This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
has been VOP_OPEN()'d. if the fifo is being accessed via a layered fs,
v_usecount is always one (representing the hold by the layered vnode)
regardless of how many times the vnode has been opened. instead, keep a
separate counter for opens. fixes PR 17195 and probably 17724.
gets reset properly when the old parent exits before the child. A flag
is set in old parent process when the child is reparented in ptrace(2).
If it's set when process is exiting, all running processes have their
'old parent process' pointer checked and reset if appropriate. Also
change to use 'struct proc *' pointer directly, rather than pid_t.
This fixes security/14444 by David Sainty.
Reviewed by Christos Zoulas.
Fixes kern/10278 by IWAMOTO Toshihiro, though implemented different way.
While here, clean up some int vs. size_t confusion, make
kernfs_x{read|write}() static and g/c some #if 0 stuff.
operation if more than one LIST_REMOVE happens on interrupt, so both the test
for VONWORKLIST and the LIST_REMOVE(vp, v_synclist) need to be in splbio().
* fdesc_attr(): don't panic for 'unknown' descriptor types, rather use
(*fp->f_ops->fo_stat)() hook, as for DTYPE_SOCKET and DTYPE_PIPE
XXX perhaps use different vnode type than VBAD for these?
* fdesc_setattr(): just return 0 regardless of type, rather than paniccing
for 'unknown' descriptor types
indicating an unhandled "command". ERESTART is -1, which can lead to
confusion. ERESTART has been moved to -3 and EPASSTHROUGH has been
placed at -4. No ioctl code should now return -1 anywhere. The
ioctl() system call is now properly restartable.
- when yielding the cpu while using the vnode's page list, use a marker page
to keep our place in the list (like the other cases where we drop the lock).
- wait until no one else has the page busy before deciding if the page needs
to be cleaned. a page will be dirty while it's being initialized but will
be marked clean before PG_BUSY is cleared.
both found by enami.
not going to wait for. this doesn't matter for real devices since we call
VOP_STRATEGY() directly, but NFS uses this flag to decide whether or not
to hand the buffer off to an nfsiod thread.
jdolecek