This makes our naming scheme more closely match other systems and the
expectations of much third-party software. MIPS builds which are little-endian
should require and exhibit no changes. Big-endian TARGET_ARCHes must be
changed:
From: To:
mipseb mips
mipsn32eb mipsn32
mips64eb mips64
An entry has been added to UPDATING and some foot-shooting protection (complete
with warnings which should become errors in the near future) to the top-level
base system Makefile.
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
- Replace MIPS24K-specific code with more generic framework that will
make adding new CPU support easier
- Add MIPS24K support for new framework
- Limit backtrace depth to 1 for stability reasons and add option
HWPMC_MIPS_BACKTRACE to override this limitation
required for the ABI the kernel is being built for.
XXX This is implemented in a kind-of nasty way that involves including source
files, but it's still an improvement.
o) Retire ISA_* options since they're unused and were always wrong.
implementations or no implementation on all platforms.
Some of these functions might be good ideas, but their semantics were unclear
given the lack of implementation, and an unlucky porter could be fooled into
trying to implement them or, worse, being baffled when something like
platform_trap_enter() failed to be called.
o) Get rid of some unused macros related to features we don't intend to
provide.
o) Get rid of macro definitions for MIPS-I CPUs. We are not likely to
support anything that predartes MIPS-III.
o) Respell MIPS3_* macros as MIPS_*, which is how most of them were being
used already.
o) Eliminate a duplicate and mostly-unused set of exception vector macros.
There's still considerable duplication and lots more obsolete in our headers,
but this reduces one of the larger files to a size where one could reckon
about the correctness of its contents with a mere few hours of contemplation.
There is, of course, a question of whether we need definitions for fields,
registers and configurations that we are unlikely to ever use or implement,
even if they're not obsolete since 1991. FreeBSD is not a processor
reference manual, and things that aren't used may be wrong, or may be
duplicated because nobody could possibly actually know whether they're
already defined.
TLS:
o) The mc_tls field used to store the TLS base when doing context gets and
restores was left a pointer and not converted to a 32-bit integer. This
had the bug of not correctly capturing the TLS value desired by the user,
and the extra nastiness of making the structure the wrong size.
o) The mc_tls field was not being saved by sendsig. As a result, the TLS base
would always be set to NULL when restoring from a signal handler.
Thanks to gonzo for helping track down a bunch of other TLS bugs that came out
of tracking these down.
and offset it only if requested by RDHWR handler. Otherwise things
get overly complicated - we need to track whether address passsed in
request for setting td_md.md_tls is already offseted or not.
using the o32 ABI. This mostly follows nwhitehorn's lead in implementing
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 on powerpc64.
o) Add a new type to the freebsd32 compat layer, time32_t, which is time_t in the
32-bit ABI being used. Since the MIPS port is relatively-new, even the 32-bit
ABIs use a 64-bit time_t.
o) Because time{spec,val}32 has the same size and layout as time{spec,val} on MIPS
with 32-bit compatibility, then, disable some code which assumes otherwise
wrongly when built for MIPS. A more general macro to check in this case would
seem like a good idea eventually. If someone adds support for using n32
userland with n64 kernels on MIPS, then they will have to add a variety of
flags related to each piece of the ABI that can vary. That's probably the
right time to generalize further.
o) Add MIPS to the list of architectures which use PAD64_REQUIRED in the
freebsd32 compat code. Probably this should be generalized at some point.
Reviewed by: gonzo
Reading register $29 with RDHWR is becoming the de-facto standard to
implement TLS. According to linux-mips wiki, MIPS Technologies has
reserved hardware register $29 for ABI use. Furthermore current GCC
makes the following assumptions:
- RDHWR is natively available or otherwise emulated by the kernel
- Register $29 holds the TLS pointer
Submitted by: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
implement a deprecated FPU control interface in addition to the
standard one. To make this clearer, further deprecate ieeefp.h
by not declaring the function prototypes except on architectures
that implement them already.
Currently i386 and amd64 implement the ieeefp.h interface for
compatibility, and for fp[gs]etprec(), which doesn't exist on
most other hardware. Powerpc, sparc64, and ia64 partially implement
it and probably shouldn't, and other architectures don't implement it
at all.
If we handle an interrupt just before the 'wait' and the interrupt
schedules some work, we need to skip the 'wait' call. The simple solution
of calling sched_runnable() with interrupts disabled immediately before
wait still leaves a window after the call and before 'wait' in which
the same issue can occur.
The solution implemented is to check the EPC in the interrupt handler, and
if it is in a region before the 'wait' call, to fix up the EPC to skip the
wait call.
Reported/analysed by: adrian
Fix suggested by: kib
Reviewed by: jmallett, imp
- update xlp_machdep.c to read arguments from FDT if FDT support is
compiled in.
- define rmi_uart_bus_space, and use it as fdtbus_bs_tag
- update conf files for FDT support
- add default dts file xlp-basic.dts
Wrong in that it must be guarded (it's configurable)
and bogus in that there's absolutely no rationale for
it not default to a page size like all other archs.
This patch is going to help in cases like mips flavours where you
want a more granular support on MAXCPU.
No MFC is previewed for this patch.
Tested by: pluknet
Approved by: re (kib)
This patch adds support for the Netlogic XLP mips64 processors in
the common MIPS code. The changes are :
- Add CPU_NLM processor type
- Add cases for CPU_NLM, mostly were CPU_RMI is used.
- Update cache flush changes for CPU_NLM
- Add kernel build configuration files for xLP.
In collaboration with: Prabhath Raman <prabhathpr at netlogicmicro com>
Approved by: bz(re), jmallett, imp(mips)
architectures (i386, for example) the virtual memory space may be
constrained enough that 2MB is a large chunk. Use 64K for arches
other than amd64 and ia64, with special handling for sparc64 due to
differing hardware.
Also commit the comment changes to kmem_init_zero_region() that I
missed due to not saving the file. (Darn the unfamiliar development
environment).
Arch maintainers, please feel free to adjust ZERO_REGION_SIZE as you
see fit.
Requested by: alc
MFC after: 1 week
MFC with: r221853
