- vfs_syscalls.c rev. 1.342 fails to invert condition correcly when
then-clause and else-clause is swapped. Since then, revoke(2) fails
if it is issued by file owner.
- Probably since rev. 1.160 of genfs_vnops.c, revoke(2) fails if it is
applied to non-device file and drops kernel into ddb.
specs_open routine. If devsw_open fail, get driver name with devsw_getname
routine and autoload module.
For now only dm drivervcan be loaded, other pseudo drivers needs more work.
Ok by ad@.
- Cache kva.
- Convert to use mutex_obj_alloc().
- Make better use of pool_cache.
Also:
Disable direct transfers for the moment. I believe there may be a bug that
can cause transfers to stall when switching between direct/buffered access.
I think this has most recently been run into on 'denver' but I have seen it
as far back as 3.1.
(As an aside, direct is a not a clear win on modern systems with large cache
and high TLB invalidation overhead. Particularly so on MP systems, although
micro benchmarks may report otherwise because they typically do not tax the
system. Anyone want to write a decent benchmark?)
quick-running or non-threaded rump jobs, where the rehash algorithm
does not have a chance to run. For other cases it doesn't make
much difference, since the size will grow or decrease when the
rehash algorithm runs for the first time (t=10*hz currently).
type/status/etc inquiries. (PR kern/37915)
This is clearly a design problem in tty, but we need a cheap fix now.
The problem is that ttyinput() tries to pull a spinlock which
is already held on calls to t_oproc.
The workaround is based on the fact that within wscons code, the
wsdisplay_emulinput() function is only called directly from
wsdisplaystart(). So we can be sure that the tty lock is held,
and use an inofficial entry point in ttc.c which avoids the locking.
These ate certainly more assumptions than needed by the fix
proposed in the PR, but it doesn't affect (and slow down) other
tty drivers.
devmajor_t/devminor_t, as proposed on tech-kern.
This avoids 64-bit arithmetics and 64-bit printf formats in parts
of the kernel where it is not really useful, and helps clarity.
