- Give ndiscvt(8) the ability to process a .SYS file directly into
a .o file so that we don't have to emit big messy char arrays into
the ndis_driver_data.h file. This behavior is currently optional, but
may become the default some day.
- Give ndiscvt(8) the ability to turn arbitrary files into .ko files
so that they can be pre-loaded or kldloaded. (Both this and the
previous change involve using objcopy(1)).
- Give NdisOpenFile() the ability to 'read' files out of kernel memory
that have been kldloaded or pre-loaded, and disallow the use of
the normal vn_open() file opening method during bootstrap (when no
filesystems have been mounted yet). Some people have reported that
kldloading if_ndis.ko works fine when the system is running multiuser
but causes a panic when the modile is pre-loaded by /boot/loader. This
happens with drivers that need to use NdisOpenFile() to access
external files (i.e. firmware images). NdisOpenFile() won't work
during kernel bootstrapping because no filesystems have been mounted.
To get around this, you can now do the following:
o Say you have a firmware file called firmware.img
o Do: ndiscvt -f firmware.img -- this creates firmware.img.ko
o Put the firmware.img.ko in /boot/kernel
o add firmware.img_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
o add if_ndis_load="YES" and ndis_load="YES" as well
Now the loader will suck the additional file into memory as a .ko. The
phony .ko has two symbols in it: filename_start and filename_end, which
are generated by objcopy(1). ndis_open_file() will traverse each module
in the module list looking for these symbols and, if it finds them, it'll
use them to generate the file mapping address and length values that
the caller of NdisOpenFile() wants.
As a bonus, this will even work if the file has been statically linked
into the kernel itself, since the "kernel" module is searched too.
(ndiscvt(8) will generate both filename.o and filename.ko for you).
- Modify the mechanism used to provide make-pretend FASTCALL support.
Rather than using inline assembly to yank the first two arguments
out of %ecx and %edx, we now use the __regparm__(3) attribute (and
the __stdcall__ attribute) and use some macro magic to re-order
the arguments and provide dummy arguments as needed so that the
arguments passed in registers end up in the right place. Change
taken from DragonflyBSD version of the NDISulator.
It does survive « make release ».
Uses an upcoming patch from the vendor branch (ntp-stable) of ntp-keygen.
Submitted by: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
you've specified a directory. It is intended to be used in building
custom releases over NFS where locking may be unreliable at best and
there is no contention that the locking is designed to arbitrate.
Other uses of this flag are discouraged. Document same in usage and
man page (including the warning about unwise).
Sponsored by: Timing Solutions
(1) use strlcpy instead of strncpy since the use here of the latter
was incorrect.
(2) Move 'N' case into proper sorted order (sorted the same way that
ls sorts its args).
This bring us several things:
- updated drivers
- IPv6 support at last
- ntp-genkeys is replaced by ntp-keygen
- ntptrace is now a script (courtesy of John Hay)
- lots of renamed files from .htm to .html (while I prefer .html, I
find the change a bit gratuitous)
- still no manpages :(
Please test and report.
Commit very much helped by: GNU arch (http://gnuarch.org/)
information being sent to the RADIUS server.
Logging of RADIUS accounting information moves to a ``set log [+-]radius''
level, along with the RADIUS alive info, and the version number is bumped
to 3.2 to reflect this.
Mostly submitted by: alx@sm.ukrtel.net (back in January)
MFC after: 3 weeks
apply the patch of bin/61718 (which should include/elimatate kern/61122 also).
It seems to fix a few annoying bugs.
PR: bin/61718, kern/61122
Submitted by: bg@sics.seohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de
but conveniently, because ncpaddr.ncpaddr_family != AF_INET, the call to
ncpaddr_getip4addr() became a no-op leaving the local address as it was
(defaulting to whatever my hostname resolves to).
PR: 62050
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
MFC after: 3 days
FFLAG_NEEDSYNC and fsync the file when select() next returns zero. This
dramatically speeds up the process of logging large amounts of data, while
leaving the essential semantics (that data can be expected to be on disk
if we crash) unchanged.
In my tests, this speeds up the rc phase of booting by 18-20%. [1]
YES PLEASE! by: phk [1]
enable the use as a port on older systems
- use absolute paths in all calls to external programs, to account for strange
PATH settings
- use INDEX or INDEX-5 depending on FreeBSD version, to enable the use on
FreeBSD 4.x as a port.
- conditionalize all 4.x/5.x differences on __FreeBSD_version, so that the
pkg_install tools can be kept in sync on 4.x and 5.x
- Bump PKG_INSTALL_VERSION
Reviewed by: portmgr (bento run)
MFC after: 4 weeks
- pkg_info: new flag -j (show the requirements script)
- pkg_info: fix verbose output when used on packages
- better handling of corrupt entries in /var/db/pkg
- differ between corrupt entires and packages not installed
- various small fixes
PR: 56989, 57016, 57029, 26468
- use glob patterns when matching packages by origin
- csh-style {...} choices in glob matching
- pkg_info: new flag -E (list matching package names only)
- pkg_version: new flag -T (test if a given name matches a pattern)
- new flag -X (interpret pattern as an extended regular expression)
PR: 56961
- parse version numbers of ports containing an underscore followed by a number correctly
- handle special strings pl, alpha, beta, pre and rc
PR: 56961
seeing status of mounted file system for jailed processes.
Pass full path of jail's root directory to the kernel. mount(8) utility is
doing the same thing already.
disappearing from the tree. We already were splitting the baby (using
the symbol for the vendor BROADCOM, but not for the device). Use
#defines for both.
the *filename* and not the pid_file(!). Stupid brain-fault on my part.
This could cause a segfault under -neworder if newsyslog had to rotate
multiple files, and later ones had specifed the 'N' flag.
Bug first reported by: le
MFC after: 3 days
-d option was equal to the one already saved and which caused
the pw utility to avoid updating values passed by other options
processed before the -d option in the code path.
Spotted by: Richard Caley <rjc@interactive.co.uk>
processes, and balance that by adding a 10-second delay after all the
processes have been signaled. Also improvement a few messages printed
with `-n' or `-v' processing (mostly signal-related messages).
MFC after: 13 days
files to rotate. The new order will first rotate all files that need
to be rotated, and then send a single signal to each process which
needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress all the files which
were rotated.
This means daemons will be signaled once per run of newsyslog, instead
of once per file rotated. Also, files will be compressed in order of
file-size (smallest to largest). Also, it waits for each file to be
completely compressed before starting the next one (effectively as if
the 'w' flag is specified for all entries in newsyslog.conf). This
avoids the situation of having 10 gzip's going at the same time (each
with a log.0 and a log.0.gz file active), and it also means that file
attributes can be reliably set on files after they are compressed.
NOTE: This commit does define NEWORDER (which you could get rid of if
you really don't trust this), but it does not flip the "-D neworder"
switch. So, at the moment none of these changes happen unless you
request them (perhaps by adding '<debug> neworder' in newsyslog.conf).
PR: bin/25070 inspired some parts of this
Submitted by: parts from bin/25070 done by Helge Oldach
MFC after: 14 days
the newsyslog.conf file. Rename one size-related variable, and move
another one from the stack into conf_entry. Add a routine to change
file-attributes (chown, chmod, chflags), instead of having several
places doing the same sequence of system-calls. A few cosmetic/style
changes.
These should not effect any users. Most of these probably look
pointless, but they are the "insignificant parts" of a much larger
update that I'll be committing soon. Doing these as a separate update
should make that update easier to read.
MFC after: 14 days
that had been written some months ago for other processing. This
should get rid of a few subtle situations where an existing log
file would not exist (for a short time) while it is being rotated.
MFC after: 16 days
about the risks of enabling raw sockets in prisons.
Because raw sockets can be used to configure and interact
with various network subsystems, extra caution should be
used where privileged access to jails is given out to
untrusted parties. As such, by default this option is disabled.
A few others and I are currently auditing the kernel
source code to ensure that the use of raw sockets by
privledged prison users is safe.
Approved by: bmilekic (mentor)
explicitly fsynced after kernel messages are logged. This option
should be syntax compatible with a similar option in Linux syslogd.
I've made some small changes to Pekka's patch, hoepfully I haven't
goofed anything.
PR: 66790
Submitted by: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Obtained from: Martin Schulze's syslogd
MFC after: 1 month
Syslogd should ensure that f_file is a valid file descriptor when
f_type is FILE, CONSOLE, TTY and for a PIPE where f_pid > 0. If the
descriptor is closed/invalid then the type should be set to UNUSED
or the pid should be set to 0.
To this end:
1) Don't close(f->f_file) if we can't send a message to a remote
host because the file descriptor used for remote logging is
stored in finet, not in f->f_file. f->f_file is probably
uninitialised, so I guess we usually end up closing fd 0.
2) Don't close PIPE file descriptors if they are invalid.
3) If the call to p_open fails, don't set the pid.
The OpenBSD patches in this area set f_file to -1 after the fd is
closed and then avoids calling close if f_file < 0. I haven't done
this, but it might be a good idea too.
Inspired by: PR 67139/OpenBSD
1) Use strncpy on strings out of utmp.
2) Avoid running off the start of one string while removing white space.
(I've used slightly different code to OpenBSD here.)
3) Ignore trailing spaces in the priority.
PR: 67139
Submitted by: Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org.cn>
Obtained from: OpenBSD
1) Don't check for getopt returning '?', we have a default case.
2) Check if the priority is LOG_KERN correctly - in practice
LOG_KERN is 0, so it makes no difference. OpenBSD fixed a
different nearby bug that we don't have 'cos our definition
of LOG_MAKEPRI is different to OpenBSD's.
Copy a comment from OpenBSD, observing that LOG_KERN is 0.
Inspired by PR: 67139
_PATH_DEV will never change. In the un-likely event that _PATH_DEV
should ever change, watch(8) would have broke because of a
mis-generated device name.
Approved by: bmilekic (mentor)
Pointed out by: Yvan Boily
o getpwnam(3) returns NULL and does not set errno when the user does
not exist. Bail out with "no such user" instead of "Unknown error: 0".
PR: bin/67262
Submitted by: demon (-U flag)
MFC after: 3 weeks
trying to exclude the top end of the range since it should hurt to overlap
by 4 bytes in the off-chance the RSDP signature appears incorrectly at the
very top of our search space.
the value for "unknown" 0xffffffff. The underlying kernel drivers should
be updated to only return 255 but the ABI is used by too many userland
utilities.
Also, make this WARNS 6 compatible.
stored in EEPROM or NVRAM. It's inspired by the NetBSD eeprom(8) and
the SunOS/Solaris eeprom(1M) utilities. Currently, this eeprom(8)
only supports systems equipped with Open Firmware and is only tested
on Sun machines but should work on any platform using Open Firmware.
A bit more specific, eeprom(8) can be used on these systems to do the
same under FreeBSD as can be done using the printenv and setenv
commandos in the boot monitor. One thing that only hardly can be done
using the boot monitor but easily with eeprom(8) is to write a logo
to the "oem-logo" property. eeprom(8) may also be useful to recover
the boot monitor password (in the default configuration only as root,
of course), i.e. when the boot monitor allows you to boot but you
can't alter the configuration because the password is unknown. The
man page may also be a useful reference of the various configuration
variables.
The idea of eeprom(8) is that handlers can be written to add support
for any firmware that stores such configuration in EEPROM or NVRAM;
sort of e.g. eeprom(1M) on Solaris/x86 is used to turn PAE-support
on and off (stored in a file then, not hardware). In FreeBSD, a
candidate for this would be a handler for the EFI boot environment
for FreeBSD/ia64.
eeprom(8) uses some code from NetBSD (eeprom.c and the base for
eeprom.8), the handler for the Open Firmware /options node
(ofw_options.[c,h]) was written using ofw_util.[c,h] from ofwdump(8).
Reviewed by: ru (slightly earlier version of the man page)
- Make the code use the new OFIOCMAXVALUE instead of defining the maximum
length of property values locally.
- Move the application specific parts from ofw_util.c to ofwdump.c in
order to make ofw_util.c more library-like. While ofw_dump_properties()
could be made non-specific to ofwdump(8) it's currently optimized for
use in ofwdump(8) and making it a library-like function would just
complicate the code unnecessarily.
- Minor clean-up in ofw_util.c, e.g. make its use of getopt(3) the way
it's described in style(9), make its usage() static, etc.
- Add a comment in ofw_util.c about why it doesn't call usage() when
neither the "-a" option nor a node-name where given.
- Add ofw_optnode() and ofw_setprop(), helper functions for the
OFIOCGETOPTNODE and OFIOCSET ioctls respectively, to ofw_util.[c,h].
- Be consistent with the use of 'const' in ofw_util.[c,h] and add 'const'
to the function arguments that are acutally const but weren't declared
as such.
- Mark WARNS=6 clean.
Approved by: tmm
installation as far as most people are concerned but both 'Standard' and
'Select' begin with S and 'Select' is winning. This makes it so 'Select'
is not select-able using a keystroke but that is probably for the best
and the text on the screen adequately describes how to move back and forth
between 'Select' and 'Exit'.
Adapted from work by: josef@
PR: i386/37999
MFC after: 1 week
. forward declare all static functions
. add a couple of redundant parens in return statements where they've
been missing
. remove the space after exit since it's a function
the maximum amount of time jitter for root and other users, respectively.
Before starting a job, cron(8) will sleep a random number of seconds,
from 0 to the amount specified. This can help to smooth down load spikes
when a lot of jobs are to start at the beginning of a particular minute
(e.g., the first minute of an hour.)
PR: bin/66474
Submitted by: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck <@> rinet.ru>
where the RSD PTR can actually occur. According to section 5.2.2
of the ACPI spec, we only consider two regions for the base address:
1. EBDA (0x0 - 0x3FF)
2. High memory (0xE0000 - 0xFFFFF)
I don't know whether this fixes any actual problems but is more correct.
levels by which they are used. On a typical production setting (no
debug or filter logging) this will save an open/read/close system
call sequence per packet, approximately halving the system overhead
and reducing the overall overhead by 38%.
dd bs=1k count=512 if=/usr/share/dict/web2 |
ssh ppp-linked-host dd of=/dev/null
# time original-ppp -nat -foreground connection
Working in foreground mode
Using interface: tun0
2.822u 2.404s 2:00.31 4.3% 392+496k 8+18io 3pf+0w
# time new-ppp -nat -foreground connection
Working in foreground mode
Using interface: tun0
2.082u 1.173s 1:26.06 3.7% 379+450k 0+18io 0pf+0w
MFC after: 3 weeks
