the point where it being a macro is no longer sensible, and it will
only be more so in days to come.
BIO_STRATEGY() is now only used from DEV_STRATEGY() and should not
be used directly anymore.
Put the contents of both in the new function dev_strategy() and
make DEV_STRATEGY() call that function.
In addition, this allows us to make the rather magic bufdonebio()
helper function static.
This alse saves hunderedandsome bytes of code in a typical kernel.
definition structure. Define one flag, CN_FLAG_NODEBUG, which
indicates the console driver cannot be used in the context of the
debugger. This may be used, for example, if the console device
interacts with kernel services that cannot be used from the
debugger context, such as the network stack. These drivers are
skipped over for calls to cn_checkc() and cn_putc(), and the
calling function simply moves on to the next available console.
a fair bit of difference to the power consumption and lets my cpu cool
down enough for the temperature sensitive fan controller to completely
stop the cpu fan at times.
halt state that minimizes power consumption while still preserving
cache and TLB coherency. Halting the processor is not conditional at
this time. Tested with UP and SMP kernels.
classes and if a method is not found in a given class, its base classes
are searched (in the order they were declared). This search is recursive,
i.e. a method may be define in a base class of a base class.
* Change the kobj method lookup algorithm to one which is SMP-safe. This
relies only on the constraint that an observer of a sequence of writes
of pointer-sized values will see exactly one of those values, not a
mixture of two or more values. This assumption holds for all processors
which FreeBSD supports.
* Add locking to kobj class initialisation.
* Add a simpler form of 'inheritance' for devclasses. Each devclass can
have a parent devclass. Searches for drivers continue up the chain of
devclasses until either a matching driver is found or a devclass is
reached which has no parent. This can allow, for instance, pci drivers
to match cardbus devices (assuming that cardbus declares pci as its
parent devclass).
* Increment __FreeBSD_version.
This preserves the driver API entirely except for one minor feature used
by the ISA compatibility shims. A workaround for ISA compatibility will
be committed separately. The kobj and newbus ABI has changed - all modules
must be recompiled.
rounding errors. This was the source of the majority of the
interactivity problems. Reintroduce the old algorithm and its XXX.
- Up the interactivity threshold to 30. It really could stand to be even
a tiny bit higher.
- Let the sleep and run time accumulate up to 5 seconds of history rather
than two. This helps stop XFree86 from becoming non-interactive during
bursts of activity.
elevated either due to priority propagation or because we're in the
kernel in either case, put us on the current queue so that we dont
stop others from using important resources. At some point the priority
elevations from sleeping in the kernel should go away.
- Remove an optimization in sched_userret(). Before we would only set
NEEDRESCHED if there was something of a higher priority available. This
is a trivial optimization and it breaks priority propagation because it
doesn't take threads which we may be blocking into account. Notice that
the thread which is blocking others gets up to one tick of cpu time before
we honor this NEEDRESCHED in sched_clock().
accesses softc after it is freed. Use a different malloc type for
softc than the rest of the bus code to make it more clear when these
things happen that it is the driver that's at fault, not the bus code.
Suggested by: sam and/or phk (I think)
you on the current queue. In the future, it would be nice if priority
propagation could deterministicly pluck a thread off of the next queue
and put it on the current queue. Until then this hack stops us from
holding up our entire current queue, including interrupt handlers, while
a thread on the next queue is blocked while holding Giant.
- Inherit our pctcpu information from our parent.
kqueue write events on a socket and you regularly create tons of pipes
which overwrites the structure causing a panic when removing the knote
from the list. If the peer has gone away (and it's a write knote), then
don't bother trying to remove the knote from the list.
Submitted by: Brian Buchanan and myself
Obtained from: nCircle
caused snapshot related problems.
- The vp can not be NULL here or we would panic in vfs_bio_awrite(). Stop
confusing the logic by checking for it in several places.
Submitted by: kirk and then rototilled by me to remove vp == NULL checks.
Use pre-emption detection to avoid the need for wiring a userland buffer
when copying opaque data structures.
sysctl_wire_old_buffer() is now a no-op. Other consumers of this
API should use pre-emption detection to notice update collisions.
vslock() and vsunlock() should no longer be called by any code
and should be retired in subsequent commits.
Discussed with: pete, phk
MFC after: 1 week
go away in due course. Involuntary pre-emption means that we can't count
on wiring of pages alone for consistency when performing a SYSCTL_OUT()
bigger than PAGE_SIZE.
Discussed with: pete, phk
LK_RETRY either, we don't want this vnode if it turns into another.
- Remove the code that checks the mount point after acquiring the lock
we are guaranteed to either fail or get the vnode that we wanted.
- In vtryrecycle() try to vgonel the vnode if all of the previous checks
passed. We won't vgonel if someone has either acquired a hold or usecount
or started the vgone process elsewhere. This is because we may have been
removed from the free list while we were inspecting the vnode for
recycling.
- The VI_TRYLOCK stops two threads from entering getnewvnode() and recycling
the same vnode. To further reduce the likelyhood of this event, requeue
the vnode on the tail of the list prior to calling vtryrecycle(). We can
not actually remove the vnode from the list until we know that it's
going to be recycled because other interlock holders may see the VI_FREE
flag and try to remove it from the free list.
- Kill a bogus XXX comment. If XLOCK is set we shouldn't wait for it
regardless of MNT_WAIT because the vnode does not actually belong to
this filesystem.
purge, the purge in vclean, and the filesystems purge, we had 3 purges
per vnode.
- Move the insmntque(vp, 0) to vclean() so that we may remove it from the
two vgone() functions and reduce the number of lock operations required.
whether or not the sync failed. This could potentially get set between
the time that we VOP_UNLOCK and VI_LOCK() but the race would harmelssly
lead to the sync being delayed by an extra 30 seconds. If we do not move
the vnode it could cause an endless loop if it continues to fail to sync.
- Use vhold and vdrop to stop the vnode from changing identities while we
have it unlocked. Other internal vfs lists are likely to follow this
scheme.
- Create a new function, vgonechrl(), which performs vgone for an in-use
character device. Move the code from vflush() that did this into
vgonechrl().
- Hold the xlock across the entirety of vgonel() and vgonechrl() so that
at no point will an invalid vnode exist on any list without XLOCK set.
- Move the xlock code out of vclean() now that it is in the vgone*()
functions.
This is so that we may grab the interlock while still holding the
sync_mtx. We have to VI_TRYLOCK() because in all other cases the lock
order runs the other way.
- If we don't meet any of the preconditions, reinsert the vp into the
list for the next second.
- We don't need to panic if we fail to sync here because each FSYNC
function handles this case. Removing this redundant code also
simplifies locking.
fail. Remove the panic from that case and document why it might fail.
- Document the reason for calling cache_purge() on a newly created vnode.
- In insmntque() order the operations so that we can call mtx_unlock()
one fewer times. This makes the code somewhat clearer as well.
- Add XXX comments in sched_sync() and vflush().
- In vget(), do not sleep while waiting for XLOCK to clear if LK_NOWAIT is
set.
- In vclean() we don't need to acquire a lock around a single TAILQ_FIRST
call. It's ok if we race here, the vinvalbuf will just do nothing.
- Increase the scope of the lock in vgonel() to reduce the number of lock
operations that are performed.
