objdump is sometimes used in cases where readelf is more appropriate,
but the obsolete GNU objdump we have in the base system will be removed
in the future.
.Xr readelf from elf.5 to improve the odds the more appropriate tool
will be found.
PR: 229046
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
ConnectX-4/5 devices in mlx5core.
The dump is obtained by reading a predefined register map from the
non-destructive crspace, accessible by the vendor-specific PCIe
capability (VSC). The dump is stored in preallocated kernel memory and
managed by the mlx5tool(8), which communicates with the driver using a
character device node.
The utility allows to store the dump in format
<address> <value>
into a file, to reset the dump content, and to manually initiate the
dump.
A call to mlx5_fwdump() should be added at the places where a dump
must be fetched automatically. The most likely place is right before a
firmware reset request.
Submitted by: kib@
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
This works similarly to the existing gzip compression support, but
zstd is typically faster and gives better compression ratios.
Support for this functionality must be configured by adding ZSTDIO to
one's kernel configuration file. dumpon(8)'s new -Z option is used to
configure zstd compression for kernel dumps. savecore(8) now recognizes
and saves zstd-compressed kernel dumps with a .zst extension.
Submitted by: cem (original version)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13101,
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13633
There's a report of some regression in ports. Revert for now for an
exp run for this change in isolation (previous lld exp run also included
switching the linker used for ports to lld).
Also revert the src.conf.5 regeneration in r327824.
Reported by: antoine
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(I missed the Reviewed by and review link from r327783.)
Reviewed by: brooks, dim, bapt
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13827
We currently use a set of subroutines in kern_gzio.c to perform
compression of user and kernel core dumps. In the interest of adding
support for other compression algorithms (zstd) in this role without
complicating the API consumers, add a simple compressor API which can be
used to select an algorithm.
Also change the (non-default) GZIO kernel option to not enable
compressed user cores by default. It's not clear that such a default
would be desirable with support for multiple algorithms implemented,
and it's inconsistent in that it isn't applied to kernel dumps.
Reviewed by: cem
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13632
rc.conf(5) documents the gifconfig_<interface> keyword, which is
no longer implemented. Document the replacement, which works with
cloned_interfaces as well.
Reviewed by: dab
Group Reviwers: manpages
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13130
The information here is somewhere between ancient to obsolete.
It refers to a time in the internet's history when manual routing
was still useful, talks about UUCP as if its modern, and refers
to documents which I had trouble tracking down.
It seems unlikely that a manual page in this form would be useful, so
just remove it.
Reviewed By: imp, tsoome, bdrewery(?)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12924
When using a kernel built with the GZIO config option, dumpon -z can be
used to configure gzip compression using the in-kernel copy of zlib.
This is useful on systems with large amounts of RAM, which require a
correspondingly large dump device. Recovery of compressed dumps is also
faster since fewer bytes need to be copied from the dump device.
Because we have no way of knowing the final size of a compressed dump
until it is written, the kernel will always attempt to dump when
compression is configured, regardless of the dump device size. If the
dump is aborted because we run out of space, an error is reported on
the console.
savecore(8) is modified to handle compressed dumps and save them to
vmcore.<index>.gz, as it does when given the -z option.
A new rc.conf variable, dumpon_flags, is added. Its value is added to
the boot-time dumpon(8) invocation that occurs when a dump device is
configured in rc.conf.
Reviewed by: cem (earlier version)
Discussed with: def, rgrimes
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11723
files. This is a follow up commit to r324721, which added sysrc(8) to
the SEE ALSO list.
Submitted by: Kurt Jaeger (lists at opsec.eu)
MFC after: 1 week
This file shouldn't be modified manually but well, I did it in my previous
commit. So go down further the rabbit hole so as to at least keep some
consistency.
Reported by: bapt
If they are still needed, you can find them in the net/bsdrcmds port.
This was proposed June, 20th and approved by various committers [1].
They have been marked as deprecated on CURRENT in r320644 [2] on July, 4th.
Both stable/11 and release/11.1 contain the deprecation notice (thanks to
allanjude@).
Note that ruptime(1)/rwho(1)/rwhod(8) were initially thought to be part of
rcmds but this was a mistake and those are therefore NOT removed.
[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-June/018239.html
[2] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=320644
Reviewed by: bapt, brooks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12573
It was supposed to provide a recovery mechanism against bugs in procfs's
long deprecated tracing capabilities.
Remove the tool as a prerequisite to axing the kernel side.
The tracing facility to use is ptrace(2).
MFC after: 2 weeks
in favor of just rendering the manpage instead of relying on pre-formatted
catpages. Note, this does not impede the ability to use existing catpages,
it just removes the utility to generate them.
Reviewed by: imp, allanjude
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12317
Linux specific things to the native fdescfs file system.
Unlike FreeBSD, the Linux fdescfs is a directory containing a symbolic
links to the actual files, which the process has open.
A readlink(2) call on this file returns a full path in case of regular file
or a string in a special format (type:[inode], anon_inode:<file-type>, etc..).
As well as in a FreeBSD, opening the file in the Linux fdescfs directory is
equivalent to duplicating the corresponding file descriptor.
Here we have mutually exclusive requirements:
- in case of readlink(2) call fdescfs lookup() method should return VLNK
vnode otherwise our kern_readlink() fail with EINVAL error;
- in the other calls fdescfs lookup() method should return non VLNK vnode.
For what new vnode v_flag VV_READLINK was added, which is set if fdescfs has beed
mounted with linrdlnk option an modified kern_readlinkat() to properly handle it.
For now For Linux ABI compatibility mount fdescfs volume with linrdlnk option:
mount -t fdescfs -o linrdlnk null /compat/linux/dev/fd
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
