Adds a peek function that allows (for example) a file system to suggest
the next blocks that should be used for read ahead. This can increase
the read speed of fragmented files.
Update #3689
The shell has an 'fdisk' command which has sub-commands 'mount' and 'unmount'.
These two sub-commands have a bug which causes them to be not able
to mount anything. This proposed patch removes the buggy file
cpukit/libblock/src/bdpart-mount.c and the mount/unmount commands
from 'fdisk' as bug fix. The 'fdisk' command itself is not removed.
The reasons for removing the sub-commands (instead of fixing the issue) are:
1) The bug has been introduced on 2010-May-31 with commit
29e92b090c. Since ten years no one
can use this feature, nor has anybody complained about it.
2) Besides of the 'fdisk' 'mount' sub-command, the shell has the
usual 'mount' and 'unmount' commands which can serve as
substitutes.
3) There are additional minor issues (see further down) which needed to
be addressed when the file will be kept.
What follows below is the precise bug description.
The bug is in function rtems_bdpart_mount() which is only be used
by the 'fdisk' shell command to mount all partitions of a disk with a
single command:
> fdisk DISK_NAME mount
> mounts the file system of each partition of the disk
>
> fdisk DISK_NAME unmount
> unmounts the file system of each partition of the disk
The whole command does not work because in file
cpukit/libblock/src/bdpart-mount.c line 103 specifies the file system type
of each partition to be "msdos". Yet, "msdos" does not exist. The name
must be "dosfs".
Beside of this fundamental problem, there are more issues with the code
in bdpart-mount.c:
1) The function returns RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL despite the mount always fails.
2) The reason for errors is not written to the terminal.
3) The directory '/mnt' is created but not deleted later on (failure or not).
3) There is no documentation about this special 'fdisk' feature in the
RTEMS Shell Guide ('fdisk' is mentioned but its documentation is a
bit short):
https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/shell/
file_and_directory.html#fdisk-format-disk
4) Only "msdos" formatted partitions can be mounted and all partitions
are mounted read-only. This is hard coded and cannot be changed by
options. Moreover, there is no information about this to the user of
the shell (i.e. using 'fdisk' mount requires insider knowledge).
How to reproduce:
1) For testing, I use the 'testsuites/samples/fileio.exe' sample with qemu:
> cd rtems
> env QEMU_AUDIO_DRV="none" qemu-system-arm -net none -nographic \
> -M realview-pbx-a9 -m 256M -kernel \
> build/arm/realview_pbx_a9_qemu/testsuites/samples/fileio.exe
2) Type any key to stop the timer and enter the sample tool.
Type 's' to enter the shell, login as 'root' with the password
shown in the terminal.
3) Type the following shell commands (they create a RAM disk,
partition it, register it, format it and try to mount it):
> mkrd
> fdisk /dev/rda fat32 16 write mbr
> fdisk /dev/rda register
> mkdos /dev/rda1
> fdisk /dev/rda mount
4) The last line above is the command which fails - without an error
message. There exists a '/mnt' directory but no '/mnt/rda1' directory
as it should be:
> ls -la /mnt
5) If you change line 103 of 'cpukit/libblock/src/bdpart-mount.c'
from "msdos" to "dosfs", compile and build the executable and
re-run the above test, '/mnt/rda1' exists (but the file system
is mounted read-only).
Close#4131
This patch does not only fix the compiler warning below. memcpy() is the
better function at this place as the terminating NUL character is never
copied here. Instead more characters will be appended to the
'logical_disk_name' later on.
../../../cpukit/libblock/src/bdpart-register.c:41:5:
warning: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying
as many bytes from a string as its length [-Wstringop-truncation]
Currently if mount fails, a converter isn't destroyed. We have to take
care of two cases:
1. The user doesn't provide a converter.
In this case mounting a dosfs creates a default converter. This patch
makes sure that the converter is destroyed again if mount failes for
this case.
2. The user provides a converter.
In this case it's not sure that the dosfs specific routines are reached
because mount can fail before that. Therefore the user has to destroy
the converter himself again. This patch adds a documentation for that
and implements it in the media server.
Closes#4042.
This adds the possibility to request a retry in the media-listener if an
operation failed. Usefull for example if you want to automatically
reformat a disk if it wasn't possible to mount it.
A speciality of the RTEMS build system was the make preinstall step. It
copied header files from arbitrary locations into the build tree. The
header files were included via the -Bsome/build/tree/path GCC command
line option.
This has at least seven problems:
* The make preinstall step itself needs time and disk space.
* Errors in header files show up in the build tree copy. This makes it
hard for editors to open the right file to fix the error.
* There is no clear relationship between source and build tree header
files. This makes an audit of the build process difficult.
* The visibility of all header files in the build tree makes it
difficult to enforce API barriers. For example it is discouraged to
use BSP-specifics in the cpukit.
* An introduction of a new build system is difficult.
* Include paths specified by the -B option are system headers. This
may suppress warnings.
* The parallel build had sporadic failures on some hosts.
This patch removes the make preinstall step. All installed header
files are moved to dedicated include directories in the source tree.
Let @RTEMS_CPU@ be the target architecture, e.g. arm, powerpc, sparc,
etc. Let @RTEMS_BSP_FAMILIY@ be a BSP family base directory, e.g.
erc32, imx, qoriq, etc.
The new cpukit include directories are:
* cpukit/include
* cpukit/score/cpu/@RTEMS_CPU@/include
* cpukit/libnetworking
The new BSP include directories are:
* bsps/include
* bsps/@RTEMS_CPU@/include
* bsps/@RTEMS_CPU@/@RTEMS_BSP_FAMILIY@/include
There are build tree include directories for generated files.
The include directory order favours the most general header file, e.g.
it is not possible to override general header files via the include path
order.
The "bootstrap -p" option was removed. The new "bootstrap -H" option
should be used to regenerate the "headers.am" files.
Update #3254.
Added a mmap file handler to struct _rtems_filesystem_file_handlers_r.
Updated each file handler object to support the default mmap handler.
Updated mmap() to call the mmap handler for MAP_SHARED.
Added a mmap file handler for shm
Added support for MAP_ANON in mmap().
Updates #2859
This change adds rtems_printf and related functions and wraps the
RTEMS print plugin support into a user API. All references to the
plugin are removed and replaced with the rtems_printer interface.
Printk and related functions are made to return a valid number of
characters formatted and output.
The function attribute to check printf functions has been added
to rtems_printf and printk. No changes to remove warrnings are part
of this patch set.
The testsuite has been moved over to the rtems_printer. The testsuite
has a mix of rtems_printer access and direct print control via the
tmacros.h header file. The support for begink/endk has been removed
as it served no purpose and only confused the code base. The testsuite
has not been refactored to use rtems_printf. This is future work.
Drop superfluous <stdlib.h> include from <rtems/diskdevs.h> since this
leads to conflicts with the latest Newlib in case this header file is
used in the FreeBSD kernel space, e.g. for USB mass storage support.
Bug report by Oleg Kravtsov:
In rtems_bdbuf_swapout_processing() function there is the following
lines:
if (bdbuf_cache.sync_active && !transfered_buffers)
{
rtems_id sync_requester;
rtems_bdbuf_lock_cache ();
...
}
Here access to bdbuf_cache.sync_active is not protected with anything.
Imagine the following test case:
1. Task1 releases buffer(s) with bdbuf_release_modified() calls;
2. After a while swapout task starts and flushes all buffers;
3. In the end of that swapout flush we are before that part of code, and
assume there is task switching (just before "if (bdbuf_cache.sync_active
&& !transfered_buffers)");
4. Some other task (with higher priority) does bdbuf_release_modified
and rtems_bdbuf_syncdev().
This task successfully gets both locks sync and pool (in
rtems_bdbuf_syncdev() function), sets sync_active to true and starts
waiting for RTEMS_BDBUF_TRANSFER_SYNC event with only sync lock got.
5. Task switching happens again and we are again before "if
(bdbuf_cache.sync_active && !transfered_buffers)".
As the result we check sync_active and we come inside that "if"
statement.
6. The result is that we send RTEMS_BDBUF_TRANSFER_SYNC event! Though
ALL modified messages of that task are not flushed yet!
close#1485
