freebsd-dev/sys/sparc64/include/tick.h

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/*-
* Copyright (c) 2001 Jake Burkholder.
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#ifndef _MACHINE_TICK_H_
#define _MACHINE_TICK_H_
extern u_int hardclock_use_stick;
- USIII-based machines can consist of CPUs running at different frequencies (and having different cache sizes) so use the STICK (System TICK) timer, which was introduced due to this and is driven by the same frequency across all CPUs, instead of the TICK timer, whose frequency varies with the CPU clock, to drive hardclock. We try to use the STICK counter with all CPUs that are USIII or beyond, even when not necessary due to identical CPUs, as we can can also avoid the workaround for the BlackBird erratum #1 there. Unfortunately, using the STICK counter currently causes a hang with USIIIi MP machines for reasons unknown, so we still use the TICK timer there (which is okay as they can only consist of identical CPUs). - Given that we only (try to) synchronize the (S)TICK timers of APs with the BSP during startup, we could end up spinning forever in DELAY(9) if that function is migrated to another CPU while we're spinning due to clock drift afterwards, so pin to the CPU in order to avoid migration. Unfortunately, pinning doesn't work at the point DELAY(9) is required by the low-level console drivers, yet, so switch to a function pointer, which is updated accordingly, for implementing DELAY(9). For USIII and beyond, this would also allow to easily use the STICK counter instead of the TICK one here, there's no benefit in doing so however. While at it, use cpu_spinwait(9) for spinning in the delay- functions. This currently is a NOP though. - Don't set the TICK timer of the BSP to 0 during at startup as there's no need to do so. - Implement cpu_est_clockrate(). - Unfortunately, USIIIi-based machines don't provide a timecounter device besides the STICK and TICK counters (well, in theory the Tomatillo bridges have a performance counter that can be (ab)used as timecounter by configuring it to count bus cycles, though unlike the performance counter of Schizo bridges, the Tomatillo one is broken and counts Sun knows what in this mode). This means that we've to use a (S)TICK counter for timecounting, which has the old problem of not being in sync across CPUs, so provide an additional timecounter function which binds itself to the BSP but has an adequate low priority.
2008-09-03 17:39:19 +00:00
void tick_clear(void);
- Add a workaround for a bug in BlackBird CPUs (said to be part of the SpitFire erratum #54) which can cause writes to the TICK_CMPR register to fail. This seems to fix the dying clocks problem reported by jhb@ and kris@. [1] - In tick_start() don't reset the tick counter of the boot processor to zero. It's initially reset in _start() and afterwards but _before_ tick_start() is called on the BSP the APs synchronise with the tick counter of the BSP in mp_startup(). Resetting the tick counter of the BSP in tick_start() probably also was the cause of problems seen when using the CPU tick counter as timecounter on SMP machines. Not resetting the tick counter of the BSP in mp_startup() makes the tick counters and tick interrupts between the BSP and APs be pretty much in sync as it's supposed to be. This also means there's no longer a real reason to have separate tick_start() and tick_start_ap() so merge them and zap tick_start_ap(). This is also a first step in simplifying the interface to the tick counters in preparation to use alternate clock hardware where available. - Switch to the algorithm used on FreeBSD/ia64 for updating the tick interrupt register and which compensates the clock drift caused by varying delays between when the tick interrupts actually trigger and when they are serviced. Not compensating the clock drift mainly hurts interactive performance especially when using WITNESS. [2] For further information about the algorithm also see the commit log of sys/ia64/ia64/interrupt.c rev. 1.38. On sparc64 the sysctls for monitoring the behaviour of the tick interrupts are machdep.tick.adjust_edges, machdep.tick.adjust_excess, machdep.tick.adjust_missed and machdep.tick.adjust_ticks. - In tick_init() just use tick_stop() for stopping the tick interrupts until a proper handler is set up later. This also stops the system tick interrupt on USIII systems earlier. - In tick_start() check for a rough upper limit of HZ. - Some minor changes, e.g. use FBSDID, remove unused headers, etc. Info obtained from: Linux [1] Ok'ed by: marcel [2] Additional testing by: kris (earlier version of the workaround), jhb X-MFC after: 3 days [1]
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void tick_start(void);
void tick_stop(void);
#endif