- when moving the stylus, the cursor was updated only when the screen was
released
- when moving the stylus for too long, the kernel crashed
This was caused by improper delays in SSP read and write, and by interrupt
hammering while the screen is touched). Both led to the machine handling
interrupts all the time and been unable to schedule the X server, therefore
the lack of cursor refresh.
The problem is fixed by
- masking touchpanel interrupts as soon as we are already handling them
- creating a kernel thread (j720ssp) that takes care of keyboard and
touchpanel I/O, instead of doing it in a softintr.
- reducing delays in j720ssp_readwrite operations from 5ms to 0.1ms.
NB: If the delay in j720ssp_readwrite operation is lowered to 0.1, then
switching on the screen using the power key pushes brightness to maximum.
In order to avoid this, we introduce a wait argument to j720ssp_readwrite,
which specify how many microseconds we have to wait. j720ssp_readwrite is
called with wait = 100 everywhere except in j720lcdparam where it is called
with wait = 500. That way it works.
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.
to do uncached memory access during VM operations (which can be
quite expensive on some CPUs).
We currently write-back PTEs as soon as they're modified; there is
some room for optimization (to write them back in larger chunks).
For PTEs in the APTE space (i.e. PTEs for pmaps that describe another
process's address space), PTEs must also be evicted from the cache
complete (PTEs in PTE space will be evicted durint a context switch).
counters. These counters do not exist on all CPUs, but where they
do exist, can be used for counting events such as dcache misses that
would otherwise be difficult or impossible to instrument by code
inspection or hardware simulation.
pmc(9) is meant to be a general interface. Initially, the Intel XScale
counters are the only ones supported.
into platform-specific initialization code, giving platform-specific
code control over which free list a given chunk of memory gets put
onto.
Changes are essentially mechanical. Test compiled for all ARM
platforms, test booted on Intel IQ80321 and Shark.
Discussed some time ago on port-arm.
* 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>.
and pte_l2_s_cache_mode. The cache-meaningful bits are different
for these descriptor types on some processor models.
* Add pte_*_cache_mask, corresponding to each above, which has a mask
of the cache-meangful bits, and define those for generic and XScale
MMU classes. Note, the L2_S_CACHE_MASK_xscale definition requires
use of the Extended Small Page L2 descriptor (the "X" bit overlaps
with AP bits otherwise).
Significant cleanup, here, including better PTE bit names.
* Add XScale PTE extensions (ECC enable, write-allocate cache mode).
* Mechanical changes everywhere else to update for new pte.h. While
doing this, two bugs (as a result of typos) were fixed in
arm/arm32/bus_dma.c
evbarm/integrator/int_bus_dma.c
* Don't refer to VA 0, instead refer to a new variable: vector_page
* Delete the old zero_page_*() functions, replacing them with a new
one: vector_page_setprot().
* When manipulating vector page mappings in user pmaps, only do so if
the vector page is below KERNEL_BASE (if it's above KERNEL_BASE, the
vector page is mapped by the kernel pmap).
* Add a new function, arm32_vector_init(), which takes the virtual
address of the vector page (which MUST be valid when the function
is called) and a bitmask of vectors the kernel is going to take
over, and performs all vector page initialization, including setting
the V bit in the CPU Control register ("relocate vectors to high
address"), if necessary.
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