critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for
deferring kernel preemptions. They no longer have any affect on
interrupts. This means that standalone critical sections are now very
cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the
common case.
Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter()
and spinlock_exit(). This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD
guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't
be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock. For
now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they
did formerly in all critical sections. Note that I've also taken this
opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI. For example,
critical_fork_exit() no longer exists. Instead, MD code ensures that new
threads have the correct state when they are created. Also, we no longer
try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code. Instead, each arch sets
the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows
in order to perform the initial context switch.
This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides
will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts
of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes
for per-CPU data for example).
Reviewed by: grehan, cognet, arch@, others
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more
o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules.
This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata"
to get the base support, and then one or more of the device
subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid".
All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you
dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems.
o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix
the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove
so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done
without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible.
o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/
removed in /dev accordingly.
NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature:
Promise and Silicon Image for now.
On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is
still needed.
o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID.
o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these
metadata formats:
"Adaptec HostRAID"
"Highpoint V2 RocketRAID"
"Highpoint V3 RocketRAID"
"Intel MatrixRAID"
"Integrated Technology Express"
"LSILogic V2 MegaRAID"
"LSILogic V3 MegaRAID"
"Promise FastTrak"
"Silicon Image Medley"
"FreeBSD PseudoRAID"
o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc.
o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc
NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h,
make world will take care of that.
NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as
the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the
array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild
the array.
o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust.
o The timeout code has been overhauled for races.
o Support of new chipsets.
o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and
reviewing the old code.
Missing or changed features from current ATA:
o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its
much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk
and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made
anymore, maybe for that exact reason.
o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats,
not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means
that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be
created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing
write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given
controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist
for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have
different formats and its impossible to tell which one.
The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those
formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it.
However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays
properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list.
o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this
will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for
questions.
HW donated by: Webveveriet AS
HW donated by: Frode Nordahl
HW donated by: Yahoo!
HW donated by: Sentex
Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
We don't need a mknod(2) call
No tricky install documentation
Kernel leave them dev_t alone
Hey Kernel leave them cdevsw alone
All in all it's just another struct in src/sys
All in all you're just another struct in src/sys
FreeBSD based on aue(4) it was picked by OpenBSD, then from OpenBSD ported
to NetBSD and finally NetBSD version merged with original one goes into
FreeBSD.
Obtained from: http://www.gank.org/freebsd/cdce/
NetBSD
OpenBSD
inevitable component in Sun Exx00 machines and provides serial ports,
NVRAM and TOD amongst others which are handled by uart(4) and eeprom(4)
respectively). This driver currently only prints out information about
the chassis on attach and allows to blink the 'Cycling' LED (which is
duplicated on the front panel) of the clock board just like fhc(4) does
for the other boards. The device name for the LED is /dev/led/clockboard.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Tested by: joerg
This is mentioned in the Handbook but it is not as obvious to new
users why bpf is needed compared to the other largely self-explanatory
items in GENERIC.
PR: conf/40855
MFC after: 1 week
I think all we really need is -fno-sse2.
I really don't like cluttering up the compiler invocation,
but this bigger hammer will fix reported problems for now.
to get from (mount + inode) to vnode. These tables are mostly
copy&pasted from UFS, sized based on desiredvnodes and therefore
quite large (128K-512K). Several filesystems are buggy enough that
they allocate the hash table even before they know if they will
ever be used or not.
Add "vfs_hash", a system wide hash table, which will replace all
the per-filesystem hash-tables.
The fields we add to struct vnode will more or less be saved in
the respective filesystems inodes.
Having one central implementation will save code and will allow us
to justify the complexity of code to dynamically (re)size the hash
at a later point.
- "options" is followed by the characters \040\011, not \011\011.
Correct both my own sins and those of others.
- Comment blocks start and end with an empty line ^#$.
- Remove non-standard comments added in my last commit.
Requested by: njl
Correctness confirmed by: bde
uart(4) to support the Zilog 8530 SCCs which hang off of a FireHose
bus on Sun E4000/E5000 class machines.
Beside the fact that a puc_fhc.c would just be a copy of puc_sbus.c
with s,sbus,fhc,g the reason why the declaration for fhc(4) was
sticked into puc_sbus.c is that both of these front-ends for puc(4)
will go away once there is a scc(4).
Discussed with: marcel
Tested by: hrs, kris
MFC after: 3 days
