than as one-off hacks in various other parts of the kernel:
- Add a function maybe_preempt() that is called from sched_add() to
determine if a thread about to be added to a run queue should be
preempted to directly. If it is not safe to preempt or if the new
thread does not have a high enough priority, then the function returns
false and sched_add() adds the thread to the run queue. If the thread
should be preempted to but the current thread is in a nested critical
section, then the flag TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set and the thread is added
to the run queue. Otherwise, mi_switch() is called immediately and the
thread is never added to the run queue since it is switch to directly.
When exiting an outermost critical section, if TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set,
then clear it and call mi_switch() to perform the deferred preemption.
- Remove explicit preemption from ithread_schedule() as calling
setrunqueue() now does all the correct work. This also removes the
do_switch argument from ithread_schedule().
- Do not use the manual preemption code in mtx_unlock if the architecture
supports native preemption.
- Don't call mi_switch() in a loop during shutdown to give ithreads a
chance to run if the architecture supports native preemption since
the ithreads will just preempt DELAY().
- Don't call mi_switch() from the page zeroing idle thread for
architectures that support native preemption as it is unnecessary.
- Native preemption is enabled on the same archs that supported ithread
preemption, namely alpha, i386, and amd64.
This change should largely be a NOP for the default case as committed
except that we will do fewer context switches in a few cases and will
avoid the run queues completely when preempting.
Approved by: scottl (with his re@ hat)
present and thus that the PnPBIOS probe should be skipped instead of
having ACPI zero out the PnPBIOStable pointer.
- Make the PnPBIOStable pointer static to i386/i386/bios.c now that that is
the only place it is used.
- export the rest of the cpu features (and amd's features).
- turn on EFER_NXE, depending on the NX amd feature bit
- reorg the identcpu stuff a bit in order to stop treating the
amd features as second class features (since it is now a primary feature
bit set) and make it easier to export.
lives in the top 12 'available' bits. atop() in the PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE()
macro only masks off the lower bits (by accident) and the upper bits
in the 64 bit ptes turn into "interesting" index values.
to <sys/gmon.h>. Cleaned them up a little by not attempting to ifdef
for incomplete and out of date support for GUPROF in userland, as in
the sparc64 version.
different context support for 32 vs 64 bit processes. This simply omits
the save/restore of the segment selector registers for non 32 bit
processes. This avoids the rdmsr/rwmsr juggling when restoring %gs
clobbers the kernel msr that holds the gsbase.
However, I suspect it might be better to conditionally do this at
user<->kernel transition where we wouldn't need to do the juggling in the
first place. Or have per-thread extended context save/restore hooks.
to help the AMD cpus (which have a hardware tlb flush filter). I held
off to see what the 64 bit Intel cpus did, but it doesn't seem to help
much there either. Oh well, store it in the Attic.
individual asm versions. The global lock is shared between the BIOS and
OS and thus cannot use our mutexes. It is defined in section 5.2.9.1 of
the ACPI specification.
Reviewed by: marcel, bde, jhb
move its declaration to the machine-dependent header file on those
machines that use it. In principle, only i386 should have it.
Alpha and AMD64 should use their direct virtual-to-physical mapping.
- Remove pmap_kenter_temporary() from ia64. It is unused. Approved
by: marcel@
level of abstraction for any and all CPU mask and CPU bitmap variables
so that platforms have the ability to break free from the hard limit
of 32 CPUs, simply because we don't have more bits in an u_int. Note
that the type is not supposed to solve massive parallelism, where
the number of CPUs can be larger than the width of the widest integral
type. As such, cpumask_t is not supposed to be a compound type. If
such would be necessary in the future, we can deal with the issues
then and there. For now, it can be assumed that the type is integral
and unsigned.
With this commit, all MD definitions start off as u_int. This allows
us to phase-in cpumask_t at our leasure without breaking anything.
Once cpumask_t is used consistently, platforms can switch to wider
(or smaller) types if such would be beneficial (or not; whatever :-)
Compile-tested on: i386
in the non-_KERNEL case. This "fixes" applications that include
this "kernel-only" header and also include <strings.h> (or get
<strings.h> via the default _BSD_VISIBLE pollution in <string.h>.
In C++ there was a fatal error: the declaration specifies C linkage
but the implementation gives C++ linkage. In C there was only a
static/extern mismatch if the headers were included in a certain order
order, and a partially redundant declaration for all include orders;
gcc emits incomplete or wrong diagnostics for these, but only for
compiling with -Wsystem-headers and certain other warning options, so
the problem was usually not seen for C.
Ports breakage reported by: kris
