It's not immediately clear by what mechanism loader(8) will be loading the
preloaded file. Specifically name-drop loader.conf(5) with a pointer to the
module loading section and a description of what the 'name' should look
like, because that certainly isn't clear from the loader.conf(5) standpoint.
The default loader.conf already has a pointer to md(4) where it appears and
the reference to loader.conf in the new version of this manpage should make
it more clear that this is where one should look for information.
Reported by: swills
Reviewed by: swills, manpages (bcr)
With revision by: imp
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22844
This allows cheapest DRAM-less NVMe SSDs to use some of host RAM (about
1MB per 1GB on the devices I have) for its metadata cache, significantly
improving random I/O performance. Device reports minimal and preferable
size of the buffer. The code limits it to 1% of physical RAM by default.
If the buffer can not be allocated or below minimal size, the device will
just have to work without it.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
An i2c bus can be divided into segments which can be selectively connected
and disconnected from the main bus. This is usually done to enable using
multiple slave devices having the same address, by isolating the devices
onto separate bus segments, only one of which is connected to the main bus
at once.
There are several types of i2c bus muxes, which break down into two general
categories...
- Muxes which are themselves i2c slaves. These devices respond to i2c
commands on their upstream bus, and based on those commands, connect
various downstream buses to the upstream. In newbus terms, they are both
a child of an iicbus and the parent of one or more iicbus instances.
- Muxes which are not i2c devices themselves. Such devices are part of the
i2c bus electrically, but in newbus terms their parent is some other
bus. The association with the upstream bus must be established by
separate metadata (such as FDT data).
In both cases, the mux driver has one or more iicbus child instances
representing the downstream buses. The mux driver implements the iicbus_if
interface, as if it were an iichb host bridge/i2c controller driver. It
services the IO requests sent to it by forwarding them to the iicbus
instance representing the upstream bus, after electrically connecting the
upstream bus to the downstream bus that hosts the i2c slave device which
made the IO request.
The net effect is automatic mux switching which is transparent to slaves on
the downstream buses. They just do i2c IO they way they normally do, and the
bus is electrically connected for the duration of the IO and then idled when
it is complete.
The existing iicbus_if callback() method is enhanced so that the parameter
passed to it can be a struct which contains a device_t for the requesting
bus and slave devices. This change is done by adding a flag that indicates
the extra values are present, and making the flags field the first field of
a new args struct. If the flag is set, the iichb or mux driver can recast
the pointer-to-flags into a pointer-to-struct and access the extra
fields. Thus abi compatibility with older drivers is retained (but a mux
cannot exist on the bus with the older iicbus driver in use.)
A new set of core support routines exists in iicbus.c. This code will help
implement mux drivers for any type of mux hardware by supplying all the
boilerplate code that forwards IO requests upstream. It also has code for
parsing metadata and instantiating the child iicbus instances based on it.
Two new hardware mux drivers are added. The ltc430x driver supports the
LTC4305/4306 mux chips which are controlled via i2c commands. The
iic_gpiomux driver supports any mux hardware which is controlled by
manipulating the state of one or more gpio pins. Test Plan
Tested locally using a variety of mux'd bus configurations involving both
ltc4305 and a homebrew gpio-controlled mux. Tested configurations included
cascaded muxes (unlikely in the real world, but useful to prove that 'it all
just works' in terms of the automatic switching and upstream forwarding of
IO requests).
- Don't allow an unprivileged user to set the stride. [1]
- Only set the stride under the softc lock.
- Rename the internal fields to accurately reflect their use. Keep
ro_bkt to avoid changing the user API.
- Simplify the implementation. The port index is just sc_seq / stride.
- Document rr_limit in ifconfig.8.
Reported by: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@ioactive.com> [1]
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22857
There are probably bits that are still wrong, but this fixes some
things at least:
- Add named arguments to the functions in crypto(9).
- Add missing algorithms.
- Don't mention arguments that don't exist in crypto_register.
- Add CIOGSESSION2.
- Remove CIOCNFSESSION.
- Clarify some stale language that assumed an fd had only one sesson.
- Note that you have to use CRIOGET and add a note in BUGS lamenting
that one has to use CRIOGET.
- Various other cleanups.
Reviewed by: cem (earlier version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22784
than "/compat/linux". Useful when you have several compat directories
with different Linux versions and you don't want to clash with files
installed by linux-c7 packages.
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22574
The datasheets for these chips claim the maximum is 921,600, but testing
shows these two higher rates also work (but no rates above 921,600 other
than these two work; these represent dividing the base buad clock by 3 and 2
respectively).
o Remove All Rights Reserved from my notices
o imp@FreeBSD.org everywhere
o regularize punctiation, eliminate date ranges
o Make sure that it's clear that I don't claim All Rights reserved by listing
All Rights Reserved on same line as other copyright holders (but not
me). Other such holders are also listed last where it's clear.
This makes it possible to retrieve per-connection statistical
information such as the receive window size, RTT, or goodput,
using a newly added TCP_STATS getsockopt(3) option, and extract
them using the stats_voistat_fetch(3) API.
See the net/tcprtt port for an example consumer of this API.
Compared to the existing TCP_INFO system, the main differences
are that this mechanism is easy to extend without breaking ABI,
and provides statistical information instead of raw "snapshots"
of values at a given point in time. stats(3) is more generic
and can be used in both userland and the kernel.
Reviewed by: thj
Tested by: thj
Obtained from: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Klara Inc, Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20655
FDT bindings document for gpio-i2c devices.
Using the gpio_pin_* functions to acquire/release/manipulate gpio pins
removes the constraint that both gpio pins must belong to the same gpio
controller/bank, and that the gpioiic instance must be a child of gpiobus.
Removing those constraints allows the driver to be fully compatible with
the modern dts bindings for a gpio bitbanged i2c bus.
For hinted attachment, the two gpio pins still must be on the same gpiobus,
and the device instance must be a child of that bus. This preserves
compatibility for existing installations that have use gpioiic(4) with hints.
It was introduced by r290122, but no documentation was provided.
This is taken from https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21798, since it
is not related to the feature added there.
Submitted by: Richard Scheffenegger
MFC after: 1 week
Generally, it's preferred that an application fork/setsid if it doesn't want
to keep its controlling TTY, but it could be that a debugger is trying to
steal it instead -- so it would hook in, drop the controlling TTY, then do
some magic to set things up again. In this case, TIOCNOTTY is quite handy
and still respected by at least OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Linux as far as I can
tell.
I've dropped the note about obsoletion, as I intend to support TIOCNOTTY as
long as it doesn't impose a major burden.
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages), kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22572
This driver was largely rewritten in 2015 (svn r235911) but the man page was
never updated to match.
Reviewed by: trasz
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Axcient
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22339
This driver allows to usage of the paravirt SCSI controller
in VMware products like ESXi. The pvscsi driver provides a
substantial performance improvement in block devices versus
the emulated mpt and mps SCSI/SAS controllers.
Error handling in this driver has not been extensively tested
yet.
Submitted by: vbhakta@vmware.com
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: VMware, Panzura
Differential Revision: D18613
Previously ntb_transport(4) required at least 6 scratchpad registers,
plus 2 more for each additional memory window. That is too much for some
configurations, where several drivers have to share resources of the same
NTB hardware. This patch introduces new compact version of the protocol,
requiring only 3 scratchpad registers, plus one more for each additional
memory window. The optimization is based on fact that neither of version,
number of windows or number of queue pairs really need more then one byte
each, and window sizes of 4GB are not very useful now. The new protocol
is activated automatically when the configuration is low on scratchpad
registers, or it can be activated explicitly with loader tunable.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Address Lookup Table (A-LUT) being enabled allows to specify separate
translation for each 1/128th or 1/256th of the BAR2. Previously it was
used only to limit effective window size by blocking access through some
of A-LUT elements. This change allows A-LUT elements to also point
different memory locations, providing to upper layers several (up to 128)
independent memory windows. A-LUT hardware allows even more flexible
configurations than this, but NTB KPI have no way to manage that now.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Thanks to bapt, bz, cem, woodsb02, Neel Chauhan and Salvador Martínez
Mármol for helping test the initial 9000-series support.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The valectl(4) program is used to manage vale(4) switches.
Add it to the system commands so that it can be used right away.
This program was previously called vale-ctl, and stored in
tools/tools/netmap
Reviewed by: hrs, bcr, lwhsu, kevans
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22146
The source part of the review will be addressed in a different way.
Reviewed by: emaste, brooks
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21492
The change is for the example in textdump.4 and the default ddb.conf.
First of all, doadump now requires an argument and it won't do a
textdump if the argument is not 'true'.
And 'textdump dump' is more idiomatic anyway.
For what it's worth, ddb 'dump' command seems to always request a vmcore
dump even if a textdump was requested earlier, e.g., by 'textdump set'.
Finally, ddb 'call' command is not documented.
MFC after: 2 weeks
NetGDB(4) is a component of a system using a panic-time network stack to
remotely debug crashed FreeBSD kernels over the network, instead of
traditional serial interfaces.
There are three pieces in the complete NetGDB system.
First, a dedicated proxy server must be running to accept connections from
both NetGDB and gdb(1), and pass bidirectional traffic between the two
protocols.
Second, the NetGDB client is activated much like ordinary 'gdb' and
similarly to 'netdump' in ddb(4) after a panic. Like other debugnet(4)
clients (netdump(4)), the network interface on the route to the proxy server
must be online and support debugnet(4).
Finally, the remote (k)gdb(1) uses 'target remote <proxy>:<port>' (like any
other TCP remote) to connect to the proxy server.
The NetGDB v1 protocol speaks the literal GDB remote serial protocol, and
uses a 1:1 relationship between GDB packets and sequences of debugnet
packets (fragmented by MTU). There is no encryption utilized to keep
debugging sessions private, so this is only appropriate for local
segments or trusted networks.
Submitted by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com> (earlier version)
Discussed some with: emaste, markj
Relnotes: sure
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21568
Loosen requirements for connecting to debugnet-type servers. Only require a
destination address; the rest can theoretically be inferred from the routing
table.
Relax corresponding constraints in netdump(4) and move ifp validation to
debugnet connection time.
Submitted by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21482
Add a 'X -s <server> -c <client> [-g <gateway>] -i <interface>' subroutine
to the generic debugnet code. The imagined use is both netdump, shown here,
and NetGDB (vaporware). It uses the ddb(4) lexer, with some new extensions,
to parse out IPv4 addresses.
'Netdump' uses the generic debugnet routine to load a configuration and
start a dump, without any netdump configuration prior to panic.
Loosely derived from work by: John Reimer <john.reimer AT emc.com>
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21460
This allows to remove a bunch of low level code.
Also, superio(4) provides safer interaction with other drivers
that work with Super I/O configuration registers.
Tested only on PCengines APU2:
superio0: <Nuvoton NCT5104D/NCT6102D/NCT6106D (rev. B+)> at port 0x2e-0x2f on isa0
wbwd0: <Nuvoton NCT6102 (0xc4/0x53) Watchdog Timer> at WDT ldn 0x08 on superio0
The watchdog output is incorrectly wired on that system and the watchdog
does not really do it its job, but the pulse can be seen with a signal
analyzer.
Reviewed by: delphij, bcr (man page)
MFC after: 19 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21979
