work-around. It's required in order for the DEC Multia (a very
brain-damaged little machine) to work properly.
Submitted by Juergen Weiss <weiss@uni-mainz.de>, addresses
port-alpha/11202.
constructed L1 PT page, this saves us from having to copy the kernel
L1 PTEs into the user L1 PT page at fork time (it's already set up).
A simple test shows a 1 second improvement of a rapid fork/exit operation
10000 times on a 533MHz 21164A (12s to 11s).
multiprocessor support:
- Implement MP-safe halt.
- Make the FPU saving code more like Bill's on the i386 MP branch.
XXX This code will no doubt be revisited again.
- Pass the cpu_info and trapframe to IPI handlers, saving some work
in the handlers themselves, and also making it possible for the
"pause" handler to reference register state for DDB.
- Add "machine cpu" to DDB, making it possible to reference other
CPUs registers (and thus get e.g. a traceback) from whichever
CPU is actually running the debugger.
- Garbage-collect "machine halt" and "machine reboot" DDB commands.
They don't have a prayer of working properly in multiprocessor
kernels, and didn't really work all that well in uniprocessor kernels.
* move all exec-type specific information from struct emul to execsw[] and
provide single struct emul per emulation
* elf:
- kern/exec_elf32.c:probe_funcs[] is gone, execsw[] how has one entry
per emulation and contains pointer to respective probe function
- interp is allocated via MALLOC() rather than on stack
- elf_args structure is allocated via MALLOC() rather than malloc()
* ecoff: the per-emulation hooks moved from alpha and mips specific code
to OSF1 and Ultrix compat code as appropriate, execsw[] has one entry per
emulation supporting ecoff with appropriate probe function
* the makecmds/probe functions don't set emulation, pointer to emulation is
part of appropriate execsw[] entry
* constify couple of structures
itojun