Although not directly related the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Five New TCP
Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD" project, the understanding and
inspiration required to write this documentation was significantly bolstered
by the Foundation's support.
Reviewed by: pjd
MFC after: 1 week
This allows specifying a %job (which is equivalent to the corresponding
process group).
Additionally, it improves reliability of kill from sh in high-load
situations and ensures "kill" finds the correct utility regardless of PATH,
as required by POSIX (unless the undocumented %builtin mechanism is used).
Side effect: fatal errors (any error other than kill(2) failure) now return
exit status 2 instead of 1. (This is consistent with other sh builtins, but
not in NetBSD.)
Code size increases about 1K on i386.
Obtained from: NetBSD
i386, how to configure the kernel, and some known issues. Further
refinement almost certainly required. This is not a Xen installation
manual.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
i386, how to configure the kernel, and some known issues. Further
refinement almost certainly required. This is not a Xen installation
manual.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Passing a count of zero on i386 and amd64 for [I386|AMD64]_BUS_SPACE_MEM
causes a crash/hang since the 'loop' instruction decrements the counter
before checking if it's zero.
PR: kern/80980
Discussed with: jhb
case user wants to implement his own actions and doesn't want the attributes to
vanish.
Obtained from: Wheel Systems Sp. z o.o. http://www.wheelsystems.com
MFC after: 3 days
only happen if VOP_INACTIVATE() drops the vnode lock, which is quite
unreasonable behaviour for filesystem, and should not be mentioned
in the description of VFS primitives.
MFC after: 1 week
media option generally should be used instead. Actually I think the lists
of media types should be removed from the manual pages of MAC drivers
altogether and users just pointed to the output of `ifconfig -m` instead;
even before r215297 there were several outdated descriptions, technically
it's wrong most of the time as not the MAC drivers support these media
types but actually the PHY drivers do and it generally doesn't make sense
to maintain these lists in every manual page of a driver as the media is
auto-detected.
This was removed in 2001 but I think it is appropriate to add it back:
* I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
commands by making printf much slower than echo.
* Recent versions of Autoconf use it a lot.
* Almost no software still wants to support systems that do not have
printf(1) at all.
* In many other shells printf is already a builtin.
Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).
Code size increases about 5K on i386. Embedded folks might want to replace
/usr/bin/printf with a hard link to /usr/bin/alias.
group on a object has less permissions that everyone). These
permissions will not work reliably over NFS if you have more than
14 supplemental groups and are usually not what you mean.
MFC after: 1 week
svn r147332 (by jeff): "Don't make vgonel() globally visible".
While here, specify the vnode locking scheme for vgone().
Discussed on: freebsd-hackers@
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 10 days
and updated comments in the usb_quirk.h header file.
The main purpose of this is to expose the quirks for ejecting 3G
modules. usb_modeswitch in Linux does a great job of collecting
information on these, and with the quirks module people can try out the
modeswitch config file entries on FreeBSD, hence the SCSI strings in the
man page.
MFC after: 2 weeks
numbers. bge(4) supports too many models such that it's
unreasonable to list all these controllers in one line description
of name. While I'm here mention that BCM590x/BCM5779x is Fast
Ethernet controller.
bge(4) still lacks support for some controllers but supporting
these controllers should be easy now and adding new controllers
do not require touching .Nd any more.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
supported device. re(4) had been supported all variants of RTL8168,
RTL8111 and RTL810x. I think this change will cover all controllers
supported by re(4).
MFC after: 1 week
- FILES section ref: ~/nsmb.conf
- use of password in examples section
- use of simple encryption for password in examples section
PR: docs/132311
Submitted by: David Horn (dhorn2000 at gmail dot com)
Patch corrected by: trhodes
Approved by: trhodes
MFC after: 5 days
existing code caused problems with some SCSI controllers.
A new sysctl kern.cam.ada.spindown_shutdown has been added that controls
whether or not to spin-down disks when shutting down.
Spinning down the disks unloads/parks the heads - this is
much better than removing power when the disk is still
spinning because otherwise an Emergency Unload occurs which may cause damage
to the actuator.
PR: kern/140752
Submitted by: olli
Reviewed by: arundel
Discussed with: mav
MFC after: 2 weeks
It's a bit more pedantic regarding .Bl list elements. This has an added
benefit of unbreaking the ipfw(8) manpage, where groff was silently
skipping one list element.
Note that this still seems to be a little bit confusing as the concept of
"master" is different from what people would expect on a networking
equipment.
rounding. The same value can also be obtained with uma_zone_get_max, but this
change avoids a caller having to make two back-to-back calls.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: gnn, jhb
- Add uma_zone_get_cur which returns the current approximate occupancy of
a zone. This is useful for providing stats via sysctl amongst other things.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: gnn, jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
controller, but make it optional.
After a problem report from Andrew Boyer, it looks like the LSI
chip may have issues (the watchdog timer fired) if too many aborts
are sent down to the chip at the same time. We know that task
management commands are serialized, and although the manual doesn't
say it, it may be a good idea to just send one at a time.
But, since I'm not certain that this is necessary, add a tunable
and sysctl variable (hw.mps.%d.allow_multiple_tm_cmds) to control
the driver's behavior.
mps.c: Add support for the sysctl and tunable, and add a
comment about the possible return values to
mps_map_command().
mps_sas.c: Run all task management commands through two new
routines, mpssas_issue_tm_request() and
mpssas_complete_tm_request().
This allows us to optionally serialize task
management commands. Also, change things so that
the response to a task management command always
comes back through the callback. (Before it could
come via the callback or the return value.)
mpsvar.h: Add softc variables for the list of active task
management commands, the number of active commands,
and whether we should allow multiple active task
management commands. Add an active command flag.
mps.4: Describe the new sysctl/loader tunable variable.
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
A new function prep_devname() sanitizes a device name by removing
leading and redundant sequential slashes. The function returns an error
for names which already exist or are considered invalid.
A new flag MAKEDEV_CHECKNAME for make_dev_p(9) and make_dev_credf(9)
indicates that the caller is prepared to handle an error related to the
device name. An invalid name triggers a panic if the flag is not
specified.
Document the MAKEDEV_CHECKNAME flag in the make_dev(9) manual page.
Idea from: kib
Reviewed by: kib
Wrap lines for SiS and Promise entries to 80 columns.
This doesn't change appearance in page rendered with troff or man.cgi.
PR: docs/146195
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
bcm4306 cards are ambiguous. BCM4306 rev 2 requires bwi. BCM4306 rev
3 will work with either. Since we can't easily determine which is
which, just remove them.
The $ip6addrctl_policy is a variable to choose a pre-defined address
selection policy set by ip6addrctl(8).
The keyword "ipv4_prefer" sets IPv4-preferred one described in Section 10.3,
the keyword "ipv6_prefer" sets IPv6-preferred one in Section 2.1 in RFC 3484,
respectively. When "AUTO" is specified, it attempts to read
/etc/ip6addrctl.conf first. If it is found, it reads and installs it as
a policy table. If not, either of the two pre-defined policy tables is
chosen automatically according to $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.
When $ipv6_activate_all_interfaces=NO, interfaces which have no corresponding
$ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is marked as IFDISABLED for security reason.
The default values are ip6addrctl_policy=AUTO and
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces=NO.
Discussed with: ume and bz
code associated with overflow or with the drain function. While this
function is not expected to be used often, it produces more information
in the form of an errno that sbuf_overflowed() did.
called when the sbuf internal buffer is filled. For kernel sbufs with a
drain, the internal buffer will never be expanded. For userland sbufs
with a drain, the internal buffer may still be expanded by
sbuf_[v]printf(3).
Sbufs now have three basic uses:
1) static string manipulation. Overflow is marked.
2) dynamic string manipulation. Overflow triggers string growth.
3) drained string manipulation. Overflow triggers draining.
In all cases the manipulation is 'safe' in that overflow is detected and
managed.
Reviewed by: phk (the previous version)
a solution is using PIO mode. As fas as I know all open source based
broadcom drivers for specially LP PHY has this issue because it's
a reverse engineered driver from wl(4).
Pointed by: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
- add rm_try_rlock().
- add RM_SLEEPABLE to use sx(9) as the back-end lock in order to sleep while
holding the write lock.
- change rm_noreadtoken to a cpu bitmask to indicate which CPUs need to go
through the lock/unlock in order to synchronize. As a side effect, this
also avoids IPI to CPUs without any readers during rm_wlock.
Discussed with: ups@, rwatson@ on arch@
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
- chooseproc() is long gone, MLINK choosethread instead
- Update NAME section for choosethread
- Mark chooseproc.9 for removal
PR: 149549
Submitted by: pluknet
MFC after: 1 week
use-after-free over a longer time. Also release the backing pages of
a guarded allocation at free(9) time to reduce the overhead of using
memguard(9). Allow setting and varying the malloc type at run-time.
Add knobs to allow:
- randomly guarding memory
- adding un-backed KVA guard pages to detect underflow and overflow
- a lower limit on the size of allocations that are guarded
Reviewed by: alc
Reviewed by: brueffer, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs spoerlein net> (man page)
Silence from: -arch
Approved by: zml (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
taskqueues, more than one task can be running simultaneously.
Also make taskqueue_run(9) static to the file, since there are no
consumers in the base kernel and the function signature needs to change
with this fix.
Remove mention of taskqueue_run(9) and taskqueue_run_fast(9) from the
taskqueue(9) man page.
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: zml (mentor)
- Fixed the interface probe routine to only attach to USB interfaces the driver
actually supports. This allows other drivers to attach to things like
MicroSD slots etc.
- Fixed network interface enumeration to be globally sequential instead of
relying on the USB interface numbers. This make sure the first network
interface always is at uhso0 and the second at usho1 and so on.
- Added a radio kill switch; exposed through sysctl.
- Updated the manual page to be verbose about the number of serial ports and
include iCON 452 in the set of tested hardware.
Submitted by: Fredrik Lindberg
setting the IP address. While it is documented earlier in rc.conf(5)
that the '.' in the VLAN name becomes a '_' in rc.conf, this may not be
easy to find when just using rc.conf(5) as reference documentation.
MFC after: 1 week
numbers. This change adds a new function alloc_unr_specific() which
returns the requested unit number if it is free. If the number is
already allocated or out of the range, -1 is returned.
Update alloc_unr(9) manual page accordingly and add a MLINK for
alloc_unr_specific(9).
Discussed on: freebsd-hackers
document one of the optional flags; clarify which of the flags are
optional (and which are not), and remove mention of a restriction on
the reclamation of cached pages that no longer holds since version 7.
MFC after: 1 week
FreeBSD. SIFTR logs a range of statistics on active TCP connections to a log
file, providing the ability to make highly granular measurements of TCP
connection state. The tool is aimed at system administrators, developers and
researchers alike. Please take it for a spin and test it out - the man page
should have all the information required to get you going.
Many thanks go to the Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community
Foundation Silicon Valley and the FreeBSD Foundation. Their support of our work
at the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of
Technology is greatly appreciated.
Sponsored by: Cisco URP, FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: dwmalone, gnn, rpaulo
Tested by: Many on freebsd-current@ and elsewhere over the years
MFC after: 1 month
