Summary:
Historically, we have built toolchain components such as cc, ld, etc as
statically linked executables. One of the reasons being that you could
sometimes save yourself from botched upgrades, by e.g. recompiling a
"known good" libc and reinstalling it.
In this day and age, we have boot environments, virtual machine
snapshots, cloud backups, and other much more reliable methods to
restore systems to working order. So I think the time is ripe to flip
this default, and link the toolchain components dynamically, just like
almost all other executables on FreeBSD.
Maybe at some point they can even become PIE executables by default! :)
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22061
Notices appear both in picobsd(8) (near the top for easy notice) and are
also printed to stderr on every invocation of picobsd for visibility.
The tentative date for removal is October 31st, as no volunteers have
stepped forward at all from postings to -arch@ at least.
No objection from: -arch@
MFC after: 3 days
The change is for the example in textdump.4 and the default ddb.conf.
First of all, doadump now requires an argument and it won't do a
textdump if the argument is not 'true'.
And 'textdump dump' is more idiomatic anyway.
For what it's worth, ddb 'dump' command seems to always request a vmcore
dump even if a textdump was requested earlier, e.g., by 'textdump set'.
Finally, ddb 'call' command is not documented.
MFC after: 2 weeks
NetGDB(4) is a component of a system using a panic-time network stack to
remotely debug crashed FreeBSD kernels over the network, instead of
traditional serial interfaces.
There are three pieces in the complete NetGDB system.
First, a dedicated proxy server must be running to accept connections from
both NetGDB and gdb(1), and pass bidirectional traffic between the two
protocols.
Second, the NetGDB client is activated much like ordinary 'gdb' and
similarly to 'netdump' in ddb(4) after a panic. Like other debugnet(4)
clients (netdump(4)), the network interface on the route to the proxy server
must be online and support debugnet(4).
Finally, the remote (k)gdb(1) uses 'target remote <proxy>:<port>' (like any
other TCP remote) to connect to the proxy server.
The NetGDB v1 protocol speaks the literal GDB remote serial protocol, and
uses a 1:1 relationship between GDB packets and sequences of debugnet
packets (fragmented by MTU). There is no encryption utilized to keep
debugging sessions private, so this is only appropriate for local
segments or trusted networks.
Submitted by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com> (earlier version)
Discussed some with: emaste, markj
Relnotes: sure
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21568
Loosen requirements for connecting to debugnet-type servers. Only require a
destination address; the rest can theoretically be inferred from the routing
table.
Relax corresponding constraints in netdump(4) and move ifp validation to
debugnet connection time.
Submitted by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21482
Add a 'X -s <server> -c <client> [-g <gateway>] -i <interface>' subroutine
to the generic debugnet code. The imagined use is both netdump, shown here,
and NetGDB (vaporware). It uses the ddb(4) lexer, with some new extensions,
to parse out IPv4 addresses.
'Netdump' uses the generic debugnet routine to load a configuration and
start a dump, without any netdump configuration prior to panic.
Loosely derived from work by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com>
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21460
This allows to remove a bunch of low level code.
Also, superio(4) provides safer interaction with other drivers
that work with Super I/O configuration registers.
Tested only on PCengines APU2:
superio0: <Nuvoton NCT5104D/NCT6102D/NCT6106D (rev. B+)> at port 0x2e-0x2f on isa0
wbwd0: <Nuvoton NCT6102 (0xc4/0x53) Watchdog Timer> at WDT ldn 0x08 on superio0
The watchdog output is incorrectly wired on that system and the watchdog
does not really do it its job, but the pulse can be seen with a signal
analyzer.
Reviewed by: delphij, bcr (man page)
MFC after: 19 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21979
This adds basic documentation on what the superio driver is and how
other drivers can interact with it. I decided to also document
superio's ivar accessors.
Reviewed by: bcr, brueffer (both manual contents only)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21958
Add /i option for machine-parseable CSV output. This allows ready copy/
pasting into more sophisticated tooling outside of DDB.
Add total zone size ("Memory Use") as a new column for UMA.
For both, sort the displayed list on size (print the largest zones/types
first). This is handy for quickly diagnosing "where has my memory gone?" at
a high level.
Submitted by: Emily Pettigrew <Emily.Pettigrew AT isilon.com> (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
membar_producer is supposed to be a store-store barrier.
Also, in the code that FreeBSD has ported from illumos membar_producer
is used only with regular stores to regular memory (with respect to
caching).
We do not have an MI primitive for the store-store barrier, so
atomic_thread_fence_rel is the closest we have as it provides
(load | store) -> store barrier.
Previously, membar_producer was an empty function call on all 32-bit
arm-s, 32-bit powerpc, riscv and all mips variants. I think that it was
inadequate.
On other platforms, such as amd64, arm64, i386, powerpc64, sparc64,
membar_producer was implemented using stronger primitives than required
for a store-store barrier with respect to regular memory access.
For example, it used sfence on amd64 and lock-ed nop in i386 (despite TSO).
On powerpc64 we now use recommended lwsync instead of eieio.
On sparc64 FreeBSD uses TSO mode.
On arm64/aarch64 we now use dmb sy instead of dmb ish. Not sure if this
is an improvement, actually.
After this change we can drop opensolaris_atomic.S for aarch64, amd64,
powerpc64 and sparc64 as all required atomic operations have either
direct or light-weight mapping to FreeBSD native atomic operations.
Discussed with: kib
MFC after: 4 weeks
starting at the max. domain, and then work down. Then existing FreeBSD
drivers will attach. Interrupt routing from the VMD MSI-X to the NVME
drive is not well known, so any interrupt is sent to all children that
register.
VROC used Intel meta data so graid(8) works with it. However, graid(8)
supports RAID 0,1,10 for read and write. I have some early code to
support writes with RAID 5. Note that RAID 5 can have life issues
with SSDs since it can cause write amplification from updating the parity
data.
Hot plug support needs a change to skip the following check to work:
if (pcib_request_feature(dev, PCI_FEATURE_HP) != 0) {
in sys/dev/pci/pci_pci.c.
Looked at by: imp, rpokala, bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21383
The new sysctl was not added to the siftr.4 man page at the time.
This updates the man page, and removes one left over trailing whitespace.
Submitted by: Richard Scheffenegger
Reviewed by: bcr@
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21619
This provides a framework to define a template describing
a set of "variables of interest" and the intended way for
the framework to maintain them (for example the maximum, sum,
t-digest, or a combination thereof). Afterwards the user
code feeds in the raw data, and the framework maintains
these variables inside a user-provided, opaque stats blobs.
The framework also provides a way to selectively extract the
stats from the blobs. The stats(3) framework can be used in
both userspace and the kernel.
See the stats(3) manual page for details.
This will be used by the upcoming TCP statistics gathering code,
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20655.
The stats(3) framework is disabled by default for now, except
in the NOTES kernel (for QA); it is expected to be enabled
in amd64 GENERIC after a cool down period.
Reviewed by: sef (earlier version)
Obtained from: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Klara Inc, Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20477
This change allows to specify a watchdog(9) timeout for a system
shutdown. The timeout is activated when the watchdogd daemon is
stopped. The idea is to a prevent any indefinite hang during late
stages of the shutdown. The feature is implemented in rc.d/watchdogd,
it builds upon watchdogd -x option.
Note that the shutdown timeout is not actiavted when the watchdogd
service is individually stopped by an operator. It is also not
activated for the 'shutdown' to the single-user mode. In those cases it
is assumed that the operator knows what they are doing and they have
means to recover the system should it hang.
Significant subchanges and implementation details:
- the argument to rc.shutdown, completely unused before, is assigned to
rc_shutdown variable that can be inspected by rc scripts
- init(8) passes "single" or "reboot" as the argument, this is not
changed
- the argument is not mandatory and if it is not set then rc_shutdown is
set to "unspecified"
- however, the default jail management scripts and jail configuration
examples have been updated to pass "jail" to rc.shutdown, just in case
- the new timeout can be set via watchdogd_shutdown_timeout rc option
- for consistency, the regular timeout can now be set via
watchdogd_timeout rc option
- watchdogd_shutdown_timeout and watchdogd_timeout override timeout
specifications in watchdogd_flags
- existing configurations, where the new rc options are not set, should
keep working as before
I am not particularly wed to any of the implementation specifics.
I am open to changing or removing any of them as long as the provided
functionality is the same (or very close) to the proposed one.
For example, I think it can be implemented without using watchdogd -x,
by means of watchdog(1) alone. In that case there would be a small
window between stopping watchdogd and running watchdog, but I think that
that is acceptable.
Reviewed by: bcr (man page changes)
MFC after: 5 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21221
can handle. Instead using an array on node private data, use per-hook
private data.
- Use NG_NODE_FOREACH_HOOK() to traverse through hooks instead of array.
PR: 240787
Submitted by: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz donnerhacke.de>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21803
in mlx5core. The EEPROM information is not only a property of the
mlx5en(4) driver.
Submitted by: slavash@
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
and reinserting it back with an updated key.
This is one of dependencies for the upcoming stats(3) code.
Reviewed by: cem
Obtained from: Netflix
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Klara Inc, Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21786
Summary: When powerpc64 switches to LLVM, use this patch to enable
OpenMP as well. OpenMP on PPC is only for 64-bits, so don't make a
32-bit libomp. A change to openmp files is necesssary (under review on
https://reviews.llvm.org/D67190), because it determines ELF format
version based on endianness, which is incorrect.
Reviewed by: alfredo.junior_eldorado.org.br, #manpages
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21532
- Remove a dead variable from the amd64 pmap_extract_and_hold().
- Fix grammar in the vm_page_wire man page.
Reported by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21639
- Remove a dead variable from the amd64 pmap_extract_and_hold().
- Fix grammar in the vm_page_wire man page.
Reported by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21639
to the traditional tree(3) RB trees, but using an array (preallocated,
linear chunk of memory) to store the tree.
This avoids allocation overhead, improves memory locality,
and makes it trivially easy to share/transfer/copy the entire tree
without the need for marshalling. The downside is that the size
is fixed at initialization time; there is no mechanism to resize
it.
This is one of the dependencies for the new stats(3) framework
(https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20477).
Reviewed by: bcr (man pages), markj
Discussed with: cem
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Klara Inc, Netflix
Obtained from: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20324
These commands show the route resolved for a specified destination, or
print out the entire routing table for a given address family (or all
families, if none is explicitly provided).
Discussed with: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21510
There are several mechanisms by which a vm_page reference is held,
preventing the page from being freed back to the page allocator. In
particular, holding the page's object lock is sufficient to prevent the
page from being freed; holding the busy lock or a wiring is sufficent as
well. These references are protected by the page lock, which must
therefore be acquired for many per-page operations. This results in
false sharing since the page locks are external to the vm_page
structures themselves and each lock protects multiple structures.
Transition to using an atomically updated per-page reference counter.
The object's reference is counted using a flag bit in the counter. A
second flag bit is used to atomically block new references via
pmap_extract_and_hold() while removing managed mappings of a page.
Thus, the reference count of a page is guaranteed not to increase if the
page is unbusied, unmapped, and the object's write lock is held. As
a consequence of this, the page lock no longer protects a page's
identity; operations which move pages between objects are now
synchronized solely by the objects' locks.
The vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() KPIs are changed. The former
requires that either the object lock or the busy lock is held. The
latter no longer has a return value and may free the page if it releases
the last reference to that page. vm_page_unwire_noq() behaves the same
as before; the caller is responsible for checking its return value and
freeing or enqueuing the page as appropriate. vm_page_wire_mapped() is
introduced for use in pmap_extract_and_hold(). It fails if the page is
concurrently being unmapped, typically triggering a fallback to the
fault handler. vm_page_wire() no longer requires the page lock and
vm_page_unwire() now internally acquires the page lock when releasing
the last wiring of a page (since the page lock still protects a page's
queue state). In particular, synchronization details are no longer
leaked into the caller.
The change excises the page lock from several frequently executed code
paths. In particular, vm_object_terminate() no longer bounces between
page locks as it releases an object's pages, and direct I/O and
sendfile(SF_NOCACHE) completions no longer require the page lock. In
these latter cases we now get linear scalability in the common scenario
where different threads are operating on different files.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped. The DRM ports have been updated to
accomodate the KPI changes.
Reviewed by: jeff (earlier version)
Tested by: gallatin (earlier version), pho
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20486
If ipv4_prefer is specified, Section 10.3 is relevant.
If ipv6_prefer is specified, Section 2.1 is relevant.
This change makes the corresponding options/sections 'respective'
PR: docs/234249
Submitted by: David Fiander <david@fiander.info>
The EXAMPLES section does not contain any examples of output formats for
the old-style scripts. Remove the misleading bits stating otherwise.
Reviewed by: bcr, imp
Approved by: src (imp)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21552