So that MAX_APIC_ID can be bumped without wasting memory.
Note that the usage of MAX_APIC_ID in the SRAT parsing forces the
parser to allocate memory directly from the phys_avail physical memory
array, which is not the best approach probably, but I haven't found
any other way to allocate memory so early in boot. This memory is not
returned to the system afterwards, but at least it's sized according
to the maximum APIC ID found in the MADT table.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
MFC after: 1 month
Reviewed by: kib
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11912
On several Intel chipsets, diagnostic NMIs sent from BMC or NMIs
reporting hardware errors are broadcasted to all CPUs.
When kernel is configured to enter kdb on NMI, the outcome is
problematic, because each CPU tries to enter kdb. All CPUs are
executing NMI handlers, which set the latches disabling the nested NMI
delivery; this means that stop_cpus_hard(), used by kdb_enter() to
stop other cpus by broadcasting IPI_STOP_HARD NMI, cannot work. One
indication of this is the harmless but annoying diagnostic "timeout
stopping cpus".
Much more harming behaviour is that because all CPUs try to enter kdb,
and if ddb is used as debugger, all CPUs issue prompt on console and
race for the input, not to mention the simultaneous use of the ddb
shared state.
Try to fix this by introducing a pseudo-lock for simultaneous attempts
to handle NMIs. If one core happens to enter NMI trap handler, other
cores see it and simulate reception of the IPI_STOP_HARD. More,
generic_stop_cpus() avoids sending IPI_STOP_HARD and avoids waiting
for the acknowledgement, relying on the nmi handler on other cores
suspending and then restarting the CPU.
Since it is impossible to detect at runtime whether some stray NMI is
broadcast or unicast, add a knob for administrator (really developer)
to configure debugging NMI handling mode.
The updated patch was debugged with the help from Andrey Gapon (avg)
and discussed with him.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8249
Reduce the cost of TLB invalidation on x86 by using per-CPU completion flags
Reduce contention during TLB invalidation operations by using a per-CPU
completion flag, rather than a single atomically-updated variable.
On a Westmere system (2 sockets x 4 cores x 1 threads), dtrace measurements
show that smp_tlb_shootdown is about 50% faster with this patch; observations
with VTune show that the percentage of time spent in invlrng_single_page on an
interrupt (actually doing invalidation, rather than synchronization) increases
from 31% with the old mechanism to 71% with the new one. (Running a basic file
server workload.)
Submitted by: Anton Rang <rang at acm.org>
Reviewed by: cem (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8041
Reduce contention during TLB invalidation operations by using a per-CPU
completion flag, rather than a single atomically-updated variable.
On a Westmere system (2 sockets x 4 cores x 1 threads), dtrace measurements
show that smp_tlb_shootdown is about 50% faster with this patch; observations
with VTune show that the percentage of time spent in invlrng_single_page on an
interrupt (actually doing invalidation, rather than synchronization) increases
from 31% with the old mechanism to 71% with the new one. (Running a basic file
server workload.)
Submitted by: Anton Rang <rang at acm.org>
Reviewed by: cem (earlier version), kib
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8041
new headers x86/include x86_var.h and x86_smp.h.
Reviewed by: emaste, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4358
