syscall path inward. A system call may select whether it needs the MP
lock or not (the default being that it does need it).
A great deal of conditional SMP code for various deadended experiments
has been removed. 'cil' and 'cml' have been removed entirely, and the
locking around the cpl has been removed. The conditional
separately-locked fast-interrupt code has been removed, meaning that
interrupts must hold the CPL now (but they pretty much had to anyway).
Another reason for doing this is that the original separate-lock for
interrupts just doesn't apply to the interrupt thread mechanism being
contemplated.
Modifications to the cpl may now ONLY occur while holding the MP
lock. For example, if an otherwise MP safe syscall needs to mess with
the cpl, it must hold the MP lock for the duration and must (as usual)
save/restore the cpl in a nested fashion.
This is precursor work for the real meat coming later: avoiding having
to hold the MP lock for common syscalls and I/O's and interrupt threads.
It is expected that the spl mechanisms and new interrupt threading
mechanisms will be able to run in tandem, allowing a slow piecemeal
transition to occur.
This patch should result in a moderate performance improvement due to
the considerable amount of code that has been removed from the critical
path, especially the simplification of the spl*() calls. The real
performance gains will come later.
Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: current, bde (exception.s)
Some work taken from: luoqi's patch
fragmentation problem due to geteblk() reserving too much space for the
buffer and imposes a larger granularity (16K) on KVA reservations for
the buffer cache to avoid fragmentation issues. The buffer cache size
calculations have been redone to simplify them (fewer defines, better
comments, less chance of running out of KVA).
The geteblk() fix solves a performance problem that DG was able reproduce.
This patch does not completely fix the KVA fragmentation problems, but
it goes a long way
Mostly Reviewed by: bde and others
Approved by: jkh
Make the public interface more systematically named.
Remove the alternate method, it doesn't do any good, only ruins performance.
Add counters to profile the usage of the 8 access functions.
Apply the beer-ware to my code.
The weird +/- counts are caused by two repocopies behind the scenes:
kern/kern_clock.c -> kern/kern_tc.c
sys/time.h -> sys/timetc.h
(thanks peter!)
field in struct buf: b_iocmd. The b_iocmd is enforced to have
exactly one bit set.
B_WRITE was bogusly defined as zero giving rise to obvious coding
mistakes.
Also eliminate the redundant struct buf flag B_CALL, it can just
as efficiently be done by comparing b_iodone to NULL.
Should you get a panic or drop into the debugger, complaining about
"b_iocmd", don't continue. It is likely to write on your disk
where it should have been reading.
This change is a step in the direction towards a stackable BIO capability.
A lot of this patch were machine generated (Thanks to style(9) compliance!)
Vinum users: Greg has not had time to test this yet, be careful.
it's options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. This is meant to be a
fairly strong incentive to update the older drivers to newbus, but doesn't
(quite) leave anybody hanging with no hardware support. I was talking with
a few folks and I was encouraged to simply break or disable the shims but
that was a bit too drastic for my liking.
pte's from zero. The TLB is supposed to be invalidated when pte's are
changed _to_ zero, but this doesn't occur in all cases for global pages
(PG_G stops invltlb() from working, and invltlb_1pg() is not used
enough).
PR: 14141, 16568
Submitted by: dillon
with the known bogus currtpriority. This undoes the previous changes to
sys/i386/i386/trap.c, sys/alpha/alpha/trap.c, sys/sys/systm.h
Now we have the patch set approved by bde.
Approved by: bde
was using them exits.
Don't allow a user process to cause the kernel to take a TRCTRAP on a
user space address.
Reviewed by: jlemon, sef
Approved by: jkh
chipset to be probed & attached on newer Dell PowerEdge servers, such as
the 2400 and 4400.
Reviewed by: dfr, msmith, jlemon
Tested by: hnokubi@yyy.or.jp (in a previous incantation)
Approved by: jkh
and Pentium III Xeon CPUs. If a CPU is one of Pentium II, Pentium II
Xeon and Celeron, the message is always "Pentium II/Pentium II
Xeon/Celeron". If a CPU is one of Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon,
the message is always "Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon".
o Drop all broadcast and multicast source addresses in tcp_input.
o Enable ICMP_BANDLIM in GENERIC.
o Change default to 200/s from 100/s. This will still stop the attack, but
is conservative enough to do this close to code freeze.
This is not the optimal patch for the problem, but is likely the least
intrusive patch that can be made for this.
Obtained from: Don Lewis and Matt Dillon.
Reviewed by: freebsd-security
IRQ 2 was being unilaterally disallowed, which is only appropriate if
the interrupt hardware is the traditional chained PIC arrangement.
Reviewed by: tegge (in principle)
