Now when one does 'make kernel ; make kernel' the second invocation
only does: `kernel.ko' is up to date.
rather than reproduce all the binary microcode files and relink the kernel.
[continuation of r212429]
The external gpio pins are connected to a PLD on the i2c bus, unfortunatley
this device does not conform by failing to send an ack after each byte written.
The iicbb driver will abort the transfer when the address is not ack'd and it
would introduce a lot of churn to be able to pass a flag down to
iicbb_start/iicbb_write. Instead we do bad things by grabbing the iicbus but
then doing our own bit banging.
actually 16 I/O lines but the other ones are used for system devices and
interrupts.
The IXP4XX platform can set interrupts on these pins for
high/low/rising/falling/transitional but this is not implemented yet.
The Cambria has the same interface but as all the pins are assigned to system
functions the gpio header is toggled via a PLD on the i2c bus and is not
supported by this commit.
the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.
While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).
Reviewed by: jhb, yongari
This reflects actual type used to store and compare child device orders.
Change is mostly done via a Coccinelle (soon to be devel/coccinelle)
semantic patch.
Verified by LINT+modules kernel builds.
Followup to: r212213
MFC after: 10 days
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
This brings hwpmc(4) support for 2nd and 3rd generation XScale cores.
Right now it's enabled by default to make sure we test this a bit.
When the time comes it can be disabled by default.
Tested on Gateworks boards.
A man page is coming.
Obtained from: //depot/user/rpaulo/xscalepmc/...
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.
For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks
- Modules and kernel code alike may use DPCPU_DEFINE(),
DPCPU_GET(), DPCPU_SET(), etc. akin to the statically defined
PCPU_*. Requires only one extra instruction more than PCPU_* and is
virtually the same as __thread for builtin and much faster for shared
objects. DPCPU variables can be initialized when defined.
- Modules are supported by relocating the module's per-cpu linker set
over space reserved in the kernel. Modules may fail to load if there
is insufficient space available.
- Track space available for modules with a one-off extent allocator.
Free may block for memory to allocate space for an extent.
Reviewed by: jhb, rwatson, kan, sam, grehan, marius, marcel, stas
driver's i/o ops must be locked to avoid chaos. Extend the cambria
bus tag to support ata and add a spin lock. The ata driver is
hacked to use that instead of it's builtin hack for ixp425. Once
the ata driver is fixed to not be confused about byte order we can
generalize the cambria bus tag code and make it generally useful.
While here take advantage of our being ixp435-specific to remove
delays when switching between byte+word accesses and to eliminate
the 2us delay for the uarts (the spin lock overhead looks to do
this for us).
used for the optional GPS+RS485 uarts on the Gateworks Cambria boards
which otherwise are unreliable
o setup the hack bus space tag for the GPS+RS485 uarts
o program the gpio interrupts for the uarts to be edge-rising
o force timing on the expansion bus for the uarts to be "slow"
Thanks to Chris Lang of Gateworks for these tips.
causes both to become inoperative; this apparently was done by the original
IAL code as a workaround for IMEM parity errors which we've not seen so
just disable the reset.
Note this problem does not occur on IXP425 boards. The linux driver does
fuse-resets on each NPE but in the order NPE-A < NPE-B < NPE-C (when probing
for which NPE's are present/operational); we may want to switch to a similar
scheme but for now disable the resets until we see an issue.
normally taken from the hints file so this should have no effect
o set the port address "just in case"
o add NPE-A support to the tx done qmgr callback
the implementation can guarantee forward progress in the event of
a stuck interrupt or interrupt storm. This is especially critical
for fast interrupt handlers, as they can cause a hard hang in that
case. When first called, arm_get_next_irq() is passed -1.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
CPU for too long period than necessary. Additively, interfaces are kept
polled (in the tick) even if no more packets are available.
In order to avoid such situations a new generic mechanism can be
implemented in proactive way, keeping track of the time spent on any
packet and fragmenting the time for any tick, stopping the processing
as soon as possible.
In order to implement such mechanism, the polling handler needs to
change, returning the number of packets processed.
While the intended logic is not part of this patch, the polling KPI is
broken by this commit, adding an int return value and the new flag
IFCAP_POLLING_NOCOUNT (which will signal that the return value is
meaningless for the installed handler and checking should be skipped).
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to signal such situation.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
