cause a problem of spiraling death due to buffer resource limitations.
The vfs_bio code in general had little ability to handle buffer resource
management, and now it does. Also, there are a lot more knobs for tuning the
vfs_bio code now. The knobs came free because of the need that there
always be some immediately available buffers (non-delayed or locked) for
use. Note that the buffer cache code is much less likely to get bogged
down with lots of delayed writes, even more so than before.
- OVERRIDE_TUNER: allows you to manually choose the tuner type for those
cards that fail to probe properly. See source for legal
values.
- OVERRIDE_DBX: allows you to manually choose DBX or NO DBX for those
cards that fail to probe properly.
0 == no DBX circuit present, 1 == DBX circuit present.
will see it. The name of the file is obtained by appending ".config"
to the name of the kernel file. If the file doesn't exist, then an
annoying message is printed.
Reduced the command line buffer size yet again from 4096 to 1024. It is
oversized to defend against overrun in gets(), but data space is starting
to run out so the buffer size can't be as grossly oversized as before.
It is possible for multiple process to sleep concurrently waiting
for a buffer. When the buffer shortage is a shortage of space but
not a shortage of buffer headers, the processes took turns creating
empty buffers and waking each other to advertise the brelse() of
the empties; progress was never made because tsleep() always found
another high-priority process to run and everything was done at
splbio(), so vfs_update never had a chance to flush delayed writes,
not to mention that i/o never had a chance to complete.
The problem seems to be rare in practice, but it can easily be
reproduced by misusing block devices, at least for sufficently slow
devices on machines with a sufficiently small buffer cache. E.g.,
`tar cvf /dev/fd0 /kernel' on an 8MB system with no disk in fd0
causes the problem quickly; the same command with a disk in fd0
causes the problem not quite as quickly; and people have reported
problems newfs'ing file systems on block devices.
Block devices only cause this problem indirectly. They are pessimized
for time and space, and the space pessimization causes the shortage
(it manifests as internal fragmentation in buffer_map).
This should be fixed in 2.2.
should work with no driver changes, though not all features are currently
used.
Remove code that was conditional on NEW_SCSICONF not being defined. This
was temporary code, that at a time got excluded correctly, until the new
scsiconf became the default, and NEW_SCSICONF was no longer specified.
Add support for quirks defined in scsiconf.c. For now only the HP3724/5
needs an entry, since that drive can't be used with tags.
so don't enforce the MTU as an MRU. Allow bidirectional ppp MTU
negotiation, by checking against a differnt figure for MRU.
Make it large enough for ATM frames at least.
Submitted by: archie@whistle.com (archie cobbs)
- Added support for "dual" internal/serial consoles (-D flag). If -D is set,
then all i/o from the boot blocks is to and from both the internal console
and the serial console. -D has no effect on the kernel (-h decides the
kernel serial console as usual). -D should normally be set in /boot.config.
- Get help messages from /boot.help. You should copy boot.help from the
biosboot directory to the root directory on the boot drive when you
install new boot blocks.
- New, less invasive keyboard probe. Enable keyboard probe dynamically (-P
flag). Should probably never be used (use -h instead).
- Fixed/improved initialization from boot.config. It didn't interact correctly
with the NAMEBLOCK option, and the initialization of the drive/unit/partition
didn't stick when a non-default kernel name was entered.
- Don't reset or forget the default drive/unit/... or kernel name so often.
- Set the default kernel name to something unbootable after `?'.
- Display the defaults better.
- Removed PROBE_KEYBOARD_LOCK option (use -h instead).,
- Removed BOOT_FORCE_COMCONSOLE option (use device flag 0x20 instead).
- Removed -a (RB_HALT) flag. This flag is only used for reboots.
Submitted by: about 2/3 by yokota
then all i/o from the boot blocks is to and from both the internal console
and the serial console. -D has no effect on the kernel (-h decides the
kernel serial console as usual). -D should normally be set in /boot.config.
- Get help messages from /boot.help. You should copy boot.help from the
biosboot directory to the root directory on the boot drive when you
install new boot blocks.
- New, less invasive keyboard probe. Enable keyboard probe dynamically (-P
flag). Should probably never be used (use -h instead).
- Fixed/improved initialization from boot.config. It didn't interact correctly
with the NAMEBLOCK option, and the initialization of the drive/unit/partition
didn't stick when a non-default kernel name was entered.
- Don't reset or forget the default drive/unit/... or kernel name so often.
- Set the default kernel name to something unbootable after `?'.
- Display the defaults better.
- Removed PROBE_KEYBOARD_LOCK option (use -h instead).,
- Removed BOOT_FORCE_COMCONSOLE option (use device flag 0x20 instead).
- Removed -a (RB_HALT) flag. This flag is only used for reboots.
Submitted by: about 2/3 by yokota
cost since it is only done in cpu_switch(), not for every exception.
The extra state is kept in the pcb, and handled much like the npx state,
with similar deficiencies (the state is not preserved across signal
handlers, and error handling loses state).
that I snuck in to our GDB last year. This allows you to debug headless
machines by sharing the console port between the debugger and the system
console. It's not 100% reliabile, but it works well. It's optional
and disabled by default.
Submitted by: Juniper Networks
speed using the boot blocks, instead of a hardcoded value stuck in the
kernel. This way, you can have systems using the same kernel but different
console speeds.
Add a sysctl entry for changing the system console speed.
Lock the user tty speed to match the system console speed.
Nuke CONSPEED.
Reviewed by: bde
writes sent to the server were synchronous and therefore no commits are
needed. This is the same as the vfs.nfs.async variable on the server but
allows each client to choose whether to work this way.
Also make the vfs.nfs.async variable do the 'right' thing for NFSv3, i.e.
pretend that the write was synchronous.
attached to the vnode, some of them could be re-written synchronously
(if they overflowed the fixed size array nfs_flush had for them). The
fix involves mallocing an array if there are more than its limited
size stack buffer.
Reviewed by: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
These commands are required for the "Disk-At-Once" write process:
WORMIOCREADSESSIONINFO returns the length of the lead-in and lead-out areas
and WORMIOCWRITESESSION is used to send the table of contents of the disk.
device probe of a host to PCI bridge may modify that value, based on
its knowledge of device specific registers. This makes the Intel XXpress
work, as verified by: Terje Marthinussen <terjem@cc.uit.no>.
bit 10 is the old bit for MTRR (presumably this changed, an older P5 I
have has got it, the newer cpus have the new MTRR bit set)
bit 11 is SEP (fast syscalls), bit 23 is MMX
Fill in the other reserved ones with a stub so that we can see them if
they turn up.
Obtained from: Intel AP-485 rev.06
license managers to obtain the host's ethernet address as
a key.
Note that this implementation takes the first hardware address for
the first ethernet interface found, and disregards the interface name
that may be passed in, as linux ethernet devices are all "ethX".
These changes add the ability to specify that a UFS file/directory
cannot be unlinked. This is basically a scaled back version
of the IMMUTABLE flag. The reason is to allow an administrator
to create a directory hierarchy that a group of users
can arbitrarily add/delete files from, but that the hierarchy
itself is safe from removal by them.
If the NOUNLINK definition is set to 0
then this results in no change to what happens normally.
(and results in identical binary (in the kernel)).
It can be proven that if this bit is never set by the admin,
no new behaviour is introduced..
Several "good idea" comments from reviewers plus one grumble
about creeping featurism.
This code is in production in 2.2 based systems
these are quite extensive additions to the ipfw code.
they include a change to the API because the old method was
broken, but the user view is kept the same.
The new code allows a particular match to skip forward to a particular
line number, so that blocks of rules can be
used without checking all the intervening rules.
There are also many more ways of rejecting
connections especially TCP related, and
many many more ...
see the man page for a complete description.
is incompatible with -pg. (We use a different version of mcount for
profiling frame-pointer-less assembler functions, but gcc doesn't know
about this.)
Added a missing dependency.
Cleaned up trailing backslashes.
Added comment about config's limitations/bugs handling dependencies and
backslashe/newlines.
Finished removing support for isdn drivers.
shared function.
- use p->p_sleepend to try and get more accurate "time remaining" results
when the time has been adjusted.
- verify writeability of return address so that we can fail before sleeping
if the address for the result is bogus.
time for things like nanosleep. These sleep in terms of "ticks" and
calculate the elapsed time relative to the expected wakeup time and do
not return good results when the system time is adjusted.
interrupt mask hackery wasn't happening when being modloaded via the
if_ppp lkm. It seems that the lkm system doesn't particularly like having
two sets of load/unload/etc routines. :-] This really should be fixed
by having a seperate if_ppp and ppp_tty lkm, but that requires that ppp_tty
is loaded after if_ppp, and needs to be able to link with symbols in
if_ppp. This gets messy, it is a better task for the in-kernel linker.
(if_ppp is generic, ppp_tty is a tty-specific bottom end for if_ppp, it's
not _too_ hard to have another "provider" (such as a hdlc sync card)
connected to if_ppp)
the *_imask down in the isa machine dependent layers requires code changes
to all pci drivers, but the interrupt registration mechanism is in flux
at the moment. These can go away when the interface is cleaned and settled.
remove warning about ICU_LEN > 32, it's not likely to happen like this,
and besides, ICU_LEN is not the ideal indicator of "number of interrupts".
Reviewed by: bde, se
that lkm's can use them for fiddling the masks without being dependent on
which mode the kernel is compiled in (SMP or UP). This is particularly
for ppp_tty.c which has some domain crossing between the net and tty
subsystems. The values are not used in the spl code, they are for
reference only (ie: the compiled code uses immediate values rather than
an indirect 32 bit address and 32 bit data fetch).
top of the hardware interrupt handlers. Apparently this is slightly
faster with the bit scanning instruction that looks these up - this set of
changes reverts the original change.
Reviewed by: bde
rather than inlines. These are compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer and
work out pretty close to the original routines, but it might be a fraction
slower. The reason for doing this is to prevent the SWI_* and HWI_* values
from being compiled into drivers and lkms etc which is one of the things
that prevents the same lkm from being used on both SMP and UP kernels.
This gives us a lot more scope for experimenting with the splxxx
implementaton for SMP parallelism etc.
Reviewed by: bde
CPU code-named `M2'.
- Use the result of cpuid instruction instead of DIR to identify
6x86MX cpu. DIR0 and DIR1 are not documented in the data sheet, and
cpuid instruction is enabled at reset time.
- Add a function, init_6x86MX() to initialize 6x86MX cpu. It supports
CPU_SUSP_HLT and CPU_IORT options. It always sets NC1 (640K - 1M is
not cached.), and enables L1 cache in write-back mode.
- Fix typo in the comment in identblue().
Hopefully I've done the proper magic to merge changes between 1.17 and
1.17.2.1 into the main trunk. Description of those changes follows:
Brought in changes sent to me in late 1995 by Rich Murphey.
I cleaned up a few things and am currently running these under
2.2-970205-GAMMA.
The changes deal with software debouncing apparently necessary on
todays faster hardware, and also some problems with the use of the -Select
line for the TW-523 sync. This driver allows use of +PaperEnd as an
alternative.
Changes to pmap.c for lapic_t lapic && ioapic_t ioapic pointers,
currently equal to apic_base && io_apic_base, will stand alone with the
private page mapping.
apic.h has defines like:
#define lapic__id lapic->id
Once private pages and "known virtual addr" mapping of the APICs is
ready all 'lapic__XXX' will be changed to 'lapic.XXX', and the defines
will be removed.
Changes to smp.h for lapic_t lapic && ioapic_t ioapic pointers,
currently equal to apic_base && io_apic_base, will stand alone with the
private page mapping.
