be displayed specially, and debug registers are among of the least
interesting special registers (far behind %cr3). The debug registers
are still accessible as variables and displayed in another bogus place
("show watches").
Implement the linux_io_* syscalls (AIO). They are only enabled if the native
AIO code is available (either compiled in to the kernel or as a module) at
the time the functions are used. If the AIO stuff is not available there
will be a ENOSYS.
From the submitter:
---snip---
DESIGN NOTES:
1. Linux permits a process to own multiple AIO queues (distinguished by
"context"), but FreeBSD creates only one single AIO queue per process.
My code maintains a request queue (STAILQ of queue(3)) per "context",
and throws all AIO requests of all contexts owned by a process into
the single FreeBSD per-process AIO queue.
When the process calls io_destroy(2), io_getevents(2), io_submit(2) and
io_cancel(2), my code can pick out requests owned by the specified context
from the single FreeBSD per-process AIO queue according to the per-context
request queues maintained by my code.
2. The request queue maintained by my code stores contrast information between
Linux IO control blocks (struct linux_iocb) and FreeBSD IO control blocks
(struct aiocb). FreeBSD IO control block actually exists in userland memory
space, required by FreeBSD native aio_XXXXXX(2).
3. It is quite troubling that the function io_getevents() of libaio-0.3.105
needs to use Linux-specific "struct aio_ring", which is a partial mirror
of context in user space. I would rather take the address of context in
kernel as the context ID, but the io_getevents() of libaio forces me to
take the address of the "ring" in user space as the context ID.
To my surprise, one comment line in the file "io_getevents.c" of
libaio-0.3.105 reads:
Ben will hate me for this
REFERENCE:
1. Linux kernel source code: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
(include/linux/aio_abi.h, fs/aio.c)
2. Linux manual pages: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
(io_setup(2), io_destroy(2), io_getevents(2), io_submit(2), io_cancel(2))
3. Linux Scalability Effort: http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html
The design notes: http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aionotes.txt
4. The package libaio, both source and binary:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libaio
Simple transparent interface to Linux AIO system calls.
5. Libaio-oracle: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/libaio-oracle/
POSIX AIO implementation based on Linux AIO system calls (depending on
libaio).
---snip---
Submitted by: Li, Xiao <intron@intron.ac>
(PICs) rather than interrupt sources. This allows interrupt controllers
with no interrupt pics (such as the 8259As when APIC is in use) to
participate in suspend/resume.
- Always register the 8259A PICs even if we don't use any of their pins.
- Explicitly reset the 8259As on resume on amd64 if 'device atpic' isn't
included.
- Add a "dummy" PIC for the local APIC on the BSP to reset the local APIC
on resume. This gets suspend/resume working with APIC on UP systems.
SMP still needs more work to bring the APs back to life.
The MFC after is tentative.
Tested by: anholt (i386)
Submitted by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau at cs.ucl.ac.uk> (3)
MFC after: 1 week
unsuspecting users.
- Add a comment in NOTES about experimental status of SCHED_ULE.
- Make warning about experimental status in sched_ule(4) a bit
stronger.
Suggested and reviewed by: dougb
Discussed on: developers
MFC after: 3 days
Submitted by:
Reviewed by:
Approved by:
Obtained from:
MFC after:
Security:
Move the relocation definitions to the common elf header so that DTrace
can use them on one architecture targeted to a different one.
Add the additional ELF types defines in Sun's "Linker and Libraries"
manual.
Split subr_clock.c in two parts (by repo-copy):
subr_clock.c contains generic RTC and calendaric stuff. etc.
subr_rtc.c contains the newbus'ified RTC interface.
Centralize the machdep.{adjkerntz,disable_rtc_set,wall_cmos_clock}
sysctls and associated variables into subr_clock.c. They are
not machine dependent and we have generic code that relies on being
present so they are not even optional.
timer interrupt servicing for disabled HTT cores in ULE case. Should be
probably fixed in ULE code instead, but we have no real maintainer for
ULE to do it.
PR: 103697
GDT to be loaded into FS.base and GS.base, these values of course
are not the values set by sysarch() with I386_SET_FSBASE and
I386_SET_GSBASE, the change fixed a crash for 32bit libthr after
signal handler returned and normal code is accessing thread pointer,
for example: movl %gs:8, %eax.
- Split out the communication protocols into their own files and use
a couple of function pointers in the softc that the commuication
protocols setup in their own attach routine.
- Add support for the SSIF interface (talking to IPMI over SMBus).
- Add an ACPI attachment.
- Add a PCI attachment that attaches to devices with the IPMI interface
subclass.
- Split the ISA attachment out into its own file: ipmi_isa.c.
- Change the code to probe the SMBIOS table for an IPMI entry to just use
pmap_mapbios() to map the table in rather than trying to setup a fake
resource on an isa device and then activating the resource to map in the
table.
- Make bus attachments leaner by adding attach functions for each
communication interface (ipmi_kcs_attach(), ipmi_smic_attach(), etc.)
that setup per-interface data.
- Formalize the model used by the driver to handle requests by adding an
explicit struct ipmi_request object that holds the state of a given
request and reply for the entire lifetime of the request. By bundling
the request into an object, it is easier to add retry logic to the various
communication backends (as well as eventually support BT mode which uses
a slightly different message format than KCS, SMIC, and SSIF).
- Add a per-softc lock and remove D_NEEDGIANT as the driver is now MPSAFE.
- Add 32-bit compatibility ioctl shims so you can use a 32-bit ipmitool
on FreeBSD/amd64.
- Add ipmi(4) to i386 and amd64 NOTES.
Submitted by: ambrisko (large portions of 2 and 3)
Sponsored by: IronPort Systems, Yahoo!
MFC after: 6 days
pmap_invalidate_cache() in the SMP case so pmap_mapdev() in multiuser
doesn't panic with a trap 30. I broke this many months ago when I
added pmap_invalidate_cache() as early parts of the PAT work.
Patience from: jmg
Pointy hat: jhb
for overlaps, but more importantly, it collapses adjacent free regions.
This is needed to cope with BIOSen that split up ports for system devices
(like IPMI controllers) across multiple system resource entries.
- Now that rman_manage_region() is not so dumb, remove extra logic in the
x86 nexus drivers to populate the IRQ rman that manually coalesced the
regions.
MFC after: 1 week
and dump_avail[] arrays so they are in sync (previously it was possible
to store more entries in the physmap[] then we could store in phys_avail[],
which was pointless). While I'm here, bump up the length of these tables
to hold 30 entries on amd64 and 16 on i386. This allows machines with
fairly fragmented memory maps to boot ok (at least one machine would
not boot FreeBSD/i386 but would boot FreeBSD/amd64 because amd64 allowed
for more fragments).
MFC after: 3 days
any threads to them. However, it still counts those cores as "active but
permanently idle" when calculating system-wide CPUs statistics. It is
incorrect, since it skews statistics quite a bit and creates real problems
for certain types of applications (monitoring applications for example),
by making them believe that the system does have enough idle CPU resources,
while in fact it does not.
Correct the problem by not calling performance counting routines on "disabled"
cores. The cleaner solution would be to just disable APIC timer interrupts on
those cores completely, but ENOTIME here and it is not clear if the
additional complexity really worth minor performance gain.
Reviewed by: ssouhlal
Sponsored by: Sippy Software, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
but further on -current (still not successful, but a step into the right
direction).
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2006
Submitted by: rdivacky
Tested by: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
we can do the stuff we need to do with linux processes at fork and
don't panic the kernel at exit of the child.
Submitted by: rdivacky
Tested with: tst-vfork* (glibc regression tests)
Tested by: netchild
handling for amd64 in the common code. The MD parts for amd64 are still
outstanding, but at least this fixes some panics on amd64.
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2006
Submitted by: rdivacky
Tested by: bsam
