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Author SHA1 Message Date
Poul-Henning Kamp
7f086a0852 Rename DIOCGKERNELDUMP to DIOCSKERNELDUMP as it strictly speaking
is a "set" not a "get" operation.

Sponsored by:	DARPA & NAI Labs.
2002-04-09 10:04:09 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
2dd527b3ac Move generic disk ioctls from <sys/disklabel.h> to <sys/disk.h>.
Sponsored by:	DARPA & NAI Labs
2002-04-08 09:20:07 +00:00
John Baldwin
44731cab3b Change the suser() API to take advantage of td_ucred as well as do a
general cleanup of the API.  The entire API now consists of two functions
similar to the pre-KSE API.  The suser() function takes a thread pointer
as its only argument.  The td_ucred member of this thread must be valid
so the only valid thread pointers are curthread and a few kernel threads
such as thread0.  The suser_cred() function takes a pointer to a struct
ucred as its first argument and an integer flag as its second argument.
The flag is currently only used for the PRISON_ROOT flag.

Discussed on:	smp@
2002-04-01 21:31:13 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
81661c94b6 Here follows the new kernel dumping infrastructure.
Caveats:

The new savecore program is not complete in the sense that it emulates
enough of the old savecores features to do the job, but implements none
of the options yet.

I would appreciate if a userland hacker could help me out getting savecore
to do what we want it to do from a users point of view, compression,
email-notification, space reservation etc etc.  (send me email if
you are interested).

Currently, savecore will scan all devices marked as "swap" or "dump" in
/etc/fstab _or_ any devices specified on the command-line.

All architectures but i386 lack an implementation of dumpsys(), but
looking at the i386 version it should be trivial for anybody familiar
with the platform(s) to provide this function.

Documentation is quite sparse at this time, more to come.

Details:

ATA and SCSI drivers should work as the dump formatting code has been
removed.  The IDA, TWE and AAC have not yet been converted.

Dumpon now opens the device and uses ioctl(DIOCGKERNELDUMP) to set
the device as dumpdev.  To implement the "off" argument, /dev/null
is used as the device.

Savecore will fail if handed any options since they are not (yet)
implemented.  All devices marked "dump" or "swap" in /etc/fstab
will be scanned and dumps found will be saved to diskfiles
named from the MD5 hash of the header record.  The header record
is dumped in readable format in the .info file.  The kernel
is not saved.  Only complete dumps will be saved.

All maintainer rights for this code are disclaimed: feel free to
improve and extend.

Sponsored by:   DARPA, NAI Labs
2002-03-31 22:37:00 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
f83880518b Send the remains (such as I have located) of "block major numbers" to
the bit-bucket.
2001-03-26 12:41:29 +00:00
David Malone
7cc0979fd6 Convert more malloc+bzero to malloc+M_ZERO.
Submitted by:	josh@zipperup.org
Submitted by:	Robert Drehmel <robd@gmx.net>
2000-12-08 21:51:06 +00:00
John Baldwin
511652767f During a verbose boot, call the null device 'null' rather than 'null0' to
be more consistent with the rest of the kernel.
2000-10-06 00:46:29 +00:00
John Baldwin
005b841fd6 Move sys/dev/nulldev to sys/dev/null to be more consistent with naming
under sys/dev.
2000-10-02 20:16:37 +00:00
Mark Murray
11197ed12c Small style change; make function names less likely to clash with
existing names. "null" is too common a string; use "null_".
2000-07-09 12:29:24 +00:00
Mark Murray
f6011da8dc New machine independant /dev/null and /dev/zero driver. This device is
severely stripped down compared with its predecessor, and is measurably
a _lot_ faster.

Many thanks to Jeroen van Gelderen for lots of good ideas.

There is still a problem with this; it is written as a mudule, and as
such is theoretically unloadable. However, there is no refcounting done
as I would prefer to do that a'la device_busy(9), rather than some
"home-rolled" scheme. The point is pretty moot, as /dev/null is
effectively compulsory.

Reviewed by:	dfr
2000-06-25 08:32:39 +00:00