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 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!
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.
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
model in use for a given platform (__PROG26 vs __PROG32), then pulls
in <arm/types.h>. Change each ARM port to pull in <arm/arm26/types.h>
or <arm/arm32/types.h> as appropriate. Change all references to PROG26
and PROG32 to __PROG26 and __PROG32. Eliminate the opt_progmode.h
header file.
in arm/arm. This version is based on the arm26 version, and includes dumping
the contents of stack frames, with automatic determination of the save code
pointer offset.
