the signal handling latency for cpu-bound processes that performs very
few system calls.
The IPI for forcing an additional software trap is no longer dependent upon
BETTER_CLOCK being defined.
2) Do not unnecessarily force page blocking when paging
pages out.
3) Further improve swap pager performance and correctness,
including fixing the paging in progress deadlock (except
in severe I/O error conditions.)
4) Enable vfs_ioopt=1 as a default.
5) Fix and enable the page prezeroing in SMP mode.
All in all, SMP systems especially should show a significant
improvement in "snappyness."
in a way identically as before.) I had problems with the system properly
handling the number of vnodes when there is alot of system memory, and the
default VM_KMEM_SIZE. Two new options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE" and
"VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX" have been added to support better auto-sizing for systems
with greater than 128MB.
Add some accouting for vm_zone memory allocations, and provide properly
for vm_zone allocations out of the kmem_map. Also move the vm_zone
allocation stats to the VM OID tree from the KERN OID tree.
Highlights:
* Simple model for underlying hardware.
* Hardware basis for timekeeping can be changed on the fly.
* Only one hardware clock responsible for TOD keeping.
* Provides a real nanotime() function.
* Time granularity: .232E-18 seconds.
* Frequency granularity: .238E-12 s/s
* Frequency adjustment is continuous in time.
* Less overhead for frequency adjustment.
* Improves xntpd performance.
Reviewed by: bde, bde, bde
of the various ad-hoc schemes.
2) When bringing in UPAGES, the pmap code needs to do another vm_page_lookup.
3) When appropriate, set the PG_A or PG_M bits a-priori to both avoid some
processor errata, and to minimize redundant processor updating of page
tables.
4) Modify pmap_protect so that it can only remove permissions (as it
originally supported.) The additional capability is not needed.
5) Streamline read-only to read-write page mappings.
6) For pmap_copy_page, don't enable write mapping for source page.
7) Correct and clean-up pmap_incore.
8) Cluster initial kern_exec pagin.
9) Removal of some minor lint from kern_malloc.
10) Correct some ioopt code.
11) Remove some dead code from the MI swapout routine.
12) Correct vm_object_deallocate (to remove backing_object ref.)
13) Fix dead object handling, that had problems under heavy memory load.
14) Add minor vm_page_lookup improvements.
15) Some pages are not in objects, and make sure that the vm_page.c can
properly support such pages.
16) Add some more page deficit handling.
17) Some minor code readability improvements.
Move sigjmp_buf and jmp_buf structure definitions to machine/setjmp.h
so that i386 can continue to use int as the basic register type and
alpha can use long. Bruce was concerned about possible differing
alignment. I've left the definition of _JBLEN in machine/setjmp.h
even though Bruce's example used the number directly. I don't know if
any other code relies on _JBLEN, so I left it to avoid potential
breakage.
- A nonprofiling version of s_lock (called s_lock_np) is used
by mcount.
- When profiling is active, more registers are clobbered in
seemingly simple assembly routines. This means that some
callers needed to save/restore extra registers.
- The stack pointer must have space for a 'fake' return address
in idle, to avoid stack underflow.
noticed some major enhancements available for UP situations. The number
of UP TLB flushes is decreased much more than significantly with these
changes. Since a TLB flush appears to cost minimally approx 80 cycles,
this is a "nice" enhancement, equiv to eliminating between 40 and 160
instructions per TLB flush.
Changes include making sure that kernel threads all use the same PTD,
and eliminate unneeded PTD switches at context switch time.
in <machine/cpu.h>. Moved the declarations to <machine/cputypes.h>.
Fixed style bugs in the moved code. Fixed everything that depended on
the nested include. Don't include <machine/cpu.h> (in the changed files)
unless something in it is used directly.
and fixed everything that dependended on it being declared in the old
place. It is used in "machine-independent" code in subr_prof.c.
Moved declaration of btext from subr_prof.c to <machine/cpu.h>. It
is machine-dependent.
in a P6 SMP system. Some MB bios'es don't set the registers up correctly
for the AP's. Additionally, set the memory between 0xa0000 and 0xbffff
as write combining.
PR: 4486
Submitted by: tegge@idi.ntnu.no (Tor Egge)
Implement a function is_adapter_memory() in order to determine what
should nto be dumped at all. Currently, only populated with the ``ISA
memory hole''. Adapter regions of other busses should be added.
holding CPU along with the lock. When a CPU fails to get the lock
it compares its own id to the holder id. If they are the same it
panic()s, as simple locks are binary, and this would cause a deadlock.
Controlled by smptests.h: SL_DEBUG, ON by default.
Some minor cleanup.
Add a simplelock to deal with disable_intr()/enable_intr() as used in UP kernel.
UP kernel expects that this is enough to guarantee exclusive access to
regions of code bracketed by these 2 functions.
Add a simplelock to bracket clock accesses in clock.c: clock_lock.
Help from: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
smp_active = 1 used to indicate that the system had frozen previously
started AP's, while smp_active = 0 was "AP's not yet started". I have split
this into smp_started (which is set when the AP's come online), and
smp_active is left for turning on/off AP scheduling.
- We now have enough per-cpu idle context, the real idle loop has been
revived (cpu's halt now with nothing to do).
- Some preliminary support for running some operations outside the
global lock (eg: zeroing "free but not yet zeroed pages") is present
but appears to cause problems. Off by default.
- the smp_active sysctl now behaves differently. It's merely a 'true/false'
option. Setting smp_active to zero causes the AP's to halt in the idle
loop and stop scheduling processes.
- bootstrap is a lot safer. Instead of sharing a statically compiled in
stack a number of times (which has caused lots of problems) and then
abandoning it, we use the idle context to boot the AP's directly. This
should help >2 cpu support since the bootlock stuff was in doubt.
- print physical apic id in traps.. helps identify private pages getting
out of sync. (You don't want to know how much hair I tore out with this!)
More cleanup to follow, this is more of a checkpoint than a
'finished' thing.
Added a new variable, 'bsp_apic_ready', which is set as soon as the bootstrap
CPU has initialized its local APIC. Conditionalize the GENSPLR functions
to call ss_lock ONLY after bsp_apic_ready is TRUE; This should prevent
any problems with races between the time the 1st AP becomes ready and the
time smp_active is set.
Made NEW_STRATEGY default.
Removed misc. old cruft.
Centralized simple locks into mp_machdep.c
Centralized simple lock macros into param.h
More cleanup in the direction of making splxx()/cpl MP-safe.
Several new fine-grained locks.
New FAST_INTR() methods:
- separate simplelock for FAST_INTR, no more giant lock.
- FAST_INTR()s no longer checks ipending on way out of ISR.
sio made MP-safe (I hope).
We now tsleep() in kthread_init() between start_init()
and prepare_usermode() while waiting for ALL the idle_loop()
processes to come online.
Debugged & tested by: "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Reviewed by: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Work done by BSDI, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>,
Mike Smith <msmith@gsoft.com.au>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>,
and probably alot of others.
Submitted by: Jnathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
This code was eliminated when the PEND_INTS algorithm was added. But it was
discovered that PEND_INTS only worsen latency for FAST_INTR() routines,
which can't be marked pending.
Noticed & debugged by: dave adkins <adkin003@gold.tc.umn.edu>
- removed TEST_ALTTIMER.
- removed APIC_PIN0_TIMER.
- removed TIMER_ALL.
mplock.s:
- minor update of try_mplock for new algorithm where a CPU uses try_mplock
instead of get_mplock in the ISRs.
Macros to convert the Lite2 lock manager primitives to the names used
in the kernel proper. This allows us to hide them from the lock
manager till they can be turned on.
smp.h:
declarations for the new simplelock functions.
- s_lock_init()
- s_lock()
- s_lock_try()
- s_unlock()
Created lock for IO APIC and apic_imen (SMP version of imen)
- imen_lock
Code to use imen_lock for access from apic_ipl.s and apic_vector.s.
Moved this code *outside* of mp_lock.
It seems to work!!!
1) Make sure that the region mapped by a 4MB page is
properly aligned.
2) Don't turn on the PG_G flag in locore for SMP. I plan
to do that later in startup anyway.
3) Make sure the 2nd processor has PSE enabled, so that 4MB
pages don't hose it.
We don't use PG_G yet on SMP -- there is work to be done to make that
work correctly. It isn't that important anyway...
of the kernel, and also most of the dynamic parts of the kernel. Additionally,
4MB pages will be allocated for display buffers as appropriate (only.)
The 4MB support for SMP isn't complete, but doesn't interfere with operation
either.
this code is controlled by smptests.h: TEST_CPUSTOP, OFF by default
new code for handling mixed-mode 8259/APIC programming without 'ExtInt'
this code is controlled by smptests.h: TEST_ALTTIMER, ON by default
- TEST_CPUSTOP adds stop_cpus()/restart_cpus(), OFF by default
- TEST_ALTTIMER new method for attaching 8259 PIC to APIC
this method avoids 'ExtInt' programming, ON by default
- TIMER_ALL sends 8259/8254 timer INTs to all CPUs, ON by default
- ASMPOSTCODExxx code to display bytes to POST hardware, OFF by default
General cleanup.
New functions to stop/start CPUs via IPIs:
- int stop_cpus( u_int map );
- int restart_cpus( u_int map );
Turned off by default, enabled via smptests.h:TEST_CPUSTOP.
Current version has a BUG, perhaps a deadlock?
Till now NMIs would be ignored. Now an NMI is caught by the BSP.
APs still ignore NMI, am working on code to allow a CPU to stop other CPUs
via an IPI.
available to the kernel (VM_KMEM_SIZE). The default (32 MB) is too low
when having 512 MB or more physical memory in a server environment. This is
relevant on systems where "panic: kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small" is a
problem.
This eliminates a lot of #ifdef SMP type code. Things like _curproc reside
in a data page that is unique on each cpu, eliminating the expensive macros
like: #define curproc (SMPcurproc[cpunumber()])
There are some unresolved bootstrap and address space sharing issues at
present, but Steve is waiting on this for other work. There is still some
strictly temporary code present that isn't exactly pretty.
This is part of a larger change that has run into some bumps, this part is
standalone so it should be safe. The temporary code goes away when the
full idle cpu support is finished.
Reviewed by: fsmp, dyson
cost since it is only done in cpu_switch(), not for every exception.
The extra state is kept in the pcb, and handled much like the npx state,
with similar deficiencies (the state is not preserved across signal
handlers, and error handling loses state).
Changes to pmap.c for lapic_t lapic && ioapic_t ioapic pointers,
currently equal to apic_base && io_apic_base, will stand alone with the
private page mapping.
apic.h has defines like:
#define lapic__id lapic->id
Once private pages and "known virtual addr" mapping of the APICs is
ready all 'lapic__XXX' will be changed to 'lapic.XXX', and the defines
will be removed.
Changes to smp.h for lapic_t lapic && ioapic_t ioapic pointers,
currently equal to apic_base && io_apic_base, will stand alone with the
private page mapping.
reality. There will be a new call interface, but for now the file
pci_compat.c (which is to be deleted, after all drivers are converted)
provides an emulation of the old PCI bus driver functions. The only
change that might be visible to drivers is, that the type pcici_t
(which had been meant to be just a handle, whose exact definition
should not be relied on), has been converted into a pcicfgregs* .
The Tekram AMD SCSI driver bogusly relied on the definition of pcici_t
and has been converted to just call the PCI drivers functions to access
configuration space register, instead of inventing its own ...
This code is by no means complete, but assumed to be fully operational,
and brings the official code base more in line with my development code.
A new generic device descriptor data type has to be agreed on. The PCI
code will then use that data type to provide new functionality:
1) userconfig support
2) "wired" PCI devices
3) conflicts checking against ISA/EISA
4) maps will depend on the command register enable bits
5) PCI to Anything bridges can be defined as devices,
and are probed like any "standard" PCI device.
The following features are currently missing, but will be added back,
soon:
1) unknown device probe message
2) suppression of "mirrored" devices caused by ancient, broken chip-sets
This code relies on generic shared interrupt support just commited to
kern_intr.c (plus the modifications of isa.c and isa_device.h).
This is now the default, it delays most of the MP startup to the function
machdep.c:cpu_startup(). It should be possible to move the 2 functions
found there (mp_start() & mp_announce()) even further down the path once
we know exactly where that should be...
Help from: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com.au>
- The 1st (preparse_mp_table()) counts the number of cpus, busses, etc. and
records the LOCAL and IO APIC addresses.
- The 2nd pass (parse_mp_table()) does the actual parsing of info and recording
into the incore MP table.
This will allow us to defer the 2nd pass untill malloc() & private pages
are available (but thats for another day!).
panic( "xxxxx\n" );
to:
printf( "xxxxx\n" );
panic( "\n" );
For some as yet undetermined reason the argument to panic() is often NOT
printed, and the system sometimes hangs before reaching the panic printout.
So we hopefully at least print some useful info before the hang, as oppossed to
leaving the user clueless as to what has happened.
all uses of it with the equivalent calls to setbits().
This change incidentally eliminates a problem building ELF kernels
that was caused by SETBITS.
Reviewed by: fsmp, peter
Submitted by: bde
simplifies some assumptions and stops some code compile problems.
This should fix the compile hiccup in PR#3491, but smp kernel profiling
isn't likely to be fixed by this.
- one-liners all become inline.
- multi-liners become functions.
- FAST_IPI defines go away.
re-worked APICIPI_BANDAID code.
- now refered to as DETECT_DEADLOCK.
- on by default.
This code re-numbers PCI busses in the MP table to match PCI semantics
when the MP BIOS fails to do it properly.
Reviewed by: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>, Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
removed all the IPI_INTS code.
made the XFAST_IPI32 code default, renaming Xfastipi32 to Xinvltlb.
