in interrupt controllers in struct pic, and try to keep as much
common code as possible. At the lowest (asm) level, this is done
with CPP macros.
The main structure is now struct intrsource, describing an established
interrupt line, of any kind (soft/hard local apic/legacy apic/IO apic).
For quick masking, there may be a maximum of 32 sources per CPU.
Sources can be assigned to any CPU in the MP case, though currently they
all go to the boot CPU.
caveats, but works quite well in a lot of MP cases, and all
UP cases that I have tested. Parts of this will hopefully be
reworked in the not-too-distant future.
of a range which is protected by spl/splx. Originally proposed by
YAMAMOTO Takashi (yamt@netbsd.org) on tech-kern. This change mirrors
the one done by Bill Sommerfeld on the i386 mp branch.
that is priority is rasied. Add a new spllowersoftclock() to provide the
atomic drop-to-softclock semantics that the old splsoftclock() provided,
and update calls accordingly.
This fixes a problem with using the "rnd" pseudo-device from within
interrupt context to extract random data (e.g. from within the softnet
interrupt) where doing so would incorrectly unblock interrupts (causing
all sorts of lossage).
XXX 4 platforms do not have priority-raising capability: newsmips, sparc,
XXX sparc64, and VAX. This platforms still have this bug until their
XXX spl*() functions are fixed.
tty structures, and on some machines (namely the DraCo internal lpt, and some
multi-i/o boards for Amigas and DraCos), tying spltty to the pretty high printer
interupt level would hurt serial performance.
On all affected ports but Amiga, spllpt() has been defined in machine/intr.h
to be spltty(), thus preserving old behaviour. Portmasters are encouraged to
change is, if they feel something else is better (e.g., one of its own were
possible).
* Make it a strict hierarchy. (It was close anyway).
* Add `serial' and rename `softtty' to `softserial'.
* Make soft interrupts a bit less special-case.
fvdl