were sometimes propagated using M_COPY_PKTHDR which actually did
something between a "move" and a "copy" operation. This is replaced
by M_MOVE_PKTHDR (which copies the pkthdr contents and "removes" it
from the source mbuf) and m_dup_pkthdr which copies the packet
header contents including any m_tag chain. This corrects numerous
problems whereby mbuf tags could be lost during packet manipulations.
These changes also introduce arguments to m_tag_copy and m_tag_copy_chain
to specify if the tag copy work should potentially block. This
introduces an incompatibility with openbsd which we may want to revisit.
Note that move/dup of packet headers does not handle target mbufs
that have a cluster bound to them. We may want to support this;
for now we watch for it with an assert.
Finally, M_COPYFLAGS was updated to include M_FIRSTFRAG|M_LASTFRAG.
Supported by: Vernier Networks
Reviewed by: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
o instead of a list of mbufs use a list of m_tag structures a la openbsd
o for netgraph et. al. extend the stock openbsd m_tag to include a 32-bit
ABI/module number cookie
o for openbsd compatibility define a well-known cookie MTAG_ABI_COMPAT and
use this in defining openbsd-compatible m_tag_find and m_tag_get routines
o rewrite KAME use of aux mbufs in terms of packet tags
o eliminate the most heavily used aux mbufs by adding an additional struct
inpcb parameter to ip_output and ip6_output to allow the IPsec code to
locate the security policy to apply to outbound packets
o bump __FreeBSD_version so code can be conditionalized
o fixup ipfilter's call to ip_output based on __FreeBSD_version
Reviewed by: julian, luigi (silent), -arch, -net, darren
Approved by: julian, silence from everyone else
Obtained from: openbsd (mostly)
MFC after: 1 month
This work was based on kame-20010528-freebsd43-snap.tgz and some
critical problem after the snap was out were fixed.
There are many many changes since last KAME merge.
TODO:
- The definitions of SADB_* in sys/net/pfkeyv2.h are still different
from RFC2407/IANA assignment because of binary compatibility
issue. It should be fixed under 5-CURRENT.
- ip6po_m member of struct ip6_pktopts is no longer used. But, it
is still there because of binary compatibility issue. It should
be removed under 5-CURRENT.
Reviewed by: itojun
Obtained from: KAME
MFC after: 3 weeks
other "system" header files.
Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of
sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files.
Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files.
OK'ed by: bde (with reservations)
and function argument declarations. Make sure that functions that are
supposed to return a pointer return NULL in case of failure. Don't cast
NULL. Finally, get rid of annoying `register' uses.
whether the given ext_buf is shared.
* Have the sf_bufs be setup with the mbuf subsystem using MEXTADD() with the
two new arguments.
Note: m_pulldown() is somewhat crotchy; the added comment explains the
situation.
Reviewed by: jlemon
that should be better.
The old code counted references to mbuf clusters by using the offset
of the cluster from the start of memory allocated for mbufs and
clusters as an index into an array of chars, which did the reference
counting. If the external storage was not a cluster then reference
counting had to be done by the code using that external storage.
NetBSD's system of linked lists of mbufs was cosidered, but Alfred
felt it would have locking issues when the kernel was made more
SMP friendly.
The system implimented uses a pool of unions to track external
storage. The union contains an int for counting the references and
a pointer for forming a free list. The reference counts are
incremented and decremented atomically and so should be SMP friendly.
This system can track reference counts for any sort of external
storage.
Access to the reference counting stuff is now through macros defined
in mbuf.h, so it should be easier to make changes to the system in
the future.
The possibility of storing the reference count in one of the
referencing mbufs was considered, but was rejected 'cos it would
often leave extra mbufs allocated. Storing the reference count in
the cluster was also considered, but because the external storage
may not be a cluster this isn't an option.
The size of the pool of reference counters is available in the
stats provided by "netstat -m".
PR: 19866
Submitted by: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
Reviewed by: alfred (glanced at by others on -net)
