Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.
In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
instruction loads/stores at its will.
The macro __compiler_membar() is currently supported for both gcc and
clang, but kernel compilation will fail otherwise.
Reviewed by: bde, kib
Discussed with: dim, theraven
MFC after: 2 weeks
usermode, using shared page. The structures and functions have vdso
prefix, to indicate the intended location of the code in some future.
The versioned per-algorithm data is exported in the format of struct
vdso_timehands, which mostly repeats the content of in-kernel struct
timehands. Usermode reading of the structure can be lockless.
Compatibility export for 32bit processes on 64bit host is also
provided. Kernel also provides usermode with indication about
currently used timecounter, so that libc can fall back to syscall if
configured timecounter is unknown to usermode code.
The shared data updates are initiated both from the tc_windup(), where
a fast task is queued to do the update, and from sysctl handlers which
change timecounter. A manual override switch
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime allows to turn off the mechanism.
Only x86 architectures export the real algorithm data, and there, only
for tsc timecounter. HPET counters page could be exported as well, but
I prefer to not further glue the kernel and libc ABI there until
proper vdso-based solution is developed.
Minimal stubs neccessary for non-x86 architectures to still compile
are provided.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: flo
MFC after: 1 month
reg.h with stubs.
The tREGISTER macros are only made visible on i386. These macros are
deprecated and should not be available on amd64.
The i386 and amd64 versions of struct reg have been renamed to struct
__reg32 and struct __reg64. During compilation either __reg32 or __reg64
is defined as reg depending on the machine architecture. On amd64 the i386
struct is also available as struct reg32 which is used in COMPAT_FREEBSD32
code.
Most of compat/ia32/ia32_reg.h is now IA64 only.
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
amd64/i386/pc98 ptrace.h with stubs.
For amd64 PT_GETXSTATE and PT_SETXSTATE have been redefined to match the
i386 values. The old values are still supported but should no longer be
used.
Reviewed by: kib
amd64/i386/pc98 endian.h with stubs.
In __bswap64_const(x) the conflict between 0xffUL and 0xffULL has been
resolved by reimplementing the macro in terms of __bswap32(x). As a side
effect __bswap64_var(x) is now implemented using two bswap instructions on
i386 and should be much faster. __bswap32_const(x) has been reimplemented
in terms of __bswap16(x) for consistency.
the original amd64 and i386 headers with stubs.
Rename (AMD64|I386)_BUS_SPACE_* to X86_BUS_SPACE_* everywhere.
Reviewed by: imp (previous version), jhb
Approved by: kib (mentor)
Passing a count of zero on i386 and amd64 for [I386|AMD64]_BUS_SPACE_MEM
causes a crash/hang since the 'loop' instruction decrements the counter
before checking if it's zero.
PR: kern/80980
Discussed with: jhb
contents of the ones that were not empty were stale and unused.
- Now that <machine/mutex.h> no longer exists, there is no need to allow it
to override various helper macros in <sys/mutex.h>.
- Rename various helper macros for low-level operations on mutexes to live
in the _mtx_* or __mtx_* namespaces. While here, change the names to more
closely match the real API functions they are backing.
- Drop support for including <sys/mutex.h> in assembly source files.
Suggested by: bde (1, 2)
believed that all 486-class CPUs FreeBSD is capable to run on, either
have no FPU and cannot use external coprocessor, or have FPU on the
package and can use #MF.
Reviewed by: bde
Tested by: pho (previous version)
hook it up to ada(4) also. While at it, rename *ad_firmware_geom_adjust()
to *ata_disk_firmware_geom_adjust() etc now that these are no longer
limited to ad(4).
Reviewed by: mav
MFC after: 3 days
these days, so de-generalize the acquire_timer/release_timer api
to just deal with speakers.
The new (optional) MD functions are:
timer_spkr_acquire()
timer_spkr_release()
and
timer_spkr_setfreq()
the last of which configures the timer to generate a tone of a given
frequency, in Hz instead of 1/1193182th of seconds.
Drop entirely timer2 on pc98, it is not used anywhere at all.
Move sysbeep() to kern/tty_cons.c and use the timer_spkr*() if
they exist, and do nothing otherwise.
Remove prototypes and empty acquire-/release-timer() and sysbeep()
functions from the non-beeping archs.
This eliminate the need for the speaker driver to know about
i8254frequency at all. In theory this makes the speaker driver MI,
contingent on the timer_spkr_*() functions existing but the driver
does not know this yet and still attaches to the ISA bus.
Syscons is more tricky, in one function, sc_tone(), it knows the hz
and things are just fine.
In the other function, sc_bell() it seems to get the period from
the KDMKTONE ioctl in terms if 1/1193182th second, so we hardcode
the 1193182 and leave it at that. It's probably not important.
Change a few other sysbeep() uses which obviously knew that the
argument was in terms of i8254 frequency, and leave alone those
that look like people thought sysbeep() took frequency in hertz.
This eliminates the knowledge of i8254_freq from all but the actual
clock.c code and the prof_machdep.c on amd64 and i386, where I think
it would be smart to ask for help from the timecounters anyway [TBD].
sys/i4b/include/ so they will be available to all architectures
once I4B compiles on those.
We no longer need these "glue" files.
Reminded by: nyan
Approved by: re (kensmith)
from the actual geometry. This enables support of disks larger than
~120GB on pc98 boxes. They make great little network appliances.
I've been using these changes for the past year or so on my network
storage pc98 box :-).
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.
