it running under a virtual environment. This also introduces a globally
accessible variable vm_guest that can be used where appropriate in the
kernel to inspect this environment.
To make it easier for the long run, an enum VM_GUEST is also introduced,
which could possibly be factored out in a header somewhere (but the
question is where - vm/vm_param.h? sys/param.h?) so it eventually becomes
a part of the standard KPI. In any case, it's a start.
The purpose of all this isn't to absolutely detect that the OS is running
under a virtual environment (cf. "redpill") but to allow the parts of the
kernel and the userland that care about this particular aspect and can do
something useful depending on it to have a standardised interface. Reducing
kern.hz is one example but there are other things that could be done like
avoiding context switches, not using CPU instructions that are known to be
slow in emulation, possibly different strategies in VM (memory) allocation,
CPU scheduling, etc.
It isn't clear if the JAILS/VIMAGE functionality should also be exposed
by this particular mechanism (probably not since they're not "full"
virtual hardware environments). Sometime in the future another sysctl and
a variable could be introduced to reflect if the kernel supports any kind
of virtual hosting (e.g. VMWare VMI, Xen dom0).
Reviewed by: silence from src-commiters@, virtualization@, kmacy@
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
Security: Obscurity doesn't help.
easier to maintain custom rules for non-system things like ACPI hotkeys.
/etc/devd.conf is already set up to check this directory, no change needed there.
rather than usually returning 1 but in a few instances using a sysexits(3)
return value.
2. Remove a few unused variables from libfetch.
PR: docs/122470 (1, only)
Reviewed by: des
newline when it fails to obtain an address via DHCP. This made the next
rc script begin its output on the same line.
PR: conf
Submitted by: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran dot org dot uk>
MFC after: 3 days
- split bootstrap code into more modular routines, which will also be used for
the non-booting cores
- clean up registers usage
- improve comments to better reflect reality
- eliminate dead or redundant code
- other minor fixes
This refactoring is a preliminary step before importing dual-core (MPC8572)
support.
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
had been the only flag with random usage patterns.
Switch inc_flags to be used as a real bit field by using
INC_ISIPV6 with bitops to check for the 'isipv6' condition.
While here fix a place or two where in case of v4 inc_flags
were not properly initialized before.[1]
Found by: rwatson during review [1]
Discussed with: rwatson
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 4 weeks
command whenever Tx completion interrupt is raised. The Tx poll
bit is cleared when all packets waiting to be transferred have been
processed. This means the second Tx poll command can be silently
ignored as the Tx poll bit could be still active while processing
of previous Tx poll command is in progress.
To address the issue re(4) used to invoke the Tx poll command in Tx
completion handler whenever it detects there are pending packets in
TxQ. However that still does not seem to completely eliminate
watchdog timeouts seen on RealTek PCIe controllers. To fix the
issue kick Tx poll command only after Tx completion interrupt is
raised as this would indicate Tx is now idle state such that it can
accept new Tx poll command again. While here apply this workaround
for PCIe based controllers as other controllers does not seem to
have this limitation.
Tested by: Victor Balada Diaz < victor <> bsdes DOT net >
out of sleep mode prior to accessing to PHY. This should fix device
attach failure seen on these controllers. Also enable the sleep
mode when device is put into sleep state.
PR: kern/123123, kern/123053
2. Ensure all &arch entities end with ';' (no effect on output).
3. Ensure all &arch lists for drivers/features are comma-separated.
PR: docs/127840 (item 2 only)
MFC after: 1 week
port.
2. Increase the known working maximum memory configuration from
8gb to 32gb.
PR: docs/102148 (1)
Submitted by: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> (1 - partially)
Reviewed by: hrs
Approved by: re (hrs)
MFC after: 1 minute
* Remove trailing whitespace (added in r186162)
* Reduce indentation by rephrasing test
Submitted by: Christopher Mallon (christoph dot mallon at gmx dot de)
- threadA runs vfs_rel(mp1)
- threadB does unmount the mp1 fs, sets MNTK_UNMOUNT and drop MNT_ILOCK()
- threadA runs vfs_busy(mp1) and, as long as, MNTK_UNMOUNT is set, sleeps
waiting for threadB to complete the unmount
- threadB, in vfs_mount_destroy(), finds mnt_lock > 0 and sleeps waiting
for the refcount to expire.
Fix the deadlock by adding a flag called MNTK_REFEXPIRE which signals the
unmounter is waiting for mnt_ref to expire.
The vfs_busy contenders got awake, fails, and if they retry the
MNTK_REFEXPIRE won't allow them to sleep again.
2) Simplify significantly the code of vfs_mount_destroy() trimming
unnecessary codes:
- as long as any reference exited, it is no-more possible to have
write-op (primarty and secondary) in progress.
- it is no needed to drop and reacquire the mount lock.
- filling the structures with dummy values is unuseful as long as
it is going to be freed.
Tested by: pho, Andrea Barberio <insomniac at slackware dot it>
Discussed with: kib
