Commit Graph

19 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jake Burkholder
28ab032ea9 Moved the syscons options, kbd options and DEV_SPLASH to the MI options
file.
2003-06-18 15:25:01 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
f2c49dd248 Revamp of the syscall path, exception and context handling. The
prime objectives are:
o  Implement a syscall path based on the epc inststruction (see
   sys/ia64/ia64/syscall.s).
o  Revisit the places were we need to save and restore registers
   and define those contexts in terms of the register sets (see
   sys/ia64/include/_regset.h).

Secundairy objectives:
o  Remove the requirement to use contigmalloc for kernel stacks.
o  Better handling of the high FP registers for SMP systems.
o  Switch to the new cpu_switch() and cpu_throw() semantics.
o  Add a good unwinder to reconstruct contexts for the rare
   cases we need to (see sys/contrib/ia64/libuwx)

Many files are affected by this change. Functionally it boils
down to:
o  The EPC syscall doesn't preserve registers it does not need
   to preserve and places the arguments differently on the stack.
   This affects libc and truss.
o  The address of the kernel page directory (kptdir) had to
   be unstaticized for use by the nested TLB fault handler.
   The name has been changed to ia64_kptdir to avoid conflicts.
   The renaming affects libkvm.
o  The trapframe only contains the special registers and the
   scratch registers. For syscalls using the EPC syscall path
   no scratch registers are saved. This affects all places where
   the trapframe is accessed. Most notably the unaligned access
   handler, the signal delivery code and the debugger.
o  Context switching only partly saves the special registers
   and the preserved registers. This affects cpu_switch() and
   triggered the move to the new semantics, which additionally
   affects cpu_throw().
o  The high FP registers are either in the PCB or on some
   CPU. context switching for them is done lazily. This affects
   trap().
o  The mcontext has room for all registers, but not all of them
   have to be defined in all cases. This mostly affects signal
   delivery code now. The *context syscalls are as of yet still
   unimplemented.

Many details went into the removal of the requirement to use
contigmalloc for kernel stacks. The details are mostly CPU
specific and limited to exception_save() and exception_restore().
The few places where we create, destroy or switch stacks were
mostly simplified by not having to construct physical addresses
and additionally saving the virtual addresses for later use.

Besides more efficient context saving and restoring, which of
course yields a noticable speedup, this also fixes the dreaded
SMP bootup problem as a side-effect. The details of which are
still not fully understood.

This change includes all the necessary backward compatibility
code to have it handle older userland binaries that use the
break instruction for syscalls. Support for break-based syscalls
has been pessimized in favor of a clean implementation. Due to
the overall better performance of the kernel, this will still
be notived as an improvement if it's noticed at all.

Approved by: re@ (jhb)
2003-05-16 21:26:42 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
ed9adee74c Options that go into homonymous headers shouldn't specify the header name.
Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>
2003-04-12 09:40:37 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
521cef5ba6 Add ITANIUM2 as a global option. 2002-11-24 19:50:15 +00:00
Juli Mallett
5f07565bcb Move SHOW_BUSYBUFS and PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME into the MI options file, since
MI code uses them, and every platform provides them (except x86_64 whose
options file was lacking one).

Reviewed by:	bde, rwatson
2002-11-18 06:17:07 +00:00
John Baldwin
0f8e01f117 Oops, I missed a few changes in 'device acpica' -> 'device acpi' change.
Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com>
2002-10-24 19:17:06 +00:00
Mitsuru IWASAKI
c42946c4c1 Add new syscons option SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH.
This disables vty switch during suspend/resume.
2002-10-17 07:04:31 +00:00
John Baldwin
6c519e3898 Sync up syscons options from options.i386. 2002-07-15 18:43:09 +00:00
Nick Hibma
d8dbc77c56 Make the speed used by gdb over serial settable in the kernel configuration.
This facilitates the use in circumstances where you are using a serial
console as well. GDB doesn't support anything higher than 9600 baud (19k2
if you are lucky), but the console does.
2002-06-18 21:30:37 +00:00
Peter Wemm
421f855923 Allow a kernel to be compiled with both SKI and acpica and still
work on real hardware.  (SKI used to break the sapic probes)
2002-04-14 04:33:41 +00:00
Doug Rabson
989db74d57 Add IA32 option for emulation of i386 binaries on the ia64 platform. 2002-04-10 19:35:50 +00:00
Doug Rabson
9d3b72ece5 Add various file relating to firmware interfaces and make SKI support
optional.
2001-09-29 11:46:22 +00:00
Doug Rabson
0038106f4d Add CONSPEED option. 2001-09-22 19:53:36 +00:00
Doug Rabson
d452f533f7 Add options to select between 4k, 8k and 16k page sizes on ia64. The
default is now 8k.
2001-09-07 11:03:39 +00:00
Peter Wemm
b2c17e333e Add a cosmetic comment. 2001-08-02 23:54:23 +00:00
Kazutaka YOKOTA
2fe5e0b184 Use #ifdef DEV_SPLASH (from opt_splash.h) rather than
#if NSPLASH > 0 (from splash.h) to test the presence
of the splash driver.
2001-08-02 13:22:33 +00:00
John Baldwin
39c451331e Allow the size of the SSC memory disk used with the SKI emulator to be
overridden in the kernel config file via the SSC_NSECT option.
2001-04-30 21:26:43 +00:00
Doug Rabson
2af41c92e8 Add SKI_ROOT_FILESYSTEM option. 2001-03-09 13:46:03 +00:00
Doug Rabson
1ebcad5720 This is the first snapshot of the FreeBSD/ia64 kernel. This kernel will
not work on any real hardware (or fully work on any simulator). Much more
needs to happen before this is actually functional but its nice to see
the FreeBSD copyright message appear in the ia64 simulator.
2000-09-29 13:46:07 +00:00