freebsd kernel with SKQ
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Historical behavior of letting other CPUs merily go on is a default for time being. The new behavior can be switched on via kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic tunable and sysctl. Stopping of the CPUs has (at least) the following benefits: - more of the system state at panic time is preserved intact - threads and interrupts do not interfere with dumping of the system state Only one thread runs uninterrupted after panic if stop_scheduler_on_panic is set. That thread might call code that is also used in normal context and that code might use locks to prevent concurrent execution of certain parts. Those locks might be held by the stopped threads and would never be released. To work around this issue, it was decided that instead of explicit checks for panic context, we would rather put those checks inside the locking primitives. This change has substantial portions written and re-written by attilio and kib at various times. Other changes are heavily based on the ideas and patches submitted by jhb and mdf. bde has provided many insights into the details and history of the current code. The new behavior may cause problems for systems that use a USB keyboard for interfacing with system console. This is because of some unusual locking patterns in the ukbd code which have to be used because on one hand ukbd is below syscons, but on the other hand it has to interface with other usb code that uses regular mutexes/Giant for its concurrency protection. Dumping to USB-connected disks may also be affected. PR: amd64/139614 (at least) In cooperation with: attilio, jhb, kib, mdf Discussed with: arch@, bde Tested by: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, gnn, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, glebius, Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com> (various versions of the patch) MFC after: 3 months (or never) |
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This is the top level of the FreeBSD source directory. This file was last revised on: $FreeBSD$ For copyright information, please see the file COPYRIGHT in this directory (additional copyright information also exists for some sources in this tree - please see the specific source directories for more information). The Makefile in this directory supports a number of targets for building components (or all) of the FreeBSD source tree, the most commonly used one being ``world'', which rebuilds and installs everything in the FreeBSD system from the source tree except the kernel, the kernel-modules and the contents of /etc. The ``world'' target should only be used in cases where the source tree has not changed from the currently running version. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html for more information, including setting make(1) variables. The ``buildkernel'' and ``installkernel'' targets build and install the kernel and the modules (see below). Please see the top of the Makefile in this directory for more information on the standard build targets and compile-time flags. Building a kernel is a somewhat more involved process, documentation for which can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html And in the config(8) man page. Note: If you want to build and install the kernel with the ``buildkernel'' and ``installkernel'' targets, you might need to build world before. More information is available in the handbook. The sample kernel configuration files reside in the sys/<arch>/conf sub-directory (assuming that you've installed the kernel sources), the file named GENERIC being the one used to build your initial installation kernel. The file NOTES contains entries and documentation for all possible devices, not just those commonly used. It is the successor of the ancient LINT file, but in contrast to LINT, it is not buildable as a kernel but a pure reference and documentation file. Source Roadmap: --------------- bin System/user commands. cddl Various commands and libraries under the Common Development and Distribution License. contrib Packages contributed by 3rd parties. crypto Cryptography stuff (see crypto/README). etc Template files for /etc. games Amusements. gnu Various commands and libraries under the GNU Public License. Please see gnu/COPYING* for more information. include System include files. kerberos5 Kerberos5 (Heimdal) package. lib System libraries. libexec System daemons. release Release building Makefile & associated tools. rescue Build system for statically linked /rescue utilities. sbin System commands. secure Cryptographic libraries and commands. share Shared resources. sys Kernel sources. tools Utilities for regression testing and miscellaneous tasks. usr.bin User commands. usr.sbin System administration commands. For information on synchronizing your source tree with one or more of the FreeBSD Project's development branches, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html