return path only when neither thread was context switched while
executing syscall code nor syscall explicitely modified LDT or MSRs.
Save segment registers in trap handlers before interrupts are enabled,
to not allow context switches to happen before registers are saved.
Use separated byte in pcb for indication of fast/full return, since
pcb_flags are not synchronized with context switches.
The change puts back syscall microbenchmark numbers that were slowed
down after commit of the support for LDT on amd64.
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested (and tested, and tested ...) by: pho
Approved by: re (kensmith)
the kernel on amd64. Fill and read segment registers for mcontext and
signals. Handle traps caused by restoration of the
invalidated selectors.
Implement user-mode creation and manipulation of the process-specific
LDT descriptors for amd64, see sysarch(2).
Implement support for TSS i/o port access permission bitmap for amd64.
Context-switch LDT and TSS. Do not save and restore segment registers on
the context switch, that is handled by kernel enter/leave trampolines
now. Remove segment restore code from the signal trampolines for
freebsd/amd64, freebsd/ia32 and linux/i386 for the same reason.
Implement amd64-specific compat shims for sysarch.
Linuxolator (temporary ?) switched to use gsbase for thread_area pointer.
TODO:
Currently, gdb is not adapted to show segment registers from struct reg.
Also, no machine-depended ptrace command is added to set segment
registers for debugged process.
In collaboration with: pho
Discussed with: peter
Reviewed by: jhb
Linuxolator tested by: dchagin
as if they were really passed by reference. Specifically, the dead stores
elimination pass in the GCC 4.1 optimiser breaks the non-compliant behavior
on which FreeBSD relied. This change brings FreeBSD up to date by switching
trap frames to being explicitly passed by reference.
Reviewed by: kan
Tested by: kan
stolen from the ia64/ia32 code (indeed there was a repocopy), but I've
redone the MD parts and added and fixed a few essential syscalls. It
is sufficient to run i386 binaries like /bin/ls, /usr/bin/id (dynamic)
and p4. The ia64 code has not implemented signal delivery, so I had
to do that.
Before you say it, yes, this does need to go in a common place. But
we're in a freeze at the moment and I didn't want to risk breaking ia64.
I will sort this out after the freeze so that the common code is in a
common place.
On the AMD64 side, this required adding segment selector context switch
support and some other support infrastructure. The %fs/%gs etc code
is hairy because loading %gs will clobber the kernel's current MSR_GSBASE
setting. The segment selectors are not used by the kernel, so they're only
changed at context switch time or when changing modes. This still needs
to be optimized.
Approved by: re (amd64/* blanket)
