VM86 calls instead of the real mode emulator as a backend. VM86 has been
proven reliable for very long time and it is actually few times faster than
emulation. Increase maximum number of page table entries per VM86 context
from 3 to 8 pages. It was (ridiculously) low and insufficient for new VM86
backend, which shares one context globally. Slighly rearrange and clean up
the emulator backend to accommodate new code. The only visible change here
is stack size, which is decreased from 64K to 4K bytes to sync. with VM86.
Actually, it seems there is no need for big stack in real mode.
MFC after: 1 month
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.
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
1. Move definitions of struct i386_*_args to the header file sysarch.h,
since they are part of the sysarch API. struct i386_get_ldt_args and
i386_set_ldt_args were identical, therefore make them into one
struct i386_ldt_args. Libc should use these definitions as well.
2. Return a more sensible EOPNOTSUPP for unknown operations.
Reviewed by: marcel
- %fs register is added to trapframe and saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.
- Per-cpu pages are no longer mapped at the same virtual address.
- Each cpu now has a separate gdt selector table. A new segment selector
is added to point to per-cpu pages, per-cpu global variables are now
accessed through this new selector (%fs). The selectors in gdt table are
rearranged for cache line optimization.
- fask_vfork is now on as default for both UP and SMP.
- Some aio code cleanup.
Reviewed by: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
John Dyson <dyson@iquest.net>
Julian Elischer <julian@whistel.com>
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
David Greenman <dg@root.com>
for passing in their own data space and associated page table information.
Update the support files so that any pages in the vm86 page table are
mapped, rather than just one page.
Restore the E820 memory probe, and have it use the new interface.
or unsigned int (this doesn't change the struct layout, size or
alignment in any of the files changed in this commit, at least for
gcc on i386's. Using bitfields of type u_char may affect size and
alignment but not packing)).
everything is contained inside #ifdef VM86, so this option must be
present in the config file to use this functionality.
Thanks to Tor Egge, these changes should work on SMP machines. However,
it may not be throughly SMP-safe.
Currently, the only BIOS calls made are memory-sizing routines at bootup,
these replace reading the RTC values.