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Author SHA1 Message Date
bde
09ea60f4d3 Removed env(1) commands. make(1) uses a real shell, and
"env name=value ... cmd ..." is just a pessimized way of doing
"name=value ... cmd ..." in real shells.  Set the environment
(without using env(1)) before starting xargs so that env(1)
is not needed in "xargs env name=value ... cmd ..."
2002-03-19 06:30:24 +00:00
joe
0f7e6dda9f Add a USB comm driver.
Ported from NetBSD by:	akiyama
2002-03-18 18:23:42 +00:00
ru
f536d056a3 lint the previous lint commit.
Reviewed by:	markm
2002-03-18 09:35:45 +00:00
cjc
67f64647a5 Spelling: s/guesst/guessed/ 2002-03-17 22:02:05 +00:00
markm
006a375bc4 Allow "make lint" to mostly work. Our sources are very unclean WRT
lint, so this is turned off by default. Setting WANT_LINT will turn
on generation of lint libraries for /usr/libdata/lint/*.ln.

Reviewd by:	silence in -audit.
2002-03-17 10:05:57 +00:00
phk
62070488e8 Teach GEOM about Sun disklabel formats.
The detection code in this method is written so that it should work on
all architectures which means that you can plug a Sun disk into a i386
now and access the partitions.

We still need an endian-agnostic ufs/ffs before this is really
interresting, but the main focus was to get sparc64 onto the GEOM
trail.
2002-03-15 21:44:08 +00:00
obrien
c3f569ead9 Remove all the custom toolchain knob tweaking.
We are now using a native binutils, and you have to have CC=gcc in your
/etc/make.conf to compile userland anyway.
2002-03-15 08:21:41 +00:00
jake
31419a58a4 Add a DEBUGGER_ON_POWERFAIL option. This makes the power button on ultra 10s
work like an NMI button.
2002-03-13 05:58:45 +00:00
jake
3e90296a6b Use the deo hosted toolchain by default. 2002-03-13 03:23:17 +00:00
jeff
e6d26e8880 This patch adds the "LOCKSHARED" option to namei which causes it to only acquire shared locks on leafs.
The stat() and open() calls have been changed to make use of this new functionality.  Using shared locks in
these cases is sufficient and can significantly reduce their latency if IO is pending to these vnodes.  Also,
this reduces the number of exclusive locks that are floating around in the system, which helps reduce the
number of deadlocks that occur.

A new kernel option "LOOKUP_SHARED" has been added.  It defaults to off so this patch can be turned on for
testing, and should eventually go away once it is proven to be stable.  I have personally been running this
patch for over a year now, so it is believed to be fully stable.

Reviewed by:	jake, obrien
Approved by:	jake
2002-03-12 04:00:11 +00:00
phk
b32f8d14b1 Add commented out GEOM line to NOTES 2002-03-11 08:27:23 +00:00
phk
88a89290d5 Add GEOM to conf/files. 2002-03-11 08:24:12 +00:00
phk
59620072f9 Add the GEOM option. 2002-03-11 08:06:24 +00:00
tmm
a55210aac5 Add a driver for the mem and kmem devices, based off the i386 version. 2002-03-09 22:33:16 +00:00
luigi
a10c2f3265 Enable DEVICE_POLLING in LINT now that it is safe to compile it there. 2002-03-09 08:04:58 +00:00
rwatson
f3b2ed4175 Note that several of the recently documented clock-related kernel options
are for debugging purposes only.

Suggested by:	bde
2002-03-08 18:59:05 +00:00
rwatson
01c622cea5 Apply a bit more of the patch from conf/35674: document the various
clock options in more detail.

PR:	conf/35674
Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
2002-03-08 18:50:07 +00:00
rwatson
846a5e02c0 Apply part of the patch from conf/35674 to move the PFIL_HOOKS option
to somewhere more useful, and improve documentation of it.

PR:	conf/35674
Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
2002-03-08 18:47:32 +00:00
rwatson
34c01fe419 Synchronize NOTES with -STABLE LINT with respects to the placement
and commenting of NETSMB, NETWMBCRYPTO, and SMBFS.  In NOTES, they
had all floated to the bottom of the file with the list of seemingly
random and unclassified kernel options.  This change moves them back
up to the network protocol and file system areas, and also documents
the dependencies.
2002-03-08 15:34:23 +00:00
tanimura
0c4549952e Add sys/dev/ufm.c.
Forgotten by:	alfred
Spotted by:	LINT
2002-03-05 11:19:23 +00:00
ume
92361f6aad - Speedup 3DES by using assembly code for i386.
- Sync des/blowfish to more recent openssl.

Obtained from:	KAME/NetBSD
MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-03-05 09:19:02 +00:00
iwasaki
3f245d8dd1 Add generalized power profile code.
This makes other power-management system (APM for now) to be able to
generate power profile change events (ie. AC-line status changes), and
other kernel components, not only the ACPI components, can be notified
the events.

 - move subroutines in acpi_powerprofile.c (removed) to kern/subr_power.c
 - call power_profile_set_state() also from APM driver when AC-line
   status changes
 - add call-back function for Crusoe LongRun controlling on power
   profile changes for a example
2002-03-04 18:46:13 +00:00
alfred
199a58a697 Support for USB fm radio.
Submitted by: David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com>
2002-03-04 03:51:21 +00:00
nyan
979b31fe25 MFi386: revision 1.394. 2002-03-02 13:21:12 +00:00
obrien
e35171c095 Use vnode_if.awk rather than vnode_if.pl 2002-03-01 01:21:29 +00:00
peter
e738ecea20 Tag istallion.c with nowerror (third party) 2002-02-28 03:14:37 +00:00
peter
285e65540d Tag if_ie.c, isp.c and isp_pci.c as nowerror (qualifier problems, and third
party code)
2002-02-27 23:55:42 +00:00
peter
aa9a350872 Mark a few more broken pci drivers as nowerror. 2002-02-27 23:30:33 +00:00
peter
c064213c43 Mark stallion.c as nowerror (known broken, this is a #warning) 2002-02-27 23:23:54 +00:00
tmm
50b0eac362 Add gem and hme. 2002-02-27 17:46:04 +00:00
tmm
3ed05b7b89 Add the following functions/macros to support byte order conversions and
device drivers for bus system with other endinesses than the CPU (using
interfaces compatible to NetBSD):

- bwap16() and bswap32(). These have optimized implementations on some
  architectures; for those that don't, there exist generic implementations.
- macros to convert from a certain byte order to host byte order and vice
  versa, using a naming scheme like le16toh(), htole16().
  These are implemented using the bswap functions.
- stream bus space access functions, which do not perform a byte order
  conversion (while the normal access functions would if the bus endianess
  differs from the CPU endianess).

htons(), htonl(), ntohs() and ntohl() are implemented using the new
functions above for kernel usage. None of the above interfaces is currently
exported to user land.

Make use of the new functions in a few places where local implementations
of the same functionality existed.

Reviewed by:	mike, bde
Tested on alpha by:	mike
2002-02-27 17:16:18 +00:00
peter
f2dee2e96f Back out all the pmap related stuff I've touched over the last few days.
There is some unresolved badness that has been eluding me, particularly
affecting uniprocessor kernels.  Turning off PG_G helped (which is a bad
sign) but didn't solve it entirely.  Userland programs still crashed.
2002-02-27 09:51:33 +00:00
peter
748d0e1167 Work-in-progress commit syncing up pmap cleanups that I have been working
on for a while:
- fine grained TLB shootdown for SMP on i386
- ranged TLB shootdowns.. eg: specify a range of pages to shoot down with
  a single IPI, since the IPI is very expensive.  Adjust some callers
  that used to trigger this inside tight loops to do a ranged shootdown
  at the end instead.
- PG_G support for SMP on i386 (options ENABLE_PG_G)
- defer PG_G activation till after we decide what we are going to do with
  PSE and the 4MB pages at the start of the kernel.  This should solve
  some rumored strangeness about stale PG_G entries getting stuck
  underneath the 4MB pages.
- add some instrumentation for the fine TLB shootdown
- convert some asm instruction wrappers from functions to inlines.  gcc
  seems to do a fair bit better with this.
- [temporarily!] pessimize the tlb shootdown IPI handlers.  I will fix
  this again shortly.

This has been working fairly well for me for a while, but I have tweaked
it again prior to commit since my last major testing round.  The only
outstanding problem that I know of is PG_G related, which is why there
is an option for it (not on by default for SMP).  I have seen a world
speedups by a few percent (as much as 4 or 5% in one case) but I have
*not* accurately measured this - I am a bit sceptical of these numbers.
2002-02-25 23:49:51 +00:00
peter
ad64d51451 Turn on -Werror by default. This is is easily turned off, by either:
- fix the warnings, they are there for a reason!
- add -DNO_ERROR to your make(1) command.
- add 'makeoptions NO_WERROR=true' to your kernel config.
- add 'nowerror' to conf/files* that have warnings that should be fixed
  due to tracking 3rd party vendor code.
- add 'nowerror' to conf/files* where the warning is false due to a
  compiler bug and fixing it with brute force would be too expensive.

There are some very sloppy warnings in our kernel build, come on folks!

'make release' uses -DNO_WERROR intentionally.
2002-02-25 22:04:33 +00:00
peter
5bd21a3e89 Add 'nowerror' to the vendor acpica code that spews out warnings. 2002-02-25 21:54:06 +00:00
jake
895164868e Add PMAP_STATS option so pmap.c compiles. 2002-02-23 22:35:57 +00:00
jake
7549b9e515 Don't echo a comment during make depend. 2002-02-23 01:49:13 +00:00
luigi
826d38aaa6 Use make -V VARIABLE | xargs ... to pass argument lists to program
so that this is safe even if VARIABLE is longer than kern.argmax.

There is another instance of CFILES which might need the same treatment,
and might be noticed when doing a "make links".

The same has to be done in RELENG_4 (on some different file).

Noticed-by: picobsd cross-compiling LINT
Suggested-by: Alfred (bright@mu.org), des@freebsd.org
MFC-after: 3 days
2002-02-22 04:44:28 +00:00
peter
cf06489c2d Commit some infrastructure for turning on -Werror for kernel compiles.
It doesn't actually do it yet though.  This adds a flag to config so
that we can exclude certain vendor files from this even when the rest
of the kernel has it on.  make -DNO_WERROR would also bypass all of it.
2002-02-20 23:35:56 +00:00
shiba
33bb91ea16 NEWCARD support for xe.
Reviewed by: imp
2002-02-20 14:33:42 +00:00
jedgar
5a3fc2f8bb Correct path to pucdata.c
Reviewed by:	jhay
2002-02-18 15:46:10 +00:00
rwatson
49c65a6b10 Add a 'strvalid()' call to libkern. Given a character pointer, and
buffer length, determine if the pointer is to a valid string.  Currently,
the only check is whether a '\0' appears in the buffer.  This is useful
when pulling in a structure from userland that may contain one or more
strings, and validity testing must be performed on elements of the
structure.  When copying normal string arguments, copyinstr() is
expected to be used.
2002-02-18 00:37:03 +00:00
phk
76dbd933fb Always build all modules for LINT 2002-02-17 21:00:20 +00:00
nyan
1b92815504 MFi386: revision 1.167 2002-02-17 08:56:12 +00:00
nyan
86194f133b MFi386: revision 1.392 2002-02-17 08:55:42 +00:00
jhay
a6fbc8577e Add the puc (PCI "Universal" Communications) driver. The idea and some of
the structure definitions come from NetBSD to make it easier to share card
definitions. The driver only acts as a shim between the pci bus and the
sio driver. Later pci parallel ports could also be supported through this
driver. Support for most single and multiport pci serial cards should be
as simple as adding its definition to pucdata.c

Tested with the following pci cards:
Moxa Industio CP-114, 4 port RS-232,RS-422/485
Syba Tech Ltd. PCI-4S2P-550-ECP, 4 port RS-232 + 2 parallel ports
Netmos NM9835 PCI-2S-550, 2 port RS-232
2002-02-16 15:12:14 +00:00
bde
5720876ee5 Garbage-collect options ACPI_NO_ENABLE_ON_BOOT, AML_DEBUG, BLEED,
DEVICE_SYSCTLS, KEY, LOUTB, NFS_MUIDHASHSIZ, NFS_UIDHASHSIZ, PCI_QUIET
and SIMPLELOCK_DEBUG.
2002-02-15 13:16:11 +00:00
bde
3247dc600a Garbage collect options AVM_A1_PCI, AVM_A1_PCMCIA, DEBUG_LINUX, DEV_APM,
GUS_DMA, GUS_DMA2, GUS_IRQ, OLTR_NO_BULLSEYE_MAC, OLTR_NO_HAWKEYE_MAC,
OLTR_NO_TMS_MAC and PCIC_RESUME_RESET.
2002-02-15 10:19:39 +00:00
bde
cb8ddb654e Added undocumented options AAC_DEBUG, ACD_DEBUG, ACPI_MAX_THREADS,
ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES, ASR_MEASURE_PERFORMANCE, AST_DEBUG, ATAPI_DEBUG,
ATA_DEBUG, BKTR_ALLOC_PAGES, BROOKTREE_ALLOC_PAGES, CAPABILITIES,
COMPAT_SUNOS, CV_DEBUG, MAXFILES, METEOR_TEST_VIDEO, NDEVFSINO,
NDEVFSOVERFLOW, NETGRAPH_BRIDGE, NETSMB, NETSMBCRYPTO, PFIL_HOOKS,
SIMOS, SMBFS, VESA_DEBUG, VGA_DEBUG.

Start using #! to comment out negative options and ## to comment out
broken options.

atapi-all.c:
Fixed rotted bits that were hiding under ATAPI_DEBUG.

atapi-cd.c:
#include "opt_ata.h" so that ACD_DEBUG is actually visible.

ata/atapi-tape.c
#include "opt_ata.h" so that AST_DEBUG is actually visible.
2002-02-15 07:08:44 +00:00
pdeuskar
59699901cf - Added support for receive in multiple
descriptors. This simplifies code for jumbo frames.
- Cleaned up coding conventions to make code more unix-like.
- Cleaned up code in if_em_fxhw.c and if_em_phy.c.
  Added relevant comments.

MFC after:	1 week
2002-02-13 18:19:27 +00:00
tmm
585c8cf0cb Add counter.c and sbus.c. Unify style. 2002-02-13 16:29:51 +00:00
dwmalone
74fa509202 Add an option CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK which attempts to enable the SSE
feature bit on newer Athlon CPUs if the BIOS has forgotten to enable
it.

This patch was constructed using some info made available by John
Clemens at http://www.deater.net/john/PavilionN5430.html

Reviewed by:	-audit
MFC after:	3 weeks
2002-02-12 21:13:02 +00:00
nyan
c53dc64416 MFi386: revision 1.164 2002-02-12 13:21:32 +00:00
nyan
a3a33d0393 MFi386: revision 1.391 2002-02-12 13:21:13 +00:00
gallatin
1e9b142f05 Enable polling to be configured into kernels on non i386 platforms. Note that
poll_in_trap is only implemented on i386.  I've tested this on alpha.

Approved by: luigi
2002-02-12 00:26:06 +00:00
bde
4778d0143f Removed the one use of the mandatory keyword (for npx).
npx is no more mandatory than sc.  Its mandatoryness went away in
rev.1.226 of i386/machdep.c 9 months before it was made mandatory in
rev.1.24 of config/mkmakefile.c.

This change is mainly to test building of minimal kernel configurations.
npx should really be even more standard than clk.  It was optional mainly
so that the usual device driver configuration info could be specified in
the usual way in config files, but this hasn't been necessary for a few
years.
2002-01-30 14:35:58 +00:00
imp
5b52e9b1b7 pccbb needs exca now. 2002-01-29 06:51:09 +00:00
sos
e6cd71c92f Enable pccard support. 2002-01-28 13:13:14 +00:00
jdp
7b15c6fd0a Add support for the Netgear GA302T 10/100/1000 adapter. Given that
it's a 32-bit card, it's quite nice for $75.

MFC after:	3 days
2002-01-27 01:00:16 +00:00
msmith
649c3f35e2 Correct the majors entry for 'iir'. 163 is vacated now. 2002-01-20 09:01:07 +00:00
msmith
4b0b46d216 Add the 'iir' driver, for the Intel Integrated RAID controllers and
prior ICP Vortex models.  This driver was developed by Achim Leubner
of Intel (previously with ICP Vortex) and Boji Kannanthanam of Intel.

Submitted by:	"Kannanthanam, Boji T" <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-01-20 08:51:08 +00:00
msmith
baca124ccb ICP have been acquired by Intel, and their driver is now the Intel
Integrated RAID driver, supported by <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com> and
<achim.leubner@intel.com>.

Submitted by:	"Kannanthanam, Boji T" <boji.t.kannanthanam@intel.com>
2002-01-20 06:21:33 +00:00
nyan
c482b9ec32 MFi386: revision 1.388 2002-01-18 03:26:38 +00:00
imp
ec363a6549 Make PCI_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_IO_RANGE an option until the ISA address
problem is fixed at the bridge level.  This is needed for some newer
laptops that have the cardbus bridge not on pci0.
2002-01-15 06:46:59 +00:00
nyan
3748cc3d0f Added 'MACHINE=i386' to MKMODULESENV variable.
This enables to make modules for PC/AT on PC-98 boxes.

MFC after:	3 weeks
2002-01-14 12:48:18 +00:00
ru
3f4f85365b Drop <bsd.man.mk> support from <bsd.kmod.mk>.
Not objected to by:	-current
2002-01-11 15:49:02 +00:00
peter
746ae421e6 genassym builds need the -fno-common stripped out. 2002-01-11 07:52:02 +00:00
msmith
2f13afa09c Reverse the sense of EXPORT_SYMS. If EXPORT_SYMS is not
defined, no symbols are exported from the module.  This is
the typical configuration for most device drivers and
standalone modules; only infrastructure modules or those with
special requirements typically need to export symbols.

Don't print the objcopy commands as they are run when converting
symbols; they're bulky and annoying in many cases.
2002-01-11 01:11:44 +00:00
msmith
2eab148603 Eliminate the use of commons in the kernel and modules,
simplifying the module linking process and eliminating the risks
associated with doubly-defined variables.

Cases where commons were legitimately used (detection of
compiled-in subsystems) have been converted to use sysinits, and
any new code should use this or an equivalent practice as a
matter of course.

Modules can override this behaviour by substituting -fno-common
out of ${CFLAGS} in cases where commons are necessary
(eg. third-party object modules).  Commons will be resolved and
allocated space when the kld is linked as part of the module
build process, so they will not pose a risk to the kernel or
other modules.

Provide a mechanism for controlling the export of symbols from
the module namespace.  The EXPORT_SYMS variable may be set in the
Makefile to NO (export no symbols), a list of symbols to export,
or the name of a file containing a newline-seperated list of
symbols to be exported.  Non-exported symbols are converted to
local symbols.  If EXPORT_SYMS is not set, all global symbols are
currently exported.  This behaviour is expected to change (to
exporting no symbols) once modules have been converted.

Reviewed by:	peter (in principle)
Obtained from:	green (kmod_syms.awk)
2002-01-10 03:52:01 +00:00
fjoe
2053aff54e - generic Arcnet framework
- device driver for SMC COM90cx6 Arcnet network adapters

Obtained from:	NetBSD
2002-01-08 20:03:13 +00:00
jake
c8fe4def6b Connect smp support to the kernel build. 2002-01-08 05:55:46 +00:00
imp
57b0798bee s/oferride/override/
submitted by: dima
2002-01-06 20:33:55 +00:00
nyan
183d0fe2bf MFi386: revisions 1.382 and 1.386. 2002-01-06 09:47:36 +00:00
nyan
219388b653 Sorted the lists. 2002-01-06 09:46:30 +00:00
imp
ba7a614d5a Move initialization of the MKMODULESENV envorinoment to kern.pre.mk
from kern.post.mk so port makefiles can augment it.

Submitted by: nyan
2002-01-05 06:21:06 +00:00
tanimura
c9a37a6cea - Provide toggles to show debug messages. Set new sysctl variables
hw.midi.debug and hw.midi.seq.debug to 1 to enable debug log.

- Make debug messages human-frendly.

- Implement /dev/music.

- Add a timer engine required by /dev/music.

- Fix nonblocking I/O.

- Fix the numbering of midi and synth devices.
2002-01-04 01:13:49 +00:00
gj
06478e32a8 i4bisppp also needs net/if_spppsubr.c.
MFC after:	1 month
2002-01-02 09:15:18 +00:00
julian
20372d3e8b Add the nullmodem device 2002-01-01 05:16:03 +00:00
joerg
0d7e66ed20 Remove references to i4b/driver/i4b_ispppsubr.c, now that
net/if_spppsubr.c has all its features.

Hooray, it's gone!

MFC after:	1 month
2001-12-30 18:48:24 +00:00
alfred
f097734c27 Make AIO a loadable module.
Remove the explicit call to aio_proc_rundown() from exit1(), instead AIO
will use at_exit(9).

Add functions at_exec(9), rm_at_exec(9) which function nearly the
same as at_exec(9) and rm_at_exec(9), these functions are called
on behalf of modules at the time of execve(2) after the image
activator has run.

Use a modified version of tegge's suggestion via at_exec(9) to close
an exploitable race in AIO.

Fix SYSCALL_MODULE_HELPER such that it's archetecuterally neutral,
the problem was that one had to pass it a paramater indicating the
number of arguments which were actually the number of "int".  Fix
it by using an inline version of the AS macro against the syscall
arguments.  (AS should be available globally but we'll get to that
later.)

Add a primative system for dynamically adding kqueue ops, it's really
not as sophisticated as it should be, but I'll discuss with jlemon when
he's around.
2001-12-29 07:13:47 +00:00
tmm
a252a277ce Add -mcmodel=medlow to COPTS. This is needed to build working kernels. 2001-12-24 13:35:43 +00:00
iwasaki
4c7abcd337 Add OS layer ACPI mutex and threading support.
- Temporary fix a bug of Intel ACPI CA core code.
 - Add OS layer ACPI mutex support.  This can be disabled by
   specifying option ACPI_NO_SEMAPHORES.
 - Add ACPI threading support.  Now that we have a dedicate taskqueue for
   ACPI tasks and more ACPI task threads can be created by specifying option
   ACPI_MAX_THREADS.
 - Change acpi_EvaluateIntoBuffer() behavior slightly to reuse given
   caller's buffer unless AE_BUFFER_OVERFLOW occurs.  Also CM battery's
   evaluations were changed to use acpi_EvaluateIntoBuffer().
 - Add new utility function acpi_ConvertBufferToInteger().
 - Add simple locking for CM battery and temperature updating.
 - Fix a minor problem on EC locking.
 - Make the thermal zone polling rate to be changeable.
 - Change minor things on AcpiOsSignal(); in ACPI_SIGNAL_FATAL case,
   entering Debugger is easier to investigate the problem rather than panic.
2001-12-22 16:05:41 +00:00
gj
21b86d2af4 Add the ifpi2 driver.
MFC after:	4 weeks
2001-12-22 09:29:03 +00:00
nyan
abc2414aa4 Merged from files.i386 revision 1.384.
Removed acpica entries.
2001-12-22 01:25:54 +00:00
nyan
d851b8cf40 MFi386: revision 1.159 2001-12-22 00:48:39 +00:00
nyan
ea10a01894 MFi386: revision 1.163 2001-12-22 00:42:10 +00:00
tmm
c923af5389 Move the PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES option from conf/options.i386 to
conf/options.
2001-12-21 21:46:55 +00:00
pirzyk
4e0ccfb382 Add support for the Intel 82443MX chipset
PR:		kern/33032
MFC after:	1 month
2001-12-21 01:28:59 +00:00
phk
158bdd6afb Comment out DEVICE_POLLING so that LINT compiles again. 2001-12-19 20:53:54 +00:00
nyan
0de7f7c686 MFi386: options.i386 revision 1.162 2001-12-16 09:04:08 +00:00
nyan
8f1e047967 MFi386: files.i386 revision 1.385 2001-12-16 09:03:41 +00:00
luigi
12cc1b9a91 Add description of DEVICE_POLLING option. 2001-12-14 23:35:33 +00:00
luigi
4f7be302ed Clarify the comments related to DUMMYNET and HZ
MFC after: 3 days
2001-12-14 23:25:58 +00:00
luigi
f8ad22919e Device Polling code for -current.
Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.

To use this code you must compile a kernel with

        options DEVICE_POLLING

and at runtime enable polling with

        sysctl kern.polling.enable=1

The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with

        sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)

while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.

Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at

	http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/

and also supports polling in the idle loop.

NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.

NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.

Quick description of files touched by this commit:

sys/conf/files.i386
        new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
        new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
        poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
        initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
        minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
        the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
        new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
        declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
        NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
        device driver modifications
2001-12-14 17:56:12 +00:00
rwatson
949b1b8712 o Clarify the comments on AIO to note that yes, AIO really is unsuitable
for use on machines with untrusted local users, for security as well
  as stability reasons.
o Lack of clarity pointed out by: David Rufino <dr@soniq.net> via bugtraq.
2001-12-14 11:21:16 +00:00
peter
dd0f3c5ca2 Proper fix for old config setting maxusers to 8. 2001-12-14 09:39:29 +00:00
dillon
a6be0b0189 Add maxusers auto-sizing description to NOTES file for -current 2001-12-14 01:01:20 +00:00
imp
bacdbb04c9 Back out my "joy" change. It was really the for some uncommitted ata
code I have.
2001-12-07 01:52:40 +00:00
peter
c3af474bd9 Part 2 of previous commit. Add joy_isa.c and joy_pccard.c.
Submitted by:	jhb
2001-12-06 23:10:24 +00:00
peter
cb64660fb4 Somebody moved joy.c from isa/ to dev/joy/ without updating conf/files.
Pointy-hat to: imp
2001-12-06 18:00:42 +00:00