Contrary to the AMD implementation, it doesn't use xcalls to distribute
the update to all CPUs but relies on cpuctl(8) to bind itself to the
right CPU -- to keep it simple and avoid possible problems with
hyperthreading.
Also, it doesn't parse the vendor supplied file to pick the right
part for the present CPU model but relies on userland to prepare
files with specific filenames. I'll commit a pkg for this in a minute
(pkgsrc/sysutils/intel-microcode).
The ioctl interface changed; compatibility is provided (should be
limited to COMPAT_NETBSD6 as soon as this is available).
Use this opportunity to skip calculating the VA of the page. Let the CPU
deal with the invalidation itself through invlpg + destination address to
avoid converting between canonical/non canonical forms.
Implemented and enabled via CPU_UCODE kernel config option
for x86 and Xen Dom0.
Tested on different AMD machines with different
CPU families.
ok wiz@ for the manpages
ok releng@
ok core@ via releng@
driver to the main acpi(4) stack. Follow Linux and evaluate it early.
Should fix PR port-amd64/42895, possibly also PR kern/42583, and many
other comparable bugs.
A common sense explanation is that Intel supplies additional CPU tables to
OEMs. BIOS writers do not bother to modify their DSDTs, but instead load
these extra tables dynamically as secondary SSDT tables. The actual Load()
happens when the _PDC method is invoked, and thus namespace errors occur
when the CPU-specific ACPI methods are not yet present but referenced in the
AML by various drivers, including, but not limited to, acpitz(4).
- Reorganize locking in UVM and provide extra serialisation for pmap(9).
New lock order: [vmpage-owner-lock] -> pmap-lock.
- Simplify locking in some pmap(9) modules by removing P->V locking.
- Use lock object on vmobjlock (and thus vnode_t::v_interlock) to share
the locks amongst UVM objects where necessary (tmpfs, layerfs, unionfs).
- Rewrite and optimise x86 TLB shootdown code, make it simpler and cleaner.
Add TLBSTATS option for x86 to collect statistics about TLB shootdowns.
- Unify /dev/mem et al in MI code and provide required locking (removes
kernel-lock on some ports). Also, avoid cache-aliasing issues.
Thanks to Andrew Doran and Joerg Sonnenberger, as their initial patches
formed the core changes of this branch.
or do not link in subr_userconf.c and x86_userconf.c.
Provide no-op stubs for userconf_bootinfo(), userconf_init(), and
userconf_prompt().
Delete all occurrences of #include "opt_userconf.h" as well as USERCONF
and __HAVE_USERCONF_BOOTINFO #ifdef'age.
also known as C-states. The code is modular and provides an easy way to add
the remaining functionality later (namely throttling and P-states).
Remarks:
1. Commented out in the GENERICs; more testing exposure is needed.
2. The C3-state is disabled for the time being because it turns off
timers, among them the local APIC timer. This may not be universally
true on all x86 processors; define ACPICPU_ENABLE_C3 to test.
3. The algorithm used to choose a power state may need tuning. When
evaluating the appropriate state, the implementation uses the
previous sleep time as an indicator. Additional hints would include
for example the system load.
Also bus master activity is evaluated when choosing a state. The
usb(4) stack is notorious for such activity even when unused.
Typically it must be disabled in order to reach the C3-state,
but it may also prevent the use of C2.
4. While no extensive empirical measurements have been carried out, the
power savings are somewhere between 1-2 W with C1 and C2, depending
on the processor, firmware, and load. With C3 even up to 4 W can be
saved. The less something ticks, the more power is saved.
ok jmcneill@, joerg@, and discussed with various people.
mpacpi_scan_pci() and mpbios_scan_pci() are identical code, so replace
them with mp_pci_scan().
Introduce mp_pci_childdetached(), which helps us to detach root PCI
buses that were enumerated either by MP BIOS or by ACPI.
Let us detach and re-attach PCI buses from mainbus0 on i386. This is
necessarily a work-in-progress, because testing detach and re-attach
is very difficult: to detach and re-attach the entire PCI tree on most
x86 computers that I own is not possible because some essential device
attaches under the PCI subtree: the console, com0, NIC, or storage
controller always attaches in the PCI tree.
- Merge i386 and amd64 syscall.c into x86. No functional changes intended.
Proposed on (port-i386 & port-amd64). Unfortunately, I cannot merge these
lists into the single port-x86. :(
Select the Xen idle routine for Xen, mwait if supported by the CPU and
it is not AMD and halt otherwise. As reported by Christoph Egger,
AMD Barcelona keeps the CPU in C0 state with MWAIT, contrary to HLT,
which uses C1 and therefore much less power.
- introduce a function to reserve an idt entry and use it instead of
manipulating idt_allocmap directly.
- rename idt to xen_idt for amd64 xen. add missing #ifdef XEN.
