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pfg
4736ccfd9c sys: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
2017-11-20 19:43:44 +00:00
pfg
9da7bdde06 spdx: initial adoption of licensing ID tags.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.

Initially, only tag files that use BSD 4-Clause "Original" license.

RelNotes:	yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13133
2017-11-18 14:26:50 +00:00
jhibbits
b3b50a4c91 Add the ISEL feature macro for those powerpc cores that have it
This is mostly for completeness, we don't currently use it for anything else.
2017-11-08 01:26:44 +00:00
jhibbits
6149e3d5af Add Guest State (GS) bit to MSR bits
For completeness only.  It will be used by a hypervisor if/when one is written.
While here, sort the MSR bits into the proper categories.
2017-11-01 02:54:48 +00:00
jhibbits
9bd2e23da2 Add P5010/P5010E for completeness 2017-10-30 01:55:38 +00:00
mmel
be76b77ce7 Add AT_HWCAP2 ELF auxiliary vector.
- allocate value for new AT_HWCAP2 auxiliary vector on all platforms.
 - expand 'struct sysentvec' by new 'u_long *sv_hwcap2', in exactly
   same way as for AT_HWCAP.

MFC after:	1 month
Reviewed by:	kib
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12699
2017-10-21 12:05:01 +00:00
wma
f88f8a2f93 PPC: increase MAX_PICS to 32
Previous value was too low on dual-socket POWER8 system.

Submitted by:          Wojciech Macek <wma@freebsd.org>
Reviewed by:           nwhitehorn
Obtained from:         Semihalf
Sponsored by:          QCM Technologies
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12540
2017-10-02 06:05:19 +00:00
jhb
e5ea82a50d Add AT_HWCAP and AT_EHDRFLAGS on all platforms.
A new 'u_long *sv_hwcap' field is added to 'struct sysentvec'.  A
process ABI can set this field to point to a value holding a mask of
architecture-specific CPU feature flags.  If an ABI does not wish to
supply AT_HWCAP to processes the field can be left as NULL.

The support code for AT_EHDRFLAGS was already present on all systems,
just the #define was not present.  This is a step towards unifying the
AT_* constants across platforms.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	1 month
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12290
2017-09-14 14:26:55 +00:00
jhibbits
2be9854f58 Add some more PVR and SVR defines
These processors may not be supported yet, but add them for completion.

POWER9 is planned for support.  e300 may work (based on 603e core).
P5040/P5021 are similar to P5020, so should work as well.  One addition is
needed for P5040, to support the number of LAWs, and will be a separate commit.
2017-09-09 02:08:22 +00:00
jah
d1caaa9300 Clean up MD pollution of bus_dma.h:
--Remove special-case handling of sparc64 bus_dmamap* functions.
  Replace with a more generic mechanism that allows MD busdma
  implementations to generate inline mapping functions by
  defining WANT_INLINE_DMAMAP in <machine/bus_dma.h>.  This
  is currently useful for sparc64, x86, and arm64, which all
  implement non-load dmamap operations as simple wrappers
  around map objects which may be bus- or device-specific.

--Remove NULL-checked bus_dmamap macros.  Implement the
  equivalent NULL checks in the inlined x86 implementation.
  For non-x86 platforms, these checks are a minor pessimization
  as those platforms do not currently allow NULL maps.  NULL
  maps were originally allowed on arm64, which appears to have
  been the motivation behind adding arm[64]-specific barriers
  to bus_dma.h, but that support was removed in r299463.

--Simplify the internal interface used by the bus_dmamap_load*
  variants and move it to bus_dma_internal.h

--Fix some drivers that directly include sys/bus_dma.h
  despite the recommendations of bus_dma(9)

Reviewed by:	kib (previous revision), marius
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10729
2017-07-01 05:35:29 +00:00
jhibbits
11d34fd62a Solve the y2038 problem for powerpc
AKA Make time_t 64 bits on powerpc(32).

PowerPC currently (until now) was one of two architectures with a 32-bit time_t
on 32-bit archs (the other being i386).  This is an ABI breakage, so all ports,
and all local binaries, *must* be recompiled.

Tested by:	andreast, others
MFC after:	Never
Relnotes:	Yes
2017-06-26 02:25:19 +00:00
kib
7b6fe97487 Make struct syscall_args visible to userspace compilation environment
from machine/proc.h, consistently on all architectures.

Reviewed by:	jhb
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 weeks
X-Differential revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11080
2017-06-12 20:53:44 +00:00
jhibbits
89c83cd273 Correct pa argument type for pmap_kenter_attr()
Physical addresses are vm_paddr_t, not vm_offset_t.  This can make a difference
when sizeof(vm_offset_t) != sizeof(vm_paddr_t).
2017-05-16 03:31:49 +00:00
glebius
21ead51d79 - Remove 'struct vmmeter' from 'struct pcpu', leaving only global vmmeter
in place.  To do per-cpu stats, convert all fields that previously were
  maintained in the vmmeters that sit in pcpus to counter(9).
- Since some vmmeter stats may be touched at very early stages of boot,
  before we have set up UMA and we can do counter_u64_alloc(), provide an
  early counter mechanism:
  o Leave one spare uint64_t in struct pcpu, named pc_early_dummy_counter.
  o Point counter(9) fields of vmmeter to pcpu[0].pc_early_dummy_counter,
    so that at early stages of boot, before counters are allocated we already
    point to a counter that can be safely written to.
  o For sparc64 that required a whole dummy pcpu[MAXCPU] array.

Further related changes:
- Don't include vmmeter.h into pcpu.h.
- vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout and vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin changed to 64-bit,
  to match kernel representation.
- struct vmmeter hidden under _KERNEL, and only vmstat(1) is an exclusion.

This is based on benno@'s 4-year old patch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-July/014471.html

Reviewed by:	kib, gallatin, marius, lidl
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10156
2017-04-17 17:34:47 +00:00
pkelsey
33064e92a2 Corrected misspelled versions of rendezvous.
The MFC will include a compat definition of smp_no_rendevous_barrier()
that calls smp_no_rendezvous_barrier().

Reviewed by:	gnn, kib
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10313
2017-04-09 02:00:03 +00:00
bde
254458ab34 Fix printing of negative offsets (typically from frame pointers) again.
I fixed this in 1997, but the fix was over-engineered and fragile and
was broken in 2003 if not before.  i386 parameters were copied to 8
other arches verbatim, mostly after they stopped working on i386, and
mostly without the large comment saying how the values were chosen on
i386.  powerpc has a non-verbatim copy which just changes the uncritical
parameter and seems to add a sign extension bug to it.

Just treat negative offsets as offsets if they are no more negative than
-db_offset_max (default -64K), and remove all the broken parameters.

-64K is not very negative, but it is enough for frame and stack pointer
offsets since kernel stacks are small.

The over-engineering was mainly to go more negative than -64K for the
negative offset format, without affecting printing for more than a
single address.

Addresses in the top 64K of a (full 32-bit or 64-bit) address space
are now printed less well, but there aren't many interesting ones.
For arches that have many interesting ones very near the top (e.g.,
68k has interrupt vectors there), there would be no good limit for
the negative offset format and -64K is a good as anything.
2017-03-26 18:46:35 +00:00
jhibbits
a7c24c425b Introduce 64-bit PowerPC Book-E support
Extend the Book-E pmap to support 64-bit operation.  Much of this was taken from
Juniper's Junos FreeBSD port.  It uses a 3-level page table (page directory
list -- PP2D, page directory, page table), but has gaps in the page directory
list where regions will repeat, due to the design of the PP2D hash (a 20-bit gap
between the two parts of the index).  In practice this may not be a problem
given the expanded address space.  However, an alternative to this would be to
use a 4-level page table, like Linux, and possibly reduce the available address
space; Linux appears to use a 46-bit address space.  Alternatively, a cache of
page directory pointers could be used to keep the overall design as-is, but
remove the gaps in the address space.

This includes a new kernel config for 64-bit QorIQ SoCs, based on MPC85XX, with
the following notes:
* The DPAA driver has not yet been ported to 64-bit so is not included in the
  kernel config.
* This has been tested on the AmigaOne X5000, using a MD_ROOT compiled in
  (total size kernel+mdroot must be under 64MB).
* This can run both 32-bit and 64-bit processes, and has even been tested to run
  a 32-bit init with 64-bit children.

Many thanks to stevek and marcel for getting Juniper's FreeBSD patches open
sourced to be used here, and to stevek for reviewing, and providing some
historical contexts on quirks of the code.

Reviewed by:	stevek
Obtained from:	Juniper (in part)
MFC after:	2 months
Relnotes:	yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9433
2017-03-17 21:40:14 +00:00
imp
7e6cabd06e Renumber copyright clause 4
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.

Submitted by:	Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
2017-02-28 23:42:47 +00:00
jhibbits
ba9d8b6392 Unbreak kernel breakpoints, broken for ~4 years now
When committing DTrace in 2012/2013 era I inadvertently broke breakpoints, by
setting EXC_DTRACE to the same value as BKPT_INST.  Change EXC_DTRACE to a
different, yet logically identical, trap (tw <all>,31,31).

MFC after:	2 weeks
2017-02-28 04:13:20 +00:00
jah
85257d4d56 Bring back r313037, with fixes for mips:
Implement get_pcpu() for amd64/sparc64/mips/powerpc, and use it to
replace pcpu_find(curcpu) in MI code.

Reviewed by:	andreast, kan, lidl
Tested by:	lidl(mips, sparc64), andreast(powerpc)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9587
2017-02-19 02:03:09 +00:00
kib
c24073c855 Define the vm_ooffset_t and vm_pindex_t types as machine-independend.
The types are for the byte offset and page index in vm object.  They
are similar to off_t, which is defined as 64bit MI integer.  Using MI
definitions will allow to provide consistent MD values of vm
object-related maximum sizes.

Reviewed by:	alc
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	1 week
2017-02-04 12:26:38 +00:00
jah
f5659d40d3 Revert r313037
The switch to get_pcpu() in MI code seems to cause hangs on MIPS.
Back out until we can get a better idea of what's happening there.

Reported by:	kan, lidl
2017-02-04 06:24:49 +00:00
jah
fc31303beb Implement get_pcpu() for the remaining architectures and use it to
replace pcpu_find(curcpu) in MI code.
2017-02-01 03:32:49 +00:00
jhibbits
a3bd38c3ab Add Book-E Enhanced Debug (E.D) profile debug support
Freescale added the E.D profile to e500mc and derivative cores.  From
Freescale's EREF reference manual this is enabled by a bit in HID0 and should
otherwise default to traditional debug.  However, none of the Freescale cores
support that bit, and instead always use E.D.  This results in kernel panics
using the standard debug on e500mc+ cores.

Enhanced debug allows debugging of interrupts, including critical interrupts,
as it uses a different save/restore registers (srr*).  At this time we don't use
this ability, so instead share the core of the debug handler code between both
handlers.

MFC after:	3 weeks
2017-02-01 03:29:13 +00:00
jhibbits
a6f4e2b134 Don't retry a lost reservation in atomic_fcmpset()
The desired behavior of atomic_fcmpset_() is to always exit on error.  Instead
of retrying on lost reservation, leave the retry to the caller, and return
error.

Reported by:	kib
2017-01-31 03:40:13 +00:00
jhibbits
dba8901b07 Drop the __GNUCLIKE_ASM guards around most atomic inlines.
There are no alternatives defined, so there's no point in keeping them.  Also,
they weren't around every inline asm block anyway.  Without __GNUCLIKE_ASM
defined, the guarded functions return garbage.

Reported by:	Andrew Thompson
2017-01-30 02:52:15 +00:00
jhibbits
3ea21b1fb5 Add atomic_fcmpset_*() inlines for powerpc
Summary:
atomic_fcmpset_*() is analogous to atomic_cmpset(), but saves off the read value
from the target memory location into the 'old' pointer in the case of failure.

Requested by:	 mjg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9325
2017-01-30 02:15:54 +00:00
jhibbits
67444a489d Hide the 'MOREARGS' macro, it conflicts with contrib code, and is only used in one file.
PR:		211818
Reported by:	Mark Millard <markmi AT dsl-only.net>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2017-01-22 06:30:55 +00:00
jhibbits
3797ca6b76 Force all TOC references in asm to include '@toc'
This reportedly fixes one problem with booting a clang kernel.

PR:		kern/215819
Submitted by:	Mark Millard <markmi AT dsl-only.net>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2017-01-11 02:21:34 +00:00
jhibbits
a8b149ea2c Knock a page off VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS
There are places where checks are made against VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS, or
virtual_end (set to VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS).  With 32-bit checks, an address will
always be less than or equal to 0xffffffff.  Drop a page, so those checks can
terminate loops safely.
2017-01-08 21:12:46 +00:00
jhibbits
9d88d8c808 Add an isync to after mtsrin, required by the MPC750 errata
MPC750 User Manual Errata (rev 1) adds a note to C.4.2.2 noting that mtsr,
mtsrin, and mtmsr all require a isync after the instruction and before data
address translation uses any of the segment registers.  This should make FreeBSD
run correctly on the G3 again.

Reported by:	Mark Millard
MFC after:	1 week
2016-11-25 19:36:27 +00:00
jhibbits
5f5192dfd0 Fix the build post-r309017 for MPC85XX/MPC85XXSPE
r309017 removed two fields from struct vmmeter, which is embedded in struct
pcpu.  This caused the struct size to change, triggering the CTASSERT in
sys/pcpu.h.  Add the extra 8 bytes back in as padding.
2016-11-24 20:31:46 +00:00
jhibbits
8d17c296fe Fix buildworld for powerpc.
vmpage requires struct pmap to exist and contain a pm_stats field.  As of
r308817, either AIM or BOOKE is required to be set in order to get their
respective pmap structs.  Rather than expose them both, or try to unify them
unnecessarily, add a third option which contains only a pm_stats field, and
change the two existing pmap structures to place the common fields at the
beginning of the struct.  This actually fixes the stats collection by libkvm on
AIM hardware, because before it was accessing a possibly different offset, which
would cause it to read garbage.

Bump __FreeBSD_version to denote this ABI change, so that ports which depend on
libkvm can be rebuilt.
2016-11-20 06:10:12 +00:00
jhibbits
d0db7fddbf Fix buildworld
Change the pv_tracked flag to an int, just in case userspace decides to include
this file and defines BOOKE.

Guard this block from unintentional inclusion with ifdef BOOKE.

Reported by:	emaste
2016-11-18 22:59:33 +00:00
jhibbits
10f77ef73e Simplify the page tracking for VA<->PA translations.
Drop the tracking down to the pmap layer, with optimizations to only track
necessary pages.  This should give a (slight) performance improvement, as well
as a stability improvement, as the tracking is already mostly handled by the
pmap layer.
2016-11-16 05:24:42 +00:00
jhibbits
0d281bbd18 Add P1022 and compatible SVR IDs
The eSDHC driver requires these IDs.  Missed in r308188.
2016-11-02 03:07:01 +00:00
jhibbits
e1324795ef Add the SPE feature mask for e500v1 and e500v2
On e500v2 SoCs it will now print:

cpu0: Features 84e08000<PPC32,MMU,SPE,EFPS,EFPD,BOOKE>

at bootup.
2016-10-29 01:24:30 +00:00
jhibbits
40c4c3de40 Create a new MACHINE_ARCH for Freescale PowerPC e500v2
Summary:
The Freescale e500v2 PowerPC core does not use a standard FPU.
Instead, it uses a Signal Processing Engine (SPE)--a DSP-style vector processor
unit, which doubles as a FPU.  The PowerPC SPE ABI is incompatible with the
stock powerpc ABI, so a new MACHINE_ARCH was created to deal with this.
Additionaly, the SPE opcodes overlap with Altivec, so these are mutually
exclusive.  Taking advantage of this fact, a new file, powerpc/booke/spe.c, was
created with the same function set as in powerpc/powerpc/altivec.c, so it
becomes effectively a drop-in replacement.  setjmp/longjmp were modified to save
the upper 32-bits of the now-64-bit GPRs (upper 32-bits are only accessible by
the SPE).

Note: This does _not_ support the SPE in the e500v1, as the e500v1 SPE does not
support double-precision floating point.

Also, without a new MACHINE_ARCH it would be impossible to provide binary
packages which utilize the SPE.

Additionally, no work has been done to support ports, work is needed for this.
This also means no newer gcc can yet be used.  However, gcc's powerpc support
has been refactored which would make adding a powerpcspe-freebsd target very
easy.

Test Plan:
This was lightly tested on a RouterBoard RB800 and an AmigaOne A1222
(P1022-based) board, compiled against the new ABI.  Base system utilities
(/bin/sh, /bin/ls, etc) still function appropriately, the system is able to boot
multiuser.

Reviewed By:	bdrewery, imp
Relnotes:	yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5683
2016-10-22 01:57:15 +00:00
imp
081e8d8587 Fix building on i386 and arm. But 'public domain' headers on the files
with no creative content. Include "lost" changes from git:
o Use /dev/efi instead of /dev/efidev
o Remove redundant NULL checks.

Submitted by: kib@, dim@, zbb@, emaste@
2016-10-13 06:56:23 +00:00
imp
d3cf557732 Include stubs even on the platforms we don't support so libsysdecode
continues to build.
2016-10-11 22:54:29 +00:00
jhibbits
6eb886e66d Fix system hang when large FDT is in use
Summary:
Kernel maps only one page of FDT. When FDT is more than one page in size, data
TLB miss occurs on memmove() when FDT is moved to kernel storage
(sys/powerpc/booke/booke_machdep.c, booke_init())

This introduces a pmap_early_io_unmap() to complement pmap_early_io_map(), which
can be used for any early I/O mapping, but currently is only used when mapping
the fdt.

Submitted by:	Ivan Krivonos <int0dster_gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7605
2016-08-24 03:51:40 +00:00
bz
5bff0a8f50 Revert r303890 for now here as camdd fails to build on powerpc*
due to device_t only being available under _KERNEL.

Reported by:	bde (_KERNEL in general), kib (build failure)
MFC after:	1 day
X-MFC with:	r303890
2016-08-11 15:06:12 +00:00
dumbbell
371e0a7254 Consistently use device_t
Several files use the internal name of `struct device` instead of
`device_t` which is part of the public API. This patch changes all
`struct device *` to `device_t`.

The remaining occurrences of `struct device` are those referring to the
Linux or OpenBSD version of the structure, or the code is not built on
FreeBSD and it's unclear what to do.

Submitted by:	Matthew Macy <mmacy@nextbsd.org> (previous version)
Approved by:	emaste, jhibbits, sbruno
MFC after:	3 days
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7447
2016-08-09 19:32:06 +00:00
jhibbits
801b632ef5 Set EN_MAS7_UPDATE HID0 bit for e500 core.
Without enabling this bit, tlbre and tlbsx don't update the MAS7 register,
resulting in garbage in the register after a read (rather, the previous setting
of it for a tlbwe).  This can result in mmu_booke_mapdev_attr() thinking
mappings that should match actually don't, because tlb1_read_entry() can't
determine the correct address of a given entry.

MFC after:	11-RELEASE
2016-08-07 19:09:56 +00:00
jhibbits
8f7c499598 Remove booke_enable_l3_cache declaration and remaining definition.
L3 cache is not defined by Book-E, so is platform specific.  Since it was
already moved for e500-based devices into mpc85xx in r292903, just eliminate it
altogether.  Any device that supports L3 cache should have its own platform
means to enable it.
2016-07-17 19:24:28 +00:00
nwhitehorn
89d01c24d1 Replace a number of conflations of mp_ncpus and mp_maxid with either
mp_maxid or CPU_FOREACH() as appropriate. This fixes a number of places in
the kernel that assumed CPU IDs are dense in [0, mp_ncpus) and would try,
for example, to run tasks on CPUs that did not exist or to allocate too
few buffers on systems with sparse CPU IDs in which there are holes in the
range and mp_maxid > mp_ncpus. Such circumstances generally occur on
systems with SMT, but on which SMT is disabled. This patch restores system
operation at least on POWER8 systems configured in this way.

There are a number of other places in the kernel with potential problems
in these situations, but where sparse CPU IDs are not currently known
to occur, mostly in the ARM machine-dependent code. These will be fixed
in a follow-up commit after the stable/11 branch.

PR:		kern/210106
Reviewed by:	jhb
Approved by:	re (glebius)
2016-07-06 14:09:49 +00:00
jhibbits
01ad9aa4bf Fix SMP booting for PowerPC Book-E
Summary:
PowerPC Book-E SMP is currently broken for unknown reasons.  Pull in
Semihalf changes made c2012 for e500mc/e5500, which enables booting SMP.

This eliminates the shared software TLB1 table, replacing it with
tlb1_read_entry() function.

This does not yet support ePAPR SMP booting, and doesn't handle resetting CPUs
already released (ePAPR boot releases APs to a spin loop waiting on a specific
address).  This will be addressed in the near future by using the MPIC to reset
the AP into our own alternate boot address.

This does include a change to the dpaa/dtsec(4) driver, to mark the portals as
CPU-private.

Test Plan:
Tested on Amiga X5000/20 (P5020).  Boots, prints the following
messages:

 Adding CPU 0, pir=0, awake=1
 Waking up CPU 1 (dev=1)
 Adding CPU 1, pir=20, awake=1
 SMP: AP CPU #1 launched

top(1) shows CPU1 active.

Obtained from:	Semihalf
Relnotes:	Yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5945
2016-04-19 01:48:18 +00:00
jhibbits
19c7765e37 Restructure device mappings for Book-E.
Summary:
There is currently a 1GB hole between user and kernel address spaces
into which direct (1:1 PA:VA) device mappings go.  This appears to go largely
unused, leaving all devices to contend with the 128MB block at the end of the
32-bit space (0xf8000000-0xffffffff).  This easily fills up, and needs to be
densely packed.  However, dense packing wastes precious TLB1 space, of which
there are only 16 (e500v2) or 64(e5500) entries available.

Change this by using the 1GB space for all device mappings, and allow the kernel
to use the entire upper 1GB for KVA.  This also allows us to use sparse device
mappings, freeing up TLB entries.

Test Plan: Boot tested on p5020.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5832
2016-04-10 15:48:09 +00:00
jhibbits
545a09c60f Increase booke bus max address to 36-bits.
Sponsored by:	Alex Perez/Inertial Computing
2016-03-18 01:30:58 +00:00
jhibbits
8bf1194fe5 Add support for the Freescale dTSEC DPAA-based ethernet controller.
Freescale's QorIQ line includes a new ethernet controller, based on their
Datapath Acceleration Architecture (DPAA).  This uses a combination of a Frame
manager, Buffer manager, and Queue manager to improve performance across all
interfaces by being able to pass data directly between hardware acceleration
interfaces.

As part of this import, Freescale's Netcomm Software (ncsw) driver is imported.
This was an attempt by Freescale to create an OS-agnostic sub-driver for
managing the hardware, using shims to interface to the OS-specific APIs.  This
work was abandoned, and Freescale's primary work is in the Linux driver (dual
BSD/GPL license).  Hence, this was imported directly to sys/contrib, rather than
going through the vendor area.  Going forward, FreeBSD-specific changes may be
made to the ncsw code, diverging from the upstream in potentially incompatible
ways.  An alternative could be to import the Linux driver itself, using the
linuxKPI layer, as that would maintain parity with the vendor-maintained driver.
However, the Linux driver has not been evaluated for reliability yet, and may
have issues with the import, whereas the ncsw-based driver in this commit was
completed by Semihalf 4 years ago, and is very stable.

Other SoC modules based on DPAA, which could be added in the future:
* Security and Encryption engine (SEC4.x, SEC5.x)
* RAID engine

Additional work to be done:
* Implement polling mode
* Test vlan support
* Add support for the Pattern Matching Engine, which can do regular expression
  matching on packets.

This driver has been tested on the P5020 QorIQ SoC.  Others listed in the
dtsec(4) manual page are expected to work as the same DPAA engine is included in
all.

Obtained from:	Semihalf
Relnotes:	Yes
Sponsored by:	Alex Perez/Inertial Computing
2016-02-29 03:38:00 +00:00