Linux has two bugs in its handling of the x86 MP table:
1. It assumes that there is always 640 kB of base memory, and looks for
the MP table in the top kB of this even if the memory map indicates
that memory location does not exist.
2. It ignores that entry_count field and instead iterates through the
MP table by scanning until it runs out of bytes in the table.
The Firecracker VM (and probably other related VMs) relies on both of
these bugs. With the MPTABLE_LINUX_BUG_COMPAT option, we search for
the MP table at address 639k even if that isn't in the memory map; and
replace a zeroed entry_count with a value computed from scanning the
table until we run out of table bytes.
Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35799
On systems without a PCI bus, legacy_pcib_identify by default creates
one anyway:
legacy_pcib_identify: no bridge found, adding pcib0 anyway
This commit adds a kernel option NO_LEGACY_PCIB which disables this,
allowing systems to be fully PCI-free.
Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35798
It does not work with ULE, which is the default scheduler for over a
decade.
Reviewed by: emaste, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36094
Stop confusing people, retire COMPAT_LINUX and COMPAT_LINUX32 kernel
build options. Since we have 32 and 64 bit Linux emulators, we can't build both
emulators together into the kernel. I don't think it matters, Linux emulation
depends on loadable modules (via rc).
Cut LINPROCFS and LINSYSFS for consistency.
PR: 215061
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages), trasz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30751
MFC after: 2 weeks
Save and restore (also known as suspend and resume) permits a snapshot
to be taken of a guest's state that can later be resumed. In the
current implementation, bhyve(8) creates a UNIX domain socket that is
used by bhyvectl(8) to send a request to save a snapshot (and
optionally exit after the snapshot has been taken). A snapshot
currently consists of two files: the first holds a copy of guest RAM,
and the second file holds other guest state such as vCPU register
values and device model state.
To resume a guest, bhyve(8) must be started with a matching pair of
command line arguments to instantiate the same set of device models as
well as a pointer to the saved snapshot.
While the current implementation is useful for several uses cases, it
has a few limitations. The file format for saving the guest state is
tied to the ABI of internal bhyve structures and is not
self-describing (in that it does not communicate the set of device
models present in the system). In addition, the state saved for some
device models closely matches the internal data structures which might
prove a challenge for compatibility of snapshot files across a range
of bhyve versions. The file format also does not currently support
versioning of individual chunks of state. As a result, the current
file format is not a fixed binary format and future revisions to save
and restore will break binary compatiblity of snapshot files. The
goal is to move to a more flexible format that adds versioning,
etc. and at that point to commit to providing a reasonable level of
compatibility. As a result, the current implementation is not enabled
by default. It can be enabled via the WITH_BHYVE_SNAPSHOT=yes option
for userland builds, and the kernel option BHYVE_SHAPSHOT.
Submitted by: Mihai Tiganus, Flavius Anton, Darius Mihai
Submitted by: Elena Mihailescu, Mihai Carabas, Sergiu Weisz
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: University Politehnica of Bucharest
Sponsored by: Matthew Grooms (student scholarships)
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19495
file in /sys/conf, so was unavailable in configurations that don't use
modules, and was not testable or notable in NOTES. Its normal
configuration (not using a module) is still silently deprecated in
aout(4) by not mentioning it there.
Update i386 NOTES for COMPAT_AOUT. It is not i386-only, or even very MD.
Sort its entry better.
Finish gzip configuration (but not support) for amd64. gzip is really
gzipped aout. It is currently broken even for i386 (a call to vm fails).
amd64 has always attempted to configure and test it, but it depends on
COMPAT_AOUT (as noted). The bug that it depends on unconfigured files
was not detected since it is configured as a device. All other optional
image activators are configured properly using an option.
opt_compat.h is mentioned in nearly 180 files. In-progress network
driver compabibility improvements may add over 100 more so this is
closer to "just about everywhere" than "only some files" per the
guidance in sys/conf/options.
Keep COMPAT_LINUX32 in opt_compat.h as it is confined to a subset of
sys/compat/linux/*.c. A fake _COMPAT_LINUX option ensure opt_compat.h
is created on all architectures.
Move COMPAT_LINUXKPI to opt_dontuse.h as it is only used to control the
set of compiled files.
Reviewed by: kib, cem, jhb, jtl
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14941
Refresh upstream driver before impending conversion to iflib.
Major new features:
- Support for Fortville-based 25G adapters
- Support for I2C reads/writes
(To prevent getting or sending corrupt data, you should set
dev.ixl.0.debug.disable_fw_link_management=1 when using I2C
[this will disable link!], then set it to 0 when done. The driver implements
the SIOCGI2C ioctl, so ifconfig -v works for reading I2C data,
but there are read_i2c and write_i2c sysctls under the .debug sysctl tree
[the latter being useful for upper page support in QSFP+]).
- Addition of an iWARP client interface (so the future iWARP driver for
X722 devices can communicate with the base driver).
- Compiling this option in is enabled by default, with "options IXL_IW" in
GENERIC.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9227
Reviewed by: sbruno
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
Runtime services require special execution environment for the call.
Besides that, OS must inform firmware about runtime virtual memory map
which will be active during the calls, with the SetVirtualAddressMap()
runtime call, done while the 1:1 mapping is still used. There are two
complication: the SetVirtualAddressMap() effectively must be done from
loader, which needs to know kernel address map in advance. More,
despite not explicitely mentioned in the specification, both 1:1 and
the map passed to SetVirtualAddressMap() must be active during the
SetVirtualAddressMap() call. Second, there are buggy BIOSes which
require both mappings active during runtime calls as well, most likely
because they fail to identify all relocations to perform.
On amd64, we can get rid of both problems by providing 1:1 mapping for
the duration of runtime calls, by temprorary remapping user addresses.
As result, we avoid the need for loader to know about future kernel
address map, and avoid bugs in BIOSes. Typically BIOS only maps
something in low 4G. If not runtime bugs, we would take advantage of
the DMAP, as previous versions of this patch did.
Similar but more complicated trick can be used even for i386 and 32bit
runtime, if and when the EFI boot on i386 is supported. We would need
a trampoline page, since potentially whole 4G of VA would be switched
on calls, instead of only userspace portion on amd64.
Context switches are disabled for the duration of the call, FPU access
is granted, and interrupts are not disabled. The later is possible
because kernel is mapped during calls.
To test, the sysctl mib debug.efi_time is provided, setting it to 1
makes one call to EFI get_time() runtime service, on success the efitm
structure is printed to the control terminal. Load efirt.ko, or add
EFIRT option to the kernel config, to enable code.
Discussed with: emaste, imp
Tested by: emaste (mac, qemu)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Submitted by: Jun Su <junsu microsoft com>
Reviewed by: jhb, kib, sephe
Sponsored by: Microsoft OSTC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5910
- Vmbus multi channel support.
- Vector interrupt support.
- Signal optimization.
- Storvsc driver performance improvement.
- Scatter and gather support for storvsc driver.
- Minor bug fix for KVP driver.
Thanks royger, jhb and delphij from FreeBSD community for the reviews
and comments. Also thanks Hovy Xu from NetApp for the contributions to
the storvsc driver.
PR: 195238
Submitted by: whu
Reviewed by: royger, jhb, delphij
Approved by: royger
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Microsoft OSTC
binmisc code to be build on amd64/i386 for the kernel.
Update NOTES with some indication of what this code is used for.
Pointed out by jhb@ ... thanks!
Submitted by: jhb@
generator, found on IvyBridge and supposedly later CPUs, accessible
with RDRAND instruction.
From the Intel whitepapers and articles about Bull Mountain, it seems
that we do not need to perform post-processing of RDRAND results, like
AES-encryption of the data with random IV and keys, which was done for
Padlock. Intel claims that sanitization is performed in hardware.
Make both Padlock and Bull Mountain random generators support code
covered by kernel config options, for the benefit of people who prefer
minimal kernels. Also add the tunables to disable hardware generator
even if detected.
Reviewed by: markm, secteam (simon)
Tested by: bapt, Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>
MFC after: 3 weeks
longer serve any purpose. Prior to r157446, they served a purpose
because there was a fixed amount of kernel virtual address space
reserved for pv entries at boot time. However, since that change pv
entries are accessed through the direct map, and so there is no limit
imposed by a fixed amount of kernel virtual address space.
Fix a couple of nearby style issues.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
MFC after: 1 week
The isci driver is for the integrated SAS controller in the Intel C600
(Patsburg) chipset. Source files in sys/dev/isci directory are
FreeBSD-specific, and sys/dev/isci/scil subdirectory contains
an OS-agnostic library (SCIL) published by Intel to control the SAS
controller. This library is used primarily as-is in this driver, with
some post-processing to better integrate into the kernel build
environment.
isci.4 and a README in the sys/dev/isci directory contain a few
additional details.
This driver is only built for amd64 and i386 targets.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: scottl
Approved by: scottl
This information can be very valuable for CPU sleep-time (and respectively
idle power consumption) optimization.
Add counters for timer-related IPIs.
Reviewed by: jhb@ (previous version)
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
- Add vesa kernel options for amd64.
- Connect libvgl library and splash kernel modules to amd64 build.
- Connect manual page dpms(4) to amd64 build.
- Remove old vesa/dpms files.
Submitted by: paradox <ddkprog yahoo com> [1], swell k at gmail.com
(with some minor tweaks)
has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts
disabled while holding a spinlock in other occasions. This can be the
cause of deadlocks on events where a normal IPI_STOP is expected.
* Adds an new IPI called IPI_STOP_HARD on all the supported architectures.
This IPI is responsible for sending a stop message among CPUs using a
privileged channel when disponible. In other cases it just does match a
normal IPI_STOP.
Right now the IPI_STOP_HARD functionality uses a NMI on ia32 and amd64
architectures, while on the other has a normal IPI_STOP effect. It is
responsibility of maintainers to eventually implement an hard stop
when necessary and possible.
* Use the new IPI facility in order to implement a new userend SMP kernel
function called stop_cpus_hard(). That is specular to stop_cpu() but
it does use the privileged channel for the stopping facility.
* Let KDB use the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and leave
stop_cpus() for all the other cases
* Disable interrupts on CPU0 when starting the process of APs suspension.
* Style cleanup and comments adding
This patch should fix the reboot/shutdown deadlocks many users are
constantly reporting on mailing lists.
Please don't forget to update your config file with the STOP_NMI
option removal
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho, bz, rink
Approved by: re (kib)
- correct format strings
- fill opt_agp.h if AGP_DEBUG is defined
- bring AGP_DEBUG to LINT by mentioning it in NOTES
This should hopefully fix a warning that was...
Found by: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 3676
Tested on: amd64, i386
parts relied on the now removed NET_NEEDS_GIANT.
Most of I4B has been disconnected from the build
since July 2007 in HEAD/RELENG_7.
This is what was removed:
- configuration in /etc/isdn
- examples
- man pages
- kernel configuration
- sys/i4b (drivers, layers, include files)
- user space tools
- i4b support from ppp
- further documentation
Discussed with: rwatson, re
frequency generation and what frequency the generated was anyones
guess.
In general the 32.768kHz RTC clock x-tal was the best, because that
was a regular wrist-watch Xtal, whereas the X-tal generating the
ISA bus frequency was much lower quality, often costing as much as
several cents a piece, so it made good sense to check the ISA bus
frequency against the RTC clock.
The other relevant property of those machines, is that they
typically had no more than 16MB RAM.
These days, CPU chips croak if their clocks are not tightly within
specs and all necessary frequencies are derived from the master
crystal by means if PLL's.
Considering that it takes on average 1.5 second to calibrate the
frequency of the i8254 counter, that more likely than not, we will
not actually use the result of the calibration, and as the final
clincher, we seldom use the i8254 for anything besides BEL in
syscons anyway, it has become time to drop the calibration code.
If you need to tell the system what frequency your i8254 runs,
you can do so from the loader using hw.i8254.freq or using the
sysctl kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency.
hack means you can get the units and flags to match up more easily with
serial consoles on machines with acpi tables that cause the com ports
to be probed in the wrong order (and hence get the wrong sio unit number).
This replaces the common alternative hack of editing the code to comment
out the acpi attachment. This could go away entirely when device wiring
patches are committed.
the 7.0 timeframe.
This is needed because I4B is not locked and NET_NEEDS_GIANT goes away.
The plan is to lock I4B and bring everything back for 7.1.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
and pc98 MD files. Remove nodevice and nooption lines specific
to sio(4) from ia64, powerpc and sparc64 NOTES. There were no
such lines for arm yet.
sio(4) is usable on less than half the platforms, not counting
a future mips platform. Its presence in MI files is therefore
increasingly becoming a burden.
the linux module, since it is not cross-platform
- move linprocfs from "files" and "options" to architecture specific files,
since it only makes sense to build this for those architectures, where we
also have a linuxolator
- disable the build of the linuxolator on our tier-2 architecture "Alpha":
* we don't have a linux_base port which supports Alpha and at the
same time is not outdated/obsoleted upstream/in a good condition/
currently working
* the upcomming new default linux base port is based upon Fedora
Core 3 (security support via http://www.fedoralegacy.org), which
isn't available for Alpha (like the current default linux base
port which is based upon Red Hat 8)
* nobody answered my request for testing it ~1 month ago on
current@ and alpha@ (it doesn't surprises me, see above)
* a SoC student wouldn't have to waste time on something which
nobody is willing to test
This does not remove the alpha specific MD files of the linuxolator yet.
Discussed on: arch (mostly silence)
Spiritual support by: scottl
end for isa(4).
o Add a seperate bus frontend for acpi(4) and allow ISA DMA for
it when ISA is configured in the kernel. This allows acpi(4)
attachments in non-ISA configurations, as is possible for ia64.
o Add a seperate bus frontend for pci(4) and detect known single
port parallel cards.
o Merge PC98 specific changes under pc98/cbus into the MI driver.
The changes are minor enough for conditional compilation and
in this form invites better abstraction.
o Have ppc(4) usabled on all platforms, now that ISA specifics
are untangled enough.
Use the following kernel configuration option to enable:
options BPF_JITTER
If you want to use bpf_filter() instead (e. g., debugging), do:
sysctl net.bpf.jitter.enable=0
to turn it off.
Currently BIOCSETWF and bpf_mtap2() are unsupported, and bpf_mtap() is
partially supported because 1) no need, 2) avoid expensive m_copydata(9).
Obtained from: WinPcap 3.1 (for i386)
IPI_STOP IPIs.
- Change the i386 and amd64 MD IPI code to send an NMI if STOP_NMI is
enabled if an attempt is made to send an IPI_STOP IPI. If the kernel
option is enabled, there is also a sysctl to change the behavior at
runtime (debug.stop_cpus_with_nmi which defaults to enabled). This
includes removing stop_cpus_nmi() and making ipi_nmi_selected() a
private function for i386 and amd64.
- Fix ipi_all(), ipi_all_but_self(), and ipi_self() on i386 and amd64 to
properly handle bitmapped IPIs as well as IPI_STOP IPIs when STOP_NMI is
enabled.
- Fix ipi_nmi_handler() to execute the restart function on the first CPU
that is restarted making use of atomic_readandclear() rather than
assuming that the BSP is always included in the set of restarted CPUs.
Also, the NMI handler didn't clear the function pointer meaning that
subsequent stop and restarts could execute the function again.
- Define a new macro HAVE_STOPPEDPCBS on i386 and amd64 to control the use
of stoppedpcbs[] and always enable it for i386 and amd64 instead of
being dependent on KDB_STOP_NMI. It works fine in both the NMI and
non-NMI cases.
a regular IPI vector, but this vector is blocked when interrupts are disabled.
With "options KDB_STOP_NMI" and debug.kdb.stop_cpus_with_nmi set, KDB will
send an NMI to each CPU instead. The code also has a context-stuffing
feature which helps ddb extract the state of processes running on the
stopped CPUs.
KDB_STOP_NMI is only useful with SMP and complains if SMP is not defined.
This feature only applies to i386 and amd64 at the moment, but could be
used on other architectures with the appropriate MD bits.
Submitted by: ups
Ville-Pertti Keinonen (will at exomi dot comohmygodnospampleasekthx)
deserves a big thanks for submitting initial patches to make it
work. I have mangled his contributions appropriately.
The main gotcha with Windows/x86-64 is that Microsoft uses a different
calling convention than everyone else. The standard ABI requires using
6 registers for argument passing, with other arguments on the stack.
Microsoft uses only 4 registers, and requires the caller to leave room
on the stack for the register arguments incase the callee needs to
spill them. Unlike x86, where Microsoft uses a mix of _cdecl, _stdcall
and _fastcall, all routines on Windows/x86-64 uses the same convention.
This unfortunately means that all the functions we export to the
driver require an intermediate translation wrapper. Similarly, we have
to wrap all calls back into the driver binary itself.
The original patches provided macros to wrap every single routine at
compile time, providing a secondary jump table with a customized
wrapper for each exported routine. I decided to use a different approach:
the call wrapper for each function is created from a template at
runtime, and the routine to jump to is patched into the wrapper as
it is created. The subr_pe module has been modified to patch in the
wrapped function instead of the original. (On x86, the wrapping
routine is a no-op.)
There are some minor API differences that had to be accounted for:
- KeAcquireSpinLock() is a real function on amd64, not a macro wrapper
around KfAcquireSpinLock()
- NdisFreeBuffer() is actually IoFreeMdl(). I had to change the whole
NDIS_BUFFER API a bit to accomodate this.
Bugs fixed along the way:
- IoAllocateMdl() always returned NULL
- kern_windrv.c:windrv_unload() wasn't releasing private driver object
extensions correctly (found thanks to memguard)
This has only been tested with the driver for the Broadcom 802.11g
chipset, which was the only Windows/x86-64 driver I could find.
