This reverts commit bd72252aac.
The commit at hand breaks the build for all mips targets and does not
have a one-liner fix.
make[5]: "/usr/src/share/mk/sys.mk" line 169: Malformed conditional (${MACHINE_CPUARCH} == "mips" && ${COMPILER_TYPE} == "gcc")
Currently only amd64, i386 and powerpc build VirtIO modules, yet all other
architectures have at least one kernel configuration that includes the
transport drivers, and so they lack drivers for all the devices they don't
statically compile into the kernel. Instead, enable the build everywhere so all
architectures have the full set of device drivers available.
Reviewed by: bryanv (earlier version), imp (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28058
Add separate sections for authentication algorithms, block ciphers,
stream ciphers, and AEAD algorithms. Describe properties commmon to
algorithms in each section to avoid duplication.
Use flat tables to list algorithm properties rather than nested
tables.
List implemented authentication algorithms.
Reviewed by: gbe (manpages)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27833
There is a report that reading of surface/button switch feature report
causes SYN1B7D touchpad malfunction. As specs does not require it to
be readable assume that report usages have default value on attach and
last written value during operation. Do not apply default usage values
on attachment and resume.
While here fix manpage typos and add avg@ to copyright header.
Reported by: Jakob Alvermark <jakob_AT_alvermark_DOT_net>
Reviewed by: avg
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28196
This patch is a quick hack to change the internal Ethertype used
within the chip. All frames with this type are dropped silently.
This patch allows you to overwrite the factory default 0x88a8, which
is used by IEEE 802.1ad VLAN stacking.
Reviewed by: kp, philip, brueffer
Approved by: kp (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24179
Back when I wrote openfirm.4, sparc64 was the only architecture to
include the corresponding device. However, nowadays all supported
architectures will provied this Open Firmware interface, even x86
when built with FDT support.
As for ofw_console(4), powerpc actually was the first architecture
to ship it but we'll probably not see another consumer in future.
This partially reverts 702547720c and
r357794 respectively, adjusting paths and content as appropriate.
usbhid(4) is disabled by default to avoid conflicts with existing USB HID
drivers. To enable it place following lines to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1
usbhid_load="YES"
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28124
When timestamp support has been negotiated, TCP segements received
without a timestamp should be discarded. However, there are broken
TCP implementations (for example, stacks used by Omniswitch 63xx and
64xx models), which send TCP segments without timestamps although
they negotiated timestamp support.
This patch adds a sysctl variable which tolerates such TCP segments
and allows to interoperate with broken stacks.
Reviewed by: jtl@, rscheff@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28142
Sponsored by: Netflix, Inc.
PR: 252449
MFC after: 1 week
Now that I have -head fitting in 8MB of flash again, I can test
out freebsd-head on my home AP test setup. Unfortunately,
the introduction of -O2 in r366664 causes the following infinite
loop shortly after boot:
------
MAP: No valid partition found at map/rootfs.uzip
Warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately
start_init: trying /sbin/init
BAD_PAGE_FAULT: pid 1 tid 100001 (init), uid 0: pc 0x4042c320 got a read fault (type 0x2) at 0x2e3a0
Trapframe Register Dump:
zero: 0 at: 0 v0: 0 v1: 0
a0: 0x1af34 a1: 0 a2: 0 a3: 0x7fffeff0
t0: 0 t1: 0 t2: 0 t3: 0
t4: 0 t5: 0 t6: 0 t7: 0
t8: 0 t9: 0x152e8 s0: 0x7fffee84 s1: 0
s2: 0 s3: 0 s4: 0 s5: 0
s6: 0 s7: 0 k0: 0 k1: 0
gp: 0x362c0 sp: 0x7fffedf0 s8: 0 ra: 0x40417df0
sr: 0xf413 mullo: 0 mulhi: 0 badvaddr: 0x2e3a0
cause: 0xffffffff80000008 pc: 0x4042c31c
Page table info for pc address 0x4042c320: pde = 0x80712000, pte = 0xa002065a
Dumping 4 words starting at pc address 0x4042c320:
8f9980e0 80820000 10400067 00809825
Page table info for bad address 0x2e3a0: pde = 0, pte = 0
------
I'm not yet sure why, but until I figure it out with the mips64/cheri
folk this should be reverted.
This should only use -O on GCC generated code for MIPS platforms.
Tested:
* QCA934x (mips74k) - WDR-3600/WDR-4300 APs
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28122
which(1) accepts both relative/absolute paths as well as lone binary
names. Set KYUA to kyua and use which(1) to confirm that it can find one;
if it cannot, just advise the user to set KYUA directly to the kyua binary
rather than assuming a relative location from LOCALBASE.
This allows `make check` to be operated with the version of kyua in base
without losing the flexibility of specifying another one.
ngie@ notes that the original intention was to avoid redundant $PATH lookups
and improve the determinism of the target. A future change will likely push
us back to this state, perhaps in the form of reverting this entirely and
just switching to using kyua in base. Accepting any in $PATH should be
considered a transitional move, at least until it's declared otherwise,
since kyua was only semi-recently added to base.
Reviewed-by: brooks, emaste, lwhsu, ngie
Differential-Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28045
is enabled.
This builds wpa_supplicant / hostpad using internal encryption routines
rather than using libcrypt.
This has been supported in wpa for years now, however since we use
local makefiles for this, we bitrotted dependencies and configuration
options.
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27958
Add 64-bit address support to Cadence CGEM Ethernet driver for use in
other SoCs such as the Zynq UltraScale+ and SiFive HighFive Unleashed.
Reviewed by: philip, 0mp (manpages)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24304
Currently only libexec/rtld-elf32 uses internal LIBC_NOSSP_PIC during
the build but it gets it directly from the objdir rather than a sysroot.
For example, /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/obj-lib32/lib/libc/libc_nossp_pic.a.
We don't stage lib32 libraries in WORLDTMP/usr/lib32 and doing so doesn't
buy much. If we want to use a staged lib32 library then we need to look in
LIBCOMPATTMP where they were staged. For example if LIBC_PIC were wanted then
look for /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/obj-lib32/tmp/usr/lib32/libc_pic.a.
Reported by: rlibby
Reviewed by: rlibby
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27648
This is just like debug.kdb.panic, except the string that's passed in
is reported in the panic message. This allows people with automated
systems to collect kernel panics over a large fleet of machines to
flag panics better. Strings like "Warner look at this hang" or "see
JIRA ABC-1234 for details" allow these automated systems to route the
forced panic to the appropriate engineers like you can with other
types of panics. Other users are likely possible.
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: allanjude (earlier version)
Suggestions from review folded in by: 0mp, emaste, lwhsu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28041
The debugger is always entered after some kind of kernel trap, often a
breakpoint in kdb_enter(). This means that the most recent trapframe
will include kernel state at the time of the trap, when often it is
desirable to the developer to view the contents of the previous
trapframe. This trapframe often corresponds to the entry from userspace.
The ddb(4) man page claims the ability to display user register state
via the 'u' modifier to `show registers`, but this appears untrue. It is
not obvious from a quick search of the history when this feature was
added, or when it was removed. (Re)implement this feature in
db_show_regs, noting that it is not necessarily populated with userspace
state.
Reviewed by: jhb (earlier version), markj, bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27705
Remove wi(4). pccard is going away, and wi only supports PC Card
devices, though it has a minor amount of glue to also support
PCI cards. However, removing the one without removing the other
is hard, so the whole driver is being removed.
Relnotes: Yes
pccard is being removed, so remove bt3c driver since it only has PC
Card attachment. Also remove bt3cfw(8) since it's the firmware for this
driver.
Relnotes: Yes
PC Card support is being removed, so remove its attachment here. ndis
is slated to be removed entirely for 13, but that's not been done yet.
Relnotes: Yes
This change includes:
hpen - Generic / MS Windows compatible HID pen tablet driver.
hgame - Generic game controller and joystick driver.
xb360gp - Xbox360-compatible game controller driver.
Submitted by: Greg V <greg_unrelenting.technology>
Reviewed by: hselasky (as part of D27993)
hidmap is a kernel module that maps HID input usages to evdev events.
Following dependent drivers is included in the commit:
hms - HID mouse driver.
hcons - Consumer page AKA Multimedia keys driver.
hsctrl - System Controls page (Power/Sleep keys) driver.
ps4dshock - Sony DualShock 4 gamepad driver.
Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27993
This driver provides raw access to HID devices through uhid(4)-compatible
interface and is based on pre-8.x uhid(4) code. Unlike uhid(4) it does
not take devices in to monopoly ownership and allows parallel access
from other drivers.
hidraw supports Linux's hidraw-compatible interface as well.
Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27992
This change implements hid_if.m methods for HID-over-USB protocol [1].
Also, this change adds USBHID_ENABLED kernel option which changes
device_probe() priority and adds/removes PnP records to prefer usbhid
over ums, ukbd, wmt and other USB HID device drivers and vice-versa.
The module is based on uhid(4) driver. It is disabled by default for
now due to conflicts with existing USB HID drivers.
[1] https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/hid1_11.pdf
Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27893
hidquirk(4) is derived from usb_quirk(4) and inherits all its HID-related
functionality. It does not support ioctl(2) interface yet.
Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27890
This driver provides support for multiple HID driver attachments
to single HID transport backend. This ability existed in Net/OpenBSD
(uhidev and ihidev drivers) but has never been ported to FreeBSD.
Unlike Net/OpenBSD we do not use report number alone to distinct report
source but we follow MS way and use a top level collection (TLC) usage
index that report belongs to as a location key.
The driver performs child device autodiscovery based on HID report
descriptor data, proxying of HID requests from child devices to parent
transport backends and broadcasting of interrupts in backward direction.
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27888
It will be used by the upcoming HID-over-i2C implementation. Should be
no-op, except hid.ko module dependency is to be added to affected drivers.
Reviewed by: hselasky, manu
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27867
Code changes in this commit were obtained from straight from OpenBSD's
uplcom.c with almost no modification, the list of chip names and USB
IDs was obtained from Linux.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27952
Submitted by: tomli_tomli.me (Yifeng Li)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies // NVIDIA Networking
As suggested in D27598. This also supports MK_WERROR.clang=no and
MK_WERROR.gcc=no to support the existing NO_WERROR.<compiler> uses.
Reviewed By: brooks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27601
Only keep the widechar version of ncurses as libncursesw.so.9
Keep the old name to avoid breaking the ABI compatibility (the non
widechar version libncurses.so.9 is not binary compatible with
libncursesw.so.9) since all ports and base are already only linking
against the widechar version we can simply remove libncurses.so.9
Since the .9 version only lived in the dev branch and never ended in a
release, it is simply removed and not added to any binary compat
package.
Add symlinks to keep build time compatibility for anyone linking against
-lncurses
this way, it'll be automatically picked up by poudriere
That's quite handy when building pkgbase!
Submitted by: Mina Galić <me@igalic.co>
Reviewed By: bapt, bcr (manpages)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27690
With this patch if a Makefile is using the INCSGROUPS mechanisms it can
override the default package for specific includes files using
GROUPPACKAGE= mynewpackage
While here add a few comments after endif/endfor so it's easier to read.
Reviewed by: bapt
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27611
Otherwise we loose the info as we use bsd.dirs.mk for creating directories.
Reviewed by: bapt
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27712
Those files take some amount of diskspace and one might not want them
installed on some situation (mfsdisk, small embedded system etc ...)
Reviewed by: bapt, emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27709
POSIX AIO is great, but it lacks vectored I/O functions. This commit
fixes that shortcoming by adding aio_writev and aio_readv. They aren't
part of the standard, but they're an obvious extension. They work just
like their synchronous equivalents pwritev and preadv.
It isn't yet possible to use vectored aiocbs with lio_listio, but that
could be added in the future.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib, bcr
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27743
The current POSIX.1-202x draft (1.1) was used as source material.
Submitted by: Soumendra Ganguly <soumendraganguly@gmail.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27787
scrmap is only used in the one compilation unit in all cases, make it static
rather than extern'ing it. There's little benefit, but it's easy to do.
It's unclear how this hasn't failed many builds before now, since it should
have cropped up sometime around deeper hierarchies getting a default WARNS.
MFC after: 3 days
That is, provide wrappers around the atomic_testandclear and
atomic_testandset primitives.
Submitted by: jeff
Reviewed by: cem, kib, markj
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22702
The former was missed in 702547720c and
r357794 respectively.
Additionally for dc.4 and gem.4, remove on-board and SBus devices whose
support was removed as part of 58aa35d429
and r357455 respectively.
Unconditionally install bsdgrep as grep, bootstrap or not. Remove all
build glue and stop installing both gnugrep and libgnuregex now that
all consumers of the latter are gone.
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27732
In order to efficiently serve web traffic on a NUMA
machine, one must avoid as many NUMA domain crossings as
possible. With SO_REUSEPORT_LB, a number of workers can share a
listen socket. However, even if a worker sets affinity to a core
or set of cores on a NUMA domain, it will receive connections
associated with all NUMA domains in the system. This will lead to
cross-domain traffic when the server writes to the socket or
calls sendfile(), and memory is allocated on the server's local
NUMA node, but transmitted on the NUMA node associated with the
TCP connection. Similarly, when the server reads from the socket,
he will likely be reading memory allocated on the NUMA domain
associated with the TCP connection.
This change provides a new socket ioctl, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA. A
server can now tell the kernel to filter traffic so that only
incoming connections associated with the desired NUMA domain are
given to the server. (Of course, in the case where there are no
servers sharing the listen socket on some domain, then as a
fallback, traffic will be hashed as normal to all servers sharing
the listen socket regardless of domain). This allows a server to
deal only with traffic that is local to its NUMA domain, and
avoids cross-domain traffic in most cases.
This patch, and a corresponding small patch to nginx to use
TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA allows us to serve 190Gb/s of kTLS encrypted
https media content from dual-socket Xeons with only 13% (as
measured by pcm.x) cross domain traffic on the memory controller.
Reviewed by: jhb, bz (earlier version), bcr (man page)
Tested by: gonzo
Sponsored by: Netfix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21636
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp before Bl
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp after Ss
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp at the end of Ss
- unusual Xr punctuation: none before bhnd_driver_get_erom_class(9)
- unusual Xr punctuation: none before bus_space(9)
MFC after: 1 week
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp before Bl
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp at the end of Ss
- missing section argument: Xr device_set_desc
- unusual Xr punctuation: none before bhnd_erom(9)
MFC after: 1 week
- function name without markup: g_io_deliver()
- function name without markup: disk_gone()
- sections out of conventional order: Sh SEE ALSO
- referenced manual not found: Xr MAKE_DEV 9
Actually the man page of MAKE_DEV has never existed.
MFC after: 3 days
The argument is a void * so there's no need to cast it to caddr_t.
Update documentation to match function decleration.
Reviewed by: freqlabs
Obtained from: CheriBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27093
nids(4) was a clever idea in the early 2000's when the market was
flooded with 10/100 NICs with Windows-only drivers, but that hasn't been
the case for ages and the driver has had no meaningful maintenance in
ages. It only supports Windows-XP era drivers.
Reviewed by: imp, bcr
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27527
The hme (Happy Meal Ethernet) driver was the onboard NIC in most
supported sparc64 platforms. A few PCI NICs do exist, but we have seen
no evidence of use on non-sparc systems.
Reviewed by: imp, emaste, bcr
Sponsored by: DARPA
Macfilter to route packets through different hooks based on sender MAC address.
Based on ng_macfilter written by Pekka Nikander
Sponsered by Retina b.v.
Reviewed by: afedorov
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27268
As discussed on -current, -stable, -toolchain, and with jhb@ and imp@,
disable the obsolete in-tree GDB 6.1.1 by default. This was kept only
to provide kgdb for the crashinfo tool, but is long-obsolete, does not
support all architectures that FreeBSD does, and held back other work
(such as forcing the use of DWARF2 for kernel debug).
Crashinfo will use kgdb from the gdb package or devel/gdb port, and will
privde a message referencing those if no kgdb is found.
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This has been years in the making, and we all knew it was bound to happen
some day. Switch to the BSDL grep implementation now that it's been a
little more thoroughly tested and theoretically supports all of the
extensions that gnugrep in base had with our libregex(3).
Folks shouldn't really notice much from this update; bsdgrep is slower than
gnugrep, but this is currently the price to pay for fewer bugs. Those
dissatisfied with the speed of grep and in need of a faster implementation
should check out what textproc/ripgrep and textproc/the_silver_searcher
can do for them.
I have some WIP to make bsdgrep faster, but do not consider it a blocker
when compared to the pros of switching now (aforementioned bugs, licensing).
PR: 228798 (exp-run)
PR: 128645, 156704, 166842, 166862, 180937, 193835, 201650
PR: 232565, 242308, 246000, 251081, 191086, 194397
Relnotes: yes, please
Sync serial (T1/E1) interfaces are largely irrelevant today and phk
confirms this driver is unnecessary in review D23928.
This leaves ce(4) and cp(4) in the tree. They're likely not relevant
either, but glebius contacted the manufacturer and those devices are
still available for purchase. At glebius' suggestion leave them in
the tree as long as they do not impose a maintenace burden.
Approved by: phk
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This was introduced and then disabled by default primarily to avoid dealing
with bugs in libgnuregex. rS363823 switched to using libregex for it, so
let's just rip the option out now so we can make sure we're getting tested
with libregex via bsdgrep.
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27476
Enable in-kernel acceleration of SHA1 and SHA2 operations on arm64 by adding
support for the ossl(4) crypto driver. This uses OpenSSL's assembly routines
under the hood, which will detect and use SHA intrinsics if they are
supported by the CPU.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27390
We are seeing regular build failures due to libc.so being installed again and
another parallel make job tries to read the partially written libc.so at the
same time. When building with -j32 or higher this almost always happens on
the first clean build (subsequent incremental builds always work fine).
Using -S should "fix" the "section header table goes past the end of the
file: e_shoff = 0x..." errors that have started to plague our builds.
We originally thought this only affected CheriBSD, but I just got the same
error while building the latest upstream FreeBSD.
The real fix should be to not install libraries twice, but until then this
workaround is needed.
Original patch by jrtc27@, I only made some minor changes to the comment.
Obtained from: CheriBSD (49837edd3e)
Reviewed By: markj, bdrewery
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27102
This subsumes some of the content from tcp(4) describing the socket
options but also adds additional notes.
Reviewed by: gallatin, hselasky
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27272
Crypto file descriptors were added in the original OCF import as a way
to provide per-open data (specifically the list of symmetric
sessions). However, this gives a bit of a confusing API where one has
to open /dev/crypto and then invoke an ioctl to obtain a second file
descriptor. This also does not match the API used with /dev/crypto on
other BSDs or with Linux's /dev/crypto driver.
Character devices have gained support for per-open data via cdevpriv
since OCF was imported, so use cdevpriv to simplify the userland API
by permitting ioctls directly on /dev/crypto descriptors.
To provide backwards compatibility, CRIOGET now opens another
/dev/crypto descriptor via kern_openat() rather than dup'ing the
existing file descriptor. This preserves prior semantics in case
CRIOGET is invoked multiple times on a single file descriptor.
Reviewed by: markj
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27302
This driver provides support for Realtek PCI SD card readers. It attaches
mmc(4) bus on card insertion and detaches it on card removal. It has been
tested with RTS5209, RTS5227, RTS5229, RTS522A, RTS525A and RTL8411B. It
should also work with RTS5249, RTL8402 and RTL8411.
PR: 204521
Submitted by: Henri Hennebert (hlh at restart dot be)
Reviewed by: imp, jkim
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26435
This removes 288KB (36%) of the driver code and zillions of hacks and
workarounds, making single driver uniformly support several different
generations of hardware interfaces, not counting minor card variations.
After years of the hopeless fight, I don't think it worth to continue
support for hardware obsolete for 15-20 years. Instead much cleaner
now code should allow to move forward toward better locking, multiple
queues and other cool features.
All the remaining Qlogic cards starting from 4Gb 24xx to 32Gb 27xx use
the same hardware/firmware interface with minor incremental improvements,
so it seems to be a good new starting point. Except one PCI-X model all
all of them are PCIe and so still usable in modern systems.
Discussed with: ken, scottl, jpaetzel, imp
Relnotes: yes
There are many cases where one would choose avoid entering the debugger
on a normal panic, opting instead to reboot and possibly save a kernel
dump. However, recursive kernel panics are an unusual case that might
warrant attention from a human, so provide a secondary tunable,
debug.debugger_on_recursive_panic, to allow entering the debugger only
when this occurs.
For for simplicity in maintaining existing behaviour, the tunable
defaults to zero.
Reviewed by: cem, markj
Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27271
First stab at documenting the different disk ioctl commands defined in
sys/disk.h.
Reviewed by: phk (prior version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26994
Section 7 of the manual pages contain lots of very useful information, but
finding the pages is not always obvious - to assist people in finding the
information, add missing cross-references.
Reviewed by: 0mp (mentor), mhorne, yuripv
Approved by: 0mp (mentor
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27284
Refering to guide: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SPDX the SPDX tag should not
replace the standard license text, however it should be added over the
standard license text to make the automation easier.
Because of that, the old license was kept, but the SPDX tag was added
on top of every ENA driver file.
Submited by: Michal Krawczyk <mk@semihalf.com>
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Amazon, Inc
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27117
As this ABI is still fresh (r367287), let's correct some mistakes now:
- Version the structure to allow for future changes
- Include sender's pid in control message structure
- Use a distinct control message type from the cmsgcred / sockcred mess
Discussed with: kib, markj, trasz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27084
Check for the variable SUBDIR. and error as it usually means someone
forgot to include src.opts.mk.
This guard from CheriBSD found the bugs in r367655 and r367728.
Reviewed by: bdrewery, arichardson
Obtained from: CheriBSD
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27211
WITH_INIT_ALL_ZERO and WITH_INIT_ALL_PATTERN are mutually exclusive.
The .error when they were both set broke makeman so demote it to a
warning (and presumably the compiler will fail on an error later on).
We could improve this to make one take precedence but this is sufficient
for now.
MFC with: r367577
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
I've not removed the Er macro from one of the lists in example.9, however,
because it seems to be doing some special kind of magic. Let's leave it
there for now.
There are two options:
- WITH_INIT_ALL_ZERO: Zero all variables on the stack.
- WITH_INIT_ALL_PATTERN: Initialize variables with well-defined patterns.
The exact pattern are a compiler implementation detail and vary by type.
They are somewhat documented in the LLVM commit message:
https://reviews.llvm.org/rL349442
I've used WITH_INIT_ALL_* to match Microsoft's InitAll feature rather
than naming them after the LLVM specific compiler flags.
In a range of consumer products, options like these are used in
both debug and production builds with debugs builds using patterns
(intended to provoke crashes on use of uninitialized values) and
production using zeros (deemed more likely to lead to harmless
misbehavior or NULL-pointer dereferences).
Reviewed by: emaste
Obtained from: CheriBSD
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27131
Perhaps it made sense in 1998 (r32836), but now it feels a bit out of
place. We tend to avoid documenting non-essential ports variables in
the manual page (we try to document them in the Porter's Handbook instead).
MFC after: 1 week
- map those IPv4 / IPv6 socket options which exist in FreeBSD
+ most of them visually verified to have the same type/layout of arguments
+ not tested with linux programs to behave as intended
- be more human readable for known options which are not handled
- be more verbose for unhandled socket message flags we know about
- print the jail ID in linux_msg if run in a jail
- add possibility to print debug message about known missing parts only once
- add multiple levels of sysctl linux.debug:
1: print debug messages, tell about unimplemented stuff (only once)
2: like 1, but also print messages about implemented but not tested
stuff (only once)
3+: like 2, but no rate limiting of messages
- increase default linux debug level from 1 to 3
We are a lot more verbose in as we need to be (e.g. some of the IP socket
options which are the same, and share the same memory layout, and are
believed to work). The reason is that we have no good testsuite to test those
linux-bits. The LTP or other test suites like the python one, are not fully
up to the task we need. As such the excessive messages about emulated but not
tested socket options.
IMO any MFC (possible, but most probably not by me) should set the default
debug level to 1.
Discussed with: trasz
Provide a way to ask for an opaque version string for a locale_t, so
that potential changes in sort order can be detected. Similar to
ICU's ucol_getVersion() and Windows' GetNLSVersionEx(), this API is
intended to allow databases to detect when text order-based indexes
might need to be rebuilt.
The CLDR version is extracted from CLDR source data by the Makefile
under tools/tools/locale, written into the machine-generated Makefile
under shared/colldef, passed to localedef -V, and then written into
LC_COLLATE file headers. The initial version is 34.0.
tools/tools/locale was recently updated to pull down 35.0, but the
output hasn't been committed under share/colldef yet, so that will
provide the first observable change when it happens. Other versioning
schemes are possible in future, because the format is unspecified.
Reviewed by: bapt, 0mp, kib, yuripv (albeit a long time ago)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17166
This provides an OpenCrypto driver for Intel QuickAssist devices. The
driver was initially ported from NetBSD and comes with a few
improvements:
- support for GMAC/AES-GCM, AES-CTR and AES-XTS, and support for
SHA/HMAC-authenticated encryption
- support for detaching the driver
- various bug fixes
- DH895X support
Discussed with: jhb
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26963
The former is intended for use in vmspace_exit(). The latter is to
encourage use of explicit loads rather than relying on the volatile
qualifier. This works better with kernel sanitizers, which can
intercept atomic(9) calls, and makes tricky lockless code easier to read
by not forcing the reader to remember which variables are declared
volatile.
Reviewed by: kib, mjg, mmel
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27056
LLVM's demangler supports more modern C++ constructs such as lambdas and
unnamed types, and is actively maintained. The command line tool is
usable as a drop-in replacement for GNU c++filt, or elftoolchain's
cxxfilt. The latter is still available by using WITHOUT_LLVM_CXXFILT, if
needed.
PR: 250702
MFC after: 2 weeks
Since elftoolchain's cxxfilt is rather far behind on features, and we
ran into several bugs, add an option to use llvm-cxxfilt as an drop-in
replacement.
It supports the same options as elftoolchain cxxfilt, though it doesn't
have support for old ARM (C++ Annotated Reference Manual, not the CPU)
and GNU v2 manglings. But these are irrelevant in 2020.
Note: as we already compile the required libraries as part of libllvm,
this will not add any significant build time either.
PR: 250702
Reviewed by: emaste, yuri
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27071
MFC after: 2 weeks
This option is intended to be semantically identical to Linux's
SOL_SOCKET:SO_PASSCRED. For now, it is mutually exclusive with the
pre-existing sockopt SOL_LOCAL:LOCAL_CREDS.
Reviewed by: markj (penultimate version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27011
Our own Ports Collection is not targeting those systems at the moment,
so let's stop documenting bits specific to OpenBSD and NetBSD in the ports
documentation. Especially, that it might bit rot one day.
MFC after: 1 week
It is rather common for the ports users to replace su(1) with sudo(8)
within the SU_CMD variable. Let's document it in the manual page (so far
it's been hidden in a comment within bsd.commands.mk).
MFC after: 2 weeks
This patch also introduces an environment variable BE_UTILITY,
which can be used to specify the utility to use for managing
ZFS boot environments (which can be either bectl or beadm).
While here, fix some typos in the manual page and
remove beadm from section "SEE ALSO".
Reviewed by: bcr, kevans, rpokala
Approved by: will
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21111
If you need / want to includerd sys/systm.h, it has to be just after
param.h/types.h. Document this existing practice. Not all kernel files
include systm.h, but when you do, it should be done out of order.
Reviewed by: vangyzen, kib, emaste
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26981
Foundation copyrights, approved by emaste@. It does not include
files which carry other people's copyrights; if you're one
of those people, feel free to make similar change.
Reviewed by: emaste, imp, gbe (manpages)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26980
libjail is pretty small, so it makes for a good proof of concept demonstrating
how a system library can be wrapped to create a loadable Lua module for flua.
* Introduce 3lua section for man pages
* Add libjail module
Reviewed by: kevans, manpages
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26080
The NTB hardware starting with Skylake has some changes to the register
map and the doorbell interface. Add a new NTB_XEON_GEN3 device type and
use it to conditionalize driver logic that differs from the existing
Xeon code.
Reviewed by: vangyzen
Discussed with: cem, Bret Ketchum <Bret.Ketchum@dell.com>
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26683
the failover protocol is supported due to limitations in the IPoIB
architecture. Refer to the lagg(4) manual page for how to configure
and use this new feature. A new network interface type,
IFT_INFINIBANDLAG, has been added, similar to the existing
IFT_IEEE8023ADLAG .
ifconfig(8) has been updated to accept a new laggtype argument when
creating lagg(4) network interfaces. This new argument is used to
distinguish between ethernet and infiniband type of lagg(4) network
interface. The laggtype argument is optional and defaults to
ethernet. The lagg(4) command line syntax is backwards compatible.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26254
Reviewed by: melifaro@
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies // NVIDIA Networking
It helps to reduce complexity with debugging of large ipfw rulesets.
Also define several constants and translators, that can by used by
dtrace scripts with this probe.
Reviewed by: gnn
Obtained from: Yandex LLC
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26879
Currently, this supports SHA1 and SHA2-{224,256,384,512} both as plain
hashes and in HMAC mode on both amd64 and i386. It uses the SHA
intrinsics when present similar to aesni(4), but uses SSE/AVX
instructions when they are not.
Note that some files from OpenSSL that normally wrap the assembly
routines have been adapted to export methods usable by 'struct
auth_xform' as is used by existing software crypto routines.
Reviewed by: gallatin, jkim, delphij, gnn
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26821
Only one MIPS-specific driver implements support for one of the
asymmetric operations. There are no in-kernel users besides
/dev/crypto. The only known user of the /dev/crypto interface was the
engine in OpenSSL releases before 1.1.0. 1.1.0 includes a rewritten
engine that does not use the asymmetric operations due to lack of
documentation.
Reviewed by: cem, markj
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26810
Not that you can regenerate the motd by editing motd.template and
running 'service motd restart' rather than rebooting.
Small wordsmithing by me, and updated the example from FreeBSD 2.1.6.1
release to 12.1 release.
Submitted by: Dan Mack
Add support for ARC-1886, NVMe/SAS/SATA controller.
Many thanks to Areca for continuing to support FreeBSD.
Submitted by: 黃清隆 <ching2048 areca com tw>
MFC after: 2 weeks
This permits requests (netipsec ESP and AH protocol) to provide the
IPsec ESN (Extended Sequence Numbers) in a separate buffer.
As with separate output buffer and separate AAD buffer not all drivers
support this feature. Consumer must request use of this feature via new
session flag.
Submitted by: Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@semihalf.com>
Patryk Duda <pdk@semihalf.com>
Reviewed by: jhb
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24838
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Stormshield
It is lightweight way to check if an IPv4 address exists.
Submitted by: Roy Marples
Reviewed by: gnn, melifaro
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26636
arm64 has a similar wrapper. This permits defining <machine/fpu.h> as
the standard header for fpu_kern_*.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26753
Until clang 11 that was equivalent to -O2, but clang changed it to -O1 so
generated MIPS code will now be unnecessarily slow. It also removes a weird
special case from sys.mk.
This is similar to the D26471 change for debug kernels and should not change
anything since everything was previously building MIPS code at -O2 until the
clang 11 update.
Reviewed By: trasz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26749
It appears this was changed from ln to use install in rS245752. I noticed
this because my buildenv was setting INSTALL=install -U -M //METALOG
and then these links fail to be created with the following error:
install: open //METALOG: Permission denied
Reviewed By: brooks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26618
- whitespace at end of input line
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp at the end of Sh
- new sentence, new line
- consider using OS macro: Fx
- AUTHORS section without An macro
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp before Ss
These kind of drops come for free in the sense that they do not use the
filter TCAM or any other resource that wouldn't normally be used during
rx. Frames dropped by the hardware get counted in the MAC's rx stats
but are not delivered to the driver.
hw.cxgbe.attack_filter
Set to 1 to enable the "attack filter". Default is 0. The attack
filter will drop an incoming frame if any of these conditions is true:
src ip/ip6 == dst ip/ip6; tcp and src/dst ip is not unicast; src/dst ip
is loopback (127.x.y.z); src ip6 is not unicast; src/dst ip6 is loopback
(::1/128) or unspecified (::/128); tcp and src/dst ip6 is mcast
(ff00::/8).
hw.cxgbe.drop_ip_fragments
Set to 1 to drop all incoming IP fragments. Default is 0. Note that
this drops valid frames.
hw.cxgbe.drop_pkts_with_l2_errors
Set to 1 to drop incoming frames with Layer 2 length or checksum errors.
Default is 1.
hw.cxgbe.drop_pkts_with_l3_errors
Set to 1 to drop incoming frames with IP version, length, or checksum
errors. Default is 0.
hw.cxgbe.drop_pkts_with_l4_errors
Set to 1 to drop incoming frames with Layer 4 length, checksum, or other
errors. Default is 0.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
- Extend the list of main libraries of section 3
- Extend the library functions that are included in the libc
MFC after: 2 weeks
Submitted by: Naga Chaitanya Vellanki <pnagato at protonmail dot com>
Approved by: gbe
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26476
Add a wrapping script to use ATF to run tests written with Googletest
one by one. This helps locating and tracking the failing case in CI easier.
This is a temporarily solution while Googletest support in Kyua is developing.
We will revert this once Kyua+Googletest integration is ready.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25896
VirtFS allows sharing an arbitrary directory tree between bhyve virtual
machine and the host. Current implementation has a fairly complete support
for 9P2000.L protocol, except for the extended attribute support. It has
been verified to work with the qemu-kvm hypervisor.
Reviewed by: rgrimes, emaste, jhb, trasz
Approved by: trasz (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Conclusive Engineering (development), vStack.com (funding)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10335
This is a simple subsystem that allow drivers to register as a backlight.
Each backlight creates a device node under /dev/backlight/backlightX and
an alias based on the name provided.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26250
Clang 12 warns about passing a path to -fuse-ld and -Werror makes that
an error preventing building world without this change.
Reviewed by: arichardson, emaste
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26591
For interfaces that do not support SIOCGIFMEDIA (for which there are
quite a few) the only fallback is to query the interface for
if_data->ifi_link_state. While it's possible to get at if_data for an
interface via getifaddrs(3) or sysctl, both are heavy weight mechanisms.
SIOCGIFDATA is a simple ioctl to retrieve this fast with very little
resource use in comparison. This implementation mirrors that of other
similar ioctls in FreeBSD.
Submitted by: Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26538
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.
This is the initial set up for PowerPC64LE.
The current plan is for this arch to remain experimental for FreeBSD 13.
This started as a weekend learning project for me and kinda snowballed from
there.
(More to follow momentarily.)
Reviewed by: imp (earlier version), emaste
Sponsored by: Tag1 Consulting, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26399
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
As we do for shared library binaries, pass -S to install(1) when
installing symlinks. Doing so helps avoid transient failures when
libraries are being reinstalled, which seems to be the root cause of
spurious libgcc_s.so link failures during CI builds.
PR: 233769
Reviewed by: emaste
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26453
The current default is provided in various Makefile.inc in some top-level
directories and covers a good portion of the tree, but doesn't cover parts
of the build a little deeper (e.g. libcasper).
Provide a default in src.sys.mk and set WARNS to it in bsd.sys.mk if that
variable is defined. This lets us relatively cleanly provide a default WARNS
no matter where you're building in the src tree without breaking things
outside of the tree.
Crunchgen has been updated as a bootstrap tool to work on this change
because it needs r365605 at a minimum to succeed. The cleanup necessary to
successfully walk over this change on WITHOUT_CLEAN builds has been added.
There is a supplemental project to this to list all of the warnings that are
encountered when the environment has WARNS=6 NO_WERROR=yes:
https://warns.kevans.dev -- this project will hopefully eventually go away
in favor of CI doing a much better job than it.
Reviewed by: emaste, brooks, ngie (all earlier version)
Reviewed by: emaste, arichardson (depend-cleanup.sh change)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26455
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
Use of ranlib or lorder is no longer necessary with current linkers
(probably anything newer than ~1990) and ar's ability to create an object
index and symbol table in the archive.
Currently the build system uses lorder+tsort to sort the .o files in
dependency order so that a single-pass linker can use them. However,
we can use the -s flag to ar to add an index to the .a file which makes
lorder unnecessary.
Running ar -s is equivalent to running ranlib afterwards, so we can also
skip the ranlib invocation.
Similarly, we don't have to pass the .o files for shared libraries in
dependency order since both ld.bfd and ld.lld will correctly resolve
references between the .o files.
This removes many fork()+execve calls for each library so should speed up
builds a bit. Additionally lorder.sh uses a regular expression that is not
supported by the macOS libc or glibc and results in many warnings when
cross-building (see D25989).
There is one functional change: lorder.sh removed duplicated .o files
from the linker command line which now no longer happens. I fixed the duplicates
in the base system in r364649. I also checked the ports tree for uses of
bsd.lib.mk and found one duplicate source file which I fixed in r548168.
Most ports use CMake/autotools rather than bsd.lib.mk but if this breaks any
ports that I missed in my search please let me know.
Avoiding the shell script actually speeds up the linking step noticeably: I
measured how long it takes to rebuild the .a and .so files for lib/libc using a
basic benchmark: `rm $LIBC_OBJDIR/*.so* $LIBC_OBJDIR/*.a* && /usr/bin/time make -DWITHOUT_TESTS -s > /dev/null`
Without this change ~4.5 seconds and afterwards ~3.1 seconds.
Looking at truss -cf output we can see that the number fork() system
calls goes down from 27 to 12 (and the speedup while tracing is more
noticeable: 81 seconds -> 65 seconds).
See also https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/tsort-background.html
for some more background:
This whole procedure has been obsolete since about 1980, because Unix
archives now contain a symbol table (traditionally built by ranlib, now
generally built by ar itself), and the Unix linker uses the symbol table
to effectively make multiple passes over an archive file.
Or alternatively https://www.unix.com/man-page/osf1/1/lorder/:
The lorder command is essentially obsolete. Use the following command in
its place: % ar -ts file.a
Reviewed By: emaste, imp, dim
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26044
