instead of a PCPU field for curthread. This averts a race on SMP systems
with a high interrupt rate where the thread looking up the value of
curthread could be preempted and migrated between obtaining the PCPU
pointer and reading the value of pc_curthread, resulting in curthread being
observed to be the current thread on the thread's original CPU. This played
merry havoc with the system, in particular with mutexes. Many thanks to
jhb for helping me work this one out.
Note that Book-E is in principle susceptible to the same problem, but has
not been modified yet due to lack of Book-E hardware.
MFC after: 2 weeks
only, and should be protected with an ifdef, and the no-execute bit in
32-bit set_user_sr() should be set before the comparison, not after, or
it will never match.
set_user_sr() itself caches the user segment VSID, there is no need for
cpu_switch() to do it again. This change also unifies the 32 and 64-bit
code paths for kernel faults on user pages and remaps the user SLB slot
on 64-bit systems when taking a syscall to avoid some unnecessary segment
exception traps.
concurrency bug. Since all SLB/SR entries were invalidated during an
exception, a decrementer exception could cause the user segment to be
invalidated during a copyin()/copyout() without a thread switch that
would cause it to be restored from the PCB, potentially causing the
operation to continue on invalid memory. This is now handled by explicit
restoration of segment 12 from the PCB on 32-bit systems and a check in
the Data Segment Exception handler on 64-bit.
While here, cause copyin()/copyout() to check whether the requested
user segment is already installed, saving some pipeline flushes, and
fix the synchronization primitives around the mtsr and slbmte
instructions to prevent accessing stale segments.
MFC after: 2 weeks
hardware with a lockless sparse tree design. This marginally improves
the performance of PMAP and allows copyin()/copyout() to run without
acquiring locks when used on wired mappings.
Submitted by: mdf
Kernel sources for 64-bit PowerPC, along with build-system changes to keep
32-bit kernels compiling (build system changes for 64-bit kernels are
coming later). Existing 32-bit PowerPC kernel configurations must be
updated after this change to specify their architecture.
the current value of its argument before atomically replacing it, which
could occasionally return the wrong value on an SMP system. This resulted
in user mutex operations hanging when using threaded applications.
include/ucontext.h
- remove trapframe and switch over to 'generic' description of machine
state. Include version field to help with future modifications.
Include floating point and altivec state, and hopefully align
correctly
powerpc/copyinout.c
- fill out casuptr() sync primitive, required by kern_umtx.c
powerpc/machdep.c
- shifted proc0/thread0/pcpu setup to before cninit, since
syscons -> make_dev -> devlock requires a valid curthread
- implemented get_mcontext/set_mcontext
- recast sendsig/sigreturn to use get/set_mcontext and new
ucontext struct. floating point now saved
- TODO: save/restore altivec state
powerpc/vm_machdep.c
- implemented cpu_thread_setup/cpu_set_upcall/cpu_set_upcall_kse
- eliminated trailing whitespace
Submitted by: Suleiman Souhlal <refugee@segfaulted.com>, ucontext by grehan
- culled long-dead #define's
- segment register defs moved to sr.h
- NPMAPS moved to pmap.h
- KERNBASE moved to vmparam.h
- removed include of <machine/cpu.h> and fixed src files that
relied on this.
Modifying segment register code no longer causes gcc rebuilds :-)