New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
kernel.
When access restrictions are added to a page table entry, we flush the
corresponding virtual address mapping from the TLB. In contrast, when
access restrictions are removed from a page table entry, we do not
flush the virtual address mapping from the TLB. This is exactly as
recommended in AMD's documentation. In effect, when access
restrictions are removed from a page table entry, AMD's MMUs will
transparently refresh a stale TLB entry. In short, this saves us from
having to perform potentially costly TLB flushes. In contrast,
Intel's MMUs are allowed to generate a spurious page fault based upon
the stale TLB entry. Usually, such spurious page faults are handled
by vm_fault() without incident. However, when we are executing
no-fault sections of the kernel, we are not allowed to execute
vm_fault(). This change introduces special-case handling for spurious
page faults that occur in no-fault sections of the kernel.
In collaboration with: kib
Tested by: gibbs (an earlier version)
I would also like to acknowledge Hiroki Sato's assistance in
diagnosing this problem.
MFC after: 1 week
segments.h to a new x86 segments.h.
Add __packed attribute to some structs (just to be sure).
Also make it clear that i386 GDT and LDT entries are used in ia64 code.
reg.h with stubs.
The tREGISTER macros are only made visible on i386. These macros are
deprecated and should not be available on amd64.
The i386 and amd64 versions of struct reg have been renamed to struct
__reg32 and struct __reg64. During compilation either __reg32 or __reg64
is defined as reg depending on the machine architecture. On amd64 the i386
struct is also available as struct reg32 which is used in COMPAT_FREEBSD32
code.
Most of compat/ia32/ia32_reg.h is now IA64 only.
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
Remove FPU types from compat/ia32/ia32_reg.h that are no longer needed.
Create machine/npx.h on amd64 to allow compiling i386 code that uses
this header.
The original npx.h and fpu.h define struct envxmm differently. Both
definitions have been included in the new x86 header as struct __envxmm32
and struct __envxmm64. During compilation either __envxmm32 or __envxmm64
is defined as envxmm depending on machine architecture. On amd64 the i386
struct is also available as struct envxmm32.
Reviewed by: kib
amd64, if 'device isa' is present quiesce the 8259A's during boot and
resume from suspend.
While here, be more selective on amd64 about which kernel configurations
need elcr.c.
MFC after: 2 weeks
amd64/i386/pc98 ptrace.h with stubs.
For amd64 PT_GETXSTATE and PT_SETXSTATE have been redefined to match the
i386 values. The old values are still supported but should no longer be
used.
Reviewed by: kib
amd64/i386/pc98 endian.h with stubs.
In __bswap64_const(x) the conflict between 0xffUL and 0xffULL has been
resolved by reimplementing the macro in terms of __bswap32(x). As a side
effect __bswap64_var(x) is now implemented using two bswap instructions on
i386 and should be much faster. __bswap32_const(x) has been reimplemented
in terms of __bswap16(x) for consistency.
netback.c: Add missing VM includes.
xen/xenvar.h,
xen/xenpmap.h: Move some XENHVM macros from <machine/xen/xenpmap.h> to
<machine/xen/xenvar.h> on i386 to match the amd64 headers.
conf/files: Add netback to the build.
Submitted by: jhb
MFC after: 3 days
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
VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX. Specifically, if the user/kernel address space split
was changed such that the kernel address space was greater than or equal
to 2 GB, then overflow would occur.
PR: 161721
MFC after: 3 weeks
31, but that vector is reserved.
Without this fix, running dtrace -p <pid> would either cause the target
process to crash or the kernel to page fault.
Obtained from: rpaulo
MFC after: 3days
implement a deprecated FPU control interface in addition to the
standard one. To make this clearer, further deprecate ieeefp.h
by not declaring the function prototypes except on architectures
that implement them already.
Currently i386 and amd64 implement the ieeefp.h interface for
compatibility, and for fp[gs]etprec(), which doesn't exist on
most other hardware. Powerpc, sparc64, and ia64 partially implement
it and probably shouldn't, and other architectures don't implement it
at all.
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)
%rcx as "extensions" in long mode. If any unused bit is set in %rcx, these
instructions cause general protection fault. Fix style nits and synchronize
i386 with amd64.
The code has definitely been broken for SCHED_ULE, which is a default
scheduler. It may have been broken for SCHED_4BSD in more subtle ways,
e.g. with manually configured CPU affinities and for interrupt devilery
purposes.
We still provide a way to disable individual CPUs or all hyperthreading
"twin" CPUs before SMP startup. See the UPDATING entry for details.
Interaction between building CPU topology and disabling CPUs still
remains fuzzy: topology is first built using all availble CPUs and then
the disabled CPUs should be "subtracted" from it. That doesn't work
well if the resulting topology becomes non-uniform.
This work is done in cooperation with Attilio Rao who in addition to
reviewing also provided parts of code.
PR: kern/145385
Discussed with: gcooper, ambrisko, mdf, sbruno
Reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho, pluknet
X-MFC after: never
cpuset_t objects.
That is going to offer the underlying support for a simple bump of
MAXCPU and then support for number of cpus > 32 (as it is today).
Right now, cpumask_t is an int, 32 bits on all our supported architecture.
cpumask_t on the other side is implemented as an array of longs, and
easilly extendible by definition.
The architectures touched by this commit are the following:
- amd64
- i386
- pc98
- arm
- ia64
- XEN
while the others are still missing.
Userland is believed to be fully converted with the changes contained
here.
Some technical notes:
- This commit may be considered an ABI nop for all the architectures
different from amd64 and ia64 (and sparc64 in the future)
- per-cpu members, which are now converted to cpuset_t, needs to be
accessed avoiding migration, because the size of cpuset_t should be
considered unknown
- size of cpuset_t objects is different from kernel and userland (this is
primirally done in order to leave some more space in userland to cope
with KBI extensions). If you need to access kernel cpuset_t from the
userland please refer to example in this patch on how to do that
correctly (kgdb may be a good source, for example).
- Support for other architectures is going to be added soon
- Only MAXCPU for amd64 is bumped now
The patch has been tested by sbruno and Nicholas Esborn on opteron
4 x 12 pack CPUs. More testing on big SMP is expected to came soon.
pluknet tested the patch with his 8-ways on both amd64 and i386.
Tested by: pluknet, sbruno, gianni, Nicholas Esborn
Reviewed by: jeff, jhb, sbruno