When I originally wrote this, I was going for maximum flexibility.
However, after a private discussion with dholland@, I see how this
will cause problems with the future world order of namei whenever
that might be. At the moment, I don't need the extra flexibility,
but if something comes up this may have to be revisited.
mq_send() should fail due to permissions. Noted by Stathis Kamperis!
- Check for empty message queue name (POSIX does not allow this for regular
files, and it's weird), check for DTYPE_MQUEUE, fix permission check in
mq_unlink(), clean up.
these commits move all path handling into module_do_load() from
kobj_load_file(). This way the final path used to load a module
is available for loading <module>.plist, which will store parameters
for a module. The end goal of this project is good support for
MODULAR device drivers.
- Avoid atomics in more places.
- Remove the per-descriptor mutex, and just use filedesc_t::fd_lock.
It was only being used to synchronize close, and in any case we needed
to take fd_lock to free the descriptor slot.
- Optimize certain paths for the <NDFDFILE case.
- Sprinkle more comments and assertions.
- Cache more stuff in filedesc_t.
- Fix numerous minor bugs spotted along the way.
- Restructure how the open files array is maintained, for clarity and so
that we can eliminate the membar_consumer() call in fd_getfile(). This is
mostly syntactic sugar; the main functional change is that fd_nfiles now
lives alongside the open file array.
Some measurements with libmicro:
- simple file syscalls are like close() are between 1 to 10% faster.
- some nice improvements, e.g. poll(1000) which is ~50% faster.
- Fix a preemption bug in CURCPU_IDLE_P() that can lead to a bogus
assertion failure on DEBUG kernels.
- Fix MP/preemption races with timecounter detachment.
- Fix a preemption bug in CURCPU_IDLE_P() that can lead to a bogus
assertion failure on DEBUG kernels.
- Fix MP/preemption races with timecounter detachment.
this fixes the following deadlock.
a thread doing getcleanvnode:
pick a vnode
acqure v_interlock
v_usecount++
call vclean
now, another thread doing cache_lookup:
picks the vnode
vtryget succeed
vn_lock succeed
now in vclean:
set VI_XLOCK (too late to be noticed by the competing thread)
wait on the vnode lock (this might violate locking order)
the use of a flag bit was suggested by Andrew Doran. PR/41374.
Without it, on ports where splhigh() is inline, the compiler will optimise
the second SOFTINT_PENDING test in softint_schedule(). A dissasembly
of softint_schedule() with and without the volatile sh_flags confirm this
on sparc.
Because of this there is a race that could lead to the softhand_t
being enqueued twice on si_q, leading to a corrupted queue and
some handler being SOFTINT_PENDING but never called.
Should fix PR kern/38637
way they can be included without having to include DDB.
(arguably all print routines should be behind #ifdef DEBUGPRINT
and options DDB should define that macro, but I'll tackle that later)
