o Unify <machine/endian.h>'s across all architectures.
o Make bswapXX() functions use a different spelling of u_int16_t and
friends to reduce namespace pollution. The bswapXX() functions
don't actually exist, but we'll probably import these at some
point. Atleast one driver (if_de) depends on bswapXX() for big
endian cases.
o Deprecate byteorder(3) prototypes from <sys/types.h>, these are
now prototyped indirectly in <arpa/inet.h>.
o Deprecate in_addr_t and in_port_t typedefs in <sys/types.h>, these
are now typedef'd in <arpa/inet.h>.
o Change byteorder(3) prototypes to use standards compliant uint32_t
(spelled __uint32_t to reduce namespace pollution).
o Document new preferred headers and standards compliance.
Discussed with: bde
PR: 29946
Reviewed by: bmilekic
the process of exiting the kernel. The ast() function now loops as long
as the PS_ASTPENDING or PS_NEEDRESCHED flags are set. It returns with
preemption disabled so that any further AST's that arrive via an
interrupt will be delayed until the low-level MD code returns to user
mode.
- Use u_int's to store the tick counts for profiling purposes so that we
do not need sched_lock just to read p_sticks. This also closes a
problem where the call to addupc_task() could screw up the arithmetic
due to non-atomic reads of p_sticks.
- Axe need_proftick(), aston(), astoff(), astpending(), need_resched(),
clear_resched(), and resched_wanted() in favor of direct bit operations
on p_sflag.
- Fix up locking with sched_lock some. In addupc_intr(), use sched_lock
to ensure pr_addr and pr_ticks are updated atomically with setting
PS_OWEUPC. In ast() we clear pr_ticks atomically with clearing
PS_OWEUPC. We also do not grab the lock just to test a flag.
- Simplify the handling of Giant in ast() slightly.
Reviewed by: bde (mostly)
are a really nasty interface that should have been killed long ago
when 'ptrace(PT_[SG]ETREGS' etc came along. The entity that they
operate on (struct user) will not be around much longer since it
is part-per-process and part-per-thread in a post-KSE world.
gdb does not actually use this except for the obscure 'info udot'
command which does a hexdump of as much of the child's 'struct user'
as it can get. It carries its own #defines so it doesn't break
compiles.
dynamic symbol table buckets and chains. The sparc64 toolchain uses 32
bit .hash entries, unlike other 64 bits architectures (alpha), which use
64 bit entries.
Discussed with: dfr, jdp
were indices in a dense array. The cpuids are a sparse set and treat
them as such, setting up containers only for CPUs activated during
mb_init().
- Fix netstat(1) and systat(1) to treat the per-CPU stats area as a sparse
map, in accordance with the above.
This allows us to properly boot with certain CPUs disactivated. However, if
we later decide to re-activate said CPUs, we will barf until we decide to
implement CPU spinon/spinoff callback hooks to allow for said CPUs' per-CPU
containers to get configured on their activation.
Reported by: mjacob
Partially (sys/ diffs) Submitted by: mjacob
'dwatch'. The new commands install hardware watchpoints if supported
by the architecture and if there are enough registers to cover the
desired memory area.
No objection by: audit@, hackers@
MFC after: 2 weeks
Also removed some spl's and added some VM mutexes, but they are not actually
used yet, so this commit does not really make any operational changes
to the system.
vm_page.c relates to vm_page_t manipulation, including high level deactivation,
activation, etc... vm_pageq.c relates to finding free pages and aquiring
exclusive access to a page queue (exclusivity part not yet implemented).
And the world still builds... :-)
(this commit is just the first stage). Also add various GIANT_ macros to
formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal
fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree
before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal
fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can
operate without Giant.
.cvsignore file for [A-Za-z]* to keep these directories around rather
than waste a file on .keepme. This should also make people's built
trees place nice with CVS.
Idea for .cvsignore: peter (although I suggested the regexp)
Pointed out by: Makoto MATSUSHITA-san <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Llama's costuming by: Fernamdo Llamas
lock until after grabbing the sched_lock to avoid CURSIG racing with
psignal.
- Don't grab Giant for addupc_task() as it isn't needed.
Reported by: tegge (signal race), bde (addupc_task a while back)
- move the sysctl code to kern_intr.c
- do not use INTRCNT_COUNT, but rather eintrcnt - intrcnt to determine
the length of the intrcnt array
- move the declarations of intrnames, eintrnames, intrcnt and eintrcnt
from machine-dependent include files to sys/interrupt.h
- remove the hw.nintr sysctl, it is not needed.
- fix various style bugs
Requested by: bde
Reviewed by: bde (some time ago)
systems were repo-copied from sys/miscfs to sys/fs.
- Renamed the following file systems and their modules:
fdesc -> fdescfs, portal -> portalfs, union -> unionfs.
- Renamed corresponding kernel options:
FDESC -> FDESCFS, PORTAL -> PORTALFS, UNION -> UNIONFS.
- Install header files for the above file systems.
- Removed bogus -I${.CURDIR}/../../sys CFLAGS from userland
Makefiles.
- Attach a writable sysctl to bootverbose (debug.bootverbose) so it can be
toggled after boot.
- Move the printf of the version string to a SI_SUB_COPYRIGHT SYSINIT just
afer the display of the copyright message instead of doing it by hand in
three MD places.
registers better. Hold sched_lock not only for checking the flag but
also while performing the actual operation to ensure the process doesn't
get swapped out by another CPU while we the operation is being performed.
If for some reason DEVFS is undesired, the "NODEVFS" option is
needed now.
Pending any significant issues, DEVFS will be made mandatory in
-current on july 1st so that we can start reaping the full
benefits of having it.
been made machine independent and various other adjustments have been made
to support Alpha SMP.
- It splits the per-process portions of hardclock() and statclock() off
into hardclock_process() and statclock_process() respectively. hardclock()
and statclock() call the *_process() functions for the current process so
that UP systems will run as before. For SMP systems, it is simply necessary
to ensure that all other processors execute the *_process() functions when the
main clock functions are triggered on one CPU by an interrupt. For the alpha
4100, clock interrupts are delievered in a staggered broadcast fashion, so
we simply call hardclock/statclock on the boot CPU and call the *_process()
functions on the secondaries. For x86, we call statclock and hardclock as
usual and then call forward_hardclock/statclock in the MD code to send an IPI
to cause the AP's to execute forwared_hardclock/statclock which then call the
*_process() functions.
- forward_signal() and forward_roundrobin() have been reworked to be MI and to
involve less hackery. Now the cpu doing the forward sets any flags, etc. and
sends a very simple IPI_AST to the other cpu(s). AST IPIs now just basically
return so that they can execute ast() and don't bother with setting the
astpending or needresched flags themselves. This also removes the loop in
forward_signal() as sched_lock closes the race condition that the loop worked
around.
- need_resched(), resched_wanted() and clear_resched() have been changed to take
a process to act on rather than assuming curproc so that they can be used to
implement forward_roundrobin() as described above.
- Various other SMP variables have been moved to a MI subr_smp.c and a new
header sys/smp.h declares MI SMP variables and API's. The IPI API's from
machine/ipl.h have moved to machine/smp.h which is included by sys/smp.h.
- The globaldata_register() and globaldata_find() functions as well as the
SLIST of globaldata structures has become MI and moved into subr_smp.c.
Also, the globaldata list is only available if SMP support is compiled in.
Reviewed by: jake, peter
Looked over by: eivind
- Introduce lock classes and lock objects. Each lock class specifies a
name and set of flags (or properties) shared by all locks of a given
type. Currently there are three lock classes: spin mutexes, sleep
mutexes, and sx locks. A lock object specifies properties of an
additional lock along with a lock name and all of the extra stuff needed
to make witness work with a given lock. This abstract lock stuff is
defined in sys/lock.h. The lockmgr constants, types, and prototypes have
been moved to sys/lockmgr.h. For temporary backwards compatability,
sys/lock.h includes sys/lockmgr.h.
- Replace proc->p_spinlocks with a per-CPU list, PCPU(spinlocks), of spin
locks held. By making this per-cpu, we do not have to jump through
magic hoops to deal with sched_lock changing ownership during context
switches.
- Replace proc->p_heldmtx, formerly a list of held sleep mutexes, with
proc->p_sleeplocks, which is a list of held sleep locks including sleep
mutexes and sx locks.
- Add helper macros for logging lock events via the KTR_LOCK KTR logging
level so that the log messages are consistent.
- Add some new flags that can be passed to mtx_init():
- MTX_NOWITNESS - specifies that this lock should be ignored by witness.
This is used for the mutex that blocks a sx lock for example.
- MTX_QUIET - this is not new, but you can pass this to mtx_init() now
and no events will be logged for this lock, so that one doesn't have
to change all the individual mtx_lock/unlock() operations.
- All lock objects maintain an initialized flag. Use this flag to export
a mtx_initialized() macro that can be safely called from drivers. Also,
we on longer walk the all_mtx list if MUTEX_DEBUG is defined as witness
performs the corresponding checks using the initialized flag.
- The lock order reversal messages have been improved to output slightly
more accurate file and line numbers.
and change the u_int mtx_saveintr member of struct mtx to a critical_t
mtx_savecrit.
- On the alpha we no longer need a custom _get_spin_lock() macro to avoid
an extra PAL call, so remove it.
- Partially fix using mutexes with WITNESS in modules. Change all the
_mtx_{un,}lock_{spin,}_flags() macros to accept explicit file and line
parameters and rename them to use a prefix of two underscores. Inside
of kern_mutex.c, generate wrapper functions for
_mtx_{un,}lock_{spin,}_flags() (only using a prefix of one underscore)
that are called from modules. The macros mtx_{un,}lock_{spin,}_flags()
are mapped to the __mtx_* macros inside of the kernel to inline the
usual case of mutex operations and map to the internal _mtx_* functions
in the module case so that modules will use WITNESS and KTR logging if
the kernel is compiled with support for it.
sections.
- Add implementations of the critical_enter() and critical_exit() functions
and remove restore_intr() and save_intr().
- Remove the somewhat bogus disable_intr() and enable_intr() functions on
the alpha as the alpha actually uses a priority level and not simple bit
flag on the CPU.
Make the name cache hash as well as the nfsnode hash use it.
As a special tweak, create an unsigned version of register_t. This allows
us to use a special tweak for the 64 bit versions that significantly
speeds up the i386 version (ie: int64 XOR int64 is slower than int64
XOR int32).
The code layout is a little strange for the string function, but I was
able to get between 5 to 10% improvement over the original version I
started with. The layout affects gcc code generation choices and this way
was fastest on x86 and alpha.
Note that 'CPUTYPE=p3' etc makes a fair difference to this. It is
around 45% faster with -march=pentiumpro on a p6 cpu.
if we hold a spin mutex, since we can trivially get into deadlocks if we
start switching out of processes that hold spinlocks. Checking to see if
interrupts were disabled was a sort of cheap way of doing this since most
of the time interrupts were only disabled when holding a spin lock. At
least on the i386. To fix this properly, use a per-process counter
p_spinlocks that counts the number of spin locks currently held, and
instead of checking to see if interrupts are disabled in the witness code,
check to see if we hold any spin locks. Since child processes always
start up with the sched lock magically held in fork_exit(), we initialize
p_spinlocks to 1 for child processes. Note that proc0 doesn't go through
fork_exit(), so it starts with no spin locks held.
Consulting from: cp
- Don't try to grab Giant before postsig() in userret() as it is no longer
needed.
- Don't grab Giant before psignal() in ast() but get the proc lock instead.
supported architectures such as the alpha. This allows us to save
on kernel virtual address space, TLB entries, and (on the ia64) VHPT
entries. pmap_map() now modifies the passed in virtual address on
architectures that do not support direct-mapped segments to point to
the next available virtual address. It also returns the actual
address that the request was mapped to.
- On the IA64 don't use a special zone of PV entries needed for early
calls to pmap_kenter() during pmap_init(). This gets us in trouble
because we end up trying to use the zone allocator before it is
initialized. Instead, with the pmap_map() change, the number of needed
PV entries is small enough that we can get by with a static pool that is
used until pmap_init() is complete.
Submitted by: dfr
Debugging help: peter
Tested by: me
- Remove unneeded spl()'s around mi_switch() in userret().
- Don't hold sched_lock across addupc_task().
- Remove the MD function child_return() now that the MI function
fork_return() is used instead.
- Use TRAPF_USERMODE() instead of dinking with the trapframe directly to
check for ast's in kernel mode.
- Check astpending(curproc) and resched_wanted() in ast() and return if
neither is true.
- Use astoff() rather than setting the non-existent per-cpu variable
astpending to 0 to clear an ast.
for us.
- Change the switch_trampoline() to call fork_exit() passing in the
required arguments instead of calling the fork trampoline callout
function directly.
Warning: this hasn't been tested.
Looked over by: dfr
- All processes go into the same array of queues, with different
scheduling classes using different portions of the array. This
allows user processes to have their priorities propogated up into
interrupt thread range if need be.
- I chose 64 run queues as an arbitrary number that is greater than
32. We used to have 4 separate arrays of 32 queues each, so this
may not be optimal. The new run queue code was written with this
in mind; changing the number of run queues only requires changing
constants in runq.h and adjusting the priority levels.
- The new run queue code takes the run queue as a parameter. This
is intended to be used to create per-cpu run queues. Implement
wrappers for compatibility with the old interface which pass in
the global run queue structure.
- Group the priority level, user priority, native priority (before
propogation) and the scheduling class into a struct priority.
- Change any hard coded priority levels that I found to use
symbolic constants (TTIPRI and TTOPRI).
- Remove the curpriority global variable and use that of curproc.
This was used to detect when a process' priority had lowered and
it should yield. We now effectively yield on every interrupt.
- Activate propogate_priority(). It should now have the desired
effect without needing to also propogate the scheduling class.
- Temporarily comment out the call to vm_page_zero_idle() in the
idle loop. It interfered with propogate_priority() because
the idle process needed to do a non-blocking acquire of Giant
and then other processes would try to propogate their priority
onto it. The idle process should not do anything except idle.
vm_page_zero_idle() will return in the form of an idle priority
kernel thread which is woken up at apprioriate times by the vm
system.
- Update struct kinfo_proc to the new priority interface. Deliberately
change its size by adjusting the spare fields. It remained the same
size, but the layout has changed, so userland processes that use it
would parse the data incorrectly. The size constraint should really
be changed to an arbitrary version number. Also add a debug.sizeof
sysctl node for struct kinfo_proc.
Some things needed bits of <i386/include/lock.h> - cy.c now has its
own (only) copy of the COM_(UN)LOCK() macros, and IMASK_(UN)LOCK()
has been moved to <i386/include/apic.h> (AKA <machine/apic.h>).
Reviewed by: jhb
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:
mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)
similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:
mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.
The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.
Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:
MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH
The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:
mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.
Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.
Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.
Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.
Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.
Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
o Use objdump instead of gensetdefs(1) to build the linker sets.
o Allow overriding of nm and objdump in resp. genassym.sh and
gensetdefs.pl for non-native toolchains.
Reviewed by: arch
Perl improvements: Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, benno
interrupt threads to run with it always >= 1, so that malloc can
detect M_WAITOK from "interrupt" context. This is also necessary
in order to context switch from sched_ithd() directly.
Reviewed By: peter
initialization until after malloc() is safe to call, then iterate through
all mutexes and complete their initialization.
This change is necessary in order to avoid some circular bootstrapping
dependencies.
All calls to mtx_init() for mutexes that recurse must now include
the MTX_RECURSE bit in the flag argument variable. This change is in
preparation for an upcoming (further) mutex API cleanup.
The witness code will call panic() if a lock is found to recurse but
the MTX_RECURSE bit was not set during the lock's initialization.
The old MTX_RECURSE "state" bit (in mtx_lock) has been renamed to
MTX_RECURSED, which is more appropriate given its meaning.
The following locks have been made "recursive," thus far:
eventhandler, Giant, callout, sched_lock, possibly some others declared
in the architecture-specific code, all of the network card driver locks
in pci/, as well as some other locks in dev/ stuff that I've found to
be recursive.
Reviewed by: jhb
exactly the same functionality via a sysctl, making this feature
a run-time option.
The default is 1(ON), which means that /dev/random device will
NOT block at startup.
setting kern.random.sys.seeded to 0(OFF) will cause /dev/random
to block until the next reseed, at which stage the sysctl
will be changed back to 1(ON).
While I'm here, clean up the sysctls, and make them dynamic.
Reviewed by: des
Tested on Alpha by: obrien
__FreeBSD_version 500015 can be used to detect their disappearance.
- Move the symbols for SMP_prvspace and lapic from globals.s to
locore.s.
- Remove globals.s with extreme prejudice.
symbols in globals.s.
PCPU_GET(name) returns the value of the per-cpu variable
PCPU_PTR(name) returns a pointer to the per-cpu variable
PCPU_SET(name, val) sets the value of the per-cpu variable
In general these are not yet used, compatibility macros remain.
Unifdef SMP struct globaldata, this makes variables such as cpuid
available for UP as well.
Rebuilding modules is probably a good idea, but I believe old
modules will still work, as most of the old infrastructure
remains.
of explicit calls to lockmgr. Also provides macros for the flags
pased to specify shared, exclusive or release which map to the
lockmgr flags. This is so that the use of lockmgr can be easily
replaced with optimized reader-writer locks.
- Add some locking that I missed the first time.
held and panic if so (conditional on witness).
- Change witness_list to return the number of locks held so this is easier.
- Add kern/syscalls.c to the kernel build if witness is defined so that the
panic message can contain the name of the offending system call.
- Add assertions that Giant and sched_lock are not held when returning from
a system call, which were missing for alpha and ia64.
spending, which was unused now that all software interrupts have
their own thread. Make the legacy schednetisr use an atomic op
for setting bits in the netisr mask.
Reviewed by: jhb
process is on the alternate stack or not. For compatibility
with sigstack(2) state is being updated if such is needed.
We now determine whether the process is on the alternate
stack by looking at its stack pointer. This allows a process
to siglongjmp from a signal handler on the alternate stack
to the place of the sigsetjmp on the normal stack. When
maintaining state, this would have invalidated the state
information and causing a subsequent signal to be delivered
on the normal stack instead of the alternate stack.
PR: 22286
counter register in-CPU.
This is to be used as a fast "timer", where linearity is more important
than time, and multiple lines in the linearity caused by multiple CPUs
in an SMP machine is not a problem.
This adds no code whatsoever to the FreeBSD kernel until it is actually
used, and then as a single-instruction inline routine (except for the
80386 and 80486 where it is some more inline code around nanotime(9).
Reviewed by: bde, kris, jhb
- Use the mutex in hardclock to ensure no races between it and
softclock.
- Make softclock be INTR_MPSAFE and provide a flag,
CALLOUT_MPSAFE, which specifies that a callout handler does not
need giant. There is still no way to set this flag when
regstering a callout.
Reviewed by: -smp@, jlemon
may block on a mutex while on the sleep queue without corrupting
it.
- Move dropping of Giant to after the acquire of sched_lock.
Tested by: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
jhb
acquire Giant as needed in functions that call mi_switch(). The releases
need to be done outside of the sched_lock to avoid potential deadlocks
from trying to acquire Giant while interrupts are disabled.
Submitted by: witness
syscall compare against a variable sv_minsigstksz in struct
sysentvec as to properly take the size of the machine- and
ABI dependent struct sigframe into account.
The SVR4 and iBCS2 modules continue to have a minsigstksz of
8192 to preserve behavior. The real values (if different) are
not known at this time. Other ABI modules use the real
values.
The native MINSIGSTKSZ is now defined as follows:
Arch MINSIGSTKSZ
---- -----------
alpha 4096
i386 2048
ia64 12288
Reviewed by: mjacob
Suggested by: bde
because it only takes a struct tag which makes it impossible to
use unions, typedefs etc.
Define __offsetof() in <machine/ansi.h>
Define offsetof() in terms of __offsetof() in <stddef.h> and <sys/types.h>
Remove myriad of local offsetof() definitions.
Remove includes of <stddef.h> in kernel code.
NB: Kernelcode should *never* include from /usr/include !
Make <sys/queue.h> include <machine/ansi.h> to avoid polluting the API.
Deprecate <struct.h> with a warning. The warning turns into an error on
01-12-2000 and the file gets removed entirely on 01-01-2001.
Paritials reviews by: various.
Significant brucifications by: bde
type of software interrupt. Roughly, what used to be a bit in spending
now maps to a swi thread. Each thread can have multiple handlers, just
like a hardware interrupt thread.
- Instead of using a bitmask of pending interrupts, we schedule the specific
software interrupt thread to run, so spending, NSWI, and the shandlers
array are no longer needed. We can now have an arbitrary number of
software interrupt threads. When you register a software interrupt
thread via sinthand_add(), you get back a struct intrhand that you pass
to sched_swi() when you wish to schedule your swi thread to run.
- Convert the name of 'struct intrec' to 'struct intrhand' as it is a bit
more intuitive. Also, prefix all the members of struct intrhand with
'ih_'.
- Make swi_net() a MI function since there is now no point in it being
MD.
Submitted by: cp
* Fixes to the signal delivery code. Not quite right yet.
I would have preferred to wait until I have signal delivery actually
working but the current kernel in CVS doesn't build.
reducues the maintenance load for the mutex code. The only MD portions
of the mutex code are in machine/mutex.h now, which include the assembly
macros for handling mutexes as well as optionally overriding the mutex
micro-operations. For example, we use optimized micro-ops on the x86
platform #ifndef I386_CPU.
- Change the behavior of the SMP_DEBUG kernel option. In the new code,
mtx_assert() only depends on INVARIANTS, allowing other kernel developers
to have working mutex assertiions without having to include all of the
mutex debugging code. The SMP_DEBUG kernel option has been renamed to
MUTEX_DEBUG and now just controls extra mutex debugging code.
- Abolish the ugly mtx_f hack. Instead, we dynamically allocate
seperate mtx_debug structures on the fly in mtx_init, except for mutexes
that are initiated very early in the boot process. These mutexes
are declared using a special MUTEX_DECLARE() macro, and use a new
flag MTX_COLD when calling mtx_init. This is still somewhat hackish,
but it is less evil than the mtx_f filler struct, and the mtx struct is
now the same size with and without mutex debugging code.
- Add some micro-micro-operation macros for doing the actual atomic
operations on the mutex mtx_lock field to make it easier for other archs
to override/optimize mutex ops if needed. These new tiny ops also clean
up the code in some places by replacing long atomic operation function
calls that spanned 2-3 lines with a short 1-line macro call.
- Don't call mi_switch() from mtx_enter_hard() when we block while trying
to obtain a sleep mutex. Calling mi_switch() would bogusly release
Giant before switching to the next process. Instead, inline most of the
code from mi_switch() in the mtx_enter_hard() function. Note that when
we finally kill Giant we can back this out and go back to calling
mi_switch().
in most of the atomic operations. Now for these operations, you can
use the normal atomic operation, you can use the operation with a read
barrier, or you can use the operation with a write barrier. The function
names follow the same semantics used in the ia64 instruction set. An
atomic operation with a read barrier has the extra suffix 'acq', due to
it having "acquire" semantics. An atomic operation with a write barrier
has the extra suffix 'rel'. These suffixes are inserted between the
name of the operation to perform and the typename. For example, the
atomic_add_int() function now has 3 variants:
- atomic_add_int() - this is the same as the previous function
- atomic_add_acq_int() - this function combines the add operation with a
read memory barrier
- atomic_add_rel_int() - this function combines the add operation with a
write memory barrier
- Add 'ptr' to the list of types that we can perform atomic operations
on. This allows one to do atomic operations on uintptr_t's. This is
useful in the mutex code, for example, because the actual mutex lock is
a pointer.
- Add two new operations for doing loads and stores with memory barriers.
The new load operations use a read barrier before the load, and the
new store operations use a write barrier after the load. For example,
atomic_load_acq_int() will atomically load an integer as well as
enforcing a read barrier.
write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks where large
memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete.
Taking an i386 scsi based system with 512MB of ram and timing (in
seconds) how long it took to complete a dump, the following results
were obtained:
Before: After:
WCE TIME WCE TIME
------------------ ------------------
1 141.820972 1 15.600111
0 797.265072 0 65.480465
Obtained from: Yahoo!
Reviewed by: peter
