Re: ps_strings
Yes, p_args caches the arguments, but not always. Right now, kernel does not cache arguments if the string is longer than 256 bytes. Look for ps_arg_cache_limit in kern_exec.c. setproctitle() always informs the kernel with sysctl and sets the pointers in ps_strings. kern.proc.args sysctl first tries the p_args, and falls back to reading ps_strings and following the pointers if p_args is NULL. Ah, that's what I get for scanning through years of updates too fast. :-) This seems a bit of a worst of both worlds: there's now some extra kernel code for poking through the ps_strings and the pointer-vectors (this code is no longer in libkvm at all -- that was where I looked first and found the sysctl), for the no p_args case. It seems like perhaps there could just be a sysctl to return the ps_strings address, and leave the follow argv pointers code in libkvm, if there is to be code for that. (The kernel saves a bit of time for the presumably-usual p_args not NULL case, and finding the location of the ps_strings structure when it *is* used is automatically correct. So that part is a straight-up improvement, at least.) Not that big a deal either way, but it does seem as though there should be documentation for ps_strings. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ps_strings
Despite I made a request not long ago[1], I'm looking for documentation to create the ps_strings structure man page because isn't covered in other man page such e.g. execve(2). So, I'm interested to know for what it's currently used. Nothing. (Well, backwards compatibility, depending on how far backwards you go.) I invented the ps_strings struct a long time ago, about the same time libkvm was new. Some background: There was code in ps that would grub around in the top stack page of each user process and extract the argv strings. This code knew how execve() worked inside the kernel (copying the argv and environment strings into the user stack, just below the signal trampoline code, and then setting up argv and envp pointers and invoking the libc/csu start program code at the entry point). We moved this grub-around-in-process-stack code to libkvm, but it was still rather horrible code. Meanwhile, we had programs like sendmail that would set their process title by saving, in some secret global variable, the space where the argv array itself and its strings lived, and then -- in setproctitle() -- carefully overwrite it. Of course there was only as much room there as the kernel provided, based on the actual strings at execve() time. I figured this would all be much cleaner if we created a small data structure, namely ps_strings, to hold the information that libkvm would extract (and hence, ps would show). It would be simpler than the original code, because the ps_strings structure lived at a fixed, well known user-space virtual address (the same VA in every process). Moreover, a user program (like sendmail) could modify the ps_strings data to point to any other user-space area: libkvm was smart enough to extract arbitrary data (and verify the validity of the address too). This removed the limit on how large a process title could be. FreeBSD now, however, uses a per-process p_args field in the proc structure, with sysctl()s to set and get p_args. (I had nothing to do with this new code, but I approve, as if anyone cares. :-) ) This removes the fixed-virtual-address limitation. The cost is a bit more kernel code (for the sysctl()s) and this per-process data, but there is no more messing-about with where is ps_strings in this memory-layout / emulation etc. (Meanwhile libkvm still retrieves the arguments. It just does it now with sysctl().) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:39:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] create_pagetables: cosmetics
Using local variables with the appropriate types,
eliminate a bunch of casts and shorten the code a bit.
---
amd64/amd64/pmap.c | 62 +++---
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
index 8dcf232..46f6940 100644
--- a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
+++ b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
@@ -531,6 +531,10 @@ static void
create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
{
int i, j, ndm1g, nkpdpe;
+ pt_entry_t *pt_p;
+ pd_entry_t *pd_p;
+ pdp_entry_t *pdp_p;
+ pml4_entry_t *p4_p;
/* Allocate page table pages for the direct map */
ndmpdp = (ptoa(Maxmem) + NBPDP - 1) PDPSHIFT;
@@ -561,32 +565,26 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
KPDphys = allocpages(firstaddr, nkpdpe);
/* Fill in the underlying page table pages */
- /* Read-only from zero to physfree */
+ /* Nominally read-only (but really R/W) from zero to physfree */
/* XXX not fully used, underneath 2M pages */
- for (i = 0; (i PAGE_SHIFT) *firstaddr; i++) {
- ((pt_entry_t *)KPTphys)[i] = i PAGE_SHIFT;
- ((pt_entry_t *)KPTphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_G;
- }
+ pt_p = (pt_entry_t *)KPTphys;
+ for (i = 0; ptoa(i) *firstaddr; i++)
+ pt_p[i] = ptoa(i) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_G;
/* Now map the page tables at their location within PTmap */
- for (i = 0; i nkpt; i++) {
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] = KPTphys + (i PAGE_SHIFT);
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V;
- }
+ pd_p = (pd_entry_t *)KPDphys;
+ for (i = 0; i nkpt; i++)
+ pd_p[i] = (KPTphys + ptoa(i)) | PG_RW | PG_V;
/* Map from zero to end of allocations under 2M pages */
/* This replaces some of the KPTphys entries above */
- for (i = 0; (i PDRSHIFT) *firstaddr; i++) {
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] = i PDRSHIFT;
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G;
- }
+ for (i = 0; (i PDRSHIFT) *firstaddr; i++)
+ pd_p[i] = (i PDRSHIFT) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G;
/* And connect up the PD to the PDP */
- for (i = 0; i nkpdpe; i++) {
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPDPphys)[i + KPDPI] = KPDphys +
- (i PAGE_SHIFT);
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPDPphys)[i + KPDPI] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
- }
+ pdp_p = (pdp_entry_t *)KPDPphys;
+ for (i = 0; i nkpdpe; i++)
+ pdp_p[i + KPDPI] = (KPDphys + ptoa(i)) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
/*
* Now, set up the direct map region using 2MB and/or 1GB pages. If
@@ -596,37 +594,39 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
* memory, pmap_change_attr() will demote any 2MB or 1GB page mappings
* that are partially used.
*/
+ pd_p = (pd_entry_t *)DMPDphys;
for (i = NPDEPG * ndm1g, j = 0; i NPDEPG * ndmpdp; i++, j++) {
- ((pd_entry_t *)DMPDphys)[j] = (vm_paddr_t)i PDRSHIFT;
+ pd_p[j] = (vm_paddr_t)i PDRSHIFT;
/* Preset PG_M and PG_A because demotion expects it. */
- ((pd_entry_t *)DMPDphys)[j] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G |
+ pd_p[j] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G |
PG_M | PG_A;
}
+ pdp_p = (pdp_entry_t *)DMPDPphys;
for (i = 0; i ndm1g; i++) {
- ((pdp_entry_t *)DMPDPphys)[i] = (vm_paddr_t)i PDPSHIFT;
+ pdp_p[i] = (vm_paddr_t)i PDPSHIFT;
/* Preset PG_M and PG_A because demotion expects it. */
- ((pdp_entry_t *)DMPDPphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G |
+ pdp_p[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G |
PG_M | PG_A;
}
for (j = 0; i ndmpdp; i++, j++) {
- ((pdp_entry_t *)DMPDPphys)[i] = DMPDphys + (j PAGE_SHIFT);
- ((pdp_entry_t *)DMPDPphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
+ pdp_p[i] = DMPDphys + ptoa(j);
+ pdp_p[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
}
/* And recursively map PML4 to itself in order to get PTmap */
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPML4phys)[PML4PML4I] = KPML4phys;
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPML4phys)[PML4PML4I] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
+ p4_p = (pml4_entry_t *)KPML4phys;
+ p4_p[PML4PML4I] = KPML4phys;
+ p4_p[PML4PML4I] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
/* Connect the Direct Map slot(s) up to the PML4. */
for (i = 0; i NDMPML4E; i++) {
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPML4phys)[DMPML4I + i] = DMPDPphys +
- (i
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:49:29 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] increase physical and virtual memory limits
Increase kernel VM space: go from .5 TB of KVA and 1 TB of direct
map, to 8 TB of KVA and 16 TB of direct map. However, we allocate
less direct map space for small physical-memory systems. Also, if
Maxmem is so large that there is not enough direct map space,
reduce Maxmem to fit, so that the system can boot unassisted.
---
amd64/amd64/pmap.c | 44 +---
amd64/include/pmap.h| 36 +---
amd64/include/vmparam.h | 13 +++--
3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
index 46f6940..5e43c93 100644
--- a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
+++ b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ u_int64_t KPML4phys; /* phys addr of kernel
level 4 */
static u_int64_t DMPDphys; /* phys addr of direct mapped level 2 */
static u_int64_t DMPDPphys; /* phys addr of direct mapped level 3 */
+static int ndmpdpphys; /* number of DMPDPphys pages */
static struct rwlock_padalign pvh_global_lock;
@@ -540,7 +541,18 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
ndmpdp = (ptoa(Maxmem) + NBPDP - 1) PDPSHIFT;
if (ndmpdp 4) /* Minimum 4GB of dirmap */
ndmpdp = 4;
- DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, NDMPML4E);
+ ndmpdpphys = howmany(ndmpdp, NPDPEPG);
+ if (ndmpdpphys NDMPML4E) {
+ /*
+* Each NDMPML4E allows 512 GB, so limit to that,
+* and then readjust ndmpdp and ndmpdpphys.
+*/
+ printf(NDMPML4E limits system to %d GB\n, NDMPML4E * 512);
+ Maxmem = atop(NDMPML4E * NBPML4);
+ ndmpdpphys = NDMPML4E;
+ ndmpdp = NDMPML4E * NPDEPG;
+ }
+ DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, ndmpdpphys);
ndm1g = 0;
if ((amd_feature AMDID_PAGE1GB) != 0)
ndm1g = ptoa(Maxmem) PDPSHIFT;
@@ -557,6 +569,10 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
* bootstrap. We defer this until after all memory-size dependent
* allocations are done (e.g. direct map), so that we don't have to
* build in too much slop in our estimate.
+*
+* Note that when NKPML4E 1, we have an empty page underneath
+* all but the KPML4I'th one, so we need NKPML4E-1 extra (zeroed)
+* pages. (pmap_enter requires a PD page to exist for each KPML4E.)
*/
nkpt_init(*firstaddr);
nkpdpe = NKPDPE(nkpt);
@@ -581,8 +597,8 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
for (i = 0; (i PDRSHIFT) *firstaddr; i++)
pd_p[i] = (i PDRSHIFT) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G;
- /* And connect up the PD to the PDP */
- pdp_p = (pdp_entry_t *)KPDPphys;
+ /* And connect up the PD to the PDP (leaving room for L4 pages) */
+ pdp_p = (pdp_entry_t *)(KPDPphys + ptoa(KPML4I - KPML4BASE));
for (i = 0; i nkpdpe; i++)
pdp_p[i + KPDPI] = (KPDphys + ptoa(i)) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
@@ -619,14 +635,16 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
p4_p[PML4PML4I] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
/* Connect the Direct Map slot(s) up to the PML4. */
- for (i = 0; i NDMPML4E; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i ndmpdpphys; i++) {
p4_p[DMPML4I + i] = DMPDPphys + ptoa(i);
p4_p[DMPML4I + i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
}
- /* Connect the KVA slot up to the PML4 */
- p4_p[KPML4I] = KPDPphys;
- p4_p[KPML4I] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
+ /* Connect the KVA slots up to the PML4 */
+ for (i = 0; i NKPML4E; i++) {
+ p4_p[KPML4BASE + i] = KPDPphys + ptoa(i);
+ p4_p[KPML4BASE + i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
+ }
}
/*
@@ -1685,8 +1703,11 @@ pmap_pinit(pmap_t pmap)
pagezero(pmap-pm_pml4);
/* Wire in kernel global address entries. */
- pmap-pm_pml4[KPML4I] = KPDPphys | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
- for (i = 0; i NDMPML4E; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i NKPML4E; i++) {
+ pmap-pm_pml4[KPML4BASE + i] = (KPDPphys + (i PAGE_SHIFT)) |
+ PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
+ }
+ for (i = 0; i ndmpdpphys; i++) {
pmap-pm_pml4[DMPML4I + i] = (DMPDPphys + (i PAGE_SHIFT)) |
PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
}
@@ -1941,8 +1962,9 @@ pmap_release(pmap_t pmap)
m = PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE(pmap-pm_pml4[PML4PML4I] PG_FRAME);
- pmap-pm_pml4[KPML4I] = 0; /* KVA */
- for (i = 0; i NDMPML4E; i++) /* Direct Map */
+ for (i = 0; i NKPML4E; i++) /* KVA */
+
am I abusing the UMA allocator?
I have been experimenting with using the UMA (slab) allocator for special-purpose physical address ranges. (The underlying issue is that we need zone-like and/or mbuf-like data structures to talk to hardware that has special needs in terms of which physical pages it can in turn use. Each device has a limited memory window it can access.) For my purposes it's nice that the allocation function receives a zone argument, even though the comment in the call says zone is passed for legacy reasons. However, the free function does not get the zone argument, or anything other than a single bit -- up to 4 if you cheat harder. This is ... less convenient (although in my case I can use the VA being free'd, instead). What I'm wondering is what this single bit is really for; whether the allocation and free might be made more flexible for special- purpose back-end allocators; and whether this is really using things as intended. Details: In the allocator, there's a per-keg uk_allocf and uk_freef (allocation and free function) pointer, and you can set your own allocation and free functions for any zone with: void uma_zone_set_allocf(uma_zone_t zone, uma_alloc allocf); void uma_zone_set_freef(uma_zone_t zone, uma_free freef); (Aside: it seems a bit weird that you set these per *zone* but they're stored in the *kegs*, specifically the special first keg, but never mind... :-) ) Each allocf is called as: /* arguments: uma_zone_t zone, int size, uint8_t *pflag, int wait */ mem = allocf(zone, nbytes, flags, wait); where wait is made up of malloc flags (M_WAITOK, M_NOWAIT, M_ZERO, M_USE_RESERVE). The flags argument is not initialized at this point, so the allocation function must fill it in. The filled-in value is stored in the per-slab us_flags and eventually passed back to each freef function: /* arguments: void *mem, int size, uint8_t flag */ freef(mem, nbytes, pflag); /* where pflag = us-us_flags */ The flags are defined in sys/vm/uma.h and are the UMA_SLAB_* flags (BOOT, KMEM, KERNEL, PRIV, OFFP, MALLOC). UMA_SLAB_PRIV is described as private. The bit is never tested though, so it seems that a private allocator can set UMA_SLAB_PRIV, or not set it, freely. It appears to be the only UMA_SLAB_* bit that has no other defined meaning in uma_core.c or elsewhere. (Not entirely true, there's also UMA_SLAB_OFFP which is never tested or set, and bits 0x40 and 0x80 are unused. There's also an unused us_pad right after that. It looks like OFFP is a leftover, with on vs off page slab management controlled through UMA_ZONE_HASH and also the PG_SLAB bit in the underlying struct vm_page.) There's also a per-keg flag spelled UMA_ZFLAG_PRIVALLOC, along with UMA_ZONE_NOFREE. But UMA_ZFLAG_PRIVALLOC is never tested; and UMA_ZONE_NOFREE is really per-keg, and you can't set it from outside the UMA code. When the system gets low on memory, it calls uma_reclaim(), which does (simplified): zone_foreach(zone_drain) | zone_drain(zone) | zone_drain_wait(zone) | bucket_cache_drain() | zone_foreach_keg() | keg_drain() | test: (UMA_ZONE_NOFREE || keg-uk_freef==NULL) | if either is the case, return now, can't free The issue here is that draining these special purpose, special- physical-page-backed zones is not actually going to help the system any (though freeing internal bucket data structures could help slightly). Of course I can have uk_freef == NULL, but it is nice to keep some statistics, and maybe be able to trade pages between various special-purpose physical spaces (by doing my own zone_drain()s on them -- the one in uma_reclaim() is not going to help the OS much as the physical pages cannot be handed out to processes, and they run out against themselves, not the VM system). All in all, I'm now thinking that I'm abusing the slab allocator too much here. But I wonder if perhaps some minor changes to uma_core might make this more useable, or if this is really within the intent of the UMA code at all. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
The changes associated with pt_p, pd_p and p4_p are cosmetic and IMHO detract from the meat of the change. My preference would be for the cosmetic changes to be committed separately from the changes that rearrange the KVA. I can split these out. - DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, NDMPML4E); + ndmpdpphys = howmany(ndmpdp, NPML4EPG); NPDPEPG should be used here instead of NPML4EPG even though they are numerically identical. Ah, late-night editing thinko. :-) + * KERNBASE. Similarly, if KMPL4I (base+N), extra level 4 PDEs are level 2 PDE's, right? Er, yes (and L1s of course), and that should be (base+N-1). The idea here is that if for some reason KERNBASE were in the middle of the NKPML4E entries, you'd have, at least initially when only a few things are valid at VM_MIN_ADDRESS and at KERNBASE: L4 tableL3 page ... mapping: +---+ VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS KPMLBASE | * --- [valid at 0 -- L2, then all-0s] +---+ | * --- [all-0s] +---+ | * --- [all-0s] +---+ | ... | +---+ KERNBASE KPML4I | * --- [mostly-0s; the KDPDI'th -- L2] +---+ base+N-1 | * --- [all-0s] +---+ VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS but then eventually allocating something between KERNBASE and VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS would cause that last page of all-0s to get filled in, etc. Of course KPML4I should be the very last (511'th) L4 table entry always, unless the kernel grows really huge :-) I'll fix the comments in the split-up patch. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
Here's the split-up version with the additional comment corrections. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
Here is a final (I hope) version of the patch. I dropped the
config option, but I added code to limit the real size of the
direct map PDEs. The end result is that on small systems, this
ties up 14 more pages (15 from increasing NKPML4E, but one
regained because the new static variable ndmpdpphys is 1 instead
of 2).
(I fixed the comment errors I spotted earlier, too.)
Chris
amd64/amd64/pmap.c | 100 +---
amd64/include/pmap.h| 36 +
amd64/include/vmparam.h | 13 ---
3 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
Author: Chris Torek chris.to...@gmail.com
Date: Thu Jun 27 18:49:29 2013 -0600
increase physical and virtual memory limits
Increase kernel VM space: go from .5 TB of KVA and 1 TB of direct
map, to 8 TB of KVA and 16 TB of direct map. However, we allocate
less direct map space for small physical-memory systems. Also, if
Maxmem is so large that there is not enough direct map space,
reduce Maxmem to fit, so that the system can boot unassisted.
diff --git a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
index 8dcf232..7368c96 100644
--- a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
+++ b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ u_int64_t KPML4phys; /* phys addr of kernel
level 4 */
static u_int64_t DMPDphys; /* phys addr of direct mapped level 2 */
static u_int64_t DMPDPphys; /* phys addr of direct mapped level 3 */
+static int ndmpdpphys; /* number of DMPDPphys pages */
static struct rwlock_padalign pvh_global_lock;
@@ -531,12 +532,27 @@ static void
create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
{
int i, j, ndm1g, nkpdpe;
+ pt_entry_t *pt_p;
+ pd_entry_t *pd_p;
+ pdp_entry_t *pdp_p;
+ pml4_entry_t *p4_p;
/* Allocate page table pages for the direct map */
ndmpdp = (ptoa(Maxmem) + NBPDP - 1) PDPSHIFT;
if (ndmpdp 4) /* Minimum 4GB of dirmap */
ndmpdp = 4;
- DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, NDMPML4E);
+ ndmpdpphys = howmany(ndmpdp, NPML4EPG);
+ if (ndmpdpphys NDMPML4E) {
+ /*
+* Each NDMPML4E allows 512 GB, so limit to that,
+* and then readjust ndmpdp and ndmpdpphys.
+*/
+ printf(NDMPML4E limits system to %d GB\n, NDMPML4E * 512);
+ Maxmem = atop(NDMPML4E * NBPML4);
+ ndmpdpphys = NDMPML4E;
+ ndmpdp = NDMPML4E * NPDEPG;
+ }
+ DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, ndmpdpphys);
ndm1g = 0;
if ((amd_feature AMDID_PAGE1GB) != 0)
ndm1g = ptoa(Maxmem) PDPSHIFT;
@@ -553,6 +569,10 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
* bootstrap. We defer this until after all memory-size dependent
* allocations are done (e.g. direct map), so that we don't have to
* build in too much slop in our estimate.
+*
+* Note that when NKPML4E 1, we have an empty page underneath
+* all but the KPML4I'th one, so we need NKPML4E-1 extra (zeroed)
+* pages. (pmap_enter requires a PD page to exist for each KPML4E.)
*/
nkpt_init(*firstaddr);
nkpdpe = NKPDPE(nkpt);
@@ -561,32 +581,26 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
KPDphys = allocpages(firstaddr, nkpdpe);
/* Fill in the underlying page table pages */
- /* Read-only from zero to physfree */
+ /* Nominally read-only (but really R/W) from zero to physfree */
/* XXX not fully used, underneath 2M pages */
- for (i = 0; (i PAGE_SHIFT) *firstaddr; i++) {
- ((pt_entry_t *)KPTphys)[i] = i PAGE_SHIFT;
- ((pt_entry_t *)KPTphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_G;
- }
+ pt_p = (pt_entry_t *)KPTphys;
+ for (i = 0; ptoa(i) *firstaddr; i++)
+ pt_p[i] = ptoa(i) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_G;
/* Now map the page tables at their location within PTmap */
- for (i = 0; i nkpt; i++) {
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] = KPTphys + (i PAGE_SHIFT);
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V;
- }
+ pd_p = (pd_entry_t *)KPDphys;
+ for (i = 0; i nkpt; i++)
+ pd_p[i] = (KPTphys + ptoa(i)) | PG_RW | PG_V;
/* Map from zero to end of allocations under 2M pages */
/* This replaces some of the KPTphys entries above */
- for (i = 0; (i PDRSHIFT) *firstaddr; i++) {
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] = i PDRSHIFT;
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G;
- }
+ for (i = 0; (i PDRSHIFT) *firstaddr; i++)
+ pd_p[i] = (i PDRSHIFT) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G;
- /* And connect up the PD to the PDP */
- for (i = 0; i nkpdpe; i++) {
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPDPphys)[i + KPDPI] = KPDphys +
- (i PAGE_SHIFT
Re: hw.physmem/hw.realmem question
by your BIOS and architectural holes, including the large PCI hole. Your BIOS and motherboard etc may (or may not) allow you to remap some of your hidden or shadowed RAM (out of the PCI hole), increasing the boot-time value of Maxmem, and hence also increasing both hw.realmem and actual, useable pages. Note: the x86's architectural holes still use up some dedicated kernel memory, even with shadowed-memory remapping: if addresses from zero to 8.5 GB are valid (as they are on my box), the kernel allocates enough vm_page data structures to have one for all 8.5 GB, even though there's a .5 GB PCI hole with no RAM behind it. Those pages are marked not here, never use these -- but they still take sizeof(struct vm_page) bytes (120 bytes) to represent. 512 MB of hole = 512*1024*1024 / 4096 = 131072 pages, which means the kernel is using 15728640 bytes (15 MB) to track this empty area. So my remapping hardware gains me 512 MB and then the kernel loses 15, for a net of 497 MB recovered. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
I went ahead and implemented the ndmpdpphys change I
had thought about. Here's that patch by itself.
At this point it might be reasonable to use the patch
without the AMD64_HUGE option, just increasing the KVM
area, as the direct map no longer consumes extra pages.
(There's a glitch in the comment in the original patch,
I'll fix that if/when there's any agreement on whether
it gets applied in some form :-) )
Chris
diff --git a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
index acf5af2..f1ed8b6 100644
--- a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
+++ b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ u_int64_t KPML4phys; /* phys addr of kernel
level 4 */
static u_int64_t DMPDphys; /* phys addr of direct mapped level 2 */
static u_int64_t DMPDPphys; /* phys addr of direct mapped level 3 */
+static int ndmpdpphys; /* number of DMPDPphys pages */
static struct rwlock_padalign pvh_global_lock;
@@ -543,7 +544,18 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
ndmpdp = (ptoa(Maxmem) + NBPDP - 1) PDPSHIFT;
if (ndmpdp 4) /* Minimum 4GB of dirmap */
ndmpdp = 4;
- DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, NDMPML4E);
+ ndmpdpphys = howmany(ndmpdp, NPML4EPG);
+ if (ndmpdpphys NDMPML4E) {
+ /*
+* Each NDMPML4E allows 512 GB, so limit to that,
+* and then readjust ndmpdp and ndmpdpphys.
+*/
+ printf(NDMPML4E limits system to %d GB\n, NDMPML4E * 512);
+ Maxmem = atop(NDMPML4E * NBPML4);
+ ndmpdpphys = NDMPML4E;
+ ndmpdp = NDMPML4E * NPDEPG;
+ }
+ DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, ndmpdpphys);
ndm1g = 0;
if ((amd_feature AMDID_PAGE1GB) != 0)
ndm1g = ptoa(Maxmem) PDPSHIFT;
@@ -626,7 +638,7 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
p4_p[PML4PML4I] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
/* Connect the Direct Map slot(s) up to the PML4. */
- for (i = 0; i NDMPML4E; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i ndmpdpphys; i++) {
p4_p[DMPML4I + i] = DMPDPphys + ptoa(i);
p4_p[DMPML4I + i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
}
@@ -1698,7 +1710,7 @@ pmap_pinit(pmap_t pmap)
pmap-pm_pml4[KPML4BASE + i] = (KPDPphys + (i PAGE_SHIFT)) |
PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
}
- for (i = 0; i NDMPML4E; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i ndmpdpphys; i++) {
pmap-pm_pml4[DMPML4I + i] = (DMPDPphys + (i PAGE_SHIFT)) |
PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
}
@@ -1955,7 +1967,7 @@ pmap_release(pmap_t pmap)
for (i = 0; i NKPML4E; i++) /* KVA */
pmap-pm_pml4[KPML4BASE + i] = 0;
- for (i = 0; i NDMPML4E; i++) /* Direct Map */
+ for (i = 0; i ndmpdpphys; i++)/* Direct Map */
pmap-pm_pml4[DMPML4I + i] = 0;
pmap-pm_pml4[PML4PML4I] = 0; /* Recursive Mapping */
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Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
, NDMPML4E); new:ndmpdpphys = howmany(ndmpdp, NPML4EPG); if (ndmpdpphys NDMPML4E) panic(something or other); /* or shrink to fit? */ DMPDPphys = allocpages(firstaddr, ndmpdpphys); and then instead of connecting NDMPML4E pages, connect ndmpdpphys of them. Would that break anything? The direct mapped VA range is known in advance; if you get a bad value it will look direct- mapped, but now not have an L3 page under it, whereas before it would always have an L3 page, just no L2 page. (Offhand, I think this would only affect pmap_enter(), and calling that for an invalid physical address would be bad anyway.) [I'm also not sure if we might be able to tweak the KPTphys usage slightly to eliminate whole pages full of L1 PTEs, e.g., if the GENERIC kernel occupies about 15 MB, we can map it with 7 2MB big page entries in KPDphys, then just one regular PTE-page and 256 regular PTEs in the first actually-used page of KPTphys. (This would recover another 7 pages in this particular example.) But this would at least affect pmap_init()'s loop over nkpt entries to initialize the vm page array entries that describe the KPTphys area, so I did not attempt it.] Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
.. (but I still needed the map I drew of the page tables...). care to share? :-) It's on paper (I need to get a whiteboard...). If I can ASCIIfy it ... Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
OK, I wasted :-) way too much time, but here's a text file that
can be comment-ified or stored somewhere alongside the code or
whatever...
(While drawing this I realized that there's at least one wasted
page if the machine has .5 TB or less: we can just leave zero
slots in the corresponding L4 direct-map entries. But that would
require switching to the bcopy() method also mentioned below. Or
indexing into vmspace0.vm_pmap.pm_pml4, which is basically the
same thing.)
Chris
-
There are six -- or sometimes five -- sets of pages allocated here
at boot time to map physical memory in two ways. Note that each
page, regardless of level, stores 512 PTEs (or PDEs or PDPs, but
let's just use PTE here and prefix it with level as needed: 4,
3, 2, or 1.)
There is one page for the top level, L4, page table entries. Each
L4 PTE maps 512 GB of space. Unless it's marked invalid, no L4
PTE can be marked stop here: it either is marked as this
address is invalid, or it points to one physically-adressed page
full of L3 PTEs. Eventually, those L3 PTEs will map-or-reject
half a terabyte. 512 entries, each mapping .5 TB, allow us to map
256 TB, which is as much as the hardware supports (there are, in
effect, only 48 virtual address bits: the top 16 bits must match
the 47th bit).
The L4 entry halfway down, at PML4PML4I, is set to point back to
this page itself; that's the recursive page table for user
space, which we do nothing else with at boot time.
We need (up to) NDMPML4E pages, each holding 512 L3 PTEs, for the
direct map space. If the processor supports 1 GB pages, an L3 PTE
can be marked with stop here and these L3 PTEs each grant (or
forbid) access to 1 GB of physical space at a time. A system
with, say, 3 GB of RAM starting at 0 can map it all with three L3
PTEs: address 0 is valid for 1GB, address 1GB is valid for
1GB, address 2GB is valid for 1GB. The remaining L3 PTEs are
zero, making the remaining address space invalid.
If the processor does not support 1 GB pages, or if there is less
than 1 GB of RAM at the end (e.g., if the system has 4.5 GB),
the L3 PTEs may need to point to more pages holding L2 PTEs.
These L2 PTEs always support 2 MB pages. Each page of L2 PTEs
maps 1 GB. So a machine with 4.5 GB and 1 GB mappings needs one L3
page with four valid 1 GB L3 PTEs and then one L3 PTE pointing to
one page of L2 PTEs. That one page of L2 PTEs is half-filled,
containing 256 2MB-sized PTEs, mapping the 512 MB. The remaining
half of that page is zero, making the remaining addresses invalid.
Pictorially, and adding the names of the physical page(s), thus
far we have this. (Note, the L4 PTE page is drawn more than twice
as tall as the L3 and L2 pages, just to get space for arrows.)
LEVEL 4:LEVEL 3: LEVEL 2:
_._
KPML4phys v \
+-+ |
| 0: | |
|-| |
| 1: | | DMPDPphys DMPDphys
( ... ) |.- +-+ ++
| 127:| | /| 0: 0GB | .- | 0: 4GB|
|-| | | | 1: 1GB |/| 1: 4GB+2MB|
PML4PML4I: | 128: *--|--/ | | 2: 2GB | / | 2: 4GB+4MB|
|-| | | 3: 3GB | / ( ... )
| 129:| | | 4: *--|-/ | 255: 4.5GB-2MB |
| ... | | | 5: | | 256: |
|-| | ( ... ) | 257: |
/ DMPML4I: | *--|-/ | 511:| ( ... )
NDMPML4E|-| +-+ ++
\ | *--|- | 0:|
|-| | 1:|
| | | 2:| (These are used only
|-| | 3:| if the system has more
| ... | ( ... ) than 512 GB)
( |-| )| 509:|
( | 510: see below )| 510:|
( |-| )| 511:|
( | 511: see below )+-+
+-+
If the hardware supports 1GB pages, ndm1g is the number of
gigabyte entries (4 in the example above). Otherwise it's just
zero. Meanwhile ndmpdp is the number of gigabytes of RAM that
need to be mapped, in this case 5. Thus, if ndmpdp ndm1g, we
need ndmpdp-ndm1g pages to hold some L2 PTEs.
Now we get to the weirder case of the kernel itself (both its
non-direct-mapped dynamically allocated virtual memory, and its
text/data/bss). The branch offset limitations encourage the
placement of the kernel's text, etc., in the last 2 GB of virtual
space, i.e., starting at 0x..f800.. But, we want
a reasonable amount of room for dynamic VM. So we give the kernel
at least 512 GB of VM -- that's one L4 PTE -- while
expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit
(Note: Last week I asked about this on the freebsd-current list.
It turned out slightly harder than I thought, as the 512GB kernel
virtual area is based on what fits into a single L4 page table
entry.)
I was asked to expand the kernel limits for amd64 systems. While
I do not have a system with enough RAM to test this for real, the
changes below seem to boot and run OK.
I went just a little bit wild in create_pagetables(). :-) The
lines with the casts got long (and hard to read) so I shortened
them (but I still needed the map I drew of the page tables...).
If using ptoa() like this is OK, probably there should be a few
more of those, e.g., in the changes to pmap_pinit().
Anyway, I wonder if some form of this patch (perhaps even without
the #ifdefs) might be accepted back. I'm not sure about the KPML4BASE
name, but it clearly needs to be different from KPML4I. (At first
I was considering moving KERNBASE too but the branch offsets seem
to be the real limiting factor here.)
Possibly dumb question: around the comment this replaces some of
the KPTphys entries above, would it be possible to reclaim a few
pages by calculating in advance where the 2MB page mappings obviate
the need for the underlying KPTphys pages, and just offset things?
Another note: one could get rid of the power of 2 requirement
for NDMPML4E. It arises from the translation between direct
mapped virtual and physical addresses (being |= and =~), but the
same result can be achieved by adding and subtracting an offset,
which would allow the base and limit to be arbitrary, rather than
a power of two. (Still, it did not seem worth doing here.)
Chris
diff --git a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
index 272158d..acf5af2 100644
--- a/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
+++ b/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
@@ -534,6 +534,10 @@ static void
create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
{
int i, j, ndm1g, nkpdpe;
+ pt_entry_t *pt_p;
+ pd_entry_t *pd_p;
+ pdp_entry_t *pdp_p;
+ pml4_entry_t *p4_p;
/* Allocate page table pages for the direct map */
ndmpdp = (ptoa(Maxmem) + NBPDP - 1) PDPSHIFT;
@@ -556,6 +560,10 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
* bootstrap. We defer this until after all memory-size dependent
* allocations are done (e.g. direct map), so that we don't have to
* build in too much slop in our estimate.
+*
+* Note that when NKPML4E 1, we have an empty page underneath
+* all but the KPML4I'th one, so we need NKPML4E-1 extra (zeroed)
+* pages. (pmap_enter requires a PD page to exist for each KPML4E.)
*/
nkpt_init(*firstaddr);
nkpdpe = NKPDPE(nkpt);
@@ -564,32 +572,26 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
KPDphys = allocpages(firstaddr, nkpdpe);
/* Fill in the underlying page table pages */
- /* Read-only from zero to physfree */
+ /* Nominally read-only (but really R/W) from zero to physfree */
/* XXX not fully used, underneath 2M pages */
- for (i = 0; (i PAGE_SHIFT) *firstaddr; i++) {
- ((pt_entry_t *)KPTphys)[i] = i PAGE_SHIFT;
- ((pt_entry_t *)KPTphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_G;
- }
+ pt_p = (pt_entry_t *)KPTphys;
+ for (i = 0; ptoa(i) *firstaddr; i++)
+ pt_p[i] = ptoa(i) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_G;
/* Now map the page tables at their location within PTmap */
- for (i = 0; i nkpt; i++) {
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] = KPTphys + (i PAGE_SHIFT);
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V;
- }
+ pd_p = (pd_entry_t *)KPDphys;
+ for (i = 0; i nkpt; i++)
+ pd_p[i] = (KPTphys + ptoa(i)) | PG_RW | PG_V;
/* Map from zero to end of allocations under 2M pages */
/* This replaces some of the KPTphys entries above */
- for (i = 0; (i PDRSHIFT) *firstaddr; i++) {
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] = i PDRSHIFT;
- ((pd_entry_t *)KPDphys)[i] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G;
- }
+ for (i = 0; (i PDRSHIFT) *firstaddr; i++)
+ pd_p[i] = (i PDRSHIFT) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_PS | PG_G;
- /* And connect up the PD to the PDP */
- for (i = 0; i nkpdpe; i++) {
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPDPphys)[i + KPDPI] = KPDphys +
- (i PAGE_SHIFT);
- ((pdp_entry_t *)KPDPphys)[i + KPDPI] |= PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
- }
+ /* And connect up the PD to the PDP (leaving room for L4 pages) */
+ pdp_p = (pdp_entry_t *)(KPDPphys + ptoa(KPML4I - KPML4BASE));
+ for (i = 0; i nkpdpe; i++)
+ pdp_p[i + KPDPI] = (KPDphys + ptoa(i)) | PG_RW | PG_V | PG_U;
/*
* Now, set up the direct map region using 2MB and/or 1GB pages. If
@@ -599,37 +601,41 @@ create_pagetables(vm_paddr_t *firstaddr)
* memory, pmap_change_attr() will demote any 2MB or 1GB page mappings
* that are partially used
Re: sed query
On 2 June 2013 11:41, Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2013 15:01:59 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I think I've discovered a strange behaviour of sed perhaps triggered by the length of a regex passed to it. I noticed that a certain expression I passed took a very long time, and suspected the usual backtracking loop, so I started trimming it... and discovered this: [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.699u 0.007s 0:04.70 99.7% 40+2733k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 0.042u 0.000s 0:00.04 100.0% 48+3216k 0+0io 0pf+0w I've looked at the code, and can't from a brief glance figure out why a slightly longer regex makes such a difference-- does it start to split it? Perhaps second one uses memory cache data? Run both twice and show us the second times. Nope, same. [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.703u 0.007s 0:04.85 96.9% 40+2732k 210+0io 0pf+0w [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.748u 0.007s 0:04.75 99.7% 40+2732k 0+0io 0pf+0w I also get the same on head; [crees@medusa]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-10 7.813u 0.015s 0:07.96 98.2% 40+183k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@medusa]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-10 0.070u 0.000s 0:00.07 100.0% 45+205k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@medusa]~% uname -a FreeBSD medusa 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r250009: Thu May 30 10:11:16 BST 2013 root@medusa:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDUSA amd64 Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sed query
On 2 June 2013 18:15, Florent Peterschmitt flor...@peterschmitt.fr wrote: Le 02/06/2013 14:16, Chris Rees a écrit : On 2 June 2013 11:41, Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2013 15:01:59 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I think I've discovered a strange behaviour of sed perhaps triggered by the length of a regex passed to it. I noticed that a certain expression I passed took a very long time, and suspected the usual backtracking loop, so I started trimming it... and discovered this: [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.699u 0.007s 0:04.70 99.7% 40+2733k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 0.042u 0.000s 0:00.04 100.0% 48+3216k 0+0io 0pf+0w I've looked at the code, and can't from a brief glance figure out why a slightly longer regex makes such a difference-- does it start to split it? Perhaps second one uses memory cache data? Run both twice and show us the second times. Nope, same. [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.703u 0.007s 0:04.85 96.9% 40+2732k 210+0io 0pf+0w [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.748u 0.007s 0:04.75 99.7% 40+2732k 0+0io 0pf+0w I also get the same on head; [crees@medusa]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-10 7.813u 0.015s 0:07.96 98.2% 40+183k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@medusa]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-10 0.070u 0.000s 0:00.07 100.0% 45+205k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@medusa]~% uname -a FreeBSD medusa 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r250009: Thu May 30 10:11:16 BST 2013 root@medusa:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDUSA amd64 Chris Yes I tried too on -current. And I tried also on GNU/Linux and there isn't this problem. Is it gnu or bsd sed ? BSD sed, GNU sed doesn't show this; [crees@pegasus]/usr/ports/textproc/gsed% time gsed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 0.019u 0.009s 0:00.04 25.0% 408+6132k 1+0io 2pf+0w Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
sed query
Hi all, I think I've discovered a strange behaviour of sed perhaps triggered by the length of a regex passed to it. I noticed that a certain expression I passed took a very long time, and suspected the usual backtracking loop, so I started trimming it... and discovered this: [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 4.699u 0.007s 0:04.70 99.7% 40+2733k 0+0io 0pf+0w [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,, /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 0.042u 0.000s 0:00.04 100.0% 48+3216k 0+0io 0pf+0w I've looked at the code, and can't from a brief glance figure out why a slightly longer regex makes such a difference-- does it start to split it? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: /bin/sh = STDIN functions, var scope messing
On 31 May 2013 20:50, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (May 31), Reid Linnemann said: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Teske, Devin devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: If you're arguing we have to change sh's behavior to be more compliant, jilles already quoted XCU 2.12 (our shell is well within its right to run any/all lvalue/rvalue operands of a pipe in a sub-shell without contradicting the guidelines). But if you're arguing that it has to change to make things better or easier... I don't know about that. Might just make people lulled into using a style that's non-portable. I'd like to keep things the way they are so that if you program for FreeBSD, you're inherently going to program in a fashion that is more portable. FWIW bash (invoked as sh) on RHEL-based linux systems exhibits the same behavior- sh-3.2$ var=1 sh-3.2$ yes|var=2 sh-3.2$ echo $var 1 sh-3.2$ If my opinion matters at all, I would agree that for the sake of portability that behavior be consistent with the majority of sh implementations rather than right according to arbitrary ruling. On the other hand, zsh runs the last component of a pipeline in the parent shell. The usual model is do work in pipeline, process results in final component, and being able to simply set variables there that can be used in the rest of the script is very elegant. Right... But it's not portable. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Order of canonical upgrade sequence
On 30 May 2013 14:42, Steve Wills st...@mouf.net wrote: On 05/29/13 16:02, Chris Rees wrote: Hi all! Back in 2005, when Alexander Leidinger wrote the make delete-old target, he documented the order of upgrade such that it should be run before mergemaster [1]; # 7. `make installworld' # 8. `make delete-old' # 9. `mergemaster' It would be good to mention that it's wise to make check-old, and rebuilding any ports that depend on the old libs, before doing make delete-old. make delete-old doesn't touch the libraries; it's the next steps that do that (make delete-old-libs). The Handbook section is far more verbose on this, and I think that this reference in the Makefile is more as a quick reminder than a step-by-step walkthrough. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Order of canonical upgrade sequence
Hi all! Back in 2005, when Alexander Leidinger wrote the make delete-old target, he documented the order of upgrade such that it should be run before mergemaster [1]; # 7. `make installworld' # 8. `make delete-old' # 9. `mergemaster' I have merged the delete-old section of the Handbook into the upgrading chapter, and independently decided to put mergemaster first, because I thought it would be safer, but checked here before I committed. I think that steps 8 and 9 should be reversed, because of the possibility of an unbootable system being made, when an rc script references an executable that has just been removed for example. I cannot think of an example where the system is left unbootable/damaged if make delete-old is run after mergemaster. What do people think of the patch at [2]? Chris [1] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/Makefile?r1=148329r2=148330; [2] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/delete-old-order.diff ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Order of canonical upgrade sequence
On 29 May 2013 19:57, Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2013 11:53:41 -0600 Warner Losh i...@bsdimp.com wrote: [[ summarizing a conversation in irc ]] The below fragment doesn't match UPDATING. Since I don't think the order matters; and since we've had no reports that UPDATING is wrong; and since I think way more people follow updating than the Makefile; we should fix the makefile and make the docs match both. The order matters, mergemaster first, then delete-old. UPDATING is correct. At least regarding the order all places should be corrected which tell to use the reverse order. Warner On May 29, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Chris Rees wrote: Hi all! Back in 2005, when Alexander Leidinger wrote the make delete-old target, he documented the order of upgrade such that it should be run before mergemaster [1]; # 7. `make installworld' # 8. `make delete-old' # 9. `mergemaster' This is the wrong order. I have merged the delete-old section of the Handbook into the upgrading chapter, and independently decided to put mergemaster first, because I thought it would be safer, but checked here before I committed. I think that steps 8 and 9 should be reversed, because of the possibility of an unbootable system being made, when an rc script references an executable that has just been removed for example. I agree. Committed. Thanks! Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction
On 27 May 2013 03:10, Daniel Eischen deisc...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, 27 May 2013, Teske, Devin wrote: I don't think there's any reason why we have to write it in C if we can write it in sh. I don't really care one way or the other (C or sh), but I can say that I can understand(*) well structured C a lot better than well structured sh. Having something more strongly typed certainly helps understanding. (*) Assuming some level of complexity (I know that's subjective). I think it's all down to familiarity. I suppose sh is more resistant to many stupid bugs and handles strings well But it has its own troubles too of course. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: stupid question about sendmail
On 24 May 2013 08:34, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: how to redirect recipient address. i mean - if someone try to send to x...@y.pl from serwer then it should be redirected to local account, while the rest of mails to domain @y.pl should get out normally. alternatively outgoing mail to x...@y.pl should be rejected. tried access.db - To:x...@y.pl REJECT doesn't work any idea. thank you Try a sendmail list? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: stupid question about sendmail
On 24 May 2013 11:05, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/docs/m4/features.html Maybe a line like this one will help you achieve your goal: j...@bar.com error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid I was wrong again, sorry, but I believe I got it right this time: 1. Edit the /etc/mail/access file. 2. Insert a line like this one: To:mail...@some.domain.tld REJECT tried too. doesn't work. http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/support/public_forums/ There is also an IRC channel, #sendmail on Freenode. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ladmins that cannot type a command
On 3 May 2013 20:01, Dieter BSD dieter...@gmail.com wrote: good for today and future ladmins that cannot type a command. Any USEFUL proposals that add some real functionality? Since this will enable more people to run FreeBSD that otherwise wouldn't give it a second glance, I would say it is VERY useful. Really? How useful is FreeBSD going to be to someone who cannot type? Who is the target here? Idiots? People without fingers? I see lots of chatter about adding new stuff, much of which is ... rather questionable. Meanwhile many of the features FreeBSD already has are broken. No shortage of PRs that need fixing. Many of these PRs have been sitting around, unloved, for *years*. Some of them even contain patches (that *work*)! If you're building a race car, make sure the engine runs before spending your time polishing the wheels. You need to spend more time writing patches rather than telling other people what not to do. We're (nearly) all volunteers. If you think something needs fixing, you can have a go yourself or pay someone, but do NOT tell someone that their contribution is not worthwhile while pushing your agenda. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to sabotage 9.*-RELEASE worldbuilds?
On 27 Apr 2013 11:09, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: Just do this: # echo 'FORMATS=html txt' /etc/make.conf buildworld fails, at the SAME point for ALL 9.*-RELEASE-es: === === lib/libauditd (all) === lib/libcom_err (all) gzip -cn /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err/com_err.3 com_err.3.gz === lib/libcom_err/doc (all) Graph cycles through com_err.'html make: don't know how to make txt'. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libcom_err. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. === If you aren't in a mood, to wait for a buildworld to fail, you can see errors faster: # cd /usr/src make cleandir /dev/null --- /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.info.mk, line 140: warning: duplicate script for target txt.gz ignored ... --- For /usr/doc builds, in /etc/make.conf, I have: === # For port textproc/docproj WITH_JADETEX=YES DOC_LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 FORMATS=html txt And yet another example of misunderstanding how quotes in Makefiles breaks things :) If in doubt, leave quotes out! (This only applies to make) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends
On 24 Apr 2013 05:36, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: Justin I say stick to FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary packages become more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a reasonable goal ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup project . Also a update notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would be very useful . My 2cents . --- Mark saad | mark.s...@longcount.org Thank you very much Mark, I was definitely hoping to get community feedback on this, and I value you voicing your opinion. I agree that kports is a mammoth, and also that a system updater GUI should have a way to notify the user of new updates. Any other perspectives are welcome, as well as support for a freebsd-update approach. I am working to refine my proposal, which as you've pointed out is very important. Eventually I would like to help in all three mentioned areas, but for now I must focus on one application. Does anyone think that a custom kernel configuration and management GUI utility would be desirable? I will shape my goals to meet the needs of the community. Our kernel is actually very easy to configure, so I'm not convinced that it's needed; you may be thinking of Linux's menuconfig, but I think that is because of the complexity. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends
On 24 April 2013 18:30, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: Our kernel is actually very easy to configure, so I'm not convinced that it's needed; you may be thinking of Linux's menuconfig, but I think that is because of the complexity. Chris While configuring the kernel may be trivial to someone who understands the process and their systems needs, I am thinking of a software tool that goes beyond the scope of the occasional generating of a kernel configuration file. Imagine that you have a number of systems and you want to run kernels that are lighter weight than the generic kernel but each system has its own individual needs. A GUI could help manage a large number of custom kernels, and provide access to convenient access to features such as specifying a kernel to load on the next boot only for testing. You could even configure the custom kernel profiles to be built from separate source directories. That is not to say of course that everyone else using x11 couldn't benefit from it as well. The application could help avoid compatibility issues during kernel installation by comparing the kernel's version to the version of world. Some helpful aids would be visual categorization of options as well as option descriptions, caveats, and hyperlinks to more in depth information. As for its place in Google Summer of Code, you could be right, it may not be enough to dedicate such resources. I know however that I would use it, maybe others would as well? Thank you for your advice once again Chris! What do you think about the other utilities? I think the interface to pkgng and freebsd-update are still interesting; at least more worthwhile than the kernel configuration one. I think the pkgng one has the edge, since packages are updated far more often than base, and it's easier to track base. Now you are at a stage where you should make your own decision; which one looks the most interesting to you? Once you decide on an area of interest, you can just start hacking :) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
On 14 April 2013 07:11, Justin Edward Muniz justin.mu...@maine.edu wrote: I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, and I have a project in mind that I am working to propose. I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. I have been developing on FreeBSD for several years, and I am looking to tackle developing a new Qt front-end for the freebsd-update command. I am thinking a rather straight-forward user interface with more advanced options available (such as selecting a specific server). I am looking for constructive feedback, and also a developer interested in mentoring me this Summer. Thanks everyone for your time, and for your hard work. Are you referring to the suggestion below? https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#KDE_front-ends_to_the_freebsd-update.288.29utility Colin Percival (CCd) mentions he would be the technical contact for this project, though that was five years ago-- perhaps he'd like to comment. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture
Goodness gracious, did no one see the date on the original post? What's the limit on this fishing hole? -- Chris BeHanna ch...@behanna.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: boot time crash in if_detach_internal()
Can you provide a backtrace that leads to this? Sure. In case it's not obvious, the __rw_rlock at the top of the trace is working on a lock that has never been initialized (the first of the two ipv4 PCBs). Chris Booting... GDB: no debug ports present KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Mar 31 01:32:38 MDT 2013 to...@dev.torek.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FreeBSD clang version 3.2 (tags/RELEASE_32/final 170710) 20121221 WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz (3292.28-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x306a9 Family = 0x6 Model = 0x3a Stepping = 9 Features=0x8fa3ab7fFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,CX8,APIC,SEP,PGE,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,DTS,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,PBE Features2=0xa1bae217SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,DS_CPL,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,F16C,HV AMD Features=0x28100800SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 472559616 (450 MB) Event timer LAPIC quality 400 ACPI APIC Table: BHYVE BVMADT FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 1 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 random device not loaded; using insecure entropy ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-16 on motherboard module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0x80c38e80, 0) error 19 kbd0 at kbdmux0 acpi0: BHYVE BVXSDT on motherboard atrtc0: AT realtime clock port 0x70-0x71,0x72-0x77 irq 8 on acpi0 Event timer RTC frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 acpi_timer0: 32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib0: no PRT entry for 0.31.INTA virtio_pci0: VirtIO PCI Network adapter port 0x2000-0x201f at device 1.0 on pci0 vtnet0: VirtIO Networking Adapter on virtio_pci0 virtio_pci0: host features: 0x18020 Status,MrgRxBuf,MacAddress virtio_pci0: negotiated features: 0x18020 Status,MrgRxBuf,MacAddress vtnet0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:98:36:6d:e8 virtio_pci0: exhausted all interrupt allocation attempts vtnet0: cannot setup virtqueue interrupts Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0x378 fault code = supervisor read data, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0x808894bb stack pointer = 0x28:0x818434b0 frame pointer = 0x28:0x81843550 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 (swapper) [ thread pid 0 tid 10 ] Stopped at __rw_rlock+0x23b: movl0x378(%r12),%eax db bt Tracing pid 0 tid 10 td 0x8150d370 __rw_rlock() at __rw_rlock+0x23b/frame 0x81843550 in_pcbpurgeif0() at in_pcbpurgeif0+0x30/frame 0x818435a0 in_ifdetach() at in_ifdetach+0x1c/frame 0x818435d0 if_detach() at if_detach+0x19b/frame 0x81843630 vtnet_attach() at vtnet_attach+0xb63/frame 0x81843760 device_attach() at device_attach+0x396/frame 0x818437b0 vtpci_probe_and_attach_child() at vtpci_probe_and_attach_child+0x91/frame 0x818437f0 vtpci_attach() at vtpci_attach+0x23b/frame 0x81843830 device_attach() at device_attach+0x396/frame 0x81843880 bus_generic_attach() at bus_generic_attach+0x4a/frame 0x818438a0 acpi_pci_attach() at acpi_pci_attach+0x15f/frame 0x818438f0 device_attach() at device_attach+0x396/frame 0x81843940 bus_generic_attach() at bus_generic_attach+0x4a/frame 0x81843960 acpi_pcib_attach() at acpi_pcib_attach+0x24d/frame 0x818439b0 acpi_pcib_acpi_attach() at acpi_pcib_acpi_attach+0x299/frame 0x81843a00 device_attach() at device_attach+0x396/frame 0x81843a50 bus_generic_attach() at bus_generic_attach+0x4a/frame 0x81843a70 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: boot time crash in if_detach_internal()
Not sure if the right answer is for drivers not to call ether_ifattach() until the point-of-no-failure (lots of drivers are wrong then) or initialize other parts earlier. The other obvious method is to rearrange the sysinit priorities (/sys/sys/kernel.h) so that all network domains are initialized before invoking the device configuration code -- moving SI_SUB_PROTO* before SI_CONFIGURE -- but presumably this idea was tried and rejected earlier and hence the code in ether_ifattach to check the same global variable. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
boot time crash in if_detach_internal()
I have been poking about with the bhyve virtualization code in FreeBSD 10-current, and managed to crash FreeBSD during its bootstrap process due to the fact that if_detach is called from boot time configuration code, before the internal domain system initialization has happened. I added the following patch to work around the problem. As the large comment notes, it might not be quite correct but it does allow the boot to proceed (of course the dead network device is soon a problem anyway...). The fix mirrors (more or less) the code in if_attach_internal(). Feel free to accept, ignore, or modify the patch. :-) Chris diff --git a/sys/net/if.c b/sys/net/if.c --- a/sys/net/if.c +++ b/sys/net/if.c @@ -845,6 +845,15 @@ if_purgeaddrs(ifp); + /* +* torek: it's not entirely clear to me where and how this +* should go, but if domain_init_status 2 then there should +* be no inet, inet6, etc items, and this is where the crash +* happens during boot, so let's try this: +*/ + if (domain_init_status 2) + return; + #ifdef INET in_ifdetach(ifp); #endif ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports: make fails, if DESTDIR path has spaces
On 1 April 2013 17:13, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: Try DESTDIR='/usr/TZ\ ONE'; export DESTDIR. You need to escape the space. This is '#!/bin/sh' scripting. Doing so fixes *.mk, but breaks sh = dir simply doesn't exist anymore. Matthias Chris = *.mk is at fault here, for not supporting FreeBSD's full range of chars for dir paths As I explained before, Makefiles and sh have a strange relationship, where escaping is similar but different in weird places. Unless you are an expert, you should not use spaces in pathnames. Stop doing it; the ports system is not designed around them. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports: make fails, if DESTDIR path has spaces
On 31 March 2013 14:38, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: Under 9.0-RELEASE-p6 -- #!/bin/sh # Contains 9.0 world DESTDIR='/usr/TZ ONE'; export DESTDIR cd /usr/ports/benchmarks/unixbench /usr/bin/make showconfig -- Errors: --- [: /usr/TZ: unexpected operator === Creating some important subdirectories [: /usr/TZ: unexpected operator === /tmp subdirectory has been successfully created [: /usr/TZ: unexpected operator === /dev subdirectory has been successfully created mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /usr/TZ: File exists === Failed to create temporary mount point *** Error code 9 Stop in /usr/ports/benchmarks/unixbench. Yeah, don't do that. Spaces in directories will always cause problems; I suppose someone could fix it in bsd.port.mk, but it will probably break somewhere else; spaces in Make variables have a special meaning. Use an underscore if you're desperate. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: snd_geode - where it is
On 13 March 2013 13:56, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-li...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl writes: i found it mentioned on older mailing list archives. Unfortunately all links to source are dead. There is no such driver now in FreeBSD-9. Is there any reason that it was removed, or it wasn't commited at all? any place where i can get it? I'm pretty sure it was part of the base system at one time, but that was a long time ago. It's not like it would drop into a modern GIANT-free FreeBSD anyway. Try OSS from ports, would be my first guess. Remember that if you install audio/oss, you will have to compile a kernel without sound drivers built in. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: blocking teamviewer trojan
On 21 Feb 2013 16:22, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: anyone have tested method on doing this? tried blocking port 5938 as well as teamviewer.com domain in squid (and all port 80 traffic is already forwarded to squid). Still doesn't work. thanks for any help. You would have better luck on a Windows security list. This list is for development of FreeBSD. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: building select ports for packaging on install media
Tinderbox will also work fine. (Also, this belongs on ports@) Chris On 11 Feb 2013 19:31, Alexander Yerenkow yeren...@gmail.com wrote: Best way is to have poudriere :) Regards, Alexander Yerenkow 11.02.2013 21:24 пользователь Kurt Lidl l...@pix.net написал: Greetings. I'm looking for a little guidance in building a small (one to two dozen) packages for inclusion on a locally generated install CDROM. (I'm doing this on for sparc64 machines, but I don't think that matters tremendously.) I have successfully generated bootable cd-rom media by doing: cd /usr/src/release make release After grinding around alot, I get a viable sparc64 bootable cdrom. What I'd like to do is augement that CD-ROM image with several binary packages, so I can just install them via 'sysinstall', rather than having to maintain a /usr/ports tree on every host and compile the same software again and again... I've found: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/article.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/portbuild/article.html But those seem to revolve around building *all* the ports. I just want to do a couple of dozen of them, but I'd like to end up with something that will generate binary packages that 'pkg install' can deal with. Thanks for any tips. -Kurt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.
On 23 Jan 2013 20:23, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: While RAID-Z is already a king of bad performance, I don't believe RAID-Z is any worse than RAID5. Do you have any actual measurements to back up your claim? it is clearly described even in ZFS papers. Both on reads and writes it gives single drive random I/O performance. So we have to take your word for it? Provide a link if you're going to make assertions, or they're no more than your own opinion. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.
On 23 January 2013 21:24, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I've heard this same thing -- every vdev == 1 drive in performance. I've never seen any proof/papers on it though. read original ZFS papers. No, you are making the assertion, provide a link. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.
On 23 Jan 2013 21:45, Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:26:43 -0600, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: So we have to take your word for it? Provide a link if you're going to make assertions, or they're no more than your own opinion. I've heard this same thing -- every vdev == 1 drive in performance. I've never seen any proof/papers on it though. first google answer from request raids performance https://blogs.oracle.com/roch/entry/when_to_and_not_to Effectively, as a first approximation, an N-disk RAID-Z group will behave as a single device in terms of deliveredrandom input IOPS. Thus a 10-disk group of devices each capable of 200-IOPS, will globally act as a 200-IOPS capable RAID-Z group. This is the price to pay to achieve proper data protection without the 2X block overhead associated with mirroring. Thanks for the link, but I could have done that; I am attempting to explain to Wojciech that his habit of making bold assertions and arrogantly refusing to back them up makes for frustrating reading. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: disadvantages of running 8.3 kernel on freebsd 8.2 system
On 17 Jan 2013 12:43, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: - What are specific disadvantages that i can see clearly, running 8.3 kernel on freebsd 8.2? no idea. just get latest -8 sources, compile world and kernel and install. all newest and in sync. I agree; very weird problems sometimes happen with out of sync kernel/world; normally with new world old kernel, but the opposite is possible. Are you simply apprehensive over the time of buildworld? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: disadvantages of running 8.3 kernel on freebsd 8.2 system
On 17 Jan 2013 17:13, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Are you simply apprehensive over the time of buildworld? no idea what you mean - my english isn't perfect. Sorry, was asking the OP. I normally have latest binaries and generic kernel built for FreeBSD 8 which i use on servers (don't upgrade now as it works and there is no need to). I have .tar.gz file with binaries, and compile custom kernel on given machine but with same sys sources. so all always in sync. I once had strange out of sync problems - but with virtualbox kernel module. recompiling this module solved all of them. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: cvs deprecated
On 30 Dec 2012 12:58, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: do ports have to be updated this way or i can use portsnap as today? will portsnap be continued or is too deprecated? Portsnap is staying. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: cvs deprecated
On 27 Dec 2012 09:47, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: but i can't find moron guide for using svn to update tree. I never used cvs or svn myself just want to 1) get latest FreeBSD 9-* sources 2) get latest HEAD sources. 1. Checkout the sources: cd /usr/src # Change to something else if you don't want to checkout to /usr/src. svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 . # stable/9 svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head . # CURRENT I recall a cluster administrator advising use of svn protocol rather than http. Something to do with overheads. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD git mirrors demoted to beta status, need your help
On 15 December 2012 13:22, Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org wrote: Bad news everyone, tl;dr The git mirror of the source repository needs to be re-rolled to make the conversion deterministically repeatable, this will change pretty much all git commit hashes. The re-roll will be done January 15, 2013. Not affected are the ports and doc repositories, nor is the svn_head (for use with git-svn) affected. Background The converter (svn2git) was handing commits and objects to git's fast-import in arbitrary order, this makes merge commits have an arbitrary order of their parent commits and thus these merge commits have changing commit hashes for each converter run. This has been fixed, but requires us to move all the branches over to this deterministic scheme, which will change all their commit hashes. None of the contents of these commits change, so rebasing/remerging your work into these branches is possible without running into any merge conflicts. We need your help A goal of these conversions is to have them repeatable by you (yes, you!), so the correctness of the conversion can be verified. There are also no backups of the conversion runs, as they should be repeatable anyway. We need 2-3 volunteers to run these conversions themselves and verify that the produced commit hashes match the published ones. The necessary steps to do this are documented on the Wiki under http://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow#History Please send me your output of git show-ref in a private mail, thanks. Hey, http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/git-show-ref.txt I hope it's what you were hoping for :) My local svn mirror is synchronised at midnight GMT (UTC). Need anything else? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: old style kernel configuration
On 22 Nov 2012 16:26, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Value: ability to embed entire config (comments and all) into the kernel value 2: simplicity. How is it simpler? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: old style kernel configuration
On 22 Nov 2012 18:56, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: How is it simpler? Chris strange question i thought it is obviously clear. $EDITOR config config kernel cd ../compile/kernel make depend make make install that's all. and no need to keep whole /usr/src, just sys what is wrong in it? I was only confused because you had asserted that six commands was simpler-- Now you point out that you don't keep a src tree, paired with freebsd-update it is be a good combination for custom kernels :) Thank you for clarifying. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
On 19 Nov 2012 13:05, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 18/11/2012 16:17 Chris Rees said the following: On 18 November 2012 14:04, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 18 November 2012 02:48, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: What you describe is not a workflow issue, but a local development environment(s) setup issue. Which is a workflow issue. I mean, we could bang heads on semantics for hours on end, or we can realise that git isn't a magic bullet for FreeBSD development. Also... did I mention git is GPL? Yes, you did, twice now. I do not see any relevance of Git license to FreeBSD's choice of SCM solution. But, of course, I am not: a) a zealot b) proposing Git (or Subversion, or Mercurial) to be bundled with a base system I'm disappointed that you choose to call me a zealot- this is a valid concern, especially since we're trying to move away from GPL stuff. Whether it's in base or not, you'd still be forcing me to install it for development. Why are people so dismissive of this point? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
On 18 November 2012 14:04, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 18 November 2012 02:48, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: What you describe is not a workflow issue, but a local development environment(s) setup issue. Which is a workflow issue. I mean, we could bang heads on semantics for hours on end, or we can realise that git isn't a magic bullet for FreeBSD development. Also... did I mention git is GPL? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
On 17 Nov 2012 21:00, Michael Ross g...@ross.cx wrote: On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:11:43 +0100, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: В Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:00:06 -0500 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com пишет: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/11/17/143219/freebsd-project-discloses-security-breach-via-stolen-ssh-key This is not about this incident, but about why major opensource projects need to be using a repository that has traceable, verifiable, built-in cryptographic authentication. LOL And how will this help Linux? http://lwn.net/Articles/457142/ In the first comment on the article you link to, you find this: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/171-jonathan-corbet/491001-the-cracking-of-kernelorg where the OPs view is susbstantiated. Yes, but git doesn't work with our workflow. It's been discussed several times, and changing to a tool that doesn't work for us (and is GPL btw) is no good at all. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports cross-compiling
On 5 September 2012 07:40, Alexander Yerenkow yeren...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all.
I'm currently trying to make poudriere cross compile some ports for arm
arch.
I'm using such command (as example):
env TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv6 TARGET_CPUARCH=armv6
PATH=/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/tmp/usr/bin:${PATH} CONFIGURE_HOST=amd64
STRIP_CMD=true make PKGNAMESUFFIX=-arm WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp WITHOUT_CHECKS=yes
LOCALBASE=/usr/localarm6 -C /usr/ports/A/B package
I have problem:
1. When I run this command from chrooted env, all builds fine; configure
script make check if we cross-compiling, somehow it gets no and all goes
well.
2. When this command run by poudriere in jail, all fails as here:
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in
`/tmp/usr/ports/devel/pcre/work/pcre-8.31':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
=== Script configure failed unexpectedly.
So, I'd like to propose small changes to ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
SET_LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS= \
.
if [ ! -z ${CONFIGURE_HOST} ]; then \
_LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS=$${_LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS} --host=${CONFIGURE_HOST} ; \
fi ; \
.
And after this, builds going just fine (of course for ports that can be
cross-built).
Is it possible to accept this? Seems to me non-destructive patch.
Hi Alexander,
Sorry for the late reply. You're definitely better off discussing
this on ports@-- there has been some work done on cross-building
ports, but it's fairly early days yet; the only real cross that can be
done with much degree of success is i386 on amd64 currently.
Your patch doesn't look destructive, but it could be better integrated
with TARGET_ARCH setting.
Chris
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Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 27 October 2012 22:10, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:53:56 +0100, Chris Rees writes: I'm saying that it's unacceptable to expect people to change their systems just to make the ports tree work after we have broken it on a supposedly supported version. But there's no suggestion of that. The ports tree would take care of itself. The comment about fixing makefiles refered to the concern about things outside of base/ports. From your comment, I now understand that we aren't having the same conversation :) Please answer me these to check we're on the same page: Are we planning to replace /usr/bin/make with bmake in the near future? If yes, what changes are we going to make to the ports tree to ensure that -CURRENT can still use it? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 28 October 2012 19:11, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:06:41 +, Chris Rees writes: Are we planning to replace /usr/bin/make with bmake in the near future? That was what I heard, but any such move is dependent on dealing with ports. The ~sjg/ports2bmake.tar.gz on freefall is the plan I came up with after the above requirement was introduced at last BSDCan. If yes, what changes are we going to make to the ports tree to ensure that -CURRENT can still use it? If you mean -current (aka head); the plan is to convert ports to bmake syntax wrt to the 2 conflicting modifiers. At my last test there are just under 300 makefiles in ports that use the old modifiers. Now for head (ie. /usr/bin/make is an old version), the above ports tree detects that bmake is not being used, and invokes a shell script (bmake-sh) to do what was asked. That script will look for bmake and if necessary build/install it. To do that, it creates a temp copy of Mk/*.mk converted back to the old syntax so that the old make can build and install bmake, and then the old system is on par with -current. That's what I meant by ports will take care of itself. The main gap btw in the above, is if a user who does not have privs to install bmake, is the only person trying to do something with ports. The above plan needs to be approved by portmgr, and obviouslty a test run of building all ports is needed (possibly more than one). Does that help? Certainly, thank you. I didn't find it clear when inspecting the tarball (obviously I hadn't read the README clearly enough). I'm going to have to echo John's non-obvious comment however, and I think it would be very helpful to have a clear public writeup, perhaps QA style to allay any other such fears. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 27 Oct 2012 00:35, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:02:00 +0100, Chris Rees writes: In that case we have a switch time on the order of years, not weeks; 8.3 is supported until May '14, and unless we get a :tl etc MFC into 8, even longer. All this time the ports tree must work with pmake. I'm pretty sure I was told it is already in 8 and 7 Not in 8.3 at least: svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.3/usr.bin/make/var.c?view=log I don't want to discourage you or belittle your excellent work here, but Marcel made me very nervous with his comment on the process being a few weeks. That was based on discussions at the last devsummit. These discussions need backing up with a real roadmap, including detail on exactly what 8.3 and 7.4 users will have to do to ensure that the ports tree still works. I don't see where these considerations have been made. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
[trim CC list a little to stop people regretting replying to this thread] On 27 October 2012 10:15, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 Oct 2012 00:35, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:02:00 +0100, Chris Rees writes: In that case we have a switch time on the order of years, not weeks; 8.3 is supported until May '14, and unless we get a :tl etc MFC into 8, even longer. All this time the ports tree must work with pmake. I'm pretty sure I was told it is already in 8 and 7 Not in 8.3 at least: svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.3/usr.bin/make/var.c?view=log I don't want to discourage you or belittle your excellent work here, but Marcel made me very nervous with his comment on the process being a few weeks. That was based on discussions at the last devsummit. These discussions need backing up with a real roadmap, including detail on exactly what 8.3 and 7.4 users will have to do to ensure that the ports tree still works. I don't see where these considerations have been made. OK, so how about this. We (ab)use the security update mechanism to merge the pmake changes (:tl and :tu) into releng/7.4 and releng/8.3 (possibly the earlier releng branches such as 7.3, 8.2, 9.0). We could then send out a message on ports-announce, giving a few weeks' notice that the change to bsd.port.mk is going through and that users need the latest 'security' patches. When we change bsd.port.mk over, include a snippet such as the one at [1], which gives more informative error text and refers user to documentation. Although I still think this is less than ideal, it is the only way I can see that we can switch before May '14, if the urgency is there. Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/bmake-pmake.diff ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 27 October 2012 15:32, Bryan Drewery br...@shatow.net wrote: On 10/27/2012 8:23 AM, Chris Rees wrote: [trim CC list a little to stop people regretting replying to this thread] On 27 October 2012 10:15, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 Oct 2012 00:35, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:02:00 +0100, Chris Rees writes: In that case we have a switch time on the order of years, not weeks; 8.3 is supported until May '14, and unless we get a :tl etc MFC into 8, even longer. All this time the ports tree must work with pmake. I'm pretty sure I was told it is already in 8 and 7 Not in 8.3 at least: svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.3/usr.bin/make/var.c?view=log I don't want to discourage you or belittle your excellent work here, but Marcel made me very nervous with his comment on the process being a few weeks. That was based on discussions at the last devsummit. These discussions need backing up with a real roadmap, including detail on exactly what 8.3 and 7.4 users will have to do to ensure that the ports tree still works. I don't see where these considerations have been made. OK, so how about this. We (ab)use the security update mechanism to merge the pmake changes (:tl and :tu) into releng/7.4 and releng/8.3 (possibly the earlier releng branches such as 7.3, 8.2, 9.0). We could then send out a message on ports-announce, giving a few weeks' notice that the change to bsd.port.mk is going through and that users need the latest 'security' patches. This weeks is making a assumptions that users 1. reads ports@ or 2. Update to security/errata patches in a timely manner or 3. Read UPDATING Quite. This should be at least a few months, otherwise we're making unreasonable requests of our users, and yet again annoy them by breaking older versions-- this time with no real benefit for end-users. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Call for review -- rc needs some love!
Hi all, I've tried to have a look at some of the lingering issues in our rc [1] as well as kick up some discussion over some other patches, but looking over the archives of the list it seems that no-one is maintaining it or reviewing patches. Because of this, I'm having a hard time working out how to get any of my patches in! Please would someone with a src bit review some of my fixes [2]? I'm working on a few more, but I would need approval for anything committed. Thanks! Chris [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?responsible=freebsd-rc [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2012-October/thread.html ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 27 October 2012 18:27, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote:
These discussions need backing up with a real roadmap, including detail on
exactly what 8.3 and 7.4 users will have to do to ensure that the ports
tree still works.
I've tested the ports tree converted to bmake - per the patch I
mentioned on a 7.1 box. It worked for me. Once the ports tree has
found or installed bmake, the system version makes no further
difference.
Obviously not a conclusive result, but yes this issue has been given
consideration.
What about these?
[crees@pegasus]~% grep -n :\[LU] /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk | tee
/dev/tty | wc -l
1324:PORTVERSION=
${DISTVERSION:L:C/([a-z])[a-z]+/\1/g:C/([0-9])([a-z])/\1.\2/g:C/:(.)/\1/g:C/[^a-z0-9+]+/./g}
1451:.if (defined(USE_QT_VER) ${USE_QT_VER:L} == 3) ||
defined(USE_KDELIBS_VER) || defined(USE_KDEBASE_VER)
1455:.if defined(USE_QT_VER) ${USE_QT_VER:L} == 4 || defined(USE_QT4)
1674:.if ${USE_PKGCONFIG:L} == yes || ${USE_PKGCONFIG:L} == build
1677:.elif ${USE_PKGCONFIG:L} == both
1681:.elif ${USE_PKGCONFIG:L} == run
1696:${b}= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/${b:C/PP/++/:L}
1763:_USE_OPENAL+= ${_OPENAL_${_OPENAL_SYSTEM:U}}
1783:_USE_OPENAL+= ${_OPENAL_${component:U}}
1829:.if defined(FAM_SYSTEM_${FAM_SYSTEM:U})
1830:LIB_DEPENDS+= ${FAM_SYSTEM_${FAM_SYSTEM:U}}
1836:.if defined(USE_RC_SUBR) ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != YES
1844:.if defined(USE_LDCONFIG) ${USE_LDCONFIG:L} == yes
1847:.if defined(USE_LDCONFIG32) ${USE_LDCONFIG32:L} == yes
1856:. if ${USE_GETTEXT:L} == build
1858:. elif ${USE_GETTEXT:L} == run
1860:. elif ${USE_GETTEXT:L} == yes
1888:. if ${USE_LINUX:L} == yes
1899:. if ${USE_LINUX:L} == yes
1977:. if ${USE_GL:L} == yes
1994:. if ${USE_BISON:L} == build
1996:. elif ${USE_BISON:L} == run
1998:. elif ${USE_BISON:L} == both
2044:.if defined(USE_QT_VER) ${USE_QT_VER:L} == 4 || defined(USE_QT4)
3038:_MANPAGES+=
${MAN${sect}:S%^%${MAN${sect}PREFIX}/${manlang}/man${sect:L}/%}
3043:.if defined(MAN${sect}_${manlang:S%^man/%%:U})
3044:_MANPAGES+=
${MAN${sect}_${manlang:S%^man/%%:U}:S%^%${MAN${sect}PREFIX}/${manlang}/man${sect:L}/%}
3056:_MANPAGES+=
${MAN${sect}_EN:S%^%${MAN${sect}PREFIX}/man/man${sect:L}/%}
3312: || defined(CONFIG_DONE_${UNIQUENAME:U}) || \
3600:.if ${USE_DOS2UNIX:U}==YES
4361:${target}: ${${target:U}_COOKIE}
4364: @cd ${.CURDIR} ${MAKE} CONFIG_DONE_${UNIQUENAME:U}=1
${${target:U}_COOKIE}
4368:.if !exists(${${target:U}_COOKIE})
4370:.if ${UID} != 0 defined(_${target:U}_SUSEQ) !defined(INSTALL_AS_USER)
4372:${${target:U}_COOKIE}: ${_${target:U}_DEP}
4373: @cd ${.CURDIR} ${MAKE} ${_${target:U}_SEQ}
4375:${${target:U}_COOKIE}: ${_${target:U}_DEP} ${_${target:U}_SEQ}
4379: ${SU_CMD} ${MAKE} ${_${target:U}_SUSEQ}
4383:${${target:U}_COOKIE}: ${_${target:U}_DEP}
4385: ${MAKE} ${_${target:U}_SEQ} ${_${target:U}_SUSEQ}
4388:${${target:U}_COOKIE}: ${_${target:U}_DEP} ${_${target:U}_SEQ}
${_${target:U}_SUSEQ}
4393:${${target:U}_COOKIE}::
4802: for alg in ${CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS:U}; do \
4825: for alg in ${CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS:U}; do \
4836: for alg in ${CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS:U}; do \
4850: for alg in ${CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS:U}; do \
4904: for alg in ${CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS:U}; do \
5032:${deptype:L}-depends:
5653:${i:S/-//:U}= ${WRKDIR}/${SUB_FILES:M${i}*}
5700:.if defined(PLIST_REINPLACE_${reinplace:U})
5701: @${SED} -i -e '${PLIST_REINPLACE_${reinplace:U}}' ${TMPPLIST}
5854:.if defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR)
${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != YES
5864:.if defined(USE_RC_SUBR) ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != YES
53
[crees@pegasus]~%
Chris
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Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 27 October 2012 19:52, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote:
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:23:29 +0100, Chris Rees writes:
We (ab)use the security update mechanism to merge the pmake changes
(:tl and :tu) into releng/7.4 and releng/8.3 (possibly the earlier
I originally provided the :tl and :tu patch for something like that
(not planning any abuse mind ;-)
But, if portmgr test my patch and find it works ok (for some value of
ok) for older releases, this probably isn't necessary?
It may still be useful though to provide an updated fmake via ports,
which could make it easier for folk to migrate other code bases.
The sed script to be applied to makefiles is trivial btw:
$ cat f2bmake.sed
/$.*:[UL][:)}]/ { s,:L,:tl,g;s,:U,:tu,g; }
$
I know the fix is trivial :)
I'm saying that it's unacceptable to expect people to change their
systems just to make the ports tree work after we have broken it on a
supposedly supported version.
Chris
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Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)
On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara hiren.panchas...@gmail.com wrote: [removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org wrote: (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest) From: Eitan Adler . On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Also related to that, what about writing a section about redports[1] in the porter's handbook[2]? This is a good documentation task... but we need more *coding* tasks as well. We do need to port and test patch (1) from NetBSD or DragonFly to replace GNU patch, and this shouldn't be difficult. Hi Pedro / List, I am not part of google summer of code but I've tried to port patch(1) from NetBSD into FreeBSD head. I hope that is okay. Patching was trivial and It _seems_ to be working fine. I would appreciate any ideas around how to test the changes and how to proceed further. Have you a patch :)? You're right, there shouldn't have been many changes needed. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 26 Oct 2012 06:01, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:53:53PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:01:27 +0100, Chris Rees writes: Is there a Wiki page where the actual benefits of moving to bmake are made clear? This is a major, *major* upheaval, and having two versions of bsd.port.mk for years is simply not an option. There is no need/plan for two versions of bsd.port.mk, the patch I just mentioned, deals with older systems by detecting that bmake was not used, and using it (installing if need be). Have you discussed this on ports@? I have not at least. This was discussed at the last couple of BSDCan's and dev summits. The original plan discussed at BSDCan a couple of years ago, was to allow bmake and the old make to cooexist for some time so that ports could continue to use the old make. At the last BSDCan we were told that wasn't an option - hence the patch to ports that was mentioned. FWIW the changes to 99.9% of the ports tree are trivial (:L - :tl etc). The only interesting changes are to bsd.port.mk (the diff other than the above is 54 lines) they cover 2 things - dealing with old make as mentioned above, and man pages. The nested .for loops that deal with MLINKS are replaced with one line - this was safer that attempting to hack those .for loops to work with both makes. I am watching the serial for some time. Could please, someone, describe why bmake cannot grow the compat features to be a drop-in replacement for FreeBSD make, instead of patching all the trees ? In particular, why cannot the ':L' and ':U' support be added ? :U is already used by bmake for something else- I can't remember what, but I checked the man page last night :( Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 26 Oct 2012 19:12, David O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:12:44AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: Do be able to get the ports tree working with bmake asap, I also asked him to MFC it to 9.1, from latest reply he got positive answer from re@ about this, but was waiting for something I don't remember. :tu/:tl is in releng/9.1, so it will also be in 9.1-RELEASE. Then we only have two supported stable branches you propose to break... Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 26 Oct 2012 20:15, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 Oct 2012 19:12, David O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:12:44AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
Do be able to get the ports tree working with bmake asap, I also asked
him to MFC it to 9.1, from latest reply he got positive answer from
re@
about this, but was waiting for something I don't remember.
:tu/:tl is in releng/9.1, so it will also be in 9.1-RELEASE.
Then we only have two supported stable branches you propose to break...
OK, how about this:
:L -- seems that bmake's use for this is kinda pointless; returning the
name of the variable; we could swap that usage over directly.
:U -- with bmake has non-optional arguments, so for example:
${VAR:U} - pmake behaviour
${VAR:Uval} - make behaviour.
Would that be acceptable? I can get a patch in if that's popular.
Chris
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Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 26 Oct 2012 21:51, Simon J. Gerraty s...@juniper.net wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:00:26 +0100, Chris Rees writes:
:L -- seems that bmake's use for this is kinda pointless; returning the
name of the variable; we could swap that usage over directly.
Acutally it is very useful.
The debugging facilities in dirdeps.mk rely on it.
The junos build uses it in many other places too.
:U -- with bmake has non-optional arguments, so for example:
${VAR:U} - pmake behaviour
${VAR:Uval} - make behaviour.
Would that be acceptable? I can get a patch in if that's popular.
No, please don't do that.
I'm trying to reduce the divergence b/w freebsd and netbsd.
In that case we have a switch time on the order of years, not weeks; 8.3 is
supported until May '14, and unless we get a :tl etc MFC into 8, even
longer. All this time the ports tree must work with pmake.
I don't want to discourage you or belittle your excellent work here, but
Marcel made me very nervous with his comment on the process being a few
weeks.
Chris
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Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 25 October 2012 22:15, David O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:11:29AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: two independent efforts (ATF bmake) and there was no indication that one would be greatly benefitted from the other. At least not to the point of creating a dependency. It seems we do have the situation where folks feel there is a dependency between the two. Before we can switch permanently to bmake, we need to do the following first: 1. Request an EXP ports build with bmake as make(1). This should tell us the damage of switching to bmake for ports. 2. In parallel with 1: build www docs with bmake and assess the damage 3. Fix all the damage It could be a while (many weeks) before we get to 4, so the question Given the time this will take, I feel we need to add another knob to the Bmake build so that 'make world' gives one both the FreeBSD make as /usr/bin/make and Bmake as /usr/bin/bmake. We really aren't going to have any luck yet... [crees@pegasus]/usr/ports% sudo make MAKE=/usr/bin/bmake index | head Generating INDEX-9 - please wait..bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5127: warning: duplicate script for target -depends ignored bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5124: warning: using previous script for -depends defined here bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5127: warning: duplicate script for target -depends ignored bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5124: warning: using previous script for -depends defined here bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5127: warning: duplicate script for target -depends ignored bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5124: warning: using previous script for -depends defined here bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5124: warning: duplicate script for target -depends ignored bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5124: warning: using previous script for -depends defined here bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5124: warning: duplicate script for target -depends ignored bmake: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 5124: warning: using previous script for -depends defined here Looks like a few missing .if !target s, but the breakage is pretty big even for simple things :/ Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program
On 25 October 2012 22:32, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Marcel Moolenaar mar...@xcllnt.net wrote: ... I think there are 2 reasons why not to: 1. The people working on ATF have not raised this concern and have expressed that using the WITH_BMAKE knob is but a small price to pay. So let's work the bmake side and be able to get rid of the knob as soon as possible. It is annoying with the magnitude of build-related errors, but I have a workaround. 2. More knobs isn't better -- we must have none of the knobs in the end, so the more we create, the more work we have to get rid of them. That's just more work spent not focusing on the task at hand and thus more time wasted. Yes, but not being able to update one's machine makes me sad panda. In short: this isn't a 2-knob problem by any stretch of the imagination. The real issue is that I need to take the patch Simon developed, run with it, and in parallel he needs to -- and hopefully already is -- engage portmgr to get it through a number of exp- runs to make sure bmake does what it's supposed to do with his patch. Backwards compatibility will need to be maintained for ports because ports has to work on multiple versions of FreeBSD [where bmake isn't yet available/present], so maybe a fork in the road for bsd.port.mk should be devised in order to make everything work. Now you've terrified me, and probably most other ports people too. Is there a Wiki page where the actual benefits of moving to bmake are made clear? This is a major, *major* upheaval, and having two versions of bsd.port.mk for years is simply not an option. Have you discussed this on ports@? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD
Can you perhaps read the whole thread and organise your thoughts into just one email? Chris On 18 Sep 2012 09:09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: To be succinct: this is not OSX/Windows. True Unix and Unix clones can be decoupled from a desktop environment enough that forcing everyone to have one choice for desktop user experience doesn't make sense, and the fact that there isn't a common GUI development toolkit (GTK, QT, etc) encourages fragmentation of effort further (I think it's called the Bazaar model of development :P). That's all true. But do anyone understand why there is still so much pressure for every open source OS and specifically *BSD on default desktop environment or similar ideas? Such a pressure exist for 20 years at least, and - between other results - started demise of linux as trusty high performance system. Why people still not learned from faults and keep harming good open source projects that way? __**_ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**hackershttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@** freebsd.org freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD
On 18 Sep 2012 09:41, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: desktop environment or similar ideas? Tell you what: When you have at least 75% of the user population of FreeBSD agreeing on which window manager we should offer as the default, we can talk about this. so if 76% would decide that FreeBSD should have KDE included in system - it means that it should? No. Read the thread properly. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gpart is junk
On 17 Sep 2012 12:58, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: IMHO, gpart and GEOM are fantastic. anyway it is MUCH easier and faster to edit disklabels with bsdlabel -e than with gpart. Unfortunately since some time bsdlabel cannot edit labels if ANY of partitions are open. You may be more familiar with manually editing slice tables, but it is very easy to mess up. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD
On 17 Sep 2012 17:22, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com wrote: I definitely agree with this. Sun has a book, UNIX Essentials featuring the Solaris..., and GUI takes a big part in the book. A default GUI is essential to a modern UNIX. FreeBSD can no longer regard GUI as a third-party bonus. This is according to *your* use cases though. There are many of us who do not put X - or any graphical environment - on our FreeBSD servers. If FreeBSD did not regard a GUI as an optional 3rd party component, that would mean bringing Xorg, and a specified default WM into base - potentially even dbus and hald as well. IMO that would be a waste of time and resources, as both Xorg and most WM have rapid development changes - just look at how many issues are brought up on x11@ when there are new upgrades of Xorg available. As well as this, Xorg versions would have to remain relatively stable during minor releases, meaning if you DO want X11, then you are being hamstrung by requiring it in base. Status quo for me please. Time and time again, this comes up. Being official does not mean it should be in base. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why fdisk can't open root disk with MBR for writing?
On 16 September 2012 10:23, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: This is a resend as Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu dropped the Yuri y...@rawbw.com from CC line, Yuri was the original first poster in thread who my patch would presumably have helped. Reference: From: Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:49:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: alpine.gso.1.10.1209151448200@multics.mit.edu Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I have been applying this diff to my man fdisk: http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fdisk/ *** 8.0-RELEASE/src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Sat Mar 14 22:32:16 2009 --- new-generic/src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Sat Mar 14 22:35:10 2009 *** *** 462,464 --- 462,468 The .Xr bsdlabel 8 command must be used for this. + .Pp + When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this: + .br + sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 I never submitted it as a send-pr, anyone think I should submit it to help save people ? We have had a long discussion about kern.geom.debugflags starting here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-October/028090.html My understanding from that discussion is that your patch should not be accepted. Got to travel now, will read that thread later, A shame if we would leave fdisk crippled undocumented, when so easy to doc. the solution. Fdisk is known across many OSs Unix beyond, our BSD tools may be better nicer, but fdisk it what many will first reach for, a shame not to help newer people visitors used to fdisk. We inside FreeBSD crippled fdisk by adding these flags. Outsiders wont expect the weirdness get impression FreeBSD has a bug. I think you have a point, but at the moment fdisk really doesn't work properly at all; I find so many people complaining on IRC about Why doesn't fdisk work? To be honest, I'd be happy with replacing fdisk with a huge warning USE GPART!!; fdisk isn't really standard anyway. The alternative of course is to fix fdisk... *properly*. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [RFC] Add *.orig/*.rej to svn:ignore in src?
On 16 September 2012 10:11, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that we have a handful of patterns currently ignored in svn:ignore (at least at the top-level… the lower levels don't appear to be set in any particular manner): $ svn propget svn:ignore _.tinderbox.* _.amd64.* _.arm.* _.i386.* _.ia64.* _.mips.* _.pc98.* _.powerpc.* _.sparc64.* _.sun4v.* $ svn info | grep URL: URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head I was wondering if *.orig and *.rej should be added to the list as well to avoid checking in patch `artifact` files? Do you have an example where this has happened? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals, lecture video
On 26 Aug 2012 13:15, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: very expensive.. Training and education generally are. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port devel/doxygen failing to test on -CURRENT and -STABLE
On 12 July 2012 18:52, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 July 2012 02:49, David Xu davi...@freebsd.org wrote: On 2012/07/08 18:21, Chris Rees wrote: Hi all / David, doxygen has been failing for a while now on -CURRENT and apparently -STABLE too. The current fix is disabling one of the tests in the build, but obviously it points to a problem with our base system I've trussed [1] the failing code [2], and it looks as though it's hanging on a _umtx call. I'm gratuitously ignorant of what goes on there... but the timings of recent commits to umtx.h [3] could indicate a link (hope it's not bogus...). Any pointers on what I should do next? Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/doxygen-truss _umtx_op(0x8012b0280,0x16,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x1) ERR#22 'Invalid argument' can you execute it in gdb and print its value ? print/x *(int *)0x8012b0280 print/x *(int *)(0x8012b0280+4) I've been having trouble debugging it since it's threaded, and so I ran a binary search over the last few days of revisions from 1/Apr to 1/May. Unfortunately I discovered to my horror today that all but the first test was useless, because the patch I committed to disable the test was of course readded to my ports tree, so none of the tests ran :/ I'll hopefully have it narrowed down to the offending commit over the next few days. Extremely late now, I know; these tests take ages, and I've been dragged away on holiday. I've narrowed it down to cvsup checkout between 00:00 6/April and 12:00 6/April, which I assume corresponds to r233932-r233945. The only major change that I could see is melifaro's bpf changes in r233937; not sure why this test could use bpf. I'll keep digging, and I may owe you (David) an apology ;) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Published paper
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 17:24:37 -0700 , ali mousa wrote: Hi, I have recently published a paper related to Operating System, can you please check it out http://www.ijcsi.org/papers/IJCSI-9-4-1-77-84.pdf and tell me your opinion, looking forward to hear from you ? The DragonFlyBSD project may also find this interesting, because AFAIR one of the reasons Matt forked FreeBSD was due to disagreements in the SMP implementation. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren pgpf2mA8W83Os.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD ZFS source
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 22:48:50 +0200 , Fredrik wrote: Hello, Excuse me for this newb question but exactly where are the current ZFS files located? I have been looking at the CVS on freebsd.org under /src/contrib/opensolaris/ but that does not seem to be the current ones. Is this correct? $ find /usr/src -type d -iname zfs /usr/src/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zfs /usr/src/cddl/sbin/zfs /usr/src/lib/libprocstat/zfs /usr/src/sys/boot/zfs /usr/src/sys/cddl/boot/zfs /usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/common/zfs /usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs /usr/src/tools/regression/zfs Those are probably a good start. Some of them just contain a Makefile pointing you elsewhere in the tree, though. I might have missed something, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I have. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren pgp4qvQrT9NKB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
On 18 Jul 2012 09:39, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I think this is unintentionally specious reasoning. No offense intended. :) true The program itself is fairly trivial to write. i don't need such a tool, but if it would be separate tool, then it is all right if someone like to write it. This would be unix way. So it's really not possible to write the tool and associated documentation myself. Otherwise I would. The pointless debating is really an attempt to get a critical mass of knowledgeable developers to agree to participate in not really. the idea was to integrate it with shell and turn on it by default, prefering newbies over norml users, and making another change that would actually prevent getting knowledge to newbie. I've been using FreeBSD since the 90s. My perception (over many years of observation) is that the FreeBSD people most able to document what exists and how to use it seem to also have the greatest resistance to writing any documentation. what do you mean? FreeBSD manual pages is what i consider great part. i mean manual pages. handbook is not always up to date but still fine for a NEW USER to learn FreeBSD. And that's the right way. creators, helpers like proposed reminds me windows. A Help that doesn't really help learning anything. There are already lots of stupid things that is ALREADY done in FreeBSD without reason. Few examples: 1) XML output from some sysctl variables. It isn't just stupid. It's sad. 2) bsdlabel -e allows editing only when NONE of partitions are open/mounted, in spite that they are not modified. In FreeBSD 6 it allowed editing everytime and all worked. Preventing people doing stupid things would prevent doing clever things. OK there is gpart now but still bsdlabel is far easier and useful. Bsdlabel was a monstrosity that required a calculator to hand to do anything useful. Gpart on the other hand is easily scriptable. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port devel/doxygen failing to test on -CURRENT and -STABLE
On 9 July 2012 02:49, David Xu davi...@freebsd.org wrote: On 2012/07/08 18:21, Chris Rees wrote: Hi all / David, doxygen has been failing for a while now on -CURRENT and apparently -STABLE too. The current fix is disabling one of the tests in the build, but obviously it points to a problem with our base system I've trussed [1] the failing code [2], and it looks as though it's hanging on a _umtx call. I'm gratuitously ignorant of what goes on there... but the timings of recent commits to umtx.h [3] could indicate a link (hope it's not bogus...). Any pointers on what I should do next? Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/doxygen-truss _umtx_op(0x8012b0280,0x16,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x1) ERR#22 'Invalid argument' can you execute it in gdb and print its value ? print/x *(int *)0x8012b0280 print/x *(int *)(0x8012b0280+4) I've been having trouble debugging it since it's threaded, and so I ran a binary search over the last few days of revisions from 1/Apr to 1/May. Unfortunately I discovered to my horror today that all but the first test was useless, because the patch I committed to disable the test was of course readded to my ports tree, so none of the tests ran :/ I'll hopefully have it narrowed down to the offending commit over the next few days. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Better ldns docs? (Was: bikeshedding about BIND)
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 02:21:46 -0700 , Doug Barton wrote: That's an implementation issue, and is easily handled with drill, or the host-like program we all agree is a really-nice-to-have. About that: as I said elsewhere in one of these threads (I want my bikeshed clear and chartreuse at the same time, thank you), I decided to give this a try. However I'm finding the Doxygen autogenerated documentation to be less than useful. I'd really appreciate a task-oriented set of documentation. The design guide helps somewhat but I'm still missing a good set of docs for how things fit together. I suppose you could say well volunteered to that, too, but I'm not sure if the docs will get finished in time for a good CLI client for 10-RELEASE. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren pgpjqnyBdJSbw.pgp Description: PGP signature
port devel/doxygen failing to test on -CURRENT and -STABLE
Hi all / David, doxygen has been failing for a while now on -CURRENT and apparently -STABLE too. The current fix is disabling one of the tests in the build, but obviously it points to a problem with our base system I've trussed [1] the failing code [2], and it looks as though it's hanging on a _umtx call. I'm gratuitously ignorant of what goes on there... but the timings of recent commits to umtx.h [3] could indicate a link (hope it's not bogus...). Any pointers on what I should do next? Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/doxygen-truss [2] http://www.bayofrum.net/tb/index.php?action=display_markup_logbuild=10-localid=1037 [3] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/umtx.h?view=log ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
On 5 July 2012 01:30, Tim Kientzle t...@kientzle.com wrote: On Jul 4, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:59:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/04/2012 15:55, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Seeing as sudo plays a big part of this No ... not only is sudo not a necessary component, it shouldn't be involved at all. The feature works on debian/ubuntu for regular userspace commands. What are they using to authenticate for the install ? do you know ? Huh? What install? Who's talking about install? The version of this I've seen looks like this: $ svn co https://some.url/ svn: Command not found. To use this command, install one of the following packages: devel/subversion devel/subversion-freebsd devel/subversion16 That's all it does: It just prints out a more informative error message. It does not install anything, it requires no special permissions, and does not (as far as I can see) introduce any security or performance problems. The implementation is pretty simple: * A tool for building a database that maps command names to package names. (This would run against a ports tree or package repository. Conceptually, it's pretty similar to how port/package indexes get built today.) * Some way to distribute that database (Probably as part of ISO releases, maybe extend 'portsnap' or 'pkg_add' to update it?) * A program to look up command names in that database and print out the results. * A shell hook to run said program whenever a command not found error occurs. As a first prototype, the database could just be a text file and the look up program could be a shell script that uses grep and sed. Anyone looking to implement something like this could also talk to Sulev-Madis Silber (ketas on EFNet) about his code for making a universal list of files provided by all ports-- he has written a conflicts checker recently and may know some shortcuts. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
On Jul 7, 2012 10:25 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: something they probably don't even know about, than to skilled users to turn it off. If this feature is going to prints quite a few extra lines, let's just add one more line saying: To disable this message run: echo set 31337mode ~/.tcshrc -- should i - from now, understand that this way of extending OS is considered right (i mean going down to newbies instead of going up) by FreeBSD developers? Please answer it is important for me, and many other people for a future. This is not 'going down'. This is adding features to help newcomers. You are free to disable them. It will not remove anything from FreeBSD. I point to Doug's statement on elitism. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
On Jul 7, 2012 10:46 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: This is not 'going down'. This is adding features to help newcomers. You are free to disable them. It will not remove anything this doesn't help newcomers. Just like easy installers, desktop environments and so on. this only generate herds of morons that know FreeBSD and dissolve real user base. What is the 'real user base?' People who insult newcomers and call them morons? People who consider it cool to use a OS that is unnecessarily difficult to learn? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
On Jul 5, 2012 11:16 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Thursday 05 July 2012 11:03:32 Doug Barton wrote:
On 07/05/2012 01:28, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2012-Jul-05 09:22:25 +0200, Jonathan McKeown
j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
As for the idea that Linux refugees need extra help to migrate,
that's the sort of thinking that led to things like:
alias dir=ls
Whilst we're on the subject, can we please also have #define BEGIN
{ #define END } wired into gcc to help people migrating from Algol
and Pascal.
Um, this kind of elitist crap really isn't helpful.
It was intended to be a slightly humorous response to your original
question:
why would you *not* want a feature that tells you what to
install if you type a command that doesn't exist on the system?
rather than ``elitist crap'' (as was the deliberately the over-the-top
comparison to Clippy). I don't think suggesting that someone who wants to
use
a system learn how it works is elitist; and I don't object to optional
tools
to help them ``settle in'' (but see below).
You might also notice that I made a suggestion that might help people
migrating - namely some adaptation of the Unix Rosetta Stone in the
Handbook
so that people who know how to do something in Linux are quickly guided to
the best way to do it in FreeBSD (and perhaps vice versa).
If the new feature gets created, and you don't want to use it, turn it
off. No problem.
No. I think this is entirely the wrong way round. If the new feature is
created and you want it, turn it on. Don't make me turn off something I
didn't want in the first place. Given the choice between a system in
which I
switch on whatever I need, versus one which has absolutely everything
switched on where I spend ages switching it all off/deinstalling it all, I
know which I prefer - and others have made similar comments.
That's crazy- this is the logic that led to our sh having tab completion
and history disabled by default for years. How many people honestly knew
it was there? The people who would benefit from this feature are the ones
who wouldn't know it was there.
Chris
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Re: Gentoo Solution to Nanny Terminal Problem
On Jul 5, 2012 4:00 PM, Sean s...@gothic.net.au wrote: On 05/07/2012, at 10:02 PM, Richard Yao wrote: The second is the e-file command, which will query that database for whatever follows it. For example, if I want to find out which package installs repoman, I can do `e-file repoman`. I can also do `e-file /usr/bin/repoman`. if FreeBSD had an equivalent to this command, this command, then I imagine that calls for Ubuntu/Fedora features should cease. Gentoo users seem to be happy with e-file. 0:55 Fri 06-Jul sean@queen [~] pkg_info -W bash /usr/local/bin/bash was installed by package bash-4.2.28 0:57 Fri 06-Jul sean@queen [~] pkg_info -W /usr/local/sbin/sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail was installed by package postfix-2.9.3,1 This isn't the same at all; it only reports for installed packages. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
On Jul 5, 2012 5:37 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: are you serious that linux distros have such a think now? I didn't use linux for a long time and no plan to use it, but you are joking isn't it? They do, and it's actually very useful in two cases: no it isn't. unless it would be extra keypress for that. i don't want to be treated as a moron just as when i use google search with javascript active. You'd fall into the category of 'I would disable that feature' then. Since that is the case, you should stop commenting, now, and simply disable it if/when it comes out. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 17:51:52 +0100 , Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: also be to enable drill so that we have a command-line dns lookup tool in the base, but that's trivial once you've got ldns imported. Does that means loosing host(1) ? That would be somewhat annoying. You seem to have missed another message Doug posted to this thread (message-id 4ff36174.2000...@freebsd.org, dated Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:17:40 -0700) wherein he wrote: Whether we do the above or not, ldns/drill should be imported into the base so that we have at least one command line DNS resolution tool. A good junior hacker project would be to make a host(1) clone using ldns. If users want the regular bind tools, ports/dns/bind-tools already exists. I was curious and started poking at ldns to create such a tool. It shouldn't be difficult for anyone familiar with C and DNS who has the tuits to spare. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren pgpR1jUEqDRxU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sysctl filesystem ?
On Jun 26, 2012 7:07 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: as well as we don't depend of /proc for normal operation we shouldn't for say /proc/sysctl improvements are welcome, better documentation is welcome, changes to what is OK - isn't. /proc/sysctl might be useful. Just because Linux uses it doesn't make it a bad idea. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?
On Jun 23, 2012 7:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: 100% HIT! yes i have on of those that have PS/2 reset issues Unfortunately even good adaptors have their share of problems. I refuse to move from the keyboard I have currently, and occasionally keys get 'stuck' but it's so obvious when it happens it's no big hardship. I have a Belkin adaptor one by the way, and it works very well with FreeBSD apart from that issue, if that's any help. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)
On Jun 22, 2012 7:33 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: separate and optional program. that's acceptable, except i have no idea why this fscadm enable/disable. editing config is enough. I don't think I understand i have no idea why this fscadm enable/disable. editing config is enough. and would ask you elaborate for me. Thanks, why adding solaris style command to add a line in text file. just edit a text file. Scripting? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)
On Jun 20, 2012 11:03 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: scripts, i deleted most of it and put startup sequence in single file. It was plain horror. You would weep if you saw Solaris's SMF, then. Everything is i don't really know what i've seen. i've installed latest solaris demo downloaded from oracle. After nearly an hour of installation over which i had really no control and no real clue what's going on i finally after over 5 minutes got the system booted, logged as root and tried to understand the /etc tree, boot process and gave up really quickly. just seeing a files and directories (both numerous) of just a kernel binaries was truly enough. Now... lets go back to FreeBSD which is controllable and understandable by a human. Your arrogance is astounding. Did you read man hier? Unfamiliarity does not make it incomprehensible. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)
On Jun 21, 2012 5:15 PM, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:22:08PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Lets make a summary. What functionality would be good to have in FreeBSD that doesn't exist: 1) runlevels with arbitrary names. runlevel change would start and stop right services. 2) exploit startup parallelism. What we do not want to change: - file structure which is simple. one file in rc.d/ per service and one global config file (rc.conf) - anything else that would make things more complicated. As for 1) i propose in rc.conf an option to put NO, YES (or ALL) or runlevel list for each service or runlevel exclusion list for service. examples: service1_enable=YES service2_enable=NO service3_enable=foolevel maintenance service4_enable=YES -foolevel (or ALL -funkyrunlevel) name of default runlevel may be full or multiuser service 1 will always work, service 2 never, service 3 only at runlevels foolevel and maintenance, service4 with any runlevel except foolevel. still single rc.conf, not much bigger in practice. 2) no change in rc.d/* scripts and rc.conf, but change in scripts. If everyone agree i think i may write this new scripts. Sorry but I completely disagree here. Why ? Because do one thing and do one thing well. What do you mean ? He means the UNIX philosophy. http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BIO_DELETE equivalent for file on FFS filesystem
On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch holes? I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like brk() works for memory. BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on filesystem which takes 10GB but uses 5GB. i could write simple program to find out what blocks are unused and then...do nothing. What if you cp it? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BIO_DELETE equivalent for file on FFS filesystem
On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, Xin LI delp...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch holes? I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like brk() works for memory. BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on filesystem which takes 10GB but uses 5GB. i could write simple program to find out what blocks are unused and then...do nothing. What if you cp it? That would be a dd(1) unless we teach cp(1) how to do sparse. I think what he wanted is to tell the OS I don't need block XX - YY anymore and the OS creates a sparse hole, which is not available at this time. Sorry, I must have misread. I take it cp would take a file with holes and only copy the data part? i.e. take a 10G file of which 5G is a hole, you'd end up with a 5G file? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk
On Jun 16, 2012 8:26 PM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: And PLEASE DO NOT make this stupid MSDOS style slices. It is not just unneeded but introduces mess and only mess. just have /dev/ad0a not /dev/ad0s1a What FreeBSD devs have to say about this? ;) I say we have GPT this decade :) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?
On Jun 15, 2012 9:39 AM, Peter Jeremy pe...@rulingia.com wrote: On 2012-Jun-14 08:09:30 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates and support stop. There's nothing stopping you from from running -stable in production. Obviously, you will need to do more extensive testing than you might need to for a -release. As for EoL, all software goes EoL and support for that software stops. FreeBSD releases are typically supported for 4 years - IMO, that's excellent value for money. On 2012-Jun-14 12:48:19 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 14, 2012 9:30 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: I've moved us to 8.3-STABLE recently and am quite happy with it, so far. Too strong wording perhaps; but you can't claim that an EOL stable branch will have the level of support afforded to live branches. That was supposed to be my point, as Mark has also explained. You are the only person that is claiming that 8.x is EOL. I have not seen any official announcement to that effect. The absence of an announcement of 8.4-release does not make it EOL. Of course not. The fear that this whole thread is about the possibility of EoL this year or soon; the OP wants support for longer. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?
On Jun 14, 2012 5:52 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Friends, I am looking at the upcoming release schedule, and I only see 9.1 listed - can anyone confirm or deny 8.4 ? does it matter. cvsup RELENG_8 and you see updates are done constantly. just sometime somebody decide to change number :) Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates and support stop. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?
On Jun 14, 2012 9:30 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6/14/12 9:09 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 14, 2012 5:52 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Friends, I am looking at the upcoming release schedule, and I only see 9.1 listed - can anyone confirm or deny 8.4 ? does it matter. cvsup RELENG_8 and you see updates are done constantly. just sometime somebody decide to change number :) Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates and support stop. Chris Whoever said STABLE is no good for production ? I used to make us stick to 8.2-RELEASE here at work, but some bugfixes are just too important to skip (we're running firewalls and had a problem with a CARP bug). I've moved us to 8.3-STABLE recently and am quite happy with it, so far. Too strong wording perhaps; but you can't claim that an EOL stable branch will have the level of support afforded to live branches. That was supposed to be my point, as Mark has also explained. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CD bootcode
On Jun 7, 2012 2:58 PM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: rank1see...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:21:39 -0400 Subject: Re: CD bootcode On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:15:14 pm rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD's CD bootcode '/boot/cdboot' is targeting stage 3 boot - loader For example, stage 2 boot '/boot/boot' is attempting the same. In my case of a '/boot/loader', '/boot' is a symlink! So if '/boot/boot' works with symlinks, why '/boot/cdboot' doesn't! Yes, I did use Rock-Ridge extensions, upon creation of 'cd.iso' Because I didn't make cdboot's lookup routine handle symlinks. It also doesn't look at Rock-Ridge extensions and only uses the base ISO-9660 directory entries. That was enough fun to write in assembly. OTOH, CD sectors are 2k, so you do have that much room to work with and can probably fit a more advanced directory lookup into cdboot. I'm happy to review any patches you come up with. -- John Baldwin I need to correct myself. BOTH stage 2 boot '/boot/boot' AND '/boot/cdboot' don't work with symlinks! '/boot/boot' on UFS sees symlink as file, same as '/boot/cdboot' does so on Rock-Ridge. I can handle '/boot/boot' by providing full path to loader via 'boot.config' '/boot/cdboot' doesn't have such a file, so in '/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot/cdboot.s': -- loader_paths: .asciz /BOOT/LOADER .asciz /boot/loader .byte 0 -- I injected third '.asciz' line with full path to 'loader' and recompiled it. And what is first line /BOOT/LOADER doing in there ?!? Because strict ISO9660 8.3 is case insensitive and uses caps? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
