topology of nehalem/corei7 based systems.
- Remove the cpu_cores/cpu_logical detection from identcpu.
- Describe the layout of the system in cpu_mp_announce().
Sponsored by: Nokia
features of CPUs like reading/writing machine-specific registers,
retrieving cpuid data, and updating microcode.
- Add cpucontrol(8) utility, that provides userland access to
the features of cpuctl(4).
- Add subsequent manpages.
The cpuctl(4) device operates as follows. The pseudo-device node cpuctlX
is created for each cpu present in the systems. The pseudo-device minor
number corresponds to the cpu number in the system. The cpuctl(4) pseudo-
device allows a number of ioctl to be preformed, namely RDMSR/WRMSR/CPUID
and UPDATE. The first pair alows the caller to read/write machine-specific
registers from the correspondent CPU. cpuid data could be retrieved using
the CPUID call, and microcode updates are applied via UPDATE.
The permissions are inforced based on the pseudo-device file permissions.
RDMSR/CPUID will be allowed when the caller has read access to the device
node, while WRMSR/UPDATE will be granted only when the node is opened
for writing. There're also a number of priv(9) checks.
The cpucontrol(8) utility is intened to provide userland access to
the cpuctl(4) device features. The utility also allows one to apply
cpu microcode updates.
Currently only Intel and AMD cpus are supported and were tested.
Approved by: kib
Reviewed by: rpaulo, cokane, Peter Jeremy
MFC after: 1 month
PhysMask fields based on the number of physical address bits supported
by the current CPU. The old code assumed 36 bits on i386 and 40 bits on
amd64. In truth, all Intel CPUs up until recently used 36 bits (a newer
Intel CPU uses 38 bits) and all the Opteron CPUs used 40 bits.
In at least one case (the new Intel CPU) having the size of the mask field
wrong resulted in writing questionable values into the MTRR registers on
the application processors (BSP as well if you modify the MTRRs via
memcontrol or running X, etc.). The result of the questionable physmask
was that all of memory was apparently treated as uncached rather than
write-back resulting in a very significant performance hit.
Fix this by constructing a run-time mask for the PhysBase and PhysMask
fields based on the number of physical address bits supported by the CPU.
All 64-bit capable CPUs provide a count of PA bits supported via the
0x80000008 extended CPUID feature, so use that if it is available. If that
feature is not available, then assume 36 PA bits.
While I'm here, expand the (now-unused) macros for the PhysBase and
PhysMask fields to the current largest possible value (52 PA bits).
MFC after: 1 week
PR: i386/120516
Reported by: Nokia
and newer CPUs (including Core 2 and Core / Core 2 based Xeons). The
driver attaches to each cpu device and creates a sysctl node in that
device's sysctl context (dev.cpu.N.temperature). When invoked, the
handler binds to the appropriate CPU to ensure a correct reading.
Submitted by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Tested by: des, marcus, Constantine A. Murenin, Ian FREISLICH
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 3 weeks
when the bit 22 is set to 1, CPUID with EAX=0 returns a maximum
value in EAX[7..0] of 3, when set to 0(default), CPUID with EAX=0
returns the number corresponding to the maximum standard function
supported. On my machine, BIOS sets the bit to 1 to make it to be
compatible with old OS, this causes dual-core Pentium-D (two
physical cores) to be identified as hyperthreading (two logical
cores) by function mp_topology().
- Add newer CPUID definitions for future use.
Many thanks to Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex dot net> for providing test
cases for Intel Pentium D and AMD Athlon 64 X2.
Approved by: anholt (mentor)
CPU_ENABLE_TCC enables Thermal Control Circuitry (TCC) found in some
Pentium(tm) 4 and (possibly) later CPUs. When enabled and detected,
TCC allows to restrict power consumption by using machdep.cpuperf*
sysctls. This operates independently of SpeedStep and is useful on
systems where other mechanisms such as apm(4) or acpi(4) don't work.
Given the fact that many, even modern, notebooks don't work properly
with Intel ACPI, this is indeed very useful option for notebook owners.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
we are required to do if we let user processes use the extra 128 bit
registers etc.
This is the base part of the diff I got from:
http://www.issei.org/issei/FreeBSD/sse.html
I believe this is by: Mr. SUZUKI Issei <issei@issei.org>
SMP support apparently by: Takekazu KATO <kato@chino.it.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Test code by: NAKAMURA Kazushi <kaz@kobe1995.net>, see
http://kobe1995.net/~kaz/FreeBSD/SSE.en.html
I have fixed a couple of style(9) deviations. I have some followup
commits to fix a couple of non-style things.
the OS does FXSAVE/FXRESTOR instructions (fast FPU save/restore) during
context switching and also enables SIMD since this enables saving the
extra CPU context that isn't saved with normal FPU regs. The other
enables the SIMD instructions to use exception 16 (FPU) error reporting.
Note, this doesn't turn on SIMD, just defines the bits.
The code was originaly contributed by Kelly Yancey
<kbyanc@freedomnet.com> in PR i386/6269 and revised by Akio Morita
<amorita@meadow.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp> and me. Test was performed by
Akio Morita and Toshiomi Moriki <moriki@db.is.kyushu-u.ac.jp>.
- Fix stylistic bug in identcpu.c.
- Update copyright in initcpu.c
- Fix typo in LINT.
PR: 6269 and 6270
supports All Cyrix CPUs, IBM Blue Lightning CPU and NexGen (now AMD)
Nx586 CPU, and initialize special registers of Cyrix CPU and msr of
IBM Blue Lightning CPU.
If revision of Cyrix 6x86 CPU < 2.7, CPU cache is enabled in
write-through mode. This can be disabled by kernel configuration
options.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org> and
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
negation whenever we access memory between 640k and 1M.
Original code from NetBSD 1.0-BETA. The exact origins are unclear but
Theo de Raadt, Charles, and Michael V. may have contributed to it.
Submitted by: pst
