a text file with a list of physical memory addresses to exclude, and have it
loaded at boot time via the provided example in loader.conf. The tunable
'vm.blacklist' remains, but using an external file means that there's no
practical limit to the size of the list. This change also improves the
scanning algorithm for processing the list, scanning the list only once
instead of scanning it for every page in the system. Both the sysctl and
the file can be unsorted and contain duplicates so long as each entry is
numeric (decimal or hex) and is separated by a space, comma, or newline
character. The sysctl 'vm.page_blacklist' is now provided to report what
memory locations were successfully excluded.
Reviewed by: imp, emax
Obtained from: Netflix, Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
A new loader.conf(5) option of geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" will now
allow you to enter your geli(8) root-mount credentials prior to invoking
the kernel.
See check-password.4th(8) for details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
Reviewed by: imp, kmoore
Discussed on: -current
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Relnotes: yes
earlier migration away from sloppy mode-endings (r280925,280974-280976)
due to a red-herring in diagnosing HardenedBSD boot lockup.
Thanks to: lattera (shawn.webb@hardenedbsd<dot>org)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
X-MFC-with: r280925,280974-280976,281176-281179
NB: This deeply effected HardenedBSD which had a default value set.
Embarassingly, I allowed the `type' primitive to be passed -1/-1 for
c-addr/u stack input (the effect of which is to pull INT_MAX bytes
from character address negative one in which hilarity ensues over a
black screen in full-on bootlock). Much thanks to Shawn Webb [lattera]
for helping me diagnose.
NB: The mode-ending revisions were initially suspected (and reverted)
but proved to be a red-herring. Proper mode endings will be returning.
Thanks to: lattera (@HardenedBSD [<dot><com>])
Reported by: lattera
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Summary:
Add "GELI Passphrase:" prompt to boot loader.
A new loader.conf(5) option of geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" will now
allow you to enter your geli(8) root-mount credentials prior to invoking
the kernel.
See check-password.4th(8) for details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
Reviewed by: (your name[s] here)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Relnotes: yes
Test Plan:
Drop a head copy of check-password.4th into /boot and then apply the patch
(only the patch to /boot/check-password.4th is required; no other changes are
required but you do have to have a HEAD copy of check-password.4th to
apply the patch).
NB: The rest of your /boot files can be up to 2 years old but no older.
NB: The test won't work unless your kernel has the following change
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273489
Now, put into /boot/loader.conf:
geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"
and reboot.
You should be prompted for a GELI passphrase before the menu (if enabled),
just after loading loader.conf(5).
NB: It doesn't matter if you're using GELI or not. However if you are using
GELI and a sufficiently new enough release (has SVN r273489) and you entered
the proper passphrase to mount your GELI encrypted root device(s), you should
notice that the boot process did not stop (you went from loader all the way to login).
Reviewers: cperciva, allanjude, scottl, kmoore
Subscribers: jkh, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
vocabularies delay-processing, password-processing, version-processing,
frame-drawing, menu-infrastructure, menu-namespace, menu-command-helpers,
and menusets-infrastructure. The net effect is to remove almost 200
definitions from the main forth vocabulary reducing the dictionary size
by over 50%. The chances of hitting "dictionary full" should be greatly
reduced by this patch.
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
NB: Using NULL for default values in-case someone
or something uncomments it and reboots. See
check-password.4th(8) for additional details.
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10 stable/9
When taking user input, don't show asterisks as the user types
but instead spin a twiddle. Implement Ctrl-U to clear user input.
If the buffer is empty, either because the user has yet to type
anything, presses Ctrl-U at any time, or presses backspace enough
to end in an empty buffer, the twiddle is erased to provide feed-
back to the user.
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10 stable/9
locking out everyone in the case of setting a password longer than
the maximum (currently 16 characters). Now the required password is
truncated to the maximum input that can be read from the user.
PR: kern/198760
MFC after: 3 days
MFH: stable/10 stable/9
Implement a subset of the multiboot specification in order to boot Xen
and a FreeBSD Dom0 from the FreeBSD bootloader. This multiboot
implementation is tailored to boot Xen and FreeBSD Dom0, and it will
most surely fail to boot any other multiboot compilant kernel.
In order to detect and boot the Xen microkernel, two new file formats
are added to the bootloader, multiboot and multiboot_obj. Multiboot
support must be tested before regular ELF support, since Xen is a
multiboot kernel that also uses ELF. After a multiboot kernel is
detected, all the other loaded kernels/modules are parsed by the
multiboot_obj format.
The layout of the loaded objects in memory is the following; first the
Xen kernel is loaded as a 32bit ELF into memory (Xen will switch to
long mode by itself), after that the FreeBSD kernel is loaded as a RAW
file (Xen will parse and load it using it's internal ELF loader), and
finally the metadata and the modules are loaded using the native
FreeBSD way. After everything is loaded we jump into Xen's entry point
using a small trampoline. The order of the multiboot modules passed to
Xen is the following, the first module is the RAW FreeBSD kernel, and
the second module is the metadata and the FreeBSD modules.
Since Xen will relocate the memory position of the second
multiboot module (the one that contains the metadata and native
FreeBSD modules), we need to stash the original modulep address inside
of the metadata itself in order to recalculate its position once
booted. This also means the metadata must come before the loaded
modules, so after loading the FreeBSD kernel a portion of memory is
reserved in order to place the metadata before booting.
In order to tell the loader to boot Xen and then the FreeBSD kernel the
following has to be added to the /boot/loader.conf file:
xen_cmdline="dom0_mem=1024M dom0_max_vcpus=2 dom0pvh=1 console=com1,vga"
xen_kernel="/boot/xen"
The first argument contains the command line that will be passed to the Xen
kernel, while the second argument is the path to the Xen kernel itself. This
can also be done manually from the loader command line, by for example
typing the following set of commands:
OK unload
OK load /boot/xen dom0_mem=1024M dom0_max_vcpus=2 dom0pvh=1 console=com1,vga
OK load kernel
OK load zfs
OK load if_tap
OK load ...
OK boot
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D517
For the Forth bits:
Submitted by: Julien Grall <julien.grall AT citrix.com>
output frequency of the "twiddle" IO progress indicator. The default
value is 1. For larger values N, the next stage of the animation is only
output on every Nth call to the output routine. A sufficiently large N
effectively disables the animation completely.
have chosen different (and more traditional) stateless/statuful
NAT64 as translation mechanism. Last non-trivial commits to both
faith(4) and faithd(8) happened more than 12 years ago, so I assume
it is time to drop RFC3142 in FreeBSD.
No objections from: net@
bootloader. Implement the following routines:
pcibios-device-count count the number of instances of a devid
pcibios-read-config read pci config space
pcibios-write-config write pci config space
pcibios-find-devclass find the nth device with a given devclass
pcibios-find-device find the nth device with a given devid
pcibios-locator convert bus device function ti pcibios locator
These commands are thin wrappers over their PCI BIOS 2.1 counterparts. More
informaiton, such as it is, can be found in the standard.
Export a nunmber of pcibios.X variables into the environment to report
what the PCI IDENTIFY command returned.
Also implmenet a new command line primitive (pci-device-count), but don't
include it by default just yet, since it depends on the recently added
words and any errors here can render a system unbootable.
This is intended to allow the boot loader to do special things based
on the hardware it finds. This could be have special settings that are
optimized for the specific cards, or even loading special drivers. It
goes without saying that writing to pci config space should not be
done without a just cause and a sound mind.
Sponsored by: Netflix
If the user specifies in /boot/loader.conf:
loader_brand="mycustom-brand"
Then "mycustom-brand" will be executed instead of "fbsd-logo".
Submitted by: alfred
Obtained from: FreeNAS
lindev(4) was only used to provide /dev/full which is now a standard feature of
FreeBSD. /dev/full was never linux-specific and provides a generally useful
feature.
Document this in UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version. This will be documented
in the PH shortly.
Reported by: jkim
conditionally include (but ignore failures) /boot/loader.rc.local and
/boot/menu.rc.local -- to make customizing the menu easier.
Reviewed by: alfred
Discussed on: -hackers
