as it could be and can do with some more cleanup. Currently its under
options LAZY_SWITCH. What this does is avoid %cr3 reloads for short
context switches that do not involve another user process. ie: we can
take an interrupt, switch to a kthread and return to the user without
explicitly flushing the tlb. However, this isn't as exciting as it could
be, the interrupt overhead is still high and too much blocks on Giant
still. There are some debug sysctls, for stats and for an on/off switch.
The main problem with doing this has been "what if the process that you're
running on exits while we're borrowing its address space?" - in this case
we use an IPI to give it a kick when we're about to reclaim the pmap.
Its not compiled in unless you add the LAZY_SWITCH option. I want to fix a
few more things and get some more feedback before turning it on by default.
This is NOT a replacement for Bosko's lazy interrupt stuff. This was more
meant for the kthread case, while his was for interrupts. Mine helps a
little for interrupts, but his helps a lot more.
The stats are enabled with options SWTCH_OPTIM_STATS - this has been a
pseudo-option for years, I just added a bunch of stuff to it.
One non-trivial change was to select a new thread before calling
cpu_switch() in the first place. This allows us to catch the silly
case of doing a cpu_switch() to the current process. This happens
uncomfortably often. This simplifies a bit of the asm code in cpu_switch
(no longer have to call choosethread() in the middle). This has been
implemented on i386 and (thanks to jake) sparc64. The others will come
soon. This is actually seperate to the lazy switch stuff.
Glanced at by: jake, jhb
kernel opition 'options PAE'. This will only work with device drivers which
either use busdma, or are able to handle 64 bit physical addresses.
Thanks to Lanny Baron from FreeBSD Systems for the loan of a test machine
with 6 gigs of ram.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories, FreeBSD Systems
in a debugging feature causing M_NOWAIT allocations to fail at
a specified rate. This can be useful for detecting poor
handling of M_NOWAIT: the most frequent problems I've bumped
into are unconditional deference of the pointer even though
it's NULL, and hangs as a result of a lost event where memory
for the event couldn't be allocated. Two sysctls are added:
debug.malloc.failure_rate
How often to generate a failure: if set to 0 (default), this
feature is disabled. Otherwise, the frequency of failures --
I've been using 10 (one in ten mallocs fails), but other
popular settings might be much lower or much higher.
debug.malloc.failure_count
Number of times a coerced malloc failure has occurred as a
result of this feature. Useful for tracking what might have
happened and whether failures are being generated.
Useful possible additions: tying failure rate to malloc type,
printfs indicating the thread that experienced the coerced
failure.
Reviewed by: jeffr, jhb
This keeps the logical cpu's halted in the idle loop. By default
the logical cpu's are halted at startup. It is also possible to
halt any cpu in the idle loop now using machdep.hlt_cpus.
Examples of how to use this:
machdep.hlt_cpus=1 halt cpu0
machdep.hlt_cpus=2 halt cpu1
machdep.hlt_cpus=4 halt cpu2
machdep.hlt_cpus=3 halt cpu0,cpu1
Reviewed by: jhb, peter
allows you to tell ip_output to fragment all outgoing packets
into mbuf fragments of size net.inet.ip.mbuf_frag_size bytes.
This is an excellent way to test if network drivers can properly
handle long mbuf chains being passed to them.
net.inet.ip.mbuf_frag_size defaults to 0 (no fragmentation)
so that you can at least boot before your network driver dies. :)
on future UltraSPARC cpus for which the data cache is not direct mapped.
- Move UltraSPARC I and II (spitfire, blackbird, sapphire, sabre) specific
functions to spitfire.c, and add cheetah.c for UltraSPARC III specific
functions. Initially just cache flushing, but there are a few other
functions that will need to move here.
- Add an ipi handler for data cache flushing on UltraSPARC III.
- Use function pointers to select the right cache flushing functions based
on cpu_impl.
With this it is possible to boot single user from an mfs root on UltraSPARC
III systems, including spinning up secondary processors. There is currently
no support for the host to pci bridge, and no documentation for it is
publically available.
Thanks to Oleg Derevenetz for providing access to a system with UltraSPARC
III+ cpus.
conditional in each driver on foo_RNDTEST being defined_
o bring HIFN_DEBUG and UBSEC_DEBUG out to be visible options; they control
the debugging printfs that are set with hw.foo.debug (e.g. hw.hifn.debug)
monitors the entropy data harvested by crypto drivers to verify it complies
with FIPS 140-2. If data fails any test then the driver discards it and
commences continuous testing of harvested data until it is deemed ok.
Results are collected in a statistics block and, optionally, reported on
the console. In normal use the overhead associated with this driver is
not noticeable.
Note that drivers must (currently) be compiled specially to enable use.
Obtained from: original code by Jason L. Wright
is more robust and prevents the hijacking of /dev/console for the typical
mistake.
Remove unneeded MAJOR_AUTO uses, it is only needed explicitly now if the
driver source has cross-branch compatibility to old releases.
included in XFree86 4.3, but includes some fixes. Notable changes include
Radeon 8500-9100 support, PCI Radeon/Rage 128 support, transform & lighting
support for Radeons, and vblank syncing support for r128, radeon, and mga.
The gamma driver was removed due to lack of any users.
drain routines are done by swi_net, which allows for better queue control
at some future point. Packets may also be directly dispatched to a netisr
instead of queued, this may be of interest at some installations, but
currently defaults to off.
Reviewed by: hsu, silby, jayanth, sam
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
permit users and groups to bind ports for TCP or UDP, and is intended
to be combined with the recently committed support for
net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh. The policy is twiddled using
sysctl(8). To use this module, you will need to compile in MAC
support, and probably set reservedhigh to 0, then twiddle
security.mac.portacl.rules to set things as desired. This policy
module only restricts ports explicitly bound using bind(), not
implicitly bound ports where the port number is selected by the
IP stack. It appears to work properly in my local configuration,
but needs more broad testing.
A sample policy might be:
# sysctl security.mac.portacl.rules="uid:425:tcp:80,uid:425:tcp:79"
This permits uid 425 to bind TCP sockets to ports 79 and 80. Currently
no distinction is made for incoming vs. outgoing ports with TCP,
although that would probably be easy to add.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Always use sys/conf/kern.mk when building kernel/modules.
<bsd.kern.mk> is only preserved for sys/boot/pc98/boot2
for now, but this will be fixed. If there are other
users of <bsd.kern.mk>, please let me know.
Reminded by: bde
