Previously, VFS would use various subsets of a number of fproc
structure fields to store state when the process is blocked
(suspended) for various reasons. As a result, there was a fair
amount of abuse of fields, hidden state, and confusion as to
which fields were used with which suspension states.
Instead, the suspension state is now split into per-state
structures, which are then stored in a union. Each of the union's
structures should be accessed only right before, during, and right
after the fp_blocked_on field is set to the corresponding blocking
type. As a result, it is now very clear which fields are in use
at which times, and we even save a bit of memory as a side effect.
Change-Id: I5c24e353b6cb0c32eb41c70f89c5cfb23f6c93df
- About 80% of PM's process table consisted of per-signal sigaction
structures. This is information not used by the MIB service, and
can safely be stored outside the main process table.
- The MIB service does not need most of the VFS process table, so VFS
now generates a "light" version of its table upon request, with just
the fields used by the MIB service.
The result is a size reduction of the MIB service of about 700KB.
Change-Id: I79fe7239361fbfb45286af8e86a10aed4c2d2be7
The current values were both inaccurate (especially for dynamically
linked executables) and using the wrong unit (bytes, instead of
kilobytes times ticks-of-execution). For now we are better off not
populating these fields at all.
Change-Id: I195a8fa8db909e64a833eec25f59c9ee0b89bdc5
There is no reason to keep these tightly coupled data structures
separate. Moreover, there is no reason to have a union of file
descriptor and file pointer, since the second can be derived from
the first. The result are somewhat cleaner VFS internals.
Change-Id: I854da7d8291177878eecfc3077ef0a9e0cc82aaa
This patch fixes two related issues:
- If a large (>PIPE_BUF) pipe write is processed partially, only to be
followed by a write error condition, then the process is left in an
incorrect state, possibly causing VFS to crash on a subsequent call.
- If such a partially processed large pipe write ends up resulting in
an EPIPE error, no corresponding SIGPIPE signal is generated.
The corrected behavior is tested in test68.
Change-Id: I5540e61ab6bcc60a31201485eda04bc49ece2ca8
