most kernels before FreeBSD 9.0. Remove such modules and respective kernel
options: atadisk, ataraid, atapicd, atapifd, atapist, atapicam. Remove the
atacontrol utility and some man pages. Remove useless now options ATA_CAM.
No objections: current@, stable@
MFC after: never
Allow boothowto and bootverbose to be set via kernel options, which
is useful on architectures that are unable to rely on a boot loader
to pass configuration variables to the kernel.
Submitted by: rwatson
- We need to add "-mllvm -arm-enable-ehabi" to clangs CFLAGS when
generating the unwind tables to tell it to add the required directives to
the assembly it generates.
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
tunable by default.
This will allow GENERIC configurations to boot on small memory boxes, but
not require end users who want to use CTL to recompile their kernel. They
can simply set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 in loader.conf.
The eventual solution to the memory usage problem is to change the way
CTL allocates memory to be more configurable, but this should fix things
for small memory situations in the mean time.
UPDATING: Explain the change in the CTL configuration, and
how users can enable CTL if they would like to use
it.
sys/conf/options: Add a new option, CTL_DISABLE, that prevents CTL
from initializing.
ctl.c: If CTL_DISABLE is turned on, don't initialize.
i386/conf/GENERIC,
amd64/conf/GENERIC: Re-enable device ctl, and add the CTL_DISABLE
option.
precise time event generation. This greatly improves granularity of
callouts which are not anymore constrained to wait next tick to be
scheduled.
- Extend the callout KPI introducing a set of callout_reset_sbt* functions,
which take a sbintime_t as timeout argument. The new KPI also offers a
way for consumers to specify precision tolerance they allow, so that
callout can coalesce events and reduce number of interrupts as well as
potentially avoid scheduling a SWI thread.
- Introduce support for dispatching callouts directly from hardware
interrupt context, specifying an additional flag. This feature should be
used carefully, as long as interrupt context has some limitations
(e.g. no sleeping locks can be held).
- Enhance mechanisms to gather informations about callwheel, introducing
a new sysctl to obtain stats.
This change breaks the KBI. struct callout fields has been changed, in
particular 'int ticks' (4 bytes) has been replaced with 'sbintime_t'
(8 bytes) and another 'sbintime_t' field was added for precision.
Together with: mav
Reviewed by: attilio, bde, luigi, phk
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo (amd64, sparc64), marius (sparc64), ian (arm),
markj (amd64), mav, Fabian Keil
for allocating the nodes before to have the possibility to carve
directly from the UMA subsystem.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
fail interrupt handler, there seems to be either a broken batch of them
or a tendency to develop a defect which causes this interrupt to fire
inadvertedly. Given that apart from this problem these machines work
just fine, add a tunable allowing the setup of the power fail interrupt
to be disabled.
While at it, remove the DEBUGGER_ON_POWERFAIL compile time option and
make that behavior also selectable via the newly added tunable.
- Apparently, it's no longer a problem to call shutdown_nice(9) from within
an interrupt filter (some other drivers in the tree do the same). So
change the power fail interrupt from an handler in order to simplify the
code and get rid of a !INTR_MPSAFE handler.
- Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers.
MFC after: 1 week
- Add support for IPv6 rx csum offload
- Finally switch mxge from using its own driver lro, to
using tcp_lro
MFC after: 7 days
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
