o create a private task queue thread that sets up root and current
directories (hooking mountroot event as needed); this is necessary
because task queue threads are parented from proc0 and it does not
have a reference to rootvnode (lost when / mounting moved to init)
o bounce image load + unload requests through the private task q so
we can load images even when the request is made from a thread that
does not have sufficient context (e.g. task q thread)
o add a check in the task q thread to fail requests before root is
mounted (just in case)
Reviewed by: jhb, mlaier, luigi (glance)
MFC after: 1 month
a version that i posted earlier on the -current mailing list,
and subsequent feedback received.
The core of the change is just in sys/firmware.h and kern/subr_firmware.c,
while other files are just adaptation of the clients to the ABI change
(const-ification of some parameters and hiding of internal info,
so this is fully compatible at the binary level).
In detail:
- reduce the amount of information exported to clients in struct firmware,
and constify the pointer;
- internally, document and simplify the implementation of the various
functions, and make sure error conditions are dealt with properly.
The diffs are large, but the code is really straightforward now (i hope).
Note also that there is a subtle issue with the implementation of
firmware_register(): currently, as in the previous version, we just
store a reference to the 'imagename' argument, but we should rather
copy it because there is no guarantee that this is a static string.
I realised this while testing this code, but i prefer to fix it in
a later commit -- there is no regression with respect to the past.
Note, too, that the version in RELENG_6 has various bugs including
missing locks around the module release calls, mishandling of modules
loaded by /boot/loader, and so on, so an MFC is absolutely necessary
there. I was just postponing it until this cleanup to avoid doing
things twice.
MFC after: 1 week
firmware in that module (eventhough this is a programming error) - drop the
reference to the module again.
Submitted by: Benjamin Close
MFC after: 3 days
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.
Sponsored by: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed (at least in part) by: mlaier, jmg, pjd, bde, ceri,
Alex Lyashkov <umka at sevcity dot net>,
Skip Ford <skip dot ford at verizon dot net>,
Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin at laposte dot net>
- Add a new function linker_release_module() as a more intuitive complement
to linker_reference_module() that wraps linker_file_unload().
linker_release_module() can either take the module name and version info
passed to linker_reference_module() or it can accept the linker file
object returned by linker_reference_module().
with firmware_unregister(). Previously when the last driver reference
had been dropped we would clear the list entry under the assumption
that the firmware module was about to be unloaded, but this was not
true if the firmware image had been loaded manually with kldload.
This makes it possible to manually kldload firmware images as a
workaround for drivers such as ipw that attempt to load firmware
while resuming after a suspend.
Reviewed by: mlaier (an earlier version of the patch)
specially crafted module. There are several handrolled sollutions to this
problem in the tree already which will be replaced with this. They include
iwi(4), ipw(4), ispfw(4) and digi(4).
No objection from: arch
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC after: some drivers have been converted
