can be enabled by enabling COUNT_IPIS in smptests.h. When enabled, each
CPU provides an interrupt counter for nearly all of the IPIs it receives
(IPI_STOP currently doesn't have a counter) that can be examined using
vmstat -i, etc.
MFC after: 3 days
Requested by: rwatson
variable and returns the previous value of the variable.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, arm (cognet)
Reviewed by: arch@
Submitted by: cognet (arm)
MFC after: 1 week
constraint is actually only allowed for register operands. Instead, use
separate input and output memory constraints.
Education from: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Tested on: i386, alpha
MFC after: 1 week
and reloading it in i386_extend_pcb() rather than trying to force a context
switch to reload the TSS via the TDF_NEEDRESCHED flag. Optimizations to
avoid calling cpu_switch() when the new thread was identical to the old
thread defeated the attempt to force a TSS reload. Explicitly loading the
new TSS is what we really want to do anyway.
PR: i386/84842
Reported by: Alexander Best arundel at h3c dot de
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: bde (mostly)
it to __MINSIGSTKSZ. Define MINSIGSTKSZ in <sys/signal.h>.
This is done in order to use MINSIGSTKSZ for the macro PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
in <pthread.h> (soon <limits.h>) without having to include the whole
<sys/signal.h> header.
Discussed with: bde
and return a printable representation.
This fixes recognition of the PC Engines WRAP and improves the
recognition of the Soekris boards (Bios version can now be
seen in the dmesg output for instance).
Also, add watchdog support for PCM-582x platforms.
Submitted by: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
Slightly changed by: phk
PR: 81360
variables rather than void * variables. This makes it easier and simpler
to get asm constraints and volatile keywords correct.
MFC after: 3 days
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
Compiled on: ia64, powerpc, amd64
Kernel toolchain busted on: arm
further changes and fixes in the future:
- Use aliases via macros rather than duplicated inlines wherever possible.
- Move all the aliases to the bottom of these files and the inline
functions to the top.
- Add various comments.
- On alpha, drop atomic_{load_acq,store_rel}_{8,char,16,short}().
- On i386 and amd64, don't duplicate the extern declarations for functions
in the two non-inline cases (KLD_MODULE and compiler doesn't do inlines),
instead, consolidate those two cases.
- Some whitespace fixes.
Approved by: re (scottl)
packet filter. This would cause a panic on architectures that require strict
alignment such as sparc64 (tier1) and ia64/ppc (tier2).
This adds two new macros that check the alignment, these are compile time
dependent on __NO_STRICT_ALIGNMENT which is set for i386 and amd64 where
alignment isn't need so the cost is avoided.
IP_HDR_ALIGNED_P()
IP6_HDR_ALIGNED_P()
Move bridge_ip_checkbasic()/bridge_ip6_checkbasic() up so that the alignment
is checked for ipfw and dummynet too.
PR: ia64/81284
Obtained from: NetBSD
Approved by: re (dwhite), mlaier (mentor)
that newer Intel cpu hardware implements them too. This includes things
like the NX (pte no-execute) flag for execute protection. We'll need to
reference this for implementing no-exec in pmap.c at some point.
Some feature flags are duplicated in both the Intel-orignated bits and
the AMD bits. Suppress the the duplicates correctly - the old code
assumed they were a 1:1 mapping which is not correct. We can't just mask
off the bits present in cpu_feature.
Converge with amd64 where this originated from.
Intel cpu's that implement any AMD features will report them in dmesg now.
Approved by: re
dump format. The key reason to do this is so that we can dump sparse
address space. For example, we need to be able to skip the PCI hole
just below the 4GB boundary. Trying to destructively dump MMIO device
registers is Really Bad(TM). The frequent result of trying to do a
crash dump on a machine with 4GB or more ram was ugly (lockup or reboot).
This code has been taken directly from the IA64 dump_machdep.c code,
with just a few (mostly minor) mods.
Introduce a dump_avail[] array in the machdep.c code so that we have a
source of truth for what memory is present in a machine that needs to be
dumped. We can't use phys_avail[] because all sorts of things slice
memory out of it that we really need to dump. eg: the vm page array
and the dmesg buffer. dump_avail[] is pretty much an unmolested version
of phys_avail[]. It does have Maxmem correction.
Bump the i386 and amd64 dump format to version 2, but nothing actually
uses this. amd64 was actually using the i386 dump version number.
libkvm support to follow.
Approved by: re
- Implement sampling modes and logging support in hwpmc(4).
- Separate MI and MD parts of hwpmc(4) and allow sharing of
PMC implementations across different architectures.
Add support for P4 (EMT64) style PMCs to the amd64 code.
- New pmcstat(8) options: -E (exit time counts) -W (counts
every context switch), -R (print log file).
- pmc(3) API changes, improve our ability to keep ABI compatibility
in the future. Add more 'alias' names for commonly used events.
- bug fixes & documentation.
i8253reg.h, and add some defines to control a speaker.
- Move PPI related defines from i386/isa/spkr.c into ppireg.h and use them.
- Move IO_{PPI,TIMER} defines into ppireg.h and timerreg.h respectively.
- Use isa/isareg.h rather than <arch>/isa/isa.h.
Tested on: i386, pc98
Have pmcstat(8) and pmccontrol(8) use these APIs.
Return PMC class-related constants (PMC widths and capabilities)
with the OP GETCPUINFO call leaving OP PMCINFO to return only the
dynamic information associated with a PMC (i.e., whether enabled,
owner pid, reload count etc.).
Allow pmc_read() (i.e., OPS PMCRW) on active self-attached PMCs to
get upto-date values from hardware since we can guarantee that the
hardware is running the correct PMC at the time of the call.
Bug fixes:
- (x86 class processors) Fix a bug that prevented an RDPMC
instruction from being recognized as permitted till after the
attached process had context switched out and back in again after
a pmc_start() call.
Tighten the rules for using RDPMC class instructions: a GETMSR
OP is now allowed only after an OP ATTACH has been done by the
PMC's owner to itself. OP GETMSR is not allowed for PMCs that
track descendants, for PMCs attached to processes other than
their owner processes.
- (P4/HTT processors only) Fix a bug that caused the MI and MD
layers to get out of sync. Add a new MD operation 'get_config()'
as part of this fix.
- Allow multiple system-mode PMCs at the same row-index but on
different CPUs to be allocated.
- Reject allocation of an administratively disabled PMC.
Misc. code cleanups and refactoring. Improve a few comments.
a regular IPI vector, but this vector is blocked when interrupts are disabled.
With "options KDB_STOP_NMI" and debug.kdb.stop_cpus_with_nmi set, KDB will
send an NMI to each CPU instead. The code also has a context-stuffing
feature which helps ddb extract the state of processes running on the
stopped CPUs.
KDB_STOP_NMI is only useful with SMP and complains if SMP is not defined.
This feature only applies to i386 and amd64 at the moment, but could be
used on other architectures with the appropriate MD bits.
Submitted by: ups
Only allow a process to use the x86 RDPMC instruction if it has
allocated and attached a PMC to itself.
Inform the MD layer of the "pseudo context switch out" that needs
to be done when the last thread of a process is exiting.
inclusion of <sys/pmc.h> and depending on being included from
that header file.
o Include any MD specific header files that otherwise need to be
included from MI files.
Ok'd: jkoshy@
into _bus.h to help with name space polution from including all of bus.h.
In a few days, I'll commit changes to the MI code to take advantage of thse
sepration (after I've made sure that these changes don't break anything in
the main tree, I've tested in my trees, but you never know...).
Suggested by: bde (in 2002 or 2003 I think)
Reviewed in principle by: jhb
when using an APIC. This simplifies the APIC code somewhat and also allows
us to be pedantically more compliant with ACPI which mandates no use of
mixed mode.
of the kernel address space already. Intel recommend this anyway, because
using a non-4GB limit adds an additional clock cycle to address generation.
We were able to install 4GB segments into the LDT, so any limits we imposed
on %cs and %ds were academic anyway. More importantly, this allows us to
make a page in the kernel readable to user applications, for holding things
like the signal trampoline and other fun things.
Move the user %cs/%ds segments from the LDT to the GDT. There was no good
reason for them to be there anyway. The old LDT entries are still there
but we can now relax the restriction that prevented users from emptying
the default LDT entries.
Putting user and kernel %cs and %ds together allows us to access the fast
sysenter/sysexit/syscall/sysret instructions. syscall/sysret in particular
require that the user/kernel segments be laid out this way. Reserve a slot
specifically for NDIS while here.
Create two user controllable slots in the GDT that are context switched
with the (kernel) thread. This allows user applications to set two
user privilige selectors to arbitary values. Create
i386_set_fsbase(void *base) and friends. (get/set, fs/gs). For i386,
%gs is used by tls and the thread libraries and this means that user
processes no longer have to have the cost of having a custom LDT, and
we will no longer to do a ldt switch when activating a kthread/ithread in
the usual case any more.
In other words, we can now set the base address for %fs and %gs to arbitary
addresses without the pain of messing with ldt segments.
of the __pcb_spare longs. Except that fields were changed and one of the
spare values was used and the __pcb_spare field was reduced from two to one
long. Now VM86 bios calls can trash the first 4 bytes of the next page
following the kernel stack/pcb. This Is Bad(TM). This bug has been
present in 5.2-release and onwards, and is still in RELENG_5.
Instead of tempting fate and trying to use "spare" fields, explicitly
reserve them.
critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for
deferring kernel preemptions. They no longer have any affect on
interrupts. This means that standalone critical sections are now very
cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the
common case.
Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter()
and spinlock_exit(). This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD
guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't
be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock. For
now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they
did formerly in all critical sections. Note that I've also taken this
opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI. For example,
critical_fork_exit() no longer exists. Instead, MD code ensures that new
threads have the correct state when they are created. Also, we no longer
try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code. Instead, each arch sets
the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows
in order to perform the initial context switch.
This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides
will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts
of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes
for per-CPU data for example).
Reviewed by: grehan, cognet, arch@, others
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more
compiler features tests. This is ok, since machine/ieeefp.h is an internal
interface. But floatingpoint.h is a public interface and some ports use it,
so include sys/cdefs.h in the amd64 and i386 version of floatingpoint.h.
Note: some architectures don't provide recursive inclusion protection in
floatingpoint.h, namely alpha and ia64. Except for this part and now the
include of sys/cdefs.h, all those files are equal (from a compiler POV),
so they could be moved to only one version in src/include/.
Approved by: joerg
to mistakes from day 1, it has always had semantics inconsistent with
SVR4 and its successors. In particular, given argument M:
- On Solaris and FreeBSD/{alpha,sparc64}, it clobbers the old flags
and *sets* the new flag word to M. (NetBSD, too?)
- On FreeBSD/{amd64,i386}, it *clears* the flags that are specified in M
and leaves the remaining flags unchanged (modulo a small bug on amd64.)
- On FreeBSD/ia64, it is not implemented.
There is no way to fix fpsetsticky() to DTRT for both old FreeBSD apps
and apps ported from other operating systems, so the best approach
seems to be to kill the function and fix any apps that break. I
couldn't find any ports that use it, and any such ports would already
be broken on FreeBSD/ia64 and Linux anyway.
By the way, the routine has always been undocumented in FreeBSD,
except for an MLINK to a manpage that doesn't describe it. This
manpage has stated since 5.3-RELEASE that the functions it describes
are deprecated, so that must mean that functions that it is *supposed*
to describe but doesn't are even *more* deprecated. ;-)
Note that fpresetsticky() has been retained on FreeBSD/i386. As far
as I can tell, no other operating systems or ports of FreeBSD
implement it, so there's nothing for it to be inconsistent with.
PR: 75862
Suggested by: bde
sys/bus_dma.h instead of being copied in every single arch. This slightly
reorders a flag that was specific to AXP and thus changes the ABI there.
The interface still relies on bus_space definitions found in <machine/bus.h>
so it cannot be included on its own yet, but that will be fixed at a later
date. Add an MD <machine/bus_dma.h> for ever arch for consistency and to
allow for future MD augmentation of the API. sparc64 makes heavy use of
this right now due to its different bus_dma implemenation.
place.
This moves the dependency on GCC's and other compiler's features into
the central sys/cdefs.h file, while the individual source files can
then refer to #ifdef __COMPILER_FEATURE_FOO where they by now used to
refer to #if __GNUC__ > 3.1415 && __BARC__ <= 42.
By now, GCC and ICC (the Intel compiler) have been actively tested on
IA32 platforms by netchild. Extension to other compilers is supposed
to be possible, of course.
Submitted by: netchild
Reviewed by: various developers on arch@, some time ago
preliminary support for using the GCC-compatibility of ICC was committed
but couldn't be tested at that time due to problems with ICC itself. Since
ICC 8.1 it's possible to use its GCC-compatibility under FreeBSD and it
turned out that a typedef for __gnuc_va_list is required in that case.
Revert the part of rev. 1.8 which #ifdef'ed out __gnuc_va_list for ICC.
MFC after: 1 week
rather than forwarding interrupts from the clock devices around using IPIs:
- Add an IDT vector that pushes a clock frame and calls
lapic_handle_timer().
- Add functions to program the local APIC timer including setting the
divisor, and setting up the timer to either down a periodic countdown
or one-shot countdown.
- Add a lapic_setup_clock() function that the BSP calls from
cpu_init_clocks() to setup the local APIC timer if it is going to be
used. The setup uses a one-shot countdown to calibrate the timer. We
then program the timer on each CPU to fire at a frequency of hz * 3.
stathz is defined as freq / 23 (hz * 3 / 23), and profhz is defined as
freq / 2 (hz * 3 / 2). This gives the clocks relatively prime divisors
while keeping a low LCM for the frequency of the clock interrupts.
Thanks to Peter Jeremy for suggesting this approach.
- Remove the hardclock and statclock forwarding code including the two
associated IPIs. The bitmap IPI handler has now effectively degenerated
to just IPI_AST.
- When the local APIC timer is used we don't turn the RTC on at all, but
we still enable interrupts on the ISA timer 0 (i8254) for timecounting
purposes.
i386_{get,set}_ioperm() and make those APIs visible in the kernel namespace;
o use i386_{get,set}_ldt() and i386_{get,set}_ioperm() instead of sysarch()
in the linuxlator, which allows to kill another two stackgaps.
MFC after: 2 weeks
instead of burying that in the atpic(4) code as atpic(4) is not the only
user of elcr(4). Change the elcr(4) code to export a global elcr_found
variable that other code can check to see if a valid ELCR was found.
MFC after: 1 month
cuts to the chase and fills in a provided s/g list. This is meant to optimize
out the cost of the callback since the callback doesn't serve much purpose for
mbufs since mbuf loads will never be deferred. This is just for amd64 and
i386 at the moment, other arches will be coming shortly.
Currently this is only used to initiailize the TPR to 0 during initial
setup.
- Reallocate vectors for the local APIC timer, error, and thermal LVT
entries. The timer entry is allocated from the top of the I/O interrupt
range reducing the number of vectors available for hardware interrupts
to 191. Linux happens to use the same exact vector for its timer
interrupt as well. If the timer vector shared the same priority queue
as the IPI handlers, then the frequency that the timer vector will
eventually be firing at can interact badly with the IPIs resulting in
the queue filling and the dreaded IPI stuck panics, hence it being located
at the top of the previous priority queue instead.
- Fixup various minor nits in comments.
as this may cause deadlocks.
This should fix kern/72123.
Discussed with: jhb
Tested by: Nik Azim Azam, Andy Farkas, Flack Man, Aykut KARA
Izzet BESKARDES, Jens Binnewies, Karl Keusgen
Approved by: sam (mentor)
specified register, but a pointer to the in-memory representation of
that value. The reason for this is twofold:
1. Not all registers can be represented by a register_t. In particular
FP registers fall in that category. Passing the new register value
by reference instead of by value makes this point moot.
2. When we receive a G or P packet, both are for writing a register,
the packet will have the register value in target-byte order and
in the memory representation (modulo the fact that bytes are sent
as 2 printable hexadecimal numbers of course). We only need to
decode the packet to have a pointer to the register value.
This change fixes the bug of extracting the register value of the P
packet as a hexadecimal number instead of as a bit array. The quick
(and dirty) fix to bswap the register value in gdb_cpu_setreg() as
it has been added on i386 and amd64 can therefore be removed and has
in fact been that.
Tested on: alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, sparc64
of atomic_store_rel().
- Use the 80386 versions of atomic_load_acq() and atomic_store_rel() that
do not use serializing instructions on all UP kernels since a UP machine
does need to synchronize with other CPUs. This trims lots of cycles from
spin locks on UP kernels among other things.
Benchmarked by: rwatson
Expose some of the amd64-specific sysarch functions to allow alternative
implementations of the %fs/%gs code for TLS, threads, etc. USER_LDT does
not exist on the amd64 kernel, so we have to implement things other ways.
Restructure pmap_enter() to prevent the loss of a page modified (PG_M) bit
in a race between processors. (This restructuring assumes the newly atomic
pte_load_store() for correct operation.)
Reviewed by: tegge@
PR: i386/61852
pmap_copy(). This entails additional locking in pmap_copy() and the
addition of a "flags" parameter to the page table page allocator for
specifying whether it may sleep when memory is unavailable. (Already,
pmap_copy() checks the availability of memory, aborting if it is scarce.
In theory, another CPU could, however, allocate memory between
pmap_copy()'s check and the call to the page table page allocator,
causing the current thread to release its locks and sleep. This change
makes this scenario impossible.)
Reviewed by: tegge@
not sure yet about 5.x... MFC if needed.
Also fixes small problems with examining some registers and
some specific gdb transfer problems.
As the patch says:
This is not a pretty patch and only meant as a temporary
fix until a better solution is committed.
PR: i386/71715
Submitted by: Stephan Uphoff <ups@tree.com>
MFC after: 1 week
value was only enough for 8GB of RAM, the new value can do 16GB. This still
isn't optimal since it doesn't scale. Fixing this for amd64 looks to be
fairly easy, but for i386 will be quite difficult.
Reviewed by: peter
FULL_PREEMPTION is defined. Add a runtime warning to ULE if PREEMPTION is
enabled (code inspired by the PREEMPTION warning in kern_switch.c). This
is a possible MT5 candidate.
these two reasons:
1. On ia64 a function pointer does not hold the address of the first
instruction of a functions implementation. It holds the address
of a function descriptor. Hence the user(), btrap(), eintr() and
bintr() prototypes are wrong for getting the actual code address.
2. The logic forces interrupt, trap and exception entry points to
be layed-out contiguously. This can not be achieved on ia64 and is
generally just bad programming.
The MCOUNT_FROMPC_USER macro is used to set the frompc argument to
some kernel address which represents any frompc that falls outside
the kernel text range. The macro can expand to ~0U to bail out in
that case.
The MCOUNT_FROMPC_INTR macro is used to set the frompc argument to
some kernel address to represent a call to a trap or interrupt
handler. This to avoid that the trap or interrupt handler appear to
be called from everywhere in the call graph. The macro can expand
to ~0U to prevent adjusting frompc. Note that the argument is selfpc,
not frompc.
This commit defines the macros on all architectures equivalently to
the original code in sys/libkern/mcount.c. People can take it from
here...
Compile-tested on: alpha, amd64, i386, ia64 and sparc64
Boot-tested on: i386
The C code assumes that the carry bit is always kept from the previous
operation. However, the pointer indexing requires another add operation.
Thus, the carry bit from the first operation is tromped over by the
"addl" operation that ends up following it, so the "adcl" that follows
that has no effect because the carry bit is cleared before it.
The result is checksum failure on received packets.
The larger issue is that there isn't any other way of preventing the compiler
inserting arbitrary instructions between different __asm statements (and
that the commit message in revision 1.13 of in_cksum.h is wrong on
this point). From
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/gcc-3.3/gcc/Extended-Asm.html
---8<---8<---8<---
You can't expect a sequence of volatile asm instructions to remain
perfectly consecutive. If you want consecutive output, use a single
asm. Also, GCC will perform some optimizations across a volatile
asm instruction; GCC does not "forget everything" when it encounters
a volatile asm instruction the way some other compilers do.
---8<---8<---8<---
Also, this change also makes the ASM code much easier to read.
PR: 69257
Submitted by: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>, Qing Li <qing.li@bluecoat.com>
logical CPUs on a system to be used as a dedicated watchdog to cause a
drop to the debugger and/or generate an NMI to the boot processor if
the kernel ceases to respond. A sysctl enables the watchdog running
out of the processor's idle thread; a callout is launched to reset a
timer in the watchdog. If the callout fails to reset the timer for ten
seconds, the watchdog will fire. The sysctl allows you to select which
CPU will run the watchdog.
A sample "debug.leak_schedlock" is included, which causes a sysctl to
spin holding sched_lock in order to trigger the watchdog. On my Xeons,
the watchdog is able to detect this failure mode and break into the
debugger, which cannot otherwise be done without an NMI button.
This option does not currently work with sched_ule due to ule's push
notion of scheduling, similar to machdep.hlt_logical_cpus failing to
work with that scheduler.
On face value, this might seem somewhat inefficient, but there are a
lot of dual-processor Xeons with HTT around, so using one as a watchdog
for testing is not as inefficient as one might fear.
being defined, define and use a new MD macro, cpu_spinwait(). It only
expands to something on i386 and amd64, so the compiled code should be
identical.
Name of the macro found by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
pic_eoi_source() into one call. This halves the number of spinlock operations
and indirect function calls in the normal case of handling a normal (ithread)
interrupt. Optimize the atpic and ioapic drivers to use inlines where
appropriate in supporting the intr_execute_handlers() change.
This knocks 900ns, or roughly 1350 cycles, off of the time spent servicing an
interrupt in the common case on my 1.5GHz P4 uniprocessor system. SMP systems
likely won't see as much of a gain due to the ioapic being more efficient than
the atpic. I'll investigate porting this to amd64 soon.
Reviewed by: jhb
their own directory and module, leaving the MD parts in the MD
area (the MD parts _are_ part of the modules). /dev/mem and /dev/io
are now loadable modules, thus taking us one step further towards
a kernel created entirely out of modules. Of course, there is nothing
preventing the kernel from having these statically compiled.
dereference curthread. It is called only from critical_{enter,exit}(),
which already dereferences curthread. This doesn't seem to affect SMP
performance in my benchmarks, but improves MySQL transaction throughput
by about 1% on UP on my Xeon.
Head nodding: jhb, bmilekic
Most of the changes are a direct result of adding thread awareness.
Typically, DDB_REGS is gone. All registers are taken from the
trapframe and backtraces use the PCB based contexts. DDB_REGS was
defined to be a trapframe on all platforms anyway.
Thread awareness introduces the following new commands:
thread X switch to thread X (where X is the TID),
show threads list all threads.
The backtrace code has been made more flexible so that one can
create backtraces for any thread by giving the thread ID as an
argument to trace.
With this change, ia64 has support for breakpoints.
o s/ddb_on_nmi/kdb_on_nmi/g
o Rename sysctl machdep.ddb_on_nmi to machdep.kdb_on_nmi
o Make debugging support conditional upon KDB instead of DDB.
o Call kdb_reenter() when kdb_active is non-zero.
o Call kdb_trap() to enter the debugger when not already active.
o Update comments accordingly.
o Remove misplaced prototype of kdb_trap().
a PCB from a trapframe for purposes of unwinding the stack. The PCB
is used as the thread context and all but the thread that entered the
debugger has a valid PCB.
This function can also be used to create a context for the threads
running on the CPUs that have been stopped when the debugger got
entered. This however is not done at the time of this commit.
in which multiple (presumably different) debugger backends can be
configured and which provides basic services to those backends.
Besides providing services to backends, it also serves as the single
point of contact for any and all code that wants to make use of the
debugger functions, such as entering the debugger or handling of the
alternate break sequence. For this purpose, the frontend has been
made non-optional.
All debugger requests are forwarded or handed over to the current
backend, if applicable. Selection of the current backend is done by
the debug.kdb.current sysctl. A list of configured backends can be
obtained with the debug.kdb.available sysctl. One can enter the
debugger by writing to the debug.kdb.enter sysctl.
backend improves over the old GDB support in the following ways:
o Unified implementation with minimal MD code.
o A simple interface for devices to register themselves as debug
ports, ala consoles.
o Compression by using run-length encoding.
o Implements GDB threading support.
than as one-off hacks in various other parts of the kernel:
- Add a function maybe_preempt() that is called from sched_add() to
determine if a thread about to be added to a run queue should be
preempted to directly. If it is not safe to preempt or if the new
thread does not have a high enough priority, then the function returns
false and sched_add() adds the thread to the run queue. If the thread
should be preempted to but the current thread is in a nested critical
section, then the flag TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set and the thread is added
to the run queue. Otherwise, mi_switch() is called immediately and the
thread is never added to the run queue since it is switch to directly.
When exiting an outermost critical section, if TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set,
then clear it and call mi_switch() to perform the deferred preemption.
- Remove explicit preemption from ithread_schedule() as calling
setrunqueue() now does all the correct work. This also removes the
do_switch argument from ithread_schedule().
- Do not use the manual preemption code in mtx_unlock if the architecture
supports native preemption.
- Don't call mi_switch() in a loop during shutdown to give ithreads a
chance to run if the architecture supports native preemption since
the ithreads will just preempt DELAY().
- Don't call mi_switch() from the page zeroing idle thread for
architectures that support native preemption as it is unnecessary.
- Native preemption is enabled on the same archs that supported ithread
preemption, namely alpha, i386, and amd64.
This change should largely be a NOP for the default case as committed
except that we will do fewer context switches in a few cases and will
avoid the run queues completely when preempting.
Approved by: scottl (with his re@ hat)
pv entries per 1GB of user virtual memory. (eg: if we had 1GB file was
mmaped into 30 processes, that would theoretically reduce the KVA demand by
30MB for pv entries. In reality though, we limit pv entries so we don't
have that many at once.)
We used to store the vm_page_t for the page table page. But we recently
had the pa of the ptp, or can calculate it fairly quickly. If we wanted
to avoid the shift/mask operation in pmap_pde(), we could recover the
pa but that means we have to store it for a while.
This does not measurably change performance.
Suggested by: alc
Tested by: alc
- Allow ioapic_set_{nmi,smi,extint}() to be called multiple times on the
same pin so long as the pin's mode is the same as the mode being
requested.
- Add a notion of bus type for the interrupt associated with interrupt pin.
This is needed so that we can force all EISA interrupts to be active high
in the forthcoming ioapic_config_intr().
- Fix a bug for EISA systems that didn't remap IRQs. This would have broken
EISA systems that tried to disable mixed mode for IRQ 0.
