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authored <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-01-28 19:58:05 +0000
committered <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-01-28 19:58:05 +0000
commit50efccc9f04a04f03e963eee6a0f24acb1b0cec9 (patch)
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parent35d15d6dd37a1883bbacef0efed00f7aadee89ec (diff)
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Mark most often used sysctl's as MPSAFE.
After running a `make buildkernel', I noticed most of the Giant locks in sysctl are only caused by a very small amount of sysctl's: - sysctl.name2oid. This one is locked by SYSCTL_LOCK, just like sysctl.oidfmt. - kern.ident, kern.osrelease, kern.version, etc. These are just constant strings. - kern.arandom, used by the stack protector. It is already protected by arc4_mtx. I also saw the following sysctl's show up. Not as often as the ones above, but still quite often: - security.jail.jailed. Also mark security.jail.list as MPSAFE. They don't need locking or already use allprison_lock. - kern.devname, used by devname(3), ttyname(3), etc. This seems to reduce Giant locking inside sysctl by ~75% in my primitive test setup.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/kern/kern_mib.c')
-rw-r--r--sys/kern/kern_mib.c15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_mib.c b/sys/kern/kern_mib.c
index afe0153..80c1789 100644
--- a/sys/kern/kern_mib.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_mib.c
@@ -87,19 +87,19 @@ SYSCTL_NODE(, OID_AUTO, regression, CTLFLAG_RW, 0,
"Regression test MIB");
#endif
-SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, OID_AUTO, ident, CTLFLAG_RD,
+SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, OID_AUTO, ident, CTLFLAG_RD|CTLFLAG_MPSAFE,
kern_ident, 0, "Kernel identifier");
-SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, KERN_OSRELEASE, osrelease, CTLFLAG_RD,
+SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, KERN_OSRELEASE, osrelease, CTLFLAG_RD|CTLFLAG_MPSAFE,
osrelease, 0, "Operating system release");
SYSCTL_INT(_kern, KERN_OSREV, osrevision, CTLFLAG_RD,
0, BSD, "Operating system revision");
-SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, KERN_VERSION, version, CTLFLAG_RD,
+SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, KERN_VERSION, version, CTLFLAG_RD|CTLFLAG_MPSAFE,
version, 0, "Kernel version");
-SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, KERN_OSTYPE, ostype, CTLFLAG_RD,
+SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, KERN_OSTYPE, ostype, CTLFLAG_RD|CTLFLAG_MPSAFE,
ostype, 0, "Operating system type");
/*
@@ -165,8 +165,9 @@ sysctl_kern_arnd(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
return (SYSCTL_OUT(req, buf, len));
}
-SYSCTL_PROC(_kern, KERN_ARND, arandom, CTLTYPE_OPAQUE | CTLFLAG_RD,
- NULL, 0, sysctl_kern_arnd, "", "arc4rand");
+SYSCTL_PROC(_kern, KERN_ARND, arandom,
+ CTLTYPE_OPAQUE | CTLFLAG_RD | CTLFLAG_MPSAFE, NULL, 0,
+ sysctl_kern_arnd, "", "arc4rand");
static int
sysctl_hw_physmem(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ sysctl_hostname(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
}
SYSCTL_PROC(_kern, KERN_HOSTNAME, hostname,
- CTLTYPE_STRING|CTLFLAG_RW|CTLFLAG_PRISON,
+ CTLTYPE_STRING|CTLFLAG_RW|CTLFLAG_PRISON|CTLFLAG_MPSAFE,
0, 0, sysctl_hostname, "A", "Hostname");
static int regression_securelevel_nonmonotonic = 0;
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