NOTE: HEADS UP read the note below if your kernel config is not including GENERIC!!
This patch does a bit of cleanup on TCP congestion control modules. There were some rather
interesting surprises that one could get i.e. where you use a socket option to change
from one CC (say cc_cubic) to another CC (say cc_vegas) and you could in theory get
a memory failure and end up on cc_newreno. This is not what one would expect. The
new code fixes this by requiring a cc_data_sz() function so we can malloc with M_WAITOK
and pass in to the init function preallocated memory. The CC init is expected in this
case *not* to fail but if it does and a module does break the
"no fail with memory given" contract we do fall back to the CC that was in place at the time.
This also fixes up a set of common newreno utilities that can be shared amongst other
CC modules instead of the other CC modules reaching into newreno and executing
what they think is a "common and understood" function. Lets put these functions in
cc.c and that way we have a common place that is easily findable by future developers or
bug fixers. This also allows newreno to evolve and grow support for its features i.e. ABE
and HYSTART++ without having to dance through hoops for other CC modules, instead
both newreno and the other modules just call into the common functions if they desire
that behavior or roll there own if that makes more sense.
Note: This commit changes the kernel configuration!! If you are not using GENERIC in
some form you must add a CC module option (one of CC_NEWRENO, CC_VEGAS, CC_CUBIC,
CC_CDG, CC_CHD, CC_DCTCP, CC_HTCP, CC_HD). You can have more than one defined
as well if you desire. Note that if you create a kernel configuration that does not
define a congestion control module and includes INET or INET6 the kernel compile will
break. Also you need to define a default, generic adds 'options CC_DEFAULT=\"newreno\"
but you can specify any string that represents the name of the CC module (same names
that show up in the CC module list under net.inet.tcp.cc). If you fail to add the
options CC_DEFAULT in your kernel configuration the kernel build will also break.
Reviewed by: Michael Tuexen
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
RELNOTES:YES
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32693
This commit aligns the steps in UPDATING with the steps from the
handbook which already prefers etcupdate(8). While here also remove a
dubious comment.
PR: 252417
Reviewed by: ceri
Approved by: philip (mentor), imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28062
The last two drivers that required sppp are cp(4) and ce(4).
These devices are still produced and can be purchased
at Cronyx <http://cronyx.ru/hardware/wan.html>.
Since Roman Kurakin <rik@FreeBSD.org> has quit them, they no
longer support FreeBSD officially. Later they have dropped
support for Linux drivers to. As of mid-2020 they don't even
have a developer to maintain their Windows driver. However,
their support verbally told me that they could provide aid to
a FreeBSD developer with documentaion in case if there appears
a new customer for their devices.
These drivers have a feature to not use sppp(4) and create an
interface, but instead expose the device as netgraph(4) node.
Then, you can attach ng_ppp(4) with help of ports/net/mpd5 on
top of the node and get your synchronous PPP. Alternatively
you can attach ng_frame_relay(4) or ng_cisco(4) for HDLC.
Actually, last time I used cp(4) back in 2004, using netgraph(4)
instead of sppp(4) was already the right way to do.
Thus, remove the sppp(4) related part of the drivers and enable
by default the negraph(4) part. Further maintenance of these
drivers in the tree shouldn't be a big deal.
While doing that, remove some cruft and enable cp(4) compilation
on amd64. The ce(4) for some unknown reason marks its internal
DDK functions with __attribute__ fastcall, which most likely is
safe to remove, but without hardware I'm not going to do that, so
ce(4) remains i386-only.
Reviewed by: emaste, imp, donner
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32590
See also: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23928
In the recent history sh(1) has gain the missing features for it to
become a usable interractive shell:
- command completion
- persistent history support
- improvements on the default bindings in emacs mode
- improvements in the vi mode (repect $EDITOR)
- print a newline when exiting via ^D
- default prompt and improvements on how PS1 can be configured
- and more.
This changes also simplifies making tiny freebsd images with only sh(1)
as a shell
Dummynet now no longer requires ipfw, so any users relying on this
dependency to load ipfw will need to explicitly load ipfw.
While here fix a typo in the date of the previous entry.
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
You might not be able to build the kernel if you have an awk between
Jul 7th and today. It does not affect all platforms due to the nature
of the bug (so amd64 is unaffected in stable/13 or current, but
is affected in stable/12. i386 seems to be affected everywhere).
Sponsored by: Netflix
The updating entry can be used for release notes. I'll merge this to
stable/12 and stable/13 to make sure it gets into thier release notes.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Netflix
This fixes a couple of typos in older entries, and clarifies the
language of a newer one. It also removes a joke that trips up
foreign readers due its use of faux archaic English.
Reviewed by: imp@
Old certctl commands still work for compatability, but are deprecated.
Approved by: secteam (gordon)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30807
Commits 17accc08ae15 and de102f870501 add new files to LinuxKPI
which break drm-kmod. In addition various other additions where
comitted. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400015 to be able to detect this.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
While here, fix all links to older en_US.ISO8859-1 documentation
in the src/ tree.
PR: 255026
Reported by: Michael Büker <freebsd@michael-bueker.de>
Reviewed by: dbaio
Approved by: blackend (mentor), re (gjb)
MFC after: 10 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30265
Update the UPDATING file for PC Card device removal. Also note that
1300134 is used for the FreeBSD_version since wulf@ just bumped that
in the last few hours.
This is the final half of splitting r358153 in two, in order to avoid a build
system bugs and being able to merge an earlier change to previous releases.
Add a note to UPDATING to avoid people building from very old systems from
having issues with mergemaster
MFC after: 3 days (only 12-stable)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23621
GDB 6.1.1 was released in June 2004 and is long obsolete. It does not
support all of the architectures that FreeBSD does, and imposes
limitations on the FreeBSD kernel build, such as the continued use of
DWARF2 debugging information.
It was kept (in /usr/libexec/) only for use by crashinfo(8), which
extracts some basic information from a kernel core dump after a crash.
Crashinfo already prefers gdb from port/package if installed.
Future work may add kernel debug support to LLDB or find another path
for crashinfo's needs, but in any case we do not want to ship the
excessively outdated GDB in FreeBSD 13.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27610
There is now a single ping binary, which chooses to use ICMP or ICMPv4
based on the -4 and -6 options, and the format of the address.
Submitted by: Ján Sučan <sucanjan@gmail.com>
Sponsored by: Google LLC (Google Summer of Code 2019)
MFC after: Never
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21377
The goal of the fib support is to provide multiple independent
routing tables, isolated from each other.
net.add_addr_allfibs default tries to shift gears in the opposite
direction, unconditionally inserting all addresses to all of the fibs.
There are use cases when this is necessary, however this is not a
default expected behaviour, especially compared to other implementations.
Provide WARNING message for the setups with multiple fibs to notify
potential users of the feature.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26076
Add a note about always recompiling all modules on every new kernel
change / update. In addition, suggest using /usr/local/sys/modules
so this happens automatically.
freebsd-boot partition is not always the first one.
Following the instructions in UPDATING resulted in my overwriting
the efiboot0 partition on my laptop with ZFS boot blocks, which
had negative effects on the system's bootability.
Reviewed by: allanjude
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27002
Move all the data files for the calendar(1) program, except
calendar.freebsd to the calendar-data package. When a file
can't be found, and /usr/local/share/calendar doesn't exist
provide a helpful hint to install this package.
Reviewed by: se@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26926
Now that config(8) has supported include for 19 years, transition to
including the NOTES files. include support didn't exist at the time,
nor did the envvar stuff recently added. Now that it does, eliminate
the building of LINT files by just including everything you need.
Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases.
find sys -name LINT\* -rm
is suggested across this commit to remove the generated LINT
files.
Reviewed by: kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26540
For historical reasons, defining MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf has
been used to turn off potentially expensive debug checks and statistics
gathering in the implementation of malloc(3).
It seems more consistent to turn this into a regular src.conf(5) option,
e.g. WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION / WITHOUT_MALLOC_PRODUCTION. This can then
be toggled similar to any other source build option, and turned on or
off by default for e.g. stable branches.
Reviewed by: imp, #manpages
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26337
It's rare for there to be two updating entries on the same day (once a
decade or so), but we have that here. Add the date to the second one
since devd and zfs are unrelated.
make copies instead.
There's too many times that we can't run the new binaries with old
libraries. Making the links when things are known to be 'safe' is a
nice optimization, but a copy of all the binaries is only 30MB, so
saving the copies at the cost of increased support when new symbols
are added and used as part of the bootstrap seems to be unwise.
There may be additional optimizations possible here, especially for
!FreeBSD hosts. However, that's beyond the scope of the problem I'm
trying to fix with make failing mid-way through an installworld across
change r363679. This optimization there caused us to run a new binary
with an old library once a new make was installed due to the symbolic
link. One could just copy make, but then other binaries fail as well,
so rather than play whack-a-mole, I opted to take us back to the old
way. Before r340157 or so we did copies (thogh of a lot fewer
artifacts), and we didn't have issues like this.
Reviewed by: arichards@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25967
Some folks seem to be hitting issues with build orchestration; presumably
some of our .WAIT-removal optimizations are going awry, and they're ending
up with applications linked against new libc being installed before the new
libc.
Letting installworld complete the first time should ensure that the new libc
is installed by the end of it, then the second installworld will ensure
consistency as everything should succeed.
Some of the consumers in-base may make it enticing enough to ensure that
COMPAT_FREEBSD12, which is notably a fairly light option at the moment, is
included in custom kernel configs.
Suggested by: netchild
Casualty: mail jail
The upstream DTS now include the thermal device node and the SID
calibration entry.
Update our driver to cope with this change and remove the DTB
overlays that aren't needed anymore.
MFC after: 2 months
X-MFC-With: r359934
autofs was introduced with FreeBSD 10.1 and is the supported method for
automounting filesystems. As of r296194 the amd man page claimed that it
is deprecated. Remove it from base now; the sysutils/am-utils port is
still available if necessary.
Discussed with: cy
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Now that we no longer have GCC 4.2.1 in the tree and can assume FreeBSD
is being built with a C++11 compiler available, we can use BSDL dtc
unconditionally and retire the GPL dtc.
GPL dtc now has FreeBSD CI support via Cirrus-CI to help ensure it
continues to build/work on FreeBSD and is available in the ports tree
if needed.
The copy of (copyfree licensed) libfdt that we actually use is in
sys/contrib/libfdt so the extra copy under contrib/dtc/libfdt can be
removed along with the rest of the GPL dtc.
Reviewed by: kevans, ian, imp, manu, theraven
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23192
