Summary:
Add "GELI Passphrase:" prompt to boot loader.
A new loader.conf(5) option of geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" will now
allow you to enter your geli(8) root-mount credentials prior to invoking
the kernel.
See check-password.4th(8) for details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
Reviewed by: (your name[s] here)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Relnotes: yes
Test Plan:
Drop a head copy of check-password.4th into /boot and then apply the patch
(only the patch to /boot/check-password.4th is required; no other changes are
required but you do have to have a HEAD copy of check-password.4th to
apply the patch).
NB: The rest of your /boot files can be up to 2 years old but no older.
NB: The test won't work unless your kernel has the following change
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273489
Now, put into /boot/loader.conf:
geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"
and reboot.
You should be prompted for a GELI passphrase before the menu (if enabled),
just after loading loader.conf(5).
NB: It doesn't matter if you're using GELI or not. However if you are using
GELI and a sufficiently new enough release (has SVN r273489) and you entered
the proper passphrase to mount your GELI encrypted root device(s), you should
notice that the boot process did not stop (you went from loader all the way to login).
Reviewers: cperciva, allanjude, scottl, kmoore
Subscribers: jkh, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
The -a flag reads a file saved by -O, not -o.
The -m flag requires the -R flag. Copy that paragraph from -a.
Reviewed by: adrian
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Dell Inc
There are a number of assumptions about legacy interrupts always
being available in virtio so don't allow back-ends to make the
decision to support them.
This fixes the issue seen with virtio-rnd on OpenBSD. MSI-x vectors
were not being used, and the virtio-rnd backend wasn't allocating a
legacy interrupt resulting in a bhyve assert and guest exit.
Reported by: Julian Hsiao, madoka at nyanisore dot net
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 1 week
may need some work, but at least now it will read properly.
(gnn you are still on the hook to help out with this
like you committed).
Sponsored by: Netflix.
bsdconfig's f_package_add doesn't seem to support using the pkg repo from /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, it also tries to run the commands on the installer image, not in the destination chroot
Instead, manually bootstrap pkg in the chroot, and then install the requested packages (in the chroot)
Doesn't use pkg -c, because pkg is not installed on the installer image
PR: 196250
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2026
Approved by: bapt
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
I've missed that network driver sometimes returns taken request back to
available queue without processing. Add new helper function for that case.
Reported by: flo
MFC after: 2 weeks
I/O interface.
Asynchronous operation, based on r280026 change, allows to not block virtual
CPU during I/O processing, that on slow/busy storage can take seconds.
Use of recently improved block I/O interface allows to process multiple
requests same time, that improves random I/O performance on wide storages.
Benchmarks of virtual disk, backed by ZVOL on RAID10 pool of 4 HDDs, show
~3.5 times random read performance improvements, while no degradation on
linear I/O. Guest CPU usage during test dropped from 100% to almost zero.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Original virtqueue design allows queued and out-of-order processing, but
helpers added in r253440 suppose only direct blocking in-order one.
It could be fine for network, etc., but it is a huge limitation for storage
devices.
On parallel random I/O this allows better utilize wide storage pools.
To not confuse prefetcher on linear I/O, consecutive requests are executed
sequentially, following the same logic as was earlier implemented in CTL.
Benchmarks of virtual AHCI disk, backed by ZVOL on RAID10 pool of 4 HDDs,
show ~3.5 times random read performance improvements, while no degradation
on linear I/O.
MFC after: 2 weeks
It works only for virtual disks backed by ZVOLs and raw devices supporting
BIO_DELETE. Virtual disks backed by files won't report this capability.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
