This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs.
Reviewed by: jmallet, iedowse, tlambert2@mindspring.com
MFC After: never, -STABLE does not currently use this instruction
with the exception of indirect function calls, are assumed to be
intra load module and thus that GP will be the same. This avoids
saving, setting and restoring GP for each function call and
reduces the kernel with ~320KB. There's obviously a performance
benefit as well.
Note that since we generally don't know if calls will be intra or
inter load module when we're compiling kernel modules, -mconstant-gp
cannot be used for modules.
Fix the "@gprel relocation against dynamic symbol xxx" linker error.
Variables defined in the link unit and small enough to be put in the
short data section will have a gp-relative access sequence (using the
@gprel relocation). It is invalid to have @gprel relocations in shared
libraries, because they are to be resolved by the static linker and
not the dynamic linker. The -fpic option will cause @ltoff relocations
for @gprel relocations, but the side-effects are untested (if any).
Instead, disable/eliminate the short data section to achieve the same.
- Begin moving scheduler specific functionality into sched_4bsd.c
- Replace direct manipulation of scheduler data with hooks provided by the
new api.
- Remove KSE specific state modifications and single runq assumptions from
kern_switch.c
Reviewed by: -arch
allow us to avoid nasty by-hand string parsing stuff in a number of
places in the kernel, reducing the risk of unexpected consequences
for kernel correctness.
among other things, the DEVFS rule subsystem to match nodes against a
path pattern supplied by the user.
fnmatch.c was repo-copied from src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c, and the
only changes to it are those necessary to make it compile in the
kernel. The relevant parts of fnmatch.h were imported into libkern.h.
Approved by: -arch
NB: But it will enable it in all kernels not having options "NO_GEOM"
Put the GEOM related options into the intended order.
Add "options NO_GEOM" to all kernel configs apart from NOTES.
In some order of controlled fashion, the NO_GEOM options will be
removed, architecture by architecture in the coming days.
There are currently three known issues which may force people to
need the NO_GEOM option:
boot0cfg/fdisk:
Tries to update the MBR while it is being used to control
slices. GEOM does not allow this as a direct operation.
SCSI floppy drives:
Appearantly the scsi-da driver return "EBUSY" if no media
is inserted. This is wrong, it should return ENXIO.
PC98:
It is unclear if GEOM correctly recognizes all variants of
PC98 disklabels. (Help Wanted! I have neither docs nor HW)
These issues are all being worked.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
This allocate the best IRQ to boot-disable devices (have IRQ 0).
Allocated IRQ will be used for PCI interrupt routing when ACPI is
enabled.
Note that verbose messaging enabled for the time being so that
people can easily notice the strange behavior if it happened.
This reduces the size of GENERIC's text space by 73999 bytes (about 2%).
The bloat is from approximately 3437 strings longer than 31 characters
being padded to a 32-byte boundary.
doesn't give them enough stack to do much before blowing away the pcb.
This adds MI and MD code to allow the allocation of an alternate kstack
who's size can be speficied when calling kthread_create. Passing the
value 0 prevents the alternate kstack from being created. Note that the
ia64 MD code is missing for now, and PowerPC was only partially written
due to the pmap.c being incomplete there.
Though this patch does not modify anything to make use of the alternate
kstack, acpi and usb are good candidates.
Reviewed by: jake, peter, jhb
gets signals operating based on a TailQ, and is good enough to run X11,
GNOME, and do job control. There are some intricate parts which could be
more refined to match the sigset_t versions, but those require further
evaluation of directions in which our signal system can expand and contract
to fit our needs.
After this has been in the tree for a while, I will make in kernel API
changes, most notably to trapsignal(9) and sendsig(9), to use ksiginfo
more robustly, such that we can actually pass information with our
(queued) signals to the userland. That will also result in using a
struct ksiginfo pointer, rather than a signal number, in a lot of
kern_sig.c, to refer to an individual pending signal queue member, but
right now there is no defined behaviour for such.
CODAFS is unfinished in this regard because the logic is unclear in
some places.
Sponsored by: New Gold Technology
Reviewed by: bde, tjr, jake [an older version, logic similar]
aac driver dependent on the linux emulation module. This was
especially bad for the release engineers who tried to move the
aac driver from the kernel onto the drivers floppy. The linux
compat bits for this driver are now in their own driver, aac_linux.
It can be loaded as a module or compiled into the kernel. For
the latter case, the AAC_COMPAT_LINUX option is needed, along with
the COMPAT_LINUX option.
I've tested this in every configuration I can think of. This is an
MFC candidate for 4.7.
Idea from: rwatson
MFC after: 3 days
ACPI or for when ACPI support is disabled or not present in the kernel.
Basically, the nexus device is now split into two with some parts
(such as adding default ISA, MCA, and EISA busses if they aren't found
as well as support for PCI bus device ivars) being moved to the legacy
driver.
so that it is MI. Allow nfs_mountroot to return an error if the nfs_diskless
struct is not valid, rather than panicing later on. Call nfs_setup_diskless()
from nfs_mountroot if NFS_ROOT is defined, like bootpc_init(). Removed legacy
root mount support for sparc64, and enabled NFS_ROOT by default.
