file in /sys/conf, so was unavailable in configurations that don't use
modules, and was not testable or notable in NOTES. Its normal
configuration (not using a module) is still silently deprecated in
aout(4) by not mentioning it there.
Update i386 NOTES for COMPAT_AOUT. It is not i386-only, or even very MD.
Sort its entry better.
Finish gzip configuration (but not support) for amd64. gzip is really
gzipped aout. It is currently broken even for i386 (a call to vm fails).
amd64 has always attempted to configure and test it, but it depends on
COMPAT_AOUT (as noted). The bug that it depends on unconfigured files
was not detected since it is configured as a device. All other optional
image activators are configured properly using an option.
The change makes the user and kernel address spaces on i386
independent, giving each almost the full 4G of usable virtual addresses
except for one PDE at top used for trampoline and per-CPU trampoline
stacks, and system structures that must be always mapped, namely IDT,
GDT, common TSS and LDT, and process-private TSS and LDT if allocated.
By using 1:1 mapping for the kernel text and data, it appeared
possible to eliminate assembler part of the locore.S which bootstraps
initial page table and KPTmap. The code is rewritten in C and moved
into the pmap_cold(). The comment in vmparam.h explains the KVA
layout.
There is no PCID mechanism available in protected mode, so each
kernel/user switch forth and back completely flushes the TLB, except
for the trampoline PTD region. The TLB invalidations for userspace
becomes trivial, because IPI handlers switch page tables. On the other
hand, context switches no longer need to reload %cr3.
copyout(9) was rewritten to use vm_fault_quick_hold(). An issue for
new copyout(9) is compatibility with wiring user buffers around sysctl
handlers. This explains two kind of locks for copyout ptes and
accounting of the vslock() calls. The vm_fault_quick_hold() AKA slow
path, is only tried after the 'fast path' failed, which temporary
changes mapping to the userspace and copies the data to/from small
per-cpu buffer in the trampoline. If a page fault occurs during the
copy, it is short-circuit by exception.s to not even reach C code.
The change was motivated by the need to implement the Meltdown
mitigation, but instead of KPTI the full split is done. The i386
architecture already shows the sizing problems, in particular, it is
impossible to link clang and lld with debugging. I expect that the
issues due to the virtual address space limits would only exaggerate
and the split gives more liveness to the platform.
Tested by: pho
Discussed with: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14633
imcsmb(4) provides smbus(4) support for the SMBus controller functionality
in the integrated Memory Controllers (iMCs) embedded in Intel Sandybridge-
Xeon, Ivybridge-Xeon, Haswell-Xeon, and Broadwell-Xeon CPUs. Each CPU
implements one or more iMCs, depending on the number of cores; each iMC
implements two SMBus controllers (iMC-SMBs).
*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
Because motherboard firmware or the BMC might try to use the iMC-SMBs for
monitoring DIMM temperatures and/or managing an NVDIMM, the driver might
need to temporarily disable those functions, or take a hardware interlock,
before using the iMC-SMBs. Details on how to do this may vary from board to
board, and the procedure may be proprietary. It is strongly suggested that
anyone wishing to use this driver contact their motherboard vendor, and
modify the driver as described in the manual page and in the driver itself.
(For what it's worth, the driver as-is has been tested on various SuperMicro
motherboards.)
Reviewed by: avg, jhb
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Panasas
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14447
Discussed with: avg, ian, jhb
Tested by: allanjude (previous version), Panasas
compilation under FreeBSD. The mthca driver was temporarily removed as
part of the Linux 4.9 RoCE/infinband upgrade.
Top commit in Linux source tree:
69973b830859bc6529a7a0468ba0d80ee5117826
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
Iwasaki-san's copyright over. Remove FIXME code that couldn't possibly
work. Call tc_settime() with our estimate of the delta we've been
alseep (the one we print) to adjust the time. Not sure what to do
about callouts, so keep the small #ifdef in place there.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13823
Logically, extend r286288 to cover all threads, by default.
The world has largely moved on from i386. Most FreeBSD users and developers
test on amd64 hardware. For better or worse, we have written a non-trivial
amount of kernel code that relies on stacks larger than 8 kB, and it "just
works" on amd64, so there has been little incentive to shrink it.
amd64 had its KSTACK_PAGES bumped to 4 back in Peter's initial AMD64 commit,
r114349, in 2003. Since that time, i386 has limped along on a stack half
the size. We've even observed the stack overflows years ago, but neglected
to fix the issue; see the 20121223 and 20150728 entries in UPDATING.
If anyone is concerned with this change, I suggest they configure their
AMD64 kernels with KSTACK_PAGES 2 and fix the fallout there first. Eugene
has identified a list of high stack usage functions in the first PR below.
PR: 219476, 224218
Reported by: eugen@, Shreesh Holla <hshreesh AT yahoo.com>
Relnotes: maybe
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
It is for console presented at 2001 and featuring Pentium III
processor. Even if any of them are still alive and run FreeBSD, we do
not have any sign of life from their users. While removing another
dozens of #ifdefs from the i386 sources reduces the aversion from
looking at the code and improves the platform vitality.
Reviewed by: cem, pfg, rink (XBOX support author)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13016
This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though
the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events).
I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work
with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges
per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows,
6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines
in those chips, but they are not yet supported.
While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific
ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and
alike to Linux naming.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
compile options. Remove doxygen pointers to now deleted files. Remove
EISA and VME as examples in bus_space.9.
Retained EISA mode code for IO PIC and MPTABLES because that's not
EISA bus, per se, and some people have abused EISA to mean "EISA-like
behavior as opposed to ISA" rather than using it for EISA add-in
cards.
Relnotes: yes
machines, only a few 486 machines that used it, and those haven't had
enough memory to run FreeBSD for quite some time (often limited to
16MB).
Not to be confused with the Machine Check Architecture, which is still
very much alive and used (and untouched by this commit).
No Objection From: arch@
and device npx.
This means that FPU is always initialized and handled when available,
and SSE+ register file and exception are handled when available. This
makes the kernel FPU code much easier to maintain by the cost of
slight bloat for CPUs older than 25 years.
CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG outlived its usefulness, see the removed comment
explaining the original purpose.
Suggested by and discussed with: bde
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
like other PCI network drivers. The sys/ofed directory is now mainly
reserved for generic infiniband code, with exception of the mthca driver.
- Add new manual page, mlx4en(4), describing how to configure and load
mlx4en.
- All relevant driver C-files are now prefixed mlx4, mlx4_en and
mlx4_ib respectivly to avoid object filename collisions when compiling
the kernel. This also fixes an issue with proper dependency file
generation for the C-files in question.
- Device mlxen is now device mlx4en and depends on device mlx4, see
mlx4en(4). Only the network device name remains unchanged.
- The mlx4 and mlx4en modules are now built by default on i386 and
amd64 targets. Only building the mlx4ib module depends on
WITH_OFED=YES .
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
Copy over amd64's cloudabi64_sysvec.c into i386 and tailor it to work.
Again, we use a system call convention similar to FreeBSD, except that
there is no support for indirect system calls (%eax == 0).
Where i386 differs from amd64 is that we have to store thread/process
entry arguments on the stack instead of using registers. We also have to
put an extra pointer on the stack for TLS (for GSBASE). Place that
pointer in the empty slot that is normally used to hold return
addresses. That seems to keep the code simple.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7590
This driver only supports 10Mb Ethernet using PIO (the hardware supports
DMA, but the driver only does PIO). There are not any PCCard adapters
supported by this driver, only ISA cards. In addition, it does not use
bus_space but instead uses bcopy with volatile pointers triggering a
host of warnings. (if_ie.c is one of 3 files always built with
-Wno-error)
Relnotes: yes
This hardware is not present on any modern systems. The driver is quite
hackish (raw inb/outb instead of bus_space, and raw inb/outb to random
I/O ports to enable ACPI since it predated proper ACPI support).
Relnotes: yes
The wl(4) driver supports pre-802.11 PCCard wireless adapters that
are slower than 802.11b. They do not work with any of the 802.11
framework and the driver hasn't been reported to actually work in a
long time.
Relnotes: yes
The si(4) driver supported multiport serial adapters for ISA, EISA, and
PCI buses. This driver does not use bus_space, instead it depends on
direct use of the pointer returned by rman_get_virtual(). It is also
still locked by Giant and calls for patch testing to convert it to use
bus_space were unanswered.
Relnotes: yes
in lockstat.ko. This means that lockstat probes now have typed arguments and
will utilize SDT probe hot-patching support when it arrives.
Reviewed by: gnn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2993
This will require for AArch64 as we dont have modules yet.
Sponsored by: HEIF5
Sponsored by: ARM Ltd.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1997
roughly 10 years, and the driver has not enjoyed any significant maintenance
since long before that. Despite well-meaning efforts from a number of
people, myself included, it never made the jump to 64-bit and was relegated
to the back-corners of i386. Now its frailty is hampering forward progress
with Clang. Any renewed engineering efforts are of course welcome and can
happen outside of the tree. No MFC of this is planned.
lindev(4) was only used to provide /dev/full which is now a standard feature of
FreeBSD. /dev/full was never linux-specific and provides a generally useful
feature.
Document this in UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version. This will be documented
in the PH shortly.
Reported by: jkim
- Add 'hyperv' module into build;
- Allow building Hyper-V support as part of the kernel;
- Hook Hyper-V build into NOTES.
This is intended for MFC if re@ permits.
MFC after: 3 days
1.3 of Intelб╝ Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O Architecture
Specification. The Extended Context and PASIDs from the rev. 2.2 are
not supported, but I am not aware of any released hardware which
implements them. Code does not use queued invalidation, see comments
for the reason, and does not provide interrupt remapping services.
Code implements the management of the guest address space per domain
and allows to establish and tear down arbitrary mappings, but not
partial unmapping. The superpages are created as needed, but not
promoted. Faults are recorded, fault records could be obtained
programmatically, and printed on the console.
Implement the busdma(9) using DMARs. This busdma backend avoids
bouncing and provides security against misbehaving hardware and driver
bad programming, preventing leaks and corruption of the memory by wild
DMA accesses.
By default, the implementation is compiled into amd64 GENERIC kernel
but disabled; to enable, set hw.dmar.enable=1 loader tunable. Code is
written to work on i386, but testing there was low priority, and
driver is not enabled in GENERIC. Even with the DMAR turned on,
individual devices could be directed to use the bounce busdma with the
hw.busdma.pci<domain>:<bus>:<device>:<function>.bounce=1 tunable. If
DMARs are capable of the pass-through translations, it is used,
otherwise, an identity-mapping page table is constructed.
The driver was tested on Xeon 5400/5500 chipset legacy machine,
Haswell desktop and E5 SandyBridge dual-socket boxes, with ahci(4),
ata(4), bce(4), ehci(4), mfi(4), uhci(4), xhci(4) devices. It also
works with em(4) and igb(4), but there some fixes are needed for
drivers, which are not committed yet. Intel GPUs do not work with
DMAR (yet).
Many thanks to John Baldwin, who explained me the newbus integration;
Peter Holm, who did all testing and helped me to discover and
understand several incredible bugs; and to Jim Harris for the access
to the EDS and BWG and for listening when I have to explain my
findings to somebody.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
will prevent the kernel from linking if the device driver are included
without the virtio module. Remove pci and scbus for the same reason.
Also explain the relationship and necessity of the virtio and virtio_pci
modules. Currently in FreeBSD, we only support VirtIO PCI, but it could
be replaced with a different interface (like MMIO) and the device
(network, block, etc) will still function.
Requested by: luigi
Approved by: grehan (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
