Implement the linux_io_* syscalls (AIO). They are only enabled if the native
AIO code is available (either compiled in to the kernel or as a module) at
the time the functions are used. If the AIO stuff is not available there
will be a ENOSYS.
From the submitter:
---snip---
DESIGN NOTES:
1. Linux permits a process to own multiple AIO queues (distinguished by
"context"), but FreeBSD creates only one single AIO queue per process.
My code maintains a request queue (STAILQ of queue(3)) per "context",
and throws all AIO requests of all contexts owned by a process into
the single FreeBSD per-process AIO queue.
When the process calls io_destroy(2), io_getevents(2), io_submit(2) and
io_cancel(2), my code can pick out requests owned by the specified context
from the single FreeBSD per-process AIO queue according to the per-context
request queues maintained by my code.
2. The request queue maintained by my code stores contrast information between
Linux IO control blocks (struct linux_iocb) and FreeBSD IO control blocks
(struct aiocb). FreeBSD IO control block actually exists in userland memory
space, required by FreeBSD native aio_XXXXXX(2).
3. It is quite troubling that the function io_getevents() of libaio-0.3.105
needs to use Linux-specific "struct aio_ring", which is a partial mirror
of context in user space. I would rather take the address of context in
kernel as the context ID, but the io_getevents() of libaio forces me to
take the address of the "ring" in user space as the context ID.
To my surprise, one comment line in the file "io_getevents.c" of
libaio-0.3.105 reads:
Ben will hate me for this
REFERENCE:
1. Linux kernel source code: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
(include/linux/aio_abi.h, fs/aio.c)
2. Linux manual pages: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
(io_setup(2), io_destroy(2), io_getevents(2), io_submit(2), io_cancel(2))
3. Linux Scalability Effort: http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html
The design notes: http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aionotes.txt
4. The package libaio, both source and binary:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libaio
Simple transparent interface to Linux AIO system calls.
5. Libaio-oracle: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/libaio-oracle/
POSIX AIO implementation based on Linux AIO system calls (depending on
libaio).
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Submitted by: Li, Xiao <intron@intron.ac>
unsuspecting users.
- Add a comment in NOTES about experimental status of SCHED_ULE.
- Make warning about experimental status in sched_ule(4) a bit
stronger.
Suggested and reviewed by: dougb
Discussed on: developers
MFC after: 3 days
Split subr_clock.c in two parts (by repo-copy):
subr_clock.c contains generic RTC and calendaric stuff. etc.
subr_rtc.c contains the newbus'ified RTC interface.
Centralize the machdep.{adjkerntz,disable_rtc_set,wall_cmos_clock}
sysctls and associated variables into subr_clock.c. They are
not machine dependent and we have generic code that relies on being
present so they are not even optional.
Add support for Intel High Definition Audio Controller.
This driver make a special guarantee that "playback" works
on majority hardwares with minimal or without specific vendor
quirk.
This driver is a product of collaborative effort made by:
Stephane E. Potvin <sepotvin@videotron.ca>
Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>
Maxime Guillaud <bsd-ports@mguillaud.net>
Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org>
....and various people from freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Refer to snd_hda(4) for features and issues.
Welcome To HDA.
Sponsored by: Defenxis Sdn. Bhd.
With the first part of my previous Summer of Code work, we get:
-made libalias modular:
-support for 'particular' protocols (like ftp/irc/etcetc) is no more
hardcoded inside libalias, but it's available through external
modules loadable at runtime
-modules are available both in kernel (/boot/kernel/alias_*.ko) and
user land (/lib/libalias_*)
-protocols/applications modularized are: cuseeme, ftp, irc, nbt, pptp,
skinny and smedia
-added logging support for kernel side
-cleanup
After a buildworld, do a 'mergemaster -i' to install the file libalias.conf
in /etc or manually copy it.
During startup (and after every HUP signal) user land applications running
the new libalias will try to read a file in /etc called libalias.conf:
that file contains the list of modules to load.
User land applications affected by this commit are ppp and natd:
if libalias.conf is present in /etc you won't notice any difference.
The only kernel land bit affected by this commit is ng_nat:
if you are using ng_nat, and it doesn't correctly handle
ftp/irc/etcetc sessions anymore, remember to kldload
the correspondent module (i.e. kldload alias_ftp).
General information and details about the inner working are available
in the libalias man page under the section 'MODULAR ARCHITECTURE
(AND ipfw(4) SUPPORT)'.
NOTA BENE: this commit affects _ONLY_ libalias, ipfw in-kernel nat
support will be part of the next libalias-related commit.
Approved by: glebius
Reviewed by: glebius, ru
- Split out the communication protocols into their own files and use
a couple of function pointers in the softc that the commuication
protocols setup in their own attach routine.
- Add support for the SSIF interface (talking to IPMI over SMBus).
- Add an ACPI attachment.
- Add a PCI attachment that attaches to devices with the IPMI interface
subclass.
- Split the ISA attachment out into its own file: ipmi_isa.c.
- Change the code to probe the SMBIOS table for an IPMI entry to just use
pmap_mapbios() to map the table in rather than trying to setup a fake
resource on an isa device and then activating the resource to map in the
table.
- Make bus attachments leaner by adding attach functions for each
communication interface (ipmi_kcs_attach(), ipmi_smic_attach(), etc.)
that setup per-interface data.
- Formalize the model used by the driver to handle requests by adding an
explicit struct ipmi_request object that holds the state of a given
request and reply for the entire lifetime of the request. By bundling
the request into an object, it is easier to add retry logic to the various
communication backends (as well as eventually support BT mode which uses
a slightly different message format than KCS, SMIC, and SSIF).
- Add a per-softc lock and remove D_NEEDGIANT as the driver is now MPSAFE.
- Add 32-bit compatibility ioctl shims so you can use a 32-bit ipmitool
on FreeBSD/amd64.
- Add ipmi(4) to i386 and amd64 NOTES.
Submitted by: ambrisko (large portions of 2 and 3)
Sponsored by: IronPort Systems, Yahoo!
MFC after: 6 days
other problems while labels were first being added to various kernel
objects. They have outlived their usefulness.
MFC after: 1 month
Suggested by: Christopher dot Vance at SPARTA dot com
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
part of the hal distribution early on when the hal was built for
each os but it's been portable for a long time so move the os-specific
code out (and off the vendor branch)
o correct the copyright on ah_osdep.?; it was mistakenly given a
restricted license and not a dual-bsd/gpl license
o remove the module api definition as it was never used
o fixup include paths for move of ah_osdep.h
MFC after: 2 weeks
in older versions of FreeBSD. This option is pointless as it is needed in just
about every interesting usage of forward that I have ever seen. It doesn't make
the system any safer and just wastes huge amounts of develper time
when the system doesn't behave as expected when code is moved from
4.x to 6.x It doesn't make
the system any safer and just wastes huge amounts of develper time
when the system doesn't behave as expected when code is moved from
4.x to 6.x or 7.x
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 1 week
- TLS - complete
- pid/tid mangling - complete
- thread area - complete
- futexes - complete with issues
- clone() extension - complete with some possible minor issues
- mq*/timer*/clock* stuff - complete but untested and the mq* stuff is
disabled when not build as part of the kernel with native FreeBSD mq*
support (module support for this will come later)
Tested with:
- linux-firefox - works, tested
- linux-opera - works, tested
- linux-realplay - doesnt work, issue with futexes
- linux-skype - doesnt work, issue with futexes
- linux-rt2-demo - works, tested
- linux-acroread - doesnt work, unknown reason (coredump) and sometimes
issue with futexes
- various unix utilities in linux-base-gentoo3 and linux-base-fc4:
everything tried worked
On amd64 not everything is supported like on i386, the catchup is planned for
later when the remaining bugs in the new functions are fixed.
To test this new stuff, you have to run
sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
to switch back use
sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2
Don't switch while running a linux program, strange things may or may not
happen.
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2006
Submitted by: rdivacky
Some suggestions/help by: jhb, kib, manu@NetBSD.org, netchild
serial line usb drivers that depend on it. Instead, let the compile
fail rather than silently not including the driver. This is more in
line with how we handle things like mii.
# I'll note: a better system for coping with missing depends is needed,
# but this dependency is clearly backwards given our current flawed
# depend system.
whole the physical memory, cached, using 1MB section mappings. This reduces
the address space available for user processes a bit, but given the amount of
memory a typical arm machine has, it is not (yet) a big issue.
It then provides a uma_small_alloc() that works as it does for architectures
which have a direct mapping.
uipc_proto.c to uipc_usrreq.c, making localdomain static. Remove
uipc_proto.c as it's no longer used. With this change, UNIX domain
sockets are entirely encapsulated in uipc_usrreq.c.
PowerPC-based Apple's machines and small utility to do it from
userland modelled after the similar utility in Darwin/OSX.
Only tested on 1.25GHz G4 Mac Mini.
MFC after: 1 month
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.
implementations and adjust some of the checks while I'm here:
- Add a new check to make sure we don't return from a syscall in a critical
section.
- Add a new explicit check before userret() to make sure we don't return
with any locks held. The advantage here is that we can include the
syscall number and name in syscall() whereas that info is not available
in userret().
- Drop the mtx_assert()'s of sched_lock and Giant. They are replaced by
the more general checks just added.
MFC after: 2 weeks
new VIA CPUs.
For older CPUs HMAC/SHA1 and HMAC/SHA256 (and others) will still be done
in software.
Move symmetric cryptography (currently only AES-CBC 128/192/256) to
padlock_cipher.c file. Move HMAC cryptography to padlock_hash.c file.
Hardware from: Centaur Technologies
