caveats, but works quite well in a lot of MP cases, and all
UP cases that I have tested. Parts of this will hopefully be
reworked in the not-too-distant future.
cpu_idle() and new cpu_switch() to replace the old cpu_switch()
which did the lot. Runs leaner without overly blocking interrupts.
Includes cleanup of the RAS code to make use of callee-saved registers.
Benchmarks on DX4 @ 100MHz reveal a slight performance improvement
but probably not statistically signficant. More TBD to verify this.
Changes passed a pounding on Athlon @ 1GHz too.
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.
8086 machine. Ifff it works, it is much easier and more elegant than
going to real real mode:
-simpler code
-no need for "identity" memory mappings
-easy passing of buffers for bulk data to functions
-some more control
There is no interrupt support ATM, and it lacks a function to access
random virtual memory of the VM. MP issues to consider.
* struct sigacts gets a new sigact_sigdesc structure, which has the
sigaction and the trampoline/version. Version 0 means "legacy kernel
provided trampoline". Other versions are coordinated with machine-
dependent code in libc.
* sigaction1() grows two more arguments -- the trampoline pointer and
the trampoline version.
* A new __sigaction_sigtramp() system call is provided to register a
trampoline along with a signal handler.
* The handler is no longer passed to sensig() functions. Instead,
sendsig() looks up the handler by peeking in the sigacts for the
process getting the signal (since it has to look in there for the
trampoline anyway).
* Native sendsig() functions now select the appropriate trampoline and
its arguments based on the trampoline version in the sigacts.
Changes to libc to use the new facility will be checked in later. Kernel
version not bumped; we will ride the 1.6C bump made recently.
sigcode), arrange to have the signal handler invoked directly, using
the trampoline only for the return path, saving a call insn. Play
some other stack trickery in the trampoline to turn 2 pushl's into
one movl.
Be consistant in the way that MSIZE, MCLSHIFT, MCLBYTES and NMBCLUSTERS
are defined.
Remove old VM constants from cesfic port.
Bump MSIZE to 256 on mipsco (the only one that wasn't already 256).
- Add alignment-safe double and float unions.
- Use the above for the __infinity and __nan constants on all
architectures that use the standard ieee754 representation of
those constants.
- Add a single copy of various ieee754 math functions (frexp, isinf,
isnan, ldexp and modf) that had numerous duplicates among the
arch-specific directories.
- Use the above functions on all architectures where the generic C
versions where used. Architectures that had local assembly
routines are untouched (for those functions only).
BIOS-bug-avoidance [fixes part of my own port-i386/11299], and (2) lets you
have APM and COMPAT_MACHO in the kernel at the same time. Also comments on
the special 8th entry and what else changing some of these values affects.
OK'ed by Frank.
is what Solaris8 calls it
implement SVR4_TRAP_GETHRESTIME, though obviously only with microsecond accuracy
now clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, tp) works on Solaris8/i386
