- DTrace scripts to check for errors, performance, ...
they serve mostly as examples of what you can do with the static probe;s
with moderate load the scripts may be overwhelmed, excessive lock-tracing
may influence program behavior (see the last design decission)
Design decissions:
- use "linuxulator" as the provider for the native bitsize; add the
bitsize for the non-native emulation (e.g. "linuxuator32" on amd64)
- Add probes only for locks which are acquired in one function and released
in another function. Locks which are aquired and released in the same
function should be easy to pair in the code, inter-function
locking is more easy to verify in DTrace.
- Probes for locks should be fired after locking and before releasing to
prevent races (to provide data/function stability in DTrace, see the
man-page of "dtrace -v ..." and the corresponding DTrace docs).
intr_bind() on x86.
This has been requested by jhb and I strongly disagree with this,
but as long as he is the x86 and interrupt subsystem maintainer I will
follow his directives.
The disagreement cames from what we should really consider as a
public KPI. IMHO, if we really need a selection between the kernel
functions, we may need an explicit protection like _KERNEL_KPI, which
defines which subset of the kernel function might really be considered
as part of the KPI (for thirdy part modules) and which not.
As long as we don't have this mechanism I just consider any possible
function as usable by thirdy part code, thus intr_bind() included.
MFC after: 1 week
discrepancy between modules and kernel, but deal with SMP differences
within the functions themselves.
As an added bonus this also helps in terms of code readability.
Requested by: gibbs
Reviewed by: jhb, marius
MFC after: 1 week
but GNU libc used it without checking its kernel version, e. g., Fedora 10.
- Move pipe(2) implementation for Linuxulator from MD files to MI file,
sys/compat/linux/linux_file.c. There is no MD code for this syscall at all.
- Correct an argument type for pipe() from l_ulong * to l_int *. Probably
this was the source of MI/MD confusion.
Reviewed by: emulation
- Mark 'sdp' as requiring 'inet'.
- Always include "opt_inet.h" and "opt_inet6.h" and modify the IB
driver Makefiles to honor WITH/WITHOUT_INET/INET6/_SUPPORT options
to determine what should be enabled during a module build.
- Fix the mlxen(4) driver and the core IB code to compile without
if INET is disabled (including when both INET and INET6 are disabled).
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 2 weeks
in set_apic_interrupt_ids(). Besides, set_apic_interrupts_ids() is not
called in the !SMP case too.
Fix this by:
- Adding the BSP as an interrupt target directly in cpu_startup().
- Remove an obsolete optimization where the BSP are skipped in
set_apic_interrupt_ids().
Reported by: jh
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC: r233961
Pointy hat to: me
an uncorrected ECC error tends to fire on all CPUs in a package
simultaneously and the current printf hacks are not sufficient to make
the messages legible. Instead, use the existing mca_lock spinlock to
serialize calls to mca_log() and change the machine check code to panic
directly when an unrecoverable error is encoutered rather than falling
back to a trap_fatal() call in trap() (which adds nearly a screen-full of
logging messages that aren't useful for machine checks).
MFC after: 2 weeks
"Under a highly specific and detailed set of internal timing conditions,
the processor may incorrectly update the stack pointer after a long series
of push and/or near-call instructions, or a long series of pop and/or
near-return instructions. The processor must be in 64-bit mode for this
erratum to occur."
MFC after: 3 days
bridges. Rather than blindly enabling the windows on all of them, only
enable the window when an MSI interrupt is enabled for a device behind
the bridge, similar to what already happens for HT PCI-PCI bridges.
To implement this, each x86 Host-PCI bridge driver has to be able to
locate it's actual backing device on bus 0. For ACPI, use the _ADR
method to find the slot and function of the device. For the non-ACPI
case, the legacy(4) driver already scans bus 0 looking for Host-PCI
bridge devices. Now it saves the slot and function of each bridge that
it finds as ivars that the Host-PCI bridge driver can then use in its
pcib_map_msi() method.
This fixes machines where non-MSI interrupts were broken by the previous
round of HT MSI changes.
Tested by: bapt
MFC after: 1 week
be less ambiguous and more clearly identify what it means. This
attribute is what Intel refers to as UC-, and it's only difference
relative to normal UC memory is that a WC MTRR will override a UC-
PAT entry causing the memory to be treated as WC, whereas a UC PAT
entry will always override the MTRR.
- Remove the VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHED alias from powerpc.
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
<20120222095239.Horde.0hpYHJjmRSRPRKzXsoFRbYk@webmail.leidinger.net>.
According to some private emails received, it apparently is not unpopular
to use at least Quad GigaSwift cards driven by cas(4) in x86 machines.
MFC after: 1 week
The GPL infected parts which were blocking the inclusion of snd_csa
and snd_emu10kx in GENERIC have recently been removed from the tree.
I'm also adding snd_cmi to GENERIC, which I originally intended to
add when we enabled sound support by default.
Discussed with: jhb, pfg, Yuriy Tsibizov <yuriy.tsibizov@gfk.ru>
Approved by: jhb
kernel.
When access restrictions are added to a page table entry, we flush the
corresponding virtual address mapping from the TLB. In contrast, when
access restrictions are removed from a page table entry, we do not
flush the virtual address mapping from the TLB. This is exactly as
recommended in AMD's documentation. In effect, when access
restrictions are removed from a page table entry, AMD's MMUs will
transparently refresh a stale TLB entry. In short, this saves us from
having to perform potentially costly TLB flushes. In contrast,
Intel's MMUs are allowed to generate a spurious page fault based upon
the stale TLB entry. Usually, such spurious page faults are handled
by vm_fault() without incident. However, when we are executing
no-fault sections of the kernel, we are not allowed to execute
vm_fault(). This change introduces special-case handling for spurious
page faults that occur in no-fault sections of the kernel.
In collaboration with: kib
Tested by: gibbs (an earlier version)
I would also like to acknowledge Hiroki Sato's assistance in
diagnosing this problem.
MFC after: 1 week
As of FreeBSD 8, this driver should not be used. Applications that use
posix_openpt(2) and openpty(3) use the pts(4) that is built into the
kernel unconditionally. If it turns out high profile depend on the
pty(4) module anyway, I'd rather get those fixed. So please report any
issues to me.
The pty(4) module is still available as a kernel module of course, so a
simple `kldload pty' can be used to run old-style pseudo-terminals.
longer serve any purpose. Prior to r157446, they served a purpose
because there was a fixed amount of kernel virtual address space
reserved for pv entries at boot time. However, since that change pv
entries are accessed through the direct map, and so there is no limit
imposed by a fixed amount of kernel virtual address space.
Fix a couple of nearby style issues.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
MFC after: 1 week
AcpiEnterSleepState() executes (optional) _GTS method since ACPICA 20120215
(r231844). To evaluate the method, we need malloc(9), which may sleep.
Reported by: bschmidt
MFC after: 3 days
segments.h to a new x86 segments.h.
Add __packed attribute to some structs (just to be sure).
Also make it clear that i386 GDT and LDT entries are used in ia64 code.
excluded from superpage promotions. At least one of the reason is
that pv_table is sized for non-fictitious pages only.
Consistently check for the page to be non-fictitious before accesing
superpage pv list.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
reg.h with stubs.
The tREGISTER macros are only made visible on i386. These macros are
deprecated and should not be available on amd64.
The i386 and amd64 versions of struct reg have been renamed to struct
__reg32 and struct __reg64. During compilation either __reg32 or __reg64
is defined as reg depending on the machine architecture. On amd64 the i386
struct is also available as struct reg32 which is used in COMPAT_FREEBSD32
code.
Most of compat/ia32/ia32_reg.h is now IA64 only.
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
field are synchronized, there is no need for pmap_protect() to acquire
the page queues lock unless it is going to access the pv lists.
Reviewed by: kib
Remove FPU types from compat/ia32/ia32_reg.h that are no longer needed.
Create machine/npx.h on amd64 to allow compiling i386 code that uses
this header.
The original npx.h and fpu.h define struct envxmm differently. Both
definitions have been included in the new x86 header as struct __envxmm32
and struct __envxmm64. During compilation either __envxmm32 or __envxmm64
is defined as envxmm depending on machine architecture. On amd64 the i386
struct is also available as struct envxmm32.
Reviewed by: kib
