pf/pflog/pfsync as modules. Do not list them in NOTES or modules/Makefile
(i.e. do not connect it to any (automatic) builds - yet).
Approved by: bms(mentor)
is reserved by the loader, and thus any tunable name with that suffix will
be silently discarded.
Document this in the header and man page so that other developers do not
develop so many bumps on the head after banging it against the wall.
Detective work by: Mark Santcroos, grehan
assure backward compatibility (conditional on !BURN_BRIDGES), look it up
by its old name first, and log a warning (but accept the setting) if it
was found. If both the old and new name are defined, the new name takes
precedence.
Also export vm.kmem_size as a read-only sysctl variable; I find it hard to
tune a parameter when I don't know its default value, especially when that
default value is computed at boot time.
queue items that can be allocated by netgraph and the number of free queue
items that are cached on a private list.
Netgraph places an upper limit on the number of queue items it may allocate.
When there is a large number of netgraph messages travelling through the
system (100k/sec and more) there is a high probability, that messages get
queued at the nodes and netgraph runs out of queue items. In this case the data
flow through netgraph gets blocked. The tuneable for the number of free
items lets one trade memory for performance.
The tunables are also available as read-only sysctls.
PR: kern/47393
Reviewed by: julian
Approved by: jake (mentor)
this is called /boot/nextboot.conf. This file is required to have it's first
line be nextboot_enable="YES" for it to be read. Also, this file is
rewritten by the loader to nextboot_enable="NO"<space> after it is read.
This makes it so the file is read exactly once. Finally, the nextboot.conf
is removed shortly after the filesystems are mounted r/w.
Caution should be taken as you can shoot yourself in the foot. This is only
the loader piece. There will be a tool called nextboot(8) that will manage
the nextboot.conf file for you. It is coming shortly.
Reviewed by: dcs
Approved by: jake (mentor)
loader variable, which let users specify the root mount point
the exact way one does after booting the kernel.
Let's take this opportunity to document it...
around. If the kernel boots successfully, the record of this kernel
is erased, it is intended to be a one-shot option for testing
kernels.
This could be improved by having the loader remove the record of
the next kernel to boot, it is currently removed in /etc/rc immediately
after disks are mounted r/w.
I'd like to MFC this before the 4.6 freeze unless there is violent
objection.
Reviewed by: Several on IRC
MFC after: 4 days
This allows obtaining crash dumps from the panics occured during late stages
of kernel initialisation before system enters into single-user mode.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Change the 'fopen' keyword to accept a mode parameter. Note that this
will break existing 4th scripts that use fopen. Thus, the loader
version has been bumped and loader.4th has been changed to check for a
sufficient version on i386 and alpha. Be sure that you either do a full
world build or install or full build and install of sys/boot after this
since loader.old won't work with the new 4th files and vice versa.
PR: kern/32389
Submitted by: Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
Sponsored by: ClickArray, Inc.
- Add S4BIOS sleep implementation. This will works well if MIB
hw.acpi.s4bios is set (and of course BIOS supports it and hibernation
is enabled correctly).
- Add DSDT overriding support which is submitted by takawata originally.
If loader tunable acpi_dsdt_load="YES" and DSDT file is set to
acpi_dsdt_name (default DSDT file name is /boot/acpi_dsdt.aml),
ACPI CA core loads DSDT from given file rather than BIOS memory block.
DSDT file can be generated by iasl in ports/devel/acpicatools/.
- Add new files so that we can add our proposed additional code to Intel
ACPI CA into these files temporary. They will be removed when
similar code is added into ACPI CA officially.
