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Initialize struct cdevsw using C99 sparse initializtion and remove
all initializations to default values.
This patch is automatically generated and has been tested by compiling
LINT with all the fields in struct cdevsw in reverse order on alpha,
sparc64 and i386.
Approved by: re(scottl)
Fixed memory leak in the "nodevice" option implementation.
Use these instead of sed(1) in MD NOTES.
Use a single makefile (sys/conf/makeLINT.mk) to generate
LINT for all architectures. (Previous versions missed
the LINT dependency on Makefile, and i386 version also
missed the dependency on ${NOTES}.)
Fixed bugs in the previous NOTES conversion using the
"nodevice" token and sed(1):
- i386 LINT lost "device pst".
- pc98 LINT lost SC_*, MAXCONS and KBD_DISABLE_KEYMAP_LOAD
options, and got needless DPT_* options.
- Added nooptions PPC_DEBUG, PPC_PROBE_CHIPSET, KBD_INSTALL_CDEV
to sparc64 LINT so that it has a chance to config(8).
This basically returns us to where we were before.
for testing and setting the current and alternate address spaces.
- Changed PTDpde and APTDpde to arrays to support multiple page directory
pages.
ponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
- Get rid of the useless atop() / pmap_phys_address() detour. The
device mmap handlers must now give back the physical address
without atop()'ing it.
- Don't borrow the physical address of the mapping in the returned
int. Now we properly pass a vm_offset_t * and expect it to be
filled by the mmap handler when the mapping was successful. The
mmap handler must now return 0 when successful, any other value
is considered as an error. Previously, returning -1 was the only
way to fail. This change thus accidentally fixes some devices
which were bogusly returning errno constants which would have been
considered as addresses by the device pager.
- Garbage collect the poorly named pmap_phys_address() now that it's
no longer used.
- Convert all the d_mmap_t consumers to the new API.
I'm still not sure wheter we need a __FreeBSD_version bump for this,
since and we didn't guarantee API/ABI stability until 5.1-RELEASE.
Discussed with: alc, phk, jake
Reviewed by: peter
Compile-tested on: LINT (i386), GENERIC (alpha and sparc64)
Runtime-tested on: i386
- Changed VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS to be defined in terms of PTDPTDI. In order for
assumptions about the recursive page table map to work it must be the base
of the recursive map. Any pte offset that's not NPTEPG will break these
assumptions.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
instead of allocating another page of kva and mapping it in again. This was
likely an oversight in revision 1.174 (cut and paste from pmap_pinit).
Discussed with: peter, tegge
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
page directory.
- Use these instead of the magic constants 1 or PAGE_SIZE where appropriate.
There are still numerous assumptions that the page directory is exactly
1 page.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
dev_t to the method functions.
The dev_t can still be found at struct consdev *->cn_dev.
Add a void *cn_arg element to struct consdev which the drivers can use
for retrieving their softc.
#if'ed out for a while. Complete the deed and tidy up some other bits.
We need to be able to call this stuff from outer edges of interrupt
handlers for devices that have the ISR bits in pci config space. Making
the bios code mpsafe was just too hairy. We had also stubbed it out some
time ago due to there simply being too much brokenness in too many systems.
This adds a leaf lock so that it is safe to use pci_read_config() and
pci_write_config() from interrupt handlers. We still will use pcibios
to do interrupt routing if there is no acpi.. [yes, I tested this]
Briefly glanced at by: imp
I was in two minds as to where to put them in the first case..
I should have listenned to the other mind.
Submitted by: parts by davidxu@
Reviewed by: jeff@ mini@
o Add a MD header private to libc called _fpmath.h; this header
contains bitfield layouts of MD floating-point types.
o Add a MI header private to libc called fpmath.h; this header
contains bitfield layouts of MI floating-point types.
o Add private libc variables to lib/libc/$arch/gen/infinity.c for
storing NaN values.
o Add __double_t and __float_t to <machine/_types.h>, and provide
double_t and float_t typedefs in <math.h>.
o Add some C99 manifest constants (FP_ILOGB0, FP_ILOGBNAN, HUGE_VALF,
HUGE_VALL, INFINITY, NAN, and return values for fpclassify()) to
<math.h> and others (FLT_EVAL_METHOD, DECIMAL_DIG) to <float.h> via
<machine/float.h>.
o Add C99 macro fpclassify() which calls __fpclassify{d,f,l}() based
on the size of its argument. __fpclassifyl() is never called on
alpha because (sizeof(long double) == sizeof(double)), which is good
since __fpclassifyl() can't deal with such a small `long double'.
This was developed by David Schultz and myself with input from bde and
fenner.
PR: 23103
Submitted by: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
(significant portions)
Reviewed by: bde, fenner (earlier versions)
Remove all the stuff that does not relate to the TSC.
Change the calibration to use DELAY(1000000) rather than trying to check
it against the CMOS RTC, this drastically increases precision:
Using 25 samples on a Athlon 700MHz UP machine I find:
stddev min max average
CMOS 22200 Hz -74980 Hz 34301 Hz 704928721 Hz
DELAY 1805 Hz -1984 Hz 2678 Hz 704937583 Hz
(The difference between the two averages is not statistically significant.)
expressed in PPM of the frequency:
stddev min max
CMOS 31.49 PPM -106.37 PPM 48.66 PPM
DELAY 2.56 PPM 2.81 PPM 3.80 PPM
This code will not be used until a followup commit to sys/isa/clock.c
and sys/pc98/pc98/clock.c which will only happen after some field testing.
uio segment is empty. In this case no dma segment is create by
bus_dmamap_load_buffer, but the calling routine clears the first flag.
Under certain combinations of addresses of the first and second mbuf/uio
buffer this leads to corrupted DMA segment descriptors. This was already
fixed by tmm in sparc64/sparc64/iommu.c.
PR: kern/47733
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: jake (mentor)
prevent the compiler from optimizing assignments into byte-copy
operations which might make access to the individual fields non-atomic.
Use the individual fields throughout, and don't bother locking them with
Giant: it is no longer needed.
Inspired by: tjr
statclock based on profhz when profiling is enabled MD, since most platforms
don't use this anyway. This removes the need for statclock_process, whose
only purpose was to subdivide profhz, and gets the profiling clock running
outside of sched_lock on platforms that implement suswintr.
Also changed the interface for starting and stopping the profiling clock to
do just that, instead of changing the rate of statclock, since they can now
be separate.
Reviewed by: jhb, tmm
Tested on: i386, sparc64
- Use atomic subtract to update the global wired pages count. (See
also vm/vm_page.c revision 1.233.)
- Assert that the page queue lock is held in pmap_remove_entry().
I'm not convinced there is anything major wrong with the patch but
them's the rules..
I am using my "David's mentor" hat to revert this as he's
offline for a while.
counterparts to bus_dmamem_alloc() and bus_dmamem_free(). This allows
the caller to specify the size of the allocation instead of it defaulting
to the max_size field of the busdma tag.
This is intended to aid in converting drivers to busdma. Lots of
hardware cannot understand scatter/gather lists, which forces the
driver to copy the i/o buffers to a single contiguous region
before sending it to the hardware. Without these new methods, this
would require a new busdma tag for each operation, or a complex
internal allocator/cache for each driver.
Allocations greater than PAGE_SIZE are rounded up to the next
PAGE_SIZE by contigmalloc(), so this is not suitable for multiple
static allocations that would be better served by a single
fixed-length subdivided allocation.
Reviewed by: jake (sparc64)
data structure called kse_upcall to manage UPCALL. All KSE binding
and loaning code are gone.
A thread owns an upcall can collect all completed syscall contexts in
its ksegrp, turn itself into UPCALL mode, and takes those contexts back
to userland. Any thread without upcall structure has to export their
contexts and exit at user boundary.
Any thread running in user mode owns an upcall structure, when it enters
kernel, if the kse mailbox's current thread pointer is not NULL, then
when the thread is blocked in kernel, a new UPCALL thread is created and
the upcall structure is transfered to the new UPCALL thread. if the kse
mailbox's current thread pointer is NULL, then when a thread is blocked
in kernel, no UPCALL thread will be created.
Each upcall always has an owner thread. Userland can remove an upcall by
calling kse_exit, when all upcalls in ksegrp are removed, the group is
atomatically shutdown. An upcall owner thread also exits when process is
in exiting state. when an owner thread exits, the upcall it owns is also
removed.
KSE is a pure scheduler entity. it represents a virtual cpu. when a thread
is running, it always has a KSE associated with it. scheduler is free to
assign a KSE to thread according thread priority, if thread priority is changed,
KSE can be moved from one thread to another.
When a ksegrp is created, there is always N KSEs created in the group. the
N is the number of physical cpu in the current system. This makes it is
possible that even an userland UTS is single CPU safe, threads in kernel still
can execute on different cpu in parallel. Userland calls kse_create to add more
upcall structures into ksegrp to increase concurrent in userland itself, kernel
is not restricted by number of upcalls userland provides.
The code hasn't been tested under SMP by author due to lack of hardware.
Reviewed by: julian
- Sort definition of cpu_* variables appropriately.
- Move cpu_fxsr out of the magic non-BSS set of variables and stick it in
the BSS along with hw_instruction_sse (make the latter static as well).
Submitted by: bde (partially)
variable to something in the cpu_* namespace since that's what all the
other cpuid variables were named and cpu_procinfo is what I came up with.
Requested by: bde
metadata. This fixes module dependency resolution by the kernel linker on
sparc64, where the relocations for the metadata are different than on other
architectures; the relative offset is in the addend of an Elf_Rela record
instead of the original value of the location being patched.
Also fix printf formats in debug code.
Submitted by: Hartmut Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
PR: 46732
Tested on: alpha (obrien), i386, sparc64
<machine/ieeefp.h> where it belongs.
o Remove the i386 specific inclusion of <machine/floatingpoint.h>
from <ieeefp.h>, now that including <machine/ieeefp.h> is enough
for all architectures.
o Allow <machine/ieeefp.h> to inline the functions exposed by the
headers by checking for _IEEEFP_INLINED_ in the MI header. When
defined, prototypes are not given and it is assumed that the MD
headers, when inlining only a subset of the functions provide
prototypes for the functions not being inlined.
Based on patch from: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Tested with: make release.
Interface (SMAPI) BIOS, which is present on some IBM
Thinkpad models (560, 600, 770 to name a few.)
The SMAPI BIOS provides access to System Information,
System Configuration, and Power Management.
portable copy. Note that pmap_extract() must be used instead of
pmap_kextract().
This is precursor work to a reorganization of vmapbuf() to close remaining
user/kernel races (which can lead to a panic).
frequency in Hz. The default is still 33.333 MHz. Please notice
that the number is round to a multiple of four internally so it may
not read back exactly the same as written.
Add compile time ELAN_XTAL option to override the 33.333 MHz default.
Add compile time ELAN_PPS option to enable code for high precision
(250 nanoseconds) timestamping of external signals.
pointer types, and remove a huge number of casts from code using it.
Change struct xfile xf_data to xun_data (ABI is still compatible).
If we need to add a #define for f_data and xf_data we can, but I don't
think it will be necessary. There are no operational changes in this
commit.
cpu_exthigh and cpu_brand in printcpuinfo() instead of in identify_cpu().
We also only do it for known-good values of cpu_vendor which is a bit more
conservative.
Reviewed by: bde (mostly)
print_AMD_foo() functions.
- Add a brand name table for the brand index provided on Intel CPU's in
%ebx after cpuid 1.
- For Intel CPUs, if we don't get a processor name from the extended cpuid
then use the brand index in cpuid_cpuinfo to pick a name from the brand
table and copy that name into cpu_brand.
- Replace the duplicated code to use the extended cpuid to replace
cpu_model with the processor name in the AMD and Transmeta sections of
printcpuinfo() with generic code that replaces cpu_model with
cpu_brand if cpu_brand is not an empty string. We also trim leading
spaces from cpu_brand prior to doing this since at least some processor
names (notably those of Intel CPUs) have leading spaces in the name.
- Give print_AMD_features() its own private regs[] array since
printcpuinfo() doesn't use the one it has anymore.
returned from cpuid 0x80000000.
- Add a cpu_brand char array to hold the processor name returned by
cpuid 0x80000002-0x80000004 on AMD, Intel, Transmeta, and possibly
other CPUs.
- Use cpuid to set cpu_exthigh and read the processor name if it is present
in identify_cpu().
in the mptable. The way this works is that we determine if the system
has hyperthreading and how many logical CPU's should be in each physical
CPU by using the information returned by cpuid. During the first pass of
the mptable, we build a bitmask of the APIC IDs of the CPUs listed in the
mptable. We then scan that bitmask to see if the CPUs are already listed
by the mptable, or if there are any APIC IDs already in use that would
conflict with the APIC IDs of the logical CPUs. If that test succeeds,
then we fixup the count of application processors. Later on during the
second pass of the mptable we create fake processor entries for logical
CPUs and add them to the system.
We only need this type of fixup hack when using the mptable to enumerate
CPUs. The ACPI MADT table properly enumerates all logical CPUs.
(show thread {address})
Remove the IDLE kse state and replace it with a change in
the way threads sahre KSEs. Every KSE now has a thread, which is
considered its "owner" however a KSE may also be lent to other
threads in the same group to allow completion of in-kernel work.
n this case the owner remains the same and the KSE will revert to the
owner when the other work has been completed.
All creations of upcalls etc. is now done from
kse_reassign() which in turn is called from mi_switch or
thread_exit(). This means that special code can be removed from
msleep() and cv_wait().
kse_release() does not leave a KSE with no thread any more but
converts the existing thread into teh KSE's owner, and sets it up
for doing an upcall. It is just inhibitted from being scheduled until
there is some reason to do an upcall.
Remove all trace of the kse_idle queue since it is no-longer needed.
"Idle" KSEs are now on the loanable queue.
of the `machdep.acpi_root' sysctl. This is required on ia64
because the root pointer hardly ever, if at all, lives in the
first MB of memory and also because scanning the first MB of
memory can cause machine checks.
This provides a save and reliable way for ACPI tools to work
with the tables if ACPI support is present in the kernel. On
ia64 ACPI is non-optional.
GENERIC. Each device can be re-enabled at startup time by unsetting the
disabled hint in the loader.
Requested by: mdodd
Approved by: re
Prodded by: rwatson
The correct range is [1...7] with Sunday=1, but we have been writing
[0...6] with Sunday=0.
The Soekris computers flagged the zero, zapped the date, so if you
rebooted your soekris on a sunday, it would come up with a wrong
date.
Bruce has a more extensive rework of this code, but we will stick with
the minimalist fix for now.
Spotted by: Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com>
Thanks to: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>.
Confirmed by: bde
Approved by: re
to accomodate the new SSE/XMM floating point save/restore
instructions.
This commit is mostly from bde and includes some style nits.
Approved by: re (jhb)
pmap_remove_pte(). Use vm_page_sleep_if_busy() in
_pmap_unwire_pte_hold() so that the page queues lock is released
when sleeping.
Approved by: re (blanket)
to the sparc64 implementation. (Note: With modest effort on the alpha and
ia64 this function could migrate to the MI part of the kernel.)
Approved by: re (blanket)
i386 cpu_thread_exit(). This resulted in a panic with WITNESS
since we need to hold Giant to call kmem_free(), and we weren't
helding it anymore in cpu_thread_exit(). We now do this from a
new MD function, cpu_thread_dtor(), called by thread_dtor().
Approved by: re@
Suggested by: jhb
macro for use when parsing MADT tables, thus we always tried to set the
interrupt model to APIC. This proved to be harmful on UP machines with
IO APIC's (or for UP kernels on SMP machines) since the wrong interrupt
routing information would be returned.
Pointy hat to: jhb
Approved by: re (rwatson)
Previously these were libc functions but were requested to
be made into system calls for atomicity and to coalesce what
might be two entrances into the kernel (signal mask setting
and floating point trap) into one.
A few style nits and comments from bde are also included.
Tested on alpha by: gallatin
o on input don't strip the Ethernet header from packets
o input packet handling is now done with if_input
o track changes to ether_ifattach/ether_ifdetach API
o track changes to bpf tapping
o call ether_ioctl for default handling of ioctl's
o use constants from net/ethernet.h where possible
Reviewed by: many
Approved by: re
to reflect its new location, and add page queue and flag locking.
Notes: (1) alpha, i386, and ia64 had identical implementations
of pmap_collect() in terms of machine-independent interfaces;
(2) sparc64 doesn't require it; (3) powerpc had it as a TODO.
has broken int 12H.
If hw.hasbrokenint12="1" in loader environment, kernel never use BIOS
INT 12 call to determine base memory size.
Otherwise, kernel use INT 12 in old behaviour.
This should fix kernel panic problem caused by 1.544 changes.
MFC after: 1 day
sysctls to MI code; this reduces code duplication and makes all of them
available on sparc64, and the latter two on powerpc.
The semantics by the i386 and pc98 hw.availpages is slightly changed:
previously, holes between ranges of available pages would be included,
while they are excluded now. The new behaviour should be more correct
and brings i386 in line with the other architectures.
Move physmem to vm/vm_init.c, where this variable is used in MI code.
take advantage of the fact that the vm object's list of pages is
now ordered to reduce the overhead of finding the desired set of
pages to be mapped. (See revision 1.215 of vm/vm_page.c.)
remove global variable in_vm86call, set vm86 calling flag in PCB flags.
2.Fix vm86 BIOS calling preempted problem by changing vm86_lock mutex type
from MTX_DEF to MTX_SPIN. vm86pcb is not remembered in thread struct,
when the thread calling vm86 BIOS is preempted by interrupt thread,
and later switching back to the thread would cause incorrect context be
loaded into CPU registers, this leads to kernel crash.
not look like the prerequisites to fill it in properly will be in the tree
for the upcoming release, but it's mostly done, so there is no need for these
to stay around to remind us.
o It turns out that we always need to try to route the interrupts for
the case where the $PIR tells us there can be only one. Some machines
require this, while others fail when we try to do this (bogusly, imho).
Since we have no apriori way of knowing which is which, we always try to
do the routing and hope for the best if things fail.
o Add some additional comments that state the obvious, but amplify it in
non-obvious ways (judging from the questions I've gotten).
This should un-break older laptops that still have to use PCIBIOS to route
interrupts.
Tested by: sam
Use exact width types, since this is a MD file and won't be used elsewhere.
Fix a couple of resulting printf breakages
Bug found by: phk using Flexlint
handling clean and functional as 5.x evolves. This allows some of the
nasty bandaids in the 5.x codepaths to be unwound.
Encapsulate 4.x signal handling under COMPAT_FREEBSD4 (there is an
anti-foot-shooting measure in place, 5.x folks need this for a while) and
finish encapsulating the older stuff under COMPAT_43. Since the ancient
stuff is required on alpha (longjmp(3) passes a 'struct osigcontext *'
to the current sigreturn(2), instead of the 'ucontext_t *' that sigreturn
is supposed to take), add a compile time check to prevent foot shooting
there too. Add uniform COMPAT_43 stubs for ia64/sparc64/powerpc.
Tested on: i386, alpha, ia64. Compiled on sparc64 (a few days ago).
Approved by: re
Try INT 15H/E820H first, then fall back to the old compatibility
method (INT 12H).
This is a workaround for newer machines which have broken INT 12H BIOS
service implementation.
Reviewed by: -current ML
MFC after: 3 days
long doubles at the moment (printf truncates them to doubles).
However, long doubles to appear to work to the ranges listed in this
commit on both -stable (4.5) and -current. There may be some slight
rounding issues with long doubles, but that's an orthogonal issue to
these constants.
I've had this in my local tree for 3 months, and in my company's local
tree for 15 months with no ill effects.
Obtained from: NetBSD
Not likely to like it: bde
so that there is ony one copy of it. Fix that one copy
so that KSEs with no mailbox in a KSE program are not a cause
of page faults (this can legitmatly happen).
Submitted by: (parts) davidxu
- Add detach support to the driver so that you can kldunload the module.
Note that currently rc_detach() fails to detach a unit if any of its
child devices are open, thus a kldunload will fail if any of the tty
devices are currently open.
- sys/i386/isa/ic/cd180.h was moved to sys/dev/ic/cd180.h as part of
this change.
Requested by: rwatson
Tested by: rwatson
The primary reason for this is to allow MD code to process machine
specific attributes, segments or sections in the ELF file and
update machine specific state accordingly. An immediate use of this
is in the ia64 port where unwind information is updated to allow
debugging and tracing in/across modules. Note that this commit
does not add the functionality to the ia64 port. See revision 1.9
of ia64/ia64/elf_machdep.c.
Validated on: alpha, i386, ia64
ACL configuration changes, this shouldn't result in different code paths
for file systems not explicitly configured for ACLs by the system
administrator. For UFS1, administrators must still recompile their
kernel to add support for extended attributes; for UFS2, it's sufficient
to enable ACLs using tunefs or at mount-time (tunefs preferred for
reliability reasons). UFS2, for a variety of reasons, including
performance and reliability, is the preferred file system for use with
ACLs.
Approved by: re
2. Update a comment. We now restore much more than RTC updates and
interrupts.
3. Order change. Stop interrupts by writing to RTC_STATUSB,
restore rate bits for the interrupts by writing to RTC_STATUSA,
then enable interrupts again.
This seems to be done perfectly backwards in startrtclock().
Otherwise, the idea for this change was obtained from
startrtclock().
4. Don't stop the clock (RTCB_HALT). We only program some control bits
and don't want to stop the clock.
5. (Not really related.) Add caveats to the comment about timer_restore().
The update is non-atomic since locking is not done.
On locking:
6. rtcin() and writertc() are locked() adequately by splhigh() in RELENG_4,
but this locking is null in -current.
7. Doing things in the correct order in (3) combined with (6) is probably
enough locking for rtcrestore() in RELENG_4. In -current, the
writertc()'s race with rtcintr() unless the BIOS disables RTC interrupts.
Submitted by: bde (including commit message)
MFC after: 1 week
needed to be quoted (to get a C string literal), not the value itself.
Fixed the value of SC_CUT_SEPCHARS. Setting this value would have had no
effect even if it were used, since the value was the same as the default.
The above bugs had no effect except to set bad examples, since test
coverage of SC_CUT_SEPCHARS is broken by enabling a negative option.
Removed (unquoted) double quotes for all options. They were all bogus
since they had no effect except to make non-strings look like strings.
Most of the non-strings were expressions. The value of INIT_PATH is
a non-string since it is stringified later (unlike SC_CUT_SEPCHARS).
Fixed parenthesization errors inside bogus quotes (parenthesize values
if they have more than one token in them but don't parenthesize single
tokens).
This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs.
Reviewed by: jmallet, iedowse, tlambert2@mindspring.com
MFC After: never, -STABLE does not currently use this instruction
- Begin moving scheduler specific functionality into sched_4bsd.c
- Replace direct manipulation of scheduler data with hooks provided by the
new api.
- Remove KSE specific state modifications and single runq assumptions from
kern_switch.c
Reviewed by: -arch
- add wrappers for mmap2(2) and ftruncate64(2) system calls;
- don't spam console with printf's when VFAT_READDIR_BOTH ioctl(2) is invoked;
- add support for SOUND_MIXER_READ_STEREODEVS ioctl(2);
- make msgctl(IPC_STAT) and IPC_SET actually working by converting from
BSD msqid_ds to Linux and vice versa;
- properly return EINVAL if semget(2) is called with nsems being negative.
Reviewed by: marcel
Approved by: marcel
Tested with: LSB runtime test
that add an instance of themselves. The npx(4) driver doesn't even check
the npx 'port' hint but hardcodes IO_NPX instead. The npx(4) driver also
will use isa IRQ 13 (on x86, 8 on pc98) by default if no 'irq' hint is
specified, so we don't need that hint either.
in specific situations. The owner thread must be blocked, and the
borrower can not proceed back to user space with the borrowed KSE.
The borrower will return the KSE on the next context switch where
teh owner wants it back. This removes a lot of possible
race conditions and deadlocks. It is consceivable that the
borrower should inherit the priority of the owner too.
that's another discussion and would be simple to do.
Also, as part of this, the "preallocatd spare thread" is attached to the
thread doing a syscall rather than the KSE. This removes the need to lock
the scheduler when we want to access it, as it's now "at hand".
DDB now shows a lot mor info for threaded proceses though it may need
some optimisation to squeeze it all back into 80 chars again.
(possible JKH project)
Upcalls are now "bound" threads, but "KSE Lending" now means that
other completing syscalls can be completed using that KSE before the upcall
finally makes it back to the UTS. (getting threads OUT OF THE KERNEL is
one of the highest priorities in the KSE system.) The upcall when it happens
will present all the completed syscalls to the KSE for selection.
there are some strange machines that seem to need this.
o delete bogus comment.
o don't use the the bios for read/writing config space. They interact badly
with SMP and being called from ISR. This brings -current in line with
-stable.
# make the latter #ifdef on USE_PCI_BIOS_FOR_READ_WRITE in case we
# need to go back in a hurry.
NB: But it will enable it in all kernels not having options "NO_GEOM"
Put the GEOM related options into the intended order.
Add "options NO_GEOM" to all kernel configs apart from NOTES.
In some order of controlled fashion, the NO_GEOM options will be
removed, architecture by architecture in the coming days.
There are currently three known issues which may force people to
need the NO_GEOM option:
boot0cfg/fdisk:
Tries to update the MBR while it is being used to control
slices. GEOM does not allow this as a direct operation.
SCSI floppy drives:
Appearantly the scsi-da driver return "EBUSY" if no media
is inserted. This is wrong, it should return ENXIO.
PC98:
It is unclear if GEOM correctly recognizes all variants of
PC98 disklabels. (Help Wanted! I have neither docs nor HW)
These issues are all being worked.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
This will be removed when new versions of syscalls sigreturn()
and sigaction() are added (mini is working on this but is in
the middle of a move).
This should fix the problem of cvsupd dying.
These are still unknown name but these are working as well
as the other ServerWorks chipset.
Description strings should be corrected when the chipsets
are known.
MFC after: 1 week
