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David van Moolenbroek
723e51327f VFS: worker thread model overhaul
The main purpose of this patch is to fix handling of unpause calls
from PM while another call is ongoing. The solution to this problem
sparked a full revision of the threading model, consisting of a large
number of related changes:

- all active worker threads are now always associated with a process,
  and every process has at most one active thread working for it;
- the process lock is always held by a process's worker thread;
- a process can now have both normal work and postponed PM work
  associated to it;
- timer expiry and non-postponed PM work is done from the main thread;
- filp garbage collection is done from a thread associated with VFS;
- reboot calls from PM are now done from a thread associated with PM;
- the DS events handler is protected from starting multiple threads;
- support for a system worker thread has been removed;
- the deadlock recovery thread has been replaced by a parameter to the
  worker_start() function; the number of worker threads has
  consequently been increased by one;
- saving and restoring of global but per-thread variables is now
  centralized in worker_suspend() and worker_resume(); err_code is now
  saved and restored in all cases;
- the concept of jobs has been removed, and job_m_in now points to a
  message stored in the worker thread structure instead;
- the PM lock has been removed;
- the separate exec lock has been replaced by a lock on the VM
  process, which was already being locked for exec calls anyway;
- PM_UNPAUSE is now processed as a postponed PM request, from a thread
  associated with the target process;
- the FP_DROP_WORK flag has been removed, since it is no longer more
  than just an optimization and only applied to processes operating on
  a pipe when getting killed;
- assignment to "fp" now takes place only when obtaining new work in
  the main thread or a worker thread, when resuming execution of a
  thread, and in the special case of exiting processes during reboot;
- there are no longer special cases where the yield() call is used to
  force a thread to run.

Change-Id: I7a97b9b95c2450454a9b5318dfa0e6150d4e6858
2014-02-18 11:25:03 +01:00
Thomas Veerman
7c8b3ddfed VFS: fix locking bugs
.sync and fsync used unnecessarily restrictive locking type
.fsync violated locking order by obtaining a vmnt lock after a filp lock
.fsync contained a TOCTOU bug
.new_node violated locking rules (didn't upgrade lock upon file creation)
.do_pipe used unnecessarily restrictive locking type
.always lock pipes exclusively; even a read operation might require to do
 a write on a vnode object (update pipe size)
.when opening a file with O_TRUNC, upgrade vnode lock when truncating
.utime used unnecessarily restrictive locking type
.path parsing:
  .always acquire VMNT_WRITE or VMNT_EXCL on vmnt and downgrade to
   VMNT_READ if that was what was actually requested. This prevents the
   following deadlock scenario:
   thread A:
     lock_vmnt(vmp, TLL_READSER);
     lock_vnode(vp, TLL_READSER);
     upgrade_vmnt_lock(vmp, TLL_WRITE);

   thread B:
     lock_vmnt(vmp, TLL_READ);
     lock_vnode(vp, TLL_READSER);

   thread A will be stuck in upgrade_vmnt_lock and thread B is stuck in
   lock_vnode. This happens when, for example, thread A tries create a
   new node (open.c:new_node) and thread B tries to do eat_path to
   change dir (stadir.c:do_chdir). When the path is being resolved, a
   vnode is always locked with VNODE_OPCL (TLL_READSER) and then
   downgraded to VNODE_READ if read-only is actually requested. Thread
   A locks the vmnt with VMNT_WRITE (TLL_READSER) which still allows
   VMNT_READ locks. Thread B can't acquire a lock on the vnode because
   thread A has it; Thread A can't upgrade its vmnt lock to VMNT_WRITE
   (TLL_WRITE) because thread B has a VMNT_READ lock on it.

   By serializing vmnt locks during path parsing, thread B can only
   acquire a lock on vmp when thread A has completely finished its
   operation.
2013-01-11 09:18:35 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
96bbc5da3e VFS: I_PIPE is redundant
Also, use S_IS* macros instead of manual comparison.
2012-04-27 08:49:38 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
b956493367 VFS: fix new signed/unsigned comparisons 2012-04-13 13:00:11 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
8f55767619 VFS: make m_in job local
By making m_in job local (i.e., each job has its own copy of m_in instead
of refering to the global m_in) we don't have to store and restore m_in
on every thread yield. This reduces overhead. Moreover, remove the
assumption that m_in is preserved. Do_XXX functions have to copy the
system call parameters as soon as possible and only pass those copies to
other functions.

Furthermore, this patch cleans up some code and uses better types in a lot
of places.
2012-04-13 12:50:38 +00:00
Ben Gras
7336a67dfe retire PUBLIC, PRIVATE and FORWARD 2012-03-25 21:58:14 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
80c4685324 VFS: replace VFS with AVFS 2012-02-13 16:53:21 +00:00
Ben Gras
287fee89cb add NOASSERTS make flag that disables assert()s (NDEBUG=1).
. made some checks in vfs/vnode.c also respond to NDEBUG=1.
  . turned on in release builds
2011-02-16 18:58:30 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
34a2864e27 Fix a few compile time warnings 2010-07-02 12:41:19 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
6e25ad8b0a Use of all NIL_* defines converted to NULL 2010-05-10 13:26:00 +00:00
Ben Gras
35a108b911 panic() cleanup.
this change
   - makes panic() variadic, doing full printf() formatting -
     no more NO_NUM, and no more separate printf() statements
     needed to print extra info (or something in hex) before panicing
   - unifies panic() - same panic() name and usage for everyone -
     vm, kernel and rest have different names/syntax currently
     in order to implement their own luxuries, but no longer
   - throws out the 1st argument, to make source less noisy.
     the panic() in syslib retrieves the server name from the kernel
     so it should be clear enough who is panicing; e.g.
         panic("sigaction failed: %d", errno);
     looks like:
         at_wini(73130): panic: sigaction failed: 0
         syslib:panic.c: stacktrace: 0x74dc 0x2025 0x100a
   - throws out report() - printf() is more convenient and powerful
   - harmonizes/fixes the use of panic() - there were a few places
     that used printf-style formatting (didn't work) and newlines
     (messes up the formatting) in panic()
   - throws out a few per-server panic() functions
   - cleans up a tie-in of tty with panic()

merging printf() and panic() statements to be done incrementally.
2010-03-05 15:05:11 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
6aa43dc9e4 Fix typo and a bug causing vnode references to become too low. 2009-12-21 09:36:34 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
958b25be50 - Introduce support for sticky bit.
- Revise VFS-FS protocol and update VFS/MFS/ISOFS accordingly.
- Clean up MFS by removing old, dead code (backwards compatibility is broken by
  the new VFS-FS protocol, anyway) and rewrite other parts. Also, make sure all
  functions have proper banners and prototypes.
- VFS should always provide a (syntactically) valid path to the FS; no need for
  the FS to do sanity checks when leaving/entering mount points.
- Fix several bugs in MFS:
  - Several path lookup bugs in MFS.
  - A link can be too big for the path buffer.
  - A mountpoint can become inaccessible when the creation of a new inode
    fails, because the inode already exists and is a mountpoint.
- Introduce support for supplemental groups.
- Add test 46 to test supplemental group functionality (and removed obsolete
  suppl. tests from test 2).
- Clean up VFS (not everything is done yet).
- ISOFS now opens device read-only. This makes the -r flag in the mount command
  unnecessary (but will still report to be mounted read-write).
- Introduce PipeFS. PipeFS is a new FS that handles all anonymous and
  named pipes. However, named pipes still reside on the (M)FS, as they are part
  of the file system on disk. To make this work VFS now has a concept of
  'mapped' inodes, which causes read, write, truncate and stat requests to be
  redirected to the mapped FS, and all other requests to the original FS.
2009-12-20 20:27:14 +00:00
Ben Gras
dc1238b7b9 make unpause() decrease susp_count, as it shouldn't be decreased
if the process was REVIVING. (susp_count doesn't count those
 processes.) this together with dev_io SELECT suspend side effect
 for asynch. character devices solves the hanging pipe bug. or
 at last vastly improves it.

 added sanity checks, turned off by default.

 made the {NOT_,}{SUSPENDING,REVIVING} constants weirder to
 help sanity checking.
2009-05-08 13:56:41 +00:00
Ben Gras
fd7ef243e4 cleanup of vfs shutdown logic; makes clean unmounts easier (but
needs checking if fp_wd or fp_rd is NULL before use)
2009-04-29 16:59:18 +00:00
Ben Gras
3cc092ff06 . new kernel call sysctl for generic unprivileged system operations;
now used for printing diagnostic messages through the kernel message
   buffer. this lets processes print diagnostics without sending messages
   to tty and log directly, simplifying the message protocol a lot and
   reducing difficulties with deadlocks and other situations in which
   diagnostics are blackholed (e.g. grants don't work). this makes
   DIAGNOSTICS(_S), ASYN_DIAGNOSTICS and DIAG_REPL obsolete, although tty
   and log still accept the codes for 'old' binaries. This also simplifies
   diagnostics in several servers and drivers - only tty needs its own
   kputc() now.
 . simplifications in vfs, and some effort to get the vnode references
   right (consistent) even during shutdown. m_mounted_on is now NULL
   for root filesystems (!) (the original and new root), a less awkward
   special case than 'm_mounted_on == m_root_node'. root now has exactly
   one reference, to root, if no files are open, just like all other
   filesystems. m_driver_e is unused.
2009-01-26 17:43:59 +00:00
Ben Gras
86e7e4828e sanity check function 2009-01-20 13:43:18 +00:00
Philip Homburg
d232b2ef42 Removed invalid consistency check. 2007-08-07 14:27:19 +00:00
Philip Homburg
f46319037b New VFS interface 2007-08-07 12:52:47 +00:00
Ben Gras
2958815463 leave out debug message 2007-04-12 15:24:45 +00:00
Philip Homburg
9092146be7 VFS cleanup (mostly open). 2007-01-05 16:36:55 +00:00
Ben Gras
fa0ba56bc9 Merge of VFS by Balasz Gerofi with Minix trunk. 2006-10-25 13:40:36 +00:00