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Author SHA1 Message Date
Konstantin Belousov
6bfe4c78c8 Remove unused define.
MFC after:	1 month
2011-10-07 16:09:44 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
3341592139 Change ia64' struct syscall_args definition so that args is a pointer to
the arguments array instead of array itself. ia64 syscall arguments are
readily available in the frame, point args to it, do not do unnecessary
bcopy. Still reserve the array in syscall_args for ia32 emulation.

Suggested and reviewed by:	marcel
MFC after:	1 month
2010-05-24 17:24:14 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
afe1a68827 Reorganize syscall entry and leave handling.
Extend struct sysvec with three new elements:
sv_fetch_syscall_args - the method to fetch syscall arguments from
  usermode into struct syscall_args. The structure is machine-depended
  (this might be reconsidered after all architectures are converted).
sv_set_syscall_retval - the method to set a return value for usermode
  from the syscall. It is a generalization of
  cpu_set_syscall_retval(9) to allow ABIs to override the way to set a
  return value.
sv_syscallnames - the table of syscall names.

Use sv_set_syscall_retval in kern_sigsuspend() instead of hardcoding
the call to cpu_set_syscall_retval().

The new functions syscallenter(9) and syscallret(9) are provided that
use sv_*syscall* pointers and contain the common repeated code from
the syscall() implementations for the architecture-specific syscall
trap handlers.

Syscallenter() fetches arguments, calls syscall implementation from
ABI sysent table, and set up return frame. The end of syscall
bookkeeping is done by syscallret().

Take advantage of single place for MI syscall handling code and
implement ptrace_lwpinfo pl_flags PL_FLAG_SCE, PL_FLAG_SCX and
PL_FLAG_EXEC. The SCE and SCX flags notify the debugger that the
thread is stopped at syscall entry or return point respectively.  The
EXEC flag augments SCX and notifies debugger that the process address
space was changed by one of exec(2)-family syscalls.

The i386, amd64, sparc64, sun4v, powerpc and ia64 syscall()s are
changed to use syscallenter()/syscallret(). MIPS and arm are not
converted and use the mostly unchanged syscall() implementation.

Reviewed by:	jhb, marcel, marius, nwhitehorn, stas
Tested by:	marcel (ia64), marius (sparc64), nwhitehorn (powerpc),
	stas (mips)
MFC after:	1 month
2010-05-23 18:32:02 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
8bac98182a Style: use #define<TAB> instead of #define<SPACE>.
Noted by:	bde, pluknet gmail com
MFC after:	11 days
2010-04-27 09:48:43 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
ed7806879b Move the constants specifying the size of struct kinfo_proc into
machine-specific header files. Add KINFO_PROC32_SIZE for struct
kinfo_proc32 for architectures providing COMPAT_FREEBSD32. Add
CTASSERT for the size of struct kinfo_proc32.

Submitted by:	pluknet
Reviewed by:	imp, jhb, nwhitehorn
MFC after:	2 weeks
2010-04-24 12:49:52 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
8d077f48f0 Reimplement the lazy FP context switching:
o   Move all code into a single file for easier maintenance.
o   Use a single global lock to avoid having to handle either
    multiple locks or race conditions.
o   Make sure to disable the high FP registers after saving
    or dropping them.
o   use msleep() to wait for the other CPU to save the high
    FP registers.

This change fixes the high FP inconsistency panics.

A single global lock typically serializes too much, which may
be noticable when a lot of threads use the high FP registers,
but in that case it's probably better to switch the high FP
context synchronuously. Put differently: cpu_switch() should
switch the high FP registers if the incoming and outgoing
threads both use the high FP registers.
2009-10-31 22:27:31 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
4630415a47 Improve SMP support:
o  Allocate a VHPT per CPU. The VHPT is a hash table that the CPU
   uses to look up translations it can't find in the TLB. As such,
   the VHPT serves as a level 1 cache (the TLB being a level 0 cache)
   and best results are obtained when it's not shared between CPUs.
   The collision chain (i.e. the hash bucket) is shared between CPUs,
   as all buckets together constitute our collection of PTEs. To
   achieve this, the collision chain does not point to the first PTE
   in the list anymore, but to a hash bucket head structure. The
   head structure contains the pointer to the first PTE in the list,
   as well as a mutex to lock the bucket. Thus, each bucket is locked
   independently of each other. With at least 1024 buckets in the VHPT,
   this provides for sufficiently finei-grained locking to make the
   ssolution scalable to large SMP machines.
o  Add synchronisation to the lazy FP context switching. We do this
   with a seperate per-thread lock. On SMP machines the lazy high FP
   context switching without synchronisation caused inconsistent
   state, which resulted in a panic. Since the use of the high FP
   registers is not common, it's possible that races exist. The ia64
   package build has proven to be a good stress test, so this will
   get plenty of exercise in the near future.
o  Don't use the local ID of the processor we want to send the IPI to
   as the argument to ipi_send(). use the struct pcpu pointer instead.
   The reason for this is that IPI delivery is unreliable. It has been
   observed that sending an IPI to a CPU causes it to receive a stray
   external interrupt. As such, we need a way to make the delivery
   reliable. The intended solution is to queue requests in the target
   CPU's per-CPU structure and use a single IPI to inform the CPU that
   there's a new entry in the queue. If that IPI gets lost, the CPU
   can check it's queue at any convenient time (such as for each
   clock interrupt). This also allows us to send requests to a CPU
   without interrupting it, if such would be beneficial.

With these changes SMP is almost working. There are still some random
process crashes and the machine can hang due to having the IPI lost
that deals with the high FP context switch.

The overhead of introducing the hash bucket head structure results
in a performance degradation of about 1% for UP (extra pointer
indirection). This is surprisingly small and is offset by gaining
reasonably/good scalable SMP support.
2005-08-06 20:28:19 +00:00
John Baldwin
c6a37e8413 Divorce critical sections from spinlocks. Critical sections as denoted by
critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for
deferring kernel preemptions.  They no longer have any affect on
interrupts.  This means that standalone critical sections are now very
cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the
common case.

Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter()
and spinlock_exit().  This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD
guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't
be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock.  For
now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they
did formerly in all critical sections.  Note that I've also taken this
opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI.  For example,
critical_fork_exit() no longer exists.  Instead, MD code ensures that new
threads have the correct state when they are created.  Also, we no longer
try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code.  Instead, each arch sets
the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows
in order to perform the initial context switch.

This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides
will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts
of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes
for per-CPU data for example).

Reviewed by:	grehan, cognet, arch@, others
Tested on:	i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more
2005-04-04 21:53:56 +00:00
Warner Losh
86cb007f9f /* -> /*- for copyright notices, minor format tweaks as necessary 2005-01-06 22:18:23 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
764015afda Cleanup. Remove the md_flags for threads. It's not used. The flags
we had were bogus.
While here, reassign the copyright to the Project. There's nothing
in this files that originates from NetBSD, especially now that the
FreeBSD/alpha bits have been removed, but even then the amount of
inherited code that we actually used was nil.
2003-10-23 06:41:59 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
9ee99eb496 Remove md_bspstore from the MD fields of struct thread. Now that
the backing store is at a fixed address, there's no need for a
per-thread variable.
2003-10-21 01:13:49 +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
Matthew Dillon
d74ac6819b Compromise for critical*()/cpu_critical*() recommit. Cleanup the interrupt
disablement assumptions in kern_fork.c by adding another API call,
cpu_critical_fork_exit().  Cleanup the td_savecrit field by moving it
from MI to MD.  Temporarily move cpu_critical*() from <arch>/include/cpufunc.h
to <arch>/<arch>/critical.c (stage-2 will clean this up).

Implement interrupt deferral for i386 that allows interrupts to remain
enabled inside critical sections.  This also fixes an IPI interlock bug,
and requires uses of icu_lock to be enclosed in a true interrupt disablement.

This is the stage-1 commit.  Stage-2 will occur after stage-1 has stabilized,
and will move cpu_critical*() into its own header file(s) + other things.
This commit may break non-i386 architectures in trivial ways.  This should
be temporary.

Reviewed by:	core
Approved by:	core
2002-03-27 05:39:23 +00:00
John Baldwin
0bbc882680 Overhaul the per-CPU support a bit:
- 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
2001-12-11 23:33:44 +00:00
John Baldwin
aee9d2774f Add multiple inclusion protection. 2001-12-06 18:17:02 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b40ce4165d KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after:    ha ha ha ha
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
John Baldwin
6be523bca7 Add a new MI pointer to the process' trapframe p_frame instead of using
various differently named pointers buried under p_md.

Reviewed by:	jake (in principle)
2001-06-29 11:10:41 +00:00
Doug Rabson
5596cfd09a * Fix exception handling so that it actually works. We can now handle
exceptions from both kernel and user mode.
* Fix context switching so that we can switch back to a proc which we
  switched away from (we were saving the state in the wrong place).
* Implement lazy switching of the high-fp state. This needs to be looked
  at again for SMP to cope with the case of a process migrating from one
  processor to another while it has the high-fp state.
* Make setregs() work properly. I still think this should be called
  cpu_exec() or something.
* Various other minor fixes.

With this lot, we can execve() /sbin/init and we get all the way up to its
first syscall. At that point, we stop because syscall handling is not done
yet.
2000-10-12 14:36:39 +00:00
Doug Rabson
8d9761debf Next round of fixes to the ia64 code. This includes simulated clock and
disk drivers along with a load of fixes to context switching, fork
handling and a load of other stuff I can't remember now. This takes us as
far as start_init() before it dies. I guess now I will have to finish off
the VM system and syscall handling :-).
2000-10-04 17:53:03 +00:00
Doug Rabson
431f3cb41d Next round of ia64 work, including fixes to context switching,
implementing cpu_fork(), copy*str(), bcopy(), copy{in,out}(). With these
changes, my test kernel reaches the mountroot prompt.
2000-09-30 17:48:44 +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