114 bytes of cmos ram in the PC clock chip. The big difference between
this and the Linux version is that we do not recalculate the checksums
for bytes 16..31.
We use this at work when cloning identical machines - we can copy the
bios settings as well. Reading /dev/nvram gives 114 bytes of data but
you can seek/read/write whichever bytes you like.
Yes, this is a "foot, gun, fire!" type of device.
more exposure. The current state of SCTP implementation is
considered to be ready for 32-bit platforms, but still need some
work/testing on 64-bit platforms.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Discussed with: rrs
making the relevant files standard. This avoids duplication and
makes it easier to override/disable unwanted schemes. Since ARM
doesn't have a DEFAULTS configuration file, leave the source
files for the BSD and MBR partitioning schemes in files.arm for
now.
In particular:
- Add an explicative table for locking of struct vmmeter members
- Apply new rules for some of those members
- Remove some unuseful comments
Heavily reviewed by: alc, bde, jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
caches with data caches after writing to memory. This typically
is required to make breakpoints work on ia64 and powerpc. For
those architectures the function is implemented.
oldthread should point at before we return.
- When cpu_switch() is called the td_lock pointer in the old thread may
point at the blocked lock. This prevents other processors from
switching into this thread while we're still switching out. Wait
until we're done deactivating the vmspace before we release the
thread by assigning to td_lock.
- Before we can activate the new vmspace we must make sure that the new
thread is not assigned to the blocked lock. It may be in the process
of switching out on another cpu. Spin until the new thread is
available.
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- There is no globally visible scheduler lock any longer. For now the
watchdog can only check Giant. This model of checking particular locks
is flawed and should be revisited. Other metrics should be considered.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Use sched_throw() rather than replicating the same cpu_throw() code for
each architecture. This also allows the scheduler to use any locking it
may want to.
- Use the thread_lock() rather than sched_lock when preempting.
- The scheduler lock is not required to synchronize release_aps.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
- Rename PCPU_LAZY_INC into PCPU_INC
- Add the PCPU_ADD interface which just does an add on the pcpu member
given a specific value.
Note that for most architectures PCPU_INC and PCPU_ADD are not safe.
This is a point that needs some discussions/work in the next days.
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
sysctl_handle_int is not sizeof the int type you want to export.
The type must always be an int or an unsigned int.
Remove the instances where a sizeof(variable) is passed to stop
people accidently cut and pasting these examples.
In a few places this was sysctl_handle_int was being used on 64 bit
types, which would truncate the value to be exported. In these
cases use sysctl_handle_quad to export them and change the format
to Q so that sysctl(1) can still print them.
Probabilly, a general approach is not the better solution here, so we should
solve the sched_lock protection problems separately.
Requested by: alc
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
handler is wrapped in a couple of functions - a filter wrapper and an
ithread wrapper. In this case (and just in this case), the filter
wrapper could ask the system to schedule the ithread and mask the
interrupt source if the wrapped handler is composed of just an ithread
handler: modify the "old" interrupt code to make it support
this situation, while the "new" interrupt code is already ok.
Discussed with: jhb
used to return PAGE_SIZE without respect to restrictions of a DMA tag.
This affected all of the busdma load functions that use
_bus_dmamap_loader_buffer() as their back-end.
Reviewed by: scottl
Note on dcons:
To enable dcons in kernel, put the following lines in /boot/loader.conf.
You may also want to enable dcons in /etc/ttys.
boot_multicons="YES"
#Force dcons to be the high-level console if a firewire bus presents.
#hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console=1
FireWire/dcons support in loader will come shortly.
(i386/amd64 only)
debugger is quite capable of handling Giant-free execution at this
point. Several other similar comments remain in trap.c on both i386
and amd64 awaiting analysis.
Implement all futex atomic operations in assembler to not depend on the
fuword() that does not allow to distinguish between -1 and failure return.
Correctly return 0 from atomic operations on success.
In collaboration with: rdivacky
Tested by: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel gmail com>, Milos Vyletel <mvyletel mzm cz>
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2007
same way it was enabled for Linux binares in linuxulator.
This allows binaries built with -pie. Many ports auto-detect -fPIE support
in GCC 4.2 and build binaries FreeBSD was unable to run.
vmcnts. This can be used to abstract away pcpu details but also changes
to use atomics for all counters now. This means sched lock is no longer
responsible for protecting counts in the switch routines.
Contributed by: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
processes under 64-bit kernels). Previously, each 32-bit process overwrote
its resource limits at exec() time. The problem with this approach is that
the new limits affect all child processes of the 32-bit process, including
if the child process forks and execs a 64-bit process. To fix this, don't
ovewrite the resource limits during exec(). Instead, sv_fixlimits() is
now replaced with a different function sv_fixlimit() which asks the ABI to
sanitize a single resource limit. We then use this when querying and
setting resource limits. Thus, if a 32-bit process sets a limit, then
that new limit will be inherited by future children. However, if the
32-bit process doesn't change a limit, then a future 64-bit child will
see the "full" 64-bit limit rather than the 32-bit limit.
MFC is tentative since it will break the ABI of old linux.ko modules (no
other modules are affected).
MFC after: 1 week
passed zero as exit signal.
GCC 4.2 changes the kernel data segment layout not to have 0
in that memory location. This code ran by luck before and now
the luck has run out.
an APIC ID of 38 for its second CPU):
- Add a new MAX_APIC_ID constant for the highest valid APIC ID for modern
systems.
- Size the various arrays in the MADT, MP Table, and SMP code that are
indexed by APIC IDs to allow for up to MAX_APIC_ID.
- Explicitly go through and assign logical cpu ids to local APICs before
starting any of the APs up rather than doing it while starting up the
APs. This step is now where we honor MAXCPU.
MFC after: 1 week
- Split the intr_table_lock into an sx lock used for most things, and a
spin lock to protect intrcnt_index. Originally I had this as a spin lock
so interrupt code could use it to lookup sources. However, we don't
actually do that because it would add a lot of overhead to interrupts,
and if we ever do support removing interrupt sources, we can use other
means to safely do so w/o locking in the interrupt handling code.
- Replace is_enabled (boolean) with is_handlers (a count of handlers) to
determine if a source is enabled or not. This allows us to notice when
a source is no longer in use. When that happens, we now invoke a new
PIC method (pic_disable_intr()) to inform the PIC driver that the
source is no longer in use. The I/O APIC driver frees the APIC IDT
vector when this happens. The MSI driver no longer needs to have a
hack to clear is_enabled during msi_alloc() and msix_alloc() as a result
of this change as well.
- Add an apic_disable_vector() to reset an IDT vector back to Xrsvd to
complement apic_enable_vector() and use it in the I/O APIC and MSI code
when freeing an IDT vector.
- Add a new nexus hook: nexus_add_irq() to ask the nexus driver to add an
IRQ to its irq_rman. The MSI code uses this when it creates new
interrupt sources to let the nexus know about newly valid IRQs.
Previously the msi_alloc() and msix_alloc() passed some extra stuff
back to the nexus methods which then added the IRQs. This approach is
a bit cleaner.
- Change the MSI sx lock to a mutex. If we need to create new sources,
drop the lock, create the required number of sources, then get the lock
and try the allocation again.
o push much of the i386 and amd64 MD interrupt handling code
(intr_machdep.c::intr_execute_handlers()) into MI code
(kern_intr.c::ithread_loop())
o move filter handling to kern_intr.c::intr_filter_loop()
o factor out the code necessary to mask and ack an interrupt event
(intr_machdep.c::intr_eoi_src() and intr_machdep.c::intr_disab_eoi_src()),
and make them part of 'struct intr_event', passing them as arguments to
kern_intr.c::intr_event_create().
o spawn a private ithread per handler (struct intr_handler::ih_thread)
with filter and ithread functions.
Approved by: re (implicit?)
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE depending on whether the physical address space is
densely or sparsely populated with memory. The effect of this
definition is to determine which of two implementations of
vm_page_array and PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() is used. The legacy
implementation is obtained by defining VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE, and a new
implementation that trades off time for space is obtained by defining
VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE. For now, all architectures except for ia64 and
sparc64 define VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on ia64
allows the entirety of my Itanium 2's memory to be used. Previously,
only the first 1 GB could be used. Defining VM_PHYSSEG_SPARSE on
sparc64 allows USIIIi-based systems to boot without crashing.
This change is a combination of Nathan Whitehorn's patch and my own
work in perforce.
Discussed with: kmacy, marius, Nathan Whitehorn
PR: 112194
- Simplify the amount of work that has be done for each architecture by
pushing more of the truly MI code down into the PCI bus driver.
- Don't bind MSI-X indicies to IRQs so that we can allow a driver to map
multiple MSI-X messages into a single IRQ when handling a message
shortage.
The changes include:
- Add a new pcib_if method: PCIB_MAP_MSI() which is called by the PCI bus
to calculate the address and data values for a given MSI/MSI-X IRQ.
The x86 nexus drivers map this into a call to a new 'msi_map()' function
in msi.c that does the mapping.
- Retire the pcib_if method PCIB_REMAP_MSIX() and remove the 'index'
parameter from PCIB_ALLOC_MSIX(). MD code no longer has any knowledge
of the MSI-X index for a given MSI-X IRQ.
- The PCI bus driver now stores more MSI-X state in a child's ivars.
Specifically, it now stores an array of IRQs (called "message vectors" in
the code) that have associated address and data values, and a small
virtual version of the MSI-X table that specifies the message vector
that a given MSI-X table entry uses. Sparse mappings are permitted in
the virtual table.
- The PCI bus driver now configures the MSI and MSI-X address/data
registers directly via custom bus_setup_intr() and bus_teardown_intr()
methods. pci_setup_intr() invokes PCIB_MAP_MSI() to determine the
address and data values for a given message as needed. The MD code
no longer has to call back down into the PCI bus code to set these
values from the nexus' bus_setup_intr() handler.
- The PCI bus code provides a callout (pci_remap_msi_irq()) that the MD
code can call to force the PCI bus to re-invoke PCIB_MAP_MSI() to get
new values of the address and data fields for a given IRQ. The x86
MSI code uses this when an MSI IRQ is moved to a different CPU, requiring
a new value of the 'address' field.
- The x86 MSI psuedo-driver loses a lot of code, and in fact the separate
MSI/MSI-X pseudo-PICs are collapsed down into a single MSI PIC driver
since the only remaining diff between the two is a substring in a
bootverbose printf.
- The PCI bus driver will now restore MSI-X state (including programming
entries in the MSI-X table) on device resume.
- The interface for pci_remap_msix() has changed. Instead of accepting
indices for the allocated vectors, it accepts a mini-virtual table
(with a new length parameter). This table is an array of u_ints, where
each value specifies which allocated message vector to use for the
corresponding MSI-X message. A vector of 0 forces a message to not
have an associated IRQ. The device may choose to only use some of the
IRQs assigned, in which case the unused IRQs must be at the "end" and
will be released back to the system. This allows a driver to use the
same remap table for different shortage values. For example, if a driver
wants 4 messages, it can use the same remap table (which only uses the
first two messages) for the cases when it only gets 2 or 3 messages and
in the latter case the PCI bus will release the 3rd IRQ back to the
system.
MFC after: 1 month
fault. The previous method zero'd out the page tables, invalidated the
TLB, and then entered a spin loop. The idea was that the instruction after
the TLB invalidate would result in a page fault and the page fault and
subsequent double fault wouldn't be able to determine the physical page
for their fault handlers' first instruction. This stopped working when
PGE (PG_G PTE/PDE bit) support was added as a TLB invalidate via %cr3
reload doesn't clear TLB entries with PG_G set. Thus, the CPU was still
able to map the virtual address for the spin loop and happily performed
its infinite loop.
The triple fault now uses a much more deterministic sledge-hammer approach
to generate a triple fault. First, the IDT descriptor is set to point to
an empty IDT, so any interrupts (including a double fault) will instantly
fault. Second, we trigger a int 3 breakpoint to force an interrupt and
kick off a triple fault.
MFC after: 3 days
vm.kmem_size_min. Useful when using ZFS to make sure that vm.kmem size will
be at least 256mb (for example) without forcing a particular value via vm.kmem_size.
Approved by: njl (mentor)
Reviewed by: alc