These MSRs can be used to determine actual (average) performance as
compared to a maximum defined performance.
Availability of these MSRs is indicated by bit0 in CPUID.6.ECX on both
Intel and AMD processors.
MFC after: 5 days
It seems that this MSR has been available in a range of AMD processors
families for quite a while now.
Note1: not all AMD MSRs that are found in amd64 specialreg.h are also in
the i386 version.
Note2: perhaps some additional name component is needed to distinguish
AMD-specific MSRs.
MFC after: 5 days
Xeon 5500/5600 series:
- Utilize IA32_TEMPERATURE_TARGET, a.k.a. Tj(target) in place
of Tj(max) when a sane value is available, as documented
in Intel whitepaper "CPU Monitoring With DTS/PECI"; (By sane
value we mean 70C - 100C for now);
- Print the probe results when booting verbose;
- Replace cpu_mask with cpu_stepping;
- Use CPUID_* macros instead of rolling our own.
Approved by: rpaulo
MFC after: 1 month
APIC interrupt that fires when a threshold of corrected machine check
events is reached. CMCI also includes a count of events when reporting
corrected errors in the bank's status register. Note that individual
banks may or may not support CMCI. If they do, each bank includes its own
threshold register that determines when the interrupt fires. Currently
the code uses a very simple strategy where it doubles the threshold on
each interrupt until it succeeds in throttling the interrupt to occur
only once a minute (this interval can be tuned via sysctl). The threshold
is also adjusted on each hourly poll which will lower the threshold once
events stop occurring.
Tested by: Sailaja Bangaru sbappana at yahoo com
MFC after: 1 month
AMD Family 10h Erratum 383, to i386.
Enable machine check exceptions by default, just like r204913 for amd64.
Enable superpage promotion only if the processor actually supports large
pages, i.e., PG_PS.
MFC after: 2 weeks
for parsing model-specific and other fields in machine check events
including the global machine check capabilities and status registers,
CPU identification, and the FreeBSD CPU ID.
- Report these added fields in the console log of a machine check so that
a record structure can be reconstituted from the console messages.
- Parse new architectural errors including memory controller errors.
MFC after: 1 week
- For CPUs that only support MCE (the machine check exception) but not MCA
(i.e. Pentium), all this does is print out the value of the machine check
registers and then panic when a machine check exception occurs.
- For CPUs that support MCA (the machine check architecture), the support is
a bit more involved.
- First, there is limited support for decoding the CPU-independent MCA
error codes in the kernel, and the kernel uses this to output a short
description of any machine check events that occur.
- When a machine check exception occurs, all of the MCx banks on the
current CPU are scanned and any events are reported to the console
before panic'ing.
- To catch events for correctable errors, a periodic timer kicks off a
task which scans the MCx banks on all CPUs. The frequency of these
checks is controlled via the "hw.mca.interval" sysctl.
- Userland can request an immediate scan of the MCx banks by writing
a non-zero value to "hw.mca.force_scan".
- If any correctable events are encountered, the appropriate details
are stored in a 'struct mca_record' (defined in <machine/mca.h>).
The "hw.mca.count" is a count of such records and each record may
be queried via the "hw.mca.records" tree by specifying the record
index (0 .. count - 1) as the next name in the MIB similar to using
PIDs with the kern.proc.* sysctls. The idea is to export machine
check events to userland for more detailed processing.
- The periodic timer and hw.mca sysctls are only present if the CPU
supports MCA.
Discussed with: emaste (briefly)
MFC after: 1 month
topology of nehalem/corei7 based systems.
- Remove the cpu_cores/cpu_logical detection from identcpu.
- Describe the layout of the system in cpu_mp_announce().
Sponsored by: Nokia
features of CPUs like reading/writing machine-specific registers,
retrieving cpuid data, and updating microcode.
- Add cpucontrol(8) utility, that provides userland access to
the features of cpuctl(4).
- Add subsequent manpages.
The cpuctl(4) device operates as follows. The pseudo-device node cpuctlX
is created for each cpu present in the systems. The pseudo-device minor
number corresponds to the cpu number in the system. The cpuctl(4) pseudo-
device allows a number of ioctl to be preformed, namely RDMSR/WRMSR/CPUID
and UPDATE. The first pair alows the caller to read/write machine-specific
registers from the correspondent CPU. cpuid data could be retrieved using
the CPUID call, and microcode updates are applied via UPDATE.
The permissions are inforced based on the pseudo-device file permissions.
RDMSR/CPUID will be allowed when the caller has read access to the device
node, while WRMSR/UPDATE will be granted only when the node is opened
for writing. There're also a number of priv(9) checks.
The cpucontrol(8) utility is intened to provide userland access to
the cpuctl(4) device features. The utility also allows one to apply
cpu microcode updates.
Currently only Intel and AMD cpus are supported and were tested.
Approved by: kib
Reviewed by: rpaulo, cokane, Peter Jeremy
MFC after: 1 month
PhysMask fields based on the number of physical address bits supported
by the current CPU. The old code assumed 36 bits on i386 and 40 bits on
amd64. In truth, all Intel CPUs up until recently used 36 bits (a newer
Intel CPU uses 38 bits) and all the Opteron CPUs used 40 bits.
In at least one case (the new Intel CPU) having the size of the mask field
wrong resulted in writing questionable values into the MTRR registers on
the application processors (BSP as well if you modify the MTRRs via
memcontrol or running X, etc.). The result of the questionable physmask
was that all of memory was apparently treated as uncached rather than
write-back resulting in a very significant performance hit.
Fix this by constructing a run-time mask for the PhysBase and PhysMask
fields based on the number of physical address bits supported by the CPU.
All 64-bit capable CPUs provide a count of PA bits supported via the
0x80000008 extended CPUID feature, so use that if it is available. If that
feature is not available, then assume 36 PA bits.
While I'm here, expand the (now-unused) macros for the PhysBase and
PhysMask fields to the current largest possible value (52 PA bits).
MFC after: 1 week
PR: i386/120516
Reported by: Nokia
and newer CPUs (including Core 2 and Core / Core 2 based Xeons). The
driver attaches to each cpu device and creates a sysctl node in that
device's sysctl context (dev.cpu.N.temperature). When invoked, the
handler binds to the appropriate CPU to ensure a correct reading.
Submitted by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Tested by: des, marcus, Constantine A. Murenin, Ian FREISLICH
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 3 weeks
when the bit 22 is set to 1, CPUID with EAX=0 returns a maximum
value in EAX[7..0] of 3, when set to 0(default), CPUID with EAX=0
returns the number corresponding to the maximum standard function
supported. On my machine, BIOS sets the bit to 1 to make it to be
compatible with old OS, this causes dual-core Pentium-D (two
physical cores) to be identified as hyperthreading (two logical
cores) by function mp_topology().
- Add newer CPUID definitions for future use.
Many thanks to Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex dot net> for providing test
cases for Intel Pentium D and AMD Athlon 64 X2.
Approved by: anholt (mentor)
CPU_ENABLE_TCC enables Thermal Control Circuitry (TCC) found in some
Pentium(tm) 4 and (possibly) later CPUs. When enabled and detected,
TCC allows to restrict power consumption by using machdep.cpuperf*
sysctls. This operates independently of SpeedStep and is useful on
systems where other mechanisms such as apm(4) or acpi(4) don't work.
Given the fact that many, even modern, notebooks don't work properly
with Intel ACPI, this is indeed very useful option for notebook owners.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
we are required to do if we let user processes use the extra 128 bit
registers etc.
This is the base part of the diff I got from:
http://www.issei.org/issei/FreeBSD/sse.html
I believe this is by: Mr. SUZUKI Issei <issei@issei.org>
SMP support apparently by: Takekazu KATO <kato@chino.it.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Test code by: NAKAMURA Kazushi <kaz@kobe1995.net>, see
http://kobe1995.net/~kaz/FreeBSD/SSE.en.html
I have fixed a couple of style(9) deviations. I have some followup
commits to fix a couple of non-style things.
the OS does FXSAVE/FXRESTOR instructions (fast FPU save/restore) during
context switching and also enables SIMD since this enables saving the
extra CPU context that isn't saved with normal FPU regs. The other
enables the SIMD instructions to use exception 16 (FPU) error reporting.
Note, this doesn't turn on SIMD, just defines the bits.
