- Make softinterrupts (SWI's) almost completely MI, and divorce them
completely from the x86 hardware interrupt code.
- The ihandlers array is now gone. Instead, there is a MI shandlers array
that just contains SWI handlers.
- Most of the former machine/ipl.h files have moved to a new sys/ipl.h.
- Stub out all the spl*() functions on all architectures.
Submitted by: dfr
include:
* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*(). See mutex(9). (Note: The
alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)
* Per-CPU idle processes.
* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
preempted (i386 only).
Partially contributed by: BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least): cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
fixes some namespace pollution in general and breakage of modules that
aren't in the sys tree in particular (<machine/ipl.h> includes further
headers that aren't installed under /usr/include).
Reimplemented SPLASSERT() so that it is more machine independent and
less bloated and doesn't require the <machine/ipl.h> include spam.
In particular, don't assume that `cpl' can be printed using %08x
format. The alpha arch doesn't even have `cpl'. SPLASSERT() was
harmless on alphas because it isn't actually used.
unless both "option INVARIANTS" and "options INVARIANT_SUPPORT"
are defined in the kernel's config(8) file.
SPLASSERT(expression, msg) used KASSERT to check that the
expression is true, panic()ing the kernel otherwise.
Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: jdp, dfr, phk, eivind and green
In combination with Doug's recent alpha_cpu.h, this reduces the cost
of ipl raising/lowering significantly. This is most pronounced when
doing file reads.
Reviewed by: dfr
work in progress and has never booted a real machine. Initial
development and testing was done using SimOS (see
http://simos.stanford.edu for details). On the SimOS simulator, this
port successfully reaches single-user mode and has been tested with
loads as high as one copy of /bin/ls :-).
Obtained from: partly from NetBSD/alpha
