The purpose of this option is to make it easier to track down memory
corruption bugs by reducing the number of malloc(9) types that might
have recently been associated with a given chunk of memory. However, it
increases fragmentation and is disabled in release kernels.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This driver allows to usage of the paravirt SCSI controller
in VMware products like ESXi. The pvscsi driver provides a
substantial performance improvement in block devices versus
the emulated mpt and mps SCSI/SAS controllers.
Error handling in this driver has not been extensively tested
yet.
Submitted by: vbhakta@vmware.com
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: VMware, Panzura
Differential Revision: D18613
NetGDB(4) is a component of a system using a panic-time network stack to
remotely debug crashed FreeBSD kernels over the network, instead of
traditional serial interfaces.
There are three pieces in the complete NetGDB system.
First, a dedicated proxy server must be running to accept connections from
both NetGDB and gdb(1), and pass bidirectional traffic between the two
protocols.
Second, the NetGDB client is activated much like ordinary 'gdb' and
similarly to 'netdump' in ddb(4) after a panic. Like other debugnet(4)
clients (netdump(4)), the network interface on the route to the proxy server
must be online and support debugnet(4).
Finally, the remote (k)gdb(1) uses 'target remote <proxy>:<port>' (like any
other TCP remote) to connect to the proxy server.
The NetGDB v1 protocol speaks the literal GDB remote serial protocol, and
uses a 1:1 relationship between GDB packets and sequences of debugnet
packets (fragmented by MTU). There is no encryption utilized to keep
debugging sessions private, so this is only appropriate for local
segments or trusted networks.
Submitted by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com> (earlier version)
Discussed some with: emaste, markj
Relnotes: sure
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21568
Debugnet is a simplistic and specialized panic- or debug-time reliable
datagram transport. It can drive a single connection at a time and is
currently unidirectional (debug/panic machine transmit to remote server
only).
It is mostly a verbatim code lift from netdump(4). Netdump(4) remains
the only consumer (until the rest of this patch series lands).
The INET-specific logic has been extracted somewhat more thoroughly than
previously in netdump(4), into debugnet_inet.c. UDP-layer logic and up, as
much as possible as is protocol-independent, remains in debugnet.c. The
separation is not perfect and future improvement is welcome. Supporting
INET6 is a long-term goal.
Much of the diff is "gratuitous" renaming from 'netdump_' or 'nd_' to
'debugnet_' or 'dn_' -- sorry. I thought keeping the netdump name on the
generic module would be more confusing than the refactoring.
The only functional change here is the mbuf allocation / tracking. Instead
of initiating solely on netdump-configured interface(s) at dumpon(8)
configuration time, we watch for any debugnet-enabled NIC for link
activation and query it for mbuf parameters at that time. If they exceed
the existing high-water mark allocation, we re-allocate and track the new
high-water mark. Otherwise, we leave the pre-panic mbuf allocation alone.
In a future patch in this series, this will allow initiating netdump from
panic ddb(4) without pre-panic configuration.
No other functional change intended.
Reviewed by: markj (earlier version)
Some discussion with: emaste, jhb
Objection from: marius
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21421
Four drivers (hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, hptrr, hpt27xx) include precompiled
binary objects; have users load them as modules if they are needed.
Additional work (i.e., integrating devmatch) required before MFC.
Reviewed by: markj
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21865
The current implementation of gzipped a.out support was based
on a very old version of InfoZIP which ships with an ancient
modified version of zlib, and was removed from the GENERIC
kernel in 1999 when we moved to an ELF world.
PR: 205822
Reviewed by: imp, kib, emaste, Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp>
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21099
This patch is the driver for NTB hardware in AMD SoCs (ported from Linux)
and enables the NTB infrastructure like Doorbells, Scratchpads and Memory
window in AMD SoC. This driver has been validated using ntb_transport and
if_ntb driver already available in FreeBSD.
Submitted by: Rajesh Kumar <rajesh1.kumar@amd.com>
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18774
The goal of this driver is consolidate information about SuperIO chips
and to provide for peaceful coexistence of drivers that need to access
SuperIO configuration registers.
While SuperIO chips can host various functions most of them are
discoverable and accessible without any knowledge of the SuperIO.
Examples are: keyboard and mouse controllers, UARTs, floppy disk
controllers. SuperIO-s also provide non-standard functions such as
GPIO, watchdog timers and hardware monitoring. Such functions do
require drivers with a knowledge of a specific SuperIO.
At this time the driver supports a number of ITE and Nuvoton (fka
Winbond) SuperIO chips.
There is a single driver for all devices. So, I have not done the usual
split between the hardware driver and the bus functionality. Although,
superio does act as a bus for devices that represent known non-standard
functions of a SuperIO chip. The bus provides enumeration of child
devices based on the hardcoded knowledge of such functions. The
knowledge as extracted from datasheets and other drivers.
As there is a single driver, I have not defined a kobj interface for it.
So, its interface is currently made of simple functions.
I think that we can the flexibility (and complications) when we actually
need it.
I am planning to convert nctgpio and wbwd to superio bus very soon.
Also, I am working on itwd driver (watchdog in ITE SuperIO-s).
Additionally, there is ithwm driver based on the reverted sensors
import, but I am not sure how to integrate it given that we still lack
any sensors interface.
Discussed with: imp, jhb
MFC after: 7 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8175
Having IPSEC compiled into the kernel imposes a non-trivial
performance penalty on multi-threaded workloads due to IPSEC
refcounting. In my benchmarks of multi-threaded UDP
transmit (connected sockets), I've seen a roughly 20% performance
penalty when the IPSEC option is included in the kernel (16.8Mpps
vs 13.8Mpps with 32 senders on a 14 core / 28 HTT Xeon
2697v3)). This is largely due to key_addref() incrementing and
decrementing an atomic reference count on the default
policy. This cause all CPUs to stall on the same cacheline, as it
bounces between different CPUs.
Given that relatively few users use ipsec, and that it can be
loaded as a module, it seems reasonable to ask those users to
load the ipsec module so as to avoid imposing this penalty on the
GENERIC kernel. Its my hope that this will make FreeBSD look
better in "out of the box" benchmark comparisons with other
operating systems.
Many thanks to ae for fixing auto-loading of ipsec.ko when
ifconfig tries to configure ipsec, and to cy for volunteering
to ensure the the racoon ports will load the ipsec.ko module
Reviewed by: cem, cy, delphij, gnn, jhb, jpaetzel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20163
tun(4) and tap(4) share the same general management interface and have a lot
in common. Bugs exist in tap(4) that have been fixed in tun(4), and
vice-versa. Let's reduce the maintenance requirements by merging them
together and using flags to differentiate between the three interface types
(tun, tap, vmnet).
This fixes a couple of tap(4)/vmnet(4) issues right out of the gate:
- tap devices may no longer be destroyed while they're open [0]
- VIMAGE issues already addressed in tun by kp
[0] emaste had removed an easy-panic-button in r240938 due to devdrn
blocking. A naive glance over this leads me to believe that this isn't quite
complete -- destroy_devl will only block while executing d_* functions, but
doesn't block the device from being destroyed while a process has it open.
The latter is the intent of the condvar in tun, so this is "fixed" (for
certain definitions of the word -- it wasn't really broken in tap, it just
wasn't quite ideal).
ifconfig(8) also grew the ability to map an interface name to a kld, so
that `ifconfig {tun,tap}0` can continue to autoload the correct module, and
`ifconfig vmnet0 create` will now autoload the correct module. This is a
low overhead addition.
(MFC commentary)
This may get MFC'd if many bugs in tun(4)/tap(4) are discovered after this,
and how critical they are. Changes after this are likely easily MFC'd
without taking this merge, but the merge will be easier.
I have no plans to do this MFC as of now.
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages), tuexen (testing, syzkaller/packetdrill)
Input also from: melifaro
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20044
Use it wherever COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is currently specified, like r309749.
Reviewed by: imp, jhb, markj
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20120
iflib is already a module, but it is unconditionally compiled into the
kernel. There are drivers which do not need iflib(4), and there are
situations where somebody might not want iflib in kernel because of
using the corresponding driver as module.
Reviewed by: marius
Discussed with: erj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19041
Include evdev support and drivers in the amd64 and i386 GENERIC and MINIMAL
kernels. Evdev is used by X and wayland to handle input devices, and this
change, together with upcomming changes in ports will make us handle input
devices better in graphical UIs.
Reviewed by: wulf, bapt, imp
Approved by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17912
The loader tunable 'debug.verbose_sysinit' may be used to toggle verbosity.
This is added to the debugging section of these kernconfs to be turned off
in stable branches for clarity of intent.
MFC after: never
This driver has been obsolete since the FreeBSD 4.x. It should have
been removed then since the sym(4) driver had subsumed it. The driver
was commented out of GENERIC in 2000.
RelNotes: Yes
stg(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame. It was also only enabled on i386.
Relnote: Yes
nsp(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame. It was also only enabled on i386.
Relnote: Yes
ncv(4) is marked as gone in 12. Remove it. There are no sightings of
it in the nycbug dmesg database. It was for an obscure SCSI card that
sold mostly in Japan, and was especially popilar among pc98 hackers in
the 4.x time frame..
Relnote: Yes
Remove mse and all support for bus and inport devices from the tree.
Data from nycbug's dmesg database shows the last sighting of this
driver was in 4.10 on only one machine.
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17628
We're planning on removing adv, adw, aha, aic, bt, ncv, nsp, and stg
soon. They have been tagged for removal in 12. At least get them out
of GENERIC.
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: yes
