This was working by accident because:
- the RB_HEADs were being initialized to zero as part of BSS
- the pthread_rwlock functions were implicitly initializing the lock object
Obtained from: NetApp
command line option "-m <memsize in MB>" to specify the memory size.
Prior to this change the user needed to explicitly specify the amount of
memory allocated below 4G (-m <lowmem>) and the amount above 4G (-M <highmem>).
The "-M" option is no longer supported by 'bhyveload' and 'bhyve'.
The start of the PCI hole is fixed at 3GB and cannot be directly changed
using command line options. However it is still possible to change this in
special circumstances via the 'vm_set_lowmem_limit()' API provided by
libvmmapi.
Submitted by: Dinakar Medavaram (initial version)
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
This seems prudent to do in its own right but it also opens up the possibility
of not having to mmap the entire guest address space in the 'bhyve' process
context.
Discussed with: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
Prior to this change pinning was implemented via an ioctl (VM_SET_PINNING)
that called 'sched_bind()' on behalf of the user thread.
The ULE implementation of 'sched_bind()' bumps up 'td_pinned' which in turn
runs afoul of the assertion '(td_pinned == 0)' in userret().
Using the cpuset affinity to implement pinning of the vcpu threads works with
both 4BSD and ULE schedulers and has the happy side-effect of getting rid
of a bunch of code in vmm.ko.
Discussed with: grehan
the guest to execute real or unpaged protected mode code - bhyve relies on
this feature to execute the AP bootstrap code.
Get rid of the hack that allowed bhyve to support SMP guests on processors
that do not have the "unrestricted guest" capability. This hack was entirely
FreeBSD-specific and would not work with any other guest OS.
Instead, limit the number of vcpus to 1 when executing on processors without
"unrestricted guest" capability.
Suggested by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
bhyve is intended to be a generic hypervisor, and not FreeBSD-specific.
(renaming internal routines will come later)
Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp