When running as a PVH guest, there's no emulated i8254, so we need to
use the Xen PV timer as the early source for DELAY. This change allows
for different implementations of the early DELAY function and
implements a Xen variant for it.
Approved by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
dev/xen/timer/timer.c:
dev/xen/timer/timer.h:
- Implement Xen early delay functions using the PV timer and declare
them.
x86/include/init.h:
- Add hooks for early clock source initialization and early delay
functions.
i386/i386/machdep.c:
pc98/pc98/machdep.c:
amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
- Set early delay hooks to use the i8254 on bare metal.
- Use clock_init (that will in turn make use of init_ops) to
initialize the early clock source.
amd64/include/clock.h:
i386/include/clock.h:
- Declare i8254_delay and clock_init.
i386/xen/clock.c:
- Rename DELAY to i8254_delay.
x86/isa/clock.c:
- Introduce clock_init that will take care of initializing the early
clock by making use of the init_ops hooks.
- Move non ISA related delay functions to the newly introduced delay
file.
x86/x86/delay.c:
- Add moved delay related functions.
- Implement generic DELAY function that will use the init_ops hooks.
x86/xen/pv.c:
- Set PVH hooks for the early delay related functions in init_ops.
conf/files.amd64:
conf/files.i386:
conf/files.pc98:
- Add delay.c to the kernel build.
Switch eventtimers(9) from using struct bintime to sbintime_t.
Even before this not a single driver really supported full dynamic range of
struct bintime even in theory, not speaking about practical inexpediency.
This change legitimates the status quo and cleans up the code.
Microoptimize i8254 one-shot operation mode (disabled by default to allow
timecounter functionality) by not writing to mode and MSB registers when
it is not required. This saves several microseconds of CPU time per call,
reducing minimal measured interrupts interval to 19.5us.
when the user has indicated that the system has synchronized TSCs or it has
P-state invariant TSCs. For the former case, we may clear the tunable if it
fails the test to prevent accidental foot-shooting. For the latter case, we
may set it if it passes the test to notify the user that it may be usable.
safer for i386 because it can be easily over 4 GHz now. More worse, it can
be easily changed by user with 'machdep.tsc_freq' tunable (directly) or
cpufreq(4) (indirectly). Note it is intentionally not used in performance
critical paths to avoid performance regression (but we should, in theory).
Alternatively, we may add "virtual TSC" with lower frequency if maximum
frequency overflows 32 bits (and ignore possible incoherency as we do now).
not neccessary. It allows to avoid time counter jump of up to 1/18s, when
base frequency slightly tuned via machdep.i8254_freq sysctl.
Fix few style things.
Suggested by: bde
Unluckily, using one-shot mode is impossible, when same hardware used for
time counting. Introduce new tunable hint.attimer.0.timecounter, setting
which to 0 disables i8254 time counter and allows one-shot mode. Note,
that on some systems there may be no other reliable enough time counters,
so this tunable should be used with understanding.
lengths. Make MI wrapper code to validate periods in request. Make kernel
clock management code to honor these hardware limitations while choosing hz,
stathz and profhz values.
HPET to steal IRQ0 from i8254 and IRQ8 from RTC timers. It can be suitable
for HPETs without FSB interrupts support, as it gives them two unshared
IRQs. It allows them to provide one per-CPU event timer on dual-CPU system,
that should be suitable for further tickless kernels.
To enable it, such lines may be added to /boot/loader.conf:
hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
hint.attimer.0.clock=0
hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1
writing event timer drivers, for choosing best possible drivers by machine
independent code and for operating them to supply kernel with hardclock(),
statclock() and profclock() events in unified fashion on various hardware.
Infrastructure provides support for both per-CPU (independent for every CPU
core) and global timers in periodic and one-shot modes. MI management code
at this moment uses only periodic mode, but one-shot mode use planned for
later, as part of tickless kernel project.
For this moment infrastructure used on i386 and amd64 architectures. Other
archs are welcome to follow, while their current operation should not be
affected.
This patch updates existing drivers (i8254, RTC and LAPIC) for the new
order, and adds event timers support into the HPET driver. These drivers
have different capabilities:
LAPIC - per-CPU timer, supports periodic and one-shot operation, may
freeze in C3 state, calibrated on first use, so may be not exactly precise.
HPET - depending on hardware can work as per-CPU or global, supports
periodic and one-shot operation, usually provides several event timers.
i8254 - global, limited to periodic mode, because same hardware used also
as time counter.
RTC - global, supports only periodic mode, set of frequencies in Hz
limited by powers of 2.
Depending on hardware capabilities, drivers preferred in following orders,
either LAPIC, HPETs, i8254, RTC or HPETs, LAPIC, i8254, RTC.
User may explicitly specify wanted timers via loader tunables or sysctls:
kern.eventtimer.timer1 and kern.eventtimer.timer2.
If requested driver is unavailable or unoperational, system will try to
replace it. If no more timers available or "NONE" specified for second,
system will operate using only one timer, multiplying it's frequency by few
times and uing respective dividers to honor hz, stathz and profhz values,
set during initial setup.
arbitrary frequencies into hardclock(), statclock() and profclock() calls.
Same code with minor variations duplicated several times over the tree for
different timer drivers and architectures.
- Switch all x86 archs to new functions, simplifying the code and removing
extra logic from timer drivers. Other archs are also welcome.
broken atrtc.
Now if you want more correct stats on profhz and stathz it may be
disabled by setting to 0.
Reported by: A. Akephalos <akephalos dot akephalos at gmail dot com>,
Jakub Lach <jakub_lach at mailplus dot pl>
MFC: 1 week
correctly initialized and just then assign to softclock/profclock.
Right now, some atrtc seems reporting strange diagnostic error* making the
current pattern bogus.
In order to do that cleanly, lapic_setup_clock(), on both ia32 and amd64,
now accepts as arguments the desired sources to handle, and returns the
actual ones (LAPIC_CLOCK_NONE is forbidden because otherwise there is no
meaning in calling such function).
This allows to bring out into commont x86 code the handling part for
machdep.lapic_allclocks tunable, which is retained.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by: yongari, Richard Todd
<rmtodd at ichotolot dot servalan dot com>
MFC: 3 weeks
X-MFC: r202387, 204309
shared and generalized between our current amd64, i386 and pc98.
This is just an initial step that should lead to a more complete effort.
For the moment, a very simple porting of cpufreq modules, BIOS calls and
the whole MD specific ISA bus part is added to the sub-tree but ideally
a lot of code might be added and more shared support should grow.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, kib, jhb, imp
Discussed on: arch
MFC: 3 weeks
