This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs.
Reviewed by: jmallet, iedowse, tlambert2@mindspring.com
MFC After: never, -STABLE does not currently use this instruction
- Begin moving scheduler specific functionality into sched_4bsd.c
- Replace direct manipulation of scheduler data with hooks provided by the
new api.
- Remove KSE specific state modifications and single runq assumptions from
kern_switch.c
Reviewed by: -arch
that add an instance of themselves. The npx(4) driver doesn't even check
the npx 'port' hint but hardcodes IO_NPX instead. The npx(4) driver also
will use isa IRQ 13 (on x86, 8 on pc98) by default if no 'irq' hint is
specified, so we don't need that hint either.
in specific situations. The owner thread must be blocked, and the
borrower can not proceed back to user space with the borrowed KSE.
The borrower will return the KSE on the next context switch where
teh owner wants it back. This removes a lot of possible
race conditions and deadlocks. It is consceivable that the
borrower should inherit the priority of the owner too.
that's another discussion and would be simple to do.
Also, as part of this, the "preallocatd spare thread" is attached to the
thread doing a syscall rather than the KSE. This removes the need to lock
the scheduler when we want to access it, as it's now "at hand".
DDB now shows a lot mor info for threaded proceses though it may need
some optimisation to squeeze it all back into 80 chars again.
(possible JKH project)
Upcalls are now "bound" threads, but "KSE Lending" now means that
other completing syscalls can be completed using that KSE before the upcall
finally makes it back to the UTS. (getting threads OUT OF THE KERNEL is
one of the highest priorities in the KSE system.) The upcall when it happens
will present all the completed syscalls to the KSE for selection.
there are some strange machines that seem to need this.
o delete bogus comment.
o don't use the the bios for read/writing config space. They interact badly
with SMP and being called from ISR. This brings -current in line with
-stable.
# make the latter #ifdef on USE_PCI_BIOS_FOR_READ_WRITE in case we
# need to go back in a hurry.
NB: But it will enable it in all kernels not having options "NO_GEOM"
Put the GEOM related options into the intended order.
Add "options NO_GEOM" to all kernel configs apart from NOTES.
In some order of controlled fashion, the NO_GEOM options will be
removed, architecture by architecture in the coming days.
There are currently three known issues which may force people to
need the NO_GEOM option:
boot0cfg/fdisk:
Tries to update the MBR while it is being used to control
slices. GEOM does not allow this as a direct operation.
SCSI floppy drives:
Appearantly the scsi-da driver return "EBUSY" if no media
is inserted. This is wrong, it should return ENXIO.
PC98:
It is unclear if GEOM correctly recognizes all variants of
PC98 disklabels. (Help Wanted! I have neither docs nor HW)
These issues are all being worked.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
This will be removed when new versions of syscalls sigreturn()
and sigaction() are added (mini is working on this but is in
the middle of a move).
This should fix the problem of cvsupd dying.
These are still unknown name but these are working as well
as the other ServerWorks chipset.
Description strings should be corrected when the chipsets
are known.
MFC after: 1 week
doesn't give them enough stack to do much before blowing away the pcb.
This adds MI and MD code to allow the allocation of an alternate kstack
who's size can be speficied when calling kthread_create. Passing the
value 0 prevents the alternate kstack from being created. Note that the
ia64 MD code is missing for now, and PowerPC was only partially written
due to the pmap.c being incomplete there.
Though this patch does not modify anything to make use of the alternate
kstack, acpi and usb are good candidates.
Reviewed by: jake, peter, jhb
of 1 so that it is not probed until after acpi0 is probed and attached.
- In legacy_probe(), return ENXIO if acpi0 is around and alive.
- nexus_attach() is now much simpler and just lets its child drivers do
all the work.
and attach routines have succeeded so that if they fail we can still use
the PnP BIOS to find ISA on-board devices. The fact that we do this here
is gross but fixing it properly involves a lot more work.
- nexus no longer has PCI bridges as direct children, so the PCI bus
ivar is no longer used and is removed.
- Don't attach default EISA, ISA, or MCA busses. Instead, if we do not
have an acpi0 device after bus_generic_probe(), add a legacy0 child
device.
- Remove machine/nexusvar.h.
