type of software interrupt. Roughly, what used to be a bit in spending
now maps to a swi thread. Each thread can have multiple handlers, just
like a hardware interrupt thread.
- Instead of using a bitmask of pending interrupts, we schedule the specific
software interrupt thread to run, so spending, NSWI, and the shandlers
array are no longer needed. We can now have an arbitrary number of
software interrupt threads. When you register a software interrupt
thread via sinthand_add(), you get back a struct intrhand that you pass
to sched_swi() when you wish to schedule your swi thread to run.
- Convert the name of 'struct intrec' to 'struct intrhand' as it is a bit
more intuitive. Also, prefix all the members of struct intrhand with
'ih_'.
- Make swi_net() a MI function since there is now no point in it being
MD.
Submitted by: cp
- Make softinterrupts (SWI's) almost completely MI, and divorce them
completely from the x86 hardware interrupt code.
- The ihandlers array is now gone. Instead, there is a MI shandlers array
that just contains SWI handlers.
- Most of the former machine/ipl.h files have moved to a new sys/ipl.h.
- Stub out all the spl*() functions on all architectures.
Submitted by: dfr
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
fixes some namespace pollution in general and breakage of modules that
aren't in the sys tree in particular (<machine/ipl.h> includes further
headers that aren't installed under /usr/include).
Reimplemented SPLASSERT() so that it is more machine independent and
less bloated and doesn't require the <machine/ipl.h> include spam.
In particular, don't assume that `cpl' can be printed using %08x
format. The alpha arch doesn't even have `cpl'. SPLASSERT() was
harmless on alphas because it isn't actually used.
unless both "option INVARIANTS" and "options INVARIANT_SUPPORT"
are defined in the kernel's config(8) file.
SPLASSERT(expression, msg) used KASSERT to check that the
expression is true, panic()ing the kernel otherwise.
Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: jdp, dfr, phk, eivind and green
In combination with Doug's recent alpha_cpu.h, this reduces the cost
of ipl raising/lowering significantly. This is most pronounced when
doing file reads.
Reviewed by: dfr
work in progress and has never booted a real machine. Initial
development and testing was done using SimOS (see
http://simos.stanford.edu for details). On the SimOS simulator, this
port successfully reaches single-user mode and has been tested with
loads as high as one copy of /bin/ls :-).
Obtained from: partly from NetBSD/alpha
