timeout()/untimeout() API:
- Clients supply callout handle storage, thus eliminating problems of
resource allocation.
- Insertion and removal of callouts is constant time, important as
this facility is used quite a lot in the kernel.
The old timeout()/untimeout() API has been removed from the kernel.
disk space rather than doing it in timeout handler. This fixes long
standing bug that accounting file can't be put on NFS file system (so,
e.g, we couldn't turn on accounting on diskless system).
until all device driver discovery threads have had a chance to do their
work. This in turn blocks initproc's exec of init(8) until root is
mounted and process start times and CWD info has been fixed up.
Addresses kern/9247.
default, as the copyright on the main file (ffs_softdep.c) is such
that is has been put into gnusrc. options SOFTDEP will pull this
in. This code also contains the trickle syncer.
Bump version number to 1.4O
core filename format, which allow to change the name of the core dump,
and to relocate it in a directory. Credits to Bill Sommerfeld for giving me
the idea :)
The default core filename format can be changed by options DEFCORENAME and/or
kern.defcorename
Create a new sysctl tree, proc, which holds per-process values (for now
the corename format, and resources limits). Process is designed by its pid
at the second level name. These values are inherited on fork, and the corename
fomat is reset to defcorename on suid/sgid exec.
Create a p_sugid() function, to take appropriate actions on suid/sgid
exec (for now set the P_SUGID flag and reset the per-proc corename).
Adjust dosetrlimit() to allow changing limits of one proc by another, with
credential controls.
- Call configure() after setting up proc0.
- Call initclocks() from configure(), after cpu_configure(). Once the
clocks are running, clear `cold'. Then run interrupt-driven
autoconfiguration.
write lock when doing PID allocation, and during the process exit path.
Use a read lock every where else, including within schedcpu() (interrupt
context). Note that holding the write lock implies blocking schedcpu()
from running (blocks softclock).
PID allocation is now MP-safe.
Note this actually fixes a bug on single processor systems that was probably
extremely difficult to tickle; it was possible that schedcpu() would run
off a bad pointer if the right clock interrupt happened to come in the
middle of a LIST_INSERT_HEAD() or LIST_REMOVE() to/from allproc.
the child inherits the stack pointer from the parent (traditional
behavior). Like the signal stack, the stack area is secified as
a low address and a size; machine-dependent code accounts for stack
direction.
This is required for clone(2).
parent, specified at fork time. Specify a new flag to wait4(2), WALTSIG,
to wait for processes which use an alternate exit signal.
This is required for clone(2).
Call configure() directly immediately after config_init().
This causes autoconfiguration to happen at the same time as before, but
creates some kernel submaps earlier, so that e.g. mbinit() can now
allocate memory.
of processes:
- Don't initialize rlim_max to RLIM_INFINITY. The limits for those should
be maxfiles and maxproc respectively. Programs expect getrlimit to
return reasonable values, so that they can allocate structures (for
example jdk does this).
- Don't initialize rlim_cur to NOFILE and MAXUPRC respectively, but to
min(NOFILE, maxfiles) and min(MAXUPRC, maxproc) respectively.
in the future):
- New function, fork_kthread(), takes entry point, argument for entry point,
and comment for new proc. May be called by any context, will fork the
thread from proc0 (requires slight changes to cpu_fork()).
- cpu_set_kpc() now takes a third argument, a void *arg to pass to the
thread entry point. Thread entry point now takes void * instead of
struct proc *.
- Create the pagedaemon and reaper kernel threads using fork_kthread().
called when devices attach, take two.
Note that it is necessary that mbinit() NOT allocate memory, since it
is called before mb_map is created. This is not a problem with the
pool allocator that is now used for mbufs and mbuf clusters.
the kernel's pmap, since proc0 (and other that share its address space)
are kernel-only processes, and should never contain userspace mappings.
This makes it easier to detect errors, like entering user mappings
for kernel processes, in pmap modules, and makes some sense, considering
that kernel processes are really just "thread contexts" for the kernel.
