support, i.e. move vfs functionality to a separate module
(kern_module_vfs.c)
* make module proplist size an MI constant (now 8k) instead of PAGE_SIZE
* change some error values to something else than the karmic EINVAL
- Addresses the issue described in PR/38828.
- Some simplification in threading and sleepq subsystems.
- Eliminates pmap_collect() and, as a side note, allows pmap optimisations.
- Eliminates XS_CTL_DATA_ONSTACK in scsipi code.
- Avoids few scans on LWP list and thus potentially long holds of proc_lock.
- Cuts ~1.5k lines of code. Reduces amd64 kernel size by ~4k.
- Removes __SWAP_BROKEN cases.
Tested on x86, mips, acorn32 (thanks <mpumford>) and partly tested on
acorn26 (thanks to <bjh21>).
Discussed on <tech-kern>, reviewed by <ad>.
It will replace azalia(4) after testing.
To use, comment out azalia in your kernel configuration and uncomment the
hdaudio and hdafg lines so it reads:
# Intel High Definition Audio
hdaudio* at pci? dev ? function ?
hdafg* at hdaudiobus?
You should also:
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV audio
driver, gpiolock(4), is provided as an example how to interface real hardware.
A new securemodel, securemodel_keylock, is provided to show how this can
be used to tie keylocks to overall system security. This is experimental
code. The diff has been on tech-kern for several weeks.
Reviewed by many, kauth(9) integration reviewed by Elad Efrat; approved by
tonnerre@ and tron@. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback.
tested with a DEBUG+DIAGNOSTIC+LOCKDEBUG kernel. To summerise NiLFS, i'll
repeat my posting to tech-kern here:
NiLFS stands for New implementation of Logging File System; LFS done
right they claim :) It is at version 2 now and is being developed by NTT, the
Japanese telecom company and recently put into the linux source tree. See
http://www.nilfs.org. The on-disc format is not completely frozen and i expect
at least one minor revision to come in time.
The benefits of NiLFS are build-in fine-grained checkpointing, persistent
snapshots, multiple mounts and very large file and media support. Every
checkpoint can be transformed into a snapshot and v.v. It is said to perform
very well on flash media since it is not overwriting pieces apart from a
incidental update of the superblock, but that might change. It is accompanied
by a cleaner to clean up the segments and recover lost space.
My work is not a port of the linux code; its a new implementation. Porting the
code would be more work since its very linux oriented and never written to be
ported outside linux. The goal is to be fully interchangable. The code is non
intrusive to other parts of the kernel. It is also very light-weight.
The current state of the code is read-only access to both clean and dirty
NiLFS partitions. On mounting a dirty partition it rolls forward the log to
the last checkpoint. Full read-write support is however planned!
Just as the linux code, mount_nilfs allows for the `head' to be mounted
read/write and allows multiple read-only snapshots/checkpoint mounts next to
it.
By allowing the RW mount at a different snapshot for read-write it should be
possible eventually to revert back to a previous state; i.e. try to upgrade a
system and being able to revert to the exact state prior to the upgrade.
Compared to other FS's its pretty light-weight, suitable for embedded use and
on flash media. The read-only code is currently 17kb object code on
NetBSD/i386. I doubt the read-write code will surpass the 50 or 60. Compared
this to FFS being 156kb, UDF being 84 kb and NFS being 130kb. Run-time memory
usage is most likely not very different from other uses though maybe a bit
higher than FFS.
PR kern/16942 panic with softdep and quotas
PR kern/19565 panic: softdep_write_inodeblock: indirect pointer #1 mismatch
PR kern/26274 softdep panic: allocdirect_merge: ...
PR kern/26374 Long delay before non-root users can write to softdep partitions
PR kern/28621 1.6.x "vp != NULL" panic in ffs_softdep.c:4653 while unmounting a softdep (+quota) filesystem
PR kern/29513 FFS+Softdep panic with unfsck-able file-corruption
PR kern/31544 The ffs softdep code appears to fail to write dirty bits to disk
PR kern/31981 stopping scsi disk can cause panic (softdep)
PR kern/32116 kernel panic in softdep (assertion failure)
PR kern/32532 softdep_trackbufs deadlock
PR kern/37191 softdep: locking against myself
PR kern/40474 Kernel panic after remounting raid root with softdep
Retire softdep, pass 2. As discussed and later formally announced on the
mailing lists.
option MODULAR to using %MODULAR%. While it is now possible to only
request the new version in the affected Makefiles, it is made mandatory for
everybody because I just fixed a bug in config(1) that would not make it
fail in the case of a syntax error in the Makefile template.
it caused the return from the enclosing function to break, as well as the
ssp return on i386. To fix both issues, split configure in two pieces
the one before calling ssp_init and the one after, and move the ssp_init()
call back in main. Put ssp_init() in its own file, and compile this new file
with -fno-stack-protector. Tested on amd64.
XXX: If we want to have ssp kernels working on 5.0, this change needs to
be pulled up.
pooka