This dumper can instantiate and write the dump's contents to a
file-backed vnode.
Unlike existing disk or network dumpers, the vnode dumper should not be
invoked during a system panic, and therefore is not added to the global
dumper_configs list. Instead, the vnode dumper is constructed ad-hoc
when a live dump is requested using the new ioctl on /dev/mem. This is
similar in spirit to a kgdb session against the live system via
/dev/mem.
As described briefly in the mem(4) man page, live dumps are not
guaranteed to result in a usuable output file, but offer some debugging
value where forcefully panicing a system to dump its memory is not
desirable/feasible.
A future change to savecore(8) will add an option to save a live dump.
Reviewed by: markj, Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com> (manpages)
Discussed with: kib
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33813
It can useful for code outside the VM system to look up the NUMA domain
of a page backing a virtual or physical address, specifically when
creating NUMA-aware data structures. We have _vm_phys_domain() for
this, but the leading underscore implies that it's an internal function,
and vm_phys.h has dependencies on a number of other headers.
Rename vm_phys_domain() to vm_page_domain(), and _vm_phys_domain() to
vm_phys_domain(). Make the latter an inline function.
Add _vm_phys.h and define struct vm_phys_seg there so that it's easier
to use in other headers. Include it from vm_page.h so that
vm_page_domain() can be defined there.
Include machine/vmparam.h from _vm_phys.h since it depends directly on
some constants defined there.
Reviewed by: alc
Reviewed by: dougm, kib (earlier versions)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27207
This allows privileged userspace processes to find information about the
physical page backing a given mapping. It is useful in applications
such as DPDK which perform some of their own memory management.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26237
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
for i386, and from the code inspection, nothing in the
arm/mips/sparc64 implementations depends on it.
Discussed with: imp, nwhitehorn
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
/dev/kmem and /dev/mem (in addition to traditional file permission checks).
PRIV_KMEM_READ is different from other PRIV_* checks in that it's allowed
by default.
Reviewed by: kib, mckusick
Compile sys/dev/mem/memutil.c for all supported platforms and remove now
unnecessary dev_mem_md_init(). Consistently define mem_range_softc from
mem.c for all platforms. Add missing #include guards for machine/memdev.h
and sys/memrange.h. Clean up some nearby style(9) nits.
MFC after: 1 month
their own directory and module, leaving the MD parts in the MD
area (the MD parts _are_ part of the modules). /dev/mem and /dev/io
are now loadable modules, thus taking us one step further towards
a kernel created entirely out of modules. Of course, there is nothing
preventing the kernel from having these statically compiled.
