Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
Off by default, build behaves normally.
WITH_META_MODE we get auto objdir creation, the ability to
start build from anywhere in the tree.
Still need to add real targets under targets/ to build packages.
Differential Revision: D2796
Reviewed by: brooks imp
kernel-based POSIX semaphore descriptors to userland via procstat(1) and
fstat(1):
- Change sem file descriptors to track the pathname they are associated
with and add a ksem_info() method to copy the path out to a
caller-supplied buffer.
- Use the fo_stat() method of shared memory objects and ksem_info() to
export the path, mode, and value of a semaphore via struct kinfo_file.
- Add a struct semstat to the libprocstat(3) interface along with a
procstat_get_sem_info() to export the mode and value of a semaphore.
- Teach fstat about semaphores and to display their path, mode, and value.
MFC after: 2 weeks
via procstat(1) and fstat(1):
- Change shm file descriptors to track the pathname they are associated
with and add a shm_path() method to copy the path out to a caller-supplied
buffer.
- Use the fo_stat() method of shared memory objects and shm_path() to
export the path, mode, and size of a shared memory object via
struct kinfo_file.
- Add a struct shmstat to the libprocstat(3) interface along with a
procstat_get_shm_info() to export the mode and size of a shared memory
object.
- Change procstat to always print out the path for a given object if it
is valid.
- Teach fstat about shared memory objects and to display their path,
mode, and size.
MFC after: 2 weeks
As of FreeBSD 6, devices can only be opened through devfs. These device
nodes don't have major and minor numbers anymore. The st_rdev field in
struct stat is simply based a copy of st_ino.
Simply display device numbers as hexadecimal, using "%#jx". This is
allowed by POSIX, since it explicitly states things like the following
(example taken from ls(1)):
"If the file is a character special or block special file, the
size of the file may be replaced with implementation-defined
information associated with the device in question."
This makes the output of these commands more compact. For example, ls(1)
now uses approximately four columns less. While there, simplify the
column length calculation from ls(1) by calling snprintf() with a NULL
buffer.
Don't be afraid; if needed one can still obtain individual major/minor
numbers using stat(1).
The code did !strncasecmp(str, "sig", 4) which is not useful.
Also change "sig" to "SIG" matching the uppercase signal names as of
r218285. This has little effect because fuser does not enable locale.
file and processes information retrieval from the running kernel via sysctl
in the form of new library, libprocstat. The library also supports KVM backend
for analyzing memory crash dumps. Both procstat(1) and fstat(1) utilities have
been modified to take advantage of the library (as the bonus point the fstat(1)
utility no longer need superuser privileges to operate), and the procstat(1)
utility is now able to display information from memory dumps as well.
The newly introduced fuser(1) utility also uses this library and able to operate
via sysctl and kvm backends.
The library is by no means complete (e.g. KVM backend is missing vnode name
resolution routines, and there're no manpages for the library itself) so I
plan to improve it further. I'm commiting it so it will get wider exposure
and review.
We won't be able to MFC this work as it relies on changes in HEAD, which
was introduced some time ago, that break kernel ABI. OTOH we may be able
to merge the library with KVM backend if we really need it there.
Discussed with: rwatson
Few new things available from now on:
- Data deduplication.
- Triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3).
- zfs diff.
- zpool split.
- Snapshot holds.
- zpool import -F. Allows to rewind corrupted pool to earlier
transaction group.
- Possibility to import pool in read-only mode.
MFC after: 1 month
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Also add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to keep svn happy.
Discussed with: imp, rwatson
This affects only fstat on zfs and devfs, only on 64-bit systems
and only when fsid is greater than 2^31 - 1.
When fstat examines a file via stat(2) it takes uint32_t st_dev
and assigns to (signed) (64-bit) long fsid, this results in
a positive value.
When fstat examines opened files it takes int32_t f_fsid.val[0]
and assigns to (signed) (64-bit) long fsid, this results in
a negative value.
So, while initially st_dev and f_fsid.val[0] have the same bit
values they get promoted to different 64-bit values because
of the signed-vs-unsigned difference.
A fix is to use "more natural" positive numbers by introducing
intermediate unsigned cast for f_fsid.val[0].
Reviewed by: jhb, lulf
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week (to stable/7)
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
needed to promote cdev to cdev_priv, the si_priv pointer was followed.
Use member2struct() to calculate address of the wrapping cdev_priv.
Rename si_priv to __si_reserved.
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: ed
MFC after: 2 weeks
