instead of ordering the source mount list, order the new destination
list which has the advantage that we do not need to wlock the source
namespace, so copying can be done in parallel and we do not need the
copy forward pointer in the Mount structure.
the Mhead back pointer in the Mount strcture was unused, removed.
there was a race between cunmount() and walk() on Mhead.from as Mhead.from was
unconditionally freed when we cunmount(), but findmount might have already
returned the Mhead in walk(). we have to ensure that Mhead.from is not freed
before the Mhead itself (now done in putmhead() once the reference count of the
Mhead drops to zero).
the Mhead struct contained two unused locks, removing.
no need to hold Pgrp.ns lock in closegrp() as nobody can get to it (refcount
droped to zero).
avoid cclose() and freemount() while holding Mhead.lock or Pgrp.ns locks as
it might block on a hung up fileserver.
remove the debug prints...
cleanup: use nil for pointers, remove redundant nil checks before putmhead().
we have to validaddr() and vmemchr() all argv[] elements a second
time when we copy to the new stack to deal with the fact that another
process can come in and modify the memory of the process doing the
exec. so the argv[] strings could have changed and increased in
length. we just make sure the data being copied will fit into the
new stack and error when we would overflow.
also make sure to free the ESEG in case the copy pass errors.
argv[] strings get copied to the new processes stack segment, which
has a maximum size of USTKSIZE, so limit the size of the strings to
that and check early for overflow.
this moves the name validation out of segattach() to syssegattach()
to make sure the segment name cannot be changed by the user while
segattach looks at it.
when executing a script, we did advance argp0 unconditionally
to replace argv[0] with the script name. this fails when
argv[] is empty, then we'd advance argp0 past the nil terminator.
the alternative would be to *not* advance if *argp0 == nil, but that
would require another validaddr() check for a case that is unlikely
to have been anticipated in most programs being invoked as
libc's ARGBEGIN macro assumes argv[0] being non-nil as it also
unconditionally advances the argv pointer.
to keep us sane, we now reject an empty argv[]. on entry, we
verify that argv[] is valid for at least two elements:
- the program name argv[0], has to be non-nil
- the first potential nil terminator in argv[1]
when argv[0] == nil, we throw Ebadarg "bad arg in system call"
the psaux driver is not used in any kernel configuration and theres
no userspace mouse daemon. i8042auxcmds() is wrong as access
to the user buffer can fault and we are holding an ilocks.
little cleanups in devkbd.
on vmware, loading a new kernel sometimes reboots when
wiggling the mouse. disabling keyboard and mouse on
shutdown fixes the issue.
make sure ps2 mouse is disabled on init, will get re-enabled
in i8042auxenable().
keyboard isnt special anymore, we can just use the devreset
entry point in the device to do the keyboard initialization,
so kbdinit()/kbdenable() are not needed anymore.
the keyboard stops sending interrupts when its fifo gets full,
which can happen on boot when keys get mashed while interrupts
are still disabled. to work arround this, call the keyboard
interrupt handler when kbd.q is starved before blocking.
add bootscreenconf(VGAscr *) function, that is called whenever
the framebuffer configuration is changed by devvga. that way, we
can pass the current setting of the framebuffer to the new
kernel when using /dev/reboot.
we already export mntauth() and mntversion(), so why not stop
being sneaky and just export mntattach() so bindmount() and
devshr can just call it directly with proper arguments being
checked.
we can also avoid handling #M attach specially in namec()
by having the devmnt's attach function do error(Enoattach).
to avoid double caching, attachimage() and setswapchan() clear
the CCACHE flag on the channel but this keeps the read ahread
state of the cache arround (until the chan gets closed), so also
call cclunk() to detach the mcp and free the read ahead state.
avoid the call to cread() when CCACHE flag is clear.
use the actual iounit returned from Ropen/Rcreate to chunk reads and writes
instead of c->mux->msize-IOHDRSZ.
dont preallocate the rpc buffers to msize, most 9p requests are rather small
(except Twrite of course). so we allocate the buffer on demand in mountio()
with some rounding to avoid frequent reallocations.
avoid malloc()/free() while holding mntalloc lock.
this changes devmnt adding mntrahread() function and some helpers
for it to do pipelined sequential read ahead for the mount cache.
basically, cread() calls mntrahread() with Mntrah structure and it
figures out if we where reading sequentially and if thats the case
issues reads of c->iounit size in advance.
the read ahead state (Mntrah) is kept in the mount cache so we can
handle (read ahead) cache invalidation in the presence of writes.
as the Fgrp can be shared with other processes, we have to
recheck the fd index after locking the Fgrp in fdclose()
to make sure not to read beyond the bounds of the fd array.
using the user buffer has a race where the user can modify
the buffer from another process before it is copied into the cache.
this allows poisoning the cache for every file where the user
has read access.
instead, we update the cache from kernel memory.
Wnode gets two new counters: txcount and txerror
and actrate pointer that will be between minrate
and maxrate.
driver should use actrate instead of maxrate for
transmission when it can provide error feedback.
when a driver detects a transmission failed, it calls
wifitxfail() with the original packet. wifitxfail() then
reduces wn->actrate.
every 256th packet, we optimistically increase wn->actrate
before transmitting.
- reject files smaller or equal to two bytes, they are bogus
- fix out of bounds access in shargs() when n <= 2
- only copy the bytes read into line buffer
- use nil for pointers instead of 0
imagereclaim(), pagereclaim():
- move imagereclaim() and pagereclaim() declarations to portfns.h
- consistently use ulong type for page counts
- name number of pages to free "pages" instead of "min"
- check for pages == 0 on entry
freepages():
- move pagechaindone() call to wakeup newpage() consumers inside
palloc critical section.
putimage():
- use long type for refcount
- reduce delay for channel hop to 200ms
- use 1000ms timeout for auth response (dont hop channels while we wait)
- bunny hop sequence is mathematically prooven
addresses va's of 0 and -BY2PG cause trouble with some memmove()/memset()
implementations and possibly other code because of the nil pointer
and end pointers wrapping to zero.
unlock()/iunlock():
we need to place the coherence() *before* "l->key = 0", so that any
stores that where done while holding the lock become observable
*before* other processors see the lock released.
cas()/tas():
place memory barrier before successfull return to prevent reordering.
making sure to close the dot in every kproc appears repetitive,
so instead stop inheriting the dot in kproc() as this is usually
never what you wanted in the first place.
give kernel processes and local disk file servers (procs
having noswap flag set) a clear advantage for page allocation
under starved condition by giving them ther own wait queue so
they get readied as soon as pages become available.
yoann padioleaus report on 9fans:
> I think I’ve found a bug in the network stack.
> in 9/ip/ip.h there is
> struct Ipht
> {
> Lock;
> Iphash *tab[Nipht];
> };
>
> where Night is 521,
>
> but then in 9/ip/ipaux.c there is
>
> ulong
> iphash(uchar *sa, ushort sp, uchar *da, ushort dp)
> {
> return ((sa[IPaddrlen-1]<<24) ^ (sp << 16) ^ (da[IPaddrlen-1]<<8) ^ dp ) % Nhash;
> }
>
> where Nhash is just 64,
prevent double sleep():
callers to sleep() need to be serialized as there can only
be one process sleeping at a time. plrlock and plwlock do
this.
wait for dma to complete in plwrite():
we have to wait for the dma to complete before touching
plbuf again.
maintain COPEN flag in archopen()/archclose():
when open fails because it was in use, clear the COPEN
flag, so archclose() wont screw stuff up.
David du Colombier wrote:
> The slowness issue only appears on the loopback, because
> it provides a 16384 MTU.
>
> There is an old bug in the Plan 9 TCP stack, were the TCP
> MSS doesn't take account the MTU for incoming connections.
>
> I originally fixed this issue in January 2015 for the Plan 9
> port on Google Compute Engine. On GCE, there is an unusual
> 1460 MTU.
>
> The Plan 9 TCP stack defines a default 1460 MSS corresponding
> to a 1500 MTU. Then, the MSS is fixed according to the MTU
> for outgoing connections, but not incoming connections.
>
> On GCE, this issue leads to IP fragmentation, but GCE didn't
> handle IP fragmentation properly, so the connections
> were dropped.
>
> On the loopback medium, I suppose this is the opposite issue.
> Since the TCP stack didn't fix the MSS in the incoming
> connection, the programs sent multiple small 1500 bytes
> IP packets instead of large 16384 IP packets, but I don't
> know why it leads to such a slowdown.
the intend of posting a note to the faulting process is to
interrupt the syscall to give the note handler a chance
to handle it. kernel processes however, have no note handlers
and all the postnote() does is set up->notepending which will
make the next attempt to sleep raise an Eintr[] error. this
is harmless, but usually not what we want.
there's no need to waste space for a error buffer in the Segio
structure, as the segmentio kproc will be waiting for the next
command after an error and will not overwite it until we issue
another command.
devproc's procctlmemio() did not handle physical segment
types correctly, as it assumed it can just kmap() the page
in question and write to it. physical segments however
need to be mapped uncached but kmap() will always map
cached as it assumes normal memory. on some machines with
aliasing memory with different cache attributes
leads to undefined behaviour!
we borrow the code from devsegment and provide a generic
segio() function to read and write user segments which
handles all the cases without using kmap by just spawning
a kproc that attaches the segment that needs to be read
from or written to. fault() will setup the right mmu
attributes for us. it will also properly flush pages for
segments that maintain instruction cache when written.
however, tlb's have to be flushed separately.
segio() is used for devsegment and devproc now, which
also allows for simplification of fixfault() as there is no
special error handling case anymore as fixfault() is now
called from faulting process *only*.
reads from /proc/$pid/mem can now span multiple pages.
code like "return g->dlen;" is wrong as we do not hold the
qlock of the global segment. another process could come in
and override g->dlen making us return the wrong byte count.
avoid copying when we already got a kernel address (kernel memory
is the same on processes) which is the case with bread()/bwrite().
this is the same optimization that devsd does.
also avoid allocating/freeing and copying while holding the qlock.
when we copy to/from user memory, we might fault preventing
others from accessing the segment while fault handling is in
progress.
walking the freelist for every page is too slow. as we
are freeing a range, we can do a single pass unlinking all
pages in our range and at the end, check if all pages
where freed, if not put the pages that we did free back
and retry, otherwise we'r done.
fixed segments are continuous in physical memory but
allocated in user pages. unlike shared segments, they
are not allocated on demand but the pages are allocated
on creation time (devsegment). fixed segments are
never swapped out, segfreed or resized and can only be
destroyed as a whole.
the physical base address can be discovered by userspace
reading the ctl file in devsegment.
this avoids listing the upper half of 64-bit membars
in Pcidev.mem[] array avoiding potential confusion
in drivers.
we also check if the upper half is programmed to zero
by bios and otherwise zap the entry in Pcidev.mem[]
and print a warning.
qemu puts multiboot data after the end of the kernel image, so
to be able to KADDR() that memory early, we extend the initial
identity mapping by 16K. right now we just got lucky with
the pc kernel as it rounds the map to 4MB pages.
when we switch to graphics mode, we do not want graphical arcs console
to print on the screen anymore as it assumes 8bit color mode and just
messes up the screen on kernel prints.
GEVector() saves the exception return PC in Ureg.r27 which needs
to be preserved.
there should be no reason for the user to change the status
register from noted() eigther, so we now just use setregisters()
in noted() to restore previous general purpose registers. this
means that CU1 will always be off after noted() because notify()
has disabled the FPU on entry and set fpstatus to FPinactive
if it was on. once user starts using FPU again, it will trap and
restore fpu registers.
touching transmit descriptors while dma is running causes the
front to fall off. new approach keeps a counter of free
descriptors in the Ring structure that is incremented
by txintr() when transmit completed.
txintr() will clean descriptors once dma has stopped and
restart dma when there are more descrtors in the chain.
this provides basic console support using the ARC bios routines
theu uartarcs driver. and has native seeq ethernet driver which
was written by reading the 2ed devseq driver as i have no
documentation on the hardware. mmu and trap code is based on the
routerboard kernel.
bootmkfile will now looks for the following proto files in order
and pick the first one it finds to build the bootfs.paq file:
1) $CONF.boofs.proto (config specific)
2) bootfs.proto (kernel specific)
3) $BOOTDIR/bootfs.proto (default generic)
the mount cache uses Page.va to store cached range offset and
limit, but mips kernel uses cache index bits from Page.va to
maintain page coloring. Page.va was not initialized by auxpage().
this change removes auxpage() which was primarily used only
by the mount cache and use newpage() with cache file offset
page as va so we will get a page of the right color.
mount cache keeps the index bits intact by only using the top
and buttom PGSHIFT bits of Page.va for the range offset/limit.
when we are skipping a process because we could not acquire
its segment lock, dont call reclaim() again (which is pointless
as we didnt pageout any pages), instead try the next process.
the Pte.last pointer is inclusive, so don't miss the last page
in pageout().
when building bootfs in d770 mode directory, the other permissions
in bootfs paq are masked off which results in boot to fail. theres
no point in checking group/other permissions on boot, so just disable
permissin checking in paqfs with the -a flag.
mcountseg(), mfreeseg():
use Pte.first/last pointers when possible and avoid constructs
like s->map[i]->pages[j].
freepte():
do not zero entries in freepte(), the segment is going away and
here is no point in zeroing page pointers. hoist common code at
the top avoiding duplication.
segpage(), fixfault():
avoid load after store for Pte** pointer.
fixfault():
return -1 in default case to avoid the "used but not set" warning
for mmuphys and get rid of the useless initialization.
syssegflush():
due to len being unsigned, the pe = PGROUND(pe) can make "chunk"
bigger than len causing a overflow. rewrite the function and deal
with page alignment and errors at the beginning.
syssegflush(), segpage(), fixfault(), putseg(), relocateseg(),
mcountseg(), mfreeseg():
keep naming consistent.
the "to" address can overflow in syssegfree() causing wrong
number of pages to be passed to mfreeseg(). with the current
implementation of mfreeseg() however, this doesnt cause any
data corruption but was just freeing an unexpected number of
pages.
this change checks for this condition in syssegfree() and
errors out instead. also mfreeseg() was changed to take
ulong argument for number of pages instead of int to keep
it consistent with other routines that work with page counts.
sdbio() tests if it can pass the buffer pointer directly to
the driver when it is already in kernel memory. we also need
to check if the buffer is properly aligned but alignment
requirement is handled in system specific sdmalloc() and
was not known to devsd.
to solve this, we *always* page align sd buffers and get rid
of the system specific sdmalloc() macro (was only used in bcm
kernel).
ignore physical segments in mcountseg() and mfreeseg(). physical
segments are not backed by user pages, and doing putpage() on
physical segment pages in mfreeseg() is an error.
do now allow physical segemnts to be resized. the segment size
is only checked in segattach() to be within the physical segment!
ignore physical segments in portcountpagerefs() as pagenumber()
does not work on the malloced page structures of a physical segment.
get rid of Physseg.pgalloc() and Physseg.pgfree() indirection as
this was never used and if theres a need to do more efficient
allocation, it should be done in a portable way.
the following hooks have been added to the ehci Ctlr
structore to handle cache coherency (on arm):
void* (*tdalloc)(ulong,int,ulong);
void* (*dmaalloc)(ulong);
void (*dmafree)(void*);
void (*dmaflush)(int,void*,ulong);
tdalloc() is used to allocate descriptors and the periodic
frame schedule array. on arm, this needs to return uncached
memory. tdalloc()ed memory is never freed.
dmaalloc()/dmafree() is used for io buffers. this can return
cached memory when when hardware maintains cache coherency (pc)
or dmaflush() is provided to flush/invalidate the cache (zynq),
otherwise needs to return uncached memory.
dmaflush() is used to flush/invalidate the cache. the first
argument tells us if we need to flush (non zero) or
invalidate (zero).
uncached.h is gone now. this change makes the handling explicit.
map the whole ocm memory on boot so we can translate physical to
virtual addresses and back for uncached memory using KADDR() and
PADDR().
replace ualloc() with ucalloc() returning virtual address. physical
address can be acquired with PADDR() now.
as ocm is now always mapped, use KADDR() instead of tmpmap() for
mp bootstrap.
there are no kernels currently that do page coloring,
so the only use of cachectl[] is flushing the icache
(on arm and ppc).
on pc64, cachectl consumes 32 bytes in each page resulting
in over 200 megabytes of overhead for 32gb of ram with 4K
pages.
this change removes cachectl[] and adds txtflush ulong
that is set to ~0 by pio() to instruct putmmu() to flush
the icache.
we used to read beyond the boundaries of the becon because of
the end pointer was offset by the beacon header. this is
also what caused the double entries.
this bug happens when the kernel runs out of mount rpc
buffers when allocating a flush rpc. in this case, mntflushalloc()
will errorjump out of mountio() leaving the currently in
flight rpc in the mount. the caller of mountrpc()/mountio()
frees the rpc thats still queued in the mount leaving
to interesting results.
for the fix, we add a waserror() arround mntflushalloc() and
handle the error case like a mount rpc failure which will
properly dequeue the rpc's in flight.
the FPOFF macro that follows the FXSAVE/FSAVE instructions in l.s
used to execute WAIT instruction when the TS flag was not set. this
is wrong and causes pending exceptions to be raised from fpsave which
is called from provsave() which holds up->rlock making it deadlock
when matherror() tries to postnote() to itself.
so making FPOFF non-waiting (just set TS flag).
we handle pending exception when restoring the context.
initially, pio was used to access registers so i didnt need
a kernel driver for initial testing.
pio does not work under efi, so use mmio to access registers.
we have to reset hwblank when switching drivers to
prevent the generic vgablank() to be called by
blankscreen().
remove code setting hwblank from vga drivers as
devvga will always force hwblank to be 1 or 0
depending on if the driver provides a native blanking
routine.
set hwaccel to 1 when the driver provides native fill
and scroll routines independent of softscreen being
disabled. this allows hw acceleration to be used when
softscreen gets switched off.
don't hold drawlock duing vga enable and disable, but just zero
the function pointers under drawlock *before* disabling the vga
device.
holding the drawlock while calling out into enable and disable
is not a good idea. with vgavesa, this might deadlock when
userspace realemu tries to print in a rio window with vgavesa.
in 9front, screen blanking is always initiated from process context,
so there is no need for a kproc anymore.
care has been taken for the race between vesadisable() and vesablank()
by acquiering the drawlock prior calling scr->dev->enable() and
scr->dev->disable(). this also has the side effect of accelerated
fills and scrolls not being called during device disable.