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
tunable by default.
This will allow GENERIC configurations to boot on small memory boxes, but
not require end users who want to use CTL to recompile their kernel. They
can simply set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 in loader.conf.
The eventual solution to the memory usage problem is to change the way
CTL allocates memory to be more configurable, but this should fix things
for small memory situations in the mean time.
UPDATING: Explain the change in the CTL configuration, and
how users can enable CTL if they would like to use
it.
sys/conf/options: Add a new option, CTL_DISABLE, that prevents CTL
from initializing.
ctl.c: If CTL_DISABLE is turned on, don't initialize.
i386/conf/GENERIC,
amd64/conf/GENERIC: Re-enable device ctl, and add the CTL_DISABLE
option.
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>
This includes a few new fields in each RXed frame:
* per chain RX RSSI (ctl and ext);
* current RX chainmask;
* EVM information;
* PHY error code;
* basic RX status bits (CRC error, PHY error, etc).
This is primarily to allow me to do some userland PHY error processing
for radar and spectral scan data. However since EVM and per-chain RSSI
is provided, others may find it useful for a variety of tasks.
The default is to not compile in the radiotap vendor extensions, primarily
because tcpdump doesn't seem to handle the particular vendor extension
layout I'm using, and I'd rather not break existing code out there that
may be (badly) parsing the radiotap data.
Instead, add the option 'ATH_ENABLE_RADIOTAP_VENDOR_EXT' to your kernel
configuration file to enable these options.
- Stateful TCP offload drivers for Terminator 3 and 4 (T3 and T4) ASICs.
These are available as t3_tom and t4_tom modules that augment cxgb(4)
and cxgbe(4) respectively. The cxgb/cxgbe drivers continue to work as
usual with or without these extra features.
- iWARP driver for Terminator 3 ASIC (kernel verbs). T4 iWARP in the
works and will follow soon.
Build-tested with make universe.
30s overview
============
What interfaces support TCP offload? Look for TOE4 and/or TOE6 in the
capabilities of an interface:
# ifconfig -m | grep TOE
Enable/disable TCP offload on an interface (just like any other ifnet
capability):
# ifconfig cxgbe0 toe
# ifconfig cxgbe0 -toe
Which connections are offloaded? Look for toe4 and/or toe6 in the
output of netstat and sockstat:
# netstat -np tcp | grep toe
# sockstat -46c | grep toe
Reviewed by: bz, gnn
Sponsored by: Chelsio communications.
MFC after: ~3 months (after 9.1, and after ensuring MFC is feasible)
CAM_DEBUG_CDB, CAM_DEBUG_PERIPH and CAM_DEBUG_PROBE) by default.
List of these flags can be modified with CAM_DEBUG_COMPILE kernel option.
CAMDEBUG kernel option still enables all possible debug, if not overriden.
Additional 50KB of kernel size is a good price for the ability to debug
problems without rebuilding the kernel. In case where size is important,
debugging can be compiled out by setting CAM_DEBUG_COMPILE option to 0.
The NAND Flash environment consists of several distinct components:
- NAND framework (drivers harness for NAND controllers and NAND chips)
- NAND simulator (NANDsim)
- NAND file system (NAND FS)
- Companion tools and utilities
- Documentation (manual pages)
This work is still experimental. Please use with caution.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Supported by: FreeBSD Foundation, Juniper Networks
The 'make depend' rules have to use custom -I paths for the special compat
includes for the opensolaris/zfs headers.
This option will pull in the couple of files that are shared with dtrace,
but they appear to correctly use the MODULE_VERSION/MODULE_DEPEND rules
so loader should do the right thing, as should kldload.
Reviewed by: pjd (glanced at)
- Replace MIPS24K-specific code with more generic framework that will
make adding new CPU support easier
- Add MIPS24K support for new framework
- Limit backtrace depth to 1 for stability reasons and add option
HWPMC_MIPS_BACKTRACE to override this limitation
compliance testing.
In order to allow for radar pattern matching to occur, the DFS CAC/NOL
handling needs to be made configurable. This commit introduces a new
sysctl, "net.wlan.dfs_debug", which controls which DFS debug mode
net80211 is in.
* 0 = default, CSA/NOL handling as per normal.
* 1 = announce a CSA, but don't add the channel to the non-occupy list
(NOL.)
* 2 = disable both CSA and NOL - only print that a radar event occured.
This code is not compiled/enabled by default as it breaks regulatory
handling. A user must enable IEEE80211_DFS_DEBUG in their kernel
configuration file for this option to become available.
Obtained from: Atheros
the ar71xx platform code should assume a uboot or redboot environment.
The current code gets very confused (and just crashes) on a uboot
environment, where each attribute=value pair is in a single entry.
Redboot on the other hand stores it as "attribute", "value", "attribute",
"value", ...
This allows the kernel to boot on a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND from flash,
where the uboot environment gets setup. This didn't show up during a netboot
as "tftpboot" and "go" don't setup the uboot environment variables.
Implement ffcounter, a monotonically increasing cumulative counter on top of the
active timecounter. Provide low-level functions to read the ffcounter and
convert it to absolute time or a time interval in seconds using the current
ffclock estimates, which track the drift of the oscillator. Add a ring of
fftimehands to track passing of time on each kernel tick and pick up updates of
ffclock estimates.
Committed on behalf of Julien Ridoux and Darryl Veitch from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, as part of the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Feed-Forward
Clock Synchronization Algorithms" project.
For more information, see http://www.synclab.org/radclock/
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
allocator with UMA backed jumbo allocator by default. Previously
ti(4) used sf_buf(9) interface for jumbo buffers but it was broken
at this moment such that enabling jumbo frame caused instant panic.
Due to the nature of sf_buf(9) it heavily relies on VM changes but
it seems ti(4) was not received much blessing from VM gurus. I
don't understand VM magic and implications used in driver either.
Switching to UMA backed jumbo allocator like other network drivers
will make jumbo frame work on ti(4).
While I'm here, fully allocate all RX buffers. This means ti(4) now
uses 512 RX buffer and 1024 mini RX buffers.
To use sf_buf(9) interface for jumbo buffers, introduce a new
'options TI_SF_BUF_JUMBO'. If it is proven that sf_buf(9) is better
for jumbo buffers, interesting developers can fix the issue in
future.
ti(4) still needs more bus_dma(9) cleanups and should use separate
DMA tag/map for each ring(standard, jumbo, mini, command, event
etc) but it should work on all platforms except PAE.
Special thanks to Jay[1] who provided complete remote debugging
access.
Tested by: Jay Borkenhagen <jayb <> braeburn dot org > [1]
all the architectures.
The option allows to mount non-MPSAFE filesystem. Without it, the
kernel will refuse to mount a non-MPSAFE filesytem.
This patch is part of the effort of killing non-MPSAFE filesystems
from the tree.
No MFC is expected for this patch.
Tested by: gianni
Reviewed by: kib
- Axe out the SHOW_BUSYBUFS option and uses a tunable for selectively
enable/disable it, which is defaulted for not printing anything (0
value) but can be changed for printing (1 value) and be verbose (2
value)
- Improves the informations outputed: right now, there is no track of
the actual struct buf object or vnode which are referenced by the
shutdown process, but it is printed the related struct bufobj object
which is not really helpful
- Add more verbosity about the state of the struct buf lock and the
vnode informations, with the latter to be activated separately by the
sysctl
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, kib
Approved by: re (ksmith)
MFC after: 10 days
improvements:
(1) Implement new model in previously missed at91 UART driver
(2) Move BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER from opt_comconsole.h
to opt_kdb.h (spotted by np)
(3) Garbage collect now-unused opt_comconsole.h
MFC after: 3 weeks
Approved by: re (bz)
A "process descriptor" file descriptor is used to manage processes
without using the PID namespace. This is required for Capsicum's
Capability Mode, where the PID namespace is unavailable.
New system calls pdfork(2) and pdkill(2) offer the functional equivalents
of fork(2) and kill(2). pdgetpid(2) allows querying the PID of the remote
process for debugging purposes. The currently-unimplemented pdwait(2) will,
in the future, allow querying rusage/exit status. In the interim, poll(2)
may be used to check (and wait for) process termination.
When a process is referenced by a process descriptor, it does not issue
SIGCHLD to the parent, making it suitable for use in libraries---a common
scenario when using library compartmentalisation from within large
applications (such as web browsers). Some observers may note a similarity
to Mach task ports; process descriptors provide a subset of this behaviour,
but in a UNIX style.
This feature is enabled by "options PROCDESC", but as with several other
Capsicum kernel features, is not enabled by default in GENERIC 9.0.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
This is done per request/suggestion from John Baldwin
who introduced the option. Trying to resume normal
system operation after a panic is very unpredictable
and dangerous. It will become even more dangerous
when we allow a thread in panic(9) to penetrate all
lock contexts.
I understand that the only purpose of this option was
for testing scenarios potentially resulting in panic.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: attilio, jhb
X-MFC-After: never
Approved by: re (kib)
This patch is going to help in cases like mips flavours where you
want a more granular support on MAXCPU.
No MFC is previewed for this patch.
Tested by: pluknet
Approved by: re (kib)
option that is highly recommended to be adjusted in too much
documentation while doing nothing in FreeBSD since r2729 (rev 1.1).
ipcs(1) needs to be recompiled as it is accessing _KERNEL private
variables.
Reviewed by: jhb (before comment change on linux code)
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
This option will enable Capsicum capabilities, which provide a fine-grained
mask on operations that can be performed on file descriptors.
Approved by: mentor (rwatson), re (Capsicum blanket ok)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
