Reduce the dcons polling frequency to 25 Hz.

It makes little sense to use 100 Hz polling in dcons. We cannot live
without polling, because that's just how dcons works. It polls the
buffer filled by

Reduce the dcons polling frequency to 25 Hz.

It makes little sense to use 100 Hz polling in dcons. We cannot live
without polling, because that's just how dcons works. It polls the
buffer filled by the firewire hardware. 25 Hz is probably enough for
most use cases.

Discussed with: rwatson
Tested by: kan

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Fix logic in MOD_LOAD handler to call dcons_attach after all successful
dcons_drv_init invocations. Testing return value for 0 does not work for
cases where dcons_drv_init was called already as part

Fix logic in MOD_LOAD handler to call dcons_attach after all successful
dcons_drv_init invocations. Testing return value for 0 does not work for
cases where dcons_drv_init was called already as part of low level
console initialization.

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We need to initialize the console for dcons to work.

Submitted by: nork@

Check the return values of contigmalloc(9) as well as bus_dma(9)
functions and stop attaching of dcons(4) and dcons_crom(4) if
they indicate failure. This fixes a panic seen on sparc64 machines
with

Check the return values of contigmalloc(9) as well as bus_dma(9)
functions and stop attaching of dcons(4) and dcons_crom(4) if
they indicate failure. This fixes a panic seen on sparc64 machines
with no free physical memory in the requested 32-bit region but
still doesn't make dcons(4)/dcons_crom(4) these work. I think
the latter can be fixed by simply specifying ~0UL as the upper
limit for contigmalloc(9) and letting the bounce pages and the
IOMMU respectively handle limitations of the DMA engine. I didn't
want to change that without the consensus of simokawa@ though,
who unfortunately didn't reply so far.

MFC after: 1 week

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Also make dcons(4) use MPSAFE callouts.

The callout locks the TTY layer the way it should, so there is no reason
why its callout shouldn't set this flag.

Integrate the new MPSAFE TTY layer to the FreeBSD operating system.

The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve

Integrate the new MPSAFE TTY layer to the FreeBSD operating system.

The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:

- Improved driver model:

The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.

If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.

- Improved hotplugging:

With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).

The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.

- Improved performance:

One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.

Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.

Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan

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Spell KDB_REQ_REBOOT correctly.

Expand kdb_alt_break a little, most commonly used with the option
ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. In addition to "Enter ~ ctrl-B" (to enter the
debugger), there is now "Enter ~ ctrl-P" (force panic) and
"Ent

Expand kdb_alt_break a little, most commonly used with the option
ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. In addition to "Enter ~ ctrl-B" (to enter the
debugger), there is now "Enter ~ ctrl-P" (force panic) and
"Enter ~ ctrl-R" (request clean reboot, ala ctrl-alt-del on syscons).

We've used variations of this at work. The force panic sequence is
best used with KDB_UNATTENDED for when you just want it to dump and
get on with it.

The reboot request is a safer way of getting into single user than
a power cycle. eg: you've hosed the ability to log in (pam, rtld, etc).
It gives init the reboot signal, which causes an orderly reboot.

I've taken my best guess at what the !x86 and non-sio code changes
should be.

This also makes sio release its spinlock before calling KDB/DDB.

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Add a new 'why' argument to kdb_enter(), and a set of constants to use
for that argument. This will allow DDB to detect the broad category of
reason why the debugger has been entered, which it can u

Add a new 'why' argument to kdb_enter(), and a set of constants to use
for that argument. This will allow DDB to detect the broad category of
reason why the debugger has been entered, which it can use for the
purposes of deciding which DDB script to run.

Assign approximate why values to all current consumers of the
kdb_enter() interface.

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We don't need to call dcons_poll event handlers if KDB is not active.

Approved by: re (kensmith)

- Don't force to be the GDB port since dcons(4) is in GENERIC now.

To enable the GDB port of dcons(4), you need to put
dcons_gdb=1
in /boot/loader.conf.

Don't invalidate dcons buffer on shutdown.
We would like to keep connection after halt.

Replace breakpoint() with kdb_enter().

Poll bus resets on FireWire while kdb/gdb is active.

Now, it's safe to call the fwohci interrupt(polling) routine while ddb/gdb
is active. After this change, a dcons connnection over FireWire can su

Poll bus resets on FireWire while kdb/gdb is active.

Now, it's safe to call the fwohci interrupt(polling) routine while ddb/gdb
is active. After this change, a dcons connnection over FireWire can survive
bus resets even in kernel debugger.

This means that it is not too late to plug a FireWire cable after a panic
to investigate the problem.

Actually there is a small window(between a jump to kernel from loader and
initialization of dcons_crom) in which no one can take care of a bus reset.
Except that window, firewire console should keep working
from loader to reboot even with a panic and a bus reset.
(as far as you enable LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT)

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We should better ignore a break on gdb port if gdb is not enabled.

Make compile without GDB option.

MFC after: 3 days

Sweep kernel replacing suser(9) calls with priv(9) calls, assigning
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.

Sponsored by: nCircle

Sweep kernel replacing suser(9) calls with priv(9) calls, assigning
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.

Sponsored by: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed (at least in part) by: mlaier, jmg, pjd, bde, ceri,
Alex Lyashkov <umka at sevcity dot net>,
Skip Ford <skip dot ford at verizon dot net>,
Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin at laposte dot net>

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Convert to new console interface.

Eliminate gdb_checkc member from GDB_DBGPORT(), it is never used.

Use polling behaviour for gdb_getc() where convenient, this edges us
closer to the console code.

Use ttyalloc() instead of ttymalloc()

Fix -Wundef warnings found when compiling i386 LINT, GENERIC and
custom kernels.

Make ttyconsolemode() call ttsetwater() so that drivers don't have to.

Start each of the license/copyright comments with /*-, minor shuffle of lines

Use dcons buffer passed by loader on amd64.

- Use quad_t for dcons buffer address and size.
- Allow read/write access to dcons buffer passed by loader(8).