svn commit: r335979 - in head: . lib/libkvm sys/kern sys/netinet sys/sys usr.bin/netstat usr.bin/sockstat

[Brooks Davis]

Sorry about that.  I'm working on it.

-- brooks

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 06:45:33PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
> this breaks the MIPS builds.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:33 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:10:54AM -0700, Ravi Pokala wrote:
> >> Hi Brooks,
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: <owner-src-committers at freebsd.org> on behalf of Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org>
> >> Date: 2018-07-05, Thursday at 06:13
> >> To: <src-committers at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head at freebsd.org>
> >> Subject: svn commit: r335979 - in head: . lib/libkvm sys/kern sys/netinet sys/sys usr.bin/netstat usr.bin/sockstat
> >>
> >> > Author: brooks
> >> > Date: Thu Jul  5 13:13:48 2018
> >> > New Revision: 335979
> >> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335979
> >> >
> >> > Log:
> >> >   Make struct xinpcb and friends word-size independent.
> >> >
> >> >   Replace size_t members with ksize_t (uint64_t) and pointer members
> >> >   (never used as pointers in userspace, but instead as unique
> >> >   idenitifiers) with kvaddr_t (uint64_t). This makes the structs
> >> >   identical between 32-bit and 64-bit ABIs.
> >> ...
> >> > Modified: head/UPDATING
> >> > ==============================================================================
> >> > --- head/UPDATING   Thu Jul  5 11:50:59 2018        (r335978)
> >> > +++ head/UPDATING   Thu Jul  5 13:13:48 2018        (r335979)
> >> > @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW:
> >> >     disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
> >> >     "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
> >> >
> >> > +20180705:
> >> > +   The ABI of syscalls used by management tools like sockstat and
> >> > +   netstat has been broken to allow 32-bit binaries to work on
> >> > +   64-bit kernels without modification.
> >>
> >> Isn't that what the compat32 layer is for?
> >
> > compat32 isn't magic.  If one tried, one could hardly design structures
> > to make 32-bit compat harder then the previous versions.  It's certainly
> > possible to make work, but quite annoying.  Since the ABI of most these
> > structures was already broken for 12, I chose this approach as it is
> > quite trivial.
> >
> >> > These programs will need
> >> > +   to match the kernel in order to function.  External programs may
> >> > +   require minor modifications to accommodate a change of type in
> >> > +   structures from pointers to 64-bit virtual addresses.
> >>
> >> Doesn't this contradict the earlier statement about letting things run unmodified?
> >
> > Unmodified post this commit.  We already don't support netstat and
> > sockstat from 11 on 12 in any architecture combination.
> >
> > -- Brooks
> 
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