variable is set. On my Mac Mini this puts the CPU in NAP mode when
the kernel is idle and, any technical or environmental reasons
aside, avoids that I have to listen to the fan all day :-)
OpenFirmware. FreeBSD/ppc uses SPRG0 as the per-cpu data area pointer,
and SPRG1-3 as temporary registers during exception handling. There
have been a few instances where OpenFirmware does require these to
be part of it's context, such as cd-booting an eMac.
reported by: many
MFC after: 3 days
- Tidy up clock code. Don't repeatedly call hardclock().
- Remove intrnames, decrnest and intrcnt from locore.s
- Coalesce all trap handling into a single stub that then calls a dispatch
function.
Submitted by: Peter Grehan <peterg@ptree32.com.au>
Highlights include:
- New low-level trap code from NetBSD. The high level code still needs a lot
of work.
- Fixes for some pmap handling in thread switching.
- The kernel will now get to attempting to jump into init in user mode. There
are some pmap/trap issues which prevent it from actually getting there though.
Obtained from: NetBSD (parts)
boot sequence.
The new pmap.c is based on NetBSD's newer pmap.c (for the mpc6xx processors)
which is 70% faster than the older code that the original pmap.c was based
on. It has also been based on the framework established by jake's initial
sparc64 pmap.c.
There is no change to how far the kernel gets (it makes it to the mountroot
prompt in psim) but the new pmap code is a lot cleaner.
Obtained from: NetBSD (pmap code)
- 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
