but I see no benefit from it today.
VM_PROT_READ_IS_EXEC was only intended for use on processors that do not
distinguish between read and execute permission. On an mmap(2) or
mprotect(2), it automatically added execute permission if the caller
specified permissions included read permission. The hope was that this
would reduce the number of vm map entries needed to implement an address
space because there would be fewer neighboring vm map entries that differed
only in the presence or absence of VM_PROT_EXECUTE. (See vm/vm_mmap.c
revision 1.56.)
Today, I don't see any real applications that benefit from
VM_PROT_READ_IS_EXEC. In any case, vm map entries are now organized
as a self-adjusting binary search tree instead of an ordered list. So,
the need for coalescing vm map entries is not as great as it once was.
To keep these structures ABI-compatible, half the size of r_trapno,
r_err, mc_trapno, mc_flags.
Add fsbase and gsbase to mcontext on both amd64 and i386.
Add flags to amd64 mcontext to indicate that it contains valid segments
or bases.
In collaboration with: pho
Discussed with: peter
Reviewed by: jhb
as 'real memory' instead of Maxmem if the value is available.
Note amd64 displayed physmem as 'usable memory' since machdep.c r1.640
to unconfuse users. Now it is consistent across amd64 and i386 again.
While I am here, clean up smbios.c a bit and update copyright date.
Reviewed by: jhb
in AMD FPUs:
- Do not clear the affected state in the case that the FPU registers for
the thread that already owns the FPU are changed via fpu_setregs(). The
only local information the thread would see is its own state in that
case.
- Fix a type mismatch for the dummy variable used in a "fld". It accepts
a float, not a double.
Reviewed by: bde
Approved by: so (cperciva)
MFC after: 1 month
the requested PCI bus falls outside of the bus range given in the ACPI
MCFG table. Several BIOSes seem to not include all of the PCI busses in
systems in their MCFG tables. It maybe that the BIOS is simply buggy and
does support all the busses, but it is more conservative to just fall back
to the old method unless it is certain that memory accesses will work.
driver in Linux 2.6. uscanner was just a simple wrapper around a fifo and
contained no logic, the default interface is now libusb (supported by sane).
Reviewed by: HPS
to the full path of the image that is being executed.
Increase AT_COUNT.
Remove no longer true comment about types used in Linux ELF binaries,
listed types contain FreeBSD-specific entries.
Reviewed by: kan
This code is heavily inspired by Takanori Watanabe's experimental SMP patch
for i386 and large portion was shamelessly cut and pasted from Peter Wemm's
AP boot code.
in FreeBSD 5.x to allow network device drivers to run with Giant
despite the network stack being Giant-free. This significantly
simplifies calls into ioctl() on network interfaces, especially
in the multicast code, as well as eliminates deferred invocation
of interface if_start routines.
Disable the build on device drivers still depending on
IFF_NEEDSGIANT as they no longer compile. They will be removed
in a few weeks if they haven't been made MPSAFE in that time.
Disabled drivers:
if_ar
if_axe
if_aue
if_cdce
if_cue
if_kue
if_ray
if_rue
if_rum
if_sr
if_udav
if_ural
if_zyd
Drivers that were already disabled because of tty changes:
if_ppp
if_sl
Discussed on: arch@
".note.ABI-tag" section.
The search order of a brand is changed, now first of all the
".note.ABI-tag" is looked through.
Move code which fetch osreldate for ELF binary to check_note() handler.
PR: 118473
Approved by: kib (mentor)
system call entry path and i386 IP checksum generation: we now assume
all code is MPSAFE unless explicitly marked otherwise. Remove XXX
Giant comments along similar lines: the code by the comments either
doesn't need or doesn't want Giant (especially the NMI handler).
MFC after: 3 days
ABIs:
- Store the FPU initial control word in the pcb for each thread.
- When first using the FPU, load the initial control word after restoring
the clean state if it is not the standard control word.
- Provide a correct control word for Linux/i386 binaries under
FreeBSD/amd64.
- Adjust the control word returned for fpugetregs()/npxgetregs() when a
thread hasn't used the FPU yet to reflect the real initial control
word for the current ABI.
- The Linux/i386 ABI for FreeBSD/i386 now properly sets the right control
word instead of trashing whatever the current state of the FPU is.
Reviewed by: bde
- Remove the control word parameter to npxinit(). It was always set
to __INITIAL_NPXCW__.
- Remove npx_cleanstate_ready as the cleanstate is always initalized
when it is used.
- Improve the handling of the case when the FPU isn't present. Now
the npx0 device no longer succeeds in its probe so all of npx_attach()
is skipped. Also, we allow this case with SMP (though that shouldn't
actually occur as all i386 systems that support SMP have FPUs) now.
SMP was only an issue back when we had an FPU emulator which was not
per-CPU.
- MFamd64: Clear some of the state in npx_cleanstate rather than leaving
it as garbage.
- MFamd64: When a user thread first uses the FPU, use npx_cleanstate for
the initial FPU state.
Reviewed by: bde
bogus entries have a starting IRQ that is invalid (> 255, so won't fit
into a PCI intline config register). It had the side effect of breaking
MSI by "claiming" several IRQs in the MSI range. Fix this by ignoring such
I/O APICs.
MFC after: 2 weeks
are used by glibc. This silents the message "2.4+ kernel w/o ELF notes?"
from some programs at start, among them are top and pkill.
Do the assignment of the vector entries in elf_linux_fixup()
as it is done in glibc.
Fix some minor style issues.
Submitted by: Marcin Cieslak <saper at SYSTEM PL>
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
different cpu is still assigned to that vector by never clearing idt
entries. This was only provided as a debugging feature and the bugs
are caught by other means.
- Drop the sched lock when rebinding to reassign an interrupt vector
to a new cpu so that pending interrupts have a chance to be delivered
before removing the old vector.
Discussed with: tegge, jhb
the same dma tag. However, it can happen multiple dma tags share the same
bounce zone too, so add a per-bounce zone map counter, and check it instead of
the dma tag map counter, to know if we have to alloc more pages.
Reported by: miwi
Reviewed by: scottl
offset. This is needed for the ehci hardware buffer rings that assume
this behavior.
This is an interim solution, and a more general one is being worked
on. This solution doesn't break anything that doesn't ask for it
directly. The mbuf and uio variants with this flag likely don't work
and haven't been tested.
Universe builds with these changes. I don't have a huge-memory
machine to test these changes with, but will be happy to work with
folks that do and hps if this changes turns out not to be sufficient.
Submitted by: alfred@ from Hans Peter Selasky's original
- leave pmtimer comment that is common to other architectures.
- bring pbio explanation to the block comment relating to other
drivers in the same block.
global NOTES file.
cx(4) driver isn't present in this file, though it could be. However, cx(4)
seems to be more or less dead -- it hasn't been linked to the modules build,
and after TTY-ng transformations it doesn't compile.
Remove it until cx(4) is broken.
- correct format strings
- fill opt_agp.h if AGP_DEBUG is defined
- bring AGP_DEBUG to LINT by mentioning it in NOTES
This should hopefully fix a warning that was...
Found by: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 3676
Tested on: amd64, i386
more irqs as we have more cpus. This is principally useful on systems
with msi devices which may want many irqs per-cpu.
Discussed with: jhb
Sponsored by: Nokia
- add a reference to the config(5) manpage;
- hopefully clarify the format of the 'env FILENAME' directive.
I am putting these notes in sys/${arch}/conf/GENERIC and not
in sys/conf/NOTES because:
1. i386/GENERIC already had reference to a similar option (hints..)
and to documentation (handbook)
2. GENERIC is what most users look at when they have to modify or
create a new kernel config, so having the suggestion there is
more effective.
I am only touching i386 and amd64 because the other GENERIC files
are already out of sync, and I am not sure what is the overall plan.
MFC after: 3 days
to GENERIC configuration files. This brings what's in 8.x in sync
with what is in 7.x, but does not change any current defaults.
Possibly they should now be enabled in head by default?
In the existing code we didn't really enforce that callers hold Giant
before calling userland_sysctl(), even though there is no guarantee it
is safe. Fix this by just placing Giant locks around the call to the oid
handler. This also means we only pick up Giant for a very short period
of time. Maybe we should add MPSAFE flags to sysctl or phase it out all
together.
I've also added SYSCTL_LOCK_ASSERT(). We have to make sure sysctl_root()
and name2oid() are called with the sysctl lock held.
Reviewed by: Jille Timmermans <jille quis cx>
Log:
- merge in latest xenbus from dfr's xenhvm
- fix race condition in xs_read_reply by converting tsleep to mtx_sleep
Log:
unmask evtchn in bind_{virq, ipi}_to_irq
Log:
- remove code for handling case of not being able to sleep
- eliminate tsleep - make sleeps atomic
time it is marked for user space callchain capture in the NMI
handler and the time the callchain capture callback runs.
- Improve code and control flow clarity by invoking hwpmc(4)'s user
space callchain capture callback directly from low-level code.
Reviewed by: jhb (kern/subr_trap.c)
Testing (various patch revisions): gnn,
Fabien Thomas <fabien dot thomas at netasq dot com>,
Artem Belevich <artemb at gmail dot com>
memory barriers on i386. It works as a serialization instruction on
all IA32 CPUs.
Alternative solution of using {s,l,}fence requires run-time checking
of the presense of the corresponding SSE or SSE2 extensions, and
possible boot-time patching of the kernel text.
Suggested by: many
Sgtty is a programming interface that has been replaced by termios over
the years. In June we already removed <sgtty.h>, which exposes the
ioctl()'s that are implemented by this interface. The importance of this
flag is overrated right now.
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support. Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying
device ath_hal
gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include
options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.
Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2", CPUs with family 0x6 and model
above or 0xE and CPUs with family 0xF and model above or 0x3 have invariant
TSC.
Change types used in the linux' struct msghdr and struct cmsghdr
definitions to the properly-sized architecture-specific types.
Move ancillary data handler from linux_sendit() to linux_sendmsg().
Submitted by: dchagin
and Core Duo), models 0xF (Core2), model 0x17 (Core2Extreme) and
model 0x1C (Atom).
In these CPUs, the actual numbers, kinds and widths of PMCs present
need to queried at run time. Support for specific "architectural"
events also needs to be queried at run time.
Model 0xE CPUs support programmable PMCs, subsequent CPUs
additionally support "fixed-function" counters.
- Use event names that are close to vendor documentation, taking in
account that:
- events with identical semantics on two or more CPUs in this family
can have differing names in vendor documentation,
- identical vendor event names may map to differing events across
CPUs,
- each type of CPU supports a different subset of measurable
events.
Fixed-function and programmable counters both use the same vendor
names for events. The use of a class name prefix ("iaf-" or
"iap-" respectively) permits these to be distinguished.
- In libpmc, refactor pmc_name_of_event() into a public interface
and an internal helper function, for use by log handling code.
- Minor code tweaks: staticize a global, freshen a few comments.
Tested by: gnn
throttle. My SMP kernel hangs when one of those is selected by
powerd. Errata AA21 here:
ftp://download.intel.com/design/PentiumXE/specupdt/31030717.pdf
MFC after: 2 weeks
of the ABI of the currently executing image. Change some places to test
the flags instead of explicit comparing with address of known sysentvec
structures to determine ABI features.
Discussed with: dchagin, imp, jhb, peter
and ifnet functions
- add memory barriers to <machine/atomic.h>
- update drivers to only conditionally define their own
- add lockless producer / consumer ring buffer
- remove ring buffer implementation from cxgb and update its callers
- add if_transmit(struct ifnet *ifp, struct mbuf *m) to ifnet to
allow drivers to efficiently manage multiple hardware queues
(i.e. not serialize all packets through one ifq)
- expose if_qflush to allow drivers to flush any driver managed queues
This work was supported by Bitgravity Inc. and Chelsio Inc.
controller. The controller is also known as L1E(AR8121) and
L2E(AR8113/AR8114). Unlike its predecessor Attansic L1,
AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 uses completely different Rx logic such that
it requires separate driver. Datasheet for AR81xx is not available
to open source driver writers but it shares large part of Tx and
PHY logic of L1. I still don't understand some part of register
meaning and some MAC statistics counters but the driver seems to
have no critical issues for performance and stability.
The AR81xx requires copy operation to pass received frames to upper
stack such that ale(4) consumes a lot of CPU cycles than that of
other controller. A couple of silicon bugs also adds more CPU
cycles to address the known hardware bug. However, if you have fast
CPU you can still saturate the link.
Currently ale(4) supports the following hardware features.
- MSI.
- TCP Segmentation offload.
- Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping with checksum offload.
- Tx TCP/UDP checksum offload and Rx IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload.
- Tx/Rx interrupt moderation.
- Hardware statistics counters.
- Jumbo frame.
- WOL.
AR81xx PCIe ethernet controllers are mainly found on ASUS EeePC or
P5Q series of ASUS motherboards. Special thanks to Jeremy Chadwick
who sent the hardware to me. Without his donation writing a driver
for AR81xx would never have been possible. Big thanks to all people
who reported feedback or tested patches.
HW donated by: koitsu
Tested by: bsam, Joao Barros <joao.barros <> gmail DOT com >
Jan Henrik Sylvester <me <> janh DOT de >
Ivan Brawley < ivan <> brawley DOT id DOT au >,
CURRENT ML
- Use `fildes[2]' instead of `*fildes' to make more clear that pipe(2)
fills an array with two descriptors.
- Remove EFAULT from the manual page. Because of the current calling
convention, pipe(2) raises a segmentation fault when an invalid
address is passed.
- Introduce kern_pipe() to make it easier for binary emulations to
implement pipe(2).
- Make Linux binary emulation use kern_pipe(), which means we don't have
to recover td_retval after calling the FreeBSD system call.
Approved by: rdivacky
Discussed on: arch
dependencies. A 'struct pmc_classdep' structure describes operations
on PMCs; 'struct pmc_mdep' contains one or more 'struct pmc_classdep'
structures depending on the CPU in question.
Inside PMC class dependent code, row indices are relative to the
PMCs supported by the PMC class; MI code in "hwpmc_mod.c" translates
global row indices before invoking class dependent operations.
- Augment the OP_GETCPUINFO request with the number of PMCs present
in a PMC class.
- Move code common to Intel CPUs to file "hwpmc_intel.c".
- Move TSC handling to file "hwpmc_tsc.c".
Looking at our source code history, it seems the uname(),
getdomainname() and setdomainname() system calls got deprecated
somewhere after FreeBSD 1.1, but they have never been phased out
properly. Because we don't have a COMPAT_FREEBSD1, just use
COMPAT_FREEBSD4.
Also fix the Linuxolator to build without the setdomainname() routine by
just making it call userland_sysctl on kern.domainname. Also replace the
setdomainname()'s implementation to use this approach, because we're
duplicating code with sysctl_domainname().
I wasn't able to keep these three routines working in our
COMPAT_FREEBSD32, because that would require yet another keyword for
syscalls.master (COMPAT4+NOPROTO). Because this routine is probably
unused already, this won't be a problem in practice. If it turns out to
be a problem, we'll just restore this functionality.
Reviewed by: rdivacky, kib
compiled into the main AMR driver. It's code that is nice to have but not
required for normal operation, and it is reported to cause problems for some
people.
Make the ISA bus keep track of more PNP details. Plus a minor style
fix while I'm here. More could be done here, but except for some SBCs
that don't have ACPI, there's limited value to anybody in doing so.
It is required for async cancellation to work.
Fix PROC_LOCK leak in linux_tgkill when signal delivery attempt is made
to not linux process.
Do not call em_find(p, ...) with p unlocked.
Move common code for linux_tkill() and linux_tgkill() into
linux_do_tkill().
Change linux siginfo_t definition to match actual linux one. Extend
uid fields to 4 bytes from 2. The extension does not change structure
layout and is binary compatible with previous definition, because i386
is little endian, and each uid field has 2 byte padding after it.
Reported by: Nicolas Joly <njoly pasteur fr>
Submitted by: dchangin
MFC after: 1 month
- fix bugs where we would:
- try to map the hypervisors address space
- accidentally kick out an existing kernel mapping for some domain creation memory allocation sizes
- accidentally skip a 2MB kernel mapping for some domain creation memory allocation sizes
- don't rely on trapping in to xen to read rcr2, reference through vcpu
- whitespace cleanups
user-mode pointers. Change types used in the structures definitions to
properly-sized architecture-specific types.
Submitted by: dchagin
MFC after: 1 week
This was located in the ubsa driver, but should be moved into a separate
driver:
- 3G modems provide multiple serial ports to allow AT commands while the PPP
connection is up.
- 3G modems do not provide baud rate or other serial port settings.
- Huawei cards need specific initialisation.
- ubsa is for Belkin adapters, an Linuxy choice for another device like 3G.
Speeds achieved here with a weak signal at best is ~40kb/s (UMTS). No spooky
STALLED messages as well.
Next: Move over all entries for Sierra and Novatel cards once I have found
testers, and implemented serial port enumeration for Sierra (or rather have
Andrea Guzzo do it). They list all endpoints in 1 iface instead of 4 ifaces.
Submitted by: aguzzo@anywi.com
MFC after: 3 weeks
single stepped the process to the system call), we need to clear
the trap flag from the new frame. Otherwise, the new thread will
receive a (likely unexpected) SIGTRAP when it executes the first
instruction after returning to userland.
all to date and the latter also is only used in ia64 and powerpc
code which no longer serves a real purpose after bring-up and just
can be removed as well. Note that architectures like sun4u also
provide no means of implementing IPI'ing a CPU itself natively
in the first place.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: arch, grehan, jhb
and Xlazypmap differ from the frame for Xtimerint. The Xtimerint puts
pointer to the frame between return address and frame body, while rest
of the functions listed above do not. Correct offset calculation to
allow the ddb backtrace to step over such frames.
Noted and reviewed by: tegge
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
After I removed all the unit2minor()/minor2unit() calls from the kernel
yesterday, I realised calling minor() everywhere is quite confusing.
Character devices now only have the ability to store a unit number, not
a minor number. Remove the confusion by using dev2unit() everywhere.
This commit could also be considered as a bug fix. A lot of drivers call
minor(), while they should actually be calling dev2unit(). In -CURRENT
this isn't a problem, but it turns out we never had any problem reports
related to that issue in the past. I suspect not many people connect
more than 256 pieces of the same hardware.
Reviewed by: kib
When I changed kern_conf.c three months ago I made device unit numbers
equal to (unneeded) device minor numbers. We used to require
bitshifting, because there were eight bits in the middle that were
reserved for a device major number. Not very long after I turned
dev2unit(), minor(), unit2minor() and minor2unit() into macro's.
The unit2minor() and minor2unit() macro's were no-ops.
We'd better not remove these four macro's from the kernel, because there
is a lot of (external) code that may still depend on them. For now it's
harmless to remove all invocations of unit2minor() and minor2unit().
Reviewed by: kib
to the C99 style. At least, it is easier to read sysent definitions
that way, and search for the actual instances of sigcode etc.
Explicitely initialize sysentvec.sv_maxssiz that was missed in most
sysvecs.
No objection from: jhb
MFC after: 1 month
and bcmp are not the same thing. 'man bcmp' states that the return is
"non-zero" if the two byte strings are not identical. Where as,
'man memcmp' states that the return is the "difference between the
first two differing bytes (treated as unsigned char values" if the
two byte strings are not identical.
So provide a proper memcmp(9), but it is a C implementation not a tuned
assembly implementation. Therefore bcmp(9) should be preferred over memcmp(9).
Reverse the direction of pmap_promote_pde()'s traversal over the specified
page table page. The direction of the traversal can matter if
pmap_promote_pde() has to remove write access (PG_RW) from a PTE that
hasn't been modified (PG_M). In general, if there are two or more such
PTEs to choose among, it is better to write protect the one nearer the
high end of the page table page rather than the low end. This is because
most programs access memory in an ascending direction. The net result of
this change is a sometimes significant reduction in the number of failed
promotion attempts and the number of pages that are write protected by
pmap_promote_pde().
MFamd64 SVN rev 179777 CVS rev 1.621
Tweak the promotion test in pmap_promote_pde(). Specifically, test PG_A
before PG_M. This sometimes prevents unnecessary removal of write access
from a PTE. Overall, the net result is fewer demotions and promotion
failures.
core of this change generalizes the initial page directory setup so that
the kernel can be given arbitrarily large or small.
- small formatting fixes
- update copyright
MFC after: 1 month
so the benefit of having acpi.ko as a standalone module is outweighed by
the complications of drivers compiled into the kernel not including ACPI
attachments by default.
Discussed on: current
On the i386 architecture, the processor only saves the current value
of `%esp' on stack if a privilege switch is necessary when entering
the interrupt handler. Thus, `frame->tf_esp' is only valid for
an entry from user mode. For interrupts taken in kernel mode, we
need to determine the top-of-stack for the interrupted kernel
procedure by adding the appropriate offset to the current frame
pointer.
Reported by: kris, Fabien Thomas
Tested by: Fabien Thomas <fabien.thomas at netasq dot com>
the same vmspace, decrement the reference count of the shared LDT instead
of a newly-made copy. Code factually removed LDT from the process that
did rfork(0).
Introduce user_ldt_deref() function that does decrement of refcount for
the struct proc_ldt, and call it in the rfork(0) case on the shared LDT.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
The user_ldt_free() function shall return with dt_lock unlocked.
Error handling code in both functions do not handle this, fix it by
doing necessary lock/unlock.
While there, fix minor style nits.
MFC after: 1 week
code. We only attempt a single reset using this method (a "hard" reset),
and we use two writes to ensure there is a 0 -> 1 transition in bit 2 to
force a reset.
MFC after: 1 week
memory-mapped config access. Add a workaround for these systems by
checking the first function of each slot on bus 0 using both the
memory-mapped config access and the older type 1 I/O port config access.
If we find a slot that is only visible via the type 1 I/O port config
access, we flag that slot. Future PCI config transactions to flagged
slots on bus 0 use type 1 I/O port config access rather than memory mapped
config access.
l_ucontext. To restore the registers content, trampoline needs to
dereference uc_mcontext instead of taking some undefined values from
l_ucontext.
Submitted by: Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@>
MFC after: 1 week
at least pass muster with the loader on 3.0.3
Note that this doesn't actually make it work as Xen 3.0.3
appears to disallow recursive mappings on the page directory
tables, then attempt to build a simple list containing just the high and
low frequencies based on the current CPU frequency calculated during boot
and the contents of the MSR.
MFC after: 1 month
timer. Previously, the various divisors were fixed which meant that while
it gave somewhat reasonable stathz, etc. at hz=1000, it went off the rails
with any other hz value. With these changes, we now pick a lapic timer hz
based on the value of hz. If hz is >= 1500, then the lapic timer runs at
hz. If 1500 hz >= 750, we run the lapic timer at hz * 2. If hz < 750, we
run at hz * 4. We compute a divider at runtime to make stathz run as close
to 128 as we can since stathz really wants to be run at something close to
that frequency. Profiling just runs on every clock tick. So some examples:
With hz = 100, the lapic timer now runs at 400 instead of 2000. stathz
will be 133, and profhz = 400. With hz = 1000 (default), the lapic timer
is still at 2000 (as it is now), stathz is at 133 (as it is now), and
profhz will be 2000 (previously 666).
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Rename pciereg_cfgopen() to pcie_cfgregopen() and expose it to the
rest of the kernel. It now also accepts parameters via function
arguments rather than global variables.
- Add a notion of minimum and maximum bus numbers and reject requests for
an out of range bus.
- Add more range checks on slot/func/reg/bytes parameters to the cfg reg
read/write routines. Don't panic on any invalid parameters, just fail
the request (writes do nothing, reads return -1). This matches the
behavior of the other cfg mechanisms.
- Port the memory mapped configuration space access to amd64. On amd64
we simply use the direct map (via pmap_mapdev()) for the memory mapped
window.
- During acpi_attach() just after loading the ACPI tables, check for a
MCFG table. If it exists, call pciereg_cfgopen() on each subtable
(memory mapped window). For now we only support windows for domain 0
that start with bus 0. This removes the need for more chipset-specific
quirks in the MD code.
- Remove the chipset-specific quirks for the Intel 5000P/V/Z chipsets
since these machines should all have MCFG tables via ACPI.
- Updated pci_cfgregopen() to DTRT if ACPI had invoked pcie_cfgregopen()
earlier.
MFC after: 2 weeks
and 5000P/V/Z chipsets.
- If the base address of the config space BAR is above 4GB for some reason
and this isn't a PAE kernel, then warn about this (under bootverbose)
and don't use the BAR.
PR: kern/126525
Submitted by: Arthur Hartwig @ Nokia
MFC after: 2 weeks
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
virtualization work done by Marko Zec (zec@).
This is the first in a series of commits over the course
of the next few weeks.
Mark all uses of global variables to be virtualized
with a V_ prefix.
Use macros to map them back to their global names for
now, so this is a NOP change only.
We hope to have caught at least 85-90% of what is needed
so we do not invalidate a lot of outstanding patches again.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/vimage-commit2/...
Reviewed by: brooks, des, ed, mav, julian,
jamie, kris, rwatson, zec, ...
(various people I forgot, different versions)
md5 (with a bit of help)
Sponsored by: NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation
X-MFC after: never
V_Commit_Message_Reviewed_By: more people than the patch
