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Author SHA1 Message Date
dougb
3f9f22c2c9 Revert the entry about pf and ipfw starting before netif 2009-06-26 01:10:10 +00:00
bz
309ab541f2 Move virtualization of routing related variables into their own
Vimage module, which had been there already but now is stateful.

All variables are now file local; so this further limits the global
spreading of routing related things throughout the kernel.

Add a missing function local variable in case of MPATHing.

Reviewed by:	zec
2009-06-22 17:48:16 +00:00
brooks
f53c1c309d Rework the credential code to support larger values of NGROUPS and
NGROUPS_MAX, eliminate ABI dependencies on them, and raise the to 1024
and 1023 respectively.  (Previously they were equal, but under a close
reading of POSIX, NGROUPS_MAX was defined to be too large by 1 since it
is the number of supplemental groups, not total number of groups.)

The bulk of the change consists of converting the struct ucred member
cr_groups from a static array to a pointer.  Do the equivalent in
kinfo_proc.

Introduce new interfaces crcopysafe() and crsetgroups() for duplicating
a process credential before modifying it and for setting group lists
respectively.  Both interfaces take care for the details of allocating
groups array. crsetgroups() takes care of truncating the group list
to the current maximum (NGROUPS) if necessary.  In the future,
crsetgroups() may be responsible for insuring invariants such as sorting
the supplemental groups to allow groupmember() to be implemented as a
binary search.

Because we can not change struct xucred without breaking application
ABIs, we leave it alone and introduce a new XU_NGROUPS value which is
always 16 and is to be used or NGRPS as appropriate for things such as
NFS which need to use no more than 16 groups.  When feasible, truncate
the group list rather than generating an error.

Minor changes:
  - Reduce the number of hand rolled versions of groupmember().
  - Do not assign to both cr_gid and cr_groups[0].
  - Modify ipfw to cache ucreds instead of part of their contents since
    they are immutable once referenced by more than one entity.

Submitted by:	Isilon Systems (initial implementation)
X-MFC after:	never
PR:		bin/113398 kern/133867
2009-06-19 17:10:35 +00:00
attilio
256667d4fb Introduce support for adaptive spinning in lockmgr.
Actually, as it did receive few tuning, the support is disabled by
default, but it can opt-in with the option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS.
Due to the nature of lockmgrs, adaptive spinning needs to be
selectively enabled for any interested lockmgr.
The support is bi-directional, or, in other ways, it will work in both
cases if the lock is held in read or write way.  In particular, the
read path is passible of further tunning using the sysctls
debug.lockmgr.retries and debug.lockmgr.loops .  Ideally, such sysctls
should be axed or compiled out before release.

Addictionally note that adaptive spinning doesn't cope well with
LK_SLEEPFAIL.  The reason is that many (and probabilly all) consumers
of LK_SLEEPFAIL are mainly interested in knowing if the interlock was
dropped or not in order to reacquire it and re-test initial conditions.
This directly interacts with adaptive spinning because lockmgr needs
to drop the interlock while spinning in order to avoid a deadlock
(further details in the comments inside the patch).

Final note: finding someone willing to help on tuning this with
relevant workloads would be either very important and appreciated.

Tested by:	jeff, pho
Requested by:	many
2009-06-17 01:55:42 +00:00
sam
58b8ea457a note abi change for IEEE80211_IOC_STA_INFO 2009-06-13 23:44:56 +00:00
zec
6448f34585 Introduce a mechanism for detecting calls from outbound path of the
network stack when reentering the inbound path from netgraph, and
force queueing of mbufs at the outbound netgraph node.

The mechanism relies on two components.  First, in netgraph nodes
where outbound path of the network stack calls into netgraph, the
current thread has to be appropriately marked using the new
NG_OUTBOUND_THREAD_REF() macro before proceeding to call further
into the netgraph topology, and unmarked using the
NG_OUTBOUND_THREAD_UNREF() macro before returning to the caller.
Second, netgraph nodes which can potentially reenter the network
stack in the inbound path have to mark their inbound hooks using
NG_HOOK_SET_TO_INBOUND() macro.  The netgraph framework will then
detect when there is a danger of a call graph looping back from
outbound to inbound path via netgraph, and defer handing off the
mbufs to the "inbound" node to a worker thread with a clean stack.

In this first pass only the most obvious netgraph nodes have been
updated to ensure no outbound to inbound calls can occur.  Nodes
such as ng_ipfw, ng_gif etc. should be further examined whether a
potential for outbound to inbound call looping exists.

This commit changes the layout of struct thread, but due to
__FreeBSD_version number shortage a version bump has been omitted
at this time, nevertheless kernel and modules have to be rebuilt.

Reviewed by:	julian, rwatson, bz
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
2009-06-11 16:50:49 +00:00
zec
8b1f38241a Introduce an infrastructure for dismantling vnet instances.
Vnet modules and protocol domains may now register destructor
functions to clean up and release per-module state.  The destructor
mechanisms can be triggered by invoking "vimage -d", or a future
equivalent command which will be provided via the new jail framework.

While this patch introduces numerous placeholder destructor functions,
many of those are currently incomplete, thus leaking memory or (even
worse) failing to stop all running timers.  Many of such issues are
already known and will be incrementaly fixed over the next weeks in
smaller incremental commits.

Apart from introducing new fields in structs ifnet, domain, protosw
and vnet_net, which requires the kernel and modules to be rebuilt, this
change should have no impact on nooptions VIMAGE builds, since vnet
destructors can only be called in VIMAGE kernels.  Moreover,
destructor functions should be in general compiled in only in
options VIMAGE builds, except for kernel modules which can be safely
kldunloaded at run time.

Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
Reviewed by:	bz, julian
Approved by:	rwatson, kib (re), julian (mentor)
2009-06-08 17:15:40 +00:00
ed
e0cac889c6 Remove window(1) from the base system.
Some time ago Tom Rhodes sent me an email that he was willing to perform
various cleanups to the window(1) source code. After some discussion, we
both decided the best thing to do, was to move window(1) to the ports
tree. The application isn't used a lot nowadays, mainly because it has
been superseeded by screen, tmux, etc.

A couple of hours ago Tom committed window(1) to ports (misc/window), so
I'm removing it from the tree. I don't think people will really miss it,
but I'm describing the change in UPDATING anyway.

Discussed with:	trhodes, pav, kib
Approved by:	re
2009-06-02 13:44:36 +00:00
dougb
ae133bfe99 Add a note about the change to rcorder for pf and ipfw. 2009-06-01 22:47:59 +00:00
bz
0b9f8283c2 Decrement __FreeBSD_version again to 96 as we are runing out of digits
and want to be conservative - so not more than one version bump per day.

Discussed with:	jhb, kensmith
2009-06-01 18:07:38 +00:00
rwatson
2db4a6c9d8 Update UPDATING for NETISR2 merge, fix a typo in another UPDATING entry. 2009-06-01 16:00:36 +00:00
bz
c62e99f85d Convert the two dimensional array to be malloced and introduce
an accessor function to get the correct rnh pointer back.

Update netstat to get the correct pointer using kvm_read()
as well.

This not only fixes the ABI problem depending on the kernel
option but also permits the tunable to overwrite the kernel
option at boot time up to MAXFIBS, enlarging the number of
FIBs without having to recompile. So people could just use
GENERIC now.

Reviewed by:	julian, rwatson, zec
X-MFC:		not possible
2009-06-01 15:49:42 +00:00
attilio
e6a06610ff Remove the now invalid (and possibly unused) debug.mpsafevfs
sysctl/tunable.

Reviewed by:	emaste
Sponsored by:	Sandvine Incorporated
2009-05-30 23:52:23 +00:00
trasz
9b24b65ab8 Bump __FreeBSD_version after addition of VOP_ACCESSX(9). 2009-05-30 14:01:01 +00:00
maxim
7f5b0418df o Add missed quotation mark. 2009-05-29 19:45:39 +00:00
trasz
13ace3be9e Update __FreeBSD_version after addition of mnt_xflag. Add a note
to UPDATING.
2009-05-29 18:50:27 +00:00
attilio
e05714ba70 Reverse the logic for ADAPTIVE_SX option and enable it by default.
Introduce for this operation the reverse NO_ADAPTIVE_SX option.
The flag SX_ADAPTIVESPIN to be passed to sx_init_flags(9) gets suppressed
and the new flag, offering the reversed logic, SX_NOADAPTIVE is added.

Additively implements adaptive spininning for sx held in shared mode.
The spinning limit can be handled through sysctls in order to be tuned
while the code doesn't reach the release, after which time they should
be dropped probabilly.

This change has made been necessary by recent benchmarks where it does
improve concurrency of workloads in presence of high contention
(ie. ZFS).

KPI breakage is documented by __FreeBSD_version bumping, manpage and
UPDATING updates.

Requested by:	jeff, kmacy
Reviewed by:	jeff
Tested by:	pho
2009-05-29 01:49:27 +00:00
jamie
a013e0afcb Add hierarchical jails. A jail may further virtualize its environment
by creating a child jail, which is visible to that jail and to any
parent jails.  Child jails may be restricted more than their parents,
but never less.  Jail names reflect this hierarchy, being MIB-style
dot-separated strings.

Every thread now points to a jail, the default being prison0, which
contains information about the physical system.  Prison0's root
directory is the same as rootvnode; its hostname is the same as the
global hostname, and its securelevel replaces the global securelevel.
Note that the variable "securelevel" has actually gone away, which
should not cause any problems for code that properly uses
securelevel_gt() and securelevel_ge().

Some jail-related permissions that were kept in global variables and
set via sysctls are now per-jail settings.  The sysctls still exist for
backward compatibility, used only by the now-deprecated jail(2) system
call.

Approved by:	bz (mentor)
2009-05-27 14:11:23 +00:00
zec
48f748dc29 V_irtualize the if_clone framework, thus allowing for clonable ifnets
to optionally have overlapping unit numbers if attached in different
vnets.

At this stage if_loop is the only clonable ifnet class that has been
extended to allow for such overlapping allocation of unit numbers, i.e.
in each vnet it is possible to have a lo0 interface.  Other clonable ifnet
classes remain to operate with traditional semantics, i.e. each instance
of a clonable ifnet will be assigned a globally unique unit number,
regardless in which vnet such an ifnet becomes instantiated.

While here, garbage collect unused _lo_list field in struct vnet_net,
as well as improve indentation for #defines in sys/net/vnet.h.

The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore bump
__FreeBSD_version.

This change has no functional impact on nooptions VIMAGE kernel builds.

Reviewed by:	bz, brooks
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
2009-05-23 21:43:44 +00:00
joel
618ad83d35 Fix minor typo. 2009-05-23 09:24:07 +00:00
edwin
a46bca667e Rework the text for the import of zic(8) at 20090523.
Suggested by Niclas Zeising (and he was absolutely right on it!)
2009-05-23 08:49:55 +00:00
edwin
fb1b2af807 MFV of tzcode2009e:
Upgrade of the tzcode from 2004a to 2009e.

Changes are numerous, but include...

- New format of the output of zic, which supports both 32 and 64
  bit time_t formats.

- zdump on 64 bit platforms will actually produce some output instead
  of doing nothing for a looooooooong time.

- linux_base-fX, with X >= at least 8, will work without problems related
  to the local time again.

The original patch, based on the 2008e, has been running for a long
time on both my laptop and desktop machine and have been tested by
other people.

After the installation of this code and the running of zic(8), you
need to run tzsetup(8) again to install the new datafile.

Approved by:	wollman@ for usr.sbin/zic
MFC after:	1 month
2009-05-23 06:31:50 +00:00
thompsa
686e9b39cf Rename the usb sysctl tree from hw.usb2.* back to hw.usb.*.
Submitted by:	Hans Petter Selasky
2009-05-21 01:48:42 +00:00
sam
d5d4594607 bump for net80211 monitor mode changes 2009-05-20 20:05:56 +00:00
zec
39b6dc8ba2 Permit buiding kernels with options VIMAGE, restricted to only a single
active network stack instance.  Turning on options VIMAGE at compile
time yields the following changes relative to default kernel build:

1) V_ accessor macros for virtualized variables resolve to structure
fields via base pointers, instead of being resolved as fields in global
structs or plain global variables.  As an example, V_ifnet becomes:

    options VIMAGE:          ((struct vnet_net *) vnet_net)->_ifnet
    default build:           vnet_net_0._ifnet
    options VIMAGE_GLOBALS:  ifnet

2) INIT_VNET_* macros will declare and set up base pointers to be used
by V_ accessor macros, instead of resolving to whitespace:

    INIT_VNET_NET(ifp->if_vnet); becomes

    struct vnet_net *vnet_net = (ifp->if_vnet)->mod_data[VNET_MOD_NET];

3) Memory for vnet modules registered via vnet_mod_register() is now
allocated at run time in sys/kern/kern_vimage.c, instead of per vnet
module structs being declared as globals.  If required, vnet modules
can now request the framework to provide them with allocated bzeroed
memory by filling in the vmi_size field in their vmi_modinfo structures.

4) structs socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb and syncache_head are
extended to hold a pointer to the parent vnet.  options VIMAGE builds
will fill in those fields as required.

5) curvnet is introduced as a new global variable in options VIMAGE
builds, always pointing to the default and only struct vnet.

6) struct sysctl_oid has been extended with additional two fields to
store major and minor virtualization module identifiers, oid_v_subs and
oid_v_mod.  SYSCTL_V_* family of macros will fill in those fields
accordingly, and store the offset in the appropriate vnet container
struct in oid_arg1.
In sysctl handlers dealing with virtualized sysctls, the
SYSCTL_RESOLVE_V_ARG1() macro will compute the address of the target
variable and make it available in arg1 variable for further processing.

Unused fields in structs vnet_inet, vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw have
been deleted.

Reviewed by:	bz, rwatson
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
2009-04-30 13:36:26 +00:00
bms
32a71137f0 Bite the bullet, and make the IPv6 SSM and MLDv2 mega-commit:
import from p4 bms_netdev.  Summary of changes:

 * Connect netinet6/in6_mcast.c to build.
   The legacy KAME KPIs are mostly preserved.
 * Eliminate now dead code from ip6_output.c.
   Don't do mbuf bingo, we are not going to do RFC 2292 style
   CMSG tricks for multicast options as they are not required
   by any current IPv6 normative reference.
 * Refactor transports (UDP, raw_ip6) to do own mcast filtering.
   SCTP, TCP unaffected by this change.
 * Add ip6_msource, in6_msource structs to in6_var.h.
 * Hookup mld_ifinfo state to in6_ifextra, allocate from
   domifattach path.
 * Eliminate IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI(), it is no longer referenced.
   Kernel consumers which need this should use in6m_lookup().
 * Refactor IPv6 socket group memberships to use a vector (like IPv4).
 * Update ifmcstat(8) for IPv6 SSM.
 * Add witness lock order for IN6_MULTI_LOCK.
 * Move IN6_MULTI_LOCK out of lower ip6_output()/ip6_input() paths.
 * Introduce IP6STAT_ADD/SUB/INC/DEC as per rwatson's IPv4 cleanup.
 * Update carp(4) for new IPv6 SSM KPIs.
 * Virtualize ip6_mrouter socket.
   Changes mostly localized to IPv6 MROUTING.
 * Don't do a local group lookup in MROUTING.
 * Kill unused KAME prototypes in6_purgemkludge(), in6_restoremkludge().
 * Preserve KAME DAD timer jitter behaviour in MLDv1 compatibility mode.
 * Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
 * Update UPDATING.

NOTE WELL:
 * This code hasn't been tested against real MLDv2 queriers
   (yet), although the on-wire protocol has been verified in Wireshark.
 * There are a few unresolved issues in the socket layer APIs to
   do with scope ID propagation.
 * There is a LOR present in ip6_output()'s use of
   in6_setscope() which needs to be resolved. See comments in mld6.c.
   This is believed to be benign and can't be avoided for the moment
   without re-introducing an indirect netisr.

This work was mostly derived from the IGMPv3 implementation, and
has been sponsored by a third party.
2009-04-29 19:19:13 +00:00
delphij
0e069a1467 Some minor formatting changes to make new text match old style. 2009-04-24 15:38:13 +00:00
garga
4e1af10e68 - Add a single line separating two 20090415 entries
Approved by:	brueffer
2009-04-24 11:34:59 +00:00
rwatson
07d964616b Add UPDATING note about change to struct malloc_type -- following several
reports of panics, remind readers that rebuilding kernel modules between
kernel upgrades in HEAD is a good idea.
2009-04-24 09:58:50 +00:00
emax
e61a16aa0c Bump __FreeBSD_version. Add UPDATING entry about low-level Bluetooth HCI API. 2009-04-22 15:54:27 +00:00
kmacy
a895457456 - add second flags field to to inpcb
- update comments in vflag
2009-04-15 22:09:42 +00:00
kmacy
52b9562b83 add an llentry to struct route{_in6} to allow it to be passed around with
the rtentry
2009-04-15 20:34:19 +00:00
kmacy
8149bfaed6 Extend route command:
- add show as alias for get
	- add weights to allow mpath to do more than equal cost
	- add sticky / nostick to disable / re-enable per-connection load balancing

This adds a field to rt_metrics_lite so network bits of world will need to be re-built.

Reviewed by:	jeli & qingli
2009-04-14 23:05:36 +00:00
emax
ac9b8ff225 Add entry about kbdmux(4) un-locking. 2009-04-12 19:42:25 +00:00
zec
c781ca9c84 A belated note on layout change of certain V_ containers.
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
2009-04-08 18:30:42 +00:00
ivoras
84db7971c2 Separate the GEOM_PART entry into paragraphs with differences from old
slicers. Add more notes.

Reviewed by:	marcel (implicit)
Approved by:	gnn (mentor) (implicit)
2009-03-20 23:13:32 +00:00
ivoras
79c72751b7 Note that GEOM_PART is on by default in 8-CURRENT and how it's different
from older slices.

OKed by:	marcel
Approved by:	gnn (mentor)
2009-03-20 21:51:27 +00:00
thompsa
11f8f68779 Remove the uscanner(4) driver, this follows the removal of the kernel scanner
driver in Linux 2.6. uscanner was just a simple wrapper around a fifo and
contained no logic, the default interface is now libusb (supported by sane).

Reviewed by:	HPS
2009-03-19 20:33:26 +00:00
bms
76f193cd69 Introduce a number of changes to the MROUTING code.
This is purely a forwarding plane cleanup; no control plane
code is involved.

Summary:
 * Split IPv4 and IPv6 MROUTING support. The static compile-time
   kernel option remains the same, however, the modules may now
   be built for IPv4 and IPv6 separately as ip_mroute_mod and
   ip6_mroute_mod.
 * Clean up the IPv4 multicast forwarding code to use BSD queue
   and hash table constructs. Don't build our own timer abstractions
   when ratecheck() and timevalclear() etc will do.
 * Expose the multicast forwarding cache (MFC) and virtual interface
   table (VIF) as sysctls, to reduce netstat's dependence on libkvm
   for this information for running kernels.
   * bandwidth meters however still require libkvm.
 * Make the MFC hash table size a boot/load-time tunable ULONG,
   net.inet.ip.mfchashsize (defaults to 256).
 * Remove unused members from struct vif and struct mfc.
 * Kill RSVP support, as no current RSVP implementation uses it.
   These stubs could be moved to raw_ip.c.
 * Don't share locks or initialization between IPv4 and IPv6.
 * Don't use a static struct route_in6 in ip6_mroute.c.
   The v6 code is still using a cached struct route_in6, this is
   moved to mif6 for the time being.
 * More cleanup remains to be merged from ip_mroute.c to ip6_mroute.c.

v4 path tested using ports/net/mcast-tools.
v6 changes are mostly mechanical locking and *have not* been tested.
As these changes partially break some kernel ABIs, they will not
be MFCed. There is a lot more work to be done here.

Reviewed by:	Pavlin Radoslavov
2009-03-19 01:43:03 +00:00
rwatson
b18a427c73 Mention specifically in UPDATING that non-MPSAFE device drivers are no
longer supported.
2009-03-15 16:12:50 +00:00
gabor
11630d6334 - Add an entry about enabling libc NLS support 2009-03-13 16:40:56 +00:00
rpaulo
2e55cf9c4a Mention k8temp -> amdtemp rename.
MFC after:	2 weeks
2009-03-13 16:30:33 +00:00
thompsa
451bb286d9 Fix spelling. 2009-03-09 22:43:00 +00:00
thompsa
876d36a9fc Update 20090309 to say that libmap.conf entries for libusb are no longer needed. 2009-03-09 22:42:01 +00:00
stas
f77087e83d - Fix a typo.
Spotted by:	Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
2009-03-09 19:56:37 +00:00
stas
bf8b9802a6 - Point libusb users to the ports collection UPDATING file. 2009-03-09 19:22:45 +00:00
bms
71233409ea Merge IGMPv3 and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) to the FreeBSD
IPv4 stack.

Diffs are minimized against p4.
PCS has been used for some protocol verification, more widespread
testing of recorded sources in Group-and-Source queries is needed.
sizeof(struct igmpstat) has changed.

__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 800070.
2009-03-09 17:53:05 +00:00
thompsa
4aa75fa98d Install libusb20.so.1 as libusb.so.1, there will be a followup commit to the
ports tree so that programs use libusb from the base by default. Thanks to
Stanislav Sedov for sorting out the ports build.

Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800069

Help and testing by:	stas
2009-03-09 17:05:31 +00:00
kib
9d2aa84a7a Hopefully, improve the grammar and wording in the changes to shmctl(2)
manpage and UPDATING entry 20090302.

UPDATING changes suggested by bf2006a yahoo com.
man page corrections by bde.
2009-03-05 12:04:42 +00:00
kib
453adb14fb Correct types of variables used to track amount of allocated SysV shared
memory from int to size_t. Implement a workaround for current ABI not
allowing to properly save size for and report more then 2Gb sized segment
of shared memory.

This makes it possible to use > 2 Gb shared memory segments on 64bit
architectures. Please note the new BUGS section in shmctl(2) and
UPDATING note for limitations of this temporal solution.

Reviewed by:	csjp
Tested by:	Nikolay Dzham <i levsha org ua>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2009-03-02 18:53:30 +00:00
imp
338049e757 Add verbage about needing to remap libusb-0.1 to libusb20 to get old
programs to work with the new usb stack.
2009-03-01 18:57:59 +00:00
rwatson
f0deedaa01 Note that network device driver modules need rebuilding. 2009-03-01 12:44:33 +00:00
thompsa
7a32705dbf Make a note about USB /dev changes. 2009-02-27 17:32:49 +00:00
thompsa
c81cf9d652 Fix spelling (again).
Spotted by:	Fabian Keil
2009-02-23 19:30:00 +00:00
thompsa
582371ed21 Fix spelling.
Spotted by:	Fabian Keil
2009-02-23 19:28:29 +00:00
thompsa
389665cbed Add an UPDATING entry and bump the OS version to 800064. 2009-02-23 18:56:49 +00:00
mtm
11a3f6d706 Rename the rc.conf(5) knob if_up_delay to defaultroute_delay to better
reflect its purpose.
2009-02-17 11:55:50 +00:00
maxim
68cf720285 o Trim EOL whitespaces. 2009-02-17 10:50:18 +00:00
maxim
808850ca54 o Teminate sentences by dot. 2009-02-17 10:49:36 +00:00
thompsa
73a32c3f96 Add an entry for xorg+hal+USB2 not detecting input devices. 2009-02-16 18:59:18 +00:00
thompsa
15cccb8286 Switch over GENERIC kernels to USB2 by default.
Tested by:	make universe
2009-02-15 22:33:44 +00:00
jhb
066e44b98e Add a note to document that ichsmb(4) now uses left-justified SMBus slave
addresses.
2009-02-06 15:03:14 +00:00
bz
5d8f0a53a7 Remove the single global unlocked route cache ip6_forward_rt
from the inet6 stack along with statistics and make sure we
properly free the rt in all cases.

While the current situation is not better performance wise it
prevents panics seen more often these days.
After more inet6 and ipsec cleanup we should be able to improve
the situation again passing the rt to ip6_forward directly.

Leave the ip6_forward_rt entry in struct vinet6 but mark it
for removal.

PR:		kern/128247, kern/131038
MFC after:	25 days
Committed from:	Bugathon #6
Tested by:	Denis Ahrens <denis@h3q.com> (different initial version)
2009-02-01 21:11:08 +00:00
sobomax
becc950264 Mention removal of NTFS from GENERIC/amd64. 2009-01-19 17:00:42 +00:00
lstewart
d5deb43d0f Add TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support to kernel.
The new behaviour is on by default, and can be disabled by setting the
net.inet.tcp.rfc3465 sysctl to 0 to obtain previous behaviour.

The patch changes struct tcpcb in sys/netinet/tcp_var.h which breaks
the ABI. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800061 accordingly. User space tools
that rely on the size of struct tcpcb (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.

Reviewed by:	rpaulo, gnn
Approved by:	gnn, kmacy (mentors)
Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
2009-01-15 06:44:22 +00:00
mav
67c6448f1b ng_tty(4) module updated to match the new TTY subsystem. 2008-12-25 10:05:00 +00:00
sam
1ffa1a8cc0 correct wording 2008-12-19 23:12:14 +00:00
sam
7f586ff8eb add makefs to the base system; FreeBSD_version bumped just in case
Reviewed by:	imp
2008-12-19 23:10:55 +00:00
kmacy
d0147f27c7 convert ifnet and afdata locks from mutexes to rwlocks 2008-12-17 00:11:56 +00:00
qingli
ec826ad5c7 This main goals of this project are:
1. separating L2 tables (ARP, NDP) from the L3 routing tables
2. removing as much locking dependencies among these layers as
   possible to allow for some parallelism in the search operations
3. simplify the logic in the routing code,

The most notable end result is the obsolescent of the route
cloning (RTF_CLONING) concept, which translated into code reduction
in both IPv4 ARP and IPv6 NDP related modules, and size reduction in
struct rtentry{}. The change in design obsoletes the semantics of
RTF_CLONING, RTF_WASCLONE and RTF_LLINFO routing flags. The userland
applications such as "arp" and "ndp" have been modified to reflect
those changes. The output from "netstat -r" shows only the routing
entries.

Quite a few developers have contributed to this project in the
past: Glebius Smirnoff, Luigi Rizzo, Alessandro Cerri, and
Andre Oppermann. And most recently:

- Kip Macy revised the locking code completely, thus completing
  the last piece of the puzzle, Kip has also been conducting
  active functional testing
- Sam Leffler has helped me improving/refactoring the code, and
  provided valuable reviews
- Julian Elischer setup the perforce tree for me and has helped
  me maintaining that branch before the svn conversion
2008-12-15 06:10:57 +00:00
schweikh
d251d3cda9 White space only: Tabify; white space at EOL removed. 2008-12-08 17:12:40 +00:00
sam
89e5125861 correct typo
Submitted by:	Ole Vole
2008-12-01 23:09:58 +00:00
sam
3693ee3c32 Switch to ath hal source code. Note this removes the ath_hal
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support.  Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying

device ath_hal

gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include

options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.
2008-12-01 16:53:01 +00:00
kmacy
9d3bb599b1 - bump __FreeBSD version to reflect added buf_ring, memory barriers,
and ifnet functions

- add memory barriers to <machine/atomic.h>
- update drivers to only conditionally define their own

- add lockless producer / consumer ring buffer
- remove ring buffer implementation from cxgb and update its callers

- add if_transmit(struct ifnet *ifp, struct mbuf *m) to ifnet to
  allow drivers to efficiently manage multiple hardware queues
  (i.e. not serialize all packets through one ifq)
- expose if_qflush to allow drivers to flush any driver managed queues

This work was supported by Bitgravity Inc. and Chelsio Inc.
2008-11-22 05:55:56 +00:00
delphij
85d421cbef Grammar.
Submitted by:	"bf" <bf2006a at yahoo com>
2008-11-19 00:25:15 +00:00
delphij
f94871873b Mention that listsnapshots is disabled by default after latest ZFS import. 2008-11-18 21:41:09 +00:00
oleg
47cb787bfd Type of q_time (start of queue idle time) has changed: uint32_t -> uint64_t.
This should fix q_time overflow, which happens after 2^32/(86400*hz) days of
uptime (~50days for hz = 1000).
q_time overflow cause following:
- traffic shaping may not work in 'fast' mode (not enabled by default).
- incorrect average queue length calculation in RED/GRED algorithm.

NB: due to ABI change this change is not applicable to stable.

PR:		kern/128401
2008-10-28 14:14:57 +00:00
n_hibma
eedf378931 Add an entry about the split up of usb into usb+*hci modules.
Submitted by:	Andrew Thompson
2008-10-10 06:37:51 +00:00
jkoshy
e622a643d3 Mention the libpmc/hwpmc ABI change introduced in SVN r183725. 2008-10-10 04:23:40 +00:00
delphij
2afed1eda5 Don't mention lib/compat, it has gone long ago. Use ports/misc/compat*
instead.
2008-10-08 01:31:00 +00:00
ed
ac456c47d5 The si(4) and ufoma(4) drivers have been ported to the new TTY layer.
Remove the entries from the UPDATING entry, to cause less confusion
among our users.
2008-09-14 19:25:57 +00:00
roberto
80c32815b9 Mention ntpd upgrade to 4.2.4p5. 2008-09-03 08:30:17 +00:00
des
cb1bd25c2f Belatedly add a notice about the reversed order of preference for OpenSSH
authentication keys.
2008-09-01 23:50:56 +00:00
ed
cc3116a938 Integrate the new MPSAFE TTY layer to the FreeBSD operating system.
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:

- Improved driver model:

  The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
  make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
  device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
  in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
  TTY buffers.

  If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
  (still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
  implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.

- Improved hotplugging:

  With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
  the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
  where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
  the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
  used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).

  The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
  posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.

- Improved performance:

  One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
  to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
  Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
  used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.

Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.

Obtained from:		//depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by:		philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed:		on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by:		Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by:	kan
2008-08-20 08:31:58 +00:00
ed
40a0c86b31 Extend the message in UPDATING on the sio(4) -> uart(4) change.
It turns out I forgot to mention that people really need to make sure
their hints are up to date if they are updating a system through the
serial console.

Requested by:	gavin
Reviewed by:	gavin
2008-08-18 10:38:16 +00:00
maxim
f4c37a9412 o Trim whitespaces. 2008-07-25 09:30:53 +00:00
maxim
9f5c3d512f o Fix grammar: see -> See. 2008-07-25 09:13:18 +00:00
ed
a8f4e95b68 Make uart(4) the default serial port driver on i386 and amd64.
The uart(4) driver has the advantage of supporting a wider variety of
hardware on a greater amount of platforms. This driver has already been
the standard on platforms such as ia64, powerpc and sparc64.

I've decided not to change anything on pc98. I'd rather let people from
the pc98 team look at this.

Approved by:	philip (mentor), marcel
2008-07-13 07:20:14 +00:00
remko
2e26d321b2 Fix some spelling errors (improper review from my
side).

Submitted by:	ed, danger
2008-07-07 13:08:30 +00:00
remko
fbc40d4948 Add missing information for geom_mirror metadata.
PR:		124434
Submitted by:	Philip M. Golluci <pgolluci at p6m7g8 dot com>
MFC after:	3 days

Prodded through:	bugbusters@
2008-07-07 11:44:57 +00:00
marcel
52b96dad84 Note removal of gpt(8). 2008-06-09 21:33:57 +00:00
rdivacky
5f81dcb4f9 Fix the date in the last commit.
Approved by:	kib (mentor)
2008-06-03 18:09:10 +00:00
rdivacky
25a34fb524 Switch to emulating Linux 2.6 on default.
Approved by:	kib (mentor)
2008-06-03 17:50:13 +00:00
bz
6bba9b4244 Remove ISDN4BSD (I4B) from HEAD as it is not MPSAFE and
parts relied on the now removed NET_NEEDS_GIANT.
Most of I4B has been disconnected from the build
since July 2007 in HEAD/RELENG_7.

This is what was removed:
- configuration in /etc/isdn
- examples
- man pages
- kernel configuration
- sys/i4b (drivers, layers, include files)
- user space tools
- i4b support from ppp
- further documentation

Discussed with: rwatson, re
2008-05-26 10:40:09 +00:00
julian
155ad1e078 Add a note about multiple routing tables support 2008-05-09 23:14:01 +00:00
imp
e7d287052b More recommendations 2008-04-29 19:55:18 +00:00
imp
2b80a4fd0c Add a breif example for the wlan change. Include an explicit pointer
to rc.conf(5) to remind people where to look for all the details.
People without network connectivity forget basics like this...  This
is in keeping with historic UPDATING entries which try to provide
basic information in the entry, and a pointer to more extensive
information documenting the new thing.
2008-04-27 04:07:36 +00:00
sam
2db8cf265b 802.11 support moves to vaps 2008-04-20 21:25:37 +00:00
jkim
e9e1875fbf - Add write(2) support for psm(4) in native operation level. Now arbitrary
commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can be read back from it.
- Reflect the change in psm(4) and bump version for ports.

MFC after:	1 week
2008-04-08 17:55:26 +00:00
jeff
800e362744 - Add an UPDATING entry about the removal of KSE. 2008-03-12 09:48:42 +00:00