binmisc code to be build on amd64/i386 for the kernel.
Update NOTES with some indication of what this code is used for.
Pointed out by jhb@ ... thanks!
Submitted by: jhb@
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.
Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
Useful for so-called USB tethering.
- Imported code from OpenBSD
- Adapted code to FreeBSD
- Removed some unused functions
- Fixed some buffer encoding and decoding issues
- Optimised data transport path a bit, by sending multiple packets at a time
- Increased receive buffer to 16K
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Requested by: eadler @
MFC after: 2 weeks
requires process descriptors to work and having PROCDESC in GENERIC
seems not enough, especially that we hope to have more and more consumers
in the base.
MFC after: 3 days
and the equivalent functionality is now provided by sendfile(2) over
posix shared memory filedescriptor.
Remove the cow member of struct vm_page, and rearrange the remaining
members. While there, make hold_count unsigned.
Requested and reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (delphij)
Support chipsets are the Realtek RTL8188SU, RTL8191SU, and RTL8192SU.
Many thanks to Idwer Vollering for porting/writing the man page and for
testing.
Reviewed by: adrian, hselasky
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Tested by: kevlo, Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com>
* Make Yarrow an optional kernel component -- enabled by "YARROW_RNG" option.
The files sha2.c, hash.c, randomdev_soft.c and yarrow.c comprise yarrow.
* random(4) device doesn't really depend on rijndael-*. Yarrow, however, does.
* Add random_adaptors.[ch] which is basically a store of random_adaptor's.
random_adaptor is basically an adapter that plugs in to random(4).
random_adaptor can only be plugged in to random(4) very early in bootup.
Unplugging random_adaptor from random(4) is not supported, and is probably a
bad idea anyway, due to potential loss of entropy pools.
We currently have 3 random_adaptors:
+ yarrow
+ rdrand (ivy.c)
+ nehemeiah
* Remove platform dependent logic from probe.c, and move it into
corresponding registration routines of each random_adaptor provider.
probe.c doesn't do anything other than picking a specific random_adaptor
from a list of registered ones.
* If the kernel doesn't have any random_adaptor adapters present then the
creation of /dev/random is postponed until next random_adaptor is kldload'ed.
* Fix randomdev_soft.c to refer to its own random_adaptor, instead of a
system wide one.
Submitted by: arthurmesh@gmail.com, obrien
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: obrien
- Reconnect with some minor modifications, in particular now selsocket()
internals are adapted to use sbintime units after recent'ish calloutng
switch.
Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless cards.
This driver requires microcode which is available in FreeBSD ports:
net/urtwn-firmware-kmod.
Hiren ported the urtwn(4) man page from OpenBSD and Glen just commited a port
for the firmware.
TODO:
- 802.11n support
- Stability fixes - the driver can sustain lots of traffic but has trouble
coping with simultaneous iperf sessions.
- fix debugging
MFC after: 2 months
Tested by: kevlo, hiren, gjb
order to match the MAXCPU concept. The change should also be useful
for consolidation and consistency.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Obtained from: jeff
Reviewed by: alc
somewhere around svn r39402 to r39234.
I don't know of anyone who really wants to test these changes, but they
only remove the deprecated code in question. This shreds the driver down a
bit and *removes* options from the kernel configs.
These don't appear to be referenced in the man page, so no need to check it
there.
PR: kern/44587
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
most kernels before FreeBSD 9.0. Remove such modules and respective kernel
options: atadisk, ataraid, atapicd, atapifd, atapist, atapicam. Remove the
atacontrol utility and some man pages. Remove useless now options ATA_CAM.
No objections: current@, stable@
MFC after: never
Allow boothowto and bootverbose to be set via kernel options, which
is useful on architectures that are unable to rely on a boot loader
to pass configuration variables to the kernel.
Submitted by: rwatson
precise time event generation. This greatly improves granularity of
callouts which are not anymore constrained to wait next tick to be
scheduled.
- Extend the callout KPI introducing a set of callout_reset_sbt* functions,
which take a sbintime_t as timeout argument. The new KPI also offers a
way for consumers to specify precision tolerance they allow, so that
callout can coalesce events and reduce number of interrupts as well as
potentially avoid scheduling a SWI thread.
- Introduce support for dispatching callouts directly from hardware
interrupt context, specifying an additional flag. This feature should be
used carefully, as long as interrupt context has some limitations
(e.g. no sleeping locks can be held).
- Enhance mechanisms to gather informations about callwheel, introducing
a new sysctl to obtain stats.
This change breaks the KBI. struct callout fields has been changed, in
particular 'int ticks' (4 bytes) has been replaced with 'sbintime_t'
(8 bytes) and another 'sbintime_t' field was added for precision.
Together with: mav
Reviewed by: attilio, bde, luigi, phk
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo (amd64, sparc64), marius (sparc64), ian (arm),
markj (amd64), mav, Fabian Keil
Only during very early boot, before malloc(9) is functional (SI_SUB_KMEM),
the static ktr_buf_init is used. Size of the static buffer is determined
by a new kernel option KTR_BOOT_ENTRIES. Its default value is 1024.
This commit builds on top of r243046.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 17 days
Allow textdumps to be called explicitly from DDB.
If "dump" is called in DDB and textdumps are enabled then abort the
dump and tell the user to turn off textdumps.
Add options TEXTDUMP_PREFERRED to turn textdumps on by default.
Add options TEXTDUMP_VERBOSE to be a bit more verbose while textdumping.
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 2 weeks
on the related functionality in the runtime via the sysctl variable
net.pfil.forward. It is turned off by default.
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Discussed with: net@
MFC after: 2 weeks
more appropriate named kernel options for the very distinct
send and receive path.
"options SOCKET_SEND_COW" enables VM page copy-on-write based
sending of data on an outbound socket.
NB: The COW based send mechanism is not safe and may result
in kernel crashes.
"options SOCKET_RECV_PFLIP" enables VM kernel/userspace page
flipping for special disposable pages attached as external
storage to mbufs.
Only the naming of the kernel options is changed and their
corresponding #ifdef sections are adjusted. No functionality
is added or removed.
Discussed with: alc (mechanism and limitations of send side COW)
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.
The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.
Conducted and reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho
GIANT from VFS. In addition, disconnect also netsmb, which is a base
requirement for SMBFS.
In the while SMBFS regular users can use FUSE interface and smbnetfs
port to work with their SMBFS partitions.
Also, there are ongoing efforts by vendor to support in-kernel smbfs,
so there are good chances that it will get relinked once properly locked.
This is not targeted for MFC.
GIANT from VFS. This code is particulary broken and fragile and other
in-kernel implementations around, found in other operating systems,
don't really seem clean and solid enough to be imported at all.
If someone wants to reconsider in-kernel NTFS implementation for
inclusion again, a fair effort for completely fixing and cleaning it
up is expected.
In the while NTFS regular users can use FUSE interface and ntfs-3g
port to work with their NTFS partitions.
This is not targeted for MFC.
GIANT from VFS. In addition, disconnect also netncp, which is a base
requirement for NWFS.
In the possibility of a future maintenance of the code and later
readd to the FreeBSD base, maybe we should think about a better location
for netncp. I'm not entirely sure the / top location is actually right,
however I will let network people to comment on that more specifically.
This is not targeted for MFC.
This has been developed during 2 summer of code mandates and being revived
by gnn recently.
The functionality in this commit mirrors entirely content of fusefs-kmod
port, which doesn't need to be installed anymore for -CURRENT setups.
In order to get some sparse technical notes, please refer to:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-March/013876.html
or to the project branch:
svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/fuse/
which also contains granular history of changes happened during port
refinements. This commit does not came from the branch reintegration
itself because it seems svn is not behaving properly for this functionaly
at the moment.
Partly Sponsored by: Google, Summer of Code program 2005, 2011
Originally submitted by: ilya, Csaba Henk <csaba-ml AT creo DOT hu >
In collabouration with: pho
Tested by: flo, gnn, Gustau Perez,
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman AT gmail DOT com>
MFC after: 2 months
This is important to secure a small timeframe at boot time, when
network is already configured, but pf(4) is not yet.
PR: kern/171622
Submitted by: Olivier Cochard-LabbИ <olivier cochard.me>
- Move mwlfw from {amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES to sys/conf/NOTES (mwl(4) is
already present in sys/conf/NOTES).
- Remove duplicate mwl(4) entries from {amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES.
- While here, add a description to the sfxge line in amd64/conf/NOTES.
handler and not more statically.
Unfortunately, it seems that this is not ideal for new platform bringup
and boot low level development (which needs ktr_cpumask to be effective
before tunables can be setup).
Because of this, add a way to statically initialize cpusets, by passing
an list of initializers, divided by commas. Also, provide a way to enforce
an all-set mask, for above mentioned initializers.
This imposes some differences on how KTR_CPUMASK is setup now as a
kernel option, and in particular this makes the words specifications
backward wrt. what is currently in -CURRENT. In order to avoid mismatches
between KTR_CPUMASK definition and other way to setup the mask
(tunable, sysctl) and to print it, change the ordering how
cpusetobj_print() and cpusetobj_scan() acquire the words belonging
to the set.
Please give a look to sys/conf/NOTES in order to understand how the
new format is supposed to work.
Also, ktr manpages will be updated shortly by gjb which volountereed
for this.
This patch won't be merged because it changes a POLA (at least
from the theoretical standpoint) and this is however a patch that
proves to be effective only in development environments.
Requested by: rpaulo
Reviewed by: jeff, rpaulo
