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Bruce Evans 1d3c0fa7b2 Remove all kernel uses of pcb_psl, but keep in in the struct to
preserve the ABI and API for applications.  It was removed in the port
to amd64, but was remained as garbage giving a micro-pessimization and
spurious single-step traps on i386.

pcb_psl was intended to be used just to do a context switch of PSL_I,
but this context switch was null in most or all versions, and
mis-switching of PSL_T was done instead.

Some history:
- in 386BSD-0.0, cpu_switch() ran at splhigh() and splhigh() did too
  much interrupt disabling, so interrupts were hard-disabled across
  cpu_switch() and too many other places
- in 386BSD-0.0-patchkit through FreeBSD-4 and FreeBSD-5 before
  SMPng, splhigh() did soft interrupt masking, and cpu_switch() was
  excessively cautious and did a cli at the start and a sti at the
  end to hard-disable interrupts across the switch
- SMPng replaced the spl's and cli's by spinlocks (just sched_lock?),
  so interrupts were hard-disabled across cpu_switch() and too many
  other places again
- initial attempts to fix this intended to restore some soft
  interrupt disabling, but to support variations in this cpu_switch()
  used pushfl/popfl into pcb_psl to avoid hard-coding the assumption
  that the initial and final states have PSL_I enabled.  But the
  version with soft interrupt disabling wasn't used for long, or was
  never committed, (except I always used my different version of it
  for UP) so the pushfl/popl and pcb_psl to hold them have been doing
  less than nothing for about 14 years.
2016-09-17 14:00:52 +00:00
bin Implement multibyte encoding support for -v with fallback 2016-09-15 17:24:39 +00:00
cddl MFV r304159: 7277 zdb should be able to print zfs_dbgmsg's 2016-09-03 10:07:46 +00:00
contrib MFV r305816: 2016-09-14 21:15:01 +00:00
crypto Add refactored blacklist support to sshd 2016-08-30 14:09:24 +00:00
etc Add evdev protocol implementation 2016-09-11 18:56:38 +00:00
gnu DIRDEPS_BUILD: Avoid cyclic dependency with libc++. 2016-08-31 19:30:00 +00:00
include Add evdev protocol implementation 2016-09-11 18:56:38 +00:00
kerberos5 DIRDEPS_BUILD: Update dependencies 2016-06-14 16:55:05 +00:00
lib When MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX points to a case-insensitive file system, the 2016-09-16 03:04:48 +00:00
libexec DIRDEPS_BUILD: Add some missing dirctories to the build. 2016-08-31 19:30:59 +00:00
release Use "generic" ALLWINNER_UP kernel config for Cubieboard release. 2016-09-12 16:10:47 +00:00
rescue DIRDEPS_BUILD: Build crunchide for the host. 2016-09-01 23:52:25 +00:00
sbin Invert calloc(3) argument order. 2016-09-16 05:33:08 +00:00
secure DIRDEPS_BUILD: Update dependencies. 2016-08-31 19:30:46 +00:00
share Avoid clobbering existing value of META_COOKIE_TOUCH 2016-09-13 22:17:25 +00:00
sys Remove all kernel uses of pcb_psl, but keep in in the struct to 2016-09-17 14:00:52 +00:00
targets DIRDEPS_BUILD: Build crunchide for the host. 2016-09-01 23:52:25 +00:00
tests wait: Do not copyout uninitialized status/rusage/wrusage. 2016-09-09 21:58:48 +00:00
tools Move libcasper tests from regression/capsicum/libcasper/ to 2016-09-08 20:01:26 +00:00
usr.bin Update history. Patch supplied by Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk>. 2016-09-16 14:23:16 +00:00
usr.sbin Add virtio-console support to bhyve. 2016-09-17 13:48:01 +00:00
.arcconfig Remove project.name which is a product of a bygone era. 2016-04-21 04:33:07 +00:00
.arclint phabricator related changes: 2015-04-20 20:33:22 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Bump copyright year. 2015-12-31 11:21:45 +00:00
LOCKS Explicitly require Security Officer's approval for kernel PRNG bits. 2013-09-17 14:19:05 +00:00
MAINTAINERS Remove myself from kern_timeout.c yeah! 2016-07-27 20:37:32 +00:00
Makefile Add a 'make print-dir' that simply traverses all directories and prints them. 2016-08-31 19:30:52 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Bump __FreeBSD_version for crunchgen META_MODE fix in r305254. 2016-09-01 23:22:31 +00:00
Makefile.libcompat Fix in-tree GCC builds after r304681. 2016-08-23 19:29:37 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Add more obsolete files 2016-09-11 19:51:32 +00:00
README README: remove nonexistent 'games' directory. 2016-05-18 10:43:13 +00:00
UPDATING queue(3): Enhance queue debugging macros 2016-09-08 21:20:01 +00:00

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