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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
phk
ce2aa22c93 Remove unneeded #include <sys/kernel.h> 2000-04-29 15:36:14 +00:00
dillon
689641c1ea Commit major SMP cleanups and move the BGL (big giant lock) in the
syscall path inward.  A system call may select whether it needs the MP
    lock or not (the default being that it does need it).

    A great deal of conditional SMP code for various deadended experiments
    has been removed.  'cil' and 'cml' have been removed entirely, and the
    locking around the cpl has been removed.  The conditional
    separately-locked fast-interrupt code has been removed, meaning that
    interrupts must hold the CPL now (but they pretty much had to anyway).
    Another reason for doing this is that the original separate-lock for
    interrupts just doesn't apply to the interrupt thread mechanism being
    contemplated.

    Modifications to the cpl may now ONLY occur while holding the MP
    lock.  For example, if an otherwise MP safe syscall needs to mess with
    the cpl, it must hold the MP lock for the duration and must (as usual)
    save/restore the cpl in a nested fashion.

    This is precursor work for the real meat coming later: avoiding having
    to hold the MP lock for common syscalls and I/O's and interrupt threads.
    It is expected that the spl mechanisms and new interrupt threading
    mechanisms will be able to run in tandem, allowing a slow piecemeal
    transition to occur.

    This patch should result in a moderate performance improvement due to
    the considerable amount of code that has been removed from the critical
    path, especially the simplification of the spl*() calls.  The real
    performance gains will come later.

Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: current, bde (exception.s)
Some work taken from: luoqi's patch
2000-03-28 07:16:37 +00:00
bde
dc68d5537a Fixed some type mismatches. p_retval[0] in struct proc has type
register_t, so pointers to it must be passed around as `register_t *',
not as `int *'.  The type mismatches were non-benign on alphas, but
the broken code is normally only configured by LINT.
1999-12-27 10:22:09 +00:00
dufault
9feb272372 1. Add new defs for mins and maxs for the POSIX flavor priorities. They
end up being the same, but it doesn't look like you're comparing
apples and oranges.

2. Use need_resched instead of reset_priority.  This isn't right
either, since for example you'll round-robin against equal priority FIFO
processes when lowering the priority of another process,
but this works better and a real fix needs to be in kern_synch and
not out here.

3. This is not a device driver: copyin/copyout the structure.
1998-05-19 21:11:53 +00:00
dufault
3620341ce9 1. Don't use "nosys" and generate coredumps for unconfigured
system calls - return ENOSYS per the spec.

2. Fix interface stub to set priority properly.
1998-05-18 12:53:45 +00:00
bde
b598f559b2 Support compiling with `gcc -ansi'. 1998-04-15 17:47:40 +00:00
dufault
c5a445b832 Include sys/resource.h to get PRIO_MAX. 1998-03-28 14:49:47 +00:00
dufault
8ed0defc6e Finish _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING. Needs P1003_1B and
_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options to work.  Changes:

Change all "posix4" to "p1003_1b".  Misnamed files are left
as "posix4" until I'm told if I can simply delete them and add
new ones;

Add _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls for FreeBSD and Linux;

Add man pages for _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING system calls;

Add options to LINT;

Minor fixes to P1003_1B code during testing.
1998-03-28 11:51:01 +00:00
dufault
e28788f2a4 Reviewed by: msmith, bde long ago
POSIX.4 headers and sysctl variables.  Nothing should change
unless POSIX4 is defined or _POSIX_VERSION is set to 199309.
1998-03-04 10:27:00 +00:00