SchOS/include/file.h
Nexoniarz c874811679 fs: devtmpfs, so /dev is generated rather than written to a disk
A fresh boot spent 2600 ms in schinit's bootstrap() before printing its first
line, and the whole of it was device nodes. Measured rather than guessed: an
instrumented bootstrap reported 2600 ms on a fresh image and 0 ms on the next
boot, because the nodes already existed by then and mknod failed fast. The cost
was therefore invisible to anyone not building images -- which is to say,
invisible to everyone except whoever works on this.

Each node was a real inode on the root filesystem, and SchFS commits every
mutation as its own transaction group: a copy-on-write rewrite of the path to
the root, then an uberblock behind a cache flush. Twenty of those is seconds.

The duplication mattered more than the time. Major and minor numbers are the
kernel's -- devsw[] in kernel/dev/cdev.c is what they dispatch on -- and schinit
held a second copy of that mapping with nothing checking the two agreed. Adding
a character device meant editing a userspace program, and a wrong minor produced
a node that opened successfully and did nothing.

kernel/fs/devfs.c puts the table next to the thing it describes and serves /dev
behind the same fs_ops vtable procfs uses. The namespace is all it provides:
fileread and filewrite see T_DEV and go through devsw themselves, so a read
never reaches it. It is read-only, and dirlink and ialloc answer EROFS rather
than pretending -- a node exists because the kernel has the device, or it does
not exist.

This also makes /proc/filesystems true. It has advertised "nodev devtmpfs" for
as long as it has existed, against a kernel that had no such filesystem.

Two things found while measuring what remained:

  * The thirteen mknod() calls for /proc ran *after* the procfs mount, so every
    one was resolving a path into a read-only synthetic filesystem and failing.
    procfs.c's own note called them a fallback to be cleaned up later; they have
    been dead for longer than that.
  * The four mkdir() calls for mount points were the rest of it. They are made
    by the image builder now (sysroot-install), and the ones in init are a
    fallback -- a mkdir that fails because the directory exists costs a path
    walk and no writes, where creating one costs a transaction.

bootstrap() is now 0 ms on a fresh image, down from 2600.

init opens /dev/console after the mount rather than mknod'ing a node called
"console" into the root directory, which is what used to leave a stray /console
in `ls /`. The old path is kept as a fallback: if the mount fails there is no
/dev/console and no way to report it.

socktest passes, /proc still lists per-process directories, ps -e still
enumerates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VQ7Qx8E1q1M1bbCq8QLHS2
2026-09-12 20:18:30 +02:00

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struct file {
enum { FD_NONE, FD_PIPE, FD_INODE, FD_SOCKET } type;
int ref; // reference count
char readable;
char writable;
// O_NONBLOCK. A property of the open file description, not of the
// descriptor, which is why it lives here and not in myproc()->ofile_flags --
// dup() shares it and F_SETFL on either fd changes it for both, exactly as
// POSIX says.
char nonblock;
struct pipe *pipe;
struct inode *ip;
struct socket *sock;
uint64 off;
};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Filesystem operations
//
// One table per filesystem, chosen by iget() from the device number and hung
// off the inode. Everything above this line -- the syscall layer, exec, the
// page cache -- calls the wrappers in fs.c and never learns which filesystem it
// is talking to.
//
// A vtable rather than a chain of `if (dev == SCHFS_DEV)` because there are two
// filesystems today and there will be more: the whole point of the exercise is
// that adding one is a new table, not another branch in fifteen functions.
//
// Every hook takes an inode that is already locked, except ialloc (which has no
// inode yet) and iload (which is what makes one valid in the first place).
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
struct stat;
struct fs_ops {
const char *name;
// Fill in the type/size/link fields of a freshly iget()'d inode.
void (*iload)(struct inode *);
// Write those fields back to disk.
void (*istore)(struct inode *);
// The last link is gone and nobody has it open: release the object.
void (*ifree)(struct inode *);
int (*read)(struct inode *, int user_dst, uint64 dst, uint64 off, uint n);
int (*write)(struct inode *, int user_src, uint64 src, uint64 off, uint n);
// Set the length. Growing is allowed only where the filesystem can represent
// the gap; v1 cannot and ignores it.
void (*truncate)(struct inode *, uint64 newsize);
// Directory operations. `poff` is an opaque cookie identifying where the
// entry lives, meaningful only to the same filesystem's dirunlink.
struct inode *(*dirlookup)(struct inode *dp, char *name, uint *poff);
int (*dirlink)(struct inode *dp, char *name, uint64 inum);
int (*dirunlink)(struct inode *dp, char *name, uint off);
int (*dirempty)(struct inode *dp);
// Create an object with no name yet. The caller sets nlink and calls
// dirlink; until it does, the object is unreachable.
struct inode *(*ialloc)(uint dev, short type);
// Read directory entries into a getdents64-shaped stream. `off` is an opaque
// position that starts at 0 and is echoed back; returns bytes written, 0 at
// the end of the directory, or negative on error.
int (*getdents)(struct inode *dp, char *out, int cap, uint64 *off);
// The largest write this filesystem wants in one call, or 0 for "no limit".
//
// v1 needs one: a write has to fit in the on-disk log, so filewrite splits
// anything larger and each piece is its own transaction. That limit is a
// property of the journal, not of writing, and applying it to SchFS was
// actively harmful -- SchFS makes one transaction out of whatever it is
// handed, so chopping a 1 MB write into 6 KB pieces bought 170 commits and
// the flushes that go with them for nothing.
uint max_write;
};
// In-memory inode.
//
// `inum` and `size` are 64-bit because the filesystem underneath may be: SchFS
// object ids and file sizes are both uint64 on disk, and a 32-bit copy here
// would silently truncate them into a different file. The v1 filesystem uses a
// small fraction of the range and is unaffected.
struct inode {
uint dev;
uint64 inum;
int ref;
struct sleeplock lock;
int valid;
const struct fs_ops *ops; // chosen by iget from dev; never null once held
short type;
short major;
short minor;
// int, not short. SchFS stores a uint32 link count and this truncated it, so
// a file that passed 32767 names came back with a negative one -- and iput
// frees an object whose count reaches zero. Signed rather than unsigned on
// purpose: `nlink--` on a count that is somehow already zero should land
// somewhere a check can see it, not wrap to four billion.
int nlink;
uint64 size;
uint rwmode;
uint supermode;
uint showmode;
uint atime;
uint mtime;
uint ctime;
uint addrs[NDIRECT+3];
};
#define I_VALID 0x2
// Device numbers for filesystems that are not a raw disk. Real disks are 0..3,
// and these are deliberately far from them so a stray value never looks like a
// SchFS inode. Nothing on any disk records them -- they are runtime identities
// for the inode cache, so the numbering can be rearranged freely.
//
// Mounted SchFS volumes: SCHFS_DEV through SCHFS_DEV + SCHFS_VOL_SLOTS - 1.
//
// This was a single number, because there was a single volume: kmount.c held
// one `kvol` and every write entry point named it directly, so `mount -t schfs
// /dev/hdb /mnt` ignored its source argument entirely and handed back whichever
// disk the kernel had found at boot. Slot 0 is that boot volume, which is why
// SCHFS_DEV alone still means "the root" everywhere that only ever wanted it.
#define SCHFS_VOL_SLOTS 4
#define SCHFS_DEV 64
#define SCHFS_IS_VOL_DEV(d) \
((d) >= SCHFS_DEV && (d) < SCHFS_DEV + SCHFS_VOL_SLOTS)
// Mounted snapshots. Same block device, an older tree root, read-only.
//
// Each needs its own device number because an inode is identified by
// (dev, inum) and a snapshot's object ids are the *same numbers* as the live
// tree's -- one number would make the views alias in the inode cache and hand
// a reader whichever was cached first. So a slot is a device: SCHFS_SNAP_DEV
// through SCHFS_SNAP_DEV + SCHFS_SNAP_SLOTS - 1.
//
// Four rather than one because "one at a time" is an odd thing to explain and
// the cost is two scratch pages per slot, allocated on first use. Four rather
// than many because each is a device number and they are a fixed, small space.
#define SCHFS_SNAP_SLOTS 4
#define SCHFS_SNAP_DEV 96
#define SCHFS_IS_SNAP_DEV(d) \
((d) >= SCHFS_SNAP_DEV && (d) < SCHFS_SNAP_DEV + SCHFS_SNAP_SLOTS)
// Anything SchFS answers for, live volume or snapshot.
#define SCHFS_IS_ANY_DEV(d) (SCHFS_IS_VOL_DEV(d) || SCHFS_IS_SNAP_DEV(d))
// The synthetic /proc.
#define PROCFS_DEV 80
// The synthetic /dev. See kernel/fs/devfs.c.
#define DEVFS_DEV 81
// table mapping major device number to
// device functions
struct devsw {
int (*read)(struct inode*, uint64, char*, int);
int (*write)(struct inode*, uint64, char*, int);
// Optional. Returns 0 when a read would block, which is the only thing
// fileread needs to know to honour O_NONBLOCK without every device driver
// growing a flags argument. A device that omits this is treated as always
// ready, which is the right answer for a disk and for /dev/zero.
int (*ready)(struct inode*);
// Optional. The last descriptor for this open file is going away. A device
// that hands a program exclusive-feeling control of the hardware needs this
// to put the hardware back -- /dev/fb0 uses it to give the text console its
// screen back when whatever was drawing on it exits.
void (*close)(struct inode*);
// Optional. A descriptor has just been opened on this device. /dev/input
// uses it to discard events that arrived while nobody was listening -- see
// inputopen().
void (*open)(struct inode*);
};
extern struct devsw devsw[];
#define CONSOLE 1
// Major number of /dev/input/eventN. The minor is the device index.
#define INPUT_MAJOR 7