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Author SHA1 Message Date
imp
7e6cabd06e Renumber copyright clause 4
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.

Submitted by:	Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
2017-02-28 23:42:47 +00:00
kib
cb80ddd115 Add FPU_KERN_NOCTX flag to the fpu_kern_enter() function on amd64.
The flag specifies that the block which uses FPU must be executed in
critical section, i.e. take no context switches, and does not need an
FPU save area during the execution.

It is intended to be applied around fast and short code pathes where
save area allocation is impossible or undesirable, due to context or
due to the relative cost of calculation vs. allocation.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2016-09-11 09:14:07 +00:00
jhb
c1d9f70889 Export various helper variables describing the layout and size of
certain kernel structures for use by debuggers. This mostly aids
in examining cores from a kernel without debug symbols as a debugger
can infer these values if debug symbols are available.

One set of variables describes the layout of 'struct linker_file' to
walk the list of loaded kernel modules.

A second set of variables describes the layout of 'struct proc' and
'struct thread' to walk the list of processes in the kernel and the
threads in each process.

The 'pcb_size' variable is used to index into the stoppcbs[] array.

The 'vm_maxuser_address' is used to distinguish kernel virtual addresses
from user addresses. This doesn't have to be perfect, and
'vm_maxuser_address' is a cheap and simple way to differentiate kernel
pointers from simple values like TIDs and PIDs.

While here, annotate the fields in struct pcb used by kgdb on amd64
and i386 to note that their ABI should be preserved.  Annotations for
other platforms will be added in the future.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	2 weeks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3773
2015-11-12 22:00:59 +00:00
kib
e85612a06d pcb_gs32sd is unused for long time, remove it. Keep the padding in pcb.
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2015-06-29 07:53:44 +00:00
jhb
3a8cf1a38b Create a separate structure for per-CPU state saved across suspend and
resume that is a superset of a pcb.  Move the FPU state out of the pcb and
into this new structure.  As part of this, move the FPU resume code on
amd64 into a C function.  This allows resumectx() to still operate only on
a pcb and more closely mirrors the i386 code.

Reviewed by:	kib (earlier version)
2014-09-06 15:23:28 +00:00
kib
f70df6871b Hide struct pcb definition by #ifdef __amd64__ braces. If cc -m32
compilation results in inclusion of the header, a confict arises due
to savefpu being union for i386, but used as struct in the pcb
definition.  The 32bit code should not need amd64 variant of the
struct pcb anyway.

For struct region_descriptor, use __uint64_t instead of unsigned long,
as the base type for bit-fields.  Unsigned long cannot have width 64
for -m32.

The changes allowed to use sys/sysctl.h for cc -m32.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
2013-11-26 19:38:42 +00:00
dchagin
b6dc2308e1 Retire write-only PCB_GS32BIT pcb flag on amd64. 2013-05-09 21:42:43 +00:00
jkim
d0039ee2cf - Remove unused code for CR3 and CR4.
- Fix few style(9) nits while I am here.
2012-06-13 22:53:56 +00:00
jkim
d1d32ebbe5 - Fix resumectx() prototypes to reflect reality.
- For i386, simply jump to resumectx() with PCB in %ecx.
- Fix a style(9) nit while I am here.
2012-06-13 21:03:01 +00:00
iwasaki
861bb3822c Add x86/acpica/acpi_wakeup.c for amd64 and i386. Difference of
suspend/resume procedures are minimized among them.

common:
- Add global cpuset suspended_cpus to indicate APs are suspended/resumed.
- Remove acpi_waketag and acpi_wakemap from acpivar.h (no longer used).
- Add some variables in acpi_wakecode.S in order to minimize the difference
  among amd64 and i386.
- Disable load_cr3() because now CR3 is restored in resumectx().

amd64:
- Add suspend/resume related members (such as MSR) in PCB.
- Modify savectx() for above new PCB members.
- Merge acpi_switch.S into cpu_switch.S as resumectx().

i386:
- Merge(and remove) suspendctx() into savectx() in order to match with
  amd64 code.

Reviewed by:	attilio@, acpi@
2012-06-09 00:37:26 +00:00
dim
81a3e2b46d Add a convenience macro for the returns_twice attribute, and apply it to
the prototypes of the appropriate functions (getcontext, savectx,
setjmp, sigsetjmp and vfork).

MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-04-29 11:04:31 +00:00
kib
361bfae5c2 Add support for the extended FPU states on amd64, both for native
64bit and 32bit ABIs.  As a side-effect, it enables AVX on capable
CPUs.

In particular:

- Query the CPU support for XSAVE, list of the supported extensions
  and the required size of FPU save area. The hw.use_xsave tunable is
  provided for disabling XSAVE, and hw.xsave_mask may be used to
  select the enabled extensions.

- Remove the FPU save area from PCB and dynamically allocate the
  (run-time sized) user save area on the top of the kernel stack,
  right above the PCB. Reorganize the thread0 PCB initialization to
  postpone it after BSP is queried for save area size.

- The dumppcb, stoppcbs and susppcbs now do not carry the FPU state as
  well. FPU state is only useful for suspend, where it is saved in
  dynamically allocated suspfpusave area.

- Use XSAVE and XRSTOR to save/restore FPU state, if supported and
  enabled.

- Define new mcontext_t flag _MC_HASFPXSTATE, indicating that
  mcontext_t has a valid pointer to out-of-struct extended FPU
  state. Signal handlers are supplied with stack-allocated fpu
  state. The sigreturn(2) and setcontext(2) syscall honour the flag,
  allowing the signal handlers to inspect and manipilate extended
  state in the interrupted context.

- The getcontext(2) never returns extended state, since there is no
  place in the fixed-sized mcontext_t to place variable-sized save
  area. And, since mcontext_t is embedded into ucontext_t, makes it
  impossible to fix in a reasonable way.  Instead of extending
  getcontext(2) syscall, provide a sysarch(2) facility to query
  extended FPU state.

- Add ptrace(2) support for getting and setting extended state; while
  there, implement missed PT_I386_{GET,SET}XMMREGS for 32bit binaries.

- Change fpu_kern KPI to not expose struct fpu_kern_ctx layout to
  consumers, making it opaque. Internally, struct fpu_kern_ctx now
  contains a space for the extended state. Convert in-kernel consumers
  of fpu_kern KPI both on i386 and amd64.

First version of the support for AVX was submitted by Tim Bird
<tim.bird am sony com> on behalf of Sony. This version was written
from scratch.

Tested by:	pho (previous version), Yamagi Burmeister <lists yamagi org>
MFC after:	1 month
2012-01-21 17:45:27 +00:00
jkim
940b86ebdc Increase size of pcb_flags to four bytes.
Requested by:	bde, jhb
2010-12-22 19:57:03 +00:00
jkim
24b08bca03 Improve PCB flags handling and make it more robust. Add two new functions
for manipulating pcb_flags.  These inline functions are very similar to
atomic_set_char(9) and atomic_clear_char(9) but without unnecessary LOCK
prefix for SMP.  Add comments about the rationale[1].  Use these functions
wherever possible.  Although there are some places where it is not strictly
necessary (e.g., a PCB is copied to create a new PCB), it is done across
the board for sake of consistency.  Turn pcb_full_iret into a PCB flag as
it is safe now.  Move rarely used fields before pcb_flags and reduce size
of pcb_flags to one byte.  Fix some style(9) nits in pcb.h while I am in
the neighborhood.

Reviewed by:	kib
Submitted by:	kib[1]
MFC after:	2 months
2010-12-22 00:18:42 +00:00
kib
b27fb35838 Retire write-only PCB_FULLCTX pcb flag on amd64.
Reminded by:	Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger seznam cz>
Tested by:	pho
MFC after:	1 week
2010-12-07 12:17:43 +00:00
jkim
936982be27 Rearrange struct pcb. r177532 (CVS r1.64 of pcb.h) moved pcb_flags to make
better use of cache lines by placing it before pcb_save (now pcb_user_save),
which is moved to the end of pcb since r210777.
2010-08-02 18:12:30 +00:00
jkim
79a57d111a - Merge savectx2() with savectx() and struct xpcb with struct pcb. [1]
savectx() is only used for panic dump (dumppcb) and kdb (stoppcbs).  Thus,
saving additional information does not hurt and it may be even beneficial.
Unfortunately, struct pcb has grown larger to accommodate more data.
Move 512-byte long pcb_user_save to the end of struct pcb while I am here.
- savectx() now saves FPU state unconditionally and copy it to the PCB of
FPU thread if necessary.  This gives panic dump and kdb a chance to take
a look at the current FPU state even if the FPU is "supposedly" not used.
- Resuming CPU now unconditionally reinitializes FPU.  If the saved FPU
state was irrelevant, it could be in an unknown state.

Suggested by:	bde [1]
2010-08-02 17:35:00 +00:00
kib
2d77212fe4 Introduce the x86 kernel interfaces to allow kernel code to use
FPU/SSE hardware. Caller should provide a save area that is chained
into the stack of the areas; pcb save_area for usermode FPU state is
on top. The pcb now contains a pointer to the current FPU saved area,
used during FPUDNA handling and context switches.  There is also a
facility to allow the kernel thread to use pcb save_area.

Change the dreaded warnings "npxdna in kernel mode!" into the panics
when FPU usage is not registered.

KPI discussed with:	fabient
Tested by:    pho, fabient
Hardware provided by:	Sentex Communications
MFC after:    1 month
2010-06-05 15:59:59 +00:00
kib
1596f53aae Restore the segment registers and segment base MSRs for amd64 syscall
return path only when neither thread was context switched while
executing syscall code nor syscall explicitely modified LDT or MSRs.

Save segment registers in trap handlers before interrupts are enabled,
to not allow context switches to happen before registers are saved.
Use separated byte in pcb for indication of fast/full return, since
pcb_flags are not synchronized with context switches.

The change puts back syscall microbenchmark numbers that were slowed
down after commit of the support for LDT on amd64.

Reviewed by:	jeff
Tested (and tested, and tested ...) by:	pho
Approved by:	re (kensmith)
2009-07-09 09:34:11 +00:00
jkim
ce3adf17d2 Garbage collect unused stack segment since r190620. 2009-04-01 16:24:24 +00:00
kib
253f7779bc Save and restore segment registers on amd64 when entering and leaving
the kernel on amd64. Fill and read segment registers for mcontext and
signals. Handle traps caused by restoration of the
invalidated selectors.

Implement user-mode creation and manipulation of the process-specific
LDT descriptors for amd64, see sysarch(2).

Implement support for TSS i/o port access permission bitmap for amd64.

Context-switch LDT and TSS. Do not save and restore segment registers on
the context switch, that is handled by kernel enter/leave trampolines
now. Remove segment restore code from the signal trampolines for
freebsd/amd64, freebsd/ia32 and linux/i386 for the same reason.

Implement amd64-specific compat shims for sysarch.

Linuxolator (temporary ?) switched to use gsbase for thread_area pointer.

TODO:
Currently, gdb is not adapted to show segment registers from struct reg.
Also, no machine-depended ptrace command is added to set segment
registers for debugged process.

In collaboration with:	pho
Discussed with:	peter
Reviewed by:	jhb
Linuxolator tested by:	dchagin
2009-04-01 13:09:26 +00:00
jkim
3eda4741da Initial suspend/resume support for amd64.
This code is heavily inspired by Takanori Watanabe's experimental SMP patch
for i386 and large portion was shamelessly cut and pasted from Peter Wemm's
AP boot code.
2009-03-17 00:48:11 +00:00
jhb
e1b708897e A better fix for handling different FPU initial control words for different
ABIs:
- Store the FPU initial control word in the pcb for each thread.
- When first using the FPU, load the initial control word after restoring
  the clean state if it is not the standard control word.
- Provide a correct control word for Linux/i386 binaries under
  FreeBSD/amd64.
- Adjust the control word returned for fpugetregs()/npxgetregs() when a
  thread hasn't used the FPU yet to reflect the real initial control
  word for the current ABI.
- The Linux/i386 ABI for FreeBSD/i386 now properly sets the right control
  word instead of trashing whatever the current state of the FPU is.

Reviewed by:	bde
2009-03-05 19:42:11 +00:00
jhb
0f16fc12d5 Move the PCB flag macros up next to the 'pcb_flags' member in the struct. 2009-03-05 16:52:50 +00:00
kib
f444f744fa The pcb_gs32p should be per-cpu, not per-thread pointer. This is
location in GDT where the segment descriptor from pcb_gs32sd is
copied, and the location is in GDT local to CPU.

Noted and reviewed by:	peter
MFC after:	1 week
2008-09-08 09:59:05 +00:00
kib
19bf5e2807 Bring back the save/restore of the %ds, %es, %fs and %gs registers for
the 32bit images on amd64.

Change the semantic of the PCB_32BIT pcb flag to request the context
switch code to operate on the segment registers. Its previous meaning
of saving or restoring the %gs base offset is assigned to the new
PCB_GS32BIT flag.

FreeBSD 32bit image activator sets the PCB_32BIT flag, while Linux 32bit
emulation sets PCB_32BIT | PCB_GS32BIT.

Reviewed by:	peter
MFC after:	2 weeks
2008-07-30 11:30:55 +00:00
peter
1f7e9770bb Move pcb_flags to make trivially better use of cache lines. 2008-03-23 22:45:51 +00:00
jkim
66aaf37941 MFP4: Linux set_thread_area syscall (aka TLS) support for amd64.
Initial version was submitted by Divacky Roman and mostly rewritten by me.

Tested by:	emulation
2007-03-30 00:06:21 +00:00
peter
3e56dd85f1 I believe the stack underflows during early development that caused me to
add spare padding at the beginning of the pcb are long gone.  Remove the
padding fields.
2005-09-27 21:11:35 +00:00
peter
829631d385 Kill pcb_rflags. It served no purpose.
Reported by:  bde
2005-09-27 21:10:10 +00:00
marcel
006d404cf7 Implement makectx(). The makectx() function is used by KDB to create
a PCB from a trapframe for purposes of unwinding the stack. The PCB
is used as the thread context and all but the thread that entered the
debugger has a valid PCB.
This function can also be used to create a context for the threads
running on the CPUs that have been stopped when the debugger got
entered. This however is not done at the time of this commit.
2004-07-10 19:56:00 +00:00
peter
8b77ed77bd Checkpoint some of what I was starting to tinker with for having some
different context support for 32 vs 64 bit processes.  This simply omits
the save/restore of the segment selector registers for non 32 bit
processes.  This avoids the rdmsr/rwmsr juggling when restoring %gs
clobbers the kernel msr that holds the gsbase.

However, I suspect it might be better to conditionally do this at
user<->kernel transition where we wouldn't need to do the juggling in the
first place.  Or have per-thread extended context save/restore hooks.
2004-05-16 22:43:57 +00:00
imp
ceab5f79a3 Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's license,
per letter dated July 22, 1999 and email from Peter Wemm.

Approved by: core, peter
2004-04-05 23:55:14 +00:00
peter
5e45c69f41 Add dbreg struct definitions for /proc/*/dbregs and a place to store the
registers in the pcb
2004-01-28 23:54:31 +00:00
peter
2edc2f597b Update the graffiti. 2003-11-08 04:39:22 +00:00
peter
a2fff099b7 The great s/npx/fpu/gi 2003-11-08 03:33:38 +00:00
peter
e27aec25ab Rename npx* to fpu*. I haven't done the flags/function names yet. 2003-11-08 02:39:46 +00:00
peter
12d7e4bee6 Collect the nastiness for preserving the kernel MSR_GSBASE around the
load_gs() calls into a single place that is less likely to go wrong.

Eliminate the per-process context switching of MSR_GSBASE, because it
should be constant for a single cpu.  Instead, save/restore it during
the loading of the new %gs selector for the new process.

Approved by:	re (amd64/* blanket)
2003-05-15 00:23:40 +00:00
peter
770abdbb9c Add BASIC i386 binary support for the amd64 kernel. This is largely
stolen from the ia64/ia32 code (indeed there was a repocopy), but I've
redone the MD parts and added and fixed a few essential syscalls.  It
is sufficient to run i386 binaries like /bin/ls, /usr/bin/id (dynamic)
and p4.  The ia64 code has not implemented signal delivery, so I had
to do that.

Before you say it, yes, this does need to go in a common place.  But
we're in a freeze at the moment and I didn't want to risk breaking ia64.
I will sort this out after the freeze so that the common code is in a
common place.

On the AMD64 side, this required adding segment selector context switch
support and some other support infrastructure.  The %fs/%gs etc code
is hairy because loading %gs will clobber the kernel's current MSR_GSBASE
setting.  The segment selectors are not used by the kernel, so they're only
changed at context switch time or when changing modes.  This still needs
to be optimized.

Approved by:	re (amd64/* blanket)
2003-05-14 04:10:49 +00:00
peter
c688fcc3ca Give a %fs and %gs to userland. Use swapgs to obtain the kernel %GS.base
value on entry and exit.  This isn't as easy as it sounds because when
we recursively trap or interrupt, we have to avoid duplicating the
swapgs instruction or we end up back with the userland %gs.  I implemented
this by testing TF_CS to see if we're coming from supervisor mode
already, and check for returning to supervisor. To avoid a race with
interrupts in the brief period after beginning executing the handler and
before the swapgs, convert all trap gates to interrupt gates, and reenable
interrupts immediately after the swapgs.  I am not happy with this.
There are other possible ways to do this that should be investigated.
(eg: storing the GS.base MSR value in the trapframe)

Add some sysarch functions to let the userland code get to this.

Approved by:	re (blanket amd64/*)
2003-05-12 02:37:29 +00:00
peter
45949ccde1 Commit MD parts of a loosely functional AMD64 port. This is based on
a heavily stripped down FreeBSD/i386 (brutally stripped down actually) to
attempt to get a stable base to start from.  There is a lot missing still.
Worth noting:
- The kernel runs at 1GB in order to cheat with the pmap code.  pmap uses
  a variation of the PAE code in order to avoid having to worry about 4
  levels of page tables yet.
- It boots in 64 bit "long mode" with a tiny trampoline embedded in the
  i386 loader.  This simplifies locore.s greatly.
- There are still quite a few fragments of i386-specific code that have
  not been translated yet, and some that I cheated and wrote dumb C
  versions of (bcopy etc).
- It has both int 0x80 for syscalls (but using registers for argument
  passing, as is native on the amd64 ABI), and the 'syscall' instruction
  for syscalls.  int 0x80 preserves all registers, 'syscall' does not.
- I have tried to minimize looking at the NetBSD code, except in a couple
  of places (eg: to find which register they use to replace the trashed
  %rcx register in the syscall instruction).  As a result, there is not a
  lot of similarity.  I did look at NetBSD a few times while debugging to
  get some ideas about what I might have done wrong in my first attempt.
2003-05-01 01:05:25 +00:00
davidxu
b2a02ec1dc 1.Fix smp race between kernel vm86 BIOS calling and userland vm86 mode code,
remove global variable in_vm86call, set vm86 calling flag in PCB flags.

2.Fix vm86 BIOS calling preempted problem by changing vm86_lock mutex type
  from MTX_DEF to MTX_SPIN. vm86pcb is not remembered in thread struct,
  when the thread calling vm86 BIOS is preempted by interrupt thread,
  and later switching back to the thread would cause incorrect context be
  loaded into CPU registers, this leads to kernel crash.
2002-11-07 01:34:23 +00:00
peter
460da4d5cb The a.out md_coredump stuff isn't referenced anywhere anymore, and
hasn't been filled in for ages..  Nuked.
2002-10-15 00:02:50 +00:00
phk
43df880dc1 It is too much work convincing lint why we would want empty structures,
so make the non-empty #ifdef lint.
2002-10-01 14:08:08 +00:00
mini
62e41a5a7c Add kernel support needed for the KSE-aware libpthread:
- Maintain fpu state across signals.
	- Save and restore FPU state properly in ucontext_t's.

Reviewed by:	deischen, julian
Approved by:	-arch
2002-09-16 19:25:41 +00:00
dillon
dc5aafeb94 Compromise for critical*()/cpu_critical*() recommit. Cleanup the interrupt
disablement assumptions in kern_fork.c by adding another API call,
cpu_critical_fork_exit().  Cleanup the td_savecrit field by moving it
from MI to MD.  Temporarily move cpu_critical*() from <arch>/include/cpufunc.h
to <arch>/<arch>/critical.c (stage-2 will clean this up).

Implement interrupt deferral for i386 that allows interrupts to remain
enabled inside critical sections.  This also fixes an IPI interlock bug,
and requires uses of icu_lock to be enclosed in a true interrupt disablement.

This is the stage-1 commit.  Stage-2 will occur after stage-1 has stabilized,
and will move cpu_critical*() into its own header file(s) + other things.
This commit may break non-i386 architectures in trivial ways.  This should
be temporary.

Reviewed by:	core
Approved by:	core
2002-03-27 05:39:23 +00:00
alfred
61bf661405 Remove __P. 2002-03-20 05:48:58 +00:00
dillon
996781f17a revert last commit temporarily due to whining on the lists. 2002-02-26 20:33:41 +00:00
dillon
57b097e18c STAGE-1 of 3 commit - allow (but do not require) interrupts to remain
enabled in critical sections and streamline critical_enter() and
critical_exit().

This commit allows an architecture to leave interrupts enabled inside
critical sections if it so wishes.  Architectures that do not wish to do
this are not effected by this change.

This commit implements the feature for the I386 architecture and provides
a sysctl, debug.critical_mode, which defaults to 1 (use the feature).  For
now you can turn the sysctl on and off at any time in order to test the
architectural changes or track down bugs.

This commit is just the first stage.  Some areas of the code, specifically
the MACHINE_CRITICAL_ENTER #ifdef'd code, is strictly temporary and will
be cleaned up in the STAGE-2 commit when the critical_*() functions are
moved entirely into MD files.

The following changes have been made:

	* critical_enter() and critical_exit() for I386 now simply increment
	  and decrement curthread->td_critnest.  They no longer disable
	  hard interrupts.  When critical_exit() decrements the counter to
	  0 it effectively calls a routine to deal with whatever interrupts
	  were deferred during the time the code was operating in a critical
	  section.

	  Other architectures are unaffected.

	* fork_exit() has been conditionalized to remove MD assumptions for
	  the new code.  Old code will still use the old MD assumptions
	  in regards to hard interrupt disablement.  In STAGE-2 this will
	  be turned into a subroutine call into MD code rather then hardcoded
	  in MI code.

	  The new code places the burden of entering the critical section
	  in the trampoline code where it belongs.

	* I386: interrupts are now enabled while we are in a critical section.
	  The interrupt vector code has been adjusted to deal with the fact.
	  If it detects that we are in a critical section it currently defers
	  the interrupt by adding the appropriate bit to an interrupt mask.

	* In order to accomplish the deferral, icu_lock is required.  This
	  is i386-specific.  Thus icu_lock can only be obtained by mainline
	  i386 code while interrupts are hard disabled.  This change has been
	  made.

	* Because interrupts may or may not be hard disabled during a
	  context switch, cpu_switch() can no longer simply assume that
	  PSL_I will be in a consistent state.  Therefore, it now saves and
	  restores eflags.

	* FAST INTERRUPT PROVISION.  Fast interrupts are currently deferred.
	  The intention is to eventually allow them to operate either while
	  we are in a critical section or, if we are able to restrict the
	  use of sched_lock, while we are not holding the sched_lock.

	* ICU and APIC vector assembly for I386 cleaned up.  The ICU code
	  has been cleaned up to match the APIC code in regards to format
	  and macro availability.  Additionally, the code has been adjusted
	  to deal with deferred interrupts.

	* Deferred interrupts use a per-cpu boolean int_pending, and
	  masks ipending, spending, and fpending.  Being per-cpu variables
	  it is not currently necessary to lock; bus cycles modifying them.

	  Note that the same mechanism will enable preemption to be
	  incorporated as a true software interrupt without having to
	  further hack up the critical nesting code.

	* Note: the old critical_enter() code in kern/kern_switch.c is
	  currently #ifdef to be compatible with both the old and new
	  methodology.  In STAGE-2 it will be moved entirely to MD code.

Performance issues:

	One of the purposes of this commit is to enhance critical section
	performance, specifically to greatly reduce bus overhead to allow
	the critical section code to be used to protect per-cpu caches.
	These caches, such as Jeff's slab allocator work, can potentially
	operate very quickly making the effective savings of the new
	critical section code's performance very significant.

	The second purpose of this commit is to allow architectures to
	enable certain interrupts while in a critical section.  Specifically,
	the intention is to eventually allow certain FAST interrupts to
	operate rather then defer.

	The third purpose of this commit is to begin to clean up the
	critical_enter()/critical_exit()/cpu_critical_enter()/
	cpu_critical_exit() API which currently has serious cross pollution
	in MI code (in fork_exit() and ast() for example).

	The fourth purpose of this commit is to provide a framework that
	allows kernel-preempting software interrupts to be implemented
	cleanly.  This is currently used for two forward interrupts in I386.
	Other architectures will have the choice of using this infrastructure
	or building the functionality directly into critical_enter()/
	critical_exit().

	Finally, this commit is designed to greatly improve the flexibility
	of various architectures to manage critical section handling,
	software interrupts, preemption, and other highly integrated
	architecture-specific details.
2002-02-26 17:06:21 +00:00
bde
73ef84f92b Changed the type of pcb_flags from u_char to u_int and adjusted things.
This removes the only atomic operation on a char type in the entire
kernel.
2002-01-17 17:49:23 +00:00