prime objectives are:
o Implement a syscall path based on the epc inststruction (see
sys/ia64/ia64/syscall.s).
o Revisit the places were we need to save and restore registers
and define those contexts in terms of the register sets (see
sys/ia64/include/_regset.h).
Secundairy objectives:
o Remove the requirement to use contigmalloc for kernel stacks.
o Better handling of the high FP registers for SMP systems.
o Switch to the new cpu_switch() and cpu_throw() semantics.
o Add a good unwinder to reconstruct contexts for the rare
cases we need to (see sys/contrib/ia64/libuwx)
Many files are affected by this change. Functionally it boils
down to:
o The EPC syscall doesn't preserve registers it does not need
to preserve and places the arguments differently on the stack.
This affects libc and truss.
o The address of the kernel page directory (kptdir) had to
be unstaticized for use by the nested TLB fault handler.
The name has been changed to ia64_kptdir to avoid conflicts.
The renaming affects libkvm.
o The trapframe only contains the special registers and the
scratch registers. For syscalls using the EPC syscall path
no scratch registers are saved. This affects all places where
the trapframe is accessed. Most notably the unaligned access
handler, the signal delivery code and the debugger.
o Context switching only partly saves the special registers
and the preserved registers. This affects cpu_switch() and
triggered the move to the new semantics, which additionally
affects cpu_throw().
o The high FP registers are either in the PCB or on some
CPU. context switching for them is done lazily. This affects
trap().
o The mcontext has room for all registers, but not all of them
have to be defined in all cases. This mostly affects signal
delivery code now. The *context syscalls are as of yet still
unimplemented.
Many details went into the removal of the requirement to use
contigmalloc for kernel stacks. The details are mostly CPU
specific and limited to exception_save() and exception_restore().
The few places where we create, destroy or switch stacks were
mostly simplified by not having to construct physical addresses
and additionally saving the virtual addresses for later use.
Besides more efficient context saving and restoring, which of
course yields a noticable speedup, this also fixes the dreaded
SMP bootup problem as a side-effect. The details of which are
still not fully understood.
This change includes all the necessary backward compatibility
code to have it handle older userland binaries that use the
break instruction for syscalls. Support for break-based syscalls
has been pessimized in favor of a clean implementation. Due to
the overall better performance of the kernel, this will still
be notived as an improvement if it's noticed at all.
Approved by: re@ (jhb)
lock held (_thr_sched_switch_unlocked()) and use this to avoid
dropping the scheduler lock and having the scheduler retake the
same lock again.
Add a better way of detecting if a low-level lock is in use.
When switching out a thread due to blocking in the UTS, don't
switch to the KSE's scheduler stack only to switch back to
another thread. If possible switch to the new thread directly
from the old thread and avoid the overhead of the extra
context switch.
Check for pending signals on a thread when entering the scheduler
and add them to the threads signal frame. This includes some
other minor signal fixes.
Most of this was a joint effor between davidxu and myself.
Reviewed by: davidxu
Approved by: re@ (blanket for libpthread)
the vnode and restart the loop. Vflush() is vulnerable since it does not
hold a reference to the vnode and it holds no other locks while waiting
for the vnode lock. The vnode will no longer be on the list when the
loop is restarted.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
description.
- Remove some bogus commas.
- Use the past tense when referring to the removal of the sleep() function
since it happened quite a while ago and since the previous sentence in the
paragraph already uses the past tense.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
switching to kernel_pmap. The pmap is not special enough.
o Clear the active bit on the pmap we're switching out.
o Fix some nearby style(9) bugs.
Approved by: re@
kernel_vm_end in pmap_bootstrap. Don't delay the initialization until
we need to grow the kernel VM space. This BTW happens twice before
we enter either single- or multi-user mode. Don't adjust kernel_vm_end
while growing based on whether the KPT contains a non-NULL entry. We
trust kernel_vm_end to be correct and we make sure it's still correct
after growing.
Define virtual_avail and virtual_end in terms of VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS
and VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS (resp). Don't hardcode region knowledge.
o Limit the size of the region ID map to 64KB. This gives a bitmap
that is large enough to keep track of 2^19 numbers. The minimal map
size is 32KB. The reason we limit the map size is that processor
models may have implemented a 24-bit region ID, which would give
a 2MB bitmap while the maximum number of allocations is always
less than PID_MAX*5, which is less than 2^19.
o Allocate all region IDs up-front. The slight downside of reserving
more RIDs then a process needs (3 for ia64 native and 1 for ia32)
is preferable over the call to pmap_ensure_rid() where RIDs are
allocated on demand. On SMP systems this may lead to a race
condition.
o When allocating a region ID, don't use arc4random(). We're not
interested in randomness or uniform distribution across the
spectrum. We only need uniqueness. Random numbers may easily
collide when the number of allocated RIDs is high, creating a
possibly unbounded retry rate.
ia64 only uses relocations with addend, remove the sections specific to
non-addend relocations (.rel.*). Also remove C++ specific sections.
Approved by: re@ (blanket)
Fixes a problem where directory entries could show up twice: once
on the top layer of the union stack, and once on the bottom layer.
Approved by: re (rwatson)
PT_DETACH ptrace(2) requests from functioning as advertised in the
manual page. As described in kern/35175, the PT_DETACH request will,
under certain circumstances, pass an unwanted signal on to the traced
process upan detaching from it. The PT_CONTINUE request will
sometimes fail if you make it pass a signal that has "properties" that
differ from the properties of the signal that origionally caused the
traced process to be stopped. Since PT_KILL is nothing than
PT_CONTINUE with SIGKILL, it is broken too. In the PT_KILL case, this
leads to an unkillable process.
PR: 44011
Submitted by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Approved by: re(jhb)
on if_fxp cards. When flow control is enabled, if the operating system
doesn't acknowledge the packet buffer filling, the card will begin to
generate ethernet quench packets, but appears to get into a feedback
loop of some sort, hosing local switches. This is a temporary workaround
for 5.1: the ability to configure flow control should probably be
exposed by some or another management interface on ethernet link layer
devices.
Approved by: re (bmah)
Reviewed by: mux
instead of taking the (userland) eflags from the trap frame and masking
out PSL_I. There is no need to inherit any flags from the forking process;
the old method however can cause flags set in userland for the forking
process to be bogusly set in kernel mode when the newly forked process
runs for the first time (in particular PSL_T, which is set for userland
when the process is single-stepped; this would cause trace traps in
kernel mode).
Approved by: re (jhb)
- prefix(8) and gifconfig(8) are deprecated
- dtcpc, dtcps were never imported (also removed from KAME CVS)
- pim6dd, pim6sd and racoon are ports
- inet6d does not exist on FreeBSD
PR: docs/51295
Submitted by: Simon L. Nielsen <simon@nitro.dk>
Content reviewed by: itojun
Approved by: des (mentor), re (bmah)
VOP_SETATTR() or VOP_GETATTR(); without these locks (a) VFS_DEBUG_LOCKS
will panic, and (b) it may be possible to corrupt entries in the cached
vnode attributes in the nfsnode, since nfsnode attribute cache data is
also protected by the vnode lock.
Approved by: re (jhb)
Pointed out by: VFS_DEBUG_LOCKS
only while holding appropriate vnode locks. This patch slides the lock
release for ufs_extattr_enable() to continue to hold the active vnode lock
on a backing file until after the flag change; it also acquires a vnode
lock when disabling an attribute and hence clearing a flag on the backing
vnode. This permits VFS_DEBUG_LOCKS to run UFS1 extended attributes
without panicking, as well as preventing a potential race and vnode flag
problem.
Approved by: re (jhb)
Pointed out by: DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS
wrong when running a release tinderbox as root)
Use the setup's COMMENT field in the subject of the failure report, instead
of just "$branch tinderbox".
Tweak the test setups.
