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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
de975579a4 Rename SYSCTL kernel call to DIAGCTL
Change-Id: I1b17373f01808d887dcbeab493838946fbef4ef6
2014-03-01 09:04:54 +01:00
Kees Jongenburger
73ed75a454 arm:vm allow per memory type flags.
Change-Id: Id5a5bd479bdfbbc3fb52a85c29e1d7712a1171a7
2013-09-26 12:11:28 +02:00
Xiaoguang Sun
64f10ee644 Implement getrusage
Implement getrusage.
These fields of struct rusage are not supported and always set to zero at this time
long ru_nswap;           /* swaps */
long ru_inblock;         /* block input operations */
long ru_oublock;         /* block output operations */
long ru_msgsnd;          /* messages sent */
long ru_msgrcv;          /* messages received */
long ru_nvcsw;           /* voluntary context switches */
long ru_nivcsw;          /* involuntary context switches */

test75.c is the unit test for this new function

Change-Id: I3f1eb69de1fce90d087d76773b09021fc6106539
2013-07-01 23:00:47 +02:00
Ben Gras
49b9165251 vm: mmap support
. test74 for mmap functionality
	. vm: add a mem_file memory type that specifies an mmap()ped
	  memory range, backed by a file
	. add fdref, an object that keeps track of FD references within
	  VM per process and so knows how to de-duplicate the use of FD's
	  by various mmap()ped ranges; there can be many more than there can
	  be FD's
	. turned off for now, enable with 'filemap=1' as boot option

Change-Id: I640b1126cdaa522a0560301cf6732b7661555672
2013-05-31 15:42:01 +00:00