Reflect all recent changes in the manpage:
- add adhoc-demo and hostap into list of supported modes;
add few examples for them;
- mention encryption/decryption offload for CCMP cipher;
- extend list of driver messages in the DIAGNOSTICS;
- document hostap mode limitations / powersave instability
in the CAVEATS section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5149
This is an initial work in progress to use the replacement bhnd
bus code for devices which support it.
* Add manpage updates for bhnd, bhndb, siba
* Add kernel options for bhnd, bhndbus, etc
* Add initial support in if_bwn_pci / if_bwn_mac for using bhnd
as the bus transport for suppoted NICs
* if_bwn_pci will eventually be the PCI bus glue to interface to bwn,
which will use the right backend bus to attach to, versus direct
nexus/bhnd attachments (as found in embedded broadcom devices.)
The PCI glue defaults to probing at a lower level than the bwn glue,
so bwn should still attach as per normal without a boot time tunable set.
It's also not fully fleshed out - the bwn probe/attach code needs to be
broken out into platform and bus specific things (just like ath, ath_pci,
ath_ahb) before we can shift the driver over to using this.
Tested:
* BCM4311, STA mode
* BCM4312, STA mode
Submitted by: Landon Fuller <landonf@landonf.org>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6191
The mfi(4) manpage doesn't explain the modules yet, but at least we direct
users to the right place.
PR: 205925
Submitted by: dvl
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Essen Hackathon 2016
Skip the log entry as there is nothing good to write out. Don't fail
the syscall though since it already succeeded. There's no reason
filemon's tracing failure should fail the already-succeeded syscall.
Record the error for later to return from close(2) on the filemon devfs
file descriptor.
Discussed with: markj, sjg, kib (briefly with kib)
Reported by: mjg
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
None of lstat(2), fstat(2), fstatat(2) were tracked either.
The other filemon implementations also do not track stat(2), nor
does bmake utilize it. The act of opening a file for read should
be enough to decide that a file is a dependency. There could be
rare cases where just having a file would cause a dependency but it
is unlikely.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Also noted by: sjg
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
- proc.p_filemon is added which is protected by PROC_LOCK. This improves
performance and avoids double-fork issues, taking allproc_lock
while in syscalls, and walking the process tree in syscalls. A
particular proc.p_filemon can only be changed to NULL or another
filemon, or the filemon inherited, while the filemon->lock is held.
- Filemon are reference counted. On the last reference the log will be closed.
- When closing the devfs file handle, the filemon will be detached from all
processes and inheritance prevented.
- Disallow attaching to a process already being traced since filemon is
typically intended to be used on children only. This is allowed for
curproc as bmake relies on this behavior for rare cases when combining
.MAKE with .META.
- Detach any previously tracked process on ioctl(FILEMON_SET_PID).
- Handle error from devfs_set_cdevpriv() in filemon_open().
- The global filemon lock and lists are removed.
- A free list is no longer kept. Previously this list was
forever-expanding and never garbage cleaned.
- No longer loses track of double-forks. If the process holding the filemon
handle closes it will close the log rather than wait on a daemonized process,
but it will log all activity until it closes its handle. The filemon
will be removed from the process and not inherited.
- A separate process count is kept only as an optimization for
forced detachment to avoid taking allproc_lock and walking the entire
process tree.
- struct filemon access is protected by sx(9) filemon->lock as it was before.
- Add more comments and KASSERTS.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: kib, mjg, markj (all on previous versions)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5520
Code may still be executing from the wrappers at unload time and thus is
not generally safe to unload. Converting the wrappers to use
EVENTHANDLER(9) will allow this to safely drain on active threads in
hooks. More work on EVENTHANDLER(9) is needed first.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
improve cancellation robustness.
Introduce a new file operation, fo_aio_queue, which is responsible for
queueing and completing an asynchronous I/O request for a given file.
The AIO subystem now exports library of routines to manipulate AIO
requests as well as the ability to run a handler function in the
"default" pool of AIO daemons to service a request.
A default implementation for file types which do not include an
fo_aio_queue method queues requests to the "default" pool invoking the
fo_read or fo_write methods as before.
The AIO subsystem permits file types to install a private "cancel"
routine when a request is queued to permit safe dequeueing and cleanup
of cancelled requests.
Sockets now use their own pool of AIO daemons and service per-socket
requests in FIFO order. Socket requests will not block indefinitely
permitting timely cancellation of all requests.
Due to the now-tight coupling of the AIO subsystem with file types,
the AIO subsystem is now a standard part of all kernels. The VFS_AIO
kernel option and aio.ko module are gone.
Many file types may block indefinitely in their fo_read or fo_write
callbacks resulting in a hung AIO daemon. This can result in hung
user processes (when processes attempt to cancel all outstanding
requests during exit) or a hung system. To protect against this, AIO
requests are only permitted for known "safe" files by default. AIO
requests for all file types can be enabled by setting the new
vfs.aio.enable_usafe sysctl to a non-zero value. The AIO tests have
been updated to skip operations on unsafe file types if the sysctl is
zero.
Currently, AIO requests on sockets and raw disks are considered safe
and are enabled by default. aio_mlock() is also enabled by default.
Reviewed by: cem, jilles
Discussed with: kib (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5289
Freescale's QorIQ line includes a new ethernet controller, based on their
Datapath Acceleration Architecture (DPAA). This uses a combination of a Frame
manager, Buffer manager, and Queue manager to improve performance across all
interfaces by being able to pass data directly between hardware acceleration
interfaces.
As part of this import, Freescale's Netcomm Software (ncsw) driver is imported.
This was an attempt by Freescale to create an OS-agnostic sub-driver for
managing the hardware, using shims to interface to the OS-specific APIs. This
work was abandoned, and Freescale's primary work is in the Linux driver (dual
BSD/GPL license). Hence, this was imported directly to sys/contrib, rather than
going through the vendor area. Going forward, FreeBSD-specific changes may be
made to the ncsw code, diverging from the upstream in potentially incompatible
ways. An alternative could be to import the Linux driver itself, using the
linuxKPI layer, as that would maintain parity with the vendor-maintained driver.
However, the Linux driver has not been evaluated for reliability yet, and may
have issues with the import, whereas the ncsw-based driver in this commit was
completed by Semihalf 4 years ago, and is very stable.
Other SoC modules based on DPAA, which could be added in the future:
* Security and Encryption engine (SEC4.x, SEC5.x)
* RAID engine
Additional work to be done:
* Implement polling mode
* Test vlan support
* Add support for the Pattern Matching Engine, which can do regular expression
matching on packets.
This driver has been tested on the P5020 QorIQ SoC. Others listed in the
dtsec(4) manual page are expected to work as the same DPAA engine is included in
all.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Alex Perez/Inertial Computing
After calling the cap_init(3) function Casper will fork from it's original
process, using pdfork(2). Forking from a process has a lot of advantages:
1. We have the same cwd as the original process.
2. The same uid, gid and groups.
3. The same MAC labels.
4. The same descriptor table.
5. The same routing table.
6. The same umask.
7. The same cpuset(1).
From now services are also in form of libraries.
We also removed libcapsicum at all and converts existing program using Casper
to new architecture.
Discussed with: pjd, jonathan, ed, drysdale@google.com, emaste
Partially reviewed by: drysdale@google.com, bdrewery
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4277
and geom_uncompress(4):
1. mkuzip(8):
- Proper support for eliminating all-zero blocks when compressing an
image. This feature is already supported by the geom_uzip(4) module
and CLOOP format in general, so it's just a matter of making mkuzip(8)
match. It should be noted, however that this feature while it sounds
great, results in very slight improvement in the overall compression
ratio, since compressing default 16k all-zero block produces only 39
bytes compressed output block, which is 99.8% compression ratio. With
typical average compression ratio of amd64 binaries and data being
around 60-70% the difference between 99.8% and 100.0% is not that
great further diluted by the ratio of number of zero blocks in the
uncompressed image to the overall number of blocks being less than
0.5 (typically). However, this may be important from performance
standpoint, so that kernel are not spinning its wheels decompressing
those empty blocks every time this zero region is read. It could also
be important when you create huge image mostly filled with zero
blocks for testing purposes.
- New feature allowing to de-duplicate output image. It turns out that
if you twist CLOOP format a bit you can do that as well. And unlike
zero-blocks elimination, this gives a noticeable improvement in the
overall compression ratio, reducing output image by something like
3-4% on my test UFS2 3GB image consisting of full FreeBSD base system
plus some of the packages (openjdk, apache etc), about 2.3GB worth of
file data (800+MB compressed). The only caveat is that images created
with this feature "on" would not work on older versions of FeeBSDxi
kernel, hence it's turned off by default.
- provide options to control both features and document them in manual
page.
- merge in all relevant LZMA compression support from the mkulzma(8),
add new option to select between both.
- switch license from ad-hoc beerware into standard 2-clause BSD.
2. geom_uzip(4):
- implement support for de-duplicated images;
- optimize some code paths to handle "all-zero" blocks without reading
any compressed data;
- beef up manual page to explain that geom_uzip(4) is not limited only
to md(4) images. The compressed data can be written to the block
device and accessed directly via magic of GEOM(4) and devfs(4),
including to mount root fs from a compressed drive.
- convert debug log code from being compiled in conditionally into
being present all the time and provide two sysctls to turn it on or
off. Due to intended use of the module, it can be used in
environments where there may not be a luxury to put new kernel with
debug code enabled. Having those options handy allows debug issues
without as much problem by just having access to serial console or
network shell access to a box/appliance. The resulting additional
CPU cycles are just few int comparisons and branches, and those are
minuscule when compared to data decompression which is the main
feature of the module.
- hopefully improve robustness and resiliency of the geom_uzip(4) by
performing some of the data validation / range checking on the TOC
entries and rejecting to attach to an image if those checks fail.
- merge in all relevant LZMA decompression support from the
geom_uncompress(4), enable automatically when appropriate format is
indicated in the header.
- move compilation work into its own worker thread so that it does not
clog g_up. This allows multiple instances work in parallel utilizing
smp cores.
- document new knobs in the manual page.
Reviewed by: adrian
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5333
and manual page were.
For whatever reason it listed myself as a primary author, which is
just not true.
Also, majority of the manpage is copied verbatim from the geom_uzip(4),
contributed by ceri, with only minor adjustments from loos, so put ceri
back into the copyright secrion where he belongs and reflect that in the
AUTHORS section.
For what it's worth, I think this one should be deleted and LZMA
support just folded back into geom_uzip(4) / mkuzip(4) whete it really
belongs.
MFC after: 1 month