netmap: simplify parameter passing

Changes imported from the netmap github.

(cherry picked from commit ee0005f11f2b38a714bc66b7d79832108f6fee77)

add valectl to the system commands

The valectl(4) program is used to manage vale(4) switches.
Add it to the system commands so that it can be used right away.
This program was previously called vale

add valectl to the system commands

The valectl(4) program is used to manage vale(4) switches.
Add it to the system commands so that it can be used right away.
This program was previously called vale-ctl, and stored in
tools/tools/netmap

Reviewed by: hrs, bcr, lwhsu, kevans
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22146

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netmap: refactor logging macros and pipes

Changelist:
- Replace ND, D and RD macros with nm_prdis, nm_prinf, nm_prerr
and nm_prlim, to avoid possible naming conflicts.
- Add netmap_kri

netmap: refactor logging macros and pipes

Changelist:
- Replace ND, D and RD macros with nm_prdis, nm_prinf, nm_prerr
and nm_prlim, to avoid possible naming conflicts.
- Add netmap_krings_mode_commit() helper function and use that
to reduce code duplication.
- Refactor pipes control code to export some functions that
can be reused by the veth driver (on Linux) and epair(4).
- Add check to reject API requests with version less than 11.
- Small code refactoring for the null adapter.

MFC after: 1 week

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netmap: add notifications on kloop stop

On sync-kloop stop, send a wake-up signal to the kloop, so that
waiting for the timeout is not needed.
Also, improve logging in netmap_freebsd.c.

MFC after:

netmap: add notifications on kloop stop

On sync-kloop stop, send a wake-up signal to the kloop, so that
waiting for the timeout is not needed.
Also, improve logging in netmap_freebsd.c.

MFC after: 3 days

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netmap: align codebase to the current upstream (760279cfb2730a585)

Changelist:
- Replace netmap passthrough host support with a more general
mechanism to call TXSYNC/RXSYNC from an in-kernel e

netmap: align codebase to the current upstream (760279cfb2730a585)

Changelist:
- Replace netmap passthrough host support with a more general
mechanism to call TXSYNC/RXSYNC from an in-kernel event-loop.
No kernel threads are used to use this feature: the application
is required to spawn a thread (or a process) and issue a
SYNC_KLOOP_START (NIOCCTRL) command in the thread body. The
kernel loop is executed by the ioctl implementation, which returns
to userspace only when a different thread calls SYNC_KLOOP_STOP
or the netmap file descriptor is closed.
- Update the if_ptnet driver to cope with the new data structures,
and prune all the obsolete ptnetmap code.
- Add support for "null" netmap ports, useful to allocate netmap_if,
netmap_ring and netmap buffers to be used by specialized applications
(e.g. hypervisors). TXSYNC/RXSYNC on these ports have no effect.
- Various fixes and code refactoring.

Sponsored by: Sunny Valley Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18015

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netmap: align codebase to the current upstream (sha 8374e1a7e6941)

Changelist:
- Move large parts of VALE code to a new file and header netmap_bdg.[ch].
This is useful to reuse the code wi

netmap: align codebase to the current upstream (sha 8374e1a7e6941)

Changelist:
- Move large parts of VALE code to a new file and header netmap_bdg.[ch].
This is useful to reuse the code within upcoming projects.
- Improvements and bug fixes to pipes and monitors.
- Introduce nm_os_onattach(), nm_os_onenter() and nm_os_onexit() to
handle differences between FreeBSD and Linux.
- Introduce some new helper functions to handle more host rings and fake
rings (netmap_all_rings(), netmap_real_rings(), ...)
- Added new sysctl to enable/disable hw checksum in emulated netmap mode.
- nm_inject: add support for NS_MOREFRAG

Approved by: gnn (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17364

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