for the new thread. The rest of the fields in the pcb wind up being
written to before they're read as a normal part of the pcb usage but
this field may be read upon return to userland, having it be uninitialized
garbage is bad.
Submitted by: Andrew Belashov (bel at orel dot ru)
Reviewed by: jake
MFC after: 3 days
a stack trace from ddb, the output will pause with a '--More--' prompt
every 18 lines. If you hit Enter, it will print another line and prompt
again. If you hit space it will output another page and then prompt.
If you hit 'q' or 'x' it will abort the rest of the stack trace.
- Fix the sparc64 userland stack trace to honor the total count of lines
to print. This is useful if your trace happens to walk back onto
0xdeadc0de and gets stuck in an endless loop.
MFC after: 1 month
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
example the maximum segment size is 64K while the boundary is set
to 8K due to controller limitations. It is impossible to NOT cross
the boundary for any segment size that's larger than the boundary.
So, once we inherited the boundary from the parent tag, make sure
to reduce the maximum segment size to the boundary if it was larger.
MT5 candidate.
and was propagated to nearly every platform. The boundary of the child needs
to consider the boundary of the parent and pick the minimum of the two, not
the maximum. However, if either is 0 then pick the appropriate one.
This bug was exposed by a recent change to ATA, which should now be fixed by
this change. The alignment and maxsegsz tag attributes likely also need
a similar review in the near future.
This is a MT5 candidate.
Reviewed by: marcel
Submitted by: sos (in part)
It can be switched back once 5.3 is tested and released. Also turn on
PREEMPTION as many of the stability problems with it have been fixed.
MT5: 3 days.
but with slightly cleaned up interfaces.
The KSE structure has become the same as the "per thread scheduler
private data" structure. In order to not make the diffs too great
one is #defined as the other at this time.
The KSE (or td_sched) structure is now allocated per thread and has no
allocation code of its own.
Concurrency for a KSEGRP is now kept track of via a simple pair of counters
rather than using KSE structures as tokens.
Since the KSE structure is different in each scheduler, kern_switch.c
is now included at the end of each scheduler. Nothing outside the
scheduler knows the contents of the KSE (aka td_sched) structure.
The fields in the ksegrp structure that are to do with the scheduler's
queueing mechanisms are now moved to the kg_sched structure.
(per ksegrp scheduler private data structure). In other words how the
scheduler queues and keeps track of threads is no-one's business except
the scheduler's. This should allow people to write experimental
schedulers with completely different internal structuring.
A scheduler call sched_set_concurrency(kg, N) has been added that
notifies teh scheduler that no more than N threads from that ksegrp
should be allowed to be on concurrently scheduled. This is also
used to enforce 'fainess' at this time so that a ksegrp with
10000 threads can not swamp a the run queue and force out a process
with 1 thread, since the current code will not set the concurrency above
NCPU, and both schedulers will not allow more than that many
onto the system run queue at a time. Each scheduler should eventualy develop
their own methods to do this now that they are effectively separated.
Rejig libthr's kernel interface to follow the same code paths as
linkse for scope system threads. This has slightly hurt libthr's performance
but I will work to recover as much of it as I can.
Thread exit code has been cleaned up greatly.
exit and exec code now transitions a process back to
'standard non-threaded mode' before taking the next step.
Reviewed by: scottl, peter
MFC after: 1 week
The removed argument could trivially be derived from the remaining one.
That in turn should be the same as curthread, but it is possible that curthread could be expensive to derive on some syste,s so leave it as an argument.
Having both proc and thread as an argumen tjust gives an opportunity for
them to get out sync.
MFC after: 3 days
in diagnostics. It has outlived its usefulness and has started
causing panics for people who turn on DIAGNOSTIC, in what is otherwise
good code.
MFC after: 2 days
these two reasons:
1. On ia64 a function pointer does not hold the address of the first
instruction of a functions implementation. It holds the address
of a function descriptor. Hence the user(), btrap(), eintr() and
bintr() prototypes are wrong for getting the actual code address.
2. The logic forces interrupt, trap and exception entry points to
be layed-out contiguously. This can not be achieved on ia64 and is
generally just bad programming.
The MCOUNT_FROMPC_USER macro is used to set the frompc argument to
some kernel address which represents any frompc that falls outside
the kernel text range. The macro can expand to ~0U to bail out in
that case.
The MCOUNT_FROMPC_INTR macro is used to set the frompc argument to
some kernel address to represent a call to a trap or interrupt
handler. This to avoid that the trap or interrupt handler appear to
be called from everywhere in the call graph. The macro can expand
to ~0U to prevent adjusting frompc. Note that the argument is selfpc,
not frompc.
This commit defines the macros on all architectures equivalently to
the original code in sys/libkern/mcount.c. People can take it from
here...
Compile-tested on: alpha, amd64, i386, ia64 and sparc64
Boot-tested on: i386
compile option. All FreeBSD packet filters now use the PFIL_HOOKS API and
thus it becomes a standard part of the network stack.
If no hooks are connected the entire packet filter hooks section and related
activities are jumped over. This removes any performance impact if no hooks
are active.
Both OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD have integrated PFIL_HOOKS permanently as well.
- Add some commented out NICs from i386 GENERIC. Most of them look like they
would work but I'm not sure if they are endian-clean and can't test. There
was a report that sk(4) works on sparc64 but it doesn't look like it would
because it doesn't use busdma.
- Improve some of the descriptions of sparc64 specific devices.
There's no functional change, i.e. no added or deleted uncommented devices or
options, in this commit.
- Chase the split of pcm(4). This unbreaks LINT compiles.
- sc(4) basically works and a lot of its options should be supported.
- Add the creator and ofw_console drivers.
- vinum(4) should work, at least its module was turned on for sparc64 a while
ago.
- Don't build sio(4). Its EBus front-end was removed a while ago and the ISA
one hardly works. Use uart(4) instead, it's not perfect yet but works much
better.
variable. If set to "true" OF_getetheraddr() will now return the unique
MAC address stored in the "local-mac-address" property of the device's
OFW node if present and the host address/system default MAC address if
the node doesn't doesn't have such a property. If set to "false" the
host address will be returned for all devices like before this change.
This brings the behaviour of device drivers for NICs with OFW support/
FCode, i.e. dc(4) for on-board DM9102A on Sun machines, gem(4) and hme(4),
regarding "local-mac-address?" in line with NetBSD and Solaris.
The man pages of the respective drivers will be updated separately to
reflect this change.
- Remove OF_getetheraddr2() which was used as a stopgap in dc(4). Its
functionality is now part of OF_getetheraddr().
subset ("compatible", "device_type", "model" and "name") of the standard
properties in drivers for devices on Open Firmware supported busses. The
standard properties "reg", "interrupts" und "address" are not covered by
this interface because they are only of interest in the respective bridge
code. There's a remaining standard property "status" which is unclear how
to support properly but which also isn't used in FreeBSD at present.
This ofw_bus kobj-interface allows to replace the various (ebus_get_node(),
ofw_pci_get_node(), etc.) and partially inconsistent (central_get_type()
vs. sbus_get_device_type(), etc.) existing IVAR ones with a common one.
This in turn allows to simplify and remove code-duplication in drivers for
devices that can hang off of more than one OFW supported bus.
- Convert the sparc64 Central, EBus, FHC, PCI and SBus bus drivers and the
drivers for their children to use the ofw_bus kobj-interface. The IVAR-
interfaces of the Central, EBus and FHC are entirely replaced by this. The
PCI bus driver used its own kobj-interface and now also uses the ofw_bus
one. The IVARs special to the SBus, e.g. for retrieving the burst size,
remain.
Beware: this causes an ABI-breakage for modules of drivers which used the
IVAR-interfaces, i.e. esp(4), hme(4), isp(4) and uart(4), which need to be
recompiled.
The style-inconsistencies introduced in some of the bus drivers will be
fixed by tmm@ in a generic clean-up of the respective drivers later (he
requested to add the changes in the "new" style).
- Convert the powerpc MacIO bus driver and the drivers for its children to
use the ofw_bus kobj-interface. This invloves removing the IVARs related
to the "reg" property which were unused and a leftover from the NetBSD
origini of the code. There's no ABI-breakage caused by this because none
of these driver are currently built as modules.
There are other powerpc bus drivers which can be converted to the ofw_bus
kobj-interface, e.g. the PCI bus driver, which should be done together
with converting powerpc to use the OFW PCI code from sparc64.
- Make the SBus and FHC front-end of zs(4) and the sparc64 eeprom(4) take
advantage of the ofw_bus kobj-interface and simplify them a bit.
Reviewed by: grehan, tmm
Approved by: re (scottl)
Discussed with: tmm
Tested with: Sun AX1105, AXe, Ultra 2, Ultra 60; PPC cross-build on i386
to allow dumping per-thread machine specific notes. On ia64 we use this
function to flush the dirty registers onto the backingstore before we
write out the PRSTATUS notes.
Tested on: alpha, amd64, i386, ia64 & sparc64
Not tested on: arm, powerpc
Implement the protection check required by the pmap_extract_and_hold()
specification.
Remove the acquisition and release of Giant from pmap_extract_and_hold() and
pmap_protect().
Many thanks to Ken Smith for resolving a sparc64-specific initialization
problem in my original patch.
Tested by: kensmith@
being defined, define and use a new MD macro, cpu_spinwait(). It only
expands to something on i386 and amd64, so the compiled code should be
identical.
Name of the macro found by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
their own directory and module, leaving the MD parts in the MD
area (the MD parts _are_ part of the modules). /dev/mem and /dev/io
are now loadable modules, thus taking us one step further towards
a kernel created entirely out of modules. Of course, there is nothing
preventing the kernel from having these statically compiled.
those architectures without pmap locking.
- Eliminate the acquisition and release of Giant from vm_map_protect().
(Translation: mprotect(2) runs to completion without touching Giant on
alpha, amd64, i386 and ia64.)
dereference curthread. It is called only from critical_{enter,exit}(),
which already dereferences curthread. This doesn't seem to affect SMP
performance in my benchmarks, but improves MySQL transaction throughput
by about 1% on UP on my Xeon.
Head nodding: jhb, bmilekic
the thread ID and call db_trace_thread().
Since arm has all the logic in db_stack_trace_cmd(), rename the
new DB_COMMAND function to db_stack_trace to avoid conflicts on
arm.
While here, have db_stack_trace parse its own arguments so that
we can use a more natural radix for IDs. If the ID is not a thread
ID, or more precisely when no thread exists with the ID, try if
there's a process with that ID and return the first thread in it.
This makes it easier to print stack traces from the ps output.
requested by: rwatson@
tested on: amd64, i386, ia64
pmap_protect() and pmap_remove(). In general, they require the lock in
order to modify a page's pv list or flags. In some cases, however,
pmap_protect() can avoid acquiring the lock.
Most of the changes are a direct result of adding thread awareness.
Typically, DDB_REGS is gone. All registers are taken from the
trapframe and backtraces use the PCB based contexts. DDB_REGS was
defined to be a trapframe on all platforms anyway.
Thread awareness introduces the following new commands:
thread X switch to thread X (where X is the TID),
show threads list all threads.
The backtrace code has been made more flexible so that one can
create backtraces for any thread by giving the thread ID as an
argument to trace.
With this change, ia64 has support for breakpoints.
o Make debugging code conditional upon KDB instead of DDB.
o Call kdb_enter() instead of Debugger().
o Remove implementation of Debugger().
o Check kdb_active instead of db_active.
o Call kdb_trap() according to the new world order.
a PCB from a trapframe for purposes of unwinding the stack. The PCB
is used as the thread context and all but the thread that entered the
debugger has a valid PCB.
This function can also be used to create a context for the threads
running on the CPUs that have been stopped when the debugger got
entered. This however is not done at the time of this commit.
in which multiple (presumably different) debugger backends can be
configured and which provides basic services to those backends.
Besides providing services to backends, it also serves as the single
point of contact for any and all code that wants to make use of the
debugger functions, such as entering the debugger or handling of the
alternate break sequence. For this purpose, the frontend has been
made non-optional.
All debugger requests are forwarded or handed over to the current
backend, if applicable. Selection of the current backend is done by
the debug.kdb.current sysctl. A list of configured backends can be
obtained with the debug.kdb.available sysctl. One can enter the
debugger by writing to the debug.kdb.enter sysctl.
backend improves over the old GDB support in the following ways:
o Unified implementation with minimal MD code.
o A simple interface for devices to register themselves as debug
ports, ala consoles.
o Compression by using run-length encoding.
o Implements GDB threading support.
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)
than a a stack-limited list. This removes the artifical limit on s/g list
size.
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