separately
* provide puffs_cc_getcc()
This is in preparation for the removal of you-should-guess-what as
an argument to routines here and there and everywhere.
also synchronizes with puffs_mount() and does not return (exit) in the
parent process until the file system has been mounted. This makes
it possible to reliably run e.g. mount_foo jippi /kai ; cd /kai/ee
servers. Calling daemon() (i.e. fork()ing) inside a library can
cause nice surprises for e.g. threaded programs. As discussed with
Greg Oster & others.
alternative to the (vastly superior ;) continuation model. This
is very preliminary stuff and not compiled by default (which it
even won't do without some other patches I cannot commit yet).
The raison d'commit of the patch is a snippet which ensures proper
in-order dispatching of all operations, including those which don't
require a response. Previously many of them would be dispatched
simultaneosly, e.g. fsync and reclaim on the same node, which
obviously isn't all that nice for correct operation.
interacts with the userspace file server:
* since the kernel-user communication is not purely request-response
anymore (hasn't been since 2006), try to rename some "request" to
"message". more similar mangling will take place in the future.
* completely rework how messages are allocated. previously most of
them were borrowed from the stack (originally *all* of them),
but now always allocate dynamically. this makes the structure
of the code much cleaner. also makes it possible to fix a
locking order violation. it enables plenty of future enhancements.
* start generalizing the transport interface to be independent of puffs
* move transport interface to read/write instead of ioctl. the
old one had legacy design problems, and besides, ioctl's suck.
implement a very generic version for now; this will be
worked on later hopefully some day reaching "highly optimized".
* implement libpuffs support behind existing library request
interfaces. this will change eventually (I hate those interfaces)
kernel to the file server for silly things the file server did,
e.g. attempting to create a file with size VSIZENOTSET. The file
server can handle these as it chooses, but the default action is
for it to throw its hands in the air and sing "goodbye, cruel world,
it's over, walk on by".
the maximum request size after mount. Calling mount(MNT_GETARGS)
from the file server is currently not kosher, as it vrele()s the
root vnode, potentially causing an inactive, which the file server
cannot handle while it itself is inactive in the kernel (deadlock).
Add an additional call with MNT_GETARGS to retrieve the modified
information instead of relying on the kernel code abusing the mount
interface during mount.
* in addition add/remove, allow enable/disable, which can be used
to control events for descriptors without having to remove all the
data associated with them
* add directsend/receive, which can be used to pass the same buffer
from the caller to read/writeframe and back again
* add flags to enqueue functions and allow urgent buffers to be
processed as the next PDU
loop function might generate some results. and this is still "after"
event handling (except for the first call, but I'm not too keen on
optimizing for that)
* don't be such a baby about EINTR from kevent(). if we get it, suck
it up and continue instead of quitting
instead of puffs_start(). Get completely rid of puffs_start(), as
everything it used to do is now handled by the mount routine.
Introduce an optional pre-mount call puffs_setrootinfo() for setting
non-default root node information. As the old puffs_mount() is
now virtually useless, say byebye to it and rename the old
puffs_domount() to puffs_mount(), but add a root cookie parameter
to compensate for the late puffs_start().
support removal and addition of i/o file descriptors on the fly.
* detect closed file descriptors
* automatically free waiters of a dead file descriptor
* give the file server the possibility to specify a callback which
notifies of a dead file descriptor
* move loop function to be a property of the mainloop instead of
framebuf (doesn't change effective behaviour)
* add the possibility to configure a timespec parameter which
attempts to call the loop function periodically
* move the event loop functions from the puffs_framebuf namespace
to puffs_framev to differential between pure memory management
functions
stack instead of the continuation stack. This is for lib/36011, where
pthread gets confused since we aren't running on the regular stack.
I'm not really sure which direction to go to with this quite yet, so
make the hack hard to enable on purpose. The whole request dispatch
code needs cleaning anyway.
only take the bare essentials, which currently means removing
"maxreqlen" from the argument list (all current callers I'm aware
of set it as 0 anyway). Introduce puffs_init(), which provides a
context for setting various parameters and puffs_domount(), which
can be used to mount the file system. Keep puffs_mount() as a
shortcut for the above two for simple file systems.
Bump development ABI version to 13. After all, it's Friday the 13th.
Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday the 13th. --No carrier--
accessors for interesting data in it. Namely, you can now get
pu->pu_privdata with puffs_getspecific(), pu->pu_pn_root with
puffs_set/getroot() and pu->pu_maxreqlen with puffs_getmaxreqlen().
and compares the path of the node against the given pathobject.
Also make comparison method take a flag to indicate if it should
check if the second path is a true prefix of the first.
plus some namespace cleanup
macro which does strcmp against ".." and (the untranslated)
componentname
* make PUFFS_FLAG_BUILDPATH build paths also if dotdot is the case,
and adapt the regular path objects to this
* make nullfs lookup readable because we can now get rid of dotdot
processing there
pooka