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Author SHA1 Message Date
Konstantin Belousov
59c1a8315c Forcibly shut up clang warning about NULL pointer dereference.
MFC after:	3 weeks
2012-07-23 19:16:31 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
83b22b05e6 Introduce curpcb magic variable, similar to curthread, which is MD
amd64.  It is implemented as __pure2 inline with non-volatile asm read
from pcpu, which allows a compiler to cache its results.

Convert most PCPU_GET(pcb) and curthread->td_pcb accesses into curpcb.

Note that __curthread() uses magic value 0 as an offsetof(struct pcpu,
pc_curthread). It seems to be done this way due to machine/pcpu.h
needs to be processed before sys/pcpu.h, because machine/pcpu.h
contributes machine-depended fields to the struct pcpu definition. As
result, machine/pcpu.h cannot use struct pcpu yet.

The __curpcb() also uses a magic constant instead of offsetof(struct
pcpu, pc_curpcb) for the same reason. The constants are now defined as
symbols and CTASSERTs are added to ensure that future KBI changes do
not break the code.

Requested and reviewed by: bde
MFC after:    3 weeks
2012-07-19 19:09:12 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
5ba2a4998c Add macro IS_BSP() to check whether the current CPU is BSP.
MFC after:	1 week
2012-01-17 07:21:23 +00:00
John Baldwin
536af0d751 Mark the __curthread() functions as __pure2 and remove the volatile keyword
from the inline assembly.  This allows the compiler to cache invocations of
curthread since it's value does not change within a thread context.

Submitted by:	zec (i386)
MFC after:	1 week
2010-07-29 18:44:10 +00:00
John Baldwin
58ccad7ddc Add support for corrected machine check interrupts. CMCI is a new local
APIC interrupt that fires when a threshold of corrected machine check
events is reached.  CMCI also includes a count of events when reporting
corrected errors in the bank's status register.  Note that individual
banks may or may not support CMCI.  If they do, each bank includes its own
threshold register that determines when the interrupt fires.  Currently
the code uses a very simple strategy where it doubles the threshold on
each interrupt until it succeeds in throttling the interrupt to occur
only once a minute (this interval can be tuned via sysctl).  The threshold
is also adjusted on each hourly poll which will lower the threshold once
events stop occurring.

Tested by:	Sailaja Bangaru  sbappana at yahoo com
MFC after:	1 month
2010-05-24 15:45:05 +00:00
Doug Rabson
8480241102 Fix XENHVM build. 2009-05-06 17:48:39 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
2c66cccab7 Save and restore segment registers on amd64 when entering and leaving
the kernel on amd64. Fill and read segment registers for mcontext and
signals. Handle traps caused by restoration of the
invalidated selectors.

Implement user-mode creation and manipulation of the process-specific
LDT descriptors for amd64, see sysarch(2).

Implement support for TSS i/o port access permission bitmap for amd64.

Context-switch LDT and TSS. Do not save and restore segment registers on
the context switch, that is handled by kernel enter/leave trampolines
now. Remove segment restore code from the signal trampolines for
freebsd/amd64, freebsd/ia32 and linux/i386 for the same reason.

Implement amd64-specific compat shims for sysarch.

Linuxolator (temporary ?) switched to use gsbase for thread_area pointer.

TODO:
Currently, gdb is not adapted to show segment registers from struct reg.
Also, no machine-depended ptrace command is added to set segment
registers for debugged process.

In collaboration with:	pho
Discussed with:	peter
Reviewed by:	jhb
Linuxolator tested by:	dchagin
2009-04-01 13:09:26 +00:00
Doug Rabson
1267802438 Merge in support for Xen HVM on amd64 architecture. 2009-03-11 15:30:12 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
3bd5e467b2 The pcb_gs32p should be per-cpu, not per-thread pointer. This is
location in GDT where the segment descriptor from pcb_gs32sd is
copied, and the location is in GDT local to CPU.

Noted and reviewed by:	peter
MFC after:	1 week
2008-09-08 09:59:05 +00:00
John Baldwin
70d12a18f2 Export 'struct pcpu' to userland w/o requiring _KERNEL. A few ports
already define _KERNEL to get to this and I'm about to add hooks to
libkvm to access per-CPU data.

MFC after:	1 week
2008-08-19 19:53:52 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
6c47aaae12 - Add an integer argument to idle to indicate how likely we are to wake
from idle over the next tick.
 - Add a new MD routine, cpu_wake_idle() to wakeup idle threads who are
   suspended in cpu specific states.  This function can fail and cause the
   scheduler to fall back to another mechanism (ipi).
 - Implement support for mwait in cpu_idle() on i386/amd64 machines that
   support it.  mwait is a higher performance way to synchronize cpus
   as compared to hlt & ipis.
 - Allow selecting the idle routine by name via sysctl machdep.idle.  This
   replaces machdep.cpu_idle_hlt.  Only idle routines supported by the
   current machine are permitted.

Sponsored by:	Nokia
2008-04-25 05:18:50 +00:00
Attilio Rao
6759608248 Rework the PCPU_* (MD) interface:
- Rename PCPU_LAZY_INC into PCPU_INC
- Add the PCPU_ADD interface which just does an add on the pcpu member
  given a specific value.

Note that for most architectures PCPU_INC and PCPU_ADD are not safe.
This is a point that needs some discussions/work in the next days.

Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
2007-06-04 21:38:48 +00:00
Alan Cox
c640357f04 Push down the implementation of PCPU_LAZY_INC() into the machine-dependent
header file.  Reimplement PCPU_LAZY_INC() on amd64 and i386 making it
atomic with respect to interrupts.

Reviewed by: bde, jhb
2007-03-11 05:54:29 +00:00
Bruce Evans
1300fd67f3 Fixed some style bugs. Routine except:
- don't use __GNUCLIKE___OFFSETOF, since __offsetof() is a standard
  FreeBSD implementaion detail which has nothing to do with GNUC.
2007-02-06 18:04:02 +00:00
Bruce Evans
3764a82377 Simplified PCPU_GET() and PCPU_SET(). We must copy through a temporary
variable to avoid invalid constraints in dead code.  Use an array of
u_char's (inside a struct) instead of a char/short/int/long variable so
that the variable and its accesses can be spelled in the same way in all
cases and code doesn't need to be cloned just to hold the spelling
differences.

Fixed strict-aliasing errors in PCPU_SET() and in the amd64 PCPU_GET().
Cast to (void *) as in rev.1.37 of the i386 version where the errors
were fixed for the i386 PCPU_GET() only.  It would be more correct to
copy to and from the temp. variable using memcpy(), but then an
ifdef tangle would be required to ensure using the builtin memcpy().
We depend on fairly aggressive optimization to put the temp. variable
only in a register despite it being copied using
*(type *)(void *)&anothertype and could depend on this when using
memcpy() too.  This seems to work right even for -O0, but the -O0 case
has not been completely tested.

This change gives identical object code for all object files in LINT
on amd64 (except for one file with a __TIME__ stamp).  For LINT on
i386 it gives unimportant differences in instruction order and padding
in a few object files.  This was only tested for -O.

This change (actually a previous version of it) gives the following
reductions in the number of object files in LINT that fail to compile
with -O2 but without the -fno-strict-aliasing kludge:
- amd64: 29 (down from 211)
- i386: 36 (down from 47)

gcc-3.4.6 actually allows the invalid constraints that result from not
using the temp. variable, at least with -O[1-2], but gcc-3.3.3 crashes
on them and I don't want to depend on compiler bugs.
2007-02-06 16:21:09 +00:00
Peter Wemm
cf4e1c4613 Remove diffs to i386 version that came in via the compiler support ifdefs.
This changes things like whitespace, inconsistent use of #ifndef vs
#if !defined(), different macro argument orders, mismatched comments, etc.
2005-03-11 22:16:09 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
a5f50ef9e4 netchild's mega-patch to isolate compiler dependencies into a central
place.

This moves the dependency on GCC's and other compiler's features into
the central sys/cdefs.h file, while the individual source files can
then refer to #ifdef __COMPILER_FEATURE_FOO where they by now used to
refer to #if __GNUC__ > 3.1415 && __BARC__ <= 42.

By now, GCC and ICC (the Intel compiler) have been actively tested on
IA32 platforms by netchild.  Extension to other compilers is supposed
to be possible, of course.

Submitted by:	netchild
Reviewed by:	various developers on arch@, some time ago
2005-03-02 21:33:29 +00:00
Peter Wemm
b4bae2b0c5 Argh! Followup to previous commit. I checked in the patch with an
unintended local change.  Change Xurthread back to curthread.
2003-11-20 23:49:28 +00:00
Peter Wemm
5dd883833c Provide a streamlined '#define curthread __curthread()' for amd64 to avoid
the compiler having to parse and optimize the PCPU_GET(curthread) so often.
__curthread() is an inline optimized version of PCPU_GET(curthread) that
knows that pc_curthread is at offset zero in the pcpu struct.  Add a
CTASSERT() to catch any possible changes to this.  This accounts for
just over a 1% wall clock speedup for total kernel compile/link time,
and 20% compile time speedup on some specific files depending on which
compile options are used.

Approved by:  re (jhb)
2003-11-20 22:54:44 +00:00
Peter Wemm
0d2a298904 Initial landing of SMP support for FreeBSD/amd64.
- This is heavily derived from John Baldwin's apic/pci cleanup on i386.
- I have completely rewritten or drastically cleaned up some other parts.
  (in particular, bootstrap)
- This is still a WIP.  It seems that there are some highly bogus bioses
  on nVidia nForce3-150 boards.  I can't stress how broken these boards
  are.  I have a workaround in mind, but right now the Asus SK8N is broken.
  The Gigabyte K8NPro (nVidia based) is also mind-numbingly hosed.
- Most of my testing has been with SCHED_ULE.  SCHED_4BSD works.
- the apic and acpi components are 'standard'.
- If you have an nVidia nForce3-150 board, you are stuck with 'device
  atpic' in addition, because they somehow managed to forget to connect the
  8254 timer to the apic, even though its in the same silicon!  ARGH!
  This directly violates the ACPI spec.
2003-11-17 08:58:16 +00:00
Bruce Evans
6a0d1abc5d Fixed pedantic warnings for statement-expressions using __extension__
and by not using a statement-expression for the non-expression
__PCPU_SET().
2003-11-17 04:40:58 +00:00
Bruce Evans
81bbee5996 Fixed a pedantic syntax error (a stray semicolon at the end of
PCPU_MD_FIELDS).
2003-11-17 03:40:41 +00:00
Nate Lawson
b72e9cf526 Add the pc_acpi_id PCPU member. The new acpi_cpu driver uses this to
dereference the softc.
2003-11-15 18:58:29 +00:00
Peter Wemm
afa8862328 Commit MD parts of a loosely functional AMD64 port. This is based on
a heavily stripped down FreeBSD/i386 (brutally stripped down actually) to
attempt to get a stable base to start from.  There is a lot missing still.
Worth noting:
- The kernel runs at 1GB in order to cheat with the pmap code.  pmap uses
  a variation of the PAE code in order to avoid having to worry about 4
  levels of page tables yet.
- It boots in 64 bit "long mode" with a tiny trampoline embedded in the
  i386 loader.  This simplifies locore.s greatly.
- There are still quite a few fragments of i386-specific code that have
  not been translated yet, and some that I cheated and wrote dumb C
  versions of (bcopy etc).
- It has both int 0x80 for syscalls (but using registers for argument
  passing, as is native on the amd64 ABI), and the 'syscall' instruction
  for syscalls.  int 0x80 preserves all registers, 'syscall' does not.
- I have tried to minimize looking at the NetBSD code, except in a couple
  of places (eg: to find which register they use to replace the trashed
  %rcx register in the syscall instruction).  As a result, there is not a
  lot of similarity.  I did look at NetBSD a few times while debugging to
  get some ideas about what I might have done wrong in my first attempt.
2003-05-01 01:05:25 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
7e9bac35e2 A more lint friendly #ifdef lint section. 2002-10-01 14:01:58 +00:00
Mark Murray
80a0ead4fe Wrap GNU specific code in ifdefs, and help lint out by providing
some alternative definitions.
2002-07-15 13:29:40 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
d74ac6819b Compromise for critical*()/cpu_critical*() recommit. Cleanup the interrupt
disablement assumptions in kern_fork.c by adding another API call,
cpu_critical_fork_exit().  Cleanup the td_savecrit field by moving it
from MI to MD.  Temporarily move cpu_critical*() from <arch>/include/cpufunc.h
to <arch>/<arch>/critical.c (stage-2 will clean this up).

Implement interrupt deferral for i386 that allows interrupts to remain
enabled inside critical sections.  This also fixes an IPI interlock bug,
and requires uses of icu_lock to be enclosed in a true interrupt disablement.

This is the stage-1 commit.  Stage-2 will occur after stage-1 has stabilized,
and will move cpu_critical*() into its own header file(s) + other things.
This commit may break non-i386 architectures in trivial ways.  This should
be temporary.

Reviewed by:	core
Approved by:	core
2002-03-27 05:39:23 +00:00
John Baldwin
0bbc882680 Overhaul the per-CPU support a bit:
- The MI portions of struct globaldata have been consolidated into a MI
  struct pcpu.  The MD per-CPU data are specified via a macro defined in
  machine/pcpu.h.  A macro was chosen over a struct mdpcpu so that the
  interface would be cleaner (PCPU_GET(my_md_field) vs.
  PCPU_GET(md.md_my_md_field)).
- All references to globaldata are changed to pcpu instead.  In a UP kernel,
  this data was stored as global variables which is where the original name
  came from.  In an SMP world this data is per-CPU and ideally private to each
  CPU outside of the context of debuggers.  This also included combining
  machine/globaldata.h and machine/globals.h into machine/pcpu.h.
- The pointer to the thread using the FPU on i386 was renamed from
  npxthread to fpcurthread to be identical with other architectures.
- Make the show pcpu ddb command MI with a MD callout to display MD
  fields.
- The globaldata_register() function was renamed to pcpu_init() and now
  init's MI fields of a struct pcpu in addition to registering it with
  the internal array and list.
- A pcpu_destroy() function was added to remove a struct pcpu from the
  internal array and list.

Tested on:	alpha, i386
Reviewed by:	peter, jake
2001-12-11 23:33:44 +00:00
John Baldwin
fd54558a83 - If we ever do the per-cpu KTR stuff, the index won't be volatile as it
will be private to each CPU.
- Re-style(9) the globaldata structures.  There really needs to be a MI
  struct pcpu that has a MD struct mdpcpu member at some point.
2001-09-18 21:46:26 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b40ce4165d KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after:    ha ha ha ha
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
Peter Wemm
268bdb43f9 Optionize UPAGES for the i386. As part of this I split some of the low
level implementation stuff out of machine/globaldata.h to avoid exposing
UPAGES to lots more places.  The end result is that we can double
the kernel stack size with 'options UPAGES=4' etc.

This is mainly being done for the benefit of a MFC to RELENG_4 at some
point.  -current doesn't really need this so much since each interrupt
runs on its own kstack.
2001-08-25 02:20:02 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
589278dbae style(9) and make consistent across platforms 2001-08-16 09:29:35 +00:00
John Baldwin
6caa8a1501 Overhaul of the SMP code. Several portions of the SMP kernel support have
been made machine independent and various other adjustments have been made
to support Alpha SMP.

- It splits the per-process portions of hardclock() and statclock() off
  into hardclock_process() and statclock_process() respectively.  hardclock()
  and statclock() call the *_process() functions for the current process so
  that UP systems will run as before.  For SMP systems, it is simply necessary
  to ensure that all other processors execute the *_process() functions when the
  main clock functions are triggered on one CPU by an interrupt.  For the alpha
  4100, clock interrupts are delievered in a staggered broadcast fashion, so
  we simply call hardclock/statclock on the boot CPU and call the *_process()
  functions on the secondaries.  For x86, we call statclock and hardclock as
  usual and then call forward_hardclock/statclock in the MD code to send an IPI
  to cause the AP's to execute forwared_hardclock/statclock which then call the
  *_process() functions.
- forward_signal() and forward_roundrobin() have been reworked to be MI and to
  involve less hackery.  Now the cpu doing the forward sets any flags, etc. and
  sends a very simple IPI_AST to the other cpu(s).  AST IPIs now just basically
  return so that they can execute ast() and don't bother with setting the
  astpending or needresched flags themselves.  This also removes the loop in
  forward_signal() as sched_lock closes the race condition that the loop worked
  around.
- need_resched(), resched_wanted() and clear_resched() have been changed to take
  a process to act on rather than assuming curproc so that they can be used to
  implement forward_roundrobin() as described above.
- Various other SMP variables have been moved to a MI subr_smp.c and a new
  header sys/smp.h declares MI SMP variables and API's.   The IPI API's from
  machine/ipl.h have moved to machine/smp.h which is included by sys/smp.h.
- The globaldata_register() and globaldata_find() functions as well as the
  SLIST of globaldata structures has become MI and moved into subr_smp.c.
  Also, the globaldata list is only available if SMP support is compiled in.

Reviewed by:	jake, peter
Looked over by:	eivind
2001-04-27 19:28:25 +00:00
John Baldwin
ae60f36f19 Axe the per-cpu variable witness_spin_check as it was replaced by the
per-cpu spinlocks list.
2001-04-06 07:20:27 +00:00
John Baldwin
192846463a Rework the witness code to work with sx locks as well as mutexes.
- Introduce lock classes and lock objects.  Each lock class specifies a
  name and set of flags (or properties) shared by all locks of a given
  type.  Currently there are three lock classes: spin mutexes, sleep
  mutexes, and sx locks.  A lock object specifies properties of an
  additional lock along with a lock name and all of the extra stuff needed
  to make witness work with a given lock.  This abstract lock stuff is
  defined in sys/lock.h.  The lockmgr constants, types, and prototypes have
  been moved to sys/lockmgr.h.  For temporary backwards compatability,
  sys/lock.h includes sys/lockmgr.h.
- Replace proc->p_spinlocks with a per-CPU list, PCPU(spinlocks), of spin
  locks held.  By making this per-cpu, we do not have to jump through
  magic hoops to deal with sched_lock changing ownership during context
  switches.
- Replace proc->p_heldmtx, formerly a list of held sleep mutexes, with
  proc->p_sleeplocks, which is a list of held sleep locks including sleep
  mutexes and sx locks.
- Add helper macros for logging lock events via the KTR_LOCK KTR logging
  level so that the log messages are consistent.
- Add some new flags that can be passed to mtx_init():
  - MTX_NOWITNESS - specifies that this lock should be ignored by witness.
    This is used for the mutex that blocks a sx lock for example.
  - MTX_QUIET - this is not new, but you can pass this to mtx_init() now
    and no events will be logged for this lock, so that one doesn't have
    to change all the individual mtx_lock/unlock() operations.
- All lock objects maintain an initialized flag.  Use this flag to export
  a mtx_initialized() macro that can be safely called from drivers.  Also,
  we on longer walk the all_mtx list if MUTEX_DEBUG is defined as witness
  performs the corresponding checks using the initialized flag.
- The lock order reversal messages have been improved to output slightly
  more accurate file and line numbers.
2001-03-28 09:03:24 +00:00
Peter Wemm
f1532aadee Activate USER_LDT by default. The new thread libraries are going to
depend on this.  The linux ABI emulator tries to use it for some linux
binaries too.  VM86 had a bigger cost than this and it was made default
a while ago.

Reviewed by:	jhb, imp
2001-02-23 01:25:02 +00:00
John Baldwin
142ba5f3d7 - Make astpending and need_resched process attributes rather than CPU
attributes.  This is needed for AST's to be properly posted in a preemptive
  kernel.  They are backed by two new flags in p_sflag: PS_ASTPENDING and
  PS_NEEDRESCHED.  They are still accesssed by their old macros:
  aston(), astoff(), etc.  For completeness, an astpending() macro has been
  added to check for a pending AST, and clear_resched() has been added to
  clear need_resched().
- Rename syscall2() on the x86 back to syscall() to be consistent with
  other architectures.
2001-02-10 02:20:34 +00:00
John Baldwin
7f918b0230 Axe gd_cpu_lockid as it is no longer used. 2001-02-09 14:25:22 +00:00
Peter Wemm
aa0b4c590f Remove some leftovers from the CMAP* stuff in globaldata and the
BSP and AP startup.
2001-01-30 04:02:28 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
a448b62ac9 Make intr_nesting_level per-process, rather than per-cpu. Setup
interrupt threads to run with it always >= 1, so that malloc can
detect M_WAITOK from "interrupt" context.  This is also necessary
in order to context switch from sched_ithd() directly.

Reviewed By:	peter
2001-01-21 19:25:07 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
3e899e1063 Remove the per-cpu pages used for copy and zero-ing pages of memory
for SMP; just use the same ones as UP.  These weren't used without
holding Giant anyway, and the routines that use them would have to
be protected from pre-emption to avoid migrating cpus.
2001-01-21 06:50:03 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
7586909279 Remove unused per-cpu variables inside_intr and ss_eflags. 2001-01-12 07:47:54 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
f8761e53a7 Implement accessors for per-cpu variables which don't depend on the
symbols in globals.s.

	PCPU_GET(name) returns the value of the per-cpu variable
	PCPU_PTR(name) returns a pointer to the per-cpu variable
	PCPU_SET(name, val) sets the value of the per-cpu variable

In general these are not yet used, compatibility macros remain.

Unifdef SMP struct globaldata, this makes variables such as cpuid
available for UP as well.

Rebuilding modules is probably a good idea, but I believe old
modules will still work, as most of the old infrastructure
remains.
2001-01-06 19:55:42 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
41ed17bfec Use %fs to access per-cpu variables in uni-processor kernels the same
as multi-processor kernels.  The old way made it difficult for kernel
modules to be portable between uni-processor and multi-processor
kernels.  It is no longer necessary to jump through hoops.

- always load %fs with the private segment on entry to the kernel
- change the type of the self referntial pointer from struct privatespace
  to struct globaldata
- make the globaldata symbol have value 0 in all cases, so the symbols
  in globals.s are always offsets, not aliases for fields in globaldata
- define the globaldata space used for uniprocessor kernels in C, rather
  than assembler
- change the assmebly language accessors to use %fs, add a macro
  PCPU_ADDR(member, reg), which loads the register reg with the address
  of the per-cpu variable member
2001-01-06 17:40:04 +00:00
John Baldwin
6c56727456 - Change fast interrupts on x86 to push a full interrupt frame and to
return through doreti to handle ast's.  This is necessary for the
  clock interrupts to work properly.
- Change the clock interrupts on the x86 to be fast instead of threaded.
  This is needed because both hardclock() and statclock() need to run in
  the context of the current process, not in a separate thread context.
- Kill the prevproc hack as it is no longer needed.
- We really need Giant when we call psignal(), but we don't want to block
  during the clock interrupt.  Instead, use two p_flag's in the proc struct
  to mark the current process as having a pending SIGVTALRM or a SIGPROF
  and let them be delivered during ast() when hardclock() has finished
  running.
- Remove CLKF_BASEPRI, which was #ifdef'd out on the x86 anyways.  It was
  broken on the x86 if it was turned on since cpl is gone.  It's only use
  was to bogusly run softclock() directly during hardclock() rather than
  scheduling an SWI.
- Remove the COM_LOCK simplelock and replace it with a clock_lock spin
  mutex.  Since the spin mutex already handles disabling/restoring
  interrupts appropriately, this also lets us axe all the *_intr() fu.
- Back out the hacks in the APIC_IO x86 cpu_initclocks() code to use
  temporary fast interrupts for the APIC trial.
- Add two new process flags P_ALRMPEND and P_PROFPEND to mark the pending
  signals in hardclock() that are to be delivered in ast().

Submitted by:	jakeb (making statclock safe in a fast interrupt)
Submitted by:	cp (concept of delaying signals until ast())
2000-10-06 02:20:21 +00:00
John Baldwin
d238b83315 Make the gd_currentldt member in struct globaldata unconditional so
that this header doesn't depend on USER_LDT.  This fixes the USER_LDT
breakage with SMP kernels.
2000-10-05 20:30:36 +00:00
Jason Evans
0384fff8c5 Major update to the way synchronization is done in the kernel. Highlights
include:

* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*().  See mutex(9).  (Note: The
  alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)

* Per-CPU idle processes.

* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
  preempted (i386 only).

Partially contributed by:	BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least):	cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
2000-09-07 01:33:02 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
36e9f877df Commit major SMP cleanups and move the BGL (big giant lock) in the
syscall path inward.  A system call may select whether it needs the MP
    lock or not (the default being that it does need it).

    A great deal of conditional SMP code for various deadended experiments
    has been removed.  'cil' and 'cml' have been removed entirely, and the
    locking around the cpl has been removed.  The conditional
    separately-locked fast-interrupt code has been removed, meaning that
    interrupts must hold the CPL now (but they pretty much had to anyway).
    Another reason for doing this is that the original separate-lock for
    interrupts just doesn't apply to the interrupt thread mechanism being
    contemplated.

    Modifications to the cpl may now ONLY occur while holding the MP
    lock.  For example, if an otherwise MP safe syscall needs to mess with
    the cpl, it must hold the MP lock for the duration and must (as usual)
    save/restore the cpl in a nested fashion.

    This is precursor work for the real meat coming later: avoiding having
    to hold the MP lock for common syscalls and I/O's and interrupt threads.
    It is expected that the spl mechanisms and new interrupt threading
    mechanisms will be able to run in tandem, allowing a slow piecemeal
    transition to occur.

    This patch should result in a moderate performance improvement due to
    the considerable amount of code that has been removed from the critical
    path, especially the simplification of the spl*() calls.  The real
    performance gains will come later.

Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: current, bde (exception.s)
Some work taken from: luoqi's patch
2000-03-28 07:16:37 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Jonathan Lemon
eb9d435ae7 Unifdef VM86.
Reviewed by:	silence on on -current
1999-06-01 18:20:36 +00:00