critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for
deferring kernel preemptions. They no longer have any affect on
interrupts. This means that standalone critical sections are now very
cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the
common case.
Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter()
and spinlock_exit(). This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD
guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't
be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock. For
now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they
did formerly in all critical sections. Note that I've also taken this
opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI. For example,
critical_fork_exit() no longer exists. Instead, MD code ensures that new
threads have the correct state when they are created. Also, we no longer
try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code. Instead, each arch sets
the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows
in order to perform the initial context switch.
This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides
will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts
of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes
for per-CPU data for example).
Reviewed by: grehan, cognet, arch@, others
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more
to see what features they may support before calling identify/probe/attach.
This is necessary because the ACPI 3.0 spec requires driver support be
advertised before running any methods. For now, the flags are as specified
in for the _PDC and _OSC methods but we can support private flags as needed.
Add an implementation of this for acpi_cpu. It checks all its children
(notably cpufreq drivers) and calls the _PDC method to report the results.
instances in a given devclass. This is useful for systems that want to
call code in driver static methods, similar to device_identify().
Reviewed by: dfr
MFC after: 2 weeks
one to become available for one second and then return ENFILE. We
can run out of vnodes, and there must be a hard limit because without
one we can quickly run out of KVA on x86. Presently the system can
deadlock if there are maxvnodes directories in the namecache. The
original 4.x BSD behavior was to return ENFILE if we reached the max,
but 4.x BSD did not have the vnlru proc so it was less profitable to
wait.
down. If we have dirty pages, the putpages routine will need to know
what the vnode's object is so that it may write out dirty pages.
Pointy hat: phk
Found by: obrien
in a devclass. All the other uses of maxunit are correct and this one was
safe since it checks the return value of devclass_get_device(), which would
always say that the highest unit device doesn't exist.
Reviewed by: dfr
MFC after: 3 days
on boot, force it to HIGH. This is needed for some systems which appear
to boot with a low acpi_throttle setting by default. Thanks to Christian
Brueffer for tracking this down on his system.
MFC after: 1 day
completed I/O requests here.
- First allocate all needed bios, so if any of allocations fail, we can
free memory before sending any I/O requests down.
Reported by: Pawel Malachowski
MFC after: 3 days
- Don't intermingle direct calls to lockmgr and indirect calls through
VOPs. This will be important in the future.
- Dont lock the devvp's interlock just to release it on the next line by
passing LK_INTERLOCK to lockmgr.
- Restructure ffs_snapshot_unmount so we don't call free() with the
devvp's interlock locked.
because it may change identities while we're sleeping on the lock.
Otherwise we may bail out of ffs_sync() early due to an error from
deadfs.
- Collapse a VOP_UNLOCK, vrele into a single vput().
two bugs.
- ffs_disk_prewrite was pulling the vp from the buf and checking for
COPYONWRITE, when really it wanted the vp from the bufobj that we're
writing to, which is the devvp. This lead to us skipping the copy on
write to all file data, which significantly broke snapshots for the
last few months.
- When the SOFTUPDATES option was not included in the kernel config we
would also skip the copy on write check, which would effectively disable
snapshots.
- Remove an invalid mp_fixme().
Debugging tips from: mckusick
Reported by: iedowse, others
Discussed with: phk
generate dirty bufs even with a locked vnode, 100 retries is not that
many. This should probably change from a retry count to an abort when
we are no longer cleaning any buffers.
- Don't call vprint() while we still hold the vnode locked. Move the call
to later in the function.
- Clean up a comment.
let them say I lived in the time of Pope John Paul II,
one of the greatest man...
Je¶li kiedy¶ kto¶ opowie moj± historiê,
niech powie, ¿e ¿y³em w czasach Papie¿a Jana Paw³a II,
jednego z najwspanialszych ludzi, najwspanialszego Polaka...
-- Pawe³ Jakub Dawidek, atheist
pictured here. We might want to show a real CDROM layout here.
Also clarify that whatever's in the floppies/ directory is primarily
useful to users who actually need to boot from floppy to start an
installation.
disk names.
"Approximately three...floppies" is kind of weird to me, so substitute
"several" here instead. We already mention that a floppy disk set
requires three disks elsewhere, so we're not really losing any
content.
