- The MD functions critical_enter/exit are renamed to start with a cpu_
prefix.
- MI wrapper functions critical_enter/exit maintain a per-thread nesting
count and a per-thread critical section saved state set when entering
a critical section while at nesting level 0 and restored when exiting
to nesting level 0. This moves the saved state out of spin mutexes so
that interlocking spin mutexes works properly.
- Most low-level MD code that used critical_enter/exit now use
cpu_critical_enter/exit. MI code such as device drivers and spin
mutexes use the MI wrappers. Note that since the MI wrappers store
the state in the current thread, they do not have any return values or
arguments.
- mtx_intr_enable() is replaced with a constant CRITICAL_FORK which is
assigned to curthread->td_savecrit during fork_exit().
Tested on: i386, alpha
- Axe inlvtlb_ok as it was completely redundant with smp_active.
- Remove references to non-existent variable and non-existent file
in i386/include/smp.h.
- Don't perform initializations local to each CPU while holding the
ap boot lock on i386 while an AP bootstraps itself.
- Reorganize the AP startup code some to unify the latter half of the
functions to bring an AP up. Eventually this might be broken out into
a MI function in subr_smp.c.
Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.
To use this code you must compile a kernel with
options DEVICE_POLLING
and at runtime enable polling with
sysctl kern.polling.enable=1
The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with
sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)
while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.
Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/
and also supports polling in the idle loop.
NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.
NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.
Quick description of files touched by this commit:
sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications
for use on machines with untrusted local users, for security as well
as stability reasons.
o Lack of clarity pointed out by: David Rufino <dr@soniq.net> via bugtraq.
- The MI portions of struct globaldata have been consolidated into a MI
struct pcpu. The MD per-CPU data are specified via a macro defined in
machine/pcpu.h. A macro was chosen over a struct mdpcpu so that the
interface would be cleaner (PCPU_GET(my_md_field) vs.
PCPU_GET(md.md_my_md_field)).
- All references to globaldata are changed to pcpu instead. In a UP kernel,
this data was stored as global variables which is where the original name
came from. In an SMP world this data is per-CPU and ideally private to each
CPU outside of the context of debuggers. This also included combining
machine/globaldata.h and machine/globals.h into machine/pcpu.h.
- The pointer to the thread using the FPU on i386 was renamed from
npxthread to fpcurthread to be identical with other architectures.
- Make the show pcpu ddb command MI with a MD callout to display MD
fields.
- The globaldata_register() function was renamed to pcpu_init() and now
init's MI fields of a struct pcpu in addition to registering it with
the internal array and list.
- A pcpu_destroy() function was added to remove a struct pcpu from the
internal array and list.
Tested on: alpha, i386
Reviewed by: peter, jake
This flag adds a pausing utility. When ran with -p, during the kernel
probing phase, the kernel will pause after each line of output.
This pausing can be ended with the '.' key, and is automatically
suspended when entering ddb.
This flag comes in handy at systems without a serial port that either hang
during booting or reser.
Reviewed by: (partly by jlemon)
MFC after: 1 week
o Hide nonstandard functions and types in <netinet/in.h> when
_POSIX_SOURCE is defined.
o Add some missing types (required by POSIX.1-200x) to <netinet/in.h>.
o Restore vendor ID from Rev 1.1 in <netinet/in.h> and make use of new
__FBSDID() macro.
o Fix some miscellaneous issues in <arpa/inet.h>.
o Correct final argument for the inet_ntop() function (POSIX.1-200x).
o Get rid of the namespace pollution from <sys/types.h> in
<arpa/inet.h>.
Reviewed by: fenner
Partially submitted by: bde
Merge in the irq 0 detection. Add comment about why.
If we have irq 0, ignore it like we do irq 255. Some BIOS writers aren't
careful like they should be.
alpha pmap. In particular -
- pd_entry_t and pt_entry_t are now u_int32_t instead of a pointer.
This is to enable cleaner PAE and x86-64 support down the track sor
that we can change the pd_entry_t/pt_entry_t types to 64 bit entities.
- Terminate "unsigned *ptep, pte" with extreme prejudice and use the
correct pt_entry_t/pd_entry_t types.
- Various other cosmetic changes to match cleanups elsewhere.
- This eliminates a boatload of casts.
- use VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS in place of UPT_MIN_ADDRESS in a couple of places
where we're testing user address space limits. Assuming the page tables
start directly after the end of user space is not a safe assumption.
There is still more to go.
- use NPTEPG/NPDEPG instead of magic 1024 (important for PAE)
- use pt_entry_t instead of unsigned (important for PAE)
- use vm_offset_t instead of unsigned for va's (important for x86-64)
ill effects. This should fix problems threaded programs are having with
auto-detecting CPU type.
Reported by: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Tested by: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
lock as this usually makes the problem worse.
- If we get a page fault while holding a spin lock, treat it as a fatal
trap and don't even bother calling into the VM since calling into the
VM will panic when trying to lock Giant before we can get a useful
message anyways.
