and processes in a kernel image. This allows examination of threads that
have exited or are in the late stages of exiting.
Tested by: avg
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
cpuset_t objects.
That is going to offer the underlying support for a simple bump of
MAXCPU and then support for number of cpus > 32 (as it is today).
Right now, cpumask_t is an int, 32 bits on all our supported architecture.
cpumask_t on the other side is implemented as an array of longs, and
easilly extendible by definition.
The architectures touched by this commit are the following:
- amd64
- i386
- pc98
- arm
- ia64
- XEN
while the others are still missing.
Userland is believed to be fully converted with the changes contained
here.
Some technical notes:
- This commit may be considered an ABI nop for all the architectures
different from amd64 and ia64 (and sparc64 in the future)
- per-cpu members, which are now converted to cpuset_t, needs to be
accessed avoiding migration, because the size of cpuset_t should be
considered unknown
- size of cpuset_t objects is different from kernel and userland (this is
primirally done in order to leave some more space in userland to cope
with KBI extensions). If you need to access kernel cpuset_t from the
userland please refer to example in this patch on how to do that
correctly (kgdb may be a good source, for example).
- Support for other architectures is going to be added soon
- Only MAXCPU for amd64 is bumped now
The patch has been tested by sbruno and Nicholas Esborn on opteron
4 x 12 pack CPUs. More testing on big SMP is expected to came soon.
pluknet tested the patch with his 8-ways on both amd64 and i386.
Tested by: pluknet, sbruno, gianni, Nicholas Esborn
Reviewed by: jeff, jhb, sbruno
x86 CPU support, better support for powerpc64, some new directives, and
many other things. Bump __FreeBSD_version, and add a note to UPDATING.
Thanks to the many people that have helped to test this.
Obtained from: projects/binutils-2.17
Implement MACHINE_ARCH=mips64e[lb] to build N64 images. This replaces
MACHINE_ARCH=mipse[lb] TARGET_ABI=n64.
MACHINE_ARCH=mipsn32e[lb] has been added, but currently requires
WITHOUT_CDDL due to atomic issues in libzfs. I've not investigated
this much, but implemented this to preserve as much of the TARGET_ABI
functionality that I could. Since its presence doesn't affect the
working cases, I've kept it in for now.
Added mips64e[lb] to make universe, so more kernels build.
And I think this (finally) closes the curtain on the tbemd tree.
thread specific informations.
In order to do that, and in order to avoid KBI breakage with existing
infrastructure the following semantic is implemented:
- For live programs, a new member to the PT_LWPINFO is added (pl_tdname)
- For cores, a new ELF note is added (NT_THRMISC) that can be used for
storing thread specific, miscellaneous, informations. Right now it is
just popluated with a thread name.
GDB, then, retrieves the correct informations from the corefile via the
BFD interface, as it groks the ELF notes and create appropriate
pseudo-sections.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by: gianni
Discussed with: dim, kan, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN is now completely dead, except where it was
originally supposed to be used (internally in the toolchain building).
TARGET_ARCH has changed in three cases:
(1) Little endian mips has changed to mipsel.
(2) Big endian mips has changed to mipseb.
(3) Big endian arm has changed to armeb.
Some additional changes are needed to make 'make universe' work on arm
and mips after this change, so those are commented out for now.
UPDATING information will be forthcoming. Any remaining rough edges
will be hammered out in -current.
Unlike for modules with dso type, in elf object modules all the sections
have virtual address of zero. So, it is insufficient to add module base
address to section virtual address (as recorded in section header) to
get section address in kernel memory.
Instead, we should apply the same calculations that are performed by
kernel loaders (in boot code and in kernel) when they lay out sections
in memory.
Discussed with: jhb, np
MFC after: 3 weeks
a variety of bugs in binutils related to handling of 64-bit PPC ELF,
provides a GCC configuration for 64-bit PowerPC on FreeBSD, and
associated build systems tweaks.
Obtained from: projects/ppc64
freebsd-based names for filenames. This allows us to eliminate
almost all of the uses of ${MACHINE_ARCH} here to do special things, and
instead we use it to include filenames. This makes new architectures easier
to support.
Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)
on mips. Its not fully done yet but its a start.
Obtained from: JC - c.jayachandran@gmail.com
M gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb/trgt_mips.c
M gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/mips/init.c
M gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/mips/Makefile
M gnu/usr.bin/Makefile
M contrib/gdb/gdb/mips-tdep.h
kvm_nlist skips lookup for entries that have n_type != N_UNDF.
N_UNDF happens to be zero, so n_type typically has a correct
value by accident, but not always.
Note: jhb has a patch that replaces kvm_nlist use with direct
gdb parsing.
MFC after: 5 days
X-MFC-Note: unless jhb commits kvm_nlist => kgdb_parse change
ABI change on ILP32 platforms and relating to events. However
it's harmless on little-endian ILP32 platforms in the sense
that it doesn't cause breakages. Old ILP32 thread libraries
write a 32-bit th_p and new thread libraries write a 64-bit
th_p. But due to the fact that we have an unused 32-bit data
field right after th_p and that field is always initialized to
zero, little-endian ILP32 machines effectively have a valid
64-bit th_p by accident. Likewise for new thread libraries and
old libthread_db: little endian ILP32 is unaffected.
At this time we don't support big-endian threaded applications
in GDB, so the breakage for the ILP32 case goes unnoticed.
