f00f_hack has run.
Use the global r_idt descriptor in f00f_hack when in SMP mode,
so the APs find the relocated interrupt descriptor table.
Submitted by: Partially from David A Adkins <adkin003@tc.umn.edu>
interrupts are masked, and EOI is sent iff the corresponding ISR bit
is set in the local apic. If the CPU cannot obtain the interrupt
service lock (currently the global kernel lock) the interrupt is
forwarded to the CPU holding that lock.
Clock interrupts now have higher priority than other slow interrupts.
the signal handling latency for cpu-bound processes that performs very
few system calls.
The IPI for forcing an additional software trap is no longer dependent upon
BETTER_CLOCK being defined.
than rolling it's own. This means that it now uses the "safe"
exec_map_first_page() to get the ld.so headers rather than risking a panic
on a page fault failure (eg: NFS server goes down).
Since all the ELF tools go to a lot of trouble to make sure everything
lives in the first page for executables, this is a win. I have not seen
any ELF executable on any system where all the headers didn't fit in the
first page with lots of room to spare.
I have been running variations of this code for some time on my pure ELF
systems.
It does endeed work, but there is still some problems to solve.
I get a "nonrecovered data error" from time to time, but besides
this it has backed up several Gigs allready.
Please report any success/failure directly to me.
Thanks to Warner Losh for providing a drive to use in writing
this driver!
2) Do not unnecessarily force page blocking when paging
pages out.
3) Further improve swap pager performance and correctness,
including fixing the paging in progress deadlock (except
in severe I/O error conditions.)
4) Enable vfs_ioopt=1 as a default.
5) Fix and enable the page prezeroing in SMP mode.
All in all, SMP systems especially should show a significant
improvement in "snappyness."
it runs at a constant frequency. This was less of an issue before,
because the TSC only interpolated in the HZ intervals, but now where
the timecounter is used all the way, this becomes much more visible.
Nit: Fix a printf which triggered the bde-filter.
in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly
handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the
default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and
"VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems
with greater than 128MB.
Add some accouting for vm_zone memory allocations, and provide properly
for vm_zone allocations out of the kmem_map. Also move the vm_zone
allocation stats to the VM OID tree from the KERN OID tree.
signals delivered to a process writing to the audio device the
system: if you try
cat /dev/zero > /dev/dsp (or cat /dev/zero > /dev/pcaudio)
and press Ctrl-C : for a second or two the system appears to freeze
(e.g. the cursor will disappear if you move the mouse, xclock
blocks, etc.). I think that interrupts etc. still run so the problem
is not too terrible, but still annoying
[ The problems appears to also be in isa/pcaudio.c, though that is ignored ]
Submitted by: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Highlights:
* Simple model for underlying hardware.
* Hardware basis for timekeeping can be changed on the fly.
* Only one hardware clock responsible for TOD keeping.
* Provides a real nanotime() function.
* Time granularity: .232E-18 seconds.
* Frequency granularity: .238E-12 s/s
* Frequency adjustment is continuous in time.
* Less overhead for frequency adjustment.
* Improves xntpd performance.
Reviewed by: bde, bde, bde
Uncommented css0. It compiles OK.
Moved trix0 so that it compiles OK when uncommented. Uncommented
it. Drivers with the same interrupt handler must be together in
config files so that config(8)'s simple avoidance of redundant
declarations of interrupt handlers works (config emits a declaration
unless it would duplicate the previous one).
Commented out NO_LKM. Negative options should not be configured
in LINT. There should be no negative options for subsystems.
LKMs should never have been standard or the default.
select/poll and DEVFS changes, which are limited to an include/define
in sound.h and the actual select/poll implementation in sound.c
[ This commit is blind, but the code is similar enough that there will
hopefully be no problems. ]
The differences Terrys patch and this patch are:
* Remove a lot of un-needed comments.
* Don't put l_hotchar at the front of stuct linesw, there is no need to.
* Use the #defines for the hotchar in the SLIP and PPP line disciplines
with macros. This breaks if the functions are replaced by macros with
unsuitable semantics. Define a MAX() macro unconditionally instead.
max() is unsuitable since we need a constant expression. Don't define
MIN() - we never used min().
is "acquired". This fixes a TSC biasing error of about 10 msec when
pcaudio is active.
Update `time' before calling hardclock() when timer0 is being released.
This is not known to be important.
Added some delays in writertc(). Efficiency is not critical here, unlike
in rtcin(), and we already use conservative delays there.
Don't touch the hardware when machdep.i8254_freq is being changed but
the maximum count wouldn't change. This fixes jitter of up to 10 msec
for most small adjustments to machdep.i8254_freq. When the maximum
count needs to change, the hardware should be adjusted more carefully.
i386_set_ioperm(). Don't use a magic number for the bound.
Fixed missing bounds checking in i386_get_ioperm(). Don't use a
magic number for the bound elsewhere in this function.
Removed some bogus initializers.
this using option "-b" to the boot blocks. It is smartest to compile
a font into your kernel (See LINT), but not mandatory, but apart from
the cursor you will see nothing on the screen until you load a font.
This mode allows XF86_VGA16 to run in 800x600 mode on otherwise unsupported
graphics hardware.
A number of buglets in the cursor handling in syscons may become
visible this way.
actually faster (more than 20% faster for zeroing 1 MB at boot time).
This fixes pessimized copying and zeroing on K6's and perhaps on other
CPUs that are misclassified as i586's.
mode switch in ioctl.
Possibly related to PR: kern/4271
- A kludge: initialize scp->xpixel and ypixel even in the text mode.
If the console enters the `unknown' graphics mode via the ioctl KDSETMODE
(KD_GRAPHICS), these fields are not set (because syscons cannot know
the correct values), but set_mouse_pos() need to refer to these field
to adjust the mouse position.
- Turn off MOUSE_VISIBLE when switching video mode by ioctl.
- another new option: SC_MOUSE_CHAR
Define the first character code of four consecutive codes to be used for
the mouse cursor. Default codes are 0xd0 through 0xd3. Beware that
if you decide to use any codes outside the range of 0xc0-0xdf,
the mouse cursor may not look good, because of the way VGA displays
characters in 9-dot-wide character cells.
Requested by several people.
(This patch was tested by a person who recently reported, in the -current
ML, a page fault problem in the kernel (draw_mouse_iamge()) after
X server shutdown. The patch cured his problem.)
Don't touch/update the screen while manipulating font data.
Possibly related to PR: kern/4271
- Set up VGA in alphanumeric mode rather than graphics mode when
loading font into video memory. This will drastically reduce flicker.
PR: bin/2977
- Set up scp->font_size properly during video mode switch caused by
ioctl.
separate routine: scupdate() called from scrn_timer().
- Make sure that the screen is updated for the low-level console
routines sccngetc() and sccncheckc(). A new routine, sccnupdate(),
is introduced and will call scupdate() above.
Requested by: bde and msmith
OKed by: sos
from the low-level console routines sccngetc() and sccncheckc().
Submitted by: bde (a long time ago)
- Don't try to ring bell and immediately return from do_bell() while
device probe is in progress at boot time; the timeout queue is not
functional yet.
PR: kern/2424
- Stop running the screen saver after panic() is called: check
if `panicstr' is non-NULL during scrn_timer().
PR: kern/5314
- A new option: SC_DISABLE_REBOOT
The reboot key (usually Ctl-Alt-Del) will be ignored if this option
is defined. You may still have the reboot key defined in the keymap and
it won't cause error when the keymap is loaded, but it will be quietly
treated as nop.
OKed by: sos
