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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

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

# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

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


# 291406 27-Nov-2015 jhb

Add support to libkvm for reading vmcores from other architectures.
- Add a kvaddr_type to represent kernel virtual addresses instead of
unsigned long.
- Add a struct kvm_nlist which is a stripped down version of struct nlist
that uses kvaddr_t for n_value.
- Add a kvm_native() routine that returns true if an open kvm descriptor
is for a native kernel and memory image.
- Add a kvm_open2() function similar to kvm_openfiles(). It drops the
unused 'swapfile' argument and adds a new function pointer argument for
a symbol resolving function. Native kernels still use _fdnlist() from
libc to resolve symbols if a resolver function is not supplied, but cross
kernels require a resolver.
- Add a kvm_nlist2() function similar to kvm_nlist() except that it uses
struct kvm_nlist instead of struct nlist.
- Add a kvm_read2() function similar to kvm_read() except that it uses
kvaddr_t instead of unsigned long for the kernel virtual address.
- Add a new kvm_arch switch of routines needed by a vmcore backend.
Each backend is responsible for implementing kvm_read2() for a given
vmcore format.
- Use libelf to read headers from ELF kernels and cores (except for
powerpc cores).
- Add internal helper routines for the common page offset hash table used
by the minidump backends.
- Port all of the existing kvm backends to implement a kvm_arch switch and
to be cross-friendly by using private constants instead of ones that
vary by platform (e.g. PAGE_SIZE). Static assertions are present when
a given backend is compiled natively to ensure the private constants
match the real ones.
- Enable all of the existing vmcore backends on all platforms. This means
that libkvm on any platform should be able to perform KVA translation
and read data from a vmcore of any platform.

Tested on: amd64, i386, sparc64 (marius)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3341


# 165888 08-Jan-2007 imp

Remove the advertising clause. UCB did this some time ago, but these
files were never updated to reflect that.

MFC After: 2 days


# 140505 20-Jan-2005 ru

Sort sections.


# 131504 02-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


# 127439 26-Mar-2004 ru

Document that kvm_open(3) also accepts "/dev/null" as a special
"corefile" argument, to access the running system via sysctl(3)
if possible, thus not requring special setgid privileges.


# 112539 24-Mar-2003 charnier

The .Fn function
The .Fa argument


# 107619 04-Dec-2002 ru

Consistently mark std(in|out|err) with .Dv, because that's how they
are marked up in stdio(3), and because they are defined expressions
of type "FILE *".

Approved by: re


# 89640 22-Jan-2002 ru

Finish cleanup in kvm.c revisions 1.10 and 1.11 -- mark sf (swapfile)
argument to kvm_open() and kvm_openfiles() as unused.

BSD didn't read swap since kvm.c CSRG revision 5.21 (u-area is pageable
under new VM. no need to read from swap.)

The old !NEWVM code was removed in CSRG revision 5.23 (~ten years ago).


# 84306 01-Oct-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: Use the new .In macro for #include statements.


# 81622 14-Aug-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: s/BSD/.Bx/ where appropriate.


# 79754 15-Jul-2001 dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# 71097 16-Jan-2001 ru

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# 68575 10-Nov-2000 ru

Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.


# 59510 22-Apr-2000 phantom

Introduce .Lb macro to libkvm manpages.
Use .Pa macro for "enlighting" path


# 50476 28-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 48794 12-Jul-1999 nik

Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

.\" $Id$
.\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by: bde


# 24885 13-Apr-1997 bde

Fixed #include and/or prototype bugs in synopsis.


# 3041 24-Sep-1994 wollman

Get rid of _PATH_UNIX completely; use getbootfile(3) instead.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON!
_PATH_UNIX is currently defined as the literal string "don't use this".
I am of two minds about this myself, but wanted to get something into the
tree as quickly as possible.


# 1574 27-May-1994 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1573,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 1573 27-May-1994 rgrimes

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