In the end, it does help fixing /dev/io usage from multithreaded
processes.
- On i386 and amd64 the old behaviour is kept but multithreaded
processes must use the new interface in order to work well.
- Support for the other architectures is greatly improved, where
necessary, by the necessity to define very small things now.
Manpage update will happen shortly.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
PR: threads/116181
Reviewed by: emaste, marcel
MFC after: 3 weeks
- replace modification of pmap resident_count with pmap_resident_count_{inc,dec}
- the pv list is protected by the pmap lock, but in several cases we are relying
on the vm page queue mutex, move pv_va read under the pmap lock
page's PG_REFERENCED flag in pmap_protect() can't really be justified.
In contrast to pmap_remove() or pmap_remove_all(), the mapping is not
being destroyed, so the notion that the page was accessed is not lost.
Moreover, clearing the page table entry's accessed bit and setting the
page's PG_REFERENCED flag can throw off the page daemon's activity
count calculation. Finally, in my tests, I found that 15% of the
atomic memory operations being performed by pmap_protect() were only
to clear PG_A, and not change protection. This could, by itself, be
fixed, but I don't see the point given the above argument.
Remove a comment from pmap_protect_pde() that is no longer meaningful
after the above change.
pmap_ts_referenced() is not always appropriate for checking whether or
not pages have been referenced because it clears any reference bits
that it encounters. For example, in mincore(), clearing the reference
bits has two negative consequences. First, it throws off the activity
count calculations performed by the page daemon. Specifically, a page
on which mincore() has called pmap_ts_referenced() looks less active
to the page daemon than it should. Consequently, the page could be
deactivated prematurely by the page daemon. Arguably, this problem
could be fixed by having mincore() duplicate the activity count
calculation on the page. However, there is a second problem for which
that is not a solution. In order to clear a reference on a 4KB page,
it may be necessary to demote a 2/4MB page mapping. Thus, a mincore()
by one process can have the side effect of demoting a superpage
mapping within another process!
This driver was written by Alexander Pohoyda and greatly enhanced
by Nikolay Denev. I don't have these hardwares but this driver was
tested by Nikolay Denev and xclin.
Because SiS didn't release data sheet for this controller, programming
information came from Linux driver and OpenSolaris. Unlike other open
source driver for SiS190/191, sge(4) takes full advantage of TX/RX
checksum offloading and does not require additional copy operation in
RX handler.
The controller seems to have advanced offloading features like VLAN
hardware tag insertion/stripping, TCP segmentation offload(TSO) as
well as jumbo frame support but these features are not available
yet. Special thanks to xclin <xclin<> cs dot nctu dot edu dot tw>
who sent fix for receiving VLAN oversized frames.
about inacessible or wrong mcontext, and for dreaded "kernel trap with
interrupts disabled" situation. The later is changed when trap is
generated from user mode (shall never be ?).
Normalize the messages to include both pid and thread name.
MFC after: 1 week
domain clock, 8 programmable PMC.
- Westmere based CPU (Xeon 5600, Corei7 980X) support.
- New man pages with events list for core and uncore.
- Updated Corei7 events with Intel 253669-033US December 2009 doc.
There is some removed events in the documentation, they have been
kept in the code but documented in the man page as obsolete.
- Offcore response events can be setup with rsp token.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
A nice thing about POSIX 2008 is that it finally standardizes a way to
obtain file access/modification/change times in sub-second precision,
namely using struct timespec, which we already have for a very long
time. Unfortunately POSIX uses different names.
This commit adds compatibility macros, so existing code should still
build properly. Also change all source code in the kernel to work
without any of the compatibility macros. This makes it all a less
ambiguous.
I am also renaming st_birthtime to st_birthtim, even though it was a
local extension anyway. It seems Cygwin also has a st_birthtim.
to the image_params struct instead of several members of that struct
individually. This makes it easier to expand its arguments in the future
without touching all platforms.
Reviewed by: jhb
checksums as the base acpi(4) driver. This fixes a problem where the MADT
parser would reject the MADT table during early boot causing the MP Table
to be, but then the acpi(4) driver would attach and use non-SMP interrupt
routing.
Tested by: Alastair Hogge agh of coolrhaug com
MFC after: 1 week
for parsing model-specific and other fields in machine check events
including the global machine check capabilities and status registers,
CPU identification, and the FreeBSD CPU ID.
- Report these added fields in the console log of a machine check so that
a record structure can be reconstituted from the console messages.
- Parse new architectural errors including memory controller errors.
MFC after: 1 week
COMPAT_43TTY enables the sgtty interface. Even though its exposure has
only been removed in FreeBSD 8.0, it wasn't used by anything in the base
system in FreeBSD 5.x (possibly even 4.x?). On those releases, if your
ports/packages are less than two years old, they will prefer termios
over sgtty.
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
given the advent of the extended family and extended model fields. The
values are printed in hex to match their common usage in documentation.
Submitted by: Alexander Best
MFC after: 1 week
processors. With this workaround, superpage promotion can be re-enabled
under virtualization. Moreover, machine check exceptions can safely be
enabled when FreeBSD is running natively on Family 10h processors.
Most of the credit should go to Andriy Gapon for diagnosing the error and
working with Borislav Petkov at AMD to document it. Andriy also reviewed
and tested my patches.
Discussed with: jhb
MFC after: 3 weeks
correctly initialized and just then assign to softclock/profclock.
Right now, some atrtc seems reporting strange diagnostic error* making the
current pattern bogus.
In order to do that cleanly, lapic_setup_clock(), on both ia32 and amd64,
now accepts as arguments the desired sources to handle, and returns the
actual ones (LAPIC_CLOCK_NONE is forbidden because otherwise there is no
meaning in calling such function).
This allows to bring out into commont x86 code the handling part for
machdep.lapic_allclocks tunable, which is retained.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by: yongari, Richard Todd
<rmtodd at ichotolot dot servalan dot com>
MFC: 3 weeks
X-MFC: r202387, 204309
that the virtual machine monitor has enabled machine check exceptions.
Unfortunately, on AMD Family 10h processors the machine check hardware
has a bug (Erratum 383) that can result in a false machine check exception
when a superpage promotion occurs. Thus, I am disabling superpage
promotion when the FreeBSD kernel is running as a guest operating system
on an AMD Family 10h processor.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
MFC after: 3 days
shared and generalized between our current amd64, i386 and pc98.
This is just an initial step that should lead to a more complete effort.
For the moment, a very simple porting of cpufreq modules, BIOS calls and
the whole MD specific ISA bus part is added to the sub-tree but ideally
a lot of code might be added and more shared support should grow.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, kib, jhb, imp
Discussed on: arch
MFC: 3 weeks
Now all contiguous regions returned from bus-dma will be aligned to the
alignment constraint and all but the last region are guaranteed to be
a multiple of the alignment in length. This also means that the relative
alignment of two adjacent bytes in the I/O stream have a difference of 1
even if they are not physically contiguous.
The old code, when needing to perform a copy in order to align data, only
copied the amount of data needed to reach the next page boundary. This
often left an unaligned end to the segment. Drivers such as Xen's blkfront
can't deal with such segments.
The downside to this approach is that, once an unaligned region is encountered,
the remainder of the I/O will be bounced. However, bouncing should be rare.
It is typically caused by non-performance critical userland programs that
don't bother to align their I/O buffers (e.g. bsdlabel). In-kernel I/O
buffers are always aligned to at least a page boundary.
Reviewed by: scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks
This header file uses __packed, without including <sys/cdefs.h>. This
means it cannot be used in the way described in sysarch(3) by only
including <machine/sysarch.h>.
This patch basically gives us the best of both worlds. Instead of
forcing the compiler to emulate GNU-style inline semantics even though
we're using ISO C99, it will only use GNU-style inlining when the
compiler is configured that way (__GNUC_GNU_INLINE__).
Tested by: jhb
the 'debugging' section of any HEAD kernel and enable for the mainstream
ones, excluding the embedded architectures.
It may, of course, enabled on a case-by-case basis.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Requested by: emaste
Discussed with: kib
