problem with some chipsets (UMC) remapping the 'hole' memory even when
you've got 16MB. People were led to believe that since there was only
16MB of memory in the machine, that they were okay wrt the ISA DMA
limit. This hack simply causes the extra memory to be ignored if it
appears around the 16MB limit.
* Removed pmap_is_wired
* added extra cli/sti protection in idle (swtch.s)
* slight code improvement in trap.c
* added lots of comments
* improved paging and other algorithms in VM system
Changed the output of the isa probe routine, that only devices, that
have an IO address and are smaller than 0x100 to be on the motherboard.
The seagate SCSI adapter is an example of a card, that doesn't have
an IO address and works only memory mapped.
Choose older MULTIPORT version, because lastest bde version
not worked.
Don't force HUPCL for bidirectional case.
From bde:
Use bit (1 << (16 + 4)) in schedsoftcom() to avoid clash with
non-serial h/w on IRQ4.
Allow FIFO_TRIGGER in config.
Clear com->mcr_image when clearing mcr for init of 4port. The
usual value MCR_IENABLE should have broken 4ports unless
something happened to clear it later.
Turn off interrupts as well as DTR after an error waiting for
carrier (bidir dialin case).
Drain fifo more carefully.
Don't hang up if debugging.
Rearrange siointr() -> siointr1() for multiport case for speed,
lower latency and clarity.
Use suser() to check perms.
Provide missing splx() after failed perms checks.
c_ispeed == 0 means c_ispeed = c_ospeed (POSIX).
Set parameters (except speed) for c_ospeed == 0 as well as
hanging up.
Better initialization for console (fifo stuff...).
Misc. cleanups.
Fix dead hang if modem power is off.
problems in the moment are stray intr's in the ifconfig up/down.
No way to select all three interfaces on a combo card with
AUI/BNC/UTP interfaces and the performance doesn't look good.
Only tested with a ISA AUI/BNC card yet.
Added it to the list of known boards and put it into the the list for
the mailbox unlock. Maybe all board-ids over 0x42 should be in the
mailbox unlock part ?
enough tests to be considered more stable than current driver.
Lots of work by Bruce, David G., and Guido have gone into this version, and
more is to come in the future.
Support for multiple controllers is in, but doesn't work correctly with
different controllers (IDE AND MFM), but multiple alike controllers appears
to work.
Most of the stray interrupts problems should be fixed, although you will
get a couple 'extra interrupts' when disklabeling and on startup.
set improves performance and fixes the following problems (description
from John Dyson):
1. Growing swap space problem in both static usage and
in situations with lots of fork/execs in heavy paging
situations.
2. Sparse swap space allocation (internal fragmentation.)
3. General swap_pager slowness.
Additionally, the new swap_pager also provides hooks for multi-page
I/O that is currently being developed (in early testing phases.)
Problem #1 is a result of a problem where objects cannot be collapsed
once a pager has been allocated for them. This problem has been solved
by relaxing the restriction by allowing the pages contained in a shadow
object's pager be copied to the parent object's pager. The copy is
afforded by manipulating pointers to the disk blocks on the swap space.
Since an improved swap_pager has already been developed with the data
structures to support the copy operation, this new swap_pager has been
introduced. Also, shadow object bypass in the collapse code has been
enhanced to support checking for pages on disk. The vm_pageout daemon
has also been modified to defer creation of an object's pager when the
object's shadow is paging. This allows efficient immediate collapsing
of a shadow into a parent object under many circumstances without the
creation of an intermediate pager.
Problem #2 is solved by the allocation data structures and algorithms
in the new swap_pager. Additionally, a newer version of this new swap_pager
is being tested that permits multiple page I/O and mitigation of the
fragmentation problems associated with allocation of large contiguous blocks
of swap space.
Problem #3 is addressed by better algorithms and a fix of a couple of bugs
in the swap_pager. Additionally, this new pager has a growth path allowing
multi-page inputs from disk. Approximately 50% performance improvement can
be expected under certain circumstances when using this pager in the standard
single page mode.
(Actually, I've seen more like twice the speed in my tests. -DLG)
can actually write a sane netif device to support one of these. Note that it
was necessary to steal a netisr bit from another protocol; I took the one for
PF_DATAKIT (no great loss).
a binary link-kit. Make all non-optional options (pagers, procfs) standard,
and update LINT to reflect new symtab requirements.
NB: -Wtraditional will henceforth be forgotten. This editing pass was
primarily intended to detect any constructions where the old code might
have been relying on traditional C semantics or syntax. These were all
fixed, and the result of fixing some of them means that -Wall is now a
realistic possibility within a few weeks.
Entries for 800 and 820 fixed.
From vak@kiae.su:
incorporate Joerg Wunsch formatting code
correct handle timeouted operations
fixed entry for 720 media
GAP values changed suitable for possible format code addition.
Read/write GAP always 2 now.
Interleave parameter added for possible format code addition.
Many logical formats added.
720K physical drive added.
Problems: still can't read 720..820 media in 1.44 drive.
800K in HD 5.25in (maximum for DD diskettes)
1.44M in HD 5.25in (for easy distributions)
1.46M in HD 5.25in (maximum for 5.25)
Some cosmetique changes.
Now minor looks like UU DDDDDD, UU - unit, DDDDDD - density.
If density == 0, CMOS-detect format assumed.
Fix attach code for correct work with unknown CMOS
floppy types.
Trick diskerr to handle new minor.
1.722M floppy in 1.44M drive popular format added.
from:
Sergey Ryzhkov, Serge Vakulenko
E-mail: <sir@kiae.su>, <vak@zebub.msk.su>
This is the streamer tape driver for 386bsd and FreeBSD, which
supports Wangtek and Archive compatible QIC-02/QIC-36 controllers.
It was developed as a replacement of the old Wangtek tape driver from CMU.
In comparison with the CMU driver, this version has the following enhancements:
1) Support for Archive SC402 and SC499 tape controllers added.
2) Support for up to three tape controllers on the same machine.
3) Support for BSD-style ioctls MTIOCGET, MTIOCTOP.
Mt command now works adequately with this driver.
2) Asynchronous REWIND and FSF operations, close() will not wait
until they finish. The next open() will wait for it instead.
4) Use of WTQICMD ioctl is limited to ERASE and RETENS operations.
This prevents the user from locking the tape driver by strange
tape operations.
5) Tape density switching added.
6) The status of the process, blocked on the tape operation,
is displayed at the WCHAN column of the `ps' command as:
wtread reading data from the tape
wtwrite writing data to the tape
wtrfm reading the tape marker
wtwfm writing the tape marker
wtrew rewinding the tape
wterase doing WTQICMD ERASE operation
wtretens doing WTQICMD RETENS operation
wtorew doing MTIOCTOP REW/OFFL operation
wtorfm doing MTIOCTOP FSF operation
wtowfm doing MTIOCTOP WEOF operation
7) It's possible to use the tape with "default density",
useful for devices which don't support density switching
or do automatic format determination.
8) Some controllers support only 1024 block length.
Setting WT_BSIZE bit in device minor number turns on this mode.
Minor number structure:
0bfffuuu
Fields:
uuu - Unit number. It's possible to install
up to three tape controllers on the same machine,
using DRQs 1..3. Hence, unit number can lie
in range 0..2.
fff - Tape format number:
0 - /dev/rwt0 - default density (auto select)
1 - /dev/rwt0a - QIC 11 (obsolete)
2 - /dev/rwt0b - QIC 24 (60 megabytes)
3 - /dev/rwt0c - QIC 120 (120 megabytes)
4 - /dev/rwt0d - QIC 150 (150 megabytes)
5 - /dev/rwt0e - QIC 300 (300 megabytes?)
6 - /dev/rwt0f - QIC 600 (600 megabytes?)
b - Long block size flag. With this bit set,
the driver will perform all i/o operations
with the controller using 1024-byte
blocks, instead of 512 ones.
Some controllers need it (CMS for example).
If you Wangtek controller does not stream well,
you can try to use /dev/rWt0 device instead
of /dev/rwt0 (uncomment needed lines in /dev/MAKEDEV
to create it).
Block interface (writing blocks less than 2048 bytes) is not functioning
pwoperly. Use raw interface instead.
Thanks to all who helped to test it on the following hardware:
Controller Drive Volume Interface Thanks to
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archive SC-499 Archive 2150L 150 Meg QIC-02 KIAE
CMS? ? 150 Meg QIC-02 KIAE
Everex EV 831/833 ? ? QIC-36 Joergen Haegg
Wangtek ASSY Wangtek 60 Meg QIC-02 Ken Whedbee
Tecmar QT150i? Wangtek 5150EQ ? QIC-02? Marko Teiste
? Wangtek 5099EK 60 Meg QIC-36 Robert Shien
Archive SC400S ? 60 Meg ? Warren Toomey
possible end-user errors.
Now:
1) on physical 1.2 can open logical 1.2, 720, 360H
2) on physical 1.44 can open logical 1.44, 720
3) on physical 360 can open logical 360
All other variants refused.
C-style improved in this check, multiply if's changed to switch.
More work to add 720K floppy support.
Restore good old dependance of device and floppy type.
Now:
fd?a == 1.44
fd?b == 1.2
fd?c == 720
fd?d == 360 in HD
fd?e == 360
Add more strict size check in Fdopen, not it refuse:
1) Attempt to open any type expect fd?e, if you have only 360K drive.
2) Attempt to open fd?a if you have only 1.2 drive.
John Dyson to make it reliably work under FreeBSD.
2) Added and enabled PROCFS in the GENERICxx and LINT kernels.
3) New execve() from me. Still work to be done here, but this version
works well and is needed before other changes can be made. For
a description of the design behind this, see freebsd-arch or
ask me.
4) Rewrote stack fault code; made user stack VM grow as needed rather
than all up front; improves performance a little and reduces
process memory requirements.
5) Incorporated fix from Gene Stark to fault/wire a user page table
page to fix a problem in copyout. This is a temporary fix and
is not appropriate for pageable page tables. For a description
of the problem, see Gene's post to the freebsd-hackers mailing
list.
6) Tighten up vm_page struct to reduce memory requirements for it. ifdef
pager page lock code as it's not being used currently.
7) Introduced new element to vmspace struct - vm_minsaddr; initial
(minimum) stack address. Compliment to vm_maxsaddr.
8) Added a panic if the allocation for process u-pages fails.
9) Improve performance and accuracy of kernel profiling by putting in
a little inline assembly instead of spl().
10) Made serial console with sio driver work. Still has problems with
serial input, but is almost useable.
11) Added -Bstatic to SYSTEM_LD in Makefile.i386 so that kernels will
build properly with the new ld.
John Dyson to make it reliably work under FreeBSD.
2) Added and enabled PROCFS in the GENERICxx and LINT kernels.
3) New execve() from me. Still work to be done here, but this version
works well and is needed before other changes can be made. For
a description of the design behind this, see freebsd-arch or
ask me.
4) Rewrote stack fault code; made user stack VM grow as needed rather
than all up front; improves performance a little and reduces
process memory requirements.
5) Incorporated fix from Gene Stark to fault/wire a user page table
page to fix a problem in copyout. This is a temporary fix and
is not appropriate for pageable page tables. For a description
of the problem, see Gene's post to the freebsd-hackers mailing
list.
6) Tighten up vm_page struct to reduce memory requirements for it. ifdef
pager page lock code as it's not being used currently.
7) Introduced new element to vmspace struct - vm_minsaddr; initial
(minimum) stack address. Compliment to vm_maxsaddr.
8) Added a panic if the allocation for process u-pages fails.
9) Improve performance and accuracy of kernel profiling by putting in
a little inline assembly instead of spl().
10) Made serial console with sio driver work. Still has problems with
serial input, but is almost useable.
11) Added -Bstatic to SYSTEM_LD in Makefile.i386 so that kernels will
build properly with the new ld.
added to probe.
2) Force CLOCAL=on for outgoing ports and CLOCAL=off for
incoming ports into open in bidirectional case.
3) Add DELAY after writing to com_ier for fifo drain into probe.
The following patch adds the addr argument to signal handlers.
The kernel with the patch is no more and no less in compliance or in
violation of POSIX and ANSI C than the kernel before the patch.
The added functionality this addr argument provides is quite useful. It
enables an entire class of algorithms which use mprotect to trace memory
references. Beside garbage collectors, I have heard of this technique being
applied to debuggers and profilers. The only benchmarking I've performed is
using akcl to compile maxima: without the kernel patch, it takes 7 hours to
compile maxima, while with stratified garbage collection, it only takes 50
minutes.
Basically, I can't think of a reason not to add the addr argument and there
is a compelling need for it.
If you find the patch acceptable, please let me know so I can send my
FreeBSD akcl config files to wfs for inclusion in the core akcl release.
The old 386BSD config files there won't work on either NetBSD or FreeBSD.
From: <dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com>
Changes between EPSILON and RELEASE of FreeBSD have again caused
the kernel to not see my floppy disk drives. I don't know what happened,
'cause I don't see any changes to fd.c, but here is an old fix that
I have applied to the probe routine which will solve the problem (at
least for me). Since this is a rather brute-force solution - I understand
if you want to ignore it...
[Upgrading to pre-Beta FreeBSD caused this on my system. -AM]
* merged in Garrett Wollman's strict prototype changes
*
* Revision 2.15 1993/11/29 16:32:58 davidg
* From Thomas Sandford <t.d.g.sandford@comp.brad.ac.uk>
* Add support for the 8013W board type
Subject: Page fault in PTE area fails in copyout
Index: sys/i386/i386/trap.c FreeBSD-1.0.2
Description:
Reading files of several megabytes into Emacs, or many small
files all at once, would fail with "IO error - bad address".
Repeat-By:
The bug can be exercised by a test program that malloc()'s
a 5MB chunk of memory, and then, without accessing the memory
first, filling it with data from a file using read().
(I read 64k chunks from /dev/wd0d into successive 64k regions
of the 5MB chunk.) The read() will fail with EFAULT at the first
virtual address boundary that is a multiple of 0x400000.
Fix:
The problem was code in sys/i386/i386/trap.c that tries to
figure out what kind of trap occurred and to handle it appropriately.
It was interpreting any page fault with virtual address
>= vm->vm_maxsaddr as being a user stack segment fault.
In fact, addresses >= USRSTACK are in the user structure/PTE area,
and if they are handled as stack faults, the proper PTE will
not be paged in when it is supposed to be. This situation comes
up in copyout() and copyoutstr(), if PTE's are accessed for the
first time ever. The page fault on accessing the nonexistent PTE
is mishandled as a stack fault, and then the fault that occurs on
the subsequent access to the page itself causes copyout to fail
with EFAULT.
Here is the fix for the 'hanging' bug.
This bug happenned whenever two operations were already underway on the
disk and a third (non-IO) command was requested..
in this case the process submitting the NON-IO command was requested to wait,
and a flag set so that on completion of the IO commands, the Non-io command
was given priority over any pending IO commands. (the queue is not
allowed to drain while there are pending "special" ops).
The flag that indicated this was not being reset, so further IO commands
were prohibited from that moment on.
From: Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@braae.ru.ac.za>
Description:
On bootup, probe of wd drives fails (CP30104), and kernel panics
- cannot mount root
It appears that the device probe just times out.
Increasing the timeout back to its old value fixes the problem.
Repeat-By:
SUP FreBSD-current, Find a CP30104 ..... (ok ok ok)
Basically - Soren's changes barf my disk.
---
From: sos@login.dkuug.dk (S|ren Schmidt)
Subject: IDE-disk hangs - solution/patches NetBSD/FreeBSD
Summary: fixes for lost interrupts with IDE disks
Keywords: hanging-disk, IDE-disk, lost-interrupt
Due to "popular" demand I'm posting these patches to NetBSD/FreeBSD
instead of mailing them around the world :-)
As many have found out there is a problem when using IDE disks on
FreeBSD. Following is a patch that fixes the problem with lost intterrupts.
Both fixes is based on a patch posted here some month ago by
Stefan Behrens?? (sorry I've lost the original article). But anyway it
works (for me :-).
Basically it does a timeout on lost interrupts, starting the operation
again and logging and error message on the console.
It additionally makes the allready present while loop timeouts
independent of CPU speed, and adds minor numbers for easy access to
dos partitions.
* change all splnet's to splimp's
*
* Revision 2.13 1993/11/22 10:53:52 davidg
* patch to add support for SMC8216 (Elite-Ultra) boards
* from Glen H. Lowe
*
* Revision 2.12 1993/11/07 18:04:13 davidg
* fix from Garrett Wollman:
* add a return(0) at the end of ed_probe so that if the various device
* specific probes fail that we just don't fall of the end of the function.
