freebsd-dev/sys/sun4v
Attilio Rao be1057174e MFC r196196:
* Completely remove the option STOP_NMI from the kernel.  This option
  has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
  but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts
  disabled while holding a spinlock in other occasions.  This can be the
  cause of deadlocks on events where a normal IPI_STOP is expected.
* Add an new IPI called IPI_STOP_HARD on all the supported architectures.
  This IPI is responsible for sending a stop message among CPUs using a
  privileged channel when disponible. In other cases it just does match a
  normal IPI_STOP.
  Right now the IPI_STOP_HARD functionality uses a NMI on ia32 and amd64
  architectures, while on the other has a normal IPI_STOP effect. It is
  responsibility of maintainers to eventually implement an hard stop
  when necessary and possible.
* Use the new IPI facility in order to implement a new userend SMP kernel
  function called stop_cpus_hard(). That is specular to stop_cpu() but
  it does use the privileged channel for the stopping facility.
* Let KDB use the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and leave
  stop_cpus() for all the other cases
* Disable interrupts on CPU0 when starting the process of APs suspension.
* Style cleanup and comments adding

This patch should fix the reboot/shutdown deadlocks many users are
constantly reporting on mailing lists.

Please don't forget to update your config file with the STOP_NMI
option removal

Reviewed by:  jhb
Tested by:    pho, bz, rink
Approved by:  re (kib)
2009-08-13 17:54:11 +00:00
..
cddl move CDDL licensed machine description support routine files to cddl directory 2006-11-24 01:56:46 +00:00
compile
conf Rename option USBVERBOSE to USB_VERBOSE for 2 reasons: 2009-07-12 04:48:47 +00:00
include MFC r196196: 2009-08-13 17:54:11 +00:00
mdesc This is a follow-up, cleaning-up commit about recent changes involving 2007-09-11 22:54:09 +00:00
sun4v Correct an error of omission in r195649 ("Add support to the virtual memory 2009-07-13 18:11:59 +00:00