NOTES though, as ofw_syscons(4) doesn't properly interface with
syscons(4) regarding loading the font specified with SC_DFLT_FONT,
causing a kernel with both options SC_OFWFB and SC_NO_MODE_CHANGE
to not link.
pmap.c, and is potentially the cause of hangs reported on machines with a
small amount of memory. On machines with sufficient RAM, and without a lot
of processes running, this situation would probably never occur.
Testing is still incomplete, but it is obviously wrong so remove the
offending code now.
The issue of what to do when both the primary and secondary hash overflow
is still open.
Reported by: Dan Kresja at windriver dot com, via alc
Make part of John Birrell's KSE patch permanent..
Specifically, remove:
Any reference of the ksegrp structure. This feature was
never fully utilised and made things overly complicated.
All code in the scheduler that tried to make threaded programs
fair to unthreaded programs. Libpthread processes will already
do this to some extent and libthr processes already disable it.
Also:
Since this makes such a big change to the scheduler(s), take the opportunity
to rename some structures and elements that had to be moved anyhow.
This makes the code a lot more readable.
The ULE scheduler compiles again but I have no idea if it works.
The 4bsd scheduler still reqires a little cleaning and some functions that now do
ALMOST nothing will go away, but I thought I'd do that as a separate commit.
Tested by David Xu, and Dan Eischen using libthr and libpthread.
was written into a user's address space. The fix is to modify uiomove_fromphys
to sync the icache when an executable user-space page is written into.
Alan Cox suggested that there should probably be a higher-level interface
to this in the ptrace code, but agreed that this is an OK short-term solution.
Files changed:
pmap.h - declaration of pmap_page_executable()
pmap_dispatch.c - pass through the page_executable call to the mmu object
mmu_oea.c - implement the page_executable method by examining the PTE_EXEC
field in the vm_page_t
uio_machdep.c - in uiomove_fromphys(), if the op was a UIO_WRITE to user-space,
and if the page is executable, sync the icache since this is at the least
a breakpoint-write from gdb.
Reported by: marcel
Tested by: marcel, grehan on g3+g4
Discussed with: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
by default for sun4v where it is absolutely required.
This change moves the buffer from struct pcpu to the stack to avoid
using the critical section which created a LOR in a couple of cases
due to interaction with the tty code and kqueue. The LOR can't be
fixed with the critical section and the pcpu buffer can't be used
without the critical section.
Putting the buffer on the stack was my initial solution, but it was
pointed out that the stress on the stack might cause problems
depending on the call path. We don't have a way of creating tests
for those possible cases, so it's best to leave this as an option
for the time being. In time we may get enough data to enable this
option more generally.
it as a default.
For the record, the KDTRACE option caused _no_ additional source files
to be compiled in; certainly no CDDL source files. All it did was to
allow existing BSD licensed kernel files to include one or more CDDL
header files.
By removing this from DEFAULTS, the onus is on a kernel builder to add
the option to the kernel config, possibly by including GENERIC and
customising from there. It means that DTrace won't be a feature
available in FreeBSD by default, which is the way I intended it to be.
Without this option, you can't load the dtrace module (which contains
the dtrace device and the DTrace framework). This is equivalent to
requiring an option in a kernel config before you can load the linux
emulation module, for example.
I think it is a mistake to have DTrace ported to FreeBSD, but not
to have it available to everyone, all the time. The only exception
to this is the companies which distribute systems with FreeBSD embedded.
Those companies will customise their systems anyway. The KDTRACE
option was intended for them, and only them.
adds the hooks that DTrace modules register with, and adds a few functions
which have the dtrace_ prefix to allow the DTrace FBT (function boundary
trace) provider to avoid tracing because they are called from the DTtrace
probe context.
Unlike other forms of tracing and debug, DTrace support in the kernel
incurs negligible run-time cost.
I think the only reason why anyone wouldn't want to have kernel support
enabled for DTrace would be due to the license (CDDL) under which DTrace
is released.
a lock to prevent interspersed strings written from different CPUs
at the same time.
To avoid putting a buffer on the stack or having to malloc one,
space is incorporated in the per-cpu structure. The buffer
size if 128 bytes; chosen because it's the next power of 2 size
up from 80 characters.
String writes to the console are buffered up the end of the line
or until the buffer fills. Then the buffer is flushed to all
console devices.
Existing low level console output via cnputc() is unaffected by
this change. ithread calls to log() are also unaffected to avoid
blocking those threads.
A minor change to the behaviour in a panic situation is that
console output will still be buffered, but won't be written to
a tty as before. This should prevent interspersed panic output
as a number of CPUs panic before we end up single threaded
running ddb.
Reviewed by: scottl, jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
The 'nooption' kernel config entry has to be used to turn KSE off now.
This isn't my preferred way of dealing with this, but I'll defer to
scottl's experience with the io/mem kernel option change and the grief
experienced over that.
Submitted by: scottl@
except sun4v.
This change makes the transition from a default to an option more
transparent and is an attempt to head off all the compliants that are
likely from people who don't read UPDATING, based on experience with
the io/mem change.
Submitted by: scottl@
since they just duplicated the MI `reset' command. Instead of removing
them, make `reboot' an MI alias for `reboot' since this gives a better
way of killing the `r' alias for `reset'. Remove the `registers' command
that was used to kill the alias.
Turn the powerpc and sparc64 MD `halt' command into an MI command.
A copy of sparc64/db_interface.c grew in sun4v just after I found the
extra reboot commands. It has not been changed, and is now not
identical. Duplicated commands come out duplicated in ddb's online
help, but cause large problems when used (e.g., on i386's with 2 halt's
and an hwatch, typing h doesn' give the expected message about an
ambiguous command, but hangs like the halt command or a looping parseri
would).
unsuspecting users.
- Add a comment in NOTES about experimental status of SCHED_ULE.
- Make warning about experimental status in sched_ule(4) a bit
stronger.
Suggested and reviewed by: dougb
Discussed on: developers
MFC after: 3 days
Submitted by:
Reviewed by:
Approved by:
Obtained from:
MFC after:
Security:
Move the relocation definitions to the common elf header so that DTrace
can use them on one architecture targeted to a different one.
Add the additional ELF types defines in Sun's "Linker and Libraries"
manual.
Split subr_clock.c in two parts (by repo-copy):
subr_clock.c contains generic RTC and calendaric stuff. etc.
subr_rtc.c contains the newbus'ified RTC interface.
Centralize the machdep.{adjkerntz,disable_rtc_set,wall_cmos_clock}
sysctls and associated variables into subr_clock.c. They are
not machine dependent and we have generic code that relies on being
present so they are not even optional.
PowerPC-based Apple's machines and small utility to do it from
userland modelled after the similar utility in Darwin/OSX.
Only tested on 1.25GHz G4 Mac Mini.
MFC after: 1 month
Originally, I had adopted sparc64's name, pmap_clear_write(), for the
function that is now pmap_remove_write(). However, this function is more
like pmap_remove_all() than like pmap_clear_modify() or
pmap_clear_reference(), hence, the name change.
The higher-level rationale behind this change is described in
src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c revision 1.567. The short version is that I'm
trying to clean up and fix our support for execute access.
Reviewed by: marcel@ (ia64)
and pc98 MD files. Remove nodevice and nooption lines specific
to sio(4) from ia64, powerpc and sparc64 NOTES. There were no
such lines for arm yet.
sio(4) is usable on less than half the platforms, not counting
a future mips platform. Its presence in MI files is therefore
increasingly becoming a burden.
mark system calls as being MPSAFE:
- Stop conditionally acquiring Giant around system call invocations.
- Remove all of the 'M' prefixes from the master system call files.
- Remove support for the 'M' prefix from the script that generates the
syscall-related files from the master system call files.
- Don't explicitly set SYF_MPSAFE when registering nfssvc.
implementations and adjust some of the checks while I'm here:
- Add a new check to make sure we don't return from a syscall in a critical
section.
- Add a new explicit check before userret() to make sure we don't return
with any locks held. The advantage here is that we can include the
syscall number and name in syscall() whereas that info is not available
in userret().
- Drop the mtx_assert()'s of sched_lock and Giant. They are replaced by
the more general checks just added.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This avoids that mem.c has to include ofw_machdep.h, including
all OFW related headers.
o Provide a stub for OF_decode_addr(), which is used by low-level
console drivers to obtain a tag and handle given a OFW phandle.
This is different from sparc64, where a fake bus tag needs to be
created explicitly.
install custom pager functions didn't actually happen in practice (they
all just used the simple pager and passed in a local quit pointer). So,
just hardcode the simple pager as the only pager and make it set a global
db_pager_quit flag that db commands can check when the user hits 'q' (or a
suitable variant) at the pager prompt. Also, now that it's easy to do so,
enable paging by default for all ddb commands. Any command that wishes to
honor the quit flag can do so by checking db_pager_quit. Note that the
pager can also be effectively disabled by setting $lines to 0.
Other fixes:
- 'show idt' on i386 and pc98 now actually checks the quit flag and
terminates early.
- 'show intr' now actually checks the quit flag and terminates early.
in 1999, and there are changes to the sysctl names compared to PR,
according to that discussion. The description is in sys/conf/NOTES.
Lines in the GENERIC files are added in commented-out form.
I'll attach the test script I've used to PR.
PR: kern/14584
Submitted by: babkin
an explicit comment that it's needed for the linuxolator. This is not the
case anymore. For all other architectures there was only a "KEEP THIS".
I'm (and other people too) running a COMPAT_43-less kernel since it's not
necessary anymore for the linuxolator. Roman is running such a kernel for a
for longer time. No problems so far. And I doubt other (newer than ia32
or alpha) architectures really depend on it.
This may result in a small performance increase for some workloads.
If the removal of COMPAT_43 results in a not working program, please
recompile it and all dependencies and try again before reporting a
problem.
The only place where COMPAT_43 is needed (as in: does not compile without
it) is in the (outdated/not usable since too old) svr4 code.
Note: this does not remove the COMPAT_43TTY option.
Nagging by: rdivacky
There is a race with the current locking scheme and removing
it should have no measurable performance impact.
This fixes page faults leading to panics in pmap_enter_quick_locked()
on amd64/i386.
Reviewed by: alc,jhb,peter,ps
the arm to compile without all the extras that don't appear, at least
not in the flavors of ARM I deal with. This helps us save about 100k.
If I've botched the available devices on a platform, please let me
know and I'll correct ASAP.
Rename struct thread's td_sticks to td_pticks, we will need the
other name for more appropriately named use shortly. Reduce it
from uint64_t to u_int.
Clear td_pticks whenever we enter the kernel instead of recording
its value as reference for userret(). Use the absolute value of
td->pticks in userret() and eliminate third argument.
to COMPAT_43TTY.
Add COMPAT_43TTY to NOTES and */conf/GENERIC
Compile tty_compat.c only under the new option.
Spit out
#warning "Old BSD tty API used, please upgrade."
if ioctl_compat.h gets #included from userland.
to old-style signals, to be the DAR register for DSI miss exceptions.
This gives the address of the access rather than the instruction
address. The behaviour is now the same as on i386.
Found by: libsigsegv tests
various pcib drivers to use their own private devclass_t variables for
their modules.
- Use the DEFINE_CLASS_0() macro to declare drivers for the various pcib
drivers while I'm here.
- provide an interface (macros) to the page coloring part of the VM system,
this allows to try different coloring algorithms without the need to
touch every file [1]
- make the page queue tuning values readable: sysctl vm.stats.pagequeue
- autotuning of the page coloring values based upon the cache size instead
of options in the kernel config (disabling of the page coloring as a
kernel option is still possible)
MD changes:
- detection of the cache size: only IA32 and AMD64 (untested) contains
cache size detection code, every other arch just comes with a dummy
function (this results in the use of default values like it was the
case without the autotuning of the page coloring)
- print some more info on Intel CPU's (like we do on AMD and Transmeta
CPU's)
Note to AMD owners (IA32 and AMD64): please run "sysctl vm.stats.pagequeue"
and report if the cache* values are zero (= bug in the cache detection code)
or not.
Based upon work by: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> [1]
Reviewed by: alc, arch (in 2004)
Discussed with: alc, Chad David, arch (in 2004)
with flags bitfield and set BI_CAN_EXEC_DYN flag for all brands that usually
allow executing elf dynamic binaries (aka shared libraries). When it is
requested to execute ET_DYN elf image check if this flag is on after we
know the elf brand allowing execution if so.
PR: kern/87615
Submitted by: Marcin Koziej <creep@desk.pl>
handling code so the stack trace unwinders don't start trying to
go into user-space.
Found by trying to create core dumps with a KTR_COMPILE/KTR_GEOM
kernel, which results in a stack_save() call in the ast() coredump
path - this created a panic, and then calling 'trace' in ddb resulted
in the black screen of death after printing out most of the backtrace.
passing a pointer to an opaque clockframe structure and requiring the
MD code to supply CLKF_FOO() macros to extract needed values out of the
opaque structure, just pass the needed values directly. In practice this
means passing the pair (usermode, pc) to hardclock() and profclock() and
passing the boolean (usermode) to hardclock_cpu() and hardclock_process().
Other details:
- Axe clockframe and CLKF_FOO() macros on all architectures. Basically,
all the archs were taking a trapframe and converting it into a clockframe
one way or another. Now they can just extract the PC and usermode values
directly out of the trapframe and pass it to fooclock().
- Renamed hardclock_process() to hardclock_cpu() as the latter is more
accurate.
- On Alpha, we now run profclock() at hz (profhz == hz) rather than at
the slower stathz.
- On Alpha, for the TurboLaser machines that don't have an 8254
timecounter, call hardclock() directly. This removes an extra
conditional check from every clock interrupt on Alpha on the BSP.
There is probably room for even further pruning here by changing Alpha
to use the simplified timecounter we use on x86 with the lapic timer
since we don't get interrupts from the 8254 on Alpha anyway.
- On x86, clkintr() shouldn't ever be called now unless using_lapic_timer
is false, so add a KASSERT() to that affect and remove a condition
to slightly optimize the non-lapic case.
- Change prototypeof arm_handler_execute() so that it's first arg is a
trapframe pointer rather than a void pointer for clarity.
- Use KCOUNT macro in profclock() to lookup the kernel profiling bucket.
Tested on: alpha, amd64, arm, i386, ia64, sparc64
Reviewed by: bde (mostly)
- Move vtophys() macros next to vtopte() where vtopte() exists to match
comments above vtopte().
- Remove references to the alternate address space in the comment above
vtopte(). amd64 never had the alternate address space, and i386 lost it
prior to PAE support being added.
- s/entires/entries/ in comments.
Reviewed by: alc
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.
'device mem' over from GENERIC to DEFAULTS to be consistent with i386 and
amd64. Additionally, on ia64 enable ACPI by default since ia64 requires
acpi.
