The pmap update_page/invalidate_page/invalidate_all operations has to be
done only on active cpus. In the simplest case, if the process is not
active on any other CPUs, we can just do the operation on the current CPU.
This change replaces the call to smp_rendezvous() for these operations with
smp_rendezvous_cpus() in case there more than one active CPU, or with a direct
function call if there is just one active CPU.
This change give significant performance increase in fork/exec benchmarks
on XLR/XLS/XLP with 32 cpus.
Reviewed by: alc
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.
Recursive name servers are failing with an assertion:
INSIST(! dns_rdataset_isassociated(sigrdataset))
At this time it is not thought that authoritative-only servers
are affected, but information about this bug is evolving rapidly.
Because it may be possible to trigger this bug even on networks
that do not allow untrusted users to access the recursive name
servers (perhaps via specially crafted e-mail messages, and/or
malicious web sites) it is recommended that ALL operators of
recursive name servers upgrade immediately.
For more information see:
https://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2011-tbd
which will be updated as more information becomes available.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4313
controllers.
More and more RealTek controllers started to implement EEE feature.
Vendor driver seems to load a kind of firmware for EEE with
additional PHY fixups. It is known that the EEE feature may need
ASPM support. Unfortunately there is no documentation for EEE of
the controller so enabling ASPM may cause more problems.
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
declares the proper size of a function. Without this macro recent GNU as will
complain about with:
'Error: .size expression for main does not evaluate to a constant.'
Up to now we produce this:
.L.main:
....
.size main, .-main
With the macro defined the output is this:
.L.main:
....
.size main,.-.L.main
This affects only the 64-bit compiler.
Tested with world and kernel on both, 32 and 64-bit powerpc.
Unnecessarily complex LE format used on Marvell controller was
main reason not to enable 64bit DMA addressing in driver. If high
32bit address of DMA address of TX/RX buffer is changed, driver has
to generate a new LE. In TX path, driver will keep track of lastly
used high 32bit address of DMA address and generate a new LE
whenever it sees high address change in the DMA address. In RX path,
driver will always use two LEs to specify 64bit DMA address of RX
buffer. If the high 32bit address of DMA address of RX buffer is
the same as previous DMA address of RX buffer, driver does not have
to use two LEs but driver will use two LEs for simplicity in RX
ring management.
One of draw back for switching to 64bit DMA addressing is that the
large amount of LEs are used to specify 64bit DMA address such that
number of available LEs for TX/RX buffers are considerably reduced.
To mitigate the issue, increase number of available LEs from 256 to
384 for TX and from 256 to 512 for RX. For 32bit architectures,
msk(4) does not use 64bit DMA addressing to save resources.
Tested by: das
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
yielding a new public interface, vm_page_alloc_contig(). This new function
addresses some of the limitations of the current interfaces, contigmalloc()
and kmem_alloc_contig(). For example, the physically contiguous memory that
is allocated with those interfaces can only be allocated to the kernel vm
object and must be mapped into the kernel virtual address space. It also
provides functionality that vm_phys_alloc_contig() doesn't, such as wiring
the returned pages. Moreover, unlike that function, it respects the low
water marks on the paging queues and wakes up the page daemon when
necessary. That said, at present, this new function can't be applied to all
types of vm objects. However, that restriction will be eliminated in the
coming weeks.
From a design standpoint, this change also addresses an inconsistency
between vm_phys_alloc_contig() and the other vm_phys_alloc*() functions.
Specifically, vm_phys_alloc_contig() manipulated vm_page fields that other
functions in vm/vm_phys.c didn't. Moreover, vm_phys_alloc_contig() knew
about vnodes and reservations. Now, vm_page_alloc_contig() is responsible
for these things.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jhb
can be enabled via the hw.mfi.msi tunable. Many mfi(4) controllers also
support MSI-X, but in testing it seems that many adapters do not work with
MSI-X but do work with MSI.
MFC after: 2 weeks
is actually broken, or needs a BIOS upgrade for 64 bit loads, but this uncovered
a couple of misplaced opcode definitions and some missing continual mbox command
cases, so might as well update them here.
maximum IP datagram size (65535 bytes) +
Ethernet header size (14 bytes) +
2 * VLAN tag size (4 bytes) [1].
[1] We need to multiply by 2 to account for the double VLAN tag
provision added in IEEE 802.1ad.
Submitted by: David Somayajulu (david.somayajulu qlogic.com)
MFC after: 4 days
for regular files. Since other file types don't write into the
buffer cache, calling ncl_flush() is almost a no-op. However, it does
clear the NMODIFIED flag and this shouldn't be done by nfs_fsync() for
directories.
MFC after: 2 weeks
directly from g7, the pcpu pointer. This guarantees correct behavior
when the thread migrates to a different CPU.
Commit message stolen from r205431. Additional testing by Peter Jeremy.
MFC after: 3 days
emits calls for them, rather than expanding them inline. Older FreeBSD
versions compile for i386 by default and as such we end up with
unresolved symbols when we build LLVM's TableGen utility as a build
tool on them. Add the functions that GCC emits here, but don't bother
to make them atomic. Such is not needed.
Submitted by: marcel
MFC after: 1 week
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
layer for old KPI and KBI. New interface should be used together with
d_mmap_single cdevsw method.
Device pager can be allocated with the cdev_pager_allocate(9)
function, which takes struct cdev_pager_ops, containing
constructor/destructor and page fault handler methods supplied by
driver.
Constructor and destructor, called at the pager allocation and
deallocation time, allow the driver to handle per-object private data.
The pager handler is called to handle page fault on the vm map entry
backed by the driver pager. Driver shall return either the vm_page_t
which should be mapped, or error code (which does not cause kernel
panic anymore). The page handler interface has a placeholder to
specify the access mode causing the fault, but currently PROT_READ is
always passed there.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 month
change here is to ensure that when a process forks after arc4random
is seeded, the parent and child don't observe the same random sequence.
OpenBSD's fix introduces some additional overhead in the form of a
getpid() call. This could be improved upon, e.g., by setting a flag
in fork(), if it proves to be a problem.
This was discussed with secteam (simon, csjp, rwatson) in 2008, shortly
prior to my going out of town and forgetting all about it. The conclusion
was that the problem with forks is worrisome, but it doesn't appear to
have introduced an actual vulnerability for any known programs.
The only significant remaining difference between our arc4random and
OpenBSD's is in how we seed the generator in arc4_stir().
OpenBSD's version (r1.22). While some of our style changes were
indeed small improvements, being able to easily track functionality
changes in OpenBSD seems more useful.
Also fix style bugs in the FreeBSD-specific parts of this file.
No functional changes, as verified with md5.
before the nfs_decode_args() call in the new NFS client, so
that a specfied command line value won't be overwritten.
Also, modify the calculation for small values of desiredvnodes
to avoid an unusually large value or a divide by zero crash.
It seems that the default value for nm_wcommitsize is very
conservative and may need to change at some time.
PR: kern/159351
Submitted by: onwahe at gmail.com (earlier version)
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
