hints data. Control register 2 holds the settings a user might want to
configure, such as the timeout value for idle busses and whether to enable
the mass-writes feature.
Also add hint support for disconnecting idle busses (which was already
supported using FDT data).
Update the manpage with the new features, and also split the hints section
into separate lists of required and optional hints.
This allows privileged userspace processes to find information about the
physical page backing a given mapping. It is useful in applications
such as DPDK which perform some of their own memory management.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26237
It's no longer unusual to be able to build a release with a single
command, so drop "actually" that hints at a surprise. Also just use
"network install directory" instead of referencing FTP; it's more
likely to be HTTP now.
Reviewed by: gjb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26260
Add deprecation notice for apm bios, aka the apm(4) device. The apm(8)
command will remain, at least for a while, since ACPI emulates the apm
ioctl interface.
Discussed on: arch@
Relnotes: yes
MFC After: 3 days
In Linux, ksize() gets the actual amount of memory allocated for a given
object. This commit adds malloc_usable_size() to FreeBSD KPI which does
the same. It also maps LinuxKPI ksize() to newly created function.
ksize() function is used by drm-kmod.
Reviewed by: hselasky, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26215
sbuf_setpos can only be used to truncate the buffer, never to make it
longer. Update the documentation to reflect this.
Reviewed By: allanjude, phk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26198
crypto(9) functions can now be used on buffers composed of an array of
vm_page_t structures, such as those stored in an unmapped struct bio. It
requires the running to kernel to support the direct memory map, so not all
architectures can use it.
Reviewed by: markj, kib, jhb, mjg, mat, bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Axcient
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25671
It was a driver for a USB FM tuner that was available in the market in 2002. I
wrote the driver in 2003. I've not used it since 2005 or so, so it's time to
retire this driver. No userland code ever interfaced to the special device it
created. There's no user base: the last bug I received on this driver was in
2004.
Relnotes: Yes
This was discussed in arch@ a while ago. Most of the 16-bit drivers that it
relied on have been removed. There's only a few other drivers remaining that
support it, and those are very rare the days (even the once ubiquitious wi(1)
is now quite rare).
Indvidual drivers will be handled separately before pccard itself is removed.
Add prng(9) as a replacement for random(9) in the kernel.
There are two major differences from random(9) and random(3):
- General prng(9) APIs (prng32(9), etc) do not guarantee an
implementation or particular sequence; they should not be used for
repeatable simulations.
- However, specific named API families are also exposed (for now: PCG),
and those are expected to be repeatable (when so-guaranteed by the named
algorithm).
Some minor differences from random(3) and earlier random(9):
- PRNG state for the general prng(9) APIs is per-CPU; this eliminates
contention on PRNG state in SMP workloads. Each PCPU generator in an
SMP system produces a unique sequence.
- Better statistical properties than the Park-Miller ("minstd") PRNG
(longer period, uniform distribution in all bits, passes
BigCrush/PractRand analysis).
- Faster than Park-Miller ("minstd") PRNG -- no division is required to
step PCG-family PRNGs.
For now, random(9) becomes a thin shim around prng32(). Eventually I
would like to mechanically switch consumers over to the explicit API.
Reviewed by: kib, markj (previous version both)
Discussed with: markm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25916
The current scheme of calling VOP_GETATTR adds avoidable overhead.
An example with tmpfs doing fstat (ops/s):
before: 7488958
after: 7913833
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25910
Add IEEE80211_IOC_IC_NAME to query the ic_name field and in ifconfig
to print the parent interface again. This functionality was lost
around r287197. It helps in case of multiple wlan interfaces and
multiple underlying hardware devices to keep track which wlan
interface belongs to which physical device.
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (d/b/a "Netgate")
Reviewed by: adrian, Idwer Vollering
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25832
- Add a better introduction to the DESCRIPTION section
- Add a description for MANPATH and POSIXLY_CORRECT
- Asorted improvements for the usage of some macros
PR: 43823
Submitted by: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc dot ab dot ca>
Reviewed by: 0mp, bcr
Approved by: 0mp, bcr
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25912
These functions were introduced before UMA started ensuring that freed
memory gets placed in domain-local caches. They no longer serve any
purpose since UMA now provides their functionality by default. Remove
them to simplyify the kernel memory allocator interfaces a bit.
Reviewed by: cem, kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25937
The constant seems to exists on MacOS X >= 10.8.
Requested by: swills
Reviewed by: allanjude, kevans
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25933
As we are moving away from portsnap,
let's not recommend it in the manual page.
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages), mat (portmgr)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25847
Update the ng_iface documentation and hooks to reflect the fact that the
node currently only supports IPv4 and v6 packets.
Reviewed by: Lutz Donnerhacke
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25862
- In the initial description of si_addr, do not claim that it is
always the faulting instruction.
- For si_addr, document that it is generally set to the PC for
synchronous signals, but that it can be set to the the address of
the faulting memory reference for some signals including SIGSEGV and
SIGBUS. In particular, while SIGSEGV generally sets si_addr to the
faulting memory reference, SIGBUS can vary. On some platforms, some
SIGBUS signals set si_addr to the PC and other SIGBUS signals set
si_addr to the faulting address depending on the specific hardware
exception.
- For si_trapno, synchronous signals should set this to some value.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25777
