The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
Remove pw_getrand() unneded now: arc4random_uniform() is stronger then
pw_getrand()'s MD5 tricks (inactive) and its active version, mixing
arc4random() bytes in one, not make things better at all.
Now we have a single /dev/snp device node, which can be opened by
watch(8) multiple times. Even though snp(4) will be dead as of next
week, it's nice having this in SVN, because:
- We may want to MFC it to RELENG_7.
- By the time we fix snp(4) again, it's already there, existing watch(8)
binaries should already work.
Just like bpf(4), I'm adding a symlink from snp0 to snp to remain binary
compatible.
features of CPUs like reading/writing machine-specific registers,
retrieving cpuid data, and updating microcode.
- Add cpucontrol(8) utility, that provides userland access to
the features of cpuctl(4).
- Add subsequent manpages.
The cpuctl(4) device operates as follows. The pseudo-device node cpuctlX
is created for each cpu present in the systems. The pseudo-device minor
number corresponds to the cpu number in the system. The cpuctl(4) pseudo-
device allows a number of ioctl to be preformed, namely RDMSR/WRMSR/CPUID
and UPDATE. The first pair alows the caller to read/write machine-specific
registers from the correspondent CPU. cpuid data could be retrieved using
the CPUID call, and microcode updates are applied via UPDATE.
The permissions are inforced based on the pseudo-device file permissions.
RDMSR/CPUID will be allowed when the caller has read access to the device
node, while WRMSR/UPDATE will be granted only when the node is opened
for writing. There're also a number of priv(9) checks.
The cpucontrol(8) utility is intened to provide userland access to
the cpuctl(4) device features. The utility also allows one to apply
cpu microcode updates.
Currently only Intel and AMD cpus are supported and were tested.
Approved by: kib
Reviewed by: rpaulo, cokane, Peter Jeremy
MFC after: 1 month
non-matching index lines. This fixes a bug where bogus warnings would
be printed file has the wrong file flags AND has been updated by
FreeBSD Update.
Reported by: Royce Williams
dump or minidump). When the script is run, it generates a text file
containing the output of several commands run againt the core dump such
as kgdb (stack trace), ps, netstat, vmstat, iostat, dmesg, and fstat.
Obtained from: Yahoo!
MFC after: 2 weeks
version of freebsd-update, but I took it out when I rewrote everything
and added FreeBSD Update to the base system because I didn't think it
was useful. It turns out that quite a few people liked it and wanted
it back.
Requested by: Royce Williams + others
MFC after: 2 weeks
setting. When the scripts were converted to Bourne shell, this was
removed. The adduser script was changed to use an explicit path for
the pw(8) command so that /usr/sbin did not have to be in the user's
PATH. The rmuser script continued to assume that /usr/sbin was in the
user's path, however. This fixes the rmuser script to use an explicit
path for pw(8) similar to adduser.
MFC after: 2 weeks
sanity check by invoking "pwd_mkdb -C". However, if this failed it
silently returned success. Fix this so it fails the update operation
instead.
MFC after: 1 week
When I ported most applications away from <sgtty.h>, I noticed none of
them were actually using these definitions. I kept them in place,
because I didn't want to touch tools like pstat(8) and stty(1).
In preparation for the MPSAFE TTY layer, remove these definitions. This
doesn't have any impact with respect to binary compatibility (see
tty_conf.c).
We couldn now add an #error to <sys/ioctl_compat.h> when included
outside the kernel. Unfortunately, kdump's mkioctls includes this file
unconditionally.
Approved by: philip (mentor)
The changes to make the option work are already in place, but I missed
the patch hunk that adds it to the getopt() option-handling loop.
Pointy hat: keramida
Approved by: flz
MFC after: 1 week
directory [1]
- add the FILES section to the wpa_supplicant.conf.5 file, so that people
will be able to detect the example configuration file easier. [2]
PR: docs/121821 [2]
Approved by: brooks [1]
MFC after: 3 days
unless explicitly provided by MAILTO= line in crontab. This feature can be
useful in massive hosting environment, where most users do not care about
autogenerated mails.
Setting recipient to null string disables default mails at all.
Approved by: yar
MFC after: 4 weeks
shell (which was the problem with the original implementation) and avoid
letting make see an empty definition (which was the problem with the current
implementation).
- advise to use rc script to SIGHUP mountd
- add information about possiblity of using /prefix network notation [1]
PR: docs/124373
Reviewed by: jhb
Obtained from: NetBSD [1]
MFC after: 3 days
provides the correct semantics for flock(2) style locks which are used by the
lockf(1) command line tool and the pidfile(3) library. It also implements
recovery from server restarts and ensures that dirty cache blocks are written
to the server before obtaining locks (allowing multiple clients to use file
locking to safely share data).
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems
PR: 94256
MFC after: 2 weeks
their [Manufacturer] sections and prevent a case that NDIS_PCI_DEV_TABLE
definition was always emitted that it's only emitted once if a .INF file
is for PCI.
- updating: terminating '\n' is not part of the package origin.
- bump PKG_INSTALL_VERSION to 20080612.
PR: bin/119368 [1], bin/124459 [2]
Submitted by: gcooper [1], Beat Gatzi <beat@chruetertee.ch> [2]
MFC after: 3 days
In the FreeBSD base system, there are only two utilities that use struct
tty, namely pstat and sicontrol. The sicontrol utility calls the
TCSI_TTY ioctl(), which copies struct tty back to userspace.
sicontrol should not have this functionality. The same data is already
provided by pstat. If we really want to be able to export these numbers
through a file descriptor to userspace, we can export struct xtty, which
should provide a better abstraction. The ttystat option was only used as
a debugging aid.
This makes sicontrol compile in the mpsafetty branch.
Reviewed by: peter
Approved by: philip (mentor)
