114 bytes of cmos ram in the PC clock chip. The big difference between
this and the Linux version is that we do not recalculate the checksums
for bytes 16..31.
We use this at work when cloning identical machines - we can copy the
bios settings as well. Reading /dev/nvram gives 114 bytes of data but
you can seek/read/write whichever bytes you like.
Yes, this is a "foot, gun, fire!" type of device.
more exposure. The current state of SCTP implementation is
considered to be ready for 32-bit platforms, but still need some
work/testing on 64-bit platforms.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Discussed with: rrs
making the relevant files standard. This avoids duplication and
makes it easier to override/disable unwanted schemes. Since ARM
doesn't have a DEFAULTS configuration file, leave the source
files for the BSD and MBR partitioning schemes in files.arm for
now.
In particular:
- Add an explicative table for locking of struct vmmeter members
- Apply new rules for some of those members
- Remove some unuseful comments
Heavily reviewed by: alc, bde, jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
caches with data caches after writing to memory. This typically
is required to make breakpoints work on ia64 and powerpc. For
those architectures the function is implemented.
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- There is no globally visible scheduler lock any longer. For now the
watchdog can only check Giant. This model of checking particular locks
is flawed and should be revisited. Other metrics should be considered.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Use sched_throw() rather than replicating the same cpu_throw() code for
each architecture. This also allows the scheduler to use any locking it
may want to.
- Use the thread_lock() rather than sched_lock when preempting.
- The scheduler lock is not required to synchronize release_aps.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Rename PCPU_LAZY_INC into PCPU_INC
- Add the PCPU_ADD interface which just does an add on the pcpu member
given a specific value.
Note that for most architectures PCPU_INC and PCPU_ADD are not safe.
This is a point that needs some discussions/work in the next days.
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
sysctl_handle_int is not sizeof the int type you want to export.
The type must always be an int or an unsigned int.
Remove the instances where a sizeof(variable) is passed to stop
people accidently cut and pasting these examples.
In a few places this was sysctl_handle_int was being used on 64 bit
types, which would truncate the value to be exported. In these
cases use sysctl_handle_quad to export them and change the format
to Q so that sysctl(1) can still print them.
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
handler is wrapped in a couple of functions - a filter wrapper and an
ithread wrapper. In this case (and just in this case), the filter
wrapper could ask the system to schedule the ithread and mask the
interrupt source if the wrapped handler is composed of just an ithread
handler: modify the "old" interrupt code to make it support
this situation, while the "new" interrupt code is already ok.
Discussed with: jhb
Change the VOP_OPEN(), vn_open() vnode operation and d_fdopen() cdev operation
argument from being file descriptor index into the pointer to struct file.
Proposed and reviewed by: jhb
Reviewed by: daichi (unionfs)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
patch:
- Do the correct test for ldt allocation
- Drop dt_lock just before to call kmem_free (since it acquires blocking
locks inside)
- Solve a deadlock with smp_rendezvous() where other CPU will wait
undefinitively for dt_lock acquisition.
- Add dt_lock in the WITNESS list of spinlocks
While applying these modifies, change the requirement for user_ldt_free()
making that returning without dt_lock held.
Tested by: marcus, tegge
Reviewed by: tegge
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
used to return PAGE_SIZE without respect to restrictions of a DMA tag.
This affected all of the busdma load functions that use
_bus_dmamap_loader_buffer() as their back-end.
Reviewed by: scottl
Note on dcons:
To enable dcons in kernel, put the following lines in /boot/loader.conf.
You may also want to enable dcons in /etc/ttys.
boot_multicons="YES"
#Force dcons to be the high-level console if a firewire bus presents.
#hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console=1
FireWire/dcons support in loader will come shortly.
(i386/amd64 only)
debugger is quite capable of handling Giant-free execution at this
point. Several other similar comments remain in trap.c on both i386
and amd64 awaiting analysis.
Implement all futex atomic operations in assembler to not depend on the
fuword() that does not allow to distinguish between -1 and failure return.
Correctly return 0 from atomic operations on success.
In collaboration with: rdivacky
Tested by: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel gmail com>, Milos Vyletel <mvyletel mzm cz>
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2007
same way it was enabled for Linux binares in linuxulator.
This allows binaries built with -pie. Many ports auto-detect -fPIE support
in GCC 4.2 and build binaries FreeBSD was unable to run.
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
passed zero as exit signal.
GCC 4.2 changes the kernel data segment layout not to have 0
in that memory location. This code ran by luck before and now
the luck has run out.
an APIC ID of 38 for its second CPU):
- Add a new MAX_APIC_ID constant for the highest valid APIC ID for modern
systems.
- Size the various arrays in the MADT, MP Table, and SMP code that are
indexed by APIC IDs to allow for up to MAX_APIC_ID.
- Explicitly go through and assign logical cpu ids to local APICs before
starting any of the APs up rather than doing it while starting up the
APs. This step is now where we honor MAXCPU.
MFC after: 1 week
- Split the intr_table_lock into an sx lock used for most things, and a
spin lock to protect intrcnt_index. Originally I had this as a spin lock
so interrupt code could use it to lookup sources. However, we don't
actually do that because it would add a lot of overhead to interrupts,
and if we ever do support removing interrupt sources, we can use other
means to safely do so w/o locking in the interrupt handling code.
- Replace is_enabled (boolean) with is_handlers (a count of handlers) to
determine if a source is enabled or not. This allows us to notice when
a source is no longer in use. When that happens, we now invoke a new
PIC method (pic_disable_intr()) to inform the PIC driver that the
source is no longer in use. The I/O APIC driver frees the APIC IDT
vector when this happens. The MSI driver no longer needs to have a
hack to clear is_enabled during msi_alloc() and msix_alloc() as a result
of this change as well.
- Add an apic_disable_vector() to reset an IDT vector back to Xrsvd to
complement apic_enable_vector() and use it in the I/O APIC and MSI code
when freeing an IDT vector.
- Add a new nexus hook: nexus_add_irq() to ask the nexus driver to add an
IRQ to its irq_rman. The MSI code uses this when it creates new
interrupt sources to let the nexus know about newly valid IRQs.
Previously the msi_alloc() and msix_alloc() passed some extra stuff
back to the nexus methods which then added the IRQs. This approach is
a bit cleaner.
- Change the MSI sx lock to a mutex. If we need to create new sources,
drop the lock, create the required number of sources, then get the lock
and try the allocation again.
o push much of the i386 and amd64 MD interrupt handling code
(intr_machdep.c::intr_execute_handlers()) into MI code
(kern_intr.c::ithread_loop())
o move filter handling to kern_intr.c::intr_filter_loop()
o factor out the code necessary to mask and ack an interrupt event
(intr_machdep.c::intr_eoi_src() and intr_machdep.c::intr_disab_eoi_src()),
and make them part of 'struct intr_event', passing them as arguments to
kern_intr.c::intr_event_create().
o spawn a private ithread per handler (struct intr_handler::ih_thread)
with filter and ithread functions.
Approved by: re (implicit?)
