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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
David van Moolenbroek
24ed4e38de Remove support for obsolete 3.2.1 ABI
Change-Id: I76b4960bda41f55d9c42f8c99c5beae3424ca851
2014-02-18 11:25:02 +01:00
Thomas Veerman
32e916ad53 VFS: use 64-bit file offsets in all requests
Change-Id: I735c4068135474aff2c397f4bc9fb147a618b453
2014-02-18 11:25:01 +01:00
Thomas Veerman
c1a31d53d9 stat.h: remove some big_ types
Change-Id: I84017db3d54edfb823cc52e02d0b07fccb003988
2014-02-18 11:25:01 +01:00
Thomas Veerman
db8198d99d VFS: use S_IS* macros 2012-04-27 08:49:38 +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
Arun Thomas
4c10a31440 Remove legacy MM, FS, and FS_PROC_NR macros 2010-06-08 13:58:01 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
6e25ad8b0a Use of all NIL_* defines converted to NULL 2010-05-10 13:26:00 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
f9317dc039 Scan all processes for that might be blocked on a lock 2010-04-28 11:54:22 +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
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
Tomas Hruby
8590ac260d Removed dependency of vfs on NR_TASKS macro
- all macros in consts.h that depend on NR_TASKS replaced by a FP_BLOCKED_ON_*

- fp_suspended removed and replaced by fp_blocked_on. Testing whether a process
  is supended is qeual to testing whether fp_blocked_on is FP_BLOCKED_ON_NONE or
  not

- fp_task is valid only if fp_blocked_on == FP_BLOCKED_ON_OTHER

- no need of special values that do not colide with valid and special endpoints
  since they are not used as endpoints anymore

- suspend only takes FP_BLOCKED_ON_* values not endpoints anymore

- suspend(task) replaced by wait_for(task) which sets fp_task so we remember who
  are we waiting for and suspend sets fp_blocked_on to FP_BLOCKED_ON_OTHER to
  signal that we are waiting for some other process

- some functions should take endpoint_t instead of int, fixed
2009-09-22 21:48:26 +00:00
Philip Homburg
bafc45a309 First cut at 64-bit file offsets in block devices for mkfs/fsck. 2006-11-27 14:21:43 +00:00
Ben Gras
fa0ba56bc9 Merge of VFS by Balasz Gerofi with Minix trunk. 2006-10-25 13:40:36 +00:00
Renamed from servers/fs/lock.c (Browse further)