FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
is now ignored for special files, so that mounting root with option
noatime doesn't break reporting of idle times in programs like `w'.
The problem of execessive disk updates just to stamp atimes will be
handled for special files by only writing atimes to disk when inodes
become active. This works well because special files are relatively
uncommon and their atimes are even more disposable at panic time than
regular files' atimes.
1. mark atimes and mtimes of special files and fifos for update upon
successful completion of non-null i/o, not at the beginning of the
syscall.
2. never update file times for readonly filesystems. They were updated
for stats and closes but not for syncs. The updates were of course
only in-core and were thrown away when the inode was uncached, so
the times sometimes appeared to go backwards.
Improved comments in code related to (1) (mostly by removing them).
Unmacroized ITIMES(). The test in (2) bloated it even more. Don't
call getmicrotime() in the function version of it when we only need
the time in seconds.
The slices "struct" isn't really a struct; we allocate only part of
it in the fully dangerously dedicated case. Since the "struct" is
malloced, the page beyond it may not be mapped, so attempts to copy
it would crash. This problem became larger when the full struct was
bloated from < 1K to > 3K by the addition of (mostly unused) DEVFS
tokens some time before 2.2.0 was released.
so that the new behaviour is now default.
Solves the "infinite loop in diversion" problem when more than one diversion
is active.
Man page changes follow.
The new code is in -stable as the NON default option.
printf() of "Out of mbuf clusters - adjust NMBCLUSTERS or increase
maxusers" so that the message is more informative and so that it will
appear in the kernel message buffer.
the alloc is not M_DONTWAIT, then panic with "Out of mbuf clusters".
Callers that specify M_WAIT can't deal with getting a NULL buffer, so this
is a more graceful failure than randomly page faulting in the socket code
or elsewhere.
miscconfigured case) if the port is the console. This fixes several
bugs:
- if all sioprobe()s failed, then the console driver followed null
pointers in cdevsw[].
- if the sioprobe() for the console failed but another sioprobe()
succeeded, then init hung early when the console couldn't be
opened.
- it was silly for the console to not be there after printing boot
messages on it.
Bugs introduced by this are hopefully no worse than old ones caused
by forcing the success of the `cn' level probe.
Only complain about an irq mismatch in the probe if the configured
irq doesn't become active, and then print the bitmap of irqs that
became active (including clock irqs) instead of just the first
(not including clock irqs).
Bugs reported by: msmith
probe and intialisation. This will ultimately remove the grubby (but
functional) hack that copies a real-mode function into low memory
early in locore.s.
layer does not like the null shmid_ds buffer pointer. The emulation layer
returned an error without ever calling FreeBSD's shmctl, so the segments
were not being deleted when the reference count went to zero."
Submitted by: Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
