to copy the sigframe to the user's stack. Useracc() takes a non-trivial
amount of time. Eliminating it speeds up signal delivery by 15% or more.
o Update some comments.
Submitted by: bde
older PCI BIOSes hate this and this leads to panics when it is done. Also,
assume that a uniquely routed interrupt is already routed. This also
seems to help some older laptops with feable BIOSes cope.
Problem:
selwakeup required calling pfind which would cause lock order
reversals with the allproc_lock and the per-process filedesc lock.
Solution:
Instead of recording the pid of the select()'ing process into the
selinfo structure, actually record a pointer to the thread. To
avoid dereferencing a bad address all the selinfo structures that
are in use by a thread are kept in a list hung off the thread
(protected by sellock). When a selwakeup occurs the selinfo is
removed from that threads list, it is also removed on the way out
of select or poll where the thread will traverse its list removing
all the selinfos from its own list.
Problem:
Previously the PROC_LOCK was used to provide the mutual exclusion
needed to ensure proper locking, this couldn't work because there
was a single condvar used for select and poll and condvars can
only be used with a single mutex.
Solution:
Introduce a global mutex 'sellock' which is used to provide mutual
exclusion when recording events to wait on as well as performing
notification when an event occurs.
Interesting note:
schedlock is required to manipulate the per-thread TDF_SELECT
flag, however if given its own field it would not need schedlock,
also because TDF_SELECT is only manipulated under sellock one
doesn't actually use schedlock for syncronization, only to protect
against corruption.
Proc locks are no longer used in select/poll.
Portions contributed by: davidc
machdep.guessed_bootdev, and add code to sysctl to parse its value
and give a (not necessarily correct) name to the device we booted
from (the main motivation for this code is to use the info in the
PicoBSD boot scripts, and the impact on the kernel is minimal).
NOTE: the information available in bootdev is not always reliable,
so you should not trust it too much. The parsing code is the same
as in boot2.c, and cannot cover all cases -- as it is, it seems to
work fine with floppies and IDE disks recognised by the BIOS. It
_should_ work as well with SCSI disks recognised by the BIOS.
Booting from a CDROM in floppy emulation will return /dev/fd0 (because
this is what the BIOS tells us).
Booting off the network (e.g. with etherboot) leaves bootdev unset so
the value will be printed as "invalid (0xffffffff)".
Finally, this feature might go away at some point, hopefully when we
have a more reliable way to get the same information.
MFC-after: 5 days
o In i386's <machine/endian.h>, macros have some advantages over
inlines, so change some inlines to macros.
o In i386's <machine/endian.h>, ungarbage collect word_swap_int()
(previously __uint16_swap_uint32), it has some uses on i386's with
PDP endianness.
Submitted by: bde
o Move a comment up in <machine/endian.h> that was accidentially moved
down a few revisions ago.
o Reenable userland's use of optimized inline-asm versions of
byteorder(3) functions.
o Fix ordering of prototypes vs. redefinition of byteorder(3)
functions, so that the non-GCC (libc asm) case has proper
prototypes.
o Add proper prototypes for byteorder(3) functions in <sys/param.h>.
o Prevent redundant duplicate prototypes by making use of the
_BYTEORDER_PROTOTYPED define.
o Move the bswap16(), bswap32(), bswap64() C functions into MD space
for platforms in which asm versions don't exist. This significantly
reduces the complexity of some things at the cost of duplicate code.
Reviewed by: bde
and commenting of NETSMB, NETWMBCRYPTO, and SMBFS. In NOTES, they
had all floated to the bottom of the file with the list of seemingly
random and unclassified kernel options. This change moves them back
up to the network protocol and file system areas, and also documents
the dependencies.
be allocated as arrays indexed by the cpu id. Previously the only reliable
way to know the max cpu id was through MAXCPU. mp_ncpus isn't useful here
because cpu ids may be sparsely mapped, although x86 and alpha do not do this.
Also, call cpu_mp_probe much earlier so the max cpu id is known before the VM
starts up. This is intended to help support per cpu queues for the new
allocator, but may be useful elsewhere.
Reviewed by: jake
Approved by: jake
This makes other power-management system (APM for now) to be able to
generate power profile change events (ie. AC-line status changes), and
other kernel components, not only the ACPI components, can be notified
the events.
- move subroutines in acpi_powerprofile.c (removed) to kern/subr_power.c
- call power_profile_set_state() also from APM driver when AC-line
status changes
- add call-back function for Crusoe LongRun controlling on power
profile changes for a example
Previously, the UPAGES/KSTACK area of processes/threads would leak memory
at the time that a previously swapped process was terminated. Lukcily, the
leak was only 12K/proc, so it was unlikely to be a major problem unless you
had an undersized swap partition.
Submitted by: dillon
Reviewed by: silby
MFC after: 1 week
In order to determine what to page out, the vm_daemon checks
reference bits on all pages belonging to all processes. Unfortunately,
the algorithm used reacted badly with shared pages; each shared page
would be checked once per process sharing it; this caused an O(N^2)
growth of tlb invalidations. The algorithm has been changed so that
each page will be checked only 16 times.
Prior to this change, a fork/sleepbomb of 1300 processes could cause
the vm_daemon to take over 60 seconds to complete, effectively
freezing the system for that time period. With this change
in place, the vm_daemon completes in less than a second. Any system
with hundreds of processes sharing pages should benefit from this change.
Note that the vm_daemon is only run when the system is under extreme
memory pressure. It is likely that many people with loaded systems saw
no symptoms of this problem until they reached the point where swapping
began.
Special thanks go to dillon, peter, and Chuck Cranor, who helped me
get up to speed with vm internals.
PR: 33542, 20393
Reviewed by: dillon
MFC after: 1 week
device drivers for bus system with other endinesses than the CPU (using
interfaces compatible to NetBSD):
- bwap16() and bswap32(). These have optimized implementations on some
architectures; for those that don't, there exist generic implementations.
- macros to convert from a certain byte order to host byte order and vice
versa, using a naming scheme like le16toh(), htole16().
These are implemented using the bswap functions.
- stream bus space access functions, which do not perform a byte order
conversion (while the normal access functions would if the bus endianess
differs from the CPU endianess).
htons(), htonl(), ntohs() and ntohl() are implemented using the new
functions above for kernel usage. None of the above interfaces is currently
exported to user land.
Make use of the new functions in a few places where local implementations
of the same functionality existed.
Reviewed by: mike, bde
Tested on alpha by: mike
There is some unresolved badness that has been eluding me, particularly
affecting uniprocessor kernels. Turning off PG_G helped (which is a bad
sign) but didn't solve it entirely. Userland programs still crashed.
boot and run (and indeed I am committing from it) instead of exploding
during the int 0x15 call from inside the atkbd driver to get the keyboard
repeat rates.
