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Author SHA1 Message Date
ps
c71ac689e0 Implement write combining for crashdumps. This is useful when
write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks where large
memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete.

Taking an i386 scsi based system with 512MB of ram and timing (in
seconds) how long it took to complete a dump, the following results
were obtained:

Before:				After:
	WCE           TIME		WCE           TIME
	------------------		------------------
	1	141.820972		1	 15.600111
	0	797.265072		0	 65.480465

Obtained from:	Yahoo!
Reviewed by:	peter
2000-10-17 10:05:49 +00:00
dfr
eff8f28a1d * Correct some of my misunderstandings about how best to switch to the
kernel backing store.
* Implement syscalls via break instructions.
* Fix backing store copying in cpu_fork() so that the child gets the right
  register values.

This thing is actually starting to work now. This set of changes takes me
up to the second execve (the one which runs the first shell). Next stop
single-user mode :-).
2000-10-16 08:54:40 +00:00
phk
35f5b229bc Move DELAY() from <machine/clock.h> to <sys/systm.h> 2000-10-15 09:51:49 +00:00
dfr
345b5e7cc0 Implement a rudimentary interrupt handling system which should be good
enough for clock interrupts in SKI.
2000-10-12 17:47:01 +00:00
dfr
8f965dc2c3 * Fix exception handling so that it actually works. We can now handle
exceptions from both kernel and user mode.
* Fix context switching so that we can switch back to a proc which we
  switched away from (we were saving the state in the wrong place).
* Implement lazy switching of the high-fp state. This needs to be looked
  at again for SMP to cope with the case of a process migrating from one
  processor to another while it has the high-fp state.
* Make setregs() work properly. I still think this should be called
  cpu_exec() or something.
* Various other minor fixes.

With this lot, we can execve() /sbin/init and we get all the way up to its
first syscall. At that point, we stop because syscall handling is not done
yet.
2000-10-12 14:36:39 +00:00
dfr
f610b17c8d * Add rudimentary DDB support (no kgdb, no backtrace, no single step).
* Track recent changes to SWI code.
* Allocate RIDs for pmaps (untested).
* Implement assembler version of cpu_switch - its cleaner that way.
2000-10-10 14:57:10 +00:00
phk
410d456c0b Initiate deorbit burn sequence for <machine/mouse.h>.
Replace all in-tree uses with <sys/mouse.h> which repo-copied a few
moments ago from src/sys/i386/include/mouse.h by peter.
This is also the appropriate fix for exo-tree sources.

Put warnings in <machine/mouse.h> to discourage use.
November 15th 2000 the warnings will be converted to errors.
January 15th 2001 the <machine/mouse.h> files will be removed.
2000-10-09 08:08:36 +00:00
phk
a4f549597e Initiate deorbit burn sequence for <machine/console.h>.
Replace all in-tree uses with necessary subset of <sys/{fb,kb,cons}io.h>.
This is also the appropriate fix for exo-tree sources.

Put warnings in <machine/console.h> to discourage use.
November 15th 2000 the warnings will be converted to errors.
January 15th 2001 the <machine/console.h> files will be removed.
2000-10-08 21:34:00 +00:00
bmilekic
003596e098 Cleanup comment in machine/param.h regarding mbuf-related sizes, and get rid
of MCLOFSET, which does not appear to be used anywhere anymore, and if it is,
it probably shouldn't be.
2000-10-08 03:52:27 +00:00
bde
3a35c5bf34 Work around a bug by adding struct tags. gcc-2.95 apparently gets the
check in the [basic.link] section of the C++ standard wrong.  gcc-2.7.2.3
apparently doesn't do the check, so the bug doesn't affect RELENG_3.

PR:		16170, 21427
Submitted by:	Max Khon <fjoe@lark.websci.ru> (i386 version)
Discussed with:	jdp
2000-10-06 11:53:32 +00:00
jasone
6d81977609 Reduce userland namespace polution.
#include <proc.h>, since curproc is needed.
2000-10-06 08:11:11 +00:00
dfr
5135c38a27 Next round of fixes to the ia64 code. This includes simulated clock and
disk drivers along with a load of fixes to context switching, fork
handling and a load of other stuff I can't remember now. This takes us as
far as start_init() before it dies. I guess now I will have to finish off
the VM system and syscall handling :-).
2000-10-04 17:53:03 +00:00
dfr
fdfd00f78b Next round of ia64 work, including fixes to context switching,
implementing cpu_fork(), copy*str(), bcopy(), copy{in,out}(). With these
changes, my test kernel reaches the mountroot prompt.
2000-09-30 17:48:44 +00:00
dfr
fb0b532d5b Bodge the simplelocks in a way which works UP. 2000-09-29 16:51:33 +00:00
dfr
70fa508ece Add a few more files for the ia64 port. 2000-09-29 13:48:14 +00:00
dfr
263f9f6863 This is the first snapshot of the FreeBSD/ia64 kernel. This kernel will
not work on any real hardware (or fully work on any simulator). Much more
needs to happen before this is actually functional but its nice to see
the FreeBSD copyright message appear in the ia64 simulator.
2000-09-29 13:46:07 +00:00