History log of /freebsd-current/sys/sys/memrange.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

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


# ee06552d 02-Jun-2023 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

<sys/memrange.h>: Include <sys/ioccom.h>.

This makes this header more self-contained.

Reviewed by: imp, markj
Obtained from: CheriBSD
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40387


# c9114f9f 23-Mar-2021 Mitchell Horne <mhorne@FreeBSD.org>

Add new vnode dumper to support live minidumps

This dumper can instantiate and write the dump's contents to a
file-backed vnode.

Unlike existing disk or network dumpers, the vnode dumper should not be
invoked during a system panic, and therefore is not added to the global
dumper_configs list. Instead, the vnode dumper is constructed ad-hoc
when a live dump is requested using the new ioctl on /dev/mem. This is
similar in spirit to a kgdb session against the live system via
/dev/mem.

As described briefly in the mem(4) man page, live dumps are not
guaranteed to result in a usuable output file, but offer some debugging
value where forcefully panicing a system to dump its memory is not
desirable/feasible.

A future change to savecore(8) will add an option to save a live dump.

Reviewed by: markj, Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com> (manpages)
Discussed with: kib
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33813


# 2d838cd8 02-Sep-2020 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Add the MEM_EXTRACT_PADDR ioctl to /dev/mem.

This allows privileged userspace processes to find information about the
physical page backing a given mapping. It is useful in applications
such as DPDK which perform some of their own memory management.

Reviewed by: kib, jhb (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26237


# 7f417bfa 03-May-2016 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/sys: minor spelling fixes.

While the changes are minor, these headers are very visible.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 2fea6431 17-Jan-2011 Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>

Add reader/writer lock around mem_range_attr_get() and mem_range_attr_set().
Compile sys/dev/mem/memutil.c for all supported platforms and remove now
unnecessary dev_mem_md_init(). Consistently define mem_range_softc from
mem.c for all platforms. Add missing #include guards for machine/memdev.h
and sys/memrange.h. Clean up some nearby style(9) nits.

MFC after: 1 month


# 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.


# c66d2b38 16-Mar-2009 Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>

Initial suspend/resume support for amd64.

This code is heavily inspired by Takanori Watanabe's experimental SMP patch
for i386 and large portion was shamelessly cut and pasted from Peter Wemm's
AP boot code.


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

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


# a20ad05b 04-Aug-2004 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Fix module builds for i386 and amd64.


# 93f39ea8 15-Sep-2002 David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org>

Some BIOSs are using MTRR values that are only documented under NDA
to control the mapping of things like the ACPI and APM into memory.

The problem is that starting X changes these values, so if something
was using the bits of BIOS mapped into memory (say ACPI or APM),
then next time they access this memory the machine would hang.

This patch refuse to change MTRR values it doesn't understand,
unless a new "force" option is given. This means X doesn't change
them by accident but someone can override that if they really want
to.

PR: 28418
Tested by: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>,
David Bushong <david@bushong.net>,
Santos <casd@myrealbox.com>
MFC after: 1 week


# b0f4bb51 14-Apr-2002 David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org>

Make the MTRR code a bit more defensive - this should help people
trying to run X on some Athlon systems where the BIOS does odd things
(mines an ASUS A7A266, but it seems to also help on other systems).

Here's a description of the problem and my fix:

The problem with the old MTRR code is that it only expects
to find documented values in the bytes of MTRR registers.
To convert the MTRR byte into a FreeBSD "Memory Range Type"
(mrt) it uses the byte value and looks it up in an array.
If the value is not in range then the mrt value ends up
containing random junk.

This isn't an immediate problem. The mrt value is only used
later when rewriting the MTRR registers. When we finally
go to write a value back again, the function i686_mtrrtype()
searches for the junk value and returns -1 when it fails
to find it. This is converted to a byte (0xff) and written
back to the register, causing a GPF as 0xff is an illegal
value for a MTRR byte.

To work around this problem I've added a new mrt flag
MDF_UNKNOWN. We set this when we read a MTRR byte which
we do not understand. If we try to convert a MDF_UNKNOWN
back into a MTRR value, then the new function, i686_mrt2mtrr,
just returns the old value of the MTRR byte. This leaves
the memory range type unchanged.

I have seen one side effect of the fix, which is that ACPI calls
after X has been run seem to hang my machine. As running X would
previously panic the machine, this is still an improvement ;-)

I'd like to MFC this before the 4.6 code freeze - please let me
know if it causes any problems.

PR: 28418, 25958
Tested by: jkh, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 664a31e4 28-Dec-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.


# ac3595b0 30-Aug-1999 Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>

Make the error return from mem_range_attr_get actually do something useful
(return an error to the caller)


# 4a034f21 30-Apr-1999 Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>

Add a hook that can be called to initialise a slave processor's memory
range attributes after they have been extracted from the master.

Hook up the i686 MP code to do this for each AP.

Be more careful about printing the default memory type for the i686.

Suggestions from: luoqi


# f5973459 06-Apr-1999 Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>

Generic memory range attribute interface.