That way, these pages are transferred during live update, as they
should. This resolves a mfs crash after a number of live updates.
Change-Id: Ia53bec2692b2114c29b96a453beb0f915f56453a
This patch changes the VM makefile to specify that the magic pass is
to skip memory function instrumentation, and to transfer the data
variables of the malloc code (thus overriding the exception we made
for all other system services). We add two magic pass flags to
achieve this. Since the magic pass is a big bowl of spaghetti code,
ignoring whitespace changes while viewing this patch is recommended.
Change-Id: I5ab83b23d8437b37c44dea99537bc202469c9df6
Due to changed VM internals, more elaborate preparation is required
before a live update with multiple components including VM can take
place. This patch adds the essential preparation infrastructure to
VM and adapts RS to make use of it. As a side effect, it is no
longer necessary to supply RS as the last component (if at all)
during the set-up of a multicomponent live update operation.
Change-Id: If069fd3f93f96f9d5433998e4615f861465ef448
During live update, the new instance of VM may make changes that,
after a rollback, have to be undone by the old instance of VM, in
particular because both instances share (read-write) all dynamically
allocated pages.
Change-Id: I2bcfa8e627ca6084b1991e0af7cccecc683894a2
A missing check to see whether the range being transferred is sane
(with a starting address lower than an ending address) caused extra
memory to be marked erroneously as copy-on-write for some processes,
ultimately resulting in pagefaults on the stack during live update
rollback.
Change-Id: I1516b509b485379606d8df05b8a0f514896a0f19
If the stack is not mapped at the VM_DATATOP (e.g. booted with
ac_layout = 1), there might be some more regions hiding above
the stack. We also have to transfer those.
Change-Id: Idf3b94a36fcec8a10ace2f6dffe816faf0a88f60
. make sure the priv id etc is maintained so
future privctl talk about the right thing
. solves broken IPC after update
Change-Id: I17ed0212c22d634e6db1e80f8dcb2fb8bffe82c6
The 'memory' service has holes in its data section, which causes
problems during state transfer. Since VM cannot handle page faults
during a multicomponent-with-VM live update, the state transfer must
ensure that no page faults occur during copying. Therefore, we now
query VM about the regions to copy, thus skipping holes. While the
solution is not ideal, it is sufficiently generic that it can be used
for the data section state transfer of all processes, and possibly
for state transfer of other regions in the future as well.
Change-Id: I2a71383a18643ebd36956c396fbd22c8fd137202
Two bugs fixed wrt vm restartability.
. make sure pagetable data is only allocated
using dynamic data instead of static spare pages
(bootstrap pages). They are needed for bootstrap
but now repeat some of the initialization so only
dynamic data remains. This solves the problem of
physical addresses changing (as static pages are
re-allocated for the new instance) after update.
. pt_ptalloc has to be specified in bytes instead of
pde slot numbers. leaving pt_pt NULL causes mapping
transfers to fail because NULL happens to be mapped in
then and updates then happen there.
. added some sanity checks against the above happening.
The new state is that VM can update many times, but the system
isn't fully reliable afterwards yet.
Change-Id: I7313602c740cdae8590589132291116ed921aed7
Allow extra space for in-band metadata when allocating cache blocks.
Edited by David van Moolenbroek: since this effectively halves the
potential size of the typical file system cache, do this only when
compiling with instrumentation.
Change-Id: I0840af6420899ede2d5bb7539e79c0a456b5128d
VM used to call sendrec to send a boot-time RS_INIT reply to RS, but
RS could run into a pagefault at the same time, thus spawning a
message to VM, resulting in a deadlock. We resolve this situation by
making VM acknowledge RS_INIT asynchronously at boot time, while
retaining the synchronous sendrec for subsequent RS_INIT responses.
Change-Id: I3cb72d7f8d6b9bfdc59a85958ada739c37fa3bde
The following services have been updated to support stateful restarts:
- Drivers: tty
- Filesystems: isofs, mfs, pfs, libvtreefs-based file servers
- System servers: tty, ds, pm, vfs, vm
Change-Id: Ie84baa3ba1774047b3ae519808fe4116928edabb
Previously, RS would clean up dead services only when it is idle.
During shutdown, all services are marked with the 'exiting' flag,
and these flags lead RS to conclude it is not idle. Therefore, at
shutdown time, no services were cleaned up anymore, leading to
deadlock situations. For example, VFS could end up waiting for a
service that was already dead, or one driver could end up waiting
for an interrupt on a line shared with another dead driver.
While it may be possible to ignore RS_EXITING when checking idle
status, other flags may have the same ultimate effect. Therefore,
this patch skips the idle check altogether when in shutdown mode.
Change-Id: I071fa9545da1d43c5e5c2e0bc2b6c173e3bb57c3
While in a multicomponent live update that includes RS, the new RS
instance may receive heartbeat replies which, after a rollback, the
old RS instance will then never see. As a result, the rolled-back
RS instance may end up killing well-behaving services.
Change-Id: I0f0af283c33502d5d55b27e353b62aec2e301285
Add support for compact address layout. This feature can be enabled
through the ac_layout=1 boot option.
Change-Id: Ie20b808fce32b5c54d0a7e7210e0084a540e9613
Some select queries require a response from device drivers. If a
select call is nonblocking (with a zero timeout), the response to
the caller may have to be deferred until all involved drivers have
responded to the initial query. This is handled just fine.
However, if the select call has a timeout that is so short that it
triggers before all the involved drivers have responded, the
resulting alarm would be discarded, possibly resulting in the call
blocking forever. This fix changes the alarm handler such that if
the alarm triggers too early, the select call is further handled
as though it was nonblocking.
This fix resolves a test77 deadlock on really slow systems.
Change-Id: Ib487c8fe436802c3e11c57355ae0c8480721f06e
Fix /dev/tty-related issues in tmux(1) by hardcoding the PTY major
in VFS in addition to the TTY major. Even though this is exactly
what we did NOT want to have to do, the actual fix for this issue
is going to take a little longer.
Change-Id: I24c75eaf688b9ebd28e931f2e445b8442cfdac78
The previous approach of storing pointers to messages structures for
thread-blocking sendrec operations relied on several assumptions,
which if violated could lead to odd cases of memory corruption.
With this patch, VFS resets pointers right after use, avoiding that
any dangling pointers are accidentally dereferenced later. This
approach was already used in some cases, but not all of them.
Change-Id: I752d994ea847b46228bd2ccf4e537deceb78fbaf
For dynamically linked executables, the interpreter is passed a
file descriptor of the binary being executed. To this end, VFS
opens the target executable, but opening the file fails if it is
not readable, even when it is executable. With this patch, when
opening the executable, it verifies the X bit rather than the R
bit on the file, thus allowing the execution of dynamically
linked binaries that are executable but not readable.
Add test86 to verify correctness.
Change-Id: If3514add6a33b33d52c05a0a627d757bff118d77
- do not use timers when there is only ever one timer;
- do not include kernel header files for no reason;
- do not reply to notifications ever.
Change-Id: I5817e22c1b46c4e30e5135069df318af0b4f87fd
- The lmfs_get_block*(3) API calls may now return an error. The idea
is to encourage a next generation of file system services to do a
better job at dealing with block read errors than the MFS-derived
implementations do. These existing file systems have been changed
to panic immediately upon getting a block read error, in order to
let unchecked errors cause corruption. Note that libbdev already
retries failing I/O operations a few times first.
- The libminixfs block device I/O module (bio.c) now deals properly
with end-of-file conditions on block devices. Since a device or
partition size may not be a multiple of the root file system's block
size, support for partial block retrival has been added, with a new
internal lmfs_get_partial_block(3) call. A new test program,
test85, tests the new handling of EOF conditions when reading,
writing, and memory-mapping a block device.
Change-Id: I05e35b6b8851488328a2679da635ebba0c6d08ce
This patch employs one solution to resolve two independent but related
issues. Both issues are the result of one fundamental aspect of the
way VM's memory mapping works: VM uses its cache to map in blocks for
memory-mapped file regions, and for blocks already in the VM cache, VM
does not go to the file system before mapping them in. To preserve
consistency between the FS and VM caches, VM relies on being informed
about all updates to file contents through the block cache. The two
issues are both the result of VM not being properly informed about
such updates:
1. Once a file system provides libminixfs with an inode association
(inode number + inode offset) for a disk block, this association
is not broken until a new inode association is provided for it.
If a block is freed and reallocated as a metadata (non-inode)
block, its old association is maintained, and may be supplied to
VM's secondary cache. Due to reuse of inodes, it is possible
that the same inode association becomes valid for an actual file
block again. In that case, when that new file is memory-mapped,
under certain circumstances, VM may end up using the metadata
block to satisfy a page fault on the file, due to the stale inode
association. The result is a corrupted memory mapping, with the
application seeing data other than the current file contents
mapped in at the file block.
2. When a hole is created in a file, the underlying block is freed
from the device, but VM is not informed of this update, and thus,
if VM's cache contains the block with its previous inode
association, this block will remain there. As a result, if an
application subsequently memory-maps the file, VM will map in the
old block at the position of the hole, rather than an all-zeroes
block. Thus, again, the result is a corrupted memory mapping.
This patch resolves both issues by making the file system inform the
minixfs library about blocks being freed, so that libminixfs can
break the inode association for that block, both in its own cache and
in the VM cache. Since libminixfs does not know whether VM has the
block in its cache or not, it makes a call to VM for each block being
freed. Thus, this change introduces more calls to VM, but it solves
the correctness issues at hand; optimizations may be introduced
later. On the upside, all freed blocks are now marked as clean,
which should result in fewer blocks being written back to the device,
and the blocks are removed from the caches entirely, which should
result in slightly better cache usage.
This patch is necessary but not sufficient to resolve the situation
with respect to memory mapping of file holes in general. Therefore,
this patch extends test 74 with a (rather particular but effective)
test for the first issue, but not yet with a test for the second one.
This fixes#90.
Change-Id: Iad8b134d2f88a884f15d3fc303e463280749c467
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
Previously, procfs would retrieve the rproc and rprocpub tables from
RS in two separate calls. This allowed for a race condition where the
tables could change in between the calls, resulting in a panic in
procfs under certain circumstances. RS now implements a new method
for getsysinfo that allows the retrieval of both tables at once.
Change-Id: I5ec22d25898361270c90e805a43fc6d76ad9e29d
Commit 723e513 erroneously removed a yield() call from VFS which was
necessary to get resumed pipe read/write threads to run before VFS
blocks on receive(). The removal caused those threads to run only
once VFS received another message, effectively slowing down activity
on pipes to a crawl in some cases.
Instead of readding the yield() call, this patch restructures the
get_work() code to go back through the main message loop even when no
new work is received, thus ensuring that newly started threads are
always activated without requiring a special case.
This fixes#65.
Change-Id: I59b7fb9e403d87dba1a5deecb04539cc37517742
For VFS, initialization is a special case for processing work: PFS
and the ramdisk MFS must be fully mounted before VFS can process any
other requests, in particular from init(8). This case was handled by
receiving reply messages only from the FS service being mounted, but
this effectively disallowed PFS from calling setuid(2) at startup.
This patch lets VFS receive all messages during the mounting process,
but defer processing any new requests. As a result, the FS services
have a bit more freedom in what they can do during startup.
Change-Id: I18275f458952a8d790736a9c9559b27bbef97b7b
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
