by libguile that needs to know the base of the RSE backing store. We
currently do not export the fixed address to userland by means of a
sysctl so user code needs to hardcode it for now. This will be revisited
later.
The RSE backing store is now at the bottom of region 4. The memory stack
is at the top of region 4. This means that the whole region is usable
for the stacks, giving a 61-bit stack space.
Port: lang/guile (depended of x11/gnome2)
table, acquiring the necessary locks as it works. It usually returns
two references to the new descriptor: one in the descriptor table
and one via a pointer argument.
As falloc releases the FILEDESC lock before returning, there is a
potential for a process to close the reference in the file descriptor
table before falloc's caller gets to use the file. I don't think this
can happen in practice at the moment, because Giant indirectly protects
closes.
To stop the file being completly closed in this situation, this change
makes falloc set the refcount to two when both references are returned.
This makes life easier for several of falloc's callers, because the
first thing they previously did was grab an extra reference on the
file.
Reviewed by: iedowse
Idea run past: jhb
the point where it being a macro is no longer sensible, and it will
only be more so in days to come.
BIO_STRATEGY() is now only used from DEV_STRATEGY() and should not
be used directly anymore.
Put the contents of both in the new function dev_strategy() and
make DEV_STRATEGY() call that function.
In addition, this allows us to make the rather magic bufdonebio()
helper function static.
This alse saves hunderedandsome bytes of code in a typical kernel.
definition structure. Define one flag, CN_FLAG_NODEBUG, which
indicates the console driver cannot be used in the context of the
debugger. This may be used, for example, if the console device
interacts with kernel services that cannot be used from the
debugger context, such as the network stack. These drivers are
skipped over for calls to cn_checkc() and cn_putc(), and the
calling function simply moves on to the next available console.
a fair bit of difference to the power consumption and lets my cpu cool
down enough for the temperature sensitive fan controller to completely
stop the cpu fan at times.
halt state that minimizes power consumption while still preserving
cache and TLB coherency. Halting the processor is not conditional at
this time. Tested with UP and SMP kernels.
classes and if a method is not found in a given class, its base classes
are searched (in the order they were declared). This search is recursive,
i.e. a method may be define in a base class of a base class.
* Change the kobj method lookup algorithm to one which is SMP-safe. This
relies only on the constraint that an observer of a sequence of writes
of pointer-sized values will see exactly one of those values, not a
mixture of two or more values. This assumption holds for all processors
which FreeBSD supports.
* Add locking to kobj class initialisation.
* Add a simpler form of 'inheritance' for devclasses. Each devclass can
have a parent devclass. Searches for drivers continue up the chain of
devclasses until either a matching driver is found or a devclass is
reached which has no parent. This can allow, for instance, pci drivers
to match cardbus devices (assuming that cardbus declares pci as its
parent devclass).
* Increment __FreeBSD_version.
This preserves the driver API entirely except for one minor feature used
by the ISA compatibility shims. A workaround for ISA compatibility will
be committed separately. The kobj and newbus ABI has changed - all modules
must be recompiled.
rounding errors. This was the source of the majority of the
interactivity problems. Reintroduce the old algorithm and its XXX.
- Up the interactivity threshold to 30. It really could stand to be even
a tiny bit higher.
- Let the sleep and run time accumulate up to 5 seconds of history rather
than two. This helps stop XFree86 from becoming non-interactive during
bursts of activity.
elevated either due to priority propagation or because we're in the
kernel in either case, put us on the current queue so that we dont
stop others from using important resources. At some point the priority
elevations from sleeping in the kernel should go away.
- Remove an optimization in sched_userret(). Before we would only set
NEEDRESCHED if there was something of a higher priority available. This
is a trivial optimization and it breaks priority propagation because it
doesn't take threads which we may be blocking into account. Notice that
the thread which is blocking others gets up to one tick of cpu time before
we honor this NEEDRESCHED in sched_clock().
accesses softc after it is freed. Use a different malloc type for
softc than the rest of the bus code to make it more clear when these
things happen that it is the driver that's at fault, not the bus code.
Suggested by: sam and/or phk (I think)
you on the current queue. In the future, it would be nice if priority
propagation could deterministicly pluck a thread off of the next queue
and put it on the current queue. Until then this hack stops us from
holding up our entire current queue, including interrupt handlers, while
a thread on the next queue is blocked while holding Giant.
- Inherit our pctcpu information from our parent.
kqueue write events on a socket and you regularly create tons of pipes
which overwrites the structure causing a panic when removing the knote
from the list. If the peer has gone away (and it's a write knote), then
don't bother trying to remove the knote from the list.
Submitted by: Brian Buchanan and myself
Obtained from: nCircle
