Add an "nextnoskip" sysctl that allows for listing of sysctls intended to be
normally skipped for cost reasons.
This makes it so the names/descriptions of those sysctls can be discovered with
sysctl -aN/sysctl -ad/sysctl -at.
It also makes it so children are visited when a node flagged with CTLFLAG_SKIP
is explicitly requested.
The intended use case is to mark the root "kstat" node with CTLFLAG_SKIP so that
the extensive and expensive stats are skipped by default but may still be easily
obtained without having to know them all (which may not even be possible) and
request each one-by-one.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26560
- Change the type of hw.pagesizes to OPAQUE, since it returns an array.
- Modify the handler to only truncate the returned length if the caller
supplied an output buffer. This allows use of the trick of passing a
NULL output buffer to fetch the output size, while preserving
compatibility if MAXPAGESIZES is increased.
- Add a "S,pagesize" formatter to sysctl(8).
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26239
-n omits the name of the variable regardless of the type of information that is
requested. Rephrase to clarify this point.
PR: 242191
Submitted by: stilezy@gmail.com
Approved by: emaste@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26149
A big security advantage of Wayland is not allowing applications to read
input devices all the time. Having /dev/input/* accessible to the user
account subverts this advantage.
libudev-devd was opening the evdev devices to detect their types (mouse,
keyboard, touchpad, etc). This don't work if /dev/input/* is inaccessible.
With the kernel exposing this information as sysctls (kern.evdev.input.*),
we can work w/o /dev/input/* access, preserving the Wayland security model.
Submitted by: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
Reviewed by: wulf, imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18694
Use nitems(), do not assume EFI_MD_TYPE_ contiguous allocation, in
particular, switch to use designated array initializers.
Reviewed by: jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: re (gjb)
Add PersistentMemory to the list of sysctl's known memory types
when decoding an EFI memory map.
Submitted by: D Scott Phillips <d.scott.phillips@intel.com>
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
This helps with pkgbase to tag this config file as a config file.
Approved by: allanjude (mentor), will (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16559
Most sysctl nodes only return a single value, but some nodes return an
array of values (e.g. kern.cp_time). sysctl(8) understand how to display
the values of a node that returns multiple values (it prints out each
numeric value separated by spaces). However, until now sysctl(8) has
only been able to set sysctl nodes to a single value. This change
allows sysctl to accept a new value for a numeric sysctl node that contains
multiple values separated by either spaces or commas. sysctl(8) parses
this list into an array of values and passes the array as the "new" value
to sysctl(2).
Reviewed by: rpokala
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14569
S_vmtotal:
Use unsigned format to print unsigned memory counters from struct
vmtotal.
Remove unneeded cast, style locals declarations.
S_efi_map:
Make printing of the memory regions descriptions less MD by
using uintmax_t formats.
Noted by and discussed with: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
The intent is to skip expensive opaque sysctls like tcp_pcblist unless
they are explicitly requested. Sysctl nodes like this don't show up in
sysctl -a, but they do generate output that winds up being dropped,
unless the user specifically requested binary/hex output or opaques.
This reduces the runtime of sysctl in many circumstances on a loaded
system. It also reduces the likelihood that simply gathering
diagnostics on a sick machine (stuck lock, etc) via sysctl -a might
push it over the edge into a total lockup.
Reviewed by: jtl
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11461
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
This reduces the noise in error reporing from sysctl(8):
Before:
$ sysctl bla=something
sysctl: unknown oid 'bla': No such file or directory
After:
$ sysctl bla=something
sysctl: unknown oid 'bla'
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Gandi.net
Off by default, build behaves normally.
WITH_META_MODE we get auto objdir creation, the ability to
start build from anywhere in the tree.
Still need to add real targets under targets/ to build packages.
Differential Revision: D2796
Reviewed by: brooks imp
sysctl... This is useful for kern.arandom which (without -B) will
happily return 0 bytes, which isn't too useful or random...
fix spelling (thanks igor!) of settable while I'm here...
optional attributes field.
- Add a 'machdep.smap' sysctl that exports the SMAP table of the running
system as an array of the ACPI 3.0 structure. (On older systems, the
attributes are given a value of zero.) Note that the sysctl only
exports the SMAP table if it is available via the metadata passed from
the loader to the kernel. If an SMAP is not available, an empty array
is returned.
- Add a format handler for the ACPI 3.0 SMAP structure to the sysctl(8)
binary to format the SMAP structures in a readable format similar to
the format found in boot messages.
MFC after: 2 weeks
