share/man/man4/Makefile,
share/man/man4/xnb.4,
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c,
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback_unit_tests.c:
Rewrote the netback driver for xen to attach properly via newbus
and work properly in both HVM and PVM mode (only HVM is tested).
Works with the in-tree FreeBSD netfront driver or the Windows
netfront driver from SuSE. Has not been extensively tested with
a Linux netfront driver. Does not implement LRO, TSO, or
polling. Includes unit tests that may be run through sysctl
after compiling with XNB_DEBUG defined.
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c,
sys/xen/interface/io/netif.h:
Comment elaboration.
sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c:
Fix page fault in kernel mode when calling m_print() on a
null mbuf. Since m_print() is only used for debugging, there
are no performance concerns for extra error checking code.
sys/kern/subr_scanf.c:
Add the "hh" and "ll" width specifiers from C99 to scanf().
A few callers were already using "ll" even though scanf()
was handling it as "l".
Submitted by: Alan Somers <alans@spectralogic.com>
Submitted by: John Suykerbuyk <johns@spectralogic.com>
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: ken
text there was so much outdated that it required a complete
rewrite even for inet.4, not mentioning inet6.4. There is
no reason to keep it in the manual page.
selection in snd_hda(4) driver.
Now driver tracks jack presence detection status for every CODEC pin. For
playback associations, when configured, that information, same as before,
can be used to automatically redirect audio to headphones. Also same as
before, these events are used to track digital display connection status
and fetch ELD. Now in addition to that driver uses that information to
automatically switch recording source of the mixer to the connected input.
When there are devices with no jack detection and with one both connected,
last ones will have the precedence. As result, on most laptops after boot
internal microphone should be automatically selected. But if external one
(for example, headset) connected, it will be selected automatically.
When external mic disconnected, internal one will be selected again.
Automatic recording source selection is enabled by default now to make
recording work out of the box without touching mixer. But it can be
disabled or limited only to attach time using hint.pcm.X.rec.autosrc loader
tunables or dev.pcm.X.rec.autosrc sysctls.
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
These functions take a `struct cdev *' -- not a dev_t. Inside the
kernel, dev_t has the same use as in userspace, namely to store a device
identifier.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Huge old hdac driver was split into three independent pieces: HDA
controller driver (hdac), HDA CODEC driver (hdacc) and HDA sudio function
driver (hdaa).
- Support for multichannel recording was added. Now, as specification
defines, driver checks input associations for pins with sequence numbers
14 and 15, and if found (usually) -- works as before, mixing signals
together. If it doesn't, it configures input association as multichannel.
- Signal tracer was improved to look for cases where several DACs/ADCs in
CODEC can work with the same audio signal. If such case found, driver
registers additional playback/record stream (channel) for the pcm device.
- New controller streams reservation mechanism was implemented. That
allows to have more pcm devices then streams supported by the controller
(usually 4 in each direction). Now it limits only number of simultaneously
transferred audio streams, that is rarely reachable and properly reported
if happens.
- Codec pins and GPIO signals configuration was exported via set of
writable sysctls. Another sysctl dev.hdaa.X.reconfig allows to trigger
driver reconfiguration in run-time.
- Driver now decodes pins location and connector type names. In some cases
it allows to hint user where on the system case connectors, related to the
pcm device, are located. Number of channels supported by pcm device,
reported now (if it is not 2), should also make search easier.
- Added workaround for digital mic on some Asus laptops/netbooks.
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Document the current semantics of the 'quiet' command prefix
in the rc.subr(8).
Fix dhclient rc.d script: it should not call err() for
non-DHCP-enabled interface when it is called from devd, because the
latter just blindly calls 'service dhclient quietstart' on each "link
up" event.
Since the 'quietstart' will silence the message "Cannot 'start' <foo>.
Set <foo>_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or use 'onestart' instead of
'start'." and running dhclient on the non-DHCP-enabled interface is
the same thing as running the service <foo> without <foo>_enable set,
such modification is in sync with the current semantics of the 'quiet'
prefix.
Approved by: glebius
Reviewed by: freebsd-rc list
MFC after: 2 weeks
This switches us to using -isoC-2011 as the symbol name which is used by
groff and mdocml. It follows the change to 4 digit years as done with
IEEE Std 1003 post-1999.
MFC after: 2 weeks (groff changes only)
The macro construction used now, is almost identical to the code
provided in C11 proposal N1404. This new version doesn't seem to
introduce any regressions according to the regression test in tools/,
but still seems to malfunction with Clang on certain aspects.
The new code does work successfully with GCC 4.2, 4.6 and 4.7. With 4.7,
it also works when __generic() is implemented on top of _Generic().
Discussed with: stefanf
I was considering adding it to libc as well, but last minute I thought
it would be good enough to add it to libkern exclusively. I forgot to
rename the man page and hook it up.
It seems two of the file system drivers we have in the tree, namely ufs
and ext3, use a function called `skpc()'. The meaning of this function
does not seem to be documented in FreeBSD, but it turns out one needs to
be a VAX programmer to understand what it does.
SPKC is an instruction on the VAX that does the opposite of memchr(). It
searches for the non-equal character. Add a new function called
memcchr() to the tree that has the following advantages over skpc():
- It has a name that makes more sense than skpc(). Just like strcspn()
matches the complement of strspn(), memcchr() is the complement of
memchr().
- It is faster than skpc(). Similar to our strlen() in libc, it compares
entire words, instead of single bytes. It seems that for this routine
this yields a sixfold performance increase on amd64.
- It has a man page.
aspect of time stamp configuration per interface rather than per BPF
descriptor. Prior to this, the order in which BPF devices were opened and the
per descriptor time stamp configuration settings could cause non-deterministic
and unintended behaviour with respect to time stamping. With the new scheme, a
BPF attached interface's tscfg sysctl entry can be set to "default", "none",
"fast", "normal" or "external". Setting "default" means use the system default
option (set with the net.bpf.tscfg.default sysctl), "none" means do not
generate time stamps for tapped packets, "fast" means generate time stamps for
tapped packets using a hz granularity system clock read, "normal" means
generate time stamps for tapped packets using a full timecounter granularity
system clock read and "external" (currently unimplemented) means use the time
stamp provided with the packet from an underlying source.
- Utilise the recently introduced sysclock_getsnapshot() and
sysclock_snap2bintime() KPIs to ensure the system clock is only read once per
packet, regardless of the number of BPF descriptors and time stamp formats
requested. Use the per BPF attached interface time stamp configuration to
control if sysclock_getsnapshot() is called and whether the system clock read
is fast or normal. The per BPF descriptor time stamp configuration is then
used to control how the system clock snapshot is converted to a bintime by
sysclock_snap2bintime().
- Remove all FAST related BPF descriptor flag variants. Performing a "fast"
read of the system clock is now controlled per BPF attached interface using
the net.bpf.tscfg sysctl tree.
- Update the bpf.4 man page.
Committed on behalf of Julien Ridoux and Darryl Veitch from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, as part of the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Feed-Forward
Clock Synchronization Algorithms" project.
For more information, see http://www.synclab.org/radclock/
In collaboration with: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
7.x, 8.x and 9.x with pf(4) imports: pfsync(4) should suppress CARP
preemption, while it is running its bulk update.
However, reimplement the feature in more elegant manner, that is
partially inspired by newer OpenBSD:
- Rename term "suppression" to "demotion", to match with OpenBSD.
- Keep a global demotion factor, that can be raised by several
conditions, for now these are:
- interface goes down
- carp(4) has problems with ip_output() or ip6_output()
- pfsync performs bulk update
- Unlike in OpenBSD the demotion factor isn't a counter, but
is actual value added to advskew. The adjustment values for
particular error conditions are also configurable, and their
defaults are maximum advskew value, so a single failure bumps
demotion to maximum. This is for POLA compatibility, and should
satisfy most users.
- Demotion factor is a writable sysctl, so user can do
foot shooting, if he desires to.
from scratch, copying needed functionality from the old implemenation
on demand, with a thorough review of all code. The main change is that
interface layer has been removed from the CARP. Now redundant addresses
are configured exactly on the interfaces, they run on.
The CARP configuration itself is, as before, configured and read via
SIOCSVH/SIOCGVH ioctls. A new prefix created with SIOCAIFADDR or
SIOCAIFADDR_IN6 may now be configured to a particular virtual host id,
which makes the prefix redundant.
ifconfig(8) semantics has been changed too: now one doesn't need
to clone carpXX interface, he/she should directly configure a vhid
on a Ethernet interface.
To supply vhid data from the kernel to an application the getifaddrs(8)
function had been changed to pass ifam_data with each address. [1]
The new implementation definitely closes all PRs related to carp(4)
being an interface, and may close several others. It also allows
to run a single redundant IP per interface.
Big thanks to Bjoern Zeeb for his help with inet6 part of patch, for
idea on using ifam_data and for several rounds of reviewing!
PR: kern/117000, kern/126945, kern/126714, kern/120130, kern/117448
Reviewed by: bz
Submitted by: bz [1]
- Device configuration via plain text config file. Also able to operate
when not attached to the chip as the master driver.
- Generic "work request" queue that serves as the base for both ctrl and
ofld tx queues.
- Generic interrupt handler routine that can process any event on any
kind of ingress queue (via a dispatch table).
- A couple of new driver ioctls. cxgbetool can now install a firmware
to the card ("loadfw" command) and can read the card's memory
("memdump" and "tcb" commands).
- Lots of assorted information within dev.t4nex.X.misc.* This is
primarily for debugging and won't show up in sysctl -a.
- Code to manage the L2 tables on the chip.
- Updates to cxgbe(4) man page to go with the tunables that have changed.
- Updates to the shared code in common/
- Updates to the driver-firmware interface (now at fw 1.4.16.0)
MFC after: 1 month
objects created by shm_open(2) into the kernel's address space. This
provides a convenient way for creating shared memory buffers between
userland and the kernel without requiring custom character devices.
to known AHCI-capable chips (AMD/NVIDIA), configured for legacy emulation.
Enabled by default to get additional performance and functionality of AHCI
when it can't be enabled by BIOS. Can be disabled to honor BIOS settings if
needed for some reason.
MFC after: 1 month
to enable and configure the functionality.
Committed on behalf of Julien Ridoux and Darryl Veitch from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, as part of the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Feed-Forward
Clock Synchronization Algorithms" project.
For more information, see http://www.synclab.org/radclock/
Discussed with: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
its mechanisms, pointing at other pertinent man pages, and cautioning about
the experimental status of Capsicum in FreeBSD.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Google, Inc.
and DEVMETHOD() we can fully hide the explicit mention of kobj(9) from
device drivers.
- Update the example in driver.9 to use DEVMETHOD_END.
Submitted by: jhb
MFC after: 3 days
Tested on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and BHyVe.
Currently built as modules-only on i386/amd64. Man pages not yet hooked
up, pending review.
Submitted by: Bryan Venteicher bryanv at daemoninthecloset dot org
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 4 weeks or so
I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/
plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in
tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1]
In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel
with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code
that you can find in
sys/dev/netmap/head.diff
The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to
the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days
after talking to the driver maintainers.
Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G
cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re").
I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe".
Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties
can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me
for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices.
CREDITS:
Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators
at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE
(http://www.change-project.eu/)
The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright.
[1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory.
We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains
the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code
in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is
the policy used for all of userspace code.
Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the
manpages in the relevant subdirs.
This enables locking consumers to pass their own structures around as const and
be able to assert locks embedded into those structures.
Reviewed by: ed, kib, jhb
based on Solarflare SFC9000 family controllers. The driver supports jumbo
frames, transmit/receive checksum offload, TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO),
Large Receive Offload (LRO), VLAN checksum offload, VLAN TSO, and Receive Side
Scaling (RSS) using MSI-X interrupts.
This work was sponsored by Solarflare Communications, Inc.
My sincere thanks to Ben Hutchings for doing a lot of the hard work!
Sponsored by: Solarflare Communications, Inc.
MFC after: 3 weeks
curthread-accessing part of mtx_{,un}lock(9) when using a r210623-style
curthread implementation on sparc64, crashing the kernel in its early
cycles as PCPU isn't set up, yet (and can't be set up as OFW is one of the
things we need for that, which leads to a chicken-and-egg problem). What
happens is that due to the fact that the idea of r210623 actually is to
allow the compiler to cache invocations of curthread, it factors out
obtaining curthread needed for both mtx_lock(9) and mtx_unlock(9) to
before the branch based on kobj_mutex_inited when compiling the kernel
without the debugging options. So change kobj_class_compile_static(9)
to just never acquire kobj_mtx, effectively restricting it to its
documented use, and add a kobj_init_static(9) for initializing objects
using a class compiled with the former and that also avoids using mutex(9)
(and malloc(9)). Also assert in both of these functions that they are
used in their intended way only.
While at it, inline kobj_register_method() and kobj_unregister_method()
as there wasn't much point for factoring them out in the first place
and so that a reader of the code has to figure out the locking for
fewer functions missing a KOBJ_ASSERT.
Tested on powerpc{,64} by andreast.
Reviewed by: nwhitehorn (earlier version), jhb
MFC after: 3 days
