If COMPAT_15 and EXEC_AOUT are defined, support per-process
alignment checking where AFLTs are always enabled when running
kernel code and userland ELF binaries, and dynamically disabled/
enabled when switching to/from a.out binaries. This is necessary
in order to execute older a.out binaries, where gcc made
deliberate use of misaligned loads under certain circumstances.
Some features of the new pmap are:
- It allows L1 descriptor tables to be shared efficiently between
multiple processes. A typical "maxusers 32" kernel, where NPROC is set
to 532, requires 35 L1s. A "maxusers 2" kernel runs quite happily
with just 4 L1s. This completely solves the problem of running out
of contiguous physical memory for allocating new L1s at runtime on a
busy system.
- Much improved cache/TLB management "smarts". This change ripples
out to encompass the low-level context switch code, which is also
much smarter about when to flush the cache/TLB, and when not to.
- Faster allocation of L2 page tables and associated metadata thanks,
in part, to the pool_cache enhancements recently contributed to
NetBSD by Wasabi Systems.
- Faster VM space teardown due to accurate referenced tracking of L2
page tables.
- Better/faster cache-alias tracking.
The new pmap is enabled by adding options ARM32_PMAP_NEW to the kernel
config file, and making the necessary changes to the port-specific
initarm() function. Several ports have already been converted and will
be committed shortly.
and hence save fewer into the PCB. This should give me enough free
registers in cpu_switch to tidy things up and support MULTIPROCESSOR
properly. While we're here, make the stacked registers into an
APCS stack frame, so that DDB backtraces through cpu_switch() will
work.
This also affects cpu_fork(), which has to fabricate a switchframe and
PCB for the new process.
<arm/arm32/vmparam.h> (mostly the stuff that's tied to the pmap
implementation).
- Since the MMU definitions in pte.h are specific to ARM processors
that support 32-bit mode, move pte.h to <arm/arm32/pte.h>.
- Make the Netwinder startup file build again (use PT_B|PT_C, rather
than PT_CACHEABLE, since the latter expands to a variable these days).
scw