Reduced loopback MTU from 65535 to 65532 because some things like NFS
really like it to be rounded to a longword.

Changed loopback MTU to 65535.

The big 4.4BSD Lite to FreeBSD 2.0.0 (Development) patch.

Reviewed by: Rodney W. Grimes
Submitted by: John Dyson and David Greenman

BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources

ifconfig(8) expects interface fooX to be supported by the module if_foo,
and will try to load it if it's not present. To better meet these
expectations, change the module name for the loopback inter

ifconfig(8) expects interface fooX to be supported by the module if_foo,
and will try to load it if it's not present. To better meet these
expectations, change the module name for the loopback interface from
'loop' to 'if_lo'. The loopback interface is always compiled into the
base kernel, so there are no resulting changes in kld files, etc.

Discussed with: brooks (ages ago)
MFC after: 1 week

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- MFC @196061

Merge the remainder of kern_vimage.c and vimage.h into vnet.c and
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
vi

Merge the remainder of kern_vimage.c and vimage.h into vnet.c and
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks. Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.

Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)

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Introduce and use a sysinit-based initialization scheme for virtual
network stacks, VNET_SYSINIT:

- Add VNET_SYSINIT and VNET_SYSUNINIT macros to declare events that will
occur each time a network

Introduce and use a sysinit-based initialization scheme for virtual
network stacks, VNET_SYSINIT:

- Add VNET_SYSINIT and VNET_SYSUNINIT macros to declare events that will
occur each time a network stack is instantiated and destroyed. In the
!VIMAGE case, these are simply mapped into regular SYSINIT/SYSUNINIT.
For the VIMAGE case, we instead use SYSINIT's to track their order and
properties on registration, using them for each vnet when created/
destroyed, or immediately on module load for already-started vnets.
- Remove vnet_modinfo mechanism that existed to serve this purpose
previously, as well as its dependency scheme: we now just use the
SYSINIT ordering scheme.
- Implement VNET_DOMAIN_SET() to allow protocol domains to declare that
they want init functions to be called for each virtual network stack
rather than just once at boot, compiling down to DOMAIN_SET() in the
non-VIMAGE case.
- Walk all virtualized kernel subsystems and make use of these instead
of modinfo or DOMAIN_SET() for init/uninit events. In some cases,
convert modular components from using modevent to using sysinit (where
appropriate). In some cases, do minor rejuggling of SYSINIT ordering
to make room for or better manage events.

Portions submitted by: jhb (VNET_SYSINIT), bz (cleanup)
Discussed with: jhb, bz, julian, zec
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (VIMAGE blanket)

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Remove unused VNET_SET() and related macros; only VNET_GET() is
ever actually used. Rename VNET_GET() to VNET() to shorten
variable references.

Discussed with: bz, julian
Reviewed by: bz
Approved b

Remove unused VNET_SET() and related macros; only VNET_GET() is
ever actually used. Rename VNET_GET() to VNET() to shorten
variable references.

Discussed with: bz, julian
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (kensmith, kib)

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Build on Jeff Roberson's linker-set based dynamic per-CPU allocator
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the alloca

Build on Jeff Roberson's linker-set based dynamic per-CPU allocator
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.

Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.

Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.

This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.

Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.

Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)

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- Merge from HEAD

After r193232 rt_tables in vnet.h are no longer indirectly dependent on
the ROUTETABLES kernel option thus there is no need to include opt_route.h
anymore in all consumers of vnet.h and no longer dep

After r193232 rt_tables in vnet.h are no longer indirectly dependent on
the ROUTETABLES kernel option thus there is no need to include opt_route.h
anymore in all consumers of vnet.h and no longer depend on it for module
builds.

Remove the hidden include in flowtable.h as well and leave the two
explicit #includes in ip_input.c and ip_output.c.

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Introduce an infrastructure for dismantling vnet instances.

Vnet modules and protocol domains may now register destructor
functions to clean up and release per-module state. The destructor
mechanis

Introduce an infrastructure for dismantling vnet instances.

Vnet modules and protocol domains may now register destructor
functions to clean up and release per-module state. The destructor
mechanisms can be triggered by invoking "vimage -d", or a future
equivalent command which will be provided via the new jail framework.

While this patch introduces numerous placeholder destructor functions,
many of those are currently incomplete, thus leaking memory or (even
worse) failing to stop all running timers. Many of such issues are
already known and will be incrementaly fixed over the next weeks in
smaller incremental commits.

Apart from introducing new fields in structs ifnet, domain, protosw
and vnet_net, which requires the kernel and modules to be rebuilt, this
change should have no impact on nooptions VIMAGE builds, since vnet
destructors can only be called in VIMAGE kernels. Moreover,
destructor functions should be in general compiled in only in
options VIMAGE builds, except for kernel modules which can be safely
kldunloaded at run time.

Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
Reviewed by: bz, julian
Approved by: rwatson, kib (re), julian (mentor)

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Move "options MAC" from opt_mac.h to opt_global.h, as it's now in GENERIC
and used in a large number of files, but also because an increasing number
of incorrect uses of MAC calls were sneaking in du

Move "options MAC" from opt_mac.h to opt_global.h, as it's now in GENERIC
and used in a large number of files, but also because an increasing number
of incorrect uses of MAC calls were sneaking in due to copy-and-paste of
MAC-aware code without the associated opt_mac.h include.

Discussed with: pjd

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Merge from HEAD

V_irtualize the if_clone framework, thus allowing for clonable ifnets
to optionally have overlapping unit numbers if attached in different
vnets.

At this stage if_loop is the only clonable ifnet cla

V_irtualize the if_clone framework, thus allowing for clonable ifnets
to optionally have overlapping unit numbers if attached in different
vnets.

At this stage if_loop is the only clonable ifnet class that has been
extended to allow for such overlapping allocation of unit numbers, i.e.
in each vnet it is possible to have a lo0 interface. Other clonable ifnet
classes remain to operate with traditional semantics, i.e. each instance
of a clonable ifnet will be assigned a globally unique unit number,
regardless in which vnet such an ifnet becomes instantiated.

While here, garbage collect unused _lo_list field in struct vnet_net,
as well as improve indentation for #defines in sys/net/vnet.h.

The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore bump
__FreeBSD_version.

This change has no functional impact on nooptions VIMAGE kernel builds.

Reviewed by: bz, brooks
Approved by: julian (mentor)

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Merge from HEAD

In preparation for turning on options VIMAGE in next commits,
rearrange / replace / adjust several INIT_VNET_* initializer
macros, all of which currently resolve to whitespace.

Reviewed by: bz (an o

In preparation for turning on options VIMAGE in next commits,
rearrange / replace / adjust several INIT_VNET_* initializer
macros, all of which currently resolve to whitespace.

Reviewed by: bz (an older version of the patch)
Approved by: julian (mentor)

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Change if_output to take a struct route as its fourth argument in order
to allow passing a cached struct llentry * down to L2

Reviewed by: rwatson

- Merge from HEAD

Introduce vnet module registration / initialization framework with
dependency tracking and ordering enforcement.

With this change, per-vnet initialization functions introduced with
r190787 are no lo

Introduce vnet module registration / initialization framework with
dependency tracking and ordering enforcement.

With this change, per-vnet initialization functions introduced with
r190787 are no longer directly called from traditional initialization
functions (which cc in most cases inlined to pre-r190787 code), but are
instead registered via the vnet framework first, and are invoked only
after all prerequisite modules have been initialized. In the long run,
this framework should allow us to both initialize and dismantle
multiple vnet instances in a correct order.

The problem this change aims to solve is how to replay the
initialization sequence of various network stack components, which
have been traditionally triggered via different mechanisms (SYSINIT,
protosw). Note that this initialization sequence was and still can be
subtly different depending on whether certain pieces of code have been
statically compiled into the kernel, loaded as modules by boot
loader, or kldloaded at run time.

The approach is simple - we record the initialization sequence
established by the traditional mechanisms whenever vnet_mod_register()
is called for a particular vnet module. The vnet_mod_register_multi()
variant allows a single initializer function to be registered multiple
times but with different arguments - currently this is only used in
kern/uipc_domain.c by net_add_domain() with different struct domain *
as arguments, which allows for protosw-registered initialization
routines to be invoked in a correct order by the new vnet
initialization framework.

For the purpose of identifying vnet modules, each vnet module has to
have a unique ID, which is statically assigned in sys/vimage.h.
Dynamic assignment of vnet module IDs is not supported yet.

A vnet module may specify a single prerequisite module at registration
time by filling in the vmi_dependson field of its vnet_modinfo struct
with the ID of the module it depends on. Unless specified otherwise,
all vnet modules depend on VNET_MOD_NET (container for ifnet list head,
rt_tables etc.), which thus has to and will always be initialized
first. The framework will panic if it detects any unresolved
dependencies before completing system initialization. Detection of
unresolved dependencies for vnet modules registered after boot
(kldloaded modules) is not provided.

Note that the fact that each module can specify only a single
prerequisite may become problematic in the long run. In particular,
INET6 depends on INET being already instantiated, due to TCP / UDP
structures residing in INET container. IPSEC also depends on INET,
which will in turn additionally complicate making INET6-only kernel
configs a reality.

The entire registration framework can be compiled out by turning on the
VIMAGE_GLOBALS kernel config option.

Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: julian (mentor)

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First pass at separating per-vnet initializer functions
from existing functions for initializing global state.

At this stage, the new per-vnet initializer functions are
directly cal

First pass at separating per-vnet initializer functions
from existing functions for initializing global state.

At this stage, the new per-vnet initializer functions are
directly called from the existing global initialization code,
which should in most cases result in compiler inlining those
new functions, hence yielding a near-zero functional change.

Modify the existing initializer functions which are invoked via
protosw, like ip_init() et. al., to allow them to be invoked
multiple times, i.e. per each vnet. Global state, if any,
is initialized only if such functions are called within the
context of vnet0, which will be determined via the
IS_DEFAULT_VNET(curvnet) check (currently always true).

While here, V_irtualize a few remaining global UMA zones
used by net/netinet/netipsec networking code. While it is
not yet clear to me or anybody else whether this is the right
thing to do, at this stage this makes the code more readable,
and makes it easier to track uncollected UMA-zone-backed
objects on vnet removal. In the long run, it's quite possible
that some form of shared use of UMA zone pools among multiple
vnets should be considered.

Bump __FreeBSD_version due to changes in layout of structs
vnet_ipfw, vnet_inet and vnet_net.

Approved by: julian (mentor)

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Define and use two macros for loopback checksum offload:

LO_CSUM_FEATURES - a bitmask of supported transmit offload features, which
will be stored in if_hwassist if IFCAP_TXCSUM is enabled, and be

Define and use two macros for loopback checksum offload:

LO_CSUM_FEATURES - a bitmask of supported transmit offload features, which
will be stored in if_hwassist if IFCAP_TXCSUM is enabled, and be cleared
from mbuf packet header csum flags on transmit. (1)

LO_CSUM_SET - a bitmask of supported receive offload features, which will
be set on the mbuf packet header csum flags on transmit if IFCAP_RXCSUM
is enabled.

While here, fix SCTP offload for loopback: offer generation on the
transmit side, don't just skip validation on the receive side.

Obtained from: DragonflyBSD (1)
MFC after: 1 week

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if_hwassist should be initialized with CSUM, rather than IFCAP, flags.

Submitted by: yongari
MFC after: 1 week

Teach the loopback interface about checksum generation and validation
avoidance:

- Enable setting the RXCSUM and TXCSUM flags for loopback interfaces;
set both by default.
- When RXCSUM is set, fl

Teach the loopback interface about checksum generation and validation
avoidance:

- Enable setting the RXCSUM and TXCSUM flags for loopback interfaces;
set both by default.
- When RXCSUM is set, flag packets sent over the loopback interface as
having checked and valid IP, UDP, TCP checksums so that higher
protocol layers won't check them.
- Always clear CSUM_{IP,UDP_TCP} checksum required flags on transmit,
as they will have gotten there as a result of TXCSUM being set.

This is done only for packets explicitly sent over the loopback, not
simulated loopback via if_simloop() due to !SIMPLEX interfaces, etc.

Note that enabling TXCSUM but not RXCSUM will lead to unhappiness, as
checksums won't be generated but will be validated.

Kris reports that this leads to significant performance improvements
in loopback benchmarking with TCP and UDP for throughput:

RXCSUM RXCSUM+TXCSUM
TCP 15% 37%
UDP 10% 74%

Update man page.

Reviewed by: sam
Tested by: kris
MFC after: 1 week

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