As part of this, clean up tlb1_init(), since bootinfo is always NULL here just
eliminate the loop altogether.
Also, fix a bug in mmu_booke_mapdev_attr() where it's possible to map a larger
immediately following a smaller page, causing the mappings to overlap. Instead,
break up the new mapping into smaller chunks. The downside to this is that it
uses more precious TLB1 entries, which, on smaller chips (e500v2) it could cause
problems with TLB1 being out of space (e500v2 only has 16 TLB1 entries).
Obtained from: Semihalf (partial)
Sponsored by: Alex Perez/Inertial Computing
initial thread stack is not adjusted by the tunable, the stack is
allocated too early to get access to the kernel environment. See
TD0_KSTACK_PAGES for the thread0 stack sizing on i386.
The tunable was tested on x86 only. From the visual inspection, it
seems that it might work on arm and powerpc. The arm
USPACE_SVC_STACK_TOP and powerpc USPACE macros seems to be already
incorrect for the threads with non-default kstack size. I only
changed the macros to use variable instead of constant, since I cannot
test.
On arm64, mips and sparc64, some static data structures are sized by
KSTACK_PAGES, so the tunable is disabled.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 week
vm_offset_t pmap_quick_enter_page(vm_page_t m)
void pmap_quick_remove_page(vm_offset_t kva)
These will create and destroy a temporary, CPU-local KVA mapping of a specified page.
Guarantees:
--Will not sleep and will not fail.
--Safe to call under a non-sleepable lock or from an ithread
Restrictions:
--Not guaranteed to be safe to call from an interrupt filter or under a spin mutex on all platforms
--Current implementation does not guarantee more than one page of mapping space across all platforms. MI code should not make nested calls to pmap_quick_enter_page.
--MI code should not perform locking while holding onto a mapping created by pmap_quick_enter_page
The idea is to use this in busdma, for bounce buffer copies as well as virtually-indexed cache maintenance on mips and arm.
NOTE: the non-i386, non-amd64 implementations of these functions still need review and testing.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: kib (mentor)
Differential Revision: http://reviews.freebsd.org/D3013
provide a semantic defined by the C11 fences with corresponding
memory_order.
atomic_thread_fence_acq() gives r | r, w, where r and w are read and
write accesses, and | denotes the fence itself.
atomic_thread_fence_rel() is r, w | w.
atomic_thread_fence_acq_rel() is the combination of the acquire and
release in single operation. Note that reads after the acq+rel fence
could be made visible before writes preceeding the fence.
atomic_thread_fence_seq_cst() orders all accesses before/after the
fence, and the fence itself is globally ordered against other
sequentially consistent atomic operations.
Reviewed by: alc
Discussed with: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
On Book-E, physical addresses are actually 36-bits, not 32-bits. This is
currently worked around by ignoring the top bits. However, in some cases, the
boot loader configures CCSR to something above the 32-bit mark. This is stage 1
in updating the pmap to handle 36-bit physaddr.
This will print out the Memory Subsystem Status Register on MPC745x (G4+ class),
and the Machine Check Status Register on Book-E class CPUs, to aid in debugging
machine checks. Other relevant registers, for other CPUs, can be added in the
future.
This supports e500v1, e500v2, and e500mc. Tested only on e500v2, but the
performance counters are identical across all, with e500mc having some
additional events.
Relnotes: Yes
and export them to userland.
- Define __HAVE_REG32 on platforms that define a reg32 structure and check
for this in <sys/procfs.h> to control when to export prstatus32, etc.
- Add prstatus32_t and prpsinfo32_t typedefs for the 32-bit structures.
libbfd looks for these types, and having them fixes 'gcore' in gdb of a
32-bit process on a 64-bit platform.
- Use the structure definitions from <sys/procfs.h> in gcore's elf32 core
dump code instead of duplicating the definitions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2142
Reviewed by: kib, nathanw (powerpc bits)
MFC after: 1 week
have the same meaning and occupy the same memory address in the trapframe
courtesy of union. Avoid some pointless #ifdef by spelling them both 'DAR'
in the trapframe.
this change is to improve concurrency:
- Drop global state stored in the shadow overflow page table (and all other
global state)
- Remove all global locks
- Use per-PTE lock bits to allow parallel page insertion
- Reconstruct state when requested for evicted PTEs instead of buffering
it during overflow
This drops total wall time for make buildworld on a 32-thread POWER8 system
by a factor of two and system time by a factor of three, providing performance
20% better than similarly clocked Core i7 Xeons per-core. Performance on
smaller SMP systems, where PMAP lock contention was not as much of an issue,
is nearly unchanged.
Tested on: POWER8, POWER5+, G5 UP, G5 SMP (64-bit and 32-bit kernels)
Merged from: user/nwhitehorn/ppc64-pmap-rework
Looked over by: jhibbits, andreast
MFC after: 3 months
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
and POWER8. This instruction set unifies the 32 64-bit scalar floating
point registers with the 32 128-bit vector registers into a single bank
of 64 128-bit registers. Kernel support mostly amounts to saving and
restoring the wider version of the floating point registers and making
sure that both scalar FP and vector registers are enabled once a VSX
instruction is executed. get_mcontext() and friends currently cannot
see the high bits, which will require a little more work.
As the system compiler (GCC 4.2) does not support VSX, making use of this
from userland requires either newer GCC or clang.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
instructions to call through pointers instead. In general, these are set
implicitly through relocation processing. One has to be set explicitly in
machdep.c, however, to fit one handler in the tiny (8 instruction) space
available.
Reviewed by: andreast
Differential revision: D1554
Tested on: UP and SMP G5, Cell, POWER5+
This allows executing static clang built with -O0.
The value is configurable by a sysctl, so if one needs to clamp it down, they
still can.
Discussed with: nwhitehorn,emaste
code in sys/kern/kern_dump.c. Most dumpsys() implementations are nearly
identical and simply redefine a number of constants and helper subroutines;
a generic implementation will make it easier to implement features around
kernel core dumps. This change does not alter any minidump code and should
have no functional impact.
PR: 193873
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D904
Submitted by: Conrad Meyer <conrad.meyer@isilon.com>
Reviewed by: jhibbits (earlier version)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Summary:
Revert the initial FBT-with-KDB changes for trap_subr*.S, and instead use the
db_trap filter function to handle dtrace trap filtering. With this, the MMU is
enabled by the support code, simplifying the codepath altogether.
Test Plan: Tested on my G4 PowerBook
Reviewers: #powerpc, nwhitehorn
Reviewed By: nwhitehorn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1207
MFC after: 3 weeks
It is automatically set when -fPIC is passed to the compiler.
Reviewed by: dim, kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1179
physical address of the page to direct map address, in case
SFBUF_OPTIONAL_DIRECT_MAP returns true. The case of PowerPC AIM
64bit, where the page physical address is identical to the direct map
address, is accidental.
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The MD allocators were very common, however there were some minor
differencies. These differencies were all consolidated in the MI allocator,
under ifdefs. The defines from machine/vmparam.h turn on features required
for a particular machine. For details look in the comment in sys/sf_buf.h.
As result no MD code left in sys/*/*/vm_machdep.c. Some arches still have
machine/sf_buf.h, which is usually quite small.
Tested by: glebius (i386), tuexen (arm32), kevlo (arm32)
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
This appears to fix a strange condition with X on 32-bit PowerBooks I observed,
caused by one of these bits getting set in the mcontext, but not set in the
thread, which may be a symptom of another problem, more difficult to diagnose.
Since these bits aren't exported anyway, this change makes it more explicit that
the bits aren't MSR-related in SRR1.
MFC after: 3 weeks
The NetBSD Foundation states "Third parties are encouraged to change the
license on any files which have a 4-clause license contributed to the
NetBSD Foundation to a 2-clause license."
This change removes clauses 3 and 4 from copyright / license blocks that
list The NetBSD Foundation as the only copyright holder.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This also fixes asserts on removal of the module for the mpc74xx.
The PowerPC 970 processors have two different types of events: direct events
and indirect events. Thus far only direct events are supported. I included
some documentation in the driver on how indirect events work, but support is
for the future.
MFC after: 1 month
obsolete. This involves the following pieces:
- Remove it entirely on PowerPC, where it is not used by MD code either
- Remove all references to machine/fdt.h in non-architecture-specific code
(aside from uart_cpu_fdt.c, shared by ARM and MIPS, and so is somewhat
non-arch-specific).
- Fix code relying on header pollution from machine/fdt.h includes
- Legacy fdtbus.c (still used on x86 FDT systems) now passes resource
requests to its parent (nexus). This allows x86 FDT devices to allocate
both memory and IO requests and removes the last notionally MI use of
fdtbus_bs_tag.
- On those architectures that retain a machine/fdt.h, unused bits like
FDT_MAP_IRQ and FDT_INTR_MAX have been removed.
regions which represent the total amount of memory. The size of these regions
is not the physical size of the chip but it is a logical one and it is given
by the OpenFirmware, it is selectable at boot time and varies between 16MB and
256MB in my case. There is an 'automatic' option which would select the size as
64MB in case you have around 16GB of RAM.
To make sure we can allocate RAM with the automatic option bump this value
of PHYS_AVAIL_SZ to 256.
Open Firmware-centric:
- Keep the static list of regions in platform.c instead of ofw_machdep.c
- Move various merging and sorting operations to platform.c as well
- Move apple_hacks code out of ofw_machdep.c and into platform_powermac.c,
where it belongs
- Move CHRP-specific dynamic-reconfiguration memory parsing into
platform_chrp.c instead of pretending it is shared code
It turned out that on pSeries machines the call into OF modified the trap
vectors and this made further behaviour unpredictable.
With this commit I'm now able to boot multi user on a network booted
environment on my IntelliStation 285. This is a POWER5+ machine.
Discussed with: nwhitehorn
MFC after: 1 week
allows FPU emulation on AIM as well as providing support for the mfpvr
and lwsync instructions from userland on e500 cores. lwsync, in particular,
is required for many C++ programs to work correctly.
MFC after: 1 week
the actual FPU is enabled, while PCB_FPREGS indicates that the FPU state
structure in the PCB is valid. This separation reflects the situation on
FPU-less systems in which the FP state is used by the emulator but we don't
actually want to try to turn on the non-existant FPU.
Use this flag to save and restore FP regs properly on both AIM and Book-E.
As a side effect, this sets up hard-FP and Altivec on Book-E CPUs with such
abilities except for a trap handler to call enable_fpu()/enable_altivec().
I found a stack overflow when a coredump was taken onto a ZFS volume with
heavy network activity. 2 DSI traps, plus one DECR trap, along with several
function calls in the stack, overflowed the 4 pages. 8 page stack fixes this.
Discussed with: nwhitehorn
MFC after: 1 week
PCPU fields for curthread, by doing the same to Book-E. This closes
some potential races switching between CPUs. As a side effect, it turns out
the AIM and Book-E swtch.S implementations were the same to within a few
registers, so move that to powerpc/powerpc.
MFC after: 3 months
words, every architecture is now auto-sizing the kmem arena. This revision
changes kmeminit() so that the definition of VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE becomes
mandatory and the definition of VM_KMEM_SIZE becomes optional.
Replace or eliminate all existing definitions of VM_KMEM_SIZE. With
auto-sizing enabled, VM_KMEM_SIZE effectively became an alternate spelling
for VM_KMEM_SIZE_MIN on most architectures. Use VM_KMEM_SIZE_MIN for
clarity.
Change kmeminit() so that the effect of defining VM_KMEM_SIZE is similar to
that of setting the tunable vm.kmem_size. Whereas the macros
VM_KMEM_SIZE_{MAX,MIN,SCALE} have had the same effect as the tunables
vm.kmem_size_{max,min,scale}, the effects of VM_KMEM_SIZE and vm.kmem_size
have been distinct. In particular, whereas VM_KMEM_SIZE was overridden by
VM_KMEM_SIZE_{MAX,MIN,SCALE} and vm.kmem_size_{max,min,scale}, vm.kmem_size
was not. Remedy this inconsistency. Now, VM_KMEM_SIZE can be used to set
the size of the kmem arena at compile-time without that value being
overridden by auto-sizing.
Update the nearby comments to reflect the kmem submap being replaced by the
kmem arena. Stop duplicating the auto-sizing formula in every machine-
dependent vmparam.h and place it in kmeminit() where auto-sizing takes
place.
Reviewed by: kib (an earlier version)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
- Remove explicit requirement that the SOC registers be found except as an
optimization (although the MPC85XX LAW drivers still require they be found
externally, which should change).
- Remove magic CCSRBAR_VA value.
- Allow bus_machdep.c's early-boot code to handle non 1:1 mappings and
systems not in real-mode or global 1:1 maps in early boot.
- Allow pmap_mapdev() on Book-E to reissue previous addresses if the
area is already mapped. Additionally have it check all mappings, not
just the CCSR area.
This allows the console on e500 systems to actually work on systems where
the boot loader was not kind enough to set up a 1:1 mapping before starting
the kernel.
Use it universally. Book-E traps may also need revisiting due to the
introduction of fixed-offset traps and the deprecation of IVORs in POWER
ISA 2.06, but that's very much an issue for another day.
platform modules. Whether to call this function or not is highly machine
dependent: on some systems, it is required, while on others it breaks
everything. Platform modules are in a better position to figure this
out. This is required for POWER hypervisor SCSI to work correctly. There
are no functional changes on Powermac systems.
Approved by: re (kib)
making sure they are all misaligned at +8 bytes. This fixes clang builds
of powerpc64 kernels (aside from a required increase in KSTACK_PAGES which
will come later).
This commit from FreeBSD/powerpc64 with a clang-built kernel.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Issues were noted by Bruce Evans and are present on all architectures.
On i386, a counter fetch should use atomic read of 64bit value,
otherwise carry from the increment on other CPU could be lost for the
given fetch, making error of 2^32. If 64bit read (cmpxchg8b) is not
available on the machine, it cannot be SMP and it is enough to disable
preemption around read to avoid the split read.
On x86 the counter increment is not atomic on purpose, which makes it
possible for the store of the incremented result to override just
zeroed per-cpu slot. The effect would be a counter going off by
arbitrary value after zeroing. Perform the counter zeroing on the
same processor which does the increments, making the operations
mutually exclusive. On i386, same as for the fetching, if the
cmpxchg8b is not available, machine is not SMP and we disable
preemption for zeroing.
PowerPC64 is treated the same as amd64.
For other architectures, the changes made to allow the compilation to
succeed, without fixing the issues with zeroing or fetching. It
should be possible to handle them by using the 64bit loads and stores
atomic WRT preemption (assuming the architectures also converted from
using critical sections to proper asm). If architecture does not
provide the facility, using global (spin) mutex would be non-optimal
but working solution.
Noted by: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
order to match the MAXCPU concept. The change should also be useful
for consolidation and consistency.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Obtained from: jeff
Reviewed by: alc
as CTASSERT in MI pcpu.h, stop including all possible mutually exclusive
PCPU_MD_FIELDS fields into LINT kernels, due to brekaing
aforementioned CTASSERT.
Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.
In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
This is required for ARM EABI. Section 7.1.1 of the Procedure Call for the
ARM Architecture (AAPCS) defines wchar_t as either an unsigned int or an
unsigned short with the former preferred.
Because of this requirement we need to move the definition of __wchar_t to
a machine dependent header. It also cleans up the macros defining the limits
of wchar_t by defining __WCHAR_MIN and __WCHAR_MAX in the same machine
dependent header then using them to define WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX
respectively.
Discussed with: bde
usermode, using shared page. The structures and functions have vdso
prefix, to indicate the intended location of the code in some future.
The versioned per-algorithm data is exported in the format of struct
vdso_timehands, which mostly repeats the content of in-kernel struct
timehands. Usermode reading of the structure can be lockless.
Compatibility export for 32bit processes on 64bit host is also
provided. Kernel also provides usermode with indication about
currently used timecounter, so that libc can fall back to syscall if
configured timecounter is unknown to usermode code.
The shared data updates are initiated both from the tc_windup(), where
a fast task is queued to do the update, and from sysctl handlers which
change timecounter. A manual override switch
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime allows to turn off the mechanism.
Only x86 architectures export the real algorithm data, and there, only
for tsc timecounter. HPET counters page could be exported as well, but
I prefer to not further glue the kernel and libc ABI there until
proper vdso-based solution is developed.
Minimal stubs neccessary for non-x86 architectures to still compile
are provided.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: flo
MFC after: 1 month
layer, but it is read directly by the MI VM layer. This change introduces
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in order to completely encapsulate all direct
access to PGA_WRITEABLE in the pmap layer.
Aesthetics aside, I am making this change because amd64 will likely begin
using an alternative method to track write mappings, and having
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in place allows me to make such a change
without further modification to the MI VM layer.
As an added bonus, tidy up some nearby comments concerning page flags.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 6 weeks
implementation specific vs. the common architecture definition.
Bring PPC4XX defines (PSL, SPR, TLB). Note the new definitions under
BOOKE_PPC4XX are not used in the code yet.
This change set is not supposed to affect existing E500 support, it's just
another reorg step before bringing support for E500mc, E5500 and PPC465.
Obtained from: AppliedMicro, Freescale, Semihalf
in_cksum.h required ip.h to be included for struct ip. To be
able to use some general checksum functions like in_addword()
in a non-IPv4 context, limit the (also exported to user space)
IPv4 specific functions to the times, when the ip.h header is
present and IPVERSION is defined (to 4).
We should consider more general checksum (updating) functions
to also allow easier incremental checksum updates in the L3/4
stack and firewalls, as well as ponder further requirements by
certain NIC drivers needing slightly different pseudo values
in offloading cases. Thinking in terms of a better "library".
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Reviewed by: gnn (as part of the whole)
MFC After: 3 days
exceptions early enough during boot that the kernel will do ithe same.
Use lwsync only when compiling for LP64 and revert to the more proven isync
when compiling for ILP32. Note that in the end (i.e. between revision 222198
and this change) ILP32 changed from using sync to using isync. As per Nathan
the isync is needed to make sure I/O accesses are properly serialized with
locks and isync tends to be more effecient than sync.
While here, undefine __ATOMIC_ACQ and __ATOMIC_REL at the end of the file
so as not to leak their definitions.
Discussed with: nwhitehorn
range operations like pmap_remove() and pmap_protect() as well as allowing
simple operations like pmap_extract() not to involve any global state.
This substantially reduces lock coverages for the global table lock and
improves concurrency.
- 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().
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
(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
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
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.
profiling and kernel profiling. To enable kernel profiling one has to build
kgmon(8). I will enable the build once I managed to build and test powerpc
(32-bit) kernels with profiling support.
- add a powerpc64 PROF_PROLOGUE for _mcount.
- add macros to avoid adding the PROF_PROLOGUE in certain assembly entries.
- apply these macros where needed.
- add size information to the MCOUNT function.
MFC after: 3 weeks, together with r230291
that the compiler promotes floats to double precision in computations, but
inspection of the output of a cross-compiler indicates that this isn't the
case on powerpc.
possible, and double faults within an SLB trap handler are not. The result
is that it possible to take an SLB fault at any time, on any address, for
any reason, at any point in the kernel.
This lets us do two important things. First, it removes the (soft) 16 GB RAM
ceiling on PPC64 as well as any architectural limitations on KVA space.
Second, it lets the kernel tolerate poorly designed hypervisors that
have a tendency to fail to restore the SLB properly after a hypervisor
context switch.
MFC after: 6 weeks
AIM systems to 4 GB on 32-bit systems and 2^64 bytes on 64-bit systems.
VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS remains at 2 GB on pending Book-E, pending review of
an increase to 3 GB by those more familiar with Book-E.
pmap_remove() for large sparse requests. This can prevent pmap_remove()
operations on 64-bit process destruction or swapout that would take
several hundred times the lifetime of the universe to complete. This
behavior is largely indistinguishable from a hang.
implement a deprecated FPU control interface in addition to the
standard one. To make this clearer, further deprecate ieeefp.h
by not declaring the function prototypes except on architectures
that implement them already.
Currently i386 and amd64 implement the ieeefp.h interface for
compatibility, and for fp[gs]etprec(), which doesn't exist on
most other hardware. Powerpc, sparc64, and ia64 partially implement
it and probably shouldn't, and other architectures don't implement it
at all.
to VPO_UNMANAGED (and also making the flag protected by the vm object
lock, instead of vm page queue lock).
- Mark the fake pages with both PG_FICTITIOUS (as it is now) and
VPO_UNMANAGED. As a consequence, pmap code now can use use just
VPO_UNMANAGED to decide whether the page is unmanaged.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho (x86, previous version), marius (sparc64),
marcel (arm, ia64, powerpc), ray (mips)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Approved by: re (bz)
This patch is going to help in cases like mips flavours where you
want a more granular support on MAXCPU.
No MFC is previewed for this patch.
Tested by: pluknet
Approved by: re (kib)
