As Sergey pointed out, it's silly to have proper entries for . and ..
in TmpFS when we can just synthesize them on the fly.
Note that we have to tolerate removal of . and .. via remove_child()
to keep VFS::rmdir() happy.
This encourages callers to strongly reference file descriptions while
working with them.
This fixes a use-after-free issue where one thread would close() an
open fd while another thread was blocked on it becoming readable.
Test: Kernel/uaf-close-while-blocked-in-read.cpp
Instead of using the FIFO's memory address as part of its absolute path
identity, just use an incrementing FIFO index instead.
Note that this is not used for anything other than debugging (it helps
you identify which file descriptors refer to the same FIFO by looking
at /proc/PID/fds
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is an x86 CPU feature that
prevents the kernel from accessing userspace memory. With SMAP enabled,
trying to read/write a userspace memory address while in the kernel
will now generate a page fault.
Since it's sometimes necessary to read/write userspace memory, there
are two new instructions that quickly switch the protection on/off:
STAC (disables protection) and CLAC (enables protection.)
These are exposed in kernel code via the stac() and clac() helpers.
There's also a SmapDisabler RAII object that can be used to ensure
that you don't forget to re-enable protection before returning to
userspace code.
THis patch also adds copy_to_user(), copy_from_user() and memset_user()
which are the "correct" way of doing things. These functions allow us
to briefly disable protection for a specific purpose, and then turn it
back on immediately after it's done. Going forward all kernel code
should be moved to using these and all uses of SmapDisabler are to be
considered FIXME's.
Note that we're not realizing the full potential of this feature since
I've used SmapDisabler quite liberally in this initial bring-up patch.
This has been a FIXME for a long time. We now apply the provided
read/write permissions to the constructed FileDescription when opening
a File object via File::open().
We were running without the sticky bit and mode 777, which meant that
the /tmp directory was world-writable *without* protection.
With this fixed, it's no longer possible for everyone to steal root's
files in /tmp.
In order to ensure a specific owner and mode when the local socket
filesystem endpoint is instantiated, we need to be able to call
fchmod() and fchown() on a socket fd between socket() and bind().
This is because until we call bind(), there is no filesystem inode
for the socket yet.
If we're creating something that should have a different owner than the
current process's UID/GID, we need to plumb that all the way through
VFS down to the FS functions.
To accomodate file creation, path resolution optionally returns the
last valid parent directory seen while traversing the path.
Clients will then interpret "ENOENT, but I have a parent for you" as
meaning that the file doesn't exist, but its immediate parent directory
does. The client then goes ahead and creates a new file.
In the case of "/foo/bar/baz" where there is no "/foo", it would fail
with ENOENT and "/" as the last seen parent directory, causing e.g the
open() syscall to create "/baz".
Covered by test_io.
It was previously possible to write to read-only file descriptors,
and read from write-only file descriptors.
All FileDescription objects now start out non-readable + non-writable,
and whoever is creating them has to "manually" enable reading/writing
by calling set_readable() and/or set_writable() on them.
This code never worked, as was never used for anything. We can build
a much better SHM implementation on top of TmpFS or similar when we
get to the point when we need one.
The new PCI subsystem is initialized during runtime.
PCI::Initializer is supposed to be called during early boot, to
perform a few tests, and initialize the proper configuration space
access mechanism. Kernel boot parameters can be specified by a user to
determine what tests will occur, to aid debugging on problematic
machines.
After that, PCI::Initializer should be dismissed.
PCI::IOAccess is a class that is derived from PCI::Access
class and implements PCI configuration space access mechanism via x86
IO ports.
PCI::MMIOAccess is a class that is derived from PCI::Access
and implements PCI configurtaion space access mechanism via memory
access.
The new PCI subsystem also supports determination of IO/MMIO space
needed by a device by checking a given BAR.
In addition, Every device or component that use the PCI subsystem has
changed to match the last changes.
This patch hardens /proc a bit by making many things only accessible
to UID 0, and also disallowing access to /proc/PID/ for anyone other
than the UID of that process (and superuser, obviously.)
Threads now have numeric priorities with a base priority in the 1-99
range.
Whenever a runnable thread is *not* scheduled, its effective priority
is incremented by 1. This is tracked in Thread::m_extra_priority.
The effective priority of a thread is m_priority + m_extra_priority.
When a runnable thread *is* scheduled, its m_extra_priority is reset to
zero and the effective priority returns to base.
This means that lower-priority threads will always eventually get
scheduled to run, once its effective priority becomes high enough to
exceed the base priority of threads "above" it.
The previous values for ThreadPriority (Low, Normal and High) are now
replaced as follows:
Low -> 10
Normal -> 30
High -> 50
In other words, it will take 20 ticks for a "Low" priority thread to
get to "Normal" effective priority, and another 20 to reach "High".
This is not perfect, and I've used some quite naive data structures,
but I think the mechanism will allow us to build various new and
interesting optimizations, and we can figure out better data structures
later on. :^)
This is memory that's loaded from an inode (file) but not modified in
memory, so still identical to what's on disk. This kind of memory can
be freed and reloaded transparently from disk if needed.
Dirty private memory is all memory in non-inode-backed mappings that's
process-private, meaning it's not shared with any other process.
This patch exposes that number via SystemMonitor, giving us an idea of
how much memory each process is responsible for all on its own.
We were listing the total number of user/super pages as the number of
"available" pages in the system. This was then misinterpreted in the
SystemMonitor program and displayed wrong in the GUI.
Cautiously use 5 as a limit for now so that we don't blow the stack.
This can be increased in the future if we are sure that we won't be
blowing the stack, or if the implementation is changed to not use
recursion :^)
Every process keeps its own ELF executable mapped in memory in case we
need to do symbol lookup (for backtraces, etc.)
Until now, it was mapped in a way that made it accessible to the
program, despite the program not having mapped it itself.
I don't really see a need for userspace to have access to this right
now, so let's lock things down a little bit.
This patch makes it inaccessible to userspace and exposes that fact
through /proc/PID/vm (per-region "user_accessible" flag.)
Currently only Ext2FS and TmpFS supports InodeWatchers. We now fail
with ENOTSUPP if watch_file() is called on e.g ProcFS.
This fixes an issue with FileManager chewing up all the CPU when /proc
was opened. Watchers don't keep the watched Inode open, and when they
close, the watcher FD will EOF.
Since nothing else kept /proc open in FileManager, the watchers created
for it would EOF immediately, causing a refresh over and over.
Fixes#879.
The kernel now supports basic profiling of all the threads in a process
by calling profiling_enable(pid_t). You finish the profiling by calling
profiling_disable(pid_t).
This all works by recording thread stacks when the timer interrupt
fires and the current thread is in a process being profiled.
Note that symbolication is deferred until profiling_disable() to avoid
adding more noise than necessary to the profile.
A simple "/bin/profile" command is included here that can be used to
start/stop profiling like so:
$ profile 10 on
... wait ...
$ profile 10 off
After a profile has been recorded, it can be fetched in /proc/profile
There are various limits (or "bugs") on this mechanism at the moment:
- Only one process can be profiled at a time.
- We allocate 8MB for the samples, if you use more space, things will
not work, and probably break a bit.
- Things will probably fall apart if the profiled process dies during
profiling, or while extracing /proc/profile
Okay, one "dunce hat" point for me. The new PTY majors conflicted with
PATAChannel. Now they are 200 for master and 201 for slave, not used
by anything else.. I hope!
It's now possible to get purgeable memory by using mmap(MAP_PURGEABLE).
Purgeable memory has a "volatile" flag that can be set using madvise():
- madvise(..., MADV_SET_VOLATILE)
- madvise(..., MADV_SET_NONVOLATILE)
When in the "volatile" state, the kernel may take away the underlying
physical memory pages at any time, without notifying the owner.
This gives you a guilt discount when caching very large things. :^)
Setting a purgeable region to non-volatile will return whether or not
the memory has been taken away by the kernel while being volatile.
Basically, if madvise(..., MADV_SET_NONVOLATILE) returns 1, that means
the memory was purged while volatile, and whatever was in that piece
of memory needs to be reconstructed before use.
Using int was a mistake. This patch changes String, StringImpl,
StringView and StringBuilder to use size_t instead of int for lengths.
Obviously a lot of code needs to change as a result of this.
The main thread of each kernel/user process will take the name of
the process. Extra threads will get a fancy new name
"ProcessName[<tid>]".
Thread backtraces now list the thread name in addtion to tid.
Add the thread name to /proc/all (should it get its own proc
file?).
Add two new syscalls, set_thread_name and get_thread_name.
This patch adds these I/O counters to each thread:
- (Inode) file read bytes
- (Inode) file write bytes
- Unix socket read bytes
- Unix socket write bytes
- IPv4 socket read bytes
- IPv4 socket write bytes
These are then exposed in /proc/all and seen in SystemMonitor.
This defaults to 1500 for all adapters, but LoopbackAdapter increases
it to 65536 on construction.
If an IPv4 packet is larger than the MTU, we'll need to break it into
smaller fragments before transmitting it. This part is a FIXME. :^)
Turns out we can use abi::__cxa_demangle() for this, and all we need to
provide is sprintf(), realloc() and free(), so this patch exposes them.
We now have fully demangled C++ backtraces :^)
Previously it was not possible to see what each thread in a process was
up to, or how much CPU it was consuming. This patch fixes that.
SystemMonitor and "top" now show threads instead of just processes.
"ps" is gonna need some more fixing, but it at least builds for now.
Fixes#66.
This adds a call to set_metadata_dirty(true) to
Ext2FS::write_directory(). This fixes a bug wherein InodeWatchers
weren't alerted on directory updates.
Scheduling priority is now set at the thread level instead of at the
process level.
This is a step towards allowing processes to set different priorities
for threads. There's no userspace API for that yet, since only the main
thread's priority is affected by sched_setparam().
Files opened with O_DIRECT will now bypass the disk cache in read/write
operations (though metadata operations will still hit the disk cache.)
This will allow us to test actual disk performance instead of testing
disk *cache* performance, if that's what we want. :^)
There's room for improvment here, we're very aggressively flushing any
dirty cache entries for the specific block before reading/writing that
block. This is done by walking the entire cache, which may be slow.
Don't keep Inodes around in memory forever after we've interacted with
them once. This is a slight performance pessimization when accessing
the same file repeatedly, but closing it for a while in between.
Longer term we should find a way to keep a limited number of unused
Inodes cached, whichever ones we think are likely to be used again.
When creating a new directory, we set the initial size to 1 block.
This meant that we were allocating a block up front, but the Inode's
internal block list cache was not populated with this block.
This broke write_bytes() on a new directory, since it assumed that
the block list cache would be up to date if the call to write_bytes()
would not change the directory's size.
This patch fixes the issue in two ways: First, we cache the initial
block list created for new directories.
Second, we now repopulate the block list cache in write_bytes() if it
is empty when we get there. This is basically just a safety fallback
to avoid having this kind of bug in the future.
We can't be calling the virtual FS::flush_writes() in order to flush
the disk cache from within the disk cache, since an FS subclass may
try to do cache stuff in its flush_writes() implementation.
Instead, separate out the implementation of DiskBackedFS's flushing
logic into a flush_writes_impl() and call that from the cache code.
Also cache the block group descriptor table in a KBuffer on file system
initialization, instead of on first access.
This reduces pressure on the kmalloc heap somewhat.
We were writing out the full block list whenever Ext2FSInode::resize()
was called, even if the old and new sizes were identical.
This patch makes it a no-op, which drastically improves "cp" speed
since we now take full advantage of the up-front call to ftruncate().
If there are not enough free blocks in the filesystem to accomodate
growing an Inode, we should fail with ENOSPC before even starting to
allocate blocks.
Add a simple cache to Ext2FS where we keep block bitmaps along with a
dirty bit. This allows us to coalesce bitmap flushes, giving us a nice
~3x improvement in disk_benchmark write speeds.
Store the cached super block as an ext2_super_block member instead of
caching it in a ByteBuffer and using a casting helper everywhere.
This patch also combines reading/writing of the super block into a
single disk device operation (instead of two.)
Add dedicated internal types for Int64 and UnsignedInt64. This makes it
a bit more straightforward to work with 64-bit numbers (instead of just
implicitly storing them as doubles.)
I have no idea why this was here. It makes no sense. If you're trying
to find out if something is a directory, why wouldn't you be allowed to
ask that about a FIFO? :^)
Thanks to Brandon for spotting this!
Also, while we're here, cache the directory state in a bool member so
we don't have to keep fetching inode metadata when checking this
repeatedly. This is important since sys$read() now calls it.
Previously, procfs$pid_fds would return nothing when called
for a process that had either no open files or a non-existent
handle. This could cause problems when a userspace program
expected a valid Json response.
Procfs$pid_fs now returns an empty array in the aforementioned
cases.
This reverts commit 1cca5142af.
This appears to be causing intermittent triple-faults and I don't know
why yet, so I'll just revert it to keep the tree in decent shape.
Background: DoubleBuffer is a handy buffer class in the kernel that
allows you to keep writing to it from the "outside" while the "inside"
reads from it. It's used for things like LocalSocket and PTY's.
Internally, it has a read buffer and a write buffer, but the two will
swap places when the read buffer is exhausted (by reading from it.)
Before this patch, it was internally implemented as two Vector<u8>
that we would swap between when the reader side had exhausted the data
in the read buffer. Now instead we preallocate a large KBuffer (64KB*2)
on DoubleBuffer construction and use that throughout its lifetime.
This removes all the kmalloc heap traffic caused by DoubleBuffers :^)
The Cache entries found in `DiskBackedFileSystem` are now stored in a
`KBuffer` object, instead of relying on `kmalloc_eternal`. The number
of entries was exceeding that of the number of bytes allocated to
`kmalloc_eternal`, which in turn caused `mount()` to fail epically
when called.
This patch adds three separate per-process fault counters:
- Inode faults
An inode fault happens when we've memory-mapped a file from disk
and we end up having to load 1 page (4KB) of the file into memory.
- Zero faults
Memory returned by mmap() is lazily zeroed out. Every time we have
to zero out 1 page, we count a zero fault.
- CoW faults
VM objects can be shared by multiple mappings that make their own
unique copy iff they want to modify it. The typical reason here is
memory shared between a parent and child process.
This patch overloads Inode::is_directory() with a faster version that
doesn't require instantiating the whole InodeMetadata.
If you have an Ext2FSInode&, calling is_directory() should be instant
since we can just look directly at the raw inode bits.
If we want to make a new entry in the disk cache when it's completely
full of dirty blocks, we'll now synchronously flush the writes at that
point. Maybe it's not ideal, but at least we can keep going.
This way clients are not required to have instantiated ByteBuffers
and can choose whatever memory scheme works best for them.
Also converted some of the Ext2FS code to use stack buffers instead.
Instead of having DiskBackedFS allocate a ByteBuffer, leave it to each
client to provide buffer space.
This is significantly faster in many cases where we can use a stack
buffer and avoid heap allocation entirely.
The hashmap cache was ridiculously slow and hurt us more than it helped
us. This patch replaces it with a flat memory cache that keeps up to
10'000 blocks in cache with a simple dirty bit.
The syncd task will wake up periodically and call flush_writes() on all
file systems, which now causes us to traverse the cache and write all
dirty blocks to disk.
There's a ton of room for improvement here, but this itself is already
drastically better when doing repeated GCC invocations.
