Make the public interface more systematically named.
Remove the alternate method, it doesn't do any good, only ruins performance.
Add counters to profile the usage of the 8 access functions.
Apply the beer-ware to my code.
The weird +/- counts are caused by two repocopies behind the scenes:
kern/kern_clock.c -> kern/kern_tc.c
sys/time.h -> sys/timetc.h
(thanks peter!)
the low level interrupt handler number should be used. Change
setup_apic_irq_mapping() to allocate low level interrupt handler X (Xintr${X})
for any ISA interrupt X mentioned in the MP table.
Remove an assumption in the driver for the system clock (clock.c) that
interrupts mentioned in the MP table as delivered to IOAPIC #0 intpin Y
is handled by low level interrupt handler Y (Xintr${Y}) but don't assume
that low level interrupt handler 0 (Xintr0) is used.
Don't allocate two low level interrupt handlers for the system clock.
Reviewed by: NOKUBI Hirotaka <hnokubi@yyy.or.jp>
apm_default_resume() to sometimes set a very wrong time.
(1) Accesses to the RTC index and data registers were not atomic enough.
Interrupts were not masked. This was only good enough until an
interrupt handler (rtcintr()) started accessing the RTC in FreeBSD-2.0.
(2) Access to the block of time registers in inittodr() was not atomic
enough. inittodr() has 244us to read the time registers. Interrupts
were not masked. This was only good enough until something (apm)
started calling inittodr() after boot time in FreeBSD-2.0.
The fix for (2) also makes the timecounter update more atomic, although
this is currently unimportant due to the low resolution of the RTC.
Problem reported by: mckay
the countdown register.
this should not be necessary but there are broken laptops that
do not restore the countdown register on resume.
when it happnes, it messes up the hardclock interval and system clock,
which leads to the infamous "calcru: negative time" problem.
Submitted by: kjc, iwasaki
Reviewed by: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@eircom.net> and committers.
Obtained from: PAO3
active or not. The only sane thing we can do here is assume that if
APM is supported it might be active at some point, and bail.
In reality, even this isn't good enough; regardless of whether we support
APM or not, the system may well futz with the CPU's clock speed and throw
the TSC off. We need to stop using it for timekeeping except under
controlled circumstances. Curse the lack of a dependable high-resolution
timer.
but broken, since tsc_timecounter is not initialised in that case,
and updating an uninitialised timecounter is fatal.
Fixed style bugs in the machdep.i8254_freq and machdep.tsc_freq
sysctls.
Reviewed by: phk
1. Rise is recognized in identdcpu.c.
2. The TSC is not written to. A workaround for the CPU bug is being
applied to clock.c (the bug being that the mP6 has TSC enabled
in its CPUID-capabilities, but it only supports reading it. If we
try to write to it (MSR 16), a GPF occurs.) The new behavior is that
FreeBSD will _not_ zero the TSC. Instead, we do a bit of 64-bit
arithmetic.
Reviewed by: msmith
Obtained from: unfurl & msmith
The old version only worked right when the time was read strictly
more often than every 1/HZ seconds, but we only guarantee reading
it every (1/HZ + epsilon) seconds. Part of rev.1.126-1.127 attempted
to fix this but didn't succeed. Detect counter rollover using the
heuristic from the old version of microtime() with additional
complications for supporting calls from fast interrupt handlers.
This works provided i8254 interrupts are not delayed by more than
1/(2*HZ) seconds.
This needs more comments, and cleanups for the SMP case, and more
testing of the SMP case before it is merged into RELENG_3.
Tested by: jhay
Interrupts under the new scheme are managed by the i386 nexus with the
awareness of the resource manager. There is further room for optimizing
the interfaces still. All the users of register_intr()/intr_create()
should be gone, with the exception of pcic and i386/isa/clock.c.
went backwards when interrupts were masked for more than one i8254
interrupt period. It sometimes went backwards when the i8254 counter
was reprogrammed. Neither of these should happen in normal operation.
Update the i8254 timecounter support variables atomically. Calling
timecounter functions from fast interrupt handlers may actually work
in all cases now.
and use this when masking/unmasking interrupts.
Maintain a mapping from (iopaic number, int pin) tuple to irq number,
and use this when configuring devices and programming the ioapics.
Previous code assumed that irq number was equal to int pin number, and
that the ioapic number was 0.
Don't let an AP enter _cpu_switch before all local apics are initialized.
Clean up (or if antipodic: down) some of the msgbuf stuff.
Use an inline function rather than a macro for timecounter delta.
Maintain process "on-cpu" time as 64 bits of microseconds to avoid
needless second rollover overhead.
Avoid calling microuptime the second time in mi_switch() if we do
not pass through _idle in cpu_switch()
This should reduce our context-switch overhead a bit, in particular
on pre-P5 and SMP systems.
WARNING: Programs which muck about with struct proc in userland
will have to be fixed.
Reviewed, but found imperfect by: bde
"time" wasn't a atomic variable, so splfoo() protection were needed
around any access to it, unless you just wanted the seconds part.
Most uses of time.tv_sec now uses the new variable time_second instead.
gettime() changed to getmicrotime(0.
Remove a couple of unneeded splfoo() protections, the new getmicrotime()
is atomic, (until Bruce sets a breakpoint in it).
A couple of places needed random data, so use read_random() instead
of mucking about with time which isn't random.
Add a new nfs_curusec() function.
Mark a couple of bogosities involving the now disappeard time variable.
Update ffs_update() to avoid the weird "== &time" checks, by fixing the
one remaining call that passwd &time as args.
Change profiling in ncr.c to use ticks instead of time. Resolution is
the same.
Add new function "tvtohz()" to avoid the bogus "splfoo(), add time, call
hzto() which subtracts time" sequences.
Reviewed by: bde
on the IOAPIC being connected to the 8254 timer interrupt.
Verify that timer interrupts are delivered. If they aren't, attempt
a fallback to mixed mode (i.e. routing the timer interrupt via the 8259 PIC).
it runs at a constant frequency. This was less of an issue before,
because the TSC only interpolated in the HZ intervals, but now where
the timecounter is used all the way, this becomes much more visible.
Nit: Fix a printf which triggered the bde-filter.
Highlights:
* Simple model for underlying hardware.
* Hardware basis for timekeeping can be changed on the fly.
* Only one hardware clock responsible for TOD keeping.
* Provides a real nanotime() function.
* Time granularity: .232E-18 seconds.
* Frequency granularity: .238E-12 s/s
* Frequency adjustment is continuous in time.
* Less overhead for frequency adjustment.
* Improves xntpd performance.
Reviewed by: bde, bde, bde
is "acquired". This fixes a TSC biasing error of about 10 msec when
pcaudio is active.
Update `time' before calling hardclock() when timer0 is being released.
This is not known to be important.
Added some delays in writertc(). Efficiency is not critical here, unlike
in rtcin(), and we already use conservative delays there.
Don't touch the hardware when machdep.i8254_freq is being changed but
the maximum count wouldn't change. This fixes jitter of up to 10 msec
for most small adjustments to machdep.i8254_freq. When the maximum
count needs to change, the hardware should be adjusted more carefully.
in <machine/cpu.h>. Moved the declarations to <machine/cputypes.h>.
Fixed style bugs in the moved code. Fixed everything that depended on
the nested include. Don't include <machine/cpu.h> (in the changed files)
unless something in it is used directly.