be displayed specially, and debug registers are among of the least
interesting special registers (far behind %cr3). The debug registers
are still accessible as variables and displayed in another bogus place
("show watches").
Implement the linux_io_* syscalls (AIO). They are only enabled if the native
AIO code is available (either compiled in to the kernel or as a module) at
the time the functions are used. If the AIO stuff is not available there
will be a ENOSYS.
From the submitter:
---snip---
DESIGN NOTES:
1. Linux permits a process to own multiple AIO queues (distinguished by
"context"), but FreeBSD creates only one single AIO queue per process.
My code maintains a request queue (STAILQ of queue(3)) per "context",
and throws all AIO requests of all contexts owned by a process into
the single FreeBSD per-process AIO queue.
When the process calls io_destroy(2), io_getevents(2), io_submit(2) and
io_cancel(2), my code can pick out requests owned by the specified context
from the single FreeBSD per-process AIO queue according to the per-context
request queues maintained by my code.
2. The request queue maintained by my code stores contrast information between
Linux IO control blocks (struct linux_iocb) and FreeBSD IO control blocks
(struct aiocb). FreeBSD IO control block actually exists in userland memory
space, required by FreeBSD native aio_XXXXXX(2).
3. It is quite troubling that the function io_getevents() of libaio-0.3.105
needs to use Linux-specific "struct aio_ring", which is a partial mirror
of context in user space. I would rather take the address of context in
kernel as the context ID, but the io_getevents() of libaio forces me to
take the address of the "ring" in user space as the context ID.
To my surprise, one comment line in the file "io_getevents.c" of
libaio-0.3.105 reads:
Ben will hate me for this
REFERENCE:
1. Linux kernel source code: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
(include/linux/aio_abi.h, fs/aio.c)
2. Linux manual pages: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
(io_setup(2), io_destroy(2), io_getevents(2), io_submit(2), io_cancel(2))
3. Linux Scalability Effort: http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html
The design notes: http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aionotes.txt
4. The package libaio, both source and binary:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libaio
Simple transparent interface to Linux AIO system calls.
5. Libaio-oracle: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/libaio-oracle/
POSIX AIO implementation based on Linux AIO system calls (depending on
libaio).
---snip---
Submitted by: Li, Xiao <intron@intron.ac>
(PICs) rather than interrupt sources. This allows interrupt controllers
with no interrupt pics (such as the 8259As when APIC is in use) to
participate in suspend/resume.
- Always register the 8259A PICs even if we don't use any of their pins.
- Explicitly reset the 8259As on resume on amd64 if 'device atpic' isn't
included.
- Add a "dummy" PIC for the local APIC on the BSP to reset the local APIC
on resume. This gets suspend/resume working with APIC on UP systems.
SMP still needs more work to bring the APs back to life.
The MFC after is tentative.
Tested by: anholt (i386)
Submitted by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau at cs.ucl.ac.uk> (3)
MFC after: 1 week
unsuspecting users.
- Add a comment in NOTES about experimental status of SCHED_ULE.
- Make warning about experimental status in sched_ule(4) a bit
stronger.
Suggested and reviewed by: dougb
Discussed on: developers
MFC after: 3 days
Submitted by:
Reviewed by:
Approved by:
Obtained from:
MFC after:
Security:
Move the relocation definitions to the common elf header so that DTrace
can use them on one architecture targeted to a different one.
Add the additional ELF types defines in Sun's "Linker and Libraries"
manual.
Split subr_clock.c in two parts (by repo-copy):
subr_clock.c contains generic RTC and calendaric stuff. etc.
subr_rtc.c contains the newbus'ified RTC interface.
Centralize the machdep.{adjkerntz,disable_rtc_set,wall_cmos_clock}
sysctls and associated variables into subr_clock.c. They are
not machine dependent and we have generic code that relies on being
present so they are not even optional.
timer interrupt servicing for disabled HTT cores in ULE case. Should be
probably fixed in ULE code instead, but we have no real maintainer for
ULE to do it.
PR: 103697
just use the COULD_BOUNCE flag for both and retire the USE_FILTER flag.
This fixes the problem that rev 1.81 introduced with the if_bfe driver
(and possibly others).
- Split out the communication protocols into their own files and use
a couple of function pointers in the softc that the commuication
protocols setup in their own attach routine.
- Add support for the SSIF interface (talking to IPMI over SMBus).
- Add an ACPI attachment.
- Add a PCI attachment that attaches to devices with the IPMI interface
subclass.
- Split the ISA attachment out into its own file: ipmi_isa.c.
- Change the code to probe the SMBIOS table for an IPMI entry to just use
pmap_mapbios() to map the table in rather than trying to setup a fake
resource on an isa device and then activating the resource to map in the
table.
- Make bus attachments leaner by adding attach functions for each
communication interface (ipmi_kcs_attach(), ipmi_smic_attach(), etc.)
that setup per-interface data.
- Formalize the model used by the driver to handle requests by adding an
explicit struct ipmi_request object that holds the state of a given
request and reply for the entire lifetime of the request. By bundling
the request into an object, it is easier to add retry logic to the various
communication backends (as well as eventually support BT mode which uses
a slightly different message format than KCS, SMIC, and SSIF).
- Add a per-softc lock and remove D_NEEDGIANT as the driver is now MPSAFE.
- Add 32-bit compatibility ioctl shims so you can use a 32-bit ipmitool
on FreeBSD/amd64.
- Add ipmi(4) to i386 and amd64 NOTES.
Submitted by: ambrisko (large portions of 2 and 3)
Sponsored by: IronPort Systems, Yahoo!
MFC after: 6 days
of directory reading system calls.
Respell a mis-spelled event name.
Clean up white space/line wraps in a couple of places.
Assign event numbers to some new system call entries that have turned
up in the list since audit support was added.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
behaves. This fixes a lot of test which failed before. For amd64 there
are still some problems, but without any testers which apply patches
and run some predefines tests we can't do more ATM.
Submitted by: Marcin Cieslak <saper@SYSTEM.PL> (minor fixups by myself)
Tested with: LTP
pmap_invalidate_cache() in the SMP case so pmap_mapdev() in multiuser
doesn't panic with a trap 30. I broke this many months ago when I
added pmap_invalidate_cache() as early parts of the PAT work.
Patience from: jmg
Pointy hat: jhb
for overlaps, but more importantly, it collapses adjacent free regions.
This is needed to cope with BIOSen that split up ports for system devices
(like IPMI controllers) across multiple system resource entries.
- Now that rman_manage_region() is not so dumb, remove extra logic in the
x86 nexus drivers to populate the IRQ rman that manually coalesced the
regions.
MFC after: 1 week
old/broken hardware. Unfortunately, it adds cache pressure and possible
mispredicted branches to the fast path of the bus_dmamap_load collection of
functions. Since it's meant for slow path exception processing, de-inline
it and allow its conditions to be pre-computed at tag_create time and thus
short-circuited at runtime.
While here, cut down on the size of _bus_dmamap_load_buffer() by pushing the
bounce page logic into a non-inlined function. Again, this helps with
cache pressure and mispredicted branches.
According to the TSC, this shaves off a few cycles on average. Unfortunately,
the data varies quite a bit due to interrupts and preemption, so it's hard to
get a good measurement. Real world measurements of network PPS are welcomed.
A merge to amd64 and other arches is pending more testing.
and dump_avail[] arrays so they are in sync (previously it was possible
to store more entries in the physmap[] then we could store in phys_avail[],
which was pointless). While I'm here, bump up the length of these tables
to hold 30 entries on amd64 and 16 on i386. This allows machines with
fairly fragmented memory maps to boot ok (at least one machine would
not boot FreeBSD/i386 but would boot FreeBSD/amd64 because amd64 allowed
for more fragments).
MFC after: 3 days
from both the acpi module build directory and a kernel build directory.
The latter didn't work when one attempted to build a kernel which had
"device acpi" with the "make kernel-toolchain buildkernel" command
because a cross-compiler couldn't find anything in the standard system
include path (it's empty in the kernel-toolchain case).
Fix this by passing a better root path to kernel headers (src/sys)
which works for both cases, kernel and module (-I@ only worked for
module).
Also, while here, pass -nostdinc (and a different spelling for icc) --
it's a feature that the kernel source tree is self-contained, and this
change enforces this.
Reported by: glebius
any threads to them. However, it still counts those cores as "active but
permanently idle" when calculating system-wide CPUs statistics. It is
incorrect, since it skews statistics quite a bit and creates real problems
for certain types of applications (monitoring applications for example),
by making them believe that the system does have enough idle CPU resources,
while in fact it does not.
Correct the problem by not calling performance counting routines on "disabled"
cores. The cleaner solution would be to just disable APIC timer interrupts on
those cores completely, but ENOTIME here and it is not clear if the
additional complexity really worth minor performance gain.
Reviewed by: ssouhlal
Sponsored by: Sippy Software, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
other stuff) in the osrelease=2.6.16 case:
- implement CLONE_PARENT semantic
- fix TLS loading in clone CLONE_SETTLS
- lock proc in the currently disabled part of CLONE_THREAD
I suggest to not unload the linux module after testing this, there are
some "<defunct>" processes hanging around after exiting (they aren't
with osrelease=2.4.2) and they may panic your kernel when unloading the
linux module. They are in state Z and some of them consume CPU according
to ps. But I don't trust the CPU part, the idle threads gets too much CPU
that this may be possible (accumulating idle, X and 2 defunct processes
results in 104.7%, this looks to much to be a rounding error).
Noticed by: Intron <mag@intron.ac>
Submitted by: rdivacky (in collaboration with Intron)
Tested by: Intron, netchild
Reviewed by: jhb (previous version)
but further on -current (still not successful, but a step into the right
direction).
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2006
Submitted by: rdivacky
Tested by: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
