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.
* Define an ARM_INTR_IMPL option, which specifies a header file
describing the interrupt implementation for the platform. Use
this instead of the list of EVBARM_BOARDTYPE checks.
* Make the s3c2xx0 interrupt dispatch code a bit more generic, and move
it to a generic location so that other platforms can use it.
This eliminates all uses of the EVBARM_BOARDTYPE stuff, so delete it.
This is based upon Jason's work on xscale.
Most of the interrupt handling code is now written in C using an asm stub to
call into the C code.
spl* now only updates a software mask, and does not update the hardware,
this should be much faster.
The new code works well on cats, it's untested on netwinder, but should work.
The code implements generic soft interrupts.
More work is still required to bring the isa interrupt handling code upto
scratch currently all isa interrupts are handled at IPL_BIO on the footbridge.
This may cause isa interrupts to be handled later than they should be.
I plan to fix this in the near future.
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
This version works on both 26-bit and 32-bit machines. For large copies,
it's up to three times as fast as the old arm32 version and five times as
fast as the old arm26 version. For small copies it seems to be even faster
(getrusage() is apparently over ten times faster on an ARM610).
Hooray for Allen!
* Pull in dev/mii/files.mii from conf/files, rather than playing
the magic "files include order" dance in N machine-dependent
configuration definitions.
file, <arm/cpuconf.h>, which pulls in "opt_cputypes.h" and then defines
the following:
* CPU_NTYPES -- now many CPU types are configured into the kernel. What
you really want to know is "== 1" or "> 1".
* Defines ARM_ARCH_2, ARM_ARCH_3, ARM_ARCH_4, ARM_ARCH_5, depending
on which ARM architecture versions are configured (based on CPU_*
options). Also defines ARM_NARCH to determins how many architecture
versions are configured.
* Defines ARM_MMU_MEMC, ARM_MMU_GENERIC, ARM_MMU_XSCALE depending on
which classes of ARM MMUs are configured into the kernel, and ARM_NMMUS
to determine how many MMU classes are configured.
Remove the needless inclusion of "opt_cputypes.h" in several places.
Convert remaining users to <arm/cpuconf.h>.
I/O processors:
* The i80200 and the i80321 have the same CPU ID, so split the
CPU_XSCALE option into CPU_XSCALE_80200 and CPU_XSCALE_80321
options, and don't let them both be defined at the same time.
XXX May want to revisit this in the future.
* Split some registers common between the i80200 and i80321 into
<arm/xscale/xscalereg.h>.
* Rename a few existing functions.
1) Add defparam XSCALE_CCLKCFG to define a parameter for the
CCLKCFG register. Default it to '9' on the IQ80310.
2) Add a sleep call to the xscale CPU function vector (replacing
the nullop) which should drop the CPU into "idle" mode when
cpu_switch finds nothing on the run queues.
swi_handler() does stuff that all SWIs will need, then calls
curproc->p_emul->e_syscall.
syscall() handles native NetBSD system calls.
linux_syscall() handles Linux system calls.
on a page boundary and can be mapped straight into zero page. This means it
has to be in MD_SFILES on arm26, and not in SFILES.
This probably leaves kernel_text in the wrong place, but it at least leaves the system bootable.
* Use a common set of exception handlers for all arm32 platforms.
* New FIQ framework based on discussions with Ben Harris, shared
between arm26 and arm32.
Any problems reported by testers have been fixed, and massive
cross-compiling of kernels has shown that any problems that remain
with actually building kernels are not related to this.
not support a value (e.g., it's to be used as "options FOO" instead of
"options FOO=xxx"). options that take a value were converted to
defparam recently.
- minor whitespace & formatting cleanups
broke too many assumptions makde by other parts of the source tree,
and the strategy and how it was supposed to work was never discussed
on tech-userlevel, nor was it applied consistently (to all ARM ports
and to other ports which have common MACHINE_ARCH code, such as MIPS,
m68k, powerpc).
Verified to complete a full "make build" on cats, dnard, evbarm,
and netwinder.
thorpej