When epoch(9) was introduced to network stack, it was basically
dropped in place of existing locking, which was mutexes and
rwlocks. For the sake of performance mutex covered areas were
as small as possible, so became epoch covered areas.
However, epoch doesn't introduce any contention, it just delays
memory reclaim. So, there is no point to minimise epoch covered
areas in sense of performance. Meanwhile entering/exiting epoch
also has non-zero CPU usage, so doing this less often is a win.
Not the least is also code maintainability. In the new paradigm
we can assume that at any stage of processing a packet, we are
inside network epoch. This makes coding both input and output
path way easier.
On output path we already enter epoch quite early - in the
ip_output(), in the ip6_output().
This patch does the same for the input path. All ISR processing,
network related callouts, other ways of packet injection to the
network stack shall be performed in net_epoch. Any leaf function
that walks network configuration now asserts epoch.
Tricky part is configuration code paths - ioctls, sysctls. They
also call into leaf functions, so some need to be changed.
This patch would introduce more epoch recursions (see EPOCH_TRACE)
than we had before. They will be cleaned up separately, as several
of them aren't trivial. Note, that unlike a lock recursion the
epoch recursion is safe and just wastes a bit of resources.
Reviewed by: gallatin, hselasky, cy, adrian, kristof
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19111
it, except Ethernet, where it carried ng_ether(4) pointer.
For now carry the pointer in if_l2com directly.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
The check is copied from vnet_ng_ether_init.
Not sure if it covers all the types that we want to support with
ng_ether.
Reported by: markj
Discussed with: zec
MFC after: 10 days
X-MFC with: r246245
Also sanitize interface names that can potentially contain characters
that are prohibited in netgraph names.
PR: kern/154850 (sanitizing of names)
Discussed with: eri, melifaro
Submitted by: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> (sanitizing code)
Reviewed by: eri, glebius
MFC after: 17 days
This is done per request/suggestion from John Baldwin
who introduced the option. Trying to resume normal
system operation after a panic is very unpredictable
and dangerous. It will become even more dangerous
when we allow a thread in panic(9) to penetrate all
lock contexts.
I understand that the only purpose of this option was
for testing scenarios potentially resulting in panic.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: attilio, jhb
X-MFC-After: never
Approved by: re (kib)
address on an interface has changed. This lets stacked interfaces such as
vlan(4) detect that their lower interface has changed and adjust things in
order to keep working. Previously this situation broke at least vlan(4) and
lagg(4) configurations.
The EVENTHANDLER_INVOKE call was not placed within if_setlladdr() due to the
risk of a loop.
PR: kern/142927
Submitted by: Nikolay Denev
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks. Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)
network stacks, VNET_SYSINIT:
- Add VNET_SYSINIT and VNET_SYSUNINIT macros to declare events that will
occur each time a network stack is instantiated and destroyed. In the
!VIMAGE case, these are simply mapped into regular SYSINIT/SYSUNINIT.
For the VIMAGE case, we instead use SYSINIT's to track their order and
properties on registration, using them for each vnet when created/
destroyed, or immediately on module load for already-started vnets.
- Remove vnet_modinfo mechanism that existed to serve this purpose
previously, as well as its dependency scheme: we now just use the
SYSINIT ordering scheme.
- Implement VNET_DOMAIN_SET() to allow protocol domains to declare that
they want init functions to be called for each virtual network stack
rather than just once at boot, compiling down to DOMAIN_SET() in the
non-VIMAGE case.
- Walk all virtualized kernel subsystems and make use of these instead
of modinfo or DOMAIN_SET() for init/uninit events. In some cases,
convert modular components from using modevent to using sysinit (where
appropriate). In some cases, do minor rejuggling of SYSINIT ordering
to make room for or better manage events.
Portions submitted by: jhb (VNET_SYSINIT), bz (cleanup)
Discussed with: jhb, bz, julian, zec
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (VIMAGE blanket)
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.
Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.
Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.
This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.
Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.
Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.
For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks
network stack when reentering the inbound path from netgraph, and
force queueing of mbufs at the outbound netgraph node.
The mechanism relies on two components. First, in netgraph nodes
where outbound path of the network stack calls into netgraph, the
current thread has to be appropriately marked using the new
NG_OUTBOUND_THREAD_REF() macro before proceeding to call further
into the netgraph topology, and unmarked using the
NG_OUTBOUND_THREAD_UNREF() macro before returning to the caller.
Second, netgraph nodes which can potentially reenter the network
stack in the inbound path have to mark their inbound hooks using
NG_HOOK_SET_TO_INBOUND() macro. The netgraph framework will then
detect when there is a danger of a call graph looping back from
outbound to inbound path via netgraph, and defer handing off the
mbufs to the "inbound" node to a worker thread with a clean stack.
In this first pass only the most obvious netgraph nodes have been
updated to ensure no outbound to inbound calls can occur. Nodes
such as ng_ipfw, ng_gif etc. should be further examined whether a
potential for outbound to inbound call looping exists.
This commit changes the layout of struct thread, but due to
__FreeBSD_version number shortage a version bump has been omitted
at this time, nevertheless kernel and modules have to be rebuilt.
Reviewed by: julian, rwatson, bz
Approved by: julian (mentor)
the ROUTETABLES kernel option thus there is no need to include opt_route.h
anymore in all consumers of vnet.h and no longer depend on it for module
builds.
Remove the hidden include in flowtable.h as well and leave the two
explicit #includes in ip_input.c and ip_output.c.
initialize / release netgraph related state in iattach() / idetach()
functions called via the vnet module registration / initialization
framework, instead of initialization / cleanups being done in
mod_event handlers.
While here, introduce a crude hack aimed at preventing ng_ether to
autoattach to ng_eiface ifnets, which are also netgraph nodes already.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: julian (mentor)
net/route.h.
Remove the hidden include of opt_route.h and net/route.h from net/vnet.h.
We need to make sure that both opt_route.h and net/route.h are included
before net/vnet.h because of the way MRT figures out the number of FIBs
from the kernel option. If we do not, we end up with the default number
of 1 when including net/vnet.h and array sizes are wrong.
This does not change the list of files which depend on opt_route.h
but we can identify them now more easily.
directly include only the header files needed. This reduces the
unneeded spamming of various headers into lots of files.
For now, this leaves us with very few modules including vnet.h
and thus needing to depend on opt_route.h.
Reviewed by: brooks, gnn, des, zec, imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
virtualization work done by Marko Zec (zec@).
This is the first in a series of commits over the course
of the next few weeks.
Mark all uses of global variables to be virtualized
with a V_ prefix.
Use macros to map them back to their global names for
now, so this is a NOP change only.
We hope to have caught at least 85-90% of what is needed
so we do not invalidate a lot of outstanding patches again.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/vimage-commit2/...
Reviewed by: brooks, des, ed, mav, julian,
jamie, kris, rwatson, zec, ...
(various people I forgot, different versions)
md5 (with a bit of help)
Sponsored by: NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation
X-MFC after: never
V_Commit_Message_Reviewed_By: more people than the patch
structures. Detect when ifnet instances are detached from the network
stack and perform appropriate cleanup to prevent memory leaks.
This has been implemented in such a way as to be backwards ABI compatible.
Kernel consumers are changed to use if_delmulti_ifma(); in_delmulti()
is unable to detect interface removal by design, as it performs searches
on structures which are removed with the interface.
With this architectural change, the panics FreeBSD users have experienced
with carp and pfsync should be resolved.
Obtained from: p4 branch bms_netdev
Reviewed by: andre
Sponsored by: Garance A Drosehn
Idea from: NetBSD
MFC after: 1 month
on output frames.
Many people were confused with not working CARP, ng_bridge(4)
and other subsystems, because ng_ether(4) overwritten source
MAC address.
rather than in ifindex_table[]; all (except one) accesses are
through ifp anyway. IF_LLADDR() works faster, and all (except
one) ifaddr_byindex() users were converted to use ifp->if_addr.
- Stop storing a (pointer to) Ethernet address in "struct arpcom",
and drop the IFP2ENADDR() macro; all users have been converted
to use IF_LLADDR() instead.
- move the function pointer definitions to if_bridgevar.h
- move most of the logic to the new BRIDGE_INPUT and BRIDGE_OUTPUT macros
- remove unneeded functions from if_bridgevar.h and sort a little.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-October/033496.html
The same problem applies to if_bridge(4), too.
- Copy-and-paste the if_bridge(4) related block from
if_ethersubr.c to ng_ether.c
- Add XXXs, so that copy-and-paste would be noticed by
any future editors of this code.
- Also add XXXs near if_bridge(4) declarations.
Silence from: thompsa
replacement and has additional features which make it superior.
Discussed on: -arch
Reviewed by: thompsa
X-MFC-after: never (RELENG_6 as transition period)
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This
helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in
maintaining the interface flags field.
Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued;
some less so.
Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
removes netgraph node and unwraps Ethernet interface.
This gives us ability to unload ng_ether.ko, when all interfaces
are detached, making ng_ether(4) developers happy.
Reviewed by: ru
