nearest .01 Mhz rather than simply truncating it downwards.
This hack makes this 89.999928 Mhz clock correctly round to the closer
90.00-MHz rather than 89.99-MHz:
> i586 clock: 89999928 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193152 Hz
> CPU: Pentium (90.00-MHz 586-class CPU)
Changed i586_ctr_bias from long long to u_int. Only the low 32 bits
are used now that microtime uses a multiplication to do the scaling.
Previously the high 32 bits had to match those of rdtsc() to prevent
overflow traps and invalid timeval adjustments.
early enough when the dump device is specified in the config file.
Removed stale comment about configuration root and swap devices.
Don't bother clearing dumplo when dumpdev is set to NODEV. Everything
is controlled by dumpdev.
Fixed the kern.dumpdev sysctl. Writes were handle bogusly.
problem with the 'shell scripts' was found, but there was a 'strange'
problem found with a 486 laptop that we could not find. This commit
backs the code back to 25-jul, and will be re-entered after the snapshot
in smaller (more easily tested) chunks.
performance issues.
1) The pmap module has had too many inlines, and so the
object file is simply bigger than it needs to be.
Some common code is also merged into subroutines.
2) Removal of some *evil* PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE macro calls.
Unfortunately, a few have needed to be added also.
The removal caused the need for more vm_page_lookups.
I added lookup hints to minimize the need for the
page table lookup operations.
3) Removal of some bogus performance improvements, that
mostly made the code more complex (tracking individual
page table page updates unnecessarily). Those improvements
actually hurt 386 processors perf (not that people who
worry about perf use 386 processors anymore :-)).
4) Changed pv queue manipulations/structures to be TAILQ's.
5) The pv queue code has had some performance problems since
day one. Some significant scalability issues are resolved
by threading the pv entries from the pmap AND the physical
address instead of just the physical address. This makes
certain pmap operations run much faster. This does
not affect most micro-benchmarks, but should help loaded system
performance *significantly*. DG helped and came up with most
of the solution for this one.
6) Most if not all pmap bit operations follow the pattern:
pmap_test_bit();
pmap_clear_bit();
That made for twice the necessary pv list traversal. The
pmap interface now supports only pmap_tc_bit type operations:
pmap_[test/clear]_modified, pmap_[test/clear]_referenced.
Additionally, the modified routine now takes a vm_page_t arg
instead of a phys address. This eliminates a PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE
operation.
7) Several rewrites of routines that contain redundant code to
use common routines, so that there is a greater likelihood of
keeping the cache footprint smaller.
make it more intelligible, improve the partially bogus locking, and
allow for a ``quick re-acquiration'' from a pending release of timer 0
that happened ``recently'', so it was not processed yet by clkintr().
This latter modification now finally allows to play XBoing over
pcaudio without losing sounds or getting complaints. ;-) (XBoing
opens/writes/closes the sound device all over the day.)
Correct locking for sysbeep().
Extensively (:-) reviewed by: bde
Finished the constant poisoning that was begun in rev.1.14. Consts
aren't very poisonous (or useful) unless -Wcast-qual is in CFLAGS,
and it isn't in the default CFLAGS.
type identification code out of machdep.c and into a new file of its
own. Hopefully other grot can be moved out of machdep.c as well
(by other people) into more descriptively-named files.
Testing with the high frequency of 20000 Hz (to find problems) only found
the problem that this frequency is too high for slow i386's.
Disable interrupts while setting the timer frequency. This was unnecessary
before rev.1.57 and forgotten in rev.1.57. The critical (i8254) interrupts
are disabled in another way at boot time but not in the sysctl to change
the frequency.
Fixed profiling of system times. It was pre-4.4Lite and didn't support
statclocks. System times were too small by a factor of 8.
Handle deferred profiling ticks the 4.4Lite way: use addupc_task() instead
of addupc(). Call addupc_task() directly instead of using the ADDUPC()
macro.
Removed vestigial support for PROFTIMER.
switch.s:
Removed addupc().
resourcevar.h:
Removed ADDUPC() and declarations of addupc().
cpu.h:
Updated a comment. i386's never were tahoe's, and the deferred profiling
tick became (possibly) multiple ticks in 4.4Lite.
Obtained from: mostly from NetBSD
multiplication in addupc() overflowed for addresses >= 256K, assuming
the usual profil(2) scale parameter of 0x8000. addupc() will go away
soon.
Submitted by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
is only used by the icu support modules and by a few drivers that know
too much about the icu (most only use it to convert `n' to `IRQn'). isa.h
is only used by ioconf.c and by a few drivers that know too much about
isa addresses (a few have to, because config is deficient).
enable flag instead of enable_intr() to restore it to its usual state.
getit() is only called from DELAY() so there is no point in optimising
its speed (this wasn't so clear when it was extern), and using
enable_intr() made it inconvenient to call DELAY() from probes that need
to run with interrupts disabled.
1) Make it much less likely to miss a wakeup in vm_page_free_wakeup
2) Create a new entry point into pmap: pmap_ts_referenced, eliminates
the need to scan the pv lists twice in many cases. Perhaps there
is alot more to do here to work on minimizing pv list manipulation
3) Minor improvements to vm_pageout including the use of pmap_ts_ref.
4) Major changes and code improvement to pmap. This code has had
several serious bugs in page table page manipulation. In order
to simplify the problem, and hopefully solve it for once and all,
page table pages are no longer "managed" with the pv list stuff.
Page table pages are only (mapped and held/wired) or
(free and unused) now. Page table pages are never inactive,
active or cached. These changes have probably fixed the
hold count problems, but if they haven't, then the code is
simpler anyway for future bugfixing.
5) The pmap code has been sorely in need of re-organization, and I
have taken a first (of probably many) steps. Please tell me
if you have any ideas.
All new code is "#ifdef PC98"ed so this should make no difference to
PC/AT (and its clones) users.
Ok'd by: core
Submitted by: FreeBSD(98) development team
It is called from copyin and copyout.
The new routine is conditioned on I586_CPU and I586_FAST_BCOPY, so you
need
options "I586_FAST_BCOPY"
(quotes essenstial) in your kernel config file.
Also, if you have other kernel types configured in your kernel, an
additional check to make sure it is running on a Pentium is inserted.
(It is not clear why it doesn't help on P6s, it may be just that the
Orion chipset doesn't prefetch as efficiently as Tritons and friends.)
Bruce can now hack this away. :)
alias `pcb_cr3' instead. That is still one alias too many, but is convenient
for me since I've replaced the tss in the pcb by a few scalar variables in
the pcb.
altfmt was abused to sometimes screw up the disassembly of the bytes
following unconditional jump instructions. Gas doesn't pad to a longword
boundary like the comment said - that is the programmer's responsibility.
queue in vm_fault.
Move the PG_BUSY in vm_fault to the correct place.
Remove redundant/unnecessary code in pmap.c.
Properly block on rundown of page table pages, if they are busy.
I think that the VM system is in pretty good shape now, and the following
individuals (among others, in no particular order) have helped with this
recent bunch of bugs, thanks! If I left anyone out, I apologize!
Stephen McKay, Stephen Hocking, Eric J. Chet, Dan O'Brien, James Raynard,
Marc Fournier.
some problems with the page-table page management code, since it can't
deal with the notion of page-table pages being paged out or in transit.
Also, clean up some stylistic issues per some suggestions from
Stephen McKay.
process during pmap_copy. This minimizes unnecessary swapping or creation of
swap space. If there is a hold_count flaw for page-table
pages, clear the page before freeing it to lessen the chance of a system
crash -- this is a robustness thing only, NOT a fix.
close some windows that are opened up by page table allocations. The
prefaulting code no longer uses hold counts, but now uses the busy
flag for synchronization.
ansi and traditional cpp.
The nesting rules of macros are different, which required some changes.
Use __CONCAT(x,y) instead of /**/.
Redo some comments to use /* */ rather than "# comment" because the ansi
cpp cares about those, and also cares about quote matching.
queue corruption problems, and to apply Gary Palmer's code cleanups.
David Greenman helped with these problems also. There is still
a hang problem using X in small memory machines.
comparing the PTD pointers, they needed to be masked by PG_FRAME, and
they weren't. Also, the "improved" non-386 code wasn't really an
improvement, so I simplified and fixed the code. This might have
caused some of the panics caused by the VM megacommit.
With this fix from Stephen, we are getting the target fork performance
that I have been trying to attain: P5-166, before the mega-commit: 700-800usecs,
after: 600usecs, with Stephen's fix: 500usecs!!! Also, this could be the
solution of some strange panic problems...
Reviewed by: dyson@freebsd.org
Submitted by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>
contributions or ideas from Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>,
Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, David Greenman <davidg@freebsd.org> and me:
More usage of the TAILQ macros. Additional minor fix to queue.h.
Performance enhancements to the pageout daemon.
Addition of a wait in the case that the pageout daemon
has to run immediately.
Slightly modify the pageout algorithm.
Significant revamp of the pmap/fork code:
1) PTE's and UPAGES's are NO LONGER in the process's map.
2) PTE's and UPAGES's reside in their own objects.
3) TOTAL elimination of recursive page table pagefaults.
4) The page directory now resides in the PTE object.
5) Implemented pmap_copy, thereby speeding up fork time.
6) Changed the pv entries so that the head is a pointer
and not an entire entry.
7) Significant cleanup of pmap_protect, and pmap_remove.
8) Removed significant amounts of machine dependent
fork code from vm_glue. Pushed much of that code into
the machine dependent pmap module.
9) Support more completely the reuse of already zeroed
pages (Page table pages and page directories) as being
already zeroed.
Performance and code cleanups in vm_map:
1) Improved and simplified allocation of map entries.
2) Improved vm_map_copy code.
3) Corrected some minor problems in the simplify code.
Implemented splvm (combo of splbio and splimp.) The VM code now
seldom uses splhigh.
Improved the speed of and simplified kmem_malloc.
Minor mod to vm_fault to avoid using pre-zeroed pages in the case
of objects with backing objects along with the already
existant condition of having a vnode. (If there is a backing
object, there will likely be a COW... With a COW, it isn't
necessary to start with a pre-zeroed page.)
Minor reorg of source to perhaps improve locality of ref.
boundary, which means that it doesn't mark the start of the data
section (which is then inaccessible to the programmer ??).
Hopefully fixes recent locore reboot problems.
Macroize locore.s' page table setup even more, now it's almost readable.
Rename PG_U to PG_A (so that I can...)
Rename PG_u to PG_U. "PG_u" was just too ugly...
Remove some unused vars in pmap.c
Remove PG_KR and PG_KW
Remove SSIZE
Remove SINCR
Remove BTOPKERNBASE
This concludes my spring cleaning, modulus any bug fixes for messes I
have made on the way.
(Funny to be back here in pmap.c, that's where my first significant
contribution to 386BSD was... :-)
time. The results are currently ignored unless certain temporary options
are used.
Added sysctls to support reading and writing the clock frequency variables
(not the frequencies themselves). Writing is supposed to atomically
adjust all related variables.
machdep.c:
Fixed spelling of a function name in a comment so that I can log this
message which should have been with the previous commit.
Initialize `cpu_class' earlier so that it can be used in startrtclock()
instead of in calibrate_cyclecounter() (which no longer exists).
Removed range checking of `cpu'. It is always initialized to CPU_XXX
so it is less likely to be out of bounds than most variables.
clock.h:
Removed I586_CYCLECTR(). Use rdtsc() instead.
clock.c:
TIMER_FREQ is now a variable timer_freq that defaults to the old value of
TIMER_FREQ. #define'ing TIMER_FREQ should still work and may be the best
way of setting the frequency.
Calibration involves counting cycles while watching the RTC for one second.
This gives values correct to within (a few ppm) + (the innaccuracy of the
RTC) on my systems.
page dir+table index.
pmap.h: remove NUPDE, it was wrong and not used. Sanitize KSTKPTEOFF.
vmparam.h: Calculate virtual addr from PDI+PTI from pmap.h rather than
using magic math. Remove UPDT, not used.
mapped to semi-random place(s) depending on the content(s) of physical
address 0xA0000. This was fatal at least on my system with a some
memory-mapped devices. Console syscons somehow wasn't affected. It
bogusly hardcodes the address. Sigh.
regarding apm to LINT
- Disabled the statistics clock on machines which have an APM BIOS and
have the options "APM_BROKEN_STATCLOCK" enabled (which is default
in GENERIC now)
- move around some of the code in clock.c dealing with the rtc to make
it more obvios the effects of disabling the statistics clock
Reviewed by: bde
One of the manifiestations of the problem includes the -4 RSS problem
in ps.
Reviewed by: dyson
Submitted by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>
bug only affected FPU emulators. It might have caused bogus FPU states
in core dumps and in the child pcb after a fork. Emulated FPU states
in core dumps don't work for other reasons, and the child FPU state
is reinitialized by exec, so the problem might not have caused any
noticeable affects.
Cleaned up #includes.
channel at the same time. The functions isa_dma_acquire() and
isa_dma_release() should be used in all ISA drivers which call isa_dmastart().
This can be used more generally to register the usage of DMA channels in
any driver, but it is required for drivers using isa_dmastart() and friends.
Clean up sanity checks, error messages, etc.
Remove isa_dmadone_nobounce(), it is no longer needed
Reviewed by: bde
in a suboptimal manner. I had also noticed some panics that appeared
to be at least superficially caused by this problem. Also, included
are some minor mods to support more general handling of page table page
faulting. More details in a future commit.
Always delay using one inb(0x84) after each i/o in rtcin() - don't
do this conditional on the bogus option DUMMY_NOPS not being defined.
If you want an optionally slightly faster rtcin() again, then inline
it and use a better named option or sysctl variable. It only needs
to be fast in rtcintr().
- legitimate null frames from idle() (traceback was aborted after a null
pointer trap)
- second instruction of normal function prologue, and last instruction of
a function (caller wasn't reported).
Reviewed by: davidg
(This code is as yet untested; to come after man page is written.)
This also adds inlines to cpufunc.h for the RDTSC, RDMSR, WRMSR, and RDPMC
instructions. The user-mode interface is via a subdevice of mem.c;
there is also a kernel-size interface which might be used to aid
profiling.
isn't supplying all the proper header info here! Last commit of fe0
entry should have had the following Submitted by line also).
Submitted-by: Masahiro SEKIGUCHI <seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>
handled correctly. Fix some incorrect code that was included
to improve performance. Significantly simplify the pmap_use_pt and
pmap_unuse_pt subroutines. Add some more diagnostic code.
since that's the only other USER_LDT using code that I know of.
Submitted by: Gary Jennejohn <Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de>
Obtained from: {Origin of diffs may be someone else - I only rec'd them from
Gary}
netscape-2.0 for Linux running all the Java stuff. The scrollbars are now
working, at least on my machine. (whew! :-)
I'm uncomfortable with the size of this commit, but it's too
inter-dependant to easily seperate out.
The main changes:
COMPAT_LINUX is *GONE*. Most of the code has been moved out of the i386
machine dependent section into the linux emulator itself. The int 0x80
syscall code was almost identical to the lcall 7,0 code and a minor tweak
allows them to both be used with the same C code. All kernels can now
just modload the lkm and it'll DTRT without having to rebuild the kernel
first. Like IBCS2, you can statically compile it in with "options LINUX".
A pile of new syscalls implemented, including getdents(), llseek(),
readv(), writev(), msync(), personality(). The Linux-ELF libraries want
to use some of these.
linux_select() now obeys Linux semantics, ie: returns the time remaining
of the timeout value rather than leaving it the original value.
Quite a few bugs removed, including incorrect arguments being used in
syscalls.. eg: mixups between passing the sigset as an int, vs passing
it as a pointer and doing a copyin(), missing return values, unhandled
cases, SIOC* ioctls, etc.
The build for the code has changed. i386/conf/files now knows how
to build linux_genassym and generate linux_assym.h on the fly.
Supporting changes elsewhere in the kernel:
The user-mode signal trampoline has moved from the U area to immediately
below the top of the stack (below PS_STRINGS). This allows the different
binary emulations to have their own signal trampoline code (which gets rid
of the hardwired syscall 103 (sigreturn on BSD, syslog on Linux)) and so
that the emulator can provide the exact "struct sigcontext *" argument to
the program's signal handlers.
The sigstack's "ss_flags" now uses SS_DISABLE and SS_ONSTACK flags, which
have the same values as the re-used SA_DISABLE and SA_ONSTACK which are
intended for sigaction only. This enables the support of a SA_RESETHAND
flag to sigaction to implement the gross SYSV and Linux SA_ONESHOT signal
semantics where the signal handler is reset when it's triggered.
makesyscalls.sh no longer appends the struct sysentvec on the end of the
generated init_sysent.c code. It's a lot saner to have it in a seperate
file rather than trying to update the structure inside the awk script. :-)
At exec time, the dozen bytes or so of signal trampoline code are copied
to the top of the user's stack, rather than obtaining the trampoline code
the old way by getting a clone of the parent's user area. This allows
Linux and native binaries to freely exec each other without getting
trampolines mixed up.
pmap_activate since it's not used anymore. Changed cpu_fork so that
it uses one line of inline assembly rather than calling mvesp() to
get the current stack pointer. Removed mvesp() since it is no longer
being used.
clock interrupts.
Keep a 1-in-16 smoothed average of the length of each tick. If the
CPU speed is correctly diagnosed, this should give experienced users
enough information to figure out a more suitable value for `tick'.
fd and wt drivers need bounce buffers, so this normally saves 32K-1K
of kernel memory.
Keep track of which DMA channels are busy. isa_dmadone() must now be
called when DMA has finished or been aborted.
Panic for unallocated and too-small (required) bounce buffers.
fd.c:
There will be new warnings about isa_dmadone() not being called after
DMA has been aborted.
sound/dmabuf.c:
isa_dmadone() needs more parameters than are available, so temporarily
use a new interface isa_dmadone_nobounce() to avoid having to worry
about panics for fake parameters. Untested.
- cpuclass should be cpu_class
- CPUCLASS_I386 should be CPUCLASS_386
(^^ those only show up if you compile for i386)
- two missing prototypes on new functions
- one missing static
Speed up for vfs_bio -- addition of a routine bqrelse to greatly diminish
overhead for merged cache.
Efficiency improvement for vfs_cluster. It used to do alot of redundant
calls to cluster_rbuild.
Correct the ordering for vrele of .text and release of credentials.
Use the selective tlb update for 486/586/P6.
Numerous fixes to the size of objects allocated for files. Additionally,
fixes in the various pagers.
Fixes for proper positioning of vnode_pager_setsize in msdosfs and ext2fs.
Fixes in the swap pager for exhausted resources. The pageout code
will not as readily thrash.
Change the page queue flags (PG_ACTIVE, PG_INACTIVE, PG_FREE, PG_CACHE) into
page queue indices (PQ_ACTIVE, PQ_INACTIVE, PQ_FREE, PQ_CACHE),
thereby improving efficiency of several routines.
Eliminate even more unnecessary vm_page_protect operations.
Significantly speed up process forks.
Make vm_object_page_clean more efficient, thereby eliminating the pause
that happens every 30seconds.
Make sequential clustered writes B_ASYNC instead of B_DELWRI even in the
case of filesystems mounted async.
Fix a panic with busy pages when write clustering is done for non-VMIO
buffers.
Add more features to the one remaining to handle the job:
+ signed quantity.
# alternate format
- left padding
* read width as next arg.
n numeric in (argument specified) default radix.
Fix the DDB debugger to use these.
Use vprintf in debug routine in pcvt.
The warnings from gcc may become more wrong and intolerable because
of this.
Warning: I have not checked the entire source for unsupported or
changed constructs, but generally belive that there are only a few.
Suggested by: bde
variants, idea taken from NetBSD clock.c.
At least year calculation was wrong, pointed by Bruce.
Use different strategy to store year for BIOS without RTC_CENTURY
was overlapping with another file, and making some undesirable behavior a
little worse - it's triggering a bug in config that appears to have been
there for some time (before the options files, anyway.)
Nobody in our regular source tree, or in the non-distfile part of the
ports tree does use /dev/io anyway, so this might be replaced by
another scenario some day.
looking at a high resolution clock for each of the following events:
function call, function return, interrupt entry, interrupt exit,
and interesting branches. The differences between the times of
these events are added at appropriate places in a ordinary histogram
(as if very fast statistical profiling sampled the pc at those
places) so that ordinary gprof can be used to analyze the times.
gmon.h:
Histogram counters need to be 4 bytes for microsecond resolutions.
They will need to be larger for the 586 clock.
The comments were vax-centric and wrong even on vaxes. Does anyone
disagree?
gprof4.c:
The standard gprof should support counters of all integral sizes
and the size of the counter should be in the gmon header. This
hack will do until then. (Use gprof4 -u to examine the results
of non-statistical profiling.)
config/*:
Non-statistical profiling is configured with `config -pp'.
`config -p' still gives ordinary profiling.
kgmon/*:
Non-statistical profiling is enabled with `kgmon -B'. `kgmon -b'
still enables ordinary profiling (and distables non-statistical
profiling) if non-statistical profiling is configured.
bzero.
Deprecated blkclr (removed it).
Removed some old cruft from cpufunc.h.
The optimized bzero was submitted by Torbjorn Granlund <tege@matematik.su.se>
The kernel adaption and other changes by me.
bzero.
Deprecated blkclr (removed it).
Removed some old cruft from cpufunc.h.
The optimized bzero was submitted by Torbjorn Granlund <tege@matematik.su.se>
The kernel adaption and other changes by me.
bcopy:
Be smarter about handling overlapped copies and only go backwards if it
is really necessary. Going backwards on a P6 is much slower than forwards
and it's a little slower on a P5. Also moved the count mask and 'std'
down a few lines - it's a couple percent faster this way on a P5.
libkern.a are now specified by listing their source files in
files.${MACHINE}. The list is machine-dependent to save space.
All the necessary object for each machine must be linked into the
kernel in case an lkm wants one.
feature of the ICU. auto-EOI on the slave is not safe, however, so it
remains an option. Killed religious FASTER_NOP when writing the ICU.
Reviewed by: bde
wasteful, but better than clobbering the variables below the stack.
About 300 bytes of variables were clobbered when I examined double
faults using ddb. Perhaps a page that is known not to be accessed by
the double fault handler could be used. Such pages are not easy to
find, since the double fault handler calls panic() which calls sync()
and possibly dumpsys().
about decoding trap/syscall/interrupt frames and generally works better
than the previous stuff.
Removed some special (incorrect) frobbing of the frame pointer that
was messing some things up with the new traceback code.
overflows.
It sure would be nice if there was an unmapped page between the PCB and
the stack (and that the size of the stack was configurable!). With the
way things are now, the PCB will get clobbered before the double fault
handler gets control, making somewhat of a mess of things. Despite this,
it is still fairly easy to poke around in the overflowed stack to figure
out the cause.
#includes to get prototypes.
pci now uses a different interrupt handler type for interrupts that it
dispatches and the isa interrupt handler type for the interrupts that
it handles.
LINT: add a couple of new/missing/undocumented options
files.i386: add linux code so that you can compile a kernel with static
linux emulation ("options LINUX")
i386/*: use #if defined(COMPAT_LINUX) || defined(LINUX) to enable static
support of linux emulation (just like "IBCS2" makes ibcs2 static)
The main thing this is going to make obvious, is that the LINUX code
(when compiled from LINT) has a lot of warnings, some of which dont look
too pleasant..
seems to work hre just fine though I can't check every file
that changed due to limmited h/w, however I've checked enught to be petty
happy withe hte code..
WARNING... struct lkm[mumble] has changed
so it might be an idea to recompile any lkm related programs
can be found in ISA compatibility mode by the ISA driver, but since the
EISA and PCI probes are non-invasive, we prefer them to find the card first.
Since both EISA and PCI probes can rely on interrupts, enable them before
probing of any type is performed. All ISA probes are still "protected" by
splhigh().
allow one EISA/ISA/PCI/VL Buslogic controller to be probed. The driver
is almost fully dynamic. It just needs some kdc work and for the SCSI code
to stop passing unit numbers up in the scsi_xfer struct.
Removed old aliases d_rdwr_t and d_ttycv_t for d_read_t/d_write_t and
d_devtotty_t.
Sorted declarations of switch functions into switch order.
Removed duplicated comments and declarations of nonexistent switch
functions.
most devsw referenced functions are now static, as they are
in the same file as their devsw structure. I've also added DEVFS
support for nearly every device in the system, however
many of the devices have 'incorrect' names under DEVFS
because I couldn't quickly work out the correct naming conventions.
(but devfs won't be coming on line for a month or so anyhow so that doesn't
matter)
If you "OWN" a device which would normally have an entry in /dev
then search for the devfs_add_devsw() entries and munge to make them right..
check out similar devices to see what I might have done in them in you
can't see what's going on..
for a laugh compare conf.c conf.h defore and after... :)
I have not doen DEVFS entries for any DISKSLICE devices yet as that will be
a much more complicated job.. (pass 5 :)
pass 4 will be to make the devsw tables of type (cdevsw * )
rather than (cdevsw)
seems to work here..
complaints to the usual places.. :)
is not real helpful since swapgeneric.c doesn't seem to be used, except
perhaps on a GENERIC kernel. (Sorry Paul.. :-)
I've moved it from swapgeneric.c to autoconf.c, since autoconf.c also deals
with dumpdev things. There may be a better place.....
Move a lot of variables home to their own code (In good time before xmas :-)
Introduce the string descrition of format.
Add a couple more functions to poke into these marvels, while I try to
decide what the correct interface should look like.
Next is adding vars on the fly, and sysctl looking at them too.
Removed a tine bit of defunct and #ifdefed notused code in swapgeneric.