This is because calls with M_WAIT (now M_TRYWAIT) may not wait
forever when nothing is available for allocation, and may end up
returning NULL. Hopefully we now communicate more of the right thing
to developers and make it very clear that it's necessary to check whether
calls with M_(TRY)WAIT also resulted in a failed allocation.
M_TRYWAIT basically means "try harder, block if necessary, but don't
necessarily wait forever." The time spent blocking is tunable with
the kern.ipc.mbuf_wait sysctl.
M_WAIT is now deprecated but still defined for the next little while.
* Fix a typo in a comment in mbuf.h
* Fix some code that was actually passing the mbuf subsystem's M_WAIT to
malloc(). Made it pass M_WAITOK instead. If we were ever to redefine the
value of the M_WAIT flag, this could have became a big problem.
mail:
The problem seems to originate with NFS's postop_attr
information that is returned with a read or write RPC.
Within a vm_fault context, the code cannot deal with
vnode_pager_setsize() shrinking a vnode.
The workaround in the patch below stops the nfsm_postop_attr()
macro from ever shrinking a vnode. If the new size in the
postop_attr information is smaller, then it just sets the
nfsnode n_attrstamp to 0 to stop the wrong size getting
used in the future. This change only affects postop_attr
attributes; the nfsm_loadattr() macro works as normal.
The change is implemented by adding a new argument to
nfs_loadattrcache() called 'dontshrink'. When this is
non-zero, nfs_loadattrcache() will never reduce the
vnode/nfsnode size; instead it zeros n_attrstamp.
There remain other was processes can get stuck in vmopar.
Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Reviewed by: dillon
Tested by: Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org>
with the new snapshot code.
Update addaliasu to correctly implement the semantics of the old
checkalias function. When a device vnode first comes into existence,
check to see if an anonymous vnode for the same device was created
at boot time by bdevvp(). If so, adopt the bdevvp vnode rather than
creating a new vnode for the device. This corrects a problem which
caused the kernel to panic when taking a snapshot of the root
filesystem.
Change the calling convention of vn_write_suspend_wait() to be the
same as vn_start_write().
Split out softdep_flushworklist() from softdep_flushfiles() so that
it can be used to clear the work queue when suspending filesystem
operations.
Access to buffers becomes recursive so that snapshots can recursively
traverse their indirect blocks using ffs_copyonwrite() when checking
for the need for copy on write when flushing one of their own indirect
blocks. This eliminates a deadlock between the syncer daemon and a
process taking a snapshot.
Ensure that softdep_process_worklist() can never block because of a
snapshot being taken. This eliminates a problem with buffer starvation.
Cleanup change in ffs_sync() which did not synchronously wait when
MNT_WAIT was specified. The result was an unclean filesystem panic
when doing forcible unmount with heavy filesystem I/O in progress.
Return a zero'ed block when reading a block that was not in use at
the time that a snapshot was taken. Normally, these blocks should
never be read. However, the readahead code will occationally read
them which can cause unexpected behavior.
Clean up the debugging code that ensures that no blocks be written
on a filesystem while it is suspended. Snapshots must explicitly
label the blocks that they are writing during the suspension so that
they do not cause a `write on suspended filesystem' panic.
Reorganize ffs_copyonwrite() to eliminate a deadlock and also to
prevent a race condition that would permit the same block to be
copied twice. This change eliminates an unexpected soft updates
inconsistency in fsck caused by the double allocation.
Use bqrelse rather than brelse for buffers that will be needed
soon again by the snapshot code. This improves snapshot performance.
<sys/bio.h>.
<sys/bio.h> is now a prerequisite for <sys/buf.h> but it shall
not be made a nested include according to bdes teachings on the
subject of nested includes.
Diskdrivers and similar stuff below specfs::strategy() should no
longer need to include <sys/buf.> unless they need caching of data.
Still a few bogus uses of struct buf to track down.
Repocopy by: peter
there is nothing we can do about it. In fact, after further review
there simply are not very many instances of the two structures NFS
checks for 'bloat' so I've decided to simply rip the checks out entirely.
Submitted by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
NFSSERVER defined, useful for userland fileservers that want to
use a filehandle type interface to the filesystem.
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund assar@stacken.kth.se
PR: kern/15452
NFS packets, mainly initializing structure pointers to NULL which
are conditionally freed prior to return.
PR: kern/15249
Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
blocks of zeros could wind up in a file written to over NFS by a client.
The problem only occurs a few times per several gigabytes of data. This
problem turned out to be bug #3 below.
bug #1:
B_CLUSTEROK must be cleared when an NFS buffer is reverted from
stage 2 (ready for commit rpc) to stage 1 (ready for write).
Reversions can occur when a dirty NFS buffer is redirtied with new
data.
Otherwise the VFS/BIO system may end up thinking that a stage 1
NFS buffer is clusterable. Stage 1 NFS buffers are not clusterable.
bug #2:
B_CLUSTEROK was inappropriately set for a 'short' NFS buffer (short
buffers only occur near the EOF of the file). Change to only set
when the buffer is a full biosize (usually 8K). This bug has no
effect but should be fixed in -current anyway. It need not be
backported.
bug #3:
B_NEEDCOMMIT was inappropriately set in nfs_flush() (which is
typically only called by the update daemon). nfs_flush()
does a multi-pass loop but due to the lack of vnode locking it
is possible for new buffers to be added to the dirtyblkhd list
while a flush operation is going on. This may result in nfs_flush()
setting B_NEEDCOMMIT on a buffer which has *NOT* yet gone through its
stage 1 write, causing only the commit rpc to be made and thus
causing the contents of the buffer to be thrown away (never sent to
the server).
The patch also contains some cleanup, which only applies to the commit
into -current.
Reviewed by: dg, julian
Originally Reported by: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Make the alias list a SLIST.
Drop the "fast recycling" optimization of vnodes (including
the returning of a prexisting but stale vnode from checkalias).
It doesn't buy us anything now that we don't hardlimit
vnodes anymore.
Rename checkalias2() and checkalias() to addalias() and
addaliasu() - which takes dev_t and udev_t arg respectively.
Make the revoke syscalls use vcount() instead of VALIASED.
Remove VALIASED flag, we don't need it now and it is faster
to traverse the much shorter lists than to maintain the
flag.
vfs_mountedon() can check the dev_t directly, all the vnodes
point to the same one.
Print the devicename in specfs/vprint().
Remove a couple of stale LFS vnode flags.
Remove unimplemented/unused LK_DRAINED;
lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
be done in future commits.
txdr_hyper and fxdr_hyper tweaks to avoid excessive CPU order knowledge.
nfs_serv.c: don't call nfsm_adj() with negative values, windows clients
could crash servers when doing a readdir of a large directory.
nfs_socket.c: Use IP_PORTRANGE to get a priviliged port without a spin
loop trying to bind(). Don't clobber a mbuf pointer or we get panics
on a NFS3ERR_JUKEBOX error from a server when reusing a freed mbuf.
nfs_subs.c: Don't loose st_blocks on NFSv2 mounts when > 2GB.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
udev_t in the kernel but still called dev_t in userland.
Provide functions to manipulate both types:
major() umajor()
minor() uminor()
makedev() umakedev()
dev2udev() udev2dev()
For now they're functions, they will become in-line functions
after one of the next two steps in this process.
Return major/minor/makedev to macro-hood for userland.
Register a name in cdevsw[] for the "filedescriptor" driver.
In the kernel the udev_t appears in places where we have the
major/minor number combination, (ie: a potential device: we
may not have the driver nor the device), like in inodes, vattr,
cdevsw registration and so on, whereas the dev_t appears where
we carry around a reference to a actual device.
In the future the cdevsw and the aliased-from vnode will be hung
directly from the dev_t, along with up to two softc pointers for
the device driver and a few houskeeping bits. This will essentially
replace the current "alias" check code (same buck, bigger bang).
A little stunt has been provided to try to catch places where the
wrong type is being used (dev_t vs udev_t), if you see something
not working, #undef DEVT_FASCIST in kern/kern_conf.c and see if
it makes a difference. If it does, please try to track it down
(many hands make light work) or at least try to reproduce it
as simply as possible, and describe how to do that.
Without DEVT_FASCIST I belive this patch is a no-op.
Stylistic/posixoid comments about the userland view of the <sys/*.h>
files welcome now, from userland they now contain the end result.
Next planned step: make all dev_t's refer to the same devsw[] which
means convert BLK's to CHR's at the perimeter of the vnodes and
other places where they enter the game (bootdev, mknod, sysctl).
changes to the VM system to support the new swapper, VM bug
fixes, several VM optimizations, and some additional revamping of the
VM code. The specific bug fixes will be documented with additional
forced commits. This commit is somewhat rough in regards to code
cleanup issues.
Reviewed by: "John S. Dyson" <root@dyson.iquest.net>, "David Greenman" <dg@root.com>
second argument. np_size is a 64 bit int, so is the second arg. This
might have caused needless 2G/4G file size problems.
I believe it was Bruce who queried this.
detachment of vfs sysctls. Unloading of vfs LKMs doesn't actually
work for any vfs, since it leaves garbage pointers to memory
allocation control structures.
when nfs is an LKM. Declare it in a header file. Don't forget to use
it in non-Lite2 code. Initialize it to -1 instead of to 0, since 0
will soon be the mount type number for the first vfs loaded.
NetBSD uses strcmp() to avoid this ugly global.
Pre-2.8 versions of gcc generate a call to __divdi3() for all 64-bit
signed divisions, but egcs optimizes them to a shift and fixup when
the divisor is a constant power of 2. Unfortunately, it generates
a call to __cmpdi2() for the fixup, although all except possibly
ancient versions of gcc and egcs do ordinary 64-bit comparisons
inline.
of this part of commits is to minimize unnecessary differences between
the other NFS's of similar origin. Yes, there are gratuitous changes here
that the style folks won't like, but it makes the catch-up less difficult.
for better packing. This means that we can choose better values for the
various hash entries without having to try and get it all to fit within
an artificial power of two limit for malloc's sake.
We had run out of bits in the nfs mount flags, I have moved the internal
state flags into a seperate variable. These are no longer visible via
statfs(), but I don't know of anything that looks at them.
"time" wasn't a atomic variable, so splfoo() protection were needed
around any access to it, unless you just wanted the seconds part.
Most uses of time.tv_sec now uses the new variable time_second instead.
gettime() changed to getmicrotime(0.
Remove a couple of unneeded splfoo() protections, the new getmicrotime()
is atomic, (until Bruce sets a breakpoint in it).
A couple of places needed random data, so use read_random() instead
of mucking about with time which isn't random.
Add a new nfs_curusec() function.
Mark a couple of bogosities involving the now disappeard time variable.
Update ffs_update() to avoid the weird "== &time" checks, by fixing the
one remaining call that passwd &time as args.
Change profiling in ncr.c to use ticks instead of time. Resolution is
the same.
Add new function "tvtohz()" to avoid the bogus "splfoo(), add time, call
hzto() which subtracts time" sequences.
Reviewed by: bde
