The new MIB service implements the sysctl(2) system call which, as
we adopt more NetBSD code, is an increasingly important part of the
operating system API. The system call is implemented in the new
service rather than as part of an existing service, because it will
eventually call into many other services in order to gather data,
similar to ProcFS. Since the sysctl(2) functionality is used even
by init(8), the MIB service is added to the boot image.
MIB stands for Management Information Base, and the MIB service
should be seen as a knowledge base of management information.
The MIB service implementation of the sysctl(2) interface is fairly
complete; it incorporates support for both static and dynamic nodes
and imitates many NetBSD-specific quirks expected by userland. The
patch also adds trace(1) support for the new system call, and adds
a new test, test87, which tests the fundamental operation of the
MIB service rather thoroughly.
Change-Id: I4766b410b25e94e9cd4affb72244112c2910ff67
Until now, the program name of a service was always the file name
(without directory) of the service binary. The program name is used
to, among other things, find the corresponding system.conf entry.
With ASR moving to a situation where all rerandomized service binaries
are stored in a single directory, this can no longer be maintained.
Instead, the service(8) command can now be instructed to override the
service program name, using its new -progname option.
Change-Id: I981e9b35232c88048d8804ec5eca58d1e4a5db82
This patch adds support for the wait4 system call, and with that the
wait3 call as well. The implementation is absolutely minimal: only
user and system times of the exited child are returned (with all other
rusage fields left zero), and there is no support for tracers. Still,
this should cover the main use cases of wait4.
Change-Id: I7a04589a8423a23990ab39aa38e85d535556743a
- the userland call is now made to PM only, and PM relays the call to
other servers as appropriate; this is an ABI change that will
ultimately allow us to add proper support for wait3() and the like;
for the moment there is backward compatibility;
- the getrusage-specific kernel subcall has been removed, as it
provided only redundant functionality, and did not provide the means
to be extended correctly in the future - namely, allowing the kernel
to return different values depending on whether resource usage of
the caller (self) or its children was requested;
- VM is now told whether resource usage of the caller (self) or its
children is requested, and it refrains from filling in wrong values
for information it does not have;
- VM now uses the correct unit for the ru_maxrss values;
- VFS is cut out of the loop entirely, since it does not provide any
values at the moment; a comment explains how it should be readded.
Change-Id: I27b0f488437dec3d8e784721c67b03f2f853120f
The current value was both wrong (counting spawned kernel signals
rather than delivered user signals) and returned for the calling
process even if the request was for the process's children.
For now we are better off not populating this field at all.
Change-Id: I6c660be266b5746b7c3db57ae88fa7f872961ee2
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
