64bit and 32bit ABIs. As a side-effect, it enables AVX on capable
CPUs.
In particular:
- Query the CPU support for XSAVE, list of the supported extensions
and the required size of FPU save area. The hw.use_xsave tunable is
provided for disabling XSAVE, and hw.xsave_mask may be used to
select the enabled extensions.
- Remove the FPU save area from PCB and dynamically allocate the
(run-time sized) user save area on the top of the kernel stack,
right above the PCB. Reorganize the thread0 PCB initialization to
postpone it after BSP is queried for save area size.
- The dumppcb, stoppcbs and susppcbs now do not carry the FPU state as
well. FPU state is only useful for suspend, where it is saved in
dynamically allocated suspfpusave area.
- Use XSAVE and XRSTOR to save/restore FPU state, if supported and
enabled.
- Define new mcontext_t flag _MC_HASFPXSTATE, indicating that
mcontext_t has a valid pointer to out-of-struct extended FPU
state. Signal handlers are supplied with stack-allocated fpu
state. The sigreturn(2) and setcontext(2) syscall honour the flag,
allowing the signal handlers to inspect and manipilate extended
state in the interrupted context.
- The getcontext(2) never returns extended state, since there is no
place in the fixed-sized mcontext_t to place variable-sized save
area. And, since mcontext_t is embedded into ucontext_t, makes it
impossible to fix in a reasonable way. Instead of extending
getcontext(2) syscall, provide a sysarch(2) facility to query
extended FPU state.
- Add ptrace(2) support for getting and setting extended state; while
there, implement missed PT_I386_{GET,SET}XMMREGS for 32bit binaries.
- Change fpu_kern KPI to not expose struct fpu_kern_ctx layout to
consumers, making it opaque. Internally, struct fpu_kern_ctx now
contains a space for the extended state. Convert in-kernel consumers
of fpu_kern KPI both on i386 and amd64.
First version of the support for AVX was submitted by Tim Bird
<tim.bird am sony com> on behalf of Sony. This version was written
from scratch.
Tested by: pho (previous version), Yamagi Burmeister <lists yamagi org>
MFC after: 1 month
configurations for various architectures in FreeBSD 10.x. This allows
basic Capsicum functionality to be used in the default FreeBSD
configuration on non-embedded architectures; process descriptors are not
yet enabled by default.
MFC after: 3 months
Sponsored by: Google, Inc
At the moment grab and ungrab methods of all console drivers are no-ops.
Current intended meaning of the calls is that the kernel takes control of
console input. In the future the semantics may be extended to mean that
the calling thread takes full ownership of the console (e.g. console
output from other threads could be suspended).
Inspired by: bde
MFC after: 2 months
If I interpret the C standard correctly, the storage specifier should be
placed before the inline keyword. While at it, replace __inline by
inline in the files affected.
all the architectures.
The option allows to mount non-MPSAFE filesystem. Without it, the
kernel will refuse to mount a non-MPSAFE filesytem.
This patch is part of the effort of killing non-MPSAFE filesystems
from the tree.
No MFC is expected for this patch.
Tested by: gianni
Reviewed by: kib
replace amd(4) with the former in the amd64, i386 and pc98 GENERIC kernel
configuration files. Besides duplicating functionality, amd(4), which
previously also supported the AMD Am53C974, unlike esp(4) is no longer
maintained and has accumulated enough bit rot over time to always cause
a panic during boot as long as at least one target is attached to it
(see PR 124667).
PR: 124667
Obtained from: NetBSD (based on)
MFC after: 3 days
thing when changing the debugging options as part of head becoming a new
stable branch. It may also help people who for one reason or another want
to run head but don't want it slowed down by the debugging support.
Reviewed by: kib
Add some improvements in the idle table callbacks:
- Replace instances of manual assembly instruction "hlt" call
with halt() function calling.
- In cpu_idle_mwait() avoid races in check to sched_runnable() using
the same pattern used in cpu_idle_hlt() with the 'hlt' instruction.
- Add comments explaining the logic behind the pattern used in
cpu_idle_hlt() and other idle callbacks.
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
improvements:
(1) Implement new model in previously missed at91 UART driver
(2) Move BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER from opt_comconsole.h
to opt_kdb.h (spotted by np)
(3) Garbage collect now-unused opt_comconsole.h
MFC after: 3 weeks
Approved by: re (bz)
accessible:
(1) Always compile in support for breaking into the debugger if options
KDB is present in the kernel.
(2) Disable both by default, but allow them to be enabled via tunables
and sysctls debug.kdb.break_to_debugger and
debug.kdb.alt_break_to_debugger.
(3) options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and options ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER continue
to behave as before -- only now instead of compiling in
break-to-debugger support, they change the default values of the
above sysctls to enable those features by default. Current kernel
configurations should, therefore, continue to behave as expected.
(4) Migrate alternative break-to-debugger state machine logic out of
individual device drivers into centralised KDB code. This has a
number of upsides, but also one downside: it's now tricky to release
sio spin locks when entering the debugger, so we don't. However,
similar logic does not exist in other device drivers, including uart.
(5) dcons requires some special handling; unlike other console types, it
allows overriding KDB's own debugger selection, so we need a new
interface to KDB to allow that to work.
GENERIC kernels in -CURRENT will now support break-to-debugger as long as
appropriate boot/run-time options are set, which should improve the
debuggability of BETA kernels significantly.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Reviewed by: kib, nwhitehorn
Approved by: re (bz)
temporary variable and check with if as TUNABLE_*_FETCH do not
alter values unless successfully found the tunable.
Reported by: jhb, bde
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC with: r224516
Approved by: re (kib)
NFSCL, NFSD instead of NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER since
NFSCL and NFSD are now the defaults. The client change is
needed for diskless configurations, so that the root
mount works for fstype nfs.
Reported by seanbru at yahoo-inc.com for i386/XEN.
Approved by: re (hrs)
memtesting, which can easily save seconds to minutes of boot time.
The tunable name is kept general to allow reusing the code in
alternate frameworks.
Requested by: many
Discussed on: arch (a while a go)
Obtained from: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: sbruno
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Back in 2009 I changed the ABI of the GIO_KEYMAP and PIO_KEYMAP ioctls
to support wide characters. I created a patch to add ABI compatibility
for the old calls, but I didn't get any feedback to that.
It seems now people are upgrading from 8 to 9 they experience this
issue, so add it anyway.
The code has definitely been broken for SCHED_ULE, which is a default
scheduler. It may have been broken for SCHED_4BSD in more subtle ways,
e.g. with manually configured CPU affinities and for interrupt devilery
purposes.
We still provide a way to disable individual CPUs or all hyperthreading
"twin" CPUs before SMP startup. See the UPDATING entry for details.
Interaction between building CPU topology and disabling CPUs still
remains fuzzy: topology is first built using all availble CPUs and then
the disabled CPUs should be "subtracted" from it. That doesn't work
well if the resulting topology becomes non-uniform.
This work is done in cooperation with Attilio Rao who in addition to
reviewing also provided parts of code.
PR: kern/145385
Discussed with: gcooper, ambrisko, mdf, sbruno
Reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho, pluknet
X-MFC after: never
NFS client (which I guess is no longer experimental). The fstype "newnfs"
is now "nfs" and the regular/old NFS client is now fstype "oldnfs".
Although mounts via fstype "nfs" will usually work without userland
changes, an updated mount_nfs(8) binary is needed for kernels built with
"options NFSCL" but not "options NFSCLIENT". Updated mount_nfs(8) and
mount(8) binaries are needed to do mounts for fstype "oldnfs".
The GENERIC kernel configs have been changed to use options
NFSCL and NFSD (the new client and server) instead of NFSCLIENT and NFSSERVER.
For kernels being used on diskless NFS root systems, "options NFSCL"
must be in the kernel config.
Discussed on freebsd-fs@.
device in /dev/ create symbolic link with adY name, trying to mimic old ATA
numbering. Imitation is not complete, but should be enough in most cases to
mount file systems without touching /etc/fstab.
- To know what behavior to mimic, restore ATA_STATIC_ID option in cases
where it was present before.
- Add some more details to UPDATING.
stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers are disabled and replaced by
respective CAM drivers. If you are using ATA device names in /etc/fstab or
other places, make sure to update them respectively (adX -> adaY,
acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY, where 'Y's are the sequential
numbers for each type in order of detection, unless configured otherwise
with tunables, see cam(4)).
ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.
MPERF MSRs are available. It was disabled in r216443. Remove the earlier
hack to subtract 0.5% from the calibrated frequency as DELAY(9) is little
bit more reliable now.
safer for i386 because it can be easily over 4 GHz now. More worse, it can
be easily changed by user with 'machdep.tsc_freq' tunable (directly) or
cpufreq(4) (indirectly). Note it is intentionally not used in performance
critical paths to avoid performance regression (but we should, in theory).
Alternatively, we may add "virtual TSC" with lower frequency if maximum
frequency overflows 32 bits (and ignore possible incoherency as we do now).
functions are implemented with CMPXCHG8B instruction where it is available,
i. e., all Pentium-class and later processors. Note this instruction is
also used for atomic_store_rel_64() because a simple XCHG-like instruction
for 64-bit memory access does not exist, unfortunately. If the processor
lacks the instruction, i. e., 80486-class CPUs, two 32-bit load/store are
performed with interrupt temporarily disabled, assuming it does not support
SMP. Although this assumption may be little naive, it is true in reality.
This implementation is inspired by Linux.
Introduce the AHB glue for Atheros embedded systems. Right now it's
hard-coded for the AR9130 chip whose support isn't yet in this HAL;
it'll be added in a subsequent commit.
Kernel configuration files now need both 'ath' and 'ath_pci' devices; both
modules need to be loaded for the ath device to work.
- entirely eliminate some calls to uio_yeild() as being unnecessary,
such as in a sysctl handler.
- move should_yield() and maybe_yield() to kern_synch.c and move the
prototypes from sys/uio.h to sys/proc.h
- add a slightly more generic kern_yield() that can replace the
functionality of uio_yield().
- replace source uses of uio_yield() with the functional equivalent,
or in some cases do not change the thread priority when switching.
- fix a logic inversion bug in vlrureclaim(), pointed out by bde@.
- instead of using the per-cpu last switched ticks, use a per thread
variable for should_yield(). With PREEMPTION, the only reasonable
use of this is to determine if a lock has been held a long time and
relinquish it. Without PREEMPTION, this is essentially the same as
the per-cpu variable.
Clear the padding when returning context to the usermode, for
MI ucontext_t and x86 MD parts.
Kernel allocates the structures on the stack, and not clearing
reserved fields and paddings causes leakage.
the original amd64 and i386 headers with stubs.
Rename (AMD64|I386)_BUS_SPACE_* to X86_BUS_SPACE_* everywhere.
Reviewed by: imp (previous version), jhb
Approved by: kib (mentor)
Passing a count of zero on i386 and amd64 for [I386|AMD64]_BUS_SPACE_MEM
causes a crash/hang since the 'loop' instruction decrements the counter
before checking if it's zero.
PR: kern/80980
Discussed with: jhb
