Document the new powerpc64le arch's initial specifications.
Certain things are subject to change while this is experimental. The most
likely change is that long double may switch to quad, dependent on POWER8
emulation assistance for __float128 being set up in the compiler (as
POWER8 does not have IEEE-compatible 128-bit hardware float, unlike POWER9.)
Sponsored by: Tag1 Consulting, Inc.
Document the calls to send messages to userland via devctl.
devctl_notify will create a message for the specified system,
subsystem and type, optionally adding additional information.
Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26520
Belatedly document the quoting requirements for the devctl protocol. I
thought they'd been previously documented.
Also, while I'm here, make igor happy.
Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26520
This routine centralizes the knowledge needed for properly quoting
'value' in all key="value" items that appear in devctl messages.
Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26520
This allows the PF interfaces to communicate with the VF interfaces over
the internal switch in the ASIC. Fix the GL limits for VM work requests
while here.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
An upcoming patch to use the bitset macros for tracking vm page
dump information could conceivably need more than INT_MAX bits.
Expand the bit type to long so that the extra range is available
on 64-bit platforms where it would most likely be needed.
CPUSET_COUNT and DOMAINSET_COUNT are also modified to remain of
type `int`.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Approved by: scottl (implicit)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Ampere Computing, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26190
This adds the getenv_bool() function, to parse a boolean value from a
kernel environment variable or tunable. This works for traditional
boolean values like "0" and "1", and also "true" and "false"
(case-insensitive). These semantics do not yet apply to sysctls declared
using SYSCTL_BOOL with CTLFLAG_TUN (they still only parse 1 and 0).
Also added are two wrapper functions, getenv_is_true() and
getenv_is_false(). These are slightly simpler for callers wishing to
perform a single check of a configuration variable.
Reviewed by: jhb (slightly earlier version)
Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26270
bootonce feature is temporary, one time boot, activated by
"bectl activate -t BE", "bectl activate -T BE" will reset the bootonce flag.
By default, the bootonce setting is reset on attempt to boot and the next
boot will use previously active BE.
By setting zfs_bootonce_activate="YES" in rc.conf, the bootonce BE will
be set permanently active.
bootonce dataset name is recorded in boot pool labels, bootenv area.
in case of nextboot, the nextboot_enable boolean variable is recorded in
freebsd:nvstore nvlist, also stored in boot pool label bootenv area.
On boot, the loader will process /boot/nextboot.conf if nextboot_enable
is "YES", and will set nextboot_enable to "NO", preventing /boot/nextboot.conf
processing on next boot.
bootonce and nextboot features are usable in both UEFI and BIOS boot.
To use bootonce/nextboot features, the boot loader needs to be updated on disk;
if loader.efi is stored on ESP, then ESP needs to be updated and
for BIOS boot, stage2 (zfsboot or gptzfsboot) needs to be updated
(gpart or other tools).
At this time, only lua loader is updated.
Sponsored by: Netflix, Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25512
One problem with the bus_space_read_N() and bus_space_write_N() family of
functions is that they provide no protection against exceptions which can
occur when no physical hardware or device responds to the read or write
cycles. In such a situation, the system typically would panic due to a
kernel-mode bus error. The bus_space_peek_N() and bus_space_poke_N() family
of functions provide a mechanism to handle these exceptions gracefully
without the risk of crashing the system.
Typical example is access to PCI(e) configuration space in bus enumeration
function on badly implemented PCI(e) root complexes (RK3399 or Neoverse
N1 N1SDP and/or access to PCI(e) register when device is in deep sleep state.
This commit adds a real implementation for arm64 only. The remaining
architectures have bus_space_peek()/bus_space_poke() emulated by using
bus_space_read()/bus_space_write() (without exception handling).
MFC after: 1 month
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25371
Hardware assistance includes checksumming (tx and rx), TSO, and RSS on
the inner traffic in a VXLAN tunnel.
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
This lets a VXLAN pseudo-interface take advantage of hardware checksumming (tx
and rx), TSO, and RSS if the NIC is capable of performing these operations on
inner VXLAN traffic.
A VXLAN interface inherits the capabilities of its vxlandev interface if one is
specified or of the interface that hosts the vxlanlocal address. If other
interfaces will carry traffic for that VXLAN then they must have the same
hardware capabilities.
On transmit, if_vxlan verifies that the outbound interface has the required
capabilities and then translates the CSUM_ flags to their inner equivalents.
This tells the hardware ifnet that it needs to operate on the inner frame and
not the outer VXLAN headers.
An event is generated when a VXLAN ifnet starts. This allows hardware drivers to
configure their devices to expect VXLAN traffic on the specified incoming port.
On receive, the hardware does RSS and checksum verification on the inner frame.
if_vxlan now does a direct netisr dispatch to take full advantage of RSS. It is
not very clear why it didn't do this already.
Future work:
Rx: it should be possible to avoid the first trip up the protocol stack to get
the frame to if_vxlan just so it can decapsulate and requeue for a second trip
up the stack. The hardware NIC driver could directly call an if_vxlan receive
routine for VXLAN traffic instead.
Rx: LRO. depends on what happens with the previous item. There will have to to
be a mechanism to indicate that it's time for if_vxlan to flush its LRO state.
Reviewed by: kib@
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25873
In D12421, the ability to compile stand/ in little-endian was added, with the
intention to extend loader.kboot to run in Petitboot.
However, no further work was done, as the kernel then gained self-execution
capabilities as Petitboot was taught to load FreeBSD kernels directly.
The FreeBSD installer on powerpc64 (on POWER8 and POWER9) uses
/boot/etc/kboot.conf instead of loader.
As this option does nothing but cause stand/ to be miscompiled and actively
causes confusion, remove it.
(I have a functioning petitboot loader in my local tree, however, it turned
out to be quite inconvient to use due to the current petitboot plugin design
so I put it on hold.)
Reviewed by: emaste, imp, jhibbits
Sponsored by: Tag1 Consulting, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26430
Submitted by: Ka Ho Ng <khng300@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26372
When cache precedes files, and nscd is configured to allow negative caching,
commands like "pw groupadd" can fail. The sequence of events looks like:
1. A command like pkg(8) looks up the group, and finds it absent.
2. pkg invokes pw(8) to add the group
3. pkg queries the group, but nscd says it doesn't exist, since it has a
negative cache entry for that group.
See also: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-January/031595.html
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Axcient
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26184
For historical reasons, defining MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf has
been used to turn off potentially expensive debug checks and statistics
gathering in the implementation of malloc(3).
It seems more consistent to turn this into a regular src.conf(5) option,
e.g. WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION / WITHOUT_MALLOC_PRODUCTION. This can then
be toggled similar to any other source build option, and turned on or
off by default for e.g. stable branches.
Reviewed by: imp, #manpages
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26337
hints data. Control register 2 holds the settings a user might want to
configure, such as the timeout value for idle busses and whether to enable
the mass-writes feature.
Also add hint support for disconnecting idle busses (which was already
supported using FDT data).
Update the manpage with the new features, and also split the hints section
into separate lists of required and optional hints.
