- Reorganize locking in UVM and provide extra serialisation for pmap(9).
New lock order: [vmpage-owner-lock] -> pmap-lock.
- Simplify locking in some pmap(9) modules by removing P->V locking.
- Use lock object on vmobjlock (and thus vnode_t::v_interlock) to share
the locks amongst UVM objects where necessary (tmpfs, layerfs, unionfs).
- Rewrite and optimise x86 TLB shootdown code, make it simpler and cleaner.
Add TLBSTATS option for x86 to collect statistics about TLB shootdowns.
- Unify /dev/mem et al in MI code and provide required locking (removes
kernel-lock on some ports). Also, avoid cache-aliasing issues.
Thanks to Andrew Doran and Joerg Sonnenberger, as their initial patches
formed the core changes of this branch.
copyright. Confirmed by Mike Hibler, mike at cs.utah.edu - thanks!
Also, merge UCB and Utah copyright texts back into one, as they
originally were.
Extra verification by snj@.
and the metadata required to interpret it. Callers of namei must now
create a pathbuf and pass it to NDINIT (instead of a string and a
uio_seg), then destroy the pathbuf after the namei session is
complete.
Update all namei call sites accordingly. Add a pathbuf(9) man page and
update namei(9).
The pathbuf interface also now appears in a couple of related
additional places that were passing string/uio_seg pairs that were
later fed into NDINIT. Update other call sites accordingly.
- Pending async I/O was tossed on unconfigure (should not happen, but..)
- It could exhaust memory under heavy I/O load.
- If memory allocation failed, disk transfers could stall.
- v_numoutput was updated without v_interlock held.
Additionally:
- Make it MPSAFE.
- Use kmem_alloc().
The general trend is to remove it from all kernel interfaces and
this is a start. In case the calling lwp is desired, curlwp should
be used.
quick consensus on tech-kern
need to understand the locking around that field. Instead of setting
B_ERROR, set b_error instead. b_error is 'owned' by whoever completes
the I/O request.
that tells whether the given path is in user space or kernel space, so it
can tell NDINIT().
While the raidframe calls were ok, both ccd(4) and cgd(4) were passing
pointers to user space data, which leads to strange error on i386, as
reported by Jukka Salmi on current-users.
The issue has been there since last august, I'm actually a bit surprised
that no one in the meantime has used ccd(4) or cgd(4) on an arch where it
would have simply faulted.
userland version; provide another ccd global variable (ccd_softc_elemsize)
containing the kernel's size, and use that it ccdconfig(8) to convert the
kernel's ccd_softc into userland versions.
Fixes 'ccdconfig -g'.
* Use DISKUNIT() instead of home-grown cruft to determine the `N' of "ccdN".
Fixes 'ccdconfig -g ccd1'.
* Use (void *) instead of (char *) in the calls to kvm_read().
XXX: ccd could be converted from nlist to sysctl. "Someone else's yak shave".
- rather than embedding bufq_state in driver softc,
have a pointer to the former.
- move bufq related functions from kern/subr_disk.c to kern/subr_bufq.c.
- rename method to strategy for consistency.
- move some definitions which don't need to be exposed to the rest of kernel
from sys/bufq.h to sys/bufq_impl.h.
(is it better to move it to kern/ or somewhere?)
- fix some obvious breakage in dev/qbus/ts.c. (not tested)
VOP_STRATEGY(bp) is replaced by one of two new functions:
- VOP_STRATEGY(vp, bp) Call the strategy routine of vp for bp.
- DEV_STRATEGY(bp) Call the d_strategy routine of bp->b_dev for bp.
DEV_STRATEGY(bp) is used only for block-to-block device situations.
christos