it in the last chunk (phys_avail block). The last chunk very often is
not larger than one or two pages, resulting in a msgbuf that's too
small to hold a complete verbose boot.
Note that pmap_steal_memory() will bzero the memory it "allocates".
Consequently, ia64 will never preserve previous msgbufs. This is not
a noticable difference in practice. If the msgbuf could be reused,
it was invariably too small to have anything preserved anyway.
sockets into machine-dependent files. The rationale for this
migration is illustrated by the modified amd64 allocator. It uses the
amd64's direct map to avoid emphemeral mappings in the kernel's
address space. On an SMP, the emphemeral mappings result in an IPI
for TLB shootdown for each transmitted page. Yuck.
Maintainers of other 64-bit platforms with direct maps should be able
to use the amd64 allocator as a reference implementation.
ultimate trigger for the follow-up fixes in revisions 1.78, 1.80,
1.81 and 1.82 of trap.c. I was simply too pre-occupied with the
gateway page and how it blurs kernel space with user space and
vice versa that I couldn't see that it was all a load of bollocks.
It's not the IP address that matters, it's the privilege level that
counts. We never run in user space with lifted permissions and we
sure can not run in kernel space without it. Sure, the gateway page
is the exception, but not if you look at the privilege level. It's
user space if you run with user permissions and kernel space otherwise.
So, we're back to looking at the privilege level like it should be.
There's no other way.
Pointy hat: marcel
prototypes of cpu_halt(), cpu_reset() and swi_vm() from md_var.h to
cpu.h. This affects db_command.c and kern_shutdown.c.
ia64: move all MD prototypes from cpu.h to md_var.h. This affects
madt.c, interrupt.c and mp_machdep.c. Remove is_physical_memory().
It's not used (vm_machdep.c).
alpha: the MD prototypes have been left in cpu.h with a comment
that they should be there. Moving them is left for later. It was
expected that the impact would be significant enough to be done in
a seperate commit.
powerpc: MD prototypes left in cpu.h. Comment added.
Suggested by: bde
Tested with: make universe (pc98 incomplete)
Sign extension happens after the shift, not before so that boundary
cases like 0x40000000 will not be caught properly.
Instead, right shift ndirty. It is guaranteed to be a multiple of 8.
While here, do some manual code motion and code commoning.
Range check bug pointed out by: iedowse
that were on the kernel stack into account. For now we write them
out to the register stack of the process before creating the dump.
This however is not the final solution. The problem is that we may
invalidate the coredump by overwriting vital information due to an
invalid backing store pointer. Instead we need to write the dirty
registers to an unused region of VM which will result in a seperate
segment in the coredump. For now we can at least get to all the
registers from a coredump.
and the move to control register to avoid dependency violations when
these functions are used. Note that explicit data and instruction
serialization also need to be in a subsequent instruction group.
This too requires that we have an igrp break here.
PT_SETKSTACK. These requests allow the tracing process to access the
dirty registers of the traced process that are on the kernel stack.
Note that there's currently no way to access the rnat register for
those dirty registers that are not (yet) covered by a nat collection
point. The interface for this is still being slept on.
Also note that implied by these requests is the division of work:
The tracing process has to keep track of where registers are spilled
and is responsible to figure out where the NaT bit of the stacked
registers are at any time during the execution of the traced process.
The kernel provides the interfaces but will not abstract the fact
that the register stack can be split. This model does not follow
the approach taken in Linux where PT_PEEK and PT_POKE deals with
this automagically.
in user space or kernel space. VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS starts after the
gateway page, which means that improper memory accesses to the gateway
page while in user mode would panic the kernel. Use VM_MAX_ADDRESS
instead. It ends before the gateway page. The difference between
VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS and VM_MAX_ADDRESS is exactly the gateway page.
move to ar.rsc. The RSE must be in enforced lazy mode when writing
to RSE modifyable registers. In this case we restore the RSE NaT
collection register ar.rnat. I have seen 2 general exception faults
on pluto1 now that indicate that the move to ar.rsc has already
happened prior to the move to ar.rnat, meaning that the RSE is not
in enforced lazy mode anymore. The ia64 dependency and instruction
ordering rules seem to allow having both registers written to in
the same instruction group, provided ar.rsc is written to later than
ar.rnat (based on the ordering semantics). It appears that we may
be pushing our luck. For now, put them in seperate cycles (by means
of the instruction group break). If we ever get a general exception
fault on the move to ar.rnat again, we have definite proof that
something else is fishy.
o Differentiate between CPU family and CPU model. There are multiple
Itanium 2 models and it's nice to differentiate between them.
o Seperately export the CPU family and CPU model with sysctl.
o Merced is the only model in the Itanium family.
o Add Madison to the Itanium 2 family. We already knew about McKinley.
o Print the CPU family between parenthesis, like we do with the i386
CPU class.
My prototype now identifies itself as:
CPU: Merced (800.03-Mhz Itanium)
pluto1 and pluto2 will eventually identify themselves as:
CPU: McKinley (900.00-Mhz Itanium 2)
magic from exec_setregs(). In set_mcontext() we now also don't have
to worry that we entered the kernel with more that 512 bytes of
dirty registers on the kernel stack. Note that we cannot make any
assumptions anymore WRT to NaT collection points in exec_setregs(),
so we have to deal with them now.
when we create contexts. The meaning of the flags are documented in
<machine/ucontext.h>. I only list them here to help browsing the
commit logs:
_MC_FLAGS_ASYNC_CONTEXT
_MC_FLAGS_HIGHFP_VALID
_MC_FLAGS_KSE_SET_MBOX
_MC_FLAGS_RETURN_VALID
_MC_FLAGS_SCRATCH_VALID
Yes, _MC_FLAGS_KSE_SET_MBOX is a hack and I'm proud of it :-)
o For trap-based upcalls the argument (the kse_mailbox) to
the UTS must be written onto the kernel stack, not the
user stack. While here, deal with the fact that we may
be at a NaT collection point.
path into the kernel. Normally it's due to a syscall, but one can
also be created as the result of a clock interrupt (for example).
This now even more looks like exec_setregs().
While here, add an assert that we don't expect more than 8KB of
dirty registers on the kernel stack.
unconditionally restore ar.k7 (kernel memory stack) and ar.k6
(kernel register stack). I don't know what I was smoking then,
but if you unconditionally restore ar.k6, you also want to
compute its value unconditionally. By having the computation
predicated and dependent on whether we return to user mode, we
would end up writing junk (= invalid value for ar.bspstore) if
we would return to kernel mode. But the whole point of the
unconditional restoration was that there is a grey area where
we still need to have ar.k6 restored. If we restore with a junk
value, we would end up wedging the machine on the next interrupt.
So, unconditionally calculate the value we unconditionally write
to ar.k6.
o The previous braino was found while making the following change:
We used to clear the lower 9 bits of the value we write to ar.k6.
The meaning being that we know that the kernel register stack is
at least 512 byte aligned and simply clearing the lower 9 bits
allows us to return to a context of which we don't have dirty
registers on the kernel stack, even though the context that
entered the kernel does have dirty registers on the kernel stack.
By masking-off the lower bits, we correctly obtain the base of
the register stack without having to worry that we didn't actually
reached the base while unwinding it.
The change is to mask off the lower 13 bits, knowing that the
kernel register stack is always 8KB aligned. The advantage is that
we don't have to worry anymore if there's more than 512 bytes of
dirty registers on the kernel stack. A situation that frequently
occurs. In exec_setregs() in machdep.c:1.147 or older, we had to
deal with that situation by copying the active portion of the
register stack down in multiples of 512 bytes. Now that we mask off
the lower 13 bits we don't have to do that at all. Contemporary
IPF processors have a register file that can hold up to 96 stacked
registers (=784 bytes [incl. 2 NaT collections]). With no indication
that register files grow beyond a couple of hundred registers, we
should not have to worry about it anymore... and yes, 640KB is
enough for everybody :-)
This change helps setcontext(2) and cpu_set_upcall_kse() in that
they can return to completely different contexts without having to
mess with the kernel stack. Of course exec_setregs() doesn't need
to do that anymore as well.
need this for swapcontext(), KSE upcalls initiated from ast()
also need to save them so that we properly return the syscall
results after having had a context switch. Note that we don't
use r11 in the kernel. However, the runtime specification has
defined r8-r11 as return registers, so we put r11 in the context
as well. I think deischen@ was trying to tell me that we should
save the return registers before. I just wasn't ready for it :-)
o The EPC syscall code has 2 return registers and 2 frame markers
to save. The first (rp/pfs) belongs to the syscall stub itself.
The second (iip/cfm) belongs to the caller of the syscall stub.
We want to put the second in the context (note that iip and cfm
relate to interrupts. They are only being misused by the syscall
code, but are not part of a regular context).
This way, when the context is switched to again, we return to
the caller of setcontext(2) as one would expect.
o Deal with dirty registers on the kernel stack. The getcontext()
syscall will flush the RSE, so we don't expect any dirty registers
in that case. However, in thread_userret() we also need to save
the context in certain cases. When that happens, we are sure that
there are dirty registers on the kernel stack.
This implementation simply copies the registers, one at a time,
from the kernel stack to the user stack. NAT collections are not
dealt with. Hence we don't preserve NaT bits. A better solution
needs to be found at some later time.
We also don't deal with this in all cases in set_mcontext. No
temporay solution is implemented because it's not a showstopper.
The problem is that we need to ignore the dirty registers and we
automaticly do that for at most 62 registers. When there are more
than 62 dirty registers we have a memory "leak".
This commit is fundamental for KSE support.
user space region. Hence, we need to test if 5 is greater than the
region; not greater equal.
This bug caused us to call ast() while interrupting kernel mode.
set in cpu_critical_fork_exit() anymore.
- As far as I can tell, cpu_thread_link() has never been used, not even
when it was originally added, so remove it.
o Remove alpha specific timer code (mc146818A) and compiled-out
calibration of said timer.
o Remove i386 inherited timer code (i8253) and related acquire and
release functions.
o Move sysbeep() from clock.c to machdep.c and have it return
ENODEV. Console beeps should be implemented using ACPI or if no
such device is described, using the sound driver.
o Move the sysctls related to adjkerntz, disable_rtc_set and
wall_cmos_clock from machdep.c to clock.c, where the variables
are.
o Don't hardcode a hz value of 1024 in cpu_initclocks() and don't
bother faking a stathz that's 1/8 of that. Keep it simple: hz
defaults to HZ and stathz equals hz. This is also how it's done
for sparc64.
o Keep a per-CPU ITC counter (pc_clock) and adjustment (pc_clockadj)
to calculate ITC skew and corrections. On average, we adjust the
ITC match register once every ~1500 interrupts for a duration of
2 consequtive interruprs. This is to correct the non-deterministic
behaviour of the ITC interrupt (there's a delay between the match
and the raising of the interrupt).
o Add 4 debugging sysctls to monitor clock behaviour. Those are
debug.clock_adjust_edges, debug.clock_adjust_excess,
debug.clock_adjust_lost and debug.clock_adjust_ticks. The first
counts the individual adjustment cycles (when the skew first
crosses the threshold), the second counts the number of times the
adjustment was excessive (any non-zero value is to be considered
a bug), the third counts lost clock interrupts and the last counts
the number of interrupts for which we applied an adjustment
(debug.clock_adjust_ticks / debug.clock_adjust_edges gives the
avarage duration of an individual adjustment -- should be ~2).
While here, remove some nearby (trivial) left-overs from alpha and
other cleanups.
interrupting user mode. The net effect of this bug is that a clock
interrupt does not cause rescheduling and processes are not
preempted. It only takes a "while (1);" to render the machine
useless.
This bug was introduced by the context changes and EPC syscall code.
Handling of ASTs was moved to C for clarity and ease of maintenance,
but was not added for the external interrupt case.
This needs to be revisited. We now have calls to do_ast() in trap(),
break_syscall() and ivt_External_Interrupt(). A single call in
exception_restore covers these 3 places without duplication. This
is where we handled ASTs prior to the overhaul, except that the
meat has been moved to do_ast(), a C function. This was the goal
to begin with.
Pointy hat: marcel
created not only with UMA_ZONE_VM but also with UMA_ZONE_NOFREE. In
the i386 case in particular, the pmap code would hook a special
page allocation routine that allocated from kernel_map and not kmem_map,
and so when/if the pageout daemon drained the zones, it could actually
push out slabs from the PV ENTRY zone but call UMA's default page_free,
which resulted in pages allocated from kernel_map being freed to
kmem_map; bad. kmem_free() ignores the return value of the
vm_map_delete and just returns. I'm not sure what the exact
repercussions could be, but it doesn't look good.
In the PAE case on i386, we also set-up a zone in pmap, so be
conservative for now and make that zone also ZONE_NOFREE and
ZONE_VM. Do this for the pmap zones for the other archs too,
although in some cases it may not be entirely necessarily. We'd
rather be safe than sorry at this point.
Perhaps all UMA_ZONE_VM zones should by default be also
UMA_ZONE_NOFREE?
May fix some of silby's crashes on the PV ENTRY zone.
memory in bus_dmamem_alloc(). This is possible now that
contigmalloc() supports the M_ZERO flag.
- Remove the locking of Giant around calls to contigmalloc() since
contigmalloc() now grabs Giant itself.
switching anymore, so there's no need to save and restore GP. This
change breaks threaded applications linked against libc_r. Pull the
tier 2 card again: relink. This will link against libthr instead.
