This was disabled recently due to lack of support in KDB disassembler
and DTrace FBT provider. Support for 'C'-extension to both of these was
added, so we can now enable 'C'-extension.
This reduces size of the kernel important for low-end embedded devices,
and saves cache footprint for high perfomance machines.
Approved by: re (kib)
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
r336773 removed all things xscale. However, some things xscale are
really armv5. Revert that entirely. A more modest removal will follow.
Noticed by: andrew@
The OLD XSCALE stuff hasn't been useful in a while. The original
committer (cognet@) was the only one that had boards for it. He's
blessed this removal. Newer XSCALE (GUMSTIX) is for hardware that's
quite old. After discussion on arm@, it was clear there was no support
for keeping it.
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16313
It works excellent, but KDB disassembler and DTrace FBT provider for
RISC-V do lack support for it. They currently handle 4-byte instructions
only, while C-compressed ISA extension introduces 2-byte instructions
freely mixing them together.
So disable it for now.
Reviewed by: markj@
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16436
ACFLAGS is only used in addition to CFLAGS, so setting the options in
both was redundant. However, ACFLAGS is added to the command line
after CFLAGS, so the settings from ACFLAGS were applied for assembly
files in kernel modules after the kernel-specific march/abi in CFLAGS.
As a result, the hard-float ACFLAGS in bsd.cpu.mk was overriding the
soft-float CFLAGS.gcc in sys/conf/kern.mk. In particular,
dtrace_asm.o was compiled as hard-float and the linker refused to link
dtrace.ko since its object files contained a mix of hard and soft
float.
Reviewed by: br
Sponsored by: DARPA / AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16054
__riscv_float_abi_double macro will be defined by compiler.
The options are:
o lp64 __riscv_float_abi_soft
o lp64f __riscv_float_abi_single
o lp64d __riscv_float_abi_double
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Make armv7 as a new MACHINE_ARCH.
Copy all the places we do armv6 and add armv7 as basically an
alias. clang appears to generate code for armv7 by default. armv7 hard
float isn't supported by the the in-tree gcc, so it hasn't been
updated to have a new default.
Support armv7 as a new valid MACHINE_ARCH (and by extension
TARGET_ARCH).
Add armv7 to the universe build.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12010
time. Remove it from here. As far as I could tell, nothing in ports
use it (either __ARM_ARCH or __ARM_ARCH_6__ is used in all the
apatches). We do have a define for _ARM_ARCH_6, but it's mostly unused
(and will remain, since it isn't in this file).
New version is not compatible on supervisor mode with v1.9.1
(previous version).
Highlights:
o BBL (Berkeley Boot Loader) provides no initial page tables
anymore allowing us to choose VM, to build page tables manually
and enable MMU in S-mode.
o SBI interface changed.
o GENERIC kernel.
FDT is now chosen standard for RISC-V hardware description.
DTB is now provided by Spike (golden model simulator). This
allows us to introduce GENERIC kernel. However, description
for console and timer devices is not provided in DTB, so move
these devices temporary to nexus bus.
o Supervisor can't access userspace by default. Solution is to
set SUM (permit Supervisor User Memory access) bit in sstatus
register.
o Compressed extension is now turned on by default.
o External GCC 7.1 compiler used.
o _gp renamed to __global_pointer$
o Compiler -march= string is now in use allowing us to choose
required extensions (compressed, FPU, atomic, etc).
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11800
Specifically, set '-mabi=XX' in AFLAGS, CFLAGS, and LDFLAGS. This permits
building MIPS worlds and binaries with a toolchain whose default output
does not match the desired TARGET_ARCH.
_LDFLAGS (which is used with LD instead of with CC) required an update as
LD does not accept the -mabi flags (so they must be stripped from LDFLAGS
when generating _LDFLAGS). For bare uses of LD (rather than linking via
CC), the desired ABI must be set by setting an explicit linker emulation
as done in r316514 for kernels and kernel modules.
Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: DARPA / AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10085
This should no longer be necessary after r316620 as all places that
use ACFLAGS should already be using CFLAGS.
Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: DARPA / AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10085
Hardfloat is now default (use riscv64sf as TARGET_ARCH
for softfloat).
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8529
The tree can be build with an external toolchain that will not
necessarily default to desired settings, so we have to specify
the required flags explicitly to force the required compilation
mode.
Reviewed by: adrian, br
Sponsored by: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8505
Summary:
The Freescale e500v2 PowerPC core does not use a standard FPU.
Instead, it uses a Signal Processing Engine (SPE)--a DSP-style vector processor
unit, which doubles as a FPU. The PowerPC SPE ABI is incompatible with the
stock powerpc ABI, so a new MACHINE_ARCH was created to deal with this.
Additionaly, the SPE opcodes overlap with Altivec, so these are mutually
exclusive. Taking advantage of this fact, a new file, powerpc/booke/spe.c, was
created with the same function set as in powerpc/powerpc/altivec.c, so it
becomes effectively a drop-in replacement. setjmp/longjmp were modified to save
the upper 32-bits of the now-64-bit GPRs (upper 32-bits are only accessible by
the SPE).
Note: This does _not_ support the SPE in the e500v1, as the e500v1 SPE does not
support double-precision floating point.
Also, without a new MACHINE_ARCH it would be impossible to provide binary
packages which utilize the SPE.
Additionally, no work has been done to support ports, work is needed for this.
This also means no newer gcc can yet be used. However, gcc's powerpc support
has been refactored which would make adding a powerpcspe-freebsd target very
easy.
Test Plan:
This was lightly tested on a RouterBoard RB800 and an AmigaOne A1222
(P1022-based) board, compiled against the new ABI. Base system utilities
(/bin/sh, /bin/ls, etc) still function appropriately, the system is able to boot
multiuser.
Reviewed By: bdrewery, imp
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5683
RISC-V is a new ISA designed to support computer research and education, and
is now become a standard open architecture for industry implementations.
This is a minimal set of changes required to run 'make kernel-toolchain'
using external (GNU) toolchain.
The FreeBSD/RISC-V project home: https://wiki.freebsd.org/riscv.
Reviewed by: andrew, bdrewery, emaste, imp
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Sponsored by: HEIF5
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4445
Keep old CPUTYPEs around for compatibility. Also include
a list of typical values for FreeBSD.
# Split out from other changes in D4155
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4155
armv6. It's too ambiguous. We do use the softfp ABI for the moment on
armv6, but we allow floating point register use (and the compilers
will generate it). This is too ambiguous to use it as a decider for
which algorithms to use on the platform. Err on the side of caution
and not define it.
Submitted by: ian@
Reviewed by: andrew@
float targets. It is added for booke on powerpc and all arm with hf in
the string. Also add arm to all arm builds and armv6 to armv6 and
newer builds.
PR: 202641
Clang emits SSE instructions on amd64 in the common path of
pthread_mutex_unlock. If the thread does not otherwise use SSE,
this usage incurs a context-switch of the FPU/SSE state, which
reduces the performance of multiple real-world applications by a
non-trivial amount (3-5% in one application).
Instead of this change, I experimented with eagerly switching the
FPU state at context-switch time. This did not help. Most of the
cost seems to be in the read/write of memory--as kib@ stated--and
not in the #NM handling. I tested on machines with and without
XSAVEOPT.
One counter-argument to this change is that most applications already
use SIMD, and the number of applications and amount of SIMD usage
are only increasing. This is absolutely true. I agree that--in
general and in principle--this change is in the wrong direction.
However, there are applications that do not use enough SSE to offset
the extra context-switch cost. SSE does not provide a clear benefit
in the current libthr code with the current compiler, but it does
provide a clear loss in some cases. Therefore, disabling SSE in
libthr is a non-loss for most, and a gain for some.
I refrained from disabling SSE in libc--as was suggested--because
I can't make the above argument for libc. It provides a wide variety
of code; each case should be analyzed separately.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-March/055193.html
Suggestions from: dim, jmg, rpaulo
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Dell Inc.
use floating point hardware instructions (because all armv6/7 systems we
support have fp hardware), but it passes args using a soft-float compatible
ABI. This should give noticible performance improvement (but not as much
as using the armv6hf arch).
This includes:
o All directories named *ia64*
o All files named *ia64*
o All ia64-specific code guarded by __ia64__
o All ia64-specific makefile logic
o Mention of ia64 in comments and documentation
This excludes:
o Everything under contrib/
o Everything under crypto/
o sys/xen/interface
o sys/sys/elf_common.h
Discussed at: BSDcan
is useful primarily on a system used for cross-building, when you have a
set of flags to apply to the TARGET_ARCH being cross-built but don't want
those settings applied to building the cross-tools or other components that
run on the build host machine.
