Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
The actual cache line size has always been 64 bytes.
The 128 number arose as an optimization for Core 2 era Intel processors. By
default (configurable in BIOS), these CPUs would prefetch adjacent cache
lines unintelligently. Newer CPUs prefetch more intelligently.
The latest Core 2 era CPU was introduced in September 2008 (Xeon 7400
series, "Dunnington"). If you are still using one of these CPUs, especially
in a multi-socket configuration, consider locating the "adjacent cache line
prefetch" option in BIOS and disabling it.
Reported by: mjg
Reviewed by: np
Discussed with: jhb
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
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
overflows the stack during root mount in some configurations.
Tested by: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
macros on amd64 and i386. Move the definition to machine/param.h.
kgdb defines INKERNEL() too, the conflict is resolved by renaming kgdb
version to PINKERNEL().
On i386, correct the lowest kernel address. After the shared page was
introduced, USRSTACK no longer points to the last user address + 1 [*]
Submitted by: Oliver Pinter [*]
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
use PAE format for the page tables, but does not incur other
consequences of the full PAE config. In particular, vm_paddr_t and
bus_addr_t are left 32bit, and max supported memory is still limited
by 4GB.
The option allows to have nx permissions for memory mappings on i386
kernel, while keeping the usual i386 KBI and avoiding the kernel data
sizing problems typical for the PAE config.
Intel documented that the PAE format for page tables is available
starting with the Pentium Pro, but it is possible that the plain
Pentium CPUs have the required support (Appendix H). The goal is to
enable the option and non-exec mappings on i386 for the GENERIC
kernel. Anybody wanting a useful system on 486, have to reconfigure
the modern i386 kernel anyway.
Discussed with: alc, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
order to match the MAXCPU concept. The change should also be useful
for consolidation and consistency.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Obtained from: jeff
Reviewed by: alc
buffer map size, auto-tuned on the 4GB machine. Having the maxbcache
bigger than the buffer map causes the transient bio map sizing logic
to assume that there is enough KVA to use approximately 90MB (buffer
map is sized to 110MB, and maxbcache is 200MB). The increase in the
KVA usage caused other big KVA consumers, like nvidia.ko, to fail the
initialization.
Change the definition for both PAE and non-PAE cases, since PAE is
even more KVA-starved.
Reported and tested by: David Wolfskill
Discussed with: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This patch is going to help in cases like mips flavours where you
want a more granular support on MAXCPU.
No MFC is previewed for this patch.
Tested by: pluknet
Approved by: re (kib)
o add to platforms where it was missing (arm, i386, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v)
o define as "1" on amd64 and i386 where there is no restriction
o make the type returned consistent with ALIGN
o remove _ALIGNED_POINTER
o make associated comments consistent
Reviewed by: bde, imp, marcel
Approved by: re (kensmith)
a fair number of static data structures, making this an unlikely
option to try to change without also changing source code. [1]
Change default cache line size on ia64, sparc64, and sun4v to 128
bytes, as this was what rtld-elf was already using on those
platforms. [2]
Suggested by: bde [1], jhb [2]
MFC after: 2 weeks
CACHE_LINE_SIZE constant. These constants are intended to
over-estimate the cache line size, and be used at compile-time
when a run-time tuning alternative isn't appropriate or
available.
Defaults for all architectures are 64 bytes, except powerpc
where it is 128 bytes (used on G5 systems).
MFC after: 2 weeks
Discussed on: arch@
param.h. Per request, I've placed these just after the
_NO_NAMESPACE_POLLUTION ifndef. I've not renamed anything yet, but
may since we don't need the __.
Submitted by: bde, jhb, scottl, many others.
MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE). Their purpose was to be able to test
in cpp(1), but cpp(1) only understands integer type expressions.
Using such unsupported expressions introduced a number of subtle
bugs, which were discovered by compiling with -Wundef.
FULL_PREEMPTION is defined. Add a runtime warning to ULE if PREEMPTION is
enabled (code inspired by the PREEMPTION warning in kern_switch.c). This
is a possible MT5 candidate.
than as one-off hacks in various other parts of the kernel:
- Add a function maybe_preempt() that is called from sched_add() to
determine if a thread about to be added to a run queue should be
preempted to directly. If it is not safe to preempt or if the new
thread does not have a high enough priority, then the function returns
false and sched_add() adds the thread to the run queue. If the thread
should be preempted to but the current thread is in a nested critical
section, then the flag TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set and the thread is added
to the run queue. Otherwise, mi_switch() is called immediately and the
thread is never added to the run queue since it is switch to directly.
When exiting an outermost critical section, if TDF_OWEPREEMPT is set,
then clear it and call mi_switch() to perform the deferred preemption.
- Remove explicit preemption from ithread_schedule() as calling
setrunqueue() now does all the correct work. This also removes the
do_switch argument from ithread_schedule().
- Do not use the manual preemption code in mtx_unlock if the architecture
supports native preemption.
- Don't call mi_switch() in a loop during shutdown to give ithreads a
chance to run if the architecture supports native preemption since
the ithreads will just preempt DELAY().
- Don't call mi_switch() from the page zeroing idle thread for
architectures that support native preemption as it is unnecessary.
- Native preemption is enabled on the same archs that supported ithread
preemption, namely alpha, i386, and amd64.
This change should largely be a NOP for the default case as committed
except that we will do fewer context switches in a few cases and will
avoid the run queues completely when preempting.
Approved by: scottl (with his re@ hat)
to the machine-independent parts of the VM. At the same time, this
introduces vm object locking for the non-i386 platforms.
Two details:
1. KSTACK_GUARD has been removed in favor of KSTACK_GUARD_PAGES. The
different machine-dependent implementations used various combinations
of KSTACK_GUARD and KSTACK_GUARD_PAGES. To disable guard page, set
KSTACK_GUARD_PAGES to 0.
2. Remove the (unnecessary) clearing of PG_ZERO in vm_thread_new. In
5.x, (but not 4.x,) PG_ZERO can only be set if VM_ALLOC_ZERO is passed
to vm_page_alloc() or vm_page_grab().
kernel opition 'options PAE'. This will only work with device drivers which
either use busdma, or are able to handle 64 bit physical addresses.
Thanks to Lanny Baron from FreeBSD Systems for the loan of a test machine
with 6 gigs of ram.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories, FreeBSD Systems
where physical addresses larger than virtual addresses, such as i386s
with PAE.
- Use this to represent physical addresses in the MI vm system and in the
i386 pmap code. This also changes the paddr parameter to d_mmap_t.
- Fix printf formats to handle physical addresses >4G in the i386 memory
detection code, and due to kvtop returning vm_paddr_t instead of u_long.
Note that this is a name change only; vm_paddr_t is still the same as
vm_offset_t on all currently supported platforms.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Discussed with: re, phk (cdevsw change)
page directory.
- Use these instead of the magic constants 1 or PAGE_SIZE where appropriate.
There are still numerous assumptions that the page directory is exactly
1 page.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
under way to move the remnants of the a.out toolchain to ports. As the
comment in src/Makefile said, this stuff is deprecated and one should not
expect this to remain beyond 4.0-REL. It has already lasted WAY beyond
that.
Notable exceptions:
gcc - I have not touched the a.out generation stuff there.
ldd/ldconfig - still have some code to interface with a.out rtld.
old as/ld/etc - I have not removed these yet, pending their move to ports.
some includes - necessary for ldd/ldconfig for now.
Tested on: i386 (extensively), alpha
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
level implementation stuff out of machine/globaldata.h to avoid exposing
UPAGES to lots more places. The end result is that we can double
the kernel stack size with 'options UPAGES=4' etc.
This is mainly being done for the benefit of a MFC to RELENG_4 at some
point. -current doesn't really need this so much since each interrupt
runs on its own kstack.
information. The default limits only effect machines with > 1GB of ram
and can be overriden with two new kernel conf variables VM_SWZONE_SIZE_MAX
and VM_BCACHE_SIZE_MAX, or with loader variables kern.maxswzone and
kern.maxbcache. This has the effect of leaving more KVM available for
sizing NMBCLUSTERS and 'maxusers' and should avoid tripups where a sysad
adds memory to a machine and then sees the kernel panic on boot due to
running out of KVM.
Also change the default swap-meta auto-sizing calculation to allocate half
of what it was previously allocating. The prior defaults were way too high.
Note that we cannot afford to run out of swap-meta structures so we still
stay somewhat conservative here.
Previously we had to include <machine/param.h> or <sys/param.h> bogusly
due to the fact that <sys/socket.h> CMSG macros needed the ALIGN macro,
which was defined in param.h. However, including param.h was a disaster
for namespace pollution.
This solution, as contributed by shin a while ago, fixes it elegantly
by wrapping the definitions around some namespace pollution preventer
definitions.
This patch was long overdue.
This should allow any network programmer to use <sys/socket.h> as
before.
PR: 19971, 20530
Submitted by: Martin Kaeske <MartinKaeske@lausitz.net>
Mark Andrews <Mark.Andrews@nominum.com>
Patch submitted by: shin
Reviewed by: bde
write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks where large
memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete.
Taking an i386 scsi based system with 512MB of ram and timing (in
seconds) how long it took to complete a dump, the following results
were obtained:
Before: After:
WCE TIME WCE TIME
------------------ ------------------
1 141.820972 1 15.600111
0 797.265072 0 65.480465
Obtained from: Yahoo!
Reviewed by: peter
caused some headers not to fit in MHLEN any more. This matches the
current size on the alpha, so it shouldn't cause problems.
Problem observed by: Geoff Rehmet <geoff@is.co.za>
Originally suggested by: shin