This includes:
o mtree (for legal/intel_wpi)
o manpage for i386/amd64 archs
o module for i386/amd64 archs
o NOTES for i386/amd64 archs
Approved by: mlaier (comentor)
must be globally performed before calling any of the TLB invalidation
functions.
With one exception, on amd64, this requirement was already met. Fix this
one case. Also, as a clarification, change an existing atomic op into a
release. (Suggested by: jhb)
Reported and reviewed by: ups
MFC after: 3 days
silent NULL pointer dereference in the i386 and sparc64 pmap_pinit()
when the kmem_alloc_nofault() failed to allocate address space. Both
functions now return error instead of panicing or dereferencing NULL.
As consequence, vmspace_exec() and vmspace_unshare() returns the errno
int. struct vmspace arg was added to vm_forkproc() to avoid dealing
with failed allocation when most of the fork1() job is already done.
The kernel stack for the thread is now set up in the thread_alloc(),
that itself may return NULL. Also, allocation of the first process
thread is performed in the fork1() to properly deal with stack
allocation failure. proc_linkup() is separated into proc_linkup()
called from fork1(), and proc_linkup0(), that is used to set up the
kernel process (was known as swapper).
In collaboration with: Peter Holm
Reviewed by: jhb
warnings. Specifically, whenever vm_page_alloc(9) returned NULL to
get_pv_entry(), we issued a warning regardless of the number of pv
entries in use. (Note: The older pv entry allocator in RELENG_6 does
not have this problem.)
Reported by: Jeremy Chadwick
Eliminate the direct call to pagedaemon_wakeup() by get_pv_entry().
This was a holdover from earlier times when the page daemon was
responsible for the reclamation of pv entries.
MFC after: 5 days
refactored it to be a generic device.
Instead of being part of the standard kernel, there is now a 'nvram' device
for i386/amd64. It is in DEFAULTS like io and mem, and can be turned off
with 'nodevice nvram'. This matches the previous behavior when it was
first committed.
support machines having multiple independently numbered PCI domains
and don't support reenumeration without ambiguity amongst the
devices as seen by the OS and represented by PCI location strings.
This includes introducing a function pci_find_dbsf(9) which works
like pci_find_bsf(9) but additionally takes a domain number argument
and limiting pci_find_bsf(9) to only search devices in domain 0 (the
only domain in single-domain systems). Bge(4) and ofw_pcibus(4) are
changed to use pci_find_dbsf(9) instead of pci_find_bsf(9) in order
to no longer report false positives when searching for siblings and
dupe devices in the same domain respectively.
Along with this change the sole host-PCI bridge driver converted to
actually make use of PCI domain support is uninorth(4), the others
continue to use domain 0 only for now and need to be converted as
appropriate later on.
Note that this means that the format of the location strings as used
by pciconf(8) has been changed and that consumers of <sys/pciio.h>
potentially need to be recompiled.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: grehan, jhb, marcel
Approved by: re (kensmith), jhb (PCI maintainer hat)
ways:
(1) Cached pages are no longer kept in the object's resident page
splay tree and memq. Instead, they are kept in a separate per-object
splay tree of cached pages. However, access to this new per-object
splay tree is synchronized by the _free_ page queues lock, not to be
confused with the heavily contended page queues lock. Consequently, a
cached page can be reclaimed by vm_page_alloc(9) without acquiring the
object's lock or the page queues lock.
This solves a problem independently reported by tegge@ and Isilon.
Specifically, they observed the page daemon consuming a great deal of
CPU time because of pages bouncing back and forth between the cache
queue (PQ_CACHE) and the inactive queue (PQ_INACTIVE). The source of
this problem turned out to be a deadlock avoidance strategy employed
when selecting a cached page to reclaim in vm_page_select_cache().
However, the root cause was really that reclaiming a cached page
required the acquisition of an object lock while the page queues lock
was already held. Thus, this change addresses the problem at its
root, by eliminating the need to acquire the object's lock.
Moreover, keeping cached pages in the object's primary splay tree and
memq was, in effect, optimizing for the uncommon case. Cached pages
are reclaimed far, far more often than they are reactivated. Instead,
this change makes reclamation cheaper, especially in terms of
synchronization overhead, and reactivation more expensive, because
reactivated pages will have to be reentered into the object's primary
splay tree and memq.
(2) Cached pages are now stored alongside free pages in the physical
memory allocator's buddy queues, increasing the likelihood that large
allocations of contiguous physical memory (i.e., superpages) will
succeed.
Finally, as a result of this change long-standing restrictions on when
and where a cached page can be reclaimed and returned by
vm_page_alloc(9) are eliminated. Specifically, calls to
vm_page_alloc(9) specifying VM_ALLOC_INTERRUPT can now reclaim and
return a formerly cached page. Consequently, a call to malloc(9)
specifying M_NOWAIT is less likely to fail.
Discussed with: many over the course of the summer, including jeff@,
Justin Husted @ Isilon, peter@, tegge@
Tested by: an earlier version by kris@
Approved by: re (kensmith)
In particular:
- smp_tlb_mtx is no longer used, so it is axed.
- smp rendezvous lock isn't really a leaf spin-mutex. Its bad placement in
the table, however, has been the source of a false positive LOR reporting
with the dt_lock. However, smp rendezvous lock would have had sched_lock
there for older lock, so it wasn't still a leaf lock.
- allpmaps is only used in ia32 architecture, so it is inserted in the
appropriate stub.
Addictionally:
- kse_zombie_lock is no longer present, so its definition is axed out.
- zombie_lock doesn't need to have an exported symbol, so just let's it be
declared as static.
Tested by: kris
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
Together with the sys/i386/i386/trap.c rev. 1.306 it fixes the PR.
Submitted by: rdivacky
Suggested by: jhb
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
PR: kern/77710
Approved by: re (kensmith)
3 arguments, but we had forgotten the second argument. Also make the
Linux statfs64 struct depend on the architecture because it has an
extra 4 bytes padding on amd64 compared to i386.
The three argument fix is from David Taylor, the struct statfs64
stuff is my fault. With this patch I can install i386 Linux matlab
on an amd64 machine.
Submitted by: David Taylor <davidt_at_yadt.co.uk>
Approved by: re (kensmith)
was used in assembler code in such a way that no unresolved relocation
records were generated, so ld didn't flag the problem. You can see
this with an 'nm' of the kernel. There will be 'U MAXCPU' on SMP systems.
The impact of this is that the intrcount/intrnames arrays do not have
the intended amount of space reserved. This could lead to interesting
problems due to the arrays being present in the middle of kernel code.
An overflow would be rather interesting as executable code would be used
as per-cpu incrementing interrupt counters.
This fixes it for now by exporting MAXCPU to the assembler. A better fix
might be to define these data structures in C - they're only referenced
in the kernel from C code these days anyway.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
- p_sflag was mostly protected by PROC_LOCK rather than the PROC_SLOCK or
previously the sched_lock. These bugs have existed for some time.
- Allow swapout to try each thread in a process individually and then
swapin the whole process if any of these fail. This allows us to move
most scheduler related swap flags into td_flags.
- Keep ki_sflag for backwards compat but change all in source tools to
use the new and more correct location of P_INMEM.
Reported by: pho
Reviewed by: attilio, kib
Approved by: re (kensmith)
of pages don't sum to anywhere near the total number of pages on amd64.
This is for the most part because uma_small_alloc() pages have never been
counted as wired pages, like their kmem_malloc() brethren. They should
be. This changes fixes that.
It is no longer necessary for the page queues lock to be held to free
pages allocated by uma_small_alloc(). I removed the acquisition and
release of the page queues lock from uma_small_free() on amd64 and ia64
weeks ago. This patch updates the other architectures that have
uma_small_alloc() and uma_small_free().
Approved by: re (kensmith)
per-primitive macros like MTX_NOPROFILE, SX_NOPROFILE or RW_NOPROFILE) is
not really honoured. In particular lock_profile_obtain_lock_failure() and
lock_profile_obtain_lock_success() are naked respect this flag.
The bug leads to locks marked with no-profiling to be profiled as well.
In the case of the clock_lock, used by the timer i8254 this leads to
unpredictable behaviour both on amd64 and ia32 (double faults panic,
sudden reboots, etc.). The amd64 clock_lock is also not marked as
not profilable as it should be.
Fix these bugs adding proper checks in the lock profiling code and at
clock_lock initialization time.
i8254 bug pointed out by: kris
Tested by: matteo, Giuseppe Cocomazzi <sbudella at libero dot it>
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
topology foo functions.
Working at the patch for topology problems in ia32/amd64 evicted some
problems regarding functions ordering in the SI_SUB_CPU family of
SYSINIT'ed subsystems.
In order to avoid problems with new modified to involved functions, a
correct ordering is not semantically specified for SI_SUB_CPU functions
(for a larger view of the issue please visit:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/075409.html )
Discussed with: peter
Tested by: kris, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
Approved by: jeff
Approved by: re
with Linux 2.6 emulation. This shall be reimplemented once FreeBSD gets
native scheduler affinity syscalls.
Submitted by: rdivacky
Reviewed by: jkim
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Approved by: re (kensmith)
longer create a pv entry for that mapping. (The two exceptions are
mappings into the kernel's exec and pipe submaps.) Consequently, there is
no reason for get_pv_entry() to dig deep into the free page queues, i.e.,
use VM_ALLOC_SYSTEM, by default. This revision changes get_pv_entry() to
use VM_ALLOC_NORMAL by default, i.e., before calling pmap_collect() to
reclaim pv entries.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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
cpu_start_mp(). This is after we have read the cpuid registers to
calculate the hyperthreading_cpus value for the sysctl that enables or
disables hyperthread cores. Change mp_topology() to use that information
rather than trying to do it itself.
This solves the problem of ULE being incorrectly told that dual core
Athlon64 X2 or Operton cpus are hyperthreading cores. At the very least,
we now have a single piece of code to identify hyperthreading.
Obtained from: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)
value, then we would use a negative index into the trap_msg[] array
resulting in a nested page fault. Make the 'type' variable holding the
trap number unsigned to avoid this.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Approved by: re (rwatson)
print a one line error message. Add some comments on not being able to
trust the day of week field (I'll act on these comments in a follow up
commit).
Approved by: re
MFC after: 3 weeks
require fewer blocking loops.
- Don't use atomic ops with 4BSD or on UP.
- Only use the blocking loop if ULE is compiled in.
- Use the correct memory barrier.
Discussed with: attilio, jhb, ssouhlal
Tested by: current@
Approved by: re
kernels exposed by the recent fixes to resource limits for 32-bit processes
on 64-bit kernels:
- Let ABIs expose their maximum stack size via a new pointer in sysentvec
and use that in preference to maxssiz during exec() rather than always
using maxssiz for all processses.
- Apply the ABI's limit fixup to the previous stack size when adjusting
RLIMIT_STACK to determine if the existing mapping for the stack needs to
be grown or shrunk (as well as how much it should be grown or shrunk).
Approved by: re (kensmith)
the 7.0 timeframe.
This is needed because I4B is not locked and NET_NEEDS_GIANT goes away.
The plan is to lock I4B and bring everything back for 7.1.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
holding the page queues lock. Thus, the page table pages released by
pmap_remove() and pmap_remove_pages() can be freed after the page queues
lock is released.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
114 bytes of cmos ram in the PC clock chip. The big difference between
this and the Linux version is that we do not recalculate the checksums
for bytes 16..31.
We use this at work when cloning identical machines - we can copy the
bios settings as well. Reading /dev/nvram gives 114 bytes of data but
you can seek/read/write whichever bytes you like.
Yes, this is a "foot, gun, fire!" type of device.
more exposure. The current state of SCTP implementation is
considered to be ready for 32-bit platforms, but still need some
work/testing on 64-bit platforms.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Discussed with: rrs
making the relevant files standard. This avoids duplication and
makes it easier to override/disable unwanted schemes. Since ARM
doesn't have a DEFAULTS configuration file, leave the source
files for the BSD and MBR partitioning schemes in files.arm for
now.
In particular:
- Add an explicative table for locking of struct vmmeter members
- Apply new rules for some of those members
- Remove some unuseful comments
Heavily reviewed by: alc, bde, jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
caches with data caches after writing to memory. This typically
is required to make breakpoints work on ia64 and powerpc. For
those architectures the function is implemented.
oldthread should point at before we return.
- When cpu_switch() is called the td_lock pointer in the old thread may
point at the blocked lock. This prevents other processors from
switching into this thread while we're still switching out. Wait
until we're done deactivating the vmspace before we release the
thread by assigning to td_lock.
- Before we can activate the new vmspace we must make sure that the new
thread is not assigned to the blocked lock. It may be in the process
of switching out on another cpu. Spin until the new thread is
available.
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- There is no globally visible scheduler lock any longer. For now the
watchdog can only check Giant. This model of checking particular locks
is flawed and should be revisited. Other metrics should be considered.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Use sched_throw() rather than replicating the same cpu_throw() code for
each architecture. This also allows the scheduler to use any locking it
may want to.
- Use the thread_lock() rather than sched_lock when preempting.
- The scheduler lock is not required to synchronize release_aps.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Rename PCPU_LAZY_INC into PCPU_INC
- Add the PCPU_ADD interface which just does an add on the pcpu member
given a specific value.
Note that for most architectures PCPU_INC and PCPU_ADD are not safe.
This is a point that needs some discussions/work in the next days.
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
sysctl_handle_int is not sizeof the int type you want to export.
The type must always be an int or an unsigned int.
Remove the instances where a sizeof(variable) is passed to stop
people accidently cut and pasting these examples.
In a few places this was sysctl_handle_int was being used on 64 bit
types, which would truncate the value to be exported. In these
cases use sysctl_handle_quad to export them and change the format
to Q so that sysctl(1) can still print them.
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
handler is wrapped in a couple of functions - a filter wrapper and an
ithread wrapper. In this case (and just in this case), the filter
wrapper could ask the system to schedule the ithread and mask the
interrupt source if the wrapped handler is composed of just an ithread
handler: modify the "old" interrupt code to make it support
this situation, while the "new" interrupt code is already ok.
Discussed with: jhb
used to return PAGE_SIZE without respect to restrictions of a DMA tag.
This affected all of the busdma load functions that use
_bus_dmamap_loader_buffer() as their back-end.
Reviewed by: scottl
Note on dcons:
To enable dcons in kernel, put the following lines in /boot/loader.conf.
You may also want to enable dcons in /etc/ttys.
boot_multicons="YES"
#Force dcons to be the high-level console if a firewire bus presents.
#hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console=1
FireWire/dcons support in loader will come shortly.
(i386/amd64 only)
debugger is quite capable of handling Giant-free execution at this
point. Several other similar comments remain in trap.c on both i386
and amd64 awaiting analysis.
Implement all futex atomic operations in assembler to not depend on the
fuword() that does not allow to distinguish between -1 and failure return.
Correctly return 0 from atomic operations on success.
In collaboration with: rdivacky
Tested by: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel gmail com>, Milos Vyletel <mvyletel mzm cz>
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2007
same way it was enabled for Linux binares in linuxulator.
This allows binaries built with -pie. Many ports auto-detect -fPIE support
in GCC 4.2 and build binaries FreeBSD was unable to run.
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
processes under 64-bit kernels). Previously, each 32-bit process overwrote
its resource limits at exec() time. The problem with this approach is that
the new limits affect all child processes of the 32-bit process, including
if the child process forks and execs a 64-bit process. To fix this, don't
ovewrite the resource limits during exec(). Instead, sv_fixlimits() is
now replaced with a different function sv_fixlimit() which asks the ABI to
sanitize a single resource limit. We then use this when querying and
setting resource limits. Thus, if a 32-bit process sets a limit, then
that new limit will be inherited by future children. However, if the
32-bit process doesn't change a limit, then a future 64-bit child will
see the "full" 64-bit limit rather than the 32-bit limit.
MFC is tentative since it will break the ABI of old linux.ko modules (no
other modules are affected).
MFC after: 1 week
passed zero as exit signal.
GCC 4.2 changes the kernel data segment layout not to have 0
in that memory location. This code ran by luck before and now
the luck has run out.
an APIC ID of 38 for its second CPU):
- Add a new MAX_APIC_ID constant for the highest valid APIC ID for modern
systems.
- Size the various arrays in the MADT, MP Table, and SMP code that are
indexed by APIC IDs to allow for up to MAX_APIC_ID.
- Explicitly go through and assign logical cpu ids to local APICs before
starting any of the APs up rather than doing it while starting up the
APs. This step is now where we honor MAXCPU.
MFC after: 1 week
- Split the intr_table_lock into an sx lock used for most things, and a
spin lock to protect intrcnt_index. Originally I had this as a spin lock
so interrupt code could use it to lookup sources. However, we don't
actually do that because it would add a lot of overhead to interrupts,
and if we ever do support removing interrupt sources, we can use other
means to safely do so w/o locking in the interrupt handling code.
- Replace is_enabled (boolean) with is_handlers (a count of handlers) to
determine if a source is enabled or not. This allows us to notice when
a source is no longer in use. When that happens, we now invoke a new
PIC method (pic_disable_intr()) to inform the PIC driver that the
source is no longer in use. The I/O APIC driver frees the APIC IDT
vector when this happens. The MSI driver no longer needs to have a
hack to clear is_enabled during msi_alloc() and msix_alloc() as a result
of this change as well.
- Add an apic_disable_vector() to reset an IDT vector back to Xrsvd to
complement apic_enable_vector() and use it in the I/O APIC and MSI code
when freeing an IDT vector.
- Add a new nexus hook: nexus_add_irq() to ask the nexus driver to add an
IRQ to its irq_rman. The MSI code uses this when it creates new
interrupt sources to let the nexus know about newly valid IRQs.
Previously the msi_alloc() and msix_alloc() passed some extra stuff
back to the nexus methods which then added the IRQs. This approach is
a bit cleaner.
- Change the MSI sx lock to a mutex. If we need to create new sources,
drop the lock, create the required number of sources, then get the lock
and try the allocation again.
o push much of the i386 and amd64 MD interrupt handling code
(intr_machdep.c::intr_execute_handlers()) into MI code
(kern_intr.c::ithread_loop())
o move filter handling to kern_intr.c::intr_filter_loop()
o factor out the code necessary to mask and ack an interrupt event
(intr_machdep.c::intr_eoi_src() and intr_machdep.c::intr_disab_eoi_src()),
and make them part of 'struct intr_event', passing them as arguments to
kern_intr.c::intr_event_create().
o spawn a private ithread per handler (struct intr_handler::ih_thread)
with filter and ithread functions.
Approved by: re (implicit?)
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE depending on whether the physical address space is
densely or sparsely populated with memory. The effect of this
definition is to determine which of two implementations of
vm_page_array and PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() is used. The legacy
implementation is obtained by defining VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE, and a new
implementation that trades off time for space is obtained by defining
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE. For now, all architectures except for ia64 and
sparc64 define VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on ia64
allows the entirety of my Itanium 2's memory to be used. Previously,
only the first 1 GB could be used. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on
sparc64 allows USIIIi-based systems to boot without crashing.
This change is a combination of Nathan Whitehorn's patch and my own
work in perforce.
Discussed with: kmacy, marius, Nathan Whitehorn
PR: 112194
- Simplify the amount of work that has be done for each architecture by
pushing more of the truly MI code down into the PCI bus driver.
- Don't bind MSI-X indicies to IRQs so that we can allow a driver to map
multiple MSI-X messages into a single IRQ when handling a message
shortage.
The changes include:
- Add a new pcib_if method: PCIB_MAP_MSI() which is called by the PCI bus
to calculate the address and data values for a given MSI/MSI-X IRQ.
The x86 nexus drivers map this into a call to a new 'msi_map()' function
in msi.c that does the mapping.
- Retire the pcib_if method PCIB_REMAP_MSIX() and remove the 'index'
parameter from PCIB_ALLOC_MSIX(). MD code no longer has any knowledge
of the MSI-X index for a given MSI-X IRQ.
- The PCI bus driver now stores more MSI-X state in a child's ivars.
Specifically, it now stores an array of IRQs (called "message vectors" in
the code) that have associated address and data values, and a small
virtual version of the MSI-X table that specifies the message vector
that a given MSI-X table entry uses. Sparse mappings are permitted in
the virtual table.
- The PCI bus driver now configures the MSI and MSI-X address/data
registers directly via custom bus_setup_intr() and bus_teardown_intr()
methods. pci_setup_intr() invokes PCIB_MAP_MSI() to determine the
address and data values for a given message as needed. The MD code
no longer has to call back down into the PCI bus code to set these
values from the nexus' bus_setup_intr() handler.
- The PCI bus code provides a callout (pci_remap_msi_irq()) that the MD
code can call to force the PCI bus to re-invoke PCIB_MAP_MSI() to get
new values of the address and data fields for a given IRQ. The x86
MSI code uses this when an MSI IRQ is moved to a different CPU, requiring
a new value of the 'address' field.
- The x86 MSI psuedo-driver loses a lot of code, and in fact the separate
MSI/MSI-X pseudo-PICs are collapsed down into a single MSI PIC driver
since the only remaining diff between the two is a substring in a
bootverbose printf.
- The PCI bus driver will now restore MSI-X state (including programming
entries in the MSI-X table) on device resume.
- The interface for pci_remap_msix() has changed. Instead of accepting
indices for the allocated vectors, it accepts a mini-virtual table
(with a new length parameter). This table is an array of u_ints, where
each value specifies which allocated message vector to use for the
corresponding MSI-X message. A vector of 0 forces a message to not
have an associated IRQ. The device may choose to only use some of the
IRQs assigned, in which case the unused IRQs must be at the "end" and
will be released back to the system. This allows a driver to use the
same remap table for different shortage values. For example, if a driver
wants 4 messages, it can use the same remap table (which only uses the
first two messages) for the cases when it only gets 2 or 3 messages and
in the latter case the PCI bus will release the 3rd IRQ back to the
system.
MFC after: 1 month
fault. The previous method zero'd out the page tables, invalidated the
TLB, and then entered a spin loop. The idea was that the instruction after
the TLB invalidate would result in a page fault and the page fault and
subsequent double fault wouldn't be able to determine the physical page
for their fault handlers' first instruction. This stopped working when
PGE (PG_G PTE/PDE bit) support was added as a TLB invalidate via %cr3
reload doesn't clear TLB entries with PG_G set. Thus, the CPU was still
able to map the virtual address for the spin loop and happily performed
its infinite loop.
The triple fault now uses a much more deterministic sledge-hammer approach
to generate a triple fault. First, the IDT descriptor is set to point to
an empty IDT, so any interrupts (including a double fault) will instantly
fault. Second, we trigger a int 3 breakpoint to force an interrupt and
kick off a triple fault.
MFC after: 3 days
vm.kmem_size_min. Useful when using ZFS to make sure that vm.kmem size will
be at least 256mb (for example) without forcing a particular value via vm.kmem_size.
Approved by: njl (mentor)
Reviewed by: alc
