- Use isync/lwsync unconditionally for acquire/release. Use of isync
guarantees a complete memory barrier, which is important for serialization
of bus space accesses with mutexes on multi-processor systems.
- Go back to using sync as the I/O memory barrier, which solves the same
problem as above with respect to mutex release using lwsync, while not
penalizing non-I/O operations like a return to sync on the atomic release
operations would.
- Place an acquisition barrier around thread lock acquisition in
cpu_switchin().
guarantees on acquire for the tlbie mutex. Conversely, the TLB invalidation
sequence provides guarantees that do not need to be redundantly applied on
release. Roll a small custom lock that is just right. Simultaneously,
convert the SLB tree changes back to lwsync, as changing them to sync
was a misdiagnosis of the tlbie barrier problem this commit actually fixes.
not provide general barriers, but only barriers in the context of the
atomic sequences here. As such, make them private and keep the global
*mb() routines using a variant of sync.
isync to implement read and write barriers, following Appendix B.2 of
Book II of the architecture manual. This provides a 25% speed increase
to fork() on the PowerPC G4.
of sync (lwsync is an alternate encoding of sync on systems that do not
support it, providing graceful fallback). This provides more than an order
of magnitude reduction in the time required to acquire or release a mutex.
MFC after: 2 months
sync performs a strict superset of the functions of eieio, so using both
is redundant. While here, expand bus barriers to all bus_space operations,
since many drivers do not correctly use bus_space_barrier().
In principle, we can also replace sync just with eieio, for a significant
performance increase, but it remains to be seen whether any poorly-written
drivers currently depend on the side effects of sync to properly function.
MFC after: 1 week
the page. This PMAP requires an additional lock besides the PMAP lock
in pmap_extract_and_hold(), which vm_page_pa_tryrelock() did not release.
Suggested by: kib
MFC after: 4 days
for whether the page is physical. On dense phys mem systems (32-bit),
VM_PHYS_TO_PAGE will not return NULL for device memory pages if device
memory is above physical memory even if there is no allocated vm_page.
Attempting to use the returned page could then cause either memory
corruption or a page fault.
usermode context switches (long jumps and ucontext operations). If these
are used across threads, multiple threads can end up with the same TLS base.
Madness will then result.
This makes behavior on PPC match that on x86 systems and on Linux.
MFC after: 10 days
(slightly) different semantics and renaming it prevents a (harmless)
WITNESS warning during bootup for 32-bit kernels on 64-bit CPUs.
MFC after: 5 days
be less ambiguous and more clearly identify what it means. This
attribute is what Intel refers to as UC-, and it's only difference
relative to normal UC memory is that a WC MTRR will override a UC-
PAT entry causing the memory to be treated as WC, whereas a UC PAT
entry will always override the MTRR.
- Remove the VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHED alias from powerpc.
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
are are not mapped during ranged operations and reduce the scope of the
tlbie lock only to the actual tlbie instruction instead of the entire
sequence. There are a few more optimization possibilities here as well.
uses of the page queues mutex with a new rwlock that protects the page
table and the PV lists. This reduces system time during a parallel
buildworld by 35%.
Reviewed by: alc
As of FreeBSD 8, this driver should not be used. Applications that use
posix_openpt(2) and openpty(3) use the pts(4) that is built into the
kernel unconditionally. If it turns out high profile depend on the
pty(4) module anyway, I'd rather get those fixed. So please report any
issues to me.
The pty(4) module is still available as a kernel module of course, so a
simple `kldload pty' can be used to run old-style pseudo-terminals.
manipulation of the pvo_vlink and pvo_olink entries is already protected
by the table lock, so most remaining instances of the acquisition of the
page queues lock can likely be replaced with the table lock, or removed
if the table lock is already held.
Reviewed by: alc
or look them up individually in pmap_remove() and apply the same logic
in the other ranged operation (pmap_protect). This speeds up make
installworld by a factor of 2 on powerpc64.
MFC after: 1 week
didn't already have them. This is because the ternary expression will
return int, due to the Usual Arithmetic Conversions. Such casts are not
needed for the 32 and 64 bit variants.
While here, add additional parentheses around the x86 variant, to
protect against unintended consequences.
MFC after: 2 weeks
platforms.
This will make every attempt to mount a non-mpsafe filesystem to the
kernel forbidden, unless it is expressely compiled with
VFS_ALLOW_NONMPSAFE option.
This patch is part of the effort of killing non-MPSAFE filesystems
from the tree.
No MFC is expected for this patch.
Without this patch we were not able to see the assembly function.
Only the function descriptor was visible.
- Distinguish between user-land and kernel when creating the ENTRY() point of
assembly source.
- Make the ENTRY() macro more readable, replace the .align directive with the
gas platform independant .p2align directive.
- Create an END()macro for later use to provide traceback tables on powerpc64.
These fans are not located under the same node as the the RPM controlled ones,
So I had to adapt the current source to parse and fill the properties correctly.
To control the fans we can set the PWM ratio via sysctl between 20 and 100%.
Tested by: nwhitehorn
MFC after: 3 weeks
The tag enforces a single restriction that all DMA transactions must not
cross a 4GB boundary. Note that while this restriction technically only
applies to PCI-express, this change applies it to all PCI devices as it
is simpler to implement that way and errs on the side of caution.
- Add a softc structure for PCI bus devices to hold the bus_dma tag and
a new pci_attach_common() routine that performs actions common to the
attach phase of all PCI bus drivers. Right now this only consists of
a bootverbose printf and the allocate of a bus_dma tag if necessary.
- Adjust all PCI bus drivers to allocate a PCI bus softc and to call
pci_attach_common() from their attach routines.
MFC after: 2 weeks
long for specifying a boundary constraint.
- Change bus_dma tags to use bus_addr_t instead of bus_size_t for boundary
constraints.
These allow boundary constraints to be fully expressed for cases where
sizeof(bus_addr_t) != sizeof(bus_size_t). Specifically, it allows a
driver to properly specify a 4GB boundary in a PAE kernel.
Note that this cannot be safely MFC'd without a lot of compat shims due
to KBI changes, so I do not intend to merge it.
Reviewed by: scottl
