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.
address is in the userland address space. The proper thing is either to choose
a virtual address in the kernel address space beyond the KVA, or to use
pmap_mapdev().
we're unable to allocate the memory for a PTE, we'll wait until we can. If not,
we'll just return.
Use M_NOWAIT|M_USE_RESERVE to allocate PTEs, it is less aggressive than
M_NOWAIT alone.
Suggested by: alc
Make serial ports more robust and reliable. Make non-console ports
work. This might have broken skyeye stuff.
o Introduce ping-pong receive buffers.
o Use DMA to copy characters directly into memory.
o Support baud rates other than 115200
o Use 1 stop bit when 1 stop bit is requested (otherwise 2 were used,
which caused dropped characters when received in bursts).
o Use 1.5 stop bits for 5-bit bytes, and 2 stop bits otherwise when 2
stop bits were requested.
o Actually update line parameters.
o Fix comments
o Move init into attach
o Tweaks to TX interrupt registers to get them reliable and non-storming.
o harvest data in ipend since the latency between it and the callback
was too long. This likely is how it should be, I don't know why I deferred
things to the callback before.
o disable all interrupts in console init. We don't want interrupts until
we turn on an ISR.
o cosmetic tweaks
o Automatically detect of the TIMEOUT interrupt is supported. If so, use
it so we get better CPU utilization. Otherwise do a character at a time
RX. Good news here is that it seems we have enough CPU and low enough
fast interrupt latency to do this reliably.
o Don't read USART_CR. It is a write-only register.
o start to implement bus_ioctl. Do BAUD now...
number of banks, rows and columns the SDRAMC is programmed to access
to determine the RAM size for the board, rather than hard-wiring it to
be 32MB. My company's board with 64MB now probes correctly, as does
the KB9202 with only 32MB. This means that to detect the right memory
size, our boot loader must correctly initialize these values. This is
a fairly safe assumption because the boot loader has to initialize
SDRAM already, and it isn't really possible to change this register
after we've accessed SDRAM.
The boot loader is supposed to leave this bit set to the right value
for the board. If this bit was set at attach time, use it to init the
config register correctly.
Note: this means the boot loader has to properly initialize it.
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
- Try hard to calculate a safe sp, so that the stack doesn't get smashed
while uncompressing or relocating the kernel.
- Bring in code needed to calculate the cacheline size etc, needed for
arm9_idcache_wbinv_all.
current interface with the machine-independent layer. Without this change,
the page daemon would only have been awakened the first time that the
number of pv entries went above the high water mark, not each time.
the first and last cache line in PREREAD, and just invalidate the cache
lines in POSTREAD, instead of write-back/invalidating in POSTREAD, which
could lead to stale data overriding what has been transfered by DMA.
enabled. It has been commented out for a reason I forgot but I suspect
does not apply anymore.
Technically speaking it's not required to do it, has the data and the
instruction cache have been disabled in _start(). However, it may change
in the future, so I don't want to rely on this behavior.
Submitted by: kevlo
Add a new option, SKYEYE_WORKAROUNDS, which as the name suggests adds
workarounds for things skyeye doesn't simulate. Specifically :
- Use USART0 instead of DBGU as the console, make it not use DMA, and manually provoke an interrupt when we're done in the transmit function.
- Skyeye maintains an internal counter for clock, but apparently there's
no way to access it, so hack the timecounter code to return a value which
is increased at every clock interrupts. This is gross, but I didn't find a
better way to implement timecounters without hacking Skyeye to get the
counter value.
- Force the write-back of PTEs once we're done writing them, even if they
are supposed to be write-through. I don't know why I have to do that.
vm_ksubmap_init() calls pmap_copy_page(), which uses the mini data cache
to do the copy, but we're running uncaching before cpu_setup().
For some reason it hasn't been a problem so far, but it is for the
PXA255.
Spotted out by: benno
date: 2006/04/12 04:22:50; author: alc; state: Exp; lines: +14 -41
Retire pmap_track_modified(). We no longer need it because we do not
create managed mappings within the clean submap. To prevent regressions,
add assertions blocking the creation of managed mappings within the clean
submap.
Reviewed by: tegge
the wire. This increases the speed considerably. Start to put
infrastructure in place to do RX side, but that requires more study
before it can be done.
relocate it), do not attempt to call pmap_vac_me_harder() on the page.
At this point m will be NULL, and we know we won't have any cache
issues with this page.
Add bus attachment for the ohci device on this chip. The bus and hub
are detected correctly, but the children devices aren't detected
correctly for reasons unknown.
o update TODO list
o Better use of busdma
o mark RX dtors as COHERENT. This helps performance a lot by not requiring
so many EXPENSIVE cache flushes. The cost of accessing it non-cached
is much smaller.
o Copy data from Rx buffers to make IP header 4 byte aligned.
o CRC length included in reported length, so cope
o Don't free TX buffer twice
o Manage TX buffers better.
o Enable just the interrupts we want.
o Manage OACTIVE better
# Some of these done by cognet
# These changes let us get to # via NFS root.
o Add memory barrier to bus space
o Allow for up to 3 IRQs per device
o Move to table driven population of children devices.
o Add support for usb ohci memory mapped controller resource allocation.
o Clean up a bunch of extra writes to disable interrupts that are now
done elsewhere.
o Force all system interrupt handlers be fast. We get deadlock if they
aren't.
o Disable all interrupts that the ST can generate until we have an ISR
to service them.
o Correct clock calculation to make DELAY the right length...
Submitted by: cognet (#2)
with malloc() or contigmalloc() as usual, but try to re-map the allocated
memory into a VA outside the KVA, non-cached, thus making the calls to
bus_dmamap_sync() for these buffers useless.
- Reorder the events in exit(2) slightly so that we trigger the S_EXIT
stop event earlier. After we have signalled that, we set P_WEXIT and
then wait for any processes with a hold on the vmspace via PHOLD to
release it. PHOLD now KASSERT()'s that P_WEXIT is clear when it is
invoked, and PRELE now does a wakeup if P_WEXIT is set and p_lock drops
to zero.
- Change proc_rwmem() to require that the processing read from has its
vmspace held via PHOLD by the caller and get rid of all the junk to
screw around with the vmspace reference count as we no longer need it.
- In ptrace() and pseudofs(), treat a process with P_WEXIT set as if it
doesn't exist.
- Only do one PHOLD in kern_ptrace() now, and do it earlier so it covers
FIX_SSTEP() (since on alpha at least this can end up calling proc_rwmem()
to clear an earlier single-step simualted via a breakpoint). We only
do one to avoid races. Also, by making the EINVAL error for unknown
requests be part of the default: case in the switch, the various
switch cases can now just break out to return which removes a _lot_ of
duplicated PRELE and proc unlocks, etc. Also, it fixes at least one bug
where a LWP ptrace command could return EINVAL with the proc lock still
held.
- Changed the locking for ptrace_single_step(), ptrace_set_pc(), and
ptrace_clear_single_step() to always be called with the proc lock
held (it was a mixed bag previously). Alpha and arm have to drop
the lock while the mess around with breakpoints, but other archs
avoid extra lock release/acquires in ptrace(). I did have to fix a
couple of other consumers in kern_kse and a few other places to
hold the proc lock and PHOLD.
Tested by: ps (1 mostly, but some bits of 2-4 as well)
MFC after: 1 week
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.
hack where it assumes the first field of the driver softc is the struct
ifnet, and it copies its value in mii_phy_probe().
- In the interrupt handler, set the mbuf m_len field on packet receive.
is a ARM920T based CPU with a bunch of built-in peripherals. The
inital import supports the SPI bus, the TWI bus (although iicbus
integration is not complete), the uarts, the system timer and the
onboard ethernet. Support for the Kwikbyte KB9202
(http://www.kwikbyte.com) board is also included, although there's no
reason why the 9200 and the 9201 wouldn't also work. Primitive
support for running under the skyeye emulator is also provided
(although skyeye's support for the AT91RM9200 is a little weak).
The code has been structured so that other members of Atmel's arm family can
be supported in the future. The AT91SAM9260 is not presently supported
due to lack of hardware. The arm7tdmi families are also not supported
becasue they lack an MMU.
Many thanks to cognet@ for his help and assistance in bringing up this
board. He did much of the vm work and wrote parts of the uart and
system timer code as well as the bus space implementation.
The system boots to single user w/o problem, although the serial
console is a little slow and the ethernet driver is still in flux.
This work was sponsored by Timing Solutions, Corporation. I am
grateful to their support of the FreeBSD project in this manner.
revision 1.288
date: 2006/02/04 14:11:33; author: wsalamon; state: Exp; lines: +4 -1
Hook up the audit system to system call entry and exit. System calls will
now be audited.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
param.h. Per request, I've placed these just after the
_NO_NAMESPACE_POLLUTION ifndef. I've not renamed anything yet, but
may since we don't need the __.
Submitted by: bde, jhb, scottl, many others.
- 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>
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)
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.
Move what can be moved (UMA zones creation, pv_entry_* initialization) from
pmap_init2() to pmap_init().
Create a new function, pmap_postinit(), called from cpu_startup(), to do the
L1 tables allocation.
pmap_init2() is now empty for arm as well.
- Prefer '_' to ' ', as it results in more easily parsed results in
memory monitoring tools such as vmstat.
- Remove punctuation that is incompatible with using memory type names
as file names, such as '/' characters.
- Disambiguate some collisions by adding subsystem prefixes to some
memory types.
- Generally prefer lower case to upper case.
- If the same type is defined in multiple architecture directories,
attempt to use the same name in additional cases.
Not all instances were caught in this change, so more work is required to
finish this conversion. Similar changes are required for UMA zone names.
and increase flexibility to allow various different approaches to be tried
in the future.
- Split struct ithd up into two pieces. struct intr_event holds the list
of interrupt handlers associated with interrupt sources.
struct intr_thread contains the data relative to an interrupt thread.
Currently we still provide a 1:1 relationship of events to threads
with the exception that events only have an associated thread if there
is at least one threaded interrupt handler attached to the event. This
means that on x86 we no longer have 4 bazillion interrupt threads with
no handlers. It also means that interrupt events with only INTR_FAST
handlers no longer have an associated thread either.
- Renamed struct intrhand to struct intr_handler to follow the struct
intr_foo naming convention. This did require renaming the powerpc
MD struct intr_handler to struct ppc_intr_handler.
- INTR_FAST no longer implies INTR_EXCL on all architectures except for
powerpc. This means that multiple INTR_FAST handlers can attach to the
same interrupt and that INTR_FAST and non-INTR_FAST handlers can attach
to the same interrupt. Sharing INTR_FAST handlers may not always be
desirable, but having sio(4) and uhci(4) fight over an IRQ isn't fun
either. Drivers can always still use INTR_EXCL to ask for an interrupt
exclusively. The way this sharing works is that when an interrupt
comes in, all the INTR_FAST handlers are executed first, and if any
threaded handlers exist, the interrupt thread is scheduled afterwards.
This type of layout also makes it possible to investigate using interrupt
filters ala OS X where the filter determines whether or not its companion
threaded handler should run.
- Aside from the INTR_FAST changes above, the impact on MD interrupt code
is mostly just 's/ithread/intr_event/'.
- A new MI ddb command 'show intrs' walks the list of interrupt events
dumping their state. It also has a '/v' verbose switch which dumps
info about all of the handlers attached to each event.
- We currently don't destroy an interrupt thread when the last threaded
handler is removed because it would suck for things like ppbus(8)'s
braindead behavior. The code is present, though, it is just under
#if 0 for now.
- Move the code to actually execute the threaded handlers for an interrrupt
event into a separate function so that ithread_loop() becomes more
readable. Previously this code was all in the middle of ithread_loop()
and indented halfway across the screen.
- Made struct intr_thread private to kern_intr.c and replaced td_ithd
with a thread private flag TDP_ITHREAD.
- In statclock, check curthread against idlethread directly rather than
curthread's proc against idlethread's proc. (Not really related to intr
changes)
Tested on: alpha, amd64, i386, sparc64
Tested on: arm, ia64 (older version of patch by cognet and marcel)
the modified memory rather than using register operands that held a pointer
to the memory. The biggest effect is that we now correctly tell the
compiler that these functions change the memory that these functions
modify.
Reviewed by: cognet
changes in MD code are trivial, before this change, trapsignal and
sendsig use discrete parameters, now they uses member fields of
ksiginfo_t structure. For sendsig, this change allows us to pass
POSIX realtime signal value to user code.
2. Remove cpu_thread_siginfo, it is no longer needed because we now always
generate ksiginfo_t data and feed it to libpthread.
3. Add p_sigqueue to proc structure to hold shared signals which were
blocked by all threads in the proc.
4. Add td_sigqueue to thread structure to hold all signals delivered to
thread.
5. i386 and amd64 now return POSIX standard si_code, other arches will
be fixed.
6. In this sigqueue implementation, pending signal set is kept as before,
an extra siginfo list holds additional siginfo_t data for signals.
kernel code uses psignal() still behavior as before, it won't be failed
even under memory pressure, only exception is when deleting a signal,
we should call sigqueue_delete to remove signal from sigqueue but
not SIGDELSET. Current there is no kernel code will deliver a signal
with additional data, so kernel should be as stable as before,
a ksiginfo can carry more information, for example, allow signal to
be delivered but throw away siginfo data if memory is not enough.
SIGKILL and SIGSTOP have fast path in sigqueue_add, because they can
not be caught or masked.
The sigqueue() syscall allows user code to queue a signal to target
process, if resource is unavailable, EAGAIN will be returned as
specification said.
Just before thread exits, signal queue memory will be freed by
sigqueue_flush.
Current, all signals are allowed to be queued, not only realtime signals.
Earlier patch reviewed by: jhb, deischen
Tested on: i386, amd64
The DMA controller driver only knows how to do memory to memory copies, and
the AAU driver how to zero a chunk of memory.
Use them to process big (>=1KB) copying/zeroing.
- Use the new API for pmap_copy_page() and pmap_zero_page().
- Just write-back the pages in pmap_qenter(), and invalidate it in
pmap_qremove().
- Nuke the cache flushing in pmap_enter_quick(), it's not needed anymore.
variable and returns the previous value of the variable.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, arm (cognet)
Reviewed by: arch@
Submitted by: cognet (arm)
MFC after: 1 week
it to __MINSIGSTKSZ. Define MINSIGSTKSZ in <sys/signal.h>.
This is done in order to use MINSIGSTKSZ for the macro PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
in <pthread.h> (soon <limits.h>) without having to include the whole
<sys/signal.h> header.
Discussed with: bde
in the arm __swp() and sparc64 casa() and casax() functions is actually
being used as an input and output and not just the value of the register
that points to the memory location. This was the underlying source of
the mbuf refcount problems on sparc64 a while back. For arm this should be
a nop because __swp() has a constraint to clobber all memory which can
probably be removed now.
Reviewed by: alc, cognet
MFC after: 1 week
variables rather than void * variables. This makes it easier and simpler
to get asm constraints and volatile keywords correct.
MFC after: 3 days
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
Compiled on: ia64, powerpc, amd64
Kernel toolchain busted on: arm
address, writting non-canonical address can cause kernel a panic,
by restricting base values to 0..VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS, ensuring
only canonical values get written to the registers.
Reviewed by: peter, Josepha Koshy < joseph.koshy at gmail dot com >
Approved by: re (scottl)
kernel mode, always use the curthread pmap instead. There are valid cases
were we can fault on a user address from the kernel without pcb_onfault
being set.
Approved by: re (blanket)
vm_page's machine-dependent fields. Use this function in
vm_pageq_add_new_page() so that the vm_page's machine-dependent and
machine-independent fields are initialized at the same time.
Remove code from pmap_init() for initializing the vm_page's
machine-dependent fields.
Remove stale comments from pmap_init().
Eliminate the Boolean variable pmap_initialized from the alpha, amd64,
i386, and ia64 pmap implementations. Its use is no longer required
because of the above changes and earlier changes that result in physical
memory that is being mapped at initialization time being mapped without
pv entries.
Tested by: cognet, kensmith, marcel
- Implement sampling modes and logging support in hwpmc(4).
- Separate MI and MD parts of hwpmc(4) and allow sharing of
PMC implementations across different architectures.
Add support for P4 (EMT64) style PMCs to the amd64 code.
- New pmcstat(8) options: -E (exit time counts) -W (counts
every context switch), -R (print log file).
- pmc(3) API changes, improve our ability to keep ABI compatibility
in the future. Add more 'alias' names for commonly used events.
- bug fixes & documentation.
for the dmamap by using static dmamaps.
- Don't do anything for BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD and BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE in
bus_dmamap_sync(), it's not needed anymore.
to change the DACR when switching to a kernel thread, thus making
userland thread => kernel thread => same userland thread switch cheaper by
totally avoiding data cache and TLB invalidation.
in other codes. Add cpu_set_user_tls, use it to tweak user register
and setup user TLS. I ever wanted to merge it into cpu_set_kse_upcall,
but since cpu_set_kse_upcall is also used by M:N threads which may
not need this feature, so I wrote a separated cpu_set_user_tls.
into _bus.h to help with name space polution from including all of bus.h.
In a few days, I'll commit changes to the MI code to take advantage of thse
sepration (after I've made sure that these changes don't break anything in
the main tree, I've tested in my trees, but you never know...).
Suggested by: bde (in 2002 or 2003 I think)
Reviewed in principle by: jhb
critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for
deferring kernel preemptions. They no longer have any affect on
interrupts. This means that standalone critical sections are now very
cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the
common case.
Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter()
and spinlock_exit(). This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD
guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't
be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock. For
now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they
did formerly in all critical sections. Note that I've also taken this
opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI. For example,
critical_fork_exit() no longer exists. Instead, MD code ensures that new
threads have the correct state when they are created. Also, we no longer
try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code. Instead, each arch sets
the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows
in order to perform the initial context switch.
This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides
will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts
of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes
for per-CPU data for example).
Reviewed by: grehan, cognet, arch@, others
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more
a given page and, if the pmap is the current pmap, write back the associated
cache line.
Use pmap_wb_page in pmap_qenter() instead of inconditionally
write back/invalidating the data cache.
sys/bus_dma.h instead of being copied in every single arch. This slightly
reorders a flag that was specific to AXP and thus changes the ABI there.
The interface still relies on bus_space definitions found in <machine/bus.h>
so it cannot be included on its own yet, but that will be fixed at a later
date. Add an MD <machine/bus_dma.h> for ever arch for consistency and to
allow for future MD augmentation of the API. sparc64 makes heavy use of
this right now due to its different bus_dma implemenation.
as we can't rely on a trap happening, as it is done normally.
While I'm there, uncomment the call to cpu_dcache_wbinv_range() in
pmap_kenter_internal, as we don't call cpu_dcache_wbinv_all() there anymore.
place.
This moves the dependency on GCC's and other compiler's features into
the central sys/cdefs.h file, while the individual source files can
then refer to #ifdef __COMPILER_FEATURE_FOO where they by now used to
refer to #if __GNUC__ > 3.1415 && __BARC__ <= 42.
By now, GCC and ICC (the Intel compiler) have been actively tested on
IA32 platforms by netchild. Extension to other compilers is supposed
to be possible, of course.
Submitted by: netchild
Reviewed by: various developers on arch@, some time ago
ARM_TP_ADDRESS, where the tp will be stored. On CPUs that support it, a cache
line will be allocated and locked for this address, so that it will never go
to RAM. On CPUs that does not, a page is allocated for it (it will be a bit
slower, and is wrong for SMP, but should be fine for UP).
The tp is still stored in the mdthread struct, and at each context switch,
ARM_TP_ADDRESS gets updated.
Suggested by: davidxu
