #12 and #13
were done to simplify the code and improve readability and maintain-
ability. (As were most all of these changes)

TODO:

1) Rewrite most of the vnode pager to use VOP_GETPAGES/PUTPAGES. Doing
this will reduce the vnode pager to a mere fraction of its current size.

2) Rewrite vm_fault and the swap/vnode pagers to use the clustering
information provided by the new haspage pager interface. This will
substantially reduce the overhead by eliminating a large number of
VOP_BMAP() calls. The VOP_BMAP() filesystem interface should be
improved to provide both a "behind" and "ahead" indication of
contiguousness.

3) Implement the extended features of pager_haspage in swap_pager_haspage().
It currently just says 0 pages ahead/behind.

4) Re-implement the swap device (swstrategy) in a more elegant way, perhaps
via a much more general mechanism that could also be used for disk
striping of regular filesystems.

5) Do something to improve the architecture of vm_object_collapse(). The
fact that it makes calls into the swap pager and knows too much about
how the swap pager operates really bothers me. It also doesn't allow
for collapsing of non-swap pager objects ("unnamed" objects backed by
other pagers).


# 9456 09-Jul-1995 dg

Moved call to VOP_GETATTR() out of vnode_pager_alloc() and into the places
that call vnode_pager_alloc() so that a failure return can be dealt with.
This fixes a panic seen on NFS clients when a file being opened is deleted
on the server before the open completes.


# 9358 28-Jun-1995 dg

Removed extra semicolon.


# 9356 28-Jun-1995 dg

1) Converted v_vmdata to v_object.
2) Removed unnecessary vm_object_lookup()/pager_cache(object, TRUE) pairs
after vnode_pager_alloc() calls - the object is already guaranteed to be
persistent.
3) Removed some gratuitous casts.


# 8876 30-May-1995 rgrimes

Remove trailing whitespace.


# 8417 10-May-1995 dg

Unlock the vnode before sleeping on an OBJ_DEAD object. Should fix Bruce's
hang. Fixed some formatting anomolies and removed some unneeded casts.


# 7160 19-Mar-1995 dg

Removed unnecessary call to vnode_pager_uncache(). We automatically clear
the VTEXT flag after all mappers have finished with the object.


# 6364 14-Feb-1995 phk

YFfix


# 5455 09-Jan-1995 dg

These changes embody the support of the fully coherent merged VM buffer cache,
much higher filesystem I/O performance, and much better paging performance. It
represents the culmination of over 6 months of R&D.

The majority of the merged VM/cache work is by John Dyson.

The following highlights the most significant changes. Additionally, there are
(mostly minor) changes to the various filesystem modules (nfs, msdosfs, etc) to
support the new VM/buffer scheme.

vfs_bio.c:
Significant rewrite of most of vfs_bio to support the merged VM buffer cache
scheme. The scheme is almost fully compatible with the old filesystem
interface. Significant improvement in the number of opportunities for write
clustering.

vfs_cluster.c, vfs_subr.c
Upgrade and performance enhancements in vfs layer code to support merged
VM/buffer cache. Fixup of vfs_cluster to eliminate the bogus pagemove stuff.

vm_object.c:
Yet more improvements in the collapse code. Elimination of some windows that
can cause list corruption.

vm_pageout.c:
Fixed it, it really works better now. Somehow in 2.0, some "enhancements"
broke the code. This code has been reworked from the ground-up.

vm_fault.c, vm_page.c, pmap.c, vm_object.c
Support for small-block filesystems with merged VM/buffer cache scheme.

pmap.c vm_map.c
Dynamic kernel VM size, now we dont have to pre-allocate excessive numbers of
kernel PTs.

vm_glue.c
Much simpler and more effective swapping code. No more gratuitous swapping.

proc.h
Fixed the problem that the p_lock flag was not being cleared on a fork.

swap_pager.c, vnode_pager.c
Removal of old vfs_bio cruft to support the past pseudo-coherency. Now the
code doesn't need it anymore.

machdep.c
Changes to better support the parameter values for the merged VM/buffer cache
scheme.

machdep.c, kern_exec.c, vm_glue.c
Implemented a seperate submap for temporary exec string space and another one
to contain process upages. This eliminates all map fragmentation problems
that previously existed.

ffs_inode.c, ufs_inode.c, ufs_readwrite.c
Changes for merged VM/buffer cache. Add "bypass" support for sneaking in on
busy buffers.

Submitted by: John Dyson and David Greenman


# 3374 05-Oct-1994 dg

Stuff object into v_vmdata rather than pager. Not important which at
the moment, but will be in the future. Other changes mostly cosmetic,
but are made for future VMIO considerations.

Submitted by: John Dyson


# 3308 02-Oct-1994 phk

All of this is cosmetic. prototypes, #includes, printfs and so on. Makes
GCC a lot more silent.


# 2102 18-Aug-1994 dg

Moved over my fix for vnode lossage when multiple TIOCSCTTY ioctls are
done. This patch was extended to also include a suggested change by
Kirk McKusick which allows the control tty to be reasigned to a different
tty without losing a vnode.


# 1817 02-Aug-1994 dg

Added $Id$


# 1549 25-May-1994 rgrimes

The big 4.4BSD Lite to FreeBSD 2.0.0 (Development) patch.

Reviewed by: Rodney W. Grimes
Submitted by: John Dyson and David Greenman


# 1542 24-May-1994 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1541,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 1541 24-May-1994 rgrimes

BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources