History log of /freebsd-current/lib/libkvm/kvm_i386.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# b3e76948 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 2e43efd0 06-Mar-2019 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Drop "All rights reserved" from my copyright statements.

Reviewed by: rgrimes
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19485


# 9a527560 29-Jan-2019 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

i386: Merge PAE and non-PAE pmaps into same kernel.

Effectively all i386 kernels now have two pmaps compiled in: one
managing PAE pagetables, and another non-PAE. The implementation is
selected at cold time depending on the CPU features. The vm_paddr_t is
always 64bit now. As result, nx bit can be used on all capable CPUs.

Option PAE only affects the bus_addr_t: it is still 32bit for non-PAE
configs, for drivers compatibility. Kernel layout, esp. max kernel
address, low memory PDEs and max user address (same as trampoline
start) are now same for PAE and for non-PAE regardless of the type of
page tables used.

Non-PAE kernel (when using PAE pagetables) can handle physical memory
up to 24G now, larger memory requires re-tuning the KVA consumers and
instead the code caps the maximum at 24G. Unfortunately, a lot of
drivers do not use busdma(9) properly so by default even 4G barrier is
not easy. There are two tunables added: hw.above4g_allow and
hw.above24g_allow, the first one is kept enabled for now to evaluate
the status on HEAD, second is only for dev use.

i386 now creates three freelists if there is any memory above 4G, to
allow proper bounce pages allocation. Also, VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE changed
from 3 to 1.

The PAE_TABLES kernel config option is retired.

In collaboarion with: pho
Discussed with: emaste
Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18894


# c9057838 11-Nov-2017 Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>

libkvm: add kvm_walk_pages API.

This API allows callers to enumerate all known pages, including any
direct map & kernel map virtual addresses, physical addresses, size,
offset into the core, & protection configured.

For architectures that support direct map addresses, also generate pages
for any direct map only addresses that are not associated with kernel
map addresses.

Fix page size portability issue left behind from previous kvm page table
lookup interface.

Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: Backtrace I/O
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12279


# 2f9e5791 14-Jan-2016 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Fix building with GCC since PAGE_MASK is signed on i386.

Reviewed by: ngie
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4772


# 7f911abe 27-Nov-2015 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Add support to libkvm for reading vmcores from other architectures.
- Add a kvaddr_type to represent kernel virtual addresses instead of
unsigned long.
- Add a struct kvm_nlist which is a stripped down version of struct nlist
that uses kvaddr_t for n_value.
- Add a kvm_native() routine that returns true if an open kvm descriptor
is for a native kernel and memory image.
- Add a kvm_open2() function similar to kvm_openfiles(). It drops the
unused 'swapfile' argument and adds a new function pointer argument for
a symbol resolving function. Native kernels still use _fdnlist() from
libc to resolve symbols if a resolver function is not supplied, but cross
kernels require a resolver.
- Add a kvm_nlist2() function similar to kvm_nlist() except that it uses
struct kvm_nlist instead of struct nlist.
- Add a kvm_read2() function similar to kvm_read() except that it uses
kvaddr_t instead of unsigned long for the kernel virtual address.
- Add a new kvm_arch switch of routines needed by a vmcore backend.
Each backend is responsible for implementing kvm_read2() for a given
vmcore format.
- Use libelf to read headers from ELF kernels and cores (except for
powerpc cores).
- Add internal helper routines for the common page offset hash table used
by the minidump backends.
- Port all of the existing kvm backends to implement a kvm_arch switch and
to be cross-friendly by using private constants instead of ones that
vary by platform (e.g. PAGE_SIZE). Static assertions are present when
a given backend is compiled natively to ensure the private constants
match the real ones.
- Enable all of the existing vmcore backends on all platforms. This means
that libkvm on any platform should be able to perform KVA translation
and read data from a vmcore of any platform.

Tested on: amd64, i386, sparc64 (marius)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3341