Pull in r267961 and r267973 again. Fix for issues reported will follow.

Revert r267961, r267973:

These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:

1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1

Revert r267961, r267973:

These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:

1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory

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Extend the meaning of the CTLFLAG_TUN flag to automatically check if
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statica

Extend the meaning of the CTLFLAG_TUN flag to automatically check if
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.

Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies

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MFC @ r266724

An SVM update will follow this.

IFC @266473

Merge from head

Wake up the hardware before calling ath_mode_init() in the ioctl() path.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA + powersave

Break out the multicast programming into its own hardware specific
call, which assumes the hardware is awake.

Turn ath_update_mcast() into a routine that's only called from the
net80211 layer - and

Break out the multicast programming into its own hardware specific
call, which assumes the hardware is awake.

Turn ath_update_mcast() into a routine that's only called from the
net80211 layer - and it forces the hardware awake first.

This fixes a LOR from the EDMA RX path which calls ath_mode_init()
with the RX lock held - the driver lock can't also be grabbed.
This path assumes that the ath_mode_init() callers all wake up
the NIC first.

Tested:

* AR9485, STA mode, powersave

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Add tracking for self-generated frames when the VAP is in sleep state.

The hardware can generate its own frames (eg RTS/CTS exchanges, other
kinds of 802.11 management stuff, especially when it come

Add tracking for self-generated frames when the VAP is in sleep state.

The hardware can generate its own frames (eg RTS/CTS exchanges, other
kinds of 802.11 management stuff, especially when it comes to 802.11n)
and these also have PWRMGT flags. So if the VAP is asleep but the
NIC is in force-awake for some reason, ensure that the self-generated
frames have PWRMGT set to 1.

Now, this (like basically everything to do with powersave) is still
racy - the only way to guarantee that it's all actually consistent
is to pause transmit and let it finish before transitioning the VAP
to sleep, but this at least gets the basic method of tracking and
updating the state debugged.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA mode
* AR9380, STA mode

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Bring over some initial power save management support, reset path
fixes and beacon programming / debugging into the ath(4) driver.

The basic power save tracking:

* Add some new code to track the cu

Bring over some initial power save management support, reset path
fixes and beacon programming / debugging into the ath(4) driver.

The basic power save tracking:

* Add some new code to track the current desired powersave state; and
* Add some reference count tracking so we know when the NIC is awake; then
* Add code in all the points where we're about to touch the hardware and
push it to force-wake.

Then, how things are moved into power save:

* Only move into network-sleep during a RUN->SLEEP transition;
* Force wake the hardware up everywhere that we're about to touch
the hardware.

The net80211 stack takes care of doing RUN<->SLEEP<->(other) state
transitions so we don't have to do it in the driver.

Next, when to wake things up:

* In short - everywhere we touch the hardware.
* The hardware will take care of staying awake if things are queued
in the transmit queue(s); it'll then transit down to sleep if
there's nothing left. This way we don't have to track the
software / hardware transmit queue(s) and keep the hardware
awake for those.

Then, some transmit path fixes that aren't related but useful:

* Force EAPOL frames to go out at the lowest rate. This improves
reliability during the encryption handshake after 802.11
negotiation.

Next, some reset path fixes!

* Fix the overlap between reset and transmit pause so we don't
transmit frames during a reset.
* Some noisy environments will end up taking a lot longer to reset
than normal, so extend the reset period and drop the raise the
reset interval to be more realistic and give the hardware some
time to finish calibration.
* Skip calibration during the reset path. Tsk!

Then, beacon fixes in station mode!

* Add a _lot_ more debugging in the station beacon reset path.
This is all quite fluid right now.
* Modify the STA beacon programming code to try and take
the TU gap between desired TSF and the target TU into
account. (Lifted from QCA.)

Tested:

* AR5210
* AR5211
* AR5212
* AR5413
* AR5416
* AR9280
* AR9285

TODO:

* More AP, IBSS, mesh, TDMA testing
* Thorough AR9380 and later testing!
* AR9160 and AR9287 testing

Obtained from: QCA

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Merge head

IFC @264767

Wrap the rate control re-init code in a lock, to serialise it with
concurrent updates from any completing transmits in other threads.

This was exposed when doing power save work - net80211 is consta

Wrap the rate control re-init code in a lock, to serialise it with
concurrent updates from any completing transmits in other threads.

This was exposed when doing power save work - net80211 is constantly
doing reassociations and it's causing the rate control state to get
blanked out. This could cause the rate control code to assert.

This should be MFCed to stable/10 as it's a stability fix.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA

MFC after: 7 days

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Merge head up to r263906.

Don't call ath_init() inside the lock.

Yes, this means that sc_invalid is slightly racy, but there are other
issues here which need fixing.

This fixes a source of eventual LORs - ath_init() grabs A

Don't call ath_init() inside the lock.

Yes, this means that sc_invalid is slightly racy, but there are other
issues here which need fixing.

This fixes a source of eventual LORs - ath_init() grabs ATH_LOCK to do
work and releases it before it calls ieee80211_start_all().
ieee80211_start_all() will grab the net80211 comlock to iterate over
the VAPs.

TODO:

* .. I should just migrate the ieee80211_start_all() work to a
deferred task so it can be done later; it doesn't have to be
immediately done.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA mode

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MFC @ r259205 in preparation for some SVM updates. (for real this time)

Merge head r232040 through r257457.
M usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.8
M usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.sh
M usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump/Makefile

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit po

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.

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Merge head r233826 through r256722.

Move a lot of debugging printf's to DPRINTF.

Approved by: adrian
MFC after: 2 weeks

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

MFC