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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 254025 07-Aug-2013 jeff

Replace kernel virtual address space allocation with vmem. This provides
transparent layering and better fragmentation.

- Normalize functions that allocate memory to use kmem_*
- Those that allocate address space are named kva_*
- Those that operate on maps are named kmap_*
- Implement recursive allocation handling for kmem_arena in vmem.

Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division


# 238502 15-Jul-2012 mdf

Fix a bug with memguard(9) on 32-bit architectures without a
VM_KMEM_MAX_SIZE.

The code was not taking into account the size of the kernel_map, which
the kmem_map is allocated from, so it could produce a sub-map size too
large to fit. The simplest solution is to ignore VM_KMEM_MAX entirely
and base the memguard map's size off the kernel_map's size, since this
is always relevant and always smaller.

Found by: Justin Hibbits


# 226313 12-Oct-2011 glebius

Make memguard(9) capable to guard uma(9) allocations.


# 212058 31-Aug-2010 mdf

The realloc case for memguard(9) will copy too many bytes when
reallocating to a smaller-sized allocation. Fix this issue.

Noticed by: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: zml (mentor)
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 211229 12-Aug-2010 mdf

Fix compile. It seemed better to have memguard.c include opt_vm.h in
case future compile-time knobs were added that it wants to use.
Also add include guards and forward declarations to vm/memguard.h.

Approved by: zml (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month


# 211194 11-Aug-2010 mdf

Rework memguard(9) to reserve significantly more KVA to detect
use-after-free over a longer time. Also release the backing pages of
a guarded allocation at free(9) time to reduce the overhead of using
memguard(9). Allow setting and varying the malloc type at run-time.
Add knobs to allow:

- randomly guarding memory
- adding un-backed KVA guard pages to detect underflow and overflow
- a lower limit on the size of allocations that are guarded

Reviewed by: alc
Reviewed by: brueffer, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs spoerlein net> (man page)
Silence from: -arch
Approved by: zml (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month


# 206360 07-Apr-2010 joel

Start copyright notice with /*-


# 153880 30-Dec-2005 pjd

Improve memguard a bit:
- Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without
changing the code and recompiling the kernel.
- Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl
vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory
type before module is loaded.
- Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c.
- Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there.
- Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its
short description (ks_shortdesc field).
- Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it
doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet.
If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY.
- Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the
default.


# 141991 16-Feb-2005 bmilekic

Well, it seems that I pre-maturely removed the "All rights reserved"
statement from some files, so re-add it for the moment, until the
related legalese is sorted out. This change affects:

sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c
sys/vm/memguard.c
sys/vm/memguard.h
sys/vm/uma.h
sys/vm/uma_core.c
sys/vm/uma_dbg.c
sys/vm/uma_dbg.h
sys/vm/uma_int.h


# 140587 21-Jan-2005 bmilekic

Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocator
designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more
and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race
conditions are more prevalent.

Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for
particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this
change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations
as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must:

1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config.
2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for
"XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with
the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional
but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type
is declared out of scope).
3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor
boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map
you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10,
so kmem_size/10.

ToDo:
1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page.
2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking
over malloc types.
3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone
allocations too.
4) Improve MemGuard if necessary.

This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.