can avoid the cost of a large number of atomic operations if we're not
interested in the object count statistics.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
The CAM<>ATAPI layer was submitted by "Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>"
changes form the version on the net by me (formatting, ability to be used
alone without the ATAPI native device driver, proper speed reporting...)
See /sys/conf/NOTES for usage.
Submitted by: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>
MAC support will be merged into the main tree over the next week in
reasonable size chunks; much more to follow.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
keyword and in the description of rp's hints.
Didn't fix rp's hints being mostly in comments so that they are harder to
use (they don't get linted either way because makeLINT.sh strips them and
there is no compile-time syntax checking of hints anyway).
NOTES. Add some comments about the potential problems associated with NIC
driver modules and changing these options.
Fix sorting problems in sys/conf/options with the MSIZE and MCLSHIFT
options.
Reviewed by: bde
MAKEDEV: Add MAKEDEV glue for the ti(4) device nodes.
ti.4: Update the ti(4) man page to include information on the
TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT and TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS kernel options,
and also include information about the new character
device interface and the associated ioctls.
man9/Makefile: Add jumbo.9 and zero_copy.9 man pages and associated
links.
jumbo.9: New man page describing the jumbo buffer allocator
interface and operation.
zero_copy.9: New man page describing the general characteristics of
the zero copy send and receive code, and what an
application author should do to take advantage of the
zero copy functionality.
NOTES: Add entries for ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS, TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS,
TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT, MSIZE, and MCLSHIFT.
conf/files: Add uipc_jumbo.c and uipc_cow.c.
conf/options: Add the 5 options mentioned above.
kern_subr.c: Receive side zero copy implementation. This takes
"disposable" pages attached to an mbuf, gives them to
a user process, and then recycles the user's page.
This is only active when ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on
and the kern.ipc.zero_copy.receive sysctl variable is
set to 1.
uipc_cow.c: Send side zero copy functions. Takes a page written
by the user and maps it copy on write and assigns it
kernel virtual address space. Removes copy on write
mapping once the buffer has been freed by the network
stack.
uipc_jumbo.c: Jumbo disposable page allocator code. This allocates
(optionally) disposable pages for network drivers that
want to give the user the option of doing zero copy
receive.
uipc_socket.c: Add kern.ipc.zero_copy.{send,receive} sysctls that are
enabled if ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on.
Add zero copy send support to sosend() -- pages get
mapped into the kernel instead of getting copied if
they meet size and alignment restrictions.
uipc_syscalls.c:Un-staticize some of the sf* functions so that they
can be used elsewhere. (uipc_cow.c)
if_media.c: In the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl in ifmedia_ioctl(), avoid
calling malloc() with M_WAITOK. Return an error if
the M_NOWAIT malloc fails.
The ti(4) driver and the wi(4) driver, at least, call
this with a mutex held. This causes witness warnings
for 'ifconfig -a' with a wi(4) or ti(4) board in the
system. (I've only verified for ti(4)).
ip_output.c: Fragment large datagrams so that each segment contains
a multiple of PAGE_SIZE amount of data plus headers.
This allows the receiver to potentially do page
flipping on receives.
if_ti.c: Add zero copy receive support to the ti(4) driver. If
TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS is not defined, it now uses the
jumbo(9) buffer allocator for jumbo receive buffers.
Add a new character device interface for the ti(4)
driver for the new debugging interface. This allows
(a patched version of) gdb to talk to the Tigon board
and debug the firmware. There are also a few additional
debugging ioctls available through this interface.
Add header splitting support to the ti(4) driver.
Tweak some of the default interrupt coalescing
parameters to more useful defaults.
Add hooks for supporting transmit flow control, but
leave it turned off with a comment describing why it
is turned off.
if_tireg.h: Change the firmware rev to 12.4.11, since we're really
at 12.4.11 plus fixes from 12.4.13.
Add defines needed for debugging.
Remove the ti_stats structure, it is now defined in
sys/tiio.h.
ti_fw.h: 12.4.11 firmware.
ti_fw2.h: 12.4.11 firmware, plus selected fixes from 12.4.13,
and my header splitting patches. Revision 12.4.13
doesn't handle 10/100 negotiation properly. (This
firmware is the same as what was in the tree previously,
with the addition of header splitting support.)
sys/jumbo.h: Jumbo buffer allocator interface.
sys/mbuf.h: Add a new external mbuf type, EXT_DISPOSABLE, to
indicate that the payload buffer can be thrown away /
flipped to a userland process.
socketvar.h: Add prototype for socow_setup.
tiio.h: ioctl interface to the character portion of the ti(4)
driver, plus associated structure/type definitions.
uio.h: Change prototype for uiomoveco() so that we'll know
whether the source page is disposable.
ufs_readwrite.c:Update for new prototype of uiomoveco().
vm_fault.c: In vm_fault(), check to see whether we need to do a page
based copy on write fault.
vm_object.c: Add a new function, vm_object_allocate_wait(). This
does the same thing that vm_object allocate does, except
that it gives the caller the opportunity to specify whether
it should wait on the uma_zalloc() of the object structre.
This allows vm objects to be allocated while holding a
mutex. (Without generating WITNESS warnings.)
vm_object_allocate() is implemented as a call to
vm_object_allocate_wait() with the malloc flag set to
M_WAITOK.
vm_object.h: Add prototype for vm_object_allocate_wait().
vm_page.c: Add page-based copy on write setup, clear and fault
routines.
vm_page.h: Add page based COW function prototypes and variable in
the vm_page structure.
Many thanks to Drew Gallatin, who wrote the zero copy send and receive
code, and to all the other folks who have tested and reviewed this code
over the years.
operations to dump a ktrace event out to an output file are now handled
asychronously by a ktrace worker thread. This enables most ktrace events
to not need Giant once p_tracep and p_traceflag are suitably protected by
the new ktrace_lock.
There is a single todo list of pending ktrace requests. The various
ktrace tracepoints allocate a ktrace request object and tack it onto the
end of the queue. The ktrace kernel thread grabs requests off the head of
the queue and processes them using the trace vnode and credentials of the
thread triggering the event.
Since we cannot assume that the user memory referenced when doing a
ktrgenio() will be valid and since we can't access it from the ktrace
worker thread without a bit of hassle anyways, ktrgenio() requests are
still handled synchronously. However, in order to ensure that the requests
from a given thread still maintain relative order to one another, when a
synchronous ktrace event (such as a genio event) is triggered, we still put
the request object on the todo list to synchronize with the worker thread.
The original thread blocks atomically with putting the item on the queue.
When the worker thread comes across an asynchronous request, it wakes up
the original thread and then blocks to ensure it doesn't manage to write a
later event before the original thread has a chance to write out the
synchronous event. When the original thread wakes up, it writes out the
synchronous using its own context and then finally wakes the worker thread
back up. Yuck. The sychronous events aren't pretty but they do work.
Since ktrace events can be triggered in fairly low-level areas (msleep()
and cv_wait() for example) the ktrace code is designed to use very few
locks when posting an event (currently just the ktrace_mtx lock and the
vnode interlock to bump the refcoun on the trace vnode). This also means
that we can't allocate a ktrace request object when an event is triggered.
Instead, ktrace request objects are allocated from a pre-allocated pool
and returned to the pool after a request is serviced.
The size of this pool defaults to 100 objects, which is about 13k on an
i386 kernel. The size of the pool can be adjusted at compile time via the
KTRACE_REQUEST_POOL kernel option, at boot time via the
kern.ktrace_request_pool loader tunable, or at runtime via the
kern.ktrace_request_pool sysctl.
If the pool of request objects is exhausted, then a warning message is
printed to the console. The message is rate-limited in that it is only
printed once until the size of the pool is adjusted via the sysctl.
I have tested all kernel traces but have not tested user traces submitted
by utrace(2), though they should work fine in theory.
Since a ktrace request has several properties (content of event, trace
vnode, details of originating process, credentials for I/O, etc.), I chose
to drop the first argument to the various ktrfoo() functions. Currently
the functions just assume the event is posted from curthread. If there is
a great desire to do so, I suppose I could instead put back the first
argument but this time make it a thread pointer instead of a vnode pointer.
Also, KTRPOINT() now takes a thread as its first argument instead of a
process. This is because the check for a recursive ktrace event is now
per-thread instead of process-wide.
Tested on: i386
Compiles on: sparc64, alpha
is currently conditional on both the GEOM and GEOM_GPT options to
avoid getting GPT by default and having the MBR and GPT classes
clash.
The correct behaviour of the MBR class would be to back-off (reject)
a MBR if it's a Protective MBR (a MBR with a single partition of type
0xEE that spans the whole disk (as far as the MBR is concerned).
The correct behaviour if the GPT class would be to back-off (reject)
a GPT if there's a MBR that's not a Protective MBR.
At this stage it's inconvenient to destroy a good MBR when working
with GPTs that it's more convenient to have the MBR class back-off
when it detects the GPT signature on disk and have the GPT class
ignore the MBR.
In sys/gpt.h UUIDs (GUIDs) for the following FreeBSD partitions
have been defined:
GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD
FreeBSD slice with disklabel. This is the equivalent of
the well-known FreeBSD MBR partition type.
GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD_{SWAP|UFS|UFS2|VINUM}
FreeBSD partitions in the context of disklabel. This is
speculating on the idea to use the GPT to hold partitions
instead if slices and removing the fixed (and low) limits
we have on the number of partitions.
This commit lacks a GPT image for the regression suite.
option is used (not on by default).
- In the case of trying to lock a mutex, if the MTX_CONTESTED flag is set,
then we can safely read the thread pointer from the mtx_lock member while
holding sched_lock. We then examine the thread to see if it is currently
executing on another CPU. If it is, then we keep looping instead of
blocking.
- In the case of trying to unlock a mutex, it is now possible for a mutex
to have MTX_CONTESTED set in mtx_lock but to not have any threads
actually blocked on it, so we need to handle that case. In that case,
we just release the lock as if MTX_CONTESTED was not set and return.
- We do not adaptively spin on Giant as Giant is held for long times and
it slows SMP systems down to a crawl (it was taking several minutes,
like 5-10 or so for my test alpha and sparc64 SMP boxes to boot up when
they adaptively spinned on Giant).
- We only compile in the code to do this for SMP kernels, it doesn't make
sense for UP kernels.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
IFS had its fingers deep in the belly of the UFS/FFS split. IFS
will be reimplemented by the maintainer at a later date.
Requested by: adrian (maintainer)
ever connect a SCSI Cdrom/Tape/Jukebox/Scanner/Printer/kitty-litter-scooper
to your high-end RAID controller. The interface to the arrays is still
via the block interface; this merely provides a way to circumvent the
RAID functionality and access the SCSI buses directly. Note that for
somewhat obvious reasons, hard drives are not exposed to the da driver
through this interface, though you can still talk to them via the pass
driver. Be the first on your block to low-level format unsuspecting
drives that are part of an array!
To enable this, add the 'aacp' device to your kernel config.
MFC after: 3 days
drivers with MI portions into the MI notes. Device drivers such as busses
like the isa, eisa, and pci devices are now in the MD NOTES section even
though they have some MI code. This will ensure that only the proper bits
of device drivers will be included due to the optional bits dependent on
the busses in sys/conf/files. This commit also takes the stance that since
hints are ignored in NOTES anyways, it is ok to include hints for a bus
that may not be present.
Advice from: bde
Unfortunately, this level doesn't really provide enough granularity. We
probably need several MI NOTES type files for things that are shared by
several architectures but not by all. For example, the PCI options could
live in a NOTES.pci.
This also updates the Makefile for i386 to generate LINT. The only changes
in the generated LINT are the order of various options.
Suggestions for improvement welcome.
and commenting of NETSMB, NETWMBCRYPTO, and SMBFS. In NOTES, they
had all floated to the bottom of the file with the list of seemingly
random and unclassified kernel options. This change moves them back
up to the network protocol and file system areas, and also documents
the dependencies.
the structure definitions come from NetBSD to make it easier to share card
definitions. The driver only acts as a shim between the pci bus and the
sio driver. Later pci parallel ports could also be supported through this
driver. Support for most single and multiport pci serial cards should be
as simple as adding its definition to pucdata.c
Tested with the following pci cards:
Moxa Industio CP-114, 4 port RS-232,RS-422/485
Syba Tech Ltd. PCI-4S2P-550-ECP, 4 port RS-232 + 2 parallel ports
Netmos NM9835 PCI-2S-550, 2 port RS-232
ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES, ASR_MEASURE_PERFORMANCE, AST_DEBUG, ATAPI_DEBUG,
ATA_DEBUG, BKTR_ALLOC_PAGES, BROOKTREE_ALLOC_PAGES, CAPABILITIES,
COMPAT_SUNOS, CV_DEBUG, MAXFILES, METEOR_TEST_VIDEO, NDEVFSINO,
NDEVFSOVERFLOW, NETGRAPH_BRIDGE, NETSMB, NETSMBCRYPTO, PFIL_HOOKS,
SIMOS, SMBFS, VESA_DEBUG, VGA_DEBUG.
Start using #! to comment out negative options and ## to comment out
broken options.
atapi-all.c:
Fixed rotted bits that were hiding under ATAPI_DEBUG.
atapi-cd.c:
#include "opt_ata.h" so that ACD_DEBUG is actually visible.
ata/atapi-tape.c
#include "opt_ata.h" so that AST_DEBUG is actually visible.
descriptors. This simplifies code for jumbo frames.
- Cleaned up coding conventions to make code more unix-like.
- Cleaned up code in if_em_fxhw.c and if_em_phy.c.
Added relevant comments.
MFC after: 1 week
feature bit on newer Athlon CPUs if the BIOS has forgotten to enable
it.
This patch was constructed using some info made available by John
Clemens at http://www.deater.net/john/PavilionN5430.html
Reviewed by: -audit
MFC after: 3 weeks
prior ICP Vortex models. This driver was developed by Achim Leubner
of Intel (previously with ICP Vortex) and Boji Kannanthanam of Intel.
Submitted by: "Kannanthanam, Boji T" <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
for use on machines with untrusted local users, for security as well
as stability reasons.
o Lack of clarity pointed out by: David Rufino <dr@soniq.net> via bugtraq.
defeats the point of LINT to comment out positive options.
Fixed style bugs in rev.1.973:
- disordering of PCI options list.
- missing space after "options".
- line longer than 80 characters.
- bogus quoting of "BIOS".
been misled to believe by unknown parties. It probably *should* be an option,
but the runtime value is controlled by a tunable, which Ought To Be Enough.
to do with "dropped packets." Any packets matching rules with the
'log' directive are logged regardless of the action, drop, pass,
divert, pipe, etc.
MFC after: 1 day
built without support for miibus PHYs. Most ed cards don't need
miibus support, so it's useful to be able to avoid the bloat of
all the mii devices for small fixed-purpose kernels.
ethernet controllers. This adds support for the 3Com 3c996-T, the
SysKonnect SK-9D21 and SK-9D41, and the built-in gigE NICs on
Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers. The latter configuration hauls ass:
preliminary measurements show TCP speeds of over 900Mbps using
only normal size frames.
TCP/IP checksum offload, jumbo frames and VLAN tag insertion/stripping
are supported, as well as interrupt moderation.
Still need to fix autonegotiation support for 1000baseSX NICs, but
beyond that, driver is pretty solid.
- SC_CUT_SPACES2TABS - when copying text into the cut buffer convert leading
spaces into the tabs;
- SC_CUT_SEPCHARS="XYZ" - treat supplied characters as possible words
separators when the driver searches for words boundaries when doing cut
operation.
Also unify cut code a bit to decrease amount of duplicated code. This fixes
line cut mode, so that it is no longer pads line with useless spaces.
Approved by: ru
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
level implementation stuff out of machine/globaldata.h to avoid exposing
UPAGES to lots more places. The end result is that we can double
the kernel stack size with 'options UPAGES=4' etc.
This is mainly being done for the benefit of a MFC to RELENG_4 at some
point. -current doesn't really need this so much since each interrupt
runs on its own kstack.
then one can restart from a panic by resetting the panicstr variable to
NULL. This commit conditionalizes the previously committed functionality
on this variable. It also removes the __dead2 attribute from the panic()
function so that when one continues from a panic() the behavior will
be predictable.
blown over by the Hurricane and had a house dropped on you by the Tornado.
Now it's time to have your parade rained on by... the Typhoon!
This commit adds driver support for 3Com 3cR990 10/100 ethernet
adapters based on the Typhoon I and Typhoon II chipsets. This is actually
a port of the OpenBSD driver with many hacks by me.
No Virginia, there isn't any support for the hardware crypto yet. However
there is support for TCP/IP checksum offload and VLANs.
Special thanks go to Jason Wright, Aaron Campbell and Theo de Raadt for
squeezing enough info out of 3Com to get this written, and for doing
most of the hard work.
Manual page is included. Compiled as a module and included in GENERIC.
we are required to do if we let user processes use the extra 128 bit
registers etc.
This is the base part of the diff I got from:
http://www.issei.org/issei/FreeBSD/sse.html
I believe this is by: Mr. SUZUKI Issei <issei@issei.org>
SMP support apparently by: Takekazu KATO <kato@chino.it.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Test code by: NAKAMURA Kazushi <kaz@kobe1995.net>, see
http://kobe1995.net/~kaz/FreeBSD/SSE.en.html
I have fixed a couple of style(9) deviations. I have some followup
commits to fix a couple of non-style things.
directories. When enabled via "options UFS_DIRHASH", in-core hash
arrays are maintained for large directories. These allow all
directory operations to take place quickly instead of requiring
long linear searches. For now anyway, dirhash is not enabled by
default.
The in-core hash arrays have a memory requirement that is approximately
half the size of the size of the on-disk directory file. A number
of new sysctl variables allow control over which directories get
hashed and over the maximum amount of memory that dirhash will use:
vfs.ufs.dirhash_minsize
The minimum on-disk directory size for which hashing should be
used. The default is 2560 (2.5k).
vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem
The system-wide maximum total memory to be used by dirhash data
structures. The default is 2097152 (2MB).
The current amount of memory being used by dirhash is visible
through the read-only sysctl variable vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem.
Finally, some extra sanity checks that are enabled by default, but
which may have an impact on performance, can be disabled by setting
vfs.ufs.dirhash_docheck to 0.
Discussed on: -fs, -hackers
1. Add SA_IO_TIMEOUT as an option (4 minutes default) to cover reads,
writes, wfm, test unit ready.
2. Add internal SCSIOP_TIMEOUT (e.g., for mode sense) at 1 minute. This
should not require an option, but is cleaner to parameterize.
MFC after: 1 week
- Replace some very poorly thought out API hacks that should have been
fixed a long while ago.
- Provide some much more flexible search functions (resource_find_*())
- Use strings for storage instead of an outgrowth of the rather
inconvenient temporary ioconf table from config(). We already had a
fallback to using strings before malloc/vm was running anyway.
is usually (always?) used in expressions like (KTR_COMPILE & KTR_FOO).
Defining it as KTR_INTR|KTR_PROC gave the wrong value in approximately
8497 places according to error output for compiling LINT.
This closes a minor information leak which allows a remote observer to
determine the rate at which the machine is generating packets, since the
default behaviour is to increment a counter for each packet sent.
Reviewed by: -net
Obtained from: OpenBSD
gigabit ethernet controller chip. This device is used on some
fiber optic gigE cards from SMC, D-Link and Addtron. Jumbograms and
TCP/IP checksum offload on receive are supported. Hardware VLAN
filtering is not, because it doesn't play well with our existing
VLAN code. Also add manual page.
There is a 4.x version of this driver available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Level1/4.x if anyone feels adventurous
and wants to test it. I still need to do performance testing and
tuning with this device.
(For my next trick, I will make the 3Com 3cR990 sit up and beg.)
Add a CAPI (hardware independent) driver i4bcapi(4) and hardware driver
iavc (4) to support active CAPI-based BRI and PRI cards (currently AVM
B1 and T1 cards) to isdn4bsd.
systems were repo-copied from sys/miscfs to sys/fs.
- Renamed the following file systems and their modules:
fdesc -> fdescfs, portal -> portalfs, union -> unionfs.
- Renamed corresponding kernel options:
FDESC -> FDESCFS, PORTAL -> PORTALFS, UNION -> UNIONFS.
- Install header files for the above file systems.
- Removed bogus -I${.CURDIR}/../../sys CFLAGS from userland
Makefiles.
If for some reason DEVFS is undesired, the "NODEVFS" option is
needed now.
Pending any significant issues, DEVFS will be made mandatory in
-current on july 1st so that we can start reaping the full
benefits of having it.
and DP83821 gigabit ethernet MAC chips and the NatSemi DP83861 10/100/1000
copper PHY. There are a whole bunch of very low cost cards available with
this chipset selling for $150USD or less. This includes the SMC9462TX,
D-Link DGE-500T, Asante GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC, and a couple cards
from Addtron.
This chip supports TCP/IP checksum offload, VLAN tagging/insertion.
2048-bit multicast filter, jumbograms and has 8K TX and 32K RX FIFOs.
I have not done serious performance testing with this driver. I know
it works, and I want it under CVS control so I can keep tabs on it.
Note that there's no serious mutex stuff in here yet either: I need
to talk more with jhb to figure out the right way to do this. That
said, I don't think there will be any problems.
This driver should also work on the alpha. It's not turned on in
GENERIC.
This driver supports PCI Xr-based and ISA Xem Digiboard cards.
dgm will go away soon if there are no problems reported. For now,
configuring dgm into your kernel warns that you should be using
digi. This driver is probably close to supporting Xi, Xe and Xeve
cards, but I wouldn't expect them to work properly (hardware
donations welcome).
The digi_* pseudo-drivers are not drivers themselves but contain
the BIOS and FEP/OS binaries for various digiboard cards and are
auto-loaded and auto-unloaded by the digi driver at initialisation
time. They *may* be configured into the kernel, but waste a lot
of space if they are. They're intended to be left as modules.
The digictl program is (mainly) used to re-initialise cards that
have external port modules attached such as the PC/Xem.
interfaces and functionality intended for use during correctness and
regression testing. Features enabled by "options REGRESSION" may
in and of themselves introduce security or correctness problems if
used improperly, and so are not intended for use in production
systems, only in testing environments.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Add simple "xlat" converter which performs 8to8 table based conversion.
Unicode converter will be added in the near future.
Reviewed by: silence on arch@
Files placement reviewed by: bde
Obtained from: smbfs
very specific scenarios, and now that we have had net.inet.tcp.blackhole for
quite some time there is really no reason to use it any more.
(first of three commits)
rather than in silly places like "VFS Cluster debugging". People
should really be using COMPAT_LINUX instead of the linux module on
dynamic systems like -current.
depend on this. The linux ABI emulator tries to use it for some linux
binaries too. VM86 had a bigger cost than this and it was made default
a while ago.
Reviewed by: jhb, imp
to 1GB. A box of mine is running with MAXDSIZ and DFLDSIZ increased
up to 1.5GB.
Wishlist: It would be nice to warn if MAXTSIZ + MAXDSIZ + MAXSSIZ
exceeds VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS - VM_MINUSER_ADDRESS.
slow enough as it is, without having to constantly check that it really
is an i386 still. It was possible to compile out the conditionals for
faster cpus by leaving out 'I386_CPU', but it was not possible to
unconditionally compile for the i386. You got the runtime checking whether
you wanted it or not. This makes I386_CPU mutually exclusive with the
other cpu types, and tidies things up a little in the process.
Reviewed by: alfred, markm, phk, benno, jlemon, jhb, jake, grog, msmith,
jasone, dcs, des (and a bunch more people who encouraged it)
exactly the same functionality via a sysctl, making this feature
a run-time option.
The default is 1(ON), which means that /dev/random device will
NOT block at startup.
setting kern.random.sys.seeded to 0(OFF) will cause /dev/random
to block until the next reseed, at which stage the sysctl
will be changed back to 1(ON).
While I'm here, clean up the sysctls, and make them dynamic.
Reviewed by: des
Tested on Alpha by: obrien
To use it, some dll is needed. And currently, the dll is only for NetBSD.
So one more kernel module is needed.
For more infomation,
http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/ .
Reviewed by: bp
This is a driver for the LanMedia/SBE LMC150x E1/T1 family of cards.
The driver currently support unframed E1 (2048kbit/s) and framed
E1 (nx64).
These cards will provision E1/T1 lines for about 1/4 the cost of
a cisco router...
(a NetBSD port for NEC PC-98x1 machines). They are ncv for NCR 53C500,
nsp for Workbit Ninja SCSI-3, and stg for TMC 18C30 and 18C50.
I thank NetBSD/pc98 and bsd-nomads people.
Obtained from: NetBSD/pc98
description:
How it works:
--
Basically ifs is a copy of ffs, overriding some vfs/vnops. (Yes, hack.)
I didn't see the need in duplicating all of sys/ufs/ffs to get this
off the ground.
File creation is done through a special file - 'newfile' . When newfile
is called, the system allocates and returns an inode. Note that newfile
is done in a cloning fashion:
fd = open("newfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
fstat(fd, &st);
printf("new file is %d\n", (int)st.st_ino);
Once you have created a file, you can open() and unlink() it by its returned
inode number retrieved from the stat call, ie:
fd = open("5", O_RDWR);
The creation permissions depend entirely if you have write access to the
root directory of the filesystem.
To get the list of currently allocated inodes, VOP_READDIR has been added
which returns a directory listing of those currently allocated.
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What this entails:
* patching conf/files and conf/options to include IFS as a new compile
option (and since ifs depends upon FFS, include the FFS routines)
* An entry in i386/conf/NOTES indicating IFS exists and where to go for
an explanation
* Unstaticize a couple of routines in src/sys/ufs/ffs/ which the IFS
routines require (ffs_mount() and ffs_reload())
* a new bunch of routines in src/sys/ufs/ifs/ which implement the IFS
routines. IFS replaces some of the vfsops, and a handful of vnops -
most notably are VFS_VGET(), VOP_LOOKUP(), VOP_UNLINK() and VOP_READDIR().
Any other directory operation is marked as invalid.
What this results in:
* an IFS partition's create permissions are controlled by the perm/ownership of
the root mount point, just like a normal directory
* Each inode has perm and ownership too
* IFS does *NOT* mean an FFS partition can be opened per inode. This is a
completely seperate filesystem here
* Softupdates doesn't work with IFS, and really I don't think it needs it.
Besides, fsck's are FAST. (Try it :-)
* Inodes 0 and 1 aren't allocatable because they are special (dump/swap IIRC).
Inode 2 isn't allocatable since UFS/FFS locks all inodes in the system against
this particular inode, and unravelling THAT code isn't trivial. Therefore,
useful inodes start at 3.
Enjoy, and feedback is definitely appreciated!
