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Ben Gras
565f13088f make vfs & filesystems use failable copying
Change the kernel to add features to vircopy and safecopies so that
transparent copy fixing won't happen to avoid deadlocks, and such copies
fail with EFAULT.

Transparently making copying work from filesystems (as normally done by
the kernel & VM when copying fails because of missing/readonly memory)
is problematic as it can happen that, for file-mapped ranges, that that
same filesystem that is blocked on the copy request is needed to satisfy
the memory range, leading to deadlock. Dito for VFS itself, if done with
a blocking call.

This change makes the copying done from a filesystem fail in such cases
with EFAULT by VFS adding the CPF_TRY flag to the grants. If a FS call
fails with EFAULT, VFS will then request the range to be made available
to VM after the FS is unblocked, allowing it to be used to satisfy the
range if need be in another VFS thread.

Similarly, for datacopies that VFS itself does, it uses the failable
vircopy variant and callers use a wrapper that talk to VM if necessary
to get the copy to work.

	. kernel: add CPF_TRY flag to safecopies
	. kernel: only request writable ranges to VM for the
	  target buffer when copying fails
	. do copying in VFS TRY-first
	. some fixes in VM to build SANITYCHECK mode
	. add regression test for the cases where
	  - a FS system call needs memory mapped in a process that the
	    FS itself must map.
	  - such a range covers more than one file-mapped region.
	. add 'try' mode to vircopy, physcopy
	. add flags field to copy kernel call messages
	. if CP_FLAG_TRY is set, do not transparently try
	  to fix memory ranges
	. for use by VFS when accessing user buffers to avoid
	  deadlock
	. remove some obsolete backwards compatability assignments
        . VFS: let thread scheduling work for VM requests too
          Allows VFS to make calls to VM while suspending and resuming
          the currently running thread. Does currently not work for the
          main thread.
        . VM: add fix memory range call for use by VFS

Change-Id: I295794269cea51a3163519a9cfe5901301d90b32
2014-07-28 17:05:14 +02:00
David van Moolenbroek
24ec0d73b5 Clean up interface to PM and VFS
- introduce new call numbers, names, and field aliases;
- initialize request messages to zero for all ABI calls;
- format callnr.h in the same way as com.h;
- redo call tables in both servers;
- remove param.h namespace pollution in the servers;
- make brk(2) go to VM directly, rather than through PM;
- remove obsolete BRK, UTIME, and WAIT calls;
- clean up path copying routine in VFS;
- move remaining system calls from libminlib to libc;
- correct some errno-related mistakes in libc routines.

Change-Id: I2d8ec5d061cd7e0b30c51ffd77aa72ebf84e2565
2014-03-01 09:05:01 +01:00
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
Ben Gras
33a7ac7557 vfs: mmap support
. libc: add vfs_mmap, a way for vfs to initiate mmap()s.
	  This is a good special case to have as vfs is a slightly
	  different client from regular user processes. It doesn't do it
	  for itself, and has the dev & inode info already so the callback
	  to VFS for the lookup isn't necessary. So it has different info
	  to have to give to VM.
	. libc: also add minix_mmap64() that accepts a 64-bit offset, even
	  though our off_t is still 32 bit now.
	. On exec() time, try to mmap() in the executable if available.
	  (It is not yet available in this commit.)
	. To support mmap(), add do_vm_call that allows VM to lookup
	  (to ino+dev), do i/o from and close FD's on behalf of other
	  processes.

Change-Id: I831551e45a6781c74313c450eb9c967a68505932
2013-05-31 15:42:00 +00:00
Ben Gras
4f9139778d vfs: coredump fix: write zeroes for missing memory 2013-03-20 20:05:31 +00:00
Ben Gras
e4ac80eb60 various warning/errorwarning fixes for gcc47
. warnings (sometimes promoted to errors) in servers/ and kernel/
 . -Os for ext2 boot module to make it small enough
2012-08-27 16:19:18 +02:00
Ben Gras
0fb2f83da9 drop from segments physcopy/vircopy invocations
. sys_vircopy always uses D for both src and dst
	. sys_physcopy uses PHYS_SEG if and only if corresponding
	  endpoint is NONE, so we can derive the mode (PHYS_SEG or D)
	  from the endpoint arg in the kernel, dropping the seg args
	. fields in msg still filled in for backwards compatability,
	  using same NONE-logic in the library
2012-06-18 12:28:40 +00:00
Ben Gras
53002f6f6c recognize and execute dynamically linked executables
. generalize libexec slightly to get some more necessary information
	  from ELF files, e.g. the interpreter
	. execute dynamically linked executables when exec()ed by VFS
	. switch to netbsd variant of elf32.h exclusively, solves some
	  conflicting headers
2012-04-16 00:41:42 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
b956493367 VFS: fix new signed/unsigned comparisons 2012-04-13 13:00:11 +00:00
Ben Gras
1e2b3f4326 vfs: more regions for coredumps 2012-04-12 14:29:59 +02:00
Ben Gras
7336a67dfe retire PUBLIC, PRIVATE and FORWARD 2012-03-25 21:58:14 +02:00
Ben Gras
6a73e85ad1 retire _PROTOTYPE
. only good for obsolete K&R support
	. also remove a stray ansi.h and the proto cmd
2012-03-25 16:17:10 +02:00
Thomas Veerman
80c4685324 VFS: replace VFS with AVFS 2012-02-13 16:53:21 +00:00
Renamed from servers/avfs/coredump.c (Browse further)