- entirely eliminate some calls to uio_yeild() as being unnecessary,
such as in a sysctl handler.
- move should_yield() and maybe_yield() to kern_synch.c and move the
prototypes from sys/uio.h to sys/proc.h
- add a slightly more generic kern_yield() that can replace the
functionality of uio_yield().
- replace source uses of uio_yield() with the functional equivalent,
or in some cases do not change the thread priority when switching.
- fix a logic inversion bug in vlrureclaim(), pointed out by bde@.
- instead of using the per-cpu last switched ticks, use a per thread
variable for should_yield(). With PREEMPTION, the only reasonable
use of this is to determine if a lock has been held a long time and
relinquish it. Without PREEMPTION, this is essentially the same as
the per-cpu variable.
Clear the padding when returning context to the usermode, for
MI ucontext_t and x86 MD parts.
Kernel allocates the structures on the stack, and not clearing
reserved fields and paddings causes leakage.
the original amd64 and i386 headers with stubs.
Rename (AMD64|I386)_BUS_SPACE_* to X86_BUS_SPACE_* everywhere.
Reviewed by: imp (previous version), jhb
Approved by: kib (mentor)
Passing a count of zero on i386 and amd64 for [I386|AMD64]_BUS_SPACE_MEM
causes a crash/hang since the 'loop' instruction decrements the counter
before checking if it's zero.
PR: kern/80980
Discussed with: jhb
functions, they are unused. Remove 'user' from npxgetuserregs()
etc. names.
For {npx,fpu}{get,set}regs(), always use pcb->pcb_user_save for FPU
context storage. This eliminates the need for ugly copying with
overwrite of the newly added and reserved fields in ucontext on i386
to satisfy alignment requirements for fpusave() and fpurstor().
pc98 version was copied from i386.
Suggested and reviewed by: bde
Tested by: pho (i386 and amd64)
MFC after: 1 week
contents of the ones that were not empty were stale and unused.
- Now that <machine/mutex.h> no longer exists, there is no need to allow it
to override various helper macros in <sys/mutex.h>.
- Rename various helper macros for low-level operations on mutexes to live
in the _mtx_* or __mtx_* namespaces. While here, change the names to more
closely match the real API functions they are backing.
- Drop support for including <sys/mutex.h> in assembly source files.
Suggested by: bde (1, 2)
work properly with single-stepping in a kernel debugger. Specifically,
these routines have always disabled interrupts before increasing the nesting
count and restored the prior state of interrupts after decreasing the nesting
count to avoid problems with a nested interrupt not disabling interrupts
when acquiring a spin lock. However, trap interrupts for single-stepping
can still occur even when interrupts are disabled. Now the saved state of
interrupts is not saved in the thread until after interrupts have been
disabled and the nesting count has been increased. Similarly, the saved
state from the thread cannot be read once the nesting count has been
decreased to zero. To fix this, use temporary variables to store interrupt
state and shuffle it between the thread's MD area and the appropriate
registers.
In cooperation with: bde
MFC after: 1 month
The main goal of this is to generate timer interrupts only when there is
some work to do. When CPU is busy interrupts are generating at full rate
of hz + stathz to fullfill scheduler and timekeeping requirements. But
when CPU is idle, only minimum set of interrupts (down to 8 interrupts per
second per CPU now), needed to handle scheduled callouts is executed.
This allows significantly increase idle CPU sleep time, increasing effect
of static power-saving technologies. Also it should reduce host CPU load
on virtualized systems, when guest system is idle.
There is set of tunables, also available as writable sysctls, allowing to
control wanted event timer subsystem behavior:
kern.eventtimer.timer - allows to choose event timer hardware to use.
On x86 there is up to 4 different kinds of timers. Depending on whether
chosen timer is per-CPU, behavior of other options slightly differs.
kern.eventtimer.periodic - allows to choose periodic and one-shot
operation mode. In periodic mode, current timer hardware taken as the only
source of time for time events. This mode is quite alike to previous kernel
behavior. One-shot mode instead uses currently selected time counter
hardware to schedule all needed events one by one and program timer to
generate interrupt exactly in specified time. Default value depends of
chosen timer capabilities, but one-shot mode is preferred, until other is
forced by user or hardware.
kern.eventtimer.singlemul - in periodic mode specifies how much times
higher timer frequency should be, to not strictly alias hardclock() and
statclock() events. Default values are 2 and 4, but could be reduced to 1
if extra interrupts are unwanted.
kern.eventtimer.idletick - makes each CPU to receive every timer interrupt
independently of whether they busy or not. By default this options is
disabled. If chosen timer is per-CPU and runs in periodic mode, this option
has no effect - all interrupts are generating.
As soon as this patch modifies cpu_idle() on some platforms, I have also
refactored one on x86. Now it makes use of MONITOR/MWAIT instrunctions
(if supported) under high sleep/wakeup rate, as fast alternative to other
methods. It allows SMP scheduler to wake up sleeping CPUs much faster
without using IPI, significantly increasing performance on some highly
task-switching loads.
Tested by: many (on i386, amd64, sparc64 and powerc)
H/W donated by: Gheorghe Ardelean
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
This reflects actual type used to store and compare child device orders.
Change is mostly done via a Coccinelle (soon to be devel/coccinelle)
semantic patch.
Verified by LINT+modules kernel builds.
Followup to: r212213
MFC after: 10 days
zones for each malloc bucket size. The purpose is to isolate
different malloc types into hash classes, so that any buffer overruns
or use-after-free will usually only affect memory from malloc types in
that hash class. This is purely a debugging tool; by varying the hash
function and tracking which hash class was corrupted, the intersection
of the hash classes from each instance will point to a single malloc
type that is being misused. At this point inspection or memguard(9)
can be used to catch the offending code.
Add MALLOC_DEBUG_MAXZONES=8 to -current GENERIC configuration files.
The suggestion to have this on by default came from Kostik Belousov on
-arch.
This code is based on work by Ron Steinke at Isilon Systems.
Reviewed by: -arch (mostly silence)
Reviewed by: zml
Approved by: zml (mentor)
get_fpcontext(), and npxsetuserregs() for set_fpcontext). Also,
note that usercontext is not initialized anymore in fpstate_drop().
Systematically replace references to npxgetregs() and npxsetregs()
by npxgetuserregs() and npxsetuserregs() in comments.
Noted by: bde
removal, MFi386 r209198:
Use critical sections instead of disabling local interrupts to ensure
the consistency between PCPU fpcurthread and the state of FPU.
Reviewed by: bde
Tested by: pho
believed that all 486-class CPUs FreeBSD is capable to run on, either
have no FPU and cannot use external coprocessor, or have FPU on the
package and can use #MF.
Reviewed by: bde
Tested by: pho (previous version)
writing event timer drivers, for choosing best possible drivers by machine
independent code and for operating them to supply kernel with hardclock(),
statclock() and profclock() events in unified fashion on various hardware.
Infrastructure provides support for both per-CPU (independent for every CPU
core) and global timers in periodic and one-shot modes. MI management code
at this moment uses only periodic mode, but one-shot mode use planned for
later, as part of tickless kernel project.
For this moment infrastructure used on i386 and amd64 architectures. Other
archs are welcome to follow, while their current operation should not be
affected.
This patch updates existing drivers (i8254, RTC and LAPIC) for the new
order, and adds event timers support into the HPET driver. These drivers
have different capabilities:
LAPIC - per-CPU timer, supports periodic and one-shot operation, may
freeze in C3 state, calibrated on first use, so may be not exactly precise.
HPET - depending on hardware can work as per-CPU or global, supports
periodic and one-shot operation, usually provides several event timers.
i8254 - global, limited to periodic mode, because same hardware used also
as time counter.
RTC - global, supports only periodic mode, set of frequencies in Hz
limited by powers of 2.
Depending on hardware capabilities, drivers preferred in following orders,
either LAPIC, HPETs, i8254, RTC or HPETs, LAPIC, i8254, RTC.
User may explicitly specify wanted timers via loader tunables or sysctls:
kern.eventtimer.timer1 and kern.eventtimer.timer2.
If requested driver is unavailable or unoperational, system will try to
replace it. If no more timers available or "NONE" specified for second,
system will operate using only one timer, multiplying it's frequency by few
times and uing respective dividers to honor hz, stathz and profhz values,
set during initial setup.
FPU/SSE hardware. Caller should provide a save area that is chained
into the stack of the areas; pcb save_area for usermode FPU state is
on top. The pcb now contains a pointer to the current FPU saved area,
used during FPUDNA handling and context switches. There is also a
facility to allow the kernel thread to use pcb save_area.
Change the dreaded warnings "npxdna in kernel mode!" into the panics
when FPU usage is not registered.
KPI discussed with: fabient
Tested by: pho, fabient
Hardware provided by: Sentex Communications
MFC after: 1 month
- Add an integer argument to idle to indicate how likely we are to wake
from idle over the next tick.
- Add a new MD routine, cpu_wake_idle() to wakeup idle threads who are
suspended in cpu specific states. This function can fail and cause the
scheduler to fall back to another mechanism (ipi).
- Implement support for mwait in cpu_idle() on i386/amd64 machines that
support it. mwait is a higher performance way to synchronize cpus
as compared to hlt & ipis.
- Allow selecting the idle routine by name via sysctl machdep.idle. This
replaces machdep.cpu_idle_hlt. Only idle routines supported by the
current machine are permitted.
arbitrary frequencies into hardclock(), statclock() and profclock() calls.
Same code with minor variations duplicated several times over the tree for
different timer drivers and architectures.
- Switch all x86 archs to new functions, simplifying the code and removing
extra logic from timer drivers. Other archs are also welcome.
hook it up to ada(4) also. While at it, rename *ad_firmware_geom_adjust()
to *ata_disk_firmware_geom_adjust() etc now that these are no longer
limited to ad(4).
Reviewed by: mav
MFC after: 3 days
broken atrtc.
Now if you want more correct stats on profhz and stathz it may be
disabled by setting to 0.
Reported by: A. Akephalos <akephalos dot akephalos at gmail dot com>,
Jakub Lach <jakub_lach at mailplus dot pl>
MFC: 1 week
to the image_params struct instead of several members of that struct
individually. This makes it easier to expand its arguments in the future
without touching all platforms.
Reviewed by: jhb
COMPAT_43TTY enables the sgtty interface. Even though its exposure has
only been removed in FreeBSD 8.0, it wasn't used by anything in the base
system in FreeBSD 5.x (possibly even 4.x?). On those releases, if your
ports/packages are less than two years old, they will prefer termios
over sgtty.
In order to do that cleanly, lapic_setup_clock(), on both ia32 and amd64,
now accepts as arguments the desired sources to handle, and returns the
actual ones (LAPIC_CLOCK_NONE is forbidden because otherwise there is no
meaning in calling such function).
This allows to bring out into commont x86 code the handling part for
machdep.lapic_allclocks tunable, which is retained.
shared and generalized between our current amd64, i386 and pc98.
This is just an initial step that should lead to a more complete effort.
For the moment, a very simple porting of cpufreq modules, BIOS calls and
the whole MD specific ISA bus part is added to the sub-tree but ideally
a lot of code might be added and more shared support should grow.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, kib, jhb, imp
Discussed on: arch
MFC: 3 weeks
the 'debugging' section of any HEAD kernel and enable for the mainstream
ones, excluding the embedded architectures.
It may, of course, enabled on a case-by-case basis.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Requested by: emaste
Discussed with: kib
- ATPIC, on pc98 is never defined somewhere, differently from i386.
Turn its compilation to be conditional as i386 does. [1]
[0] Reported by: nyan
[1] Submitted by: nyan
LAPIC may lead to aliasing for softclock and profclock because frequencies
are sized in order to fit mainly hardclock.
atrtc used to take care of the softclock and profclock and it does still
do, if the LAPIC can't handle the clocks properly.
Revert the change when the LAPIC started taking charge of all three of
them and let atrtc handle softclock and profclock if not explicitly
requested. Such request can be made setting != 0 the new tunable
machdep.lapic_allclocks or if the new device ATPIC is not present
within the i386 kernel config (atrtc is linked to atpic presence).
Diagnosed by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: jhb, emaste
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC: 3 weeks
sys/conf/makeLINT.mk to only do certain things for certain
architectures.
Note that neither arm nor mips have the Makefile there, thus
essentially not (yet) supporting LINT. This would enable them
do add special treatment to sys/conf/makeLINT.mk as well chosing
one of the many configurations as LINT.
This is a hack of doing this and keeping it in a separate commit
will allow us to more easily identify and back it out.
Discussed on/with: arch, jhb (as part of the LINT-VIMAGE thread)
MFC after: 1 month
This replaces d_mmap() with the d_mmap2() implementation and also
changes the type of offset to vm_ooffset_t.
Purge d_mmap2().
All driver modules will need to be rebuilt since D_VERSION is also
bumped.
Reviewed by: jhb@
MFC after: Not in this lifetime...
xterm and cons25 have some incompatibilities when it comes to escape
sequences for special keys, such as F1 to F12, home, end, etc. Add a new
te_fkeystr() that can be used to override the strings.
scterm-sck won't do anything with this, but scterm-teken will use
teken_get_sequences() to obtain the proper sequence.
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
devices that we also support, just not by default (thus only LINT or
module builds by default).
While currently there is only "/dev/full" [2], we are planning to see more
in the future. We may decide to change the module/dependency logic in the
future should the list grow too long.
This is not part of linux.ko as also non-linux binaries like kFreeBSD
userland or ports can make use of this as well.
Suggested by: rwatson [1] (name)
Submitted by: ed [2]
Discussed with: markm, ed, rwatson, kib (weeks ago)
Reviewed by: rwatson, brueffer (prev. version)
PR: kern/68961
MFC after: 6 weeks
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)
The newbus lock is responsible for protecting newbus internIal structures,
device states and devclass flags. It is necessary to hold it when all
such datas are accessed. For the other operations, softc locking should
ensure enough protection to avoid races.
Newbus lock is automatically held when virtual operations on the device
and bus are invoked when loading the driver or when the suspend/resume
take place. For other 'spourious' operations trying to access/modify
the newbus topology, newbus lock needs to be automatically acquired and
dropped.
For the moment Giant is also acquired in some key point (modules subsystem)
in order to avoid problems before the 8.0 release as module handlers could
make assumptions about it. This Giant locking should go just after
the release happens.
Please keep in mind that the public interface can be expanded in order
to provide more support, if there are really necessities at some point
and also some bugs could arise as long as the patch needs a bit of
further testing.
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to reflect the newbus lock introduction.
Reviewed by: ed, hps, jhb, imp, mav, scottl
No answer by: ariff, thompsa, yongari
Tested by: pho,
G. Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>,
Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail dot com>
Sponsored by: Yahoo! Incorporated
Approved by: re (ksmith)
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.
Authentication and encryption are not implemented.
There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).
A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.
Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.
More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s
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)
- 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
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
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.
and hide it inside of atrtc driver. Add new tunable hint.atrtc.0.clock
controlling it. Setting it to 0 disables using RTC clock as stat-/
profclock sources.
Teach i386 and amd64 SMP platforms to emulate stat-/profclocks using i8254
hardclock, when LAPIC and RTC clocks are disabled.
This allows to reduce global interrupt rate of idle system down to about
100 interrupts per core, permitting C3 and deeper C-states provide maximum
CPU power efficiency.
Simplify in/out functions.
Remove a hack to generate more efficient code for port numbers below
0x100, which has been obsolete for at least ten years, because GCC has
an asm constraint to specify that.
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
