will allow drivers that manage the clock frequency to communicate this with
the reset of the kernel.
Reported by: jmcneill
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
iterate over superpages. We don't yet create these, but soon will.
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Right now, userspace (fast) gettimeofday(2) on x86 only works for
RDTSC. For older machines, like Core2, where RDTSC is not C2/C3
invariant, and which fall to HPET hardware, this means that the call
has both the penalty of the syscall and of the uncached hw behind the
QPI or PCIe connection to the sought bridge. Nothing can me done
against the access latency, but the syscall overhead can be removed.
System already provides mappable /dev/hpetX devices, which gives
straight access to the HPET registers page.
Add yet another algorithm to the x86 'vdso' timehands. Libc is updated
to handle both RDTSC and HPET. For HPET, the index of the hpet device
to mmap is passed from kernel to userspace, index might be changed and
libc invalidates its mapping as needed.
Remove cpu_fill_vdso_timehands() KPI, instead require that
timecounters which can be used from userspace, to provide
tc_fill_vdso_timehands{,32}() methods. Merge i386 and amd64
libc/<arch>/sys/__vdso_gettc.c into one source file in the new
libc/x86/sys location. __vdso_gettc() internal interface is changed
to move timecounter algorithm detection into the MD code.
Measurements show that RDTSC even with the syscall overhead is faster
than userspace HPET access. But still, userspace HPET is three-four
times faster than syscall HPET on several Core2 and SandyBridge
machines.
Tested by: Howard Su <howard0su@gmail.com>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7473
promote memory as I am not sure all the demotion cases are handled, however
it is useful to implement pmap_page_set_memattr. This is used, for example,
when mapping uncached memory for bus_dma(9).
pmap_page_set_memattr needs to demote the DMAP region as on ARM we need to
ensure all mappings to the same physical address have the same attributes.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6987
between ACPI and FDT. This will be needed on machines with both, e.g. the
SoftIron Overdrive 3000. The kernel will accept one or more comma separated
values of either 'acpi' or 'fdt'. Any other values are skipped.
To set it the user can either set it on the loader command line, or
in loader.conf e.g. in loader.conf:
kern.cfg.order=acpi,fdt
This will try using ACPI then FDT. If none of the selected options work the
kernel tries to use one to get the serial console, then panics.
Reviewed by: emaste (earlier version)
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7274
framework has significantly changed the driver has moved to a new file.
While it shares some code with the existing driver this has been modified
to work better with the intrng framework.
This has been tested on the ThunderX servers in the netperf cluster and has
been used to boot them for other testing, including DTrace and hwpmc.
With this we can use intrng on all supported arm64 platforms I was able to
test on. It is expected we will move to intrng soon, and disable the old
arm64 interrupt framework.
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6437
updated, and until further testing can be done, this is disabled for now.
It is expected arm64 will switch to this interface, and the old interface
will be removed before 11.0 is released.
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
disabled, however when we enable it it will default to assume memory is
not cache-coherent, unless either the tag was created or the parent was
marked as cache-coherent.
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
To maintain coherence between cache and DMA memory appropriate
shareability flags need to be set in the PTE regardless of SMP
option.
Reviewed by: wma
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Cavium
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6231
the physmap. This will reduce the likelihood of an issue where we have
device memory mapped in the DMAP. This can only happen if it is within the
same 1G block of normal memory.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5938
2TB. The latter can be increased in 512GB chunks by adjusting the lower
address, however more work will be needed to increase the former.
There is still some work needed to only create a DMAP region for the RAM
address space as on ARM architectures all mappings should have the same
memory attributes, and these will be different for device and normal memory.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5859
Allow using DTRACE for performance analysis of userspace
applications - the function call stack can be captured.
This is almost an exact copy of AMD64 solution.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Cavium
Reviewed by: emaste, gnn, jhibbits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5779
This optimization attempts to utylize as wide as possible register store instructions to zero large buffers.
The implementation, if possible, will use 'dc zva' to zero buffer by cache lines.
Speedup: 60x faster memory zeroing
Submitted by: Dominik Ermel <der@semihalf.com>
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Cavium
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5726
increased to 256TiB. The kernel address space can also be increased to be
the same size, but this will be performed in a later change.
To help work with an extra level of page tables two new functions have
been added, one to file the lowest level table entry, and one to find the
block/page level. Both of these find the entry for a given pmap and virtual
address.
This has been tested with a combination of buildworld, stress2 tests, and
by using sort to consume a large amount of memory by sorting /dev/zero. No
new issues are known to be present from this change.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5720
from userpsace. Previously we could have triggered a panic by trying to
jump to a kernel address from userland as the trap handling code thought we
received an ast in kernel mode.
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Need this for gem5, but was not needed on real hadrware (yet) as it
was always MSI.
Reviewed by: andrew, jhb
Discovered by: andrew
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5494
Enable system register access for EL2. Alpine-V2 is
the first device requiring this to be enabled.
It is also in-sync with Linux initialization code,
and compatible with Alpine-V2 uboot requirements.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Submitted by: Michal Stanek <mst@semihalf.com>
Sponsored by: Annapurna Labs
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
Reviewed by: wma
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5394
It can be used to bind specific interrupt to a particular CPU.
Requires PIC support for interrupts binding.
Reviewed by: wma
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Cavium
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5122
number of physical memory locations we can access. This is the case on
some HiKey boards that may have UEFI reserved memory dispersed through the
physical space.
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
the processor and debug state registers. A flag has been added to the pcb
to tell us when to enable single stepping for a given thread.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4730
Provide an easy to use framework for ARM64 DDB disassembler.
This commit does not contain full list of instruction opcodes.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Cavium
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
Reviewed by: zbb, andrew, cognet
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5114
tree parsing opt-out rather than opt-in. All FDT-based systems as well as
PowerPC systems with real Open Firmware use the CHRP-derived binding that
includes it, which makes SPARC the odd man out here. Making it opt-out
avoids astonishment on new platform bring up.
information on what the core supports. In most cases these will be
identical across most CPUs in the SoC, however there may be the case where,
with a big.LITTLE setup they may differ. In this case we print the
decoded data on all CPUs.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4725
possible future CPU extentions with larger registers.
jmp_buf's size and alignment are baked into the ABI of third party libraries
and thus are very hard to change later so it is best to waste a small amount
of space now.
Reviewed by: brooks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3956
the #address-cells property set. For this we need to read more data before
the parent interrupt description.
this is only enabled on arm64 for now as it's not quite compliant with the
ePAPR spec. We should use a default of 2 where the #address-cells property
is missing, however this will need further testing across architectures.
Obtained from: ABT Systems Ltd
Sponsored by: SoftIron Inc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4518
clock_gettime(2) on ARMv7 and ARMv8 systems which have architectural
generic timer hardware. It is similar how the RDTSC timer is used in
userspace on x86.
Fix a permission problem where generic timer access from EL0 (or
userspace on v7) was not properly initialized on APs.
For ARMv7, mark the stack non-executable. The shared page is added for
all arms (including ARMv8 64bit), and the signal trampoline code is
moved to the page.
Reviewed by: andrew
Discussed with: emaste, mmel
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4209
