ACPI specification sates that if P_LVL2_LAT > 100, then a system doesn't
support C2; if P_LVL3_LAT > 1000, then C3 is not supported.
But there are no such rules for Cx state data returned by _CST. If a
state is not supported it should not be included into the return
package. In other words, any latency value returned by _CST is valid,
it's up to the OS and/or user to decide whether to use it.
Submitted by: nork
Suggested by: mav
MFC after: 1 week
The main goal of this is to generate timer interrupts only when there is
some work to do. When CPU is busy interrupts are generating at full rate
of hz + stathz to fullfill scheduler and timekeeping requirements. But
when CPU is idle, only minimum set of interrupts (down to 8 interrupts per
second per CPU now), needed to handle scheduled callouts is executed.
This allows significantly increase idle CPU sleep time, increasing effect
of static power-saving technologies. Also it should reduce host CPU load
on virtualized systems, when guest system is idle.
There is set of tunables, also available as writable sysctls, allowing to
control wanted event timer subsystem behavior:
kern.eventtimer.timer - allows to choose event timer hardware to use.
On x86 there is up to 4 different kinds of timers. Depending on whether
chosen timer is per-CPU, behavior of other options slightly differs.
kern.eventtimer.periodic - allows to choose periodic and one-shot
operation mode. In periodic mode, current timer hardware taken as the only
source of time for time events. This mode is quite alike to previous kernel
behavior. One-shot mode instead uses currently selected time counter
hardware to schedule all needed events one by one and program timer to
generate interrupt exactly in specified time. Default value depends of
chosen timer capabilities, but one-shot mode is preferred, until other is
forced by user or hardware.
kern.eventtimer.singlemul - in periodic mode specifies how much times
higher timer frequency should be, to not strictly alias hardclock() and
statclock() events. Default values are 2 and 4, but could be reduced to 1
if extra interrupts are unwanted.
kern.eventtimer.idletick - makes each CPU to receive every timer interrupt
independently of whether they busy or not. By default this options is
disabled. If chosen timer is per-CPU and runs in periodic mode, this option
has no effect - all interrupts are generating.
As soon as this patch modifies cpu_idle() on some platforms, I have also
refactored one on x86. Now it makes use of MONITOR/MWAIT instrunctions
(if supported) under high sleep/wakeup rate, as fast alternative to other
methods. It allows SMP scheduler to wake up sleeping CPUs much faster
without using IPI, significantly increasing performance on some highly
task-switching loads.
Tested by: many (on i386, amd64, sparc64 and powerc)
H/W donated by: Gheorghe Ardelean
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
This reflects actual type used to store and compare child device orders.
Change is mostly done via a Coccinelle (soon to be devel/coccinelle)
semantic patch.
Verified by LINT+modules kernel builds.
Followup to: r212213
MFC after: 10 days
are still bound to BSP. It confuses timer management logic in per-CPU mode
and may cause timer not being reloaded. Check such cases on interrupt
arival and reload timer to give system some more time to manage proper
binding.
- Add special check for case when time expires before being programmed.
This fixes interrupt loss and respectively timer death on attempt to
program very short interval. Increase minimal supported period to more
realistic value.
- Add support for hint.hpet.X.allowed_irqs tunable, allowing manually
specify which interrupts driver allowed to use. Unluckily, many BIOSes
program wrong allowed interrupts mask, so driver tries to stay on safe
side by not using unshareable ISA IRQs. This option gives control over
this limitation, allowing more per-CPU timers to be provided, when FSB
interrupts are not supported. Value of this tunable is bitmask.
- Do not use regular interrupts on virtual machines. QEMU and VirtualBox
do not support them properly, that may cause problems. Stay safe by default.
Same time both QEMU and VirtualBox work fine in legacy_route mode.
VirtualBox also works fine if manually specify allowed ISA IRQs with above.
method is used by the PCI bus driver to query the power management system
to determine the proper device state to be used for a device during suspend
and resume. For the ACPI PCI bridge drivers this calls
acpi_device_pwr_for_sleep(). This removes ACPI-specific knowledge from
the PCI and PCI-PCI bridge drivers.
Reviewed by: jkim
bus_generic_resume() since the pci_link(4) driver was added.
- Change the ACPI PCI-PCI bridge driver to inherit most of its methods
from the generic PCI-PCI bridge driver. In particular, this will now
restore PCI config registers for ACPI PCI-PCI bridges.
Tested by: Oleg Sharoyko osharoiko of gmail
lengths. Make MI wrapper code to validate periods in request. Make kernel
clock management code to honor these hardware limitations while choosing hz,
stathz and profhz values.
AcpiOsMapMemory()/AcpiOsUnmapMemory() (-> pmap_mapbios()/pmap_unmapbios())
for AcpiOsReadMemory() and AcpiOsWriteMemory(). Although they do not sound
too obvious, these functions are exclusively used to access memory mapped
IO in ACPICA.
According to ACPICA User Guide and Programmer Reference, the read data must
be zero extended to fill the 64-bit return value even if the bit width of
the location is less than 64.
- Return error when 64-bit access is requested as we do not support 64-bit
PCI register access (yet). XXX We may have to split it up into two 32-bit
accesses if it is really required.
According to ACPICA User Guide and Programmer Reference, the read data must
be zero extended to fill the 32-bit return value even if the bit width of
the port is less than 32.
- Remove 64-bit read/write from AcpiOsReadMemory() and AcpiOsWriteMemory().
These functions do not support 64-bit access (yet). Clean up style nits
and unnecessary bit masking while I am here.
Reported by: Liu, Jinsong (jinsong dot liu at intel dot com) via
Lin Ming (ming dot m dot lin at intel dot com) [1]
HPET to steal IRQ0 from i8254 and IRQ8 from RTC timers. It can be suitable
for HPETs without FSB interrupts support, as it gives them two unshared
IRQs. It allows them to provide one per-CPU event timer on dual-CPU system,
that should be suitable for further tickless kernels.
To enable it, such lines may be added to /boot/loader.conf:
hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
hint.attimer.0.clock=0
hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1
writing event timer drivers, for choosing best possible drivers by machine
independent code and for operating them to supply kernel with hardclock(),
statclock() and profclock() events in unified fashion on various hardware.
Infrastructure provides support for both per-CPU (independent for every CPU
core) and global timers in periodic and one-shot modes. MI management code
at this moment uses only periodic mode, but one-shot mode use planned for
later, as part of tickless kernel project.
For this moment infrastructure used on i386 and amd64 architectures. Other
archs are welcome to follow, while their current operation should not be
affected.
This patch updates existing drivers (i8254, RTC and LAPIC) for the new
order, and adds event timers support into the HPET driver. These drivers
have different capabilities:
LAPIC - per-CPU timer, supports periodic and one-shot operation, may
freeze in C3 state, calibrated on first use, so may be not exactly precise.
HPET - depending on hardware can work as per-CPU or global, supports
periodic and one-shot operation, usually provides several event timers.
i8254 - global, limited to periodic mode, because same hardware used also
as time counter.
RTC - global, supports only periodic mode, set of frequencies in Hz
limited by powers of 2.
Depending on hardware capabilities, drivers preferred in following orders,
either LAPIC, HPETs, i8254, RTC or HPETs, LAPIC, i8254, RTC.
User may explicitly specify wanted timers via loader tunables or sysctls:
kern.eventtimer.timer1 and kern.eventtimer.timer2.
If requested driver is unavailable or unoperational, system will try to
replace it. If no more timers available or "NONE" specified for second,
system will operate using only one timer, multiplying it's frequency by few
times and uing respective dividers to honor hz, stathz and profhz values,
set during initial setup.
measured interval as upper bound. It should be more precise then just
assuming hz/2. For idle CPU it should be quite precise, for busy - not
worse then before.
state lower than the lowest one supported by the current CPU. This closes
some races with changes to the hw.acpi.cpu_cx_lowest sysctl while Cx
states for individual CPUs were changing (e.g. unplugging the AC adapter
of a laptop) that could result in panics.
Submitted by: Giovanni Trematerra
Tested by: David Demelier demelier dot david of gmail
MFC after: 3 days
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Most of the cases looked harmless, but this is done for the sake of
correctness. In one case it even allowed to drop an intermediate buffer.
Found by: clang
MFC after: 2 week
device, make sure we have no real HPET device entry with same ID.
As side effect, it potentially allows several HPETs to be attached.
Use first of them for timecounting, rest (if ever present) could later
be used as event sources.
Setting the new sysctl MIB "debug.acpi.enable_debug_objects" to a non-zero
value enables us to print Debug object when something is written to it.
- Allow users to disable interpreter slack mode. Setting the new tunable
"debug.acpi.interpreter_slack" to zero disables some workarounds for common
BIOS mistakes and enables strict ACPI implementations by the specification.
It is belived that that pass s not needed anymore.
Specifically it is not required now for the reasons that were given
in the removed comment.
Discussed with: jhb
MFC after: 4 weeks
