programs which attach their own header) can crash the machine. The problem
in this case was:
a variable "space" was set to the total data to copy,
len was used to remember how much to copy in this chunk (mbuf),
in one case, len = min(MCLBYTES - max_hdr, resid) but
size -= MCLBYTES;
instead of
size -= len;
Note that userland programs can still crash the machine by providing
bogus data in the ip->ip_len field I suspect. I haven't verified this,
but will soon be doing so and applying a fix of some sort. Probably
clamping the ip->ip_len value to the true packet size will be ok.
a boot string for firmware that can do this, such as the SPARC and
the sun3 models. It is currently silently ignored on all other
hardware now, however. The MD function "boot()" has been changed to
also take a char *.
Understands allocation aligment and boundary restrictions, "specific region"
allocations, and suballocations. Capable of statically or dynamically
allocating map overhead.
Many thanks to Matthias Drochner for running the code for me, and sending
me bug fixes, optimizations, and suggestions. Also, many thanks to
Chris Demetriou for his extremely helpful suggestions.
XXX No manual page yet. One is forthcoming, as soon as I can scare up
the time to write one. This has been sitting on my plate for quite a
while, and several projects are waiting for it. Time to move on.
delayed write is logically converted to a sync write, mirroring the async case.
In bdwrite(), move the tape case earlier to avoid needless reassignbuf()s.
and free some space by calling m_reclaim(). Also, log the "mb_map full"
error message (at most) every 60-seconds. The old code would log it
once over the lifetime of the system, but that's not a useful diagnostic.
(More useful is the new behaviour, which roughly indicates how often
periods of heavy load occur, without spamming the console and system
logs with messages.)
Right now, this code just panic()s (same as kmem_malloc() used to do
before, but different message), but in the future it should be modified
to try to reclaim wasted memory.
automatic array rather than an array allocated with alloca().
(This was the only use of alloca() in the kernel, and it wasn't
necessary or consistent with the way other functions in this file
work.)
structure and 'aux', right before ca_attach is called for the
newly-attached device. This allows the alpha port to do root device
autodetection without modifying every bus and device driver which could
be in the 'boot path.' In the long run, it may make sense to make
this machine-independent.
