while in kernel mode, and later changing signal mask to block the
signal, was fixed for sigprocmask(2) and ptread_exit(3). The same race
exists for sigreturn(2), setcontext(2) and swapcontext(2) syscalls.
Use kern_sigprocmask() instead of direct manipulation of td_sigmask to
reschedule newly blocked signals, closing the race.
Reviewed by: davidxu
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month
only used in real mode and keeping them mapped only serves to make NULL
a valid address, which results in silent NULL pointer deferences.
Suggested by: Patrick Kerharo
Obtained from: projects/ppc64
at least on my Xserve, getting the decrementer and timebase on APs to tick
requires setting up a clock chip over I2C, which is not yet done.
While here, correct the 64-bit tlbie function to set the CPU to 64-bit
mode correctly.
Hardware donated by: grehan
the memory or D-cache, depending on the semantics of the platform.
vm_sync_icache() is basically a wrapper around pmap_sync_icache(),
that translates the vm_map_t argumument to pmap_t.
o Introduce pmap_sync_icache() to all PMAP implementation. For powerpc
it replaces the pmap_page_executable() function, added to solve
the I-cache problem in uiomove_fromphys().
o In proc_rwmem() call vm_sync_icache() when writing to a page that
has execute permissions. This assures that when breakpoints are
written, the I-cache will be coherent and the process will actually
hit the breakpoint.
o This also fixes the Book-E PMAP implementation that was missing
necessary locking while trying to deal with the I-cache coherency
in pmap_enter() (read: mmu_booke_enter_locked).
The key property of this change is that the I-cache is made coherent
*after* writes have been done. Doing it in the PMAP layer when adding
or changing a mapping means that the I-cache is made coherent *before*
any writes happen. The difference is key when the I-cache prefetches.
by looking at the bases used for non-relocatable executables by gnu ld(1),
and adjusting it slightly.
Discussed with: bz
Reviewed by: kan
Tested by: bz (i386, amd64), bsam (linux)
MFC after: some time
first and the native ia32 compat as middle (before other things).
o(ld)brandinfo as well as third party like linux, kfreebsd, etc.
stays on SI_ORDER_ANY coming last.
The reason for this is only to make sure that even in case we would
overflow the MAX_BRANDS sized array, the native FreeBSD brandinfo
would still be there and the system would be operational.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
has proven to have a good effect when entering KDB by using a NMI,
but it completely violates all the good rules about interrupts
disabled while holding a spinlock in other occasions. This can be the
cause of deadlocks on events where a normal IPI_STOP is expected.
* Adds an new IPI called IPI_STOP_HARD on all the supported architectures.
This IPI is responsible for sending a stop message among CPUs using a
privileged channel when disponible. In other cases it just does match a
normal IPI_STOP.
Right now the IPI_STOP_HARD functionality uses a NMI on ia32 and amd64
architectures, while on the other has a normal IPI_STOP effect. It is
responsibility of maintainers to eventually implement an hard stop
when necessary and possible.
* Use the new IPI facility in order to implement a new userend SMP kernel
function called stop_cpus_hard(). That is specular to stop_cpu() but
it does use the privileged channel for the stopping facility.
* Let KDB use the newly introduced function stop_cpus_hard() and leave
stop_cpus() for all the other cases
* Disable interrupts on CPU0 when starting the process of APs suspension.
* Style cleanup and comments adding
This patch should fix the reboot/shutdown deadlocks many users are
constantly reporting on mailing lists.
Please don't forget to update your config file with the STOP_NMI
option removal
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: pho, bz, rink
Approved by: re (kib)
a device pager (OBJT_DEVICE) object in that it uses fictitious pages to
provide aliases to other memory addresses. The primary difference is that
it uses an sglist(9) to determine the physical addresses for a given offset
into the object instead of invoking the d_mmap() method in a device driver.
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 2 weeks
It turns LBC control registers were not programmed correctly on MPC85XX. We
were accessing bogus addresses as the base offset (OCP85XX_LBC_OFF) was
erroneously added during offset calculations. Effectively the state of LBC
control registers was not altered by the kernel initialization code, but
everything worked as long as we coincided to use the same settings (LBC decode
windows) as firmware has initialized.
Submitted by: Lukasz Wojcik
Reviewed by: marcel
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: Semihalf
dependent memory attributes:
Rename vm_cache_mode_t to vm_memattr_t. The new name reflects the
fact that there are machine-dependent memory attributes that have
nothing to do with controlling the cache's behavior.
Introduce vm_object_set_memattr() for setting the default memory
attributes that will be given to an object's pages.
Introduce and use pmap_page_{get,set}_memattr() for getting and
setting a page's machine-dependent memory attributes. Add full
support for these functions on amd64 and i386 and stubs for them on
the other architectures. The function pmap_page_set_memattr() is also
responsible for any other machine-dependent aspects of changing a
page's memory attributes, such as flushing the cache or updating the
direct map. The uses include kmem_alloc_contig(), vm_page_alloc(),
and the device pager:
kmem_alloc_contig() can now be used to allocate kernel memory with
non-default memory attributes on amd64 and i386.
vm_page_alloc() and the device pager will set the memory attributes
for the real or fictitious page according to the object's default
memory attributes.
Update the various pmap functions on amd64 and i386 that map pages to
incorporate each page's memory attributes in the mapping.
Notes: (1) Inherent to this design are safety features that prevent
the specification of inconsistent memory attributes by different
mappings on amd64 and i386. In addition, the device pager provides a
warning when a device driver creates a fictitious page with memory
attributes that are inconsistent with the real page that the
fictitious page is an alias for. (2) Storing the machine-dependent
memory attributes for amd64 and i386 as a dedicated "int" in "struct
md_page" represents a compromise between space efficiency and the ease
of MFCing these changes to RELENG_7.
In collaboration with: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
bandaid to prevent exhaustion of the primary and secondary hash groups
in the event of extreme stress on the PMAP layer (e.g. a forkbomb). This
wastes memory, and should be revised to properly handle PTEG spills instead.
Suggested by: grehan
Approved by: re (kensmith)
o add to platforms where it was missing (arm, i386, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v)
o define as "1" on amd64 and i386 where there is no restriction
o make the type returned consistent with ALIGN
o remove _ALIGNED_POINTER
o make associated comments consistent
Reviewed by: bde, imp, marcel
Approved by: re (kensmith)
More applications (including Firefox) seem to depend on this nowadays,
so not having this enabled by default is a bad idea.
Proposed by: miwi
Patch by: Florian Smeets <flo kasimir com>
Approved by: re (kib)
required by video card drivers. Specifically, this change introduces
vm_cache_mode_t with an appropriate VM_CACHE_DEFAULT definition on all
architectures. In addition, this changes adds a vm_cache_mode_t parameter
to kmem_alloc_contig() and vm_phys_alloc_contig(). These will be the
interfaces for allocating mapped kernel memory and physical memory,
respectively, with non-default cache modes.
In collaboration with: jhb
- Modules and kernel code alike may use DPCPU_DEFINE(),
DPCPU_GET(), DPCPU_SET(), etc. akin to the statically defined
PCPU_*. Requires only one extra instruction more than PCPU_* and is
virtually the same as __thread for builtin and much faster for shared
objects. DPCPU variables can be initialized when defined.
- Modules are supported by relocating the module's per-cpu linker set
over space reserved in the kernel. Modules may fail to load if there
is insufficient space available.
- Track space available for modules with a one-off extent allocator.
Free may block for memory to allocate space for an extent.
Reviewed by: jhb, rwatson, kan, sam, grehan, marius, marcel, stas
pv entries surpasses the high water mark. The problem was that the page
daemon would only be awakened the first time that the high water mark was
surpassed. (The variable "pagedaemon_waken" is a non-working vestige of
FreeBSD 4.x, in which it was external and reset by the page daemon whenever
it ran. This reset allowed subsequent wakeups by the pv entry allocator.)
aim/machdep.c:
- the RI status register bit needs to be set when doing the mtmsrd 64-bit
instruction test
- psim doesn't implement the dcbz instruction so the run-time cacheline
test fails. Set the cachline size to 32 to avoid infinite loops in
future calls to __syncicache()
aim/platform_chrp.c:
- if after iterating through / and a name property of "cpus" still isn't
found, just search directly for '/cpus'.
- psim doesn't put a "reg" property on it's cpu nodes, so assume 0
since it is uniprocessor-only at this point
powerpc/openpic.c
- the number of CPUs reported is 1 too many on psim's openpic
Reviewed by: nwhitehorn
MFC after: 1 week (openpic part)
in Freescale system-on-chip devices.
The following algorithms and schemes are currently supported:
- 3DES, AES, DES
- MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
Reviewed by: philip
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
Without this fix pte_vatopa() was not able to retrieve physical address of
data structures inside kernel, for example EFAULT was reported while acessing
/dev/kmem ('netstat -nr').
Submitted by: Piotr Ziecik
Obtained from: Semihalf
goal of shipping 8.0 with MAC support in the default kernel. No policies
will be compiled in or enabled by default, but it will now be possible to
load them at boot or runtime without a kernel recompile.
While the framework is not believed to impose measurable overhead when no
policies are loaded (a result of optimization over the past few months in
HEAD), we'll continue to benchmark and optimize as the release approaches.
Please keep an eye out for performance or functionality regressions that
could be a result of this change.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
access windows. This eliminates hangs on systems which are configured to use
interleaved mode: prior to this fix we were simply cutting ourselves from
access to the main memory in this case.
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
possible future I-cache coherency operation can succeed. On ARM
for example the L1 cache can be (is) virtually mapped, which
means that any I/O that uses temporary mappings will not see the
I-cache made coherent. On ia64 a similar behaviour has been
observed. By flushing the D-cache, execution of binaries backed
by md(4) and/or NFS work reliably.
For Book-E (powerpc), execution over NFS exhibits SIGILL once in
a while as well, though cpu_flush_dcache() hasn't been implemented
yet.
Doing an explicit D-cache flush as part of the non-DMA based I/O
read operation eliminates the need to do it as part of the
I-cache coherency operation itself and as such avoids pessimizing
the DMA-based I/O read operations for which D-cache are already
flushed/invalidated. It also allows future optimizations whereby
the bcopy() followed by the D-cache flush can be integrated in a
single operation, which could be implemented using on-chips DMA
engines, by-passing the D-cache altogether.
- make mftb() shared, rewrite in C, provide complementary mttb()
- adjust SMP startup per the above, additional comments, minor naming
changes
- eliminate redundant TB defines, other minor cosmetics
Reviewed by: marcel, nwhitehorn
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
new platform module. These are probed in early boot, and have the
responsibility of determining the layout of physical memory, determining
the CPU timebase frequency, and handling the zoo of SMP mechanisms
found on PowerPC.
Reviewed by: marcel, raj
Book-E parts by: raj
When memory is not zero'ed by firmware, uninitialized PCB can have bogus
contents, which appear as a saved onfault condition, Altivec context to
restore etc. and lead to corruption/crashes. This commit fixes such issues.
Submitted by: Michal Mazur arg ! semihalf dot com
Tested by: Andreas Tobler andreast-list ! fgznet dot ch
controller in the VIA southbridge functional in the CDS
(Configurable Development System) for MPC85XX.
The embedded USB controllers look operational but the
interrupt steering is still wrong.
Include opt_ddb.h for that. Now you can actually boot with
-d and set breakpoints using function names.
o Make sure to include opt_msgbuf.h.
o Carve out the first 1MB of physical memory. The MPC85xx has
DMA problems with addresses below 1MB. Ideally busdma knows
how to avoid allocating below 1MB for MPC85xx, but that
requires a bit more work. For now, ignore the 1MB of DRAM.
a fair number of static data structures, making this an unlikely
option to try to change without also changing source code. [1]
Change default cache line size on ia64, sparc64, and sun4v to 128
bytes, as this was what rtld-elf was already using on those
platforms. [2]
Suggested by: bde [1], jhb [2]
MFC after: 2 weeks
CACHE_LINE_SIZE constant. These constants are intended to
over-estimate the cache line size, and be used at compile-time
when a run-time tuning alternative isn't appropriate or
available.
Defaults for all architectures are 64 bytes, except powerpc
where it is 128 bytes (used on G5 systems).
MFC after: 2 weeks
Discussed on: arch@
replace magic numbers with constants to keep this from happening again.
Without this fix, some programs would occasionally get SIGTRAP instead
of SIGILL on an illegal instruction. This affected Altivec detection
in pixman, and possibly other software.
Reported by: Andreas Tobler
MFC after: 1 week
CPUs known to use 128 byte cache lines and defaulting to 32, use the dcbz
instruction to measure it. Also make dcbz behave the way you would
expect on PPC 970.
but do not actually invoke KDB. This includes recoverable machine checks
encountered in kernel mode.
This patch causes machines with Grackle host-PCI bridges to be able to
correctly enumerate them again.
MFC after: 3 days
1) Move the new field (brand_note) to the end of the Brandinfo structure.
2) Add a new flag BI_BRAND_NOTE that indicates that the brand_note pointer
is valid.
3) Use the brand_note field if the flag BI_BRAND_NOTE is set and as old
modules won't have the flag set, so the new field brand_note would be
ignored.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 6 days
being switched out may hold a reservation. The stwcx. will
clear the reservation. This is architecturally recommended.
The scenario this addresses is as follows:
1. Thread 1 performs a lwarx and as such holds a reservation.
2. Thread 1 gets switched out (before doing the matching
stwcx.) and thread 2 is switched in.
3. Thread 2 performs a stwcx. to the same reservation granule.
This will succeed because the processor has the reservation
even though thread 2 didn't do the lwarx.
Note that on some processors the address given the stwcx. is
not checked. On these processors the mere condition of having
a reservation would cause the stwcx. to succeed, irrespective
of whether the addresses are the same. The dummy stwcx. is
especially important for those processors.
on a generic dumper that creates an ELF core file and
uses PMAP functions to scan and iterate over memory
chunks, as well as handle memory mappings used during
dumping.
the PMAP layer can choose to return physical memory
chunks or virtual memory chunks. For minidumps, the
chunks should be virtual.
The default MMU I/F implementation for the scan_md()
method returns NULL. Thus, when a PMAP implementation
does not implement the required methods, an empty
core file is created. Here, empty means having an ELF
header only.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
provided, for example, on the PowerPC 970 (G5), as well as on related CPUs
like the POWER3 and POWER4.
This also adds support for various built-in hardware found on Apple G5
hardware (e.g. the IBM CPC925 northbridge).
Reviewed by: grehan
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
".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)
the unmanaged flag set in the PVO attributes. Without doing this,
pmap_remove() could try to remove fictitious pages (like those created
by mmap of physical memory) from the wrong UMA zone, causing a panic.
Reported by: Justin Hibbits
MFC after: 1 week
When copying big structures, LLVM generates calls to memmove(), because
it may not be able to figure out whether structures overlap. This caused
linker errors to occur. memmove() is now implemented using bcopy().
Ideally it would be the other way around, but that can be solved in the
future. On ARM we don't do add anything, because it already has
memmove().
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed by: rdivacky
Previously, DBCR0 flags were set "globally", but this leads to problems
because Book-E fine grained debug settings work only in conjuction with the
debug master enable bit in MSR: in scenarios when the DBCR0 was set with
intention to debug one process, but another one with MSR[DE] set got
scheduled, the latter would immediately cause debug exceptions to occur upon
execution of its own code instructions (and not the one intended for
debugging).
To avoid such problems and properly handle debugging context, DBCR0 state
should be managed individually per process.
Submitted by: Grzegorz Bernacki gjb ! semihalf dot com
Reviewed by: marcel
- interrupt coalescing
- polling
- jumbo frames
- multicast
- VLAN tagging
The enhanced version of the chip (eTSEC) can also take advantage of:
- TCP/IP checksum calculation h/w offloading
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
the PIC before the interrupt handler was set. If the interrupt triggered in
that window, then the interrupt vector would be disabled.
Reported by: Marco Trillo
power and thermal control, as well as GPIOs on Xserves and controlling
sound codecs for Apple built-in audio.
Submitted by: Marco Trillo
Obtained from: NetBSD
o Eliminate tlb0[] (a s/w copy of TLB0)
- The table contents cannot be maintained reliably in multiple MMU
environments, where asynchronous events (invalidations from other cores)
can change our local TLB0 contents underneath.
- Simplify and optimize TLB flushing: system wide invalidations are
performed using tlbivax instruction (propagates to other cores), for
local MMU invalidations a new optimized routine (assembly) is introduced.
o Improve and simplify TID allocation and management.
- Let each core keep track of its TID allocations.
- Simplify TID recycling, eliminate dead code.
- Drop the now unused powerpc/booke/support.S file.
o Improve page tables management logic.
o Simplify TLB1 manipulation routines.
o Other improvements and polishing.
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
belonging to a devices children, in analogy to the way we handle interrupts
for SCC serial devices. This is required to counteract overly deep nesting
on onboard audio devices.
Submitted by: Marco Trillo
cells in the map, instead of using a value passed to it and then panicing if it
disagrees. This fixes interrupt map parsing for PCI bridges on some Apple
Uninorth PCI controllers.
Reported by: marcel
Tested on: G4 iBook, Sun Ultra 5
of OFW access semantics, in order to allow future support for real-mode
OF access and flattened device frees. OF client interface modules are
implemented using KOBJ, in a similar way to the PPC PMAP modules.
Because we need Open Firmware to be available before mutexes can be used on
sparc64, changes are also included to allow KOBJ to be used very early in
the boot process by only using the mutex once we know it has been initialized.
Reviewed by: marius, grehan
- Make LBC resources management self-contained: introduce explicit LBC
resources definition (much like the OCP), provide dedicated rman for LB mem
space.
- Full configuration of an LB chip select device: program LAW and BR/OR, map
into KVA, handle all LB attributes (bus width, machine select, ecc,
write protect etc).
- Factor out LAW manipulation routines into shared code, adjust OCP area
accordingly.
- Other LBC fixes and clean-ups.
Obtained from: Semihalf
- split bootstrap code into more modular routines, which will also be used for
the non-booting cores
- clean up registers usage
- improve comments to better reflect reality
- eliminate dead or redundant code
- other minor fixes
This refactoring is a preliminary step before importing dual-core (MPC8572)
support.
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
the code for parsing interrupt maps) to PowerPC and reflect their new MI
status by moving them to the shared dev/ofw directory.
This commit also modifies the OFW PCI enumeration procedure on PowerPC to
allow the bus to find non-firmware-enumerated devices that Apple likes to add,
and adds some useful Open Firmware properties (compat and name) to the pnpinfo
string of children on OFW SBus, EBus, PCI, and MacIO links. Because of the
change to PCI enumeration on PowerPC, X has started working again on PPC
machines with Grackle hostbridges.
Reviewed by: marius
Obtained from: sparc64
by redoing the Open Firmware card initialization calls in ofwfb_set_mode(). This
uses the same trick (setting V_ADP_MODECHANGE) to arrange this as machfb(4) and
creatorfb(4).
laptops. This includes battery presence detection, charging status, current
and voltage readouts, and charge level indication. The sysctl interface
is somewhat ACPI-like.
my right mouse button and keyboard LEDs from working due to mangled
configuration packets. Fixed several other races and associated problems in the
main ADB stack that were exposed while fixing this.
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.
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.
to set the initial PIO mode instead of assuming PIO4. There are still a few
nagging issues:
- There are some problems with 64 K DMA transfers waiting on lower level
changes.
- ATAPI DMA is broken on Marcel's Mac Mini because we need an ATA SELECT hook
propagated up to individual drivers for hardware without timing registers for
each ATA channel.
G3 as well as the internal ADB keyboard and mice in PowerBooks and iBooks. This
also brings in Mac GPIO support, for which we should eventually have a better
interface.
Obtained from: NetBSD (CUDA and PMU drivers)
simplifies certain device attachments (Kauai ATA, for instance), and makes
possible others on new hardware.
On G5 systems, there are several otherwise standard PCI devices
(Serverworks SATA) that will not allow their interrupt properties to be
written, so this information must be supplied directly from Open Firmware.
Obtained from: sparc64
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
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
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
port by OF the syscons won't take over console. Only attach syscons to "screen"
if /chosen/stdout is not connected, which could be the case when loader(8)
is booted directly from the OF. This fixes Marcel's Xserver.
Reported by: marcel
to "screen" node directly. The problem is that by default OF on some (all?)
Macs either doesn't provide "/chosen/stdout" or redirects it somewhere,
unless you boot in manual mode via CMD-ALT-O-F. It's nice to see normal
FreeBSD boot output instead of blank gray screen.
make it memory-coherency enforced (PTE_M). This is required for SMP
to work.
o Serialize tlbie operations and implement the tlbie operation in a
function called tlbie(). Hardware can end up in a live-lock if
between the tlbsync and subsequent sync on one processor another
processor executes a tlbie or tlbsync.
o Eliminate the following defines:
TLBIE, TLBSYNC, SYNC and EIEIO
Use either inline assembly statements or inline functions defined
in <machine/cpufunc.h>
caches if not yet enabed. This is required for coherency and
atomic operations to work, not to mention performance. We use the
L2 and L3 cache settings of the BSP to configure the APs caches.
Can't be bad.
Program NAP and not DOZE. DOZE is present only on earlier CPUs
and the bit is reserved on the MPC7441 & MPC7451. NAP will do
bus snooping to keep caches coherent.
Program the PIR with the cpuid. This may not be necessary...
We're only returning a 32-bit counter.
o In decr_intr(), manually perform LICM, so that we don't test
a loop invariant condition inside a loop.
o Include <machine/smp.h>
volatile so that the compiler won't perform CSE. For SMP,
this may result in us accessing the wrong PCPU and as such
results in a bogus curthread value.
Note that getting curthread is not quite MP-safe in the sense
that it requires two instructions that aren't performed
atomically. The first instruction gets the address of the PCPU
structure and the second instruction dereferences that pointer
to get curthread. If a thread is switched-out in between these
instructions and switched-in on a different CPU, we still get
the wrong curthread.
common PowerPC code when all we want to achieve is to enable
external interrupts. We can set PSL_RI at any time before we
allow interrupts and/or exceptions, so move it to the AIM
specific initialization and do it when we also set PSL_ME
(machine check enable).
configuring the L2 cache on the BSP. Nor the L3 cache. We
merely print the settings.
Save the L2 and L3 cache configuration in global values so
that we know how to configure the cache on APs.
- Allocate thread0.td_kstack in pmap_bootstrap(), provide guard page
- Switch to thread0.td_kstack as soon as possible i.e. right after return
from e500_init() and before mi_startup() happens
- Clean up temp stack area
- Other minor cosmetics in machdep.c
Obtained from: Semihalf
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
As clearly mentioned on the mailing lists, there is a list of drivers
that have not been ported to the MPSAFE TTY layer yet. Remove them from
the kernel configuration files. This means people can now still use
these drivers if they explicitly put them in their kernel configuration
file, which is good.
People should keep in mind that after August 10, these drivers will not
work anymore. Even though owners of the hardware are capable of getting
these drivers working again, I will see if I can at least get them to a
compilable state (if time permits).
Now that st_rdev is being automatically generated by the kernel, there
is no need to define static major/minor numbers for the iodev and
memdev. We still need the minor numbers for the memdev, however, to
distinguish between /dev/mem and /dev/kmem.
Approved by: philip (mentor)
