designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more
and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race
conditions are more prevalent.
Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for
particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this
change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations
as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must:
1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config.
2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for
"XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with
the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional
but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type
is declared out of scope).
3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor
boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map
you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10,
so kmem_size/10.
ToDo:
1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page.
2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking
over malloc types.
3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone
allocations too.
4) Improve MemGuard if necessary.
This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
an inordinate amount of synchronous console output that is fairly
undesirable on slower serial console. It's easily hit by accident
when frobbing other sysctls late at night.
on UltraSPARC workstations. The driver is based on OpenBSD's SBus
cs4231 driver and heavily modified to incorporate into sound(4)
infrastructure. Due to the lack of APCDMA documentation, the DMA
code of SBus cs4231 came from OpenBSD's driver.
The driver runs without Giant lock and supports both SBus and EBus
based CS4231 audio controller. Special thanks to marius for providing
feedbacks during the driver writing. His feedback made it possible
to write hiccup free playback code under high system loads.
Approved by: jake (mentor)
Reviewed by: marius (initial version)
Tested by: marius, kwm, Julian C. Dunn(jdunn AT opentrend DOT net)
Users should move to the new geom_vinum implementation instead.
The refcount logic which is being added to devices to enable safe module
unloading and the buf/vm work also in progress would require a major rework
of the (old)-vinum code to comply with the new semantics.
The actual source files will not be removed until I have coordinated with
the geomvinum people if they need any bits repo-copied etc.
FULL_PREEMPTION is defined. Add a runtime warning to ULE if PREEMPTION is
enabled (code inspired by the PREEMPTION warning in kern_switch.c). This
is a possible MT5 candidate.
remaining consumers to have the count passed as an option. This is
i4b, pc98/wdc, and coda.
Bump configvers.h from 500013 to 600000.
Remove heuristics that tried to parse "device ed5" as 5 units of the ed
device. This broke things like the snd_emu10k1 device, which required
quotes to make it parse right. The no-longer-needed quotes have been
removed from NOTES, GENERIC etc. eg, I've removed the quotes from:
device snd_maestro
device "snd_maestro3"
device snd_mss
I believe everything will still compile and work after this.
compile option. All FreeBSD packet filters now use the PFIL_HOOKS API and
thus it becomes a standard part of the network stack.
If no hooks are connected the entire packet filter hooks section and related
activities are jumped over. This removes any performance impact if no hooks
are active.
Both OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD have integrated PFIL_HOOKS permanently as well.
have already done this, so I have styled the patch on their work:
1) introduce a ip_newid() static inline function that checks
the sysctl and then decides if it should return a sequential
or random IP ID.
2) named the sysctl net.inet.ip.random_id
3) IPv6 flow IDs and fragment IDs are now always random.
Flow IDs and frag IDs are significantly less common in the
IPv6 world (ie. rarely generated per-packet), so there should
be smaller performance concerns.
The sysctl defaults to 0 (sequential IP IDs).
Reviewed by: andre, silby, mlaier, ume
Based on: NetBSD
MFC after: 2 months
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.
an adaptive fashion when adaptive mutexes are enabled. The theory
behind non-adaptive Giant is that Giant will be held for long periods
of time, and therefore spinning waiting on it is wasteful. However,
in MySQL benchmarks which are relatively Giant-free, running Giant
adaptive makes an observable difference on SMP (5% transaction rate
improvement). As such, make adaptive behavior on Giant an option so
it can be more widely benchmarked.
NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES. This option has been enabled by default on amd64 for
quite some time, and has been extensively tested on i386 and sparc64. It
shows measurable performance gains in many circumstances, and few negative
effects. It would be nice in t he future if adaptive mutexes actually went
to sleep after a certain amount of spinning, but that will require quite a
bit more testing.
