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.
(thus causing s_leader to become NULL) by storing the session ID separately
in the session structure. Export the session ID to userspace in the
eproc structure.
Submitted by Tom Proett <proett@nas.nasa.gov>.
UVM was written by chuck cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>, with some
minor portions derived from the old Mach code. i provided some help
getting swap and paging working, and other bug fixes/ideas. chuck
silvers <chuq@chuq.com> also provided some other fixes.
this is the rest of the MI portion changes.
this will be KNF'd shortly. :-)
called "MACHINE_NEW_NONCONGIG". this is required for UVM, the new VM
system (also written by chuck) that is coming soon. adds new functions:
vm_page_physload() -- tell the VM system about an area of memory.
vm_physseg_find() -- returns index in vm_physmem array that this
address is in.
and several new versions of old functions/macros defined in vm_page.h.
this is the MI portion. sparc, and then later i386 portions to come.
all other ports need to change to this ASAP! (alpha is already being
worked on)
pseudo-device rnd # /dev/random and in-kernel generator
in config files.
o Add declaration to all architectures.
o Clean up copyright message in rnd.c, rnd.h, and rndpool.c to include
that this code is derived in part from Ted Tyso's linux code.
thorpej