On modern ARM SoCs the L2 cache controller sits between the CPU and the
AXI bus, and most on-chip memory-mapped devices are on the AXI bus. We
map the device registers using the 'Device' memory attribute, which means
the memory is not cached, but writes to it are buffered. Ensuring that a
write has made it all the way to a device may require that the L2
controller take some action.
There is currently only one implementation of the new function, for the
PL310 cache controller. It invokes a function that the controller
manual calls "cache sync" but it actually has nothing to do with cache at
all, it triggers a drain of all pending store buffer writes and it blocks
until they complete.
The sheeva and xscale L2 controllers (which predate the concept of Device
memory) don't seem to have a corresponding function. It appears that the
standard armv5 drain_writebuf function includes draining all the way
through the L2 controller.
The last obstacle to switching PowerPC entirely to vt is that the Playstation 3
framebuffer driver needs to be ported over. This only applies for powerpc64,
however.
on my G4 iBook by more than half. Still 10% slower than syscons, but that's
much better than a factor of 2.
The slowness had to do with pathological write performance on 8-bit
framebuffers, which are almost universally used on Open Firmware systems.
Writing 1 byte at a time, potentially nonconsecutively, resulted in many
extra PCI write cycles. This patch, in the common case where it's writing
one or several characters in an 8x8 font, gangs the writes together into
a set of 32-bit writes. This is a port of r143830 to vt(4).
The EFI framebuffer is also extremely slow, probably for the same reason,
and the same patch will likely help there.
H_SAVE_FP is similar to H_SAVE but operates on a FILE* instead of a filename.
This is useful when operating in capability mode.
Reviewed by: christos@NetBSD.org, pfg
On armv4 these are defined as synonyms right now, but it's a bit ambiguous
what NOCACHE means (is buffering/write-combining also enabled or not?); this
is a first step towards replacing PTE_NOCACHE with a less ambiguous name.
actual file storing the semaphore object is different from the file
created on the first open. Store the file st_dev and st_ino members
of the struct stat in the semaphore structure on open, and compare
them with the attributes of the opened file to detect unlink and
re-creation.
This fixes an issue of sem_unlink(3) failing to flush the named entry
in the semaphore list for the current or remote process, making
sem_unlink(3) not correctly operating if the unlinked semaphore is
still opened.
Reported by: Joris Giovannangeli <joris@giovannangeli.fr>
PR: standards/189353
Reviewed by: jilles (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
When getopts finds an invalid option or a missing option-argument, it should
not reset its state and should set OPTIND as normal. This is an old ash bug
that was fixed long ago in dash. Our behaviour now matches most other
shells.
need COW and is writeable (i.e. becoming writeable due to the
mprotect(2) operation), do not create a new backing object for the
entry. The caller of the function is vm_map_protect(), the call is
made to ensure that wired entry has all pages resident and wired in
the top level object and to enable the write. We might need to copy
read-only page from some backing objects into the top object or remap
the page with the write allowed.
This fixes the issue with mishandling of the swap accounting when
read-only wired mapping is upgraded to write-enabled after fork. The
previous code path did not accounted the new object, but it creation
is redundand anyway and the change provides an optimization for the
non-common situation.
Reported by: markj
Suggested and reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
o KMODDEPS warning is 15 years stale. Remove it.
o MK_CTF will always be defined now, so no need to test to see if it
is defined.
o no need to define MK_FORMAT_EXTENTIONS if undefined anymore.
in them. This is often the case, so just ignore the return
code. Actual errors that are found will also be detected downstream in
the rare cases where the return code is 2 instead of 1.
early built libraries. This should be sufficient for most cases and
has eliminated the issues I've seen with high -j builds. Races likely
still remain, but this knocks the problem down a notch.
and MK_LLDB=no, so set those explicitly (now that we can do
that). Simplify tests for these variables as well, since we know they
will always be defined regardless of the phase of the build.
with clang 3.3. Useful for test building -current on a -stable system
in individual directories. Potentially useful if we ever want to
support, say, gcc 4.8 or 4.9's new warnings when building with an
external toolchain (but such support not yet committed). Document
the bsd.compiler.mk interface.
install it as fmake. This defaults to no. This should be viewed as the
first step towards evental migration of this historic code to ports
and removal from the tree.
page queues for the backing objects. The queues are huge and clutter
the display, when mostly the map entries and its backing storage is
interesting.
The page queues can be seen with ddb 'show object' command.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
FreeBSD ZFS port unlike OpenSolaris does not use device IDs, and does not
implement respective devid_*() fuctions. It is pointless to open devices
just to close them back immediately.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
the GPIO pin is connected to a push button (or other devices).
Instead keep the boot loader settings.
Calling ar71xx_gpio_pin_configure() with DEFAULT_CAPS was probably a
mistake and was causing all the pins to be set as outputs.
at that time, but AFAIK it is only used on routerboards.
Enabling GPIO_FUNC_SPI_CS[1|2]_EN will claim the use of gpio pins 0 and 1
respectivelly for use as SPI CS pins.
When really needed, this can still be enabled on kernel hints using the
function_set and function_clear knobs.
This driver supports the low and high precision models (9 and 11 bits) and
it will auto-detect the both variants.
The driver expose the temperature registers (actual temperature, shutdown
and hysteresys temperature) and also the configuration register.
It was tested on FDT systems: RPi, BBB and on non-FDT systems: AR71xx, with
both, hardware i2c controllers (when available) and gpioiic(4).
This provides a simple and cheap way for verifying the i2c bus on embedded
systems.
