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Marcel Moolenaar
f2c49dd248 Revamp of the syscall path, exception and context handling. The
prime objectives are:
o  Implement a syscall path based on the epc inststruction (see
   sys/ia64/ia64/syscall.s).
o  Revisit the places were we need to save and restore registers
   and define those contexts in terms of the register sets (see
   sys/ia64/include/_regset.h).

Secundairy objectives:
o  Remove the requirement to use contigmalloc for kernel stacks.
o  Better handling of the high FP registers for SMP systems.
o  Switch to the new cpu_switch() and cpu_throw() semantics.
o  Add a good unwinder to reconstruct contexts for the rare
   cases we need to (see sys/contrib/ia64/libuwx)

Many files are affected by this change. Functionally it boils
down to:
o  The EPC syscall doesn't preserve registers it does not need
   to preserve and places the arguments differently on the stack.
   This affects libc and truss.
o  The address of the kernel page directory (kptdir) had to
   be unstaticized for use by the nested TLB fault handler.
   The name has been changed to ia64_kptdir to avoid conflicts.
   The renaming affects libkvm.
o  The trapframe only contains the special registers and the
   scratch registers. For syscalls using the EPC syscall path
   no scratch registers are saved. This affects all places where
   the trapframe is accessed. Most notably the unaligned access
   handler, the signal delivery code and the debugger.
o  Context switching only partly saves the special registers
   and the preserved registers. This affects cpu_switch() and
   triggered the move to the new semantics, which additionally
   affects cpu_throw().
o  The high FP registers are either in the PCB or on some
   CPU. context switching for them is done lazily. This affects
   trap().
o  The mcontext has room for all registers, but not all of them
   have to be defined in all cases. This mostly affects signal
   delivery code now. The *context syscalls are as of yet still
   unimplemented.

Many details went into the removal of the requirement to use
contigmalloc for kernel stacks. The details are mostly CPU
specific and limited to exception_save() and exception_restore().
The few places where we create, destroy or switch stacks were
mostly simplified by not having to construct physical addresses
and additionally saving the virtual addresses for later use.

Besides more efficient context saving and restoring, which of
course yields a noticable speedup, this also fixes the dreaded
SMP bootup problem as a side-effect. The details of which are
still not fully understood.

This change includes all the necessary backward compatibility
code to have it handle older userland binaries that use the
break instruction for syscalls. Support for break-based syscalls
has been pessimized in favor of a clean implementation. Due to
the overall better performance of the kernel, this will still
be notived as an improvement if it's noticed at all.

Approved by: re@ (jhb)
2003-05-16 21:26:42 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
1f0fa5e154 Add ar.lc and ar.ec to the trapframe. These are not saved for syscalls,
only for exceptions.

While adding this to exception_save and exception_restore, it was hard
to find a good place to put the instructions. The code sequence was
sufficiently arbitrarily ordered that the density was low (roughly 67%).
No explicit bundling was used.
Thus, I rewrote the functions to optimize for density (close to 80% now),
and added explicit bundles and nop instructions. The immediate operand
on the nop instruction has been incremented with each instance, to make
debugging a bit easier when looking at recurring patterns. Redundant
stops have been removed as much as possible. Future optimizations can
focus more on performance. A well-placed lfetch can make all the
difference here!

Also, the FRAME_Fxx defines in frame.h were mostly bogus. FRAME_F10 to
FRAME_F15 were copied from FRAME_F9 and still had the same index. We
don't use them yet, so nothing was broken.
2002-04-30 06:37:25 +00:00
Doug Rabson
ce97a5fc4e * Various fixes to breakage introduced by the atomic and mutex reorgs.
* Fixes to the signal delivery code. Not quite right yet.

I would have preferred to wait until I have signal delivery actually
working but the current kernel in CVS doesn't build.
2000-10-24 19:54:38 +00:00
Doug Rabson
7fcf71bc40 * Correct some of my misunderstandings about how best to switch to the
kernel backing store.
* Implement syscalls via break instructions.
* Fix backing store copying in cpu_fork() so that the child gets the right
  register values.

This thing is actually starting to work now. This set of changes takes me
up to the second execve (the one which runs the first shell). Next stop
single-user mode :-).
2000-10-16 08:54:40 +00:00
Doug Rabson
1ebcad5720 This is the first snapshot of the FreeBSD/ia64 kernel. This kernel will
not work on any real hardware (or fully work on any simulator). Much more
needs to happen before this is actually functional but its nice to see
the FreeBSD copyright message appear in the ia64 simulator.
2000-09-29 13:46:07 +00:00