as CTASSERT in MI pcpu.h, stop including all possible mutually exclusive
PCPU_MD_FIELDS fields into LINT kernels, due to brekaing
aforementioned CTASSERT.
Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.
In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
This is required for ARM EABI. Section 7.1.1 of the Procedure Call for the
ARM Architecture (AAPCS) defines wchar_t as either an unsigned int or an
unsigned short with the former preferred.
Because of this requirement we need to move the definition of __wchar_t to
a machine dependent header. It also cleans up the macros defining the limits
of wchar_t by defining __WCHAR_MIN and __WCHAR_MAX in the same machine
dependent header then using them to define WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX
respectively.
Discussed with: bde
usermode, using shared page. The structures and functions have vdso
prefix, to indicate the intended location of the code in some future.
The versioned per-algorithm data is exported in the format of struct
vdso_timehands, which mostly repeats the content of in-kernel struct
timehands. Usermode reading of the structure can be lockless.
Compatibility export for 32bit processes on 64bit host is also
provided. Kernel also provides usermode with indication about
currently used timecounter, so that libc can fall back to syscall if
configured timecounter is unknown to usermode code.
The shared data updates are initiated both from the tc_windup(), where
a fast task is queued to do the update, and from sysctl handlers which
change timecounter. A manual override switch
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime allows to turn off the mechanism.
Only x86 architectures export the real algorithm data, and there, only
for tsc timecounter. HPET counters page could be exported as well, but
I prefer to not further glue the kernel and libc ABI there until
proper vdso-based solution is developed.
Minimal stubs neccessary for non-x86 architectures to still compile
are provided.
Discussed with: bde
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: flo
MFC after: 1 month
layer, but it is read directly by the MI VM layer. This change introduces
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in order to completely encapsulate all direct
access to PGA_WRITEABLE in the pmap layer.
Aesthetics aside, I am making this change because amd64 will likely begin
using an alternative method to track write mappings, and having
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in place allows me to make such a change
without further modification to the MI VM layer.
As an added bonus, tidy up some nearby comments concerning page flags.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 6 weeks
implementation specific vs. the common architecture definition.
Bring PPC4XX defines (PSL, SPR, TLB). Note the new definitions under
BOOKE_PPC4XX are not used in the code yet.
This change set is not supposed to affect existing E500 support, it's just
another reorg step before bringing support for E500mc, E5500 and PPC465.
Obtained from: AppliedMicro, Freescale, Semihalf
in_cksum.h required ip.h to be included for struct ip. To be
able to use some general checksum functions like in_addword()
in a non-IPv4 context, limit the (also exported to user space)
IPv4 specific functions to the times, when the ip.h header is
present and IPVERSION is defined (to 4).
We should consider more general checksum (updating) functions
to also allow easier incremental checksum updates in the L3/4
stack and firewalls, as well as ponder further requirements by
certain NIC drivers needing slightly different pseudo values
in offloading cases. Thinking in terms of a better "library".
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Reviewed by: gnn (as part of the whole)
MFC After: 3 days
exceptions early enough during boot that the kernel will do ithe same.
Use lwsync only when compiling for LP64 and revert to the more proven isync
when compiling for ILP32. Note that in the end (i.e. between revision 222198
and this change) ILP32 changed from using sync to using isync. As per Nathan
the isync is needed to make sure I/O accesses are properly serialized with
locks and isync tends to be more effecient than sync.
While here, undefine __ATOMIC_ACQ and __ATOMIC_REL at the end of the file
so as not to leak their definitions.
Discussed with: nwhitehorn
range operations like pmap_remove() and pmap_protect() as well as allowing
simple operations like pmap_extract() not to involve any global state.
This substantially reduces lock coverages for the global table lock and
improves concurrency.
- Use isync/lwsync unconditionally for acquire/release. Use of isync
guarantees a complete memory barrier, which is important for serialization
of bus space accesses with mutexes on multi-processor systems.
- Go back to using sync as the I/O memory barrier, which solves the same
problem as above with respect to mutex release using lwsync, while not
penalizing non-I/O operations like a return to sync on the atomic release
operations would.
- Place an acquisition barrier around thread lock acquisition in
cpu_switchin().
not provide general barriers, but only barriers in the context of the
atomic sequences here. As such, make them private and keep the global
*mb() routines using a variant of sync.
isync to implement read and write barriers, following Appendix B.2 of
Book II of the architecture manual. This provides a 25% speed increase
to fork() on the PowerPC G4.
of sync (lwsync is an alternate encoding of sync on systems that do not
support it, providing graceful fallback). This provides more than an order
of magnitude reduction in the time required to acquire or release a mutex.
MFC after: 2 months
sync performs a strict superset of the functions of eieio, so using both
is redundant. While here, expand bus barriers to all bus_space operations,
since many drivers do not correctly use bus_space_barrier().
In principle, we can also replace sync just with eieio, for a significant
performance increase, but it remains to be seen whether any poorly-written
drivers currently depend on the side effects of sync to properly function.
MFC after: 1 week
(slightly) different semantics and renaming it prevents a (harmless)
WITNESS warning during bootup for 32-bit kernels on 64-bit CPUs.
MFC after: 5 days
be less ambiguous and more clearly identify what it means. This
attribute is what Intel refers to as UC-, and it's only difference
relative to normal UC memory is that a WC MTRR will override a UC-
PAT entry causing the memory to be treated as WC, whereas a UC PAT
entry will always override the MTRR.
- Remove the VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHED alias from powerpc.
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
didn't already have them. This is because the ternary expression will
return int, due to the Usual Arithmetic Conversions. Such casts are not
needed for the 32 and 64 bit variants.
While here, add additional parentheses around the x86 variant, to
protect against unintended consequences.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Without this patch we were not able to see the assembly function.
Only the function descriptor was visible.
- Distinguish between user-land and kernel when creating the ENTRY() point of
assembly source.
- Make the ENTRY() macro more readable, replace the .align directive with the
gas platform independant .p2align directive.
- Create an END()macro for later use to provide traceback tables on powerpc64.
profiling and kernel profiling. To enable kernel profiling one has to build
kgmon(8). I will enable the build once I managed to build and test powerpc
(32-bit) kernels with profiling support.
- add a powerpc64 PROF_PROLOGUE for _mcount.
- add macros to avoid adding the PROF_PROLOGUE in certain assembly entries.
- apply these macros where needed.
- add size information to the MCOUNT function.
MFC after: 3 weeks, together with r230291
that the compiler promotes floats to double precision in computations, but
inspection of the output of a cross-compiler indicates that this isn't the
case on powerpc.
