- Make softinterrupts (SWI's) almost completely MI, and divorce them
completely from the x86 hardware interrupt code.
- The ihandlers array is now gone. Instead, there is a MI shandlers array
that just contains SWI handlers.
- Most of the former machine/ipl.h files have moved to a new sys/ipl.h.
- Stub out all the spl*() functions on all architectures.
Submitted by: dfr
thread for each interrupt that comes in. If we don't, log the event and
return immediately for a hardware interrupt. For a softinterrupt, panic
instead.
Submitted by: ben
newbus for referencing device interrupt handlers.
- Move the 'struct intrec' type which describes interrupt sources into
sys/interrupt.h instead of making it just be a x86 structure.
- Don't create 'ithd' and 'intrec' typedefs, instead, just use 'struct ithd'
and 'struct intrec'
- Move the code to translate new-bus interrupt flags into an interrupt thread
priority out of the x86 nexus code and into a MI ithread_priority()
function in sys/kern/kern_intr.c.
- Remove now-uneeded x86-specific headers from sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c and
sys/pci/pci_compat.c.
don't take an arg, but swi_generic() is special in order to avoid one
whole conditional branch in the old SWI dispatch code. The new SWI
dispatch code passed it a garbage arg. Bypass swi_generic() and call
swi_dispatcher() directly, like the corresponding alpha code has always
done.
The panic was rare because because it only occurred if more than one
of the {sio,cy,rc} drivers was configured and one was active, and the
cy driver doesn't even compile.
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh