src-test2/sys/powerpc/include/proc.h, branch release/7.3.0_cvs

Copy releng/7.3 to release/7.3.0 to mark 7.3-RELEASE.

2010-03-21T01:30:13Z

Approved by: re (implicit) This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 7.3-RELEASE image.

Divorce critical sections from spinlocks. Critical sections as denoted by

2005-04-04T21:53:56Z

critical_enter() and critical_exit() are now solely a mechanism for deferring kernel preemptions. They no longer have any affect on interrupts. This means that standalone critical sections are now very cheap as they are simply unlocked integer increments and decrements for the common case. Spin mutexes now use a separate KPI implemented in MD code: spinlock_enter() and spinlock_exit(). This KPI is responsible for providing whatever MD guarantees are needed to ensure that a thread holding a spin lock won't be preempted by any other code that will try to lock the same lock. For now all archs continue to block interrupts in a "spinlock section" as they did formerly in all critical sections. Note that I've also taken this opportunity to push a few things into MD code rather than MI. For example, critical_fork_exit() no longer exists. Instead, MD code ensures that new threads have the correct state when they are created. Also, we no longer try to fixup the idlethreads for APs in MI code. Instead, each arch sets the initial curthread and adjusts the state of the idle thread it borrows in order to perform the initial context switch. This change is largely a big NOP, but the cleaner separation it provides will allow for more efficient alternative locking schemes in other parts of the kernel (bare critical sections rather than per-CPU spin mutexes for per-CPU data for example). Reviewed by: grehan, cognet, arch@, others Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, powerpc, arm, possibly more

Compromise for critical()/cpu_critical() recommit. Cleanup the interrupt

2002-03-27T05:39:23Z

disablement assumptions in kern_fork.c by adding another API call, cpu_critical_fork_exit(). Cleanup the td_savecrit field by moving it from MI to MD. Temporarily move cpu_critical*() from /include/cpufunc.h to //critical.c (stage-2 will clean this up). Implement interrupt deferral for i386 that allows interrupts to remain enabled inside critical sections. This also fixes an IPI interlock bug, and requires uses of icu_lock to be enclosed in a true interrupt disablement. This is the stage-1 commit. Stage-2 will occur after stage-1 has stabilized, and will move cpu_critical*() into its own header file(s) + other things. This commit may break non-i386 architectures in trivial ways. This should be temporary. Reviewed by: core Approved by: core

Overhaul the per-CPU support a bit:

2001-12-11T23:33:44Z

- The MI portions of struct globaldata have been consolidated into a MI struct pcpu. The MD per-CPU data are specified via a macro defined in machine/pcpu.h. A macro was chosen over a struct mdpcpu so that the interface would be cleaner (PCPU_GET(my_md_field) vs. PCPU_GET(md.md_my_md_field)). - All references to globaldata are changed to pcpu instead. In a UP kernel, this data was stored as global variables which is where the original name came from. In an SMP world this data is per-CPU and ideally private to each CPU outside of the context of debuggers. This also included combining machine/globaldata.h and machine/globals.h into machine/pcpu.h. - The pointer to the thread using the FPU on i386 was renamed from npxthread to fpcurthread to be identical with other architectures. - Make the show pcpu ddb command MI with a MD callout to display MD fields. - The globaldata_register() function was renamed to pcpu_init() and now init's MI fields of a struct pcpu in addition to registering it with the internal array and list. - A pcpu_destroy() function was added to remove a struct pcpu from the internal array and list. Tested on: alpha, i386 Reviewed by: peter, jake

Add multiple inclusion protection.

2001-12-06T18:17:02Z

KSE Milestone 2

2001-09-12T08:38:13Z

Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time). This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except that there is a thread associated with each process. Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!) Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha

Add a new MI pointer to the process' trapframe p_frame instead of using

2001-06-29T11:10:41Z

various differently named pointers buried under p_md. Reviewed by: jake (in principle)

Bring in NetBSD code used in the PowerPC port.

2001-06-10T02:39:37Z

Reviewed by: obrien, dfr Obtained from: NetBSD