freebsd-dev/sys/powerpc
Attilio Rao dc6fbf6545 * 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.
* Adds 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 17:09:45 +00:00
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aim Increase the size of the page table on 64-bit PowerPC machines as a 2009-07-12 04:07:52 +00:00
booke Add a new type of VM object: OBJT_SG. An OBJT_SG object is very similar to 2009-07-24 13:50:29 +00:00
compile
conf Enable POSIX semaphores on all non-embedded architectures by default. 2009-07-02 18:24:37 +00:00
cpufreq Add cpufreq support on the PowerPC G5, along with a skeleton SMU driver 2009-06-23 04:28:32 +00:00
fpu Include <sys/types.h> before <sys/systm.h> to get typedefs required 2008-04-09 08:50:37 +00:00
include * Completely Remove the option STOP_NMI from the kernel. This option 2009-08-13 17:09:45 +00:00
mpc85xx Do not use OCP85XX_LBC_OFF twice when accessing LBC registers on MPC85XX. 2009-07-21 08:38:45 +00:00
ofw strict kobj signatures: some ofw_setprop fixes 2009-06-11 17:15:20 +00:00
powermac Add cpufreq support on the PowerPC G5, along with a skeleton SMU driver 2009-06-23 04:28:32 +00:00
powerpc * Completely Remove the option STOP_NMI from the kernel. This option 2009-08-13 17:09:45 +00:00
psim Move from using devclass_find_free_unit(ata_devclass, 0) to -1 for the 2009-06-10 17:40:18 +00:00