build features (such as ross's DEBUGLIST) can easily be applied to all
ports. This should reduce the complexity of each port's kernel
Makefile considerably. Line counts:
227 arch/i386/conf/Makefile.i386.orig
98 arch/i386/conf/Makefile.i386
227 arch/alpha/conf/Makefile.alpha.orig
99 arch/alpha/conf/Makefile.alpha
219 arch/sparc/conf/Makefile.sparc.orig
102 arch/sparc/conf/Makefile.sparc
215 arch/vax/conf/Makefile.vax.orig
102 arch/vax/conf/Makefile.vax
253 conf/Makefile.kern.inc
Roll i386, alpha, sparc, and vax over to the new build machinery.
this insn is available only on ARM arch v3 and later (and 2a). We
don't expect to be using these ops in the kernel on processors too
old to have SWP, and for userland uses (in e.g. a pthread library),
the kernel will simply have to trap and emulate the insn (it needs
to be "atomic", so a kernel trap of some sort will be necessary on
such platforms anyway).
the expensive checks are skipped when (!DEBUG&&!PMAPCHECK) and all of the
light-weigth checks are skipped when (!DIAGNOSTIC&&!DEBUG&&!PMAPCHECK).
This bring pmap.o's text down from 21KB (with PMAPCHECK) to 18.5KB (DEBUG)
to 16KB text (!DIAGNOSTIC).
the Branch Target Buffer of the BPRD bit changes.
* Enable Branch Prediction on the XScale by default.
* Don't invalidate the Branch Target Buffer explicitly. the i80200
manual (section 5.1, Branch Target Buffer Operation) notes that
manual software management of the BTB is unnecessary; it is flushed
implicitly when:
* processor resets
* FCSE process ID is written
* I-cache is invalidated
* sa110_cache_purgeD() is the same as sa110_cache_cleanD() on the
SA-1 -- make it an alias.
* sa110_cache_syncI() and sa110_cache_purgeID() are identical to
sa110_cache_cleanD() on the SA-1, with the exception that the
I-cache must also be flushed. Save code duplication by moving
the I-cache flush before the D-cache clean and letting it fall
through.
with the option USE_KERNEL_RCSIDS. (On a.out, these strings are actually
allocated memory and loaded; on ELF, they exist in a non-loaded file section.)