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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 251789 15-Jun-2013 lstewart

Now that the necessary infrastructure is in place to ensure hhook points which
register after a khelp module will get hooked, move khelp module initialisation
to the earlier SI_SUB_KLD stage.

MFC after: 1 week


# 251682 13-Jun-2013 lstewart

Remove some duplicate code by making KHELP_DECLARE_MOD() a wrapper around
KHELP_DECLARE_MOD_UMA().

MFC after: 3 days


# 220560 12-Apr-2011 lstewart

Use the full and proper company name for Swinburne University of Technology
throughout the source tree.

Requested by: Grenville Armitage, Director of CAIA at Swinburne University of
Technology
MFC after: 3 days


# 216615 21-Dec-2010 lstewart

- Introduce the Hhook (Helper Hook) KPI. The KPI is closely modelled on pfil(9),
and in many respects can be thought of as a more generic superset of pfil.
Hhook provides a way for kernel subsystems to export hook points that Khelp
modules can hook to provide enhanced or new functionality to the kernel. The
KPI has been designed to ensure hook points pose no noticeable overhead when
no hook functions are registered.

- Introduce the Khelp (Kernel Helpers) KPI. Khelp provides a framework for
managing Khelp modules, which indirectly use the Hhook KPI to register their
hook functions with hook points of interest within the kernel. Khelp modules
aim to provide a structured way to dynamically extend the kernel at runtime in
an ABI preserving manner. Depending on the subsystem providing hook points, a
Khelp module may be able to associate per-object data for maintaining relevant
state between hook calls.

- pjd's Object Specific Data (OSD) KPI is used to manage the per-object data
allocated to Khelp modules. Create a new "OSD_KHELP" OSD type for use by the
Khelp framework.

- Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900028 to mark the introduction of the new KPIs.

In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: bz, others along the way
MFC after: 3 months