Remove support for Xen PV domU kernels. Support for HVM domU kernels
remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86

Remove support for Xen PV domU kernels. Support for HVM domU kernels
remains. Xen is planning to phase out support for PV upstream since it
is harder to maintain and has more overhead. Modern x86 CPUs include
virtualization extensions that support HVM guests instead of PV guests.
In addition, the PV code was i386 only and not as well maintained recently
as the HVM code.
- Remove the i386-only NATIVE option that was used to disable certain
components for PV kernels. These components are now standard as they
are on amd64.
- Remove !XENHVM bits from PV drivers.
- Remove various shims required for XEN (e.g. PT_UPDATES_FLUSH, LOAD_CR3,
etc.)
- Remove duplicate copy of <xen/features.h>.
- Remove unused, i386-only xenstored.h.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2362
Reviewed by: royger
Tested by: royger (i386/amd64 HVM domU and amd64 PVH dom0)
Relnotes: yes

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Microsoft vmbus, storage and other related driver enhancements for HyperV.
- Vmbus multi channel support.
- Vector interrupt support.
- Signal optimization.
- Storvsc driver performan

Microsoft vmbus, storage and other related driver enhancements for HyperV.
- Vmbus multi channel support.
- Vector interrupt support.
- Signal optimization.
- Storvsc driver performance improvement.
- Scatter and gather support for storvsc driver.
- Minor bug fix for KVP driver.
Thanks royger, jhb and delphij from FreeBSD community for the reviews
and comments. Also thanks Hovy Xu from NetApp for the contributions to
the storvsc driver.

PR: 195238
Submitted by: whu
Reviewed by: royger, jhb, delphij
Approved by: royger
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Microsoft OSTC

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MFH: r280643-r281852

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

Add config option PAE_TABLES for the i386 kernel. It switches pmap to
use PAE format for the page tables, but does not incur other
consequences of the full PAE config. In particular, vm_paddr_t and

Add config option PAE_TABLES for the i386 kernel. It switches pmap to
use PAE format for the page tables, but does not incur other
consequences of the full PAE config. In particular, vm_paddr_t and
bus_addr_t are left 32bit, and max supported memory is still limited
by 4GB.

The option allows to have nx permissions for memory mappings on i386
kernel, while keeping the usual i386 KBI and avoiding the kernel data
sizing problems typical for the PAE config.

Intel documented that the PAE format for page tables is available
starting with the Pentium Pro, but it is possible that the plain
Pentium CPUs have the required support (Appendix H). The goal is to
enable the option and non-exec mappings on i386 for the GENERIC
kernel. Anybody wanting a useful system on 486, have to reconfigure
the modern i386 kernel anyway.

Discussed with: alc, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks

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Reintegrate head: r274132-r277384

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

Reintegrate head revisions r273096-r277147

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

MFhead @ r276594

Garbage collect the asr driver. Hardware for it has not been produced in
roughly 10 years, and the driver has not enjoyed any significant maintenance
since long before that. Despite well-meaning ef

Garbage collect the asr driver. Hardware for it has not been produced in
roughly 10 years, and the driver has not enjoyed any significant maintenance
since long before that. Despite well-meaning efforts from a number of
people, myself included, it never made the jump to 64-bit and was relegated
to the back-corners of i386. Now its frailty is hampering forward progress
with Clang. Any renewed engineering efforts are of course welcome and can
happen outside of the tree. No MFC of this is planned.

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Merge head from 7/28

imagact_binmisc builds for all supported architectures, so enable it for all.

Any bugs in execution will be dealt with as they crop up.

MFC after: 3 weeks
Relnotes: Yes

Merge head

IFC @264767

Actually, since this is what I thought I was doing, only allow the
binmisc code to be build on amd64/i386 for the kernel.

Update NOTES with some indication of what this code is used for.

Pointed ou

Actually, since this is what I thought I was doing, only allow the
binmisc code to be build on amd64/i386 for the kernel.

Update NOTES with some indication of what this code is used for.

Pointed out by jhb@ ... thanks!

Submitted by: jhb@

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Merge head r233826 through r256722.

IFC @256277

Approved by: ken (mentor)

IFC @ r255692

Comment out IA32_MISC_ENABLE MSR access - this doesn't exist on AMD.
Need to sort out how arch-specific MSRs will be handled.

Merge from head

IFC @ r255209

IFC.

The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".

Requested by:

The PADLOCK_RNG and RDRAND_RNG kernel options are now devices.
Thus "device padlock_rng" and "device rdrand_rng" should be
used instead of "options PADLOCK_RNG" & "options RDRAND_RNG".

Requested by: so@ (des)
Submitted by: obrien, arthurmesh@gmail.com
Obtained from: Juniper Networks

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Merge fresh head.

MFC @ r241285

IFC @ r242684

Sync from head

Rename the IVY_RNG option to RDRAND_RNG.

Based on submission by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks