When a process forks, VFS is informed on behalf of the child. This is
correct, because otherwise signals to the new child could get lost.
However, that means that the parent is not blocked from being killed
by a signal while the child is blocked on this VFS call. As a result,
by the time that the VFS reply comes in, the parent may already be
dead, and the child may thus have been assigned a new parent: INIT.
Previously, PM would blindly reply to the parent when the VFS reply
for the fork came in. Thus, it could end up sending a reply to INIT,
even though INIT did not issue the fork(2) call. This could end up
satisfying a different call from INIT (typically waitpid(2)) and then
cause an error when that other call was complete.
It would be possible to set VFS_CALL on both forking parent and child.
This patch instead adds a flag (NEW_PARENT) to note that a process's
parent has changed during a VFS call.
Change-Id: Iad930b2e441db54fe6f7d2fd011f0f6a26e2923d
- introduce PROC_STOPPED flag, which tracks whether the process is
stopped on PROC_STOP in the kernel, rather than implicitly deriving
this from PM_SIG_PENDING;
- make the process resumption test based on current state rather than
state transitions;
- add and clarify several flag checks in the signal handling code;
- add test79 to test signal handling robustness.
Change-Id: Ic8c7527095035b300b56f2ab1b9dd190bd4bf001
NetBSD libc implements these as wrappers around setitimer(2),
sigsuspend(2), and getrusage(2), respectively.
Change-Id: I0c5e725b3e1316bddd3a3ff7ef65d57d30afd10d
. add all sys/sys headers not already present to help compiling
. take netbsd dirent.h and struct dirent; main result is
introducing d_type and d_namlen that have to be set by getdents()
in all FS code implementing it
. d_off is gone
. alignment of the struct has become 8 bytes instead of 4
. remove _MAX_BLOCK_SIZE, _MIN_BLOCK_SIZE, _STATIC_BLOCK_SIZE
. libminlib: cleanup unused yet duplicate code
. mfs: throw out the long-broken v1, v2 support
. new test for dirent contents filled by getdents()
Change-Id: I1459755c7ba5e5d1c9396d3a587ce6e63ddc283e
- all TTY-related exceptions have now been merged into the regular
code paths, allowing non-TTY drivers to expose TTY-like devices;
- as part of this, CTTY_MAJOR is now fully managed by VFS instead of
being an ugly stepchild of the TTY driver;
- device styles have become completely obsolete, support for them has
been removed throughout the system; same for device flags, which had
already become useless a while ago;
- device map open/close and I/O function pointers have lost their use,
thus finally making the VFS device code actually readable;
- the device-unrelated pm_setsid has been moved to misc.c;
- some other small cleanup-related changes.
Change-Id: If90b10d1818e98a12139da3e94a15d250c9933da
This single function allows copying file descriptors from and to
processes, and closing a previously copied remote file descriptor.
This function replaces the five FD-related UDS backcalls. While it
limits the total number of in-flight file descriptors to OPEN_MAX,
this change greatly improves crash recovery support of UDS, since all
in-flight file descriptors will be closed instead of keeping them
open indefinitely (causing VFS to crash on system shutdown). With the
new copyfd call, UDS becomes simpler, and the concept of filps is no
longer exposed outside of VFS.
This patch also moves the checkperms(2) stub into libminlib, thus
fully abstracting away message details of VFS communication from UDS.
Change-Id: Idd32ad390a566143c8ef66955e5ae2c221cff966
- change "vid/did" to "vid:did", old form still supported for now;
- allow "vid:did/subvid:subdid" specification in system.conf, in
which case a device will be visible to a driver if the subsystem
VID/DID also match.
Change-Id: I7aef54da1b0bc81e24b5d98f1a28416f38f8b266
This commit separates the low-level keyboard driver from TTY, putting
it in a separate driver (PCKBD). The commit also separates management
of raw input devices from TTY, and puts it in a separate server
(INPUT). All keyboard and mouse input from hardware is sent by drivers
to the INPUT server, which either sends it to a process that has
opened a raw input device, or otherwise forwards it to TTY for
standard processing.
Design by Dirk Vogt. Prototype by Uli Kastlunger.
Additional changes made to the prototype:
- the event communication is now based on USB HID codes; all input
drivers have to use USB codes to describe events;
- all TTY keymaps have been converted to USB format, with the effect
that a single keymap covers all keys; there is no (static) escaped
keymap anymore;
- further keymap tweaks now allow remapping of literally all keys;
- input device renumbering and protocol rewrite;
- INPUT server rewrite, with added support for cancel and select;
- PCKBD reimplementation, including PC/AT-to-USB translation;
- support for manipulating keyboard LEDs has been added;
- keyboard and mouse multiplexer devices have been added to INPUT,
primarily so that an X server need only open two devices;
- a new "libinputdriver" library abstracts away protocol details from
input drivers, and should be used by all future input drivers;
- both INPUT and PCKBD can be restarted;
- TTY is now scheduled by KERNEL, so that it won't be punished for
running a lot; without this, simply running "yes" on the console
kills the system;
- the KIOCBELL IOCTL has been moved to /dev/console;
- support for the SCANCODES termios setting has been removed;
- obsolete keymap compression has been removed;
- the obsolete Olivetti M24 keymap has been removed.
Change-Id: I3a672fb8c4fd566734e4b46d3994b4b7fc96d578
Most systems provide the full version number in the
'release' field and the kernel version in 'version'.
Minix used to split the full version number between
release and version which caused problems for pkgsrc
and other applications. This patch brings Minix's
uname in line with other systems such as NetBSD.
It also brings the getty banner in line with NetBSD.
Old Minix uname:
sysname->Minix
nodename->10.0.2.15
release->3
version->2.1
machine->i686
New Minix uname:
sysname->Minix
nodename->10.0.2.15
release->3.2.1
version->Minix 3.2.1 (GENERIC)
machine->i686
Change-Id: I966633dfdcf2f9485966bb0d0d042afc45bbeb7d
* Renamed struct timer to struct minix_timer
* Renamed timer_t to minix_timer_t
* Ensured all the code uses the minix_timer_t typedef
* Removed ifdef around _BSD_TIMER_T
* Removed include/timers.h and merged it into include/minix/timers.h
* Resolved prototype conflict by renaming kernel's (re)set_timer
to (re)set_kernel_timer.
Change-Id: I56f0f30dfed96e1a0575d92492294cf9a06468a5
This call copies a file descriptor from a remote process into the
calling process. The call is for the VND driver only, and in the
future, ACLs will prevent any other process from using this call.
Change-Id: Ib16fdd1f1a12cb38a70d7e441dad91bc86898f6d
Not all services involved in block I/O go through VM to access the
blocks they need. As a result, the blocks in VM may become stale,
possibly causing corruption when the stale copy is restored by a
service that does go through VM later on. This patch restores support
for forgetting cached blocks that belong to a particular device, and
makes the relevant file systems use this functionality 1) when
requested by VFS through REQ_FLUSH, and 2) upon unmount.
Change-Id: I0758c5ed8fe4b5ba81d432595d2113175776aff8
Previously, VFS would reopen a character device after a driver crash
if the associated file descriptor was opened with the O_REOPEN flag.
This patch removes support for this feature. The code was complex,
full of uncovered corner cases, and hard to test. Moreover, it did not
actually hide the crash from user applications: they would get an
error code to indicate that something went wrong, and have to decide
based on the nature of the underlying device how to continue.
- remove support for O_REOPEN, and make playwave(1) reopen its device;
- remove support for the DEV_REOPEN protocol message;
- remove all code in VFS related to reopening character devices;
- no longer change VFS filp reference count and FD bitmap upon filp
invalidation; instead, make get_filp* fail all calls on invalidated
FDs except when obtained with the locktype VNODE_OPCL which is used
by close_fd only;
- remove the VFS fproc file descriptor bitmap entirely, returning to
the situation that a FD is in use if its slot points to a filp; use
FILP_CLOSED as single means of marking a filp as invalidated.
Change-Id: I34f6bc69a036b3a8fc667c1f80435ff3af56558f
- block the calling thread on character device close;
- fully separate block and character open/close routines;
- reuse generic open/close code for the cloning case;
- zero all messages to drivers before filling them;
- use appropriate types for major/minor device numbers.
Change-Id: Ia90e6fe5688f212f835c5ee1bfca831cb249cf51
- prefix them with VFS_ as they are going to VFS;
- give these calls normal call numbers;
- give them their own set of message field aliases;
- also make do_mapdriver a regular call.
Change-Id: I2140439f288b06d699a1f65438bd8306509b259e
- check each file descriptor's open access mode (filp_mode);
- treat an error returned by a character driver as a select error;
- check all filps in each set before finishing select;
- do not copy back file descriptor sets if an error occurred;
- remove the hardcoded list of supported character major devices,
since all drivers should now be capable of responding properly;
- add tests to test40 and fix its error count aggregation.
Change-Id: I57ef58d3afb82640fc50b59c859ee4b25f02db17
- simplify and repair UDS request handling state machine;
- simplify interface used between internal modules;
- implement missing support for nonblocking I/O;
- fix select implementation;
- clean up global variables.
Change-Id: Ia82c5c6f05cc3f0a498efc9a26de14b1cde6eace
I/O control requests now come with the endpoint of the user process
that initiated the ioctl(2) call. It is stored in a new BDEV_USER
field, which is an alias for BDEV_FLAGS. The contents of this field
are to be used only in highly specific situations. It should be
preserved (not replaced!) by services that forward IOCTL requests,
and may be set to NONE for service-initiated IOCTL requests.
Change-Id: I68a01b9ce43eca00e61b985a9cf87f55ba683de4
The original R_BIT and W_BIT definitions have nothing to do with the
way these bits are used. Their distinct usage is more apparent when
they have different names.
Change-Id: Ia984457f900078b2e3502ceed565fead4e5bb965
Previously, reading from or writing to a character device would not
update the file position on the corresponding filp object. Performing
this update correctly is not trivial: during and after the I/O
operation, the filp object must not be locked. Ideally, read/write
requests on a filp that is already involved in a read/write operation,
should be queued. For now, we optimistically update the file position
at the start of the I/O; this works under the assumptions listed in
the corresponding comment.
Change-Id: I172a61781850423709924390ae3df1f2d1f94707
POSIX states that when interrupted, partially successful pipe
operations should return the partial result rather than EINTR. VFS
previously wouldn't look at the partial result, and not clear it
either, which would result in a panic upon the next pipe operation.
Change-Id: Ia1eb72b4b77394051444e63a1390d49bb315eb04
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
The T_DUMPCORE implementation was not only broken - it would currently
produce a coredump of the tracer process rather than the traced
process - but also deeply flawed, and fixing it would require serious
alteration of PM's internal state machine. It should be possible to
implement the same functionality in userland, and that is now the
suggested way forward. For now, also remove the (identical) utilities
using T_DUMPCORE: dumpcore(1) and gcore(1).
Change-Id: I1d51be19c739362b8a5833de949b76382a1edbcc
Previously, processing of some replies coming from character drivers
could block on locks, and therefore, such processing was done from
threads that were associated to the character driver process. The
hidden consequence of this was that if all threads were in use, VFS
could drop replies coming from the driver. This patch returns VFS to
a situation where the replies from character drivers are processed
instantly from the main thread, by removing the situations that may
cause VFS to block while handling those replies.
- change the locking model for select, so that it will never block
on any processing that happens after the select call has been set
up, in particular processing of character driver select replies;
- clearly mark all select routines that may never block;
- protect against race conditions in do_select as result of the
locking that still does happen there (as is required for pipes);
- also handle select timers from the main thread;
- move processing of character driver replies into device.c.
Change-Id: I4dc8e69f265cbd178de0fbf321d35f58f067cc57
These days, DEV_OPEN calls to character drivers block the calling
thread until completion or failure, and thus never return SUSPEND to
the caller. The same already applied to BDEV_OPEN calls to block
drivers. It has thus become impossible for a process to enter a state
of being blocked on a device open call.
There is currently no support for restarting device open calls to
restarted character drivers. This support was present in the _DOPEN
logic, but was already no longer triggering. In the future, this case
should be handled by the thread performing the open request.
Change-Id: I6cc1e7b4c9ed116c6ce160b315e6e060124dce00
Not doing so caused PFS to commit protocol violations by relying on
stale information when sending replies. This stale information always
happened to be correct, which is why the problem went unnoticed.
Change-Id: Ia42ca670718d6e731193cd2c34a3ff455f8a94d3
- change all sync char drivers into async drivers;
- retire support for the sync protocol in libchardev;
- remove async dev style, as this is now the default;
- remove dev_status from VFS;
- clean up now-unused protocol messages.
Change-Id: I6aacff712292f6b29f2ccd51bc1e7d7003723e87
The async char protocol already has this, so this patch closes the
gap between the two protocols a bit. Support for this flag has been
added to all sync char drivers that support CANCEL at all.
The LOG driver was already using the asynchronous protocol, but it
did not support the nonblocking transfer flag. This has been fixed
as well.
Change-Id: Ia55432c9f102765b59ad3feb45a8bd47a782c93f
As with w_task, this ensures that the field remains cleared if it is
not used. Without this, worker_stop could mistakenly identify a thread
as talking to a device driver rather than a (crashed) file server.
Change-Id: I7d3ebed3efc3cd4f5c891f61c67a6463109b6376
It was always set, but not always cleared, when talking to asynchronous
drivers. This could cause erratic behavior upon a driver crash.
Normally, a worker thread's w_task field is set when it's about to
communicate with a driver or FS. Then upon receiving a reply we can
do sanity checks (that the thread we want to wake up was actually
waiting for a reply). Also, when a driver/FS crashes, we can identify
which worker threads were talking to the crashed endpoint and handle
the error gracefully.
Asynchronous drivers are a bit special, though. In most cases, the
sender of the request is not interested in the reply (the sender was
suspended and only wants to know whether the request was successfully
caried out or not). However, the open request is special, as the reply
carries information needed by the sender. This is the only request
where a worker thread actually yields and waits for the result. This is
also the only case where we're interested in setting w_task for
asynchronous drivers.
Change-Id: Ia1ce2747937df376122b5e13b6a069de27fcc379
* Removed startup code patches in lib/csu regarding kernel to userland
ABI.
* Aligned stack layout on NetBSD stack layout.
* Generate valid stack pointers instead of offsets by taking into account
_minix_kerninfo->kinfo->user_sp.
* Refactored stack generation, by moving part of execve in two
functions {minix_stack_params(), minix_stack_fill()} and using them
in execve(), rs and vm.
* Changed load offset of rtld (ld.so) to:
execi.args.stack_high - execi.args.stack_size - 0xa00000
which is 10MB below the main executable stack.
Change-Id: I839daf3de43321cded44105634102d419cb36cec
The main motivation for this change is that only Loris supports
multithreading, and Loris supports dynamic thread allocation, so the
number of supported threads can be implemented as a bit flag (i.e.,
either 1 or "at least as many as VFS has"). The ABI break obviates the
need to support file system versioning at this time, and several
other aspects are better implemented as flags as well. Other changes:
- replace peek/bpeek test upon mount with FS flag as well;
- mark libsffs as 64-bit file size capable;
- remove old (3.2.1) getdents support.
Change-Id: I313eace9c50ed816656c31cd47d969033d952a03
- pass in file system type through mount(2), and return this type in
statvfs structures as generated by [f]statvfs(2);
- align mount flags field with NetBSD's, splitting out service flags
which are not to be passed to VFS;
- remove limitation of mount ABI to 16-byte labels, so that labels
can be made larger in the future;
- introduce new m11 message union type for mount(2) as side effect.
Change-Id: I88b7710e297e00a5e4582ada5243d3d5c2801fd9
This is a requirement for implementing calls such as getmntinfo(3).
VFS is now responsible for filling in some of the structure's fields.
Change-Id: I0c1fa78019587efefd2949b3be38cd9a7ddc2ced
