History log of /freebsd-current/sys/kern/link_elf_obj.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 7ef5c19b 31-Mar-2024 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

kern linker: Don't invoke dtors without having invoked ctors

I have a kernel module which fails to load because of an unrecognized
relocation type. link_elf_load_file() fails before the module's ctors
are invoked and it calls linker_file_unload(), which causes the module's
dtors to be executed, resulting in a kernel panic.

Add a flag to the linker file to ensure that dtors are not invoked if
unloading due to an error prior to ctors being invoked.

At the moment I only implemented this for link_elf_obj.c since
link_elf.c doesn't invoke dtors, but I refactored link_elf.c to make
them more similar.

Fixes: 9e575fadf491 ("link_elf_obj: Invoke fini callbacks")
Reviewed by: zlei, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44559


# c21bc6f3 21-Mar-2024 Bojan Novković <bnovkov@FreeBSD.org>

ddb: Add CTF-based pretty printing

Add basic CTF support and a CTF-powered pretty-printer to ddb.

The db_ctf.* files expose a basic interface for fetching type
data for ELF symbols, interacting with the CTF string table,
and translating type identifiers to type data.

The db_pprint.c file uses those interfaces to implement
a pretty-printer for all kernel ELF symbols.
The pretty-printer works with symbol names and arbitrary addresses:
pprint struct thread 0xffffffff8194ad90

Pretty-printing currently only works after the root filesystem
gets mounted because the CTF info is not available during
early boot.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37899
Approved by: markj (mentor)


# eccde5f4 20-Feb-2024 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys/kern: Remove a few sys/cdefs.h around some elf things

These sys/cdefs.h are no longer needed. Remove them in advance of
other work in this area.

Sponsored by: Netflix


# cf7974fd 20-Sep-2023 Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org>

sysctl: Update 'master' copy of vnet SYSCTLs on kernel environment variables change

Complete phase three of 3da1cf1e88f8.

With commit 110113bc086f, vnet sysctl variables can be loader tunable
but the feature is limited. When the kernel modules have been initialized,
any changes (e.g. via kenv) to kernel environment variable will not affect
subsequently created VNETs.

This change relexes the limitation by listening on kernel environment
variable's set / unset events, and then update the 'master' copy of vnet
SYSCTL or restore it to its initial value.

With this change, TUNABLE_XXX_FETCH can be greately eliminated for vnet
loader tunables.

Reviewed by: glebius
Fixes: 110113bc086f sysctl(9): Enable vnet sysctl variables to be loader tunable
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41825


# 205821a7 09-Sep-2023 Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org>

kernel linker: Eliminate unneeded vnet propagation

The module preload happens before vnet0 creation, at this moment the vnet
list is empty thus invoking vnet_data_copy() during preload is a noop.

With recent change 110113bc086f, for dynamic module load, aka via kldload,
linker will do vnet propagation right after registering sysctls which
happens after module load, then previous propagation (during module load)
is redundant.

No functional change intended.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39852


# 110113bc 09-Sep-2023 Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org>

sysctl(9): Enable vnet sysctl variables to be loader tunable

Complete phase two of 3da1cf1e88f8.

In 3da1cf1e88f8, the meaning of the flag CTLFLAG_TUN is extended to
automatically check if there is a kernel environment variable which
shall initialize the SYSCTL during early boot. It works for all SYSCTL
types both statically and dynamically created ones, except for the
SYSCTLs which belong to VNETs.

This change extends the meaning further, to allow it also works for
the SYSCTLs which belong to VNETs. A typical usage is
```
VNET_DEFINE_STATIC(int, foo) = 0;
SYSCTL_INT(_net, OID_AUTO, foo, CTLFLAG_RWTUN | CTLFLAG_VNET,
&VNET_NAME(foo), 0, "Description of the foo loader tunable");
```

Note that the implementation has a limitation. It behaves the same way
as that of non-vnet loader tunables. That is, after the kernel or modules
being initialized, any changes (e.g. via kenv) to kernel environment
variable will not affect the corresponding vnet variable of subsequently
created VNETs. To overcome it, we can use TUNABLE_XXX_FETCH to fetch
the kernel environment variable into those vnet variables during vnet
constructing.

This change will fix the following SYSCTLs those belong to VNETs and
have CTLFLAG_TUN flag:
```
net.add_addr_allfibs
net.bpf.optimize_writers
net.inet.tcp.fastopen.ccache_buckets
net.link.bridge.inherit_mac
net.link.bridge.ipfw_arp
net.link.bridge.log_stp
net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge
net.link.bridge.pfil_local_phys
net.link.bridge.pfil_member
net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip
net.link.lagg.default_use_flowid
net.link.lagg.default_use_numa
net.link.lagg.default_flowid_shift
net.link.lagg.lacp.debug
net.link.lagg.lacp.default_strict_mode
```

Although the following vnet SYSCTLs have CTLFLAG_TUN flag, theirs
values are re-fetched via TUNABLE_XXX_FETCH, thus are not affected
by this change.
```
net.inet.ip.reass_hashsize
net.inet.tcp.hostcache.cachelimit
net.inet.tcp.hostcache.hashsize
net.inet.tcp.hostcache.bucketlimit
net.inet.tcp.syncache.bucketlimit
net.inet.tcp.syncache.cachelimit
net.inet.tcp.syncache.hashsize
net.key.spdcache.maxentries
net.key.spdcache.threshold
```

In memoriam: hselasky
Discussed with: hselasky, glebius
Fixes: 3da1cf1e88f8 Extend the meaning of the CTLFLAG_TUN flag ...
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39638


# 685dc743 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# bb92cd7b 24-Mar-2022 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

vfs: NDFREE(&nd, NDF_ONLY_PNBUF) -> NDFREE_PNBUF(&nd)


# ecd8245e 07-Nov-2021 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Kernel linkers: add emergency sysctl to restore old behavior

allowing linking to static symbols from other files. Default the new
settings to true, delaying the change of the kernel linker behavior
for other day.

Suggested by: emaste
PR: 207898
Reviewed by: emaste, markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32878


# 95c20faf 07-Nov-2021 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

kernel linker: do not read debug symbol tables for non-debug symbols

In particular, this prevents resolving locals from other files.
To access debug symbol tables, add LINKER_LOOKUP_DEBUG_SYMBOL and
LINKER_DEBUG_SYMBOL_VALUES kobj methods, which are allowed to use
any types of present symbols in all tables.

PR: 207898
Reviewed by: emaste, markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32878


# c37c6f99 08-Dec-2021 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Style

Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32878


# 7e1d3eef 25-Nov-2021 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

vfs: remove the unused thread argument from NDINIT*

See b4a58fbf640409a1 ("vfs: remove cn_thread")

Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400043.


# b11e6fd7 25-Nov-2021 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

link_elf_obj: Process global ifunc relocs after other global relocs

This is needed to ensure that resolvers that reference global symbols
return correct results.

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33120


# a7e4eb14 07-Nov-2021 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Kernel linkers: some style

Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32878


# 9e575fad 29-Jul-2021 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

link_elf_obj: Invoke fini callbacks

This is required for KASAN: when a module is unloaded, poisoned regions
(e.g., pad areas between global variables) are left as such, so if they
are reused as KLDs are loaded, false positives can arise.

Reported by: pho, Jenkins
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31339


# 4aa157dd 16-Mar-2021 Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com>

link_elf_obj: Add a case missing from 5e6989ba4f26

Fixes: 5e6989ba4f26
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 5e6989ba 04-Mar-2021 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

link_elf_obj: Handle init_array sections in KLDs

Reuse existing handling for .ctors, print a warning if multiple
constructor sections are present. Destructors are not handled as of
yet.

This is required for KASAN.

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29049


# 0659df6f 12-Jan-2021 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

vm_map_protect: allow to set prot and max_prot in one go.

This prevents a situation where other thread modifies map entries
permissions between setting max_prot, then relocking, then setting prot,
confusing the operation outcome. E.g. you can get an error that is not
possible if operation is performed atomic.

Also enable setting rwx for max_prot even if map does not allow to set
effective rwx protection.

Reviewed by: brooks, markj (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28117


# d80126a6 19-Oct-2020 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

link_elf_obj: Colour VM objects

This will cause the VM to back sufficiently large .text sections, such
as those in zfs.ko or amdgpu.ko on amd64, with superpage mappings when
possible.

Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26802


# 44c705cf 07-Oct-2020 Mitchell Horne <mhorne@FreeBSD.org>

Handle kmod local relocation failures gracefully

It is possible for elf_reloc_local() to fail in the unlikely case of
an unsupported relocation type. If this occurs, do not continue to
process the file.

Reviewed by: kib, markj (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26701


# fbf2a778 08-Sep-2020 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Convert allocations of the phys pager to vm_pager_allocate().

Future changes would require additional initialization of OBJT_PHYS
objects, and vm_object_allocate() is not suitable for it.

Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24652


# 6fed89b1 01-Sep-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

kern: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files


# 3ff65f71 30-Jan-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

Remove duplicated empty lines from kern/*.c

No functional changes.


# b249ce48 03-Jan-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

vfs: drop the mostly unused flags argument from VOP_UNLOCK

Filesystems which want to use it in limited capacity can employ the
VOP_UNLOCK_FLAGS macro.

Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21427


# f822c9e2 18-Oct-2019 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Apply mapping protections to preloaded kernel modules on amd64.

With an upcoming change the amd64 kernel will map preloaded files RW
instead of RWX, so the kernel linker must adjust protections
appropriately using pmap_change_prot().

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21860


# 1d9eae9f 18-Oct-2019 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Apply mapping protections to .o kernel modules.

Use the section flags to derive mapping protections. When multiple
sections overlap within a page, the union of their protections must be
applied. With r353701 the .text and .rodata sections are padded to
ensure that this does not happen on amd64.

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21896


# 092bacb2 17-Oct-2019 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Clean up some nits in link_elf_(un)load_file().

- Remove a redundant assignment of ef->address.
- Don't return a Mach error number to the caller if vm_map_find() fails.
- Use ptoa() and fix style.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 6d775f0b 16-Oct-2019 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Use KOBJMETHOD_END in the kernel linker.

MFC after: 1 week


# 5131cba6 02-Oct-2019 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Use OBJT_PHYS VM objects for kernel modules.

OBJT_DEFAULT incurs some unnecessary overhead given that kernel module
pages cannot be paged out.

Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21862


# 22bbc4b2 08-Aug-2019 Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>

Convert DDB_CTF to use newer version of ZLIB.

PR: 229763
Submitted by: Yoshihiro Ota <ota j email ne jp>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21176


# f6e5ddff 03-Jun-2019 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Remove dead check.

We already handled the case when symstrindex < 0 at line 680.

Reported by: danfe using PVS-studio
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# 9afc5684 30-Oct-2018 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

Fix mips build after r339931.
I erroneously thought that it was two 64bit platforms which use link_elf_obj.c.

PR: 228854
Reported by: ci.f.o.
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC with: r339931
Pointyhat to: bz


# 0f823b64 30-Oct-2018 Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>

As a follow-up to r339930 and various reports implement logging in case
we fail during module load because the pcpu or vnet module sections are
full. We did return a proper error but not leaving any indication to
the user as to what the actual problem was.

Even worse, on 12/13 currently we are seeing an unrelated error (ENOSYS
instead of ENOSPC, which gets skipped over in kern_linker.c) to be
printed which made problem diagnostics even harder.

PR: 228854
MFC after: 3 days


# 36716fe2e 22-Aug-2018 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Prepare the kernel linker to handle PC-relative ifunc relocations.

The boot-time ifunc resolver assumes that it only needs to apply
IRELATIVE relocations to PLT entries. With an upcoming optimization,
this assumption no longer holds, so add the support required to handle
PC-relative relocations targeting GNU_IFUNC symbols.
- Provide a custom symbol lookup routine that can be used in early boot.
The default lookup routine uses kobj, which is not functional at that
point.
- Apply all existing relocations during boot rather than filtering
IRELATIVE relocations.
- Ensure that we continue to apply ifunc relocations in a second pass
when loading a kernel module.

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16749


# 8f941950 07-Aug-2018 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Followup to r337430: only call elf_reloc_ifunc on x86.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# 289ead7c 07-Aug-2018 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Add missed handling of local relocs against ifunc target in the obj modules.

Reported and tested by: wulf
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# bf923a55 19-Jul-2018 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Delete an XXX comment addressed by r336505.

X-MFC with: r336505
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 73624a80 19-Jul-2018 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Provide the full module path to preload_delete_name().

The basename will never match against the preload metadata, so these
calls previously had no effect.

Reviewed by: kib, royger
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16330


# f912a970 29-May-2018 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

link_elf_obj: correct an error message

Previously we'd report that a file has "no valid symbol table" if it in
fact had two or more. Change the message to report that there must be
exactly one.


# 891cf3ed 18-May-2018 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Use NULL for SYSINIT's last arg, which is a pointer type

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 7035cf14 03-May-2018 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Implement support for ifuncs in the kernel linker.

Required MD bits are only provided for x86.

Reviewed by: jhb (previous version, as part of the larger patch)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13838


# 15746ef4 05-Feb-2018 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Ignore relocation tables for non-memory-resident sections.

As a followup to r328101, ignore relocation tables for ELF object
sections that are not memory resident. For modules loaded by the
loader, ignore relocation tables whose associated section was not
loaded by the loader (sh_addr is zero). For modules loaded at runtime
via kldload(2), ignore relocation tables whose associated section is
not marked with SHF_ALLOC.

Reported by: Mori Hiroki <yamori813@yahoo.co.jp>, adrian
Tested on: mips, mips64
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: DARPA / AFRL


# d821d364 21-Jan-2018 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

Unsign some values related to allocation.

When allocating memory through malloc(9), we always expect the amount of
memory requested to be unsigned as a negative value would either stand for
an error or an overflow.
Unsign some values, found when considering the use of mallocarray(9), to
avoid unnecessary casting. Also consider that indexes should be of
at least the same size/type as the upper limit they pretend to index.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# 58c4aee0 17-Jan-2018 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Require the SHF_ALLOC flag for program sections from kernel object modules.

ELF object files can contain program sections which are not supposed
to be loaded into memory (e.g. .comment). Normally the static linker
uses these flags to decide which sections are allocated to loadable
program segments in ELF binaries and shared objects (including kernels
on all architectures and kernel modules on architectures other than
amd64).

Mapping ELF object files (such as amd64 kernel modules) into memory
directly is a bit of a grey area. ELF object files are intended to be
used as inputs to the static linker. As a result, there is not a
standardized definition for what the memory layout of an ELF object
should be (none of the section headers have valid virtual memory
addresses for example).

The kernel and loader were not checking the SHF_ALLOC flag but loading
any program sections with certain types such as SHT_PROGBITS. As a
result, the kernel and loader would load into RAM some sections that
weren't marked with SHF_ALLOC such as .comment that are not loaded
into RAM for kernel modules on other architectures (which are
implemented as ELF shared objects). Aside from possibly requiring
slightly more RAM to hold a kernel module this does not affect runtime
correctness as the kernel relocates symbols based on the layout it
uses.

Debuggers such as gdb and lldb do not extract symbol tables from a
running process or kernel. Instead, they replicate the memory layout
of ELF executables and shared objects and use that to construct their
own symbol tables. For executables and shared objects this works
fine. For ELF objects the current logic in kgdb (and probably lldb
based on a simple reading) assumes that only sections with SHF_ALLOC
are memory resident when constructing a memory layout. If the
debugger constructs a different memory layout than the kernel, then it
will compute different addresses for symbols causing symbols in the
debugger to appear to have the wrong values (though the kernel itself
is working fine). The current port of mdb does not check SHF_ALLOC as
it replicates the kernel's logic in its existing kernel support.

The bfd linker sorts the sections in ELF object files such that all of
the allocated sections (sections with SHF_ALLOCATED) are placed first
followed by unallocated sections. As a result, when kgdb composed a
memory layout using only the allocated sections, this layout happened
to match the layout used by the kernel and loader. The lld linker
does not sort the sections in ELF object files and mixed allocated and
unallocated sections. This resulted in kgdb composing a different
memory layout than the kernel and loader.

We could either patch kgdb (and possibly in the future lldb) to use
custom handling when generating memory layouts for kernel modules that
are ELF objects, or we could change the kernel and loader to check
SHF_ALLOCATED. I chose the latter as I feel we shouldn't be loading
things into RAM that the module won't use. This should mostly be a
NOP when linking with bfd but will allow the existing kgdb to work
with amd64 kernel modules linked with lld.

Note that we only require SHF_ALLOC for "program" sections for types
like SHT_PROGBITS and SHT_NOBITS. Other section types such as symbol
tables, string tables, and relocations must also be loaded and are not
marked with SHF_ALLOC.

Reported by: np
Reviewed by: kib, emaste
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13926


# 8a36da99 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/kern: adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.


# a344babf 08-Mar-2017 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Reduce stack usage in link_elf_load_file(), allocating struct nameidata.
This function may be called recursively, when a module pulls its dependencies.
Under certain circumstances, e.g. quad chain of dependencies and presence
of dtrace we may run out of stack.


# e3043798 29-Apr-2016 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/kern: spelling fixes in comments.

No functional change.


# b85f65af 15-Apr-2016 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

kern: for pointers replace 0 with NULL.

These are mostly cosmetical, no functional change.

Found with devel/coccinelle.


# b715d9af 08-Apr-2016 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Use the ABI-prescribed name for SHT_X86_64_UNWIND in the loader and
kernel linker, after the r297686.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 3cfce8e4 07-Mar-2016 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Convert all panics from the link_elf_obj kernel linker for object
files format into printfs and errors to caller. Some leaks of
resources are there, but the same leaks are present in other error
pathes. With the change, the kernel at least boots even when module
with unexpected or corrupted ELF structure is preloaded.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 13f28d96 05-Mar-2016 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

In the link_elf_obj.c, handle sections of type SHT_AMD64_UNWIND same
as SHT_PROGBITS. This is needed after the clang 3.8 import, which
generates that type for .eh_frame section, which had SHT_PROGBITS type
before.

Reported by: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com>
PR: 207729
Tested by: dim (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 0be1e0e8 10-Feb-2016 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Remove useless checks for NULL before calling free(9), in the kernel
elf linkers.

Found by: Related PVS-Studio diagnostic
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# cff8c6f2 19-Sep-2015 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Add support for weak symbols to the kernel linkers. It means that
linkers no longer raise an error when undefined weak symbols are
found, but relocate as if the symbol value was 0. Note that we do not
repeat the mistake of userspace dynamic linker of making the symbol
lookup prefer non-weak symbol definition over the weak one, if both
are available. In fact, kernel linker uses the first definition
found, and ignores duplicates.

Signature of the elf_lookup() and elf_obj_lookup() functions changed
to split result/error code and the symbol address returned.
Otherwise, it is impossible to return zero address as the symbol
value, to MD relocation code. This explains the mechanical changes in
elf_machdep.c sources.

The powerpc64 R_PPC_JMP_SLOT handler did not checked error from the
lookup() call, the patch leaves the code as is (untested).

Reported by: glebius
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# d9db5225 22-Apr-2015 Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>

Move zlib.c from net to libkern.

It is not network-specific code and would
be better as part of libkern instead.
Move zlib.h and zutil.h from net/ to sys/
Update includes to use sys/zlib.h and sys/zutil.h instead of net/

Submitted by: Steve Kiernan stevek@juniper.net
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
GitHub Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/28
Relnotes: yes


# 2832cd54 02-Apr-2015 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Speed up symbol lookup for the amd64 kernel modules.

Amd64 uses relocatable object files as the modules format. It is good
WRT not having unneeded overhead for PIC code, in particular, due to
absence of useless GOT and PLT. But the cost is that the module
linking process cannot use hash to speed up the symbol lookup, and
that each reference to the symbol requiring a relocation, instead of
single-place relocation in GOT.

Cache the successfull symbol lookup results in the module symbol
table, using the newly allocated SHN_FBSD_CACHED value from
SHN_LOOS-HIOS range as an indicator. The SHN_FBSD_CACHED together
with the non-existent definition of the found symbol are reverted
after successfull relocations, which is done under kld_sx lock, so it
should not be visible to other consumers of the symbol table.

Submitted by: Conrad Meyer
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1718
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 0067051f 20-Oct-2014 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Fully support constructors for the purpose of code coverage analysis.
This involves:
1. Have the loader pass the start and size of the .ctors section to the
kernel in 2 new metadata elements.
2. Have the linker backends look for and record the start and size of
the .ctors section in dynamically loaded modules.
3. Have the linker backends call the constructors as part of the final
work of initializing preloaded or dynamically loaded modules.

Note that LLVM appends the priority of the constructors to the name of
the .ctors section. Not so when compiling with GCC. The code currently
works for GCC and not for LLVM.

Submitted by: Dmitry Mikulin <dmitrym@juniper.net>
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.


# edb572a3 09-Sep-2013 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Add a mmap flag (MAP_32BIT) on 64-bit platforms to request that a mapping use
an address in the first 2GB of the process's address space. This flag should
have the same semantics as the same flag on Linux.

To facilitate this, add a new parameter to vm_map_find() that specifies an
optional maximum virtual address. While here, fix several callers of
vm_map_find() to use a VMFS_* constant for the findspace argument instead of
TRUE and FALSE.

Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kib)


# 5050aa86 22-Oct-2012 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Remove the support for using non-mpsafe filesystem modules.

In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.

The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.

Conducted and reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho


# 526d0bd5 20-Feb-2012 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Fix found places where uio_resid is truncated to int.

Add the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp, enabled by default. Setting the
sysctl to zero allows to perform the SSIZE_MAX-sized i/o requests from
the usermode.

Discussed with: bde, das (previous versions)
MFC after: 1 month


# 4104e835 13-Jan-2012 Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@FreeBSD.org>

Fix kernel modules loading for MIPS64 kernel:

On amd64, link_elf_obj.c must specify KERNBASE rather than
VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS to vm_map_find() because kernel loadable
modules must be mapped for execution in the same upper region
of the kernel map as the kernel code and data segments.

For MIPS32 KERNBASE lies below KVA area (it's less than
VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS) so basically vm_map_find got whole
KVA to look through. On MIPS64 it's not the case because
KERNBASE is set to the very end of XKSEG, well out of KVA
bounds, so vm_map_find always fails. We should use
VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS as a base for vm_map_find.

Details obtained from: alc@


# fa2835d2 16-Apr-2011 Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org>

Remove malloc(9) return value checks when M_WAITOK is used.

MFC after: 2 Week


# 5f67450d 14-Nov-2010 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Similar to sys/net/vnet.h, define the linker set name for sys/sys/pcpu.h
as a macro, and use it instead of literal strings.


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# f1d2d305 02-Oct-2010 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Release the vnode lock and close the linker file vnode earlier in
the linker_load_file methods. The change is that the consequent
linker_file_unload() call is not under the vnode lock anymore.
This prevents the LOR between kernel linker sx xlock and vnode lock,
because linker_file_unload() relocks kernel linker lock.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 676799a0 23-Jul-2010 Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>

completely ignore zero-sized elf sections in modules of elf object type (amd64)

Current code doesn't check size of elf sections and may perform needless
actions of zero-sized memory allocation and similar.
The bigger issue is that alignment requirement of a zero-sized section
gets effectively applied to the next section if it has smaller alignment
requirement. But other tools, like gdb and consequently kgdb,
completely ignore zero-sized sections and thus may map symbols to
addresses differently.

Zero-sized sections are not typical in general.
Their typical (only, even) cause in FreeBSD modules is inline assembly that
creates custom sections which is found in pcpu.h and vnet.h. Mere inclusion
of one of those header files produces a custom section in elf output.
If there is no actual use for the section in a given module, then the
section remains empty.

Better solution is to avoid creating zero-sized sections altogether,
which is in plans.

Preloaded modules are handled in boot code (load_elf_obj.c), while
dynamically loaded modules are handled by kernel (link_elf_obj.c).

Based on code by: np
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 6f3c6327 17-Feb-2010 Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>

Kernel module support for mips.

Reviewed by: gonzo

Tested by: Alexandr Rybalko (ray@dlink.ua)


# 17ef1feb 20-Jul-2009 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Add macros VNET_SETNAME and VNET_SYMPREFIX, and expose to userspace if
_WANT_VNET is defined. This way we don't need separate definitions in
libkvm.

Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)


# cd2b95a2 15-Jul-2009 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

r195699 introduced an assertion regarding when progbits data in kernel
modules was present, which turns out to be false in some situations.
Back out the assertion.

Reported by: Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com>,
Florian Smeets <flo at kasimir.com>
Approved by: re (kensmith) (implicit)


# eddfbb76 14-Jul-2009 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Build on Jeff Roberson's linker-set based dynamic per-CPU allocator
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.

Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.

Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.

This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.

Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.

Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 50c202c5 23-Jun-2009 Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>

Implement a facility for dynamic per-cpu variables.
- Modules and kernel code alike may use DPCPU_DEFINE(),
DPCPU_GET(), DPCPU_SET(), etc. akin to the statically defined
PCPU_*. Requires only one extra instruction more than PCPU_* and is
virtually the same as __thread for builtin and much faster for shared
objects. DPCPU variables can be initialized when defined.
- Modules are supported by relocating the module's per-cpu linker set
over space reserved in the kernel. Modules may fail to load if there
is insufficient space available.
- Track space available for modules with a one-off extent allocator.
Free may block for memory to allocate space for an extent.

Reviewed by: jhb, rwatson, kan, sam, grehan, marius, marcel, stas


# e76f11f4 11-Jun-2009 Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>

strict kobj signatures: linker_if fixes

in symtab_get method symtab parameter is made constant as this reflects
actual intention and usage of the method

Reviewed by: imp, current@
Approved by: jhb (mentor)


# bcf11e8d 05-Jun-2009 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Move "options MAC" from opt_mac.h to opt_global.h, as it's now in GENERIC
and used in a large number of files, but also because an increasing number
of incorrect uses of MAC calls were sneaking in due to copy-and-paste of
MAC-aware code without the associated opt_mac.h include.

Discussed with: pjd


# 00a5db46 26-May-2009 Stacey Son <sson@FreeBSD.org>

Add the ksyms(4) pseudo driver. The ksyms driver allows a process to
get a quick snapshot of the kernel's symbol table including the symbols
from any loaded modules (the symbols are all merged into one symbol
table). Unlike like other implementations, this ksyms driver maps
memory in the process memory space to store the snapshot at the time
/dev/ksyms is opened. It also checks to see if the process has already
a snapshot open and won't allow it to open /dev/ksyms it again until it
closes first. This prevents kernel and process memory from being
exhausted. Note that /dev/ksyms is used by the lockstat(1) command.

Reviewed by: gallatin kib (freebsd-arch)
Approved by: gnn (mentor)


# a1d7ce03 10-Feb-2009 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

Scanning all the formats for binary translation of modules loading can
result in errors for a format loading but subsequent correct recognizing
for another format.

File format loading functions should avoid printing any additional
informations but just returning appropriate (and different between each
other) error condition, characterizing different informations.
Additively, the linker should handle appropriately different format
loading errors.

While a general mechanism is desired, fix a simple and common case on
amd64: file type is not recognized for link elf and confuses the linker.
Printout an error if all the registered linker classes can't recognize
and load the module.

Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# 4f7afc20 03-Aug-2008 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Calling linker_load_dependencies() while holding the module'
vnode lock may cause a LOR between kld_sx lock and vnode lock.
linker_load_dependencies() drops kld_sx, and another thread may attempt
to load the same kld.

Reported and tested by: pjd
MFC after: 1 week


# b474c780 11-Jul-2008 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Improve readability and cscope searches a little bit by not using the
same variable name in closely related (but not conflicting) contexts.


# 552f9f63 08-Jul-2008 Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>

Improve the output of kldload(8) to show which module can't be loaded.

Was: kldload: Unsupported file type
Is now: kldload: /boot/modules/test.ko: Unsupported file type

PR: kern/121276
Submitted by: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Approved by: bde (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week


# ac68d1c9 20-Jun-2008 Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>

Enforce the mapping of kernel loadable modules in the uppermost 2GB of the
kernel virtual address space on amd64.


# a2024a3e 22-May-2008 John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org>

Add hooks for the Compact C Type Format (CTF) data to be attached to
the elf files. This is complicated by the fact that the actual CTF
parsing has to be done in CDDL'd code, so the BSD licensed code only
knows about the opaque data which it must be able to free.


# 1f49b573 15-Mar-2008 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Fix panic on e.g. "kldload /dev/null".

PR: kern/121427
Reviewed by: sem
MFC after: 3 days


# 22db15c0 13-Jan-2008 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

VOP_LOCK1() (and so VOP_LOCK()) and VOP_UNLOCK() are only used in
conjuction with 'thread' argument passing which is always curthread.
Remove the unuseful extra-argument and pass explicitly curthread to lower
layer functions, when necessary.

KPI results broken by this change, which should affect several ports, so
version bumping and manpage update will be further committed.

Tested by: kris, pho, Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>


# 30d239bc 24-Oct-2007 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Merge first in a series of TrustedBSD MAC Framework KPI changes
from Mac OS X Leopard--rationalize naming for entry points to
the following general forms:

mac_<object>_<method/action>
mac_<object>_check_<method/action>

The previous naming scheme was inconsistent and mostly
reversed from the new scheme. Also, make object types more
consistent and remove spaces from object types that contain
multiple parts ("posix_sem" -> "posixsem") to make mechanical
parsing easier. Introduce a new "netinet" object type for
certain IPv4/IPv6-related methods. Also simplify, slightly,
some entry point names.

All MAC policy modules will need to be recompiled, and modules
not updates as part of this commit will need to be modified to
conform to the new KPI.

Sponsored by: SPARTA (original patches against Mac OS X)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project, Apple Computer


# 9e223287 31-May-2007 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Revert UF_OPENING workaround for CURRENT.
Change the VOP_OPEN(), vn_open() vnode operation and d_fdopen() cdev operation
argument from being file descriptor index into the pointer to struct file.

Proposed and reviewed by: jhb
Reviewed by: daichi (unionfs)
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 7226306e 30-Nov-2006 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Linker set support depends on the magic __start_<section> and
__stop_<section> symbols generated by the static linker for elf
sections. This is done only for the final link, and not for ld -r.
Augment elf_obj in-kernel linker by recognizing such special symbols,
and resolving them to the start and end of the section automatically.

As result, linker sets on amd64 could be used in the same way as on
other architectures, without explicit calls to linker_file_lookup_set().

Requested by: rdivacky
No objections from: peter, jhb


# aed55708 22-Oct-2006 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Complete break-out of sys/sys/mac.h into sys/security/mac/mac_framework.h
begun with a repo-copy of mac.h to mac_framework.h. sys/mac.h now
contains the userspace and user<->kernel API and definitions, with all
in-kernel interfaces moved to mac_framework.h, which is now included
across most of the kernel instead.

This change is the first step in a larger cleanup and sweep of MAC
Framework interfaces in the kernel, and will not be MFC'd.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: SPARTA


# 70f37788 21-Jun-2006 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Replace the kld_mtx mutex with a kld_sx sx lock and expand it's scope to
protect all linker-related data structures including the contents of
linker file objects and the any linker class data as well. Considering how
rarely the linker is used I just went with the simple solution of
single-threading the whole thing rather than expending a lot of effor on
something more fine-grained and complex. Giant is still explicitly
acquired while registering and deregistering sysctl's as well as in the
elf linker class while calling kmupetext(). The rest of the linker runs
without Giant unless it has to acquire Giant while loading files from a
non-MPSAFE filesystem.


# 62d615d5 20-Jun-2006 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Conditionally acquire Giant around VFS operations.


# 757686b1 17-Dec-2005 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Make our ELF64 type definitions match standards. In particular this
means:
o Remove Elf64_Quarter,
o Redefine Elf64_Half to be 16-bit,
o Redefine Elf64_Word to be 32-bit,
o Add Elf64_Xword and Elf64_Sxword for 64-bit entities,
o Use Elf_Size in MI code to abstract the difference between
Elf32_Word and Elf64_Word.
o Add Elf_Ssize as the signed counterpart of Elf_Size.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 7f1ef325 27-Aug-2005 Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>

Handle vm_map_wire()'s failure.


# 45e31b60 27-Aug-2005 Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>

Eliminate an unneeded reference on a vm object. If, in fact, the nearby
vm_map_find() fails, then the excess reference causes the vm object to be
leaked.

Reviewed by: tegge


# 70b7ffee 28-Aug-2004 Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.org>

Add support for completing the installation of ELF relocatable
object format modules that were read in by the loader. Loading
modules via the loader should now work on the amd64 platform.


# 65a311fc 13-Jul-2004 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Give kldunload a -f(orce) argument.

Add a MOD_QUIESCE event for modules. This should return error (EBUSY)
of the module is in use.

MOD_UNLOAD should now only fail if it is impossible (as opposed to
inconvenient) to unload the module. Valid reasons are memory references
into the module which cannot be tracked down and eliminated.

When kldunloading, we abandon if MOD_UNLOAD fails, and if -force is
not given, MOD_QUIESCE failing will also prevent the unload.

For backwards compatibility, we treat EOPNOTSUPP from MOD_QUIESCE as
success.

Document that modules should return EOPNOTSUPP for unknown events.


# 5b201fdc 28-Jun-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Wrap long line.


# a8774e39 15-Jun-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Change strategy based on a suggestion from Ian Dowse. Instead of trying
to keep track of different section base addresses at a symbol-by-symbol
level, just set the symbol values at load time.


# 1cab0c85 14-Jun-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Fix symbol lookups between modules. This caused modules that depend on
other modules to explode. eg: snd_ich->snd_pcm and umass->usb.
The problem was that I was using the unified base address of the module
instead of finding the start address of the section in question.


# add21e17 14-Jun-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Insurance: cause a proper symbol lookup failure for symbol entries that
reference unknown sections.. rather than returning a small value.


# 4cec6f5d 17-May-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

If a symbol has section+offset definitions provided, always use instead
of doing a name lookup for global symbols. This fixes the snd_pcm module.


# 82d0d1a0 17-May-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Remove leftover padding variables.
Convert some silent 'ignore programmer error' cases into panics
Remove 'align' field from section table (no longer needed)


# 20947801 17-May-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Clean up the code some more. Unify the text/data (progbits) and bss
(nobits) tables to simplify some code. Try and shorten some of the very
wide lines. Somewhere along the way, I think I fixed the memory
corruption that caused panics after going multiuser.


# 872e9216 16-May-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Oops, use the generic ELF_ST_BIND() macro instead of ELF64_ST_BIND.

Submitted by: marks


# e9eabf59 30-Apr-2004 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Checkpoint commit for an alternative WIP kernel module loader that isn't
as dependent on binutils features/quirks as the current one. This one
loads plain .o files without having to mess with shared object mode.

This happens to be essential on amd64, because binutils hasn't implemented
all the quirks/features that we need for producing the hack non-PIC shared
objects. As it turned out, .o format isn't all that inconvenient after
all. It looks like the ability to use the same .o files for linking
directly into a static kernel or loading as a module might be worth it.

It is still very much a work-in-progress, but it is almost usable. Other
changes are still needed in order to use it though, these have not been
committed yet. There is still a memory corruption/overrun bug somewhere.
For example, test modules load and work, but the machine explodes a few
minutes later in vm_forkproc() or the like. Notable missing things
include kldxref support, and loader(8) support. I wanted to figure out
a working baseline set of code first.


# abd498aa 11-Aug-2003 Bruce M Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org>

Add the mlockall() and munlockall() system calls.
- All those diffs to syscalls.master for each architecture *are*
necessary. This needed clarification; the stub code generation for
mlockall() was disabled, which would prevent applications from
linking to this API (suggested by mux)
- Giant has been quoshed. It is no longer held by the code, as
the required locking has been pushed down within vm_map.c.
- Callers must specify VM_MAP_WIRE_HOLESOK or VM_MAP_WIRE_NOHOLES
to express their intention explicitly.
- Inspected at the vmstat, top and vm pager sysctl stats level.
Paging-in activity is occurring correctly, using a test harness.
- The RES size for a process may appear to be greater than its SIZE.
This is believed to be due to mappings of the same shared library
page being wired twice. Further exploration is needed.
- Believed to back out of allocations and locks correctly
(tested with WITNESS, MUTEX_PROFILING, INVARIANTS and DIAGNOSTIC).

PR: kern/43426, standards/54223
Reviewed by: jake, alc
Approved by: jake (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 7c89f162 27-Jul-2003 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Add fdidx argument to vn_open() and vn_open_cred() and pass -1 throughout.


# 677b542e 10-Jun-2003 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Use __FBSDID().


# 87b1831f 12-May-2003 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Bail out if there were not two loadable sections. Add XXX comment about
one other issue.

Approved by: re/rwatson.


# 67db8b23 05-Apr-2003 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Search for "elf32 kernel" (and elf64) and "elf32 module" (and elf64)
as well as "elf kernel" and "elf module". This is a precursor to
x86-64 support in the i386 loader so it can load an elf64 x86-64 kernel.


# a163d034 18-Feb-2003 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Back out M_* changes, per decision of the TRB.

Approved by: trb


# 44956c98 21-Jan-2003 Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>

Remove M_TRYWAIT/M_WAITOK/M_WAIT. Callers should use 0.
Merge M_NOWAIT/M_DONTWAIT into a single flag M_NOWAIT.


# 7251b4bf 20-Jan-2003 Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>

Resolve relative relocations in klds before trying to parse the module's
metadata. This fixes module dependency resolution by the kernel linker on
sparc64, where the relocations for the metadata are different than on other
architectures; the relative offset is in the addend of an Elf_Rela record
instead of the original value of the location being patched.
Also fix printf formats in debug code.

Submitted by: Hartmut Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
PR: 46732
Tested on: alpha (obrien), i386, sparc64


# a3df768b 19-Nov-2002 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Merge kld access control checks from the MAC tree: these access control
checks permit policy modules to augment the system policy for permitting
kld operations. This permits policies to limit access to kld operations
based on credential (and other) properties, as well as to perform checks
on the kld being loaded (integrity, etc).

Approved by: re
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories


# 1aeb23cd 19-Oct-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Add two hooks to signal module load and module unload to MD code.
The primary reason for this is to allow MD code to process machine
specific attributes, segments or sections in the ELF file and
update machine specific state accordingly. An immediate use of this
is in the ia64 port where unwind information is updated to allow
debugging and tracing in/across modules. Note that this commit
does not add the functionality to the ia64 port. See revision 1.9
of ia64/ia64/elf_machdep.c.

Validated on: alpha, i386, ia64


# c143d6c2 19-Oct-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Reduce code duplication by moving the common actions in
link_elf_init(), link_elf_link_preload_finish() and
link_elf_load_file() to link_elf_link_common_finish().
Since link_elf_init() did initializations as a side-effect
of doing the common actions, keep the initialization in
that function. Consequently, link_elf_add_gdb() is now also
called to insert the very first link_map() (ie the kernel).


# 1720979b 19-Oct-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Non-functional change in preparation of the next commit:
Move link_elf_add_gdb(), link_elf_delete_gdb() and link_elf_error()
near the top of the file. The *_gdb() functions are moved inside
the #ifdef DDB already present there.


# f5b07e11 18-Oct-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

In link_elf_load_file(), when SPARSE_MAPPING is defined and we
cannot allocate ef->object, we freed ef before bailing out with
an error. This is wrong because ef=lf and when we have an error
and lf is non-NULL (which holds if we try to alloc ef->object),
we free lf and thus ef as part of the bailing-out.


# 47f75012 14-Oct-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Fix kernel module loading on ia64. Cross-module function calls
were improperly relocated due to faulty logic in lookup_fdesc()
in elf_machdep.c. The symbol index (symidx) was bogusly used for
load modules other than the one the relocation applied to. This
resulted in bogus bindings and consequently runtime failures.

The fix is to use the symbol index only for the module being
relocated and to use the symbol name for look-ups in the
modules in the dependent list. As such, we need a function to
return the symbol name given the linker file and symbol index.


# 37c84183 28-Sep-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Be consistent about "static" functions: if the function is marked
static in its prototype, mark it static at the definition too.

Inspired by: FlexeLint warning #512


# 169d513c 27-Sep-2002 Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>

Add a workaround for what seems to be confusion between binutils and the
sparc v9 ABI. The Elf_Rela records for local symbols appear to already
have the symbol's value added in to the addend field, even though the ABI
specifies we need to lookup the symbol and add its value too. This breaks
text relocations in klds because the symbol's value is added twice, and
the resulting address points off into nowhere land, so for now just use
the addend.

Tested by: rwatson


# 66422f5b 16-Sep-2002 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Initiate deorbit burn for the i386-only a.out related support. Moves are
under way to move the remnants of the a.out toolchain to ports. As the
comment in src/Makefile said, this stuff is deprecated and one should not
expect this to remain beyond 4.0-REL. It has already lasted WAY beyond
that.

Notable exceptions:
gcc - I have not touched the a.out generation stuff there.
ldd/ldconfig - still have some code to interface with a.out rtld.
old as/ld/etc - I have not removed these yet, pending their move to ports.
some includes - necessary for ldd/ldconfig for now.

Tested on: i386 (extensively), alpha


# b17c50db 28-Aug-2002 Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>

Unrot SPARSE_MAPPING code (vm_map_pageable -> vm_map_wire).


# 5cf87418 23-Aug-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Work around a GCC optimization bug on ia64: In link_elf_symbol_values(),
a pointer to a symbol is given and we have to find the containing symbol
table. We do this by bounds checking. For some strange reason (ie I
haven't found the root cause) the first test succeeded for said symbol,
implying that the symbol came from the .dynsym table. In reality however
the symbol actually resided in the .symtab table. Needless to say that
all that was returned was junk.

The upper bounds check was: (symptr - baseptr) < symtab_size
This has been rewritten to: symptr < (baseptr + symtab_size)

As a side-effect, slightly more optimal (and still correct :-) code can
be generated on ia64.


# c6d6cf17 22-Aug-2002 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

s/sus/sys/ in the a.out kernel case.

Submitted by: julian


# f9980387 22-Aug-2002 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Instead of nlist.h and link.h, use sys/nlist_aout.h and sys/link_elf.h
This avoids reaching out into userland sources (or worse: /usr/include!)
for building the kernel.


# 9ca43589 15-Aug-2002 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

In order to better support flexible and extensible access control,
make a series of modifications to the credential arguments relating
to file read and write operations to cliarfy which credential is
used for what:

- Change fo_read() and fo_write() to accept "active_cred" instead of
"cred", and change the semantics of consumers of fo_read() and
fo_write() to pass the active credential of the thread requesting
an operation rather than the cached file cred. The cached file
cred is still available in fo_read() and fo_write() consumers
via fp->f_cred. These changes largely in sys_generic.c.

For each implementation of fo_read() and fo_write(), update cred
usage to reflect this change and maintain current semantics:

- badfo_readwrite() unchanged
- kqueue_read/write() unchanged
pipe_read/write() now authorize MAC using active_cred rather
than td->td_ucred
- soo_read/write() unchanged
- vn_read/write() now authorize MAC using active_cred but
VOP_READ/WRITE() with fp->f_cred

Modify vn_rdwr() to accept two credential arguments instead of a
single credential: active_cred and file_cred. Use active_cred
for MAC authorization, and select a credential for use in
VOP_READ/WRITE() based on whether file_cred is NULL or not. If
file_cred is provided, authorize the VOP using that cred,
otherwise the active credential, matching current semantics.

Modify current vn_rdwr() consumers to pass a file_cred if used
in the context of a struct file, and to always pass active_cred.
When vn_rdwr() is used without a file_cred, pass NOCRED.

These changes should maintain current semantics for read/write,
but avoid a redundant passing of fp->f_cred, as well as making
it more clear what the origin of each credential is in file
descriptor read/write operations.

Follow-up commits will make similar changes to other file descriptor
operations, and modify the MAC framework to pass both credentials
to MAC policy modules so they can implement either semantic for
revocation.

Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs


# d297ad16 24-Apr-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Don't use the symbol name to lookup the symbol value when we can use
the symbol index defined by the relocation. The elf_lookup() support
function is to be used by elf_reloc() when symbol lookups need to be
done. The elf_lookup() function operates on the symbol index and
will do a symbol name based lookup when such is required, otherwise
it uses the symbol index directly. This solves the problem seen on
ia64 where the symbol hash table does not contain local symbols and
a symbol name based lookup would fail for those symbols.

Don't pass the symbol name to elf_reloc(), as it isn't used any more.


# 84201059 21-Apr-2002 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Add function link_elf_get_gp(), specific to ia64 for now, to get
the DT_PLTGOT value. On ia64 this is the value of GP. We need this
to construct function descriptors, but the elf file structure is
not exported to MD code.

Note that the name of the function is based on the meaning that
DT_PLTGOT has on ia64. This may differ on other architectures. As
such, link_elf_get_gp() has a high level of MD to it. Renaming the
function to describe what DT_* value is returned makes it generic,
but also makes the MD code less clear and if we only need this on
ia64, then a general name for a specific function doesn't help.

In short: I don't know what is "right" at this time, so I'll go
with what I have.


# a854ed98 27-Feb-2002 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Simple p_ucred -> td_ucred changes to start using the per-thread ucred
reference.


# 7b9716ba 16-Nov-2001 Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.org>

Fix a number of misspellings of "dependency" and "dependencies" in
comments and function names.

PR: kern/8589
Submitted by: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@fore.com>


# bb9fe9dd 30-Oct-2001 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Add the sysctl "kern.function_list", which currently exports all
function symbols in the kernel in a list of C strings, with an extra
nul-termination at the end.

This sysctl requires addition of a new linker operation. Now,
linker_file_t's need to respond to "each_function_name" to export
their function symbols.

Note that the sysctl doesn't currently allow distinguishing multiple
symbols with the same name from different modules, but could quite
easily without a change to the linker operation. This will be a nicety
to have when it can be used.

Obtained from: NAI Labs CBOSS project
Funded by: DARPA


# 08d68dda 30-Oct-2001 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Also, machine/profile.h should be necessary for the function prototype
of kmupetext().


# f99502a4 30-Oct-2001 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Use kmupetext() for ELF KLDs to allow for increased text segment size.

Obtained from: NAI Labs CBOSS project
Funded by: DARPA


# de1792cb 15-Sep-2001 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>

The ia64 kernel is now linked dynamically so parse its _DYNAMIC structure.


# b40ce416 12-Sep-2001 Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>

KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha


# ed6c3888 10-Sep-2001 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Fix a warning. l_name is managed by us and is malloc/free'ed.
It is the userland declaration of l_name that is inconvenient for us.


# c92c4c8f 02-Sep-2001 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Unindent a if (1) { that was left behind in the last commit.
(commits were seperated to not obscure the real change)


# 00dda5e8 02-Sep-2001 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Argh. Make the ia64 kernel work in all situations. For some reason,
and I still dont know why, this was not failing on the non-kse kernel.
It certainly should have since things were using linker_kernel_file
unconditionally. This has highlighted a different problem though that
means that trying to do a kldload on a non-dynamic kernel will implode.


# c214e663 10-Aug-2001 Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>

Fix some of the GDB linkage setup. The l_name member of the gdb linkage
structure is always free()ed yet only sometimes malloc()ed. In particular,
it was simply set to point to l_filename from the a linker_file_t in
link_elf_link_preload_finish(). The l_filename had been malloc()ed inside
the kern_linker.c module and was being free()ed twice: once by
link_elf_unload_file() and again by linker_file_unload(), leading to
a panic.

How to duplicate the problem:

- Pre-load a kernel module from the loader, i.e. if_sis.ko
- Boot system
- Attempt to unload module with kldunload if_sis
- Bewm

The problem here is that the case where the module was loaded with kldload
after system boot would work correctly, so this bug went unnoticed until
I stubbed my toe on it just now. (Also, you can only trip this bug if
you compile a kernel with options DDB, but that's the default now.)

Fix: remember to malloc() a separate copy of the module name for the
l_name member of the gdb linkage structure in three places where the
linkage structure can be initialized.


# bcc92693 06-Aug-2001 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Previously, the ELF linker would always just store the pointer to a
filename passed in via the module loader functions in the GDB
"sharedlibrary" support structures. This isn't good, since the pointer
would become stale in almost every case (not the pre-loaded case, of
course).

Change this to malloc()ed copy of the string and finally fix the reason
that gdb -k's "sharedlibrary" command stopped working.

Obtained from: LOMAC/FreeBSD (cf. NAI Labs)


# 7e510298 30-Jul-2001 Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>

Use a machine dependent type, Elf_Hashelt, for the elements of the elf
dynamic symbol table buckets and chains. The sparc64 toolchain uses 32
bit .hash entries, unlike other 64 bits architectures (alpha), which use
64 bit entries.

Discussed with: dfr, jdp


# 0cddd8f0 04-Jul-2001 Matthew Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>

With Alfred's permission, remove vm_mtx in favor of a fine-grained approach
(this commit is just the first stage). Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.


# f41325db 13-Jun-2001 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

With this commit, I hereby pronounce gensetdefs past its use-by date.

Replace the a.out emulation of 'struct linker_set' with something
a little more flexible. <sys/linker_set.h> now provides macros for
accessing elements and completely hides the implementation.

The linker_set.h macros have been on the back burner in various
forms since 1998 and has ideas and code from Mike Smith (SET_FOREACH()),
John Polstra (ELF clue) and myself (cleaned up API and the conversion
of the rest of the kernel to use it).

The macros declare a strongly typed set. They return elements with the
type that you declare the set with, rather than a generic void *.

For ELF, we use the magic ld symbols (__start_<setname> and
__stop_<setname>). Thanks to Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> for the
trick about how to force ld to provide them for kld's.

For a.out, we use the old linker_set struct.

NOTE: the item lists are no longer null terminated. This is why
the code impact is high in certain areas.

The runtime linker has a new method to find the linker set
boundaries depending on which backend format is in use.

linker sets are still module/kld unfriendly and should never be used
for anything that may be modular one day.

Reviewed by: eivind


# c0b824f9 02-Jun-2001 Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>

Include sys/mutex.h to silence a warning.


# 23955314 18-May-2001 Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>

Introduce a global lock for the vm subsystem (vm_mtx).

vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.

faults can not be taken without holding Giant.

Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.

Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.

Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.

FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).

Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb


# fb919e4d 01-May-2001 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Undo part of the tangle of having sys/lock.h and sys/mutex.h included in
other "system" header files.

Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of
sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files.

Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files.

OK'ed by: bde (with reservations)


# d6df01d8 25-Feb-2001 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Make this compile in a.out mode. link.h has extra dependencies for a.out.


# 7cc0979f 08-Dec-2000 David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org>

Convert more malloc+bzero to malloc+M_ZERO.

Submitted by: josh@zipperup.org
Submitted by: Robert Drehmel <robd@gmx.net>


# ca29467e 05-Oct-2000 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Correct a warning where the r_debug_state() dummy function used to trigger
a breakpoint in the kernel didn't use the proper argument list. To avoid
having to include the userland link.h header everyhwere that sys/linker.h
is used, make r_debug_state() a static function in link_elf.c as well.


# ff2d7ae5 29-Sep-2000 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>

Don't support dynamic linking on ia64 for now - the tools can't cope.


# 9548091b 05-Sep-2000 Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.org>

Ignore ELF files with 'interpreter' section because KLDs doesn't contain it.

Reviewed by: peter


# e6796b67 03-Jul-2000 Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>

Move the truncation code out of vn_open and into the open system call
after the acquisition of any advisory locks. This fix corrects a case
in which a process tries to open a file with a non-blocking exclusive
lock. Even if it fails to get the lock it would still truncate the
file even though its open failed. With this change, the truncation
is done only after the lock is successfully acquired.

Obtained from: BSD/OS


# 2c9b67a8 30-Apr-2000 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Remove unneeded #include <vm/vm_zone.h>

Generated by: src/tools/tools/kerninclude


# 54823af2 29-Apr-2000 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

First round implementation of a fine grain enhanced module to module
version dependency system. This isn't quite finished, but it is at a
useful stage to do a functional checkpoint.

Highlights:
- version and dependency metadata is gathered via linker sets, so things
are handled the same for static kernels and code built to live in a kld.
- The dependencies are at module level (versus at file level).
- Dependencies determine kld symbol search order - this means that you
cannot link against symbols in another file unless you depend on it. This
is so that you cannot accidently unload the target out from underneath
the ones referencing it.
- It is flexible enough that we can put tags in #include files and macros
so that we can get decent hooks for enforcing recompiles on incompatable
ABI changes. eg: if we change struct proc, we could force a recompile
for all kld's that reference the proc struct.
- Tangled dependency references at boot time are sorted. Files are
relocated once all their dependencies are already relocated.

Caveats:
- Loader support is incomplete, but has been worked on seperately.
- Actual enforcement of the version number tags is not active yet - just
the module dependencies are live. The actual structure of versioning
hasn't been agreed on yet. (eg: major.minor, or whatever)
- There is some backwards compatability for old modules without metadata
but I'm not sure how good it is.

This is based on work originally done by Boris Popov (bp@freebsd.org),
but I'm not sure he'd recognize much of it now. Don't blame him. :-)
Also, ideas have been borrowed from Mike Smith.


# ef83592d 29-Apr-2000 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Do not use uprintf() for link time error messages. This has unpleasant
consequences when it happens in the preload support, before curproc or
the tty system exist.


# 326e27d8 24-Apr-2000 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>

* Rewrite to use kobj(9) instead of hard-coded function tables.
* Report link errors to stdout with uprintf() so that the user can see
what went wrong (PR kern/9214).
* Add support code to allow module symbols to be loaded into GDB using
the debugger's "sharedlibrary" command.


# 586453fe 24-Dec-1999 Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>

Fixed a cast of a pointer to an integer of a possibly different size.
Fixed casts of non-`void *' pointers to uintptr_t. Fixed related
style bugs. This file uses perfectly non-KNF formatting for casts.


# 762e6b85 15-Dec-1999 Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>

Introduce NDFREE (and remove VOP_ABORTOP)


# b5abfb70 28-Nov-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Fix an embarresing mistake in the kld symbol lookup for DDB. It should
now correctly do a traceback when crashing inside a KLD module.

PR: 15014
Submitted by: Vladimir N. Silyaev <vns@delta.odessa.ua>


# 923502ff 29-Oct-1999 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

useracc() the prequel:

Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>. This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.

This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.


# d1f088da 11-Oct-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Trim unused options (or #ifdef for undoc options).

Submitted by: phk


# c3aac50f 27-Aug-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# d009ccfa 23-Aug-1999 Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>

Cast pointers to uintptr_t instead of casting them to u_long, and/or vice
versa. Cosmetic.


# 4173e420 08-May-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Use KERNBASE for the load address of the kernel rather than magic constants
as it seems to work.. (at least on i386/elf).


# cacd1f6a 29-Jan-1999 Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>

Cast to `const char *' instead of to c_caddr_t. This is part of
terminating c_caddr_t with extreme prejudice. Here we depended
on the "opaque" type c_caddr_t being precisely `const char *'
to do unportable pointer arithmetic.


# 8aef1712 27-Jan-1999 Matthew Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>

Fix warnings in preparation for adding -Wall -Wcast-qual to the
kernel compile


# fe08c21a 27-Jan-1999 Matthew Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>

Fix warnings in preparation for adding -Wall -Wcast-qual to the
kernel compile.

This commit includes significant work to proper handle const arguments
for the DDB symbol routines.


# d254af07 27-Jan-1999 Matthew Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>

Fix warnings in preparation for adding -Wall -Wcast-qual to the
kernel compile


# 149a155c 25-Jan-1999 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>

Don't try to call SYSUNINIT functions if there was a link error.

Reviewed by: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>


# a13ddfb6 31-Dec-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

When loading something that has undefined symbols, it would be helpful to
know what they were..


# caab6e90 06-Nov-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Don't put aggregate structs 4K large on the kernel stack, especially when
we can recurse when loading dependencies and that the kstack is limited
to something like 6 or 7KB. Having a single dependency caused an instant
double panic, and I stronly suspect some of the other strange "events"
that I have seen are possibly as a result of taking a couple of interrupts
with a large chunk of the stack already in use.

While here, fix a minor logic hiccup in a sanity check.


# 84e40f56 04-Nov-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

The handle for the kernel is common. With this fix, ELF kernels can load
a.out kld modules, and a.out kernels can load ELF kld modules.


# f5ef029e 25-Oct-1998 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>

Nitpicking and dusting performed on a train. Removes trivial warnings
about unused variables, labels and other lint.


# aa855a59 15-Oct-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

*gulp*. Jordan specifically OK'ed this..

This is the bulk of the support for doing kld modules. Two linker_sets
were replaced by SYSINIT()'s. VFS's and exec handlers are self registered.
kld is now a superset of lkm. I have converted most of them, they will
follow as a seperate commit as samples.
This all still works as a static a.out kernel using LKM's.


# 434bf653 15-Oct-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

- bzero() after malloc() bug fix
- look up relocation symbol names in correct table bugfix.
- remove unused (initialized to 0) variable and conditional free() of it.


# ca65d5c7 13-Oct-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Load the full symbol tables if they are present. This means that ddb
and tracebacks have access to local symbols. This is particularly
important for the Alpha.


# 2d636ab0 12-Oct-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Only print kernel entry point during load.
Drastically quieten down the verbose load progress messages. They were
more useful for debugging than anything, but are beyond a joke when loading
a few dozen modules.
Simplify the ELF extended symbol table load format. Just take the main
symbol table and the string table that corresponds. This is what we will
be getting local symbols from. (needed for the alpha stack tracebacks).
Use the (optional) full symbol tables in lookups. This means we have to
furhter distinguish between symbols that can come from the dynamic linking
table and the complete table.
The alpha boot code now needs to be adapted as ddb/db_elf.c cannot use
the simpler format.
I have not implemented loading the extended symbol tables from the syscall
interface yet, just for preloaded modules.
I am not sure about the symbol resolution. I *think* it's possible that
a local symbol can be found in preference to a global, depending on the
search sequence and dependency tree.


# de78ca7e 09-Oct-1998 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Fully implement KLD and preloading.
- seperate unload for preloaded linker objects.
- Don't build a kernel object if running as an a.out kernel.
- extract the real kernel name rather than hardwiring "kernel" for kldstat.
(sysctl kern.bootfile getst the full name via bootinfo)
- use real addresses on the kernel "module" rather than fictitious ones.
- preloaded module support
- search module path for file modules.
- symbols are checked to see if they are in the right containing file
before using their indexes into string tables. This is to help ddb
since it only supplies a pointer to an opaque symbol and there is no
telling which file/object/module/whatever it came from.


# fe3db7c7 11-Sep-1998 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>

Implement dynamic loading for ELF.


# a4f67738 24-Aug-1998 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>

Add partial KLD support for ELF. The module loading is not written yet.