In D12421, the ability to compile stand/ in little-endian was added, with the
intention to extend loader.kboot to run in Petitboot.
However, no further work was done, as the kernel then gained self-execution
capabilities as Petitboot was taught to load FreeBSD kernels directly.
The FreeBSD installer on powerpc64 (on POWER8 and POWER9) uses
/boot/etc/kboot.conf instead of loader.
As this option does nothing but cause stand/ to be miscompiled and actively
causes confusion, remove it.
(I have a functioning petitboot loader in my local tree, however, it turned
out to be quite inconvient to use due to the current petitboot plugin design
so I put it on hold.)
Reviewed by: emaste, imp, jhibbits
Sponsored by: Tag1 Consulting, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26430
When cache precedes files, and nscd is configured to allow negative caching,
commands like "pw groupadd" can fail. The sequence of events looks like:
1. A command like pkg(8) looks up the group, and finds it absent.
2. pkg invokes pw(8) to add the group
3. pkg queries the group, but nscd says it doesn't exist, since it has a
negative cache entry for that group.
See also: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-January/031595.html
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Axcient
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26184
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
Optionally, alert you if the contents change from the previous backup
PR: 86388
Submitted by: Rob Fairbanks <rob.fx907@gmail.com>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> (Original Version)
MFC after: 4 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Event: July 2020 Bugathon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25628
dumpon has accepted device names without the prefix ever since r291207.
Since dumpon and savecore are always paired, they ought to accept the same
arguments. Prior to this change, specifying 'dumpdev="da3"' in
/etc/rc.conf, for example, would result in dumpon working just fine but
savecore complaining that "Dump device does not exist".
PR: 247618
Reviewed by: cem, bcr
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Axcient
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25500
There are cases when gif_interfaces cannot be replaced
with cloned_interfaces, such as tunnels with external IPv6 addresses
and internal IPv4 or vice versa. Such configuration requires
extra invocation of ifconfig(8) and supported with gif_interfaces only.
Fix manual page and provide some examples.
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC-With: 362502
pf by default does not do per-table address accounting unless the
"counters" keyword is specified in the corresponding pf.conf table
definition. Yet, we always allocate 12 per-CPU counters per table. For
large tables this carries a lot of overhead, so only allocate counters
when they will actually be used.
A further enhancement might be to use a dedicated UMA zone to allocate
counter arrays for table entries, since close to half of the structure
size comes from counter pointers. A related issue is the cost of
zeroing counters, since counter_u64_zero() calls smp_rendezvous() on
some architectures.
Reported by: loos, Jim Pingle <jimp@netgate.com>
Reviewed by: kp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24803
for custom vendor-specific changes to FreeBSD's
default settings.
While here, fix a typo: perfomance -> performance
PR: 245404
Submitted by: Jose Luis Duran
Save and restore (also known as suspend and resume) permits a snapshot
to be taken of a guest's state that can later be resumed. In the
current implementation, bhyve(8) creates a UNIX domain socket that is
used by bhyvectl(8) to send a request to save a snapshot (and
optionally exit after the snapshot has been taken). A snapshot
currently consists of two files: the first holds a copy of guest RAM,
and the second file holds other guest state such as vCPU register
values and device model state.
To resume a guest, bhyve(8) must be started with a matching pair of
command line arguments to instantiate the same set of device models as
well as a pointer to the saved snapshot.
While the current implementation is useful for several uses cases, it
has a few limitations. The file format for saving the guest state is
tied to the ABI of internal bhyve structures and is not
self-describing (in that it does not communicate the set of device
models present in the system). In addition, the state saved for some
device models closely matches the internal data structures which might
prove a challenge for compatibility of snapshot files across a range
of bhyve versions. The file format also does not currently support
versioning of individual chunks of state. As a result, the current
file format is not a fixed binary format and future revisions to save
and restore will break binary compatiblity of snapshot files. The
goal is to move to a more flexible format that adds versioning,
etc. and at that point to commit to providing a reasonable level of
compatibility. As a result, the current implementation is not enabled
by default. It can be enabled via the WITH_BHYVE_SNAPSHOT=yes option
for userland builds, and the kernel option BHYVE_SHAPSHOT.
Submitted by: Mihai Tiganus, Flavius Anton, Darius Mihai
Submitted by: Elena Mihailescu, Mihai Carabas, Sergiu Weisz
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: University Politehnica of Bucharest
Sponsored by: Matthew Grooms (student scholarships)
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19495
- Abbreviated month name in .Dd
- position of HISTORY section
- alphabetical ordering within SEE ALSO section
- adding .Ed before .Sh DESCRIPTION
- remove trailing whitespaces
- Line break after a sentence stop
- Use BSD OS macros instead of hardcoded strings
No .Dd bumps as there was no actual content change made
in any of these pages.
Submitted by: Gordon Bergling gbergling_gmail.com
Approved by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24591
This option was added as a transition aide when symbol versioning was
first added. It was enabled by default in 2007 and is supported even
by the old GPLv2 binutils. Trying to disable it currently fails to
build in libc and at this point it isn't worth fixing the build.
Reported by: Michael Dexter
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24637
Gordon Bergling. Hook it up to the build by adding
it to the Makefile.
Submitted by: gbergling_gmail.com
Approved by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24589
I hope to extend this with some more detail in the future but it gives
a good starting point.
Thanks to 0mp for assistance with markup.
Reviewed by: jkoshy
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23982
I intend to document FreeBSD's ELF notes (see review D23982), but start
with a section documenting the format of the note section itself.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
It does extremely useful things like execute sendmail and spew dubiously
accurate factoids.
From the feedback, it seems like it is an essential utility in a modern unix
and not at all a useless bikeshed. How do those Linux people live without it?
Reverts r358561.
r355588 Fix WITHOUT_CLANG build
r355646 Revert r354348
r355943 add LDNS build knob dependency on OPENSSL
r356111 Use LLVM as default toolchain for all PowerPC targets
o Remove All Rights Reserved from my notices
o imp@FreeBSD.org everywhere
o regularize punctiation, eliminate date ranges
o Make sure that it's clear that I don't claim All Rights reserved by listing
All Rights Reserved on same line as other copyright holders (but not
me). Other such holders are also listed last where it's clear.
Each boot, regenerate /var/run/os-release based on the currently running
system. Create a /etc/os-release symlink pointing to this file (so that this
doesn't create a new reason /etc can not be mounted read-only).
This is compatible with what other systems do and is what the sysutil/os-release
port attempted to do, but in an incomplete way. Linux, Solaris and DragonFly all
implement this natively as well. The complete standard can be found at
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
Moving this to the base solves both the non-standard location problem with the
port, as well as the lack of update of this file on system update.
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300060
PR: 238953
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22271
r354289 armv6: Switch to LLD by default
r354290 Take arm.arm (armv5) out of universe
r354348 armv6, armv7: Switch to llvm-libunwind by default
r354660 Enable the RISC-V LLVM backend by default.
as well as lib32 changes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Summary:
Historically, we have built toolchain components such as cc, ld, etc as
statically linked executables. One of the reasons being that you could
sometimes save yourself from botched upgrades, by e.g. recompiling a
"known good" libc and reinstalling it.
In this day and age, we have boot environments, virtual machine
snapshots, cloud backups, and other much more reliable methods to
restore systems to working order. So I think the time is ripe to flip
this default, and link the toolchain components dynamically, just like
almost all other executables on FreeBSD.
Maybe at some point they can even become PIE executables by default! :)
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22061
This change allows to specify a watchdog(9) timeout for a system
shutdown. The timeout is activated when the watchdogd daemon is
stopped. The idea is to a prevent any indefinite hang during late
stages of the shutdown. The feature is implemented in rc.d/watchdogd,
it builds upon watchdogd -x option.
Note that the shutdown timeout is not actiavted when the watchdogd
service is individually stopped by an operator. It is also not
activated for the 'shutdown' to the single-user mode. In those cases it
is assumed that the operator knows what they are doing and they have
means to recover the system should it hang.
Significant subchanges and implementation details:
- the argument to rc.shutdown, completely unused before, is assigned to
rc_shutdown variable that can be inspected by rc scripts
- init(8) passes "single" or "reboot" as the argument, this is not
changed
- the argument is not mandatory and if it is not set then rc_shutdown is
set to "unspecified"
- however, the default jail management scripts and jail configuration
examples have been updated to pass "jail" to rc.shutdown, just in case
- the new timeout can be set via watchdogd_shutdown_timeout rc option
- for consistency, the regular timeout can now be set via
watchdogd_timeout rc option
- watchdogd_shutdown_timeout and watchdogd_timeout override timeout
specifications in watchdogd_flags
- existing configurations, where the new rc options are not set, should
keep working as before
I am not particularly wed to any of the implementation specifics.
I am open to changing or removing any of them as long as the provided
functionality is the same (or very close) to the proposed one.
For example, I think it can be implemented without using watchdogd -x,
by means of watchdog(1) alone. In that case there would be a small
window between stopping watchdogd and running watchdog, but I think that
that is acceptable.
Reviewed by: bcr (man page changes)
MFC after: 5 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21221
Summary: When powerpc64 switches to LLVM, use this patch to enable
OpenMP as well. OpenMP on PPC is only for 64-bits, so don't make a
32-bit libomp. A change to openmp files is necesssary (under review on
https://reviews.llvm.org/D67190), because it determines ELF format
version based on endianness, which is incorrect.
Reviewed by: alfredo.junior_eldorado.org.br, #manpages
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21532
If ipv4_prefer is specified, Section 10.3 is relevant.
If ipv6_prefer is specified, Section 2.1 is relevant.
This change makes the corresponding options/sections 'respective'
PR: docs/234249
Submitted by: David Fiander <david@fiander.info>
expression howmany(BBSIZE, PAGE_SIZE), where BBSIZE is the size of the
boot block area. That can be less than 2 if PAGE_SIZE is big.
swapon(8) has an option to trim (delete) all the blocks of a device at
startup. However, if the first of those blocks is a bsd label, then
trimming those blocks is destructive. Change swapon to leave the
first BBSIZE bytes untrimmed.
Update manual pages to reflect changes in how swapon and how it may be
used, espeically in association with savecore.
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: markj (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21191
