and POWER8. This instruction set unifies the 32 64-bit scalar floating
point registers with the 32 128-bit vector registers into a single bank
of 64 128-bit registers. Kernel support mostly amounts to saving and
restoring the wider version of the floating point registers and making
sure that both scalar FP and vector registers are enabled once a VSX
instruction is executed. get_mcontext() and friends currently cannot
see the high bits, which will require a little more work.
As the system compiler (GCC 4.2) does not support VSX, making use of this
from userland requires either newer GCC or clang.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
the actual FPU is enabled, while PCB_FPREGS indicates that the FPU state
structure in the PCB is valid. This separation reflects the situation on
FPU-less systems in which the FP state is used by the emulator but we don't
actually want to try to turn on the non-existant FPU.
Use this flag to save and restore FP regs properly on both AIM and Book-E.
As a side effect, this sets up hard-FP and Altivec on Book-E CPUs with such
abilities except for a trap handler to call enable_fpu()/enable_altivec().
concurrency bug. Since all SLB/SR entries were invalidated during an
exception, a decrementer exception could cause the user segment to be
invalidated during a copyin()/copyout() without a thread switch that
would cause it to be restored from the PCB, potentially causing the
operation to continue on invalid memory. This is now handled by explicit
restoration of segment 12 from the PCB on 32-bit systems and a check in
the Data Segment Exception handler on 64-bit.
While here, cause copyin()/copyout() to check whether the requested
user segment is already installed, saving some pipeline flushes, and
fix the synchronization primitives around the mtsr and slbmte
instructions to prevent accessing stale segments.
MFC after: 2 weeks
values to zero. A correct solution would involve emulating vector
operations on denormalized values, but this has little effect on accuracy
and is much less complicated for now.
MFC after: 2 weeks
hardware with a lockless sparse tree design. This marginally improves
the performance of PMAP and allows copyin()/copyout() to run without
acquiring locks when used on wired mappings.
Submitted by: mdf
Kernel sources for 64-bit PowerPC, along with build-system changes to keep
32-bit kernels compiling (build system changes for 64-bit kernels are
coming later). Existing 32-bit PowerPC kernel configurations must be
updated after this change to specify their architecture.
Previously, DBCR0 flags were set "globally", but this leads to problems
because Book-E fine grained debug settings work only in conjuction with the
debug master enable bit in MSR: in scenarios when the DBCR0 was set with
intention to debug one process, but another one with MSR[DE] set got
scheduled, the latter would immediately cause debug exceptions to occur upon
execution of its own code instructions (and not the one intended for
debugging).
To avoid such problems and properly handle debugging context, DBCR0 state
should be managed individually per process.
Submitted by: Grzegorz Bernacki gjb ! semihalf dot com
Reviewed by: marcel
Rework of this area is a pre-requirement for importing e500 support (and
other PowerPC core variations in the future). Mainly the following
headers are refactored so that we can cover for low-level differences between
various machines within PowerPC architecture:
<machine/pcpu.h>
<machine/pcb.h>
<machine/kdb.h>
<machine/hid.h>
<machine/frame.h>
Areas which use the above are adjusted and cleaned up.
Credits for this rework go to marcel@
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
MFp4: e500
and save/restore during a context switch.
The USER_SR could be overwritten when the current thread was switched
out with a faulting copyin/copyout.
Approved by: Benno
The case in cpu_switch() where there isn't a higher priority thread
(choosethread() == curthread) uses r4 as the PCB context pointer. However, the
use of r4 after the label L2 is incorrect, since it was probably trashed by
the call to choosethread, and in any case was set up to curthread at the start
of the routine.
This condition will occur when an interrupt thread schedules a netisr, which
is a lower priority thread.
Another (probably unnecessary) difference is that I was paranoid about
register trashing, so I decided to save r2 and r13 as well.
Submitted by: Peter Grehan <peterg@ptree32.com.au>
to working but still needs some work to properly switch the full context
(such as saving the fpu registers, switch stacks, etc.). Also, remove some
dead code that was mixed in.
