the case of VM86 calls from the kernel was broken, so this bug was not
a security hole.
PR: 36710
Submitted by: David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn> (version for RELENG_4)
MFC after: 3 days
back into the calling MD code. The MD code must ensure no races between
checking the astpening flag and returning to usermode.
Submitted by: peter (ia64 bits)
Tested on: alpha (peter, jeff), i386, ia64 (peter), sparc64
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
flags with interrupts disabled to see if we should call ast() during
doreti. This was mostly submitted by Bruce, but his original patch did
the looping in ast() in assembly rather than in the ast() function itself.
Once we've actually called into the ast() function, it's cheaper to just
loop inside the function rather than returning from the function,
performing the check, and then calling the function again. However, we
can optimize the first check to avoid calling the function at all.
Other architectures may choose to implement this optimization if they
wish but it is not required for correct operation.
Submitted by: bde
and used in C or vice versa. The elf compiler uses the same names
for both. Remove asnames.h with great prejudice; it has served its
purpose.
Note that this does not affect the ability to generate an aout kernel
due to gcc's -mno-underscores option.
moral support from: peter, jhb
- Don't use an atomic operation to update cnt.v_soft in ast(). This is
the only place the variable is written to, and sched_lock is always
held when it is written, so it is already protected and the mutex release
of sched_lock asserts a memory barrier that ensures the value will be
updated in a timely fashion.
attributes. This is needed for AST's to be properly posted in a preemptive
kernel. They are backed by two new flags in p_sflag: PS_ASTPENDING and
PS_NEEDRESCHED. They are still accesssed by their old macros:
aston(), astoff(), etc. For completeness, an astpending() macro has been
added to check for a pending AST, and clear_resched() has been added to
clear need_resched().
- Rename syscall2() on the x86 back to syscall() to be consistent with
other architectures.
interrupt threads to run with it always >= 1, so that malloc can
detect M_WAITOK from "interrupt" context. This is also necessary
in order to context switch from sched_ithd() directly.
Reviewed By: peter
variables from i386 assembly language. The syntax is PCPU(member)
where member is the capitalized name of the per-cpu variable, without
the gd_ prefix. Example: movl %eax,PCPU(CURPROC). The capitalization
is due to using the offsets generated by genassym rather than the symbols
provided by linking with globals.o. asmacros.h is the wrong place for
this but it seemed as good a place as any for now. The old implementation
in asnames.h has not been removed because it is still used to de-mangle
the symbols used by the C variables for the UP case.
spending, which was unused now that all software interrupts have
their own thread. Make the legacy schednetisr use an atomic op
for setting bits in the netisr mask.
Reviewed by: jhb
type of software interrupt. Roughly, what used to be a bit in spending
now maps to a swi thread. Each thread can have multiple handlers, just
like a hardware interrupt thread.
- Instead of using a bitmask of pending interrupts, we schedule the specific
software interrupt thread to run, so spending, NSWI, and the shandlers
array are no longer needed. We can now have an arbitrary number of
software interrupt threads. When you register a software interrupt
thread via sinthand_add(), you get back a struct intrhand that you pass
to sched_swi() when you wish to schedule your swi thread to run.
- Convert the name of 'struct intrec' to 'struct intrhand' as it is a bit
more intuitive. Also, prefix all the members of struct intrhand with
'ih_'.
- Make swi_net() a MI function since there is now no point in it being
MD.
Submitted by: cp
- 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
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
removed unncessary MPLOCKED and 'lock' prefixes from the interrupt
nesting level, since (A) the MP lock is held at the time, and (B) since
the neting level is restored prior to return any interrupted code
will see a consistent value.
syscall path inward. A system call may select whether it needs the MP
lock or not (the default being that it does need it).
A great deal of conditional SMP code for various deadended experiments
has been removed. 'cil' and 'cml' have been removed entirely, and the
locking around the cpl has been removed. The conditional
separately-locked fast-interrupt code has been removed, meaning that
interrupts must hold the CPL now (but they pretty much had to anyway).
Another reason for doing this is that the original separate-lock for
interrupts just doesn't apply to the interrupt thread mechanism being
contemplated.
Modifications to the cpl may now ONLY occur while holding the MP
lock. For example, if an otherwise MP safe syscall needs to mess with
the cpl, it must hold the MP lock for the duration and must (as usual)
save/restore the cpl in a nested fashion.
This is precursor work for the real meat coming later: avoiding having
to hold the MP lock for common syscalls and I/O's and interrupt threads.
It is expected that the spl mechanisms and new interrupt threading
mechanisms will be able to run in tandem, allowing a slow piecemeal
transition to occur.
This patch should result in a moderate performance improvement due to
the considerable amount of code that has been removed from the critical
path, especially the simplification of the spl*() calls. The real
performance gains will come later.
Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: current, bde (exception.s)
Some work taken from: luoqi's patch
to use a locked cmpexg when unlocking a lock that we already hold, since
nobody else can touch the lock while we hold it. Second, it is not
necessary to use a locked cmpexg when locking a lock that we already
hold, for the same reason. These changes will allow MP locks to be used
recursively without impacting performance.
Modify two procedures that are called only by assembly and are already
NOPROF entries to pass a critical argument in %edx instead of on the
stack, removing a significant amount of code from the critical path
as a consequence.
Reviewed by: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
for elf kernels (it is broken for all kernels due to lack of egcs support).
Renaming of many assembler labels is avoided by declaring by declaring
the labels that need to be visible to gprof as having type "function"
and depending on the elf version of gprof being zealous about discarding
the others. A few type declarations are still missing, mainly for SMP.
PR: 9413
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> (initial parts)
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- Each cpu now has a separate gdt selector table. A new segment selector
is added to point to per-cpu pages, per-cpu global variables are now
accessed through this new selector (%fs). The selectors in gdt table are
rearranged for cache line optimization.
- fask_vfork is now on as default for both UP and SMP.
- Some aio code cleanup.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
John Dyson <dyson@iquest.net>
Julian Elischer <julian@whistel.com>
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
David Greenman <dg@root.com>
instead of at compile time using ifdefs.
Use _swi_null instead of dummycamisr. CAM and dpt should call
register_swi() instead of hacking on ihandlers[] directly.
everything is contained inside #ifdef VM86, so this option must be
present in the config file to use this functionality.
Thanks to Tor Egge, these changes should work on SMP machines. However,
it may not be throughly SMP-safe.
Currently, the only BIOS calls made are memory-sizing routines at bootup,
these replace reading the RTC values.
interrupts are masked, and EOI is sent iff the corresponding ISR bit
is set in the local apic. If the CPU cannot obtain the interrupt
service lock (currently the global kernel lock) the interrupt is
forwarded to the CPU holding that lock.
Clock interrupts now have higher priority than other slow interrupts.
- A nonprofiling version of s_lock (called s_lock_np) is used
by mcount.
- When profiling is active, more registers are clobbered in
seemingly simple assembly routines. This means that some
callers needed to save/restore extra registers.
- The stack pointer must have space for a 'fake' return address
in idle, to avoid stack underflow.
region protected by the simplelock 'cpl_lock'.
Notes:
- this code is currently controlled on a section by section basis with
defines in machine/param.h. All sections are currently enabled.
- this code is not as clean as I would like, but that can wait till later.
- the "giant lock" still surrounds most instances of this "cpl region".
I still have to do the code that arbitrates setting cpl between the
top and bottom halves of the kernel.
- the possibility of deadlock exists, I am committing the code at this
point so as to exercise it and detect any such cases B4 the "giant lock"
is removed.
Several new fine-grained locks.
New FAST_INTR() methods:
- separate simplelock for FAST_INTR, no more giant lock.
- FAST_INTR()s no longer checks ipending on way out of ISR.
sio made MP-safe (I hope).
Work done by BSDI, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>,
Mike Smith <msmith@gsoft.com.au>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>,
and probably alot of others.
Submitted by: Jnathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
