Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 03:07:31 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: RFC: additions to the Glossary Message-ID: <200406080307.31235.linimon@lonesome.com>
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This patch adds definitions for Giant, LOR, NDISulator, OBE, pointyhat,
and Project Evil, and expands the entry for BSD.
Unless anyone objects, I would like to go ahead and commit these changes.
mcl
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Index: freebsd-glossary.sgml
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RCS file: /home/FreeBSD/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 freebsd-glossary.sgml
--- freebsd-glossary.sgml 28 Sep 2003 20:25:42 -0000 1.5
+++ freebsd-glossary.sgml 6 Jun 2004 02:07:06 -0000
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@
<acronym>BSD</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para>This is the name that the Computer Systems Research Group
- at Berkeley gave to their improvements and modifications to
- AT&T's 32V &unix;.</para>
+ (CSRG) at <ulink url="http://www.berkeley.edu">The University
+ of California at Berkeley</ulink> gave to their improvements
+ and modifications to
+ AT&T's 32V &unix;. &os; is a descendant of that work.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
@@ -40,6 +42,27 @@
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv>
+ <title>G</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="giant">
+ <glossterm>Giant</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>The name of a kernel resource lock that protects a large
+ set of kernel resources. It is an unwanted remnant of much
+ earlier <acronym>BSD</acronym> kernels which used very coarse
+ locking mechanisms (for instance, if any process was in the
+ network stack, every other process was locked out). While
+ this was adequate in the days where a machine might have only
+ a few dozen processes, one networking card, and certainly only
+ one processor, in current times it is an unacceptable
+ performance bottleneck. &os; developers are actively working
+ on replacing every occurrence with fine-grained locks that
+ protect individual resources.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv>
<title>K</title>
<glossentry id="kse">
@@ -59,6 +82,36 @@
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv>
+ <title>L</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="lor">
+ <glossterm>Lock Order Reversal</glossterm>
+ <acronym>LOR</acronym>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>The &os; kernel uses a number of resource locks to
+ arbitrate contention for those resources. A run-time
+ lock diagnostic system found in &os.current; kernels
+ (but removed for releases), called &man.witness.4;,
+ detects the potential for deadlocks due to locking errors.
+ (&man.witness.4; is actually slightly conservative, so
+ it is possible to get false positives.) A true positive
+ report indicates "if you were unlucky, a deadlock would
+ have happened here".</para>
+
+ <para>True positive LORs tend to get fixed quickly, so
+ check &a.current.url; and the
+ <ulink url="http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html">;
+ LORs Seen</ulink> page before posting to the mailing lists.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>LOR</glossterm>
+ <glosssee otherterm="lor">
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv>
<title>M</title>
<glossentry id="mfc">
@@ -94,12 +147,54 @@
<glossterm>MFS</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="mfs">
</glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv>
+ <title>N</title>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>NDISUlator</glossterm>
+ <glosssee otherterm="projectevil">
+ </glossentry>
</glossdiv>
<glossdiv>
+ <title>O</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="obe">
+ <glossterm>Overtaken By Events</glossterm>
+ <acronym>OBE</acronym>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>Indicates a suggested change (such as a Problem Report
+ or a feature request) which is no longer relevant or
+ applicable due to passage of time or more recent changes
+ to &os;.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>OBE</glossterm>
+ <glosssee otherterm="obe">
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv>
<title>P</title>
+ <glossentry id="pointyhat">
+ <glossterm>Pointy Hat</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A mythical piece of headgear, much like a
+ <literal>dunce cap</literal>, awarded to any &os;
+ committer who breaks the build, makes revision numbers
+ go backwards, or creates any other kind of havoc in
+ the source base. Any committer worth his or her salt
+ will soon accumulate a large collection. The usage is
+ (almost always?) humorous.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id="pola">
<glossterm>Principle Of Least Astonishment</glossterm>
<acronym>POLA</acronym>
@@ -118,6 +213,22 @@
<glossterm>POLA</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="pola">
</glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="projectevil">
+ <glossterm>Project Evil</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>The working title for the <acronym>NDISulator</acronym>,
+ written by Bill Paul, who named it referring to how awful
+ it is (from a philosophical standpoint) to need to have
+ something like this in the first place. The
+ <acronym>NDISulator</acronym> is a special compatibility
+ module to allow Microsoft Windows™ NDIS miniport
+ network drivers to be used with &os;/x86. This is usually
+ the only way to use cards where the driver is closed-source.
+ See <filename>src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ndis.c</filename>.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
</glossdiv>
</glossary>
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